Series 2: Black Brooklyn Renaissance

Program Files include information on the development and planning of Black Brooklyn Renaissance, including meeting notes, promotional materials, funding information, budgeting, and correspondence. Program Files also include a large group of folders relating to artists who were involved in the Black Brooklyn Renaissance project. Contents include permission statements for audiovisual recordings, tape logs highlighting recorded interviews or performances, biographical information, performance information, and performance CDs. Folders labeled "context" includes materials collected during the planning and the run of the Black Brooklyn Renaissance to show the program's cultural context, events that were related to but not part of BBR.

Audiovisual items include digital photographs, audio, and video documentation of the various events that comprised the Black Brooklyn Renaissance program. Also included are additional interviews with individuals involved in the community and in the various arts represented in the programs. Most of the items in this series are compact discs.

A Digital Archive containing 73 compact discs was produced and given to 6 repositories, including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The archive includes over 100 interviews with artists and community leaders, event recordings, concerts, and panel discussions. The folders in box 26 contain material relating to the production of the archive, its dissemination, and the release and reception for its debut in February 2012. The Digital Archive itself, as packaged for dissemination to the various repositories is box 37.

Black Brooklyn Renaissance Events:

Kumau Brathwaite at the 10th National Black Writers'. Founders Auditorium, Medgar Evars College, 1650 Bedford Ave. Presented by the National Black Writers' Conference with support from BAC, March 25, 2010.

Cal Massey Jazz Tribute. Gershwin Hall, Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts and Brooklyn College (BCBC). Presented by the H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College and Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium with support from BAC, April 22, 2010.

Jazz Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Brooklyn Historical Society. Presented by BHS in conjunction with Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium's 11th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival, April 29, 2010.

Recording Brooklyn. Presented by PAC as part of its Scene: Brooklyn Independent Film and Media Arts series in conjunction with the Brooklyn Chapter of the Links, undated.

Foly: African Dance Master Classes. Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation,1638 Fulton Street. Presented by Bed Stuy Restoration Corp with support from BAC, May 14-15, 2010.

Lions Will Roar, Swans Will Fly, Angels Will Wrestle Heaven, Rain Will Break: Gukurahundi. The Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, Long Island University. Presented by 651 Arts in association with Dance Theater Workshop, with additional support from BAC and funding from American Express, May 21-22, 2010.

Juneteenth Celebration at 227 Abolitionist Place, 227 Duffield Street, presented by Friends of 227 Abolitionist Place with support from BAC, June 19, 2010.

39th International African Arts Festival (IAAF), Commodore Barry Park, presented by IAAF with support from BAC, July 2-5, 2010.

Emancipation Day Celebration at Weeksville Heritage Center 1698 Bergen Street, presented by Weeksville Heritage Center with support from BAC, July 3, 2010.

Eyewitness: Beautiful Black Brooklyn (photo exhibition). Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation Center for Arts and Culture, Skylight Gallery. Presented by Skylight Gallery with support from BAC, July 10-September 30, 2010.

Brooklyn Transformation (Outdoor Film Screening), Fort Greene Park. Presented by Rooftop Films in cooperation with BAC's Scene: Brooklyn program, July 17, 2010.

Lincoln Center Out of Doors Presents The Robert Glasper Experiment with Special Guests Q-Tip and Bilal Jose James' Blackmagic, Damrosh Park Bandshell, Lincoln Center, August 4, 2010.

Carnival Masqueraders in Brooklyn, exhibition at Skylight Gallery, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, presented by Skylight Gallery with support from BAC, October 2, 2010-January 5, 2011.

Workshop: Learning to Listen to Gospel Music, BAC Gallery, November 4, 2010.

African Dance/Brooklyn Style. Walt Whitman Theater, Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts and Brooklyn College (BCBC), February 28, 2010.

African Dance/Brooklyn Style Symposium. A.R.T./New York South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford Street. Presented by BAC and hosted by Urban Bush Women, March 3, 2010.

Rites and Ceremonies of the Brooklyn African Diaspora. Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street. Presented by BAC in conjunction with BHS, March 17, 2010.

Icons of Brooklyn Jazz. Sugar Hill Restaurant, 615 DeKalb Ave. Presented by Brooklyn Central Jazz Consortium with support from BAC and American Express, April 7, 2010.

Hip Hop Hybrids of Brooklyn. Public assembly, 70 North 6th Street, Williamsburg. Presented by BAC with support from American Express, April 15 and May 22, 2010.

Black Brooklyn Drum Call. Drumming demonstration and performances on the plaza; drum-making demo in the 2nd floor meeting room. Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, June 5, 2010.

21st Annual Tribute to Our Ancestors of the Middle Passage. Ancestor circle, 16th Street and Coney Island Boardwalk. Presented with The People of the Sun Middle Passage Collective and Medgar Evars College with support from BAC, June 12, 2010.

Preserving the Parade: Documenting the West Indian American Labor Day Carnival. Brooklyn Public Library, Flatbush Branch, June 17, 2010.

Intergenerations: Toshi Reagon and Friends. Southpaw, 125 Fifth Avenue. Presented by BAC with support from American Express and Emma A. Shaefer Charitable Trust, July 29, 2010.

J'Ouvert, West Indian Labor Day Parade, September 2010.

Otto Neals and Emmett Wigglesworth: Kindred Spirits Forging Forward. Exhibition in the BAC gallery. September 24, 2010-January 14, 2011.

Intergenerations: Dance Kings of Black Brooklyn. Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, Long Island University, presented by BAC in cooperation with the Kumble Theater, October 9, 2011.

The Black Brooklyn Renaissance Conference and Concert. Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College. Presented by BAC and the H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College with support from the NY Council on the Humanities and Eleanor Archie, October 23, 2010.

Brooklyn: The Gospel Borough. Memorial Hall, Concord Baptist Church of Christ, November 12, 2010.

Word is Brooklyn. BAM Cafe, presented by BAC in cooperation with City Lore, November 19, 2010.

The Brooklyn School of Black Visual Artists. Panel discussion, Artcurian, presented by BAC in conjunction with MoCADA and Artcurian, November 21, 2010.

Intergenerations: Randy Weston Trio with Special Guest Ayanda Clarke. Brooklyn Museum, Cantor Auditorium, co-presented by the Brooklyn Museum and BAC, December 12, 2010.

Voices of the Elders. Reception, interviews and panel discussion. Long Island University. Presented by BAC in cooperation with Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy, Januray 30, 2011.

Amateur Night at the Apollo: Brooklyn Night. Sponsored by the Coca-Cola Company, February 9, 2011.

Black Brooklyn Renaissance: The New Generation. Project finale, BAM Cafe, co-presented by BAC and BAM Cafe live, February 11-12, 2011.