Join a Museum Guide for a free tour of the exhibition Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World.

Join a Museum Guide for a free tour of Museum highlights.

Join a Museum Guide for a free tour of the exhibition Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World.

Glitterlimes jewelry line features items made from fresh slices of real fruits, candies, and snacks from around the world. All the food is preserved, then filled or coated with glitter resin.

Ilusha Tsinadze fuses Eastern European melodies with traditional jazz and American roots music.

Meet author Oswald Rivera and get your signed copy of Puerto Rican Cuisine in America.

Chief Curator Kevin Stayton discusses the inspiration behind the installation Connecting Cultures: A World in Brooklyn. Free tickets (25) at the Admissions Desk at 5 p.m.

Look closely at mosaics and assemble your own patterned tile inspired by the Syrian mosaics in Connecting Cultures. Free tickets (330) at the Admissions Desk at 5:30 p.m.

Enjoy lively ten-minute discussions about works of art in Connecting Cultures. Look for Museum Guides wearing orange “Pop-Up Gallery Talks” buttons.

Enjoy an art performance by renowned Chinese calligrapher Wang Dongling (7 p.m.), then relax with a laid-back series of art-making and movement workshops, including calligraphy with Society of Scribes (7:30–9 p.m.), movement with Afro Flow Yoga (8–9 p.m.), and music presented by Afrika Meets India (9 p.m.).

Singer and producer Lafawndah draws from her global travels, blending smooth zouk dancehall beats with sonar vocals.

Belladonna* writing collective and series presents a reading by experimental poets R. Erica Doyle, Kyoo Lee, and Nathanaël. Free tickets (25) at the Admissions Desk at 6:30 p.m.

Brooklyn Film Festival presents shorts exploring the range of immigrant experiences in Brooklyn: Girls Gone J-1 (Mikhail Shraga and Alina Smirnova, 2014, 17 min.), Green Card (Pilar Rico and David Whitmer, 2014, 7 min.), and Born Into This (Lea Scruggs and Sean Ryon, 2014, 23 min.). Recommended for adult viewers. Free tickets (310) at the Admissions Desk at 7 p.m.

Children recognize their culturally diverse neighborhoods in an interactive reading by Selina Alko, author of B Is for Brooklyn, a mixed-media collage storybook.

Patricia Park discusses her novel Re Jane, which follows a young woman from Flushing, Queens, who becomes an au pair for the adoptive Chinese daughter of two professors.

Wang Dongling, widely recognized as China's greatest living calligrapher, discusses his hallmark style of “chaotic calligraphy.” Free tickets (30) at the Admissions Desk at 7:30 p.m.

OSHUN performs neo-soul and hip-hop that pays homage to the Yoruba river deity of the same name.