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BCA/NYSCA Community Arts Grant

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BRIO: Bronx Recognizes Its Own 2012 Winners


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BCA needs you to sign up for our new BRIO Alumni Program. ...Where have you all been, are you famous?


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More than 50 Bronx arts organizations are listed on our website! Theater companies, musical groups, visual arts organizations, and much more are right here in the borough.more...
Read critical Arts Advocacy updates from Americans for the Arts Action Fund!
USA Projects Surpasses the $3M Mark.
USA Projects would like to thank the artists, donors and partners for their collective effort in achieving this important milestone.
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Are you a NYC-based artist or arts worker without health insurance and in need of health care? BCA is proud to be a partner organization with Lincoln Hospital in the launching of the Lincoln Art Exchange, an artist-specific healthcare program at Lincoln Hospital offering a unique option for eligible NYC-based artists who do not have health insurance to exchange their creative services for comprehensive healthcare. more…
 





 


Bronx Writers Center Workshop

Show Your Work

A Free, Hands-on Bronx Writers Center Workshop

Location: BCA @ 2700, 2700 East Tremont Avenue (at St. Raymond Avenue)

Monday | May 20th | 6:30-8:30pm 

 

6:30-7:00pm Speed Writing: Each BWC workshop starts with a short writing exercise and an opportunity to meet and share with your fellow writers.

7:00-8:30pm Show Your Work: Writers hear the phrase, "Show, don' tell," throughout their careers. In this workshop, we will use examples from contemporary literature to work on our "showing" skills and create writing that is true to character, voice and plot.

Maria Romano, Director of the Bronx Writers Center, writer and teacher, will lead this workshop. Admission is free and all are welcome! Bring a notebook, a pen and your creative energy. Reserve your seat here.

 
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos  |  Next Exhibition
New Works #16: An Exhibition of En Foco's 2012-2013 New Works Photography Fellowship Awardees
Opening Reception: Wed | June 5, 2013 | 5:00–9:00pm

Mercedes Dorame

Smoke to Water, 2013, from In the Beginning: Imagined, Origin Stories series, Archival
pigment print, 20 x 20”,cEdition 1 of 5.

Yijun (Pixy) Liao

Play Station, 201, from the Experimental
Relationships series,
Digital C-Print,
11 x 14”, Edition 1 of 5.

 
En Foco, Bronx Council on the Arts and Longwood Arts Project are excited to present New Works #16, an exhibition of En Foco's 2012-2013 New Works Photography Fellowship Awardees featuring Mercedes Dorame, Yujin Liao, Daniel Ballesteros, Jared Soares and Rodrigo Valenzuela, who were selected by guest juror Natasha Egan, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Click here for more.
 

First Wednesday Bronx Culture Trolley

Returns on June 5, 2013

 

Click the links below for June 5th's trolley night venues and activities. Flyer.

 
June 5th BRIO Award Presentation

Join us on June 5th, when twenty-five Bronx artists receive BCA’s prestigious Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Award for artistic excellence. An award reception and networking event will be held at 6:00pm at Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos.

The evening marks BRIO's 24th anniversary. BRIO winners, past and present, are invited to socialize and network with each other while welcoming the 2013 winners into the fold.

The award presentation will coincide with that evening’s Bronx Culture Trolley activities beginning at 5:00pm. So come early, enjoy the opening reception of the gallery’s new exhibition, and then hop on the trolley after the presentation to visit some of the cultural hot spots along the South Bronx Cultural Corridor.

 

Community Arts Tuesdays in Westchester Square

MEET!
GREET!
NETWORK!

 

Tuesday  |  June 25  |  5:00-7:00pm

BCA presents Community Arts Tuesdays, a networking opportunity at our Westchester Square location at 2700 East Tremont Avenue (corner of St. Raymond Avenue).

Gather with our Westchester Square neighbors and friends, meet the BCA staff, rub elbows with members of the newly formed Westchester Square BID. Admission is free and all are welcome. Details on June 25th's Community Arts Tuesday will be posted shortly.

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BCA: A Community Partner in Promoting NYCxDesign

NYCxDESIGN is New York City’s inaugural citywide event to showcase and promote design of all disciplines. Held from May 10 through May 21, the event will celebrate NYC’s contributions to and embrace of design.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (l.) held a press conference to announce the various opportunities to be involved in the festival. For info on the special project happening at the Bronx’s own Andrew Freedman Home starting Thursday, May 9th, click here.

Bronx Terminal Market Partners with BCA
on a Special Public Art Project in 2013

Call to Artists is open to emerging and seasoned professional artists with site-specific and/or public art experience. Only artists who reside in the Bronx can apply. Artists who apply should have experience working with community representatives, landscape architects, businesses and government entities but it is not mandatory. Submission Deadline: May 7, 2013.


BCA on

Bronx Council on the Arts has

Served Community for 50 Years by Erin Clarke

BCA is looking towards the second half of the century as an exciting time for the Bronx arts scene.

Click here to see interview. Click here for hard copy.



 

On Thursday, May 16, join City Limits as it re-launches the Bronx Bureau (formerly the Bronx News Network) with a special event at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. The event will feature a networking reception of community stakeholders—elected officials, businesses, non-profits, and citizens—and a special conversation on rising poverty and homelessness featuring leading civic voices.  

Press release / flyer
 
2013 Food & Art Festival

The 2013 Food & Arts Festival is being held on Sunday, May 19th, from 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm, and all Bronx-based Artists & Arts Groups are invited to take part in this Grand Finale of Bronx Week 2013. Exhibit and sell your work to thousands of Bronxites and visitors who will gather for the borough’s annual celebration of pride. Click here for reservation form.

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