Community Corner
Get Out: Book Signing, Greenmarket, and Brooklyn Inventgenuity Festival
Your round-up of nearby events taking place this weekend.
When/Where: Friday, January 20, 10:30 pm at 30 Lafayette Ave
Cost: FREE
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Why go: According to BAM.org, "Breezy Zimbabwean pop and American jazz collide in the music of Max Wild, an inventive saxophonist with an impeccable ear for melding genres. Wild has performed with Zimbabwe superstars Thomas Mapfumo and Oliver Mtzukudi and it shows: his grooves are relentlessly infectious, propelled by harmony-swathed drums, congas, and Zimbabwe’s own mbira."
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When/Where: Saturday, January 21, 8:00 am at Grand Army Plaza
Cost: FREE
Why go: Grab some fresh fruits and veggies at this year-round, weekly farmer's market. Vendors also include meats, seafood, wines, and other delicious goodies!
Drop off your textiles at GrowNYC's Textile Recycling, and drop off your compost at GrowNYC Compost Collection.
When/Where: Saturday, January 21, 1:00 pm at Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy
Cost: FREE
Why go: Jon Anderson, longtime partner of Paul Cadmus, whose work is included in the exhibition HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, speaks to scholar Philip Eliasoph about Cadmus’s life and work.
When/Where: Saturday, January 21, 3:00 pm at 365 State St
Cost: FREE
Why go: Join Ellen Lubin-Sherman, author of The Essentials of Fabulous: Because Whatever Doesn't Work Here Anymore at Annie’s Blue Ribbon General Store as she gives you the sine qua non to better friendships, an improved career and an utterly fabulous life in her book.
When/Where: Saturday and Sunday, January 21 - 22, 11:00 am at The Invisible Dog, 51 Bergen St
Cost: FREE
Why go: Brooklyn’s third annual Inventgenuity Festival is presented by Beam Camp, a New Hampshire summer camp for the applied arts, technology and collaboration. The weekend Festival will be loaded with a tremendous range of activities led by Beam’s staff of artists, engineers and big thinkers.
The weekend’s big project, “The Dis/Assembly Line,” is an evolving decomposition and aesthetic reprocessing of an entire room of everyday objects. Kids will join kinetic art mechanic Steve Gerberich and sculptor Nathaniel Lieb as they dissect, sort and reconfigure artifacts into 2D and 3D sculpture.
