Brooklyn, Usa

We hear from the community on what Justice means to them, in Part 2 of our look back at this year's BRIC OPEN Festival.

Stories of Humanity with The Innocence Project and Phony Ppl – live at the BRIC Open Festival, 2019.

It has been said that he not busy being born is busy dying. *** Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sachar Mathias and Emily Boghossian. "Corpse Flower" was produced by Emily Boghossian and Brian Vines, with help from Mayumi Sato. You can follow Brian into the field, and inside the issues that matter on his BRIC TV series, "Going In With Brian Vines" https://bit.ly/2sesJ8k and on IG here: https://bit.ly/2EIgUA0 "Shatzi Weisberger Believes That Death," was produced by Shirin Barghi and edited by Myra Al-Rahim "Morbid Anatomy" was produced by Emily Boghossian and Dolma Ombadykow -- who can be found on Twitter @dombadyk. To learn more about Doreen Garner’s work, visit her website www.doreengarner.com Thanks to Richard Bryan for being a part of the process. This episode featured music from the De Wolfe music library and the song "Corpse Flower" by the band Horror Story, courtesy of Demon Nation Records. If you like what you heard, please rate and review! If you think we got something wrong or just want to

What’s the deal with women and audio? *** Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sachar Mathias and Emily Boghossian. Thanks again to Annie Rose Malamet, Keisha “TK” Dutes, Paola Messina and Ah-Keisha McCants for putting this workshop together with us, and to TK for producing and editing all of the audio recorded therein. Annie hosts and produces a podcast called Relevant, over at Posture Magazine: https://bit.ly/2R8Ngq0 TK hosts the Bondfire Radio morning show “TK In The AM” on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays: https://apple.co/2iGz07R For more information on Sound Thinking NYC, visit https://bit.ly/2R2d878 Thank you to the CUNY Creative Arts Team, Brooklyn Free Speech, BRIC Media Education for their help with this episode. For more information on BRIC Media Education, and a full list of available courses, visit: https://bit.ly/2ztXIBT Brooklyn, USA is part of the BRIC Radio family. For more information, visit bricartsmedia.org/radio.

This week, we're going home and we're taking you with us. Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sachar Mathias and Emily Boghossian. "NYCHA: The Cost of Living | A #BHeard Town Hall" was produced by Ro Johnson and Brian Vines, and can be viewed in its entirety here: https://bit.ly/2pYN8O2 Our sound walk through the Sea Park Apartments was produced by Emily Boghossian and Khyriel Palmer. Our Ebbets Field history lesson was produced by Victoria Marin. And special thanks to Najee Omar for dropping by the studio for a heartfelt reading of his original poem, "Hands, Kings, and Brooklyn Streets." You can find more of his work at www.najeeomar.com. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/bric-radio.

Welcome back to Brooklyn, USA. We’re kicking off our second season with two stories that would’ve ended very differently, if it weren’t for a well-timed intervention. In the first, three sisters keep each other grounded while jumping over a series of hurdles. In the second, a war machine is rescued from its violent past, and given new life as a work of public art. Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sachar Mathias, Emily Boghossian, Myra Al-Rahim and Sasha Whittle. Sasha who won the Best Young Creator award at the 2018 Urbanworld Film Festival for her documentary, "Three In Stride," from which our first story was adapted. You can watch the it here: https://vimeo.com/290981680 The exhibition Mary Mattingly: What Happens After is on view through November 11th in the Gallery at BRIC House. There's more information here: https://bit.ly/2DEuJjm For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio

On Saturday, June 9th, thousands gathered along 5th Avenue in Park Slope to celebrate Brooklyn Pride. According to the 2017 census, New York City has the largest number of self-identifying LGBTQ+ residents in the country. However, Brooklyn’s LGBTQ+ population is threatened by the same exclusionary forces that marginalize gay, lesbian and transgender folks in conservative, small towns across America. Sarah Grochowski went out onto the streets and into the crowd to meet some loud & proud Brooklynites… and a few of their detractors. ••• Brooklyn, USA is produced Sachar Mathias and Emily Boghossian. If you want to get in touch, you can leave us a comment, tweet us at BRIC RADIO or leave a message at (347) 504-0801. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio.

