3FE6BRUARY 13 - FEBRUARY 19, 2014 • BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP • SEPTEMBER 2 - SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 BY JAIME DEJESUS BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP 35 culture briefs COMPILED COMPILED BY MEAGHAN BY JAIME MCGOLDRICK DEJESUS COMPILED jdejesus@BY brooklynreporter.JESSE LENT com SPECIAL HAPPY SERIES BIRTHDAY,STARTER BPL! TWEEN GROUP Be a part of history and commemorate On Thursday, February 20, the Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway) will launch Off the Wall, a Thursday evening series featuring site-specific performances Every Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m., a tween social group gathers at the Kings Bay Y at 3495 Nostrand Avenue. Tweens, categorized as children between the ages of 10 and 12, can enjoy each other’s company at the Y, or participate in field trips. For more information, the 75th Celebration of the Central Library and the vast contemporary Scandinavian East Coast Museum to host annual Scandinavian East Coast Museum to host annual Fastelavn Celebration at Danish Athletic Club Celebration at Danish Athletic Club [email protected] Celebrate the good times. On Sunday, February 23, the Scandinavian BROOKLYN East MEDIA GROUP/Coast fi le Museum photos will host its annual Fastelavn Celebration at the Danish Athletic Club. Known as the’ Danish Mardi Gras’, this historic celebration — which is popular in Norway and Denmark — has been making a splash in Bay Ridge for nearly eight years. When looking for a venue to host the festivities, Victoria Hofmo, president of the Scandinavian East Coast Museum, saw the Danish Athletic Club, 735 65th Street, as a perfect fit. “We realized that they used to hold the event years ago but then stopped. So we recreated it without Carleigh Brower checked out a book about Pope Francis during last year’s Brooklyn Book Festival. realizing it,” she said. The day includes a variety of activities derived from Danish and Norwegian culture. “We play a bunch of games.We try to mix it up every year. There’s a whole dinner and it’s a really nice event. Everyone looks forward to it,” said Hofmo. Attendees are encouraged but not required to dress up in a costume. “We had quite a bit of costumes last year. Some of the ones and historical collections contained within the historic space that opening in 1941. During the day, performers will entertain the crowd, with tours, games, raffl es and workshops also taking place. The party starts off at 9 a.m. with solo harpist Brandee Younger, who will perform rare jazz music. Attendees inspired by current exhibitions. The first Off the Wall will explore Wangechi Mutu’s futuristic vision through a special performance call: 718-648-7703 or go to by musician Daví, artmaking with artist Saya Woolfalk, worn in the past were pirates, the Oscar award, Queen Elizabeth, Lady Gaga and soldiers,” Hofmo said. Last year’s event also featured www.kingsbayy.org. an Octavia Butler-inspired reading can create a project to celebrate SALUTE TO BROADWAY with Kiini Iburu Salaam and the Central Library’s 75th anniversary The Great White Way comes to Dyker Heights on Sunday, February 5, when the soloists of Regina Opera offer a two-hour program of Broadway show tunes, operetta and other popular songs. General admission for the show, which will be staged at Regina Hall at 1210 65th Street, is $12. Tickets for teens are $5. Children’s admission is free. Go to: www.reginaopera.org for more details, or call 718-259-2772. a curator-with led award-tour winning with Saisha artist Grayson of the Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey exhibition, on view until March 9. Tickets are $12, include museum Viking costumes. Prizes will and illustrator Pat Cummings. At 1 p.m. in the library’s Youth Wing, photographer Elizabeth Felicella and architecture historian Francis Morrone will be on hand. The free celebration will be held at the Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, September 10. For more information, visit www.bklynlibrary. org. be awarded to those who wear the best one. One of the more unique activities admission and can be purchased includes the decorating of at www.museumtix.com or branches. “It’s a pre-spring event,” said Hofmo. “So people decorate branches with feathers, take them home and then plant them.” A piñata will also be included, in honor of the ‘hit the cat in the barrel’ tradition, which is said to represent good luck. Live music will be provided by accordionist Ellen Lindstrom. at the visitor’s services desk. Museum members receive free admission, which can be reserved via the membership hotline at 718-501-6326. A cash bar will be available EXPLORING from BROOKLYN 8-9:30 p.BRIDGE m. and the series Head will over run to from Brooklyn 6:30-9:Bridge 30 p.m. Park MEREDITH for the Great MONK East AT River BAM Suspension CELEBRATE Just Bridge,because WOMEN a walk the across name the historic Meredith Join the Brooklyn Brooklyn Monk Bridge