Fwd: This Week from BCA: July 6th First Wednesday Bronx Trolley Arts & Culture Tour

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C CCCxxxxxxxxxxxxx CYOU'RE INVITED TO JOIN US FOR First Wednesday Bronx Trolley Arts & Culture Tour ccc ccc The Bronx Council on the Arts invites you to join us! Wednesday | July 6, 2016 | 5:00-9:00pm Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos Community College 450 Grand Concourse at 149th Street ccc FREE 5:00pm Meet & Greet Reception and an Evening of Trolley Attractions cc ccc LONGWOOD ART GALLERY @ HOSTOS 450 Grand Concourse at 149 Street | 718-518-6728 Wednesday, July 6, 5:00-9:00pm BRIO VI - Material, Culture + Conditions - Reception BCA presents 2 years of Grantees in Visual Arts & Media Features BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) 2014 & 2015 Awardees in Visual Arts and Media. This exhibition touches upon the current state of socio-economics, the environment and politics. Artists include: Philip Bell, Yarisa Colón-Torres, Borinquen Gallo, Nigel Ho Sang, Heidi Johnson, Lisa Lebofsky, Ruth Marshall, Arnaldo Morales, Agnes Murray, Nelson Pena, Amy Pryor, Ignacio Soltero, Christy Speakman, Edwin Torres, Macdara (Uibh Aille) Vallely and Tammy Wofsey. Mrs. Juanita Lanzo is the curator. ccc BRONXARTSPACE 305 East 140th Street Wednesday, July 6, 6:00pm-8:00pm Charm & Vinegar Artist Talk With charm and biting satire, these four artists use domestic materials to create critical and humorous work. Charm & Vinegar features Liliana Avalos Mendoza who makes soft sculpture of household appliances and indigenous Peruvian imagery from original silk-screened fabric; Edith Isaac Rose who embroiders haunting political images; Cinnamon Willis who creates "melandollies" - dolls expressing undesirable feelings; and Ruth Marshall who hand knits textiles of endangered species. ccc THE ANDREW FREEDMAN HOME 1125 Grand Concourse Wednesday, July 6, 6:00pm-7:00pm The Andrew Freedman Home looks like it belongs in the hills outside Florence, Italy. Instead, it was built on the Grand Concourse in the 1920's to house the formerly rich. Today it houses a Head Start program, senior programs, and serves as a gallery for local artists. BCA BRONX CULTURE TRIVIA TROLLEY TOUR (5:30pm, 6:30pm and 7:30pm) Get Ready for Trolley Trivia!!! Fun for the entire family. Come and learn something about the South Bronx you didn't know. You could even leave with a prize if you are lucky! Click here to send us a trivia question of your own about the South Bronx. (Please provide your name, the trivia question and the trivia answer only. There is no guarantee that your question will be asked. If your question is asked, you can not answer the trivia question). cc INFORMATION: 718-931-9500 x33 / tholmes@bronxarts.org / www.bronxarts.org cc The Bronx Trolley First Wednesday Arts & Culture Tour, a program of the Bronx Council on the Arts and the Bronx Tourism Council, is made possible with funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc., Hostos Community College, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., NYC Council Members Andrew Cohen, Andy King, Melissa Mark-Viverito and James Vacca and the Bronx Delegation of the City Council.   This e-mail was sent from Bronx Council on the Arts