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Brooklyn’s hub for cutting-edge creativity and connection. Home of #Next Wave, #DanceAfrica, #BAMFreeMusic, and that thing you heard about.
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Our Winter/Spring 2026 season delivers a slate of innovative, full-tilt artistic visions across nearly every medium. Tickets on sale now for members. Join today:
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On Friday, November 21st, Hanif Abdurraqib's series at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social came to an end with a DJ set from Love Higher & a live performance by billy woods (@backwoodzstudioz.bsky.social). I captured the evening for BAM and some images are now live on my website: bit.ly/billywoodslo...
billy woods and Love Higher at The Adam Space — This is Not a Photograph - Photography by Edwina Hay
On Friday, November 21, 2025, the second edition of the series curated by Hanif Abdurraqib called “I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long” came to an end with a free show featuring a DJ set by Love...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
On Friday, November 21st, Hanif Abdurraqib's series at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social came to an end with a DJ set from Love Higher & a live performance by billy woods (@backwoodzstudioz.bsky.social). I captured the evening for BAM and some images are now live on my website: bit.ly/billywoodslo...
Your BAM-filled holiday plans are officially New York Times approved: "For those seeking alternatives to Handel’s Hallelujahs, options include the French ensemble Les Arts Florissants performing “Pastorale de Noël,” a lyrical recounting of the Nativity story."
https://nyti.ms/49PE5Gs
https://nyti.ms/49PE5Gs
37 Things to Do in December
As the season of Nutcrackers, Messiahs, Scrooges and Santas begins, here are some novel ways to enjoy the holidays, including a poetry weekend and a Coltrane tribute.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Your BAM-filled holiday plans are officially New York Times approved: "For those seeking alternatives to Handel’s Hallelujahs, options include the French ensemble Les Arts Florissants performing “Pastorale de Noël,” a lyrical recounting of the Nativity story."
https://nyti.ms/49PE5Gs
https://nyti.ms/49PE5Gs
Hamnet opens tonight starring Jessie Buckley & Paul Mescal. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chloé Zhao illuminates the complexities of love and the healing power of art and creativity.
https://youtu.be/xYcgQMxQwmk
https://youtu.be/xYcgQMxQwmk
HAMNET - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters This Thanksgiving
YouTube video by Focus Features
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November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hamnet opens tonight starring Jessie Buckley & Paul Mescal. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chloé Zhao illuminates the complexities of love and the healing power of art and creativity.
https://youtu.be/xYcgQMxQwmk
https://youtu.be/xYcgQMxQwmk
Udo Kier passed away yesterday. His films have been at BAM many times, and will be again: you can watch his performance in The Secret Agent, opening Dec 12.
https://tr.ee/2WdflL
https://tr.ee/2WdflL
The Secret Agent
This neo-noir “masterpiece” (The Playlist) was the most awarded film at Cannes in 2025.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Udo Kier passed away yesterday. His films have been at BAM many times, and will be again: you can watch his performance in The Secret Agent, opening Dec 12.
