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Program
Welcome
Dr. Thomas F. Schutte
Chairman of the Board, Brooklyn Arts Council
President of Pratt Institute
Charlotte A. Cohen Executive Director, Brooklyn Arts Council
Introductions & Honorees
Niegel Smith
Artistic Director, The Flea Theater
Suzan-Lori Parks Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
and MacArthur Fellow
Antonia Yuille Williams
Vice-Chair of the Board, Brooklyn Arts Council
Daniel Glass President and Founder,
Glassnote Entertainment Group
Ben Lovett
GRAMMY Award-winning musician,
producer, and entrepreneur
Honorable Eric L. Adams Brooklyn Borough President
Malick Cisse and Ellen Gottlieb Board Members, Brooklyn Arts Council
Alive with Art Event Committee Co-Chairs
Performers
Batala NYC
Rachel Brown
The Bones of J.R. Jones
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Welcome Charlotte A. Cohen, Executive Director and Dr. Thomas F. Schutte, Chairman of the Board
Welcome to Brooklyn Arts Council’s 50th anniversary celebration! While Brooklyn has undergone sweeping changes, the
reason for BAC’s founding endures: to ensure that there are platforms for connectivity among different cultures and people in the public sphere.
BAC has been, and will continue to be, a leader - supporting artists, training arts professionals, and providing opportunities for people to experience the arts throughout the borough.
Charlene Victor founded BACA (as it was then known) with a vision to nurture and promote the arts in Brooklyn’s diverse neighborhoods. She recognized the need for an organization that values creativity and original cultural work that taps into the pulse of the borough’s artists and community arts partners. She formed BAC so that artists can share their artistic skills and practices with the public in myriad ways, from festivals in parks to art-making in classrooms.
BAC expanded its commitment to innovative practices and critical thinking in the 1980s when avant-garde artists, under the direction of Greta Gundersen, performed at BACA Downtown, our downtown Brooklyn space. Performances at BACA Downtown included the play Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom by tonight’s Alive with Art honoree, Suzan-Lori Parks. Works by other extraordinary artists like David Wojnarowicz, Mac Wellman, Allen Frame, Lisa Kron, and David Cale were also presented there.
BAC solidified its role as an arts service organization under the leadership of Ella J. Weiss. She strengthened the Council by increasing our capacity-building offerings for artists and grew programs such as Arts in Education and Folk Arts.
Today, BAC leads extensive cultural initiatives with partnering organizations and continues to support all art forms throughout the borough. BAC doesn’t favor a single artistic discipline or style. We embrace
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cultural differences and intersections; we inspire and foster homegrown originality; we encourage a flavor unique to Brooklyn. Simultaneously, we offer professional development, grants, employment, and training to artists, curators, and arts leaders at all career stages. For example, we help teaching artists and arts professionals develop skills, such as curriculum planning and grant writing, so that they can devote themselves to what is essential: increasing their own capacity, fine-tuning their craft, and sharing their work with others.
This year’s honorees are excellent role models. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and MacArthur Fellow Suzan-Lori Parks was a BACA Downtown community member in the 1980s. As theater director Leah C. Gardiner commented at a symposium on Parks’s work at Hunter College: “How often are we reminded that the old really isn’t old, and that the new is not always new? As in anything rooted in the past, Parks takes her interpretation of what was and assigns a new voice to it.” While Parks’s language has the tonal and linguistic quality of informality and ease, she digs deep into the complex essences of human experience: emotional, historical, and psychological.
GRAMMY Award-winning musician Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons has made Brooklyn his home. As a contributor to Brooklyn’s creative economy, Lovett is dedicated to the education, promotion, and training of up-and-coming artists through his music publishing and production enterprises, Communion Music and Communion Presents. He embraces the entrepreneurial zeitgeist of Brooklyn today, which draws from the borough’s industrious history. Both Parks and Lovett generously share their successes with younger artists and audiences hungry for ideas and ways of art-making that break from convention. We are honored to celebrate them.
BAC’s critical role as a creator of networks is as vitally important as ever. BAC provides opportunities for civic engagement that touch people’s lives and build cultural literacy. We connect, listen, and respond. We initiate conversations that make people more empathetic to each other’s differences, ultimately acting as a democratic force in society. To witness and appreciate an expression of a culture not your own, to experience something unfamiliar, generates new feelings and perceptions, new ways of seeing the world, and new futures to imagine.
As a BAC partner teacher said: “Students involved in the program had experiences that helped them develop socially and emotionally. While learning the craft of vocal training they learned to accept critique, work as a team, and gain interpersonal skills and confidence, which translates to their overall development.”
What happens in Brooklyn happens globally. People travel from all over the world to experience art and life in our borough. They participate as artists and audiences and carry their experiences home with them. BAC continues to contribute to the global narrative by engaging with local and international artists and art lovers.
We thank BAC’s staff and board, the incredible leaders whose steadfast commitment will transport BAC into its second half-century. BAC is truly grateful for the support of our funders, collaborators, and friends, and for all who continue to partner with us as audiences.
Thank you for sharing the past five decades with us and for helping to shape the next 50 years!
All best wishes,
Charlotte A. Cohen
Dr. Thomas F. Schutte
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
Dear Friends,
It is a pleasure to send greetings to everyone gathered for Alive with Art, BAC’s 50th anniversary gala.
We recognize organizations that highlight the importance of preserving and advancing the arts by fostering an appreciation among diverse audiences. In this regard, the many successes of Brooklyn Arts Council are to be acknowledged and applauded. This outstanding multi-arts coalition has become a dynamic community treasure, promoting the understanding of art by facilitating the access to and experience of art in its many forms.
