TONIGHT
Brooklyn-based Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, whose self-titled album was recorded by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and features contributions from other Grizzly Bear members and TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone, plays Glasslands tonight. site>>

THURSDAY
If you missed Swoon’s ragtag armada floating down the Hudson to Deitch Project’s LIC digs, you can catch a film of the voyage at 7pm, followed by a conversation between the Brooklyn artist, Kiki Smith, and Ann Messner. You’ll see Swoon’s amazing installation inside the gallery, too, before it closes Oct. 19. site>>

FRIDAY

The Big Brooklyn Pig Roast
Let’s be honest — you’re either coming to the pig roast, or planning on it but haven’t bought tickets yet, because there is no better way to spend the night than to see Tom Mylan carve a 200-pound heritage hog fired over a pit beneath the stars on the Gowanus, with a Sixpoint in hand as three live bands kick out the Americana jams. It’s for a great cause to boot, and tickets are selling quicker than you can say “Snap, Cracklin’, Pop.” Complete deets here>>

Get Pinned
Southpaw hosts the launch party of I Heart Brooklyn Girls’ 2009 calendar, the group’s annual queer reclamation of the pin-up genre. A calendar is included in the ticket price; 10 percent of the proceeds go to Lesbian Herstory Archives. site>>

Shooting Stars
Photobloggers throughout the borough reveal lost and hidden Brooklyn as a matter of course, but Factory Fresh in Bushwick has singled out four of the best, Jake Dobkin (whose work is above), Luna Park, Sam Horine and Street Stars, for its group show “Quality of Life,” opening tonight. site>>

Artistic Exercise
Appreciate art, exercise and get tipsy, all in the same night on Artlog’s “Collect Williamsburg” organic-wine and jazz infused gallery crawl through the neighborhood’s many galleries. site>>

Campaign Art
“Ready or Not: Shirley Chisholm for President” pays tribute to the first African-American and female presidential candidate with eight artists’ interpretations of the New York Congresswoman’s campaign and a voter registration drive preceding the 6pm opening at the Flatbush Public Library. site>>

SATURDAY

The Gowanus Harvest Festival
After the Pig Roast on Friday, Kelly Geary transforms The Yard into a fall fiesta packed with pony rides, potato sack races, farm-fresh food, a Brooklyn Kitchen-sponsored pie bake-off (get some pointers here>>), local brews, purveyors like Saxelby Cheesemongers and more. (It happens to be A Child Grows in Brooklyn Event Pick too!) Tickets $12; kids 5 and under free. site>>

Concert on the Pier
On Saturday, Oct. 11, M.I.A. comes out of early retirement to play the Diesel xXx party at Pier 3 on the Brooklyn waterfront. The bash -— which is the finale to a 24-hour party that progresses through 17 international cities, in celebration of the jeans maker’s 30th birthday -— also features performances by N.E.R.D., Hot Chip, and Chaka Kahn. site>>

New Voices from Spain
The Spanish, genre-busting band Huecco — which gravitates between rock, flamenco, hip-hop, Cuban son, Mexican ranchera, and French chanson — plays as part of BAM’s New Voices from Spain series, and they’re offering two pairs of tickets, gratis, to the 10th and 11th readers who claim them by emailing us here. (see BAM’s ETHEL offer, below) site>>

Bizarre Animal Planet
Vampire bats, seahorses and octopi occupy legendary French filmmaker Jean Painlevé’s eerily beautiful nature films — and now you can see them on Monkeytown’s four screens with a soundtrack by Yo La Tengo. site>>

TUESDAY
Get Schooled
Adult Education — Union Hall’s lecture series hosted by Brooklyn comedian Charles Star — invites a panel of collectors to expound on topics loosely related to the theme of “Hunting and Gathering,” such as the typography of one designer’s collection of “No Parking” signs, or mismatched ties and shirts that somehow look good together. The evening begins at 8pm. site>>

Travelin’ Band
A cross-country collaboration between director by Annie Dorsen (of Broadway’s “Passing Strange”), filmmaker Kate Howard, the string quartet ETHEL and four American roots musicians bring their travels from the road to the stage with live music and footage from their journey. BAM has a pair of free tickets; their yours if you’re the fifth person to claim ‘em by emailing us here. site>>

Sent by Keith, Nicole and Nina. Photos from top: Miles photo via his Myspace page, Swoon’s Switchback Sea photo by BB, Yard and Tom Mylan photos courtesy The Yard and 3rd Ward, M.I.A. photo by Ryan Muir via Flickr, Painlievé still courtesy Monkeytown, ETHEL photo courtesy BAM.