From Dusk to Dawn: Pop Up @ Drink Lounge

A segment of the From Dusk to Dawn: The Fannye Pierre Project is currently on view in Brooklyn, NY as a part of a short term artists residency Fall 2022-Winter 2023.

Photos are on view Tuesday-Saturday during business hours:

  • Tuesday, Wednesday andThursday: 5:30pm-12am ET

  • Friday and Saturday: 5:30pm-2am ET

@ Drink Lounge

768 Franklin Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

For more information about the full scale exhibit, register here.

For other inquiries, please email s h p @ bridge and ladder dot com, and follow @bridgeandladder and @drinklounge on instagram.

Co-founded by siblings, Fannye Pierre and Charlie Moore, The Dawn was home to top artists, entertainers and entrepreneurs of the time.

From Dusk to Dawn: The Fannye Pierre Project is a digital archive and visual storytelling initiative that recounts the history of The Dawn Bar & Casino, the iconic 1940s Harlem-based bar, casino and hotel.

From Dusk to Dawn: The Fannye Pierre Project

With Gratitude

Bridge and Ladder, LLC would like to take time to extend gratitude to all of those who supported the development and launch of this pop-up exhibition, with extra special thanks to….

Sydney Henriques-Payne, Lead Curator & Creative Director

Chadon Charles, Executive Producer

Albert Henriques, Executive Storyteller

Damian Henriques Gerndt, Sr. Art Director

Katrina Pallant, Gallery Lead

Sidra Showalter, Lead Aesthetic Consultant

Andre Pierre & Susan Henriques-Payne, Historical Preservationists

Dylan Page, Technical Consultant

D. Toure’ Harris, Technical Producer

Tyrone Sealy, Production Assistant

Our gracious hosts: Drink Lounge & their (amazing) team

Our gracious sponsor, Uncle Nearest

In Dedication

This project is dedicated to the fierce entrepreneurs who found ways to build businesses and create a life that inspires, despite obstacles we’ll never fully understand;

Their mother, Jane — who brought them to New York, the place of dreams.

….and their children — who ensured that legacy was not lost through continuing to tell their stories and holding onto these photographs for 40+ years…

  • Frances “Fannye” Pierre

  • Charles “Charlie” Moore

  • Leon J. Pierre

  • Charmaine J. Pierre Oden

This exhibit was done in loving memory of each of them, and in honor of the many storytellers in my life who encouraged my writing, my recording and my entrepreneurship...

  • J. Howard Payne, Jr.

  • Reuben J. McNair, Sr.

  • Charles “Doc” Marshall

  • Charles “Carlos” Garay

  • Antonio “Tony” Garay, Sr.

Your stories and your legacies live on.