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 [email protected] or call 718-993-3512 to reserve your seat.

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

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.

(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.

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

A Midsummer Night’s Dream a chamber play

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Peter Sellars Stratford Masonic Concert Hall July 11 to September 20 Opens July 24

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. 

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.)

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)

The Secret Garden 

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