Brooklyn Museum's May 3rd Target Saturday: "JAPAN in Brooklyn"

Please be sure to check out this month's Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum. This is a FREE event so please don't miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of amazingly talented Japanese artists from different mediums. See information below for further details.

ON Gallery opening in the desert, 2008. Mixed Media. Photo courtesy of artist
6 p.m.–8 p.m. Music
Hall of the Americas, 1st Floor

Han'nya Teikoku Trio and Sizzle Ohtaka contemporize the traditional melodic sounds of the Japanese shakuhachi flute.

6 p.m.–7 p.m. Performance
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor

Japanese performance and installation artist ON Megumi Akiyoshi discusses her work and invites the audience to participate in her "vending machine" performance piece. Free tickets (30) are available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.

6 p.m. Film
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

A movie star traverses over 1,000 years from medieval Japan to the space age in pursuit of love, in the anime Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon, 2001, 87 min., animated, NR). Free tickets (340) are available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.

6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Hands-On Art
Education Division, 1st Floor

Practice calligraphy with special pens and ink. Free timed tickets (380) are available at the Visitor Center at 5:30 p.m.

7 p.m. Curator Talk
Meet at the entrance to Utagawa, 1st Floor

Joan Cummins, Curator of Asian Art, gives a Sign Language–interpreted talk in Utagawa. Free tickets (30) are available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.

7:30 p.m. Young Voices Talk
Meet at the entrance to the Arts of Asia, 2nd floor

Join Student Guides for "Looking at Art," an interactive gallery talk that helps visitors develop critical skills for understanding iconography and symbolism in Asian art.

8 p.m. Young Voices Talk
Meet at the entrance to Utagawa, 1st Floor

Student Guides Justin Bacharach and Annie Wiswell discuss the Utagawa school and pop culture.

8 p.m. Film
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1947, 90 min., NR) explores the relationship between a woodblock print artist and his muses in late-eighteenth-century Japan. Free tickets are available (340) at the Visitor Center at 7 p.m.

9 p.m.–11 p.m. Dance Party
Public Plaza, Outside Museum

DJ Twix infuses hip-hop hits with the flavor of Korea and Japan's K-Pop and J-Pop. (Please note: Rain location is Hall of the Americas, 1st floor.)

10 p.m.–10:45 p.m. Music
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

Pianist Toru Dodo and his trio illuminate jazz music Japanese-style.

Due to limited capacity, some programs require tickets.

There will now be three ticket distribution times: 5 p.m. for ticketed programs that begin before 8 p.m.; 5:30 p.m. for Hands-On Art; and 7 p.m. for ticketed programs that begin at 8 p.m. and after.

Lines for tickets often form 30 minutes before tickets are distributed.
Programs subject to change without notice.
Free general admission and $4 parking (flat rate), 5-11 p.m.
Museum galleries are open until 11 p.m.
Cash bar, food concessions, and Shop open until 11 p.m.

For more information visit the Brooklyn Museum's homepage by clicking here.