https://tr.ee/2WdflL
https://tr.ee/2WdflL
William Christie and his legendary ensemble Les Arts Florissants is headed to BAM this December. Step inside the mind of a classical conductor in this article from The Guardian: https://bit.ly/43B7f8e
🎟️ https://tr.ee/wh7Plc
🎟️ https://tr.ee/wh7Plc
William Christie is busy as ever at 80 and putting his imprint on the period-instrument movement
William Christie is as busy as ever in a season celebrating his 80th birthday, conducting, playing the harpsichord, administering his Les Arts Florissants orchestral and vocal ensemble and teaching at...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
William Christie and his legendary ensemble Les Arts Florissants is headed to BAM this December. Step inside the mind of a classical conductor in this article from The Guardian: https://bit.ly/43B7f8e
🎟️ https://tr.ee/wh7Plc
🎟️ https://tr.ee/wh7Plc
No Other Choice || South Korea’s Academy Awards submission for Best Foreign Film is being hailed by critics as an utter masterpiece. Director Park Chan-wook will join us for a live Q&A following the 8pm screening on December 3.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/4oTddda
https://youtu.be/SK_DEabMNVg
🎟️ https://bit.ly/4oTddda
https://youtu.be/SK_DEabMNVg
NO OTHER CHOICE - Official Trailer - In Select Theaters December 25
YouTube video by NEON
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November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
No Other Choice || South Korea’s Academy Awards submission for Best Foreign Film is being hailed by critics as an utter masterpiece. Director Park Chan-wook will join us for a live Q&A following the 8pm screening on December 3.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/4oTddda
https://youtu.be/SK_DEabMNVg
🎟️ https://bit.ly/4oTddda
https://youtu.be/SK_DEabMNVg
We're saddened by the unexpected passing of Udo Kier, a phenomenal actor and artist. We've showed many movies he's in (most recently FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN), and we were lucky enough to get him for a virtual Q&A a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmcSpro_8ak
Bacurau Q&A with Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles, and Udo Kier
YouTube video by BAMorg
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November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
We're saddened by the unexpected passing of Udo Kier, a phenomenal actor and artist. We've showed many movies he's in (most recently FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN), and we were lucky enough to get him for a virtual Q&A a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmcSpro_8ak
Tickets went on sale today for The Squid and the Whale - 20th Anniversary screening on Thu, Dec 4. Followed by a Q&A with writer/director Noah Baumbach and stars Jeff Daniels and Jesse Eisenberg, moderated by Emily Mortimer.
Get your 🦑 🐋 🎟️ : https://bit.ly/44v7bqV
Get your 🦑 🐋 🎟️ : https://bit.ly/44v7bqV
The Squid and the Whale - 20th Anniversary
Noah Baumbach celebrates the 20th anniversary of his triumphant coming-of-age feature.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Tickets went on sale today for The Squid and the Whale - 20th Anniversary screening on Thu, Dec 4. Followed by a Q&A with writer/director Noah Baumbach and stars Jeff Daniels and Jesse Eisenberg, moderated by Emily Mortimer.
Get your 🦑 🐋 🎟️ : https://bit.ly/44v7bqV
Get your 🦑 🐋 🎟️ : https://bit.ly/44v7bqV
Hungry for a Baroque holiday experience? Our friends at WQXR have the hookup. Jeff Spurgeon will be giving away a limited number of tickets to Les Arts Florissants next Tuesday morning, Nov 25, and will play some more baroque tunes. Listen live at https://www.wqxr.org/.
WQXR | New York's Classical Music Radio Station
WQXR - New York Public Radio
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November 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Hungry for a Baroque holiday experience? Our friends at WQXR have the hookup. Jeff Spurgeon will be giving away a limited number of tickets to Les Arts Florissants next Tuesday morning, Nov 25, and will play some more baroque tunes. Listen live at https://www.wqxr.org/.
We loved this thought piece from Okwui Okpokwasili, who's graced our stages 8 times as an artist, actress, performer, choreographer, and writer. "Okpokwasili explores the echoes of colonialism, tracing how history lodges itself in the body."
Read on: https://lnkd.in/eMKHrztQ
Read on: https://lnkd.in/eMKHrztQ
Why - Serpentine Galleries
Exploring echoes of colonialism, Okpokwasili traces how history lodges itself in the body. She interrogates stories we inherit, violence we carry and potential to reshape this legacy.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We loved this thought piece from Okwui Okpokwasili, who's graced our stages 8 times as an artist, actress, performer, choreographer, and writer. "Okpokwasili explores the echoes of colonialism, tracing how history lodges itself in the body."
Read on: https://lnkd.in/eMKHrztQ
Read on: https://lnkd.in/eMKHrztQ
"More than three hundred years later, a harpsichordist born in Buffalo, New York, also came to Paris and had a similarly seismic effect on the performance and appreciation of 17th- and 18th-century French opera."
