Press Releases

2008 Press Releases & Publicity

05/02/08 Three Bronx Indie Performers Kick Off BAAD!'s Boogie Down Dance Series

04/30/08 May 7th Bronx Culture Trolley
04/18/08 BCA Announces its 2007 Program Management Initiative Grant Recipients
04/16/08 BCA Announces DCA Community Arts Fund Awards
04/16/08 BCA Presents “Get It Together 2008,” An Arts-in-Education Round Table Symposium
04/14/08 50 NYC Artists of Color Receive Fellowships from the New UAI Initiative/NYC
04/09/08 Cultural Connections Showcases Bronx Immigrant Artists at Longwood Art Gallery
04/11/08 Bronx Latino: "Short Films by Bronx Filmmakers Screened by BCA"
04/10/08 Short Films by Bronx Filmmakers Screened by The Bronx Council on the Arts
04/05/08 Bronx Beat: “Bronx Artist's Gallery is Home Sweet Home”
04/04/08 Bronx Latino:  “Worth the Trolley Ride”
04/02/08 Bronx Times Reporter: “BCA to Launch Literary Journal”

03/31/08 Bronx Latino: “Bronx Culture Trolley”
03/20/08 BCA Releases Bronx Black Book Creative Industry Directory
03/28/08 Bronx WritersCorps Sponsors Preliminary Youth Poetry Slam League on April 8th
03/23/08 April 2nd Bronx Culture Trolley
03/21/08 BCA Officially Launches New Online Literary Publication CrossBRONX on April 2
03/14/08 March 22nd is "Artist Tax Day"
03/14/08 Bronx Beat: “Literary Journal to Celebrate Diversity”
03/06/08 Bronx Times Reporter: "Bronx Council on the Arts BRIO Winners Take to the Stage"
03/06/08 Bronx Times Reporter: "Bronx Culture Trolley to Visit New Exhibits on March 5th"

02/29/08 Multi-Media Exhibition Celebrating Afro-Dominican Culture at Longwood Art Gallery
02/28/08 Journey to the Stage presents Free Musical Performances by 2007 BRIO Winners
02/21/08 NuyoRican School Poetry Jazz Ensemble and Book Signing at the March 5 Trolley
02/21/08 March 5th Bronx Culture Trolley

01/31/08 Riverdale Press: “Arts Council Seeks Entries”
01/31/08 Bronx Times Reporter: “Digital Artwork Explored”
01/29/08 Talk Bronx: “Cross Bronx Magazine Setting High Expectations”
01/29/08 Daily News: “Online Bronx magazine taking shape“
01/24/08 Riverdale Press: "Local Organizations Receive Bronx Council on Arts Funds"
01/24/08 Bronx Times Reporter: “Longwood Gallery Promotes Talent”
01/24/08 Bronx Times Reporter: “Bronx Council Launches Digital Matrix”
01/24/08 Bronx Times Reporter: “Bronx Council on the Arts Announces NYS Awards”
01/17/08 Puerto Rico Sun: "Boricua Named as New Director of Longwood Art Gallery in Bronx"
01/17/08 Riverdale Press: "Alternative Art – Material Culture"
01/17/08 February 6th Bronx Culture Trolley
01/17/08 BCA Seeks Writing Submissions for New Online Literary Magazine, Cross Bronx
01/16/08 Call for Artists for Longwood Arts Project's Digital Matrix Commission
01/15/08 Juanita Lanzo Named Director/Curator of BCA's Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
01/10/08 BCA Announces 2007- 08 NYSCA Decentralization Awards at Feb 6 Ceremony
01/09/08 NY1: “Community Arts Organizations Call On City for More Funding”
01/03/08 Bronx Times Reporter: “BCA to Offer Free BRIO Grants Workshop”
01/03/08 BCA’s 2008 BRIO Awards Two-Part BRIO Workshop on Jan 3

