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…
Bronx Memoir Project Workshop- "A Place to Stand: The Past and Present in Memoir Practice"
Poe Park Visitor Center
From Baca to Rodriguez, from Satrapi to Mártir, physical place serves as a kind of jumping off point for the writers of memoir and the readers that journey with them. In this workshop, we will explore the places that move stories forward and the histories we as writers carry from them. We will read…
Artist Sustainability Workshop - "Financial Literacy for Artists: Session 1"
The Bronx Brewery
Set yourself up with the knowledge to make good financial decisions in 2019! Designed and led by Creative Capital Awardee Amy Smith, a working artist with expertise in bookkeeping, budgeting, tax preparation, and financial management, this workshop is designed to better your financial management skills…
Cultural Assets Mapping Community Conversation at BAAD!
BAAD!
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…
Bronx Memoir Project Workshop - "Family Trouble: Writing about Family in Creative Nonfiction"
NYPL | Kingsbridge
Writing our lives often means writing about our families. Family is our first mirror and how we first define ourselves, and that’s why writing about them is one of the trickiest aspects of memoir writing. We can’t get away from these people and how they’ve shaped us, but how fair is it to put them…
Artist Sustainability Workshop - Kickstarter 101: Crowdfunding for Artists and Community-Centered Projects
Poe Park Visitor Center
From noted artists Pope. L to CTRL+SHFT to the Royal Academy of Arts, artists, collectives, and institutions crowdfund to galvanize their community and get their next project funded. Led by Kickstarter's Arts Outreach Specialist Daniel Sharp, discuss the tips, tricks, and lessons learned when framing…
Artist Sustainability Workshop - "Financial Literacy for Artists: Session 2"
The Bronx Brewery
Set yourself up with the knowledge to make good financial decisions in 2019! Designed and led by Creative Capital Awardee Amy Smith, a working artist with expertise in bookkeeping, budgeting, tax preparation, and financial management, this workshop is designed to better your financial management skills…
Cultural Assets Mapping Community Conversation at the Parkchester NYPL
Parkchester NYPL
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…
Bronx Memoir Project - On Language: Breaking Down the Barrier
NYPL | Kingsbridge
Language is always shifting, mutating, and expanding, and the way we all talk depends on influences from languages other than English--this is especially true for those of us who are bilingual or multilingual. Incorporating bilingual elements is more than just a flourish. In this workshop, we will explore…
Feelings of Home: Folk Culture and Memory Exhibition
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
History and expression are experienced through movement, textiles, clothing, and other modes of representation that intersect with day-to-day experience. Feelings of Home explores this idea, centering local dancers, textile artists, and game-makers, among others, who work to preserve collective memory…
Opening Reception- Feelings of Home: Folk Culture and Memory Exhibition
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
History and expression are experienced through movement, textiles, clothing, and other modes of representation that intersect with day-to-day experience. Feelings of Home explores this idea, centering local dancers, textile artists, and game-makers, among others, who work to preserve collective memory…
Bronx Memoir Project Workshop - On Location: Bronx Stand Up!
NYPL Mott Haven
One of the best ways to bring a reader into the world of your writing is to create an immersive setting. In this workshop, we will look at different techniques for establishing a sense of place, both by capturing concrete details of an environment and by focusing on the ways that place influences voice,…
Bronx Memoir Project Workshop - "When the Muse is Muscle & Memory"
Poe Park Visitor Center
Our eyes whisper truths, our lungs scream sorrows and our feet straddle and strut between the past and the present. Our bodies are vessels for storytelling. This generative writing workshop led by Peggy Robles-Alvarado, open to all genres and all writing levels, pulls at memories we carry within our…