MLK Jr. Concert Series - Erykah Badu

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Date: Monday, August 4th
Time: 7:30pm
Place: Wingate Field (Winthrop St btw. Brooklyn and Kingston Ave)
Cost: Free

The MLK Jr. Concert series continues bringing live music to the BK masses tonight with special guest Erykah Badu. Badu fuses the jazz, R&B an hip-hop influences of a lifetime, and does so not only with her voice, but with many talents: writing, producing, directing, poetry, dance, drama, and visual arts. To her fans, peers and even to numerous of her own artistic idols, Badu is a new icon because her work has proven not merely entertaining, but empowering.

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Lifeboat

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Date: Monday, August 3rd
Time: Films begin at Dusk (about 8ish)
Location: Bryant Park (40th and 42nd Sts & Fifth and Sixth Aves)
Cost: Free

Bring your picnic baskets and pull up some lawn for an evening under the stars with the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival. Every Monday throughout the summer HBO dusts off some old classic movies and plays them on a big screen in Bryant Park. Tonight, Hitchcock presents Lifeboat. "Nine survivors in a crowded, leaky lifeboat in the mid-Atlantic during WWII. The Oscar-nominated John Steinbeck story features Tallulah Bankhead as a spoiled journalist traveling first class, and Walter Slezak as the resourceful but heartless U-Boat captain."

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Twelve Ophelias at McCarren Park Pool

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Date: Monday, August 4th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: McCarren Park Pool (Lorimer Street and Bayard Street, W'burg)
Cost: Free but tickets can be reserved here

The Brooklyn-based theater company, Woodshed Collective presents Caridad Svich's Twelve Ophelias for free at McCarren Park Pool. "Twelve Ophelias centers on Hamlet's Ophelia coming back to life, out of the water, to try to overcome her history and forge a new destiny for herself. She finds herself in an Appalachian Elsinore, Denmark by way of Deliverance—where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet and Horatio slum it, and nothing is what it seems. In this squarely American and gritty interpretation of the Hamlet myth, Twelve Ophelias asks how it is possible to break old cycles and start afresh when the past so completely permeates your life." Shows continue Wednesday and Friday this week as well as dates through August

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Ryan Raferty and Friends: A Solo Act

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Date: Monday, August 4th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Rogue Wine Bar at Paris Commune (99 Bank Street)
Cost: Free

"You have never seen a show in a basement like this one! From Rogers and Hammerstein to Rihanna, singer and comedian Ryan Raftery does it all in his first one-man show in New York. Tucked away in the lower level of Paris Commune's Rogue Wine Bar, this is not your average cabaret, and Raftery, as he tells the audience in his opening number, is 'not the boy next door'! With stories ranging from his moving friendship with a hooker in the Deep South to his fabled rivalry with multi Grammy Award-winner Natalie Cole, this is an evening that is changing lives bi-weekly!"

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