{"id":12393,"date":"2025-10-22T19:27:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/12393\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:27:56","slug":"brooklyn-conservatory-of-music-breaks-ground-on-campus-expansion-for-music-therapy-and-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/12393\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Breaks Ground on Campus Expansion for Music Therapy and Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Monday\u2019s (10\/20) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bkreader.com\/non-profit-community\/brooklyn-conservatory-of-music-breaks-ground-on-campus-expansion-11369502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn Reader<\/a> (New York), a staff-written report states, \u201cThe Brooklyn Conservatory of Music on Friday broke ground on a new 12,000-square-foot campus \u2026 The state-of-the-art facility will double the nonprofit\u2019s capacity to deliver high-quality music therapy and music education, significantly expanding the number of New Yorkers it will be able to serve. The campus expansion will house 13 \u2026 studios, a performance hall, and a community space, all designed to be ADA-accessible and sensory-friendly. The new space will also become the official home of BKCM\u2019s future Music Therapy Institute, seeded with support from Billy and Alexis Joel\u2019s The Joel Foundation. The Institute will have national reach and advance the field of clinical creative arts therapies by serving as a destination for workforce training, research and advocacy. BKCM\u2019s music therapy program is the largest in New York City, serving 2,700 clients in Park Slope and at 52 sites across the five boroughs\u2026. BKCM is retaining its home of 80 years, its Park Slope Victorian mansion \u2026 \u2018The new Music Therapy Institute at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music will be a national model for how the arts can support human development, connection and mental health,\u2019 said Billy and Alexis Joel of The Joel Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Monday\u2019s (10\/20) Brooklyn Reader (New York), a staff-written report states, \u201cThe Brooklyn Conservatory of Music on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,2585,5416,9818],"class_list":{"0":"post-12393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-students","15":"tag-venues","16":"tag-youth-orchestras"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}