Brooklyn’s Best Events Happening This Independence Week: 7.4.18 – 7.11.18
We've got all the best Brooklyn events happening this week, including everything happening on Independence Day.
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The Legacy Project: Creative Emancipation
158 Buffalo Avenue at Weeksville Heritage Center
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
FREE
In 1827, Black New Yorkers began to observe the 5th of July as a way to safely celebrate their recent emancipation while quietly critiquing America’s Independence Day. This celebration is annually acknowledged at WHC and became the namesake of our 5th of July Resource Center for Self-Determination & Freedom. This year, Ebony Noelle Golden of Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative will help us honor this history with 125th & FREEdom. This choreopoetic ritual performance explores migration, gentrification, emancipation, and cultural resilience. Golden, her ensemble, and featured artists Audrey Hailes, Jaimé Dzandu, and Vesta Walker will perform an excerpt, and also lead us in a discussion about creative emancipation. Join Weeksville for the celebration! Refreshments will be provided.
THE RUB PRESENTS: SCARFACE
445 Albee Square W at Alamo Drafthouse
Time: 7pm
Price: $15
Enjoy this classic film on the big screen! After the screening, join The Rub for dancing and drinking in the House of Wax.
Love 2 Love: Donna Summer’s Decade of Disco Decadence
61 Wythe Avenue at Brooklyn Bowl
Time: 8:30pm
Price: $10/adv; $12/door
DJ dance party to the tunes of Donna Summer, Enjoy $9 bowling lanes all night for our 9th Anniversary Celebration!
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT
308 Bedford Avenue at Videology Bar & Cinema
Time: 9pm
Price: $12
This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer (Margit Carstensen) and a beautiful but icy ingenue (Hanna Schygulla)—based, in a sly gender reversal, on the writer-director’s own desperate obsession with a young actor—is a true Fassbinder affair, featuring exquisitely claustrophobic cinematography by Michael Ballhaus and full-throttle performances by an all-female cast.
DIRTY THURSDAY: 90s Night
2 Wyckoff Avenue at House of YES
Time: 10pm – 4am
FREE
The best of the 90’s all in one place, all mixed up and themed to throwback perfection- old school hits, regrettable fashion choices and fads that have come and gone and come back even harder. Boy bands. Girl groups. Fishnets and fierceness. Grunge flannel fabulousness. Doc Martins forever.
