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In Our Own Words: Portraits of Brooklyn's Vietnam Veterans
-- Arts - Installation, Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: Brooklyn Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $6.00
Seniors 62 and over: $4.00
Students 12 and over: $4.00
Children under 12: Free
With the use of oral histories, portraits, and personal artifacts this audio installation explores the impact of the Vietnam War on the lives of Brooklyn’s diverse residents, from the first person perspective. “Meeting” eight people who were touched by the Vietnam War, visitors are prompted to consider the on-going impact of the Vietnam War in the lives of Brooklynites, from their memories of the war to how it affects them today.
From portrait to portrait, from person to person, from personal narrative to personal narrative, a meta-narrative slowly emerges in which we empathize with the stories of the men and women who confront the chaos of an historical period, and share their, memories, and understanding of the history through which they lived.
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11/22/2009
12:00 PM
11/25/2009
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11/27/2009
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11/28/2009
10:00 AM
11/29/2009
12:00 PM
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The Legend of Martense's Lane: Folklore in Dutch Colonial Brooklyn
-- Arts - Installation, Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: Brooklyn Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $6.00
Seniors 62 and over: $4.00
Students 12 and over: $4.00
Children under 12: Free
“The Legend of Martense’s Lane,” a folktale that originated in Colonial Dutch Brooklyn, offers a fascinating glimpse into the real and perceived lives of African Americans during the 17th century. This exhibition centers on a series of four commissioned charcoal drawings by William Moore Davis illustrating the folktale. Curated by Sarah Gillespie.
This exhibition is part of the “5 Dutch Days” programming that takes place throughout New York City in early November. “5 Dutch Days” celebrates the city’s Dutch heritage and explores the continuing influence of Dutch arts and culture on New York today.
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11/22/2009
12:00 PM
11/25/2009
12:00 PM
11/27/2009
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11/28/2009
10:00 AM
11/29/2009
12:00 PM
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Images of the Brooklyn Bridge
-- Arts - Drawing/Illustration, Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Photography
Venue: Brooklyn Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $6.00
Seniors 62 and over: $4.00
Students 12 and over: $4.00
Children under 12: Free
The Brooklyn Historical Society displays in their main lobby historical images of the Brooklyn Bridge
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11/22/2009
12:00 PM
11/25/2009
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11/27/2009
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11/28/2009
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11/29/2009
12:00 PM
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Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers
-- Arts - Drawing/Illustration, Arts - Painting, Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: Brooklyn Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $6.00
Seniors 62 and over: $4.00
Students 12 and over: $4.00
Children under 12: Free
The Brooklyn Historical Society presents Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers
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11/22/2009
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11/27/2009
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11/28/2009
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11/29/2009
12:00 PM
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Pages of the Past: The Breukelen Adventures of Jasper Danckaerts
-- Arts - Drawing/Illustration, Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Science
Venue: Brooklyn Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $6.00
Seniors 62 and over: $4.00
Students 12 and over: $4.00
Children under 12: Free
In 1679 Jasper Danckaerts and his colleague Peter Sluyter came to New York in search of land for a religious colony. For 200 years Danckaerts’ meticulously written and illustrated diaries lay undiscovered until Henry C. Murphy, a founder of the Long Island Historical Society, (later renamed the Brooklyn Historical Society) came upon the diaries in 1864, in an Amsterdam book store. Now an important part of the BHS collection and an invaluable primary resource for scholars, the diaries are featured in an installation at BHS in celebration of the 400 Years of the Dutch in New York.
The exhibition Pages of the Past: The Breukelen Adventures of Jasper Danckaerts features these beautiful diaries and accompanying drawings and was curated by 19 high school students participating in the Brooklyn Historical Society’s educational program known as “Exhibition Laboratory”. In this program, high school students from four local schools are introduced to the art of exhibition preparation: they conduct research, select artifacts, write text and work with scholars and curators to understand how to communicate ideas through an exhibition. With the guidance of BHS staff and a team of scholars the students curated and designed this exhibition about the Danckaerts Journal.
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11/22/2009
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It Happened In Brooklyn
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Science
Venue: Brooklyn Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $6.00
Seniors 62 and over: $4.00
Students 12 and over: $4.00
Children under 12: Free
This exhibit highlights key moments in our nation's history and how they played out in Brooklyn. Through artifacts from the Brooklyn Historical Society's permanent collection such as photographs, artworks, and documents, visitors will meet a diverse range of residents from Brooklyn's earliest Native American settlements, to the men and women who fought in the Revolutionary War on Brooklyn's shores, to the Brooklynites who worked to abolish slavery, immigrants from all over the world who made Brooklyn home, and the women who kept America going by working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II.
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