The Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturday Set for Today

Today February 7, Target First Saturday celebrates Black History Month with an evening of music, flim, and more. Highlights include music by Bilal and Water Seed; screenings of Black Enuf, The Peculiar Kind, and Soul Food Junkies; and discussions with Kim Drew, founder of the blog Black Contemporary Art, and J. Ivy, Grammy Award-winning spoken word artist.

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

5 p.m. Music: The New Orleans Treme band Water Seed performs sophisticated jazz infused with adventurous funk.

6 p.m. Film: Soul Food Junkies (Byron Hurt, 2013, 60 min.) explores the love affair with soul food, a quintessential African American cuisine, and the relationship between food, family, and identity. Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Hurt.

6:30 p.m. Film: Animated documentary-in-progress Black Enuf takes a playful approach to questions of racial identity and self-acceptance. Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Carrie Hawks.

6:30-8:30 p.m. Pop-Up Gallery Talks: Join a lively discussion about artworks celebrating African American artists.

*6:30-8 p.m. Hands-On Art: Use fabric to design a quilt square inspired by people and events in African American history and culture.

7 p.m. Music: Soul Science Lab's Chen Lo and Asante Amin present Soundtrack '63, a multimedia, live music performance that honors the Civil Rights Movement.

7 p.m. Discussion: The Black Poets Speak Out campaign presents a poetry forum in response to racial injustice and the police.

*7:30 p.m. Talk: Kim Drew, founder of the blog Black Contemporary Art, leads a panel discussion about the ways black contemporary artists engage social media.

*8 p.m. Film: The Peculiar Kind, a documentary developed from the eponymous web series, uses unscripted conversation to look at the lives of queer women of color.

*8:30 p.m. Book Club: J. Ivy, Grammy Award-winning spoken word artist, discusses his new memoir, Dear Father: Breaking the Cycle of Pain.

9 p.m. Music: Classic R&B singer, songwriter, and producer Bilal performs tunes inspired by this month's theme, including selections from his album Love Surreal.

Museum admission is free from 5 to 11 p.m. 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 p.m. Parking is a flat rate of $5 from 5 to 11 p.m.

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.