What's Going on this Week
JULY 14, 2010
Sample the world’s cultural gifts without having to pack a suitcase.
Secret Societies Lecture and Absinthe Tasting
This Quatorze Juillet, the not-exactly-secret Madagascar Institute will be celebrating the 1789 storming of the Bastille and dismantling of the monarchy with Absinthe cocktails, seasonal snacks, French pop, and a discourse on Secret Societies.
Wednesday, July 14, 8-10 p.m.
Madagascar Institute, 217 Butler Street, Brooklyn
Tickets: $10; available here.
Siren Music Festival and Lincoln Center Festival
The Village Voice-sponsored Siren Festival turns Coney Island into a perfect classroom for American Indie 101. Get introduced to bands you’ve never heard of and get reacquainted with favorites. Not your cup of PBR? Leave the indie rock world behind and celebrate a world of great music with the Blind Boys of Alabama series and brilliant Congolese electro-eclectics Konono No. 1.
Siren Music Festival, Coney Island, Saturday, July 17, noon-9 p.m.
Blind Boys of Alabama Series at Lincoln Center; July 12, 14, 16, 8 p.m.
Konono No. 1 at Le Poisson Rouge, Sunday, July 18, 7 p.m.
Indian Folk Art Market
Celebrate the traditional arts of India at Asia Society’s dynamic three day market event where master artisans will be on hand to display, demonstrate and sell their work in block printing, tie dye, embroidery, painting and more.
July 15-17, 12:30-4 p.m.
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street
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