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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

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Women’s vote

Votes for Women,” the latest exhibition to be presented in the Herstory Gallery of the recently opened Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, opens at the Brooklyn Museum on February 29.

The exhibition explores Susan B. Anthony’s
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Richmond Ballet live on a Brooklyn College stage

rooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College continues its 2007-08 World of Dance series with Richmond Ballet performing an evening of New York premieres by choreographer Jessica Lang, March 1 at 8 p.m.

The performance is the first i
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‘The Skyscaper and The City’ debuts here

he Skyscraper and The City” is the new show at the Brooklyn Artists Gym Gallery, with a reception, March 1 from 6-9 p.m. The show runs February 29-through March 7.

In the first New York showing of his work, Don LePan depicts the North America
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A total ‘Lack of Desire’ at BAC

AC Gallery presents an evening of short films in conjunction with the group exhibition, “The Lack of Desire,” March 6 at 7 p.m. during DUMBO First Thursday.

“The Lack of Desire” seeks to visually represent, from a side glance,
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Planotones live

ho says you can’t go home again?

Kenny Vance certainly can. As he marks his 50th anniversary in 2008 making the music he first embraced on the Brooklyn street corners, the “Dylan of Doo Wop” brings his world-famous group, The Planot
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Spirited literature

he powerHouse Arena and the PS 107 Reading Series Fundraiser announce Read & Drink Night, a unique book reading event to be held March 4, 7-9 p.m. at The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street at Water Street, in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn.

The R
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‘Leahy’ checks in

rooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College launches its 2008 World Stages series with Leahy, the awe-inspiring eight-member brother and sister act from Lakefield, Ontario, March 7 at 8 p.m.

Strongly influenced by their Irish herita
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Rainbow authors

he ongoing, multicultural “Voices of the Rainbow” reading series is offered free to the public by Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus. For spring 2008, the schedule includes readings by authors Gregory Pardlo and Jennifer Knox, Major J
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Right on target

rooklyn Museum offers free kids’ programs in March with events ranging from art-making classes to March’s Target First Saturday.

Saturdays and Sundays, participants meet in the Rubin Lobby promptly at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Children age four
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Leap, hop, jump – it’s all frogs!

hey come in all colors, they’re slimy, they’re…frogs!

It’s all things amphibian at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Prospect Park Zoo’s Leap Day weekend, February 29 through March 2 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., as the P
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Sunday is just for the children

his spring, the Children’s Corner, a kid-centric sanctuary in Prospect Park, which includes Lefferts Historic House, the Prospect Park Carousel, and Prospect Park Zoo, will join with Brooklyn Public Library’s Kidsmobile, to host Kids’ Sunda
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Live family fun

rooklyn Center for the Performing Arts announces a partnership with Target that will bring family oriented shows to the Brooklyn stage at even lower ticket prices.

Now in its 22nd season, the FamilyFun series is designed to provide parents the opp
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‘Black Watch’ returns to Bklyn

ast fall, the National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch took New York audiences and critics by storm, requiring Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s to turn away many people.

To create an opportunity for more people to see this important productio
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‘Metro’ circus

etro,” a circus-inspired physical theater play, opens March 6 at the Bushwick Starr, 207 Starr Street in Brooklyn. “Metro” is conceived and directed by Rachel Klein with original music by Gregory Hennigan.

“Metro” is a vis
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Regina Opera performs some of Verdi’s very best

empre libera,” “Di Provenza,” “Libiamo,” and “Addio del Pasato” are just four of the great arias and ensembles that you will hear when you attend a performance of “La Traviata” presented by Regina Opera Company

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