8 pm
Kismat Indian Restaurant
603 Fort Washington Ave., New York, NY
At 187th St. and Fort Washington Ave.
Take A train to 181st Street stop (get out in front, 184 St. & walk north 3 blocks)
Get directions
Great food. Full Bar. Friendly service.
The address is 2 Lincoln Square (66th and Broadway). 1 train to 66th St. stop. See map.
Support the proceedings with a donation-based cash wine bar. Admission is always free.
Jalopy Theatre Presents at the American Folk Art Museum: Vienna Carroll & Keith Johnston.
Vienna Carroll sings and tells the stories of Black Roots Music — the spirituals, work songs, prison blues, and sea shanties of her ancestors. This music was integral to their survival and well-being and carries their history in it. Vienna also highlights improvised elements of this music in today’s 21st-century soundscape. As is traditional, audiences are invited to join in singing. Read more.
Shallow Brown: Thessalonia and the Free Sailor will receive a reading at the 1st Langston Hughes Playwrights Showcase. This event will be held at the Langston Hughes House at 20 E. 127th St. (bet. 5th & Madison), Harlem, NY–the recently refurbished, actual home of Langston Hughes while he lived in Harlem! Get directions.
125-153 2nd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Nearest subways:
G to Carroll St. (three avenues walk)
R to Union Street (two avenues & three blocks walk)
2,3,4,5,B,D,Q,R to Atlantic Terminal/Barclay’s Center (three avenues & 13 blocks walk)
Come early! This event is part of the Gowanus Oktoberfest
2 – 6pm
Free local food samples
Free canoeing
Kid-friendly
Quality beer and food available for purchase
Big Eyed Blues Festival– Vienna Carroll & The Folk
– Irving Louis Lattin Trio
– Beareather & Brown Liquor Sounds
Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, NY (map)
6-7 pm– Odysseus Bailer & Erin Beebee Blues Dance Demo & Lesson
7 pm– Vienna & The Folk, don’t be late!
Spirituals, work songs, and blues
$25 in advance ($30 door)
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Quakers helped. Mostly, Black people Freed Ourselves through the "Slave Grapevine." Watch the story of African Queens kidnapped, enslaved and resisting. Plus, U.S. Colored Troops and the Slave Grapevine in the Black freedom struggle in the U.S.
Read a brief history of slavery and African rebellions in America freeing ourselves.