Read on: https://bit.ly/4r5Kjbm
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Read on: https://bit.ly/4r5Kjbm
🎟️ https://tr.ee/wh7Plc
‘Happy Birthday, Bill!’—America’s Gift to the French Baroque Turns 80
Commemoration of William Christie’s eighth decade began last year with grand stagings in Paris of Charpentier’s ‘Médée’ and Rameau’s ‘Les Fêtes d’Hébé.’
observer.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"More than three hundred years later, a harpsichordist born in Buffalo, New York, also came to Paris and had a similarly seismic effect on the performance and appreciation of 17th- and 18th-century French opera."
Read on: https://bit.ly/4r5Kjbm
🎟️ https://tr.ee/wh7Plc
Read on: https://bit.ly/4r5Kjbm
🎟️ https://tr.ee/wh7Plc
Sentimental Value | Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film.
🎞️ https://bit.ly/3LEJUfM
🎟️ https://bit.ly/3K4HOW3
🎞️ https://bit.ly/3LEJUfM
🎟️ https://bit.ly/3K4HOW3
SENTIMENTAL VALUE - Official Trailer - In Theaters 11.7
YouTube video by NEON
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November 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Sentimental Value | Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film.
🎞️ https://bit.ly/3LEJUfM
🎟️ https://bit.ly/3K4HOW3
🎞️ https://bit.ly/3LEJUfM
🎟️ https://bit.ly/3K4HOW3
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BAD HAIR returns to the big screen for one night at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social! "Bold and intelligently perceptive.
Provocative and gripping" (IndieWire), the beloved Venezuelan film by Mariana Rondón screens Thursday, November 20. Don't miss it! mailchi.mp/cinematropic...
Provocative and gripping" (IndieWire), the beloved Venezuelan film by Mariana Rondón screens Thursday, November 20. Don't miss it! mailchi.mp/cinematropic...
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
BAD HAIR returns to the big screen for one night at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social! "Bold and intelligently perceptive.
Provocative and gripping" (IndieWire), the beloved Venezuelan film by Mariana Rondón screens Thursday, November 20. Don't miss it! mailchi.mp/cinematropic...
Provocative and gripping" (IndieWire), the beloved Venezuelan film by Mariana Rondón screens Thursday, November 20. Don't miss it! mailchi.mp/cinematropic...
TONIGHT: BAM offers two film programs and a talk with Third World Newsreel members:
Newsreel in New York at 7PM
Newsreel and Imperialism at 9:15PM
📝 https://letterboxd.com/twndistribution/story/third-world-newsreel-twn-brings-historic/
🎟️ https://tr.ee/HQ53GN
Newsreel in New York at 7PM
Newsreel and Imperialism at 9:15PM
📝 https://letterboxd.com/twndistribution/story/third-world-newsreel-twn-brings-historic/
🎟️ https://tr.ee/HQ53GN
Third World Newsreel (TWN) Brings Historic Newsreel Retrospective to BAM, Anthology Film Archives, and DOK Leipzig
A story on Letterboxd.
letterboxd.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
TONIGHT: BAM offers two film programs and a talk with Third World Newsreel members:
Newsreel in New York at 7PM
Newsreel and Imperialism at 9:15PM
📝 https://letterboxd.com/twndistribution/story/third-world-newsreel-twn-brings-historic/
🎟️ https://tr.ee/HQ53GN
Newsreel in New York at 7PM
Newsreel and Imperialism at 9:15PM
📝 https://letterboxd.com/twndistribution/story/third-world-newsreel-twn-brings-historic/
🎟️ https://tr.ee/HQ53GN
Palimpsests of Leslie Cuyjet: how do these projections fit into For All Your Life? 🧐 It's a performance, film, & social experiment investigating the value of Black life & death, drawing on the life insurance industry for method & metaphor.
