BRIC Announces Over 30 FREE Events Focused On Film, Dance & Contemporary Art
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BRIC, the leading presenter of free cultural programming in Brooklyn, has officially announced their Summer 2016 program, featuring over 30 FREE events focused on film, dance and contemporary art. With offerings ranging from evening concerts to daytime family programming, BRIC House has quickly become one of New York City’s most inviting and accessible spaces to experience the arts and this summer has some serious planned programming.
See full summer schedule below with events across the borough:
CONTEMPORARY ART
Contemporary Art programming at BRIC spotlights emerging and mid-career artists of exceptional talent, reflecting the diversity of Brooklyn.
GALLERY AT BRIC HOUSE
Look up here, I’m in heaven
June 30 – August 14
Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 29, 7-9pm
Gallery at BRIC House Gallery, FREE
Featuring paintings, works on paper, and mixed-media work by David Antonio Cruz, Yashua Klos, Tschabalala Self, and Yoon Ji Seon, Look up here, I’m in heaven will focus on work by artists who construct portraits using unconventional media and pictorial formats. While race, cultural identity, and contemporary realities are central elements of the work on view, these artists create imagery that transcends the here and now to establish a more transcendent sense of self. Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, Vice President of Contemporary Art, and Jenny Gerow, Assistant Curator
In conjunction with the exhibition, a series of performance art, music, and dance programs will take place in the gallery. All are FREE w/ RSVP, on Wednesday nights at 7pm.
July 6: An Evening of Performance Art
Performances by exhibition artists David Antonio Cruz, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, and David Thomson
July 20: Panel Discussion
Join artists from Look Up Here, I’m in Heaven, including David Antonio Cruz and Tschabalala Self, as they talk about themes and subjects addressed in the exhibition and their individual work.
July 27: A performance by Dancing While Black *is this confirmed? Wasn’t when I left for vacation.
Aug 03: An evening of music with Brooklyn Raga Massive: Africa Meets India
Artist collective Brooklyn Raga Massive presents an innovative convergence of classical Indian raga melody and traditional Zimbabwean song.
Aug 10: Summer Art Social
Celebrate the summer with BRIC’s contemporary art program. Join us for an evening of performance and music, celebrating the work of multiple visual artists. The evening will include open studios with our summer artists-in-residence, performance art, a tour of the exhibition on view, and an open-mic tribute to shape-shifters Prince and David Bowie. Snacks, refreshments and a cold treat will be served.
Additional programming: Throughout this installation there will be Friday Lunchtime Yoga & Live Music with Bend & Bloom (July 8 – August 12, 1-2pm) FREE with RSVP
PROJECT ROOM AT BRIC HOUSE
Trokon Nagbe: Communion
June 30 – August 14
Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 29, 7-9pm
Trokon Nagbe is a Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist and former BRIC Visual Artist in Residence who was born in Liberia, West Africa. Marrying performance and sculpture, Nagbe’s large-scale works on paper and plastic are ripped, burned, and chewed to the point where the resulting object expresses both the destructive energy as well as fragile state of one’s body and soul. His installation in the Project Room will include sculpture, sound, and video.
This installation is conceived in dialog with the concurrent gallery exhibition Look up here, I’m in heaven.
BRIC HALLWAY COMMISION
Tai Hwa Goh: Leaks
June 6 – August 21
Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 29, 7-9pm
Tai Hwa Goh creates brightly colored, delicately layered installations from hand-printed paper. The title of her installation, Leaks, references the unintended and therefore undesired openings for fluid to escape a container. Leaks can also be seen as the point where the contents of a container and exterior material can be exchanged. For her installation at BRIC, Tai Hwa Goh uses BRIC House as a metaphorical body or container of the brimming creative minds of the people that walk its halls and inhabit its spaces. Her installation is an open expression of the intended leaks at BRIC House: the emotions, creativity, and paradigms that the hallway struggles to contain.
The installation is conceived in dialog with the concurrent gallery exhibition Look up here, I’m in heaven.
PERFORMING ARTS
Performing Arts programming at BRIC features a wide array of music, dance, theatre and inter-disciplinary residencies and performances.
How We Got to the Funk
Monday, July 25, 7:15-9:15pm
BRIC House Ballroom, FREE with RSVP
Co-presented with Urban Bush Women
This social dance class and dance party, led by Urban Bush Women’s Founder and Visioning Partner Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, is a fun, participatory examination of history through the lens of African American social dances from 1955 through the present. No experience required.
BRIC TV
BRIC TV is an award-winning cable TV channel and digital network created by BRIC and based in its state-of-the-art media facilities in downtown Brooklyn. With an audience of influential tastemakers and a reach of millions, we are the voice of the borough — reflecting the best that Brooklyn has to offer and telling Brooklyn’s story to itself and the world at large. BRIC TV is Brooklyn without boundaries. Programming airs live on (Time Warner Cable 756, Cablevision 70, Verizon 46 and live-stream) and posts to YouTube daily.
