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Calendar of Events
2007 - 2008 Season 2007 - August September October November December - 2007 |
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JULY 2007 |
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From Brooklyn Center's
Community Showcase
The Cast During a 30 minute intermission, there will be a Poetic Open Mic Performance in which we encourage audience members to participate in the poetry.
After the show, there will
be a Meet-the-Actors/Question & Answer session where the
audience can discuss the experience with the cast.
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From Brooklyn Center's
Community Showcase
Emmy award-winner and
CSI: New York, Forest Gump and Apollo 13
star, Gary Sinise has been a key supporter of the
memorial and this concert will be dedicated to these
brave men who gave their lives, as well as to act as a
unifying force to help New
Yorkers come together to complete the Wall of
Remembrance.
This memorial concert,
hosted by Ken Dashow, will include a pre-show featuring
a Comedy
Hour, USO entertainers and the famed Bagpipers of the
FDNY, the NYPD and the PAPD. Indeed this will be a
concert of exceptional talent and an evening of
top-notch entertainment, but beyond that, it will be a
way to remind New Yorkers and especially Brooklynites,
that we
promised we would never forget; this will help us keep
that promise.
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From Brooklyn Center's
College
Community Events Brooklyn Center is proud to host this yearly tradition -- the Official opening of the 2007-2008 school year at Brooklyn College/City University of New York. President Dr. Christoph Kimmick welcomes faculty, staff and students to another year of excellence.
Tuesday, Aug 21, 2007 - 8:45am |
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Sam
Levenson Recital Hall |
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Brooklyn Center Cinema
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN The cast is superb, Farley Granger is just complex enough to keep you wondering how much he knows and when he knows it. Ruth Roman is the love interest, but we remain more concerned about where her actual loyalties lay. And under Hitchcock's precise, masterful direction, Robert Walker plays his character with a chameleon-like deceptiveness on top of a delicious sinister, almost perverse Norman Bates-ian weirdness, definitely keeping us totally intrigued for the entire two hours. If you haven't seen this early work of the great master, this is the way to see it -- on the giant screen with colleagues and friends. It's Hitch at his best!
Meet the Artists
Thursday , Sept. 27, 2007 -
3:00pm Matinee, 6:00pm Evening |
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The Brooklyn College
Theater Department's SEASON PREMIERE!  In The Blood by Susan-Lori Parks Directed by Mary Beth Easley A MainStage Production The Brooklyn College Theatre Department opens its season with an impressive, ambitious work that bespeaks of it's commitment to hard-hitting drama, eschewing the safe and the bland. Riffing on themes Nathaniel Hawthorne explored in The Scarlet Letter, Suzan Lori-Parks’ In the Blood follows the efforts of a modern-day Hester La Negrita -- a homeless mother of five residing under a bridge in a tough city -- as she struggles to keep her children clothed and fed in a derisive society whose systems of support come at a terrible cost. It is caustic, poignant and provocative work that brings us a chilling understanding that, despite our comfortable, seemingly safe lives, how vulnerable we all really are and how little we can expect from the social mechanisms that we assume are in place to help. In the Blood is gritty, rough, at times even deeply tender, but it is always real. Ms. Lori-Parks pulls no punches; expect some emotional whiplash. The work shines an unflinching light on a failed social system that denigrates where it is supposed to help, exploits where it is supposed to uplift. For anyone who thinks there are social safety nets in place for the poor and the down-trodden, In the Blood will rip that naive notion from its delusional moorings. Suzan-Lori Parks is the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama (Topdog/Underdog, 2002). Her other plays include Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (1990 Obie Award for Best New American Play) and Venus (1996 Obie Award). Recently, her project 365 Plays/365 Days was produced in over 700 theaters across worldwide. She is also a two-time playwriting fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Thursday thru Saturday October 4, 5, 6, 2007 - 7:30pm
Evenings
Tickets:
$12 General Admission, $10 Seniors
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Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music's
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 7pm |
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From Brooklyn Center's
Community Showcase
This line-up of talent will
move through the entire range of gospel with the
inspiring accompaniment of interpretive movement
performed by the Enchanting Grace Dance company to the
heavenly sounds of Rachelle Jean-Bart, Philippe Pierre,
Wilkinson Theodore, and Etzer Elie. From
contemporary to classical, from the quiet soulful
melodies to the rousing heights of inspired chorales,
this is a concert not to be missed.
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Opening Night
From Brooklyn Center's
World of Dance Series
Saturday,
October 13, 2007 - 8pm
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From Brooklyn Center's
Community Showcase Unique Events presents  Reggae In Symphony Featuring Freddie McGregor and John Holt with Lloyd Parks and the We The People Band plus the Reggae Symphony Orchestra! with special guest Oliver Samuels, Jamaica's King of Comedy, as Master of Ceremonies! For those who love reggae and the island sounds and for those who think they don't, here is a truly unique experience that has to be heard to be believed - the rich, rhythmical sounds of reggae combined with the incomparable symphonic flourishes of the Reggae Symphony Orchestra -- it's the lush, compelling sounds of reggae philharmonique -- reggae as you've never heard it before. The two masters of the island sound, Freddie McGregor (a good friend of the Center's who has spiced up our stage in the past returns) and John Holt and will both perform in what is sure to be an evening of exceptional entertainment. Also featuring a rocking band of the first order, We The People. Plus the great Oliver Samuels, the King of Comedy, will be on hand to MC the festivities, so you know it is going to be a fun time. If you think you've heard great
reggae, honey, you ain't heard
nothin' yet!
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents Pandit Anindo Chatterjee is a rare phenomenon in the art of tabla playing -- one of the great musicians of our time.
