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Brooklyn Women in Traditional Performance: Keeping Boundaries/Breaking Barriers

Join BHS and Brooklyn Arts Council for the Opening Symposium of Half the Sky: Brooklyn Women in Traditional Performance, a six week festival running through June 9, 2012, which includes performances, workshops, and panels exploring gender and traditional performance. This symposium, Brooklyn Women in Traditional Performance: Keeping Boundaries/Breaking Barriers will present a lecture and demonstrations with diverse artists performing and discussing various aspects of women- centered arts practices, including dance, material culture, and song. This event is part of BHS’s spring series, Inventing Brooklyn, which examines key people who have influenced Brooklyn and highlights cultural trends rooted in Brooklyn’s rich and diverse history. This event is free and open to the public.

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