Broome County Arts Council Presents April First Friday BINGHAMTON, NY. Broome County Arts Council is pleased to present April’s First Friday Art Walk from 6PM to 9PM in Downtown Binghamton on April 1st, 2022. Some locations have varying hours, please check details below. Most exhibitions are free and open to the public. This month’s First […]
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Joy, Play and Resistance in the work of Miguel Luciano and Hiram Maristany March 24 – May 14, 2022 Opening Reception Thursday, March 24, 5:00pm – 7:00pm Main Gallery Joy is transformative. It vibrates with generative possibility in an emergent and collective capacity to re-imagine dominant structures and reclaim power. Play is nourishment. It is
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Aubrey Clark, noted painter and printmaker of the natural world, is taking up her family history in a new exhibit at the Cooperative Gallery 213 called “A Glance at Legacy” opening April 1st, 2022. “The impetus for the April exhibit came about as I find myself at a crossroads of whether to write or continue
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by Bill Martin March 20, 2022 Got a grievance about abuse today? Tomorrow? Ever? Not in the BC jail you don’t! Friends and family of persons incarcerated in the Broome County jail regularly hear disturbing accounts of physical, disability, and medical abuse. The official county, state, and legal recourse for incarcerated persons is for them
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Outside Corporate Investors Feast on Rental Market, Exploiting Binghamton’s Outdated Assessments Enough is Enough: We Need a Citywide Re-Assessment That is Fair to all Property Owners BINGHAMTON – Amicus LLC, registered with the New York State Department as a foreign corporate entity, is the latest outside institutional investor to quietly feast on Binghamton’s rental
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Women and Local Activists Call to End to the Abuse of Women in the County Jail Women are one of the fastest growing populations in jails and prisons around the country. Broome County mirrors those trends: locally the incarceration of women has been accelerating. The growing number of women behind bars in Broome County is
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BCAC ANNOUNCES OVER $261K FOR 2022 UNITED CULTURAL FUND (UCF) RECIPIENTS The Broome County Arts Council (BCAC) announced $261,059.00 in 2022 United Cultural Funds (UCF) to 21 local artists, arts organizations and community non-profits – a substantial increase from the number of awards granted in 2021. Applicant statistics in Broome County reflect a nationwide picture:
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from Indivisible-Binghamton Here’s an update on the redistricting of the Broome County Legislature and an introduction to Fair Maps for Broome, Inc. ; https://www.fairmapsforbroome.org/ As you know, dozens of people joined in more than ten zoom meetings and testified at three public hearings about the redistricting process. Every single speaker opposed Map 3, the
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by Ed Nizalowski “We are creating enemies faster than we can kill them.” I’m not sure when I first heard that phrase. It seems to me that it goes back to the Vietnam War. With the propping up of a corrupt government (one that was installed through an American sponsored coup), indiscriminate carpet bombing and
Colgan & Ryan in “Facets” at Cooperative Nancy Ryan and Martha Colgan open March 4th in “Facets” at the Cooperative Gallery, running through March 26th. Both are accomplished artists and are presenting a variety of media including drawing, collage, prints, and pottery to name a few. Says Ryan, “The facets of a cut stone face
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