2007 Press Releases & Publicity

12/13/07 Bronx Times Reporter: "Bronx BRIO Winners to Showcase Performance Series"
12/13/07 Bronx Times Reporter: "BRIO Awards Available"
12/13/07 Bronx Times Reporter: "Material Culture at Longwood"
12/13/07 Bronx Times Reporter: "Arts Groups Win Funding"
12/07/07 Bronx Times Reporter: "Toby Buonagurio Takes Times Square"
12-07/07 BRIO Pre-Application Workshops Slated for December and January
12/04/06 Material Culture at the Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos Dec 5, 2007 – Feb 7, 2008

11/30/07 BRIO Saturday Series Kicks Off with a Comic Performance by Rhina Valentin
11/29/07 Bronx Times Reporter: "Material Culture at Longwood"
11/29/07 Bronx Times Reporter: "Blues/Jazz at Yankee Tavern"
11/20/07 Material Culture at the Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos Dec 5th – Feb 7th
11/20/07 Blues & Jazz Artist Robert Silverman Performs at the Yankee Tavern on Dec 5th
11/16/07 December 5th Bronx Culture Trolley
11/16/07 BCA Announces Application Deadline for 2008 BRIO Individual Artist Awards

10/29/07 Crain’s NY Business ‘Visitors Seek Novelty Trips to the Boroughs Beyond“
10/25/07 November 7th Bronx Culture Trolley
10/25/07 November 7th Jazz Performance by Ray Vega & Sharon Spinetti
10/25/07 Meet NYSCA Executive Director Heather Hitchens on November 7th
10/25/07 Meet Photographer Enid Alvarez at Pregones Theater on November 7th
10/12/07 Bronx Writers’ Center 2007-08 Literary Fellowship & Residency Program Winners
10/11/07 InterTribal Voices: "Hostos Hosts Apache Contemporary Art in NYC"
10/10/07 Fordham Ram Online: Bronx Beat

09/24/07 BCA Board Chair Charles Rice-Gonzalez Receives Audre Lorde Scholarship Award
09/21/07 October 3rd Bronx Culture Trolley
09/20/07 CultureFest 2007
09/20/07 Longwood Art Gallery presents Fort Apache Revisited: A Panel Discussion
09/14/07 New York Times Theater Review: "Till the Break of Dawn"
09/14/07 BCA Announces Additional Information Seminars for AIE Grant for Bronx Schools
09/11/07 Daily News: "By Golly, Our Trolley is the Best!"
090607 Bronx Times Reporter: "Bronx Trolley Lauded"
09/06/07Bronx Press Review: "Praise is High for Cultural Trolleys in Report"

08-2007 CityLimits.org: "The Boroughs' Riches, A Trolley Ride Away"
08/2007 A Bumpy Ride – The Center for an Urban Future's Report on the City's Trolleys
08/23/07 Longwood Art Gallery presents The Fort Apache Connection
08/20/07 Arts-In-Education Grant from BCA Available for Bronx Schools
08/16/07 Deadline for BCA’s 2007-2008 Community Arts Grants is September 21, 2007
08/09/07 Bronx Writers’ Center 2007-08 Chapter One Applications Available Now
08/09/07 September 26, 2007 is the Next UAI/NYC Grants Deadline

07/26/07 Riverdale Press: "Bronx Culture Trolley Chugs Through the Bronx"
07/18/07 August 1st Bronx Culture Trolley
07/10/07 Funding Opportunity Offered by Bronx Council on the Arts

06/01/07 Island Current: “Islanders Win BRIO Awards”
06/01/07 Chapter One Reading Series Scheduled for June at Bronx Library Center

