Directed by Rokafella (renowned Hip-Hop breaker and co-Artistic Director of Full Circle Productions),Still Standing is a dance theater work created with students from Hostos Community College that fuses club and street dance styles, along with song and poetry, and incorporates the students' personal photographs to tell their inspirational stories of "going through and getting through" life's challenges. The work celebrates the mixed consciousness of first- and second-generation youth, because "if we don't tell our stories...who will?"

New York City Comptroller John Liu joins OPEN host Bob Lee for a discussion on leveling the economic playing field, bringing closure to the "Central Park Five" case, improving education in our city, as well as an important announcement regarding his future career aspirations.

Recently, the BronxNet studios were alive with Algerian Hip Hop Dancers, members of Kamikaz Crew Music Group who were visiting America through a U.S. Department of State program. Now, you can experience their visit and their talent right here at www.bronxnet.org. The dance group is made up of five outstanding young performers including: Houne Chernai, Wissam Fouad Chillali, Youcef Mechri, Lotfi Mohand Arab, and Mohamed Youne Sellah. They are visited the U.S. and BronxNet through a special U.S. Department of State “Youth Empowerment Through Hip Hop” project.

Local Bronx talent joined the Kamikaz Crew Music Group at BronxNet as they performed in front of a live studio audience and State Department translators interpreted as BronxNet conducted interviews.

The Bronx is experiencing unprecedented growth and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. provided a look at some of the elements of that growth, along with plans for the future in his 2013 State of the Borough address.

State of the Borough Address 2013 BRONXNET AIRDATES...

1. Sunday: 2:00 PM
   
2. Monday: 12:00 AM, 11:00 AM, 1:30 PM, 11:00 PM
   
3. Tuesday: 7:30 AM, 11:00 AM, 11:00 PM
   
4. Wednesday: 11:00 AM, 3:00 PM, 11:00 PM
   
5. Thursday: 7:00 AM, 7:00 PM
   
6. Friday: 12:00 AM, 7:00 PM
   
7. Saturday: 8:30 AM, 1:30 PM
   

Seis del Sur, a recently launched photo exhibit at the Bronx Documentary Center dramatically highlights the borough’s tumultuous yet determined experience through the 1970’s and 80’s, with work by six groundbreaking Nuyorican photographers. The opening ceremony attracted hundreds of visitors who came to explore the Bronx through innovative photographs from the lenses of Edwin Pagan, Francisco Molina Reyes II, Ricky Flores, David Gonzalez, Angel Franco and Joe Conzo Jr.

Highlights of the event are available here. The exhibit, which is free to the public, will run through March 8th at 614 Courtlandt Avenue.

Bronx, N.Y. – November 10, 2012 – BronxNet, in partnership with Albanian Film Week organizers Ari Myrtaj and Mrika Krasniqi hosted the screening of 10 Albanian films. The screenings at BronxNet on the campus of Lehman College are part of celebrating 100 Years of Albanian Independence.

Bronx, N.Y. – October 5, 2012 – Today, BronxNet announced it will build a TV Studio at Mercy College in the East Bronx to provide technological access and media production training at the Hutch Metro Center. The BronxNet studio will be called BronxNet at Mercy College and is scheduled to open in the early spring of 2013. The Center is expected to bring an influx of jobs and industry.

Veronica Valerio, a well-versed musician that has been inspired by her world travels performs on OPEN Wednesday. Her most recent project showcases how she translates and observes the differences, distances and similarities in the space around her.

Inspired by the photographs of Sol Aramendi, this piece is about ritual, superstition and fighting arenas where we individually and collectively meet our demons. Six dancers debate gender roles, undertake santeria cleansing rituals and emerge ready to take on the battle of their own existence. The work is dance theater with an epic sound score and lighting that emphasizes the over-the-top dramatization of their collective exorcism.

When their shantytowns are threatened with mass eviction, three 'young lions' of South Africa's new generation rise from the shacks and take their government to the highest court in the land, putting the promises of democracy to the test. *Sept. 2012 http://www.dearmandela.com