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Catherine Green: Untitled

Catherine Green (American, born 1952). Untitled, 1991. Chromogenic photograph, image: 11 x 16 in. (27.9 x 40.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Helen Babbott Sanders Fund, 1991.69.2. © Catherine Green. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Cocktails and Conversation: Elizabeth Nunez, Safiya Sinclair, and Tiphanie Yanique

Thursday, August 3, 2017

6–9:30 pm

Café Terrace, 1st Floor

We are partnering with PEN America to present an evening of cocktails and conversation centering Caribbean women writers. This evening, the first in our two-part series, presents Elizabeth Nunez, Trinidadian American novelist and distinguished professor of English at Hunter College–CUNY; award-winning Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair; and Caribbean writer, poet, and essayist Tiphanie Yanique, in conversation.

Schedule:

  • 6 pm Cocktail hour and live jazz
  • 7 pm Conversation with Elizabeth Nunez, Safiya Sinclair, and Tiphanie Yanique
  • 8:15 pm Live jazz by Monnette Sudler Quartet

Tickets are $16 and include Museum admission. VIP tickets are $50 and include Museum admission and an open bar. Members receive complimentary tickets. To receive the Member code, email us at membership@brooklynmuseum.org with your full name and Membership ID. Not a Member? Join today!

Co-presented by the Jazz Foundation of America, with support in part from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts.

Part of A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at Brooklyn Museum.