may Museum with not Dave ring (200 Eastern Frieder a bell on for Parkway)hand you,explaining doesn’t for its mean to free attendees Target you haven’t First Saturday heard her event music. on Saturday, The prolific March pianist 1, celebrating and composer women’s empowerment through an evening of spoken word, interactive Last year, over 80 people the engineering and construction of it. attended the carnival and all signs point to the number rising for this year’s event. “People have been contacting me early this year,” said Hofmo. “People that went last year are letting other people know about it. “Everyone’s welcome. Adults can act like kids,” she continued. “You have the food, the games. What’s not to like?” Tickets are $30 for adults, $17 for children seven to 17 and $12 for those six years old and under. For reservations, call Hofmo at 718-748-5950 or Reidun at 718- 748-7844. The event focusing on civil engineering has recorded dozens of will be held on Wednesday, albums – most of them for the jazz label ECM – and has collaborated September 7 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tickets for non-members are $10. The group will meet at Pier 1 at Brooklyn Bridge Park, 334 Furman Street. For more information, visit www.brooklynbridgepark.org. art, music, film and dance, with artists ranging with events ranging from pop-up poetry from Björk and pop-to up the gallery chorus talks of the to live San performances Francisco Symphony. by Alixa Garcia and Her Naima music Penniman was featured of Climbing in the Poetree cult classic and their “The six-Big piece Lebowski” band. as Museum well CREATING as admission the Jean-AS RITUAL: Luc is free Godard from 5 film p.m. “La PERFORMING to Nouvelle 11 p.m. DISGUISE Vague.” and includes entrance Historians On Wednesday,to should all galleries February head to the 15, and events. Brooklyn at 7 p.m.,Programs Museum Monk – are also as the subject a revered venue to change presents director without and Creation choreographer notice. as Ritual:For – a Performing will full schedule give a talk Disguise,or reflecting more a celebration information, on her work being visit at held Brooklyn www.in conjunction brooklynmuseum.Academy with of the Music org. last days (BAM),of the and Global as exhibit,part of Disguise:the organization’s Masks SERVE THE African MOVEMENT The afternoon 150th anniversary.Art. will feature The unmasked 90-Join minute Interference an Eighth Street)look talk costs Archive at from how internationally $20, and (131 will known take place artists at reimagine BAMcafé,now through ritual, 30 Sunday, Lafayette tradition February Avenue.and cultural 23 For for more Serve practices information, the People: through performances,The Asian talks American and Movement workshops. in New York. Serve the People Participants charts a include history Jonathan of Asian American Jackson, co-founder activism, of Blavity,organizing Eyitemi and cultural production in the 1970s. Curated by Ryan Wong, it is the first free exhibition of its kind to focus on New York as a center for the phenomenon. A full schedule of public programs visit www.bam.org. OPEN HOUSE AT P.S. 250 P.S. 250 K, the George H. Lindsay School for Communication and Multimedia Arts, is located at 108 Montrose Avenue in Williamsburg. On Wednesday, February 5, the school will hold an open house offering information about school programs, including its new magnet Popo, editor-in-chief of Ayiba magazine, and more The event will be held on Saturday, September 17 from 12-6 p.m. at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway. For more information, visit www.brooklynmuseum.org. accompanies the exhibition – full of posters, leaflets, newspapers, film and music – including BY JAIME DEJESUS [email protected] Celebrate the good times. On Sunday, February 23, the Scandinavian East Coast Museum will host its annual Fastelavn Celebration at the Danish Athletic Club. Known as the’ Danish Mardi Gras’, this historic celebration — which is popular in Norway and Denmark — has been making a splash in Bay Ridge for nearly eight years. When looking for a venue to host the festivities, Victoria Hofmo, president of the Scandinavian East Coast Museum, saw the Danish Athletic Club, 735 65th Street, as a perfect fit. “We realized that they used to hold the event years ago but then stopped. So we recreated it without realizing it,” she said. The day includes a variety of activities derived from Danish and Norwegian culture. “We play a bunch of games.We try to mix it up every year. There’s a whole dinner and it’s a really nice event. Everyone looks forward to it,” said Hofmo. Attendees are encouraged but not required to dress up in a costume. “We had quite a bit of costumes last year. Some of the ones worn in the past were pirates, the Oscar award, Queen Elizabeth, Lady Gaga and soldiers,” Hofmo said. Last year’s event also featured Viking costumes. Prizes will be awarded to those who wear the best one. One of the more unique activities