Past BK Art Lovers Events

white road Dance Media

April 4-6, 8pm
Triskelion Arts   
Triskelion Arts presents white road Dance Media in Evergreen, a new full-length work, and the premiere of Night Thing: The Movie, a feature-length dance film. Evergreen is a world pulled taut by symmetrical forms and fueled by overwhelming movements, quick-fire decisions and interpersonal momentums.  Additionally inspired by simulated environments, cycles of renewal and the concept of extreme dramatics in very small spaces, the performers challenge one another to fully inhabit a purlieu that is calculated and undone, fragile yet enduring.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket and receive VIP seating

RSVP by April 2

Affordable Art Fair & Private Preview Party

April 3-7
The popular Affordable Art Fair returns this spring to celebrate twelve years of Fairs in New York City. This spring’s Fair will showcase 84 galleries over two floors at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea for this April 3-7, 2013. Showcasing original paintings, prints, sculptures and photographs, the Fair's prices range from $100 - $10,000, with the majority of work priced under $5,000. BK Art Lovers enjoy access to the Private Preview Party on April 3, featuring complimentary cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, too!

BK Art Lovers waive $12 admission and receive free VIP party passes
RSVP by March 14

launch movement experiment & Billy Schultz

March 22-23, 8pm
Triskelion Arts 
Triskelion Arts presents a shared evening with launch movement experiment and Billy Schultz. Andy Dickerson and Rachel Mckinstry have devised the “pause, flow and exit” of their first collaborative work, arrangement. The piece creates a spontaneous, valid composition that displays the element of choice. Billy Schultz’s Behind the Curtain is the story of a straitlaced and orderly janitor who arrives to work only to find that the theater he calls home has been slated for demolition. Through a series of fantastical reckonings and re-imagined memories, he attempts to reconcile himself to a life without the expression of the actors, the applause of the audience and the stories of the stage.  

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket and receive VIP seating

RSVP by March 20

Two Sides Sounding

March 18, 8pm
Two Sides Sounding and Zentripetal 
New music ensembles Two Sides Sounding and Zentripetal present Atmospheric Shift: Music of the Elements, a concert of musical perspectives on the climate extremes experienced globally and seen locally in Brooklyn, featuring element-inspired chamber music of living composers. In “The Ice: Storm/The Wind: Tornado” violinist Lynn Bechtold, cellist Jennifer DeVore, pianist Mila Henry and soprano Eleanor Taylor perform music by Eve Beglarian, Daniel Felsenfeld, Lei Liang, Kala Pierson, Kamala Sankaram and a world premiere by Lynn Bechtold. The show features original video by Jennifer Stock.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket
RSVP by March 14

The Freddy Cole Quartet

March 16, 8pm
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts 
Praised by The New York Times as “the most maturely expressive male jazz singer of his generation, if not the best alive,” this 2010 Grammy nominee presents a glorious tribute to the songbooks of Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and his older brother, the immortal Nat “King” Cole.

Freddy Cole at the Blue Notes Jazz Club. Photo: Clay Walker

BK Art Lovers waive $36 admission

RSVP by March 13

 

Leanne Schmidt and Company

March 14-16, 8pm
Triskelion Arts   
Triskelion Arts presents Leanne Schmidt and Company in Not a Love Story…and other dances, the newest collaboration between Leanne Schmidt and Kim Goss. The work reveals the quirks that make us innately human and explores the depths of our shared vulnerability through a story that clearly has nothing to do with a messy, unraveling, short-tempered, and possibly stinky, kind of love.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket and receive VIP seating

RSVP by March 11

The Pinks

March 8 and 15, 8pm
Gold No Trade 
It is 1861 and the southern rebels are gaining traction. Real-life Confederate spy Rose Greenhow has seduced half of Washington. Enter the Pinkertons, hard-boiled detectives with a new secret weapon: the first female agent Kate Warne. But once undercover, the lines between hero and villain blur when the people across the political divide come into focus. Drawing on graphic novels and film noir, Gold No Trade uses its signature physical style to uncover the fascinating history of two unknown American women.  On March 15th, an expert panel, including Ann Blackman, biographer of Rose Greenhow and several other special guests will answer audience questions after the show and discuss some of the historical and ideological underpinnings of the play.

BK Art Lovers waive $18 ticket 

RSVP by March 1

The (*) Inn *empty, vacant, abandoned; usually translated as “Haunted”

March 7-30, varies
Target Margin Theater 
The shtetl turns uncanny in Peretz Hirschbein’s classic tale of Yiddish life. You might be expecting the farm, chicken-plucking and arranged marriages, but not the S&M lust and the body-snatching wedding guests. The Haunted Inn was an early touchstone for experimental theater in Yiddish. It’s Tevye on drugs. Watch out.

BK Art Lovers waive $25 ticket

RSVP by March 4

Pocahontas by Little Lord

March 7-8, 14-15, 8pm
The Bushwick Starr 
Part Thanksgiving pageant, part melodrama and part living history, Little Lord presents Pocahontas! Join Bushwick Starr as Little Lord corrupts over 400 years of fact and fiction in order to grant America the founding myth we all deserve.

BK Art Lovers waive $18 ticket

RSVP by March 4

Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre

March 9, 8pm
OnStage at Kingsborough 
Romance, passion, majesty and timeless beauty will fill the air when the Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company takes the stage in an evening of his most celebrated and entrancing works.  Award-winning artistic director, flamenco dancer and choreographer Juan Siddi will be joined by an array of dancers, singers and musicians from Spain, France and the United States.  Juan Siddi will be joined by Artistic Director of Theatre Flamenco San Francisco Carola Zertuche, who, with Siddi, is an Isadora Duncan Award nominee.

BK Art Lovers waive $30 ticket

RSVP by March 4

Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup

March 8-10, 8pm
Triskelion Arts 
Triskelion Arts presents Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup in Oddball Zebra. Inspired by the myriad connotations, moral implications, and visual metaphors associated with stripes: darkness and danger; outside and inside; background and foreground; visual incongruity and moral ambiguity, the piece was hailed as “zany, theatrical, macabre” by Arts and Culture Magazine.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket and receive VIP seating

RSVP by March 6

Tough Cookie Dance and Rebecca M. Sproul and Dancers

February 22-23, 8pm
Triskelion Arts
The satirical and sarcastic choreographers Josselyn Levinson and Michael Richman of Tough Cookie Dance present Acting and Dancing… finally bring the popular art of film acting to the abstract modern dance stage. Come watch your favorite notable movie scenes (My Cousin Vinnie, The Devil Wears Prada, A Few Good Men, and more) pasted together and played out in a way you never believed was possible.  Sitting atop bar stools in ball gowns, Rebecca M. Sproul and Dancers presents an ode to their new home, Brooklyn. Called to duty by their newest and cutest, the A-team snarls as they fit safety goggles across their brow; ready for action. They go to work, fighting crime, kicking cats, and drinking their faces off, all the while laughing their way through the most serious piece they’ve created so far.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket and receive VIP seating
RSVP by February 18

SARA du jour

February 15-16, 8pm
Triskelion Arts
From the schools of Martha Graham and Ohad Naharin comes the first Contemporary Dance Pop Star: SARA du jour. With a fierce eye for the now and next, and armed with her un-unique style, SARA has blasted onto the dance scene.  With expert representation by her management team Jordan Isadore and Nicole Bridgens, SARA has made a name for herself in the virtual blogosphere and has now entered the third dimension. Join us for the New York debut of SARA’s master mix weaving together of visual tapestries, inspired by the best in contemporary dance and pop culture.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket and receive VIP seating
RSVP by February 11

The Record

February 13-16, 7:30pm
600 HIGHWAYMEN
The Record, the latest from New York City performance makers 600 HIGHWAYMEN, is a theatrical portrait of 35 people who come together for 57 minutes over four consecutive evenings to perform for an audience. The subject is themselves; the time is now. Part theater, part dance, part visual art, part community meeting, The Record defies easy categorization.

BK Art Lovers receive VIP seating and a limited edition audio recording of the original score with $15 ticket purchase

RSVP by February 11

Outcry by Thais Francis

February 9, 8pm & February 10 and 17, 2pm
JACK
In 2012, 17-year old Trayvon Martin was killed while walking in an upscale neighborhood in Florida, joining a long history of unarmed young black men murdered in this country as a result of racial profiling. In this haunting drama, playwright Thais Francis creates a hallucinatory dreamscape in which she weaves together the voice of Trayvon Martin with the voices of other victims of race-based violence like Emmett Till, Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell. 

