This Wednesday evening, March 2, starting at 6:30, the Brooklyn Historical Society, along with the Brooklyn Arts Council and Interfaith Center of New York, will present “The 5th Annual Brooklyn Folk Arts Day: Preserving and Demystifying Ritual and Ceremony in Brooklyn“. featuring interactive presentations of ritual practices from Guyana, Ghana, and India, followed by a […]
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend is your last chance to see the Heights Players’ production of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth. Performances are on Friday, March 20 and Saturday, March 21 at 8:00 p.m., and a Sunday, March 22 matinee at 2:00 p.m., at the Playhouse, 26 Willow Place. You may make reservations here. On Saturday […]
Miss Brooklyn Invites You to Celebrate Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month, and Keelie Sheridan, the reigning Miss Brooklyn, wants you to know that there are events scheduled here in the Borough to mark the occasion. Specifically, there will be a series of exhibitions, readings and discussions of artwork and writing by Brooklyn based women artists and authors. This will start with […]
Heights Resident Elizabeth OuYang One of Brooklyn Women Honored by D.A. Charles Hynes
In honor of Women’s History Month, Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes has selected thirty one “extraordinary women” from the Borough of Brooklyn, one for each day of the month, to have their photographs and accomplishments displayed on a calendar in the lobby of 350 Jay Street, to be unveiled in a ceremony on […]
BHS Celebrates Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month, and the Brooklyn Historical Society has planned several events in its honor. In addition to the Oral History course described here earlier, two other events are scheduled. The first, on Thursday, March 5, from 6:30 to 8:30pm at the BRIC Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton Street, will be a panel discussion […]
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