Events

Large screen projector, wing specials and more

Artwork by over 25 Brooklyn-based artists will be on view at over thirteen small businesses along Myrtle Avenue between Carlton & Classon Avenues. The art at each location is curated...

Giant screens, wing specials, drinks and other menu items.  

After checking out artwork during the Black Art Story Artwalk, stop by Brooklyn Eats on Myrtle to start February off right with dancing and drinks at the Black Artstory Month...

21 Up South Africa (70 Minutes)  A group of children, first filmed in 1992 at the age of 7, are now 21.  Rich and poor, black, white and "mixed race,"...

In the late nineteenth century, Fort Greene—home to over half of Brooklyn's African American population— also became widely known as ''Young Dublin'' for the large Irish population that settled on...

Don't be fooled—while the antique presses inside Woodside Press look old, they still come alive to produce colorful, whimsical designs. After touring the Navy Yard facility, letterpress printer and bookbinder...

In the Oscar-nominated film 12 Years a Slave, actor, Chiwetel Ejiofor portrays Solomon Northup, a free man sold into slavery in 1841, from his home in Upstate New York to...

Calling all Haitian Entrepreneurs:  interested in monies to start your own business? Kreyol speakers who want to start a business can now get the information, the assistance and even the...

The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA) presents a month-long film series featuring the most exceptional films in contemporary Black cinema. The kickoff will be a  screening of Evolution...

 Members of BLDG 92 receive a discount by email to info@bldg92.org. No doubt inspired by the skyline of blossoms adorning their Navy Yard rooftop farm, Brooklyn Grange offers this unique...

What does it mean to call a place “home”? How do we understand our physical, mental and emotional relationships to a place in flux? Jessica Lynne curates a reading of...

 Candlelight dinners are old hat.  Instead, warm your sweetie’s heart by wielding an earthly element in this special Tools & Talent workshop led by artist and welder Susan Woods from...

10% discount for members of BLDG 92. On this bus tour, learn about many of the Yard's green initiatives, including adaptive reuse of historic structures and materials, cutting edge LEED-certified...

Enjoy an evening of live jazz in honor of legendary trombonist and Fort Greene resident Slide Hampton, whose home on 245 Carlton Avenue hosted world famous jazz musicians and groundbreaking...

Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on 30 years of the life of iconic, acclaimed musician, Ray Charles. The independently-produced film starred actor, singer, comedian, Jamie Foxx in the title role.  Foxx received...

Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and sometimes controversial activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for “Black Power” during a speech one Mississippi night in 1966. Remembered quite...

Take an insightful look at women artists of the black Brooklyn renaissance of the 1980s and 1990s, as profiled in Brooklyn Boheme, the recent HBO documentary by Nelson George. Writer...

BLDG 92 and Inside Out Tours offer an exhibition tour exploring African American Heritage and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The “Brooklyn Navy Yard: Past, Present and Future” exhibition tells for...

Calling all Haitian Entrepreneurs:  interested in monies to start your own business? Kreyol speakers who want to start a business can now get the information, the assistance and even the...

The experimental music group Hot Hands will present a live performance inspired by the histories of former African American workers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Incorporating live instruments, samples, and...

African-American Leaders Past and Present includes five History Channel specials: Civil War Journal-Frederick Douglass; Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr.; Malcolm X: A Search For Identity, Thurgood Marhsall: Justice For All;...

The New Negress Film Society presents an evening of digital media and live sound installation that re-imagines the concept of Afrofuturism in the wake of recent police violence in New...

General Public Meeting for Parents of Young Children in Fort Greene Social Time 7:00pm, Meeting 7:15pm Free And children welcome in a separate, supervised playroom Come hear representatives from the...