March Target First Saturday: Viva Woman!‏

When:Saturday March 6, 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.*Owing to 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 p.m. Gallery Tour-Join a Museum Guide for a tour of the exhibition To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt.
Robert E. Blum Gallery, 1st Floor

5–11 p.m. Object of the Month-Explore the African sculpture Mother with Child, our featured Object of the Month for March. Use our Looking Closer guide to gain insight into the artwork.African Galleries, 1st Floor

6 p.m. Film-Water (Deepa Mehta, 2005, 117 min., PG-13) examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi, India, in 1938. A Q&A with Gayatri Gopinath, Program Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies at New York University, follows the screening. Free tickets (330) available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

6–8 p.m. Music-Vocalist Emeline Michel blends native Haitian compas, twoubadou, and rara with jazz and world music. Part of Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Concert Series, a program of the Weill Music Institute.
Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor

6:30–8:30 p.m. Hands-On Art-Create a clay figure inspired by one of history’s powerful women. Free timed tickets (380) available at the Visitor Center at 5:30 p.m.
Education Gallery, 1st Floor

7 p.m. Curator Talk-Yekaterina Barbash, Assistant Curator of Egyptian Art, highlights images of women and goddesses in the exhibition Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets. Free tickets (30) available at the Visitor Center at 6 p.m Special Exhibitions Hall, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor

7–8 p.m. Discussion-Filmmaker Barbara Hammer talks about her work and her new book, Hammer! Free tickets (30) available at the Visitor Center at 6 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor

8 p.m. Curator Talk-Catherine Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, leads a Sign Language–interpreted talk on artist Kiki Smith and her work. Free tickets (30) available at the Visitor Center at 7 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor

8:30 p.m. Young Voices Gallery Talk-Student Guides give a talk on female figures in the installation Extended Family: Contemporary Connections.
Contemporary Art Galleries, 4th Floor

9–10 p.m. Book Club-Jamaican performance artist Staceyann Chin discusses her memoir, The Other Side of Paradise. The Book is available for purchase from the Museum Shop.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor

9–11 p.m. Dance Party-DJ Mary Mac spins a dance party tribute to the women of hip-hop and soul.Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor