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Brooklyn Arts Awards 2024

Thrive Fest 2024

Hard2Earn Live 2023

Brooklyn Arts Council 2023 Grantee Celebration

Brooklyn Arts Council 2023 Spring Party

Brooklyn J'Ouvert 2019

Brooklyn Roots Festival 2019: Tracking Traditions Along the B/Q Train

Artists on Site Residency: Traditional Song Workshop with Ukrainian Village Voices

Artists on Site Residency: Pysanka Egg Decoration

8th Annual Brooklyn Folk Arts Day 2019 (June 8, 2019)

Alive With Art 2019

Grants Celebration 2019

AccessArt 2018

The Art & History of J'Ouvert: Steelband As Resistance (August 25, 2018)

Brooklyn Roots Festival (July 29, 2018)

Alive With Art 2018

Citizen Folklife w/Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project (January 24, 2017)

Best of Folk Arts Programs

The Art & History of J'ouvert: Tradition As Resistance

Cheryl Thomas Gourd Workshops at the Phillip Howard Naturally Occuring Retirement Community: June 1, 2017

April 29, 2017: The 6th Annual Brooklyn Folk Arts Day: Summit

April 7, 2017-Brooklyn Arts Council and BAM Café Live present: Expanding Traditions: Rhythm Tolee, Aziz Peerzada & Saboor Aziz

Brooklyn Folk Arts Society #6: “Civic Engagement in Folklife.”

Festival Traditional Style: "Mushaira: Poetic Voices of the Muslim World" (August 19, 2016)

August 20, 2016, Festivals Traditional Style: Music and Dance at the Pakistani Independence Day Mela

Festival Traditional Style: Borough President Eric L. Adams International Day of Friendship August 7, 2016

July 12, 2016: Festival Traditional Style: "Dance the Giglio and Sing to the Saints”

Festival Traditional Style: Annual Feast 2016 Giglio Sunday

Festival Traditional Style, July 2, 2016: Song, Ceremony, and Stories from West Africa and the Caribbean

Lunar New Year 2016; Sunset Park

Dancing Crane at BRIC Arts: February 6, 2016

AccessArt 2015

FIELDWORK: Sukkot 2015

FFDC: Traditional Arab Dance at the 9th Annual Bay Ridge Arab American Bazaar and Eid Celebration. July 26, 2015 1-5pm

FFDC: Brooklyn Social: Contra dance and community, July 18, 2015

July 25, 2015: FFDC: Folk Feet in the Street: Afro-Caribbean Masquerades and Street Processions

Lock, Brukup, Folk Feet 10th Anniversary: Flex and Jump at the Umoja Events Juneteenth Festival in Linden Park (East New York) Saturday, June 20, 2015 11-3pm

Bulgarian, Georgian, and Ukrainian Dance on the Brighton Beach Boardwalk, June 6, 2015

Folk Feet Anniversary: SOUTH ASIAN WEDDING CELEBRATIONS at Bandhan: Festival of Cultures

FY15 Community Arts Fund

FolkFeet_TeachingTraditionalDance Wynposia

FolkFeet_Ft.Greene Senior Center

April 1st, 2004_FolkFeet_Maimouna Keita

November, 2005_FolkFeet_GowanusWildcats

December 13th, 2004_FolkFeet Al'e'mo square

December 11th, 2004_FolkFeet_Swedish St.Lucy's Fests

October 10th, 2004_FolkFeet Workshop

August&September, 2004_FolkFeet_YoungHoffers

June 20, 2004_FolkFeet_EustonJames&Maimouna Keita_Fort Greene

Feb 5th, 2004_BCBC Concert_Whitman Theater

October 9th, 2003_Parade of Conjunto Nuevo Milenio_Panamanian_Franklin&Pacific

September 1, 2014 West Indian Day Parade

August 29, 2014: Kwe-Kwe Nite by The Guyanese Cultural Association (GCA)

