Weekend Events

The 36th Annual Atlantic Antic
The 36th annual Atlantic Antic is an event not to be missed! On this beautiful fall Brooklyn day, the Atlantic Antic draws up to 1 million attendees onto Atlantic Avenue to celebrate the Antic’s longstanding tradition of eclectic food, festivities, and fun! From start to finish, Atlantic Avenue is a sea of people exploring a variety of 600 vendors while grooving to music from nine live performance stages. All are welcome! Sunday, September 26. 10 p.m. – 6 p.m. Free. Atlantic Avenue from Hicks Street to Fourth Avenue.

Dumbo Arts Festival: “The Endless Bridge”
This year’s Dumbo Arts Festival plays host to over a dozen video artists from around the world, showing their work publicly, and collectively, as The Endless Bridge. The work will be projected onto both sides of the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage in Dumbo, as well as other sites nearby each night. Friday – Sunday, September 24 – 26. 8.30 p.m. – 12 a.m. Free. Work will appear on the North and South sides of the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Dumbo.

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 25 & 26. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Free. 176 Lafayette Avenue and One Hanson Place.

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The Bike Brooklyn Beer Blitz!
A 3 hour bicycle tour of Williamsburgh, East Williamsburgh and Bushwick and the former brewery buildings of the most densely packed brewing neighborhoods in America, circa 1890! See historical photographs of various brewery buildings when they were built, between the 1880s and 1920s, compare them with vintage 1970s photos (in the heart of Bushwick’s deep dark arson-and-gangs era) and observe them as they stand today, re-purposed but obviously the same brewery buildings. Saturday & Sunday, September 25 & 26. 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. $25 per person per tour, includes one beer at Matt Torrey’s Bar, mid-tour. RSVP: Matt@levysuniqueny.com for starting location.

Two Solo Exhibitions: Gallery Cruise and The Uneven Intensities of Duration
Smack Mellon is pleased to present Gallery Cruise by eteam and a series of new charcoal drawings by Charlotte Schulz. Both New York-based 2010 Guggenheim fellows, eteam and Schulz explore the relationship between space and time, real and imagined. The opening of these two solo exhibitions coincide with the Dumbo Arts Festival, a weekend-long neighborhood arts festival featuring exciting outdoor projects, open studios and special exhibitions. Saturday, September 25. 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. Free. 92 Plymouth Street, Smack Mellon.

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 26. 1 p.m. $25.