Brooklyn FAM 2024: Festival of Arts and Music

Don’t miss Brooklyn FAM’s 4th annual flagship festival! Join folks from across the borough for an incredible celebration of Latinx and Afro-Latinx voices: Haitian, Afro-Dominican, Colombian, Afro-Colombian, Garifuna, Afro-Panamanian, Mexican, and Guatemalan.

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This free, family-friendly event embraces Brooklyn FAM’s year-long theme of home, identity, and belonging across puppet theater, music, dance, dance workshops, spoken word, craft stations, a collaborative public art project, children’s author visits, and a panel discussion. Culturally aligned food from Brooklyn eateries will be available for purchase, including vegan and kosher options.

Featured programming:

• Wabafu Garifuna Dance Theater
• Afro Dominicano, an 8-piece band
• Nanm: A Robenson Mathurin Dance Company
• La Manga, Cumbia and Bullerengue
• Emmanuel Elpenord, Owl Loves Angeline puppet theater
• Stephanie Pacheco, 2024 National Youth Poet Laureate
• Event host Stvph Donalds
• Children’s authors Areli Morales, Natalie Rios, Stephanie Seales, Fabienne Doucet
• Panel discussion moderated by Josue Perea of AfroLatino Forum
• Little Free Library public art project with Yolande Delius
• Mexican and Guatemalan crafts with Alfa Onofre, Laura Alvarado, Andrea Del Cid

At the event, Brooklyn FAM will unveil Coming Home, its year-long public art project led by artists Jessica Elena Aquino and Adriana Gramly. The 14-foot tablecloth was created across 6 events by community members in Flatbush, Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Canarsie, Crown Heights, and Brownsville through shared reflections on home.

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Únase a nosotros para una celebración fantástica de las voces latinas y afrolatinas: haitianas, afrodominicanas, colombianas, afrocolombianas, garífunas, afropanameñas, mexicanas y guatemaltecas.

Este evento gratuito para todas las edades adopta el tema de 2024 de Brooklyn FAM de hogar e identidad a través de títeres, música, danza, el spoken word, manualidades, un proyecto de arte público, autores y conversaciones. Se podrá comprar comida de los restaurantes de Brooklyn (opciones veganas y kosher disponibles).