ART/BOOK TALK/CONCERT/DANCE PARTY: Target First Saturdays presents “Fierce, Phenomenal Women”
Sponsored by Target. Made possible by the Wallace Foundation Community Programs Fund, established by the Wallace Foundation, with additional support from DLA Piper US LLP, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Ellis A. Gimbel Trust, National Grid, and other donors. Time Out New York, print media sponsor. WNYC Radio, broadcast media sponsor.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Free Admission from 5 to 11 p.m.
Website: http://bit.ly/ozCcMI
Action Station
5–8 p.m.
Visitors are invited to contribute images to community-curated heritage panels inspired by Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, which will highlight the influential women in our lives.
Music
5–8 p.m.
Performances by Alakande! Spread Joy!, lo-fi punk group Making Friendz, and New Zealand contemporary soul group Fredericks Brown.
Artist Talk
6 p.m.
Mary Lucier on the installation Playing House. Free tickets available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.
Performance
6 p.m.
Brooklyn Ballet performs excerpts from their spring 2012 program, which draws on influences including Stravinsky, Isadora Duncan, and hip-hop. Free tickets available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.
Performance
6 p.m.
The Bad Feminist Readings, produced by Sarah Gentile and Sarah Giovanniello, is a feminist reading of over a century’s worth of popular books written with women in mind. Free tickets available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.
Hands-on Art
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Create your own illustration to accompany a newspaper headline, inspired by the exhibition Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913–1919. Free tickets available at the Visitor Center at 5:30 p.m.
Artist Talk
7 p.m.
Feminist artist Kate Gilmore speaks about her work, including Blood From a Stone. Free tickets available at the Visitor Center at 6 p.m.
Curator Talk
8 p.m.
Catherine Morris, curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, on Rachel Kneebone: Regarding Rodin and Newspaper Fiction. Free tickets available at the Visitor Center at 7 p.m.
Dance Party
8–10 p.m.
The original Ladies of Ubiquita, DJs Reborn, Moni, Selly, and shErOck, celebrate their twelfth anniversary and all the women who’ve inspired them.
Book Club
9 p.m.
Author Sara Marcus leads a lively discussion of her book Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution. A book signing follows in the Museum Store.
Performance
9–10 p.m.
Brooklyn-born performance artist Queen Godis presents poetic hip-hop soul.
