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Brooklyn FAM is a community-empowering, community-building arts 501(c)(3). Let’s keep meeting face to face, ♥️ to ♥️.

Connection, empathy, shared humanity—first and always.

06/12/2026

😎 This Saturday, join us in Sunset Park for fun summer vibes, free activities, giveaways, and resources at the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) New York Immigration Coalition’s end-of-year Key to the City community event!

🗓️Saturday, June 13th
⏰12-3 p.m.
📍on 44th St between 5th and 6th avenues at Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Enjoy live music, dance, resources from 30+ organizations, and free lunch from Tacos Modelo .

Stop by the Brooklyn FAM Brooklyn FAM tents for TWO artmaking activities.

🎨 Make your mark with master quilter Sylvia Hernandez on a very special public art project called “Our Community.” The project is a commission from NYIC. Who is our community, and how do we grow it? Add fabric flowers, fruits, leaves, branches, and roots to the flourishing garden of our community on a beautiful 7-foot-long table runner.

🎨 Create a “Shine Your Light” full-size scented candle craft to take home (one per household). How do you shine your light in this world, and how do you inspire others to shine theirs? Draw and write your story on a label for your candle vessel, and let the light shine through.

We can’t wait to see you on Saturday!

05/27/2026

🎉We are Brooklyn Arts Council grantees for the 4th year in a row. Thank you, Brooklyn Arts Council !

We love this work. If you’ve been to one of our programs, you know. We are ALL in, and this level of support from the Brooklyn Arts Council is a vote of trust and confidence in our impact that we don’t take lightly.

We are honored to receive three 2026 BAC grants:
🔥Creative Equations Fund for social justice & community impact
🔥Brooklyn Arts Fund
🔥Local Arts Support

With this funding, we continue to center marginalized voices, empower each of us to tell our own stories, and hold safe, welcoming space for all of our communities to share, connect, envision, and create our shared futures together across four generations.

Through the healing, transformative power of the arts, we foster empathy.

♥️ Empathy — heart connection — is the root of social change.

The Creative Equations Fund is underwritten by the Howard Gilman Foundation . The Brooklyn Arts Fund is a regrant of funding from the New York State Council on the Arts . Local Arts Support is a regrant of funding from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs .

🙏🏽 Thank you all for supporting the arts and its universal power to impact community for good.

“Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.” —Helen Keller

05/16/2026

🔥COOL CRAFT #2! (of 4. Come to the event to discover 3 and 4 — they’re also really cool, we promise 😉)

Design and take home your own
charity or giving box with and . (One box per household, while supplies last.)

“Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.”
—Helen Keller

“Don’t let a day go by without its own act of giving.”
— Baal Shem Tov

📆 Sun, May 17, 2-6pm
🎭 “Shine Your Light, Brooklyn FAM!” A spring arts fest at Flatbush Junction
📍Hillel Plaza at Flatbush Ave

✨Shine your light through giving
✨How do you share your abundance with others?

05/14/2026

🔥COOL CRAFT ALERT! Design and take home your own full-size (9 oz) scented candle at our “Shine Your Light” event series this spring and summer. Our programs are FREE, family friendly, and fun for all. (One candle per household, while supplies last.)

📆 Sun, May 17, 2-6pm
🎭 “Shine Your Light, Brooklyn FAM!” A spring arts fest at Flatbush Junction
📍Hillel Plaza at Flatbush Ave

📆 Sat, June 13, 12-3pm
🎨 Art-making stations at NY Immigration Coalition’s Keys to the City resource fair
📍At Sunset Park on 44th St bet 6th & 7th avenues

📆 Sat, August 15, 11-2pm
🎭 Music, dance, open mic, workshops, & art-making at ‘s Back-To-School farmer’s market
📍Schenck Ave bet New Lots & Livonia Ave + inside East NY Youth Farm

📆 Sun, August 16, 12-4pm
🎨 Art-making stations at with the One Crown Heights Coalition
📍St. Mark’s Pl in front of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum

🙌🏽 We’re thrilled to support Brooklyn-based, Black woman-owned with a custom order of her beautiful all-natural soy wax candles for this project!

🌈 Express yourself on a custom transparent candle label with all the colors of the rainbow. Then wrap the label around the glass jar and let it illuminate your story.

✨How do you shine your light?
✨How do you inspire others to shine theirs?

Let’s light up the world together, fam!

🎨 “Shine Your Light” sticker by Sofia Marrero

05/11/2026

🌟We’re honored to have received recognition from of the NYC mayor’s office for “outstanding leadership” in powering social change through volunteerism.

The full text of the recognition:

“For its outstanding leadership in using service as a strategic tool and supporting volunteerism in New York City throughout 2025. Our city is powered by people who show up for one another, and this organization’s commitment to connecting people to shared purpose and mobilizing neighbors in building a more just and equitable city is exemplary.

“This organization has uplifted countless New Yorkers and created lasting, positive change. We are proud to commend its unwavering commitment to creating a better city for us all.”

