Weekend Art Events: October 5-7 (Opera On Tap, BAM Next Wave Festival & More)
It’s October! The month kicks off with music, including a Charles Ives concert and the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival. Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturday celebrates Latinx communities and the Brooklyn Nets practice for the upcoming season at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Check the BKLYNER Calendar for more events happening around town or to list one of your own.
Opera On Tap (SPONSORED)
When: Friday, October 5, 8pm
Where: Barbes, 376 9th Street, Park Slope
What: The New Brew series brings you classical music written by some of today’s most exciting composers, presented in entertaining and irreverent programs by young singers and instrumentalists who relish the direct contact with audiences not inhibited in their reactions by the looming menace of giant chandeliers. This program will feature songs about drinking, PLUS we’ll give the premieres of the winners of our Drinking Song Competition!
Featuring: Seth Gilman, Kayleigh Butcher, Sara Noble, Krista Wozniak, and Chris Berg on the ivories!
How Much: $10 suggested donation
Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival
When: Wednesday, October 3 through Saturday, October 6
Where: Various venues in Bushwick, Greenpoint, and Williamsburg
What: Since launching in 2008, the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival has been an annual celebration of NYC’s electronic music scene, showcasing international and local acts and featuring up-and-coming and established bands, DJs, and producers.
How Much: Tickets $45-$85
Brooklyn Art Song Society Presents American Iconoclasts | Charles Ives
When: Friday, October 5, 7:30pm
Where: Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights
What: Brooklyn Art Song Society kicks off its 9th season with the first installment of American Iconoclasts, a five-concert survey of Americas most unique composers. The series’ opener presents the eclectic songs of Charles Ives.
How Much: Tickets $25, $15 students/seniors
MoCADA DIY Fest
When: Friday, October 5 through Sunday, October 7 and Friday, October 12 through Sunday, October 14
Where: MoCADA, 80 Hanson Place, Fort Greene
What: The MoCADA DIY Fest’s quarterly marketplace returns for two weekends featuring products and services by Brooklyn-based artisans, entrepreneurs, wellness providers, and more.
Brooklyn Nets Second Annual Practice In The Park
When: Saturday, October 6, 11am to 3pm
Where: Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 2
What: The Brooklyn Nets return to Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 2 for the second annual Practice in the Park, where the public can watch the team prepare for the upcoming season. There will also be youth basketball games, fan activations, and more!
How Much: Free, sign up here for more info
Community Heroes Picnic
When: Saturday, October 6, 1pm to 4pm
Where: Fort Greene Park (by Revolutionary Garden at Willoughby & St. Edwards), Fort Greene
What: Community Heroes celebrates the unveiling of new hero banners with a picnic at Fort Greene Park. Bring a snack to share and meet the local heroes and artists featured in the public art project.
Target First Saturdays At Brooklyn Museum
When: Saturday, October 6, 5pm to 11pm
Where: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Heights
What: Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturdays returns with a celebration of the resilience and diversity of Latinx communities! Enjoy the free lineup featuring a performance by Maya Monès—aka br0nz3_g0dd3ss, a conversation with artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña, a screening of En el Séptimo Día, salsa with Balmir Latin Dance Studio, and more! Don’t forget to check out Community Celebration: Something to Say where there will be music and ice cream to honor the Museum’s new public art activation featuring Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, Deborah Kass, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Hank Willis Thomas.
How Much: Free
2018 Next Wave Festival
When: Wednesday, October 3 through Sunday, December 23
Where: BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave.), BAM Harvey Theater (651 Fulton St.), and BAM Fisher (321 Ashland Pl.), Fort Greene
What: BAM’s exiting Executive Producer, Joseph V. Melillo, presents his 35th and final Next Wave Festival. The fest offers music, opera, theater, physical theater, dance, film/music, and performance art by local and international artists at all three BAM venues. Humans kicks off the festival (Oct. 3-7), featuring Australia’s Circa, ten acrobats who perform on a bare stage exploring the physical limits of their bodies while relying on the strength of their fellow performers.
How Much: Tickets start at $35
Leigh Blanchard: And Now I See
When: Exhibition on view from Thursday, September 6 through Sunday, October 7
Where: 440 Gallery, 440 6th Avenue, Park Slope
What: This solo exhibition of Blanchard’s recent work explores alternate ways of creating digital images, focusing on “technological flaws.” Loading thousands of images onto various “online artificial intelligence systems,” the artist captures imperfections and creates complex, distorted imagery either organically or by manipulating the software.
