Lower School Rises to the Rainbow Challenge
Children and families all over the world have decorated their windows with rainbows as signs of hope and positivity and as a way to show support and love for […]
Category: The Arts
An Idea Ahead of Its Time: The Virtual Bridge Film Festival
Bridge Film Festival Turns 21 As Students Enjoy a Virtual Film Festival on a Virtual Platform Since the year 2000, Brooklyn Friends School colleague Andrew Cohen has organized and produced […]
Lower School Artists Create Found Object Portraits
Scotch Tape dispensers as eyeballs? Sweet potato as a mouth? Somehow, they work! In their Virtual BFS art classes, Lower School students created found object portraits. Can you spot […]
Simple Gifts by the Virtual BFS Orchestra
Enjoy a moving and uplifting collaboration of BFS colleagues and our multi-talented middle and upper school orchestra and choir students, who present the traditional Shaker hymn, “Simple Gifts.” As you […]
Thinking and Being in New Ways: Dance Concert 2020
“What happens when we view the limitations that face people living with disabilities as social and political issues of access, not simply individual medical diagnoses?” This is the question Dance […]
From Verona, Italy, to Brooklyn, New York: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
The Middle School Thespians present William Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” on Friday Feb. 7 (4pm and 7:30pm) and Saturday, February 8 (3pm and 7pm) RESERVE […]
Connecting Through A Calendar
DOWNLOAD THE 2019-20 BFS STUDENT ART CALENDAR HERE. An illuminated tree, its red leaves lit by the sun. A complex collage, with images of eyes and fire. A face, peeking […]
Afterschool Music Lessons Program
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR FALL 2019 PRIVATE MUSIC LESSONS The Brooklyn Friends School Afterschool Program offers private instrumental music lessons for Kindergarten through Upper School students in Piano […]
Caring for Community with Gifts of Music
On May 2nd, BFS 7th grade students Ana N. and Cal S., 8th grade student Breyten N. and a student from Poly Prep performed a thirty minute chamber concert […]
Make Way, MOMA, the BFS Art Show is Back in Town
Ahhh Springtime! Beauty is in bloom all around! Could there be a more perfect time for our annual All-School Art Show? During the week of May 20th, everyone is invited […]
Abstract Meets Old Fashioned: The Upper School Production of Arsenic and Old Lace
What exactly is that black item that sits on a side table? “On [a] practical level we…had to talk about how to use a rotary telephone and why men took […]
20th Annual Bridge Film Festival on Friday, May 3
Don’t miss the 20th Anniversary Bridge Film Festival event on Friday, May 3 Screenings from 4:00-5:00 pm at Lawrence Street, 1st floor in room 101, 102 and the Black Box. […]