Bronx Museum

PANEL DISCUSSION Murder in the 4-0 and a Community’s Search for Solutions Thursday, March 30, 7PM Free, Registration Required Panelists: Al Baker, James C. McKinley Jr., Ben Mueller, Ashley Southall and Edwin Torres. David Gonzalez will moderate the discussion.

A discussion with the journalists who, as part of a The New York Times series, have been exploring every murder last year in the Bronx’s 40th Precinct. This will to be a chance for the reporters to talk about their work and more importantly for people in the 4-0 to talk about how their community continues to be affected by the persistence of violent crime and how coverage of the violence impacts the community.

YOU MUST REGISTER TO ATTEND THIS EVENT Bronx residents that reside within the 40th Precinct (zip codes 10451,10454,10455) are encouraged to attend this event (admission is free). Register online, email info@bronxdoc.org or call 718-993-3512 to reserve your seat.

Non-Bronx residents must register online: http://bit.ly/2mMzABa

Clock-wise © Kristen Luce for The New York Times, Ángel Franco/The New York Times and Edwin Torres for The New York Times.

Bought this at the Brooklyn Book Festival.

The art exhibition Presente!: Young Lords In New York is on view at the Bronx Museum through October 18.

October 03, 2014 | Bronx Documentary Center

Slideshow and book signing by Ernesto Bazan at the Bronx Documentary Center. Mr. Bazan showed work from fourteen years in Cuba and launched his new book, Isla, to a crowd of nearly 100 people.

Photos by Anylú Hinojosa-Peña/Bronx Documentary Center derechos reservados

(via Funk, Medicine, and Questions of the Future)

In performance, as in history, there’s a lot that gets lost: layers of meaning and nuance too complex to carry in a single story. Investigating Simone Leigh and Xenobia Bailey’s projects for funkgodjazz&medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn, produced by Creative Time and the Weeksville Heritage Center, I was struck by this loss as an informative process: one that seeks to track erased histories and values so that we can do better for ourselves in the future.

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The stoop of Borough Hall at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Brooklyn, NY #bkbf14 #brooklyn

Abigail DeVille’s set design for A Midsummer Night’s Eve: A Chamber Play, part of the Stratford Festival in Ontario!

Call for entries: Bronx Documentary Photographers Group Show

Deadline: Friday, July 25th, 11:59pm 2014

Guest Curator: Sandra Stevenson, New York Times photo editor and BDC board chairperson will curate the exhibition.

What are the issues and forces that shape the Bronx? In September, 2014 the Bronx Documentary Center will exhibit a group show featuring Bronx-based documentary photographers and photojournalists answering this question.This exhibition will display the depth, range and passion of socially engaged documentarians covering our borough. 

Eligibility: Bronx-based documentary photographers and photojournalists. 

Submission Guidelines: Submit up to 15 images via wetransfer only to: info@bronxdoc.org. Each image file should be 1-2mb.  Please zip any folders.All images must have applicants name in the title along with full caption information.

One of our upcoming exhibitions, Small, is being installed today! Our Art Handler James Sheehan is also an artist. Here is he looking closely at his work. (See next post for a closer look.)

This Thursday, July 10, 6-8pm please join us for the opening reception of our two new exhibitions - The Intuitionists + Small. (at The Drawing Center)

Apartment houses in Concourse Village.

THE ’60s: DECADE OF CHANGE SUMMER PROGRAM SERIES Join us for a fresh season of screenings, talks, and more. Sat, June 14, 7:30 PM  Segregation Now. Join ProPublica and community members for a conversation on the state of race, economics, and education 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education. Sat, July 12, 8:15 PM  Freedom Summer.  2013. 113 min. Film by Emmy award-winner Stanley Nelson followed by panel discussion with veterans of the 1964 Freedom Rides. Sat, July 19, 8:15 PM  American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs. 2014. 82 min. Explore the life and ideas of the vibrant activist who spent 70 years fighting for social justice in Detroit. Screened in partnership with POV. Thu, Aug 7, 8:15PM  Gimme Shelter. 1970. 90 min. Legendary director Albert Maysles joins us for a screening of his landmark documentary on The Rolling Stones’ infamous 1969 Altamont concert. ($15 / $7 Bronx residents) All events: suggested donation $10, Bronx residents $5, children 18 and under free, unless otherwise noted.

Recommended Reading: Diversity in Literature! 

Judges Catherine Chung, Randa Jarrar, and Monica Youn present 8 incredible titles spanning poetry, short stories, and novels that celebrate diversity in literature:

Southern Cross the Dog by Bill Cheng (Ecco)

Duppy Conqueror by Kwame Dawes (Copper Canyon Press)

Leaving Tulsa by Jennifer Elise Foerster (University of Arizona Press)

The Cineaste by A. Van Jordan (W.W. Norton & Company) 

domina Un/blued by Ruth Ellen Kocher (Tupelo Press)

Cowboys and East Indians by Nina McConigley (FiveChapters Books)

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Viking Adult)

Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi (Penguin Press)

Check out the complete reading list with links to interviews, reviews, and more at http://ow.ly/xjyVu

The Secret Garden 

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This summer at the Bronx Museum

#Virgin #Guadalupe of #Fordham #Road #Bronx #latergram

Join us this Thursday, May 22, from 5-6:30pm for the Bronx student photo show! 

The BDC, Everyday Africa and The LAMP are proud to present the photography work of 7th and 8th grade Immaculate Conception School students taking part in the after school visual literacy program.

Free and welcome to all! RSVP

Photo: BDC teacher Groana Melendez explains pinhole photography to the after school photo program students.

Actor and director Avery Brooks (best known for his television role as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek) with the illustrious visionary, award winning and the first scifi fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship (aka the genius award) Octavia E. Butler at her book party for her 1998 novel Parables of the Talents - NYC 1999.