Fun Fact: The first major battle of the American Revolutionary War took place along the banks of Gowanus in August 1776.
Thursday June 30th, 2011
Art Gallery
Gowanus Studio Space: Seaworthy - exhibition featuring artists who approach water navigation as subject, pushing its potential as a mutable open platform for social experimentation as well as metaphor for personal, artistic, and collective freedom
Lecture / Talk
Proteus Gowanus: Living Utopia: Attainable Sustainable Cities - join Dickson Despommier of The Vertical Farm and Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE to discuss the radical assertion that the city of the future should provide all necessities for living within its physical borders.
Music
Issue Project Room: TILT Brass (Music by Heiner Goebbels, Richard Barrett, Peter Zummo, & Chris McIntyre) - a wide range of rarely heard chamber works for brass, percussion and electronics by European and NYC-based composers, including the New York première of Herakles 2 by acclaimed German composer Heiner Goebbels.
Littlefield: ABOVE>GROUND>EPISODES (RELEASE PARTY) - a project by J. Wise of the French Kicks, featuring an LP of original songs and a DVD of sequential videos.
Rock Shop: Josiah Wolf / First Nature / Prussia / ohnomoon - Psychedelic, Folk Electronic, melodious, Indielestric
Physical
Brooklyn Boulder: Learn to Boulder
Prospect Park: Yoga in the Park - Take your asana outdoors for an hour-long class in the grass! (Special event outside of Gowanus)
Thomas Greene Playground: Douglas & DeGraw Pools – swimming y’all!
Repair Work
Proteus Gowanus: Fixers’ Collective - Bring your broken thing and with you they will see what can be done.
Friday July 1st, 2011
Art Gallery
Gowanus Studio Space: Seaworthy - exhibition featuring artists who approach water navigation as subject, pushing its potential as a mutable open platform for social experimentation as well as metaphor for personal, artistic, and collective freedom
Mini Space: Between This Light and That and Space - group exhibition organized by Brooklyn-based abstract painter Douglas Melini and features the work of seven artists.
Music
Bellhouse: THE THERMALS / BIG TROUBLES / EULA – pop, punk, power, indie rock
Gowanus Ballroom: Apocalypse Five and Dime’s CD Release Party – “Anachronistic dance pop and ballads for the end times.” Also, featuring: Flambeaux Fire, Cody Schreger, Collin Couvillion, Jason Novak, Hallie Bulleit, Crooks and Perverts, Morgan O’Kane (a part of ARCHITECTURE OF DEVOTION art show)
Halyards: The Well-Informed – Post-Modern Dixie, strolling pop, Romantic pop
Rock Shop: Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang / Little Shalimar - Tropical, Soul, Crunk
Physical
Brooklyn Boulder: Learn to Boulder
Thomas Greene Playground: Douglas & DeGraw Pools – swimming y’all!
Saturday July 2nd, 2011
Comedy
Brooklyn Lyceum: Gentrify Brooklyn - hosted by the twin terrors of east coast improvisation, M.A.D. and SIDECAR.
Fashion & Fuction
Brooklyn Boulder: Gear Swap - BKB’s first ever outdoor gear swap… just Awesome!
Film / TV
Rooftop Film @ Old Can Factory: WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM - a journey from a snowy small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and back, following childhood friends forever changed by a faraway war. (incudes Q & A with filmmaker Heather Courtney and U.S. veterans of the war in Afghanistan)
Music / Dance Party
Bellhouse: British Invasion a Tribute - OASIS VS. BLUR performed by the Streamers, U2 TRIBUTE performed by ‘Beautiful Day’, DEPECHE MODE TRIBUTE performed by Violator
Bellhouse: DJS HIS ‘N HERS - Party all night to the best in mod, brit pop and indie rock!
Gowanus Ballroom: Pre 4th BBQ – withAdriana Mateo, Flambeaux Fire, Cody Schreger, Collin Couvillion, Jason Novak, Hallie Bulleit, Les Bicyclettes Blanches, Yula and the Extended Family, Flambeaux Fire, Cody Schreger, Collin Couvillion, Jason Novak, Hallie Bulleit, (a part of ARCHITECTURE OF DEVOTION art show)
Littlefield: ZILI MISIKMs / MS. LADY - rhythmic beats, R & B, “booty shaking”
Littlefield: Reggae Retro 1st Saturday Party - NYC’s longest running reggae dance party
Rock Shop: Last Good Tooth / Molly Sweeney / Zachary Cale – folk poppin’
Physical
Brooklyn Boulder: Learn to Boulder
Gowanus Canal: Canoe on Gowanus Canal - with Gowanus Dredgers
Thomas Greene Playground: Douglas & DeGraw Pools – swimming y’all!
Sunday July 3rd, 2011
Art Show / Exhibition
Gowanus Ballroom: ARCHITECTURE OF DEVOTION - features emerging Brooklyn artists working in styles and techniques that recall religious and devotional art of the past.
Film / TV
Halyards: Treme - Season Finally
Foodie
Halyards: True Blood - A night of Bloody Mary’s Blood Orange, Margarita’s, Hot Dogs & Pickles
Music / Dance Party
Gowanus Grove: Mister Sunday Independence Celebration – with Eamon & Justin
Physical
Brooklyn Boulder: Learn to Boulder
Brooklyn Lyceum: HoopPath - learn Hoop (Hula Hoop) dancing
Thomas Greene Playground: Douglas & DeGraw Pools – swimming y’all!
Special Craziness
Bellhouse: AMERICA: F*CK YEAH! - BBQ, Beer, Brooklyn, Brass Bands, & Burlesque!
Monday July 4th, 2011
Music
Physical
Brooklyn Boulder: Fundamentals of Yoga Workshop
Brooklyn Boulder: Learn to Boulder
Thomas Greene Playground: Douglas & DeGraw Pools – swimming y’all!
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