Unsaddle your inner Brony at the My Little Pony Art Invitational. 12 Brooklyn-based artists were given My Little Pony Dolls that were white with white manes, and they turned them into decorated experimental sculptures. The pieces will be available for bidding, which starts at $20, and remain on display at Champion Coffee through July 18th.
Moving away from the more analog and darker soundscapes that enveloped the band’s previous, Promises is a significant step in a different direction for the London four-piece – a more hi-fi, and soaring work that truly delivers on the band’s widescreen, signature sound." - Bowery Presents
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe hosts famed storytelling contest The Moth. Ten participants compete to tell their best stories on the theme "lost."
"The Gilded Age glitters its brightest, and Wall Street is minting millionaires. A few years after Charles Dow created his average, with New York setting trading volume records, and the latest crash over a decade past, speculation is the in the air like a contagion, and in Bronson Howard's smash comedy, no one is immune." - Metropolitan Playhouse
Remember 2003? And then remember how The Shins sounded like the dawn of a new musical era? Deleted Scenes sounds a little like that, but bumps up the sound's musical relevance to 2013. Rediscover that simple, audible pleasure at Knitting Factory Brooklyn.
A multimedia play based on Sontag’s diaries, which date back to her teen years and were edited by her son.
"Bella's Dream follows the true story of Bella and Raymond Boll, who, heeding the advice of a dream, left Gombin, Poland in 1939, mere weeks before the Nazis invaded. The play juxtaposes scenes from their journey with the present day experiences of their grown son, Ronny, fighting prejudices he thought long gone." - CVS Center
"Bella's Dream follows the true story of Bella and Raymond Boll, who, heeding the advice of a dream, left Gombin, Poland in 1939, mere weeks before the Nazis invaded. The play juxtaposes scenes from their journey with the present day experiences of their grown son, Ronny, fighting prejudices he thought long gone." - CVS Center
Feel the bass line and get your weekly doses of post-punk and post-rock at Death By Audio. Hausu and Turnip King will administer.
"Don't miss the hilarious second installment in the queer fairy tale burlesque series brought to you by JZ Bich and hosted by WOW Cafe Theatre! Ms. Bich (who has produced the wildly popular HyperGender at WOW Cafe for the past 6 years) is thrilled to bring you a show that is as fiercely sexy as it is full of heart." - WOW Cafe Theater