WEDNESDAY: Green Living
As part of its monthly Community Forum Night, the Community Bookstore hosts an open discussion/brainstorming session on how to incorporate alternative energy sources into your home, at 7pm.

THURSDAY: Talky Literati
Over the years, The Paris Review has consistently published the literary world’s most enlightening author interviews. On Thursday, the magazine’s editor, Philip Gourevitch, speaks about the newly released The Paris Review Interviews, Volume III, which features insight into the minds of such authors as Raymond Carver, John Cheever and William Carlos Williams. 7pm at BookCourt.

No Parking on the Dance Floor
Get the party started right courtesy of the avant-garde partiers over at the House of Yes, who kick things off at 9ish with a serious dance party co-hosted by $mall ¢hange. Since it is a weeknight, the fun wraps up responsibly early (midnight), and non-drinkers are welcome (BYOFruit for homemade smoothies encouraged). $5-10 donation appreciated, 342 Maujer Street, East Williamsburg.

FRIDAY: Buzz Band
L.A.-based The Bird and The Bee pairs Greg Kurstin (who previously produced records for everyone from The Flaming Lips to Lily Allen) with sultry vocalist Inara George for moody indie pop that should please the Bell House crowd on Friday night.

Dream Weaver
The frenetic synth party pop and totally over-the-top stage antics of Gil Mantera’s Party Dream sweeps into Club Europa on Friday night. Bring glitter.

Dance Platzas
One of the coolest cheap activities posted to our recession-proof list was the event at the Banya Russian Steam Baths in Kensington by party mavens Gemini & Scorpio. Lucky for us they’re throwing one of their legendary parties there this Friday from 7pm-2am with DJ Joro Boro, formerly of the Bulgarian Bar, curating a Gypsy-Bhangra-Balkan bacchanalia. After the sweat-session on the dance floor and in the steam rooms, cool down in the plunge pool, roof deck or hookah lounge. Dude.

SATURDAY: Brooklyn’s Greenest
Making Brooklyn Bloom brings the finest in the city’s greening organizations together for a day devoted to growing fresh food and discussing a future of “green-collar” jobs. Workshops include Kitchen Botany and Cultivating Street Tree Stewards, and feature folks from Habana Outpost and Red Hook’s Added Value Community Farm. Free with printed flyer from the MBB site, 10am-4pm.

What grows in Brooklyn?
Join the conversation about food, farming, and urbanism in Bushwick and how to reconcile the three at Past, Present, Future of Food: A(n Urban) (Farm) Salon. Brooklyn Public Library, 340 Bushwick Avenue, Bushwick.

Armory Night
After the Armory Fair in Manhattan, hop the L train back to Brooklyn and shuttle between galleries, beginning at Oulu. Artlog and the Williamsburg Gallery Association are offering tons of tours, and galleries like Ch’i Contemporary have special events planned like pinhole camera demos and champagne tasting. An afterparty at Supreme Trading keeps the party going.

Out of SITE
Go into art overload at the SITE Festival, a two-day festival featuring theater, music, dance and performance art, taking place this weekend at sites all over Bushwick.

Ladies’ Night
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Brooklyn Museum is dedicating its monthly free Target First Saturday to all things female: burlesque by local performers Old Ma Femme and Darlinda Just Darlinda, bossa nova jazz from singer-songwriter Luca Mundaca, and an afro-tech dance party spun by Brooklyn’s DJ Sabine. Starts at 5pm.

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY
303Grand — the new “revolving storefront” in Williamsburg — hosts three nights of films featured at festivals last year as selected by movie maker Paul Cannon. Nosh on mini Kumquat Cupkery cupcakes while you watch.

TUESDAY:Word Up
Test your spelling skills — and win some C-A-S-H — at Mother Tongue, the spelling bee for grown-ups, 7:30pm at Union Hall.

Sent by Chrysanthe, Keith, Nina, Kate and Nicole. Photos from top courtesy Gemini & Scorpio, the Bird and the Bee, and BBG.