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EVENT: Artist space is quickly diminishing in the city, and tonight a talk about the crisis is going down in Williamsburg -- home of the recently shuttered 475 Kent lofts. Panelists include John Jasperse and Jonah Bokaer (Founders for the Center for Performance Research, a new affordable space in Williamsburg for rehearsal and performance); Guy Buckles (Founder & President of the Art Building a new company dedicated to real estate solutions for artists); and Luis Garden Acosta (Founder and President of El Puente, A community human rights institution).

After the chatter, films illustrating Williamsburg’s changing landscape will be screened as well as clips from Abel Ferrera’s Chelsea on the Rocks, which Ed Hamilton will introduce and be on hand to discuss. This all takes place at Brooklyn's Greenbelt condos.

6 to 9 p.m. // Greenbelt [361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn] // Free

DANCE: Have you always wanted to dance, dance, dance? Tonight FreeNYC (be sure to mention them at the door for free entry) points you and your dancin' partner towards some free tango lessons. "Eat, drink and tango!"

6:30 p.m. // Ukrainian East Village Restaurant [140 2nd Ave] // Free

THEATER: Denis Woychuk’s memoir about his decade as a lawyer representing mental patients incarcerated at a maximum security hospital has been turned into a satirical rock musical by the author himself. Called Attorney for the Damned, the black comedy concerns an idealistic young lawyer named Skyhorse, whose boss assigns her, pro bono, to represent two indigent mental patients. Staged as a rock concert with a five piece band and three sultry back-up singers (“The Jurettes”), Attorney for the Damned “feels more convincing than anything on television because its perspective offers a more stinging ambiguity, with humor and songs, no less,” according to the Times’s rave review. – John Del Signore

7:30 p.m. // The Kraine Theater [85 East 4th Street] // Tickets cost $30.

MUSIC: Amy Miles, from the band Baby, recently put out an album produced by her old bandmate Craig Wedren. Tonight she'll be performing some tunes off the album, which are described as "warped shimmering pop songs," at Mercury Lounge. Listen here.

7:30 p.m. // Mercury Lounge [217 East Houston St] // $10

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