{"scale":"human","events":[{"text":{"headline":"Coco Killingsworth, Vice President of Education and Community Engagement, 2017<\/a>","text":"Coco Killingsworth is hired as Vice President of Education and Community Engagement, an appointment that unites two long standing program areas that provide opportunities for young people, families, and community members to engage with the arts. \r\n"},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/51015_ca_object_representations_media_95738_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/84473_ca_object_representations_media_95738_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Coco Killingsworth, 2020]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"2016","month":12,"day":16},"end_date":{"year":"2016","month":12,"day":16}},{"text":{"headline":"BAM launches Brooklyn Reads, 2003<\/a>","text":"Brooklyn Reads, an in-school residency taught by teaching artists in which students read a selected book, see related performances, and write and perform their own works inspired by what they have read. The next year, the program shifts its focus to the study and writing of spoken-word poetry and is linked to Spoken Word: Expression in the Right Direction, a school-time performance of professional poets and musicians for high school students. (This showcase is later referred to as Poetry: Expression in the Right Direction)"},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/8\/7\/6\/98606_ca_object_representations_media_87606_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/8\/7\/6\/64797_ca_object_representations_media_87606_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"Brooklyn Reads: Poetry Performance<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"2004","month":6,"day":8},"end_date":{"year":"2004","month":6,"day":8}},{"text":{"headline":"Appointment of Harvey Lichtenstein as Director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1967<\/a>","text":"A long-range study commissioned by BIAS demonstrates that if BAM does not change, it will cease to exist. In addition to financial deficits, the study notes the need to diversify its audience and programs to reach lower socioeconomic groups: “It is not enough for the Academy to ‘be there’ and to offer good performances. The word has to get around. In the future it should penetrate the neighborhoods and ethnic groups not previously affected to any extent. In cultivating the interests of new audiences, and especially of young persons, it is a common observation that they are cool toward things that are done to them or for<\/em> them—for ‘their own good.’” Harvey Lichtenstein is hired to address these challenges."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/11903_ca_object_representations_media_95718_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/47149_ca_object_representations_media_95718_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Harvey Lichtenstein, circa 1967]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1967","month":2,"day":20},"end_date":{"year":"1967","month":2,"day":20}},{"text":{"headline":"Debut of BAM\/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble, 1997<\/a>","text":"To kick of its 20th anniversary celebration, DanceAfrica begins a new tradition: a procession through the Opera House led by the new BAM\/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble, a group of Brooklyn children who are trained in African dance through the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. The program includes curriculum in African history and culture, culminating in a performance with the visiting dance companies at BAM during DanceAfrica. This collaboration, reinforcing the importance of youth involvement in the preservation of African heritage, continues today. "},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/8\/0\/18020_ca_object_representations_media_98067_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/8\/0\/73909_ca_object_representations_media_98067_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Scene from \"DanceAfrica: 20th Anniversary Celebration\" during BAM Spring Season, 1997]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1997","month":5,"day":23},"end_date":{"year":"1997","month":5,"day":25}},{"text":{"headline":"DanceAfrica adds masterclasses for children, 1992<\/a>","text":"On its 15th anniversary, DanceAfrica adds three masterclasses for children."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/8\/5\/7\/21051_ca_object_representations_media_85790_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/8\/5\/7\/70260_ca_object_representations_media_85790_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Poster\/Brochure for DanceAfrica during BAM Spring Series, 1992]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1992","month":5,"day":23},"end_date":{"year":"1992","month":5,"day":24}},{"text":{"headline":"BAM splits from BIAS, 1971<\/a>","text":"BAM becomes an independent organization once again. A new nonprofit body called the St. Felix Street Corporation operates BAM. The separation facilitates BAM’s own fundraising efforts and frees BIAS of the responsibility for the kind of performing arts deficits the BIAS trustees feel the parent group can no longer afford."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/6\/56470_ca_object_representations_media_95651_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/6\/10949_ca_object_representations_media_95651_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Scene from the Pickwick Puppets production \"Just So Stories\" during BAM Spring, 1971] <\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1971","month":5,"day":6},"end_date":{"year":"1971","month":5,"day":6}},{"text":{"headline":"Leanne Tintori Wells named Director of the PAPYP, 1987<\/a>","text":"Leanne Tintori Wells, formerly an administrative assistant at BAM, is promoted to Director of the Performing Arts Program for Young People. Previously, the program had been overseen by Leonard Natman and Sarah Walder. Wells steps up the quality of youth programming with the goal of exposing students to adventurous arts."