RESERVE YOUR TICKETS HERE See a video-podcast featuring interviews with the student cast and crew. FROM THE GUIDE TO MUSIC THEATRE: In the Heights explores three days in the characters’ lives in the New York City Latino neighborhood of Washington Heights. The score features hip-hop, salsa, merengue and soul music. In the Hispanic community […]
Extraordinary Heights (S3,E4) from Brooklyn Friends School on Vimeo.
Please join us at the sixth annual Young Womyn of Strength Conference, “Self Care In The 21st Century”, with keynote speaker Jada Monica Drew. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2018 9:00am-3:00pm 116 Lawrence Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 A primary goal of the conference is to provide young womyn in grades 7 through 12 with positive […]
Brooklyn Friends is celebrating Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month from rooftop to basement and from Pearl Street to Lawrence Street. Middle School art students are diving in paintbrush-first. Read the details below of how our artists are being inspired by Hispanic/Latinx artists and traditions. Fifth grade Studio Art students fabricated Barriletes Gigantes-the traditional large kites in […]
Middle School Head Glen Pinder led his first overnight student trip last spring for BFS, but it wasn’t just a typical chaperoning necessity. When the opportunity arouse to join the entire seventh grade class to the City of Brotherly Love, he jumped at the chance. “Being from Philadelphia, it was like coming home again,” he […]
Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017, a natural disaster that brought new challenges to the island and shed light on the political mistreatment as well as the civil and economic inequities that have resulted from five centuries of colonialism. In the days after Hurricane Maria made landfall, Brooklyn […]
“I just want others to be more aware of themselves and what they are doing. I want people to think about the consequences of their actions on the environment.” – Summer, 8th grade student In their Painting class with Tina Piccolo this Spring, 8th grade students had a discussion on the impact one-time-use plastics […]
by Minerva M, BFS Class of 2019 On May 9th, 2018, Brooklyn private schools Packer, Saint Ann’s, Berkeley Carroll, Mary McDowell Friends and Brooklyn Friends came together at 116 Lawrence Street to hold an event called Brooklyn in Solidarity: A Movement for Safety and Justice in all Communities. In a productive and inclusive learning environment, […]
Organizing a Criminal Justice Conference and a Book Drive for Youth at Riker’s Island by Hannah S, Class of 2019 In Early April, my friend Molly and I heard about a book drive being organized by Brooklyn Friends School 7th graders as an extension of their Criminal Justice Conference that happened in the Middle School […]
BFS Middle and Upper School students and faculty will participate (on a voluntary basis) in the nationwide March 14, 2018 National School Walkout to protest gun violence. This will be a 17-minute walkout starting at 10am, each minute representing the 17 students and teachers killed in Parkland, Florida on Feb. 14. See detailed information for parents […]
Reserve Tickets Now! Middle School thespians will present the classic fantasy story, C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe on Feb. 9 and 10 in the 375 Pearl Street meetinghouse. There will be four performances, Feb. 9 at 4pm and 7:30pm and Sat. Feb. 10 at 3:30pm and 7pm. Tickets are free […]
This week’s edition of THE LIFE, the BFS new media presentation, has stories on three unique, out-of-the-ordinary, student experiences. First we visit the Preschool, where Maura Eden (Head) and Joy Roberts (Preschool Assistant) teamed up to give students a science lesson on growing things. This set the groundwork for the children to enjoy a hand-picked […]
