The Best Brooklyn Events Happening All Week: 4.9.18 – 4.15.18
Brooklyn is preparing for a week of warm weather. Here's everything you should be doing.
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by — Saturday, April 14th, 2018 —
Early Spring Migration Bird Walk w/ The Feminist Bird Club
1629 Bushwick Avenue at Gates of Cemetery of the Evergreens
Time: 8:30am – 11pm
FREE
Join the Feminist Bird Club and Earth Arts for a spring bird walk at the Cemetery of the Evergreens. The cemetery is the final resting place of over 500,000 people and several thousand flowering trees and shrubs that attract year-round residents and seasonal migrants. Bring binoculars.
Historic Street Co-Naming
MacDonough Street bet Ralph and Patchen Avenue
Time: 11am – 3pm
FREE
The Executive Board of the 500 Block MacDonough Street Association, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn invite you to the co-naming ceremony of MacDonough Street between Ralph Avenue and Patchen Avenue, as “Jackie Robinson Way”. They will pay homage to Jackie Robinson who resided on our block at 526 MacDonough Street from 1947 to 1952 – during his rookie year through the mid-point of his career as a Brooklyn Dodger. The Opening Ceremony will begin at 11:00 AM with a Parade from Patchen Avenue to Ralph Avenue led by the Black Cowboys and a Drumline. The seated ceremony will take place on the stage erected at Ralph Avenue prior to the unveiling of the sign at 12:00 PM. Our baseball themed festival will begin immediately following the unveling featuring a batting cage, free hot dogs, popcorn, ice cream and giveaways from Major League Baseball, National Grid and others.
Opening Celebration: Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985
200 Eastern Parkway at Brooklyn Museum
Time: 11:30am – 5pm
FREE
Celebrate the opening of Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985, with a curator tour, conversation, and performance. This daylong program honors the pioneering Latin American and Latina artists in the exhibition, and their canon-expanding contributions to contemporary art during a period of extraordinary conceptual and aesthetic experimentation.
Brooklyn Wine Fest
72 Noble Street at Brooklyn Expo Center
Time: 1pm – 4:30pm
Price: $49
Endless rivers of internationally acclaimed wines, live music, delicious food, interactive games…
Slow Jam: R&B Dance Party at Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Avenue at Brooklyn Bowl
Time: 11pm
Price: $10/adv; $15/door
Tribute Night Presents: “Slow Jam,” a bump n grind dance party playing nothing but the best of new and classic Slow Jams all night long. Expect to hear a range of different artists from the likes of Janet Jackson and TLC to Bryson Tiller and The Weekend. There will be a unique Slow Jam Snapchat filter to commemorate the night.
