The Best Events Happening in Brooklyn This Week: 2.23.19 – 3.1.19
There's always something to do!
There's always something to do!
FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL PRESENTS: VCR PARTY
445 Albee Square W at Alamo Drafthouse
Time: 9:30pm
Price: $15
Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show) from the Found Footage Festival emerge from their VHS-strewn office with newly discovered video gems.
SWEETS & TREATS: Wrapped in Afro-Print
43-D 9th Street at Gowanus Event Lounge Space
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Price: $49
Learn to make tasty desserts and W. African sweets-Experience includes an Afro-print gift! Come, expand your palette and circle of friends.
Film and Live Score: Body and Soul with DJ Spooky
200 Eastern Parkway at Brooklyn Museum
Time: 7pm
Price: $16
DJ Spooky performs an original live score created for the silent film Body and Soul, which stars Paul Robeson in his film debut. The film follows Robeson as he plays both an escaped convict masquerading as a minister and his twin brother, who is a model citizen. Regarded as a rare work in African American cinematic history, Body and Soul boasts biting social commentary on issues of race and gender that went unaddressed by Hollywood for decades, and that still resonate today. After the screening, participate in a Q&A with Spooky.
RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 11 Premiere
40 Bogart Street at Syndicated
Time: 9pm
FREE
RuPaul welcomes 15 new queens into the werk room to death drop, tear up the runway and share the love on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 11. Showing all season, live in Syndicated’s bar and theater.
Dirty Thursday: Pon De Replay
2 Wyckoff Avenue at House of YES
Time: 10pm – 4am
FREE
Tonight celebrate queen RIHANNA and all her flavor: Caribbean beats, dancehall, reggae, pop, R&B, trap, and electronic dance magic. Expect musical cameos by Rihannas favorite collaborators Sean Paul, JayZ, Kanye, Calvin Harris, Nicki Minaj, Fabolous, Ne-Yo, Justin Timberlake, T.I., David Guetta, and more surprises.
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