To Do: W-burg Gallery Hop, Brooklyn Book Festival, And Agora
The wonderful Jennifer Egan will be at the Brooklyn Book festival
TONIGHT
Williamsburg Celebrates: Fall Forward
FREE
when: Fri 9.15 (until 10pm)
[From Flavorpill] Williamsburg galleries stay open late tonight and get festive to usher in the fall art season. Jack the Pelican presents a night of outlandish performances including Bill Etra, co-founder of the Kitchen, reading his ferret-themed poetry; Black and White Gallery hosts a vodka tasting to promote the opening of Konstantinos Stamatiou's multimedia installation of an all-white, mobile bunker (AIRBOX II) and Roberley Bell's at Play, an outdoor series of blob sculptures; Momenta Art's The Unhumane Society explores and transgresses the human/animal boundary; and feral impulses fully take over when Dallas performance artist Randall Garrett and his Uncle Remus' La Supreme Discoteca y Youth Explosion Jamboree play the afterparty at Supreme Trading.
Myopenbar.com has a good listing of places to drink if you're gallery hopping.
SATURDAY:
Brooklyn Book Festival
FREE
when: Sat 9.16 (10am-6pm)
where: Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza
[From Flavorpill] Ever wonder what Jonathan Ames' alcoholic, self-indulgent Alan Blair and his cohort/butler Jeeves have in common with Gary Shteyngart's Russian debutantes? It's not vodka; it's Brooklyn. While their characters hail from all over the globe, the authors featured in this festival have each resided in the county of Kings. So whether or not your tree grows there too, check out panel discussions with topics ranging from hip-hop as literature (with Touré) to Jennifer Egan and Jonathan Lethem's muses, and performances that include a crew of promising young slam poets and Brooklyn Noir editor Tim McLoughlin. MORE INFO
SATURDAY NIGHT
If the rain ever stops, which forecasters say it may Saturday afternoon, check out Agora at McCarren Park
