#bkmreads

Spring into the season of art and culture! 🌷🎨 

Join us in May for a lineup of exciting events featuring captivating exhibitions, engaging talks, and fun activities for all ages.

Allow us to help you come out of hibernation. 🌱

Save your spot for these upcoming events (and more). 

Brooklyn’s own Tyriek Rashawn White returns home for the release of his debut novel, We Are a Haunting. 

During the next Brooklyn Reads on April 27, the writer, musician, and educator joins us to discuss the novel, which traces three generations of a working-class Brooklyn family and their inherited ghosts. Set in East New York during the 1980s, the story is told through the perspectives of Key, a doula who cares for local Black women; her mother, Audrey, who is on the verge of losing their public-housing apartment; and Colly, Key’s grieving son, who learns he has inherited the gift of moving between the living and the dead. 

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Writer and perfumer Tanaïs structured their latest book, "In Sensorium: Notes for My People", like a fragrance. Moving from base to heart to head notes the book brings memoir together with eons of South Asian perfume history, erotic and religious texts, and survivor testimonies.

On Thursday, March 10 at 7 pm, we'll host Tanaïs and Samhita Mukhopadhyay in conversation for #BkMReads.

Tickets are $20 ($16 for Members). You can also purchase tickets that include a copy of the book for $40. Get yours here: https://bit.ly/3vh3JQf

Presented in partnership with @aaww_nyc. 

Quality exhibitions aren’t the only things we are curating this fall. Here’s a look at some of the programs—like #BkMReads, #VirgilAblohBkM SOCIAL SCULPTURE, and #BkMTalks—taking place in October.

See the full calendar as well as what we have on view at the link below!

On September 15 at 7 pm, #BkMReads returns! 

Join us for a reading of Julian Aguon’s “No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies” and a conversation with V (formerly known as Eve Ensler) to follow. As the founder of Blue Ocean Law, a progressive firm centering Indigenous rights and environmental justice, Aguon offers reflections on love, grief, resilience, and hope for a better world.

Tickets are $23 and include a copy of the book. Members receive a 10% discount. 

The spring solstice isn't the only good thing March will bring.