Brooklyn Movement Center

📢Central Brooklyn! 📢

Our first visioning session is tomorrow! This virtual session will be available on Zoom and begins at 6:30 PM! Visit the link in our bio to register and receive the link.

Join us and share your ideas and experiences as we revitalize BMC and rebuild our work and programming. If you’re a former BMC member or a Bed-Stuy, Croen Heights or Brownsville resident who cares about building more resources and power for Black communities , we want you to come through!

If you can’t make our virtual event tomorrow, join us at the Macon Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library on Saturday, May 2nd, for our in-person visioning session. And bring a friend or loved one!

We need your help to build the future of Brooklyn Movement Center and to ensure our work meets our communities' needs, creating strong programs and solutions that help us live, create our own safety, thrive and be well. 

Come to one of our upcoming BMC Visioning Sessions to share your voice and ideas about what BMC’s future work looks like and how we can best organize toward an even bolder, brighter future. 

Our Virtual Visioning Session will be on Wednesday, April 29th, at 6:30 PM. Register to receive the link to attend. 

Our in-person Visioning Session will be on Saturday, May 2nd at 12 PM - register for the address. Light refreshments will be provided. 

Sign up for either event at the link in bio - we hope to see as many of our BMC family come through as possible and come together to build what’s next.

Last weekend’s events were a whole mood! Powerful drumming by Sky, amazing beats by Deja Sol, inspirational words from movement leaders, a packed house of community and great food and vibes. 

Thank you to everyone who made our homecoming event special, helped us pack and move, and shared their memories of the Mansion and BMC throughout the weekend.

Our next events are coming at the end of April and early May. Stay tuned for an RSVP link to our upcoming visioning sessions: April 29th, virtually from 6:30-8 PM, and May 2nd, in person from 12-2 PM. 

You won’t want to miss what we have planned next!

We have a great event planned tomorrow to celebrate our time at The Mansion beginning at 6 PM! Join us for a night of memories, music and community with a delicious dinner provided by Zaca Cafe.

First, we’ll meet at the front of The People’s Mansion for a brief program. Jean Menesky Magloire, aka Sky, will lead us in a drum processional to Akwaaba Mansion at 347 MacDonough Street at around 6:15.

Chauvet Bishop, Massage Therapist, Reiki Practitioner, Organizer and Poet, will lead a healing and grounding ceremony during the program, and DJ Déjà Sol will bring the beats to keep the party going until 8:30.

RSVP now at the link in bio and come celebrate with us tomorrow!

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!

We still need a few volunteers to help us pack and move on Friday and Saturday!

You’ll be helping BMC, GrowHouse and Freebrook collect and organize items to prepare for movers over the weekend.

Sign up for a shift at the link in bio!

And don’t forget about the People’s Mansion Homecoming Celebration on Saturday from 6 PM - 8:30 PM.

We are excited to welcome our new Interim Executive Director, Beverly Tillery!

She’s organized and led in movement spaces for more than 35 years, including racial and economic justice, LGBTQ+ liberation, gender justice, human rights, and labor.

“It is my honor to be in this position to help shepherd BMC into a new phase. I am passionate about bringing together Black communities to build collective power and shape a future of safety and abundance.” - Beverly Tillery

Learn more about Bev at the link in bio and meet her this weekend at our People’s Mansion Homecoming events this Friday & Saturday.

Lots of feels all around this past week with the world doing the most. If you’re looking for space to vibe, let off some steam or grub with neighbors, stop by the mansion (375 Stuyvesant) tmrw, 10 am - 2 pm.

Tune into WNYC this morning to hear BMC executive Director Anthonine discuss the root causes of gun violence and public health based solutions!

What Mayor Adams gets right and wrong about gun violence I’m old enough to remember the 1990s violence crisis in New York City and what it was like to live in fear of getting slashed or shot on the way home from school. When our East Flatbush apartment got broken into, I wondered for months if it would happen again (it did).

Four years ago today, was killed in Crown Heights by NYPD officers while having a mental health crisis. Saheed’s life is more than his death and we pause today to honor the gifts he gave the world: kindness, generosity, friendship and pure love.

Join us today in lifting up Saheed as our community hero—we will never recover from the pain of his death, but with time we are learning to celebrate how he lived.