— Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 —

Remembering the 70s and 80s: A Bygone Brooklyn
128 Pierrepont Street at Brooklyn Historical Society
Time: 6:30pm – 8pm
Price: $10
The images captured in photographer Larry Racioppo’s new book, Brooklyn Before: Photographs, 1971-1983, tell the story of a gritty borough all but lost today. Racioppo is joined by two who remember: novelist and New York Daily News columnist Denis Hamill and journalist Tom Robbins of the Village Voice and New York Daily News. Julia Van Haaften, founding curator of the New York Public Library’s photography collection, joins this conversation about a lost Brooklyn and the art of street photography.

Vinopolis Tent: Wreath-Making Workshop
200 Eastern Parkway at Brooklyn Museum/Winterfest
Time: 6:30pm
Price: $50
Make your own unique arrangement using Fleurotica Flower’s freakebana technique. You will enjoy the therapeutic benefits of working with flowers and take home your own work of art.

Words @ Weeksville: November Reading Series
158 Buffalo Avenue at Weeksville
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
FREE
Enjoy authors Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Kem Joy Ukwu, and Camille Acker reading from their latest works and those in progress.

Dirty Circus: Variety Show
2 Wyckoff Avenue at House of YES
Time: 7pm – 10pm
Price: $25 – $50
Don’t miss this variety show dedicated to the raw & the raunchy.

Natural DIY Gifts with Herbal Underground
160 Huron Street at Archestratus Books + Foods
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Price: $45
Enjoy this hands-on class where we’ll learn how to make delicious, beautiful and natural gifts for the holidays using herbs you already have in your kitchen! Easy and inexpensive to make, homemade herbal gifts are a great intro into the world of powerful healing plants.