Weekend Events: Fermenting, Housing Rights, And Dancing For World Down Syndrome Day

Below you’ll find information on events through the weekend in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill this weekend. Check back Monday to see what’s scheduled next week!

FRIDAY, MARCH 20

Singalong with Jarrod
When: Friday, March 20 at 2:30pm
Where: Greenlight Bookstore at 686 Fulton Street
What: Join us in the kids section for favorite songs and stories for the littlest booklovers, led by Greenlight bookseller Jarrod and his trusty guitar. Ages 6 weeks to 3 years.
How much: Free

After-School Homework Help
When: Friday, March 20 from 4-6pm
Where: Clinton Hill Library at 380 Washington Avenue
What: Free homework help with a community volunteer for grades k-8. No pre-registration needed.

Line Dancing
When: Friday, March 20 from 7-8pm
Where: Ingersoll Community Center at 177 Myrtle Avenue
What: Free class. No registration or experience necessary.

“Together/Far Apart: LoveHustle”
When: Friday, March 20 at 7:30pm
Where: Irondale Center at 85 South Oxford Street
What: Presented by 651 ARTS. The production features three couples that share their life journeys as artists through performance through 20-minute vignettes reflecting on art, family, and how the two converge. In their own genre, each artist couple explores the challenges of balancing work and maintaining family relationships and love. They investigate how artists are viewed as family members as well as creators and innovators. Featured artists include DJ Reborn & DJ Amir, Dominique Morisseau & J. Keys, and Rockafella & Kwikstep.
How much: $20 general admission; $15 students/seniors

BRIClab: Cori Olinghouse, “Cartoon Kitchen” (in progress)
When: Friday, March 20 at 7:30pm
Where: BRIC House Artist Studio at 647 Fulton Street
What: Cori Olinghouse is a Brooklyn-based choreographer obsessed with cartoons whose work explores the shapeshifting capacities of the body, space, and time. In Cartoon Kitchen she experiments with the visual techniques used in animation (squash and stretch, in-betweening, silhouette, postures/attitudes, exaggeration and rhythmic timing).  Looking for absurd, unusual ways of translating these principles into a choreographic lens for a live audience, Olinghouse invites long-time collaborators to join her in inventing an assemblage of hybrid, enigmatic characters.
How much: $10 Adv | $14 Door

Comedy Show
When: Friday, March 20 at 8pm
Where: Five Spot Soul Food at 459 Myrtle Avenue
What: Free comedy show every Friday night. Hosted by Pee Wee Dee.
How much: No cover

Karaoke Night
When: Friday, March 20 from 8pm-12am
Where: SIP Bar at 14 Putnam Avenue
What: Every Friday night. Hosted by Kings of Karaoke.
How much: Free

BAMcafé Live: Militia Vox
When: Friday, March 20 at 9:30pm
Where: BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building at 30 Lafayette Avenue
What: Militia Vox, known as the frontwoman of critically claimed bands Judas Priestess, Swear On Your Life and leading lady of Dee Snider’s horror orchestra Van Helsing’s Curse, finally steps forward as a solo artist. She unleashes dark-tinged original music and re-vamped hard-rock anthems with seriously heavy guitar riffs and attitude to burn.
How much: Free

Live Music: Bugula Velez
When: Friday, March 20 from 9pm-2am
Where: The Great Georgiana at 248 DeKalb Avenue
What: Music all night long.
How much: Free for guests

SATURDAY, MARCH 21

Fort Greene Park Greenmarket
When: Saturday, March 21 from 8am-4pm
Where: Washington Park between DeKalb and Willoughby Avenues
What: Weekly farmers market with live music and family-friendly activities.

Fundamentals of Tai Chi
When: Saturday, March 21 from 10-11am
Where: Ingersoll Community Center at 177 Myrtle Avenue
What: Free class. No registration or experience necessary.

PACC’s Housing Resource Day
When: Saturday, March 21 from 10am-2pm
Where: Brooklyn College Student Center at East 27th Street and Campus Road
What: Free resources on how to apply for affordable housing, foreclosure prevention, grant programs, loan modifications, tenant protection rights, flood insurance, senior benefit programs, reverse mortgages, real estate tax abatements, and more.

Author/Illustrator Story Time: Selina Alko and Sean Qualls
When: Saturday, March 21 at 11am
Where: Greenlight Bookstore at 686 Fulton Street
What: Author Selina Alko and illustrator Sean Qualls – both acclaimed authors and illustrators who are raising their own interracial family in Brooklyn – present their new joint project (“The Case For Loving: The Fight For Interracial Marriage”) a beautiful story of family, love, and justice. Join us for story time with Selina and Sean, followed by a heart-making craft to celebrate loving! Ages 3 to 8.
How much: Free | $18.99 for the book

Shape Up! NYC Aerobics Class
When: Saturday, March 21 from 12-1pm
Where: Bedford Library at 496 Franklin Avenue
What: Free aerobics class taught by Parks volunteers.

College/Career Fair
When: Saturday, March 21 from 12-4pm
Where: First Baptist Church of Crown Heights at 450 Eastern Parkway
What: Free event for youth and adults, artists and entrepreneurs.

