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June is here, and the calendar is finally good again. This weekend has good maker programming — glassblowing at UrbanGlass Friday, ceramics at BKLYN CLAY Saturday, and a new woodworking community gathering at Makeville Thursday night. Xenia Rubinos performs Black Terry Cat in full at The Sultan Room Saturday, ten years on. The Harvestworks anniversary screening at e-flux Tuesday is the quiet one worth catching. |
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This Week |
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| 1. Makeville Studio: Shop ShareThu Jun 4, 7–8pMakeville Studio starts Shop Share this Thursday — an inaugural monthly gathering for women, trans, non-binary, queer, and GNC woodworking enthusiasts, open to members and the public. It's part social, part skills exchange, part introduction to the shop at 125 8th Street in Brooklyn. |
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| 2. Alex Krueger & Leckie Gassman: Hot Glass Hangout & Studio Sale at UrbanGlassFri Jun 5, 6–8pUrbanGlass is Brooklyn's public glassblowing studio, and Friday's Hot Glass Hangout is the Studio Residents Edition — a live demonstration from 2025 residents Alex Krueger and Leckie Gassman, open to the public, alongside a studio sale. Glassblowing as spectator sport is underrated. |
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| 3. Cammi Climaco at BKLYN CLAY — In a GlazeSat Jun 6, 10a–3pCammi Climaco leads a full-day beginner glazing intensive at BKLYN CLAY's Prospect Heights studio — six hours on glaze chemistry, layering approaches, and surface design. It covers basics through advanced applications, so the entry bar is low and the ceiling is not. |
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| 4. Going In at Pioneer WorksSat Jun 6, 12pGoing In at Pioneer Works is a twelve-hour immersive listening experience — a durational sound program at the Main Hall on Saturday. This is the kind of event worth sitting inside for a while. |
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| 5. NYC Resistor: Repair CafeSat Jun 6, 2–5pNYC Resistor runs a Repair Cafe Saturday afternoon at 87 3rd Ave in Crown Heights — bring a small, portable broken item (lamp, clothing, mug) and volunteer repairers will help you fix it. The goal is collective diagnosis, shared skills, and keeping things out of the landfill. The event is 18+ and asks that you RSVP with a description of what you're bringing. |
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| 6. Xenia Rubinos: Black Terry Cat at The Sultan RoomSat Jun 6, eveningXenia Rubinos performs Black Terry Cat in full at The Sultan Room — a one-night performance revisiting her 2016 album on its tenth anniversary. Opening set from Lollise. Tickets are limited. |
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| 7. First Saturdays: Brooklyn Pride at 30 at Brooklyn MuseumSat Jun 6, 5–10pBrooklyn Museum's First Saturday for June is a Pride-at-30 celebration — free with museum admission, running 5 to 10 in the evening. The event marks thirty years of Pride programming at First Saturdays. |
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| 8. Suzanne Sullivan: The Wilderness of Mirrors at Brooklyn Metal WorksThrough Sun Jun 7Suzanne Sullivan builds hand-built porcelain that sits at the edge of functional and non-functional — teapots and cups that ask harder questions than they appear to. The Wilderness of Mirrors takes its title from CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton's phrase for espionage, where fact and illusion merge. The show closes Sunday at Brooklyn Metal Works; this is the last weekend. |
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| 9. Bar Kaiju Takeover at Kinda NiceSun Jun 7Kinda Nice, the cocktail bar on Grand Street in Williamsburg, hosts a Bar Kaiju takeover Sunday — a pop-up from the Miami-based bar, timed as a kickoff to Bar Convent Brooklyn, the annual craft spirits gathering. |
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| 10. Verdant Earth at Gasworks NYCThrough Sun Jun 7, 12–6pVerdant Earth is a ceramics group exhibition at Gasworks NYC open through Sunday — over 40 artists from the Gasworks community bring work that the gallery describes as celebrating the lush, bountiful, and generous earth. It runs 12–6 daily at Gallery 198. |
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| 11. 50 Years of Harvestworks Residents at e-fluxTue Jun 9Harvestworks — the New York electronic music and sound arts organization, in operation since the late 1970s — marks an anniversary at e-flux on June 9 with a screening of past resident work. Harvestworks supported experimental and electronic sound artists in New York with residencies and equipment access for decades before that infrastructure was widely available. I find these programs useful for understanding where a scene actually came from. |
Oh and... |
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Palosanto plays the Arlo Williamsburg rooftop Thursday evening, June 4 — outdoor music to open the week The Ark opens at Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus on June 11 — new show, on view through August |
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Suzanne Sullivan |
Suzanne Sullivan is a ceramicist who hand-builds porcelain at the edge of functional and non-functional. Her solo exhibition The Wilderness of Mirrors — closing Sunday at Brooklyn Metal Works — takes its title from CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton's description of espionage as a realm where fact and illusion merge. Sullivan applies that frame to porcelain: objects that look like tea service and ask harder questions. The show opened in April and runs through June 7. |
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-Sam
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