love thy neighbor: brooklyn in black & white a three-part workshop presented by the brooklyn cottage and old stone house & washington park

This workshop is intended to serve as a reflective and participatory catalyst for a larger conversation about community, diversity and our own radical ideal of—and commitment to–social justice for the future of Brooklyn.

Old Stone House & Washington Park’s Maggie Weber will present a brief overview of Brooklyn’s racial justice movement from the 17th Century to the present, including Brooklyn’s past as the highest slave-holding state in the Northern colonies, and 18th century debates about slavery and black oppression.

We’ll follow with remarks from social activist Darnell L. Moore, a powerful speaker at The Brooklyn Cottage’s Jan 21st event, After Ferguson: Where Do We Go From Here?

And we’ll conclude with an experiential exercise led by The Brooklyn Cottage’s Jenny Douglas designed to get us reflecting, with honesty, on race as a social construct and our own participation in it.

Date: Thursday, March 26th

Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m.

This event will be held at Old Stone House & Washington Park,

5th Avenue at 3rd Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn. No advance registration necessary.

Old Stone House & Washington Park is a Park Slope museum and community resource, located in a reconstructed 1699 Dutch farmhouse that was central to the Battle of Brooklyn.

The Brooklyn Cottage is a Prospect Heights-based incubator and lab for giving voice to our most courageous selves, though storytelling evenings, meditation gatherings, writing workshops, honest conversations, and a variety of other ongoing social experiments.