5 Dope Events Headed To BRIC House In Downtown Brooklyn
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BRIC, Brooklyn’s contemporary art, performing arts and community media programing center, that celebrates the borough’s creativity and diversity, is gearing up for a number of “can’t miss” events.
BRIC’s mission is to “advance access to and understanding of arts and media by presenting free and low-cost programming, and by offering education and other public programs to people of all ages.” Among some of the public programming coming in the next few weeks includes a concert from Slavic Soul Party!, a European, Mexican, and Asian style jazz group (yeah it’s a lot), a town hall stye interview with The Commons Choir, and a musical style play called The Sweetest Life.
See below the 5 dope events headed to BRIC and try to fit them all somewhere in your schedule:
Slavic Soul Party!
Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert
February 19 at 7:30pm
BRIC House Ballroom, FREE
Nine-member Balkan funk band Slavic Soul Party! delivers “some of the most danceable Balkan-flavored pop this side of the Adriatic.” A fiery mix of Balkan brass, accordion, virtuosic jazz, and pulsing grooves, SlavicSoul Party! is influenced by its members’ Eastern European, Mexican, and Asian roots, as well as American jazz and soul. This concert will also feature new works inspired by the song “Somewhere” from West Side Story and written by young people in the Brooklyn community in collaboration with Slavic Soul Party! as part of The Somewhere Project, a citywide creative learning project that honors Carnegie Hall’s 125th anniversary.
The Commons Choir: BROOKLYN REZOUND
Residency: Through Spring 2016
Led by choreographer Daria Faïn and poet Robert Kocik, The Commons Choir collectively sets our humanity’s troubles and highest ideals to song, movement and spoken word. BROOKLYN REZOUND is a new project that examines stories of displacement and entitlement throughout Brooklyn’s history and our aspirations toward the American Dream. What are we working toward and how does it change us? Using a collective creative process, the Choir uses voice and movement as links between art, health, and social change. This season BRIC will host the Choir in the first stages of creating BROOKLYN REZOUND, which will culminate in a dance and music performance in 2017.
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The Commons Choir: Public Interviews: Building the Glossary
February 16 – 20, 4 – 7pm
BRIC House Artist Studio, FREE w/ RSVP
Add your voice to the project by participating in an interview with The Commons Choir. Why did you come to Brooklyn? How does that aspiration translate into your life here? When you leave home for somewhere new, what are you working toward? What do you lose? How does it change you? Your words and gestures will help build a glossary of terms that form the foundation from which the performance will grow.
The Commons Choir: Voice & Movement Open Community Classes
Saturdays through March 19 – April 30, 10:30 – 12pm
BRIC House Gallery, FREE w/ RSVP
In this class, taught by master teaser Daria Faïn, participants will use sound and movement as a force for building health and connecting with others. Building on basic actions that explore what sound carries as emotion and where it lives in the body, the class will move from individual expression to fully embodied communication. Open to all levels of experience. Especially welcomes speakers of all languages.
BRIClab RESIDENCY: Stephanie Fleishmann & Saskia Lane
The Sweetest Life (work-in-progress)
March 18 & 19 at 7:30pm
BRIC House Artist Studio, $10 Adv | $14 Door
An adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen short story The Flax in sound and image, The Sweetest Life is a treatise on the loss of innocence and a riff on resilience and optimism in the face of suffering. Performed as a song cycle that draws from folk and contemporary traditions — moving from playful lullaby to stark rhythmic call — it is a meditation on transformation.
