BRIC Creative Force

POWER TO THE PEOPLE! 
Make your voice heard and VOTE!

We are excited to announce that because of its huge success over the last two years, we are bringing back B Free Awards People’s Choice. 

People's Choice is a people and community-powered category that's a part of Public Access TV's biggest night— the B Free Awards. 

Now in its 5th year, the B Free Awards was created with one goal in mind— to celebrate and honor the diverse voices that every week air over 650 hours of community-produced TV on Brooklyn Free Speech Television and Brooklyn Free Speech Radio.

VOTING BEGAN: Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 7PM
VOTING ENDS: Saturday, March 24, 2018, 7:30PM


FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How does voting work for shows that aired on Brooklyn Free Speech Radio?

—VOTING BEGINS: Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 7PM

Simply go to the Brooklyn Free Speech SoundCloud page (https://soundcloud.com/bfreebk/sets/bspoke). Beginning February 14, 2018, in the "B Free Awards People's Choice (B Spoke), VOTE TODAY!" playlist, you’ll see the podcasts that have been submitted for this year’s awards show. Watch one, or all of the podcasts and once you find a fave click the “thumbs up/like button” and that’s it!

How does voting work for shows that aired on Brooklyn Free Speech TV?
—VOTING BEGINS: Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 7PM
Simply go to the Brooklyn Free Speech YouTube page (YouTube.com/BFreeBK). Beginning February 14, 2018, in the B Free Awards 2018: People's Choice, VOTE TODAY! playlist, you’ll see the videos that have been submitted for this year’s awards show. Watch one, or all of the videos and once you find a fave click the “thumbs up/like button” and that’s it!


Is there a limit to the number of podcasts I can vote for?
—No, there is no limit. Vote for as many podcasts as you'd like!

Is voting counted by likes or views?
—Voting is ONLY counted by the number of likes that the podcast gets.

When does voting open?
—Voting for B Free Awards People’s Choice will open on Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 7PM

When does voting for B Free Awards People's Choice close?
—Voting closes B Free Awards Day, Saturday, March 24, 2018, 7:30PM


HAVE A QUESTION? 
Please email us at BFreeAwards@BRICartsmedia.org

IMPORTANT NOTE: Videos added to the People’s Choice Award playlist on YouTube are subject to YouTube copyright rules and guidelines. Please see YouTube’s rules on fair use and copyright.

RULES ON COPYRIGHT
https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/fair-use.html#yt-copyright-myths

RULES ON FAIR USE
https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright


https://BRICartsmedia.org/BFreeAwards


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Brooklyn Free Speech is a New York Emmy-WINNING community television network that amplifies and honors alternative voices in media. The initiative seeks to empower Brooklynites with media dreams to share their brilliance, talent, and creativity with the world.

B Free Awards People's Choice (B Spoke), VOTE TODAY!

Creative Force

CreativeForce

Creative Force is about creative people, creative endeavors, creative supporters, intellectuals and intelligent discussions with your host Beryl Benbow.

Episode 2: Guests: Renea "Lola" Cooper - Playwrite & Poet Cindy "ThePoet" Calderon

Play entitled: Ole Fashioned Girl
a one act stage play
by lola cooper

adapted from book
spoken word by cindy
(a dream come true)
(&) say it in poetry 

Also, show dates are:
1.	Friday,     January 19,  7pm - 9pm
2.	Friday,     January 26,  7pm - 9pm
3.	Saturday, January 27,  7pm - 9pm
4.	Saturday, February 03, 7pm - 9pm
Where:  ART/NY, 138 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11217

Tickets on sale now, $20. child, $10.,  contact me - remembermeimlola@gmail.com, ph. 917-582-5053,
@ the door night of show, or, brownpapertickets.com, $18., Ole Fashioned Girl, Lola Cooper.

