January 19, 2012 - Laurel Sheridan
In December 2011, BRIC's Director of Performing Arts Jack Walsh took part in the first TEDxBrooklyn.
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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.
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NY1 - October 13, 2011 - Shazia Khan
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.
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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.
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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.
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October 10, 2011 - Colleen Ross
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.
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100 Reasons Why Brooklyn Lives Up to the Hype - Celebrate Brooklyn! is #1
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"We had just read the above news item when we got the word from BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn that there will be a Brooklyn Independent Television Special program focused on the effects of gun violence in Kings County."
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With readings of new plays, performances and panel discussions, the inaugural New Black Fest for emerging black playwrights is set for Oct. 9-17 in New York, the organizers announced.
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Welcome to another preposterously well-attended Celebrate Brooklyn! fete, David Byrne-ian in its excess of humanity, thousands upon thousands packed within (and hundreds of bummed-out latecomers turned away without) the Bandshell to celebrate the end of the World Cup (great game, huh?) and the debut of Okayafrica.com.
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