BHeard Town Hall
June 14, 7-9PM, FREE with RSVP
Topic – Pride 20/20: LGBTQ Civil Rights
During national Gay Pride Month, BRIC TV joins forces with Housing Works in creating a powerful dialogue around LGBTQ rights over the next four years. Panelists include: Councilman Ritchie Torres, Buzzfeed News writer, Meredith Talusan, Ali Forney Center executive, Carl Siciliano and many more.
B-Side
Most Thursdays at 7:30PM
FREE with RSVP
BRIC TV’s live intimate, in-studio music series, featuring performances from Brooklyn’s hottest emerging and established musicians. Come sit in the studio and get lost in sound.
June 2: Huntertones
June 9: Strange Names
June 16: Sid Sriram
June 23: Kendra Foster
June 30: Ohene Cornelius
July 7: George Clanton
July 14: Arlene Gould
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July 28: Higher Energy
INTERSECTIONS
BRIC presents programming that crosses the borders of art, performance and media.
BRIC FLIX
A free film screening and conversation series that presents premieres, shorts, new media projects, and web series that all reflect the diversity and vibrancy of Brooklyn. Each screening is followed by a discussion with the filmmakers, artists, curators, and more. FREE with RSVP.
TropiChat: Latin-o-American, the Brooklyn Edition
June 15, 7PM, FREE with RSVP
BRIC House Stoop
This is a special edition of the conversational series, TropiChat featuring Latino filmmakers that call Brooklyn home. The event will bring together some key representative local Latino filmmakers to engage in a critical dialogue about film practices, professional challenges, identity labels, and what it means to be a Latino filmmaker in New York in 2016.
Afripedia x New York
July 19, 7PM, FREE with RSVP
BRIC House Stoop
Afripedia x New York captures some of the most creative minds in fashion, music, film, and more in New York City. This event will feature short films from Senegalese photographer Delphine Diallo, Ethiopian editor Missla Libsekal from Another Africa and Somalian/Australian world champion hoop master Marawa.
Brooklyn Poetry Slam
July 11, 7pm, FREE with RSVP
BRIC House Stoop
Hosts Mahogany L. Browne and DJ Jive Poetic showcase local poets who will be participating in the 2016 National Poetry Slam. Come send-off these poets in style, and celebrate the Brooklyn Slam Team. There will also be open mic.
BROOKLYN FREE SPEECH
Brooklyn Free Speech is a premiere, state-of-the-art media center where filmmakers, television artists, and organizations come to learn and create innovative media. Every week we showcase over 650 hours of TV shows, film, and shorts created by Brooklyn-based community producers that reflect their perspectives on the world. Watch in Brooklyn on Cablevision, Time Warner, and RCN; watch in all five boroughs on Verizon FiOS; watch online at BRICartsmedia.org/BFS
B SCENE
B Scene is a film and television screening series that showcases community produced work curated by BRIC. We proudly join Weeksville Weekends to present work that is reflective of Brooklyn’s media makers in a way that is uniquely Brooklyn Free Speech
B Scene @ Weeksville
June 11, 2-3.30pm, FREE with RSVP
Weeksville Heritage Center
158 Buffalo Avenye, Brooklyn NY 11213
Theme: The Legacy of Community Media
Join Brooklyn Free Speech as we celebrate the legacy of community media by hosting our first open call screening got crowdfunded, community-produced shorts. Anthony Riddle,, BRIC’s Director of Community Media will be a featured panelist and speak about the culture and future of access.
B Scene @ The Bishop
August 29, 3-9pm, FREE with RSVP
The Bishop Gallery (916 Bedford Ave)
Theme: Dating & Relationships
BScene at The Bishop presents “It’s Complicated” Dating and Relationships in 2016. In the new age of technology, how do we navigate through the dating scene. This media screening series will feature discussions about dating and relationships with a diverse panel of media makers, an author, relationship experts, and of course you, the audience.
MEDIA EDUCATION
BRIC offers high-quality, free and low-cost media education courses that give you the tools you need to navigate the ever-changing world of media and technology. With courses ranging from television studio production to video editing, you’ll gain valuable production skills so that you can create your own television show and/or web series.
Media Education Launch Event
June 14, 1-3pm, FREE with RSVP
BPL DeKalb Branch
790 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11221
BRIC celebrates the expansion of our media education partnership with the Brooklyn Public Library. This event will mark the launch of these new services at the DeKalb branch of the library.
Media Education Orientation Sessions
June 7 – August 2, FREE with RSVP
BRIC House
June 7 6:30-8:30pm
June 18 11am-1pm
July 5 6:30-8:30pm
July 23 11am-1pm
August 2 6:30-8:30pm
BRIC Media Talks
These inspiring talks feature professional producers, directors, documentary filmmakers, editors, and new media producers sharing their perspectives and stories with the community.
Media Talk: Interview Techniques with Sally Herships
July 28, 6:30pm, FREE with RSVP
BPL Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn NY 11238
Media Talk: Innovative New Technologies
August 16, 6pm, FREE with RSVP
BRIC House
Visit BRICArtsMedia.org to RSVP and to get more information.
