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The Weekend List: Kepler, smART Hop, Really Real, Chili Takedown!

ART: On Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November 22, 70 participating Brooklyn art galleries will offer visitors outstanding exhibitions and refreshments as well as a unique opportunity to learn more about Brooklyn's expanding art scene and galleries during the second annual smART Brooklyn Gallery Hop, an initiative of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Brooklyn Tourism. Info here.

OPERA:  Philip Glass' opera, Kepler, Nov 20-21 at 8 PM at BAM.

DANCE: Wally Cardona and company return with Really Real, a delicately calibrated exploration of our species. Balancing composer Phil Kline’s affecting music with Cardona's architecturally exacting movements, his elegant and uncompromising troupe—accompanied by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus—mines the hard-wired forces that make us who we are. At BAM on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 PM.

FILM: Precious, An Education and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans with Nicholas Cage, directed by Werner Herzog at BAM. Men Who Stare at Goats, 2012, Precious and The Blind Side at the Park Slope Pavilion.

TWILIGHT SAGA:  New Moon at Cobble Hill and UA Court Street Stadium (not at the Pavilion).

FILM AT BARBES: Short Brazillian Film at 8 PM on Friday, November 20 at Barbes. The works presented range from documentaries to fiction, animation and experimental films. A majority of the films come from the city of Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais. The city, which is experiencing a creative boom of sorts, is home to a large contingent of filmmakers all working outside the institutions of mainstream Brazilian cinema.

FOOD AT THE BELL HOUSE: Ride on down to the Bell House, 4PM Nov 22 for the Brooklyn Chili Takedown!!! The Takedown has destroyed with bacon, curry, lamb, and tofu - but it's first and best love is CHILI. Over the past 5 years the Chili Takedown has proved itself the finest, most important chili cookoff, ever, of all time. Texas Chili, Cincinnati Chili, Veggie Chili - free to enter your super brilliant batch of your finest. $100 People's Choice Award, $50 Judges Award, and other prizes! Just contact Matt Timms at chili-takedown.com! Or come down and for $15 try all the cooks' barbaric interpretations on this Texas delicacy!

MUSIC: Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen's "The Ache of Possibility" at Joe's Pub: Catchy new pop standards about the current depression, not the original one. Nov 21-22 at 7 PM.

THEATER: The Electric Ballroom, a new play by Enda Walsh and the Druid Ireland company at  St. Ann’s Warehouse • 38 Water St. at Dock Street. 

HOLIDAY GIFT SHOPPING: Artisan items and gifts at Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture on Saturday, November 21; Meet the Makers at the American Can Factory Market on Third Street and Third Avenue.