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NYC: MetFridays: Pride (an LGBTQ Event at The Metropolitan Museum)

When: Friday, June 23, 2017, 5:00 – 9:00 PM (The Met closes at 9 PM)

Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5^th Avenue @ 81^st Street, NYC

Cost: Free with The Met Museum admission. If you buy Museum tickets at a museum ticket counter the amount you pay is up to you.  

RSVP: No RSVP is required

 

Celebrate MetFridays: Pride at The Met Museum!  Enjoy a silent dance party with live DJs, a panel discussion about artists and LGBTQIA communities, and gallery talks with Museum experts and voices from across the city. 

Bring your friends, check out the current exhibitions, and enjoy a specialty cocktail with Central Park views on the Cantor Roof Garden. A more detailed listing is shown below.  There will be a printed guide and map the day of the event.

  

MetFridays Pride Program:  (Ask for the printed guide and map at the event)

1. THREE MIX AND MINGLE CASH BARS  

1A. 5 – 8:15 PM Cantor Roof Garden (with Central Park views) - Floor 5
Meet new friends and catch up with old ones.  Cash bar.  Drinks and a specialty cocktail available for purchase

 

1B. Floor 1 - American Wing Cafe (closes 8:15 PM)
1C. Floor 1 - Petrie Court Cafe (closes at 8 PM) - Music provided by Natasha Diggs
 

2. 9-MINUTE TALKS (aka GALLERY TALKS) 

 

Curators, educators, artists, and activists unpack works in the collection that reflect changing cultural understandings of genders and sexualities.

2A. 6 and 7 PM - Floor 2 Gallery 249

Kurt Behrendt, Assistant Curator, Department of Asian Art discusses gender variance in Southeast Asian sculptures.

2B. 6 and 6:30 PM - Floor 1, Gallery 910, The Esther Annenberg Simon Gallery (ASL with voice interpretation)

Art historian and educator Emmanuel von Schack discusses Marsden Hartley's Portrait of a German Officer

2C. 6:30 and 7 PM - Ground Floor, Thomas J. Watson Library. Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education

Join a discussion with comic book artist and writer Phil Jimenez.

2D. 7 and 7:30 PM - Floor 2, Gallery 812, Henry J. Heinz II Galleries
Art historian, author, and Museum educator Kathryn Galitz discusses Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair.


2E. 7:30 and 8 PM - Floor 1, Gallery 357, The Nathan Cummings Collection of Pre-Columbian Art

Join a discussion with Sonia Guiñansaca, a poet, cultural organizer, and activist from Harlem by way of Ecuador.

 

3. LOVE SAVES THE DAY: Silent PRIDE DANCE PARTY - with Live DJs 5–8:30 PM, outside on the David H. Koch Plaza North (weather permitting) - Rain Location: Floor 1, Gallery 131, The Temple of Dendur

Select your personal musical journey during this silent dance celebration. Rich Medina pays tribute to the late, great David Mancuso; The Twilite Tone brings Chicago to Fifth Avenue and DJ Spinna serves a soulful house set. Hosted by Trinity Place, Shelter, helping LGBTQ youth safely transition out of the shelter system and grow into independent, positive and productive adults. 

 

4. PERFORMANCE - The Women - 6 and 7 PM

Floor 1, Gallery 743, Deedee Wigmore Galleries

On select Friday evenings, a lone violinist pays sonic tribute to two extraordinary women, Sara Berman and Arabella Worsham, braiding together their humanity.

5. ACTIVITIES

5A. SELFIE STATION 5–8:30 PM
David H. Koch Plaza south (weather permitting)
Let your best self shine with The Met as your backdrop

5B. DROP-IN DRAWING 
6:30–8:30 PM
Floor 1, Gallery 162, Leon Levy and Shelby White Court and Galleries

Join artists Pamela Lawton and Randy Williams for physical drawing experiments. Materials are provided, but you may bring your own sketchbook; pencils only. Space is limited. 

 

6. PANEL DISCUSSION 6:30 - 7:30 PM about artists and the LGBTQIA communities: 

Ground Floor, Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall  (limited seating), Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education

 

Hear how visual artists play a role in shaping public perception of LGBTQIA communities.

With moderator Kimberly Drew, writer, curator, and Social Media Manager at The Met and 3 Panelists: 

 

i. Koa Beck is a journalist, author, and the executive editor of Vogue.com. Her work has appeared in Salon, the Atlantic, and The Guardian, among other publications.

 

ii. Reina Gossett is an activist, writer, and filmmaker. Reina has been an Activist-in-Residence at the Barnard Center for Research on Women since 2014

 

iii. Saeed Jones is an American poet whose work engages with themes of intimacy, race, power, and mythology. His debut poetry collection was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2015. 

 

 

 

9-Minute Talks
Curators, educators, artists, and activists unpack works in the collection that reflect changing cultural understandings of genders and sexualities.

6 and 7 pm
Kurt Behrendt, Assistant Curator, Department of Asian Art discusses gender variance in Southeast Asian sculptures.
Floor 2, Gallery 249

 

6 and 6:30 pm
Art historian and educator Emmanuel von Schack discusses Marsden Hartley's Portrait of a German Officer.
Floor 1, Gallery 910, The Esther Annenberg Simon Gallery
ASL with voice interpretation

 

6:30 and 7 pm
Join a discussion with comic book artist and writer Phil Jimenez.
Ground floor, Thomas J. Watson Library, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education

 

7 and 7:30 pm
Art historian, author, and Museum educator Kathryn Galitz discusses Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair.
Floor 2, Gallery 812, Henry J. Heinz II Galleries

 

 

7:30 and 8 pm
Join a discussion with Sonia Guiñansaca, a poet, cultural organizer, and activist from Harlem by way of Ecuador.
Floor 1, Gallery 357, The Nathan Cummings Collection of Pre-Columbian Art

 

 

Ask for the printed guide and map the day of the event. 
 

Thanks to Alexis Patterson and The Metropolitan Museum of Art for inviting us and Celebrating Pride!     

Official Facebook event page:https://www.facebook.com/events/1819057008422790/

More info: http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/met-celebrates/festivals-and-special-programs/pride-2017

And at: http://www.yalegala.org/MetPrideFriday