— Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 —

Supper Club with Alida Borgna
159 Pioneer Street at Pioneer Works
Time: 6pm – 10pm
Price: $125
Supper Club is a regular dinner series created to celebrate local chefs and serve as a community gathering. Hosted in the building’s Main Hall or Garden, each edition of the Supper Club invites chefs to create an original dining experience. This month’s Supper Club is an autumnal feast with chef Alida Borgna who will serve up food foraged and hunted from upstate New York.

Tales from the Vault: Brooklyn For Peace
128 Pierrepont Street at Brooklyn Historical Society
Time: 6:30pm – 8pm
Price: $5; FREE/members
Founded amid the tensions of the Cold War, Brooklyn For Peace is an organization known for its involvement in local, national, and international political issues including nuclear disarmament, military recruitment, and more. Join two members of our library staff, Maggie Schreiner and Laura Juliano, as they share BFP’s 30-year history through their vast archival collections spanning 200 grassroots movements, which were recently cataloged and made available in the Othmer Library.

Brooklyn Traditional Slow Jam
336 3rd Street at Old Stone House of Brooklyn
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Price: $5
This is acoustic instrumental meet-up focuses on tunes in the Irish, English, New England Old Time, French Canadian, American Southern, and Scandinavian traditions. Tunes are those that are typically suitable for contra dancing or other traditional fiddle tunes. This group is intended to provide a musical home for folks interested in playing tunes with other musicians, learning to play by ear and overall increasing their own musical skill. It’s fun and welcoming to all ages and levels of playing.

Playwriting Workshop w: Tylie Shider
158 Buffalo Avenue at Weeksville Heritage Center
Time: 7pm – 9pm
FREE w/ rsvp
Playwright Tylie Shider will be on hand to help you to your story into a theatrical work. Bring in sections from your diary, journal, or personal accounts you feel gripped by. Using these excerpts, you will work to shape the sections into dramatic works, as in monologues or soliloquies. After all work is read, you will then discuss best practices for further development of our voices.

Philosophy in the Library: #MeToo Among the Non-Believers
10 Grand Army Plaza at BPL Presents
Time: 7:30pm – 9pm
FREE w/ rsvp
Some injustices of the #MeToo era are epistemic: they harm sexual violence survivors specifically as knowers by questioning whether they are reliable witnesses of their own lives. Throughout the talk, images from historical and contemporary art demonstrate the mechanisms and meanings of refusal and how it differs from the cognate concepts of resistance and rebellion.

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