January 5, 2013 5pm-10pm
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
At the Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment each month. All evening long, the Museum Café serves a wide selection of sandwiches, salads, and beverages, and a cash bar offers wine and beer. Parking is a flat rate of $5 starting at 5 p.m. All other Saturdays, the Museum closes at 6 p.m.
Music
5 p.m.
Ljova and the Kontraband fuses Eastern European and Roma melodies with Latin rhythms. Part of Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Concert Series.
Pop-up Talks
5:30–8:30 p.m.
Museum Guides lead lively discussions on some of the Museum’s most intriguing works.
Curator Talk
6 p.m.
Catherine Morris talks about the exhibition Materializing “Six Years.”
Dance Performance
6 p.m.
Company Stefanie Batten Bland performs A Place of Sun. The piece is inspired by the BP oil spill and marries visual and performing arts.
Hands-on Art
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Everyone’s used a frame to embellish a picture, but what about embellishing the frame itself? Design an unconventional frame to show your world in a new way.
Artist Talk
7 p.m.
Taraka and Nimai Larson, the sisters behind the Brooklyn-based psychedelic rock band Prince Rama, give a performance presentation of their project The Now Age.
Interactive Space
7–10 p.m.
Brooklyn-based collective Art House Co-op leads an activity exploring memory; Trade School builds a series of micro-learning stations, allowing visitors to learn new skills; and The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory leads a community class.
Music
7:30 p.m.
New York City–based all-girl band Lez Zeppelin performs their take on the music of Led Zeppelin.
In Conversation
8:30 p.m.
Artists Mickalene Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems talk with curator Eugenie Tsai about using their work to challenge conventional ideas of beauty, race, and gender.
Book Club
9 p.m.
Join the Writers for the 99% as they discuss their book Occupying Wall Street and the Occupy movement.
Music
9 p.m.
Heems (aka Himanshu Suri) from Das Racist performs music from his new mix tape, Wild Water Kingdom, and his solo debut, Nehru Jackets, named one of SPIN’s top 50 albums of 2012.