Purchase Gala Tickets and Bid Online Now Travel Back to the 80s on Friday, April 5th from 7pm to 11pm at 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge! Benefiting our financial aid program, the 2019 Gala will be a totally rad party featuring: 80s arcade games and photo booth Dancing to the hits of the 80s Cocktails and […]
Join us as we celebrate our community with the annual Spring Gala in support of our financial aid program. Tuesday, May 2nd from 6pm to 10pm Hill Country Brooklyn (directly across the street from 375 Pearl Street) Bidding, Dancing, Cocktails and Barbecue Festive Western Attire Purchased tickets for originally scheduled event on March 2nd? Confirm […]
The State of our Union: Nurturing Community, Equity, and Justice at BFS Through Diversity and Service Learning Thanks to all who united for this gathering of the BFS community, including: members of the PAT Diversity and Service Learning Committees who planned the day BFS special events and communications staff who supported committee efforts school leaders […]
“This Is Our Quiet Time” BFS ordinarily shares brief clips in its Video Archives, but we make an exception this week with the full version of the original BFS musical, Forward to the Past. Written and performed by the BFS community in 1989, Forward to the Past: the Historical Hysterical Follies of Brooklyn Friends School, relates our school’s […]
1940, BFS Principal Douglas Grafflin’s Address to the Trustees of the Schools of New York Monthly Meeting proposing the enrollment of African American students at BFS. Please click to read Grafflin’s entire address This week, I’m unexpectedly switching gears thanks to a courageous conversation focused on the experiences of students of color in independent schools, a conversation […]
Forward to the Past – Finale – 1989 Do you remember Forward to the Past: Historical Hysterical Follies of Brooklyn Friends School? That was the 1989 musical about BFS – written and produced by BFS community members who also starred in the production. Forward to the Past was about an alien named T.E. from the […]
Teachers’ Treats Cookbook, published 1984-85 Some of us will remember the BFS cookbooks produced by members of our community, most often our teachers and parents of the PAT. The first of these cookbooks shared here is titled Teachers’ Treats, was illustrated by Lower School students, dates to the 1984-85 school year, and was found in […]
Examining the history of Brooklyn Friends School means also examining the history of education in Brooklyn and New York City. Brooklyn Friends School has a long history of educational innovations, but it also has a long history of allowing innovative educators to implement their ideas at BFS. Ella Frances Woodward exemplifies our long-standing commitment […]
