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Brooklyn Takes Fashion Week Into Its Own Hands (opens the original)
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On Saturday, Sept. 12, the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall became a runway. For the second year in a row, KidSuper founder and Brooklyn Arts Ambassador Colm Dillane joined Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso to present The People’s Runway. The premise of the show was simple: Give local designers a runway, production support, mentorship and money, and see what happens when they are given the conditions to make work at scale. Unlike many Fashion Week presentations, the event was free and ope
In Brooklyn, Caribbean Writers Are Imagining What Comes Next (opens the original)
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For five days this September, Brooklyn became a gathering place for writers, publishers and readers considering what it meant to imagine a Caribbean future. The Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival, now in its eighth year, returned Sept. 9-13 with a theme drawn from a familiar Caribbean proverb: “One Hand Don’t Clap.” This year’s festival, "One Hand Don’t Clap: Caribbean Worlds, Writing Towards the Future," asked what could be created through collective memory, cultural exchange and the stories
The Bed-Stuy Fabric Studio That Turned Black Pride Into Pattern (opens the original)
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In 1969, as Bedford-Stuyvesant emerged as a center of Black political and cultural life, an unlikely partnership was taking shape in the Brooklyn neighborhood. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, one of the most recognizable women in America, was helping launch a Black-run textile studio whose fabrics drew from African art and craft and whose mission extended beyond design: create jobs, cultivate local talent and make Black pride tangible in the homes of American consumers. The studio, Design Works of B
At the Center for Art and Advocacy, Brooklyn Youth Reimagine Life Beyond Detention (opens the original)
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What happens when young people who are often defined by the systems around them are given the opportunity to define themselves? At the Center for Art and Advocacy in Brooklyn, the answer is taking shape through "Keeping Community," a summer exhibition bringing together artists, organizers, formerly and currently incarcerated creatives and young people navigating New York City’s juvenile justice system. At its center is the Youth Art Space, a pop-up gallery featuring works created by youth at the
Brooklyn's Chorus Gallery Is Testing the Limits of Small Spaces (opens the original)
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In an evolving Brooklyn arts landscape, Chorus has emerged as a small but ambitious curatorial project space. Founded by Archie Caride in January 2026, Chorus is still in flux — and that is, in many ways, the point. For Caride, his contribution to the arts does not require a large institution, a large budget or a large physical footprint. Chorus occupies only a single room, but Caride does not view the limited footprint as a restriction, even as other Brooklyn arts organizations grow. He sees it
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