April 27, 2014-TSS:ENCOUNTER WITH HINDU DEVOTIONAL SINGING

Music in Pakistan with Eric Alabaster

May 15, 2014:TSS "Sung Among Friends: Intimate Georgian and Yiddish Singing Traditions"

May 17, 2014-TSS:"Brooklyn Masters of Traditional Song"

May 14, 2014-TSS-"Haitian Encounter: Traditional Vodou Songs Collected by Georges Vilson"

May 11, 2014-TSS:"Mothersong: Traditional Singing By, For, and About Mothers"

May 10, 2014-TSS:"Persian Balkan Breakout! Brooklyn Singers Expanding Traditions"

May 8, 2014-TSS:"Ballads, Blues, and Banana Boat Songs"

May 3, 2014-TSS:"Pakistani Encounter: Midwood's Master Ghazal and Thumri Singers"

May 2, 2014-TSS:"Young Traditionalists: Rocking Their Roots (Pete Seeger Tribute Concert)

The Movement 4.25.14

Alive with Art 2014

April 26, 2014 -TSS: "Brooklyn's Sweetest Songs: A Traditional Song Sampler"

JustArts Photography Red Hook Community Justice Center, Spring 2014

New Photo Book

Sandy Tiles

Scene: Brooklyn 2013

Opening Reception: "For & About: Art & Reactions to Superstorm Sandy" at BAC Gallery

Opening Reception: "For & About: Art & Reactions to Superstorm Sandy" at BAC Gallery