💪🏽 To join our team and volunteer with us, fill out the form in the link in our bio. 🔗linktr.ee/brooklynfam

🌆 And join the movement in NYC! Check out “Every Action, Every New Yorker!” — NYC Service’s 2026 campaign to strengthen our city from the ground up.

🔗www.nycservice.org/every-action-every-new-yorker

05/05/2026

📣Fam, come out for THE spring arts fest in Central Brooklyn! Bring family, friends, and neighbors and tell ALL the people.

Come experience Caribbean, Jewish, and African diaspora music and dance performances, workshops, unique craft-making, and lots of special giveaways.

🫶🏽It’s FREE, fun, and for everyone. Let’s connect across communities and generations to share our stories, connect, and create together.

✨Shine Your Light, Brooklyn FAM!
📆 Sunday, May 17, 2-6 p.m.
📍Hillel Plaza in Flatbush Junction
🚊MTA 2/5 Flatbush Av-Brooklyn College. B44, B41, B103, B11 buses.

🎟️ RSVP & full event schedule at the EventBrite QR in this post. Or use the link in Brooklyn FAM’s bio . We got you!

👀Watch this space for program reveals.

Featured artists & community partners:

Parnessim Band
Miriam Bursky-Tammam
Event host & Vocal Beat Expressionist
Teaching artist Vickie Frémont
Aleph Early Learning Center
Chabad in Central Brooklyn
NY Immigration Coalition

🙏🏽This event is brought to you by Brooklyn FAM in production partnership with the Flatbush-Nostrand Junction BID . We’re grateful for grant support from City Parks Foundation , , NYC Green Fund, , NYC Mayor’s Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes , and NYC P.A.T.H. Forward (Partners Against the Hate). Brooklyn FAM receives additional support from the Brooklyn Arts Council , Howard Gilman Foundation, community volunteers, and individual donors like you.

We truly could not do this work without each and every one of you. Thank you!🙏🏽

✨Together, let’s light up the world✨

Graphic by with @gmail.com

05/04/2026

✨”SHINE YOUR LIGHT, Brooklyn fam!” This is our 2026 programming theme, and we’re thrilled to announce it with this bang-up, glow-up graphic by artist Sofia Marrero !

Klere limyè w

Haz brillar tu luz

閃耀你的光芒

তোমার আলো ছড়িয়ে দাও

האר את אורך

دع نورك يشعّ

✨How do you shine your light in the world, & how do you inspire others to shine theirs?✨

Blast us with your heart beams! Belt your song from the rooftops!

Your story, your heart, *YOU* matter, and we wanna hear you, see you, & celebrate you and .

♥️ Come shine with your Brooklyn fam at our FREE 2026 programming for all ages.

We’re fired up to collab with partners & artists in Crown Heights, Flatbush Junction, Sunset Park, East NY, & the beating heart of the borough, Prospect Park.

We’ve got some cool stuff in store to help you light up our world, like a unique craft with full-size, all-natural scented candles from .

🙏🏽 All of our programs and art-making are FREE thanks to our hardworking team, grantors, small business sponsors, & donors like you.

See y’all soon!

📆 Thurs, April 23, 3-5:30pm
🎨 Art-making stations at ‘s community resource fair
📍St. John’s Park, Crown Heights

📆 Sun, May 17, 2-6pm
🎭 “Shine Your Light, Brooklyn FAM!” A spring arts fest at Flatbush Junction
📍Hillel Plaza at Flatbush Ave

📆 Sat, June 13, 12-3pm
🎨 Art-making stations and participatory public art project at NY Immigration Coalition’s Keys to the City resource fair
📍At Sunset Park on 44th St bet 6th & 7th avenues

📆 Sat, August 15, 11-2pm
🎭 Music, dance, open mic, workshops, & art-making at ‘s Back-To-School farmer’s market
📍Schenck Ave bet New Lots & Livonia Ave + inside East NY Youth Farm

📆 Sun, August 16, 12-4pm
🎨 Art-making stations at with the One Crown Heights Coalition
📍St. Mark’s Pl in front of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum

📆 Sun, October 25, 11am-5pm
🎭 6th annual Brooklyn FAM flagship festival, celebrating our North & South American indigenous voices
📍 Boathouse & lawns

04/30/2026

🔥Crown Heights! We had a BLAST with y’all at ‘s Good Vibes event in St. John’s Park last Thursday, April 23.

Thank you for sharing your stories and creating with us at three different craft stations. A bunch of you hung out with us for over an hour. LOVE 🥰

✨Keep shining!

04/21/2026

😎 This Thursday, April 23, 3:00-5:30pm, come hang with us on Troy Ave at St. John’s Park in Crown Heights at ‘s Good Vibes community event!

🎨 We’ll be running cool craft stations for kids, youth, adults, and seniors. Share your story and create with us.✨

Meet your neighbors, enjoy free entertainment, giveaways, and resources for the whole family, including lung screenings with New York Presbyterian’s Weill Cornell Imaging.

Spread the word and bring a friend!

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Brooklyn, NY
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Website

http://brooklynfam.org/

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