- TIME: 10pm
PLACE: Mo Pitkins, 39 Ave A between 2nd and 3rd St
COST: $10
- SUMMARY: “5 comedians enter, 1 freestyle rap superstar leaves. A hilarious freestyle face off decided by the audience - 6 rounds of badass one-on-one rap battles. You saw 8 Mile, right? Like that, but funnier.
THIS WEEK: TBA
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- TIME: 8pm (also April 29 and May 5 and 6)
PLACE: La Mama, 74A E 4th St, between 2nd Ave and Bowery
COST: $15
- SUMMARY: “Rub the Sleep is a dream about waking up. In a hallucinatory landscape of hope chests, merit badges and tupperware, the perfect housewife purees a cocktail made from gin and a homecoming queen’s corsage; a Japanese war-bride makes a presentation to the Junior League; and a fierce and erotically aggressive series of collisions sends two young men stumbling. Rub the Sleep is an irreverent, rambunctious, limping sleepwalk that traverses the space between polished societal veneers and the unraveling, sometimes sullied, realities that tread just below the surface.”
Part of the La Mama Moves World Summit
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- TIME: 7:30pm each night
DATES: Runs April 26-28
PLACE: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St between 10th and 11th Ave
COST: $10
- SUMMARY: “The Bent Festival is a three-day event celebrating the art of modifying existing circuits (and creating new ones!) for the purpose of creating music, art, and mischief. There are performances from musicians who incorporate these circuits into their live act, art installations made from these circuits, and workshops showing you how to do it yourself. The festival is all about re-appropriating existing technologies - hacking apart old toys, building new ones from old parts - to create something fun and new and STRANGE.”
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- TIME: 6pm
PLACE: Hank’s Saloon, 46 3rd Ave at Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
COST: FREE
- SUMMARY: FREE BBQ, with The Merles, Lindy Loo & The Hobocats, JD & The WWJDs and Yarn Music.
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- TIME: 6pm
PLACE:Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia St. at Bleeker St
COST:$10
- SUMMARY: “Richard R. Ernst, a scientist who later won the Chemistry Nobel Prize, discovered by accident in 1968 the beauty of Tibetan painting. He will share his personal fascination with Tibetan art through slides that reveal another cultural world; its philosophical and religious background will be touched. The attraction of Tibetan art comes from a highly perfected pictorial language that allows the painter to express eternal truths in vivid, easily understood images. This is an art of nearly limitless creativity.”
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- TIME: 6-7:30pm
PLACE: Tishman Auditorium, The New School: 66 West 12th St between 5th and 6th Ave
COST: FREE
- SUMMARY: According to NYMag: “The fabulous artist-filmmaker-author Miranda July, who’s got a story collection coming out, will auction objects from people’s pockets; John Hodgman — essayist, Daily Show regular, and “PC guy”—will hold “Writer Speed Date Sessions”; and Eric Bogosian will preview his next novel.”
Part of the PEN World Voices Festival
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11:30am — Saturday April 28
- WHERE:The Philoctetes Center, 247 East 82nd St, 3rd Floor, between 2nd and 3rd Ave
- COST:FREE
SUMMARY:”How are we to understand the place of value in a world of nature when that world is viewed as containing nothing that is not countenanced by natural science? Can we account for the nature of value–and its implications for normative thinking and behavior–in terms that are exhausted by the methods and concepts of the sciences?”
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- TIME: 11am-6pm — Tuesday-Saturday
CLOSES: Saturday April 28
PLACE: Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, 547 W 27th St, 2nd Floor, between 10th and 11th Ave
COST: FREE
- SUMMARY: “Lambert’s process grows intuitively from her personal lexicon of images—hundreds of drawings of figures, places, objects, or situations that she has randomly registered either consciously or unconsciously at some point in time. Functioning as triggers for the formation of fantastical narratives, Lambert juxtaposes these images in a surprising and inexplicable manner, in turn imbuing them with context and significance. For her, every form, line, and color is a step in a long process of discovery that unfurls reflexively upon the surface of the painting.”
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- TIME: 10am-6pm (also on April 29)
PLACE: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn
COST: $5
- SUMMARY: “With over 200 trees in bloom, Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s flowering cherries take center stage during this phenomenal weekend celebrating Japanese culture with over 60 events and performances. The Okinawan pop sounds of happyfunsmile, a J-pop concert by Tokyo sensation ZAN, hip-hop artist Akim Funk Buddha’s “Urban Tea Ceremony,” a taiko drum concert by the kids from the Genki Daiko team, and a presentation on the history of geisha by documentary filmmaker Miyuki Sohara are just some of the new performances lined up for the weekend.”
- RELATED:
- Shannon’s Review of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: “It’s beautiful and peaceful and a perfect place to spend a quiet afternoon…”
- UNCOOLKIDS slideshow of last years Festival
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- TIME: 10am-Dusk (also April 29) — Polo
10pm — Bike Prom
PLACE: Polo Grounds, Catherine St and Cherry St
Prom at Chunk Shack! 794 Broadway #2, Brooklyn
COST: FREE to watch (registration to play on Friday)
- SUMMARY: Punk rock polo with bikes instead of horses. Bonus points for drunkenness and Prom costumes.
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