MOVIE: If it doesn't rain tonight, plan on heading over to Pier 54 where you'll likely create some of your own waterworks. Riverflicks presents a screening of the 1987 classic La Bamba. The movie follows the life of Ritchie Valens until the day the music died. You'll cry for him, for Donna, and for his brother Bob as well...bring tissues!

8 p.m. // Pier 54 [14th St at the Hudson River] // Free

MUSIC: Tonight the music will be brought to the bridge, sort of. Music at the Bridge is a new music series that brings live music to the Tobacco Warehouse by the Brooklyn Bridge. Tonight Barbès is in charge, and they've curated an evening of live music, video art and other surprises. Performances by Las Rubias Del Norte, The Parker String Quartet and The Mandingo Ambassadors are promised. More details here.

6:30 p.m. // Tobacco Warehouse, Brooklyn Bridge Park // Free

EVENT: Tonight you're invited to a participatory project exploring issues of psychogeography and ecology. The Urban Epiphyte "is a native plant you wear on your person. Participants are given their own epiphyte, an adaptable pouch filled with soil, compost and a native plant, able to adhere to persons or objects. The idea is to attach the epiphyte to your person or belongings as you go about your daily routine. The project is recording the various narratives that occur within the placement of the epiphyte on yourself and in the varied spaces throughout the city." If you want to join in, come get your epiphyte, some tools and mingle with others who plan to do the same.

7 p.m. // Lumenhouse [47 Beaver St, Brooklyn] // Free

THEATER: Do Not Do This Ever Again – which has a title guaranteed to lure in the contrary types – opens the indispensable Ice Factory summer festival of new work, now in its 15th year. The multidisciplinary show sounds like it’s got lots to chew on: “Karinne Keithley's lively, rhythmic text weaves a tapestry of beautiful impossibilities inhabited by a singing chorus of online shopping carts and a place called Kentucky-Montana wich exists, but if you end up there you are in trouble.” Directed by Maria Goyanes with video and dance. – John Del Signore

7 p.m. // The Ohio Theater [66 Wooster St] // $15