BAM AND FOSTER YOUR DREAM HOST BACK TO SCHOOL EVENT WITH ACS BROOKLYN! HUGE TURNOUT AND SUCCESS!

Thanks to long time collaborators Tim Dugger, Foster Your Dream and Dewonnie Frederick, Bam hosted Brooklyn Foster Families and their support community to an amazing BACK TO SCHOOL event!

FDNY REPRESENTED AND CHATTED WITH YOUNGSTERS ABOUT JUNIOR FIREFIGHTERS AND JUNIOR EMT PROGRAMS. ART WAS CREATED. VOLUNTEERS AND WORKERS DONNED BRIGHT GREEN JOYFUL AND CREATIVELY DECORATED T-SHIRTS. FUN WAS HAD BY ALL!

TIM DUGGER OF ACS (Administration of Children’s Services) WHO’S VISION THIS WAS TO DO THIS AT BAM, SAYS A THANK YOU TO DEWONNIE FREDERICK, BAM AND FOSTER YOUR DREAM WHILE HE SHOWS US HOW AMAZING THIS EVENT WAS!

FROM A GAGGLE OF STROLLERS, A COOL DJ AND A LONG DAY OF BACK-TO-SCHOOL FUN, ONE LITTLE GAL WITH A PINK POWER-BOW AND A BRAND NEW ROYAL PURPLE BACKPACK, PREPARES TO GO HOME AND FOSTER HER DREAM OF A BRIGHT FUTURE!!

BAM Hosts 33 FOSTER YOUR DREAM families to modern HAMLET!

Thanks BAM for inviting so many Brooklyn Families to see a very special performance of HAMLET!

It’s the British version starring Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) with no costumes or sets due to the shipping route changes! How exciting for our families to see an unplugged version in such a gorgeous theatre!

It’s not hard to imagine what their experience was when we see how rehearsals looked.

Thanks to Tim Dugger for gathering the families and getting names and organizing the lucky theatergoers. Thanks to Dewonnie Frederick for always thinking of Foster Your Dream!

Foster Your Dream Joins Halloween Party at BAM-BOO event!

We love it when our families get to go to an amazing and fun Halloween block party. Our Foster Fams with kids 4-12 got to kick off the spookiest night of the year at this free, family-friendly Carnival! They enjoyed games and arts & crafts and movies, too!

What a fun Street Party it was. We don’t have permission to use faces. Our silly face-blocking technique is in the spirit of the holiday! BOO and thank YOU!

Many thanks to Dewonnie Frederick for making sure our kids are always invited!

Foster kids go places in 2018

WE HAD SUCH A GREAT YEAR WE DIDN’T POST MUCH!

The winter took us to BAM film festival where we had 3 large groups of children and their caregivers enjoy awesome films!

We applied for Corcoran Cares Grant in the winter and we got word in the summer that we will RECEIVE it in 2019! Thank you for Wendy Stark for helping us through the process.

We took large groups to Teknopolis … …. Dance Africa …. (our children are not in these photos as we are not allowed to use them on our website! The photos you see on our website we take and cover their faces, or show others around them at an event, or get photos from the events themselves! This is just another reason our population is so invisible. It is considered illegal to use their likeness because their parents have not approved it and they are under 18 and are wards of the state. In other words the state is their parent and they will not approve them being used on the web. It is considered exploitation. So we do our best! News organizations do have exceptions…which is why the more news coverage #FOSTERCARE can get .. the better!) We also sent one emancipated student to a Cherry Lane theatre acting class! A small but powerful dream come true! THANKS for squeezing us in Reed! 🙂

This was just our first half of the year! Stay tuned for our second half.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus Wows FYD

Long gone are the stand-in-one-place-and-sing days. The Brooklyn Youth Chorus really wowed Foster Your Dream’s kids. So much so that the group-home that came for the first performance, inspired a second group to come listen! The young chorus and orchestra sung and played their hearts out and were theatrical, also.

There was choreography. There were visuals. There was harmony. There was diversity. There was a connection. Everything that music and art can do for the soul.

BAM-tastic events

BAM is one of our biggest supporters. We had small groups go to many performances of the following BAM-tastic events …

The Toad Knew … a nonverbal rollicking event with acrobatics and water play and a LOT of stagecraft!

The Toad Knew

The Crown Heights film … based on a true story that some of our kids could relate to only too well!

Crown Heights Film and Real Life

A new year of Teknopolis Fun … we got to bring groups for both days.

Enjoying some virtual fun!

We always have a blast because BAM makes our groups feel free and joyful! Thanks, always, to Ms. D!