🎟️ https://tr.ee/GEfNZ9
🗓️ Dec 3—7
🎟️ https://tr.ee/GEfNZ9
🗓️ Dec 3—7
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Palimpsests of Leslie Cuyjet: how do these projections fit into For All Your Life? 🧐 It's a performance, film, & social experiment investigating the value of Black life & death, drawing on the life insurance industry for method & metaphor.
🎟️ https://tr.ee/GEfNZ9
🗓️ Dec 3—7
🎟️ https://tr.ee/GEfNZ9
🗓️ Dec 3—7
If you saw our screening of Paris Awakens last week, you'll enjoy this insightful article by @screenslate.bsky.social—alternatively, if you missed it, dispense with your fomo and catch up on the major plot points.
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/paris-awakens
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/paris-awakens
Paris Awakens
The agitations of contemporary youth have commonly been the subject of cinema, and Olivier Assayas engaged with these tensions in his earliest films. Paris Awakens (1991), his third feature, sees him explore the preoccupations of a young generation navi...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If you saw our screening of Paris Awakens last week, you'll enjoy this insightful article by @screenslate.bsky.social—alternatively, if you missed it, dispense with your fomo and catch up on the major plot points.
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/paris-awakens
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/paris-awakens
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BAD HAIR / PELO MALO screens Thursday, November 20 at
@bambrooklyn.bsky.social. A tender portrait of a boy, his curls, and a mother’s fear. Mariana Rondón’s Golden Shell–winning film explores race, gender & coming of age in Venezuela
www.cinematropical.com/new-events/b...
@bambrooklyn.bsky.social. A tender portrait of a boy, his curls, and a mother’s fear. Mariana Rondón’s Golden Shell–winning film explores race, gender & coming of age in Venezuela
www.cinematropical.com/new-events/b...
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
BAD HAIR / PELO MALO screens Thursday, November 20 at
@bambrooklyn.bsky.social. A tender portrait of a boy, his curls, and a mother’s fear. Mariana Rondón’s Golden Shell–winning film explores race, gender & coming of age in Venezuela
www.cinematropical.com/new-events/b...
@bambrooklyn.bsky.social. A tender portrait of a boy, his curls, and a mother’s fear. Mariana Rondón’s Golden Shell–winning film explores race, gender & coming of age in Venezuela
www.cinematropical.com/new-events/b...
"De Leon’s unraveling of an archetypal middle-class family, revealing the most taboo of scandals, was bound to invite controversy. According to the director, the film barely made it into the 1981 Manila Film Festival."
📝 https://www.screenslate.com/articles/kisapmata
🎟️ https://tr.ee/92D1hA
📝 https://www.screenslate.com/articles/kisapmata
🎟️ https://tr.ee/92D1hA
Kisapmata
Mike De Leon’s Kisapmata (1982) is the perfect allegory for the dictatorship under which it was made. The film adapts the celebrated writer Nick Joaquin’s 1961 true crime account “The House on Zapote ...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"De Leon’s unraveling of an archetypal middle-class family, revealing the most taboo of scandals, was bound to invite controversy. According to the director, the film barely made it into the 1981 Manila Film Festival."
📝 https://www.screenslate.com/articles/kisapmata
🎟️ https://tr.ee/92D1hA
📝 https://www.screenslate.com/articles/kisapmata
🎟️ https://tr.ee/92D1hA
"His inventive, vital performances showed that early music could be exciting and chic, and have sold out venues from the opera house at Versailles to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where Christie will return in December for the first time since 2019."
https://nyti.ms/4qAYiFM
https://nyti.ms/4qAYiFM
Celebrating a Buffalo-Born Titan of the French Baroque Revival
William Christie, who is being feted for his 80th birthday, planted seeds in fallow grounds that brought forth baroque splendors -- both figuratively and literally.
nyti.ms
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"His inventive, vital performances showed that early music could be exciting and chic, and have sold out venues from the opera house at Versailles to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where Christie will return in December for the first time since 2019."
https://nyti.ms/4qAYiFM
https://nyti.ms/4qAYiFM
We have something to show you....BAM KBH is just steps away from the Peter Jay Sharp Building. The programming you love, now in two great locations. Welcome to the next gen of BAM Rose Cinemas.
