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.
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CBH Talk | Reimagining Filipino Brooklyn
A talk on how to tell the stories of communities erased from a city's physical landscape, and the part historians, artists, and community members play in recovering and reimagining Filipino Brooklyn.
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.
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.
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.
Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn: Fought and Remembered
A guided tour of an exhibition on the first and largest battle of the American Revolution, told through primary sources and led at the Center for Brooklyn History.
Talks of the Town: From the Stacks: Loring McMillen’s Map of the American Revolution
Staten Islander Janet Medoro walks through the hand-drawn Revolutionary War map made by Historic Richmond Town's founder, Loring McMillen, a close look at the island's 18th century past.
Photobook Talk: Serhii Korovayny — Love Letters to Donbas
Ukrainian photographer Serhii Korovayny talks through his photobook Love Letters to Donbas with Bernadette Tuazon, CNN Digital's Director of Photography, moderating a close look at one project.
Photobook Talk: Andrew Lichtenstein — This Short Life
Photographer Andrew Lichtenstein presents his photobook This Short Life at BDC Main, a small documentary space. A chance to hear a photographer talk through his own work in an intimate room.
Photobook Talk: Paula Bronstein — Witnessing Life
Photographer Paula Bronstein presents her photobook Witnessing Life and talks about it herself, in a small room run by a documentary-focused organization with a clear point of view.
Lecture on the History of Skywriting
Paul Lazar plays the sky itself in Anne Carson's text, moving through song, dance, video and phone calls, with imagery by Annie-B Parson. Strange, funny and tender.
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.
Panel Discussion: Photography Education
Four people who run photography programs talk about who gets to tell the story: Shahidul Alam of Pathshala, Helen Alonzo Hurtado of Las Fotos Project, Gary Knight of VII, and Michael Kamber.
Brooklyn Trivia, with The Trivia Masters
Mindfulness in the Galleries: Ikebana
Mindful ikebana teacher Anjie Cho leads a special edition among Isamu Noguchi's sculptures, treating Japanese flower arranging as a practice of presence alongside the art.
