The Best Events Happening This Week in Brooklyn: 10.5.19 – 10.11.19
Time for the fun!
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by — Monday, October 7th, 2019 —
Unbound: Saeed Jones
30 Lafayette Avenue at BAM
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Price: $20 & up
Poet Saeed Jones is joined in conversation by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage to celebrate the launch of his new memoir. In How We Fight for Our Lives, Jones shares his story of a young, black, gay man from the South who fights to carve out a place for himself within his family, within his country, and within his own hopes, desires, and fears. The evening’s program opens with a reading by a youth poet from BAM’s Brooklyn Reads program. Following the moderated discussion, the audience is invited to participate in the conversation. A book signing with Jones will follow.
Occasional Evenings: Amadeus
68 Jay Street at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Time: 7pm – 10pm
FREE ($8 suggested donation)
Enjoy BISR’s “Occasional Evenings”—a screening of Amadeus (1984), the Academy Award-winning biopicture that relates the meteoric life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as narrated by his friend, rival, and possible murderer, Antonio Salieri. Before the film, BISR faculty Nathan Shields (whose course Mozart: Music, Enlightenment, and the Sublime starts Monday, October 21st), Ajay Singh Chaudhary, and Rebecca Ariel Porte will discuss the life and work of Mozart; the biopic (why is Amadeus so good, and most other biopics so terrible?); (un)reliable narration; and the questionable concept of “Genius.” Beer, seltzer, and snacks will be served.
LITTLE MONSTERS ADVANCE SCREENING
445 Albee Square W at Alamo Drafthouse
Time: 7:30pm
Price: $15
Watch Academy award winning actress Lupita Nyong’0 protect children from zombies in this advance screening of LITTLE MONSTERS. Q&A with director Abe Forsythe will follow the screening.
Andrew Marantz Discusses “Antisocial” with Virginia Heffernan
10 Grand Army Plaza at Brooklyn Public Library
Time: 7:30pm – 8:30pm
FREE w/ rsvp
From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet–and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the mainstream.
The Steve Harvey Lifetime Achievement Awards
702 Union Street at Union Hall
Time: 8pm – 9:30pm
Price: $8
In a gala celebrating the achievements of media personality Steve Harvey (Milly Tamarez) takes a look at his past as a Talk show host, sitcom star, Miss Universe announcer and lecturer and begs the question, “should we actually be celebrating this man?”
