Cultural Heritage
Brooklyn Arts Council’s Cultural Heritage program works with folk and traditional artists, and the communities which recognize them, to preserve and present arts expressive of the borough’s diverse living heritage—folk song, storytelling, social dance, foodways, material culture, and more.
BRINGING J’OUVERT TO THE FOREFRONT
This initiative aims to create sustainable tourism, apprenticeship, and career opportunities around Brooklyn's J'Ouvert celebration and parade by providing job skills training to artists to seek employment as tour guides, teaching artists, and skilled tradespeople.
Past Projects
Traditional, ethnic, and diaspora arts express and preserve cultural custom, history, memory, and identity.
Cultural heritage Archive
Five centuries of creative traditions, three decades of thorough preservation. Explore the Cultural Heritage Archive.