Weekend Events
Pretty in Pink Prom Dress up and go to prom……again. The Bell House and Brooklyn Based are hosting an 80s prom night with DJs, a live 80s cover band – The Engagements, a prom backdrop for picture taking, and FREE snacks. Even a prom king and queen will be chosen. Make Molly Ringwald proud! Saturday,…
Pretty in Pink Prom
Dress up and go to prom……again. The Bell House and Brooklyn Based are hosting an 80s prom night with DJs, a live 80s cover band – The Engagements, a prom backdrop for picture taking, and FREE snacks. Even a prom king and queen will be chosen. Make Molly Ringwald proud! Saturday, July 11. 8 p.m. $15 in advance, and $20 at the door. 149 7th Street, The Bell House.
Sportacular Family Fitness Fest!
Performances, demonstrations, games, and physical activities from all over the globe are being featured at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Enjoy demonstrations by Keenan Special Bristol, Jammin’ Jumpers Double Dutch Team, Beach Tennis USA, and Peter Westbrook Foundation Fencers Club. All programs are included in Museum admission. Saturday and Sunday, July 11 & 12. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. $7.50 per person. 145 Brooklyn Avenue (corner of St. Marks), Brooklyn Children’s Museum.
Brooklyn Flea
The Brooklyn Flea takes place in Ft. Greene on Saturday and its historic Brooklyn Bridge location on Sunday. Both locations feature a great mix of vintage, antiques, jewelry, and food. Saturday, July 11. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, Lafayette Avenue between Clermont and Vanderbilt Avenues. Sunday, July 12. 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. In Dumbo underneath the Brooklyn Bridge at the corner of Water and New Dock Street.
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Walt Whitman’s Fort Greene Park
Walk about the park and enjoy the afternoon by listening to readings of Whitman and discussions about the park. This event will finish with a walk up Myrtle Avenue to 99 Ryerson Street, Walt Whitman’s residence. Sunday, July 12. 1 p.m. Free. Rain or Shine. Fort Greene Park.
Afro Punk Block Party
This year’s annual Afro Punk Block Party has over 50 vendors offering DIY fashion, accessories, beauty products, and art. There will be plenty of live musicians such as John Forte, Shinobi Ninja, and many more. Sunday, July 12. 12 – 8 p.m. Clinton Ave. btwn Myrtle and Willoughby.
Bar Tabac’s Bastille Day Celebration
The annual pétanque tournament will be held on a sand-filled Smith street along with great music, delicious food, and drinks. Come watch pétanque’s largest North American tournament consisting of over 80 teams.
Sunday, July 12. 12 p.m. – 10 p.m. 128 Smith Street, Bar Tabac.
4th Annual Gender Equality Festival
Celebrate women’s advocacy through the festival’s education, community interaction, music, and art. A Youth Forum will be held to highlight young activists working for equality and health throughout the city. Saturday, July 11. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Corner of Green Ave. and Fulton St., Cuyler Gore Park.
I’m totally going to the Pretty in Pink prom–though I have to find my date the perfect bolo tie first! Its gotta beat my late 90s prom–our theme song was “My Heart Will Go On” for chrissakes.
I, too, always questioned that thing that was fashioned into a prom dress. Scary!
However, I will forever claim that Pretty in Pink has the best movie soundtrack, hands down. THREE New Orders songs in the movie at pivotal moments (though only two appear on the soundtrack)!
My ex-girlfriend’s ex-boyfrind was dating Molly a fe years ago. She wasn’t aging so well.
Sadie Hawkins was a fictional character in Al Capp’s L’il Abner cartoon series. She was supposedly so unattractive that her father instituted a dance where girls asked the boys for dances, so she could snag a man. The cartoon strip is from the 30’s or 40’s, and it’s kinda amazing that the whole idea caught on, nationally, instituting Sadie Hawkins dances all over.
In my high school, boys lived in fear that some adult would insist on having a SH dance, so did girls, come to think of it, but for different reasons. As socially devastating as it was to not get asked to a dance, it would be even worse to be the asker, and get rejected. High School could be hell. It’s amazing anyone other than jocks and cheerleaders survived it.
i never went to my high school prom, tho ironically i sold tickets, :-/ i wanna go to this prom thingie party, but most likely i wont. grrrr it says it’s on 7th street. 7th street where?
*rob*
They won’t playing the Beatles, so I won’t go!
But the thought of women with big 80’s hair dancing….mmmmmm.
Sadie hawkins was some girl of questionable repute or something. It’s the dance in Sophomore Year where the girls ask the guys
I think every teen in the ’80s loved Molly. I saw her a few years ago in the Godiva chocolate store on 5th Avenue. It was quite exciting (at least for me).
damn i used to love molly ringwald. just above christine haag. where are they now?
Remember watching the big reveal of the prom dress and thinking how the vintage one her friend gave her that she cut up was so much better? It’s set up to be so fabulous with shots of her sketching and sewing her little heart out, but then the dress is astoundingly hideous. I remember reading it really was based on Molly’s own design.