Brooklyn Museum First Saturdays October 2022

For over twenty-one years, Brooklyn Museum has hosted First Saturdays—monthly evenings of free programming welcoming visitors from central Brooklyn and beyond—at the Brooklyn Museum. Join for free every month (except January and September).  This event is free, but advance registration is required. Admission is subject to capacity at the time of arrival.

Theme: Our Historias Are Many

Historias, meaning both “histories” and “stories,” are plentiful within and beyond Latinx and queer communities. Honoring both Latinx Heritage Month and LGBTQ+ History Month, this First Saturday is a chance to join artists, writers, and activists in sharing stories and celebrating collective histories.

Schedule:
BROOKLYN POP-UP MARKET
Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor
5–9:30 pm
Stop by our market to shop one-of-a-kind, handmade items from more than thirty artisans and vendors from across Brooklyn, featuring artwork, jewelry, fashion, home and apothecary goods, and more.

HANDS-ON ART
Brooklyn Museum Plaza
5–6 pm
Learn to play the Salvadorian drawing game Tripa Chuca, and then add your drawing to a community mural inspired by the artist Guadalupe Maravilla.

MUSIC: STRINGS N SKINS
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion and Lobby, 1st Floor
5–6 pm
Brooklyn-based band Strings N Skins mixes acoustic drum vibrations with electronic violin sounds, producing explosive music reflective of their Caribbean and Latin American heritage.

CURATOR TOUR: CLIMATE IN CRISIS
Arts of the Americas Galleries, 5th Floor
5:30–6:30 pm
Nancy Rosoff, Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator, Arts of the Americas, leads a tour of Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas, with a focus on artwork from Central and South America.

MUSIC: FOGO AZUL
Brooklyn Museum Plaza
6–7 pm
Brazilian drumline Fogo Azul carries on the legacy of samba and reggae as protest music while activating our plaza.

BOOK CLUB: FINDING LA NEGRITA
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
6–7:30 pm
Author Natasha Gordon-Chipembere celebrates the release of Finding La Negrita, a historical fiction retelling of the story of the Black Madonna set in seventeenth-century Costa Rica. Dr. Gordon-Chipembere is joined in conversation with award-winning author, associate professor, and patient advocate Tonya Cherie Hegamin. Followed by a book signing. This program will include ASL interpretation.

MEET YOUR BOROUGH PRESIDENT
Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden, 1st Floor
6:30–7:30 pm
Deputy Director of Learning and Social Impact Adjoa Jones de Almeida joins Antonio Reynoso, Brooklyn’s first Latino Borough President, for a chat about his journey into politics and the roles of art and community-building in serving our neighbors.

SALSA PARTY
Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor
7–10 pm
Join Balmir Dance Society and DJ Tenosh from Noche Romantica for salsa showcases, instruction by professional dancers, and social dancing.

TEEN POP-UP TALKS
Arts of the Americas Galleries, 5th Floor
7–8 pm
Teen Apprentices host ten-minute pop-up talks in the Arts of the Americas galleries.

MUSIC: LA BANDA CHUSKA
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor
7–8 pm
The Brooklyn-based group La Banda Chuska reimagines vintage Peruvian cumbia, chicha, and surf to create their own unique sound.

POP-UP POETRY
Luce Center for American Art, 5th Floor
7:30–8:30 pm
Poets Moncho Alvarado (author of Greyhound Americans and winner of the 2020 Saturnalia Book Prize) and Beatriz Yanes Martinez (currently Mutual Learning Fellow at the Hood Museum of Art) read their original work, which share overlapping themes of migration, queerness, and family archives.

FILM: TAKEOVER
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
8:30–10 pm
The documentary Takeover (Emma Francis-Snyder, 2021, 37 min.) focuses on the day that the Young Lords took over the Bronx’s Lincoln Hospital to demand healthcare for their communities. The film traces the events of July 14, 1970, when fifty activists stormed the hospital, raising the Puerto Rican flag atop the building and declaring it “The People’s Hospital.” The film is followed by a talkback and Q&A with Francis-Snyder and Mickey Melendez, a member of the Young Lords.

MUSIC: DUENDITA
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion and Lobby, 1st Floor
9–10 pm
The band duendita shares original vocal compositions dedicated to their loved ones, community, and native New Yorkers worldwide.