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Brooklyn FAM is a community-empowering, community-building arts 501(c)(3). Connection, empathy, shared humanity—first and always.

Come to our flagship festival Nov. 1st at the Prospect Park Boathouse!

10/13/2026

✨💪🏽♥️ We the people shape our communities. Let’s dream out loud and keep standing up for what we want for ourselves and each other. We are the wind and water that cut through rock 🌊 and the earth that moves mountains.⛰️ Everything is possible.

✨Thank you, artist Madjeen Isaac Madjeen Isaac , and thank you, community, for participating in Madjeen’s collage workshop “Reimagine Your Hood” at Brooklyn FAM’s community arts programming at East NY Youth Farm this past August. Thank you, East New York Farms! , for your incredible partnership.

Together we cut collages from images of existing landscapes to reimagine our worlds.

✨What do you love about your neighborhood?
✨What makes you feel safe?
✨What do you wish to see?

Together, let’s create the world we want to live in and the future we wish for generations to come.

10/01/2026

🔥Brooklyn FAM’s flagship festival is back for its 6th year! Join us Sunday, November 1st, 11am-4pm at the Boathouse (rain or shine) for a FREE, family-friendly celebration of North, Central, and South American indigenous voices — including Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, Shinnecock, Diné (Navajo), Taíno, Colombian, Mexican, and Guatemalan (Maya). This year’s theme: “Shine Your Light.”

✨Come shine with us! Connect across communities and generations through music and dance performances, workshops, a drumming circle, community ofrenda, craft stations, and public art for all ages. Food & drink will be available for purchase (including vegetarian and vegan options).

🎟️RSVP and check out the full program at brooklynfam.org or the link in bio. Watch this space for artist reveals. 👀

🙏🏽 This event is presented in partnership with the Prospect Park Alliance, American Indian Community House, and New York Immigration Coalition with funding from the Brooklyn Arts Council, NYS Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, NYC Commission on Human Rights, Brooklyn Org, Granru Market, Taqueria El Patrón, ArtShack, Little Mo W**e & Spirits, and individual donors.

Brooklyn FAM is a community-empowering, community-building 501(c)3 charitable arts nonprofit. Our mission is to foster cross-community, intergenerational connection, understanding, and empathy for a more just, resilient world.

Brooklyn FAM’s vision is a world where difference draws us towards one another. Learn more at Brooklyn FAM or brooklynfam.org.

See you on November 1st!

🎨 Casey Grenier Casey Grenier
📸 Greg Horan Gregory ⚡️ Mensch

09/28/2026

THANK YOU, fam, for coming out to East NY Youth Farm’s August 18th farmers market for a day of joy and community connection. Thank you, East New York Farms! , for your partnership. You and your youth interns rock!

✨JOY is our jam. Joy is collective power, connection, resilience, and resistance. Joy is an engine for freedom, radical imagination, creation, and social justice.

Thank you to our artists, who inspired us to learn more about each other, tell our own stories, move, and create together! 🕺🏽🎨
✨Bangladesh Institute of Performing Arts 🇧🇩BIPA Inc🇺🇸 for dance and live performance with the Bangla dhol, harmonium, and vocals
✨MARACA BRUJA for the sounds and living traditions of the Colombian Caribbean vocals, gaita, tambor alegre, llamador, tambora, and maracones
✨Kendall Williams of Pan in Motion for Trinidadian steel pan vibes and a steel pan workshop tent
✨Madjeen Isaac for your “Reimagine Your Hood” collaging station, empowering folks to tell visual stories of what they wish to see in their neighborhoods
✨ Us for school supply giveaways 📚📓
✨our own Brooklyn FAM team for “Shine Your Light” candle and zippered pouch crafts for folks to express how they shine their light in this world and inspire others to shine theirs

Let your light shine bright!

This event was made possible by funding from the City Parks Foundation , Partnerships for Parks, and NYC Green Fund. We are grateful for the support to do this work. 🙏🏽

08/31/2026

✨THANK YOU, GodSquad/P.A.T.H. Partners Against the Hate The GodSquad , for inviting Brooklyn FAM Brooklyn FAM to facilitate the concluding workshop of your SYEP summer youth series on Tuesday, August 18th.

Developed by Brooklyn FAM’s Jenn Chen and Tara Page, “Mapping Our Resilience” brought together 20 participants (youth and adults) to reflect and share stories about personal values, identities, and transformative life experiences.

Following individual reflections, group discussion, and hands-on art-making in response to the prompts “What identities and values are important to me and the people around me?” and “What life experiences have shaped my identity and values?”, the workshop culminated in a collective art project expressing the group’s individual and shared stories of identity, growth, and transformation.

The project will serve as a vehicle for continued conversations about cultivating empathy and combating hate and bias through intentional reflection on what we share and what we can learn from our differences.

08/15/2026

Happening TOMORROW, Sunday the 16th (rain or shine)! See you there!

08/14/2026

🔥Fam! Come create with Brooklyn FAM this Sunday, 12-5pm, at the annual One Crown Heights Festival in Brower Park!