We’re hitting the road for the summer– but before we do, we’re taking you on a ride. First, we go on an imaginary cab ride. Then, we get to the bottom of Brooklyn’s pothole problem. Next, we go deep underground to find out what’s happening with the New York City Subway. And finally, we head out west, and hit some turbulence on the way back. If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there. And getting there is half the fun in Brooklyn, USA. ••• Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sachar Mathias and Emily Boghossian. "Rideshare Ride Along" was produced by Josh Rollin, written and directed by Calvin Kasulke, and was performed by Utkarsh Rajawat, Connor Carson, Greg Schultz, Luz Ozuna, Romana Sow-tus, and Nell Muldoon. Thanks to Mark Pagan for giving us yet another reason to never ride the subway. Mark hosts a podcast called Other Men Need Help and runs our sister network, Brooklyn Free Speech Radio– check them out. Thanks to Brian Vines for hitting those potholes so we didn’t have to. You

For four days in April, BRIC Arts Media hosted the second annual BRIC Open Festival: an exploration of the borders that exist in and around our world. Today, we're bringing you stories from the borders people cross to get into, out of, around and through Brooklyn. In the first, a mother makes an impossible decision in order to give her children a better life. Then, a group of high school students leave Brooklyn for the weekend, and wind up all over the world. Then, back at home, a community is divided by a seemingly invisible line. And finally, we go back to school and back in time with a group of kids who are tracing their family's roots around the globe to Brooklyn, USA. ••• Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sachar Mathias and Emily Boghossian. Thanks to Alexandra Brauni, Candi and Ana for carrying us across one of the world’s most treacherous borders. Thanks to Rohi Pandya, and the PS 10 Diversity Committee and students for bringing us along on their journey. Thanks to Carolyn, and the students at The Academ

A watched pot never boils, in Brooklyn, USA. ••• Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sachar Mathias and Emily Boghossian. This episode features Andie Milares, Brian Vines, Charlie Hoxie, Charles Hailer and music from the de Wolfe music library. If you like what you hear, wanna advertise on our show, or just want to get in touch, you can leave us a comment, tweet us @ BRIC RADIO or leave a message at (347) 504-0801. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit ww.bricartsmedia.org/radio.

Black History Month 2018 was one for the books. We saw millions of fans celebrate #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay on Superbowl Sunday, Sade announce her first musical release in seven years for the Ava Duvernay-directed A Wrinkle In Time, the Obama presidential portraits unveiled, and The Golden State Warriors opt out of the traditional White House visit to instead take a group of students to the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture. We even saw a Black Lives Matter flag raised over a high school in Vermont, and of course Black Panther burn up the box office, smashing records along the way. We spent the month honoring the past, present, and future of Blackness in Brooklyn. We got a lesson on jazz great Betty Carter’s legacy from some of her contemporaries and closest friends. We joined a book club that celebrates black literature and womanhood. And we followed a group of students from Brooklyn all the way to Wakanda. #BlackHistory, #BlackFuture, #BlackExcellence. Say it loud i

Welcome back to Brooklyn, USA. We're halfway through putting together our next episode, but wanted to wish you a happy Valentine's Day in the meantime. Here's Joan... ••• This piece was produced by Emily Boghossian and Khyriel Palmer, with Sachar Mathias, and featured music from the de Wolfe music library. Thanks to Joan Andre for telling her story. You can follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/kingsilvy. If you like what you hear, think we got something wrong or just want to get in touch, you can leave us a comment, tweet us at BRIC RADIO or leave a message at (347) 504-0801. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit ww.bricartsmedia.org/radio.

