21 Dope Brooklyn Events To Help You Get Through The Work Week: 4.17.17 – 4.20.17
Who said the week couldn't be just as fun as the weekends?
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by —Wednesday, April 19th, 2017—
Is Brooklyn In The Know? Lupus Awareness Mixer
189 Bridge Street at Amarachi Lounge
Time: 5pm – 7pm
Price: $28.50
Awareness of lupus is critically imperative to improving patient outcomes and quality of life.
Monique C. Gore-Massy, “The LemonadeMaker”, Lupus Ambassador & Motivational Speaker, featured in the Lupus Foundation of America “Know Lupus” campaign; has partnered with Sen Kevin Parker for an event of education, social enrichment,and networking. We’re combining our forces to bring a heightened sense of Lupus Awareness to the borough of Brooklyn. Our special guest speaker is Brooklyn’s own acclaimed Teri Washington – LifeStyle Journalist, Editor and Publisher of Harvest Magazine, and Lupus Survivor!
A Benefit Concert for The NY Immigration Coalition
622 Degraw Street at Littlefield
Time: 6pm – 11pm
Price: $15 – $20
Enjoy an evening of live music, drinking, and dancing in solidarity with ALL New Yorkers to support the amazing work of The New York Immigration Coalition, an organization committed to representing the collective interests of New York’s diverse immigrant communities and organizations and devising solutions to advance them.
Documentary Jackie Robinson Part Two Introduced by WSJ columnist Jason Gay
128 Pierrepont Street at Brooklyn Historical Society
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
FREE
Watch the final chapter of Jackie Robinson, which takes you through Robinson’s career with the Brooklyn Dodgers and into his life beyond baseball, when he found new ways to fight discrimination.
“Anywhere” by Kathy Weswater
210 Lafayette Avenue at Brooklyn Studios for Dance
Time: 8pm – 10pm
Price: $20
Kathy Westwater, the recently announced recipient of the 2017 Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography, creates art that exists in the human body.
BRIC FLIX: Ethnographic Documentary
647 Fulton Street at BRIC Media House
Time: 7pm – 9pm
FREE
Watch 5 ethnographic documentary shorts produced in the Program in Culture & Media at New York University. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Brooklyn-based filmmakers and Dr. Pegi Vail, documentary professor, the Program in Culture & Media at New York University. Presented in partnership with the Program in Culture & Media at New York University.
