6 concerts! A dog that listens! Yoga! Burlesque!

Welcome back to the best Park Slope events newsletter. Links to sources are in (parentheses) after each event.

Worth Booking Now

🙋It’s My Park Day @ Concert Grove on August 28th: These small-group cleanups that focus on one aspect of the park are actually some of the hardest experiences to reserve. They’re booked through the end of the summer, and this chance to work on the iconic refurbished gazebo/pavilion thing-ey is a particularly fun opportunity. (Concert Grove)

😂Pretty Major Presents: Jay Jurden and Zach Zimmerman Co-Headline on July 11th: “Presented by Vulture and Union Hall, this special edition will feature half-hour sets from some of the best performers and hilarious hosts anywhere.” [7:30 PM, Union Hall $15]

Get Involved

🏞️Park Pitch-In Sunday at noon: "Help Prospect Park Alliance care for its 55-acre lake during our special clean-up series during Waterways Appreciation Month." [12:00 PM, Prospect Park Boathouse]

🏠ReImagine Lefferts Sunday at noon: Lefferts Historic House is the 18th-century farmhouse on Flatbush just behind the carousel. The Lefferts family were slave owners, and as part of a $275K grant, locals are invited to sit on the porch and brainstorm “new exhibits and programming” that better encompass the experiences of indigenous and enslaved peoples in Brooklyn. [12:00 PM, Lefferts Historic House]

🍹Save Our Music Program Fundraising Friday: “Join us on July 7th at Barbès to help save the music program at PS 295. 100% of proceeds go directly to fight Mayor Adams’ budget cuts that are gutting arts at our schools.” [5:00 PM, Barbès]

Slopestack of the Week

Every week

A Sharp Knife Is Safer

by local Nick Douglas retells the story teen Nick selling Cutcos through a different narrative method. This week, it’s the “story cycle” perfected by the creator of Community and Ricky & Morty.

Thursday Events

😂John ReYnolds & Carmen Christopher: Sold out, like we said it would be in last week’s Worth Booking Now section. [10:00 PM, Union Hall]

🎶Barbès Jazz @ Brooklyn Botanic Garden: “Celebrate summer at the Garden with Daisy Castro’s Her jazz style refreshes and renews with a modern edge and global influence and instrumentation." [6:00 PM, Brooklyn Botanic Garden]

😂Stamptown: "A raunchy, chaotic and full-on fringe experience, Stamptown is a late-night variety show featuring the best alternative performance from around the world." [8:00 PM, The Bell House $25]

💪Prospect Park Yoga with Brooklyn Flow: “Brooklyn Flow and Prospect Park Alliance present free, outdoor yoga on the Long Meadow.” [7:00 PM, Long Meadow]

👠Glamourmess! “Part of Burlesque in the Back, a weekly series of rotating burlesque shows taking place each Thursday in the backroom at Freddy's.” [8:30 PM, Freddy's Brooklyn]

Friday Events

🛼Lola Star’s Dreamland Saturday Night Fever Roller Disco: “A themed, dress up, immersive roller skating experience.” [7:00 PM, LeFrak]

🎨Art-Making: Summer Print Jam: "In this workshop inspired by Africa Fashion, create a unique pattern through cyanotype printmaking. Then, make a bag using traditional patterns of bògòlanfini." [1:00 PM, Brooklyn Museum]

Saturday Events

📚Read with a Therapy Dog: "Our certified therapy dog Flash Gordon loves to be read to and knows that kids build confidence reading to him." [2:00 PM, Central Library]

📚Creative Writing Workshop Series for Teens with the Writers Guild Initiative: “The Writers Guild Initiative and BPL are partnering to offer creative writing workshops for teens in grades 9-12.” [1:00 PM, Central Library]

🎨‘Street / Art Brooklyn’ Gowanus Art Walk: “Local collage artist Rich Garr leads this comfortable open-air exploration.” [11:30 AM, Smith-9th Street subway station entrance $22]

