The Best Events Happening This Week in Brooklyn: 10.5.19 – 10.11.19
Time for the fun!
by 
by — Thursday, October 10th, 2019 —
The Stacked Deck: Race and America’s Unjust Criminal Justice System
128 Pierrepont Street at Brooklyn Historical Society
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Price: $15
Biased policing. Discriminatory sentencing. Over-incarceration of black people. America’s long history of segregation and structural racism has led to today’s racialized criminal justice system. How do we address the roots of a system designed to perpetuate racial subjugation? Can we realize a just and equal future? Join Nick Turner, president and director of the Vera Institute of Justice, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America, for this look at centuries of racial injustice, and how white Americans have reaped the benefits while black Americans have paid the price.
Tørst x Weaver Hollow Dinner
615 Manhattan Avenue at Tørst
Time: 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Price: $70 & up
Enjoy a six course dinner with a Weaver Hollow beer pairing for each course.
Writing the Chinese American Restaurant
62 Bayard Street at Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD)
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Price: $25
Join Lillian Li in conversation with Serena Dai, Editor of Eater NY, for a conversation about Chinese American restaurants as sites of generational and cultural changes, the restaurant industry as a creative space both on and off the page, and Lillian’s process writing Number One Chinese Restaurant. An informal reception with book signings and small bites inspired by Number One Chinese Restaurant will follow.
Climate Change: An Opera (work-in-progress)
647 Fulton Street at BRIC
Time: 7pm – 9:30pm
Price: $8; $12/day of show
It’s easy to place the planet’s changing climate in the future, to make it a frightening possibility we should probably attend to when we have a minute. But climate change is now: Record-breaking storms have become quotidian, “climate refugees” are a reality, and there’s an island of plastic off the coast of Japan. So how are we supposed to balance the day-to-day realities of being a human person in the world with the overwhelming reality of our planet’s changing climate (and our role in that change)?
Hot Mess: Drag Competition
2 Wyckoff Avenue at House of YES
Time: 10pm – 4am
FREE
A free night of drag queens, kings, queerdos, and weirdos for EVERYONE!! Come feel the fantasy and sparkle as every kind of performer in the drag universe does whatever it takes to shock and amaze you. The performer with loudest audience reaction wins the title “Mx Hot Mess” and $100 cash money.
