Dry tonight, then a washout weekend: 8 items, 6 free — Karina Rykman plays Webster Hall and Bikini Kill plays Brooklyn Steel tonight, with night 8 of the all-free garden festival and a free art projection on the Brooklyn Bridge; heads up that Saturday and Sunday are 90%-rain days with gusts to 45 mph, so every weekend pick below carries a weather flag.

Live Music

  • Karina Rykman + Guerilla Toss at Webster Hall — tonight, doors 7:30pm, 125 E 11th St — the jam-scene bassist’s Late Checkout tour with Guerilla Toss opening.
  • Bikini Kill + Lambrini Girls at Brooklyn Steel — tonight 8pm, 319 Frost St, $50 face — the show is sold out, but three face-value spares are up in r/Williamsburg right now: one at $50 and a pair at $70 each OBO from someone whose birthday plan fell through, no AXS fees if you take one off the thread.
  • 15th LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival — still on, day 8 of 10 through Sun 9/27, 50+ events in 30 LES community gardens, all free, no tickets: tonight it’s Pinc Louds 5pm → Rossi and Reed 6pm → Betty 7pm → the Garden Variety Show 8pm at La Plaza Cultural, Ben Stapp 6pm then Ka’a Davis & Eulas Pizarro 7pm at 11BC, Almodóvar’s All About My Mother 7pm at Firemen’s Memorial Garden, and a staged reading of Could You Patent the Sun? (the Jonas Salk one-man show) 7pm at Campos; Robin Wall Kimmerer’s 3–7:30pm talk at El Jardin del Paraiso needs registration. Saturday is the festival’s big day — Kids Day, Anarchist Book Fair 12–7pm — but it’s a rain day.
  • Global Citizen Festival — Great Lawn, Central Park — Sat 9/26, 4–10pm, free — tickets come from taking actions in the Global Citizen app, not from paying: Ms. Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Alicia Keys & Friends, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, Victoria Monét, YOSHIKI. The weekend’s biggest free show, but the forecast is rain all day Saturday with gusts to 45 mph — check the festival’s channels before committing to the Great Lawn.

Art & Exhibitions

  • MCNY: Halumii Ktapihna + Raise Your Voice — both open today, 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St, NYC residents pay-what-you-can: one show on the enduring presence and living cultures of the Lenape/Lunáapeew, the other on 250 years of New York activism and its tactics. Same building: He Built This City (that 800,000-structure handmade model) and Another Wonderland, both through 10/12 — the best indoor uptown pick for a wet weekend.
  • Aqua Cosmos: Anita Glesta’s Hudson Canyon projection — tonight only, 7–10pm, Emily Warren Roebling Plaza, Brooklyn Bridge Park, free walk-up (Saturday’s repeat is already cancelled for rain): an 18-minute immersive projection turning the Brooklyn Bridge into the Hudson Canyon, the largest submarine canyon on the Atlantic coast, 100 miles offshore. With the Wildlife Conservation Society, through DOT’s art program.

Festivals & Community

  • Artmageddon 2026 — Sun 9/27, 12–6pm, across Brooklyn (Art Villages; the newest is in PLG/Flatbush, after Midwood), free community ticket ($0; $5 suggested for a wristband): 500+ artists, bands and performers take over stoops, lawns and storefronts — the eighth edition of the borough-wide free art-and-music festival. Sunday is a 90%-rain day, so expect a soggy, patchy edition.
  • Vegan Garden Social: Harlem — Sat 9/26, 1–7pm, Sugar Hill Hope Garden, 475 W 152nd St, free: plant-based vendors, live sets from Shanay Morant and DJ Sphere, hosting by MC Lashawn “Suga Ray” Marston, wellness panels; donations encouraged. Outdoor on a rain day — worth a check before heading uptown.
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