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This Monday (Mar 1), join Dr. Keisha N. Blain and Imani Uzuri for an interdisciplinary conversation to celebrate the release of Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 16192019 (edited by Dr. Blain and Ibram X. Kendi).

This weekend, the all-digital BAMkids Film Festival 2021 features three free workshopsselect the ones you’re interested in to RSVP! http://bit.ly/3sp9qqf Feb 27 at 12:30pm: Characters Wanted: Virtual Story-making with BAM Education Bring your imaginations for a fun-filled virtual story-making session with BAM Education teaching artist Mel House, where you’ll collaborate to improvise a pirate-themed tale from scratch. Ages 6+... Feb 28 at 12:30pm: BRIC Stop Motion Animation Workshop Make your own stop motion animation using a phone or tablet with the Stop Motion Studio app and create short videos by animating objects like toys, paper, and clay. Ages 811 Feb 27 & 28 at 10am: Little Warriors Rising: Rhythm and Music with BAM Education Little Warriors Rising: Rhythm and Music with BAM Education Create warrior poses and learn the movements to Nina Simone’s Children Go Where I Send You in this voice and movement experience led by BAM Education teaching artists Kimani Fowlin and Farai Malianga. Ages 3+

Invigorating A reminder of how much we can learn from the way teenagers see the world. (The Guardian) Opens Friday (Feb 26)!

BAMkids Film Festival 2021 has found its way into your home this year! Running through Feb 28, the all-digital festival features short films, arts workshops, performances, and more, perfect for ages 39! http://bit.ly/3pPmGCW Clip: Piccolino: An Adventure in the City (Spain), Dir. Giovanni Maccelli, 2020

Riz Ahmed’s The Long Goodbye: Livestream Edition ends Mar 1! The songs are like stars, supermassive, dense with rhyme and anger," writes Vulture. "But the spoken sections have their own kind of gravity. Watch: http://bit.ly/2NOHjSu

Paola Prestini, who composed the music for this section of the 2015 Next Wave piece Epiphany: The Cycle of Life, discusses its origins and why she thinks death shouldn’t be treated as a mysteriousalmost sinisterunknown, instead of a connection to a world that is all around us. For this series, we invited past Next Wave artists to take a look back at their work at BAM and asked them to offer their unique insights into the creative process. While we’re unable to share a new Next Wave with you this fall, we hope these behind-the-scenes commentaries offer a refreshing, intimate window into the art that makes BAM and its audiences tick.

One-night-only performance! On Dec 19, Riz Ahmed unravels this year’s acclaimed album, The Long Goodbye, for the digital realm.

Cinemania, the 2002 documentary cult classic about five obsessive filmgoers who go to the movies day and night, no matter the costeven if they can’t hold jobs and are on the verge of povertyis a fascinating look at the roots of film-addiction and a hilarious ode to cinephilia. Screening now through Jan 3 as part of the series Programmers' Notebook: New York Lives, featuring documentary films about the activists, artists, outsiders, oddballs, and caregivers who call New York home. https://bit.ly/37Naf3P

Wed night (Dec 9) join us for a Q&A with the local New York City filmmakers behind the shorts in See You Next Time: Neighborhood Stories, screening for free through Jan 3 as part of the series Programmers' Notebook: New York Lives. From intimate scenes of everyday activity to galvanizing portraits of community members uplifting places of worship and rest, these shorts reflect the magnetism, care, and resilience of our city.

For our "A Closer Look" video series, we invited past Next Wave artists to take a look back at their work at BAM and asked them to offer their unique insights into the creative process. While we’re unable to share a new Next Wave with you this fall, we hope these behind-the-scenes commentaries offer a refreshing, intimate window into the art that makes BAM and its audiences tick. This week we feature Scottish actor Maggie Bain, from the 2017 Next Wave theater presentation Man to Man, who narrates her own performance as a woman forced to assume her dead husband’s identity.

