Classroom Management Stories and Strategies from the Field

Our Teaching Artists

3Bean Children's Theater Afro Brazil Arts All American Square Dancers Pamella Allen Raquel Almazon Dimitre Atanasov Paulette Attie Frisner Augustine Kevin Augustine Peter Barnett BCAT Cente... more

Past Exhibitions

The Line That Connects You To Me June 5 - August 28, 2008 New Media Installations April 24 - May 5, 2008 The Lack of Desire January 17 - April 11, 2008 Site Matters: Brooklyn Represents S... more

Performing Arts

DANCE The art of dance in any form offers students the opportunity to hone their coordination, focus, poise, and creativity, and to learn dedication, the value of hard work, and gain discipline and s... more

Profit vs. Nonprofit Arts Organizations: What's Right for You?

This workshop will provide information about the basic differences between profit and nonprofit entities, with a focus on the requirements for organizing LLCs and for-profit corporations, such as arti... more

REGRANT PROGRAM

Every year,The BAC Community Arts Regrant Program funds Brooklyn-based nonprofit organizations and artists in the areas of visual arts, film and video, photography, craft, folk arts, dance, music, ope... more

Rita Silva - Brazilian orixá movements

Rita Silva was born in Salvador, Bahia, in Northeastern Brazil, and brought up amid Afro-Brazilian traditions. An accomplished dancer and musician, Rita has performed with dance companies throughout B... more

SEMINARS FOR THE ARTS

As part of our technical assistance for artists and local arts groups, BAC offers free professional development seminars in the arts throughout the year. These programs are designed to help artists an... more

Sept. 11 Memorial Projects Archive

Beginning in 2005, BAC Folk Arts director Kay Turner initiated annual programming to commemorate September 11, 2001 and also to explore, document, and discuss various memorial traditions, especially t... more

Sherly St. Fort - Haitian dance

Sherley St. Fort grew up in Brooklyn, home to New York’s largest Haitian community, where she danced Hatian social dances like compas, traditional folkloric forms and popular Caribbean dances like zou... more

Shock-a-lock - Locking and street dance

Brooklyn-born and raised, Kevin (Shock-a-lock) Porter is an original locker who was instrumental in sparking the locking dance in New York City in the 70s. Locking is a style of isolated movement inno... more

Site Matters: Brooklyn Represents

*LMCC's 2004 publication "Site Matters: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Artists Residency Program in the World Trade Center, 1997-2001 is a publication which examines Manhattan as a site of creativ... more

Site Matters: Brooklyn Represents Open House and Performance

Site Matters: Brooklyn Represents Open House: Saturday, September 29, 1-4pm featuring Sheryl Oring performing I Wish to Say

Space Matters: Real Estate Opportunities for Arts Organizations

At a time when real estate is extremely limited for arts organizations due to high costs and high demand, this seminar provides information to Brooklyn community-based arts organizations on how to obt... more

Special Performance: Mending

As part of BAC Gallery's group exhibition The Line That Connects You To Me, and in conjunction with DUMBO First Thursday, artist and seer Annette Tacconelli presents the performance piece "Mending." ... more

Tamara Chernyakhovska - Ukranian folk dance

Tamara Chernyakhovska is a Brooklyn-based Ukrainian choreographer, teacher, and dancer. For fifteen years she was a principal dancer with the G. G. Veriovka Ukrainian National Dance Company of Kyiv, ... more

Teaching Artist Tools

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Televised Seminars

PAST EPISODES Profit vs. Nonprofit Arts Organizations: What's Right for you? Seminar Speaker: Sergio Sarmiento, Esq., Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts This workshop provides information about ... more

The Lack of Desire

The Lack of Desire January 17 - April 11, 2008 BAC Gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 218, Brooklyn Curator: Scott Henstrand OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, January 17th, 6-8 pm FIRST THURSDAY C... more

The Lack of Desire: Curatorial Discussion

Janet Thormann holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, with a focus on Old English and Middle English poetry. She teaches English composition and literature as well as ... more

The Line That Connects You to Me

ABOUT THE CURATOR Dana Gentile is an emerging Brooklyn-based artist and independent curator. She graduated with a BFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2003. She is currently the Assistant Director of th... more

Tiny Love (Razvan Gorea) - Breaking and electric boogie

Tiny Love (Razvan Gorea) and Guests Tiny Love is well-versed in several urban dance styles including waving, b-boying and uprock. He specializes in Electric Boogie, which features Popping, a technique... more

Websites 101: Design Your Own

Learn how to make a website to publicize your artwork. Become aware of design options when hiring a contractor to create your website. This seminar provides the basics to get you started: commonly use... more

Yasser Darwish - Egyptian folk dances

Yasser Darwish, a performer and teacher of Egyptian and Middle Eastern dance traditions, was born in Alexandia, Egypt. He became a member of the Alexandria Folk Dance Group and later joined the Nation... more