Brooklyn Museum: Calendar: Special Event

<p>Art by Lorraine Nam from the book<strong> </strong>Look Up With Me</p> — Lorraine Nam. Illustration from *Look Up with Me* (2020), by Jennifer Berne. Artwork © 2021 Lorraine Nam. Used with permission of Lorraine Nam

Fifteenth Annual Brooklyn Children's Book Fair

Sunday, September 26, 2021 (rain date: Sunday, October 3), 11 am–4 pm

Plaza on Eastern Parkway

Join your favorite Brooklyn authors and illustrators as they share their books during this free, outdoor event.

Outdoor Yoga on the Stoop

Saturday, October 2, 2021
10–11 am

Brooklyn Museum Plaza

Meet us on the plaza steps for a morning of socially distant yoga and meditation, open to all levels and led by local instructors.

Amy Sherald (American, born 1973). *Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama*, 2018. Oil on linen, 72 ¹/₈ × 60 ¹/₈ in. (183.2 × 152.7 cm). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The National Portrait Gallery is grateful to the following lead donors for their support of the Obama portraits: Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg, Judith Kern and Kent Whealy, and Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia. (Photo: Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery)

Poetry Reading: Supa Dupa Fresh

Wednesday, October 6, 2021
6–9 pm

Biergarten and Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing

Enjoy a signature drink in our Biergarten and poetry readings in The Obama Portraits Tour in this special edition of Supa Dupa Fresh, a monthly reading series hosted by our friends at Prospect Heights bar Ode to Babel.

Outdoor Yoga on the Stoop

Saturday, October 9, 2021
10–11 am

Brooklyn Museum Plaza

Meet us on the plaza steps for a morning of socially distant yoga and meditation, open to all levels and led by local instructors.

Outdoor Yoga on the Stoop

Saturday, October 16, 2021
10–11 am

Brooklyn Museum Plaza

Meet us on the plaza steps for a morning of socially distant yoga and meditation, open to all levels and led by local instructors.

Cover, *Dreaming of You* by Melissa Lozada-Oliva, illustrated by Polly Nor, 2021

Brooklyn Reads: Dreaming of You with Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Thursday, October 28, 2021
7–8:30 pm

Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

Dress as your favorite dead celebrity and celebrate the release of Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s debut novel in verse, which follows a young Latinx poet who resurrects pop star Selena. Plus, catch a special performance by Mia Berrin of Pom Pom Squad.