Black Brooklyn Renaissance
Black Brooklyn Renaissance: Black Arts & Culture, 1960-2010 sponsored by MetLife Foundation and presented by Brooklyn Arts Council in partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, is a landmark, year-long initiative that is the first effort of its kind to take a holistic look at Black culture and arts in Brooklyn over five decades. The project explores a range of genres and styles from African drumming to painting to dance and Jazz, and looks at how Black artists retain ties to mid-century social and political movements and particularly how artists preserve legacies and influences across generations. We are also creating an online and paper archive to share this work with future generations.
Starting Feb 28, 2010, join BAC for 12 months of concerts, performances, workshops, readings, screenings, exhibitions and a conference in conjunction with Brooklyn College. We kick-off with African Dance/ Brooklyn Style on Feb 28 and African Dance/ Brooklyn Style Symposium on March 3.
CLICK HERE to download for the summer 2010 Calendar of Events!
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Many events in the kick-off season this spring focus on the folk roots of the Black Brooklyn Renaissance —community arts, ceremonies and rituals that retain distinct Afro-diasporic legacies and traditions. Events feature Afro-Caribbean ceremonial music and dance, West African drumming, the influence of African traditional dance in contemporary choreography, southern-style African-American gospel and spiritual music, and the early history of Brooklyn jazz. Many of these initial concerts, panels and workshops examine how migration, immigration and political movements have galvanized these cultural expressions while drawing attention to the evolving interplay between Afro-Caribbean, southern African American and African traditions.
Call for Submissions: Black Brooklyn Renaissance Fall Community Calendar
BAC and Restoration seek fall 2011 events featuring African American, Afro Caribbean and/or African-based artforms and artists for possible inclusion in the Black Brooklyn Renaissance calendar of events. Events can be in any arts genre (dance, music, theater, spoken word, visual arts, etc.) They must be open to the public and scheduled to take place during the following time periods for the Black Brooklyn Renaissance spring season:
Click here to submit your event for consideration online now: http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/forms/170
Call for Submissions: Black Brooklyn Renaissance Fall Community Calendar
BAC and Restoration seek fall 2011 events featuring African American, Afro Caribbean and/or African-based artforms and artists for possible inclusion in the Black Brooklyn Renaissance calendar of events. Events can be in any arts genre (dance, music, theater, spoken word, visual arts, etc.) They must be open to the public and scheduled to take place during the following time periods for the Black Brooklyn Renaissance spring season:
Click here to submit your event for consideration online now: http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/forms/170
Are you planning a cultural event in Brooklyn that's open to the public and features Black artists? We would like to know about it. Please click here to fill out the calendar submission form from BAC.
About BAC
Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) strives to enrich the quality of life throughout Brooklyn by fostering, encouraging and promoting the arts through service and support to artists and arts organizations.
Founded in 1966, BAC is the umbrella for Brooklyn’s range of cultural groups and individual artists working in the visual, performing, media and literary arts. BAC helps Brooklyn’s artist population–from the experimental to those preserving and evolving traditions of cultural heritage–create and present their work. BAC ensures that thousands of people throughout Brooklyn have access to a variety of free arts programming each year. Our programs are essential to the livelihoods of thousands of artists, creative professionals and arts organizations across the borough.
BAC takes a leadership role in creating an environment conducive to the arts by providing grants, resources, referrals, networking opportunities, seminars, performances, screenings, exhibitions and other activities that support and encourage the arts. These efforts ensure that Brooklyn’s ever-expanding cultural community remains a strong and vital part of the borough’s social and economic fabric.
Current programs and support services include the Community Arts Regrant Program, Professional Development Seminars for the Arts, Arts in Education, BAC Folk Arts, Scene: Brooklyn, Independent Film and Media Arts and BAC Gallery. BAC also offers technical assistance to individual artists and art organizations.
Black Brooklyn Renaissance is sponsored by MetLife Foundation. Programs are made possible by support from American Express, Con Edison, Brooklyn Community Foundation, Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, Park Avenue Building and Roofing Supplies, LLC, Concord Baptist Christfund, The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by New York State Council on the Arts, the Brooklyn Delegations of the New York State Senate and New York State Assembly, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and New York City Council and its Brooklyn Delegation. Media sponsorships provided by The New York Times, Community Affairs and WBLS.
