The much anticipated Spring Gala for BFS financial aid is this Tuesday, May 2, 2017 starting at 6pm, right across the Pearl Street building at Hill Country Brooklyn. Remember, you can view the auction items and bid online beforehand. See videos and a podcast interview with BFS security guard extraordinaire Kenneth Alston, who will lead […]
Reunions are the perfect time to celebrate your time at Brooklyn Friends, reconnect with faculty and classmates, and ensure a bright future for BFS with a gift to the school. The Blue Pride Alumni Challenge will encourage a bit of friendly competition among reunion classes. The reunion class with the highest participation in alumni giving by noon on Alumni Day, June 3rd, […]
The PAT Service Learning Committee invites members of the BFS community to participate in the following special events in May 2017: Saturday, May 13th – Children’s March – 11am-2pm – Cadman Plaza (with a Thursday, May 11th Poster-Making Party – 3:30pm-5pm – in an Art Room at Pearl Street) Lets’ give those who can’t vote […]
Eighty students, faculty, and community members came together on Tuesday, April 18th for “Brooklyn in Solidarity with Immigrants and Refugees: Turning Interscholastic Conversations into Collaborative Action.” Inspired by the collaboration of the heads of four Brooklyn independent schools, this joint faculty/student programming initiative was co-organized by Natania Kremer at Brooklyn Friends Tené Howard at […]
The Brooklyn Friends School’s PAT presents the second annual FoodFest for members of the community on Saturday May 6th – 11:00am – 2:00pm in the Brooklyn Friends Upper School, located at 116 Lawrence Street in the MetroTech campus. FoodFest promises to be tasty, fun, and entertaining! Come ready to eat food from great local restaurants. […]
The Middle School thespians of Brooklyn Friends School and Director Lorna Jordan will present the play, Haroun and the Sea of Stories in the BFS Meetinghouse on May 5 and 6, 2017. Tickets are free but need to be reserved here. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is “a dramatization of a Salman Rushdie fable with […]
In the last week alone, School students, individually and collectively, exemplified the Brooklyn Friends School mission and ethos of developing critical thinking skills at both the IB Art Show and on the Fifth Annual Privilege Day. The IB Art show, the culmination of a rigorous two-year visual arts curriculum, officially opened on April 7 and […]
Please make your Brooklyn Friends Fund gift by Friday, April 7th in order to be included in this year’s Draft Annual Giving Report. The report will be distributed to our entire community later this month. More than 600 donors have already contributed over $700,000 to underwrite excellence at BFS. Your support is deeply appreciated. […]
DUE TO UNFORESEEN SCHEDULING DIFFICULTIES, THE PAT WILL NOT HOLD THIS EVENT AS PLANNED. “Forget Breaking The Glass Ceiling: Let’s Build a New House: Reconstructing The Way We Think About Gender” A Presentation by the PAT Diversity Committee May 17th, Pearl Street Meetinghouse Refreshments: 6:00-6:25pm – Presentation 6:30 – 8:00pm Is it possible to reduce stereotype […]
Lifebooks Come Alive as Part of the Third Grade Writing Curriculum The third grade lifebooks start as simple black marbled notebooks, and the students’ first goal is to personalize them. They begin by collecting clippings to decorate the book’s covers in ways that reflect their personal interests; photos of New York, family members, and animals […]
From Standing Rock to Chiapas, and all around the world, Quakers continue to let their lives speak for social justice. On Wednesday, March 8, our Quaker Witness Day, Middle and Upper School students will get to meet with Friends involved in the UN, in Alternatives to Violence, in global health, in supporting action through song, fighting […]
In this year’s Dance Concert, we examine the relationship between Ayiti/Haiti and la República Dominicana/Dominican Republic through dance forms from the two nations. They share the Caribbean island of “Hispaniola,” but the countries are divided through intertwined histories of colonialism, slavery, racism, capitalism, and their continued after-life. While Haiti was the first free Black republic, […]
