Today is the First Saturday of the month and all my NY people know what that means!! Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum
Today’s theme is: “Brooklyn Chic”
So come to the Brooklyn Museum on Eastern Parkway for the festivities
June 5, 2010
Brooklyn Chic
Music
Dance
5:30–6:30 p.m. Evidence Dance Company presents a diverse selection of works from the African diaspora. A question-and-answer session with company founder and choreographer Ronald K. Brown follows. Free tickets (330) are available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.
Hands-On Art
6:30–8:30 p.m. Use collage to design a high-style outfit. Free timed tickets (380) are available at the Visitor Center at 5:30 p.m.
Curator Talk
7 p.m. Chief Curator Kevin Stayton discusses the exhibition American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection, the history of the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, and how it found its new home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sign Language interpreted. Free tickets (30) are available at the Visitor Center at 6 p.m.
Film
7 p.m. Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire star in Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957, 103 min., NR), a musical about a high-fashion photographer and a newly discovered model. Free tickets (330) are available at the Visitor Center at 6 p.m.
Music
7–8 p.m. View event details
Young Voices Gallery Talk
8:30 p.m. Student Guides offer a fresh look at American fashion in the exhibition American High Style.
Book Club
9–10 p.m. Keanan Duffty, co-author of Rebel, Rebel: Anti-Style, discusses connections between the book and the exhibition American High Style. The book is available for purchase from the Museum Shop.
Dance Contest
9–10:30 p.m. Face off with members of New York City’s vogue dance scene. Archie Burnett of the House of Ninja hosts, with music by DJ Chip Chop, judging by Tiffany Rhodes of Butch Diva, and a prize by Patricia Field. Registration begins at 8:30 p.m.
Dance Party
9–11 p.m.
DJ Moni of Friends We Love spins an eclectic mix of house and soul
Directions 2 or 3 train to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum