BRIC In the News
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Celebrating the Arts in Brooklyn
From The Brooklyn Eagle, October 15, 2008
People from near and far came to the BRIC Rotunda Gallery gala Tuesday night at the Steiner Studios, held to benefit the Brooklyn Heights-based gallery.
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Jazz: Tooting Other People's Horns
From New York magazine, August 24, 2008
The jazz event of the fall is Dave Douglas's Festival of New Trumpet Music, which he first organized six years ago and co-curates with fellow horn players Taylor Ho Bynum, Jeremy Pelt, and John McNeil.
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Leeser Architecture Selected to Design the New Cultural Center for BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn and UrbanGlass announce $17.3 million revitalization of historic Strand Theatre in Brooklyn to expand our facilities.
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New Expansion To Return Strand Theater to Former Glory
From Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 22, 2008
With its new $17.3 million expansion, the old Strand Theater at 647 Fulton St., now the home to BRIC (the operator of BCAT, producer of Brooklyn’s public-access TV) and UrbanGlass, will once again assume the pioneering role it had as the first theater in Brooklyn to be wired for sound films in the 1920s.
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Old Brooklyn Vaudeville Theater Renovation to Enhance BAM Cultural District
From Gothamist, July 21, 2008
Another jewel in the BAM Cultural district crown has been revealed with the recent announcement that the city-owned Strand Theatre at 647 Fulton Street will be renovated for expanded use by BRIC — the Brooklyn cultural organization that manages Celebrate Brooklyn!, BCAT, and the Rotunda Gallery, among other programs...
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Brooklyn arts groups to move into historic theater
From TheRealDeal, July 21, 2008
Two Brooklyn cultural organizations will expand by moving into the newly restored historic theater in the Brooklyn Academy of Music Cultural District in Fort Greene.
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Klezmer punk stars Golem help CB! celebrate JDub's 5th
From New York magazine, July 21, 2008
"What followed was every bit a Jewish wedding, with spastic chicken dancing, Yiddish love songs, unsupervised children running around hopped up on sugar, and two lead vocalists who very much earned the moniker 'wedding singers'."
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The Arts, Briefly
From The New York Times, July 2, 2008
Two Brooklyn arts organizations, BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn and Urban Glass, will be gaining space in the building they share in the BAM Cultural District thanks to a $17.3 million makeover, the groups announced.
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Fest Turns 30
From Brooklyn Paper, April 26, 2008
It's been said that you can't trust anyone over 30, but "Celebrate Brooklyn," the Park Slope summer music festival that reaches that milestone this year, still has impeccable taste.
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THE ARTS, BRIEFLY;
From The New York Times, April 5, 2008
Celebrate Brooklyn will open its 30th season on June 12 with a performance by Isaac Hayes. This summer's lineup for the free concert series at the Prospect Park band shell includes Miriam Makeba; Beth Orton; a screening of the Bruce Lee movie "Enter the Dragon," with live accompaniment by Karsh Kale; a tribute to the R&B singer Bill Withers; and a benefit by Feist.
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Modern? traditional? Architecture Is Focus of Rotunda Exhibition
From Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 14, 2008
The problem of where to find happiness in architecture - in the modern or in the old? - is tackled in "Properly Past," one of two upcoming exhibitions at BRIC Rotunda Gallery. The other, "Ethnographies of the Future," looks at our multi-ethnic mix and where it's heading.
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Teen director's tour
From NY Daily News, March 6, 2008
Graffiti on the walls. Gunshots in the air. Trash and refrigerator parts lining the grounds of a Bushwick housing project. This is 15-year-old Shalik Wilson's Brooklyn.
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New — and cheap — concert space near BAM
From The Brooklyn Paper, February 23, 2008
Music lovers will get to hear the likes of Lou Reed, Ben Folds Five and Dan Zanes — and not spend much money to do it — at a new concert hall being opened near much pricier venues near the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The group that 30 years ago founded the popular "Celebrate Brooklyn" summer concert series in Prospect Park is planning a 250-seat performance space for year-round "Celebrate Brooklyn-like" performances that won't cost much more than a movie ticket.
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Looking for the Truth When It Keeps Changing
From The New York Times, November 17, 2007
Faustin Linyekula, left, and Djodjo Kazadi in "Festival of Lies", a dance performance at BRICstudio.
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