2024-05-15T17:26:04-07:00 2023-06-30 132696850 Gruber Palumberi Raffaele Fried CPAs PC 7 Penn Plaza Suite 310 New York NY 10001 990 2022-07-01 112336154 BILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC BILL 7186366949 1368 FULTON STREET BROOKLYN NY 11216 SHADAWN SMITH Executive Director 2024-05-15 true SHADAWN SMITH 999009999 true M CARLINE LOGERIE CPA P01387821 2125860800 2 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z SHADAWN SMITH 1368 FULTON STREET BROOKLYN NY 11216 2078413 false X THEBILLIEHOLIDAY.ORG X Artistic Programming:FY23 marked The Billies 50th Anniversary Season and the first year we resumed in-person programming post-COVID outdoor festivals, live performances, theater productions, and a wide gamut of film, music, dance, visual arts, and other cultural offerings. The year began in July 2022 with our Black Joy Summer Fest, which included a multitude of free community events including dance workshops, jazz performances, film screenings (including the Black Joy and the 5th annual Nova Frontier Film Festival), our Skylight Open music concert series, and a 29-hour play reading series in partnership with QuickSilver Theater Company. Summerfest events attracted more than 8,500 people. In October 2022 we implemented our annual Restoration Rocks Saturday afternoon block party on Fulton Street, celebrating the people, arts, culture, and entertainment that make the Bed-Stuy neighborhood world-renowned. In May we launched an unprecedented exhibit called Black Genius: We Rise... Still, wh 10 10 2 0 4580547 1746822 124399 183265 242 273 27250 148053 4732438 2078413 359280 3958816 0 74364 138047 0 10395 950988 1742103 1384632 5838966 3347806 -3760553 8498562 4847185 583438 692614 7915124 4154571 The goal of the Billie Holiday Theatre is to provide audiences with complete and authentic portrayals of the experiences of people of African descent across the world. To provide artists of African descent pure and unapologetic artistic freedom. We do this by producing and presenting all forms of art, and by challenging unjust systems that would prevent artists, institutions, and communities full access to world-class arts, creative spaces, and resources. false false 4687563 TArtistic Programming:FY23 marked The Billies 50th Anniversary Season and the first year we resumed in-person programming post-COVID outdoor festivals, live performances, theater productions, and a wide gamut of film, music, dance, visual arts, and other cultural offerings. The year began in July 2022 with our Black Joy Summer Fest, which included a multitude of free community events including dance workshops, jazz performances, film screenings (including the Black Joy and the 5th annual Nova Frontier Film Festival), our Skylight Open music concert series, and a 29-hour play reading series in partnership with QuickSilver Theater Company. Summerfest events attracted more than 8,500 people. In October 2022 we implemented our annual Restoration Rocks Saturday afternoon block party on Fulton Street, celebrating the people, arts, culture, and entertainment that make the Bed-Stuy neighborhood world-renowned. In May we launched an unprecedented exhibit called Black Genius: We Rise... Still, which featured the work of over 25 local painters, sculptors, photographers, and artists from the African Diaspora sharing perspectives on life during the pandemic. In May 2023 we launched our annual Community Day Celebration, marking the 25th Anniversary of the partnership between Restoration and the Brooklyn Academy of Musics DanceAfrica Festival at Restoration Amphitheater. Alumni members of DanceAfrica members performed along with current members of The Billies Youth Arts Academy.In addition to the programming mentioned above, including DanceAfrica and Nova Frontier Film Festival, in FY23 we worked for the first time with QuickSilver Theater Company and Manhattan Theatre Club, with whom we presented a continued conversation on the role of Black Theatre in the midst of health, racial, and economic pandemics. The conversation featured Professor Michael Eric Dyson and playwright Dominique Morisseau, moderated by Michael Dinwiddie.Community Access and Service:While The Billie engages audiences from across the country and around the world, its focus is engaging the nations largest community of African descent in Central Brooklyn. Historically underserved and underfunded by the arts, Central Brooklyn boasts a rich artistic legacy that has thrived despite ongoing racial disparities across income, health and education. Roughly a quarter of the population, and 30% of children under 18, live below the poverty line in Bedford Stuyvesant. The boroughs ongoing gentrification has led to a widening racial income gap with the average median income for new, predominantly white residents ($50,200) 44% greater than that of long-term residents of African descent ($28,000). Our work in the past year has reached an estimated 600,000 people, including more than 400,000 visits to our online platforms, and an estimated 200,000 visitors onsite to our Black Lives Matter mural. Our online works have received