Monday, October 15, 2007 - 12:30pm Matinee
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From Brooklyn
Center's Community Showcase The City University of New York and The National Yiddish Theatre present 
Thursday,
October 18, 2007 - 2pm Matinee |
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From Brooklyn Center's
Community Showcase The Egyptian Ministry of Culture presents  The Egyptian Folkloric Dance Troupe A Brooklyn Premiere! For the first time in Brooklyn, here is a chance to experience the intoxicating beauty of Egyptian/Arabian culture through the long history of the Raqs Sharqi -- the colorful and exotic folkdances of Ancient Egypt as passed down through eons of generations. These dances arose from Upper Egypt, Cairo and Alexandria and were an integral part of both ancient religious ceremony as well as secular celebration; these dance forms were danced in local towns and villages where men, women and children all knew the colorful baladi or saiidi movements. Don't miss this chance to see a
whirlwind of pageantry and celebration as you are drawn into the
midst of what would have been seen in the Temples, at weddings,
street fairs and festivals -- wherever the people celebrated life.
Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007 - 7pm Tickets: $35, $30, $25 |
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From Brooklyn Center's
Arts in the Afternoon Series
Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 3pm
Matinee |
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents John Abercrombie on guitar, Loren Stillman on sax and Bob Meyer on Drums.
Thursday Matinee, October 25, 2007 - 2pm Matinee
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From Brooklyn Center's
Community Showcase
Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007 -
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents Original Jazz from two Conservatory faculty members.
Wednesday, October 28, 2007 - 3pm Matinee
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents Conservatory of Music students present chamber works for strings.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 5pm |
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents
Thursday, November 1, 2007 - 2pm Matinee
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The Brooklyn College
Theater Department presents No doubt somewhere along everyone's educational career, The Seagull has been assigned as required reading material. And well it should be given the significance of this work as literature and as theatre, but to really experience why this is so important a work can only be realized by actually seeing it performed as it was meant to be rather than as a class assignment. Chekhov revolutionized theatre, giving audiences a realism they had never seen before on the stage. After Chekhov gave Russia and the world his four famous works, Ivanov, Three Sisters, The Seagull, and possibly the most well known, The Cherry Orchard, audiences were transformed by a new realism on the stage and would never go back to the stilted, grand gesturing of what heretofore had been the staple of theatrical style. For the first time, ordinary, real life was portrayed naturally and with language that was part of the common colloquialism rather than artificial oratorio. The Seagull solidifies Chekhov's style; he has matured. His ability blossoms in this work as he reveals the poetry in everyday life. It really needs to be seen to be fully appreciated. Here's your chance.
Thursday thru Saturday, November 1, 2, 3, 2007 - 7:30pm
Evenings
Tickets:
$12 General Admission, $10 Seniors
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From Brooklyn Center's Special
Events
Sunday, November 4, 2007 - 3pm Matinee |
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents
Tuesday - Thursday, November 6, 2007 - 7pm
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents
Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 2pm Matinee
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The Brooklyn College
Theater Department presents If it were only a play about historical events and even if it were just about strong women fighting for equality and the right to vote, it would be one powerful and engaging work. But The Fighting Days is that and much more. It looks competently and intelligently at women's struggle to win equality in Manitoba -- political drama to be sure -- but what makes Lill's passionate work so real to audiences, is the complex human drama, both political and personal in the lives of these three women, each drawn accurately from the real-life characters and events. Ultimately this is not the story of the rise of the women's movement for equality, but the deep ideological conflicts among the three main characters who come from different backgrounds, different ambitions and ultimately, different biases despite their gender commonality.. The easy story of single-minded women in a struggle against a common, unifying injustice is eschewed by Lill for the much more interesting and captivating look at the differences that actually separate the characters and the ultimate estrangement from each other. The Fighting Days is a multi-layered work, rich with emotional texture and it is this complexity that makes it ring so true, even though it is of another time and another place.
Thursday thru Saturday, November 8, 9, 10, 2007 - 7:30pm
Evenings
Tickets:
$12 General Admission, $10 Seniors
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From Brooklyn Center's
Community Showcase
This
concert will feature works by Brahms and Ginastera.
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From Brooklyn Center's
World of Dance Series Performance will be followed by a Q and A with Iceland Dance Company’s Artistic Director.
Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 8pm |
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From Brooklyn Center's
World of Dance Series Sunday, November
11, 2007 - 2pm Matinee
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents
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From Brooklyn Center's
World of Dance Series “When a child loves you for a long, long time... then you become Real.” So says the Horse to the Velveteen Rabbit in Margery Williams’ famous and much-loved literary classic about a stuffed toy rabbit who yearns to become real. Featuring an original musical score, as well as extraordinary puppets, masks, and magic, this charming tale of love and devotion is an unforgettable theatrical experience for audiences of all ages.
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents
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Conservatory of Music presents
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents Werther is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann based on the German novella The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was first performed Hofoper in Vienna on February 16, 1892. Werther is one of Massenet's more popular operas along with Menon, which are both performed regularly.
Saturday,
December 1, 2007 - 8pm, Evening |
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents Conservatory of Music composers present their new acoustic and electro-acoustic works.
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The Brooklyn College
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents
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The Brooklyn College
Conservatory of Music presents
Thursday, December 6, 2007 - 2pm Matinee
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The Brooklyn College Theatre
Department presents You'll
see dead people! Here Aguirre-Sacasa mixes a
delightful brew of mysticism, ghosts, sin, quest for
redemption, a smattering of theology and the BIG
QUESTION -- where is God when people aren't playing by
the rules, or "how much can I get away with and
still go to heaven?"
Tickets:
$12 General Admission, $10 Seniors
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From Brooklyn Center's
FamilyFun Series Help us celebrate the season w | ||||||||||||||
