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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.

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!

07/15/2026

We stand , fam. Let’s continue to hold and protect safe space for all of us to tell and live our own stories, build bridges, grow networks of care, and strengthen our families and communities.

✨THANK YOU, Sunset Park, for coming out in record numbers (😮 more than 850!) to connect, share, support one another, and shine your light at New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC)‘s end-of-year Key to the City community resource event on Saturday, June 13th, on 44th St between 5th and 6th avenues.

🫶🏽 Brooklyn FAM was thrilled to be there alongside 41 other nonprofits providing essential resources. Thank you, NYIC, for inviting us! We hosted “Shine Your Light” art-making stations and a new participatory public art project called “Our Community” with master quilter Sylvia Hernandez and our team of event captains and volunteers.

👀Stay tuned for more about this project.

✨Keep shining your light and inspiring others to shine theirs.✨

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

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