ShowcaseBlack Brooklyn Renaissance: Black Arts and Culture 1960-2010: Tell us YOUR Traditions
BAC Folk Arts invites Brooklynites to share your knowledge of local traditions to broaden the scope of our project Black Brooklyn Renaissance: 1960-2010.
Brooklyn Arts Council, in partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, welcomes you to participate in our archive and documentation of Black Brooklyn Renaissance: Black Arts and Culture 1960-2010. This landmark, year-long project running from February 2010-February 2011 includes an oral history project and an archive.
We’ve prepared a brief on-line questionnaire to get you started. Fill in all the fields marked with an asterisk *
*Name:
*Address:
*Phone:
*Email:
How long have you lived in Brooklyn?
Were you born in Brooklyn?
What Brooklyn Afro-diasporic community are you a member of or familiar with (e.g. Haitain, African-American)?
What Brooklyn-based arts practices or artists of the African diaspora are you knowledgeable about? Choose as many as you have information on:
- Verbal (spoken word, oral history, etc.)
- Music (Gospel, blues, jazz, hip-hop, etc.)
- Other traditional music (bomba, calypso, etc.)
- African drumming and other percussion styles
- Theater
- Food
- Visual arts
- Ceremonies or rituals
- Dance
What documentation can you provide:
- Photos
- Copies of texts (family records, song lyrics, etc.)
- Recordings
- Video
Describe content briefly. (For recordings please provide format, such as cassette, CD, etc.)
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May we upload video and recorded materials to our website?
- yes
- no
May we contact you for interview purposes?
- yes
- no
Do you need to make an appointment with Black Brooklyn Renaissance Project Director Kay Turner to discuss traditions you know, or to bring in materials (documents, photos, etc.) to be scanned for our website?
- yes
- no
Do you want to tell us about black Brooklyn artists or other knowledgeable people we should contact?
Name(s):
Phone number(s):
E-mail address(es):
Thank you! For further information contact Kay Turner at folkarts@brooklynartscouncil.org or 718-625-0080 ext 229.
