—Monday, August 14th, 2017—

Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
1301 Riegelmann Boardwalk at Place to Beach
Time: 6pm – Midnight
Price: $12
Hosted by author of Making Rent in Bed-Stuy, Brandon Harris, this screening is both concert and film in one. The film follows comedian Dave Chappelle, as he loads up a bus with famed French director Michel Gondry and band members from the marching group at the local historically black college Central State and ventures to the corner of Quincy & Downing Street’s in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where he has quite the party planned. In front of the Broken Angel House, a phantasmagorical DIY hall of wonders that was owned by an elderly white couple and has since become ever more needless condos for rich folks, the travelers enjoy a concert featuring Kanye West, the Fugees, Big Daddy Kane, Lauren Hill, Erykah Badu, John Legend and and others in the days before everyone spent their time at these sorts of events just filming through there cell phones.

Hollywood Does History… Poorly: Forrest Gump
128 Pierrepont Street at Brooklyn Historical Society
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
FREE
While a work of fiction, Gump’s bizarre “right place, right time” journey through time would make him this series’ most important historical lynchpin… if it were true, of course. Slate’s Kristen Meinzer will introduce the film.

Dinner & A Movie: The Little Hours
149 Seventh Street at The Bell House
Time: 7:15pm
Price: $7 (bring $$ for food)
Medieval nuns Alessandra, Fernanda, and Ginevra lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer.

Cooley High Screening
660 Louisiana Avenue at Spring Creek Park
Time: 8:15pm
FREE
East New York Restoration and The Kings County Cinema Co LLC present Movies in the Park Mondays. The second film on the schedule is cult classic movie, Cooley High!

Shane Weisman Live at Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street at Pete’s Candy Store
Time: 9:30pm – 10:30pm
FREE
If you are looking for some new music to listen to, then Shane Weisman is your guy. Shane Weisman is a versatile up and coming alternative folk/rock singer-songwriter. Shane is a self taught multi-instrumentalist who fell in love with music at a very early age, and is currently making his debut album with The Lumineers producer, Simone Felice. Shane delivers an intimate yet lively experience, and getting lost in the stories within his songs is bound to happen.

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