The Best Brooklyn Events Happening This Week: 3.19.18 – 3.25.18
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In Terms of Performance: Opening Activations
30 Lafayette Avenue at BAM
Time: 5:30pm – 8pm
FREE
Join BAM for an opening reception launching a new interactive installation based on In Terms of Performance, the online art and performance anthology. This special event begins with celebratory drinks in the Natman Room, where selections from BAM’s digital archive illuminate and extend key points from IToP’s web of reference. Exercises led by artists Ain Gordon, Malik Gaines, Sharon Hayes, and Brooke O’Harra follow in the Lepercq Space. In tandem, these living resources capture the evolving discourse around the contested terms of interdisciplinary work.
Freedom of Expression: The Never-Ending Fight
128 Pierrepont Street at Brooklyn Historical Society
Time: 6:30pm – 8pm
Price: $10; $5/members
Ira Glasser, head of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1978 to 2001, and Norman Siegel, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union from 1985 to 2000, reflect on the history and ongoing struggle, and reminisce about their shared Brooklyn roots. Moderated by Jarrett Murphy, executive editor and publisher of City Limits.
Whip It
445 Albee Sqaure W at Alamo Drafthouse
Time: 6:45pm
Price: $12
Written, produced and directed by women and featuring an amazing female cast including Ellen Page, Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, Alia Shawkat and Zoe Bell, this ridiculously entertaining sports drama has gone from box office disappointment to cult hit in just a few short years. Post-screening roller derby demonstration and Q&A with Gotham Girls Roller Derby players Miss U.S. Slay and Rude McSlamahan!
Women of Weeksville Gather
158 Buffalo Avenue at Weeksville Heritage Center
Time: 7pm – 9pm
FREE
We welcome you to an intergenerational community conversation in honor of the women that have come before us, who we are today, and the ones yet to be born. Moderated by Ayanna Prescod, publisher of OurBKSocial, join us for an evening of celebrating our wins, calling upon our ancestral mothers, healing, and good ol’ fashioned girl talk.
Parks and Recreation Bingo
308 Bedford Avenue at Videology Bar & Cinema
Time: 9pm – 11pm
FREE
Watch for things like the Snakehole lounge, breakfast food, and portraits of Hillary Clinton. Listen for mentions of “Tammy,” “Duke Silver,” and “Mouserat.” Get a BINGO and you’ll win a free drink!
