Green-Wood Cemetery hosting Nightfall w/ music, films, storytelling & more this week

Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery will celebrate the season with a pair of events, Nightfall: Time Flies, on Thursday (10/17) and Friday (10/18) from 7-10 PM. They happen across the grounds, with music curated by Death of Classical and featuring Opera Cowgirls, Maya Lorenzen, The No Ring Circus, Kate Maroney, Red Wierenga, Ivan Llanes, Daisy Press, Luxury Bones, Beldame, Grand St. Stompers, and Sequoia Sellinger; films and moving images curated by Rooftop Films, including As Time Passes (Jamil Mcginnis) and The 4th Dimension (Jean Painlevé); “spectacle” / variety arts from the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, and “storytelling and show,” including talks on tempus fugit symbolism in the cemetery, Victorian mourning practices, and the Egyptian books of the Netherworld, from Morbid Anatomy. Tickets for both nights are on sale now.

“There’s something profoundly magical about Green-Wood at night,” Green-Wood’s vice president of education and public programs Harry J. Weil says. “The Cemetery becomes a canvas for artistic expression, inviting visitors to reflect on the passage of time while being enveloped in the beauty of the evening. We are thrilled to welcome guests to two nights that will linger in their memories long after they leave.”

More info from Green-Wood:

Amidst the serene backdrop of weathered gravestones and trees whispering in the wind, this year’s Nightfall invites you to reflect on the fleeting nature of time itself. As dusk settles and darkness fills the cemetery, explore tales of lives lived and moments lost, revel in nostalgia for a grand past, and grieve for all the things that could have been.

Join us for an evening where memories intertwine with the present, reminding us that in this sacred space, the essence of time is both ephemeral and eternal.