PERFORMANCE: That floating sculpture armada that's been drifting down the Hudson River from Troy reaches northern Manhattan tonight, where the seven eclectic, hand-made vessels will dock at Riverside Park Pier I. Called "Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea," the project is the brainchild of street artist/gallery darling Swoon and a loose collective of DIYers who've spent the last two summers doing the same thing on the Mississippi. This year their voyage is much shorter and features a play (to be performed tonight) written by Lisa D'Amour, who enthralled us with her site-specific Bird Eye Blue Print at the World Financial Center last year. – John Del Signore

8 p.m. // Riverside Park Pier I [70th St. and the Hudson River] // Free

FASHION: It's September, which means fashion will begin to take over New York. Tonight the DUMBO-based Fashion Indie Media will bring some fancy rags to the Brooklyn Bridge to kick off Fashion Indie Week Brooklyn. The unusual runway show is titled “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” and will showcase designers like Love Brigade, New York Couture, Harriet’s Alter Ego, Sheila Frank, Brooklyn Royalty, and many more. More details here.

6 p.m. // The Brooklyn Bridge // Free

MOVIE: It's day two of BAM's "Four-Pack of Carpenter" series. Tonight catch Kurt Russell and Wilford Brimley in The Thing. "When a team of scientists stationed in Antarctica takes in a stray Husky after an accident, man’s best friend turns out to be an alien capable of inhabiting the bodies of animals…or humans." The remake of Christian Nyby’s 1951 science-fiction thriller The Thing from Another World, is “easily the winner of the early-1980s mutating carcass competition." Bring someone whose hand you can grab on to!

6:50, 9:15 p.m. // BAM [30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn] // $11

MUSIC: It's a full night at Death By Audio. First up, the ladies can show up at 8 for a women's only self-defense workshop courtesy of CAE (Center for Anti-Violence Education). Then the music gets going with City Center, Urxed (Rob from High Places solo project), Vivian Girls and Hawnay Troof (who will be celebrating their record release).

8 p.m. // Death By Audio [49 S 2nd St, Williamsburg] // $tba

Photo courtesy Tod Seelie.