thru sat: the 18th annual red hook fest focuses on interactive art through photography, storytelling, music and dance performances. bonus: free kayaking.
thru sun: the massive bushwick open studios features 350 shows in 130 buildings over four square miles of bushwick, east williamsburg, bed-stuy and ridgewood, free.
thru 6/12: this year’s brooklyn film festival features 100+ international films premiering at indiescreen + brooklyn heights cinema, $10.
8pm: country/roots/rockabilly band big sandy + his fly-rite boys bring the swing to bell house, $14.
SATURDAY
2pm: breukelen bier merchants celebrates their grand opening with free grub (5-7pm), live music, beer specials, more. 182 grand street (williamsburg), free.
11:55pm: electro dream-pop band school of seven bells plays brooklyn bowl, $10.
SUNDAY
3-9pm: mister sunday with eamon + justin returns, this week with a live set from space dimension controller. gowanus grove, $10 adv, $12 door.
6pm: the post plastic project: art + music benefit group art show raises funds to benefit project kaisei, which aims to capture the plastic vortex (the single largest trash mass in the world). live music, raffles, more. littlefield, free for art reception, $10 for show.
8pm: rooftop films screens doc. the city dark, about the effects of city lighting on us, the environment, and our perception of the universe. old american can factory (gowanus), $10.
8pm: secret formula screens the best of twin peaks season two at their tv party complete with a miss twin peaks pageant, doughnuts and coffee, twin peaks themed burlesque, more. bell house front room, $5.
ALL WEEKEND
take a self-guided tour of open artist studios and exhibitions at the eight annual atlantic avenue artwalk, free.
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