Arts and Entertainment
February 10, 2023
From: BRIC Arts
OPEN CALL FOR TEEN FILMMAKERS
Submissions open through Fri, Mar. 17
Submit your film to the 10th Annual Concrete Stories: BRIC Youth Media Film Festival, an immersive film festival curated by and featuring teen storytellers. Our Youth Media Fellows are seeking short docs, fiction films, music videos, and animations. Of these submissions, awards will be given for directing, storytelling, cinematography, acting, editing, and viewer's choice.
PANELISTS ANNOUNCED:
Healing with Housing: Decriminalizing the Unhoused & Mentally Ill
Thu, Feb. 23 at 7PM ET
Presented by BRIC TV in partnership with The City, this #BHeard Town Hall will bring together experts and leaders to discuss proactive and sustainable approaches to engaging with those living at the intersection of mental health issues and housing insecurity.
Panelists include Kimberly Blair, Director of Public Policy & Advocacy, National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City (NAMI-NYC); Bridgette Callaghan, Vice President of Intensive Mobile Treatment (IMT) Programs at the Institute of Community Living (ICL); Devon Nash, Mental Health Advocate; Alyssa Katz, Executive Editor at The City; and Norman Siegal, Civil Rights, Civil Liberties Lawyer.
Veles/????
Thu, Mar. 16 and Fri, Mar. 17 at 8PM
Join us for a contemporary performance and multimedia piece by 2022/23 BRIClab Performing Arts resident EYIBRA. Veles/???? (Lithuanian/Ukrainian for 'spirits of Ancestors/specters') explores queer identity in Ukraine and Lithuania from pagan times up to the present, including during the current war. It combines 3D video technologies with ancient ritual songs, experimental electronic music, movement, and queer techno.
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