from “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”
(1994); “Groundhog Day” (1993); or “Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory” (1971).
Pier One’s Harbor View Lawn, starting at 6 p.m. Movies
at sundown.
Light at heart
Join Indian dance educator Aeilushi Mistry for the
Aarti Hindu Lamp Ceremony, which asks the water for
peace and harmony. You can decorate a palm leaf, set a
candle inside, and set it afloat as the sun sets along the
East River, in what has become a Brooklyn tradition.
Pebble Beach (at Main Street and Plymouth Street in
Dumbo). Aug. 3, 4–8 p.m.
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Degraw Sound programs a selection of folk, rock, and
pop artists.
Brooklyn Americana Music
June 7: Little Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman, with
Ali Dineen and Feral Foster
June 14: Linda McRae, with Tim Grimm
June 21: Queen Esther, with Jan Bell
June 28: Greg Schätze, with Will Scott and Charlie
Burnham
Degraw Sound
July 12: Common Jack, with Kevin Daniel
July 19: Pearla, with Yella Belly
July 26: Ben Rice, with Queue
Aug. 2: Sophie Colette, with 8090
All shows on Pier Three’s Greenway Terrace at 6 p.m.
Blast from the past
Take a trip back in time with the New York Transit
Museum’s Bus Festival. Step aboard the city’s buses from
the past eight decades!
Brooklyn Bridge Plaza at Water and Old Fulton streets in
Dumbo. June 9, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Classical tunes
The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series stops
by the park for an evening of arias and duets from several
operas.
Pier One’s Harbor View Lawn. June 12 at 7 p.m.
Move in sync
Park Slope dance company Dancewave will offer free,
one-hour dance classes for adults and kids of all ages and
abilities. Each installment in the “Moving Together” program,
happening on one Sunday each month, will explore
a different type of dance.
June 16: Latin Dance
July 14: Hip Hop
Aug. 11: Afro-Caribbean
All dance lessons on Pier Three Plaza at 1 p.m.
Call of the Wilde
The New York Classical Theatre will present a
mobile, gender-bending performance of Oscar Wilde’s
witty Victorian comedy “The Importance of Being
Earnest.” The scenes will move across Pier One as the
action moves from London to a country estate, and the
whole cast will swap roles and genders every other performance,
in order to show the Irish playwright’s battle
of the sexes in a new light.
Meet at the base of Pier One. Performances run June
18–23 at 7 p.m.
What a view!
The Movies With a View series launched back in
2000, and this 20th anniversary program, titled “Better
the Second Time Around” will feature some of the audience’s
favorite flicks from previous years, including
“Crooklyn,” directed by Brooklyn’s own Spike Lee.
Disk jockeys from Brooklyn Radio will start spinning
at 6 p.m. each Thursday night, and the movies will start
at sundown (between 8:30 and 9 p.m.). Before and during
the show, Smorgasburg will offer food and drinks from
tents at the bottom of the viewing lawn.
The list of movies includes:
July 11: “Pariah”
July 18: “Girlfight”
July 25: “It Happened One Night”
Aug. 1: “Crooklyn”
Aug. 8: “The Big Lebowski”
Aug. 15: “An American Tail”
Aug. 22: “Selma”
Aug. 29: Movies with a View Public Vote: choose
SUMMER FUN ’19
Star-struck: Gaze at the stars through telescopes and enjoy other spacerelated
activities in Brooklyn Bridge Park all summer. Alexa Hoyer
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