Events

On Wednesdays, you set your own admission fee! From a penny to any dollar amount, you decide what you pay.  For group tours of 10 or more, please call the Tour Coordinator at 901.544.6215 or email for more information. Sponsored by Target.

Members of the Memphis Argentine Tango Society will be dancing in the Rotunda. Free lessons 6:30 – 7 pm, followed by tango demonstrations 7 – 8 pm.

ART OPEN LATE is this Thursday!
The Brooks stays open late every Thursday, 52 nights a year! Expect the unexpected, from gallery tours and artists talks, to films, musical performances and art-making activities, plus Brooks Milongas (tango dancing) in the Rotunda every third Thursday. Museum galleries and Museum Store are open until 8 pm, the Brushmark restaurant until 9 pm. To make dinner reservations click here or call 901.544.6225.

Sponsored by Thomas and Betts
An exciting drop-in art-making activity for children and their grown-ups. Working in the style of action painter Jackson Pollock, youngsters will drip and splatter paint on large pieces of canvas to create dynamic, collaborative works of art. With the canvases spread out on the museum’s plaza, kids will get to experience an exciting and expressionistic way of making art.

Brooks Kids! Via the Brooks app, kids can "paint" a work of art from the Brooks’ permanent collection or create their own. Once the masterpiece is done, post it on our Facebook page for everyone to see!

 

After contemporary choreographer Pina Bausch unexpectedly died of cancer just as filming was set to begin, director Wim Wenders nearly cancelled the production of this documentary film. Lucky for us, he persevered. The film, an Academy Award nominee, presents extracts from some of Bausch’s most noted works, Le sacre du printems (The Rite of Spring), Café Muller, Kontakthof, and Vollmond, as well as interviews and further choreographies. Wenders takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ensemble, he follows the dancers out of the theater and into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal, which for 35 years was ground zero for Bausch's creativity. Call 901.544.6208 or click here for more information or to purchase tickets.

Director: Wim Wenders
Germany | 2011 | 103 minutes
Many languages with English subtitles

Inspired by a 1789 painting by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, this two-act comic debuted under the title The Ballet of Straw, or There is Only One Step from Bad to Good in Bordeaux, France, that same year. One of the oldest and most important works in the modern ballet repertory, La Fille Mal Gardée has been kept alive for well over two centuries. The simple story of Lise, her suitor Colas, and Lise’s larger-than-life mother who tries to marry her off to the simpleton son of a rich neighbor is both funny and touching, and filled with gloriously detailed movement. La Fille Mal Gardée is perfect for ballet newcomers and irresistible to audiences of all ages. Call 901.544.6208 or click here for more information or to purchase tickets.In cooperation with Emerging Pictures, the Brooks proudly presents exclusive world class cultural programming. Join us twice monthly for the best of European opera and ballet in crystal-clear Hi-Definition digital projection.

Choreographer: Frederick Ashton
London Royal Ballet | 2012 | 1 hour 58 minutes

Sponsored by Baptist Memorial Health Care
A wonderful opportunity for those with Alzheimer’s and their care partners to enjoy art and each other in a comfortable setting, guided by trained docents. Enjoy art and conversation in the galleries and afterwards engage in art making with art therapist Karen Peacock. To register, please call 901.544.6215. A different theme is explored each month.For more information, click here.

On Wednesdays, you set your own admission fee! From a penny to any dollar amount, you decide what you pay.  For group tours of 10 or more, please call the Tour Coordinator at 901.544.6215 or email for more information. Sponsored by Target.

In his warm and witty follow-up to the 2010 sleeper hit Mid-August Lunch, writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comedy – this time with a dash of the bittersweet. In The Salt of Life, Gianni plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother (again played by Lunch's great nonagenarian Valeria de Franciscis); a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a daughter (played by Di Gregorio's daughter Teresa) with a slacker boyfriend whom Gianni unwillingly befriends; and a wild young neighbor who sees him merely as her dog walker. Watching his "codger" friends snare beautiful younger women on the sun-kissed cobblestones of Trastevere, Gianni tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life – with both hilarious and poignant results. Admission: $6 mem/$8 non-mem/Free for VIP Film Pass holders. Call 901.544.6208 or visit brooksmuseum.org/films for more information or to purchase tickets.

Director: Gianni Di Gregorio
Italy | 2011 | 90 minutes
Italian with English subtitles

This four act opera, set in the 16th century, opens to the infamous bandit Ernani and his men in the Pyrenees, planning to rescue Elvira, Ernani’s love, from an arranged marriage to her guardian Silva. Ernani debuted at Venice’s La Fenice Theatre on March 9, 1844 and became the first opera to be recorded sixty years later. Call 901.544.6208 or click here for more information or to purchase tickets.

In cooperation with Emerging Pictures, the Brooks proudly presents exclusive world class cultural programming. Join us twice monthly for the best of European opera and ballet in crystal-clear Hi-Definition digital projection.

Composer: Verdi
Italian with English subtitles

 

This Filipino movie musical, set in a fictional Middle East emirate, tells the story of a Filipina yaya (nanny), Amelia, who decides to leaves her rural life in the Ilocos region and work abroad to help her family. As Amelia watches her charge grow up, she introduces the boy to the culture, values, and language of her native country. She saves him from death at the hands of the emirate’s enemies, and later goes home to the Philippines to pursue her dreams. Many years later, a grateful,grown-up prince searches for his beloved nanny beyond his desert world. 

Presented by Indie Memphis in collaboration with the Memphis in May International Festival. Call 901.544.6208 or click here for more information or to purchase tickets.

Director: Chito S. Roño
Philippines | 2010 | 138 minutes

On Wednesdays, you set your own admission fee! From a penny to any dollar amount, you decide what you pay.  For group tours of 10 or more, please call the Tour Coordinator at 901.544.6215 or email for more information. Sponsored by Target.

This rarely performed five-act opera was Verdi’s comeback piece after the initially poor reception of La Traviata. Based on a historical event, the Sicilian Vespers of 1282, the curtain rises to French troops occupying Palermo, with angry Sicilians looking on (“A te, ciel nation”), as the Duchess Elena laments the death of her brother Frederick of Austria, who was executed by the French for treason. In this production from the Teatro Regio di Torino and conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, Verdi’s meaty score is sung with full-throated intensity by Maria Agresti, Gregory Kunde and Franco Vassallo, with Gianandrea Noseda at the podium.

From the New York Times: “My recommendation would be simply to attend a performance and revel in the wondrous music that Verdi lavished on the text: the fitful overture, a teaser of what's to come; the anguished love duet for Elena and Arrigo, with consoling motifs for sighing woodwinds; the feverish massed choral scene that ends Act III; the bolero sung by Elena, who is foolishly convinced that her marriage to Arrigo would bring peace to Sicily until she is horrified by the slaughter of the French, by her people, which takes about 10 seconds and brings down the final curtain.”Call 901.544.6208 or click here for more information or to purchase tickets.

In cooperation with Emerging Pictures, the Brooks proudly presents exclusive world class cultural programming. Join us twice monthly for the best of European opera and ballet in crystal-clear Hi-Definition digital projection.

Composer: Verdi
Italian with English subtitles

On Wednesdays, you set your own admission fee! From a penny to any dollar amount, you decide what you pay.  For group tours of 10 or more, please call the Tour Coordinator at 901.544.6215 or email for more information. Sponsored by Target.

On Wednesdays, you set your own admission fee! From a penny to any dollar amount, you decide what you pay.  For group tours of 10 or more, please call the Tour Coordinator at 901.544.6215 or email for more information. Sponsored by Target.