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/38623_ca_object_representations_media_95732_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/16012_ca_object_representations_media_95732_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Children at the Mermaid Theatre production of \"Just So Stories\" during BAM PAPYP series, 1987]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1987","month":5,"day":18},"end_date":{"year":"1987","month":5,"day":22}},{"text":{"headline":"Sharon Schwartz hired to develop Educational Outreach Program, 1989<\/a>","text":"Leanne Tintori Wells hires Sharon Schwartz as Associate Director of Education to create and develop and educational outreach program to support the schooltime series. At that time the only outreach programming consisted of study guides for half of the shows and the occasional post-performance workshop."},"media":{"url":"","thumbnail":"","credit":"","caption":""},"start_date":{"year":"1989","month":1,"day":1},"end_date":{"year":"1989","month":2,"day":1}},{"text":{"headline":"Post-performance Workshops and In-school Residencies, 1988<\/a>","text":"In addition to study guides, PAPYP begins to offer post-performance workshops and in-school residencies for with teaching artists from the school-time performance companies. Topics include puppetry, introduction to dance, African dance and drumming, creative drama and music, acrobats and circus arts. The 1988–89 season features the premiere performance of a winning entry from PAPYP’s story-writing contest sponsored by Child’s Play Touring Theater. A third grade class from the St. Jerome School in Brooklyn wins for its collective effort on “The Lion and the Cloud.”"},"media":{"url":"","thumbnail":"","credit":"","caption":""},"start_date":{"year":"1988","month":3,"day":7},"end_date":{"year":"1988","month":3,"day":11}},{"text":{"headline":"School-Time Performance: The Poko Puppets: Wolftales 1985<\/a>","text":"PAPYP debuts an annual poster contest for grades K–5, which was later renamed in memoriam of Leonard Natman. Poster designs must illustrate the “Magic of Theatre at BAM” including the performance, the theatres, the building, and the trip itself. Winning artwork is featured in the Academy lobby and on the PAPYP brochure."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/73930_ca_object_representations_media_95714_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/54297_ca_object_representations_media_95714_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Scene from the School-Time Performance \"The Poko Puppets: Wolf Tales\" during BAM Fall, 1985] <\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1985","month":12,"day":9},"end_date":{"year":"1985","month":12,"day":18}},{"text":{"headline":"School-Time Performance: David of Sesame Street, 1980<\/a>","text":"BAM\u2019s school-time and weekend matinee series are now consistently referred to as the Performing Arts Program for Young People (PAPYP), which is \u201ccommitted to the belief that a child\u2019s exposure to the live performing arts is an integral part of his or her total education.\u201d"},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/6\/90912_ca_object_representations_media_95655_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/6\/6373_ca_object_representations_media_95655_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Scene from the School-Time Performance \"David from Sesame Street\" during BAM Spring, 1980]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1980","month":5,"day":20},"end_date":{"year":"1980","month":5,"day":23}},{"text":{"headline":"School-Time Performance: Merlin the Magician with Jack Adams, 1980<\/a>","text":"BAM\u2019s school-time and weekend matinee series are now consistently referred to as the Performing Arts Program for Young People (PAPYP), which is \u201ccommitted to the belief that a child\u2019s exposure to the live performing arts is an integral part of his or her total education.\u201d"},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/6\/85455_ca_object_representations_media_95653_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/6\/48957_ca_object_representations_media_95653_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Scene from the School-Time Performance \"Merlin the Magician with Jack Adams\" during BAM Spring, 1980]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1980","month":3,"day":4},"end_date":{"year":"1980","month":3,"day":7}},{"text":{"headline":"Chuck Davis Dance Company, 1977<\/a>","text":"Created by Founding Elder and Artistic Director Baba Chuck Davis to heighten awareness of African culture, the inaugural DanceAfrica performance series presents companies from throughout the African continent and the global African diaspora, as well as companies from the New York City area. The annual festival evolves into a Memorial Day weekend tradition featuring dance performance, free live music concerts, film screenings, art exhibitions, and an outdoor bazaar. "},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/2\/77695_ca_object_representations_media_279_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/2\/74543_ca_object_representations_media_279_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Scene from the Chuck Davis Dance Company production \"DanceAfrica\" circa 1970]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1977","month":2,"day":24},"end_date":{"year":"1977","month":2,"day":27}},{"text":{"headline":" Ritual Acrobats of Persia, 1971<\/a>","text":"In 1971, there were 25 performances in Opera House (48,000 attendees), including the Senegalese National Dance Company, National Dance Company of Morocco, Ritual Acrobats of Persia, Sierra Leone National Dance Company, Classical Khmer Dancers of Cambodia, Murray Louis\/Alwin Nikolais Dance Cos., Merce Cunningham Dance Co., Metropolitan Opera Studio, Gianni Schicchi and the Brooklyn Philharmonia.\r\n"},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/3\/53621_ca_object_representations_media_4341_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/3\/69642_ca_object_representations_media_4341_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"Zour Khaneh, Ritual Acrobats of Persia<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1971","month":11,"day":9},"end_date":{"year":"1971","month":11,"day":14}},{"text":{"headline":" Family Performance: The Snowqueen and the Goblin, 1964<\/a>","text":"In 1963, BAM offers its first season of school-time programming with 25 performances and 16, 611 attendees. Teachers receive study guides designed to prepare students for the performance with subjects, suggested readings, and other class activities. "},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/1\/45968_ca_object_representations_media_95108_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/1\/48813_ca_object_representations_media_95108_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Promo