Featuring music by DJ Shadow, Dark Days, the unforgettable documentary that took Sundance by storm in 2000, captures the lives of a homeless community living in the train tunnels beneath New York City, braving dangerous conditions and perpetual darkness. Screening now through Jan 3 as part of the series Programmers' Notebook: New York Lives, featuring documentary films about the activists, artists, outsiders, oddballs, and caregivers who call New York home. https://bit.ly/37Naf3P

Please join us for Art Cake's first dance series, featuring performances by Eva Alt, Chelsea Bonosky & Adam Barruch, Janessa Clark, Ayano Elson, Catherine Kirk,... Amy Gernux & Delaney McDonough, Morgan Griffin, and Marlon Taylor Wiles. The performance will be presented live and online on October 31 from 6:30-8:30P. There will be a Q&A with the artists following the show. On November 1, the full program will be viewable online. Tickets for in person and online viewing options may be purchased below: Live show on OCT 31: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-cake-dance-series-performa Online show on OCT 31 & NOV 1: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-cake-dance-series-performa

Stay safe and get silly this Halloween! Our beloved block party transforms for the digital space into a free action-packed afternoon of revelry for families everywhere, with a storyteller, costume contest w/ prizes, magic show, dance party, and more! https://bit.ly/3jlE4w6

I Miss You | Dedicated to the ones we miss and the ones we lost.

Extended due to popular demand! The New York Times Critics Pick is now available to stream through Nov 3. Watch here: https://bit.ly/3jiJyYm

Tonight (Oct 21) at 7pm, Black Lives Matter co-creator Alicia Garza will be joined in conversation with former Planned Parenthood president and Supermajority founder Cecile Richards to celebrate the launch of The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart. Co-presented by Greenlight Bookstore.

That Kindness: Nurses in Their Own Words has been extended due to popular demand! The performancea The New York Times Critic’s Pickremains available to stream for free through November 3. Watch here: https://bit.ly/3m0vN24 The play, from playwright, activist, and performance artist V (formerly Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues), features performances by Ed Blunt, Connie Britton, Rosario Dawson, Stephanie Hsu, LaChanze, Liz Mikel, Rosie O'Donnell, Billy Porter, Dale Soules,... Marisa Tomei, and Monique Wilson, with original music by Morley and company. In this most critical of election years, V lifts up the voices of intrepid nurses caring for patients without personal protective equipmentand calls on Americans to raise their own voices by getting out the vote. This is a free virtual event that is also raising money to support nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals. All donations made during the event go to The Brooklyn Hospital Center.

buzzes with the long-term historical power of the occasion. (The New Yorker) Nationtime, William Greaves’ (Symbiopsychotaxiplasm) long-lost documentary about the 1972 National Black Political Convention, narrated by Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, is returned to its original 80-minute length and visual quality in this brand new 4K restoration. Tickets: https://bit.ly/3dE5LyX... Restoration from IndieCollect, with funding from Jane Fonda and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association; presented in partnership with Kino Lorber, with 50% of ticket sales going to support BAM, helping to ensure the future of our adventurous programming.

Alicia Garza in conversation with Cecile Richards! This Wed, Oct 21 at 7pm, Alicia Garza (Black Lives Matter Global Network co-creator), will be joined in conversation by Cecile Richards (co-founder of Supermajority, former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and The New York Times bestselling author) for the launch of Garza's new book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, which offers a new paradigm for a new generation of changem...akers. Co-presented with Greenlight Bookstore. $10; $35 (includes book, for in-store pickup); $40 (includes book, shipped) Tickets: https://bit.ly/2Hkmkne

An absolute blast (The New York Times) One of the most epic-feeling Italian movies in years, a throwback to ’70s-era big-canvas statements. (Time Out New York) Loosely adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London, but set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. A hit at last year’s New York Film Festival. ... Streaming now: https://bit.ly/34WWf60

"Our country is only as healthy as our nurses, playwright V (formerly Eve Ensler) tells Forbes. "They are not valuedwe should cherish them and their work. Stream "That Kindness" for free through Monday at 7pm: https://bit.ly/2SZ0l7V

"That Kindness" is a The New York Times Critic's Pick! Free to stream until Monday at 7pm.

An unmissable response to an unending emergency. (The Guardian) We're excited to present a new restoration of La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz’s explosive and unforgettable 1995 tale of unrest and policy brutality on the margins of Paris. 50% of ticket sales go to support BAM, helping to ensure the future of our adventurous programming. Tickets: https://bit.ly/2Ipe8mf