About CIAC

CIAC is a New York City partner center of the freeDimensional network; it serves as the administrative office for the network and the site from which we provide housing, workspace, and an exhibition area for visual, performing, literary and new media artists communicating on human rights issues for periods of 2-4 months.

Resident selection is based on the urgency of individuals' situations (need of temporary safe haven); achieving a diverse professional range (discipline/media); potential to contribute to a collaborative project; and achieving a diverse age, gender and regional make-up.

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Syndicate 19 @ Brooklyn High Schools

Bara and Tanesha

Encounters: CIAC Fellow Bara Diokhane & Bedford Academy student Tanesha Adams (49.38MB MP3) StoryCorps Interview

NEW! Syndicate 19 participants win Red, White & Green youth service grant for their neighborhood environmental arts campaign - Download the postcard (PDF)

Click here for the Bed Stuy Lives booklet (PDF)

Syndicate 19 is CIAC's youth program, a civic digital journalism initiative that partners with the Bedford Academy - a public high school in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn, NYC) - to create an outlet for community media managed by local youth.

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