photo of the Merry-Go-Rounders, 1964]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1964","month":1,"day":18},"end_date":{"year":"1964","month":1,"day":18}},{"text":{"headline":"Workshop: Beginner and Junior Ballet<\/a>","text":" "},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/6\/56271_ca_object_representations_media_95697_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/6\/45588_ca_object_representations_media_95697_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Detail from Brooklyn Academy of Music Season brochure featuring Junior Ballet, 1963]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1963","month":10,"day":4},"end_date":{"year":"1963","month":12,"day":31}},{"text":{"headline":"International, Family Fun, Young Readers and American Heritage series are launched, 1990<\/a>","text":"PAPYP debuts a school-time International Series with productions from around the world for all age ranges. It also introduces a Family Fun series in which some of the school-time shows are presented as weekend matinees. The following season includes two additional school-time series: a Young Reader’s Series that brings favorite books from fairytales to classic novels to life for pre K–5 grades; and an American Heritage Series that highlights the people and cultural traditions that have shaped America, especially African American and Native American culture, for all age ranges. These four series continue until 1995."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/40989_ca_object_representations_media_95733_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/11938_ca_object_representations_media_95733_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Poko Puppet, circa 1973] <\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1990","month":2,"day":27},"end_date":{"year":"1990","month":2,"day":27}},{"text":{"headline":"PAPYP introduces Arts Bridge, 1991<\/a>","text":"PAPYP introduces Arts Bridge, an educational outreach program at two Brooklyn elementary schools and one Brooklyn alternative high school in which students work in small groups with artists before seeing them perform at BAM and experiencing a post-performance workshop. Arts Bridge expands the following season by developing programs at two new Brooklyn elementary schools and a 12-week drama curriculum at the Brooklyn alternative high school. By 1995, Arts Bridge serves 750 students with expanded goals of nurturing creative thinking skills, self expression, and self-esteem through the arts."},"media":{"url":"","thumbnail":"","credit":"","caption":""},"start_date":{"year":"1991","month":2,"day":19},"end_date":{"year":"1991","month":2,"day":21}},{"text":{"headline":"Debut of School-time Performances of DanceAfrica, 1994<\/a>","text":"Chuck Davis's African American Dance Ensemble brings DanceAfrica for the first time to schooltime audiences, with post-performance workshops with the company. This year’s DanceAfrica also honors younger generations in observance of the United Nations’ Year of the Child. A program note explains, “In its 17th year DanceAfrica seeks to recognize the ties between generations--where we originate from, where we are going to--as the essential foundation for a strong community. While it is a gift of the Elders of the community to provide the key to the past, it is the power of youth to envision a future, and live it.”"},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/5\/8\/60931_ca_object_representations_media_5857_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/5\/8\/14990_ca_object_representations_media_5857_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Poster for \"DanceAfrica: Year of the Child\/Youth of the African Diaspora\" during BAM Spring Series, 1994]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1994","month":5,"day":23},"end_date":{"year":"1994","month":5,"day":27}},{"text":{"headline":"Liz Swados: The Hating Pot, 1995<\/a>","text":"A musical created by Swados in collaboration with a company of ten adults and twenty teenagers. Through live music, dance and monologue, the performers share their intimate experiences with racism and intolerance. Each attending school receives an in-depth teachers’ guide and a documentary video. Schools who book four or more classes receive a preparatory workshop led by a performer from the show."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/8\/7\/5\/17091_ca_object_representations_media_87579_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/8\/7\/5\/81476_ca_object_representations_media_87579_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Elizabeth Swados]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1995","month":11,"day":1},"end_date":{"year":"1995","month":11,"day":3}},{"text":{"headline":"International Children\u2019s Festival of Theater and Music, 1995<\/a>","text":"PAPYP presents the first International Children’s Festival of Theater and Music, an evolution of the Family Fun series that uses all BAM performance spaces to feature artists from around the globe in a wide range of performance disciplines: Native American storytelling, African dance, and Brazilian rhythms. The Festival offers ancillary components similar to those of PAPYP’s regular season: supplementary study guides, workshops for children (circus arts, mask and puppet making, music and instrument making, and an interactive radio station with WNYC), and arts education workshops with teachers. The festival returns in 1996 and 1997 (later renamed KaBAM “Kids at BAM” Festival)."},"media":{"url":"","thumbnail":"","credit":"","caption":""},"start_date":{"year":"1995","month":12,"day":12},"end_date":{"year":"1995","month":12,"day":15}},{"text":{"headline":"Professional Development for Teachers: Drama as a Teaching Tool, 1996<\/a>","text":"BAM offers a 30-hour, Board of Education approved course, Drama as a Teaching Tool, which takes a hands-on approach to instructing teachers how to use theater games, improvisation and dramatic texts to open up the possibilities for teaching any subject area. Additional BAM Education offerings for teachers at this time include a professional development course taught by Professor Stephen Yaffe (in which teachers can receive college credit), a series of workshops including the annual Education Symposium, and an Education Advisory Council. "},"media":{"url":"","thumbnail":"","credit":"","caption":""},"start_date":{"year":"1996","month":2,"day":1},"end_date":{"year":"1996","month":2,"day":29}},{"text":{"headline":"Shakespeare Teaches program launched, 1997<\/a>","text":"BAM launches Shakespeare Teaches, which is both a professional development program for teachers and a multi-week pre-performance residency for students led by members of the BAM and Royal Shakespeare Company Education staff. While teachers deepen their understanding of Shakespeare's works, students focus on language, character, and action via classroom study, workshops and performances. This program continues until 2018."