20 Brooklyn Events to Help You Get Through The Work Week: 10.9.17 – 10.12.17
After work is when the real party begins.
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by —Tuesday, October 10th, 2017—
Arts of Korea with Doryun Chong and Byron Kim
200 Eastern Parkway at the Brooklyn Museum
Time: 6pm – 7:30pm
Price: $16
Celebrate the return of our Korean galleries with an exclusive preview of Arts of Korea and a conversation between Doryun Chong, Chief Curator of Hong Kong visual culture museum M+, and Brooklyn Museum collection artist Byron Kim. They will talk about Dansaekhwa, an important movement in Korean art that started in the mid-1970s.
Magnetic City: Touring New York with Justin Davidson
128 Pierrepont Street at Brooklyn Historical Society
Time: 6:30pm – 8pm
Price: $5
As New York Magazine’s architecture critic, Justin Davidson has a singularly sharp perspective on New York City. Using his recent book, Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York, as a guide, he shares his takes on his favorite neighborhoods, and how the ever-changing city shapes the lives of its inhabitants.
Cathy Heller: Don’t Keep Your Day Job
1080 Broadway at Hotel RL by Red Lion Brooklyn
Time: 7pm – 8:30pm
FREE w/ rsvp
On her new, hit podcast, Don’t Keep Your Day Job, Cathy invites guests to tell the strange and winding tales of how they got where they are. Creatives and entrepreneurs, across disciplines, who’ve achieved, and continue to maintain financial stability doing what they love for a living, are invited to indulge, with Cathy’s enthusiastic encouragement, in recounting how it all came about.
Naturally Curious: Education and Tasting of Natural Wines
62 Bayard Street at Museum of Food and Drink
Time: 7pm – 8:30pm
Price: $45
Biodynamic, organic, sulfites… what do these mean for wine? You’ve been hearing about “Natural Wines” for a few years, now let’s delve behind the labelling to really understand what makes these wines so unique. Sung Cha, owner of Williamsburg’s The Natural Wine Company will discuss and lead a tasting on a few natural wines with familiar varietals. Guests will taste 6 wines, handpicked by Sung, and learn how these wines made it from the vineyard to the bottle. The tasting will be followed by a short cheese reception.
The Stoop Series: Black Masculinity & the Style of Resistance
647 Fulton Street at BRIC
Time: 7pm – 9pm
FREE w/ RSVP
BRIC’s Stoop Series welcomes you in for dynamic conversations that connect art, performance, media and other creative fields with big ideas that are important to Brooklynites. The Stoop Series highlights voices we don’t hear enough, creative solutions that deserve more attention, artistic endeavors that make you see the world differently and tools for enhancing your own creativity.