The festival program includes all kinds of awesome, FREE activities for all ages, like roller skating with NYC Roller Skating Pop-up , live performances by Tropicalfete and others, crafting with Jewish Children's Museum , free admission at Brooklyn Children's Museum, community conversations, and resources from local nonprofits.

🫶🏽Since Brooklyn FAM’s founding in 2021-2022, we’ve been honored to participate in the work of the One Crown Heights Coalition, which came into being after the 1991 race riots to foster understanding and connection across Crown Heights’ diverse communities, especially Black, Caribbean, and Jewish.

🎨This Sunday, Brooklyn FAM is hosting — count ‘em — FOUR art-making stations for all ages. Participate in one or all. 🌟This year’s theme is “Shine Your Light.” How do you shine your light in our world? How do you inspire others to shine theirs? Tell your own story, connect across communities and generations, and shine, shine, shine!

✨Paint One Crown Heights Coalition’s new Little Free Pantry with multidisciplinary Haitian-American artist Yolande Delius (pronounced “Yolund”) yolundstudios

✨Draw & write your story on a “Shine Your Light” all-natural scented candle, custom made for us by Paige's Candle Co. | Paige Graham, Founder

✨Decorate your own charity box (Tzedakah) to shine your light through giving and generosity

✨Decorate our limited-edition “Shine Your Light” zippered pouch

🌎 Let’s keep lighting up our world, dreaming big, and creating our shared futures together!

This Brooklyn FAM program is made possible by production support from our community volunteers and One Crown Heights Festival and funding from the City Parks Foundation, Partnerships for Parks, NYC Green Fund, Brooklyn Arts Council, Howard Gilman Foundation, and individuals donors like you.

🙌🏽Visit brooklynfam.org to volunteer and donate!

08/08/2026

😎 Don’t miss this summer sizzle! Come out to East New York Farms!uth Farms on Saturday, August 15th, 9am-3pm, for a full day of FREE music and dance performances, workshops, crafting, and awesome gifts and giveaways for all ages.

Let’s tell our stories, connect across communities and generations, and create together. The spirit is joy and shared abundance. We are here for it! 🔥

🙌🏽 RSVP and full schedule at Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-art-performances-workshops-at-east-ny-youth-farms-tickets-1995203913615

Check out all the cool things we’ve got in store for you—
🌻9am - Farmers’ market opens
🌻10-11am Storytime with Literacy In Community
🌻11am-2pm - Crafting featuring “ReImagine Your Hood” collaging with Haitian-American artist , “Shine Your Light” full-size scented candle and “Shine Your Light” zippered pouch decorating with

🛢️ 11am-12pm - Steel pan by
💃🏿 12-1pm - Bengali dance performance & workshop with live musicians
🪘 1-2pm - Afro-Colombian music by
🛢️ 12-2pm - Steel pan workshop tent with Pan in Motion

🎁9am-3pm - Book giveaway with Brooklyn Book Bodega
🎁11am-1pm (while supplies last) - School supply giveaway by

Brooklyn FAM's arts programming is made possible by production support from East NY Youth Farms community volunteers and funding from City Parks Foundation, Partnerships for Parks, NYC Green Fund, Howard Gilman Foundation, and individual donors like you. We are grateful to all for the support!

08/02/2026

🌱Come out Saturday, August 15, 9am-3pm for a full day of FREE activities for all ages at East NY Youth Farms. We grow together, fam!

Brooklyn FAM: Festival of Arts and Music is excited to center our Trinidadian, Bengali, Afro-Colombian, and Haitian communities with a full program of live arts performances, workshops, art-making, and giveaways.

🎟️ RSVP at EventBrite! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-art-performances-workshops-at-east-ny-youth-farms-tickets-1995203913615

Here’s the schedule:
🌻9am-3pm - Farmers’ market

🌻10-11am - Storytime with Literacy in Community (LINC)

🌻11-12pm - Steel pan with Pan in Motion

🌻12-2pm - Steel pan workshop tent

🌻12-1pm - Bengali dance performance & workshop with live musicians with Bangladesh Institute of Performing Arts (BIPA)

🌻1-2pm - Afro-Colombian music ensemble Maraca Bruja

🌻11am-2pm - Art-making on the farm featuring “Shine Your Light” full-size scented candle activity, zippered pouch decorating, and a “ReImagine Your Hood” collage workshop with Haitian-American artist Madjeen Isaac

This programming is made possible by NYC Grassroots Green Fund grant support from the City Parks Foundation and Partnerships for Parks.

07/20/2026

Welcome to “Our Community,” a garden-themed 7-foot table runner created by folks of all ages and backgrounds with master quilter Sylvia Hernandez at New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC)‘s end-of-year Key to the City community resource event in Sunset Park on 44th St between 5th and 6th avenues on Saturday, June 13, 2026.

Community-empowering arts nonprofit Brooklyn FAM was honored to produce this participatory public art project on commission from NYIC’s Key to the City team, Caterina Cundari and Giselle Garcia.

From the artist, Sylvia Hernandez:

“I wanted to create a community garden to show that our flowers grow and go together no matter where we are from. The bees symbolize the industriousness of our immigrant communities.”
🌸🐝

Fam — we share roots, soil, water, sun, and air. Let’s keep growing our families, nourishing our communities, and supporting one another!

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