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket

RSVP by February 6

Cynthia Hopkins’ This Clement World

February 5-9, 8pm & February 10, 3pm
St. Ann's Warehouse
This Clement World is a fiercely creative and charismatic tribute to our rapidly changing environment, as seen through the prism of Cynthia Hopkins’ deeply personal lens and wild cross-disciplinary style. Performed live with a 15-piece chorus and band, This Clement World blends outlandish fiction and original avant-folk songs with Hopkins’ own documentary footage from an Arctic expedition with Cape Farewell, infusing our global climate crisis with humor, poetics and urgency.

BK Art Lovers receive deeply discounted $10 tickets (regularly $30-55).

RSVP by February 4

 

The Vangeline Theater

February 1-2, 8pm
Triskelion Arts
The Vangeline Theater fuses the post-apocalyptic vision of Butoh (the Japanese dance form that developed after Hiroshima) with the near-cinematic aesthetic of 21st century science-fiction noir. Since its inception in 2002, the Vangeline Theater has received numerous positive reviews in publications such as The New York Times, LA Times, and LA Weekly. Time Out Chicago recently named the Vangeline Theater “one of the best Dance Visits of 2011.”

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket and receive VIP seating
RSVP by January 31

The Little Prince

January 27, 2pm
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Antoine de St. Exupery’s The Little Prince is one of the most universally beloved books of all time, selling over 80 million copies in almost 200 languages worldwide. Full of whimsy and wonderment, this new stage adaptation of the classic tale incorporates puppetry, multimedia projections, and original music as it follows one brave little boy’s journey through the galaxy in search of  what is most important in life.

BK Art Lovers waive $7 admission
RSVP by January 21

Arturo Vidich’s The Daedalus Effect and other dilemmas

January 24-26, 7:30pm
New York Live Arts
The Daedalus Effect and other dilemmas features a solo performance by Brooklyn-based dancer-choreographer Arturo Vidich, who has been called a “singularly captivating dancer” by The New York Times. In this work, Vidich uses modular objects to generate physical dilemmas that prompt strings of full-body gestures and create an improvisational score exploring the mythical persona of Daedalus, the taciturn engineer who invented the labyrinth, and Icarus, his ill-fated son, as metaphors for the pitfalls of product development.

BK Art Lovers waive $12 ticket
RSVP by January 17

 

The House of Von Macramé

January 23, 24 and 31 and February 1, 8pm
The Bushwick Starr
Britt is just a small town girl who unwittingly becomes the muse to eccentric fashion designer, Edsel Von Macramé.  As she becomes tormented by psychic visions of grisly occult murders within the industry, she and famed fashion journalist Rosemary Crawley team up to search for the horrific truth.  From acclaimed writers Joshua Conkel and Matt Marks, The House of Von Macramé is both a celebration of stylish European horror films and an exploration of zeitgeists and taste.

BK Art Lovers waive $18 ticket
RSVP by January 18

Cirque Off

January 17-20, 8pm
Triskelion Arts
Cirque Off is Triskelion Arts’ annual festival of the funny, bizarre, and beautiful with a particular focus on stagecraft and seamless production value. This smorgasbord of circus and variety acts treats audiences to some of the best skill and spectacle from New York and beyond. Cirque Off brings together jugglers, acrobats, dancers, clowns, comedians, puppeteers, and many others, all showing off their best and newest. Programs include live musical interludes and segues provided by Triskelion's resident company, Cirque This. Please note that this event is NOT appropriate for children.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket and receive VIP seating
RSVP by January 14

Shannon Gillen + Guests

January 10-12, 8pm
Triskelion Arts
Join Shannon Gillen and Guests for their latest project, A Colored Image of the Sun, premiering at Triskelion Arts. This work embodies the centuries-old practice of celebrating spring’s renewal. From within this tradition lays the quandary of a state of anti-death, as the seasons bring forth new life without fail. Confronted with the idea of living forever and with the ritual of dying to make room for renewal, A Colored Image systematically unravels a world that looks at the additive, subtractive and exponential expressions of existence.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket and receive VIP seating
RSVP by January 8

Christmas in the Caribbean with The University Singers

December 15, 8pm
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts 

Straight from the University of the West Indies, the University Singers have distinguished themselves as one of the leading choral groups in the Caribbean with their versatile repertoire that includes classical choral works, jazz and gospel arrangements and original music composed by Caribbean writers. Always a favorite at Brooklyn Center, Jamaica’s cultural ambassadors return with a joyous holiday program.

BK Art Lovers waive $45 admission
RSVP by December 10

Escape the cold and hit the beach! at PULSE Miami

December 6-9
PULSE Miami 

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair presents PULSE Miami, a leading art fair dedicated to international contemporary art at the Ice Palace Studios in beautiful Miami. PULSE Miami will host national and international galleries, presenting exhibitions that span across all media, from works on paper, painting, and sculpture, to performance, installation and video art.  

BK Art Lovers receive discounted passes. Contact BAC for more information.
RSVP by December 3

Puppets & Poets Festival

December 6 and 7, 8pm
The Bushwick Starr
The Bushwick Starr and Alphabet Arts present the annual Puppets & Poets, a festival of experiments, collaborations, and hybrid performances blending poetry and puppetry, two of the world’s oldest and most diversely practiced art forms.

BK Art Lovers waive $12 ticket
RSVP by November 30

AcTS – At Home Series with Ximena Garnica

November 30, 7:30 pm
CAVE Art Space

Williamsburg’s noted exploratory arena for artists, CAVE presents AcTS – At Home Series, an exciting way to be an active spectator in the work of acclaimed New York choreographer and CAVE Co-Director Ximenia Garcia.  This AcTS (Action Through Senses) is part performance, part demonstration, part lecture, and part hands-on exploration into the principles surrounding the processes of Leimay.  The interactive performance allows audience members to participate as an observer or join in the exercises and explorations with the artists.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket
RSVP by November 26

Julius Caesar

November 27, December 4, and December 11 at 7pm
November 28 and November 29, 8pm
Irondale Ensemble Project
Shakespeare’s great political thriller, up close and personal. Performed by Irondale, one of the country’s premiere ensemble theaters, this Julius Caesar is presented as part of Irondale’s ambitious 1599 project – a series of fast and furious “chamber” productions of Shakespeare’s 1599 plays. 10 actors playing multiple roles bring to life one of the most infamous assassinations in history.

BK Art Lovers receive discounted tickets of $10
RSVP by November 26

Green-wood Historic Trolley Tour

Enjoy the Winter Wonderland!
November 25 and December 9, 1pm
Green-Wood Historic Fund 
Experience the most magnificent and historic 478 acres in New York City. Join our expert tour guide to hear fascinating stories of Green-Wood’s permanent residents, see breathtaking views of Manhattan, tread where George Washington and his troops fought the Battle of Brooklyn, and much more.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket
RSVP by November 19

Escape the cold and hit the beach!

Henry Threadgill’s Zooid

November 23 and 24, 8pm
Roulette
Roulette presents two nights of Henry Threadgill’s ground breaking group Zooid, hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most thrillingly elusive composers in and around the jazz idiom.”  Threadgill is “one of the great musical masterminds of the past quarter century – a composer, arranger, and innovator who transcends genres in contemporary music.”  Featuring Liberty Ellman (acoustic guitar), Jose Davila (trombone and tuba), Stomu Takeishi (acoustic bass guitar) and Elliot Humberto Kavee (drums).

BK Art Lovers waive $25 ticket
RSVP by November 20

November Performance

November 18, 3pm
Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra
In collaboration with Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music, the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra will perform Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat Major and Beavers’ “Roscoe” Concerto.  The performance will feature J. Freivogel and Nicholas Mann on violin, David Geber on cello and the Honorable Gustin L. Reichbach as narrator. Founded in 1973, the orchestra a mix of talented amateur, semi-professional, and professional musicians is made up of people from all walks of life who play for the sheer joy of the experience.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket
RSVP by November 15

Open Rehearsal Series: Installment #3

November 18, 1pm
The Artful Conspirators
The Open Rehearsal Series, curated by Associate Artistic Director Dano Madden, invites audience members to participate in the theater making process in the most unique of ways: to observe a work-in-progress.  Installment #3 features Mystic in the Savage State, a new play by David A. Miller. The story: Mary Whiton Calkins is working to prove that synesthesia, the state in which people experience two senses at once, is a credible concern and worthy of study not only by psychologists such as herself, but also by neurologists. In the 1890s, this proves to be a great challenge for a professor in the new field of psychology, facing the male-dominated world of the "hard sciences."  The goal for the Open Rehearsal Series is not to provide the audience with a polished product, but instead to give the audience access to the inner-workings of the play-making experience, a special treat for BK Art Lovers.

