The Brooklyn Museum Presents Public Programs for Adults, Teens, and Kids

The Brooklyn Museum will present a variety of programs for adults, teens, and kids in May. Public programs include talks, performances, and hands-on workshops for children and adults that amplify the Museum's exhibitions and permanent collection, serve its diverse public, and support learning through the visual arts.

Highlights include a day-long celebration of Bang on a Can Marathon's 30th anniversary, an artist talk with Loie Hollowell on Georgia O'Keeffe, and a program with Alice Walker in celebration of the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85.

The full schedule follows:

Saturday, May 6, 2-10 pm
Target First Saturday: 30th Anniversary Bang on a Can Marathon
Throughout the Museum
Free with Museum admission before 5 pm;
Free after 5 pm courtesy of Target First Saturdays.

Bang on a Can Marathon celebrates its 30th anniversary, presented for the first time at the Brooklyn Museum, with eight hours of rare performances by today's most innovative musicians and pioneering young artists. Includes Amir ElSaffar, Asphalt Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Carla Kihlstedt, Caroline Shaw, David Lang, Innov Gnawa, Joan La Barbara, Kaki King, Kendall Williams, Kendall Williams, Laaraji, Meredith Monk, Michael Gordon, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Oliver Lake, Women's Raga Massive, Young People's Chorus of NYC, and more. Plus create and record your own music in Found Sound Nation's mobile recording studio.

Thursday, May 11, 6-9:30 pm
Salsa Party
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor
Free with Museum admission.

Join a salsa class led by professional dancers, followed by live music and dance performances by some of Brooklyn's best Latin dance teams.

Saturday, May 13, 2 pm
Artist's Eye: Loie Hollowell on Georgia O'Keeffe
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th floor
Free with $20 exhibition admission.

This series of intimate, in-gallery talks by contemporary artists illuminates our special exhibitions with fresh and alternative perspectives. For Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern, painter Loie Hollowell responds to O'Keeffe's use of color and geometry in her paintings, sculptures, photographs, and clothing design.

Sunday, May 14, 3-5 pm

My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter: Mother's Day Poetry Reading

Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

Free with Museum admission. Books for sale.

On Mother's Day, join an afternoon of poetry by Brooklyn-born Aja Monet, whose new collection, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter, is an ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters. Monet discusses how resistance is fostered through mother-daughter relationships, bringing to life the radical legacy presented in the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85. Additional poets to be announced. Come early for a tour of We Wanted a Revolution at 2 pm.

Thursday, May 18, 6:30 pm
Art In Sight
Meet in Rubin Lobby, 1st Floor
Free with Museum admission.

Spend an hour experiencing a single work of art and discover new ways to see the art you love. All are welcome to participate.

Thursday, May 25, 7:30 pm
An Evening with Alice Walker
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Tickets start at $25 and include Museum admission.

In celebration of the special exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85, acclaimed poet, novelist, activist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker leads an intimate lecture inspired by her life's work and the show on view. For tickets and more information, visit www.brooklynmuseum.org.

Friday, May 26, 5-7:30 pm
Teen Night: Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern
Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor
Free.

Planned by teens for teens, this free evening explores the special exhibitionGeorgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern with live music, dance performances, art-making, workshops, and refreshments.