FILM

Feb 19-24: The Africa Diaspora film Festival at BAM

Shutter Island and The Last Station also at BAM

MUSIC

Feb 20 at 8:30 PM: Jewish Music Cafe Ayreh Kunstler Band, The Aboriginals, Aural Law

Also Feb 29 at 8PM: Andy Statman, Klezmer genuis at Barbes

Feb 21 at 5PM at the Bell House: Several local record collectors (including Billy Miller of Norton Records and Michael McMahon of Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co., more to be named later) have agreed to share the sounds contained within their favorite 78s at this event, which will be hosted by Phast Phreddie the Boogaloo Omnibus (The Wang Dang Doodle, Subway Soul Club).

ART

Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

Sesame Street: A Celebration of 40 Years on the Street at the Brooklyn Public Library (Central Branch) through Feb. 21