BK Art Lovers waive $10 ticket 
RSVP by November 15

Dither’s Invisible Dog Extravaganza! 2012

November 17, 5-10pm
Dither Quartet 

The electric guitar quartet Dither announces their third annual Invisible Dog Extravaganza! – a raucous festival of creative music and art at the Invisible Dog Art Center. The evening will showcase a cross-section of New York’s diverse experimental music scene, with influences spanning jazz, classical music, theater, electronica and the avant garde. The New Yorker dubbed Dither’s extravaganza an “official concert on the edge” and Time Out New York asks you to “immerse yourself in the here and now of New York’s postclassical music scene.”  Performers include Dither, Anthony Coleman & Ashley Paul, Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone, Victoire, TILT Brass, Peter Evans, Object Collection, Preshish Moments.  The evening will feature John Zorn’s “Lacrosse” performed by Dither, Phill Niblock’s “2 Lips” performed by the Dither guitar orchestra.

Platinum BK Art Lovers receive VIP passes to the performance and a complimentary CD and drink.
RSVP by November 15

Jessica Gaynor Dance presents Hero

November 16-18, 8pm
Jessica Gaynor Dance 
Jessica Gaynor Dance creates pieces that utilize extreme physicality, intricate patterning, and sophisticated formal structures in an exploration of the complexities of human experience. In her new evening of work, Gaynor explores the ideological heroism, physical prowess and secret identities of superheroes.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket 
RSVP by November 15

Jessica Gaynor Dance 10th Anniversary Opening Night Gala

 November 15, 8pm
Jessica Gaynor Dance
Join Jessica Gaynor Dance as she celebrates her new evening of work, Hero.  In the dance piece, Gaynor explores the ideological heroism, physical prowess and secret identities of superheroes. Following the performance, celebrate the choreographer’s opening night by attending a VIP Gala featuring live jazz music, drinks, hors d’oeuvres, desserts and a silent auction.

Platinum BK Art Lovers waive $100 tickets to performance and gala
RSVP by November 15

AcTS – At Home Series with Tadashi Endo

November 9, 7:30pm
CAVE Art Space
CAVE, Williamsburg’s noted exploratory arena for artists, presents AcTS – At Home Series, an exciting way to be an active spectator in the work of Tadashi Endo, the acclaimed Chinese born, Japanese Butoh dancer, choreographer and director. This AcTS (Action Through Senses) is part performance, part demonstration, part lecture and part hands-on exploration into the principles surrounding the processes of Endo and Leimay. The interactive performance allows audience members to participate as an observer or join in the exercises and explorations with the artists.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket
RSVP by November 7

Metropolitan Klezmer & Isle of Klezbos

November 4, 2pm
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts 
Join BCBC as internationally-acclaimed ensembles Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos will hit the stage and perform their unique interpretations of traditional Eastern European favorites, Yiddish swing and folk tunes, and original compositions. 

BK Art Lovers waive $30 ticket 
RSVP by October 29

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Godlight Theatre Company World Premiere Production

November 3, 8pm
On Stage at Kingsborough

The Drama Desk Award-winning Godlight Theatre Company presents Dale Wasserman's acclaimed adaptation of the iconic 20th century novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.  A wickedly funny parable set in a mental ward, the play chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Nurse Ratched. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Nurse Ratched and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results. Godlight Theatre Company won the Special Drama Desk Award for “consistent originality and excellence in dramatizing modern literature, and especially for the vibrant theatricality of its innovative productions.”

BK Art Lovers waive $20 ticket
RSVP by October 31

Judith Berkson: New Works Opera

November 2 and 3, 8pm
Roulette
Roulette welcomes soprano, pianist, composer and 2011 Six Points Fellowship recipient Judith Berkson to Brooklyn.  Judith Berkson’s project stems out of collaboration with Kronos Quartet and is being written for digital and acoustic organs, drum core, vocal soloists and children's choir. The chamber opera is about Salomon Sulzer, a reformer during the 19th century and chief cantor in Vienna, who radically changed "eastern" synagogue chant to include organ, harmony and choir; conventions of the European church. Sulzer's own hybrid music became a lightning rod among European Jewish communities but ultimately gained wide popularity and was admired by composers like Liszt and Meyerbeer. The opera tells his story and addresses how music and art were used to fulfill ideals of the Enlightenment.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket
RSVP by October 31

7th Annual WAVE RISING Series

November 1-4, 7:30pm
November 3 and 4, 4pm
WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company 
Join the acclaimed WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company for their 7th Annual WAVE RISING Series, featuring 21 diverse dance companies presenting both new choreography and established repertoire.  Selected by a panel of esteemed presenters and dance artists in New York, a group of talented, established and rising national and international dance makers will appear in this year’s three week series.  Companies participating include New York’s own Jennifer Mellor Dance Project, SunHeon Dance Company and Hwa Suk Lee Dance Project from Korea, ABD Productions/Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers and Lenora Lee Dance from California, and Li Chiao-Ping Dance from Wisconsin, and more!

BK Art Lovers receive discounted $15 tickets 
RSVP by October 26

 

Permanent New Yorks: A Tour & Team Trivia

November 1, 8:30pm
Green-Wood Historic Fund

In the most atmospheric of venues, TrivWorks, NYC’s premier trivia entertainment company, will test your pop culture knowledge with trivia related to the spookier side of life, plus topics on New York City and Green-Wood’s permanent residents!  Before trivia, enjoy eerie landscapes and ages of New York history on an exclusive moonlight tour.  After the short walk, join fellow brainiacs in Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel for a night of team trivia and drinks.  The competition will feature great prizes, including local bar tabs, Green-Wood memberships, event tickets, books and more.


BK Art Lovers waive $25 ticket
RSVP by November 1

VIP Preview Party: 7th Annual WAVE RISING Series

October 31, 7:30pm
WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company 
Join the acclaimed WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company for a special VIP preview night of their 7th Annual WAVE RISING Series, featuring 21 diverse dance companies presenting both new choreography and established repertoire.  Selected by a panel of esteemed presenters and dance artists in New York, a group of talented, established and rising national and international dance makers will appear in this year’s three week series.  BK Art Lovers will watch companies present 10 minute snapshots of their eclectic work, enjoy a complimentary reception of food and drink, and can then dance the night away on the large open dance floor!

BK Art Lovers waive $25 ticket fee
RSVP by October 26

 

October Performance

October 26, 8pm and October 28, 3pm
Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra
Join the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra as they open their 2012-13 season. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Nicholas Armstrong, the orchestra will perform work by Verdi (Falstaff, Act 1: Scene 2), Rossini (L’Italiana in Algerie, Act 1 Finale), Bizet (Carmen), Saint-Saens (Samson et Delilah – Bacchanale) and Delibes (Lakme).  The performance will feature members of the New York Opera Exchange.  Founded in 1973, the orchestra, a mix of talented amateur, semi-professional, and professional musicians, is made up of people from all walks of life that play for the sheer joy of the experience.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket
RSVP by October 23

The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble: John Cage’s Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music

October 22, 8pm
SEM Ensemble
As part of the BEYOND CAGE festival, The Orchestra of the S.E.M. will perform John Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis and Winter Music with pianist Ursula Oppens and Joseph Kubera. In addition to almost never being performed with an 86-piece ensemble, it will mark the first time these works are heard together in their entirety.  This event will take place at Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall.

