Bailey’s Café
April 2014 to
Bailey’s Café is Brooklyn-based and our roots are in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. We serve community members in the Central Brooklyn area. We are committed to working in communities across New York City that lack Bailey’s Café type spaces and programs.
At our core, We Believe that healthy, vibrant communities have spaces where people can go to find their personal relevance and sense of purpose, nurture their individual growth, and make connections with other people, including across generations. We create physical and virtual spaces in partnership with local leaders, artists, and inter-generational volunteers, through a focus on community building, service, and the arts.
Since its founding in 2003, Bailey’s Café has focused in primarily two areas:
- Community Building and Service
- Arts Education and Production
Across our programs, Bailey’s Café builds inter-generational connections and story sharing, expose our participants to new experiences, honor the stories of those whose voices are seldom heard and help develop a sense of possibility, healing and renewal through community-based organizing and artistic expression.
Bailey’s Café has long-term partnerships with eight schools, over twenty youth/community-based organizations, and over twenty-five teaching artists in the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights area. Programs include:
- School-Based and Summer Programs
- Community-Based Arts Programs
- Artist-in-Resident Program
Through our School-Based and Summer Programs, we impact the lives of 600 youth on a yearly basis; while currently enrolling 100 youth per year.