It’s fall, it’s gorgeous and it’s a weekend full of big festivals, theatrical productions and high concept art affairs! What’s not to love?
Tonight, it’s all business at 3rd Ward’s Indie Business Fair. Go check out some shit that worked out for people! Your genius biz is SO next. "10 aspiring entrepreneurs and their brand new business plans gathered in the same room for one evening only."
This weekend you have another chance to check out Rocky Philly, the rave-reviewed show at the Bushwick Starr!
Friday, Ad Hoc Art & Eastern District present joint effort exhibition Tape and Mirrors by artist Aakash Nihalani. "Let Nihalani’s Tape and Mirrors open up a new portal of reality and experience yourself between dimensions."
Market Hotel has a full weekend of shows including Wavves on Friday night — if you’re quick you might also be able to make it to Silent Barn that night for Pterodactyl and Fiasco. In other music news, there’s a full night at Shea Stadium featuring Violent Bullshit, etc.
The Division of Human Works and The Human Observation Society are hosting Thoughts are Things: "An exhibition of new works, projects and proposals developed by the participants of Conceptual Art Lessons held at the DoHW between 8/1-9/23/09."
Saturday, it’s the 5th annual Last Supper Festival at 3rd Ward again this year! "An artistic feast for the senses that brings together over 50 short films, works of art, writings, culinary creations, edible installations, and up-and-coming bands & DJs to celebrate the autumn harvest and discuss consumption. Created & curated by artist and architect Coralina Meyer, The Last Supper kindles the creative miasma infused by community interaction, and harvests the cornucopia of media in our own backyard." $15 or $10 + 3 cans of food. Benefits the Food Bank of New York City.
Sunday, Capital B is hosting a giant blowout neighborhood festival: "Yo ♥ Bushwick is a neighborhood celebration that will take place in one of the hearts of the community — Maria Hernandez Park. The event is free and open to the public, and invites Bushwick’s diverse residents, organizations and small businesses to collaborate and contribute to a day of outdoor activities, performances and installations that engage the public to have fun, to learn, and to celebrate the best of the neighborhood." Maria Hernandez Park, 11AM-7PM. Free!
We yogis are so lucky! Not only do we have the (awesome, magical, trust-me-you’ll-love-it) Starr Space Yoga 3 times a week, but now an additional Tuesday class at Lumenhouse and a whole workshop this Saturday at Ananda-Chai: Yoga for Beginners Workshop from 10:00 -11:45 am.
Monday, one more event at 3rd Ward: the Sweatshop Social is back. Go make a bag!
The Baltimore Annex Theater presents "epic play" Beowolf at Silent Barn. No lyin’ — the pics on their MySpace look awesome.
Professional Alternative September 24th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Why does every substantially sized event in Bushwick involve having fun but feeling bad about it?
pantsetc September 24th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
well put.
bushwickitywack September 24th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
awe…the heart is on maria hernandez park…i heart bushwick!!!
pierogieconpollo September 24th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
what’s to feel bad about? these events sound super-positive to me…
Professional Alternative September 25th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
“celebrate the autumn harvest and discuss consumption” — discuss consumption? the fuck does that even mean? Consumption has become a bad word, which makes sense because consuming sustains human life and eco-nutbags hate humans.
This Yo heart Bushwick thing is full of annoying “progressive” buzzwords like “sustainable” and “diverse” and all they seem to do is harp on condos and “displacement.”
And then that stupid Putting Lot, where college liberals can go pretend they’re having a conversation about urban land use when all they do is play mini-golf on a parking lot while getting sloshed.
Can’t anyone just drink a beer and watch a band without the facade of it being socially conscious or impregnated with political rhetoric? Can’t we have fun without being bombarded by sanctimonious drivel?
sweetser September 25th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Nice tirade Professional, but I go out in Bushwick most weekends and have never felt “bombarded by sanctimonious drivel.” I’m gonna go ahead and quote you from August 4th in a response to a fashion piece…
“Everyone is so quick to shit on people’s work they do for peanuts or nothing. Why don’t you all just shut the fuck up, buncha fucking brats. hate hate hate”
Take your own advice here.
BrooklynJTrain September 26th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Touche!
Professional Alternative September 29th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Nah, doesn’t stick in this case. I’m talking specifically about these people who cloak their good times in feelgood-outreach-sustainability blather. There is plenty of fun stuff to do in the hood that isn’t put on by people who are full of shit, and I didn’t mean to imply there isn’t.