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/5\/3\/9\/61321_ca_object_representations_media_53936_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/5\/3\/9\/34083_ca_object_representations_media_53936_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Poster for the In-School residency \"Shakespeare Teaches Students\" during BAM Education and Humanities Spring Series, 2013]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1997","month":11,"day":1},"end_date":{"year":"1998","month":5,"day":31}},{"text":{"headline":"Jayme Koszyn becomes first Director of Education and Humanities, 1997<\/a>","text":"Jayme Koszyn is hired as the first Director of Education and Humanities. She programs more mainstage pullovers as school-time performances (with pre-performance workshops) and starts new in-school residencies and after-school programs. "},"media":{"url":"","thumbnail":"","credit":"","caption":""},"start_date":{"year":"1997","month":3,"day":18},"end_date":{"year":"1997","month":3,"day":21}},{"text":{"headline":"KaBAM Luminarium, 1997<\/a>","text":"The KaBAM International Children\u2019s Festival showcases the Luminarium, an outdoors inflatable sculpture installation near the opera house covering half a city block. Guests of all ages experience the surreal, otherworldly environment created by light, air, and sound."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/8\/2\/0\/2311_ca_object_representations_media_82059_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/8\/2\/0\/84100_ca_object_representations_media_82059_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Onsite Installation of \"Luminarium\" near Brooklyn Academy of Music Peter Jay Sharp Opera House, during KaBAM! International Children's Festival, Spring 1997]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1997","month":5,"day":31},"end_date":{"year":"1997","month":6,"day":1}},{"text":{"headline":"School-Time Performance: Don Byron's Jazz for Kids, 1998<\/a>","text":"MUSIC at BAM Education: School-time performances in the late 1990s and early 2000s have a strong musical component with various residency curricula built around the genres of programmed artists. Such programs include Don Byron's Jazz for Kids in 1998, Arts Bridge Jazz in 1999 (with composer\/musician Jon Nathanson), Bring Your Beats in 2000 (also with Nathanson), Folk Music Program in 2001 (with Toshi Reagon), Tradiciónes y Futuras in 2002 (Afro-Cuban jazz), and Caribbean Cadences in 2003 (African\/Caribbean music)."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/6\/3\/3\/80872_ca_object_representations_media_63325_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/6\/3\/3\/29539_ca_object_representations_media_63325_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Don Byron in his production \"Jazz: The Next Wave\" during BAM Next Wave Festival, 1998]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1998","month":3,"day":11},"end_date":{"year":"1998","month":3,"day":13}},{"text":{"headline":"First annual BAMkids Film Festival, 1999<\/a>","text":"BAM debuts the first annual BAMkids Film Festival, a two-day showcase of children-friendly shorts and features from around the world. Additional fun and educational activities include discussions with filmmakers, live performers, and face painting."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/6\/5\/35063_ca_object_representations_media_96515_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/6\/5\/86052_ca_object_representations_media_96515_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Brochure for the 1st annual BAMkids Film Festival, during BAM Education Spring Series, 1999]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1999","month":4,"day":17},"end_date":{"year":"1999","month":4,"day":18}},{"text":{"headline":"Launch of School-time Film Screening Series, 2000<\/a>","text":"BAM debuts the first school-time film screening series with post-screening Q&A sessions. Within a few years, they add pre-screening workshops (the model we still use today). Films tend to be grouped into a series with a theme. The first series for high school students, for example, is titled \u201cScreening Prejudice: Images of Discrimination in 20th Century Film.\u201d "},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/7\/2\/3\/34429_ca_object_representations_media_72372_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/7\/2\/3\/2182_ca_object_representations_media_72372_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"Screening Prejudice, 2001<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"2000","month":12,"day":15},"end_date":{"year":"2000","month":12,"day":15}},{"text":{"headline":"Launch of BAMboo!, 2002<\/a>","text":"The first annual BAMboo!, a Halloween celebration for kids, offers free outdoor activities including carnival games, live performances, and a costume contest."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/8\/4\/0\/23286_ca_object_representations_media_84057_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/8\/4\/0\/57363_ca_object_representations_media_84057_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Poster from the 10th annual \"BAMboo!,\" during BAM Fall Series, 2011]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"2002","month":10,"day":31},"end_date":{"year":"2002","month":10,"day":31}},{"text":{"headline":"AfricanDanceBeat and AfricanMusicBeat, 2004<\/a>","text":"New AfricanDanceBeat and AfricanMusicBeat in-school residencies explore history, geography, and the culture of the visiting DanceAfrica company and its country of origin through dance and music. Led by BAM teaching artists, students learn and perform African dance techniques and rhythmic expression or songs and rhythms on homemade and indigenous instruments. Participating students attend a performance by the visiting company at BAM. AfricanMusicBeat continues until 2013, and today\u2019s AfricanDanceBeat combines singing and dancing in the curriculum. "},"media":{"url":"","thumbnail":"","credit":"","caption":"AfricanDanceBeat