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BCA E-News Update

Volume 5, Number 10 / August 2007

AUGUST 2007
What's Happening this month...

The Bronx Culture Trolley rolls again on August 1st
BCA offers three “How to Apply” seminars for its 2006-2007 NYSCA/BCA Community Arts Grants (see below)
Senator Jeff Klein’s 2007 Summertime Symphonies Concerts
are Underway (see below)
News about Upcoming BCA Grants (see below)
BX1: The Second Bronx Artist Biennial on view through Aug 25
Musical Highlights from BCA's BX1: The Second Bronx Artist Biennial (see below)
A comment from Derek Woods regarding Intentional Geographic Misplacement of Bronx Institutions (see below)
Women’s Studio Center for Writers and Artists (see below)
August Calendar of Bronx Events
August Listing of Opportunities for Artists
Health-Related Information for the Arts Community
BRIO Artist Sightings in August
The Bronx Culture Trolley will be on hiatus until October 3rd

2006-2007 NYSCA/BCA Community Arts Grants “How to Apply” Seminars
The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) is offering three remaining “How to Apply” seminars for its 2007-2008 NYSCA/BCA Community Arts Grants. Please feel free to attend any one of them. BCA invites all eligible arts and community organizations to apply to the NYSCA/BCA Community Arts Grants program for the 2006-2007 funding year. All borough non-profit arts and community-based organizations are eligible to apply. The remaining“How to Apply” seminars will be held on July 31, August 7, and August 14. Click on the appropriate date for information on that seminar. Click here for Guidelines and Application. Deadline: September 21, 2007
The Bronx Culture Trolley rolls again on August 1st
	Click here for information about August's 1st's trolley attractions
Senator Jeff Klein’s 2007 Summertime Symphonies Concerts are Underway
Senator Jeff Klein’s 2007 Summertime Symphonies Concerts will be taking place at various parks throughout the Bronx through August 30th. Four magic shows for kids are also scheduled throughout the month. Don’t forget to bring folding chairs and blankets. Additional Sponsors include the Bronx Council on the Arts and Westchester Arts Council. Click here for a complete schedule of Senator Klein’s 2007 Summertime Symphonies concerts. For more information, call 800-718-2039.
News about Upcoming BCA Grants
NYSCADEC / BCA 2007-2008 Community Arts Grant Application Deadline is September 21, 2007 Click here for more information. NYSCALCB / BCA 2007-2008 Arts-in-Education Grant Application Deadline Is October 11, 2007 Click here for more information.
News from The Bronx Writers' Center
Chapter One Fiction Competition and Reading Series application and guidelines are now available The Chapter One Fiction Competition and Reading Series is an annual competition and reading series, open to residents of New York City, that provides opportunities for emerging novelists to share their work with an audience, while emphasizing the importance of a strong first chapter. Click here for details. Deadline: Monday, October 1, 2007 at 4:00pm.
BX1: The Second Bronx Artist Biennial Exhibition

"Ponder Far Places" and "Best Theatre," two works by 2007 BRIO winner Peter Cabot on view at *BX1: The Second Bronx Artist Biennial Exhibition* (on view at the Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos through August 25th). The show features eighteen 2006 & 2007 BRIO winners who are visual and media artists. Click here for details on the show.
BCA's BX1: The Second Bronx Artist Biennial was highlighted by the musical talent of our BRIO winners

BRIO Winner and Jazz Clarinetist Neal Haiduck and his trio performed an evening of swing and Dixieland Jazz at the Bronx’s Yankee Tavern. Click the following links to view segments of their performances: Neal Haiduck 1 and Neal Haiduck 2. BRIO Winner and Hip-Hop Artist PattyDukes and friends performed at the Bronx's Pregones Theater. Click the following links to view segments of their performances: PattyDukes 1, PattyDukes 2, and PattyDukes 3.

Intentional Misplacement of Bronx Institutions
A comment from Derek Woods of the Bronx regarding a recent New
York Times geographic misrepresentation of Wave Hill and the New
York Botanical Garden

With the recent ESPN miniseries 'The Bronx is Burning', we are reminded just how far the Bronx has come in 30 yrs. Looking in the NY/Region section of the Times website, I am reminded just how far we have to go.

In the Westchester section for Thursday, July 26, 2007, there was an art review of the Thoreau exhibit ("Modern Ripples on Golden Pond") at Wave Hill-in the Bronx. In the Events calendar on the same day, Events in Westchester included under Music and Dance - "Bronx - New York Botanical Garden".

Now certainly both institutions generate a large portion of their fine arts audience from Westchester, but for the Times to geographically misrepresent them to help them attract their audiences just seems wrong.

They are in "the Bronx"- and are beloved Bronx institutions. Fine art and the Bronx does exist, and it's important to remind people. Just keeping to the facts will help to continue to erase the stigma that the Bronx has been saddled with, and perhaps help increase visitors to all of our borough's great art and cultural institutions.

Women’s Studio Center for Writers and Artists

Located in Long Island City (21-25 44th Avenue), the Women’s Studio Center, is a not-for-profit fine art studio and writing room offering visual arts and writing classes and events. The center was founded in 1998 on the principle that artists and writers need a safe, nurturing, and professional environment in order to make the best art possible.

The Writing Room is equipped with a conference table for meetings and workshops, high-speed wireless internet access, a growing library (including books on publishing, reference and grammar, criticism and theory, and books by women authors), as well as comfortable reading chairs. We also have subscriptions to Writers Digest, The Writer, Poets & Writers, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review.
The Main Room (1000+ square feet) encapsulates the center’s ideal of a “professional environment” for artists to make you feel as if you were working in your own personal studio or even your home.
The Instructors will work wit you on your level -- whether you are just entering the creative realm or have been making art or writing for years.

Learn more about the center by calling 718-361-5649, e-mailing wsc586@aol.com, or visiting www.womenstudiocenter.org.