Better not mothball your Halloween costume
too quickly this year. On Saturday, Nov. 1, the Brooklyn Museum
of Art will give all spooks and ghouls a new lease on (undead)
life during "First Saturday," its free, monthly program
of arts, music and entertainment.
This month’s edition honors both Halloween and the Latin Day
of the Dead, which falls on Sunday, Nov. 2. To encourage patrons
to do the same, the museum is inviting artists of all ages and
skill levels to cut and string together a Day of the Dead papel
picado banner from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, and then participate in
a costume contest during the 9 pm to 11 pm dance party with prizes
for the best Halloween and Day of the Dead costumes.
This month’s edition, which lasts from 5 pm to 11 pm, will also
feature a Haitian dance performance by the Ayiti La Dance Company
(pictured) at 8 pm, and storyteller Marie-Lily Cerat will fright
and delight kids and grown-ups alike with the Haitian folktale
"Plenadòr" (7 pm).
Two films will be screened: "When the Spirits Dance Mambo,"
a 2002 documentary about the international impact of Afro Cuban
ritual music (5 pm), and 1998’s "The Serpent and the Rainbow,"
the Wes Craven-directed voodoo thriller (9 pm). Rounding out
the night will be Klezmer music by the band Golem (6 pm) and
a talk by curator Elizabeth Easton on 700 years of European painting
(8 pm).
The Brooklyn Museum of Art is located at 200 Eastern Parkway
at Washington Avenue. For more information, call (718) 638-5000.
