Virtual Cinema: Song Without a Name (Canción sin nombre)
Michael White is a neighborhood writer with a “Virtual Theatrical Premiere” coming up on August 7th for a film co-written and produced with Melina Leon, a Peruvian filmmaker. The film was made in Spanish and is based on a true case of child-trafficking in...PLG Arts Presents: The Origins of American Impressionism The 3rd Happy Hour Art Tour!
Thursday, August 6, 5:30 pm A FREE Virtual Zoom Tour of Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum Led by Rich Lubell, Brooklyn Museum docent and PLG artist To join PLG Arts and Rich Lubell for this free virtual art tour Thursday, August 6, at 5:30 pm, you must register in...PLG Arts Presents: Virtual Theater…. White Tears (a dark comedy)
White Tears – A Dark Comedy Written & performed by David Deblinger. Directed & developed by Ben Snyder Join us Friday, July 31, at 7 pm, when PLG Arts is pleased to present an exciting theatrical event (online, of course, and free). To receive the link...Music in the Park
“… just off to the right of the Boat house on a little hill just before the waterfall.” 3-6 PM Saturday June 20 Alex Terrier in alto/tenor sax, Steve Wood on bass and vocalist Marianne Solivan Instagram: @jazzinmind and www.mariannesolivanjazz.com...Sidewalk concerts OPEN AIR JAMS at Salems’ Hour
Nostrand Avenue & Maple Street Performance time will varyBaseball in New York. A Virtual Art Exhibit by Dick Perez
New York City has been at the core of America’s game. Heroes like Mathewson, Ruth, Gehrig, Robinson, Mantle, Mays, Snider, Wright and Jeter captivated the thoughts and emotions of the city’s fans throughout baseball’s...ECHT Arts Collective Zoom Events
Story First is a brand new storytelling event featuring some of the best storytellers & comedians from NYC (and beyond!) telling tales about their ‘first time’ – from breakups to breakthroughs, getting paid or getting laid, tales of travels and trips...Greenlight Bookstore hosts Zoom events in June all month long
Book clubs, Meet the Author, stuff for kids and more. https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/eventLivestream Music -Fri 8 PM Sat 3 PM
PLG resident and musician Nick Balaban performs lives every Friday night and Saturday afternoon on Facebook. Log on, search NICK BALABAN and scroll down for the event.Info on Emergency Funds for Artists
PLG Arts is providing information on emergency funding for artists in all media who are in need of support in this difficult time. We will be updating the PLG Arts Emergency Funds for Artists page with information as we receive it. » PLG Arts Emergency Funds for...During the coronavirus pandemic…
TO ALL OUR FRIENDS IN PLG: Please look for directives from NYC and government officials about keeping well and about attending events. Note that as of Monday, March 16, The New York Times has suspended all events listings, as has PLG Arts. All NYC public schools are...Things To Do and See in PLG – March 15 – 21
STAY SAFE. STAY IN PLG FOR A STRESS-RELIEVING NIGHT OUT BarBayeux on Nostrand 3/17 – Ed Cherry, Ugonna Okegwo, Diego Voglino House Band Set — 3/18 – Clovis Nicolas Quartet Featuring Brandon Lee, Grant Stewart and Kenny Washington — 3/19...Things To Do and See in PLG – March 8 – 14 [Click here for links to events]
MUSIC – BOOKS – ART Greenlight Bookstore – Book Group 3/11– Storytime 3/14 | The Owl Music Parlor – Open Ground 3/8 – Sebastian Amman & Simon Jermyn — Rema Hasumi & Illusha Tsinadze — 3/14 Elliot Sharp...Things To Do and See in PLG – March 1-7
MUSIC – BOOKS – ART Sunday (3/1)- Storytime at Greenlight Bookstore ; All week (3/1-7) Art show at Johnson Jenkins Project South African artist Mohau Modisakeng; Tues/Wed/Thurs (3/3-5) Live Jazz at Bar Bayeux Mike Moreno Quartet / Grassroots Jazz...POSTPONED: Lorens Chuno at Erv’s Wed, 3/18
POSTPONED. A cautionary note Due to coronavirus; please pay attention to directives from NYC about attending events. Please keep checking to see when this event can safely be rescheduled. PLG Arts is pleased to present Nigerian bandleader and songwriter Lorens Chuno...Things to Do and See in PLG Feb 24-29
Music – Art – Books Wednesday, February 26, 5:30 PM Greenlight Bookstore, 632 Flatbush PLG Young Readers Book Group discusses This Was Our Pact greenlightbookstore.com/bookgroups Thursday, February 27 8-11 PM Live jazz at Bar Bayeux 1066 Nostrand House...Glad Irys at Erv’s Feb 19, 8 pm
Glad Irys is a new jazz quintet put together about a year ago by Alex Weiss (saxophones and composition). Together, they are Aaron Novik on clarinets, Dmitry Ishenko on bass, Joe Hertenstein on drums, and Yana Davydova on guitar. Alex Weiss has performed and recorded...