BK Art Lovers receive discounted $15 tickets, plus one free ticket to another Beyond Cage Festival event. Contact BAC for complete details and restrictions.
RSVP by October 18

 

TMT Yiddish Lab

October 17-November 3, 8pm
Target Margin Theater 
Target Margin Theater kicks off a two season exploration of Yiddish Theater. Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Yiddish literature and art exploded with wit, passion, and incomparable variety. TMT’s 2012 Lab Festival offers a sampler of these works to remind us all how diverse and sophisticated Yiddish culture was, and how great its loss.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 tickets
RSVP by October 15

Fela Bowl

October 14, 8pm
Brooklyn Bowl
Zozo, taken from the Goun and Fon word for “something hot,” truly keeps the afrobeat fires burning!  A 13-piece ensemble from New York City, Zozo Afrobeat features musicians from around the world and is led by African music luminary Kaleta, who has performed with Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade and Lauryn Hill.  Kaleta’s remarkable energy and stage presence – he sings, dances, and plays guitar and percussion in the show – will get you ready to dance the night away.

BK Art Lovers waive $5 ticket
RSVP by October 11

Susanna Philipps and Sivan Magen

October 14, 3pm
Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music
Join Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music as they host soprano Susanna Phillips and harpist Sivan Magen in concert.  Phillips first sang in the BFCM series while still a student at Juilliard.  Since then, she has been a soloist at the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Santa Fe Opera, the opera houses of Barcelona and Bordeaux, the orchestra of St. Luke’s, the St. Louis Symphony and the Mostly Mozart Orchestra.  As a recipient of the Alice Tully Vocal Arts award, Susanna made her solo recital debut at Tully Hall. Phillips has received wide acclaim with The Baltimore Sun exclaiming that "she's the real deal!"

BK Art Lovers receive 50% off $20 ticket
RSVP by October 11

So You Think You Can Dabkeh: Dabkeh Tour of Bay Ridge

October 6, 7pm
Alwan for the Arts
This dabkeh tour of Bay Ridge is part of So You Think You Can Dabkeh, a festival celebrating and exploring the line dances of the Levant. Neighborhood dabbikeh introduce you to steps, sounds and stories of dabkeh in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The tour highlights the social context and meaning of dabkeh in Bay Ridge, and includes stops at a community association, pastry shop, and music store. The tour concludes at Lebanese Le Sajj restaurant for a full meal, live music and dabkeh dancing.  Alwan for the Arts is the recipient of a BAC Community Arts Grant.

BK Art Lovers waive $25 ticket price
RSVP by October 1

The Debate Society: Blood Play

October 5, 11-12 and 18-19, 8pm
The Bushwick Starr 
The Bushwick Starr and The Debate Society present Blood Play written by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, and directed by Oliver Butler.  The war is over and families are moving from the South Side and settling in brand new ranch houses in brand new neighborhoods. Everyone has a lawn, a couple of kids and a bar for entertaining in their basement, BUT things are happening that no one is talking about.  And something is stirring underground.  

BK Art Lovers waive $18 ticket
RSVP by October 2

Affordable Art Fair Private Preview Party

October 4, 6pm
Affordable Art Fair
The Preview Party will be Thursday, October 4 from 6pm-9pm at the fair venue 7 West 34th Street. The Private Preview Party is attended by art-world VIPs (curators, interior designers, art organizations, museum groups, diplomats, consulates, etc.), invited guests of the exhibitors, sponsors and Fair clients. This exclusive ticketed event provides BK Art Lovers with complimentary cocktails, a relaxed, chic visit to the Fair and the chance to purchase first.

Platinum BK Art Lovers receive free VIP party passes
Please RSVP by October 1

Saucisse: A Foo Musical (Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival)

September 26, 7pm, September 28, 8:30pm and September 29, 10pm
The Brick Theater 
Saucisse tells the story of Foo, a skeptical, nomadic peddler and his vegetarian pig, Saucisse. Coming to Brooklyn from Toronto, Canada, Saucisse is a hilarious clown musical about friendship, fate and meat! Photo: Neil Muscott

BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission
RSVP by September 21

Handshake Uppercut (Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival)

September 21, 8:30pm
The Brick Theater 
Handshake Uppercut tells the story of two gentleman brawlers who drag each other through eternity with only each other’s courtesy and cruelty to keep them alive. A hysterical, brawling clash of 1920’s silent film and rock n' roll vaudeville, Handshake Uppercut is an unabashedly dark, erotic, edgy and super-funny experience. Oscillating between gleeful savagery and seething politesse, Fringe circuit veterans and Brooklyn residents John Leo (Best of Fringe, San Francisco: ‘03/‘08) and Jay Dunn (Edinburgh & Philadelphia ‘10) take silent comedy to its outer limits in this hilarious Beckettian duel. Straight off a successful run at the Chicago Fringe 2012, Handshake Uppercut is not to be missed! Photo: Amy Bolger

BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission
RSVP by September 19

Lauffiti (Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival)

September 21, 7pm, September 22, 5:30pm and September 23, 10pm
The Brick Theater 
Lauffiti comes to Brooklyn from Tampa, Florida.  Lauffiti blends clowning, breakdance and magic to create a theatrical experience unlike any other that will inspire audiences to laugh, dance and play.  The show tells the story of a clown who has lost all hope and is mysteriously sucked into a graffiti covered wall while walking the streets of the city. The graffiti comes to life and the clown reemerges from the wall exuberant and full of color, joy and laughter. Photo: Matthew Belopavlovich 

BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission
RSVP by September 19

Ragnarok (Part of the BEAT Festival)

September 21, 7:30pm
BEAT Festival
Ragnarök, or “The Twilight of the Gods”, from the epic cycle of Nordic legend, serves as rich material for Dzieci’s continuing inquiry into ritual and transformation. In this saga of birth, death, and renewal, Dzieci explores through song, movement, and sacred dance, the resonance of ancient themes to modern times, to our own gods, the destruction of old forms, and the promise of new beginnings.

BK Art Lovers waive $20 admission
RSVP by September 13

HappyFlowerNail (Part of the BEAT Festival)

September 20 (Fort Greene), September 21 (Park Slope) and September 22 (Flatbush), all shows at 7:30pm
BEAT Festival
Esteemed writer and performer Radha Blank mines the ideas of ownership, freedom and survival in her play about a Korean-owned nail salon in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. She single-handedly depicts five very different women who find home in this storefront salon. From these characters, the identity crisis of a neighborhood emerges as the women speak about the jolting experiences of gentrification. Radha’s virtuosic range of performance, piercing poetics, and cunning ability to see multiple points of view at once, creates an unstoppable dynamism in her play, HappyFlowerNail. As she seamlessly transitions from character to character, Radha challenges us to experience many sides of Brooklyn through this searing portrait of the borough. Tony-nominated actor and playwright, Colman Domingo will direct. Photo: Joseph Moran

BK Art Lovers waive $20 admission
RSVP by September 13

The Elevator Repair Service presents Shuffle (Part of the BEAT Festival)

September 20-22, 7pm
BEAT Festival
From the award-winning troupe behind GATZ, Shuffle will be an entirely new kind of Elevator Repair Service performance, one with constantly re-generated text and a dream-like logic. Through this collaboration with installation artist Ben Rubin and UCLA statistician Mark Hansen, the company looks back on its last three pieces through the lens of creative data analysis. The result is a site-specific mash-up where the company attempts to read “The Great Gatsby”, “The Sound and the Fury” and “The Sun Also Rises” simultaneously. The rearranged and overlapping texts produce compelling visual displays designed by Rubin and surprising, often absurd, micro-theater featuring many veteran ERS performers. The audience is encouraged to wander among the performers as they improvise. With scripts generated in real time by digital algorithms, phrases from the iconic novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway merge to create a look back at some of America’s favorite texts that is at once disorienting and enlightening. These performances of “Shuffle” will take place in the Language & Literature section of the Central Branch (Grand Army Plaza) of the Brooklyn Public Library. Photo: Carlos Torres

Platinum BK Art Lovers waive $20 admission
RSVP by September 13

The Dingbat Show (Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival)

September 19, 8:30pm, September 21, 10pm and September 22, 10pm
The Brick Theater 
The Dingbat Show comes to the Brick from beautiful Los Angeles, California.  The Dingbat Show is a surreal performance experience filled with juggling, acrobatics, family dysfunction, and more! Featuring clowns from Ringling Bros. Circus and New York’s acclaimed comedy trio, Happy Hour, this show has been hailed as “a rock and roll circus,” (LA Weekly).  Please note that this show is for adults only. Photo: Ellen Webber

BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission
RSVP by September 17

Perhaps, Perhaps...Quizas (Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival)