05/31/07 Nordstjernan: "A Nordic Tapestry with Soprano Elly Erickson"
05/31/07 Riverdale Press: “Three Riverdalians are given prestigious BRIO Awards”
05/31/07 Latin Week New York: Profile: Marisol Diaz / “Más allá de la imagen”
05/31/07 Bronx Press Review: “22 Bronx Artists will receive BCA’s 2007 BRIO Award”
05/31/07 Bronx Press Review: “Afternoon of Scandinavian Song at Bronx Library Center”
05/31/07 Bronx Press Review: “Jazz Clarinetist Neal Haiduck at Yankee Tavern on June 6th”
05/24/07 Bronx Times Reporter: “Library, BCA offer Scandinavian Song”
05/24/07 Bronx Times Reporter: “Longwood Arts Announces Bronx Artist Showcase”
05/24/07 Jazz Clarinetist Neal Haiduck performs at the Yankee Tavern on June 6th
05/22/07 Hip-Hop Artist PattyDukes in a Free Performance at Pregones Theater on June 6th
05/18/07 BX1: The Second Bronx Artist Biennial Highlights June 6th Bronx Culture Trolley
05/18/07 BX 1: The Second Bronx Artist Biennial Exhibition Opens June 6th
05/17/07 June 6th “First Wed at the Library” presents An Afternoon of Scandinavian Song
05/17/07 Twenty-Two Bronx Artists Will Receive BCA’s 2007 BRIO Award on June 6th
05/08/07 Newsday: "Her Subway Art's on Track"
05/07/07 Bronx Beat: “Sculpting the Borough's Cultural Corridor”

04/27/07 Celebrate BWC Literary Arts Fellows at Reception & Reading at Kingsbridge Library
04/27/07 Bronx Writers’ Center Announces Funding Opportunity for Bronx Literary Artists
04/23/07 May 2nd Bronx Culture Trolley
04/18/07 BCA presents “Get it Together 2007” – An AIE Round Table Symposium
04/17/07 Winners of 2007's Chapter One Competition and Reading Series Announced
04/17/07 May 2nd “1st Wed. at the Bronx Library Center” presents Music of Latin America
04/16-22/07 4th Annual New York City Immigrant History Week Calendar

03/29/07 Bronx Times Reporter: "Seven Award-Wining Plays at Pregones on April 4th"
03/23/07 April 4th Bronx Culture Trolley
03/23/07 Seven Short Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks at Pregones Theater on April 4th
03/22/07 Bronx Times Reporter: "Keeping the Bronx Alive"
03/21/07 Handle It! Career Program – Spring 2007: April 23 – June 30, 2007
03/19/07 Many Hands, Many Places Showcases Bronx Immigrant Artists April 16th – 22nd
03/15/07 April 4th “First Wednesdays at the Bronx Library Center” Offers a Free Concert
03/15/07 Free Writing Workshop Taught by Literary Arts Fellow Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
03/15/07 March 24th is “Artist Tax Day”
03/12/07 Bronx Beat: "Borough Folk Artists Get Down to Business"
03/08/07 Bronx Times Reporter: "BCA Announces 2006 DEC Grant Recipients"

02/27/07 CUNY Newswire: Novelist Nelly Rosario Named CCNY Kaye Artist in Residence
02/26/07 March 7th Bronx Culture Trolley
02/23/07 Bronx Writers' Center Announces 2006-07 Literary Fellowship Winners
02/21/07 90 NYC Artists of Color Receive $125,000 in Awards from UAI/NYC Grant Program
02/16/07 Comedian Alba Sanchez Performs at the Downtown Bronx Cafe on March 7th
02/16/07 March 7th "1st Wednesdays at the Bronx Library Center" Offers Writing Workshop
02/12/07 Bronx Council on the Arts Welcomes Three New Board Members
02/12/07 BCA's Bronx Writers' Center Announces Free Writing Workshop
02/06/07 Daily News: "Teen getting the hang of an artful job"

01/2007  NYFA Interactive: "A Cheer for the Bronx"
01/2007  Americans for the Arts Monograph: "Bill Aguado/Bronx Council on the Arts"
01/20/07 Bridging The Digital Divide In The Bronx Digital Matrix Commissions 2007
01/19/07 February 7th Bronx Culture Trolley
01/16/07 Dance Performance at Feb 7th “First Wednesdays at the Bronx Library Center”
01/14/07 New York Times Art Review: "Four Shows in One Celebrate Ethnic Diversity"
01/12/07 New York Sun Art Review: “A Bronx Gallery Celebrates a Birthday”
01/05/07 BCA BRIO Submissions are Due on January 26th
01/04/07 New York Times Art Review: "Longwood Arts Project's 25th Anniversary"

