BILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INCORPORATED

BROOKLYN, New York, 11216-5372 United States

Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide audiences with complete and authentic portrayals of the experience of people of African descent across the world; and to provide artists of African descent pure and unapologetic artistic freedom. We do this by producing and presenting all forms of art, and by challenging unjust systems that prevent arts, artists, institutions, and communities of African descent full access to world-class arts, creative spaces, and art making.

About This Cause

The Obie and AUDELCO Award-winning Billie Holiday Theatre is a state-of-the-art creative campus located in the heart of Bedford Stuyvesant, home to the largest African American community in the nation and recently named one of the 40 Coolest Neighborhoods in the World by Time Out Magazine. A thriving cultural anchor to the Black community since its inception in 1972, The Billie is one of the last remaining theaters forged in the aesthetic and sociocultural kiln of America’s Civil Rights/Black Arts Movement. Today, The Billie stands as a beacon for world-class art rooted in social justice, and the only multi-platform performing arts center with a presenting, institutional residency, and education program led by, for, accountable to and near people of African descent in New York City. For bold and daring artists and audiences from around the corner and around the world who look to The Billie as a rigorous artistic space that tackles racial injustices, presents new and unapologetic voices, and imagines a world where all people can flourish...welcome home.

BILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INCORPORATED
1368 Fulton Street
BROOKLYN, New York 11216-5372
United States
Unique Identifier 112336154