Brooklyn FAM 2024

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Don’t miss Brooklyn FAM's 4th annual flagship festival! Join folks of all ages for an incredible, intergenerational celebration of Latinx and Afro-Latinx voices: Haitian, Afro-Dominican, Colombian, Afro-Colombian, Garifuna, Afro-Panamanian, Mexican, and Guatemalan.

This FREE, family-friendly event embraces Brooklyn FAM's year-long theme of home, identity, and belonging across puppet theater, music, dance, dance workshops, spoken word, craft stations, a collaborative public art project, children's author visits, and a panel discussion. Culturally aligned food from Brooklyn favorites Antojitos, Ix, and HAAM will be available for purchase (vegetarian and vegan options available).

The program

On the mainstage

11:00 am — Emmanuel Elpenord, Owl Loves Angeline puppet theater

12:00 pm — Spoken word by Stephanie Pacheco, 2024 National Youth Poet Laureate

12:20 pm — Wabafu Garifuna Dance Theater performance and workshop for all ages

1:15 pm — Unveiling of Coming Home, BKFAM's year-long public art project

1:30 pm — Panel discussion moderated by Josue Perea of AfroLatino Forum

2:15 pm — Afro Dominicano, an 8-piece band

3:00 pm — La Manga, Cumbia and Bullerengue

3:45 pm — Nanm: A Robenson Mathurin Dance Company performance and workshop for all ages

On the lawns

12:15-1:00 pm — Story time with children's authors Areli Morales, Stephanie Seales, Fabienne Doucet. Books available for purchase from Cafe con Libros.

1:00-1:20 pm — Book signing

Art-making

11:00-5:00 pm Mexican and Guatemalan crafts with Alfa Onofre, Laura Alvarado, Andrea Del Cid

11:00-5:00 pm — Little Free Library public art project with Yolande Delius

Únase a nosotros para una celebración fantástica de las voces latinas y afrolatinas: haitianas, afrodominicanas, colombianas, afrocolombianas, garífunas, afropanameñas, mexicanas y guatemaltecas.

Este evento gratuito para todas las edades adopta el tema de 2024 de Brooklyn FAM de hogar e identidad a través de títeres, música, danza, el spoken word, manualidades, un proyecto de arte público, autores y conversaciones.

Se podrá comprar comida de los restaurantes de Brooklyn Antojitos, Ix y HAAM (opciones veganas disponibles).