Get Out: Soul Slam, Chester Higgins Photo Salon and Free Bike Tune-Ups!

WHAT: Soul Slam XX Prince vs. Michael Jackson
WHEN/WHERE: Saturday, April 10, Kai Studio, 10:00 p.m. – 3:00 a.m., 1011 Dean Street (Btwn Franklin & Classon Aves), Bklyn, NY
WHY GO: It’s a dance party honoring Prince and Michael Jackson, presented by Keistar Productions; turntables by DJ Spinna. Last year’s was phenomenal. You don’t want to miss this year’s!
HOW MUCH: $20. Buy tickets here    

WHAT: Brooklyn Photo Salon Presents Chester Higgins, Jr.
WHEN/WHERE: Sunday, April 21, 8:00 p.m. – 12:00 midnight, LaunchPad, 721 Franklin Ave, Bklyn, NY
WHY GO: Chester Higgins, Jr. will share a retrospective of his work and practice to fellow photographers. Come one, come all! Great food, great company and definitely great photography by the one and only Chester Higgins. Music by DJ Revolution aka Lumumba Bandele
HOW MUCH: $10    

WHAT: Gut Renovation
WHEN/WHERE: Beginning Friday, April 19 – Thursday, April 25,  7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. on weekdays, and 2:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday
WHY GO: Back by popular demand at the reRun Theater, 147 Front Street in DUMBO. "[Gut Renovation is] the most salient and personal film about Brooklyn’s ever-changing face since Hal Ashby’s The Landlordappeared in theaters some 43 years ago…It’s a polemical howl in the night, a desperately angry and side-splittingly funny look at one oh-so-mythologized neighborhood’s transformation....a film essay that is of a piece with the work of heady French names like Godard and Varda."
--Brandon Harris, FILMMAKER MAGAZINE
HOW MUCH: $10, for tickets go here    

WHAT: Indigo Hippie Presents Spring Bike Tune-Up
WHEN/WHERE: Saturday, April 20, 12:00 noon – 5:00 p.m. Fulton Park, at Fulton and Lewis Avenue
WHY GO: Free onsite maintenance and minor repairs; free helmets and raffles for kids ages 5- 13; clinics on bike maintenance and safety; music performances; live BMX exhibition and more!
HOW MUCH: Free. Donations accepted    

WHAT: Exhibitions: Raw/Cooked by Michael Ballou
WHEN/WHERE: Exhibit throughout museum runs beginning April 12–July 7, 2013, Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Bklyn, NY
WHY GO: The eighth exhibition in the Raw/Cooked series presents the work of Williamsburg’s Michael Ballou. A multimedia artist whose practice incorporates sculpture, performance, and collaboration, Ballou has altered three spaces in the Brooklyn Museum with site-specific installations. Connecting them is his interest in the appearance, behavior, and inner lives of animals. Spilling out of a large-scale vitrine in the fourth-floor Decorative Arts galleries, Ballou’s Dog Years is a monumental construction of over sixty dog head sculptures, modeled on animals of his acquaintance.
HOW MUCH: Suggested contribution; $12