On Friday evening, February 20 starting at 7:30, the Brooklyn Historical Society will host a performance by the Brooklyn Art Song Society of works by the French composer Francis Poulenc (photo) (1899-1963), whose compositions are known for “bright colors, strong, clear rhythms, and gorgeous and novel diatonic harmonies” and who was part of Les Six, […]
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
On Sunday afternoon, February 1 at 3:00 the Brooklyn Historical Society will begin its celebration of Black History Month with a screening of Brooklyn Boheme: Narrated and written by Fort Greene resident Nelson George [photo], this feature length film celebrates the vibrant African American artistic community that thrived in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill during […]
Nelson George on Brooklyn’s African American Bohemia at BHS Thursday Evening
Nelson George, author, most recently of The Plot Against Hip Hop (published by Brooklyn based Akashic Books), and film director will be at the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) this Thursday evening, March 15, starting at 7:00 p.m., for a screening of his new documentary Brooklyn Boheme.
St. Francis Presents Program on Brooklyn Literature Friday, December 10
On Friday, December 10, beginning at 6:30 p.m., St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Film and Art Festival, will present a program of readings and discussions on the subject “Brooklyn in Literature, 1855-2010″. The speakers are:
Hip Hop Scholar Nelson George to Speak at BHS Tomorrow
Tomorrow evening (Wednesday, May 13) at 6:30-9:00, the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont (at Clinton), will present Nelson George, lifelong Brooklyn resident and author of Hip Hop America, reading from and discussing his new memoir, City Kid: A Writer’s Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success (April 2009, Viking). Joining George in the discussion, which […]
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