Brooklyn Museum First Saturdays October 2023

Celebrate the best of our vibrant borough and Latinx Heritage Month with an eclectic lineup continuing to honor twenty-five years of First Saturdays. Final First Saturdays for 2023!

This program is free; registration is required and includes Museum general admission. Tickets are released on a rolling basis. If sold out, you can also attend by purchasing tickets to Africa Fashion or Spike Lee: Creative Sources for $25. Member tickets to the exhibition are free.

Theme: Brooklyn Nueva York

Schedule
MUSIC: BALKANIKA
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Lobby, 1st Floor
5–6 pm
Listen to this twenty-first-century exploration of folk, Roma, and Ladino (Judeo-Español) music from the Balkans. The band’s original arrangements highlight the diversity and depth of the region’s culture.

HANDS-ON ART
Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
5–7 pm
Create yarn dolls—a nod to the yarn and hair used in the work of María Magdalena Campos-Pons—as personal keepsakes.

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

CURATOR TOUR: BEHOLD
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and Overlook, 4th Floor
5:30–6:30 pm
Carmen Hermo, Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, leads a tour of María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold.

POP-UP TALKS
Arts of the Americas Galleries, 5th Floor
6–7 pm
Join teen staff as they host ten-minute pop-up talks in Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas.

ROUNDTABLE: THE IMMIGRANT ARTIST BIENNIAL
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
6–7:30 pm
The Immigrant Artist Biennial cohosts a conversation with sculptor Raul de Lara, choreographer Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, filmmaker Ana Armengod, and attorney Annie J. Wang about navigating U.S. immigration systems as undocumented and formerly undocumented artists and advocates. Copresented with the American Immigration Council and Define American.

MUSIC: JUNE MCDOOM
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Lobby, 1st Floor
7–8 pm
Singer-songwriter June McDoom shares dreamy folk music from her self-titled debut EP.

SALSA PARTY
Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor
7–10 pm
Balmir Dance Society returns to First Saturdays to host an evening of salsa performances and a mambo lesson by legendary dancer and educator Eddie Torres.

BOOK CLUB: C PAM ZHANG AND SALLY WEN MAO
American Art Galleries, 5th Floor
7:30–8:30 pm
Brooklyn-based writers C Pam Zhang and Sally Wen Mao discuss their new books. Written from a chef’s perspective, Zhang’s The Land of Milk and Honey is a love letter to food and delight. Mao’s The Kingdom of Surfaces examines the provenance of porcelain, silk, and pearls to frame a conversation on beauty, commodification, and empire.

MUSIC: DJ BIANCA
Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden, 1st Floor
8–10 pm
Immersed in New York City’s nightlife for more than a decade, Brooklyn-based DJ Bianca spins a soundscape of hip-hop, R&B, soul, funk, disco, house, and new wave.

MUSIC: SUNNY CHEEBA
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Lobby, 1st Floor
8:30–10 pm
Sunny Cheeba closes out the night with a selection of funk, soul, disco, and Afro-house hits from her vinyl collection.

FILM: UNSEEN NUYORICAN FILMS
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
8:30–10 pm
Watch a selection of films with Unseen Nuyorican Films, a cinema club dedicated to canonizing moving images of and by Puerto Ricans in New York. Followed by a conversation with founder Gio Escobar.