Get Out: Barn Dance, Sensors, Charles Ebbets & More!

It’s Thursday. Do you know what you're doing this weekend?

Carroll Gardens Patch has the best bets for your free time. Check our picks for the activities to hit and bars/restaurants/shops to explore.

Where/ When: , Friday at 9 p.m.

Why Go: Who doesn't want to get down and do some country dancing? And at a place like The Jalopy on Columbia Street, there couldn't be a better place in Brooklyn.

Cost: $15

Where/ When: The Irondale Center on South Oxford Street in Fort Greene, through March 26, Friday performance at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m.

Why Go: Tony Award winning director B.H. Barry, the world's leading fight director of 40 Broadway shows and nine feature films, directs this version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel.

Cost: $20 - $45; Student Rush, $15

Where/ When: NYC Resistor Labs, Saturday from 1 - 3 p.m.

Why Go: Learn to use sensors to pick up vibrations, electromagnetism and light and turn it into sound. Find the hidden music in everyday objects or listen to musical instruments and musical electronics in a new way. Sounds cool, right?

Cost: $60

Where/ When: Brooklyn Historical Society in Brooklyn Heights, Saturday at 2 p.m.

Why Go: Learn your Brooklyn history at this discussion on the Brooklyn Dodger's Club President and owner, Charles Ebbets, led by John Zinn, lead historian for BHS' Ex-Lab exhibition, Home Base: Memories of the Dodgers at Ebbets Field.

Cost: Free!

(Also check out the on Sunday at 2 p.m., also at the Historical Society.)

Where/ When: The Bell House in Gowanus, Sunday from 3 - 7 p.m.

Why Go: At the Bell House's monthly Sate Fair series, celebrate a different State each month. For this Texas fest, drink specially-priced draft beers from Texas, enter your best Texas-inspired queso (cheese!) for your chance to win $100 (contact info@thebellhouseny.com to enter), or win a $50 prize for the best belt buckle.

Cost: Free!