Wow, Bushwick. You are blowing my mind this week! We’re hitting insane levels of entertainment options and there is absolutely no excuse for staying in. Things are fun, free, near your house, and populated with awesome people. Go out!

Tonight

Get involved in the Market Hotel Project at their planning meeting! They’re working on "a new initiative to create a sustainable, all ages, open-to-the-community, 7-nights-a-week home for independent music and art, in the Market Hotel space." Help ‘em out. (8PM at 957 Broadway)

It’s the first night of the last weekend of this year’s Bushwhack Series at The Bushwick Starr!

Buffie Roseanne hosts a hootenanny in the Northeast Kingdom Den, and one cannot miss a hootenanny!

Friday

Bushwick Open Studios is right around the corner! Get in the spirit at AiB’s BOS 2010 Preview and Benefit Art Sale at Lumenhouse. Take home some steals and support the team: "cash-and-carry art sale of pieces donated by BOS 2010 participating artists. All works are priced under $200, and all proceeds go to support Arts in Bushwick and BOS 2010."

STOREFRONT will be showing artwork made by area kids ages 7-12! Exhibition will be up May 21-30, 2010, opening 5-7pm.

The folks at Centotto "kindly request your presence at the opening of a new ‘interstizio’ exhibit, "Hinterlands and the Hegemon," featuring works by Andy Piedilato, Brock Enright, Tim Kent, Oliver Jones and Nat Ward."

Showpaper Benefit at Silent Barn! Featuring Ecstatic Sunshine, Dan Friel (from Parts & Labor) and Starring (members of Pterodactyl).

"LA hardcore outfit" Trash Talk are playing a late, all ages show at the Acheron tomorrow with Grand Rapids’ La Dispute and locals Cerebral Ballzy. 

Rainbow Dreams Part Deux is on at Beauty Bar: "It’s the booty-bumpin’, foot-stompin’, fist-pumpin’ disco hotness only found in the dankness that is Bushwick.  Extra speakers and cheap-o dranks to pump up the good times!" Eek.

Saturday

SUGAR presents A Matter of Life and Death: artworks by Ken Madore and Hayley Hara. "While Hayley creates her images in color, Ken creates this series of drawings in black ink. Gwendolyn Skaggs brings them together. Both artists explore that which lies in between through rich imagery and a fantastical imag-ination."

Happy 4th Birthday, 3rd Ward!! (Makes you feel old, doesn’t it?) To celebrate their anniversary, 3rd Ward is "flooding the space, inside and out, with live music, cheap BBQ and summer drinks, art, crafts, screen-printing (bring your tees), free workshops and synchronized biking!" Moviehouse is in on the fun with a screen split four ways by four uniquely talented VJs. 

B-CAT & C-TOWN are back at it again with a Variety Show at Petri Space including Murderfist, Johnny McNulty, Pony Party and Shai and his band (9pm 114 Forrest Street buzzer #15).

On a rooftop on Melrose…. ChoreOBJECTography is a new dance performance series brought to you by Norte Maar debuting this summer as "a platform to offer young dance makers to make work." See Tony Bordonaro, Amber Lee Parker, Anisabel Perez, Niall Jones, Misato Hayashi, Keeley Walsh, Stephanie Miracle and Caitlin Marz followed by a dance party! (warning: it’s $20).

Sunday & Monday are pretty chill, so take a silks class or read a book, maybe.

Tuesday

319 Scholes is hosting a closing reception for Passage, a show curated by Igal Nassima, which "exhibits new thesis work by recent NYU ITP graduates that transform the way we interact with an environment." 

Sock puppets in the Northeast Kingdom Den! Socktelling, hosted by Susan Hwang is a monthly event in which "local artists, writers and performers create their own sock puppets to tell stories on a different theme."  This Tuesday’s theme will be "Not Meant for My Ears."  

Wednesday

Fresh veggies! Bushwick Farmers’ Market Grand Opening Event Wednesday May 26, 10am – 6pm with "fresh & local early-season veggies, wholesome baked goods, orchard fruits, hourly drawings, food demos & tastings, ‘bicycle-blended’ smoothies, a healthy cookout with Bushwick Food Coop, Secret Garden Farm & Nature Preserve tour, mushroom workshop" and live music. Wowza.

OK, I’m going to take some deep breaths and figure out how many of these things I can make it to. Check the calendar for even more (can you imagine!?) events.

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