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FUN STUFF
In Williamsburg
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Oneohtrix Point Never is in Red Hook this week — his only announced US shows of 2026, at Pioneer Works Wednesday and Thursday. Thursday is already sold out. Wednesday still has tickets. The rest of the week organizes itself around it: the Triple Canopy benefit afterparty a mile away, a new restaurant opening on the Amant campus the same night, a full Thursday at Nowadays and Good Room, and a Saturday that starts at noon.
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Don't Miss
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Long Play Festival at Pioneer Works
Wed Apr 29, 7p
Oneohtrix Point Never's only announced US appearances of 2026, here in Red Hook. Wednesday night pairs him with John Medeski; Thursday with Tyondai Braxton is already sold out. Filmmaker Freeka Tet builds the live visual world in real time. Wednesday is the night still available.
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This Week
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1. Goat at Roulette
Wed Apr 29, 7–11p
Long Play Festival also brings the Japanese experimental collective Goat to Roulette in Boerum Hill on the same Wednesday night. Their sets are ritualistic and accumulative — percussion, drones, and repetition building toward something genuinely altered. A different intensity from Pioneer Works, and a good option if OPN is sold out by the time you read this.
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2. Triple Canopy Benefit Afterparty at Nightmoves
Wed Apr 29, 10:30p
Triple Canopy — the Brooklyn-based publication that has shaped how rigorous arts writing moves online — holds its annual benefit this week. The afterparty follows at Nightmoves, 295 Grand St in Williamsburg. It's a gathering of the people this neighborhood's creative community is built from.
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3. Zoli at Amant
Wed Apr 29, from 5p
Ned Baldwin, the chef behind Houseman in Hudson Square, opens Zoli on the Amant campus in East Williamsburg on Wednesday. Walk-ins are welcome; book via Resy. The Houseman lineage — restrained, particular, not interested in spectacle — gives this more weight than a standard new restaurant announcement.
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4. Body Hack at Nowadays
Thu Apr 30, 8p–4a
Body Hack is one of the most consistent queer and underground party series running in New York right now. This edition brings ARCHANGEL, Ana Macho, EL SUCIO, Pwincesa, sodomahigomorra, and Soo Intoit across a full night in Ridgewood.
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5. Hamdi at Good Room
Thu Apr 30, 10p–4a
Hamdi is a New York-based DJ whose sets draw from Somali and East African music — handled with genuine care rather than pastiche. Good Room in Greenpoint is the right scale for it.
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6. The Nursery: Chloé Caillet at Public Records
Sat May 2, 12–7p
Chloé Caillet opens the 2026 Nursery season at Public Records with a Saturday afternoon running noon to 7pm. Her SMIILE label and party series centers queer artists and communal dance music. Public Records has one of the best sound systems in the city.
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7. Deportation Inc. at e-flux
Thu May 7, 7p
SITU Research — the Brooklyn-based architecture and forensic investigation firm — screens their ongoing video series on the privatization of US immigration enforcement. Post-screening conversation includes SITU's Gauri Bahuguna, journalist Eileen Grench, Columbia Law's Elora Mukherjee, and filmmaker Jon Nealon. Free for Architectural League members; $20 general. 172 Classon Ave, Clinton Hill.
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Oh and...
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Kamasi Washington is playing Music Hall of Williamsburg in July — tickets on sale Friday May 1 ·
Olivia Rodrigo turned up unannounced at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg this week ·
Dynaco, the Bedford Avenue bar that burned last month, is raising money to rebuild ·
Kinda Nice is opening in the old Black Flamingo space on Driggs.
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A BROOKLYN STORY
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David Seiter | Future Green Studio
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David Seiter is the founder of Future Green Studio, a landscape architecture practice based in Brooklyn. Over 17.5 years, the firm designed and built urban landscape interventions across New York City — green corridors, waterfront parks, community plazas — work that is now part of the physical texture of the borough. This week, Seiter announced the closing of the firm's BUILD side, describing the decision in a long letter about the gap between design vision and the labor required to build it. The studio continues as a design-focused practice.
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— Sam
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FUN STUFF is a weekly guide to events worth showing up for in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — art openings, design markets, live music, architecture, and the people making it happen. Plus one local creative we're paying attention to, every issue. Delivered Weekly.
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