Pencil This In

MOVIE: If you haven't seen the 1992 film Baraka, tonight's your chance to catch it on the big screen. "Beginning in the Himalayas, Baraka was shot in twenty-four countries on six continents documenting religious rituals, natural phenomenas, and humankind's destructive powers on our planet." Introduced by the Author of "1,000 Places to See Before You Die," Patricia Schultz.

Friday // 9:30 p.m. // Rubin Art Museum [150 W 17th St] // Free

Solar One kicked off their 4th Annual Solar-Powered Film Series last night. Tonight catch Gimme Green, a short that "peers behind the curtain of the $40-billion industry that fuels our nation's largest irrigated crop-the lawn." After that it's Invisible Creek, which brings you "down the most polluted waterway in America, Newtown Creek, located on the border between Brooklyn and Queens in New York City." And finally, City of Water, which "explores the aspirations for a diverse, vibrant waterfront at a time when the shoreline is changing faster than at any other time in New York's history." There will also be a discussion of CSOs (Combined Sewer Overflows) with Cortney Worrall of the Coastal Marine Resource Center. The series continues through Saturday night.

Friday // 8 p.m. // Solar One [23rd St and the East River] // Free

MUSIC: Let them eat music! Pile into the basement of Cake Shop tonight for Neckbeard Telecaster, Barghest, She Keeps Bees and King Darves.

Friday // 8 p.m. // Cake Shop [152 Ludlow St] // $6

PARTY: Tonight's party at the Party House features Tribe Called Quest main man Q-Tip and DJ Rich Medina. They'll be spinning tunes, you'll be dancing, and "special guests" are rumored to be amongst you all.

Friday // 10 p.m. // Santos' Party House [100 Lafayette St] // $10

WATER GUNS!: A few weeks ago "the Shadow Government announced the return of the city's most anticipated non-lethal water gun assassination tournament." And the day is amongst us; commencing on Saturday at 3 p.m. a water-soaked StreetWars will take over Union Square. You've all been warned.

Saturday // 3 p.m. // Union Square // Free Cancelled!

EVENT: Get ready for all of your Victorian wishes and Steampunk dreams to come true. The Dances of Vice Festival II is a "time-travel costume ball with an 18th and 19th century flair, inspired by the adventures of Baron Münchausen." Performances by Baroque quartet, Deadfly Ensemble and more. The fashion shows will feature a "steampunk fantasy" theme, amongst others, and an exhibition "of fantastical inventions, fine art, and photography" is promised. As if that all weren't enough, there will also be some live fencing demonstrations and short plays...but dress the part! The dress code is: 18th century, Victorian, new romantic, Elizabethan, carnevale, Edwardian, 1920-30s, steampunk, decadent.

Saturday // 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. // Montauk Club [25 Eighth Ave, Brooklyn] //

THEATER: When future theater historians look back on underground auteur Ian W. Hill, they may well wonder, "Was this one man or one hundred?" Hill's month-long takeover of Williamsburg's Brick Theater – in which he's directing, performing, producing and probably simultaneously running lights and selling tickets for three productions (two of which he also wrote) – ends this weekend. Tonight is Everything Must Go (Invisible Republic #2), a play "in dance and fragmented businesspeak. A day in the life of 11 people working in an advertising agency as they toil on a major new automobile account, interspersed with backbiting, backstabbing, coffee breaks, office romances, motivational lectures, afternoon slumps, and a Mephistophelian boss who has his eye on a beautiful female Faust of an intern." Plus singing! – John Del Signore

Saturday // 8 p.m. // The Brick Theater [575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn] // $15

FUNDRAISER: That's right, the last McCarren Park Pool Party show EVER is also an Obama fundraiser. Yo La Tengo, Titus Andronicus and Ebony Bones will play their little hearts out...after that, the pool is silent on Sundays. Bonus: David Cross deejays!

Sunday // 3 p.m. // McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn // Free, Recommended $20

MUSIC: Some of the last surviving traditional Piedmont blues musicians will be taking part in the Music Maker Blues Revue at the 25th Annual Roots of American Music Festival this weekend. The Music Maker Relief Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides grant money to traditional blues musicians in need of financial assistance. Amongst those performing are: Alabama Slim, Macavine Hayes and Boo Hanks (who traces his lineage back to Abraham Lincoln's mother, "Mary
Hanks - the first black descendent of Abraham Lincoln to perform at Lincoln
Center?)." More details here.

Sunday // 4 p.m. // Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park Bandshell // Free

REMINDER: Richard Sandler has some screenings this weekend, and the Bushwick Film Festival returns as well.