The conversations around sexual assault, harassment, and inequality that started last year continued into this one, amid half-baked apologies and the constant, widespread undermining of women’s rights and interests. Less than a day into 2018, actresses and activists teamed up to declare that the clock had run out on toxic masculinity. Two days later, Tina Smith was sworn into office, bringing the number of women currently serving in the Senate to a record-breaking 22. Meanwhile, women all over the world are gearing up to celebrate the anniversary of last year’s march by making this year’s march even bigger. Today — like everyday — we’re celebrating women. First, we’ll hear the story of an activist, survivor and community organizer who finds her voice and the courage to help other women find theirs. Then, we’ll tag along with two recent transplants as they get to know Brooklyn and the women who shaped it with the help of an unconventional guide. And finally, we’ll talk to two artists, each creating work

Spend a day with us – a day out of our forgotten past – starting with a walk on the Brooklyn Heights promenade where a mysterious plaque asks more questions than it answers. Then, a tour takes us underground and back in time. And finally, a giant fossil, dug up out of Brooklyn’s industrial age gets retrofitted for its shiny new future. Can you dig it? Today's headlines: yesterday's news. Night or day, may it always grow in Brooklyn, USA. ••• Brooklyn, USA is produced and edited by Sachar Mathias and Emily Boghossian. Thanks to producer Sarah Kerson for demystifying the plaque on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. Thanks to producer Fillipo Piscopo for digging-up the tunnel underneath Atlantic Avenue and to Emily for sifting through the rubble. And thanks to producer Sophia Paliza-Carre for taking us back in time and on a tour of the Brooklyn Army Terminal’s storied past. This episode featured music from the de Wolfe and Cueniverse music libraries, audio from the 1949 documentary travelogue "Brooklyn" wr

How did you spend your summer vacation? We spent ours in a park in Crown Heights. It’s hard to talk about Crown Heights without talking about how it’s changed in recent years— rising rents, shifting demographics, new businesses built on top of old wounds. But reducing a neighborhood to it's own displacement erases the people who've been there all along, who've built it up, and who often still call it home. We celebrated the end of summer by walking around Crown Heights and talking to people. We met two female entrepreneurs, with very different business models. We followed a group of skaters around in a circle, down a ramp and into their past. And along the way we met a handful of people who were spending the final days of summer hanging out in Brower Park, Brooklyn, USA. ••• Brooklyn, USA is produced and edited by me, Sachar Mathias, and Emily Boghossian.  If you like what you hear, think we got something wrong or just want to get in touch, you can leave us a comment, tweet us @ BRICradio or leave a

For many, living in Brooklyn is an easy choice to make. But for those who have come to Brooklyn fleeing war and seeking asylum, the story is more complicated. On this trip through Brooklyn, USA, journalist Sriyanka Ray brings you the stories of three Brooklynites who are here not by choice, but by necessity. In the first, a 16-year-old from Yemen traverses international borders and high school girl-dom. In the second, a physician who misses his family in Libya dreams of raising his children in the United States. And in the third, a young Syrian activist living in Bushwick is caught between wanting to remember and trying to forget. This episode features audio from the Sacred Voices of Syria, recorded by Jason Hamacher for the Lost Origins Sound Series. https://soundcloud.com/lostorigins ••• Brooklyn, USA is produced and edited by Sachar Mathias and Emily Boghossian. If you like what you hear or want to get in touch, you can leave us a comment, tweet us at @BRICradio or leave us a message at (347) 504-0

Some rules weren't meant to be broken: do unto others as you would have them do unto you; look both ways before crossing the street; "i" before "e," except after "c." Some rules were born to bend: don't wear white after Labor Day; speak only when spoken to; don't talk politics or religion on a first date. And then there's the 2017 version of rules, where it's unclear if they even exist anymore and, if they do, whether or not that they apply to everyone– or just the people who can't afford to break them. Today we've got stories about a time that it was time to break the rules. In our first one, a young man navigates the space between who he knows he is and who he thinks he's allowed to be. In the second, a kid grows up on a walk around Downtown Brooklyn, after waiting for a bus that never showed up. And in the end, we hear from a caller who's digging deep for needles of truth in an alternative haystack. Sometimes the truth hurts, and some rules are for fools. But the truth rules, in Brooklyn, USA.

Wanna hear a good story? Come to Brooklyn, USA. You'll meet the people, the places, the moments and the memories that make Brooklyn the capital of the world. You can hear stories from Brooklyn, wherever you are, and stories you wont hear anywhere else. Here's a sneak peek at the tales we're gonna tell you. Wanna tell us a story? Send us an email at radiopitches@bricartsmedia.org