Events on Saturday, October 11

Gowanus Harvest Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Gowanus Harvest Festival

Saturday 10/11 @ The BKLYN Yard

The Gowanus Harvest Festival brings the farm to Brooklyn's famously industrial canal. Besides locally produced apples, pickles, cheeses (from Saxelby!), breads,... 

Off the Wall: <em>Destroy+Construct+Construct+Destroy</em>

Party

Destroy+Construct+Construct+Destroy

Saturday 10/11 @ Deity

Graffiti cats are the badasses of the art world, but tonight's featured graf artists — Destroy and Rebuild's recently released AVOne... 

Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour

Music

Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour

Saturday 10/11 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

Mentioning the Elephant 6 collective to music geeks is like bringing up Godard with cinephiles: there's a pretty good chance they're... 

Ongoing Events

Sun K. Kwak: <em>Times Composed</em>

Art

Sun K Kwak

Saturday 10/11 @ Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art

Sun K. Kwak, the Brooklyn-based pioneer of masking-tape art, has executed sprawling, fluid murals on the walls of numerous museums and... 

Party

Make Love, Not War

Saturday 10/11 @ Black Betty

During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Saturday 10/11 @ Artists and Fleas

The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... 

Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD

Performing Arts: Opera

The Met: Live in HD

Saturday 10/11 @ BAM

Thanks to HD transmissions, opera-goers no longer have take out mortgages or travel far to attend the Met. The first Live... 

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Saturday 10/11 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In... 

James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>

Art: Photography

Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts

Saturday 10/11 @ Brooklyn Historical Society

From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many... 

<em>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Saturday 10/11 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

If you're lucky enough to score a coveted ticket to Black Watch's limited run, you're in for one helluva show. Based... 

Lola Staar's Dreamland Roller Rink

City Gems

Dreamland Roller Rink

Saturday 10/11 @ Dreamland Roller Rink

Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this... 

Hiroshi Shafer: <em>Evrything seems Ok to me!</em>

Art

Hiroshi Shafer

Saturday 10/11 @ English Kills

Scattered around English Kills, Bushwick's DIY living/exhibition space, new sculptures from Brooklyn-based artist Hiroshi Shafer reinterpret and poke fun at male-female...