Five things to do in Brooklyn this week!

Friday

Feb. 17

Dancing queen

Get ready to shake it on the dance floor tonight, when disco-funk singer Gavin Turek, known for her high-energy shimmies on the stage and her handmade costumes, celebrates the release of her album “Good Look For You.”

9 pm at Baby’s All Right [146 Broadway between Bedford and Driggs avenues in Williamsburg, (718) 599–5800, www.babysallright.com]. $15 ($12 in advance).

Saturday

Feb. 18

Heavy metal

The weighty brass instruments of Moon Hooch will blow you away tonight, as the two-saxophones-plus-percussion Brooklyn band launches its new album “Red Sky.” With an opening performance from beatboxer Honeycomb.

8 pm at Brooklyn Bowl [61 Wythe Ave. between N. 11th and N. 12th streets in Williamsburg, (718) 963–3369], www.brooklynbowl.com.]. $17 ($15 in advance).

Sunday

Feb. 19

Hope’s up

Today is your last chance to catch “A Man of Good Hope,” the vibrant, uplifting musical about a boy from war-torn Somalia, who makes his way along the east coast of Africa to Johannesburg. The show uses inventive staging and traditional African rhythms evoke the countries along the way.

Dance break: Somalian refugee Asad Abdullahi meets a cast of colorful characters as he travels from Mogadishu to Cape Town, each of them dancing to music that represents the local culture.

Keith Pattison

3 pm at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House [651 Fulton St. between Rockwell and Ashland places in Fort Greene, (718) 636–4100, www.bam.org, , www.bam.org]. $25–$90.

Wednesday

Feb. 22

Swing shift

Retreat from the modern world with Tatiana Eva-Marie and Avalon Jazz Band, which plays 1930s-inspired jazz late into the night at the overstuffed bar and antique shop the Keep, which gives the whole event a speakeasy vibe.

10 pm at The Keep [205 Cypress Ave. between Starr Street and Willoughby Avenue in Bushwick, (718) 381-0400]. Free.

Thursday

Feb. 23

Brain the size of a planet

Sure, Marvin the Robot is your plastic pal who’s fun to be with — but is he really a person? The Brooklyn Public Philosophers will discuss that topic and more tonight at the “Persons in Science Fiction” lecture led by professor Ben Abelson.

7 pm at Brooklyn Public Library’s Central branch [10 Grand Army Plaza, between Eastern Parkway and Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Heights, (718) 230–2100], www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org. Free.