{"id":256065,"date":"2026-06-05T03:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256065\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T03:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:22:47","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-bric-celebrate-brooklyn-kicks-off-its-47th-season-in-prospect-park-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256065\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Bric Celebrate Brooklyn Kicks Off Its 47th Season In Prospect Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bricartsmedia.org\/celebrate-brooklyn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn<\/a> kicked off its 47th annual summer concert series on Thursday in Prospect Park. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The family-friendly event offers music of all genres. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">There are 15 free shows throughout the summer and three benefit shows to help BRIC continue its mission of providing education, entertainment and ways to help better communities. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The theme for this year\u2019s festival is \u201cRadical Joy,\u201d which organizers said is meant to share positivity and unity. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWe understand that it\u2019s tough times out here for people,\u201d said Saidah Blount, executive director of BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn. \u201cI think that one of those things that New York City does better than any other city in the world &#8212; we know how to have a good summer. We want people to come out, have a good time, spread the joy, listen to some music, make a new friend.\u201d <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Celebrate Brooklyn runs through Sept. 19. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn kicked off its 47th annual summer concert series on Thursday in Prospect Park. The family-friendly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-256065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256065","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=256065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}