Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Monday, June 15.
A Bowery Poetry Club slam gives the theater lane a live, crowd-facing charge that feels more immediate than the day's safer stage listings.
Artists Space's Abasement series gives the night an art-and-sound edge, with a no-RSVP format that feels unusually open for a Monday.
BAM's Filmmaker's Cooperative program gives the film pick a clear Pride-month and archive angle rather than another routine repertory showtime.
Close Up is the right scale for this musician-led quartet, a sharper pick than drifting into the bigger Monday jazz rooms.
Gulman testing all-new material is the rare comedy listing with enough name value and work-in-progress texture to earn a main slot.
Spectacle's Best of Best of slot makes this the scrappier cinema counterweight, a tiny-room choice with more edge than the multiplex options.
Zorn's New Masada Quartet at Roulette is the Monday anchor, a serious Brooklyn listening-room booking with real downtown weight.
The Vanguard orchestra remains one of the city's cleanest Monday rituals, especially for a night that needs a dependable jazz centerpiece.
Younger brings harp-led jazz into a Blue Note setting with Mumu Fresh adding enough charge to keep it from feeling like a standard club set.
Union Pool turns Rev. Vince's long-running gospel-soul night into a real Brooklyn plan, loose and local without reading like filler.