2017 marks the 37th year that BAC has been providing this service to Brooklyn’s artists, cultural ambassadors, arts organizations and communities. BAC Community Arts Grants provide the indispensable service of putting our city and state cultural dollars directly into the hands of the artists and organizations, encouraging the kind of cultural and artistic engagement that has helped make Brooklyn a world-wide destination for arts and culture.
BAC celebrates its grantees in a public ceremony on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at Brooklyn Borough Hall.
For our list of 2017 Panelists, click here.
Funded by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA).
DANCE
Annie Wang
Hyperspace Dance Marigram
Dance Caribbean COLLECTIVE
New Traditions Festival 2017
Flex Program
FlexIN - FlexOUT
Hadar Ahuvia
Joy Vey
Jamel Gaines' Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn
Remembering
Persephone
My Brooklyn My Arts
Suku Dance Lab
Me Hago Falta
FILM
ActNow Foundation, Inc.
New Voices in Black Cinema
Caribbean Film Academy
Caribbean Film Series
Carolyn A. Butts-Schmalenberger
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series
Chivas DeVinck
The Poets
Lizzie Olesker & Lynne Sachs
EVERY FOLD MATTERS
The Black TV & Film Collective
Make Your Web Series Brooklyn
Yasmin Mistry
Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project (FCFCEP)
FOLK ARTS
Cheryl ~The Gourd Lady~
Thomas Make & Play Shekere Workshop
James Lovell
Garifuna Language Preservation and Performance with Music
Reggie Gray
The D.R.E.A.M. RING (Dance Rules Everything Around Me)
Wafa Ghnaim
Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora
INTERDISCIPLINARY
Artifacts From Soulville
Briar Patch Sculptures
David Goren
The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map
Glasshouse
The Neo-Domesticity Performance Festival
Kevin Augustine's Lone Wolf Tribe
BODY CONCERT
Nicole Shanté White
Another Goddamn Lesbian Movie
OlaRonke Akinmowo
The Free Black Women's Library
Peter Burr
Aria End
Place in History
Acreopolis Enterprises
RUSTY ZIMMERMAN
The Free Portrait Project
LITERARY
Apogee Journal
Writing in the Margins
Gary Glazner
Alzheimer's Poetry Project
JP Howard aka Juliet P. Howard
Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon (WWBPS) Literary Salon & Open Mic Series
Rebecca Gee/The Writers Studio KW ("kids write")
The Writers Studio KW ("kids write") creative writing workshops for high school students
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY
Arts Gowanus Art
Activism, & Civic Dialogue Festival
Dawn J. Fraser
Barbershop Stories - Podcast
Jesse Phillips-Fein & Shanté Paradigm Smalls
The Work of Imaging: Art in the Age of "Apocalypse"
Mariel Berger/The Moon Show
The Moon Show
Sinking Ship Productions
Puppet Playlist
STooPS
STooPS 2017
The Octavia Project
The Octavia Project Summer Program
Underwater New York
Underwater New York
MUSIC
Brooklyn Raga Massive
Brooklyn Raga Massive Weekly Concert and Jam Session
Building Beats
Building Beats Remix Workshops
Coney Island Reggae On The Boardwalk
Coney Island Reggae On The Boardwalk
Danielle Brown
My Music, My Culture: The Caribbean Diaspora in Brooklyn
Feed Your Mind Music
Music Matters Workshops
Kaoru Watanabe
JO | HA | KYU
Mara Mayer
Home Audio performance series
PLG Arts
PLG Arts Jazz at KD's
Quest Youth Organization, Inc.
Youth Jazz Jamboree Competition
Toni Blackman
The Cypher Summit
Yacine Boulares
AJOYO's creative residency at Bar Lunatico
THEATRE
Honest Accomplice Theatre
The Birds and the Bees: Unabridged @ Brooklyn College
Live Source Theatre Group
AS I LAY DYING Workshop Production
LoftOpera
Rossini's Otello
Maaa Theater
The Little Black Fish
Oye Group
Shake On The Block
Polybe + Seats
The Art of Hijab, Kohl Black, and the Right Way to Pray
Rooted Theater Co.
A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Romulus Linney based on a novel by Ernest J. Gaines
Samara Gaev/Truthworker Theatre Company
RE:VISION | A State of Emergence
Spiderwoman Theater
Fear of Oatmeal
The Habitat Theater Company
The Directors Playground Playoffs
The Light Fantastic Theater Company
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE for Brooklyn
VISUAL ARTS
Anne LaFond
Window Studio Community Art Center
Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk
8th Annual Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk
Black Girls Sew
Sew Green Fashion Camp
Fulton Art Fair, Inc.
Fulton Art Fair Artist Lounge
Jahlel Goodwin-Blackman
JG Blackman: Through My Eyes
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
Mfon: A Journal of Women Photographers of the African Diaspora
Linda Herritt
Grease Rust Soot Sweat
Nancy Siesel
Boro Park Project
Sarah Nicholls
Jamaica Bay Pamphleteering Project
Wayfarers
Summer Artist in Residence and Exhibition
For more information about Brooklyn Arts Fund
Funded by the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams and NYC & Company Foundation.
Arts Gowanus
Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk (SAW)
Brooklyn Raga Massive
Building Beats
Coney Island History Project
FiveMyles
Fort Greene Park Conservancy
Haiti Cultural Exchange
Jack Arts, Inc.
Live Source Theatre Group
Lotus Creations Academy of Performing Arts, Inc.
NURTUREart
NY Writers Coalition
Open Source Gallery
PUPPETRY ARTS
ShapeShifter Plus
Smack Mellon
Steps Theatre & Production Company
Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center
Triangle Arts Association LTD.
For more information about Destination>Brooklyn
Funded by the Decentralization Program of New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
DANCE
Artichoke Dance Company
Global Water Dances on the Gowanus Canal
Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation
Art is Alive
Brighton Ballet Theater
2017 Nutcracker and World of Dance Youth Performances
Cora Dance
The Cora School for Dance
Dance Caribbean COLLECTIVE
New Traditions Festival 2017
FILM
The Caribbean Film Academy
Caribbean Film Series
The Brooklyn Chapter of The Links & Salute to Youth Inc.
16th Annual Women of African Descent Film Festival & Youth Film Festival
FOLK
Polish American Folk Dance Company
End of Season Concert
Victor Sirelson
Lecture Demonstration on Dance and Music of Georgia
Wafa Ghnaim
Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY
RUSTY ZIMMERMAN
The Free Portrait Project
STooPS
STooPS 2017
The Arab-American Family Support Center
Traditional Arts Youth Program
MUSIC
Brooklyn Raga Massive
Brooklyn Raga Massive Weekly Concert and Jam Session
Building Beats
Building Beats Remix Workshops
Feed Your Mind Music
Music Matters Workshops
Fort Greene Park Conservancy
Fort Greene Park Jazz Festival
Grace Chorale of Brooklyn
Songs of Spring
PERFORMING ARTS
East New York Farms!
Connecting Arts and Food Justice
THEATRE
LoftOpera Rossini's
Otello
Polybe + Seats
The Art of Hijab, Kohl Black, and the Right Way to Pray
Smith Street Stage
Shakespeare in Carroll Park
Spellbound Theatre
Family Outreach Programs
VISUAL ARTS
Amanda Patenaude and Fort Greene Park Concervancy
Fort Greene Park Glass Mosaic
Anne LaFond
Window Studio Community Art Center
Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk
8th Annual Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk
Interference Archive
Protect! Fight! Heal!
Young New Yorkers
Our Voices: Ongoing Courtroom Exhibitions
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