6:30 – 10:30 pm Metropolitan Black Bar Association celebrates excellence andvempowerment at the 40th Anniversary Awards Gala Caribbean Pier SixtyNew York, NY
6:30 – 7:30 pm Author Taufiq Rahim Discusses book “Middle East in Crisis and Conflict: A Primer” Books & Readings McNally Jackson Downtown BrooklynBrooklyn
6:30 – 10:30 pm Metropolitan Black Bar Association Celebrates Excellence and Empowerment at the 40th Anniversary Awards Gala. Pier SixtyNew York, NY
7 – 8 pm Tony Lewis – Harlem Jazz Series Concert Music Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian ChurchHarlem
7 – 11 pm Swamp in the City: A Cajun & Creole Music Festival Ages: 8 and underCommunity Cultural Family Strong Rope Brewery: Red HookBrooklyn
7:30 – 9:30 pm The Billie Holiday Theatre Presents Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine Theater The Billie Holiday TheatreBrooklyn
8 – 11 pm Chinese-style charcoal BBQ and live music at Gao’s BBQ & Crab Food & Drink Music Gao’s BBQ & CrabDowntown Flushing
8 – 11 pm Jenny Holzer, “For the Guggenheim” Light Projection Ages: AllArt Attractions Family GuggenheimUpper East Side
8 – 9:30 pm A Groundbreaking Achievement of Outrageous Importance That People Scroll By, Barely Impacted Theater TheaterlabMidtown
8:15 – 10 pm Movies Under the Stars: Bee Movie Ages: 5 and upFamily Film Free Midland FieldStaten Island
11:30 pm Friday NYC HipHop vs. Reggae® Booze Cruise Jewel Yacht party Skyport Marina Dance Food & Drink Jewel, Skyport MarinaMidtown
Brooklyn Paper Historic Bed-Stuy brownstones’ fate debated at heated public hearing on Willoughby-Hart landmarking proposal