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A world-class home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) is North America’s oldest performing arts center, showcasing the work of emerging artists and modern icons. For more than 160 years, BAM has built a thriving urban multi-arts complex renowned for presenting an unparalleled roster of visionary dance, theater, music, opera, visual arts, literature, and film engagements. Attracting more than 750,000 people to its home in Brooklyn each year, BAM provides a welcoming cultural stage and meeting place for global and local communities of all backgrounds. BAM’s distinctive, dynamic multi-theater campus is alive year-round with acclaimed signature programs and inspired new engagements, including the Next Wave Festival, DanceAfrica, Word.Sound.Power, Everybooty, a repertory film program, literary and visual art events, and educational and humanities programs.

Omar Offendum was born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Washington, DC where he attended the Islamic Saudi Academy. His viral 2011 song #Jan25, inspired by the Arab Spring uprising, established the Syrian-American MC-poet on the global stage all while working at an architectural firm in Los Angeles. Offendum made his BAM debut in May 2022 with Little Syria, a genre-bridging performance—spanning hip-hop, Arabic instrumentation, and ḥakawātī oral storytelling traditions of the Levant—that celebrated early 20th-century life on Washington Street in lower Manhattan, a thriving neighborhood called Little Syria.

Founded in 2001, the Dance Center is the home of the Mark Morris Dance Group and serves as a cultural hub for the Brooklyn community. The School serves over 1500 students of all levels, with and without disabilities, ages 18 months to 18 years.

Two Trees is a family-owned, Brooklyn-based real estate developer best known for our singular role in transforming the Brooklyn neighborhood of DUMBO from a neglected industrial waterfront to a thriving mixed-use community. Our fundamental belief is that successful neighborhoods offer a wide variety of uses and attract diverse groups of people.