Brooklyn Transitions: Housing Rights Fair
When: Saturday, March 21 from 1-3pm
Where: Central Library at 10 Grand Army Plaza
What: Community organizations including Fifth Avenue Committee – Neighbors Helping Neighbors, the Metropolitan Council on Housing, Pratt Area Community Council and Southside United HDFC (Los Sures) will provide information and resources to help tenants and homeowners navigate a gentrifying city. This event is part of Brooklyn Transitions, an event and documentation series about gentrification.

Dance and Make: World Down Syndrome Day
When: Saturday, March 21 from 2-4pm
Where: Brooklyn Museum at 200 Eastern Parkway, 1st Floor
What: Join us as we recognize World Down Syndrome Day in collaboration with GiGi’s Playhouse, the National Down Syndrome Society, and Lumind. Stop by for an inclusive afternoon of art-making, photobooth, and movement workshops inspired by the exhibition Judith Scott—Bound and Unbound.
How much: Free with museum admission

BRIClab: Cori Olinghouse, “Cartoon Kitchen” (in progress)
When: Saturday, March 21 at 7:30pm
Where: BRIC House Artist Studio at 647 Fulton Street
What: Cori Olinghouse is a Brooklyn-based choreographer obsessed with cartoons whose work explores the shapeshifting capacities of the body, space, and time. In Cartoon Kitchen she experiments with the visual techniques used in animation (squash and stretch, in-betweening, silhouette, postures/attitudes, exaggeration and rhythmic timing).  Looking for absurd, unusual ways of translating these principles into a choreographic lens for a live audience, Olinghouse invites long-time collaborators to join her in inventing an assemblage of hybrid, enigmatic characters.
How much: $10 Adv | $14 Door

BAMcafé Live: Sasha Dobson
When: Saturday, March 21 at 9:30pm
Where: BAMcafe at Peter Jay Sharp Building at 30 Lafayette Avenue
What: Dobson is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter who has one foot planted firmly in the inner circle of the New York songwriter scene and the other in a family legacy (her late father was Smith Dobson) in jazz. Sasha spent last year touring with her band, Puss n Boots, along with Norah Jones, and will be performing her originals from both the tour and her previously released album Aquarius. The music from Aquarius landed her a tour to open for Willie Nelson and a featured artist spot at Farm Aid.
How much

Live Music: Benny Trokan
When: Saturday, March 21 from 9pm-2am
Where: The Great Georgiana at 248 DeKalb Avenue
What: Music all night long.
How much: Free for guests

SUNDAY, MARCH 22

Talk: “Prison, Women, and Change: A Conversation With Nkechi Taifa and Susan Rosenberg”
When: Sunday, March 22 at 2pm
Where: Brooklyn Museum at 200 Eastern Parkway, 3rd Floor
What: Susan Rosenberg, a former political prisoner turned writer and teacher, and Nkechi Taifa, Senior Policy Analyst with the Open Society, discuss how movements for change and justice have developed over the last twenty-five years. What has women’s leadership meant for the prison movement? How has mass incarceration continued the long history of racism in American life? Part of the ongoing Sackler Center series “States of Denial: The Illegal Incarceration of Women, Children, and People of Color.”
How much: Free with museum admission

Ferment! Ferment!
When: Sunday, March 22 from 4-8pm
Where: Brooklyn Free School at 372 Clinton Avenue
What: Gather for a celebration of homemade fermented food & drink! The guidelines are simple: bring a homemade fermented food or drink or something made with a homemade ferment to share. If you’re unsure if it’s fermented, just drop Zach a line and ask. Alternatively (or additionally) bring a culture/starter to swap at the culture exchange table. If you’re a professional fermenter, bring a ferment that you’re not currently marketing or something you’re experimenting with. Check out the blog: fermentferment.wordpress.com. More updates and recipes coming soon.
How much: Free, but RSVP requested to Zack at z.schulman@gmail.com.

ONGOING

Conversations: Replicas of Masterwork Paintings
When: Through Friday, March 27
Where: Pratt Institute, President’s Office Gallery, Main Building via Willoughby Avenue
What: Professor of Fine Arts Frank Lind presents a body of work created over the course of the last 15 years, employing old master techniques in the re-creation, re-imagining, and “updating” of well-known masterwork paintings.
How much: Free

Stations of the Cross Exhibit
When: Through April 16
Where: Episcopal Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew at 520 Clinton Avenue
What: The 14 stations of the cross are presented by 14 Brooklyn-based artists, each working with only one restriction: uniform size.  This project resurrects a connection between the church as patron of the arts and the artists as instruments of bringing the litany to the lay population. These works are created by artists of broad ethnic and religious backgrounds including Buddhists, Catholics, Jews, and even Agnostics. As “ambassadors,” this diverse collective presents an open dialogue, with respectful interpretations of Jesus’ suffering, death, and resurrection.
How much: Free

Mapping Brooklyn
When: Through May 3 from 10am-8pm daily, except Mondays
Where: BRIC House Gallery at 647 Fulton Street
What: The exhibition Mapping Brooklyn will juxtapose the work of contemporary artists working with maps and cartography, alongside actual historic maps. The historic maps in the exhibition will all be drawn from the Brooklyn Historical Society’s collection; there are demographic maps, fire insurance maps and more.
How much: Free