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Local Arts Hero: DC History Center

Weekly since 2020, BCDC has showcased a Local Arts Hero that’s keeping the lights on in a challenging moment. This week the we’ve chosen the DC History Center! Founded in 1894, the Center serves as the area’s only community-based nonprofit dedicated to chronicling, und unpacking, the District’s rich history. It’s based in Mount Vernon Square’s historic Carnegie Library, which was fully

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Local Arts Hero: DC Arts & Humanities Education Collaborative

Weekly since 2020, BCDC has showcased a Local Arts Hero that’s keeping the lights on in a challenging moment. This week the we’ve chosen the DC Arts & Humanities Education Collaborative (DC Collaborative)! Founded in 1998, the DC Collaborative today unites over 120 cultural institutions and artists across DC, and works day in and day out to expand

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Local Arts Hero: National Children’s Museum

Weekly since 2020, BCDC has showcased a Local Arts Hero that’s keeping the lights on in a challenging moment. This week the National Children’s Museum (NCM) is our first Local Arts Hero of 2022! A unique hybrid institution that combines the learning elements typically found in a science center with familiar children’s museum experiences, this

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BCDC Community Behavior & Expectations + Vaccination & Mask Policy (UPDATED 01/04/2022)

***IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Effective September 21, 2021 until further notice (updated January 4, 2022) *** BCDC Community Behavior & Expectations The goal of all BCDC events is to foster connections within our alumni community, with our alma mater, and between Brown alums and the broader world. In service of that goal

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2021 Year-End Note from the BCDC Board

To our dearest BCDC community members, As 2021 comes to a close, we want to pause and reflect with you about what a fulsome twelve months it has been. Amidst an ongoing pandemic that has surely impacted and changed all of our lives in ways both great and small, heartening

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Local Arts Hero: Words, Beats & Life, Inc. (WBL)!

Every week BCDC showcases a Local Arts Hero that’s keeping the lights on in a challenging moment for arts and culture. This week we choose Words, Beats & Life, Inc. (WBL)! Serving as “DC’s longest running, dopest Hip-Hop based arts educational nonprofit,” this vibrant organization also boasts a College Hill connection. Founded in 2002, WBL works to invest in DC’s

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BCDC Member Spotlight: Meet Sarah Magaziner ’10 MD ’19

Meet our final BCDC member spotlight of 2021, Sarah Magaziner ’10 MD ’19! As a pediatric resident, mental-health advocate, and dancer, Sarah has had her hands full this year. A native of Bristol, RI (famously home to the nation’s oldest continuous 4th of July parade), Sarah concentrated in Psychology as an undergraduate, and

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Local Arts Hero: Check out Dance Loft on 14!

Every week BCDC showcases a Local Arts Hero that’s keeping the lights on in a challenging moment for arts and culture. This week we choose the Dance Loft on 14! Guided by a belief in dance as a means for cultural and social transformation, the Dance Loft on 14 serves as a multifaceted anchor of community-focused theater arts.

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BCDC Member Spotlight: Meet Doug Hackett ’61

Every month we spotlight a BCDC member to help put names and faces to who we are as a Brown alumni community. We’re delighted to introduce you this month to Doug Hackett ’61! We met Doug at our Friendsgiving event this past month, where he moved us all with his stories as a

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BCDC Community Behavior & Expectations + Vaccination & Mask Policy

***IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Effective September 21, 2021 until further notice*** BCDC Community Behavior & Expectations The goal of all BCDC events is to foster connections within our alumni community, with our alma mater, and between Brown alums and the broader world. In service of that goal we require all attendees at

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