02/04/10 - 06/25/10
BAC Gallery Presents 2008 NYFA Fellows
When: Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 6:30pm Where: BAC Gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 218 (alt. entrance at 55 Washington St.)
Touma grew up singing traditional Lebanese songs at parties, festivals and with his school choir in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. As a teenager, Touma enrolled in Tripoli’s music conservator... more
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FEBRUARY Sunday, February 28, 2-5pm African Dance/ Brooklyn Style Presented by BAC... more
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Performance with Hassan Hakmoun and Mohammed Bechar ... more
Three documentary films explore some of the most important issues facing Brooklyn and its residents today. From gentrification to the subprime mortgage crisis, intimate accounts from those affected sh... more
Calling all Brooklyn Filmmakers! Scene: Brooklyn invites you to join us for our first filmmakers meet up of the new year. Enjoy drink specials, music videos and short films by Brooklyn-based filmm... more
Brooklyn Museum, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
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Brooklyn Maqam Begins: Dance and Music from the Arab World
Presented by BAC Folk Arts, Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival is a rare opportunity to experience the remarkable variety of Arab music traditions that flourish throughout the metro area! WHEN: Su... more
Brooklyn Transformations (Outdoor Film Screening)
An outdoor screening of shorts by Brooklyn filmmakers, with many that focus on issues affecting Black Brooklyn and African-Americans. Fiction and documentary films explore dying industries, gentrifica... more
Brooklyn’s Maqam: Reinventing Arab Music in the Borough
Presented by BAC Folk Arts, Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival is a rare opportunity to experience the remarkable variety of Arab music traditions that flourish throughout the metro area! WHEN: Fri... more
Brooklyn’s Maqam: Reinventing Arab Music in the Borough
Friday, March 7 BAM Cafe at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 9:00-10:30pm
The legendary Brooklyn jazz composer Cal Massey is celebrated with performances by Fred Ho’s Afro-Asian Jazz Ensemble and the Brooklyn College Jazz Band with Salim Washington. Presented by the H. ... more
Call For Proposals: City Walls
Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC), in partnership with the MetroTech BID seeks proposals for artwork to be installed on construction fences in downtown Brooklyn. Proposed works should have strong visual im... more
Yehezkel Zion, born in Jerusalem, is of Iraqi descent and comes from a very musically talented Baghdad family. His father was a singer and drummer and his siblings, all living in Israel, practice musi... more
Born in Lebanon, Fakhoury studied classical guitar at the Conservatoire of Lebanon. He later picked up electric guitar, inspired by Omar Khoshid, famous for integrating electric guitar into the stand... more
Carnival Masqueraders in Brooklyn
This exhibition featured a photographic essay by Anthony Bonair that chronicles Carnival in Brooklyn from 1974 to 1994, showcasing examples of costumes and Carnival music alongside Mr. Bonair’s images... more
Cultural after School Adventures (CASA), a citywide after-school arts enrichment program led by New York City Council’s Committee on Cultural Affairs, just completed its fifth year. CASA offers a ric... more
CASYM Steel Pan Orchestra performs the rhythms and sounds of the steel drum that are an integral part of the rich cultural heritage of the Caribbean Islands of Trinidad and Tobago. CASYM has performed... more
FIRST THURSDAY EVENTS Thursday, November 3, 6:30–8:30pm Art/is/an/Eating tasting event featuring local, artist-made food items Thursday, December 1, 6:00 - 8:30pm Dispense/Re-Spool, a dual cha... more
Classroom Management Stories and Strategies from the Field
This seminar, presented by BAC's Arts in Education program, is aimed at teaching artists of all disciplines. Many teaching artists are faced with the challenge of maintaining an attentive and engag... more
Presented by BAC Folk Arts, Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival is a rare opportunity to experience the remarkable variety of Arab music traditions that flourish throughout the metro area! WHEN: Fri... more
Friday, March 28 Tarboosh Cafe 9:00pm-Midnight
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