2006 Press Releases

12/27/06  BCA Announces 2006-07 NYSCA Decentralization Awards at Feb 7th Ceremony
12/21/06  BCA’s 2007 BRIO Awards Final Pre-Application Workshop Slated for January 3rd
12/18/06  "First Wednesday at the Bronx Library" Continues on January 3rd

11/27/06  BCA Announces Application Deadline for 2007 BRIO Individual Artist Awards
11/24/06  Antonio Martorell Gives Studio Tour and Lecture at Hostos on December 6th
11/20/06  BCA's Bill Aguado Named to Governor-Elect Spitzer's Policy Transition Team
11/17/06  December 6th Bronx Culture Trolley
11/16/06  "First Wednesday at the Bronx Library" Continues on December 6th
11/13/06  Life is Short, Art is Longwood
11/07/06  BCA Receives "Mayor's Award for Arts & Culture" at Oct 30th Awards Celebration

10/30/06  Mayor Celebrates 30th Anniversary of DCA at "Mayor's Awards for Arts & Culture"
10/20/06  November 1st Bronx Culture Trolley
10/17/06  BCA Announces Awardees and Reception for 2006 Arts-In-Education Grants
10/13/06   "First Wednesdays at the Bronx Library Center " Continues November 1st
10/13/06   Bronx Jazz Vocalist Mary Pearson Sings at Yankee Tavern on November 1st
10/10/06  Life is Short, Art is Longwood

09/25/06  Pirates of the Cultural Corridor Hijack the Bronx Culture Trolley on October 4th
09/15/06  October 4th Bronx Culture Trolley
09/15/06  "First Wednesdays at the Bronx Library Center " Begins October 4th
09/01/06  En Foco Relocates to Morris Park Avenue

07/20/06  August 2nd Bronx Culture Trolley
07/20/06  Book Release Party by Bronx Author Black Artemis at Hostos on August 2nd
07/20/06  Poet George Edward Tait Gives Free Reading at Downtown Bronx Cafe on Aug 2nd
07/13/06  Funding Opportunity Offered by Bronx Council on The Arts

06/23/06  July 5th Bronx Culture Trolley
06/23/06  TV/Movie Actor Lou Torres in a Free Performance at Pregones Theater on July 5th
06/23/06  Free Screening of Documentary by Bronx Filmmaker at Hostos on July 5th
06/23/06  Poet/Author DuEwa Frazier Gives Free Reading at Downtown Bronx on July 5th

05/29/06  BCA "Word Up!" Literary Event Showcases Bronx- and City-based Artists
05/25/06  BCA's "Word Up!" Literary Event Features NuyoRican School Poetry Jazz Ensemble
05/25/06  Isaac Goldemberg to be Honored at BCA's June 7th "Word Up!" Literary Festival
05/25/06  BCA Announces "Word Up" Literary Event
05/22/06  BCA Sponsors June 7th Youth Poetry Slam at Hostos Community College
05/18/06  June 7th Bronx Culture Trolley
05/17/06  Twenty-Two Bronx Artists Will Receive BCA's 2006 Brio Award on June 7th

04-21-06   May 3rd Bronx Culture Trolley
04/21/06   BCA Sponsors Two Youth Poetry Slams
04/14/06   Two Chapter One Winners Featured at BWC April 26th Uptown Local Reading
04/12/06   BWC's Literary Arts Fellowship & Residency Nurtures Bronx Poets & Writers

03/24/06   April 5th Bronx Culture Trolley
03/09/06   Free Tax Preparation Workshop
03/08/06   BCA Hosts Arts-In-Ed Grant Meet-and-Greet Mixer on March 23rd

02/17/06   March 1st Bronx Culture Trolley
02/17/06   Bronx Writers' Center Kicks off 2006 Season
02/06/06   Handle It! Open House to be held on February 15th
02/03/06   Town Hall Meeting for Aging Visual Artists Set for March 1st

01/14/06   Come Experience the Art of Disco
01/12/06   February 1st Bronx Culture Trolley
01/06/06   BCA Announces NYSCA Decentralization Awards Ceremony
01/03/06   BWC Announces 2005/2006 Literary Fellowship and Residency Program Winners