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The young, fabulous, cheap beer-swilling, performance-loving-but-not-if-they-have-to-pay-much-for-it people, that is.

It’s TAKEOVER time at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. On Saturday, September 27, the Citadel of Culture will throw open its doors from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. for a building-wide art party. A $20 advance ticket gets you live music, movies, video art, weird recreational activities and some of the best people-watching money can buy. Beer is $3. And, umm, get there early. By the time I arrived at around 11 p.m. for the first one last November, the place was packed and an army of skinny, shivering, strangely dressed barbarians (i.e. people under 40 living in Brooklyn) jostled at the gates in an uneasy face-off with the definitely not amused security guards.

No, this isn’t the audience (close, though).

It’s “The Warriors,” (Paramount Pictures/Photofest) Walter Hill’s 1979 film about the Coney Island gang that will be shown as part of a mini film festival celebrating Brooklyn (naturally). There will also be a celebration of beer in film. Audience participation welcome.

Meanwhile, Sufjan Stevens will hold court in the Opera House:

Sorry, he won’t be performing, but serving as curator for an evening of music that includes St. Vincent, Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus singing Nico Muhly’s “The Sweets of Life.”

Everybody loves Nico these days. He’s everywhere

St. Vincent’s “Jesus Saves, I Spend”

And, of course, because this event is marketed to folks in their 20s and 30s, and we, apparently, were born missing attention spans, there will be a Rec Room lounge, complete with Wii, Guitar Hero, ping-pong and an arcade, video art and DJs, including Vikter Duplaix:

“Make a Baby.” Kids, don’t try this at home.

I’m going to be there, blogging, drinking, scouting for the limited complimentary tote bags being thrown around courtesy of Urban Outfitters, drinking, maybe taking in some art, drinking and conducting a highly scientific study to determine whether any of the folks at TAKEOVER will be at BAM’s increasingly ridiculously misnamed Next Wave festival, which starts on the 30th.