This Week On Brooklyn Independent Television

Monday, June 1st 9:30pm

Yamini Nayar , Victoria Restler, Jackie Samayoa and Carol Sterling

On this week’s Reporter Roundtable host Brian Vines and guests discuss innovative ways to incorporate the arts in an ever decreasing education budget, and how new policies are affecting arts in Brooklyn schools. The panel of artists and educators includes Brooklyn Arts Council’s Arts in Education Director Carol Sterling, Victoria Restler, the Senior Program Associate at WorldSavvy, Brooklyn Brownstone’s art teacher Jackie Samayoa and arts educator/artist Yamini Nayar.

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Tuesday, June 2nd 8:00pm

High School students perform surgery in class.

The Comfort of Strangers: Afflicted with diabetes, a group of young people form a club at SUNY Downstate where they gather strength from each other and learn how to “live with a pump.” School for Surgery: Lutheran Hospital’s “O.R. to the Schools” program brings a mock operating room right into the classroom, teaching teens what goes on during an operation. Plus they get to see there are careers to be had in health care. Latina Teen Suicide: Why does this particular group of adolescents have the highest rate of attempted suicides among all American teens? Host Monica Sweeney, MD, talks to the representatives of two suicide prevention programs. Healthy Creativity: A husband and wife, both musicians, perform for patients at Woodhull Hospital. And by entertaining, they earn themselves health care credits – all part of the innovative Artist Access program.

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Neighborhood Beat: DUMBO Thursday, June 4th 12:30pm & 8:30pm

Performer Cynthia Hopkins, sculptor Samuel Nigro, Andre Torres of Waxes Poetic; Anna Castellani of Forager’s Market; and resident artist Ralf Ziervogel.

On this episode we further explore this creatively charged community. We visit Samuel Nigro, a visionary video artist and sculptor who primarily works in stone; catch up with entrepreneur Anna Castellani who opened the neighborhood’s first café, The DUMBO General Store as well as the super-chic Forager’s Market; stop by and chat with Andre Torres, founder of Wax Poetics Magazine; meet some visiting artists at the Triangle Workshop; and finally, take in an innovative multi-media show at St. Ann’s Warehouse.

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Friday, June 5th 9:30pm	Jazz vocalist Lauren Hooker.
This Date at the Library features the Central Library Dweck Center’s “Brooklyn Sings, Brooklyn Swings” music series. Jazz vocalist Lauren Hooker is the guest for this installment of the series and wows the audience with her smooth vocals and lively stories of being “born into music.”

	Monday, June 1 at 1pm & 9pm Thursday, June 4 at 1pm & 9pm Friday, June 5 at 3pm & 11pm Watch this episode now!
This week on Brooklyn Review we look at the rise in diabetes diagnosis in the borough; mark the loss of Bushwick’s Fire House #271 as it becomes another victim of the city’s financial cuts; attend the Children’s Art Opening at Bed-Stuy’s Brooklynite Gallery; and check out the best in locally made contemporary furniture at the annual Brooklyn Designs show.

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Saturday, May 30 at 11am & 9pm Wednesday, June 3 at 12pm & 8pm Thursday, June 4 at 3pm & 11pm Watch this episode now!

Host Micheal Bellamy is joined by Lloyd Rodriguez and Lisa Steadwell, founders of NYC Pop Warner Football League, to discuss how high school athletes need to score points on the field and in the classroom in order to qualify for NCAA eligibility. Then we find out how the Grandstreet Campus Wolves’ high school wrestling team keeps their competition pinned to the mat. Later, table tennis rules in other parts of the world, but gets a bum rap in the grand ol’ US of A. United States Table Tennis Regional Rep Shawn Abrams takes a stand and explains why Ping Pong deserves respect.