PLG Arts Music Series presents…
Sandcatchers, Wednesday, Dec 18, 8-10 pm at Erv’s, 2122 Beekman Place Americana/Middle Eastern vibe with oud, lap steel guitar, percussion, and bass. SANDCATCHERS is a Middle Eastern-Americana mash-up that grew from a weekly residency at Cheryl’s Global Soul...
Children’s Musical Story Hour March 7
Children’s Musical Story Hour at Greenlight Books Saturday, March 7, 11:30 am PLG Arts and Greenlight Bookstore are pleased to present– The Nightingale Fam, performing their original adaptations of Wilhemina Harper’s The Gunniwolf and and Ernest...
PLG Arts Music Series at Erv’s presents….
November 20: Dan Blake and The Digging come to Erv’s, 2122 Beekman Place, 8-10 pm Multi-instrumentalist and composer Dan Blake “regards tradition as a welcoming playground best approached with a sense of wonder and adventure” (The Boston Globe). His music has...Afro Dominicano at Erv’s Oct 16
Afro Dominicano, a Latin Fusion band that centers its music on Afro Caribbean soul, will be the next event in the ongoing PLG Arts Music Series. The band blends traditional folkloric roots music from the Dominican Republic with Afro-beats, reggae, calypso, samba,...
PLG Arts and Chameleon BK Reception. Paintings by Ava Tomlinson on Friday, September 20th
PLG Arts and Chameleon BK invite you to a reception for a show of paintings by Ava Tomlinson on Friday, September 20th, from 6 to 8 PM at Chameleon BK Cafe, 546 Flatbush Avenue, between Lincoln Road & Maple Street. Ms. Tomlinson is a painter, printmaker, designer...PLG Arts Music Series: Joe Stone & Blackforest Blues at Ervs 9/18
PLG Arts Music Series presents…Joe Stone & Blackforest Blues Wednesday, September 18, 8-10 pm at Erv’s, 2122 Beekman Place Joe Stone & Blackforest Blues – hailing from the southwest of Germany, inspired by the tales of the brothers Grimm and...
Opening Reception: Joseph S. Bell-Bey at Chameleon BK
Opening Reception: Joseph S. Bell-Bey at Chameleon BK. PLG Arts and The Chameleon BK invite you to the opening reception of abstract paintings by Joseph S. Bell-Bey. Friday, July 26, 2019 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm The Chameleon BK www.thechameleonbk.com 546 Flatbush...
Myrna at Erv’s on Beekman, May 15, 8-10pm
Slightly out of step with time, haunted by the echoes of decades past, rolling in with the fog from the harbor, there is something quite Southern Brooklyn about Myrna. There is a carefree naiveté in their music, unconcerned with the anarchic present-day broadcasts...
