All The Best Events Happening in Brooklyn This Week: 2.26.18 – 3.4.18
And everywhere to watch the 90th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 4, in Brooklyn.
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Black Writers in a Post-Obama America
128 Pierrepont Street at Brooklyn Historical Society
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Price: $5; FREE/members
Hear from authors Kaitlyn Greenidge, Bernice McFadden, Garnette Cadogan, and Quincy Troupe in a panel discussion moderated by novelist and Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, Elizabeth Nunez. Light refreshments will be served in a reception before the event.
ACLU Presents Boyz N The Hood
445 Albee Square W at Alamo Drafthouse
Time: 6:30pm
Price: $15
Pairing ACLU shorts with big screen classics, this series prompts discussions on pressing issues facing our country today. One short from Mass Incarceration: An Animated Series will precede BOYZ N THE HOOD, followed by a discussion between Bill Cobb (Deputy Director for the ACLU’s Campaign for Smart Justice) and Johnny Perez (Director of U.S. Prison Program for the National Religious Campaign Against Torture).
Opening & Healing the Heart with Crystals and Herbs
987 Flushing Avenue at Catland
Time: 7pm – 8pm
Price: $20
In this workshop you’ll explore crystals, herbs, and practices for healing past emotional wounds and Opening the heart to loving others as well as yourself. Help yourself break down walls, release fear of love/vulnerability, let go of past attachments, work thru feelings of guilt and resentment, and find the path to a happier heart chakra.
The Stoop Series: Of Sight and Sound: Brandon Ross & Ford Crull
647 Fulton Street at BRIC
Time: 7pm – 9pm
FREE w/ rsvp
How does improvisation manifest between disciplines? How does creative practice shift when our senses are altered? This evening’s program explores these questions through a live artistic collaboration between painter and visual artist Ford Crull and musician Brandon Ross from the band Harriet Tubman.
EVENGEANCE (Q&A WITH DIRECTOR BILL PLYMPTON)
136 Metropolitan Avenue at Nitehawk Cinema
Time: 7:30pm
Price: $16
Bill Plympton’s long awaited new feature film Revengeance is finally screening in New York City. For a year, the film has been touring the world, showing at different festivals where it’s garnered awards and great press. For the US theatrical premiere director Bill Plypfton will introduce the film at Nitehawk Cinema with a Q&A to precede the screening.
