Let me help you chase those sunsets and shadows into a weekend of sweet, summertime memories. Your weekend guide is back and better than ever. Get to it, Brooklyn.
Things to do in Brooklyn on Friday
Circus in the Cemetery at Green-Wood Cemetery in Sunset Park
In commemoration and celebration of Green-Wood cemetery’s permanent resident, William Niblo, theatre owner and performance extraordinaire, tonight the cemetery will transform into a timeless, dimensionless pleasure garden curated by Bindlestaff Family Circus. Featuring fire eaters, musicians, contortionists, performers on floats, floating ghosts, both the living and the dead and everything in between, this is event is not to be missed. Happening Friday AND Saturday, tickets atart at $40 and are available here. The event is from 7-9pm. 500 25th St.
Food Truck Friday’s at East River State Park in Williamsburg
Think of this as Smorgasburg’s happy hour. This after-work and pre-weekend food celebration brings all of the magic and wonder of your favorite Brooklyn food festival back into the park and on wheels and likely without most of the tourists who come mostly to hold up pineapple’s in front of the skyline and treat those crowded corridors as their runways. This is for us, Brooklyn. Skip your dinner plans. Go sample Brooklyn’s finest at sunset overlooking the sklyine. It’s the first of their weekly Food Truck Friday’s, happening from noon-9pm, so tell everyone you’ve figured out their summer Friday plans. Info here. Be there.
Lunice at Good Room in Greenpoint
Sometimes you take it for granted that in virtually any neighborhood in Brooklyn, any night of the week, you can go to an amazing dance party with world-class talent and party your ass off with people you love. One of those people, who happens to be a very prominent face at Le Fanfare in Greenpoint, will be celebrating his birthday tonight with his squad of pasta-handling misfits at Good Room. Lunice will be spinning tunes all night and we’ll be getting all noodly on the dance floor. Come, join us. Then don’t make us serve you brunch in the morning. That’s messed up. Tickets $22 available here. 10pm-4am. 98 Meserole Ave.
Things to do in Brooklyn on Saturday
The Total Greenpoint Immersion.
There’s truly no better substance I prefer to immerse myself in other than the drippingly charming neighborhood where I live. And this self-guided food-and-beer tour will help you do just that, and cheaply! $15 gets you 4 free Brooklyn brews at Brew Inn, Black Rabbit, the Barge, and at the Diamond, plus for an extra $10, lunch at Le Fanfare, Brooklyn Label, and Le Gamin. Plus, free arancini at Archestratus! OR, you can just do this self-guided food and drink tour I planned for you, any day of the week, during the happiest hours. You decide. Regardless, I guess I’ll see you for lunch Saturday? Tickets here. Cheers folks.
Campfire Storytelling at North Brooklyn Farms in Williamsburg
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this is the last season of our beloved North Brooklyn Farms at its waterfront location. Thus let’s embrace this magical little urban oasis as often as possible. This Saturday night they hold their weekly campfire storytelling event. Bringing a modern spin to the ancient art form of story sharing, just in the shadow of the Williamsburg bridge and overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Be there, before this chapter ends forever. Tickets $5 online, $10 at the door. Info here. 7pm, 320 Kent Ave.
French Kiss Bastille Day Kick-Off at House of Yes in Bushwick
What better way to kick-off Bastille Day, France’s celebration of liberation buy freeing yourself and your lips and your tongue and your Francophile body at House of Yes Saturday night? (hint: there’s no better way) Let yourself sink into the seduction of French culture in Bushwick this Saturday night. They’ll be serving sexy house and deep grooves for your oo la la all night long. C’est chic. C’est la Vie. C’est parfait. Outfit inspiration, tickets, and all info here. 10pm-4am, 2 Wyckoff Ave.
Things to do in Brooklyn on Sunday
17th Annual Bastille Day Celebration with Bar Tabac, Fort Greene
Just because US and Canadian independence days are over does not mean that we need to stop celebrating freedom. Bastille Day is this week, and we have the freedom in this country to be shameless Francophiles. celebrate at charming Bar Tabac in Boerum Hill and the surrounding city blocks for an all-day festival featuring multiple petanque ball courts (which is basically a funky version of bocce ball) (which, let’s be honest, is a funky version of bowling), plus tons of French delicacies, and all the chilled rose and champagne you could ever wish for. Plus accordions and berets, bichon frises and frisee salads. And everyone pretending like Antoinne Griezman did not just sign with Barcelona… This is one of the biggest Bastille celebrations in North America so until we can all head east, meet me there. all info here. They kick it off 10am-6pm, 128 smith st. Bastille Day every year is one the best parties I’ve ever been to in Brooklyn (and I do not say that lightly), so Sunday is not the day to be le tired.
The Giglio Festival in South Williamsburg
Gentrification has weighed heavy on all of our shoulders and inevitably, our bank accounts. However, never has it revealed such a painfully physical burden than the fact that this year was the first in 50 that the Giglio Festival has been unable to find willing, able bodies and shoulders to help hoist and carry the 4-ton Giglio sculpture down the street in this celebration of heritage and tradition… because they’ve all been pushed out of the neighborhood. They fortunately overcame the lack of support this year and thus we should all go, and celebrate and commemorate this event on Sunday (or, all week really). Sunday is Giglio Sunday but the full list of events is available here. 275 N. 8th St.
The Meat Hook at Threes Anniversary Party and Fish Fry in Gowanus
What happens when one of the very best breweries in Brooklyn comes into fruitition and has enough intuition to know it must not only be held to small-batch inhebriation but also locally-sourced nutrition? Well, the Meat Hook joins forces and takes over a corner of Threes Brewing and provides you with some of the best butcher-selected options, and does it for three years now. Let’s all celebrate the partnership of these two this weekend with a down-home fish fry. They’ll be cooking up Naz’s local catches-of-the-day, plus all the local brews to accompany it, with music and dancing and all else good in the world. Come, be a part of their proud history and toast to all the years to come. Info here, 5-8pm. 333 Douglass St at Threes Brewing – I’ll try anything thrice.
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