Weekend Events

The Dumbo Arts Festival
The Dumbo Arts Festival is taking place all this weekend. Hours run 6-9 p.m. Friday, 12-8 p.m. Saturday, and 12-6 p.m. on Sunday for most exhibits. This photo is of the festival’s AT&T-sponsored lounge at 56 Water Street being painted; among other things, the lounge will have products featuring an interactive festival map. One of the many exhibits of note at the festival is The Dumpster Project, which will premiere tonight, September 23, 2011. Here’s the word on it: “The Dumpster Project is a work of transportable public art. The Dumpster Project is also a daily blog. Fundamentally, though, The Dumpster Project is a physical taxonomy of one man’s existence. A visitor to the installation will walk into a modern-day “cabinet of curiosities”, where objects of nostalgia (i.e. a Yankees cap Mac wore through most of the 1990s) have a place beside items culled from international travels (i.e. the curiously named ‘Long Life’ brand of cigarettes from Hong Kong). Each object will be numbered, and a mobile application will enable the viewer to use his or her smart phone to access a eulogy Mac has written for each item, as well as a studio photograph of the object set cleanly against a white background.” More info here.

Strongman at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema
Brooklyn Heights Cinema is going to do a week long run of STRONGMAN, starting Friday, September 23rd and going to Thursday, September 29th. The filmmaker will be doing Q & A’s after the 7pm shows on Friday the 23rd, Saturday the 24th, and on Sunday the 25th as well. Stan will appear in person on opening night after the 7pm show as well and will attempt his signature penny-bending feat. A trailer for the movie is here.

11th Annual Coney Island Film Festival
It’s over a decade strong and the 11th Annual Coney Island Film Festival is set to screen this weekend; September 23-25, 2011 at the one and only Sideshows By The Seashore and at the Coney Island Museum and with additional screenings and festivities at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island! Full Schedule and pricing details at the Coney Island Film Festival website.

Brooklyn Flea + Smorgasburg
On Saturday, the Flea is held at 176 Lafayette Ave. (between Clermont + Vanderbilt Avenues) in Fort Greene. On Sunday, the Flea will be at 27 North 6th Street (between Kent Avenue + East River). And on Saturday we also hold Smorgasburg, at the same Williamsburg location. Come join us – and all our food, antique, vintage and art vendors – this weekend. Flea: 10am to 5pm, Smorg: 9am to 5pm. Always free.