The Day: A Stop and Frisk Forum and Local Poets
Good morning, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.
This Veteran’s Day is shaping up to be a nice, crisp fall day. The National Weather Service is predicting a sunny day with highs of 52 degrees, although we might get a little rain late tonight. Meanwhile, there’s plenty of exciting things to do tonight around the Nabe:
- Greenlight Bookstore and the Fort Greene Association present a conversation tonight between Linda Leavell, the author of “Holding on Upside Down: The Life & Work of Marianne Moore,” and Ellen Levy, a Marianne Moore scholar and professor at Pratt University. Leavell’s new book is the first authorized biography of Moore, a modernist poet and long-time Fort Greene resident. Leavell and Levy will discuss Moore’s life as a poet and progressive feminist at the event, beginning at 7:30 p.m. at Greenlight Bookstore at 686 Fulton Street. The evening is free and open to the public.
- The Brooklyn Academy of Music will host a screening tonight of “Pearls of the Deep,” a 1966 anthology film that acts as a manifesto of Czechoslovakian New Wave cinema. Presented as part of BAM Cinematek series “Independent of Reality: The Films of Jan Nemec,” “Pearls of the Deep” includes five short films based on a book by the Czechoslovakian writer Bohumil Hrabal by directors Jan Nemec, Vera Chytilova, Jaromil Jires, Jiri Menzel and Evald Schorm. The screening will start at 7 p.m. in the BAM Rose Cinema in the Peter Jay Sharp Building on 30 Lafayette Avenue. Tickets are $13 and can be purchased here.
- Fort Greene Peace is holding a community forum on stop-and-frisk tomorrow night at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church on 85 South Oxford Street. Panel members include Public Advocate-elect Letitia James; Robert Gangi, the director of the Police Reform Organizing Project; Joan Gibbs, the lead counsel for the Center for Law and Social Justice; Kevin Powell, the President and co-founder of BKNation and Chauniqua Young, a fellow at the Center for Constitutional Justice and attorney on the federal class action lawsuit brought against New York City’s stop and frisk policies. The forum is free and open to the public and will start at 7 p.m. For more information, email fortgreenepeace@gmail.com.