11/30/2022 0 Comments Brooklyn academy of musicShe Paradise centers on Sparkle (Odessa Nestor), a naïve 17-year-old girl seeking community, excitement, and cash when she stumbles upon a free-spirited Soca dance crew in the bustling streets of downtown Trinidad. Following the film screening, there will be a talkback featuring the film’s director Maya Cozier, and moderated by Brooklyn’s own, DJ GabSoul. Clark said.(Brooklyn, NY, Feb 4, 2022) The Caribbean Film Series returns to Brooklyn, NY for a screening of the dance-centered coming-of-age film, She Paradise, on Tuesday, February 22, 7:30pm at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217. “I have truly loved the many dimensions of my work at BAM these past five years, and I wish the organization the best as it charts a path forward,” Ms. “BAM has remained resolute through floods, fires and pandemics, and we believe that we will come out of this a stronger organization,” Bill Campbell, an interim co-chair of the BAM board, said.īut it will no longer be Ms. The organization also held its annual gala online in May, which featured Annie Clark, better known as St. In the meantime, BAM has offered digital programming, including a virtual play in October that honored nurses’ roles in the pandemic and featured Rosario Dawson, Billy Porter and Rosie O’Donnell. The organization plans to reopen its stages and screens at some point in 2021. Clark during her final three months at the helm, according to the release. The board will consider both internal and external candidates to replace Ms. “All of us at BAM sincerely thank Katy for her tremendous contributions over the last five years and wish her the best in her next pursuit,” Nora Ann Wallace, an interim co-chair of the organization’s board, said in a release. She began her career playing violin in the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London from 1994 to 1999 before turning to arts management. Clark, who was born and raised in Wales, joined the organization after serving as the president and executive director of New York’s Orchestra of St. She also implemented the organization’s diversity, equity and inclusion plan. She oversaw the opening of the organization’s first dedicated visual art gallery last fall and the beginning of construction of the BAM Karen, a three-cinema venue that will also house films from the BAM archives. Clark led an expansion of the institution’s campus. Clark said in a release, adding that her new role would be announced soon.ĭuring her five years as president, Ms. “I have accepted a new position where I can have a focused impact on work that is especially meaningful to me, notably in arts education and civic engagement,” Ms. Katy Clark, the violinist-turned-arts-executive who has led the organization since 2015, will leave in January to accept another opportunity, the BAM board announced Monday. The Brooklyn Academy of Music is looking for a new president.
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