CreativeForce Episode 2

CreativeForce Podcast Episode 3
 
Guests: Renea "Lola" Cooper - Playwrite & Poet
              Cindy "ThePoet" Calderon

Radio for the People
Brooklyn Free Speech Radio is the borough's first community podcast network with content produced and edited by New York City's most diverse audio makers.
Creative Force is about creative people, creative endeavors, creative supporters, intellectuals and intelligent discussions with your host Beryl Benbow.

Creative Force Episode 3 (part 1): Lola & Cast Members

Guests: Renea "Lola" Cooper - Playwrite & Poet
              Cindy "ThePoet" Calderon
              Cast Members: TBA

Play entitled: Ole Fashioned Girl
a one act stage play
by lola cooper

adapted from book
spoken word by cindy
(a dream come true)
(&) say it in poetry 

Also, show dates are:
1.	Friday,     January 19,  7pm - 9pm
2.	Friday,     January 26,  7pm - 9pm
3.	Saturday, January 27,  7pm - 9pm
4.	Saturday, February 03, 7pm - 9pm
Where:  ART/NY, 138 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11217

Tickets on sale now, $20. child, $10.,  contact me - remembermeimlola@gmail.com, ph. 917-582-5053,
@ the door night of show, or, brownpapertickets.com, $18., Ole Fashioned Girl, Lola Cooper.

Creative Force Episode 3 (part 2): Cast Members

Creative Force Episode 4

WORLD OF JAZZ Hosted by: Dwight Brewster 
Airs Tuesdays 10:00pm - 12:00am
on WBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, broadcasting at 99.5 FM in New York City. Wikipedia

Creative Force Episode 4: Dr. Mambo

Experts on Nothing, Opinions about Everything! Life is some bullshit, you just need the right shovel!

B FREE AWARDS PEOPLE'S CHOICE WINNER! Underqualified and Over Opinionated with Angela and Marien

Host Ed Easton Jr. takes you through a recap of some of the hottest news in sports today along with trending topics on social media from around the league. Local sports stories are also showcased.

Sports Social with Ed Easton Jr

Brooklyn based Tanzanian-American filmmaker Ekwa Msangi talks to various filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora about their work, their inspirations, their artistic processes and more.

African Cinema Now!

An interview series exploring the human condition through conversations about sex and love. Host Isabella Gutierrez talks about relationships and sexual pleasure. This show is the other side of the advice column.

Spectra

Joseph Cavalieri is an award-winning native New York artist and educator. His work can be seen in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Design, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, the Italian American Museum, and the Stax Museum. He has exhibited in the US and Europe, most recently a solo show at the Ivy Brown Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Cavalieri has produced private and public art commissions including an MTA Arts for Transit public art installation at the Philipse Manor Train Station in Westchester, New York. Cavalieri works in a material with a powerful spiritual history: painted stained glass. Since 1997, he has taught workshops around the world, and has been invited to over 12 artist residencies. In 2015, he was the keynote speaker for the Glass Society of Ireland and NCAD Glass Conference.

Cavalieri's aim is to merge contemporary imagery with the time-honored processes of painted stained glass, a material with a powerful spiritual history. His work is based of historic fables, contemporary pop art and human and architectural icons.

Creative Force: Joseph Cavalieri Interview Part 1

Creative Force: Joseph Cavalieri Interview Part 2

Our topic of conversation is ways to help reduce our stress levels. We will be discussing The Practice of Hatha Yoga, Meditation & energy healing. Our guests are Stacy McLean and Professor Kenshasa Shabaka, BRIC BFREE community producer of weekly, 1001 Ways to Cope With Stress.

April is National Autism Awareness Month. Stacy utilizes Hatha Yoga as a form of alternative therapy for those on the autism spectrum. It is a form of Sensory. Integration Therapy that helps these children deal more effectively with the overload of stimuli in their lives.

Creative Force: April Autism Awareness Month

Brooklyn Free Speech Radio is the borough's first community podcast network with content produced and edited by New York City's most diverse audio makers.

New episodes every Sunday-Friday