Brooklyn NYC seminar on tradition of memorial art

Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC), in conjunction with The Brooklyn Historical Society, presents a seminar on the tradition of memorial arts in Brooklyn including the recently dedicated Beacon, commemorating Brooklyn residents who died on September 11.

Participants include:
Kay Turner, BAC folklorist and moderator
Robert Ressler, Beacon artist
Francis Morrone, historian and Brooklyn architecture scholar
Steve Zeitlin, Director of City Lore, and curator of Missing, an exhibition about 9/11
Franchot Lee, Photographer

Amy Gerber, (FlatCoatFilms, LLC) Director of the film ?Public Memory,? a film about American memorials, which will be shown immediately following the symposium

This event will take place at The Brooklyn Historical Society on 128 Pierrepont Street, between Clinton and Henry Sts. in Brooklyn Heights. This event is FREE and is from noon-2:00p.m. on Saturday, September 10, 2005.

Audience members are encouraged to participate in this important dialogue as we reflect on the history and meaning of the "art of memory" in Brooklyn and observe the fourth anniversary of September 11.

For more information and to RSVP, contact Kay Turner, kturner@brooklynartscouncil.org, or Teresa Gonzalez, tgonzalez@brooklynartscouncil.org, 718-625-0080.