Events

Cocktails and Conversation: Elizabeth Acevedo, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and Malka Older

Thursday, August 10, 2017, 6–9:30 pm

    We are partnering with PEN America to present an evening of cocktails and conversation centering Caribbean women writers. This evening, the second in our two-​part series, presents Dominican poet Elizabeth Acevedo; Brooklyn-based Jamaican novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun, named a New York Times "Best Book of the Year"; and Malka Older, Cuban American author of Infomocracy and Null States, in conversation.

    Schedule:

    • 6 pm Cocktail hour and live jazz

    • 7 pm Conversation with Elizabeth Acevedo, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and Malka Older

    • 8:15 pm Live jazz by Neil Clarke Trio Plus

    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 the New York State Council on the Arts.

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

    Café, 1st Floor
    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)