FUN STUFF In Williamsburg | Featured alongside Time Out New York · Brooklyn Paper · Billboard | | This is a quieter week than the last few — no festival anchor, no design-week sprawl, no major museum opening. But Valentina Magaletti is at Public Records for a two-night residency I've been waiting on since she announced it, and Powerhouse Arts opens BWAC's first in-person group show since the September 2025 fire forced them out of Red Hook. There's still a good mix of events below. | Do you know someone who'd appreciate this? FUN STUFF is a free weekly edit of the best art, design, maker, and music events in Brooklyn. I write for people who are interested in supporting the local community. If someone in your circle would appreciate it, forward this their way. Forward this issue → |
| Don't Miss | | | Valentina Magaletti residency at Public RecordsFri May 22 + Sat May 23Magaletti's two-night residency at Public Records starts Friday with Moin — her project with the production duo Raime, where her recorded drum parts get dismantled and rewired into noise rock. Saturday is the US debut of Holy Tongue, her dub-leaning trio with Al Wootton and Susumu Mukai. I'm going Saturday. | | Unmoored/Unbound at Powerhouse ArtsOpening Thu May 21, 5–8pPowerhouse Arts opens Unmoored/Unbound Thursday — the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition's first in-person exhibition since the September 2025 fire forced them out of their Red Hook warehouse. The juried group show pulls forty artists working around loss, liberation, and the question of what to do after. BWAC has been a fixture of the Brooklyn art ecosystem since 1978, and this is the recovery moment. Opening reception 5–8 p.m. | This Week | | | 1. Field Notes 02: Miles Davis Centennial at Car Part TimeTue May 26Field Notes is Car Part Time's public programming series, and the second edition lands on what would have been Miles Davis's 100th birthday. TADDEO (Sound Voyager) walks the room through Miles's eras — from bebop through In a Silent Way to On the Corner — with archival footage and a curated listening session. Car Part Time is the automotive concept space on Grand; I've been to one of their nights before and would recommend it. | | | 2. Body Language at MociunOpens Tue May 19 · through June 27Body Language opens to the public this week at Mociun on Driggs — Bower Studios's group show, running daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. through June 27. The roster is what to come for: Caitlin Mociun, Chen Chen & Kai Williams, Chris Wolston, Pat Kim, Nick van Woert, Farrah Sit, Robin Francis Williams, Nassi Lamps, David Benjamin Sherry, and more than fifteen artists working across furniture, lighting, sculpture, painting, photography, ceramics, and fine jewelry. The brief is what objects do when they communicate through gesture and form. | | | 3. 3D Printing Basics for Repair at NYC ResistorSat May 23, 2–5pNYC Resistor is the Brooklyn hackerspace that's been running since 2008, and this Saturday they're teaching the first class in a new series focused on practical fix-it skills — finding existing 3D models, modifying them, preparing them to print. The space pulls makers from across Brooklyn, and the format is hands-on rather than lecture-shaped. Tickets through Eventbrite. | | | 4. Syreeta at SiloSat May 23Syreeta headlines the main room at Silo Saturday — chunky basslines, hypnotic grooves, the kind of set that translates between Tomorrowland and a Bushwick warehouse equally well. The night is presented by Support Women DJs, the recurring all-femme series running at Silo and Nowadays, with GALS, msunicornmusic, sarindipitysounds, and slaycey on the supporting bill. Doors at 10. | | | 5. Grace Ives at Music Hall of WilliamsburgThu May 21Grace Ives plays Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday — Brooklyn-based pop with the kind of dry, slightly distant vocal delivery that makes the production decisions feel more deliberate. Her last full-length was 2022's Janky Star, which Pitchfork named Best New Music; she's been circulating new material in DJ sets and a few one-off singles since. Tickets still available as of writing. | | | 6. Nia Archives at ElsewhereThu May 21Nia Archives brings her Up Ya Archives tour to Elsewhere Thursday with a multi-artist lineup that fills the venue across rooms: Jubilee, Jialing, Swami Sound, Moma Ready, gum.mp3, Kush Jones, ARCHANGEL, Dazegxd. Nia is the British DJ and producer responsible for a lot of the jungle revival that's been touring through North America this spring; her album Silence Is Loud picked up a Mercury Prize nomination last year. Tickets are moving. | Oh and... | | Gulsum Keskinoglu's Practice of Persistence at Awita New York Studio is still up through May 30 — the show that marked Awita's third anniversary and ran through last weekend's market Alice Wang's Windstorm on Saturn, Basalt Columns, MDMA, Serotonin is on view at ISCP through June 5 — the catalogue release Tuesday is the same week she returns to the building Body/Head — Kim Gordon and Bill Nace's noise duo — plays Amant AZ next Wednesday inside the Folded Group exhibition. Optional dinner at Zoli beforehand. Tickets going | A BROOKLYN STORY | |  | Valentina Magaletti | Valentina Magaletti is a London-based Italian drummer and composer. Her 2022 album Batterie Fragile was recorded entirely on a ceramic drum kit designed by Parisian artist Yves Chaudouët — an instrument she described to The Wire as totally fragile, conceptually the opposite of a macho one. The question underneath her work is what a drum sounds like when it refuses to be a macho instrument, and the answer keeps changing every record. This week she's at Public Records for a two-night residency — Friday with Moin, Saturday with the US debut of Holy Tongue. I'm going Saturday. | Worth sharing? Send it to a fellow creative. | | That's Issue 5. Got an event we should know about, or someone we should feature? Hit reply or write to hello@funstuffnyc.com. I read every email. See you out there,
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