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Welcome to the
STooPS 2024
Summer Festival

Thank you for joining us at our 11th annual event. We've been working hard to produce a classic yet unique block party and a truly immersive cultural experience for you!

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in collaboration with

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illustrated by tofu riot

Block Party Workshops Schedule

Gratitude Frequency: Roses For Our Legends

Botanical Arts Workshops

Led by Renee K. Smith

Location: Mt. Lebanon Lawn

Artists Are The Gatekeepers of the Truth

Live Painting & Lena Horne Commemoration

Led by Ladie Ovila

​Location: 255 Decatur St.

Bellydancing by Jaida

​ASA! Fitness by Dianne

​Afro-Brazilian Drumming by Batalá

​Procession by Batalá

​Dance Demonstrations by Cumbe: Center for African & Diasporic Dance

Location: 225 Decatur St.

Legends & Legacies Kiddie Korner

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Led by Bridges: A Pan-Afrikan ARTS Movement

Location: 289 Decatur St.

Magic Show

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Presented by 200 Decatur St. & Stuyvesant Ave. Block Association

Location: 289 Decatur St.

Session 1: 1:15pm-2:00pm

Session 2: 2:30pm-3:13pm

Session 3: 3:45pm-4:30pm

Session 1: 1:00pm-2:00pm

Session 2: 3:00pm-5:30pm

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Session 1: 2:00pm-2:30pm

​Session 2: 3:00pm-3:30pm

​Session 3: 5:00pm-5:30pm

​Procession: 5:30pm

Arts & Crafts Session: 1:00pm-2:50pm

Games & Storytelling: 2:00pm-2:45pm

Music & Dance: 4:00pm-4:50pm

Session: 3:00pm-3:45pm

Block Party Award Ceremony & Headliners

Bed Stuy Legends Awards Ceremony

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Awards Created by Ladie Ovila

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Honoring the DeLeon Family, The EAST, the Ladies of Black Girl Magic Row, Chief Baba Neil Clarke,

Ms. Catherine Suarez, and

Monique Greenwood

 

Location: St. Philip's Episcopal Church, 265 Decatur St.

Ceremony: 5:30pm

Legends and Love

Kendra J. Bostock Dance Performance

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Featuring Brittany Grier

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Location: St. Philip's Episcopal Church, 265 Decatur St.

Performance: 6:00pm

YahZarah

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Location: St. Philip's Episcopal Church, 265 Decatur St.

Performance: 6:30pm

7:10pm

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Please exit the street as quickly and safely as possible so we may have the street opened on time and without penalty.

Follow along both Art Crawls with a storymap of our neighborhood 

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Art Crawl 1: 1:30pm

Your Art Crawl Guide, Shanna Sabio will lead you from Fulton Park through the entire Art Crawl.

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Fulton Park, 1:30pm-1:45pm

172 Bainbridge St., 1:55pm-2:10pm

375 Stuyvesant Ave., 2:20pm-2:35pm

Brooklyn Tea, 411 Lewis Ave.,  2:45pm-3:00pm

Decatur St. and Lewis Ave., 3:05pm

Art Crawl 2: 4:00pm

 
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Your Art Crawl Guide, Shanna Sabio will lead you from Jackie Robinson Park Playground through the entire Art Crawl.

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Jackie Robinson Park Playground, 341 Malcolm X Blvd, 4:00pm-4:15pm


Bailey's Cafe, 324 Malcolm X Blvd., 4:25pm-4:40pm

556A Macon St., 4:50pm-5:05pm

375 Stuyvesant Ave., 5:15pm-5:30pm

Decatur St. b/w Stuyvesant & Lewis, 5:30pm
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STooPS Art & Community is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the Howard Gilman Foundation,  and is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC), the Mission and Benevolence Fund of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Create & (Re)Connect Fund through The Laundromat Project and the New Music USA’s Organization Fund in 2024-25. 

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Special thanks to STooPS Enthusiast Foot Soldiers, STooPS Supporter Studio Rodrigo and STooPS Fan Brooklyn Coop.

 

We express our gratitude for all the individuals and families who support our work.

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