more than 6,000 comments and shares. We have engaged over 400 artists, including 60 for our Black Lives Matter mural alone, and 90 volunteer community painters. Education & Humanities Division:Our Youth Arts Academy (YAA) served approximately 75 NYC public school students in FY23, with classes in Drama, Drumming, Ballet, Modern Contemporary Dance, Hip Hop Dance, and West African Dance (Guinea and Sabar). We also offered an all-new boys-only dance class. For dancers 3-5 years old, we offered a Pre-Ballet class where children learned the basics of ballet while exploring their creativity and love for dance. For youth aged 12-18 we continued our popular pre-professional training program (PP), by audition only, which includes intensive dynamic technique classes that prepare students for college auditions and professional auditions. Our signature Black Arts Institute (BAI) provided BAI students with scholarships in FY23 for a five-week summer session. This session offered a comprehensive exploration of the history of the contemporary Black theater tradition. Classes in movement, scene study, and Shakespeare study augmented the core BAI curricula. 4687563 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false true true true false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 88 0 false 2 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 10 10 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false NY X X MARTHA SAMUELS 7186366949 138 FULTON STREET BROOKLYN NY 11216 X Blondel Pinnock Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Colvin Grannum Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Toni Yuille-Williams Board Chair 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Latoya Nelson Kamdang Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Dr Durell Cooper Vice Chair 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Wendell Pierce Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Kerry McCarthy Secretary 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 SHADAWN SMITH Executive Dir. 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Kibra Yohannes Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Taneshia Nash Laird Treasurer 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Rasu Jilani Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 0 false false false 0 355910 1390912 1746822 CONTRACT REVENUE 561000 89700 89700 theatre rental 900099 93565 93565 183265 273 273 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 other revenue 900099 148053 148053 148053 2078413 331318 273 3958816 3958816 0 0 0 0 0 117861 107961 9900 0 20186 5214 14972 0 0 146000 146000 105457 105457 0 0 0 519592 200048 309544 10000 103840 7375 96465 50552 555 49997 0 0 150000 150000 47127 32869 14258 0 0 0 0 7205 7205 0 Production expenses 348247 271331 76916 Repair and maintenance 79766 1926 77840 Supplies 57136 40636 16500 Equipment purchase and rental 43811 39391 4420 83370 21441 61534 395 5838966 4687563 1141008 10395 6203540 3942600 0 2067311 717535 87333 36886 0 0 0 0 0 60307 13500 37021 46807 0 0 0 0 103357 103357 8498562 4847185 71545 180721 250423 250423 261470 261470 583438 692614 X 2416673 2411259 5498451 1743312 7915124 4154571 8498562 4847185 -3760553 X false true X true false X 404094 1655132 9266478 4580547 1746822 17653073 137314 281246 438368 45500 89700 992128 0 0 0 541408 1936378 9704846 4626047 1836522 18645201 0 108699 297066 405765 108699 297066 405765 18239436 161 242 273 676 0 161 242 273 676 0 226376 18587 11420 106149 241618 604150 767784 1954965 9716427 4732438 2078413 19250027 0.94750 0.95630 0.00000 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 24824 24824 35483 13500 21983 46807 DUE TO AFFILIATES 261470 261470 X 2078413 2078413 2078413 5838966 5838966 5838966 Part X : FIN48 Footnote BHT has evaluated the recognition requirements for uncertain income tax positions as required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, with no cumulative effect adjustment required. Income tax benefits are recognized for income tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return only when it is determined that the income tax position will more-likely-that-not be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities. Accordingly, the company has not recorded any reserves, or related accruals for interest and penalties for uncertain income tax provisions at June 30, 2023. true Black Theatre United 57 W 57TH STREET NEW YORK NY 10019 852146037 307531 0 FMV FISCAL SPONSORSHIP The Black Seed 1368 Fulton Street Brooklyn NY 11216 3651285 0 FMV FISCAL SPONSORSHIP 0 2 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b THE 990 IS REVIEWED BY the Director of Finance, the Executive Director and signed off by the Board Treasurer. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Monitored via board meetings and regular check-ins with the Managing Director. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 18 THE DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST AT THE THEATRE'S BOX OFFICE. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 No documents available to the public.