Film Series | Marching with the Kasama
An unfinished documentary built from the voices of peasants, workers and guerilla fighters, shown as an outline and shaped by audience exchange, with two related films alongside it.
Talks
Talks — change
Tracks (4K Restoration) + Q&A
A 4K restoration shown on a proper cinema screen, with a Q&A to follow. It's part of the This is Cinématographe program, so expect a film-first evening with room for conversation.
CBH Talk | Forgotten History: The Brooklyn Theater Fire of 1876
An author talk and book discussion on a playhouse fire that destroyed one of the city's most prominent theaters in half an hour and killed nearly 300 people.
Book Launch at Columbus Circle: The Fair Fields: My Way to Words by Rosanna Warren in conversation with Margo Jefferson
A poet's memoir in linked vignettes rather than a straight story, recalling childhood in a literary household in the 1950s. Margo Jefferson joins her in conversation.
Press Play 2026
Hundreds of exhibitors fill Pioneer Works with art books, zines, records, and underground publications, with talks and workshops built around a theme drawn from what's alive in publishing.
Live at the Frick: Hisham Matar on Siena and the Imagination
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Month in Siena speaks about his bond with the city and how it shaped the imagination of artists, including the bronze sculptors in the exhibition.
Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn: Fought and Remembered
A guided walk through an exhibition on the first and largest battle of the American Revolution, built from primary sources and led by the people who know the material.
Bioethics Colloquium: On Chaos, What we Ought to Do, and What we Ought to Regret
MIT philosophy professor Caspar Hare draws on his new book, Living in a Strange World, to explore a striking idea about how almost every action ever taken reaches future generations.
Book Launch: Arguments by Benjamin Gucciardi in conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama
Poems on inner conflict, ethical action and fraying ties to family and land, from a Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award winner, in conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama.
Studio Salon: Touched by the Mother
A salon built around a single book, pairing a conversation with a reading in the Stoop, the Studio Museum's casual gathering space. A close, unhurried way to spend an afternoon with ideas.
On the Relentless Destruction of Beauty: Short Housing Films + Q&A
Several short films on housing, shown together and followed by a Q&A. A good fit if you like a screening that leaves room to talk about what you just watched.
CBH Talk | Haunted Brooklyn: Ghosts, Folklore, and the Stories We Tell
An author-led conversation on gothic folklore: haunted houses, restless spirits, buried secrets, and the unsettling legends that reveal far more than a taste for the macabre.
ISAW Leon Levy Lecture: "State Formations in Precolonial Eastern and Southern Africa: Elites, Trade, Technology, and Governance in the Archaeological Record"
Two decades of excavation are used to argue for a fundamental rethinking of how precolonial African states formed, looking at elites, trade, technology and governance in the archaeological record.
Book Launch: Americans Without Borders by Julia Harte in conversation with Dale Maharidge
Inspired by a distant cousin, investigative journalist Julia Harte uncovers Americans who fought dictatorship abroad, then were excoriated at home. Dale Maharidge joins her in conversation.
"The future exists for the most part in the present": On Poetry, the Avant-Garde, and the Left
A reading stretched over three evenings, taking up how poetry, the avant-garde, and the left meet. The Poetry Project hosts it at St. Mark’s Church.
Peregrine Falcon + Q&A
A screening of Peregrine Falcon paired with a Q&A, so the conversation about the film happens right in the room afterward. Part of the Kaboom programming at an art house cinema.
CBH Talk | Armed Objects: Weapons, Ornamentation, and Museum Stewardship
A look at firearms, swords, and powder horns as fine craftsmanship, their engraving and ornament set against their violent purpose, and at how museums care for such objects.
Leonora in the Morning Light + Q&A
A screening paired with a Q&A, so the conversation carries on after the credits. Seen on the big screen at an independent art house cinema.
CBH Talk | Rebuilding American Democracy: The Path to a Functioning Government
Legal scholar and former White House official K. Sabeel Rahman argues that America's democratic crisis runs deeper than elections and polarization, drawing on his new book Remaking the State.
Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches
A book talk with editors Angelique Nixon, Carole Boyce Davies, and Christen Smith on their collection gathering historical and contemporary Black feminist thinkers across transnational contexts.
