BRIC ARTS MEDIA PRESENTS "BROOKLYN GOES TO THE OSCARS" ON FEBRUARY 18

February 18, 2014 · 7:00 PM

BRIC House Stoop

FREE

Brooklyn goes to the Oscars with this Stoop Series featuring nominated films selected by Filmwax Radio’s Adam Schartoff.

Filmwax Radio is a 30-minunte program on BBox (Brooklyn Community Radio) that consists of interviews with folks from the Brooklyn indie film scene. Schartoff, a long time resident of Brooklyn, is founder and programmer Filmwax.

BRIC’s Stoop Series illuminates the arts and life around us in Brooklyn through artistic performances and presentations, framed by dynamic conversations with some of the city’s most innovative artists, thinkers, and tastemakers. Programs will explore the performing arts, film, media, visual arts, spoken word, and other creative fields. Engage with of the most innovative artistic voices in Brooklyn's ever-expanding cultural scene on the monumental interior stoop of BRIC House, Brooklyn's new home for the arts in downtown Brooklyn. Free, on most Tuesday nights.

OTHER UPCOMING "STOOP SERIES" EVENTS:

February 25: The Shed Storytelling Salon
March 4: Into the Loop: Friendly Falcons
March 25: Bklyn Artisanal Army
April 29: Real Characters


BRIC Arts | Media House
647 Fulton St.
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Tel: 718.683.5600
Fax: 718.802.9095
Email: bric@BRICartsmedia.org

Subway to BRIC House:

2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins St
B, Q, R to Dekalb Ave
C to Lafayette Ave
G to Fulton
Steps from the Atlantic Terminal and the Long Island Railroad

BRIC HOUSE PARTY THIS SAT FEB 8: FIND YOUR WOW FACTOR, FEAT. CHERYL and BUSHWIG

2 PM | FREE DAYTIME ACTIVITIES


8 PM | Dance Party featuring CHERYL and Bushwig $10 Adv / $13 Door


Find your WOW factor, as BRIC celebrates individuality and imagination with a host of all-ages activities. Dance the night away with performers from Bushwig, Brooklyn’s annual festival of queer expression, drag queens, and music. CHERYL, Brooklyn’s video and performance art group, caps off the night with its exuberant sound and high-spirited displays of creativity sure to bring out your inner party monster.






SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
All Day
Boardgames!
Come play games such as Checkers, Connect Four, Candyland, Uno, Twister and more on the Stoop and in the gallery, all day long!
FREE | GALLERY & STOOP


2-4pm
Digital Remix
Green screen activity engaging visitors of all ages to create masks and props to perform with in front of a personally chosen green screen fantasy environment.
FREE | FLOOR TELEVISION STUDIO


2-3pm 
Family Dance Class: SOCA with instructors from The School at Mark Morris Dance Group
SOCA is a fun dance experience accompanied by Soca music (a blend of calypso and soul music created in the early 60s). The class will start with a short warm up, teach you some basic moves, and end with a short choreography sequence. No previous dance experience required.
FREE | BALLROOM


3:30-5pm 

Super Storytelling and Bookmaking Activity with 826NYC
826NYC, which is the home of the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co., will lead youth and families through creating a character, imagining a dramatic storyline, and resolving the scene with heroic style. Participants will walk away with their very own book and have the opportunity to share their story with the crowd!
FREE | GALLERY & STOOP


5-6pm
Brooklyn Free Speech TV Screening
Hosted By Amar Taborn of Love We World Tour, we'll check out the colorful variety of short videos produced by everyday people here at BRIC House, including:
*  Dare 2 Dream: A Father’s Guide to Success – Teaching the values of being a father  (Produced by Coach Stevan Lynn.)
*  Paper Girl - A colorful exploration of fashion and entertainment (Produced by Ftema Raysor.)
*  The Hambone Show – Edgy sketch comedy that tackles real life and the movie (Produced by Powell Burns.)
FREE | STOOP


6:30pm
Paris Is Burning Screening
Paris Is Burning is a critically acclaimed documentary filmed in the mid-to-late 80s, chronicling the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it.
FREE | STOOP






8-11pm
Dance Party!
CHERYL with a performance by BUSHWIG
$10 | BALLROOM
To purchase tix to dance party, click HERE

BRIC House Ballroom

A flexible performance space (240 seated to 400 standing capacity) that accomodates a wide variety of configurations and performance styles. Located on the first floor of BRIC Arts | Media House. 