Arts in Education 2013

Alive with Art Benefit 2013

BAC 2013 Community Arts Grantees

BAC Community Arts Grants Award Ceremony 2013

Art As Anecdote

Making Your Mark: On Paper

Support BAC

The Giglio Feast

Abby Goodman: The Wishing Tree Opening Reception at BAC Gallery

Funny Ha Ha

Women's Rites and Rituals

Girls Hit the Streets

Bachelorette Bash

A Woman Upfront Benefit Concert

All events for Scene: Brooklyn 2012

The Sweetest Song

Shorts Slam & Closing Night Party

Documentary Feature: The Iran Job

Feature Presentation: Red Legs

Green | Red

Shorts Program: Brooklyn in Brief

Miya Ando

Trevor Brown

Adrian Coleman

Elizabeth Corkery

Enid Crow

Karni Dorell

Karen Fitzgerald

Julia Forrest

Isabelle Garbani

Sheila Goloborotko

Callie Hirsch

Fay Ku

Anne Mourier

Caroline Mak, Chain Reaction

Rethinking Memorial 2011

Full Moon Storytelling Night: Folk Tales and Tellers from Guyana

The Tower's Tale

Great Brooklyn Storytelling Event

Stories in the Park

Garifuna Wonder Tales

Moonlight Tales in the Garden

Artichoke Dance Company

Changing Skins

Cine Crash Shorts & Closing Night Party

Scene: Brooklyn - Serious Lunch

Intra-Structure

BAC Regrant Award Ceremony 2011

The Brooklyn School of Black Visual Artists

Voices of the Elders

Brooklyn Night at the Apollo

BAC Gallery: 3 Points Define a Surface

Black Brooklyn Renaissance: The Next Generation

Toshi Reagon Event Photos

Brooklyn the Gospel Borough

AIE Assembly Programs

Vodou Brooklyn

Otto Neals & Emmett Wigglesworth Private Preview Reception

BAC AIE, A Year in Pictures

Otto Neals & Emmett Wigglesworth: Kindred Spirits Forging Forward

portrait painting on soul sunday--restoration

Carnival Masqueraders in Brooklyn

otto & emmett BAC GAllery show

Intergenerations: Randy Weston w/ Special Guests

BBR Fall Conference

Dance Kings of Black Brooklyn

Word Is Brooklyn

Haitian Bottle Exhibition with Vodou Drum and Dance Performance

Second Annual Heads Up A Soulful Celebration of Our HAIRitage

African Dance Brooklyn Style

African Dance Symposium 3/3/10

Black Brooklyn Drum Call

Weeksville DanceAfrica Pre-Opening

Hip Hop Hybrids

Regrant 2010

City Walls

Montego Joe

MBA

Icons of Brooklyn Jazz, April 7th 2010

Tribute to the Ancestors of the Middle Passage 2010

55-sould happening

I Park

Gala Images CO

Creative Outlet July 2

Juneteenth @ Brownsville Heritage house

City Walls

Scene:Brooklyn Events 2010

Lincoln Center Out of Doors Presents The Robert Glasper Experiment with Special Guests Q-Tip and Bilal José James' Blackmagic

Brooklyn Transformations (Outdoor Film Screening)

Preserving the Parade: Documenting the West Indian American Labor Day Carnival

21st Annual Tribute to Our Ancestors of the Middle Passage

Black Brooklyn Drum Call

Emancipation Day Celebration at Weeksville Heritage Center

39th Annual International African Arts Festival (IAAF)

Intergenerations: Toshi Reagon and Friends

Community Portrait Gallery

BAC Community Arts Regrant Awards Ceremony 2010

Something Positive

Sewaa Codrington

Baba Chuck Davis

MAWU

Baraka de Soleil

Afro-Mosaic Soul

Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater

Mickey Davis and Dancers

Conjunto Nuevo Milenio

Restoration Dance Theater Company

Brooklyn Jumbies

Camille A. Brown

Vado Diomande

2010 BCBC: African Dance/ Brooklyn Style

A Glitch Music Event

Alive With Art 2010 Auction Preview

Glitch Generation at BAC Gallery

Archival Photos from Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation

Black Brooklyn Renaissance Overview

Outdoor Concert: Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

Summer Arts Program

Autobiography of a Year

The 39th Annual International African Arts Festival

Youth Arts Academy - Dance and Drum Recital: A World of Wishes

Harlem Blues and Jazz Duo featuring Joey Morant

Souls of Our Feet: People of Color Dance FestivalSouls of Our Feet: People of Color Dance Festival

Noel Pointer Foundation - Summer Strings

Lalibela Living Opening Reception

Fiddlefest

The 17th Annual Red Hook Fest: Red Hook Front to Back

NPF Adjudication Competition

Noel Pointer Foundation Gala/Year End Event

2nd Annual Visual Arts Exhibit End of Year Celebration

Sisters in Sisterhood and I am My Brother Rites of Passage Ceremony

4th Annual Music Concert - Join in the Spirit of Living Culture

21st Annual Performing Arts Youth Presentation - "Soldiers of Love"

Medusa's Love Song

New York Style African Dance 2010

Eyewitness: Beautiful Black Brooklyn (Photo Exhibition)

Skylight Gallery Exhibition: Eclipsing Corporeality, Depictions of and Beyond the Body

Sewing/Knitting/Crochet - African American Traditions IN Effect

Open Studio: Bayo Iribhogbe

Grand Opening James E. Davis Multicultural Museum of Peace

The ENVIROMEDIA MOBILE SPRING/SUMMER EARTH FEST

Dend and H h h es: Afro-Brazilian Funk

Ordinary Wonderful featuring Trevor Brown

GCR Steel-Pan Music Awards 2010

Braggin' Rites Battles

Steve Cromity Quartet @ Two Steps Down

Sue Rock Originals - Free Needlearts Classes

Tanbou: Haitian Drumming Class

Pyramid Theory: the Art of Eugene Coles

Tap and Jazz Masters - Salon Series

ESP Live at the Sucre Café Jazz Lounge

Ashes to Oil Series 2010

History of the Afro-American in Maritime

Artists Speaking for the Spirits

Broadbelt: The Art of the Guitar Duo

Flutronix

Poets Passion: Cheryl Boyce Taylor

TIVOLI: A Place We Call Home

Winter Family Series

Evening Time: Three Artists. 3 Countries. On Page! On Screen! On Stage!

