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Randy Weston Trio with special guests at the Cantor auditorium in the Brooklyn Museum, part of Black Brooklyn Renaissance program Photo: Etienne Frossard
Black Brooklyn Renaissance Digital Archive
02/15/12
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Randy Weston Trio with special guests at the Cantor auditorium in the Brooklyn Museum, part of Black Brooklyn Renaissance program Photo: Etienne Frossard
Black Brooklyn Renaissance, Black Arts & Culture, 1960 - 2010, was a landmark, year-long event series presented by Brooklyn Arts Council in partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation from February 2010-2011. Through over 30 concerts, performances, exhibitions, screenings, lectures, workshops, and other public programs, Black Brooklyn Renaissance brought to light and celebrated how Black artists have contributed to the Brooklyn's significance as a center of Black culture in New York since 1960. An accompanying oral history project recorded interviews with over 80 Brooklyn artists, community leaders, and other people who have played influential roles in Brooklyn’s Afro-Diasporic cultural community over the last 50 years.
Brooklyn Arts Council created a digital archive documenting all of the BAC produced events and interviews held during the year-long series, which will be deposited at Brooklyn Arts Council as well as following public institutions:
Brooklyn Arts Council created a digital archive documenting all of the BAC produced events and interviews held during the year-long series, which will be deposited at Brooklyn Arts Council as well as following public institutions:
- Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
- Brooklyn College Library
- Brooklyn Public Library
- Brooklyn Historical Society
- Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Medgar Evers College
- American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
Black Brooklyn Renaissance Digital Archive Release Reception
Wednesday, February 15
6:30-8pm
Brooklyn Public Library, Central
Grand Army Plaza, 2nd Floor
A reception to celebrate the release of the Black Brooklyn Renaissance Digital Archive hosted by the Brooklyn Collection of the Brooklyn Public Library. BAC Folk Arts Director, Kay Turner, who conceived and directed production of the archive, will present the archive’s content and show excerpts.
Space is limited. RSVP required by Friday, February 10, to Kay Turner, bacfolkarts@brooklynartscouncil.org or call 718-625-0080 x229
Wednesday, February 15
6:30-8pm
Brooklyn Public Library, Central
Grand Army Plaza, 2nd Floor
A reception to celebrate the release of the Black Brooklyn Renaissance Digital Archive hosted by the Brooklyn Collection of the Brooklyn Public Library. BAC Folk Arts Director, Kay Turner, who conceived and directed production of the archive, will present the archive’s content and show excerpts.
Space is limited. RSVP required by Friday, February 10, to Kay Turner, bacfolkarts@brooklynartscouncil.org or call 718-625-0080 x229
The Black Brooklyn Renaissance digital archive is formatted as playable DVDs, for use in compatible DVD players and computers, and audio CDs, where indicated.
Because limited copies of the Black Brooklyn Renaissance Digital Archive are being given to institutional libraries and archives, public access, while not restricted, must be gained by appointment with the institution any individual wants to visit. Institutions will have their own protocols and visitors need to call or e-mail in advance. .
Click here to access the Black Brooklyn Renaissance Online Events Archive.
Please contact Kay Turner, BAC Folk Arts Director at kturner@brooklynartscouncil.org for more information on how to access the archive beginning on February 15th, 2011.
Because limited copies of the Black Brooklyn Renaissance Digital Archive are being given to institutional libraries and archives, public access, while not restricted, must be gained by appointment with the institution any individual wants to visit. Institutions will have their own protocols and visitors need to call or e-mail in advance. .
Click here to access the Black Brooklyn Renaissance Online Events Archive.
Please contact Kay Turner, BAC Folk Arts Director at kturner@brooklynartscouncil.org for more information on how to access the archive beginning on February 15th, 2011.
With such a large collection, we realize there may be omissions in the documentation. Visit the corrections page for more information.
Press Release
> BBR_Archive_Release_Announcement.pdf (104.149 kb)
> BBR_Archive_Release_Announcement.pdf (104.149 kb)
Black Brooklyn Renaissance is sponsored by Metlife Foundation.
Black Brooklyn Renaissance programs were made possible by support from American Express, Con Edison, National Endowment for the Arts, Brooklyn Community Foundation, Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, Park Avenue Building and Roofing Supplies, LLC, Concord Baptist Christfund, The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, V.I.M., Astoria Federal Savings, Carver Federal Savings Bank, and New York Council for the Humanities. Additional support was 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 107.5.
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