Mission

Founded in 1861, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is America's oldest continuously operating performing arts center. BAM's mission is to be the preeminent progressive performing and cinema arts center of the twenty-first century, engaging both global and local communities. Its enduring purpose is to provide a distinctive environment in which its audiences - annually, more than 500,000 people from a wide geographic area - may experience a broad array of challenging and enriching aesthetic/cultural programs. BAM presents or produces up to 220 stage performances each year, many of international origin. BAM Education serves up to 24,000 students and 200 New York City schools annually.