2025 Info Session: Community Arts Grants (CAG)

In this pre-recorded 2025 Grants Info Session, BAC staff discuss everything you need to know about how to write a successful Community Arts Grant (CAG) proposal. CAG tracks include Brooklyn Arts Fund (BAF), Local Arts Support (LAS), and the Charlene Victor & Ella J. Weiss Cultural Entrepreneur Fund (C&E).

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Grants Tips & Tricks: Benjamin Akio Kimitch

Benjamin Akio Kimitch shares work sample, non-duplication, and narrative tips for BAC 2024 Grant submissions.

Benjamin Akio Kimitch is a 2023 Creative Equations Fund Grantee.

Grants Tips & Tricks: Yasmin Mistry

Yasmin Mistry shares work sample tips for BAC 2024 Grant submissions.

Yasmin Mistry is a 2023 Local Arts Support & Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee.

Grants Tips & Tricks: Marj Kleinman

Marj Kleinman shares budget and narrative tips for BAC 2024 Grant submissions.

Marj Kleinman is a 2023 Local Arts Support & Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee.

Grants Tips & Tricks: JP Howard

JP Howard shares narrative and community support tips for BAC 2024 Grant submissions.

JP Howard is a 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee.

Wellness Care Package: Cheryl Walpole-Tiku

Led by Cheryl Walpole-Tiku, What Is In the Way? Creative Arts Intervention for Self-Awareness & Momentum guides the audience through recognizing potential stressors and deterrents that interfere with objectives, general well-being, and enjoyment. Through this exercise, you will explore these pieces of energy that get in the way of what you want to accomplish or enjoy in the present moment.

Wellness Care Package: Maraliz Campos

Maraliz Campos leads the audience through Combination Sound Experience: Breathwork, Vocalizations & Mantra. Maraliz (she/they) is a Paraguayan-American therapeutic sound artist, producer, and DJ who has turned chronic illness into a muse. Over the course of 14 years of disability, Maraliz healed their own body of 12 incurable autoimmune illnesses by combining scientific and intuitive modalities.

Wellness Care Package: Salomé Egas

Led by Salomé Egas, Somatics and Mantras for Release & Flow includes scanning the body to find tension points, accessing relaxation and ease with stretches, and affirming mantras.

Wellness Care Package: Olaronke Akinmowo

Words & Breath: Rituals for Self-Definition with Olaronke Akinmowo involves free writing and breathing exercises that can be done in tandem, offering a moment for self-reflection and clarity. It is deeply important for artists, creatives, and cultural workers to engage in life-affirming rituals that stabilize and nurture the spirit within them that drives their passions and interests.

Wellness Care Package: Oluadare Bernard

Peel off layers of doubt and rediscover where your courage thrives using water, breath and movement with Oluadare Bernard in this workshop, Breath, Movement, & Libation for Courage and Revitalization.

Consider Culture: Art & the Public Space with Curator Allison Glenn

In this episode of Consider Culture, we are introduced to the life and work of Allison Glenn, a successful art curator whose experience and expertise enriches our knowledge about art and/in public spaces. Gain insights into the challenges she faced in her career and how she overcame them to become a successful professional in her field. Learn how she used her skills to create meaningful art experiences for people in public spaces; her approach to curating exhibitions, as well as her views on the importance of understanding the history of a space before creating something new.

Consider Culture: Music Production with Manuel Garcia-Orozco

This episode of Consider Culture features Latin Grammy Award winner Manuel Garcia-Orozco. His incredible journey provides us with an insightful look into the ideas behind his success. We explore his story, motivations, and dreams. By understanding Manuel's journey, we can gain a greater appreciation for the culture that surrounds him and how it has shaped him as an artist. From the challenges faced by independent labels to the strategies used to promote their artists, this founder's experience provides us with invaluable lessons on how to navigate a competitive market. With their inspiring story as our guide, let's explore the amazing world of independent music and culture!

Consider Culture: Funding with Activist-Artist Monica Carrillo

This episode of Consider Culture features Monica Carrillo Zegarra, M.F.A. in a conversation that explores how she's brings her skills and perspectives as a writer, performer, and activist to her current role as a funder. Brooklyn Arts Council invites you to join us and consider the change you can make with creativity and culture. Monica Carrillo Zegarra, M.F.A., an Afro-Peruvian writer, performer, and human rights advocate, is also founder and former director of LUNDU Center for Afro-Peruvian Studies and Advancement.

Coaching Session: Personal Digital Archiving with Daniela Fifi

Scholars, cultural practitioners, and artists require assistance in preserving their most vital digital content. But how do you translate your professional expertise as a cultural agent or creative person into archival projects for preservation or display? This coaching session with Daniela Fifi assists you in translating archival concepts and best practices into teachable solutions for your projects.

Coaching Session: Arts Writing with Daniela Fifi

This coaching session with Daniela Fifi introduces you to professional, creative, and critical art writing and publishing. Consideration is given to writing and publishing in an increasingly interdisciplinary art-based context, including engagement with catalog essays, artists’ statements, journal papers, and online articles. In addition, participants work independently and collaboratively to develop advanced reading, writing, and editing skills.

Coaching Session: Grant Writing for BAC Grants

This coaching session led by Desiree Gordon will dive into Brooklyn Arts Council’s various funding streams including Brooklyn Arts Fund, Local Arts Support, the Charlene Victor & Ella J. Weiss Cultural Entrepreneur Fund, and the Creative Equations Fund. Learn to match your proposal to the appropriate BAC regrant program ahead of BAC’s 2024 grant cycle announcement.

Coaching Session: grant writing with vong pak

This coaching session with Voing Pak provides methods for identifying and locating grants in the creative funding community towards performance and dance. Learn how to match the appropriate funding institution to your needs or those of your nonprofit organization using the appropriate tools.

Coaching Session: Grant Writing with Victor Sirelson

This coaching session helps participants develop what is necessary to prepare a competitive grant application. Victor Sirelson explores methods for identifying and locating appropriate New York State grantmaking sources. Sirelson discusses requirements and pre-requisites for different grants and what are the components that make up a complete application and how to think through your proposal.

Coaching Session: Grant Writing with Shahid Khan

This coaching session with Shahid Khan provides a method for identifying and locating appropriate federal grants sources. Learn how to match the appropriate federal grant funding to your needs or those of your nonprofit organization using the appropriate tools.