WEDNESDAY: Local Doc
The community organizers and activists of FUREE (Families United for Racial & Economic Equality) – along with Fort Greene Peace, the Fort Greene Film Society, and the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church – are screening the FUREE-produced documentary “Some Place Like Home: The Fight Against Gentrification in Downtown Brooklyn”, which examines how the residents and businesses of Downtown Brooklyn and Fort Greene have been adversely affected by recent development projects and how the community is fighting back. A discussion follows screening, which starts at 7pm at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene.

THURSDAY: Word of the Ghost
Word bookstore’s ongoing Indie Press Night returns with two glittering literati: novelist Deb Olin Unferth, whose lauded debut novel, Vacation, was published by McSweeneys, and Believer founding editor Ed Park, author of Personal Days and publisher of the quirky New-York Ghost. 7:30 pm, 126 Franklin Street, Greenpoint.

Support Hybrids
The worlds of classical music and indie rock collide on Thursday at BAM as the Brooklyn Philharmonic teams up with Bell Orchestre and Clogs for the genre-bending performance Shuffle Mode.

Get Thee to a Nunnery
Only in Brooklyn does an opera charge $20 at the door; in this case it’s Giacomo Puccini’s “Sour Angelica,” a tragedy set in an Italian convent in the 17th century, playing at Williamsburg’s restored McCaddin Memorial Theater from Thursday through Sunday.

FRIDAY: Greatest Depression Ever
Help raise cash for the delightfully quirky non-profit museum known as the City Reliquary by attending Brother Can You Spare Some Rent on Friday, featuring a fortune teller, Depression-era movies, DJs, old-timey booze and more recession-themed fun.

Spicy Times
Music bloggers and DJ divas Nora and Jinners–aka Spicy Times–return to Union Hall with their second monthly dance party featuring three indie acts Spacecamp, Uninhabitable Mansions and Vessels this Friday at 8pm.

Heart to Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have arguably released the best album of 2009 (so far), a pop jewel that lays somewhere between fuzzy shoegaze, Scottish twee and upbeat New Wave. The Brooklyn band hits the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Friday with headliners …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead.

SATURDAY:Artful Spending
Support independent shops and artists at Funky Child, this Saturday at Alphabeta. The pop-up market will be hawking everything from photography and artwork to fashion accessories and gifts, with live painting and music performances.

SUNDAY: Dead Can Dance
As part of BAC Folk Arts’ year-long Days of the Dead in Brooklyn project, the sixth annual Folk Feet Traditional Dance Showcase will focus on the dances Brooklyn’s many immigrant communities use to mourn and remember those who have passed on. The showcase features dances from Grenada, China, India and Korea. 2pm at Brooklyn College’s Whitman Theater.

Love Will Build Them Up
Chris Ott — author of the book Unknown Pleasures, about Joy Division’s 1979 debut of the same name from the 33 1/3 series — reads from a new essay chronicling the postpunk pioneers’ recent transformation from cult heroes to near-household name. If you can’t wait until the music- and film-accompanied reading, we’re giving away an autographed copy of Ott’s book to the fifth reader who correctly names the recently-released Ian Curtis biopic. 7pm, Barbès, 376 9th Street, Park Slope.

TUESDAY: Building Initiative
For four Tuesdays, several Red Hook restaurants (Rocky Sullivan’s, Hope & Anchor, The Good Fork, Kevin’s Restaurant, on Thursdays, and Tini’s, on Wednesdays) are donating 10% of their nightly proceeds to the Red Hook Initiative building fund. Call 718-858-6782 for more info.

Sent by Chrysanthe, Keith, Nina and Nicole. Photos from top courtesy City Reliquary , Pains of Being Pure of Heart , and Continuum Publishing/33 1/3.