Angela Yee Day tomorrow at arena is part of Planet Brooklyn. The festival's "Village" will close six streets near the Brooklyn Academy of Music this weekend.

So the annual Angela Yee Day, featuring the disc jockey, will be held tomorrow at Barclays Center's Ticketmaster Plaza from 10 am to 3 pm.

From the announcement:

Join Angela Yee from Way Up With Angela Yee on Power 105.1 for a FREE fun filled day of music, local community activities, live performances, games, giveaways and more!

Performers will include Gyptian, Chronic Law, Maino, Tifa, Cheem, Th3rd, and Stephanie Saint-Côme,  with music by DJ Noire and Nick Seale.

As Yee said in a recent broadcast, Angela Yee Day is also part of the two-day festival Planet Brooklyn, with performances at Barclays Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Brooklyn Paramount.  

It's worth nothing that, as the poster shows, it's also sponsored by the Social Justice Fund of the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation, which confirms that the umbrella for events credited to social justice is pretty broad. 

But Planet Brooklyn, above all, is a project from BSE Global, the company--owned by Joe and Clara Wu Tsai, with a slice to the Koch family--that operates the arena and owns the Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty, and is aiming to establish an "ecosystem" of events and attractions. 

Enter, The Village

Meanwhile, Planet Brooklyn has released more information about the free outdoor block party planned from 1 pm-10pm on Saturday and Sunday.

"Enter in front of BAM on Lafayette" Avenue, the image at right states. It suggests, but does not make clear, that multiple other streets would be incorporated into the event. 

 

Indeed, they will be. 

Street closings

A letter (below) to neighbors, circulated by Brooklyn Community Board 2, indicates two days of street closings:

• Lafayette Avenue: From Fort Greene Place to Fulton Street
• Ashland Place: From Hanson Place to Fulton Street
• St. Felix Street: From Fulton Street to Hanson Place
• Hanson Place: From Fort Greene Place to Ashland Place
• Rockwell Place: between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street
• Fort Greene Place: from Hanson Place to Fulton Street

Disingenuous letter 

The letter strikes me as disingenuous on a couple of fronts.

It describes Planet Brooklyn as a "free cultural festival and music event...  with programming at Barclays Center, BAM, and Brooklyn Paramount, as well as in nearby public spaces." The Barclays and Paramount concerts, of course, are not free. 

It also describes the festival as "[p]resented by the City of New York in celebration of NYC’s 400th anniversary." 

While the City of New York's tourism arm may have signed on as a partner, as indicated in the screenshot above (from the event web site), the festival is a project from BSE Global, whose name goes unmentioned in the letter. It's signed by the "Planet Brooklyn Community Engagement Team. 

It's also disingenuous to call BK Mag a partner, when it's also owned by BSE Global (though that's not disclosed, either). 

About the vendors

Listed below are the food and market vendors planned.

In the image below, the first three sets of artists are at ticketed events, at Barclays, the Paramount, and BAM (free tickets, but first-come, first-in), while a longer lineup is planned at the block parties.