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Come Paint Rocks with Us at the Block Party!
Join members of the Brookfield Arts Commission at their tent and paint Kindness Rocks at the Town Center Spring Block Party. Leave your rock to dry while you enjoy the rest of the venders, food, live music, games and more! Then take your rock with you to hide around Brookfield to spread Kindness. Post any rocks you find to the Brookfield CT Rocks FB group and tag Brookfield Arts Commission.
Arts Scholarship Available!
Brookfield Arts Commission is excited to announce the opening of this year’s Art Scholarship Application for Brookfield Connecticut Residents. The scholarship is open to any Brookfield Connecticut resident that is pursuing a career in an arts related field. Are you intending to study the arts in order to pursue a career in the fine or performing arts? If you are, then you should apply for this scholarship. Past awardees have included future filmmakers, designers, dancers, musicians, fine artists and creative writers!
Applications are reviewed by members of the Brookfield Arts Commission and selected professional artists in the community. Your application should include a 250 word essay describing your artistic goals, a two page maximum resume or vitae that highlights your artistic studies, participation or experiences, and two letters of recommendation, one of which should be someone familiar with your art. We encourage applicants to submit their portfolios along with their application, this can be in the form of a digital presentation or video, depending on your specific art.
The scholarship is not based on academics or financial need. It requires you to have demonstrated a commitment to art through your studies, practice, and community art involvement, and that you live in Brookfield, are graduating high school and plan to attend higher education to pursue a career in the arts.
The BAC 2024 Scholarship Application can be downloaded from our website or may be available at your high school guidance department. The scholarship is open to any resident of Brookfield who is graduating high school in any setting this year.
Applications are due by May 6, 2024. Applications can be dropped off at Town Hall in the First Selectman’s Office, emailed to brookfieldartcommissionct@gmail.com.
Click here to download the 2024 application.
If you have questions or need a copy of the Art Scholarship Application for Brookfield Connecticut Residents, please contact us by email at brookfieldartscommissionct@gmail.com. Funding for the High School Arts Scholarship was raised by members of the Brookfield Arts Commission during our 16th Annual Film Festival.
2023 Brookfield “Shorts and to the Point” Film Festival
Members of the Brookfield Arts Commission on the red carpet at 2022’s Shorts and to the Point film festival. (from left to right, Bridget O’Hara Lynch, Catherine Malek, Debbie Spaziante, Loretta Ball, and Gary Blumberg)
The Brookfield Arts Commission is excited to announce the 15th Annual Brookfield “Shorts and to the Point” Film Festival. Also returning is the Indie Afternoon short film festival. The weekend long film festival will run from Friday, March 24th to Sunday, March 26th at the Brookfield Theatre for the Arts.
Shorts & to the Point
Fri March 24 – 7:30 PM / Sat March 25 – 7:30 PM / Sun March 26 3:00 PM
Each year the Brookfield Arts Commission puts on this area favorite. Members chose a selection of Oscar nominated and other award winning short films for the festival. Additionally, they hope that you will enjoy this year’s offering as much as you have in previous years.
Regional Indie Afternoon
Sat March 25 – 2:00 PM
Last year’s highly successful independent regional filmmaker festival makes its return. Markedly, up and coming filmmakers in Connecticut and bordering states submit their films and the Commission members review the films for inclusion. The Regional Indie Afternoon block of the Brookfield Film Festival was created to provide a platform for local filmmakers to introduce their work and discuss topics from their films as well as the filmmaking process. Overall we cannot wait to see what this year has to offer our attendees!
Read-Through Indie Morning
Sat March 25 – 10:00 AM
New this year, Read-Through Indie Morning is a block of the Brookfield Film Festival created in conjunction with the Brookfield Theatre for the Arts. Specifically this will provide screenwriters an opportunity to showcase a scene from a finished script and to network with actors.
Reservations
Admission is a suggested donation of $15 cash or check. Reservations can be placed through bacreservations@gmail.com or by phone 203-740-2980. Additionally proceeds from the film festival fund scholarships for high school seniors from Brookfield pursuing a degree in the Arts.
BAC Presents the Watercolors of Virginia Schaffer
The Brookfield Arts Commission presents the art of Virginia Schaffer at Brookfield Town Hall between February 6th and March 16th. Meet the artist at a reception on Thursday, March 2nd from 6-7 PM.
Virginia has been an artist for her entire life even if it took a backseat to raising a family and working. She started sketching as a child and later pursued studies in drawing and painting privately and at the Washington Art Association. She discovered watercolors in 2006 and has been painting with them ever since. The feelings evoked by nature give her the push to paint.
She is a member of the Sherman Artist Association, SCAN, KAA, and Gallery-25 in New Milford. In 2015, Schaffer was awarded “Excellence in Watercolor” at the Kent Spring Juried Show.
Her work in the exhibition is for sale. Please contact the BAC by email at brookfieldartscommissionct@gmail.com if interested.