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Posted on September 19, 2009 10:19 pm by Brooklyn Arts Council

Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) strives to enrich the quality of life throughout Brooklyn by fostering, encouraging and promoting the arts through service and support to artists and arts organizations.

Founded in 1966, BAC is the umbrella for Brooklyn’s range of cultural groups and individual artists working in the visual, performing, media and literary arts. The Council helps Brooklyn’s artist population—from the experimental and cutting edge to those preserving and evolving traditions of cultural heritage—create and present their work, and ensures that over 250,000 people throughout Brooklyn have access to a variety of free arts programs each year.

In the firm belief that culture contributes to the health of the community, BAC takes a leadership role in creating an environment conducive to the arts by providing grants, resources, referrals, networking opportunities, seminars, performances, screenings, exhibitions and other activities that support and encourage the arts. Together, these efforts ensure that Brooklyn’s ever-expanding cultural community remains a strong and vital part of the borough’s social and economic fabric.