Discover the hidden sanctuary spaces of Black Brooklyn’s past and their significance in preserving the community’s cultural legacy.
Articulated Insight – “News, Race and Culture in the Information Age”
Sanctuary Spaces (SS) makes visible the remnants of a past as an archive of cultural expression and serves as a vessel for resilient futures. SS connects these dimensions for inter-generational audiences and promotes Brooklyn’s history and culture.
Ongoing exhibits include “Moving Forward: Blood and other Memories, Meditations and Affirmations” and “In Obscurity— 80 years on the corner of Bedford and Lexington Avenues.”
Through an anthropological lens, Sanctuary honors memory, stories, communities, legacies, artifacts and living remembrances.
Sanctuary Spaces imparts resiliency and is located in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, a historic African American community in New York City.
Sanctuary Spaces: Black Brooklyn 1937-1968
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn’s Sanctuary Spaces serves as a gathering place, screening room, and gallery for the community. In the midst of a rapidly changing landscape often attributed to gentrification, Sanctuary Spaces looks to share the Black Brooklyn of the past with today’s communities through MEMBIT AR (augmented reality) and other technologies, lectures, exhibits and tours. By means of the Black Brooklyn 1937-1968 project, Sanctuary Spaces will connect the dimensions of art, archive, culture, community, media and technology for inter-generational audiences and promote Brooklyn’s history and culture.
Location
1071 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn NY 11216
Hours
– Virtual and by appointment –
Contact
Sanctuaryspacesbrooklyn@gmail.com
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