Daily Vase: New Works From Alison Owen
When: Exhibition on view from Thursday, September 6—Sunday, October 14
Where: Greenpoint Hill, 100 Freeman Street (at Franklin Street), Greenpoint
What: At the start of 2018, artist Alison Owen began creating a vase for every day of the year—traditional clay vessels, fabric interpretations, paper collages. Her only requirement for the project was that the daily artwork incorporate a vase in some way. Her works are made using items found at other artists’ studios, on the street, or from her daily life. This exhibition displays selections from her project to date.
For Which It Stands—A Contemporary Art Exhibit
When: Exhibition on view Thursday, August 23 through Sunday, October 14, Fridays 3pm to 6pm or by appointment
Where: The Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street (between 4th & 5th Avenues), Park Slope
What: The Old Stone House presents this contemporary art exhibition that connects Brooklyn’s revolutionary history to some of today’s most pressing issues. Artists reinterpret and offer their “fresh take on the flags of the American Revolution and today, including the contradictions inherent in their symbolism.”
Stars In The Night
When: Thursday, September 13 through Sunday, October 14
Where: Locations across DUMBO
What: Firelight Collective presents a four-week limited run of STARS IN THE NIGHT, an interactive and immersive theatrical production that takes audiences to multiple locations across DUMBO’s historic waterfront district. The original story brings twelve audience members on a journey through four locations, including the Empire Stores as well as living spaces, “to witness the fallout when a woman suddenly goes missing.”
How Much: Tickets $125
Ukrainian Maritime Paintings
When: Exhibition on view from Thursday, September 20 through Saturday, October 20
Where: Waterfront Museum, 290 Conver Street, Red Hook
What: Brooklyn’s Sable Gallery presents a Ukrainian group show of marine paintings on the historic barge.
Brooklyn Before: Photographs, 1971-1983 by Larry Racioppo
When: Exhibition on view from Saturday, September 29 through Saturday, October 27
Where: Tabla Rasa Gallery, 224 48th Street (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues), Sunset Park
What: This exhibition showcases a selection of South Brooklyn photographs culled from the pages Larry Racioppo’s new book, Brooklyn Before, featuring new digital prints of the artist’s earliest 35mm and 120mm black-and-white negatives shot of family and neighbors.
Nancy Bowen: For Each Ecstatic Instant
When: Exhibition on view from Friday, September 7 through Sunday, October 28
Where: Kentler International Drawing Space, 353 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook
What: “Artistic archaeologist” Bowen reassembles found fragments including maps, stamps, glass, picture frames, and pages from books to create patchworks that explore “what counts as knowledge.”
PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince
When: Exhibition on view from Friday, September 7 through Sunday, November 11
Where: Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook
What: More than 20 artists working in Haiti’s capital will be presented in this exhibit featuring sculpture, photography, and film, as well as a garden installation of a recreated Port-au-Prince barbershop.
How Much: Free
Mary Mattingly: What Happens After
When: Exhibition on view from Thursday, September 13—Sunday, November 11
Where: Gallery at BRIC House, 647 Fulton Street (enter at Rockwell Place), Fort Greene
What: BRIC presents an exhibition of work by Brooklyn-based artist Mary Mattingly, who creates photographs, sculpture, and large-scale public art projects that address climate change by “drawing connections between the social and economic forces that make up the current political ecology impacting our environment.” A deconstructed and redesigned 19,000-pound military cargo truck will be on display, encouraging viewers to question: “What happens when an object that embodies both the systemic violence represented by war and by climate change is manifested in a public space?”
Morbid Anatomy at Green-Wood
When: Saturday, September 22 through Sunday, December 2, Saturdays and Sundays from 12pm to 5pm
Where: Green-Wood Cemetery, Fort Hamilton Gate House (enter at Fort Hamilton Parkway and Micieli Place)
What: Morbid Anatomy returns to Green-Wood Cemetery for a second residency featuring an expanded library collection and the exhibition Bridging Worlds: The Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead which explores how different cultures envision the afterlife and attempt to communicate with the dead.