Heart of Brookyln and Target First Saturday

Happy October everyone! Time to carve those pumpkins and get that holloween costume ready. Leave a comment and tell us what you are going to be.

It’s the  beginning of the month,  and you know what that means. Target first Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum.

After the event at the there will be a a shuttle to take you out in the wonderful neighborhood presented Heart of Brooklyn

Here is the line up for the day

October 3, 2009
Opera Unbound

The October Target First Saturday, in collaboration with the Hungarian Cultural Center and its Extremely Hungary festival, brings you art and culture that take the magic and fantasy world of opera back to its roots and to the hearts of the people.
Music
5–7 p.m.
Dallam-Dougou blends the lively tradition of Hungarian Gypsy music with the melodic sounds of West Africa.
Performance
5:30–6:30 p.m.
Vertical Player Repertory performs act one of William Bolcom and Arthur Miller’s collaborative operatic adaptation of Miller’s play A View from the Bridge. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.
Artist Talk: Patricia Cronin
6 p.m.
Patricia Cronin speaks about Harriet Hosmer, Lost and Found, the exhibition of her luminous, unearthly watercolors representing the work of nineteenth-century American sculptor Harriet Hosmer. A book signing of the catalogue raisonné Cronin created for Hosmer follows. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.
Common Ground Meetup
6–9:30 p.m.
Meet staff members from the Brooklyn Museum and the New York Public Library and learn about the historical photographs being uploaded to The Commons on Flickr. This meetup is part of the world-wide event Common Ground.
Interactive Cell Phone Concert
6–10 p.m.
Play with Opera Looper, a cell phone–controlled interactive collaboration that helps you create spontaneous loop-based compositions with music videos to match.
Young Voices Gallery Talk
6:30 p.m.
Student Guide Hilary Thompson leads a lively conversation about the connections between Hungarian and French art movements.
Hands-On Art
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Get dramatically decked out for the opera: create your own theatrical mustache inspired by classic Hungarian historical figures. “The Mustache Sisters,” Nina Frenkel and Aya Kakeda, designers of an award-winning two-person mustache, show you how. Free timed tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 5:30 p.m.
Film
7 p.m.
Cremaster 5 (Matthew Barney, 1997, 55 min., parental discretion advised). Ursula Andress stars as a Hungarian diva in this tragic love story made in the style of a lyric opera and set in the romantic dreamscape of late nineteenth-century Budapest. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 6 p.m.
Music
7–9 p.m.
Jeans-wearing, beer-drinking, fun-loving singers from Opera on Tap and promenading, beautifully costumed players from Vertical Player Repertory perform favorite opera melodies.
Music
7:30–8:30 p.m.
Frank Oteri from the American Music Center and VJ Benton-C Bainbridge host a multimedia presentation on prolific Hungarian-American composer Gabriel von Wayditch (1888–1969), including the New York premiere of passages from his lush operatic works, video projections, and excerpts from a documentary about the composer.
Opera Open Mic
8:30–10 p.m.
Opera singers and multidisciplinary performers are encouraged to get on stage and entertain the Brooklyn crowd. The program includes short collaborations with actress, singer, and former Rent cast member Anika Larsen, choreographer and dancer Jamie Philbert, and members of Opera on Tap.
Target First Saturdays Book Club
9–10 p.m.
Brooklyn-based author Arthur Phillips leads a discussion of his novel Prague, about five American expats seeking financial, romantic, and spiritual fortune in early-1990s Budapest. Order the book from the Brooklyn Museum Shop.
Dance Party
9–11 p.m.
Brooklyn’s DJ Reborn and Hungarian DJ Yonderboi play a mélange of soul, house, and electronic with traces of the world’s most famous operas.

For more information about Extremely Hungary, a yearlong festival showcasing contemporary Hungarian visual, performing, and literary arts at leading cultural institutions in New York and Washington, D.C., visit www.extremelyhungary.org.