Brooklyn Events

Your Ideal Week

June 20 - June 27

Hey there on what looks like it will be a thundery Thursday, hope you are all able to stay indoors today (or at least have access to a very good umbrella). It’s hard to believe that tomorrow is the first day of summer, but all signs point to another relatively dry weekend, so no need to let this week’s gloom get you down. One upside of the wet weather is that the previously sold out performance of The Moth at Green-Wood Cemetery has now been rescheduled to the rain date, which is Friday, and there are now tickets available. And the reappearance of the sun tomorrow for the Summer Solstice might compel you to take a trip to LIC’s Socrates Sculpture Park for a free festival honoring the longest day of the year with arts workshops, dancing, music, and the annual sunset Solstice ritual from 6-10pm.

Saturday presents two great options for beer aficionados: a historical walking tour of Bushwick’s 19th century brewing buildings and Other Half’s annual Green City IPA festival at Industry City. And I was excited to read about this month-long series of belly-dancing classes in Clinton Hill for just $50, but even more so when I learned that proceeds go to protect against the threat to women’s rights in Alabama and Georgia. This is technically a next week thing, but if you want to go to this collaborative dinner being put on by one of my favorite cooking sites, Food52, and one of my favorite breweries, Allagash, at North Brooklyn Farms on June 30, you should get a ticket now before they sell out. Or, you could stay in and give The Nimble Cook, a new cookbook from Purple Kale Kitchenworks’ Ronna Welsh, a whirl.

Personally, I’m headed to the Mermaid Parade on Saturday, and following it up with an evening at the Prospect Park Soiree with a big group of friends, which I’m really looking forward to. I’ve also got plans to attend a bee-keeping class, of all things, and to see Dead & Co., which I consider along with reggae to be ultimate summertime music, at Citifield on Sunday. Lots going on but that’s how it goes in the summertime!

Here’s hoping that whatever your plans are, they get you out and about and in the company of people who love and inspire you! Make it an Ideal Week, guys, and we’ll catch you back here on the flipside.

—Kate Hooker

Thursday, June 20
FORT GREENE, BAM, It Started as a Joke, 9:15pm, $20

Friday, June 21
PROSPECT PARK, Improv Everywhere/Make Music New York, Mp3 Experiment, 8:30pm, FREE

Saturday, June 22
CONEY ISLAND, Mermaid Parade, 1pm-on, FREE

Sunday, June 23
BUSHWICK, Honey's, A mushroom cooking and growing class, noon-3pm, $75

Monday, June 24
GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY, Chamber music in the catacombs, 7:30-10:30pm, $85

Tuesday, June 25
FLATIRON, Center for Book Arts, Pride poster printing, 6:30-9:30, FREE

Wednesday, June 26
COBBLE HILL, Bareburger, Beer and burger dinner, 8-10pm, $35 • HARLEM, MIST Harlem, DNC debate watch party, 8pm

Thursday, June 27
COBBLE HILL, Bareburger, Beer and burger dinner, 8-10pm, $35 • DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, CIRCA Brewing Co., DNC debate watch party, 8pm