September 15, 5:30pm, September 20, 7pm and September 22, 8:30pm
The Brick Theater 
Perhaps, Perhaps…Quizás comes to Brooklyn from Mexico City.  Perhaps, Perhaps…Quizás is a clown piece playing with the idea of loneliness, wait and hope for the right man.  Living in an era where no one seems to impress one another anymore and longing for “real love,” our protagonist Greta fights her loneliness by rehearsing for the arrival of “The One” on a weekly basis. Photo: Pep Castillo

BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission
RSVP by September 13

Fools Mass (Part of the BEAT Festival)

September 15, 1pm
BEAT Festival
In Dzieci’s living example of Holy Theatre, a group of medieval village idiots are forced to enact their own Mass, due to the untimely death of their beloved pastor. Bursting with buffoonery and comic audience participation, Fools Mass is balanced with lovely hymns and chants from the 8th to the 14th centuries, creating a seminal work that has been Dzieci’s signature piece since 1998. Photo courtesy of Dzieci

BK Art Lovers waive $20 admission
RSVP by September 7

GAMESHOW (Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival)

September 14 and 18, 7pm
The Brick Theater 
GAMESHOW promises 50 minutes of high-stakes fun!  A mash-up of American game show culture, Pina Bausch’s dance theater genre and contemporary clowning techniques, the play features audience interaction, a new twist on match-making and thrilling music and dance.  Let the Games Begin!

BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission
RSVP by September 6

OPERAtion Brooklyn (Part of the BEAT Festival)

September 13 (Flatbush), September 19 (Park Slope), September 22 (Fort Greene), all shows at 7:30pm
BEAT Festival
Bold, fresh and new opera begins in Brooklyn with American Opera Projects and Opera on Tap’s OPERAtion Brooklyn. In a casual atmosphere, progressive new works of opera are presented by young composers and performers. This sophisticated and sexy piece challenges the conventions of one of the oldest vocal forms. Opera about texting and walking. Opera about the subway. Opera about “Stop-and-Frisk”. Our times, our Brooklyn—operatically! Photo courtesy of OPERAtion Brooklyn


BK Art Lovers waive $20 admission
RSVP by September 7

Irondale Ensemble presents Caesar Rendered (Part of the BEAT Festival)

September 13 (Fort Greene), September 14 (Flatbush), September 15 (Park Slope), September 20 (Red Hook), all shows at 7:30pm
BEAT Festival
Continuing its 1599 Project, The Irondale Ensemble creates its chamber version of Julius Caesar. With a company of 8 actors, the ensemble both strictly adheres to Shakespeare’s text and then shifts into its own, radical style of storytelling. The result is a fast and pointed view into Shakespeare’s classic. The Ensemble was founded in 1983 with the mission of both working with established texts and in discovering new forms of performance. In “Caesar Rendered”, we witness the company doing what it does best: pulling apart a classic in order to find something fresh, and new. Irreverence & Brilliance beautifully blended.

BK Art Lovers waive $20 admission
RSVP by September 7

Kimberly Bartosik/daela presents You Are My Heat and Glare (Avant Premiere) (Part of the BEAT Festival)

September 13 (Park Slope), September 14 (Red Hook), September 17 (Flatbush), September 18 (Fort Greene), all shows at 7:30pm
BEAT Festival
In daela’s You Are My Heat and Glare, choreographer Kimberly Bartosik’s study of intimate relationships, we view three duets woven together: dancer and designer, dancer and dancer, vocalist and vocalist. Each of these subtly poses a piercing question about relationships and intimacy, power and control. With these bold inquiries, Ms. Bartosik also asks fundamental questions about modern dance, and more broadly, theater itself. Photo: Yi-Chun Wu

BK Art Lovers waive $20 admission
RSVP by September 7

on the nOse (Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival)

September 12, 8:30pm and September 13, 7pm
The Brick Theater 
On the nOse comes from Takoma Park, Maryland. This 60-minute multi-media clown show infuses live performance from Washington, DC’s Happenstance Theater Company with video interviews from notable figures in clowning, including Switzerland’s renowned Gardi Hutter and Tony Award-winner Bill Irwin. Photo: Rene Ferrer 

BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission
RSVP by September 21

County of Kings: The Brooklyn Premiere Production (Part of the BEAT Festival)

September 12, 7:30pm
BEAT Festival
Originally presented by Spike Lee at the Public Theater, County of Kings received an acclaimed New York Times review. Lemon’s unique voice flows from hard-edged drama to street poetry, creating a vivid portrait of his adverse yet often humorous coming-of-age experiences while growing up in 80′s and 90′s Brooklyn. County of Kings has been staged in the United States from coast-to-coast, in Europe and South Africa. For one night only on Wednesday September 12th, County of Kings comes home to Brooklyn for the BEAT Festival. Photo: Carol Rosegg

Platinum BK Art Lovers waive $20 admission
RSVP by September 7

Guerra (Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival)

September 11 and 12, 7pm and September 14, 8:30pm
The Brick Theater 
Guerra comes to Brooklyn from Mexico City.  The show combines slapstick, clown, dance, bouffant and farce to tell the story of a military outpost’s last stand. Created by a collaborative team from Mexico and America, Guerra is performed in three languages by the La Piara ensemble.  Prepare to be wowed by the incoming aerial bombardment. Photo: Ernesto Muñiz

BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission
RSVP by September 7

Buffoon Anonymous: 12 Steps to Inanity (Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival)

September 9, 7pm
The Brick Theater 
Buffoon Anonymous: 12 Steps to Inanity is a fictional autobiographical story about a clown who needs to quit – and can’t.  Through trial and tribulation, the clown wages an unsuccessful war on his own stupidity as he strives to find a cure for…well, himself! Buffoon Anonymous contains classic clown routines, addictive behavior, a circus ring, an avante-garde dance piece, the ACME DECLOWNIFIER, and juggling. Performed and created by Adam Gertsacov, who is perhaps best known for his Acme Miniature Flea Circus. Photo: Bill Wadman 

BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission
RSVP by September 6

Machinations (Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival)

September 8, 8:30pm
The Brick Theater 
Machinations is the five emerging artists who call Brooklyn home. Interspersed with live music, animations, puppetry and pageantry, Machinations takes audiences on a whirlwind ride of science and ambition. This warping of space, time, minds and morals is a funny and dark look into the world of those who prove to be a bit too hungry for knowledge. Photo: Javier Oddo

BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission
RSVP by September 6

What if I'm Dead? (Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival)

September 8, 10pm
The Brick Theater 
What if I'm Dead? is an exciting new solo show written and performed by Alan Fessenden.  Join Bartholomew the clown as he tries to stage his own funeral and accidentally saves the world in the meantime. Photo: Roman Kosins

BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission
RSVP by September 6

Fools for Love (Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival)

September 8 and 10, 7pm and September 9, 8:30pm
The Brick Theater 
Fools for Love hails from Canada’s Small Matters Productions.  A hit at the 2012 Toronto Clown Theatre Festival, the play follows neighbors Rocket and Sheshells through an adrenaline-pumped night of friendship, fun and frolicking.  With only two chairs and a handful of props, Fools for Love uses imagination to find their way straight into our hearts. Photo: Marc-Julien Objois and Matt Schuurman

BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission
RSVP by September 6

Poe and Mathews: a misadventure in the middle of nowhere (Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival)

September 8, 5:30pm, September 13, 8:30pm and September 14, 10pm
The Brick Theater 
Poe and Mathews comes to Brooklyn from Los Angeles, California.  When this unlikely duo end up shipwrecked on a deserted island, they must put their mutual dislike on hold in the name of survival. Filled with physical pratfalls, sight gags and literary humor, Poe and Mathews was hailed as “Laurel and Hardy waiting for Godot” (King River Life). Photo: Tracy Olsen

BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission
RSVP by September 6

September 6, 7 and 9, 8pm
The Bushwick Starr 
The Bushwick Starr and Katy Pyle present Covers by Katy Pyle with Jules Skloot.  Performing beneath quilts, Pyle and Skloot shape-shift through a series of queered archetypes by covering songs, dance styles and contemporary performance tropes in an amorphous landscape of shifting identity and perception.

