Five things to do in Brooklyn this week!

Friday

June 2

Those dirty rats!

Get an up close look at your fuzzy little neighbors in “Rat Movie,” a documentary that uses the rapacious urban rodents as a way to examine the history of Baltimore, a city which — unlike the gleaming oasis of Brooklyn — is overrun with whiskered, cheese-seeking beasts of the four-footed variety. With live performance from Charm City rapper Kotic Couture before the show!

8 pm at The Old American Can Factory (232 Third St. at Sackett Street in Gowanus, www.rooftopfilms.com) $15.

Saturday

June 3

Lights up

Collect a light-up umbrella and make like Mary Poppins for the Pilobulus interactive dance “Umbrella Project,” where you can join a sea of strangers to form images of exploding stars and solar eclipses with your multi-colored rain shields, all projected onto a giant screen while music turns your movement into an outdoor rave.

8:30 pm at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1 (enter at Furman Street and Old Fulton Street in Dumbo, www.brooklynbridgepark.org). Free.

Sunday

June 4

Rated arrrr!

What be a pirate’s favorite country? Arrr-gentina! Hear better pirate jokes than that at the kid-friendly “Pirate School” comedy and vaudeville show, happening this Sunday on a boat docked in Red Hook. Physical comedian David Engel will use puppets, slapstick, and a musical score to teach you landlubbers the proper way to buckle your swashes.

2 pm at the Waterfront Museum Barge [290 Conover St. near Reed Street in Red Hook, (718) 624–4719], www.waterfrontmuseum.org. $13–$18.

Flagged for arr-rated content: Billy Jones, the Good Pirate, leads the “Pirate School” one-man vaudeville show on board the Waterfront Museum Barge in Red Hook on June 4.

Wednesday

June 7

Dive in!

Brooklyn soul-pop band Lake Street Dive opens the Bric Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival tonight in Prospect Park. The show is free, but if you want to support the series, drop $5 into the bucket as you enter — or attend the pre-show Opening Night Gala, where tickets start at $750.

8:15 pm at Prospect Park Band Shell [Prospect Park West and Ninth Street in Park Slope, (718) 965–8900, www.bricartsmedia.org/cb]. Free.

Thursday

June 8

Tower play

The Live at the Archway summer music series kicks off tonight with Colombian band Los Cumpleaños, drinks, and dancing — but we are most excited about tonight’s Space Station pop-up art exhibit and workshop with sculptor Tom Fruin, who created the stained glass water tower that stands over Brooklyn Bridge Park.

6 pm at the Archway Under The Manhattan Bridge [Water Street between Adams Street and Anchorage Place in Dumbo, (718) 237–8700], www.dumbo.is. Free.