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The Brooklyn Independent Television (BIT) special presentation of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's State of the Borough address will air live from Brooklyn College on the BCAT TV Network on February 1. The televised special airs live starting at at 6:45pm on channels Time Warner 56, Cablevision 69, RCN 84 and in all five boroughs on Verizon 44.

In December 2011, BRIC's Director of Performing Arts Jack Walsh took part in the first TEDxBrooklyn.

The old Strand Theatre, sandwiched between the bustle of the Fulton Mall and the brownstones of Fort Greene, has never impressed preservationists enough to gain landmark status. Its neo-classical facade with four Ionic columns has been viewed as an ornament slapped on a relic from a bygone age, evocative of the silent-film era, newsreels and the velvet-curtained silver screen. The rest of the building is woefully bare, as if someone had scrubbed its walls of blemishes with a special building sponge.

BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents The Bricoleurs, an exhibition at BRIC Rotunda Gallery featuring a range of Brooklyn artists who embrace the practice of bricolage and construct visual works from discrepant elements, creating new forms and imagery.

“The Street Files” Come to Brooklyn; BRIC Rotunda Gallery is sole Brooklyn venue to show exhibition

After a long intermission, a century-old theater in Fort Greene, Brooklyn is finally ready for its next act. NY1's Shazia Khan filed this report.

The 93-year-old Strand Theatre on Fulton Street near Downtown Brooklyn is about to get a $40 million makeover, a sign that the long-delayed development plans for the Brooklyn Academy of Music Cultural District are gaining momentum.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, BRIC Chair Lizanne Fontaine, BRIC Executive Director Leslie G. Schultz and others broke ground today on a new facility to house BRIC Arts | Media House, a multi-disciplinary arts and media complex. The $33 million project will expand BRIC’s current 19,000-square-foot space to 40,000-square-feet, and bring BRIC’s contemporary art, performing arts, and community media programs under one roof for the first time in the history of the organization.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Thursday will break ground for a renovation of the 1918 Strand Theater in Brooklyn’s BAM Cultural District, to be shared by BRIC Arts/Media House, a multidisciplinary arts and media complex, and the UrbanGlass reNEWal Project, a center dedicated to artistic glass.

BRIC Rotunda Gallery, the contemporary art space of BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, is marking our 30th anniversary of exhibitions with a special event: 30: A Brooklyn Salon. The exhibition displays work from more than 50 Brooklyn artists who have helped shape the character of our contemporary art program over the last three decades. Produced by Brooklyn Independent Televison.