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Fall Focus
While we may be setting our clocks back next month, the Museum is 100% focused on springing forward right now. Despite the pandemic, we are moving right along with all of our projects. Check out the highlights below. You'll see....There's a lot going on!
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Calling all Early Childhood Educators
Join us this month for Bronx Children's Museum's CONNECT Symposium - a reflective, professional development workshop designed especially for early-childhood educators. In partnership with PBS EdCamp and WNET/THIRTEEN, working sessions will include object-based learning and PBS EdCamp where participants choose their own topics for discussion. CTLE credits available. Funding provided by
The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation
and Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust.
For more information, contact Nicole Wallace at nicole@bronxchildrensmuseum.org
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Construction is Underway - Again!
 With COVID-safe measures in place for the crew, construction of the Museum's space resumed in July after a 3-month shut down. After a thorough review of our plans by the City this summer, we were assured that our space was already designed to be open and safe with adequate air circulation. Happily, we only need to make minor adjustments to address COVID and safety issues.
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Exhibit news to get you dancing
We are extremely excited about our "hands-off" interactive exhibit designed by celebrated Bronx-born fashion designer Jerome LaMaar (just mentioned in GQ!). Called Bronxtopia, it is a digital fantasy world in which children are invited to move and groove in sync with an animal avatar while being introduced to dances and music that are part of the essence of the Bronx.
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Discovering the Nature of the Bronx
The Bronx is bursting at the seams with art, culture and nature. This school year the Museum is offering its partners a new grade-specific menu of STEAM and arts programming aptly named The Nature of the Bronx. Each program comes with a "launch box" of supplies, live instruction, teacher training, resource guides, student worksheets, and if feasible a COVID- safe field trip to a cultural/natural destination. For more information, please contact Nicole Wallace. Special thanks to the City DCLA, City Council member Gibson and our many private funders.
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ArtSpot
Thanks to the New York State Council of the Arts, this year ArtSpot is being transformed into a series of video profiles featuring Bronx artists who are creating major original art installations for the inside of the Museum.
The videos, geared to children ages 7 to 9, include a studio tour led by the featured artist followed by an art-making activity inspired by the artist's work led by Museum artist/educator Christopher Gomez. Artspot videos will be available on our website and broadcast on BronxNet TV. They will also be available with training and resource information for teachers or afterschool educators as well as live instruction and supplies for children to registered BxCM partners. The first video featuring Charles Esperanza will premiere later this month. Additional videos will feature Andre Trenier and Javaka Steptoe.
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The Museum needs YOUR help!
COVID hit us hard, but with your help we won't let even that stop us from opening our building next year and continuing to engage Bronx children!
Now more than ever children need to heal, engage, discover and just be kids. We'll be announcing a GoFundMe campaign this month (watch for details). In the meantime, please consider making a donation today Thank you!
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I Am These Truths: Book Shout Out
Board Member Sunny Hostin (Emmy Award winner, co-host of The View) recently released I Am These Truths, A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds. In the book, Sunny chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney and journalist in a powerful memoir. Congratulations, Sunny!
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Bronx Spotlight
Each month we are highlighting a family-friendly, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) or Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) organization or person from the Bronx. We'll share a brief history of the organization and provide ideas on how families can support, engage or connect with them.
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The Bronx is Reading
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Saraciea Fennell (left) with authors Daniel José and Elizabeth Acevedo
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Publicist, writer, and social entrepreneur Saraciea Fennell founded The Bronx is Reading and The Bronx Book Festival. She says "Many children attending Title I schools in the Bronx have never owned their own books or experienced an author visit. I want people to know that the Bronx was once home to many of their favorite writers and celebrities, including Edgar Allan Poe, James Baldwin, Mary Higgins Clark, Arlene Alda, Kerry Washington, Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, Big Pun, and so many countless others."
This month, the organization is presenting The Bronx Is Reading Day on Saturday, October 17 at Fordham Plaza where they will be handing out free books (one per person) for ages 0-18 from 2-4 pm.
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Have you filled out the 2020 Census?
The Bronx is only at 62% of respondents to the 2020 Census. In 2010, the borough achieved 64%.
If more people didn't participate, New York City risks losing TWO representatives and HALF of our federal funding. Fill out the census today.
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