from brochure, 2018<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"2004","month":2,"day":1},"end_date":{"year":"2004","month":5,"day":31}},{"text":{"headline":"Dancing into the Future, 2007<\/a>","text":"Dancing into the Future is refashioned as a choreography lab in which high-school students learn various movement styles with one teaching artist and attend live dance performances. Students co-create an original dance piece that they perform at BAM. "},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/9399_ca_object_representations_media_95721_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/91352_ca_object_representations_media_95721_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Chuck Davis with students in the workshop \"Dancing into the Future\" during BAM Spring Series, 2007]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"2007","month":10,"day":1},"end_date":{"year":"2007","month":12,"day":1}},{"text":{"headline":"Arts and Justice, 2008<\/a>","text":"BAM collaborates with Red Hook Youth Court (RHYC) and Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice (SLJ) to offer Courtroom Drama\/Drawing on Justice, an after-school theater and visual arts program for young people interested in the criminal justice system. Participants examine the justice system creatively and critically while developing their artistic and decision-making skills with a culminating performance and art exhibition. The roster consists of students from the RHYC training program and SLJ, offenders sanctioned by the court, selected at-risk students from other New York City high schools, and students from RHYC and SLJ community partners. The program is renamed Arts & Justice in 2008 after the partnership ends. "},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/88714_ca_object_representations_media_95725_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/61622_ca_object_representations_media_95725_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Scene from the BAM Education workshop \"Arts and Justice\" during BAM Spring Series, 2008]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"2008","month":10,"day":2},"end_date":{"year":"2008","month":12,"day":12}},{"text":{"headline":"BAM Fisher Building and Stephanie Hughley, 2011<\/a>","text":"Stephanie Hughley becomes the first Vice President of Education and Humanities, an institutional shift showing how education is an important priority for growth. In addition to overseeing the transition to the BAM Fisher building and bringing on new education programs, she envisions new growth areas in terms of arts and technology: virtual learning and Teknopolis."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/96966_ca_object_representations_media_95716_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/32654_ca_object_representations_media_95716_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Stephanie Hughley during \"DanceAfrica 2013: Rhythms of Africa\/Giya Africa\/Mandingindira e Africa\" during BAM Spring Series, 2013]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"2010","month":5,"day":8},"end_date":{"year":"2010","month":5,"day":8}},{"text":{"headline":"BAM opens the BAM Richard B. Fisher Building, 2012<\/a>","text":"BAM opens the BAM Richard B. Fisher building with new dedicated Education and Humanities facilities: new offices, the Leavitt Workshop, the Hillman Studio, and the Fishman Space. The space allows BAM Education to ramp up its offerings with summer programs and new after-school initiatives. The school-time series, which previously consisted of mainstage pullovers and the annual spoken word\/hip hop showcase, begins to include more curated productions for young people in the Fishman space."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/5\/3\/3\/11597_ca_object_representations_media_53376_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/5\/3\/3\/95750_ca_object_representations_media_53376_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Exterior of the Richard B. Fisher Building, 2012]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"2012","month":3,"day":8},"end_date":{"year":"2012","month":3,"day":9}},{"text":{"headline":"BAM Youth Summer Programs, 2014<\/a>","text":"BAM Youth Summer Programs engage kids and teens through weeklong and two-week programs led by teaching artists on drama, animation, writing, and video game design. These programs last three years."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/7\/7\/5\/97633_ca_object_representations_media_77537_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/7\/7\/5\/10399_ca_object_representations_media_77537_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"BAM presents series of summer workshops for kids and teens, 2014<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"2014","month":7,"day":7},"end_date":{"year":"2014","month":7,"day":11}},{"text":{"headline":"DanceMotion USA\u2120 Follow-on Professional Development Program, 2016<\/a>","text":"BAM Education partners with Creative Capital for the short summer intensive DanceMotionUSA Follow-on Professional Development Program, in which a small group of local and international artists engage in masterclasses, open rehearsals, and a variety of workshops about arts administration. This program ends in 2018."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/8\/3\/7\/86656_ca_object_representations_media_83737_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/8\/3\/7\/81931_ca_object_representations_media_83737_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[DanceMotion USA\u2120 Follow-on Professional Development Program in Brooklyn, New York, 2016]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"2016","month":8,"day":9},"end_date":{"year":"2016","month":8,"day":19}},{"text":{"headline":"First Annual Teknopolis, 2017<\/a>","text":"BAM presents the first annual Teknopolis, a multi-floor exhibition of immersive digital arts installations including virtual reality experiences, 360 degree films, music-making apps, and responsive art."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/7\/4\/6\/55146_ca_object_representations_media_74662_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/7\/4\/6\/14900_ca_object_representations_media_74662_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Scene from the BAM Education production \"Teknopolis\" during BAM Education Spring Series, 2017]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"2017","month":2,"day":25},"end_date":{"year":"2017","month":3,"day":12}},{"text":{"headline":"Brooklyn Philharmonia Youth Concert, 1962<\/a>","text":"The Brooklyn Philharmonia plays nine concerts for young people via the First Annual Free Schooltime Concert Series, funded by a $40,000 grant from the Board of Education, City of New York. These concerts continue for over forty years."