“Honk NYC!,” which began on Tuesday and continues through Saturday, brings together ensembles from all over the world in a bid to jump-start enthusiasm for brass in the city. Its Friday night gala is in Brooklyn at the Gowanus Ballroom, a cavernous art space on the canal, with a concert by Os Siderais, visiting from Brazil; Perhaps Contraption, from Britain; and the Brooklyn-based, hip-hop-inspired PitchBlak Brass Band, among others. Tickets are $ 10: rather a bargain, the Miser thinks, for a self-described “gala.”
(Friday at 8 p.m., 55 Ninth Street, between Second Avenue and Smith Street, Gowanus; 347-460-2687, gowanusballroom.com.)
The festival ends at the Children’s Museum of the Arts in the South Village, with instrument-building workshops and, at 2 p.m., a concert by the Chicago-based group Environmental Encroachment. Admission is $ 11; free for members and ages 65+ and under 1.
(Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 103 Charlton Street, at Greenwich Street; 212-274-0986, cmany.org.)
BEFORE CAGNEY & LACEY ET AL.
Keen consumers of pop culture, accustomed to the exploits of dashing female investigators, from Dana Scully and Clarice Starling to Kima Greggs and Cagney & Lacey, might be disappointed to know that as recently as 2010, according to the Department of Labor, less than a quarter of real detectives were women. Those aspiring to join their ranks could do worse for inspiration than Isabella Goodwin, the first female police detective in New York, just over a century ago. Elizabeth Mitchell, who wrote a Kindle single on Goodwin, will recount the story on Sunday not far from Goodwin’s grave at Green-Wood Cemetery. You can make reservations for the free talk by phone or online.
(Sunday at 1 p.m., 500 25th Street, at Fifth Avenue, Greenwood, Brooklyn; 718-210-3080, green-wood.com.)
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