BCA Presents Foreign/Familiar: Immigrants in the Bronx
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
Foreign/Familiar explores displacement and belonging through the work of seven Bronx visual and media artists. Their works are influenced, inspired, respond to, or revolve around issues of voluntary and involuntary exile, immigration, diaspora, and statelessness. Curated collectively by the Bronx Council…
BCA Presents Home with America: A Virtual Reality (VR) Reunion
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
Home with América is an interactive room-scale VR documentary created by Family Reunions Project founder, Alvaro M Morales. Home with América is an initiative producing personalized VR experiences to virtually transport undocumented immigrant families to the homes they cannot return to. A…
Bronx Memoir Project Workshop - "Subject Yourself"
Poe Park Visitor Center
Memoir tends to be about the person writing, in some way, ourselves. And while this may seem obvious, it doesn’t always account for who we mean when discussing ourselves. Do we mean oneself as we exist here and now? How we remember ourselves ten years ago? Or maybe just as importantly, how we appear…
Cultural Assets Mapping Community Conversation at the Bronx Documentary Center
The Bronx Documentary Center
These meetings will provide an opportunity for Bronx residents to hear about BCA’s new cultural assets mapping initiative, as well as an opportunity for BCA to learn from community members about your needs and priorities around arts and culture. We look to you – our Bronx community members – to…
Artist Sustainability Workshop - "How to Prepare a CV, Artist Statement, and Bio"
Mott Haven Bar & Grill
Teaching Artist Natalie Caro will review various CV formats used in the arts market and establish areas of focus alongside participants, as well as facilitate peer review/editing sessions. Participants will learn how to to extract key information from their CVs to build their artist statements and bios.…
Artist Sustainability Workshop - "Proposal Writing Basics"
Bronx Draft House
Noted writer and 2013 BRIO winner Natalie Caro will instruct workshop participants on the various components of project proposal submission. She will offer helpful tips and shed insight into writing persuasively to convince potential stakeholders that your project is worthy of their time and money. This…
Cultural Assets Mapping Community Conversation at the Point CDC
The Point CDC
These meetings will provide an opportunity for Bronx residents to hear about BCA’s new cultural assets mapping initiative, as well as an opportunity for BCA to learn from community members about your needs and priorities around arts and culture. We look to you – our Bronx community members – to…
BCA Presents Foreign/Familiar: Immigrants in the Bronx
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
Foreign/Familiar explores displacement and belonging through the work of seven Bronx visual and media artists. Their works are influenced, inspired, respond to, or revolve around issues of voluntary and involuntary exile, immigration, diaspora, and statelessness. Curated collectively by the Bronx Council…
