The Early Word: Live & Outspoken

1. Singer/songwriter Toshi Reagon and her mentor, music pioneer June Millington, and why they make music, performing selections of their critically-acclaimed work. , 3 Lafayette Ave. 7 p.m. $15.

2. Winner of the Palme d'Or, the highest award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival,  is an absorbing journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year. BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave. 10:30 a.m. $7.

3. Pratt Center for Community Development and Pratt’s Initiative for Arts, Community, and Social Change (IACSC) help present "," an exhibition of work by artists both local and abroad that will demonstrate how arts, culture and media can be powerful catalysts for social change. Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corp., 1368 Fulton St. 5 p.m. Free.

4. explores the tension between Brooklyn’s phenomenal growth during the nineteenth century based on its intricate ties to slavery, and the moral imperative towards anti-slavery activism by a small group of residents. , 85 S. Oxford St. 8 p.m. $10.

5. Alternate side parking rules are in effect.