CREATIVE TIME & BROOKLYN MUSEUM PRESENT:
IN PURSUIT OF LIFE, LIBERTY, AND HAPPINESS
REIMAGINING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Friday, October 23 | 11 AM–5:30 PM
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn Museum
SCHEDULE
10 AM | Doors Open
11 AM | Welcome
MC Bertha Vanayshun; Jean Cooney, Executive Director at Creative Time; Anne Pasternak, Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum; and Crystal Hudson, Council Member for New York City’s District 35 in Brooklyn
11:15 AM | Poetry reading: Nicole Sealey
11:30 AM | LIFE / Beyond Borders: Mapping Movement and Migration Histories
Mona Chalabi, Sky Hopinka, Paola Ramos, Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez
12:30 PM | Performance Prelude: Keith Yamashita
12:40 PM | Lunch
2:10 PM | PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS / Presentations
Dean Majd, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, Viva Ruiz
2:55 PM | Break
3:05 PM | Keynote: Chelsea E. Manning
3:25 PM | LIBERTY / After Incarceration: Envisioning Abolitionist Futures
American Artist, Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Mariame Kaba, Jackie Wang
4:30 PM | PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS / Presentations
Johanna Hedva, Qween Jean
5 PM | Break
5:10 PM | Closing Performance
TICKETS
Tickets are $30 ($18 for Brooklyn Museum Members).
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
This program will include ASL interpretation. For accessibility accommodations, email access@brooklynmuseum.org.
Copresented in partnership with Brooklyn Museum.
This convening is part of Drawing America: US@250. A season of art installations, programs, and partnerships, Drawing America honors those who have imagined a more equitable future and fought for the promise of our democracy—and those who continue to do so today.