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket
RSVP by September 6

Butoh Electra

August 29-September 8, 8pm
The Ume Group 
Opening the 2012/13 season at Irondale is the magnificent, intense and intelligent Butoh Electra created and performed by the highly acclaimed Ume Group. A “beautiful and disturbing” piece (NYTheatre.com), Butoh Electra presents Sophocles' Greek revenge tragedy as the story of a woman whose vibrant inner life is corrupted by the world of walking dead in which she lives.  The Ume Group’s fresh take on this much loved classic combines glimpses of Electra's "dance of utter darkness” with impressive fight choreography and martial arts. Manifested onstage by a collection of gifted performers, this flagship physical theater piece from The Ume Group places the ensemble at the forefront of the emerging arts scene. Photo: Chloe Fox

BK Art Lovers waive $25 ticket
RSVP by August 27

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2012 EVENTS

The CCB Reggae All-Stars with special guest Junior Toots, Top Shotta Band

August 24, 8pm
Brooklyn Bowl
Since emerging in 1996, the CCB All-Stars have been tearing up the New York reggae scene with sold-out performances at some of the city’s hottest venues. The group’s ability to play a wide variety of idioms, an inspired group of special guests, and their celebration of the Carribbean life, have earned them legions of fans, headliner status at Boston’s Freedom Rally, and gigs backing diverse artists from Rita Marley to George Clinton.

BK Art Lovers waive $10 ticket
RSVP by August 22

Delusions of Grandeur (Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival)

September 25, 7pm and September 26, 8:30pm
The Brick Theater 
Delusions of Grandeur comes to Kings County from our nation’s capital of Washington, DC.  The brainchild of three producers of DC’s “Clown Cabaret,” Delusions tells the story of a classically trained actor, a pompous clown, and a reluctant emcee shooting for the stars of success, while achieving spectacular failure.  References to Shakespeare, Vaudeville, film noir and French surrealism abound in this new work, which was hailed as “high octane slapstick – a seriously funny farce that would be a shame to miss!” (DC Theater Scene) Photo: Izolda Trakhtenberg

BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission
RSVP by September 21

Butoh Electra VIP Preview Performance

August 23, 8pm
The Ume Group
BK Art Lovers get to step inside the creative process, attending the private preview performance before the official run of this new physical theater show from The Ume Group, an ensemble of performers at the forefront of the emerging arts scene.  Hailed as a “beautiful and disturbing” piece (NYTheatre.com), Butoh Electra presents Sophocles' Greek revenge tragedy as the story of a woman whose vibrant inner life is corrupted by the world of the walking dead in which she lives.  The Ume Group’s fresh take on this much loved classic will open the 2012/13 season at the Irondale Center, one of Fort Greene’s most beloved theater venues. Photo: Chloe Fox

BK Art Lovers receive VIP passes to the private preview performance
RSVP by August 20

UglyRhino Productions: 2012 Micro-Season

August 15-18, 8pm
Ugly Rhino
UglyRhino’s 2012 micro-season of new musical plays, live bands and parties will take place this summer at The Brooklyn Lyceum.  UglyRhino’s acclaimed micro-seasons place two plays at the heart of a larger artistic celebration, providing a variety of events on any given evening. What results is a social experience you can’t find in your traditional theater setting. This third annual micro-season will focus on music, featuring two entirely new musical plays developed by the UglyRhino team, as well as a variety of live bands and DJs. The 2012 micro-season will host free Lagunitas beer happy hours, live music cocktails hours, free food nights including Nathan’s Hot Dogs, and more.

BK Art Lovers receive 2 free cocktails and waive $18 admission
RSVP by August 13

Brooklyn Record Riot!

April 22, 12-7pm

Brooklyn Record Riot Spend your Sunday shopping at the Brooklyn Record Riot, an annual record collectors' fair in Greenpoint! Featuring over 50 tables of rare and collectible merchandise from over 30 dealers around the USA and Canada, traditional Polish food and beer, and live DJs and performances, the Brooklyn Record Riot promises to be an afternoon of music that you won't want to miss! 

BK Art Lovers waive $3 entry fee 


All Wear Bowlers

April 21, 8pm

OnStage at Kingsborough 

Created and performed by Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford, and directed by Aleksandra Wolska, Drama Desk Award Nominee All Wear Bowlers was called "easily the most original and funny show this year" by The New York Times. In this hilarious, long-running hit show, two silent film clowns literally fall off the screen and find themselves trapped in a haunted theater where hard-boiled eggs play tricks on them and gravity refuses to behave. A side-splitting comedy that blends remarkable physical comedy with stage magic and vaudevillian patter. 

BK Art Lovers waive $25 ticket price 

A Night of Latin Jazz

April 19, 7pm

Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium 

Presented by the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music and the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium, A Night of Latin Jazz features the stylings of Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, The Brooklyn College Jazz Ensemble, and acclaimed musician Salim Washington. The evening begins with an interactive discussion on the current state of Latin jazz music followed by the all-star concert. 

BK Art Lovers receive priority seating

Affordable Art Fair

April 18-22 

Affordable Art Fair 

The Affordable Art Fair celebrates the idea that art is for everyone. Whether you are an experienced collector or an art novice, this fair is about the joy and excitement that art should bring to your life. Over 70 international and national galleries will exhibit original paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints, all priced from $100 - $10,000, with half of the work under $5,000. 

BK Art Lovers waive $12 ticket price 

Affordable Art Fair Private Preview Party

April 18, 6pm

Affordable Art Fair 

BK Art Lovers get VIP passes to this exclusive ticketed event that provides guests with complimentary cocktails and a relaxed environment in which visit the Affordable Art Fair, as well as the chance to purchase work first. Mingle with art-world VIPs, invited guests of the exhibitors, sponsors and Fair clients. 

BK Art Lovers receive VIP preview party passes 

Moviehouse: Drawing Motion & private conversation with artists after screening

 April 8, 7pm

Moviehouse 

Join Moviehouse for a screening exploring how innovative artists experiment with the idea of capturing motion using drawing and the camera. BK Art Lovers can stay for an exclusive private conversation with the artists after the event! Pieces will include live performance manipulation with Mimi Yin, motion capture animation by Brian Oakes, tablet drawing for a live audience with Jon Burgerman and sketch animation by Kieran O'Hare. 

BK Art Lovers will have an exclusive private conversation with the artists following the event. 

Spring Performance

 April 15, 3pm 

Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra 

The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra performs Songs & Dances of Death, with bass-baritone Mark Peters, as well as Rachmaninoff's Symphony #2 in E minor and a piece by Greenhough. Founded in 1973, the orchestra is a mix of talented amateur, semi-professional, and professional musicians from all walks of life, who play for the sheer joy of the experience. A reception will follow the performance. 

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket price 

 

A Tribute to Kenny Dorham and Cecil Payne

April 5, 7pm 

Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium 

Join the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium in a special one-night only event! The acclaimed faculty and artists of Brooklyn's own Long Island University will come together to perform a full-length concert paying tribute to legendary trumpeter Kenny Dorham and saxophonist Cecil Payne. Performers will include vocalist Gloria Cooper, saxophonist Sam Newsome, horn players JC Sanford and Eddie Allen, string players Kenny Wessel and Carlo DeRosa, and organist Greg Lewis. 

BK Art Lovers receive priority seating 

The Legendary Henry "Pucho" Brown

 April 4, 7pm 

Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium 

Henry "Pucho" Brown brings his one-of-a-kind New York sound to the Dweck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library. A pioneer of Latin Boogaloo, the Harlem-born Brown has been blending jazz, Latin music, soul and funk music to great acclaim since the 1960's. 

BK Art Lovers receive priority seating 

The New Cookers at BAM Café

March 30, 10pm 

Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium 

Created in homage to the jazz sounds of Brooklyn past and present, The New Cookers will present this intimate concert in one of Brooklyn's most sought-after venues. With a sound and name that was inspired by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's legendary "Night of the Cookers" album, which was recorded live in Brooklyn in 1965, The New Cookers showcase a blend of hip hop rhythms and "hard bop" jazz music, melding the genres into an unique and exhilarating new sound. 

BK Art Lovers receive priority seating 

A Raisin in the Sun

March 29, 8pm 

Gallery Players

This groundbreaking play set on Chicago's South Side revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Mama Lena dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, her son, has other plans, however: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha, her daughter, dreams of medical school. The tensions and prejudice they face form the backbone of this seminal American drama about retaining one's dignity within a harsh and changing world. 