3rd Annual PLG Arts Music Festival 2019: June 15-22, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
PLG Arts presents the third annual PLG Arts Music Festival 2019, a weeklong event June 15-22. The schedule features over 50 prominent and upcoming New York musicians in 12 locations throughout Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, a Brooklyn neighborhood that is home to many...
“A 5-Minute Walk” Paintings by Noel Hefele; Photos by Yoshiko Mori
Friday, May 3, 2019 6-8pm The Chameleon BK 546 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225 (between Lincoln Road and Maple Street) PLG Arts and The Chameleon BK invite you to an artist’s reception for paintings by Noel Hefele and photos by Yoshiko Mori: “The...
Mary Spencer Knapp presents The Nightingale: A Musical Show
Saturday, March 23 11:30 AM Greenlight Bookstore, 632 Flatbush Ave, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Co-hosted by PLG Arts Broadway alum, multi-instrumentalist, and indie accordionist-chanteuse Mary Spencer Knapp premieres the ensemble version of her original musical...
Leala Cyr Performs Album Release Show at Erv’s, Wednesday, March 20, 8-10 pm
A singer with a unique and deft ability for vocal improvisation as well as a trumpet player with a warm, golden tone, Leala Cyr is a rare “double threat.” Cyr was a touring member of Grammy-winning Esperanza Spalding’s “Radio/Chamber Music...
Rachel Therrien, February 20, 8pm – 10pm at Erv’s
For the February 20, 2019 event in the PLG Arts Music Series, Rachel Therrien, locally based French-Canadian trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and member of the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, will present her Latin Jazz Quartet, performing her original compositions as well as...
Megumi & Friends, December 19, 8pm – 10pm at Erv’s
From Carnegie Hall to refugee camps in the Middle East, Brooklyn-based violinist and composer Megumi Saruhashi has delivered her music to people of all circumstances around the globe. Megumi’s wide range of influences includes Arabic music, jazz, classical,...
“Rebirth B.K.” Reception. Brian Fernandes-Halloran & Karl McIntosh at The Chameleon BK
“Rebirth B.K.” Reception. Brian Fernandes-Halloran & Karl McIntosh. Friday, December 7, 2018 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm The Chameleon BK www.thechameleonbk.com 546 Flatbush Avenue (between Lincoln Road and Maple Street). Karl McIntosh, more info here and...
The Nightingale with Mary Spencer Knapp, December 1st, 11am at Crown Heights Public Library
Children of all ages will delight in The Nightingale, a dynamic tale of a little bird with a unique musical gift and her relationship to a powerful emperor. Accordionist and Broadway performer Mary Spencer Knapp will perform her one-woman musical adaptation of Hans...
The Jazz Thieves on November 14, 8-10pm at Erv’s on Beekman
The Jazz Thieves steal Duke Ellington’s melodicism, Tom Waits’s grit, Bill Withers’s soulful lyricism, and Kamasi Washington’s modern edge, uniting all it with a jazz imagination. They released their first full-length album, “Brooklyn...
Now Showing: “Rebirth (Pt. 1)” with Artist Karl McIntosh @ The Chameleon BK
The Chameleon BK, a cozy social cafe, is hosting the works of local PLG artist Karl McIntosh. Now through the end of October. The Chameleon BK www.thechameleonbk.com 546 Flatbush Avenue (between Lincoln Road and Maple Street). MON-FRI: 7:00am – 4:00pm SAT & SUN:...PLG Arts Chamber Music: Park Slope Chamber Players
The Park Slope Chamber Players will perform in a private home in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens as part of the ongoing PLG Arts Music Series. The group features professional musicians from Park Slope and surrounding communities, including Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. The...PLG Arts Music Series at Erv’s: Kami Maltz, with opener Rosemary Minkler
Brooklyn based Kami Maltz brings the resonance of her native Israel, the passion of her second home, Argentina, and a decidedly New York electronic vibe to her performances. With a smooth voice, her autoharp, and her new band, Kami conjures a sensuous combination of...
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