TARGET FIRST SATURDAY Celebrates Gay Pride Month with Agitprop! Exhibition, Today

By: BWW News Desk Jun. 04, 2016

On June 4, Target First Saturday celebrates Gay Pride Month and the special exhibition Agitprop! with artists and performers that initiate social change through their practice. Highlights include a performative discussion hosted by Visual AIDS; performances by Studio REV-,Illuminator Project, New York City Gay Men's Chorus, and Queer Memoir; art-making with Mobile Print Power; a screening of Oriented; and a talk withElizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art curators.

Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdayevents attract thousands of visitors to free art and entertainment programs each month. Some Target First Saturdayprograms have limited space and are ticketed on a first-come, first-served basis. *Denotes a ticketed event.

5 pm Music: New York City Gay Men's Chorus performs works from their latest season.

5 & 8 pm Interactive Space: StudioREV- brings the CareForce One, an interactive mobile studio that raises awareness to caregivers and their families, to the Brooklyn Museum with creative activities for all ages.

*6 pm Curator Talk: The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art curators (Catherine J. Morris, Sackler Family Curator; Stephanie Weissberg, Curatorial Assistant; and Jess Wilcox, former Programs Manager) discuss the contemporary and historical moments in creative activism as seen in Agitprop!.

6 pm Movement Workshop: StudioREV- presents a movement workshop integrating gestures inspired and created by domestic workers.

*6 pm Talk: Women, Art, AIDS, and Activism: Visual AIDS hosts a multigenerational and multimedia-based dialogue highlighting the experiences of women artist-activists from the 1980s to the present. With Joy Episalla (ACT UP), Kia Labeija (GrenAIDS), Jessica Whitbread (ART AIDS ACTION), Egyptt Labeija (TransJustice, Audre Lorde Project), and Sue Schaffner and Carrie Moyer (Dyke Action Machine). Moderated by L.J. Roberts.

6:30-8:30 pm Pop-Up Gallery Talks: Enjoy ten-minute discussions about art and social change in the exhibition Agitprop!.

6:30-8:30 pm Hands-On Art: Design your own iron-on patch in celebration of Pride Month.

7 pm Printmaking: Mobile Print Power collaborates with teens from the New York State Youth Leadership Council (NYSYLC) to create on-the-spot prints about immigration and advocating for undocumented youth.

7:30 pm Performance: Queer Memoir returns to the Brooklyn Museum to celebrate pride through storytelling by diverse queer voices.

*8 pm Film: Oriented (Jake Witzenfeld, 2015, 86 min.) follows the lives of Khader, Fadi, and Naim, three gay Palestinian friends who confront their national and sexual identity while in Tel Aviv and form a cultural resistance movement.

8-10 pm Performance: The Illuminator projects images on the south side of the Museum and invites the public to contribute to the conversation around displacement and affordable housing in Brooklyn.

8-10 pm Music: DJ Mursi Layne performs a blend of Stuttastep, hip-hop, and R&B.

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Museum admission is free from 5 to 11 pm and includes entrance to galleries and events. Programs are subject to change without notice. For more information, visit www.brooklynmuseum.org. Museum galleries are open until 11 pm. Parking is a flat rate of $5 from 5 to 11 pm.

Made possible by the Wallace Foundation Community Programs Fund, established by the Wallace Foundation, with additional support from DLA Piper US LLP, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Ellis A. Gimbel Trust, National Grid, and other donors.