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/1\/73532_ca_object_representations_media_95107_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/1\/5673_ca_object_representations_media_95107_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Detail from Brooklyn Academy of Music Season brochure featuring Brooklyn Philharmonia Youth Concerts, 1962]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1962","month":1,"day":27},"end_date":{"year":"1962","month":1,"day":27}},{"text":{"headline":"Margaret Sherwood: How To Be A Girl, 1960<\/a>","text":"Margaret Sherwood conducts a series of Friday afternoon classes on “How To Be A Girl.” Topics include social ease, posture, table manners, voice, and conversation. The program returns once more in 1961 under a new name: “Teen-age Girls’ Time.”"},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/1\/1853_ca_object_representations_media_95106_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/1\/44005_ca_object_representations_media_95106_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Detail from Brooklyn Academy of Music Season brochure featuring Margaret Sherwood's \"How to be a Girl,\", 1960]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1960","month":10,"day":14},"end_date":{"year":"1960","month":10,"day":14}},{"text":{"headline":"BIAS becomes the Academy\u2019s parent organization, 1936<\/a>","text":"In 1936, with BAM struggling financially in the Depression, BIAS takes title to the Academy building, becoming the Academy’s parent organization."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/1\/32370_ca_object_representations_media_95103_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/1\/3718_ca_object_representations_media_95103_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Detail from Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Bulletin advertising \"Monster Indoor Circus,\" 1936- 1937]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1936","month":10,"day":31},"end_date":{"year":"1936","month":10,"day":31}},{"text":{"headline":"BIAS introduces Young Member's Courses, 1921<\/a>","text":"In 1921 BIAS introduces the “Young Members Course,” a comprehensive performing arts program on Saturday mornings and afternoons dedicated to elevating the arts appreciation of young people through concerts, lectures, marionette theater, moving pictures, opera, operetta, plays, circus, variety shows, and ballet."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/1\/26498_ca_object_representations_media_95100_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/1\/23084_ca_object_representations_media_95100_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Al Baker]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1921","month":1,"day":15},"end_date":{"year":"1921","month":1,"day":15}},{"text":{"headline":"Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Reorganizes, 1914<\/a>","text":"BIAS reorganizes to incorporate the Department of Education, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Charles D. Atkins is brought in as Director of the BIAS Department of Education to plan programs that are presented at BAM."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/6\/4\/5\/83245_ca_object_representations_media_64580_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/6\/4\/5\/31094_ca_object_representations_media_64580_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"The Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Volume XII, Number 2<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1914"},"end_date":{"year":"1914"}},{"text":{"headline":"Brooklyn Reads, 2014<\/a>","text":"Brooklyn Reads students participate in the first \u201cBest of BAM\u201d poetry competition. The winner performs along with other hip-hop artists in Poetry 2014: Birth of a Hip-Hop Nation at BAM. Similar events continue today with Word. Sound. Power."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/7\/5\/6\/29828_ca_object_representations_media_75600_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/7\/5\/6\/56751_ca_object_representations_media_75600_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Scene from \"Poetry 2017: Word. Sound. Power.\" during BAM Spring Series, 2017]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"2014","month":2,"day":1},"end_date":{"year":"2014","month":5,"day":1}},{"text":{"headline":"PAPYP is rebranded, Generation BAM, KaBAM and BAM Family, 1997<\/a>","text":"PAPYP is rebranded according to grade levels: Generation BAM (9\u201312) and KaBAM (3\u20138). School-time performances include dance, theater, spoken word, and music. All students attending these matinees receive additional workshops through the Pre-Performance Preparation Program. A third program, BAM Family, offers weekend, public performances for parents to share with their children. \r\n\r\n"},"media":{"url":"","thumbnail":"","credit":"","caption":""},"start_date":{"year":"1997","month":5,"day":31},"end_date":{"year":"1997","month":6,"day":1}},{"text":{"headline":"The Academy Dance Center, 1969<\/a>","text":"The Academy Dance Center, a free dance-training school, opens for Brooklyn children. Each week, for sixteen weeks, twelve free Afro-jazz and modern dance classes are given to Brooklyn children in the Hanson Place Methodist Church. After a successful summer program with 350 children, similar after-school and weekend classes continue in the fall for children ages 3–5 and 5–12 with teachers selected by BAM’s resident dance companies--Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, and Eliot Feld’s American Ballet Company--as well as Charles Moore and Pepsi Bethel. Classes continue until at least 1972."