TOP EVENT OF THE WEEK
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
H0L0, 1090 Wyckoff Avenue, Ridgewood. Paula Tape and Lena Willikens headline the first joint party from ReSolute and Aionia, which also runs Kein Klub. The all-women lineup takes over both rooms til 6 a.m.
Paula Tape plays from midnight to 3 a.m. The Chilean DJ and producer has played Panorama Bar and Glastonbury, with releases on Rhythm Section and Permanent Vacation. Lena Willikens closes from 3 a.m. The longtime Salon des Amateurs resident is known for sets spanning post-punk, dub, industrial and leftfield electronics, and hosts Hokomuli on NTS. Athena opens the room.
Mona Matsuoka opens Room 2, followed by Honey Bun from 2 a.m. The Nowadays resident and hosts BUNTOPIA on The Lot Radio plays music that moves through bass, R&B, house, and techno, rooted in Black dance music.
Tickets are available on Resident Advisor.
A self-taught painter who grew up in Bushwick is opening a gallery this Friday in the only space in the neighborhood she controls outright: her own apartment. Giannelli Vargas is turning hers into Eleveno2 Gallery for a show called Who Are You Behind Closed Doors?, which asks exactly what it sounds like. It goes up during Bushwick Open Studios.
That sets the tone for the week. The rooms worth standing in are small, a lot of them cost nothing, and most are not on any big venue’s calendar. Here is the week, night by night.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
Bushwick Comedy Club, 259 Melrose Street. The Saturday Night Showcase runs twice, 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Early show is Breck with Don’t Tellers members Eeland Stribling and James Mwara. Late show is the club’s German resident Emma Dalenberg with Jabari Elzie and Eric Walsh. $15, and it is BYOB.
Wonderville, 1186 Broadway. Killer Queen Open Hive Night, 8 p.m., free, in an arcade bar.
Baby’s All Right, 146 Broadway. Bermuda Search Party.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
The Brick, 579 Metropolitan Avenue. The Wreck of the Unbelievable opens, a new play by Sleth subtitled in which I am Damien Hirst’s secret boyfriend, in which Hirst has died, suddenly and suspiciously, leaving behind hundreds of dead animals in formaldehyde, a diamond-encrusted skull and a secret boyfriend nobody knew about. 8 p.m., 70 minutes, $25 to $50. It runs through September 26, so Thursday is not your only shot. Tickets and dates.
Kato Sake Works, 379 Troutman Street. Live music from pando, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. One drink minimum, $10 suggested. It is a working sake brewery, and it runs something on those terms most nights, which makes it the cheapest good room in Bushwick.
Baby’s All Right. Balkans.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
Eleveno2 Gallery, Bushwick. Giannelli Vargas opens Who Are You Behind Closed Doors? in her apartment at 7 p.m. She is self-taught, and the work runs on identity, healing, resilience, Puerto Rican culture, motherhood and growing up on these blocks. An apartment show lives or dies on who walks through the door, so walk through the door. She has a solo show coming November 7, also in Bushwick.
963 Bushwick Avenue. DIVINE, an exhibition by BOS CHILAFORFUN.
Baby’s All Right. Bea Miller and Me As a Girl, if you want something that ends before sunrise.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
The Good Life Garden, 50 Goodwin Place. BK Cumbia Fest returns for its fourth year, 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., free. DJs Monarca Sonido and Vaiina, plus a Rueda de Oro drum and dance circle that walks you through Colombian coast rhythms whether or not you can dance. Food vendors, participatory art. City Parks Foundation and Partnerships for Parks put money behind it, which is why it stays free. Details at brooklyncumbiafestival.com.
P.O. Reinaldo Salgado Playground, beside PS 309 in Bed-Stuy. Spill It Entertainment runs Back to the Block 6: Community Day, noon to 6 p.m., free. Sixth year. Youth and family activities, community resources, giveaways. This year’s theme is The Community We Know.
Wyckoff Avenue at Jefferson Street. A mural goes up at noon honoring people living with multiple myeloma, shaped by real patient stories and carrying a QR code to free resources. Patients and advocates speak. A block party attached to a diagnosis most people cannot define, which is the point of it.
Ornithology Jazz Club rooftop, 6 Suydam Street. Aesop’s Sound Fables turns three and marks it by scoring Salome, the 1923 silent film, live. Mike Nowotarski on guitar, Rosalie Avery on bassoon, Fox Indigo on cello. 75 minutes, 7 p.m., $20 in advance and $25 at the door.
Elsewhere. Laylit hits eight years and 150 parties, 5 p.m. to 4 a.m. across five rooms including the roof, more than 25 artists, and a set from Elyanna at 12:40 a.m.
One logistical warning. Manhattan-bound J and M trains skip Flushing Avenue, Lorimer Street and Hewes Street from 3:45 a.m. Saturday until 10 p.m. Sunday while the MTA does accessibility work at Norwood Avenue. Everything at Myrtle Avenue boards from the Jamaica Center and Metropolitan Avenue-bound platform. Build in twenty minutes.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
House of Yes, 2 Wyckoff Avenue. The tenth annual YES! Block Party takes the street from noon to 6 p.m., free and all ages, headlined by AMEME, the Benin-born DJ and producer. Local vendors, food, drinks. RSVP is free through House of Yes.
Wonderville, 1186 Broadway. Disasterpiece Movie Night volume 58, 8 p.m. This one is Fight of Fury. Free in, free pizza, free movie, free games, and a film chosen because it is bad. Their calendar is at wonderville.nyc; Kato’s is at katosakeworks.com.
Baby’s All Right. Nai Palm of Hiatus Kaiyote.
Also starting Sunday, NYCDOT shuts the Grand Street Bridge over Newtown Creek to all traffic for structural repairs through October 3. Full closures Sunday through Thursday, 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., and Saturdays 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. If your route to Queens runs that way, use Metropolitan Avenue.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
Monday is open mic night across the neighborhood, and almost all of it is free. Bar Freda, 801 Seneca Avenue in Ridgewood, runs The Underground at 8 p.m. with sign-up at 7:30. Starr Bar, 214 Starr Street, goes 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., sign up at the bar. Coexist Game House, 524 Evergreen Avenue, does Music Mondays 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. between the arcade cabinets. Chispa, 259 St Nicholas Avenue, hosts its Solidarity Open Mic. Ornithology, 6 Suydam Street, runs the Open Heart Jam 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Monday and Tuesday both. Our full guide to open mics around Bushwick and Ridgewood has the rest.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
The Sultan Room, 234 Starr Street. Tokyo’s Minyo Crusaders make their New York debut, taking min’yo, the Japanese folk songs most people at home have stopped singing, and running them through cumbia and Afrobeat. Philadelphia’s Mariposas Galacticas, eight pieces of cumbia, klezmer and punk, open. Doors 7 p.m., show 8 p.m., 21 and over, standing room only. $25 in advance, $30 the day of, $20 or $24 for World Music Institute members, who are co-presenting with the venue. If Saturday’s cumbia festival leaves you wanting more of the same in a different accent, this is it.
Kato Sake Works, 379 Troutman Street. Craft Circle, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bring whatever you are making. No sign-up.
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