🎶Kelela | Liv.e: “A seamless interpolator of music, art, and fashion, Kelela headlines a night of music sure to be as transcendent and kaleidoscopic as the wide breadth of her talents. Our opener, neo-soul artist Liv.e, grew up in a family of musicians, embedded in the gospel scene.” [7:30 PM, Lena Horne Bandshell]

Sunday Events

🎶Tomas Rodriguez in Concert: “Tomas Rodriguez is a NYC-based guitarist with a unique repertoire rooted in his Spanish ancestry and inspired by diverse music styles.” [4:40 PM, 440 Gallery]

🎶One Breath Rising presents ‘We Free Strings:’ “An Afro-Modernist string ensemble that performs original, creative, improvised music." [4:40 PM, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, $10 donation]

🎬Secret Hong Kong Double Feature: “We aren’t going to tell you the title of this movie until it appears onscreen, but be prepared for one of the funniest, hungriest films you’re going to see this summer.” [12:00 PM, Nitehawk]

Monday Events

🧶Gathering Wool: Knit and Crochet: “Share your projects and your fiber inspirations. Materials are not provided.” [10:30 AM, Park Slope Library]

🪚Soap Box Workshop: We generally don't put summer camps in the events newsletter, but the end-of-summer soapbox derby is one of the coolest things in the neighborhood, and we wish someone had told us about it years ago. [9:00 AM, Koko NYC]

Tuesday Events

🎬‘Safe in Hell' Co-hosted by Filmmaker/Programmer Caroline Golum: "In this wild pre-code from director William A. Wellman, Gilda [Dorothy Mackaill] flees to an island after thinking she has killed a former client.” [7:15 PM, Nitehawk]

💪AMP’d Interval Training with Chelsea Piers Fitness: “Hit the grass and push your body to new limits in this high-intensity interval training class that combines bodyweight strength and cardio on the Prospect Park Long Meadow.” [6:00 PM, North of Long Meadow]

Wednesday Events

😂Rachel Kaly: HOSPITAL HOUR: Sold out, like we said it would be in last week’s Worth Booking Now section. [7:30 PM, Union Hall]

😂Liza Treyger and People Who Make Her Laugh: “Liza Treyger headlines with special guest, Emmy Blotnick, Alison Leiby and George Civeris.” [9:00 PM, Union Hall, $19]

🎬Midsommar: A film feast presentation: 5 courses of Nordic food and alcohol paired with Florence Pugh’s breakthrough performance. [7:15 PM, Nitehawk, $115]

Thursday Events

🎪A Night at Niblo’s Garden: Sold out, like we said it would be in June 8’s Worth Booking Now section. [Green-Wood]

🎬Miyazaki Movies on 4th: ‘Spirited Away.’ “Bring a blanket or snag a picnic bench or chair and enjoy this free movie presentation.” [8:30 PM, 4th Street Plaza]

🎬Book Your Brooklyn Family Movie Night: Lightyear. “We turn our auditorium into a mini movie theater!” [3:30 PM, Park Slope Library]

💪Runner & Stone Presents Mingles Night: “Games, bites and wine tasting.” [6:00 PM, Runner & Stone]

🎶Goussy Célestin’s Ayiti Brass: “Dance along with Goussy Célestin's Ayiti Brass, a music ensemble that incorporates both sound and movement, inspired by New Orleans’ second-line and Haiti’s Rara jazz traditions.” [7:00 PM, Brooklyn Botanic Garden]

🎶Rennie Harris | Decora: “Harris, born and raised in Philadelphia, is one of the art form’s leading ambassadors and believes that any story of hip-hop without dance is incomplete. Opener Decora uses the art of language and visual art to create an entirely new medium of expression.” [8:00 PM, Lena Horne Bandshell]

🎬‘Bamboozled' introduced by Adam Howard: “Adam Howard is a co-creator and Executive Producer of the Full Release with Samantha Bee podcast and was a producer for six seasons at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.” [9:00 PM, Nitehawk]

📚Kate Zambreno presents ‘The Light Room: On Art and Care:’ “From ‘one of our most formally ambitious writers’ [Esquire], a moving account of caretaking in a time of uncertainty and loss.” [6:30 PM, Community Bookstore]

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