In response to COVID-19 and the postponement of all in-person BRIC Creative Academy events for the foreseeable future, we are now recruiting coaches for BRIC Digital Creative Academy. We're going to be compiling a schedule of creatives willing to offer free tutorials, demos, and ongoing classes for elementary/middle & high school students. This could be art, music, creative writing, cooking, coding, whatever- the main thing needed is that these need to be LOW TECH- a lot of students just have access to phones and maybe a tablet.

On February 21, 2020, a group of 150 thought provokers came together from different facets of the entertainment and tech industries to collectively solve how we support and nurture upand-coming talent as it pertains to women and underrepresented groups who have an interest in being creative leaders. Over the course of an 8-Hour day, there were keynote speakers, panels, and five workshops. During the workshops, participants were broken into randomly assigned groups of ten. There they spent time coming up with solutions to the following questions. Their solutions were then shared with the larger group and discussed.

The BRIC Foundation, dedicated to increasing representation in the entertainment industry, held its second annual BRIC Talent + Innovation Summit on February 21, bringing together a community of thought provokers and disruptors across tech and entertainment to chart a course for meaningful change. The sold-out Summit was packed with inspiring talks, engaging workshops and actionable insights, bringing the power of perspective to attendees who joined from across government, media, tech, gaming and entertainment.

The BRIC Foundation, dedicated to increasing representation in the entertainment industry, today announced its second annual BRIC Talent + Innovation Summit, bringing together a community of thought provokers and disruptors across tech and entertainment to chart a course for meaningful change this February 21.

he BRIC Foundation, dedicated to increasing representation in the entertainment industry, today announced its second annual BRIC Talent + Innovation Summit, bringing together a community of thoug

On Saturday, December 7th and Sunday, December 8th, students created short films about “How Documentaries Change Your Perspective” at NFMLA’s Docuslate Film Festival. We had a group of industry expert “coaches” split up to guide and mentor the teams on their projects and assist them with creating their projects.

On October 23rd & 24th, BRIC Foundation’s Nicole West, Melanie Augustyn Hoffman, Nicole Hendrix, and Jill Gilbert participated in the LA Promise Fund’s Hello Future Career Fair. Over two days, LA Promise Fund immersed 12,000 young people ranging from middle and high school girls to local college students of color in STEM, making Hello Future the largest STEM conference for young people of color in the nation.

Alison Mann and Nicole Hendrix journeyed to Malta, to represent BRIC at the 7th Annual Trojan Horse Was a Unicorn Art Conference. September 22-29, 2019. THU is for creators from all areas of the digital entertainment industry, including sound designers, game and VR developers, entrepreneurs, marketers and digital artists of all kinds.