BK Art Lovers waive $18 ticket price 

Target Margin Theater Lab

March 24, 9:30pm

Bushwick Starr 

0,2012: The Last Futurist Lab is presented by The Bushwick Starr and curated by TMT Managing Director John Del Gaudio and Associate Artist Kate Marvin. In early 20th century Russia, young poets, directors, dancers and artists of every kind brought thrilling new challenges to the arts: wave after wave of experimentation and rebellion produced the highest gross tonnage of creative steel worldwide. 0,2012: The Last Futurist Lab explores the Russian Avant-Garde, aiming to find the literary hooligan in us all. 

BK Art Lovers waive $15 ticket price 

Site Fest

March 3 & 4, 2012

Arts in Bushwick presents SITE Fest

a two-day interdisciplinary event highlighting the diversity of performance in Bushwick. Encompassing and blending a variety of forms including theater, dance and music, SITE investigates our neighborhood as an unfolding collaborative performance enacted in urban space. SITE arose in response to the amazing outpouring Arts in Bushwick receives every year for BETA Spaces and Open Studios, giving performance artists the opportunity to display work in a collaborative environment. SITE focuses around curated hub spaces, which are organized and run by Arts in Bushwick. Performances also take place in a variety of satellite spaces (apartments, studios, street corners, galleries, etc.). Satellite space events are produced and managed by independent curators. SITE Fest is a featured Brooklyn event of Armory Arts Week. 

