Schools out on Monday and a lot of people will be home. There are MLK Day activities on Sunday and Monday plus movies and more. Acclaimed novelist Walter Mosley will be the keynote speaker at BAM at their 25th annual celebration of the great man. Click on read more for all the essentials.
MLK, Jr. Activities
Sunday at Brooklyn Museum at 3PM at the Brooklyn Museum: WNYC explores the contemporary lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work for economic justice. Hosts Brian Lehrer, Terrance McKnight and Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Perry lead a celebration for King and his work for equal access to the American dream at the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday, January 16 at 3:00 PM.
On Monday, January 17 at 10:30 AM at BAM: New York City’s largest public celebration in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with keynote speaker Walter Mosley, novelist and social commentator. In his acclaimed fiction, Mosley has explored the black experience in America over the past seven decades, beginning with the migration of African-Americans from the Deep South to his native Los Angeles in the post-World War II era and through post-Obama election-era New York City. His honors include an O’Henry Award, a Grammy, The Sundance Risktaker Award, and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and he twice has been awarded the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Musical performances by the Persuasions and The Reverend Timothy Wright, Memorial Choir of the Grace Tabernacle Christian Center C.O.G.I.C., round out the program. Following the event in the Opera House, BAM Rose Cinemas will present a free screening ofNeshoba: The Price of Freedom, an award winning documentary about a Mississippi town still divided about the meaning of justice, 40 years after the murders of three civil rights workers. Free! First come, first seated. One ticket per person.
On Monday, January 17 at 11PM at Old First Church: The Brooklyn Community Chorus presents: The Third Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Family Sing-Along/ Celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with an afternoon of family-friendly musical performances, art and activities that promote the values of community, equality and peace. Please bring a canned good to participate in a food drive. The event is free.
Movies
This weekend at the Pavilion: True Grit, The Fighter, Narnia, Yogi Bear, The King’s Speech, Black Swan, The Dilemma
This weekend at BAM: True Grit, The Fighter, The King’s Speech, Black Swan
This weekend at Cobble Hill Cinema: Blue Valentine, Somewhere, Black Swan, The King’s Speech, True Grit
Theater
This weekend at the Heights Players: Women Behind Bars. Campy, raunchy, good fun directed by Ted Thompson. Great acting. See it! Through January 23rd.
This weekend at St. Ann’s Warehouse: The Interminable Suicide of Daniel Kitson.From the NY Times: “Daniel Kitson’s sentences are like fast-growing mutant super-vines, sending out sticky tendrils that dig into your attention and snake themselves all over it. “Burgeoning” is a word often uttered by this shaggy British monologist in “The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church,” his one-man show at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. “This burgeoning delay,” he might say, as well as the more expected “burgeoning friendship.” And (though I never thought I’d use this word in writing about a theater performance), burgeoning is the perfect description for Mr. Kitson’s irresistibly overgrown style.”