BCAM is moving for the Summer of 2014!

Please note that BCAM High School will enjoy our summer program at the Harry Van Arsdale Campus, which is located at:

257 North 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211

The telephone number to our summer affiliate school, Brooklyn Prep High School @ the Van Arsdale Campus is, 718-486-2550, x1120.

For directions to the Van Arsdale Campus, you can always go online to www.hopstop.com,

• You can take the ‘G’ train heading towards Court Square.  Get off at Metropolitan Avenue / Grand Street.
• Or, you can take the B48 bus on Classon Avenue and Willoughby Street heading towards Greenpoint Meeker Avenue and get off at Lorimer Street  and Devoe Street.

Please remember to check this website for any updates or if you would like to email a BCAM staff member, you can do so here on our website.

Have a wonderful summer vacation!

BCAM Student Produced Mix Tape Now LIVE


Click HERE to listen to the Mix Tape produced by BCAM's very own Music Production Group from B. Satz's seminar. The Mix tape features tracks written and performed by students over the course of this year. We invite you to enjoy the musical talent of our students!

We are happy to announce that Concrete Stories: Brooklyn Youth Media Festival was a great success! Senior Nakata Hope helped to produce the festival through a Youth Media Arts internship she completed at BRIC Arts.  Senior Sayquan Prescott was the lead actor in the winning Film which can be viewed HERE.

To see some of the highlights from the festival and a reflection on the internship, please check out this post:

Interested in a job with BCAM High School?

BCAM is looking for a US History Teacher for the 2014 - 2015 School Year.  If you are interested in applying, please send your resume to our Hiring Chair, Mr. Leopold Momplaisir, at lmomplasir@bcamhs.org, or to Principal James O'Brien at jobrien@bcamhs.org, or all currently employed NYC DOE employees can apply via Open Market [preferred option].  Click on image below to see job posting:

                         

BCAM Artists Collaborate on Community Arts Xigga Project


BCAM Artists are (left to right): Angelica Pizzaro, Nicole Rodrigez, 
Ashley Moreno, Dwight Dawkins, Briana Jean-Mary, Oneisha Conway,
Anastasia Kitt; (Frontrow ) Jeremy Rumnit, (Instructor) Jess Valoris

Check out the slideshow of the event HERE.

A small group of young visionaries from BCAM participated in a community arts workshop with the Xigga Projeck, led by our very own BCAM Visiting Artist-in-Residence Ms Jess Valoris. They spent a little over an hour together, participating in improv activities and writing exercises, and delving into the Xigga manifestas and then it was time to hit the streets.



Armed with courageous creativity and some chalk, these students took over a corner of Brooklyn. They transformed an empty wall and deserted street corner into a vibrant universe and dynamic space for community connection and empowerment. Students started by sketching out pyramids and planets and galaxies and literary excerpts from the xigga manifestas. And then they began to engage passersby... From babies to elders to college students: inviting people to draw on the wall, to share what inspires them and makes them come alive, to write down what they want to manifest in their worlds. It was a powerful nexus of arts and community!! 


Check out the slideshow of the event HERE.

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BCAM Chosen as an Exploring The Arts (ETA) Partner School 

We are proud to announce that BCAM has been chosen as a partner to and grant recipient from the Tony Bennett Exploring the Arts Partnership (ETA). In addition to receiving the $10,000 Principal's Grant to fund arts integration into our curriculum, BCAM also received two $2500 Teacher Challenge grants written by classroom teachers to incorporate media and arts resources and training into the classroom. Click the links below to read the winning Challenge Grant proposals.

Rebranding and Revealing Truth: Creating Video Parodies in 11th Grade Media Arts
Cooperating Teacher: Christy Herbes-Samaroo (11th grade Media and Art)

A Performance Theater, Dance & Recording Studio are on its way to the K117 Campus!!

BCAM and Campus 117 are proud to announce that the proposal Principal O’Brien wrote and pushed for four years to get the three huge condemned rooms in our building’s basement renovated and remodeled has been green-lighted and the work will commence February 2014.  They will be turned into a black box mini performance theater, a fully equipped dance studio, and a fully equipped audio and video recording studio.  How about that!!!  BCAM once again turning Campus 117 into a 21^st Century school building to support BCAM’s arts mission as well as the entire campus community.

Click on the blueprints below to see them up close:

     

We improved and far surpassed city averages in all four major survey categories: Academic Expectations, Communication, Engagement and Safety and Respect!!!

Check it out HERE!

             

                 Desire by Denise

             

Denise Fasuyi is a graduate from BCAM's 1st Graduating Class.  She has developed, created, and designed her 'Desire by Denise' Fashion line. Denise is truly a star in the making.   Please help BCAM in congratulating Denise!

Desire by Denise exists to bring all your fashionable desires to life. It's a clothing line that consists of fun, flirty, crazy, bold and bright garments. By taking her love for colorful African prints and incorporating them into modern everyday wear; DbyD happily celebrates African culture, bringing awareness and placing emphasis on its uniqueness.

Watch Future Arts Gala 2013 Videos Online!



Did you miss the BCAM Future Arts fundraising gala 2013 last month? Do you want to see the amazing performances again in HD video? We are proud to announce that you can now watch videos of the epic student performances online! Click HERE to see the creative show that successfully raised incredible funding for our BCAM arts program! Thanks to our Video Educator, Mr. Mendola, for capturing the talent of our students!

BCAM Backtalk TV Now Online!



Click HERE to go to the BCAM Backtalk site.

The moment you've all been waiting for is here!

BCAM Backtalk TV is a 24-hour online station that currently consists of short, quick videos about the things that matter to YOU, the BCAM community. Check out our trailers for upcoming shows, including BCAM Lions' Home Games, Community Circle, "The Story of My Tattoo," "BCAM Advice," and much, much more!