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Digital Cultural Heritage and User Experience Symposium: Brooklyn Visual Heritage and Project CHART

Friday, May 17 10:00AM to 5:00PM

Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, and Pratt Institute are pleased to announce a one-day conference that will take place May 17, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Othmer Library of the Brooklyn Historical Society. Digital Cultural Heritage and User Experience will explore the value and impact of digital cultural heritage across museums, libraries, and archives with particular focus on the user experience in both the physical and digital worlds.

The symposium is the culminating event of Project CHART (Cultural Heritage, Access, Research, and Technology), a three-year collaborative project between Pratt Institute's School of Information & Library Science (SILS), Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS), Brooklyn Museum (BM), and Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) to digitize historical photographs of Brooklyn and make them accessible to members of the public. The event is free and open to the public with RSVP to 718-222-4111 x224 or photos@brooklynhistory.org; seating is limited.

Saturday, May 25, 2013
Mixed Heritage Storytime!
11:00AM – 12:00PM
Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn

 “Baby brother or sister, will you look like me?”

Join three acclaimed children’s book authors for lively readings from their books that celebrate mixed and international heritage and the rich diversity within our families and communities. 

Featuring Sylviane Diouf, author of Bintou’s Braids, about a little girl growing up in a West African village; Toyomi Igus, author of Two Mrs. Gibsons, a story about her bicultural, biracial family; and Selina Alko, author and illustrator of B is for Brooklyn and I’m Your Peanut Butter Big Brother, a lyrical tale about a big-brother-to-be wondering what his new little sibling will look like.
This event is presented in collaboration with Kids at Greenlight, a regular story hour for kids ages 3 – 8 and their families.
Free for ALL ages
**Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis

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Saturday, June 1, 2013

1:00p.m. – 4:00p.m.

FREE Family Diorama Workshop

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Brooklyn Historical Society (Othmer Library) 
Taught by educator Angela Kramer Murphy, from www.proteusgowanus.org

In this family workshop, participants will reflect on the relationship between Brooklyn past and present by making their own three-dimensional accordion books, or dioramas, using copies of old and modern maps, photographs, and other images. We will be working in the Othmer Library at the Brooklyn Historical Society, which holds the original versions of many of the documents we will be using in our artworks.

Get tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6160802125

 

Saturday, June 22, 2013

2:00p.m. – 4:00p.m.

FREE Book Launch and Author Talk:

Philip F. Napoli

Bringing It All Back Home

An Oral History of New York City’s Vietnam Veterans

Brooklyn Historical Society (Othmer Library) 

Join us for a discussion from the author and a remarkable group of veterans who will share some of the heartrending oral histories that topple assumptions about the people who served in Vietnam.  Philip F. Napoli’s Bringing It All Back Home strips away the myths and reveals the complex individuals who served in Southeast Asia. Napoli was one of the chief researchers for Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation, and in the spirit of that enterprise, his oral histories recast our understanding of a war and its legacy.

Get tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6752281255

Saturday, June 22
Historic Brooklyn Heights Tour with Big Onion 
2PM

Explore New York City’s first Landmark District on this special tour co-sponsored by Big Onion and BHS. Explore the neighborhood’s agricultural roots, its emergence as the country’s first suburb, and its twentieth century decline and dramatic regeneration. Stops could include: The Hotel St. George, Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, and sites associated with Seth Low, George Washington, Arthur Miller, WEB DuBois, and Gypsy Rose Lee. This tour ends at BHS with a behind-the-scenes tour of the building and free admission to the museum. Adults $18/students, military, seniors $15. BHS members receive $3 off all Big Onion tours. 

Visit: http://bigonion.com/schedule/ for a complete schedule.

This tour partnership is offered as part of BHS's Brooklyn Walks and Talksprogram series.

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