due to some technical issues, we weren’t able to include thursday’s events in monday’s email. we’ll be back to our regular schedule tomorrow.
thursday
pride-themed events (many more to come throughout june!):
► thurs 7pm: hot gay pride comedy show and dance party: littlefield (gowanus), $12.56 with promo code ‘hotgaycelebrity’ (reg. $19.48). >>
► thurs 7:30pm: the existentialists comedy show: rabbit hole (bushwick), $15. >>
► thurs 8pm: department of gay ecstasy (doge): pride edition: brooklyn comedy collective (williamsburg), $12 adv, $17 day of. >>
► thurs 10pm: planet yes: gaga night dance party: house of yes (bushwick). free admission with rsvp, $10 otherwise. >>
thru 6/13 (7pm): bryant park picnic performances: contemporary dance: bryant park’s annual summer performance series is back with 25 evenings of free live music, theater, and dance in the heart of midtown. bring your own picnic or purchase food and drinks from on-site vendors. blankets and bistro chairs are provided for use. next up: three evenings of contemporary dance featuring limón dance company, emerge125, and kaōs dance collective (thurs); ronald k. brown/evidence, gibney company, and syren modern dance (fri); doug varone and dancers, kyle marshall choreography, and lanecoarts (6/13). >>
thru 8/17 (closed 6/19 and 7/4): diane arbus: constellation: step inside the world of diane arbus at constellation, an immersive installation featuring over 450 prints by the influential documentary-style photographer. curated from prints made by her former student neil selkirk—some never before seen—this is the largest and most complete showing of arbus’s works in new york to date. park avenue armory (ues), $25 >>
thru mon: astoria park carnival: the annual astoria park carnival returns with rides, games, and food under the robert f. kennedy bridge. free admission (pay-as-you-go). note: this event started wednesday. >>
thurs thru sun: new dance alliance’s 39th performance mix festival: nda’s annual festival brings together 40 experimental dance and film artists over four days. abrons arts center (les), $16. >>
thurs various times (weather permitting): free outdoor movies:
moana at beach 94th amphitheater (rockaway beach) >>
the outlaw johnny black at montefiore park (west harlem) >>
wicked at msgr. mcgolrick park (greenpoint) >>
thurs 6-8pm (monthly): dumbo first thursday gallery walk: explore dumbo’s waterfront arts scene at the first thursday gallery walk, where 11 galleries will stay open late for a night of opening receptions, special events, and artist talks. an optional hour-long ‘insiders’ tour at 6pm (rsvp required) will feature talks from artists and curators at select exhibitions. free admission. >>
thurs 7pm (monthly): the rally reading series: ‘the heart of a march in the body of a reading series’: the rally reading series returns for an evening of readings and discussion with bishakh som (spellbound), christopher gonzalez (i’m not hungry but i could eat), and fancy feast (i’m not hungry but i could eat). hosted by ryan d. matthews. pete’s candy store (williamsburg), free admission. >>
thurs 7pm: john and scott: two person improv: former 30 rock cast members scott adsit and john lutz pair up for an improv show at ucb theatre (east village). $15. >>
thurs 7pm: hack comedy: an a.i. comedy show: live performance and technology collide at hack comedy, a show where ai takes the stage alongside comedians. expect everything from roast bots to crowd-working ai to multimedia sketches and more. hosted by two comedians who (begrudgingly) work in tech—ryan sudhakaran and victor trevino. caveat (les), $13.61 with promo code ‘hack’ (reg. $18.76-20) >>
thurs 7pm doors: rooftop films: farm-to-screen shorts: the popular rooftop films series, one of the word’s longest-running and largest outdoor showcases for indie film, returns for its 29th season. tonight’s event at brooklyn grange sunset park includes a pre-screening tour of the rooftop farm, followed by short films that explore the tangled ties between humans, animals, and the earth. $20. >>
thurs 7:30pm: love, sex, + magic: comedy variety show: comedian jenny gorelick, whose ex is a magician, hosts an evening to make your worries disappear, featuring stand up, burlesque, drag, circus, musical comedy, and of course, magic. the mirror bar at arlo williamsburg, $20 2-for-1 admission. >>
thurs 8pm: locrian chamber players: music from the past decade: the locrian chamber players, a chamber group devoted exclusively to performing music less than a decade old, present a concert of works by both established and emerging composers at riverside church (morningside heights). free admission. >>
thurs 9:30pm: night flight anniversary screening: streaming channel night flight celebrates its 44th anniversary at roxy cinema (tribeca) with a 4k restoration of ‘70s cult comedy tunnel vision, the premiere of the waterboys: a wild and beautiful ride, an exclusive night flight supercut, and q+a with night flight creator and tunnel vision executive producer, stuart s. shapiro. $18. >>
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The first weekend of June means that summer is finally here! Party Like It’s 1999: (Don’t) Steal My Sunshine Edition will mark our return to the stage at a new venue, Littlefield, with a night of biggest hits that ruled the summers of the 1990s and 2000’s. We’ll play Len’s “Steal My Sunshine,” NSYNC’s “It’s Gonna Be Me,” Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious,” Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back,” Christina Aguilera’s “Genie in a Bottle,” 2Pac and Dr. Dre’s “California Love,” Montell Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It,” Nelly’s “Hot in Herre” and many more of the sounds we brought to the beach! Join DJ Steve Reynolds for Brooklyn’s best 90s and 00s party with all of your favorite pop, R&B, rock, hip-hop, and dance tunes.
Unhitch that overall strap, lace up your Docs, tie that flannel around your waist, put on some frosted lip gloss and set your VCR to record Dawson’s Creek and Gilmore Girls — Party Like it’s 1999 is Brooklyn’s best 1990s and 2000s dance party where you’ll shake it to the best pop, rock, hip hop and R&B jams all night long!
Party Like It’s 1999: (Don’t) Steal My Sunshine Edition
Saturday, June 7 10:30pm – 3:30 am
Doors: 10:00pm | Show: 10:30pm
Littlefield
635 Sackett Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
• R to Union Street, then
one block to Sackett Street
• 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q to
Atlantic Avenue or Pacific Street. 9 blocks south to Sackett Street
Tickets are only $5 (plus $1.86 Eventbrite fee)
GET TICKETS
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our roundup of 70+ ongoing events and attractions: summer on the hudson, the met fifth ave’s new roof garden commission, brooklyn cyclones baseball season, bargemusic, and more. >>
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– the skint
Photo: The Met Orchestra by Jennifer Taylor
Photos: Yannick Nézet-Séguin by Paola Kudacki, Elza van den Heever by Jiyang Chen
Photos: Yannick Nézet-Séguin by George Etheredge, Angel Blue