Location

647 Fulton Street
(Enter on Rockwell Place)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Google Map

Contact Information

Tel: 718.683.5600

Directions

2/3/4/5 to Nevins St | B/Q/R to DeKalb St | G to Fulton St

CHECK OUT THE AWESOME OFFERINGS OF THE ALL NEW BRIC HOUSE

You might know BRIC as the force behind the Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival held in Prospect Park.  They've been running that show since 1979, but they've also acted as a creative home for Brooklyn's arts and artists.

BRIC is about three main things - contemporary art, performing arts, and community media.  Up until recently, these three divisions have been housed in 3 separate places.  But now, happily, each component lives under one big roof called BRIC House.

Located at 647 Fulton Street  (at Rockwell Place), BRIC House sits amongst other great art organizations and instituations like BAM Harvey and 651 Arts, Mark Morris Dance Center, and Theatre for a New Audience.
Here is a description of BRIC's spaces, taken directly from their website:

• A flexible Performance Space (240 seated to 400 standing capacity), known as the BRIC House Ballroom, equipped with a sprung floor for dance and flexible seating to accommodate a wide variety of configurations and performance styles. An entirely new professional resource for the performing arts in Brooklyn, the Ballroom also features dressing rooms, a green room for artists and state-of-the-art sound and lighting equipment –supporting high-quality production values.
  
• An intimate, flexible Artist Studio dedicated to emerging and mid-career artists, with an audience capacity of 75 for rehearsals and performances in workshop settings. This space can also transform into a workspace for visual artists.
  
• A 3,000-square-foot Gallery with dramatic 18-foot ceilings permits major exhibitions focused on emerging and mid-career artists and curators. A Project Room adjacent to the gallery will be an added resource for video work, BRIC’s emerging curator program, small-scale exhibitions and experimental curatorial projects.
  
• A state-of-the-art public access television center includes a new glass-walled studio and control room on the ground floor of the facility (fully visible to the public), as well as fully renovated and upgraded studios, editing suites, public equipment and media training lab on the second floor.
  
• The Stoop, an all-new public cultural gathering space, featuring free, drop-in programming for all ages.
  
• A café from Hungry Ghost, a Brooklyn-based coffee bar and café.
  
• Classroom space to expand BRIC’s media education program.
  
• All programming spaces, as well as the lobby, are to be fully wired to the master control room to support live cablecasts of select events to over 500,000 Brooklyn households and beyond on the web.
  
• BRIC House is open every day. Free admission to the facility. 

BATALA ALL WOMEN PERCUSSION BAND ROCKS IT AT BRIC HOUSE

                                                                                       

I was looking for ways to experience BRIC House, "a multidisciplinary arts and media center designed to support artists and engage the public."

So when I read on BRIC's Facebook Page that they would be filming an all-women's AfroBrazilian Samba Reggae drumming band live and that the public could attend for FREE, I jumped at the opportunity to be there.  

Wow, so glad I ventured out in the cold!  These women produced some seriously powerful and joyful sounds.  Their director explained that there are many Batala bands all around the world, but only 5 of them are all women; New York's group is one of the 5. 

Turns out that two of my friends - Anne Pope and Keka Marzagao - are in the group. What a great surprise!

One nice thing to note about BRIC's new space is that there is a beautiful cafe where you can grab a tea or some grub and enjoy it while you watch a performance right there at The Stoop.

BatalaNYC has shared the bill with the likes of Reggie Watts and Cyndi Lauper.  They've also opened for The Rolling Stones50th Anniversary Tour.  They've performed at the NYC Figment Festival, The World Maker Faire, The Museum Mile Festival, The Mermaid Parade, and many more big events.

BatalaNYC gives some of their background info on their site:

The music of Batala originates in Salvador de Bahia, in North Eastern Brazil.  The international Batalá family owes its existence to Giba Gonçalves, a drummer and composer from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. In Brazil, he was one of the founders of Cortejo Afro, an arts education project to help underserved young people living in poor communities.  When he moved to Paris in 1997, he started up Batalá in Paris as the European wing of the project. Batala has since spread to over 30 international cities.