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Neighborhood Beat: Bay Ridge Monday, June 1 at 12:30pm & 8:30pm Watch this episode now! On this episode, we drop in on Bay Ridge’s own ‘Brooklyn Boy’ singer/songwriter Kevin Devine; visit acclaimed painter David Jon Kassan and observe his artistic process; stop by the Brooklyn One Theater group and chat with founders Tom Kane and Anthony Marino; and finally, grab a tasty bite of Turkish food at the Turqua Grill on 3rd Ave, Bay Ridge’s restaurant row.
Neighborhood Beat: Bushwick Tuesday, June 2 at 12:30pm & 8:30pm Watch this episode now! Host Aaron Watkins explores the Bushwick arts community with stops at unconventional galleries such as Pocket Utopia, Factory Fresh, Norte Maar, and Lumenhouse. We also chat with the folks at Art in Bushwick and stop by the Archive Café for coffee and a movie.
Neighborhood Beat: Bed-Stuy Wednesday, June 3 at 12:30pm & 8:30pm Watch this episode now! Host Monique Greenwood chats with three married couples in Bed-Stuy about love, relationships, and creating a successful marriage in today’s challenging world. She also gets insight from Rev. Craig B. Gaddy of Friendship Baptist Church, Rev. Conrad Tillard of Nazarene Congregational UCC, and Rev. Gary Simpson of Concord Baptist Church on ways to keep a marriage strong.
Neighborhood Beat: BoCoCa & Gowanus Friday, June 5 at 12:30pm & 8:30pm Watch this episode now! In this episode we chat with a community of illustrators and cartoonist at Deep 6 Studios in Gowanus; check out skateboard lessons with local youth at Homage – a skateboard shop on Smith Street; get all dolled-up with owner Deb Malkin of Re/Dress, a plus size vintage and resale shop for women; and travel underground with pioneer Bob Diamond at the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Tour in Cobble Hill.
Wednesday, June 3 at 2pm & 10pm Watch this episode now! Encores: Mondays at 2pm & 10pm Adventures in Capitalism: At BRIClab, The TEAM focuses its innovative theatrical eye on money and money-madness across 400 years of American history, from Plymouth Rock to Vegas. TKTS @ BK: Behind the scenes at the Brooklyn TKTS booth. Why trek to Times Square when you can get your Broadway & Off-Broadway tix at Metrotech? Two for Hair, please! Green Dance Space: The two choreographers who founded the Center for Performance Research celebrate their new, seriously eco-friendly Williamsburg home. Mike Ming Goes to the Wall for You: The Red Hook-based painter and muralist shows how he rides a wild wave of color and motion & wrestling with chaos all the way. What’s Up with Green-Wood Cemetery?: Maybe you know that Leonard Bernstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat are buried there. But why were 20-foot-tall puppets dancing among the graves?
Wednesday, June 3 at 1pm & 9pm Getting Opportunities To Work & Perform in Public Spaces is the title of this special panel discussion that features Heather Peterson of NYC’s public arts organization Creative Time, Amy Hausmann of Arts for Transit, Kelly Pajek of New York Department of Cultural Affairs’ Percent for Art program and artist Luisa Caldwell.
The BAC/Independendence Professional Development Seminars for the Arts, Making Art Work, is generously sponsored by the Independence Community Foundation.
Tuesday, June 2 at 3pm & 11pm Thursday, June 4 at 2pm & 10pm Friday, June 5 at 1pm & 9pm Watch this episode now! State Senator Eric Adam of New York’s 20th District discusses the state of education in Brooklyn. His guests are Ellen Raider, Co-Founder of Independent Commission on Public Education, Tracy Collins of Sen. Adam’s Education Task Force
Tuesday, June 2 at 1:30pm & 9:30pm Wednesday, June 3 at 2:30pm & 10:30pm Friday, June 5 at 1:30pm Watch this episode now! From Bags to Riches: At Brooklyn Industries, art meets t-shirts, the medium is the messenger bag, and it all adds up to one of the borough’s biggest retail successes. (Commercial) Space: The Final Frontier: How is Brooklyn’s commercial-retail-industrial real estate market doing in the downturn? Host Randy Peers (Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow), gets expert opinion from realtor Ofer Cohen of Terra CRG. Here’s Lookin’ at You, Keg: Inside Bierkraft, Park Slope’s version of heaven for beer-hounds. Along the way, learn all about their unique technique for filling a growler! Let’s Do the Time Warp Again! Step inside Buzz-A-Rama 500 in Kensington and it’s suddenly 1965: slot cars are still burning rubber and kids (and grownups) are still trying to make ‘em crash!
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Monday, June 1 at 12pm & 8pm Friday, June 5 at 12pm & 8pm Watch this episode now! Spring has sprung at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens and teen host Kareem Alicea is there amongst the blossoms to bring you these films from some of Brooklyn’s budding teen film makers. Modeled Citizens: The switch from private school to public school–how do the two experiences compare? By Vincent Turturice, from Reel Works. Comfort: In our second Reel Works film, Erica Lamy tells of how she struggled with her weight and how food comfort turned into food addiction. Heart: The first of two films from Packer Collegiate Institute: in this comedy, Robby Miller & Zoban Singh explore the pain (literally) of heartbreak. Broadcast: A look at the media’s role in our society, specifically the manipulation of Barack Obama’s image. By Packer’s Jason McDonald.
Tuesday, June 2 at 1pm & 9pm Thursday, June 4 at 2:30 & 10:30pm Watch this episode now! Sakura Matsuri, New York City’s ‘rite of spring’ marks its 28th year with events and performances celebrating Japanese culture and the blossoming of Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s 220 cherry trees. Take a seat with Brooklyn On Site as we celebrate the borough’s blooming.
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Brooklyn Independent Television productions are supported in part by the Independence Community Foundation, and the Brooklyn Delegation of the New York State Assembly.