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Friday May 9, 2025

PROT COVER

6:30 – 10 pm

The PROTAGONIST Festival by Eliza Spear: May’s Melting Pot of NY Creativity

Art
Comedy

Farm.OneProspect Heights

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7 – 9 pm

Ocean of Eros

Art
Music

Delight FactoryOcean Hill

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7 – 9 pm

Gypsy Jazz at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory Bar

Music

Brooklyn Ice Cream FactoryDUMBO

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8 pm

Hippie Sabotage x Two Feet w/ Carpetman

Music

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8 pm

SPELLLING

Music

Music Hall of WilliamsburgWilliamsburg

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8 pm

Nils Frahm

Music

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8 – 10:30 pm

Coney Island USA Hosts Weekly Free RuPaul’s Drag Race Viewing Party—The Only Weekly Drag Show in Southern Brooklyn

Free
LGBTQ+

Coney Island USAConey Island

Saturday May 10

8 am – 6 pm

Weekends in Bloom 2025

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Comic Run 5K

9 am – noon

Comic Run 5K

Eisenhower Park – Field 2Brooklyn

9 am – 5 pm

6th Annual Haitian Cultural Day Parade

Haitian Culture Day ParadeFlatbush

Jazzical St. Paul 5:10

10 – 10:45 am

Jazzical!

Ages: 12 and under
Dance
Family
Music

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

Brooklyn Wonderful Warblers Nature Exploration

10 am – 1 pm

Wonderful Warblers Nature Exploration

Ages: All
Environment
Family
Free

Prospect Park Audubon Center

10:30 am – 1 pm

Tumble Live: Sonic Saturday

Ages: 5 – 8
Family
Free

ShapeShifter LabPark Slope

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11 am – 10 pm

“The Human Layer” gallery opening at Brooklyn Art Haus

Art
Free

Brooklyn Art HausWilliamsburg

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11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Into the Shining Dark

Art
Free

Welancora GalleryBedford-Stuyvesant

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11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Mother’s Day

Ages: All
Art
Family
Free

11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Reimagining Kinship

Art
Free

410 Jefferson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221Bedford-Stuyvesant

Vet clinic

11 am – 3 pm

FREE Veterinary Clinic for Brooklyn Residents – May 10

Greenwood, Sunset Park

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11 am – 7 pm

The Other Art Fair Brooklyn

Ages: 5 – 8
Art
Community
Family

ZeroSpace BrooklynGowanus

Manhattan Haitian Heritage Month Selebrasyon

11:30 am – 4 pm

Haitian Heritage Month Selebrasyon

Brooklyn Children’s MuseumCrown Heights

4 Artists

Noon – 5 pm

TABLA RASA GALLERY’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION: IDIOSYNCRATIC IDENTITIES

Art

Tabla Rasa Gallery

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Noon – 5 pm

IDIOSYNCRATIC IDENTITIES

Art

Tabla Rasa Gallery

Noon – 6 pm

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the Waterfront

ArinMaya ASP 2

12:30 – 2 pm

Madhura Studios: Sound/Spirit Meditation Moments with ArinMaya

Health & Fitness

Madhura Studios

ArinMaya ASP 2

12:30 – 2 pm

ArinMaya’s Sound/Spirit Meditation Moments at Madhura Studios

Health & Fitness

Madhura Studios

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1 – 6 pm

Fresh Art Offers a Spring Burst of Inspiration at BWAC

Art
Free

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists CoalitionRed Hook

Brooklyn AAPI Month celebration with Ajna Dance Company

1 – 2 pm

AAPI Month celebration with Ajna Dance Company

Ages: All
Dance
Family
Free

Brooklyn Public Library — Central Library

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1 – 6 pm

Exhibition Opening: ‘Five Miles of VHS Tape’

FiveMylesCrown Heights

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2 – 3 pm

Show Up, Kids! Interactive Family Comedy

Ages: 3 – 8
Comedy
Family

The RATDUMBO

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3 – 5 pm

Read, Shop & Lime w/VivLiv Books

I AM CARIBBEING HeadquartersLittle Caribbean

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3 – 6 pm

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music’s Open Stages 2025

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music

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4 – 6 pm

WHOOP DEE DOO PRESENTS: The Future Is Connection: On Community Engagement & Contemporary Art

Salotto

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