Five things to do in Brooklyn this week!

Friday

April 15

L’il folk

We believe that children are the future, but the kids in Amy Hill’s new solo exhibit seem dropped out of time. In the show “Young and Innocent,” opening tonight, Hill uses a historical folk art painting style to depict urban urchins covered with modern corporate logos, tattoos, and digital toys.

7–9 pm at the Front Room Gallery [147 Roebling St. between Metropolitan Avenue and Frost Street in Williamsburg, (718) 782–2556], www.frontroom.org). Free.

Saturday

April 16

True brew

Taste the future of beer at the Pride of Brooklyn Homebrew Festival, where for $30 you can sample the suds that 30 of the borough’s brewmasters have concocted in the kitchens. A previous year’s competitor now runs the Strong Rope Brewery, just a few blocks away.

Power punch girl: Amy Hill paints modern kids in an old-fashioned American Folk Art style. Her show “Young and Innocent” opens on April 15.

Amy Hill

1–5 pm at Littlefield (622 Degraw St. between Third and Fourth avenues in Gowanus, www.littlefieldnyc.com). $30.

Sunday

April 17

Speechless

Words are very unnecessary! Chill out with a night of adventurous instrumental music, organized by Michael Gallant (pictured) of the Michael Gallant Trio, which blends peppy jazz, grungy rock, and funky backbeats. With acoustic duo The Better Tones and hip-hop influenced jazz group Szja E-trio.

Union Hall [702 Union St. between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400, (718) 222–4111, unionhallny.com]. $8 ($6 in advance).

Those are mint leaves: For April 20, Syndicated’s bar manager has whipped up the Bong Water cocktail, with vodka, lemon juice, and mint simple syrup, topped with sweet tea and garnished with black Peruvian mint. Mint!

Kenneth Vanhooser

Wednesday

April 20

High rollers

Stoners know what day it is, and so does Syndicated screening room, which showcases a trio of stoner films: “Inherent Vice” at 5:30 pm, “Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke” at 8:30 pm, and “Half Baked” at 10:30 pm. While you watch, sip the bar’s new “Bong Water” cocktail (pictured), and order the tater-tots if you get the munchies!

5:30 pm–midnight at Syndicated [40 Bogart St. between Thames and Grattan streets in Williamsburg, (718) 386–3399, www.syndicatedbk.com]. $4.

thursday

April 21

Ladies’ men

Adam Schatz is the bandleader of the local favorites Landlady, but the Ditmas Park musician says that the five-piece is more of “a musical think tank,” with each member contributing to the inventive pop tunes, which zip through elegant structures and unpredictable time signatures. Tonight the band plays with Sexmob.