The Best Brooklyn Events Happening This Week: 4.2.18 – 4.8.19
It's slowly starting to feel like spring. Get out and enjoy it!
It's slowly starting to feel like spring. Get out and enjoy it!
Talib Kweli LIVE with Full Band
61 Wythe Avenue at Brooklyn Bowl
Time: 6pm
Price: $17 – $20
Rock out to the Brooklyn MC as he performs live with a full band.
Stoop Series: Mfon: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora
647 Fulton Street at BRIC
Time: 7pm – 9pm
FREE
Moderated by preeminent scholar Dr. Deborah Willis, Mfon co-founders Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and Adama Delphine Fawundu, along with photographer Nina Robinson will discuss the commemorative bi-annual journal committed to establishing and representing a collective voice of women photographers of African descent.
Unbound: Leslie Jamison
321 Ashland Place at BAM Fisher
Time: 7:30pm – 9pm
Price: $25; $45 w/ book
New York Times bestselling author Leslie Jamison comes to BAM to discuss her deeply personal new book The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath with Mitchell S. Jackson. Jamison’s hybrid nonfiction form uses reportage, archival research, critique, and memoir to connect the stories of writers and performers who struggled with addiction, including Billie Holliday, Denis Johnson, Amy Winehouse, and Raymond Carver.
Cecile Richards presents “Make Trouble”
10 Grand Army Plaza at Brooklyn Public Library
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Price: $30 (includes signed copy of book)
Brooklyn Public Library is proud to partner with Greenlight Bookstore to host Cecile Richards—president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund for more than a decade, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women’s March on Washington, and a “heroine of the resistance” (Vogue). Her new book MAKE TROUBLE is a story about learning to lead and make change, based on a lifetime of fighting for women’s rights and social justice. Richards discusses her book in conversation with Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York magazine and The Cut, at this special event at the library.
Movie Trivia
40 Bogart Street at Syndicated BK
Time: 8pm
FREE
Test your film knowledge to win fun prizes including gift certificates, drinks, and movie tickets!
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