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ART: Honey Space is holding a Summer Benefit tonight -- featuring A Yard Sale-Style Art & Junk Auction! "The event will feature a yard sale-style silent auction, where approximately 20 artists will offer art, junk and studio debris for sale. Each artist has been given a 3 x 5 foot blanket, and wall space, with the only requirement being that they submit both artwork, and items that would not generally be considered art." Half of the proceeds will go towards Honey Space's operating budget, with the other half going to the artists. Vodka drinks, homemade hors d'oeurves and desserts will be plentiful!
6 to 9 p.m. // Honey Space [148 11th Ave] // $20 donation
Over in Williamsburg photographer Tod Seelie (aka Suckapants) opens his first ever solo show, titled Slow Dancing to Slayer. It "will feature work from the streets of NYC and his travels over five different continents. With almost 80 photographs comprising the exhibition, it serves as a window into the life of the photographer as well as a view of the various groups he finds himself with.”
7 to 10 p.m. // Cinders [103 Havemeyer, Williamsburg] // Free
MUSIC: DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist’s hotly-anticipated McCarren Pool show goes down tonight. They call this joint venture The Hard Sell, and it’s an expanded version of their virtuoso beatmatching extravaganza they premiered at The Hollywood Bowl last year for a crowd of 15,000. Incorporating eight turntables, two guitar loop pedals, and pulling exclusively from their vast collection of 45rpm seven-inch singles, they promise to unleash “tricks and complexity rarely attempted by a DJ duo.” DJ Jazzy Jay and Mighty Underdogs open. – John Del Signore
6:30 p.m. // McCarren Park Pool [Lorimer between Driggs and Bayard, Williamsburg] // $39
MOVIES: Settle in for a horror flick tonight at the Movies with a View series. As the sun goes down they'll be screening 1956's Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The cult classic follows a small-town doctor who learns that citizens of his community are being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates!
7 p.m. // Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn Bridge Park // Free
THEATER: Using original music by Daniel Levy, visual projections, movement and evocative text, Lenora Champagne’s new work, TRACES/fades, explores American crises through the fading mind of a patient in an Alzheimer’s hospital day room. Though Champagne has mostly been performing solo, for her new piece she enlisted older actors (in their '60s, '70s, and '80s) and a young girl. Presented through Saturday only as part of the indispensable Ice Factory summer festival of new work. – John Del Signore
7 p.m. // The Ohio Theater [66 Wooster Street] // $15
