June Target First Saturday: Brooklyn Chic‏

When:Saturday June 5, 2010
Time:5-11pm
Where:The Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6099
(718) 638-5000
Cost:Free

Come out to Brooklyn For Target’s First Saturday’s at The Brooklyn Museum. Check out all of the great exhibits and the awesome party later at night. Event is limited capacity, some programs require tickets. Free tickets are available for selected events. Please note ticket distribution times above. Members may pick up tickets from the Membership Desk beginning at 2 p.m. while supplies last. Programs subject to change without notice.Free general admission and $4 parking (flat rate), 5–11 p.m. Museum galleries are open until 11 p.m. Cash bar, food concessions, and Shop open until 11 p.m.

Here is the list of scheduled events:

5–7 p.m. Music
Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden, 1st Floor
(Rain location: Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor)
Don your finest swing era threads and listen to jazz tunes performed by the Brooklyn-based J.C. Hopkins Biggish Band, featuring Champian Fulton and DeWitt Fleming Jr.

5–10:30 p.m. Object of the Month
Luce Center for American Art, 5th Floor
Explore a nineteenth-century Yakama Woman’s Beaded Dress with our Looking Closer guide.

5:30–6:30 p.m. Dance
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Evidence Dance Company presents a diverse selection of works from the African diaspora. A question-and-answer session with company founder and choreographer Ronald K. Brown follows. Free tickets (330) are available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.

6:30–8:30 p.m. Hands-On Art
Education Gallery, 1st Floor
Use collage to design a high-style outfit. Free timed tickets (380) are available at the Visitor Center at 5:30 p.m.

7 p.m. Curator Talk
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th Floor
Chief Curator Kevin Stayton discusses the exhibition American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection, the history of the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, and how it found its new home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sign Language interpreted. Free tickets (30) are available at the Visitor Center at 6 p.m.

7 p.m. Film
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire star in Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957, 103 min., NR), a musical about a high-fashion photographer and a newly discovered model. Free tickets (330) are available at the Visitor Center at 6 p.m.

7–8 p.m. Music
Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor
Members of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s perform music by Mozart. As part of St. Luke’s Subway Series, the event includes a food drive. Nonperishables are requested.

8 p.m. 1stfans Meetup
Meet in the Rubin Lobby
Kevin Stayton takes 1stfans behind the scenes of American High Style.

8:30 p.m. Young Voices Gallery Talk
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th Floor
Student Guides offer a fresh look at American fashion in American High Style.

9–10 p.m. Book Club
Contemporary Art Galleries, 4th Floor
Keanan Duffty, co-author of Rebel, Rebel: Anti-Style, discusses connections between the book and the exhibition American High Style. The book is available for 20% off at the Museum Shop.

9–10:30 p.m. Dance Contest
Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor
Face off with members of New York City’s vogue dance scene. Archie Burnett of the House of Ninja hosts, with music by DJ Chip Chop, judging by Tiffany Rhodes of Butch Diva, and a prize by Patricia Field. Registration begins at 8:30 p.m.

9–11 p.m. Dance Party
Museum Parking Lot
(Rain location: Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor)
DJ Moni of Friends We Love spins an eclectic mix of house and soul.