includes the decorating of branches. “It’s a pre-spring event,” said Hofmo. “So people decorate branches with feathers, take them home and then plant them.” A piñata will also be included, in honor of the ‘hit the cat in the barrel’ tradition, which is said to represent good luck. Live music will be provided by accordionist Ellen Lindstrom. Last year, over 80 people attended the carnival and all signs point to the number rising for this year’s event. “People have been contacting me early this year,” said Hofmo. “People that went last year are letting other people know about it. “Everyone’s welcome. Adults can act like kids,” she continued. “You have the food, the games. What’s not to like?” Tickets are $30 for adults, $17 for children seven to 17 and $12 for those six years old and under. For reservations, call Hofmo at 718-748-5950 or Reidun at 718- 748-7844. BY JAIME DEJESUS [email protected] Brooklyn book lovers, rejoice! The Brooklyn Book Festival has returned for the 11th straight year, with more in store for bookworms of every kind. Beginning on Monday, September 12 will be a series of Bookends, special events that will feature more authors than previous years, in a variety of locations around the borough. On Saturday, September 17, Children’s Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at MetroTech Commons, and the annual event will culminate on Sunday, September 18, when the main festival will be held at and around Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. “Brooklyn Book Festival has a credo, which is hip, smart and diverse,” said Carolyn Greer, co-producer of the festival. “We try to make programs as different as possible so you will fi nd every kind of author and voice at the festival. We have to be inclusive to all kinds of people who live and breathe in New York City.” This year’s diversity will be greater than ever. “Every year is different. I like to think of it as having a restaurant with all kinds of menus every season,” said Greer. “We have iconic authors and new talent making their debut at the festival.” Authors will be traveling from 20 different countries so that the event is represented internationally as well as nationally and locally, according to Greer. Brooklyn native and author of the critically acclaimed novel The Sweetness, Sande Boritz Berger will be making her fi rst appearance at the popular festival and is excited about it. “The exposure of so many authors and so many books is tremendous for the public and literary industry and people who love to read,” she said. “It helps libraries. It encourages the idea that books aren’t dead, whether it’s e-books or print. We’ve heard rumors that bookstores are closing. Books remain strong.” Berger’s novel takes place in Brooklyn during World War II and was inspired by true events. “The theme of the novel is survivor guilt. It’s a parallel story of two families that are related,” she explained. “The parallels are with two Jewish girls, cousins, living on separate continents, whose strikingly different lives promise to converge.” The two are “Brooklyn-born Mira Kane and her eight-year-old cousin Rosha Kaninsky, the lone survivor of a family abroad exterminated by the invading Nazis, though her American relatives don’t know she’s alive,” said Berger. The book has sold over 2,500 copies and has been nominated for the Sophie Brody Award from the American Library Association. “The biggest thrill for me is when someone comes up to you and tells you that I touched them with the book,” she said. One of the highlights of the week-long event is Children’s Day, said Greer, pointing out that added activities such as face painting, and arts and crafts will take place with the theme of specifi c children’s literature. “A day devoted to children is a wonderful thing so they are exposed to reading early,” said Berger. “It gets them off their devices.” According to Greer, the festival has continued to build on its success with each passing year. “It just keeps on getting bigger,” she said, adding that organizers listen to attendees to adapt to the event’s growing popularity. “In the literary community, authors and publishers get excited and send more submissions,” she explained. “We kind of do it strategically. Last year, it was our fi rst children’s day. Parents wanted to fi nd a way not to split time and miss adult programs. Now on two days, we have your turn the next day. It has grown organically.” Author appearances include Ralph Nader, Patti Smith, Ann Patchett, Steve Buscemi, Rivka Galchen, Tanwi Nandini Islam, Mike Lupica, Susan Faludi, Walton Muyumba, Carl Hancock Rux, Olive Senior, R.L. Stine, Cecily von Ziegesar, Yaghoub Yadali and more. Borough President Eric Adams will also be in attendance to discuss several topics, including gentrifi cation. For a full schedule, visit www. brooklynbookfestival.org. 11th annual Brooklyn Book Festival promises to be the biggest yet The Sweetness.
HRR09012016
To see the actual publication please follow the link above