BK Art Lovers waive $5 admission per ticket

Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 8PM: Theatre for a New Audience presents The Broken Heart. This is the first major Off-Broadway production of The Broken Heart, a 1629 tragic-comic gem by John Ford ('Tis Pity She's a Whore). Written twenty years before Charles I's execution, The Broken Heart is set in ancient Sparta, but more closely resembles Charles? 17th century court. (BK Art Lovers waive $75 admission)
November 14 & 15, 17 & 18, 2011, 7:30PM: Chez Bushwickpresents acclaimed French choreographer Myriam Gourfink's Corbeau (US Premiere), Marine (US Premier) and Breathing Monster (NYC Premiere). Myriam Gourfink's unique work blends computer-choreography with yoga techniques exploring micro-movements while challenging conventional notions of dance. In less than 10 years Gourfink has become one of Europe's leading contemporary chorographers know for work that requires extreme physical control and results in a strange and boundless beauty. (BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission)
October 30, 2011, 2PM: Say Goodnight Gracie. Spend a hilarious and heartwarming afternoon in the company of George Burns in the Tony Award-nominated play about one of the greatest comedians of the 20th century. The performance will be followed by a Q & A with the cast and the playwright. Walt Whitman Theater at Brooklyn College (BK Art Lovers waive $30 admission)
October 29-30, 2011, 1-4PM both days: Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) presents: Creating a Website Workshop, a two day website creation intensive designed to provide participants with simple tools to create and maintain their own dynamic website. At the end of the workshop, each participant will have created a website without needing to know HTML, CSS, or JAVA. This intensive is perfect for anyone needing a dynamic web presence to promote their artwork or small business. (BK Art Lovers pay a discounted fee of $65)
October 22, 2011, 7PM-1AM: Bushwick Community Darkroom presents: Bushwick Community Darkroom Fundraiser. The Bushwick Community Darkroom provides affordable resources for film photographers in New York City. With a focus on black and white darkroom work as well as alternative processes, the Bushwick Community Darkroom provides a space where people can come make art without breaking the bank. Their first fundraising event will include bands, merchandise, and drinks, all in the spirit of raising money for this new Brooklyn-based community resource. (BK Art Lovers pay $10 admission PLUS receive goody bag and two drink tickets)
June 3-5, 2pm and 8pm Bushwick Starr presents its 4th annual new works festival "The Bushwhack Series," joining forces with the Bushwick Open Studios for a showcase of local talent, at Bushwick Starr, Bushwick (BK Art Lovers waive $12 admission).
Thursdays-Saturdays, May 12-28, 8pm: Bushwick Starr presents 31 Down's production of "Here at Home." 31 Down's trademark hallucinatory audio visual landscapes fuel playwright Eric Bland's contemplative, poetic characters in "Here at Home," a surreal interpretation of how wars abroad affect everyday lives in the homeland, at Bushwick Starr, Bushwick (BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission for shows May 12-21).
Thursday, May 12, 7 pm Cine Crash: Assorted Shorts is the closing event for BAC's annual film series, Scene: Brooklyn. The evening will feature compelling stories, as told by Brooklyn filmmakers in a myriad of ways. From animated documentary to experimental narrative film, and everything in-between, this collection of shorts features work by some of the borough's most exciting filmmakers. The screening is followed by Scene: Brooklyn's closing night party, as well as the presentation of the Best Short Film Audience Favorite Award. (BK Art Lovers waive $10 admission).
Thursday-Saturday, May 5-7, 11 am - 8 pm, Sunday, May 8, 11 am - 5 pm The Affordable Art Fair (AAF) returns to New York City. AAF NYC appeals to established collectors and first time buyers by presenting contemporary art priced from $100 - $10,000, with three-quarters of the work under $5,000. At this Spring 2011 edition, over 75 international and national galleries will exhibit original paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper. (BK Art Lovers waive $20 day pass/$40 Private Preview event).
Friday - Sunday, April 22 - April 23, 4pm and 7pm Bushwick Starr presents the environmental performance festival, "Big Green Theater," featuring professionally produced original kids' plays created through an environmental education program at Bushwick Starr, Bushwick (BK Art Lovers waive $12 admission).
March 19, 2011, 8 pm: BCBC presents Ladysmith Black Mambazo,the South African group who gained international superstar status for their collaboration on Paul Simon's Graceland album 25 years ago, and continue to thrill audiences with rich a cappella arrangements and joyously energetic performances, at BCBC, Brooklyn College, Flatbush (BK Art Lovers waive $37 admission).
February 26, 7-10 pm: Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre presents White Night, a Movable Performance Soiree and benefit at A Space on White in lower Manhattan. As party-goers weave from room to room on the three leveled space, they will discover live music, ongoing dance performance previewing Selwyn's developing work Five Minutes, video installation, a silent auction, gambling, a slice of the company's Notes in Motion arts-in-education programs with children dancing and learning, flowing cocktails and hors d'ouerves paired for all of the various spaces, costume exhibits, give-aways, and more (Platinum BK Art Lovers waive $125 admission; Gold and Silver BK Art Lovers are eligible for discounted $40 admission. Space is extremely limited; offer subject to availability).
February 26, 8 pm: BCBC presents Tango Buenos Aires: The Fire and Passion of Tango, a seductive journey led by a fiery ensemble of 25 tango virtuosi, performing to live music by Piazzolla, Mores and other Argentine masters, at BCBC, Brooklyn College, Flatbush (BK Art Lovers waive $36 admission).
February 11 & February 12, 9 - 10:30pm (doors at 8pm): Black Brooklyn Renaissance: The New Generation, two back-to-back shows, each different, featuring a younger generation of cutting edge talent in jazz, dance, gospel, spoken word, contemporary soul and more, close out BAC's Black Brooklyn Renaissance initiative. Participating artists include Maya Azucena, Talu Green and Climbing Poetree. Co-presented by BAC and BAMcafé Live at BAM Café, Ft. Greene (Gold and Platinum BK Art Lovers get reserved VIP seating).
February 10-26, 2011, 8pm: Bushwick Starr presents Half Straddle's production of "Football", an all-girl cast portrays the players, coaches and cheerleaders who make up a contemporary high school football team in a town that lives to win, at Bushwick Starr, Bushwick (BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission for shows February 10-19).
December 17, 2010, 7:30 pm: Broomflower Arts, as part of Happy Birthday Jean Genet: The Festival, perform two full-scale plays: The Maids, based on the true story of the Papin sisters who murdered their mistress in 1933, and a new adaptation of Genet's first play, Deathwatch, at Aldous Theater, Triskelion Arts, Williamsburg (BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission)
December 16th, 7:30 pm: Broomflower Arts presents Happy Birthday Jean Genet: The Festival, featuring Hadrien Laroche, French author of Le Dernier Genet speaking about the later years of Genet's life and his time amongst the Palestinians and Black Panthers. The evening will close with a screening of Genet's only completed film, Un Chant d'Amour, at Aldous Theater, Triskelion Arts, Williamsburg (BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission)
December 12, 2010, 3-5:30 pm: Intergenerations: Randy Weston Trio with Special Guest Ayanda Clarke part of BAC's Black Brooklyn Renaissance, featuring legendary jazz pianist Randy Weston with trio members Alex Blake (string bass), and Neil Clarke (African percussion), and guest artists T.K. Blue (soprano sax), Billy Harper (tenor sax), Kim Weston Moran (narrator), and Ayanda Clarke (percussionist), plus a book signing for Weston's autobiography, African Rhythms, at Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights (BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission)
November 20, 2010, 8 pm: BCBC presents Philandanco, known for its powerful blend of African-American dance, ballet, jazz and modern styles, in its New York premiere of "By Way of the Funk," a new work by Brooklyn's own Jawole Jo Zollar, Founding and Artistic Director of Urban Bush Women, at BCBC, Brooklyn College, Flatbush (BK Art Lovers waive $30 admission)
November 19, 2010: Word is Brooklyn, part of BAC's Black Brooklyn Renaissance, presents spoken word performances - traditional to contemporary - in this evening of poetry, rap, narratives, chant, word games, verbal duels and signifying. Hosted by Tai Allen, featuring Edwina Tyler, Pamela Sneed, mTkalla keaton, Sabrina Gilbert, Hanifah Walidah, James Lovell, and George Davidson at BAM Café, Ft. Greene (Gold and Platinum BK Art Lovers get reserved VIP seating)
November 12, 2010, 7-9 pm: Recession Art launches their new Collector Club and presents a VIP First Look Reception for "What is the Where", a show exploring the effects of location on perception through original work by a dozen emerging artists. Meet and toast the artists at this intimate gathering where you'll have the first chance to see the art and make purchases, and discover more about the new Collector Club and its benefits. At The Invisible Dog, Cobble Hill (this aspect of the exhibition opening is invitation-only)
November 11-14, 2010, 8 pm: Band of Puppets, Bushwick Starr's new works puppetry festival, at Bushwick Starr, Bushwick (BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission)
November 7, 2010, VIP Brunch and Open Studios - 1-2; Guided Tour: 2 pm: ISCP Open Studios treats BK Art Lovers to a brunch and tour of work by 36 international artists, artist groups and curators currently in residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, Bushwick (this aspect of ISCP Open Studios is invitation-only)
October 14-31, 2010, 8 pm: Performance Lab 115's production of "The Ring Cycle" brings Wagner's iconic classic to the action-packed world of 1980's professional wrestling, at Bushwick Starr, Bushwick (BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission)
October 17, 2010, 3 pm: BCBC presents Aquila Theatre's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Shakespeare's timeless comedy, at BCBC, Brooklyn College, Flatbush (BK Art Lovers waive $27 admission)
October 16, 2010, 7 pm: Shorts at Bushwick, presented in collaboration with Scene: Brooklyn, After playing numerous festivals across the country, five directors bring their films home to Brooklyn, at St. Nicks Alliance on the corner of Kingsland and Maspeth avenues in Brooklyn ($8 admission includes a beer. BK Art Lovers waive admission and attend a post-screening reception with the filmmakers)
October 15-16, 2010, 7:30 pm: Bascule, the U.S. premiere of a chilling work featuring the innovative choreography of David Wampach, where dancers both naked and clothed respond to their stripped-down, sharp-edged environment with integrity and beauty. This much-anticipated event is sure to sell out and takes place at Center for Performance Research (CPR), Williamsburg (Platinum BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission)
October 9, 2010, 7:30 pm:
Intergenerations: Dance Kings of Black Brooklyn
(BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission)
October 4, 2010, 6:30 pm:
St. Ann's Warehouse presents The Music of Fela Kuti
(Gold and Platinum BK Art Lovers get access to reserved VIP area)
September 29-October 3, 2010:
Affordable Art Fair NYC Fall 2010
(Silver BK Art Lovers waive $20 general admission, Gold and Platinum BK Art Lovers waive $50 admission for Private Preview)
September 25, 2010, 7 pm:
Littera Urban
(BK Art Lovers waive $12 admission)
September 25, 2010, 11:30 am-6 pm:
Urban Glass presents GLASS HUNT
(BK Art Lovers waive $25 admission)
September 23, 2010, 6-8 pm:
Private Preview of Otto Neals/Emmett Wigglesworth: Kindred Spirits Forging Forward, curated by Wendy Jones, part of BAC's Black Brooklyn Renaissance
(Tickets not available to general public)
September 18, 2010, 6 pm-2 am:
The Last Supper Salon
(BK Art Lovers waive $15 admission)
August 13:
Rooftop Films presents The Last Train Home at the Old American Can Factory
Gowanus/Park Slope (Free/Discount Admission-$10 to public)
August 4:
Lincoln Center Out of Doors presents The Robert Glasper Experiment with Special Guests Q-Tip and Bilal Jose James' Blackmagic
Manhattan (Reserved Seating for Gold/Platinum Levels-General Seating for Public)
July 31:
Bushwick Starr presents a program of original stop-motion animation films
curated with Adam Quirk of Wreck and Salvage, at Bushwick Starr, Bushwick (Free/Discount Admission-$10 to public)
July 29:
Intergenerations: Toshi Reagon and Friends at Southpaw
Park Slope (Free/Discount Admission-$10 to public)
July 24:
Bushwick Starr presents a Bushwick band showcase
featuring local favorites, Pass Kontrol and Lady Magma, at Bushwick Starr, Bushwick (Free/Discount Admission-$10 to public)
July 10:
Bushwick Starr presents a program of short, original "made for web videos" curated with Adam Quirk of Wreck and Salvage
selected from a viewer-voting experience through Vimeo at Bushwick Starr, Bushwick (Free/Discount Admission-$10 to public)
July 2:
Rooftop Films presents "Industriance-Short Film Program" at the Old American Can Factory
Gowanus/Park Slope (Free/Discount Admission-$10 to public)
June 26:
Affordable Art Fair presents the Williamsburg Gallery Tour
led by Marisa Sage, owner/director of Like the Spice Gallery and WGA president, with stops including Causey Contemporary, Gitana Rosa, Pierogi, Slate and more! RSVP by June 18 (Free Admission for BK Art Lovers-Invitation Only Event)
June 26:
Waterfront Museum presents the Waterfront Book Festival
Showboat Barge, Red Hook (Free/Discount Admission-$6 to public)
June 17-18:
C. Eule Dance presents The Gates of Fez
a collaboration with soprano saxophonist Samuel Newsome and singer/songwriter Michelle Vargo at Dansespace Project at St. Mark's Church, Manhattan (Free/Discount Admission-$18 to public)
June 15:
The Artful Conspirators present Underground
performances to benefit new plays and education programs at the Old Stone House, Park Slope (Free/Discount Admission-$20 to public)
June 10-13:
Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre?s world premiere of Passage
at Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, LIU, Downtown Brooklyn (Free/Discount Admission-$25 to public; platinum members invited to June 10th gala performance, $100 to public)
June 5:
GLASS HUNT presented by Urban Glass
Participants race to complete challenges and win prizes while discovering glass treasures around the city. Check-in at Urban Glass, Ft. Greene (Free/Discounted Admission-$20 to public)
June 3:

Rooftop Films presents Full Frame: Documentary Shorts
at Brooklyn Tech, Ft. Greene (Free/Discount Admission-$10 to public)
May 14:
Framing Fiction film screening
awards and after party with DJ Ben Allen (Free/Discount Admission - $10 to public; drink ticket for Gold and Platinum Levels)
May 13:
Ray Tintori: A Premature Retrospective
film screening and discussion (Free/Discount Admission - $5 to public; drink ticket for Gold and Platinum levels)
May 12:
Electric Picture Show film screenings
(Free/Discount Admission - $12 to public)
May 11:
Making Do The Right Thing film screening and discussion panel
(Free/Discount Admission - $5 to public)
May 10:
Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields Film Screening
(Free/Discount Admission - $10 to public)
May 8:
Good Fortune film screening
(Free/Discount Admission - $7 to public)
April 15:
Hip Hop Hybrids of Brooklyn
9 pm - midnight, Public Assembly, Williamsburg (Free/Discount admission and advance tickets - $10 to public)