We’ve linked arms for the third consecutive year with our friends at Brooklyn Museum to celebrate all that is joyous about Caribbean culture in poetry and stories with some of the contemporary diaspora’s best griots at the Museum’s annual First Saturday blast! A quintessential Brooklyn gathering, First Saturday is an explosion of colour, sound, food, and music. At 5:30pm, you’re invited to steal away to the cool and quiet of the Museum’s 4th Floor, where at the Feminist Forum, you’ll be immersed in the fantastical tales of monsters, myths and falling lizards - the stories elevating the brave boys and girls whose Caribbean culture has helped to make Brooklyn the awesome place it is today! Later at 8pm, treat yourself to a spectacle of a sample of the spoken word and poetry stretching from Trinidad to St. Lucia to the Garifuna of Honduras.

Admission is free but space is limited! 

Times: 

5:30pm - 6:30pm: Family Story Hour 

- Edwidge Danticat (HT) 

- Olugbemisola Rhuday Perkovich (JA) 

- Tracey Baptiste (TT) 

8:00pm - 9:00pm: Poetry Pop-Up 

- Mervyn Taylor (TT) 

- Catherine Esther Cowie (St. Lu) 

- Mercy Tullis-Bukhari (HN/JA)