All The Best Events Happening in Brooklyn This Week: 5.28.18 – 6.3.18
From Memorial Day pig roasts to Ja Rule performing at the Bushwick Collective Block Party, here's everything you should be doing this week.
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Valeria Luiselli at Eat, Drink & Be Literary 2018
30 Lafayette Avenue at BAM
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Price: $65
Event includes a festive seasonal dinner by Great Performances, with live music accompaniment. The evening’s featured author, Valeria Luiselli will then read from her new work and discuss her creative process, followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Walt Whitman Turns 199: Harbors, Heights, and a Brooklyn Celebration
128 Pierrepont Street at Brooklyn Historical Society
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Price: $5; FREE/members
From 1824 through the 1855 publication of Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman’s relationships with Brooklyn’s built and natural environments and the citizens who inhabited them left an indelible mark on his work. Join contemporary stewards of Whitman’s Brooklyn legacies, including Greg Trupiano of The Walt Whitman Project, Charles Jarden and Julian Macrone of the Fort Greene Park Conservancy, and Karen Karbiener of NYU and the Walt Whitman Initiative, along with readers Lonely Christopher and Elizabeth Nunez and opera singer Nicole Mitchell for this immersive, multimedia exploration of Brooklyn’s Bard on the occasion of his 199th birthday.
GIRLS TRIP DINNER
445 Albee Square W at Alamo Drafthouse
Time: 7pm
Price: $70
Celebrate one of the decade’s best comedies with a New Orleans-themed dinner created by Alamo’s chef Ronnie New, with paired cocktails by beverage director Vincent Favella.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu: 2018 Kahn Humanities Lecture
10 Grand Army Plaza at Brooklyn Public Library
Time: 7:30pm – 9pm
FREE w/rsvp
In a commissioned lecture at Brooklyn Public Library, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, the New Orleans mayor who removed the city’s Confederate statues, confronts the racism that shapes us and argues for America to reckon with its past.
The Secret Society of The Sisterhood
500 25th Street at Green-Wood Cemetery
Time: 7pm – 11pm
Price: $25
Enjoy anE evening of storytelling for women and fierce allies of women. The night will include talks from Golden Globe nominated actress Amber Tamblyn, New York Times bestselling author Dhonielle Clayton, and more.
