Weekend Events

Virtuoso and Veggies!
Free Cookout & Live Music in the Garden! Live music! Hear a piano & saxophone duo interspersed with vintage recordings in honor of Golden Age of Jazz great clarinetist, Buster Bailey. Experience part of our neighborhood’s musical heritage and meet some of Bailey’s descendants while viewing a small display of memorabilia! Saturday, September 18. 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. Free. Franklin & Greene Avenues, Greene Acres Community Garden.

Red Hook Jazz Festival
Come and enjoy a day in Red Hook while listening to the jazz of Ideal Bread (they will play the music of Steve Lacy), Marco Cappelli Trio, Ben Perowsky Trio, Paul Kogut & Sheryl Bailey, Willie Martinez and La Familia Sextet, Dan Loomis Quartet. There is a suggested donation of $5 for adults and the event is free for children. All proceeds go to support the activities of the Urban Meadow. Sunday, September 19. 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. $5 for adults. President & Van Brunt Streets, Urban Meadow.

The Brooklyn Flea
The Brooklyn Flea is located in the Bishop Loughlin schoolyard in Fort Greene on Saturdays and at Skylight One Hanson (the former Williamsburgh Savings Bank across from the Atlantic Center mall) on Sundays. The Flea features over a 100 vendors offering a great mix of vintage, antiques, jewelry, and food. Saturday & Sunday, September 18 & 19. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Free. 176 Lafayette Avenue and One Hanson Place.

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5th Annual SoLa Sidewalk Soiree
The Soiree will include local DJs who will spin soul, rock, house, funk, and an assortment of other musical style. An array of Bed-Stuy retailers and home-based businesses will be featured as well as local artisans, crafts people, vintage specialists, food vendors, and nonprofit organizations. The not-to-be-missed Sidewalk Soiree is one of the most dynamic events in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and a great way to support the local retailers of Bedford-Stuyvesant and SoLa’s mission to promote community and connection to neighbors, merchants, and homeowners. Saturday, September 18. 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Free. Lewis Avenue at Decatur Street.

Prospect Park Tours
Prospect Park was designed to be a cultural institution in its own right and a beautiful public amenity year-round. Kate’s ninety-minute walking tour highlights key destinations created by co-designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Follow the Park’s extensive watercourse as it winds through through meadows and woods while learning how residents of Brooklyn, a thriving independent city from 1834 to 1898, sought to create a park to compete with New York’s Central Park. Please e-mail Kate at tourprospect@gmail.com to make reservations. Sunday, September 19. 1 p.m. $25.

The Draft Riots & the Gangs of New York
The Draft Riots of 1863 is one of the saddest chapters in New York City history. Many of the participants – both famous and unknown are buried in Green-Wood. Join tour guide Ruth Edebohls to visit Horace Greeley, Henry J. Raymond, Boss Tweed, the Brooks Brothers, abolitionist Abigail Hopper Gibbons and others who rest here along with little known victims of the riots. The film Gangs of New York featured many of them as characters, including one, William Bill the Butcher Poole, who was actually dead by the time of the riots. Visit them and hear their history. Sunday, September 19. 1 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. $15.00, $10.00 for Historic Fund members. Meet at the Gothic Arch inside the entrance at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue.

Discovery Workshop: Migration and Hibernation Celebration
All around us, animals are getting ready for winter! Some stay in Brooklyn and others travel far away. Come learn about these animals and their favorite garden plants, spot and identify our local fauna, and take home a creature-themed craft or planting! These workshops are on a drop-in basis—join us at any point during workshop hours. Call (718) 623-7342 or email agamell@bbg.org with questions and to sign up for workshop reminders via email. Workshops are canceled in inclement weather. Free with Garden admission. Saturday & Sunday, September 18 & 19. 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. 900 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Street Fair: Septemberfest
This event celebrates the success of WA-Greene’s 2009-2010 traffic safety campaign that produced a speed bump near the Washington Avenue entrance of P.S.11, and signage that restricts commercial truck traffic from using Washington Avenue as the main north/south artery through Clinton Hill. Septemberfest will also put a spotlight on some of Clinton-Hill’s best restaurants. Come and enjoy a day full of good food and good times with friends. Friday, September 17. 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. Free. Washington Avenue between Gates and Greene Avenues.

Greencycle Swap
Greencycle Swap has partnered up with wonderful neighbors throughout Greenpoint and Williamsburg so that you can reduce, reuse, and recycle gently used & working clothes, shoes, toys, books, & cell phones! You can also recycle your working computers, electronics, and bicycles! All are welcome to participate. Saturday, September 18. 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. $5. 131 Norman Avenue, P.S. 34.