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Calendar of Events
All events are held at BHS and are free to the public unless otherwise noted
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2010 Winter Events
February
Tuesday, February 2
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Real Estate Roundtable Season Launch
The Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable returns to BHS for a 4th season!
The luncheon series kicks off on Tuesday, Feb. 2 with four influential figures in Brooklyn real estate.
The remaining roundtables will take place: May 4, August 3 and November 9. Click here to buy tickets!
 Thursday, February 11,
5:30 - 7:30 pm
Tivoli: A Place We Call Home - Exhibition Opening
A multimedia exhibition documenting the tenants of Crown Heights’ Tivoli Towers. Tivoli Towers stands in the midst of a gentrifying neighborhood and faces the possible removal of its Mitchell-Lama affordable housing program status. Curated by Delphine Fawundu.
Friday, February 12th - 12 noon to 5:30 pm
Saturday, February 13th - 10 AM to 5 pm
NY Creates RED SHOW Craft Fair
NY Creates in association with the Brooklyn Historical Society will hold a Valentine's Day Weekend Crafts Fair at BHS. Come pick up handmade jewelry, clothing, pottery, soaps, sweets and other treats for your Valentine at the fair. The fair will take place on the ground floor entrance of BHS. Another sweet treat: All visitors to BHS receive free admission to the museum during the Fair .
Friday, Feb. 26, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Reception and Gallery Talk -
Brooklyn in Prints: A Special Exhibition curated by The Old Print Shop
In celebration of the Centennial of the Brooklyn Heights Association, The Old Print Shop has mounted a unique exhibition of images of Brooklyn from farmland days to right now.
Prints will be available for sale, proceeds to benefit the BHS and the BHA. Admission $15, $10 for BHA and BHS members.
March
Saturday, March 6, 1:00 -4:00 pm
The Center for Architecture Foundation Family Day at BHS: Brooklyn Bridge Art Making
The Brooklyn Heights Association, as part of its year-long, Centennial Celebration, is pleased to sponsor a family art project focused on our great Brooklyn Bridge at the Brooklyn Historical Society. The project is produced by the Center for Architecture Foundation and provides an opportunity for families with children ages 6-12 to discover some of the bridge's secrets and, with model building supplies provided, to make a model to take home.
Click here to register
Suggested donation $10 to $15 per family, $10 for BHS, BHA and Center for Architecture Foundation members.
Saturday, March 13, 2:00 pm
Book Talk: History of White People
Historian Nell Irvin Painter tells the forgotten story of the evolution of “whiteness” in America. Beginning at the roots of Western civilization, she traces the invention of the idea of the white race as it became intrinsically tied to the embodiment of beauty, power and intelligence.
Wednesday, March 17, 6:30-8:30 pm
Rites and Ceremonies of the Brooklyn African Diaspora
Join us for a symposium featuring major founders and organizers of ceremonies and rituals that create an annual calendar of celebration and remembrance. Events include West Indian American Labor Day Parade, Juneteenth and International African Arts Festival. This program is part of Black Brooklyn Renaissance presented by Brooklyn Arts Council, in partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
Thursday, March 18, 6:30 -7:30 pm
Book Talk by Graham Hodges
David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York
David Ruggles (1810-1849) was of one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, and publisher who secured liberty for more than six hundred former bond people, the most famous of whom was Frederick Douglass.
Saturday, March 27, 2:00 pm
Researching My Old House
In celebration of the Centennial of the Brooklyn Heights Association. A workshop on how to discover the amazing history of your house using BHS’ images, records and documents. Attendees will be introduced to library collections used in house and building research and will learn to piece together the social history of a Brooklyn home or block.
April
Friday, April 16, 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Brown Bag Lecture: Stories from the Puerto Rican Oral History Project, 1973-1975
From 1973-1975, the Brooklyn Historical Society interviewed over 70 people who migrated to Brooklyn from Puerto Rico between 1917-1940. These narrators, born between 1890-1940, tell wonderful stories about their steamship journey, family life, work life, and establishing Puerto Rican civic and cultural organizations in Brooklyn. This amazing collection of stories is now available to be listened to in BHS’ Othmer Library. Join BHS' oral historian Sady Sullivan, archivist Chela Scott Weber, and Amna Ahmad for a Brown Bag Lecture introducing this important historical collection.
Free with admission.
Co-sponsored by Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos at Hunter College.
Saturday, April 17, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Public Program: Discussion - Surviving the Affordable Housing Struggle in Brooklyn
Join the curator and tenants featured in the exhibit Tivoli: A Place We Call Home for this timely and engagin discussion at BHS.
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