African Spirit Award Night

She's Brooklyn

Woman Thou Art…

African Dance/Brooklyn Style Symposium

Rites and Ceremonies of the Brooklyn African Diaspora Symposium

Shoot 2 Win

National Dance Theater Company of Jamaica

Poets Passion: Yolaine St. Forte

Stolen Waters Are Sweet

Let’s Crack Some Eggs

Icons of Brooklyn Jazz

Hip Hop Hybrids of Brooklyn

Poets Passion: Geoffrey Philp

Eco Soul

BKLN Soul Renaissance

Cal Massey Jazz Tribute

Foly: African Dance Master Classes

lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, rain will break: gukurahundi

BAM DanceAfrica Pre-Opening Activities

Poets Passion: Elizabeth Nunez, Tiphanie Yanique

Scene: Brooklyn at Galapagos Art Space 2009 Film Stills

Artlog Collect Dumbo Halloween Art Crawl

What is Dumbo?

September 11th Memorial Sing, 2009

Surfacing Beneath at BAC Gallery

Circle 'Round Dance Performances in Sunset Park

Circle 'Round Dance and Drum Jam

Dance in the Neighborhood: Sunset Park by Day

Dance in the Neighborhood: Bay Ridge by Night

Flying Over Red Hook Mural at PS 15

Scene: Brooklyn, May 2009

BAC 2009 Community Arts Regrant Awards Ceremony

Lingering Thoughts performance at BAC Gallery

Virgin of Sorrows

Foot Notes: Folk Feet Meet Modern Feet

Ukrainian Folk Vechornytsi

Norwegian and Levantine Dance Party/Hafla

Hoofin' it in the Hood

Clamoring to Become Visible at BAC Gallery

BAC's Alive with Art Benefit 2008

Ofrenda Altar and Chinese Buddhist Altar Dedication

All Souls’ Day “Symbols, Stories and Trumpets” at Green-Wood Cemetery

Alive with Art Auction Items

Art of Memory/Art of Memorial, 2005

September 11th Remembered in Film, 2007

Creative Cartographies at BAC Gallery

Folk Feet Workshops: Arab Social Dance

Here was New York, 2006

Circle 'Round 2008

2009 BAC Regrant

Euston James teaches Trinidadian Limbo and Calypso

Darrah Carr teaches Irish dance and cultural context.

Yasser Darwish teaches Egyptian Saidi.

OJJ Grant Program

BAC 2008 Directory Launch

Print Portfolio I

Print Portfolio II

Print Portfolio III

Polish Folk Dance

Ivory Coast West African Dance

Puerto Rican Bomba

The Many Feet of Folk Feet: Celebrating Traditional Dance and Culture.

BCBC 2007

BCBC 2006

BCBC 2005

BCBC 2004

Gender & Diaspora: Conflicts & Resolution

Circle 'Round 2007

Keeping Boundaries/ Breaking Barriers

Tarboosh Cafe

The Sweetest Song

Circle 'Round 2006

The Home Altar as ex-Voto: Living with the Sacred

Shaabi Shakedown

A Woman Upfront

Reinventing Arab Music

High Strung Women

Oud-Off I

Folk Feet Females

Learning to Listen II

Bay Mayn Mames Shitbele: The Women's Art of Yiddish Folksong

Learning to Listen I

Jazz Women Fusing Forms

Ladies Night

Cinderella in the Arab World

Roundtable

Girls Hit The Streets

Araborama

Women's Rite's & Rituals: The Art of Transformation

Answering the Call to Prayer

Drum It Down!

Diverse Traditions

Circle, Shimmy, Sway

Daniel Weiner

Melinda Gonzalez teaches Puerto Rican Bomba

Bachelorette Bash

Anderson Zaca

Brooklyn Maqam Begins

2012 BAC Community Arts Grant Recipients

Hotel 718 Artists

Atlantic Avenue

BAC Community Arts Grants Awards Ceremony 2012

Return, Remember, 2011

Bay Ridge