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/4\/27367_ca_object_representations_media_4497_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/4\/50869_ca_object_representations_media_4497_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Dance for Six\/Masekela Langage\/Revelations<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1969","month":11,"day":20},"end_date":{"year":"1969","month":11,"day":30}},{"text":{"headline":"BAM offers three-year stagehand apprenticeship program, 1969<\/a>","text":"BAM offers a three-year stagehand apprenticeship program under a grant from the Ford Foundation. With the cooperation of the Stagehands\u2019 Union, Local #4 selects unskilled youths from Central Brooklyn to be trained as stagehands. "},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/6\/3\/7\/82161_ca_object_representations_media_63769_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/6\/3\/7\/92751_ca_object_representations_media_63769_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"Benefit Concert<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1969","month":6,"day":8},"end_date":{"year":"1969","month":6,"day":8}},{"text":{"headline":"Panel Discussion: Education in the Inner City<\/a>","text":"The Women's League for the Brooklyn Academy of Music announces, as a public\r\nservice, a panel discussion on the subject, \"Education in the Inner City: Today's\r\nChallenge to the Performing Arts.\" Parents and teachers, artists and art appreciators, and all others concerned with the problem of overcoming obstacles to arts education in inner-city schools are invited to attend."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/3\/7\/66347_ca_object_representations_media_93781_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/3\/7\/78885_ca_object_representations_media_93781_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"Panel Discussion \"Education in the Inner City,\" 1967<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1967","month":3,"day":16},"end_date":{"year":"1967","month":3,"day":16}},{"text":{"headline":"School-Time Performance: Paper Bag Players, 1967<\/a>","text":"By the 1967–68 season, the number of performances triples with over 90,000 children from K-9th grade from all 5 boroughs and Nassau County in attendance. Two of the 27 performing companies include the theatre groups the Paper Bag Players and the Merry-Go-Rounders. The school-time series builds on the existing weekend matinee series, both of which continue to this day, though in different forms. Betty Rosendorn, the Children’s Program Manager, oversees these programs until at least 1979."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/3\/5\/82966_ca_object_representations_media_3571_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/3\/5\/41610_ca_object_representations_media_3571_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"Hot Feet<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1967","month":4,"day":7},"end_date":{"year":"1967","month":4,"day":7}},{"text":{"headline":"Young People's Dramatic Workshop, 1962<\/a>","text":"The Young People\u2019s Program (formerly Young Members\u2019 Course) is billed as \u201cthe city\u2019s only complete program of entertainment for young people\u201d with 24 total performances of variety shows, films, marionettes, theater, and concerts. BIAS also adds art classes for children and juniors, as well as career-path lectures for young people of high school and college age, which are taught by leaders in the professional and business world."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/58906_ca_object_representations_media_95731_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/7\/98537_ca_object_representations_media_95731_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Detail from Brooklyn Academy of Music Season brochure featuring Dramatic Workshop, 1962]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1962","month":3,"day":10},"end_date":{"year":"1962","month":5,"day":26}},{"text":{"headline":"Dorothy White: Fun with Music, 1952<\/a>","text":"In order to save BAM, the city of New York takes title to the BAM building, leasing it back to BAM for $1 a year for 100 years.
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\r\nFun with Music: A series of five concerts for young people ages 6–12 led by Dorothy White, a pianist, singer, and teacher who has made these programs popular in many cities of the United States. Presented in cooperation with the Brooklyn Music Teachers Guild, each concert provides a variety of musical experiences for young audiences and encourages considerable participation by them in the proceedings."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/8\/7\/5\/87813_ca_object_representations_media_87571_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/8\/7\/5\/50337_ca_object_representations_media_87571_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Juanita Hall]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1952","month":2,"day":23},"end_date":{"year":"1952","month":2,"day":23}},{"text":{"headline":" Clare Tree Major Company: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, 1941<\/a>","text":"Growing up in Brooklyn during the 1930s and 40s, Ruth Bader Ginsburg considered BAM “her dream place.” Her mother, a subscriber, took Ginsburg to many of the Saturday performances and film screenings for children. "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," a production of The Clare Tree Major Company, was one of Ginsburg’s favorite plays."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/1\/18630_ca_object_representations_media_95104_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/9\/5\/1\/4401_ca_object_representations_media_95104_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Promo photo of Clare Tree Major, circa 1915]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1941","month":11,"day":1},"end_date":{"year":"1941","month":11,"day":1}},{"text":{"headline":"Sue Hastings Marionettes: Winnie the Pooh, 1934<\/a>","text":"The Sue Hastings Marionettes’ "Winnie-the-Pooh" returns by popular demand from the previous season."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/6\/5\/0\/43479_ca_object_representations_media_65034_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/6\/5\/0\/13278_ca_object_representations_media_65034_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"Member's Ticket: Events from November 14 to November 21, 1934<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1934","month":11,"day":17},"end_date":{"year":"1934","month":11,"day":17}},{"text":{"headline":"The Little Princess, 1909<\/a>","text":"The Educational Theatre for Children presents The Little Princess at BAM."