FREE BREAKFAST PROGRAM

an arts and culture organization creating small interventions with radical intent

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WHAT | The Free Breakfast Program alongside the Weeksville Heritage Center are pleased to host Known Unknowns, a community dinner and small intervention of radical intent.

Residents of zip codes 11213 and 11233 are welcomed to the table for an art-full community dinner where together we will consider what is unknown and known of the radical history of Kingsborough and Weeksville. 

WHEN | Saturday June 13th 3-6pm

WHERE | Weeksville Heritage Center, 158 Buffalo Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213

For more information on how to attend please email [email protected]

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A Toast - FBP Breakfast for Dinner

The truth is we see your eyes and we feel you walking in between the world of the living and the world of the dead. We feel you in our homes and at our dinner tables. We mourn and we seek radical change so that another may not be killed in vain. As the Black Panthers put into the world : 7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people. 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace What is the beyond of struggle? Is our current and only understanding of revolution a sensational, commercially recognized image of fire? Is that the point? Because, if we are to build a new world, the old one must certainly be torn asunder, but the new one must be built with radical love. Revolution, radical love, and joy go hand in hand - we must reckon with the complexity if change is what we want. Please raise your glasses - - for the living dead and for the beautiful ones, not yet born.

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FBP is presenting in the group exhibit The Way Out is Through, curated by the No  Longer Empty Curatorial Lab. 

The Free Breakfast ProgramThe Way Out Is Through is a multidisciplinary exhibition that addresses the shifting landscape of urban environments. Through video, interactive media, installation, performance, and sculpture by participating artists—Peggy Buth, Raquel Cepeda, Free Breakfast Program, Paloma McGregor, Akeema-Zane, Nicko Nogués, Kyla Marshell, Mark Salvatus, and Phan V.,—the exhibition asks what is the relationship between home and communities in flux. The works explore narratives of belonging, public space, and nostalgia—challenging what it means to belong to a community and our connection to shared memories of a neighborhood. In the exhibition title, “the way out is through” is a reflection of our relationship between the transient nature of the urban city and how we respond to tensions between our home interiors, exteriors of public space, and the act of letting go.

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A Lot More Historical

November 15th. 13th and York Streets in Philadelphia, PA. Artistic intervention and the final installment of A Lot More Beautiful 2014. 

FBP is teaming up with the Philadelphia Public History Truck and Tim Portlock for a small, art-full, intervention of radical intent in the 181st District of Philadelphia. 

"A Lot More Historical"  is a block party based in art and history. Participants are invited to eat, share stories with History Truck, map memories, and explore projected artwork as the sun sets by History Truck artist partner Theodore A. Harris and FBP-curated artist Timothy Portlock (http://www.timportlock.net/ghost-of-the-walls/). This event is part of the History Truck's fall public event series to collect stories and memories as inspiration for its spring history exhibition on North Philly and a continuation of the Free Breakfast Program's A Lot More Beautiful project, a series of small interventions of radical intent. This event is made possible through Public History at Temple University and the Barra Foundation.

For more information and to register to attend please click here

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FBP Cultural Exchange Program.

We strongly believe in the power and voice of young people and are radical proponents of creative expression. The cultural exchange program aims to facilitate the experience of culture outside of one’s own context/community to inform their lived experiences of home. To open up opportunities of seeing ones’ self in new contexts and modes of being in the world. This specific day of exchange harbors the opportunity for some powerful conversation. The Ernest Cole exhibition in GREYArt Gallery at New York University, includes some of the first records of apartheid in South Africa internationally and is one of the first of its kind. The show is an unprecedented collection of work from Ernest Cole and will be accompanied by programming from scholars, activists, and artists from around the world. We hope that this will be amazing opportunity to facilitate a cultural exchange– widening dialogue around social, political, historical, aesthetic, etc. representations of and records of blackness, beauty, and cultural activism. 

To facilitate a cultural exchange where the work of art can be made manifest in the lives of youth – widening conceptions around social, political, historical, aesthetic, etc. representations of and records of blackness, beauty, and cultural activism - is directly in accord with what FBP is all about. 

The idea of cultural exchange. 

This collaboration will function as a part of the Cultural Exchange program of The Free Breakfast Program. This part of our programming is designed to facilitate the movement of its participants outside of local definitions of community to find instances of self-identity and common difference in other cultural and geographic locales. We believe that we are at a critical point in our history where young people need and deserve enriching experiences that are not limited to an after school arts and craft table; though we are not adverse to these types of programs or ones focused exclusively conventional modes of progress. We wish to stand alongside these young people while they discover images representative of their personal aspirations outside of the contexts in which they are told what their options are. We want to open that definition of role and aspiration up to possibilities that exists outside of that context. 

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