#arthousecinema #arthousecinemareviews #brooklynacademyofmusic
#arthousecinema #arthousecinemareviews #brooklynacademyofmusic
November 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We have something to show you....BAM KBH is just steps away from the Peter Jay Sharp Building. The programming you love, now in two great locations. Welcome to the next gen of BAM Rose Cinemas.
#arthousecinema #arthousecinemareviews #brooklynacademyofmusic
#arthousecinema #arthousecinemareviews #brooklynacademyofmusic
"Optimism can be tough to summon even in calm times. The present is clearly not that. But Juliana F. May, known for weaving movement, text and song into a complex choreographic language, is feeling defiant."
Optimistic Voices opens tonight.
https://nyti.ms/3JDNKoO
Optimistic Voices opens tonight.
https://nyti.ms/3JDNKoO
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"Optimism can be tough to summon even in calm times. The present is clearly not that. But Juliana F. May, known for weaving movement, text and song into a complex choreographic language, is feeling defiant."
Optimistic Voices opens tonight.
https://nyti.ms/3JDNKoO
Optimistic Voices opens tonight.
https://nyti.ms/3JDNKoO
"It is folk horror stripped down to its barest and most beautiful."
Enjoy @screenslate.bsky.social's write up on The White Reindeer, playing tonight at 9PM.
https://t.co/3L90v5EAOj
Enjoy @screenslate.bsky.social's write up on The White Reindeer, playing tonight at 9PM.
https://t.co/3L90v5EAOj
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
"It is folk horror stripped down to its barest and most beautiful."
Enjoy @screenslate.bsky.social's write up on The White Reindeer, playing tonight at 9PM.
https://t.co/3L90v5EAOj
Enjoy @screenslate.bsky.social's write up on The White Reindeer, playing tonight at 9PM.
https://t.co/3L90v5EAOj
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My next @bambrooklyn.bsky.social program, FOLKLORE & FAIRYTALES, starts on Halloween! A selection of unusual, beautiful, and often haunting tales from across the globe features stories that have been passed down through generations—or at least feel as though they have. www.bam.org/film/2025/fo...
October 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
My next @bambrooklyn.bsky.social program, FOLKLORE & FAIRYTALES, starts on Halloween! A selection of unusual, beautiful, and often haunting tales from across the globe features stories that have been passed down through generations—or at least feel as though they have. www.bam.org/film/2025/fo...
Viy | Tonight at 7:15PM & Sun, Nov 2 at 8:15, this nightmarish Soviet-era fantasy feature recounts the tale of a Kiev seminary student who becomes entangled with a powerful, seductive witch who won’t take no for an answer.
🎟️ https://tr.ee/sF3PlN
🎟️ https://tr.ee/sF3PlN
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Viy | Tonight at 7:15PM & Sun, Nov 2 at 8:15, this nightmarish Soviet-era fantasy feature recounts the tale of a Kiev seminary student who becomes entangled with a powerful, seductive witch who won’t take no for an answer.
🎟️ https://tr.ee/sF3PlN
🎟️ https://tr.ee/sF3PlN
Congratulations to our very own Jennifer Anglade. As CFO, Jennifer helped steer us through the COVID-19 and the years after with "steady planning, clear communication and careful stewardship," just like the article says. Well deserved!
https://bit.ly/43FRjBv
https://bit.ly/43FRjBv
The 2025 Trailblazers in Arts & Culture
Movers and shakers in New York’s vibrant creative spaces.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Congratulations to our very own Jennifer Anglade. As CFO, Jennifer helped steer us through the COVID-19 and the years after with "steady planning, clear communication and careful stewardship," just like the article says. Well deserved!
https://bit.ly/43FRjBv
https://bit.ly/43FRjBv