BEAT Festival

05/10/2019

Friends of BEAT! Weeksville needs your support. If you can, please help them reach their fundraising goals below. As you may recall, we worked with Weeksville in 2015 to create the very special immersive experience "Fertile Grounds". They are a crucial part of the Brooklyn cultural landscape. Let's show our community spirit and put them over the top!

Weeksville Heritage Center needs you, and we need you now. What We Do We are a unique historic house museum located in Crown Heights and our work preserves the history of one of the largest free black communities in pre-Civil War America. For 50 years, we ...

10/26/2018

Dear friends of BEAT -

Been awhile....

We have recently revamped our website - BEATBrooklyn.com - to serve as a retrospective on the great work we created across the borough from 2012-2016. Here, you will find some extraordinary images from festival programs (Storyboard P anyone?) & links to all of our media including the video montages from opening night at the Brooklyn Museum, "Crossing Over" & more.

We feel it captures the essence of the magic and joy we created with all of our Brooklyn friends for 5 years!

BEATBrooklyn.com

Lotsa love from me to each and everyone of you! ~

Stephen Shelley

(Pictured is LEIMAY, from 2014's "Crossing Over" @ Green-Wood Cemetery)

09/14/2017

Hi friends -

It's the 2nd Thursday of September, which - for the last 5 years - was BEAT Opening Night. As you might already know, there is no BEAT Festival this year as I (Stephen Shelley) and my wife have moved out west, had a beautiful little girl and are just not in the Brooklyn mix anymore.

Nevertheless, we find ourselves joyfully recalling prior opening nights at the Brooklyn Museum and remember so many wonderful experiences with Brooklyn artists, sponsors, partnerships and spaces. It was a truly amazing ride and we are so grateful to each of you for your participation and support over the years.

To each of you creators out there, we salute you and send you our endless admiration and love!

(Pic is from the Tioga Pass, just east of Yosemite National Park)

02/21/2017

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12/07/2016

All good things must, eventually, come to an end...

http://www.beatbrooklyn.com/2016/12/07/final-beat-festival/

After five wonderful years, the 2016 BEAT Festival was our final event. I have moved to the west coast, have had a beautiful daughter, and am in a very different place than I was a year ago, much less five (when the festival began). My wife and I decided this year after moving west that …

10/05/2016

Looking for low-cost rehearsal space? Check our partners Spaceworks is in Brooklyn and Queens starting at $10/hr. Use code SWBEAT20 for an extra 20% off your rehearsal through the end of the year http://bit.ly/2cDy8BT

Seeking affordable rehearsal space? First, you’ll need your Spaceworks Card. Performing artists use their Spaceworks Card to make reservations online and swipe into a Spaceworks rehearsal facility. The card is free. Apply now!

10/03/2016

Thank You to Everyone Who Supported BEAT 2016!

We send our deepest thanks to all artists, supporters, partners, and audience members for the best year yet!

09/23/2016

Our FINAL show...Tonight! It's "Margaret I", which features the women from Shakespeare's Henry VI tetralogy. Directed by Elyzabeth Gorman, and presented at the Industry City Distillery (). This will be followed by our closing party featuring a special Brooklyn-made vodka drink for the occasion!

Some seats remain - get yours here:

http://www.beatbrooklyn.com/margaret-i-2016/

To all: Thanks for an amazing festival!

Margaret I + BEAT Closing Night Party Margaret I combines music, movement and text from Shakespeare’s Henry VI tetralogy, his sources, early female writers, and contemporary responses to explore the role of women in politics, war and s*x. Featuring: Elyzabeth Gorman Art Forms: Theater Friday, Septem...

09/22/2016

What can be defined as "modern" dance is, by definition, always moving forward, evolving and changing. It begs the question: what NOW is the current edge of that movement?

Tonight, at Triskelion Arts, we seek to reveal this via the emerging talents of Thea Little & Lucy Kerr (pictured). Curated by LEIMAY, "Brooklyn on the Rim", brings us right to the very edge of what dance and theater are, and can be...

VERY few seats left for this one:

http://www.beatbrooklyn.com/brooklyn-rim-2016/

Brooklyn on the Rim, A Dance Evening Curated by LEIMAY This cant miss event features a unique movement and sculpture collaboration between Thea Little and Niki Singleton, followed by Lucy Kerr’s ‘while you were away’, which merges film and performance, exploring the human landscape and loneliness. F...

09/21/2016

It shouldn't be too hard to follow the beat tonight!

Come join us at 7pm, for an evening of spoken word featuring Derick Cross, Keisha-Gaye Anderson and Ashley August at 5Myles in Crown Heights. "SEE/HEAR/NOW" - we focus on the urgency of the moment, and the forces at play within our communities...shining a big light of optimism and hope at the end of the tunnel. Get your tickets here:

http://www.beatbrooklyn.com/see-hear-now-2016/