Target First Saturdays: Out and Proud Brooklyn Museum
Saturday 7 January 2012

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Target First Saturdays: Out and Proud

Concert

Melissa Ferrick, Nhojj, Peppermint, 3 Teens Kill 4, Ariel Aparicio and DJ Tikka Masala

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Saturday 7 January 2012
Jan 7

Brooklyn Museum

200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238
United States
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Tel: (718) 638-5000
Web: www.brooklynmuseum.org

Music
5 p.m.
Award-winning Caribbean soul artist Nhojj performs.

Film
5:30 p.m.
Drag performer Peppermint will host a sing-along screening of Rent (Chris Columbus, 2005, 135 min., PG-13), the film version of the Pulitzer and Tony Award–winning musical about East Village bohemians struggling with life, love, and art in the shadow of AIDS.


Music
6 p.m.
Brooklyn-based Ariel Aparicio, an award-winning Cuban-American pop-rock musician, will perform songs from his latest album.

Interactive Performance
6 p.m.
As part of salon series The Brown Bear, Brooklyn-based artists A.K. Burns and Katherine Hubbard will provide free haircuts and conversation within a new three-channel video installation, Familiarity with today is the best preparation for the future. Free tickets available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.

Artist Talk
6 p.m.
Artist Lyle Ashton Harris discusses works by himself and others in HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. Free tickets available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.

Hands-on Art
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Learn the art of portraiture by sketching from a live model. Free tickets available at the Visitor Center at 5:30 p.m.

Music
7 p.m.
Folk rock singer-songwriter Melissa Ferrick performs selections from her new album, Still Right Here.

Curator Talk
7 p.m.
Jonathan Katz, curator of HIDE/SEEK, speaks about the exhibition. Free tickets available at the Visitor Center at 6 p.m.

Artist Talk
8–9 p.m.
The season-two winner of Bravo’s Work of Art tells all. Free tickets available at the Visitor Center at 7 p.m.

Dance Party
8–10 p.m.
DJ Tikka Masala, resident DJ at two of Brooklyn’s hottest queer dance parties, That’s My Jam and Fresh Fridays, spins hip-hop and house music.

Book Club
9 p.m.
Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Executive Director of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, reads from Chulito, his novel about a gay Hispanic teenager growing up in the Bronx.

Performance
9–10 p.m.
Experimental punk band 3 Teens Kill 4, former collaborators with HIDE/SEEK artist David Wojnarowicz, performs.
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