About SITE Fest
About Arts in Bushwick
SITE Fest is a two-day interdisciplinary event highlighting the diversity of performance in Bushwick. Encompassing and blending a variety of forms including theater, dance and music, SITE investigates our neighborhood as an unfolding collaborative performance enacted in urban space. SITE arose in response to the amazing outpouring Arts in Bushwick receives every year for BETA Spaces and Open Studios, giving performance artists the opportunity to display work in a collaborative environment.
Arts In Bushwick is an all volunteer organization that serves and engages artists and other neighborhood residents through creative accessibility and community organizing. It is our goal to create an integrated and sustainable neighborhood, and to bring together all Bushwick residents and stakeholders to counter development- driven displacement.
SITE focuses around curated hub spaces, which are organized and run by Arts in Bushwick. Performances also take place in a variety of satellite spaces (apartments, studios, street corners, galleries, etc.). Satellite space events are produced and managed by independent curators. SITE Fest is a featured Brooklyn event of Armory Arts Week.
Arts In Bushwick was founded in the fall of 2007, as a result of grassroots efforts to produce the 2007 Bushwick Open Studios festival. The organization was founded by a group of roughly fifteen local artists and community organizers, and has continued to operate on an all-volunteer, non-hierarchical, breakeven basis through four years of programming. Arts In Bushwick maintains a completely open structure, inviting all community members to bring their ideas and to participate in collaboratively producing the organization and its activities. For more information, visit artsinbushwick.org