Event Info
Please join us for the Opening Reception of BRIC’s Emerging Creators Exhibition, Youth Media Festival: 10th Annual Concrete Stories & Youth Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition: The World Reflected In Your Eyes.
EVENT SCHEDULE:
5PM Red carpet & Galleries open for viewing
5:15 PM Youth Curatorial Fellows Panel (Stoop)
6:20 PM Concrete Stories Film Festival Screening (Ballroom)
7:30 PM Reception: Mingle, refreshments, music & photo-op
ABOUT EMERGING CREATORS
Emerging Creators is BRIC’s yearly student exhibition celebrating the work of young artists and media makers from BRIC’s Youth Education Residency Programs in public schools and community centers across Brooklyn and beyond.
This year’s student exhibition showcases a selection of the work created by over 800 young artists. BRIC Teaching Artists partner with more than 40 schools and 12 community-based organizations every year, located across 23 Brooklyn neighborhoods to deliver quality arts education. Emerging Creators is a platform for youth voices exploring diverse topics including community, identity, activism and current events. Our young artists experimented in a wide range of media, including: mosaic, mixed media, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, podcasting, animation, and filmmaking, to produce artworks that explored the issues and events shaping the post-pandemic world.
BRIC House is a one-stop shop for emerging creators and equips its partners to innovate and document the artistic growth of our youth. The mission of the Youth Education & Family Programs Department is to work with underserved communities and under-resourced schools to nurture creativity while providing accessibility to media education, technology, equipment and career exploration. This exhibition embodies the creative courage, thoughtfulness, and resiliency of the youth.
ABOUT THE WORLD REFLECTED IN YOUR EYES
Youth Curatorial Exhibition: The World, Reflected In Your Eyes is an immersive exhibition about our realities. What are your revolutionary ideas for the future? What problems are we trying to solve? What do you want out of this reality? The room will be split into two sides: one side is a natural, blooming dreamscape. The other side is industrial, steampunk; this is open to interpretation. Together, the two sides represent imagination for multiple futures. The future is open to interpretation, based on the effects of the social challenges of the present.The Youth Curatorial Fellowship invites young up-and-coming artists to share their views on the present and their visions for the future. How do you want our world and your world to look in the future?
ABOUT CONCRETE STORIES
BRIC Youth Media Festival: 10th Annual Concrete Stories, is an immersive film festival curated by and featuring young storytellers. Concrete Stories aims to promote conversations around the power and potential of young people by showcasing authentic, entertaining, and diverse works by New York youth media makers.
BRIC House is Brooklyn’s cultural living room: a 40,000 square foot multi-disciplinary arts and media complex where emerging and established artists can create work that deepens their practice and engages the diverse communities of the borough.
COVID-19 policy: Attendees of any BRIC House programming do not have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to enter the building. Masks are encouraged but not required in all BRIC operated spaces. To learn more, visit:
BRIC IS COMMITTED TO WELCOMING PEOPLE OF ALL ABILITIES
The main floor of BRIC House has an accessible entrance on Rockwell Place, in addition to an accessible, all-gender bathroom. The BRIC Media Center, located on the 2nd floor, is accessible via elevator. The Gallery level is accessible via a wheelchair lift. Portable FM assistive listening devices are available for programs on the Stoop and in the Ballroom upon request. To make a specific access request, or to let us know other ways we can provide you with a welcoming experience, please contact Benno Orlinsky at [email protected] or (718) 683-5637.