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/4\/22263_ca_object_representations_media_4446_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/4\/2332_ca_object_representations_media_4446_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"The Little Princess<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1909","month":3,"day":20},"end_date":{"year":"1909","month":3,"day":20}},{"text":{"headline":"Young People\u2019s Concerts with NY Symphony Orchestra, 1908<\/a>","text":"The New York Symphony Orchestra begins a series of Young People’s Symphony Concerts, Saturday matinee orchestral concerts for young people between the ages of twelve and twenty. Conductor Walter Damrosch speaks about the instruments and works throughout the concert. Students in academies, institutes, high schools, and other institutions of learning can arrange to purchase seats together. The concerts continue until Damrosch retires in 1927."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/8\/8247_ca_object_representations_media_4847_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/8\/81899_ca_object_representations_media_4847_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"New York Symphony Orchestra<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1909","month":4,"day":3},"end_date":{"year":"1909","month":4,"day":3}},{"text":{"headline":"BIAS moves into new BAM Operahouse, 1908<\/a>","text":"BIAS moves its offices to the new BAM building at 30 Lafayette Avenue. The activities of the two organizations become increasingly intertwined. BIAS offers a more extensive adult educational program with lectures by notable public figures including Winston Churchill, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Helen Keller, and Amelia Earhart, among other notable figures. The program’s weekly courses and lectures cover a wide range of topics: philology, geology, philosophy, pedagogy, music, political science, entomology, electricity, and microscopy. For a while, the BIAS educational programs help subsidize BAM’s musical offerings."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/1\/51535_ca_object_representations_media_4187_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/1\/43247_ca_object_representations_media_4187_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"Opening Banquet of the Brooklyn Academy of Music given by The Brooklyn League<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1908","month":11,"day":13},"end_date":{"year":"1908","month":11,"day":13}},{"text":{"headline":"Benjamin's World's Fair Children's Carnival, 1893<\/a>","text":"Over two thousand children and the Seventh Regiment Band of New York perform in A. Benjamin's World's Fair Children's Carnival, an evening of Christopher Columbus-themed entertainment. Musical selections include choruses, recitations, solos, and a fiddling match."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/1\/19093_ca_object_representations_media_4189_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/1\/25931_ca_object_representations_media_4189_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"L.A. Benjamin's World's Fair Children's Carnival<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1893","month":5,"day":25},"end_date":{"year":"1893","month":5,"day":27}},{"text":{"headline":"BAM and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1890<\/a>","text":"BAM enters into a cooperative arrangement with the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (BIAS), which was founded in 1823. BIAS uses the BAM building (on Montague Street) for its adult education lecture series as early as 1895."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/4\/8\/60769_ca_object_representations_media_44822_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/4\/8\/8901_ca_object_representations_media_44822_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Advertisement for the Orphan Asylum Society \"Annual Fair\" during Fall Season, 1890]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1890","month":11,"day":19},"end_date":{"year":"1890","month":11,"day":22}},{"text":{"headline":"Josef Hofmann, 1887<\/a>","text":"Josef Hofmann, a ten-year old pianist and composer, plays a concert in which he is billed as “the greatest genius on the Pianoforte since the days of Mozart.”"},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/7\/65422_ca_object_representations_media_4719_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/4\/7\/35699_ca_object_representations_media_4719_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"Josef Hofmann<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1887","month":12,"day":16},"end_date":{"year":"1887","month":12,"day":16}},{"text":{"headline":"H.M.S. Pinafore, 1879<\/a>","text":"The Grand English Opera Company and The New York Children’s Pinafore Company from Haverly’s Lyceum Theatre in New York present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta H. M. S. Pinafore with a cast of 101 children performing the grand march and review."},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/3\/7\/7\/25606_ca_object_representations_media_37762_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/3\/7\/7\/82739_ca_object_representations_media_37762_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Advertisement for the Rice Opera Bouffe Company production \u201cH. M. S. Pinafore\" during Spring Season, 1879]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1879","month":2,"day":10},"end_date":{"year":"1879","month":2,"day":15}},{"text":{"headline":"The Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1861<\/a>","text":"The Brooklyn Academy of Music is created to cultivate “a taste for music, literature and the arts.” Although the venue is designed to feature regular classical music and opera performances, it soon hosts many public lectures, gatherings, and rites that advance the greater good of the community. An 1871 Brooklyn guidebook confirms this important civic role: “Here Brooklyn gathers, and speaks, acts, or gives, whenever her public spirit is invoked, or some question of local or national import needs the attention of her citizens, and here art, science, religion and amusement, hold their levees.”"},"media":{"url":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/5\/4\/8\/68756_ca_object_representations_media_54895_small.jpg","thumbnail":"http:\/\/levyarchive.bam.org\/media\/bam2012\/images\/5\/4\/8\/8609_ca_object_representations_media_54895_icon.jpg","credit":"","caption":"[Invitation to the Opening Entertainment of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1861]<\/a>"},"start_date":{"year":"1861","month":1,"day":17},"end_date":{"year":"1861","month":1,"day":17}}]}