Our Future Neighbors

Meet Our Neighbors To Be

The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York) is the service and advocacy organization for the nation’s largest, most artistically influential and culturally diverse theatre community: Off Broadway. It operates South Oxford Space, a rehearsal and shared office space facility on South Oxford Street which houses twenty-two performing arts organizations.

Bang on a Can has grown from a one-day, twelve-hour music festival to a multi-faceted organization.

BOMB Magazine, aka New Art Publications, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that publishes interviews and essays in which emerging and established artists can speak openly about their work.

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is an urban arts center that brings international performing arts and film to Brooklyn. BAM’s current programming consists of the Next Wave Festival each fall; a spring season of international opera, theater, and dance; a comprehensive Education & Humanities program, and a variety of community programs.

Brooklyn Music School (BMS) provides on-site instruction in music and dance, public school outreach programs, and professional performances.

BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn is a non-profit organization presenting arts, media and educational programs reflective of Brooklyn’s diverse communities. Its signature programs include: Celebrate Brooklyn, BCAT/Brooklyn Community Access Television, The Rotunda Gallery and BRIC Studio.

Cool Culture is dedicated to facilitating low-income families’ access to and participation in the cultural life of New York City.

Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn is a Brooklyn-based arts organization that trains professional artists, produces new multimedia works, and tours internationally.

Evidence, A Dance Company, under the artistic leadership of Ronald K. Brown, focuses on the seamless fusion of traditional African dance, modern, ballet and hip-hop dance styles.

Franklin Furnace has as it’s mission is to present, preserve, interpret, proselytize and advocate on behalf of avant-garde art.

Irondale Ensemble Project produces and teaches experimental theater with a strong voice for social change.

Mark Morris Dance Group offers classes for adults and children in its state-of-the-art dance facility.

MoCADA/The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts is devoted to creating innovative exhibitions which serve as a medium to address, discuss, debate and resolve contemporary social, political and economic issues that disproportionately affect the people of the African Diaspora.

New York Writers Coalition (NYWC) creates opportunities to be heard, through the art of writing, for formerly voiceless members of society.

Scenarios USA is a non-profit organization that uses writing and filmmaking to foster youth leadership, advocacy and self-expression in under-served teens.

StoryCorps is a national project that instructs and inspires people to record each other’s stories in sound.

UrbanGlass is a non-profit international center that promotes the use and appreciation of glass as a creative medium.

Urban Bush Women is a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring the use of cultural expression as a catalyst for social change.

WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.

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by Milton Glaser