All The Events Worth Going To This Week in Brooklyn: 4.16.18 – 4.22.18
We've got all the Brooklyn events worth your time this week.
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by — Tuesday, April 17th, 2018 —
Celebrating 25 Years of Poetry in Motion
99 Schermerhorn Street at New York Transit Museum
Time: 6:30pm – 8pm
Price: $10
Join the Poetry Society of America and MTA Arts & Design at the New York Transit Museum to reflect on the last quarter-century and to celebrate The Best of Poetry in Motion, an anniversary anthology of 100 poems from the program. The evening will include live music; archival photos; readings by featured poets Marilyn Nelson and Nathalie Handal; and a conversation between Nelson, Handal, featured artists Philemona Williamson and Raúl Colón, Alice Quinn, Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America, and Sandra Bloodworth, Director of MTA Arts & Design.
Sean Penn in conversation with Jon Lee Anderson
157 Montague Street at St. Ann’s Church
Time: 7pm
Price: $25
Twice the winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor (for Milk and Mystic River), he is also renowned for his filmmaking, his humanitarian work in post-hurricane Haiti and New Orleans, his ground-breaking work as a journalist, and now, his debut as a novelist. In a conversation that promises to be spontaneous, curious, and enlightening, he talks to author and journalist Jon Lee Anderson of the New Yorker
The Farm on Adderley Grand Opening Party!
108 Cortelyou Rd at The Farm on Adderley
Time: 5:30pm – 7pm
Price: $40
Join The Farm on Adderley to celebrate the opening of the Garden! For $40 (+tax) enjoy select spring cocktails and bar bites from their brand new bar menu while taking in springtime in the garden!
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami — Brooklyn Release
30 Lafayette Avenue at BAM Rose Cinemas
Time: 7pm
Price: $15; $7.50/members
Larger-than-life entertainer, androgynous glam-pop diva, unpredictable media presence: Grace Jones is all these things and more. Sophie Fiennes’ new documentary offers an electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of this pop culture mega-icon, contrasting musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with Jones’ bold aesthetic. Fiennes goes beyond the traditional music biography, offering a portrait as stylish and unconventional as its subject.
Dinner & A Movie: American Psycho
445 Albee Square West at Alamo Drafthouse
Time: 9:45pm
Price: $4 (bring $$ for food)
Order dinner and enjoy this classic film about the handsome, young urban professional, Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), who lives a second life as a gruesome serial killer by night.
