BRIC In the News
From the Classroom to the Gallery: Brooklyn Students Learn through Art
From headquarters in the Clinton Street BRIC Rotunda Gallery, art collaborations of a most unusual kind are being forged between professional Brooklyn artists and the next generation.
David Byrne Gives Record Start to Celebrate Brooklyn!
"My job here is simple - to declare the first day of summer, in the most beautiful park in the world." So announced Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe to the more than 25,000 fans who gathered to see Talking Heads frontman David Byrne in concert Monday night at the Prospect Park bandshell.
Stagefight: Outdoor Brooklyn Entertainment Vs. Central Park’S Concert Scene
Now in its 31st year, Celebrate Brooklyn! at the Prospect Park Bandshell, run by the nonprofit BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn, also schedules benefits. But overall this year's free programming looks livelier than Central Park's. The vibe at the shows couldn't be more different.
May’s The Neighborhood Beat: Bay Ridge on BCAT
Want to know what’s happening in Bay Ridge? Brooklyn Independent Television has a fresh episode of Neighborhood Beat: Bay Ridge to pique your interest.
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REwind: A Cantata For Voice, Tape & Testimony honored at the 2008 Naledi Theatre Awards
REwind: A Cantata For Voice, Tape & Testimony was honored at the prestigious 2008 Naledi Theatre Awards in South Africa, receiving awards for Best Musical Director / Score / Arrangement and Best Theatre Set Design. Cape Town composer Philip Miller's extraordinary international collaboration, which was co-commissioned by Celebrate Brooklyn and received its American premier during our 2007 season, is based on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings that led South Africa from apartheid to democracy.
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Arts, Briefly: David Byrne to Open Brooklyn Festival
David Byrne, above, will perform a free concert at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn on June 8 at the opening night of the Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival.
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A New Deal, Art and Currency/BRIC Rotunda Gallery
This group exhibition ruminates on America’s presidential legacy by literally manipulating currency – collaging it, photographing it, stamping on it.
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BRIC Board Member Christina Norman Named Chief Executive Officer of the Oprah Winfrey Network
“Christina Norman has been named Chief Executive Officer of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, it was announced today by Oprah Winfrey, Chairman of OWN, and David Zaslav, President and CEO of Discovery Communications. With nearly two decades of excellence in broadcasting, Ms. Norman is recognized as one of the industry's most powerful and savvy businesswomen, most recently having served as President of MTV.”
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Brooklyn People
“EACH BROOKLYN COMMUNITY is full of great stories, mom-and-pop shops, diverse residents and abundant history. The TV series Neighborhood Beat of Brooklyn Independent Television (BIT) was created in 2003 to tell those stories in ‘Brooklyn-to-Brooklyn’ style, so residents can be tourists at home. Now, a crew of eight specially selected Brooklyn-dwelling production trainees is helping to tell the story of Crown Heights in a new episode airing Jan. 29.”
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For nearly a decade the city has been working to create a BAM Cultural District
“A new building adjacent to the BAM Harvey Theater is to house UrbanGlass, a nonprofit center devoted to glass blowing, and BRIC, another nonprofit arts, which provides public access television and arts programming for the borough, including the Celebrate Brooklyn! summer concert series. That project is also to begin construction this year.”
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Crown Heights Added to BCAT’s Neighborhood Beat Series
BRIC announces that a new community — Crown Heights — is being added to the Neighborhood Beat television series. The pilot will air Jan. 29 at 8:30 p.m. on the Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT) network (Time Warner 56, Cablevision 69, RCN channel 84 and Verizon channel 44.)
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Celebrating the Arts in Brooklyn
People from near and far came to the BRIC Rotunda Gallery gala Tuesday night at the Steiner Studios, held to benefit the Brooklyn Heights-based gallery.
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Jazz: Tooting Other People's Horns
The jazz event of the fall is Dave Douglas's Festival of New Trumpet Music, which he first organized six years ago and co-curates with fellow horn players Taylor Ho Bynum, Jeremy Pelt, and John McNeil.
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Leeser Architecture Selected to Design the New Cultural Center for BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn and UrbanGlass announce $17.3 million revitalization of historic Strand Theatre in Brooklyn to expand our facilities.
New Expansion To Return Strand Theater to Former Glory
With its new $17.3 million expansion, the old Strand Theater at 647 Fulton St., now the home to BRIC (the operator of BCAT, producer of Brooklyn’s public-access TV) and UrbanGlass, will once again assume the pioneering role it had as the first theater in Brooklyn to be wired for sound films in the 1920s.
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Old Brooklyn Vaudeville Theater Renovation to Enhance BAM Cultural District
Another jewel in the BAM Cultural district crown has been revealed with the recent announcement that the city-owned Strand Theatre at 647 Fulton Street will be renovated for expanded use by BRIC — the Brooklyn cultural organization that manages Celebrate Brooklyn!, BCAT, and the Rotunda Gallery, among other programs...
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Brooklyn arts groups to move into historic theater
Two Brooklyn cultural organizations will expand by moving into the newly restored historic theater in the Brooklyn Academy of Music Cultural District in Fort Greene.
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Klezmer punk stars Golem help CB! celebrate JDub's 5th
"What followed was every bit a Jewish wedding, with spastic chicken dancing, Yiddish love songs, unsupervised children running around hopped up on sugar, and two lead vocalists who very much earned the moniker 'wedding singers'."
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The Arts, Briefly
Two Brooklyn arts organizations, BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn and Urban Glass, will be gaining space in the building they share in the BAM Cultural District thanks to a $17.3 million makeover, the groups announced.
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Fest Turns 30
It's been said that you can't trust anyone over 30, but "Celebrate Brooklyn," the Park Slope summer music festival that reaches that milestone this year, still has impeccable taste.
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THE ARTS, BRIEFLY;
Celebrate Brooklyn will open its 30th season on June 12 with a performance by Isaac Hayes. This summer's lineup for the free concert series at the Prospect Park band shell includes Miriam Makeba; Beth Orton; a screening of the Bruce Lee movie "Enter the Dragon," with live accompaniment by Karsh Kale; a tribute to the R&B singer Bill Withers; and a benefit by Feist.
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Modern? traditional? Architecture Is Focus of Rotunda Exhibition
The problem of where to find happiness in architecture - in the modern or in the old? - is tackled in "Properly Past," one of two upcoming exhibitions at BRIC Rotunda Gallery. The other, "Ethnographies of the Future," looks at our multi-ethnic mix and where it's heading.
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Teen director's tour
Graffiti on the walls. Gunshots in the air. Trash and refrigerator parts lining the grounds of a Bushwick housing project. This is 15-year-old Shalik Wilson's Brooklyn.
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New — and cheap — concert space near BAM
Music lovers will get to hear the likes of Lou Reed, Ben Folds Five and Dan Zanes — and not spend much money to do it — at a new concert hall being opened near much pricier venues near the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The group that 30 years ago founded the popular "Celebrate Brooklyn" summer concert series in Prospect Park is planning a 250-seat performance space for year-round "Celebrate Brooklyn-like" performances that won't cost much more than a movie ticket.
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Looking for the Truth When It Keeps Changing
Faustin Linyekula, left, and Djodjo Kazadi in "Festival of Lies", a dance performance at BRICstudio.
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