You come together this evening to celebrate those who support and further the mission of Brooklyn Arts Council and I join in congratulating your distinguished honorees, Suzan-Lori Parks and Ben Lovett. On behalf of all New Yorkers, I commend Chairman Thomas F. Schutte and the Board of Directors, Executive Director Charlotte A. Cohen, the talented BAC staff, and the many supporters and sponsors who now celebrate this milestone anniversary, with our best wishes for continued success ahead.
Warmest regards.
Sincerely,
Andrew M. Cuomo Governor
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Dear Friends,
On behalf of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, it is an honor to welcome you to Brooklyn Arts Council’s 50th anniversary gala, Alive with Art.
Since 1966, Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) has played a pivotal role in strengthening the arts and culture of Brooklyn. BAC deserves enormous credit for nurturing the borough’s world famous creative energy with their visionary approach to supporting local artists and arts groups. Founded in the basement of Flatbush resident Charlene Victor, the Council’s first event was a small film festival in Prospect Park. The organization has grown to support a huge range of creative endeavors through grants, arts in education programs, performances, exhibitions, folk arts programming, and more. The Department of Cultural Affairs could not ask for a better partner in supporting local talent across the dynamic communities that make up our most populous borough.
I commend the evening’s honorees, including playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and musician Ben Lovett. I would also like to salute Chairman Thomas F. Schutte and Executive Director Charlotte A. Cohen along with their colleagues and staff for their extraordinary stewardship of Brooklyn Arts Council as it celebrates its golden jubilee and looks forward to the next 50 years.
Best wishes for a wonderful evening.
Sincerely,
Tom Finkelpearl Commissioner
Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl
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Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams
Dear Dr. Schutte and Ms. Cohen,
Brooklyn is the creative capital of New York City, enjoying a renaissance that includes the development of one of the most vibrant art communities in the nation, home to countless artists, and a renowned source for art and design. Therefore, it is most fitting that we recognize those organizations and individuals that demonstrate their commitment to new art and who have played a part in nourishing and expanding the creative heritage of our beloved borough. I am pleased to offer greetings and warm wishes to Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) and all those gathered here for BAC’s Alive with Art benefit, in an effort to support artistic and educational excellence in Brooklyn.
It is my pleasure to honor BAC, Dr. Schutte, Ms. Cohen, the Board of Directors, and staff for their hard work on behalf of Brooklyn’s thriving arts community. Their leadership has helped Brooklyn become home to more artists than any other borough. I join with all of you to celebrate BAC’s 50th anniversary as an organization that provides service to the cultural arts in our great borough. The contributions that BAC has given to the advancement of the cultural arts are truly remarkable.
On behalf of 2.6 million Brooklynites, I congratulate the Alive with Art honorees and the distinguished individuals who have generously and selflessly supported the noble mission and work of Brooklyn Arts Council. I thank everyone for helping our communities move forward as One Brooklyn.
Sincerely,
Eric L. Adams Brooklyn Borough President
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Mayor Bill de Blasio
Dear Friends,
It is a great pleasure to welcome everyone as the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) celebrates its 50th anniversary at Alive with Art.
New York City rises on the foundations of its diversity, and we are proud of our incredible cultural landscape that incorporates the artistic customs and traditions of people from around the globe. My administration is determined to provide New Yorkers of all backgrounds with opportunities to participate in our city’s vibrant arts communities and to ensure that they continue to reflect the rich multiculturalism of the five boroughs and their residents.
With its mission to connect people to the arts in every neighborhood across Brooklyn, BAC is a leader in this effort. Through its grants programs, affordable arts events, training initiatives for artists and art professionals, and its education programs for our city’s students, the Council helps people across the borough experience the power of art and ensures that Brooklyn maintains its reputation as a cultural epicenter of our city and of the world.
As BAC celebrates 50 years of steadfast leadership, Chirlane and I applaud all those associated with this organization for everything they have accomplished and for building a more inclusive cultural life for our residents. On behalf of all New Yorkers, we extend our congratulations to tonight’s honorees and our best wishes for a wonderful celebration and continued success.
Sincerely,
Bill de Blasio Mayor
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Honorees
Detail of Watertower by BAC Grantee Tom Fruin, 2010. Photo credit Robert Banat Photography.
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Honoree
Suzan-Lori Parks Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and MacArthur Fellow
Photo credit Stephanie Diani
Named one of TIME magazine’s “100
Innovators for the Next New Wave,” in 2002
Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African
American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in
Drama for her Broadway hit Topdog/Underdog. A
MacArthur “Genius” Award and Gish Prize recipient,
she has also been awarded grants by the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation,
the Ford Foundation, the New York State Council
on the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the
Arts. Her new play, Father Comes Home From the
Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) made its world premiere at The
Public Theater in New York, followed by a celebrated
run at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) in
Cambridge, MA. The play was named a finalist for the
2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was awarded the
2015 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by
American History, as well as the 2014 Horton Foote
Prize. Parks’s work on The Gershwins’ Porgy and
Bess was honored with the 2012 Tony Award. Her
numerous plays include The Book of Grace, In the
Blood (2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Venus (1996 OBIE
Award), 365 Days/365 Plays, and The Death of The
Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, among
others. She’s written a novel, Getting Mother’s Body,
published by Random House. Her first feature-length
screenplay was Girl 6, written for Spike Lee. She’s also
written screenplays for Brad Pitt, Denzel Washington,
Jodie Foster and Oprah Winfrey, adapting Zora Neale
Hurston’s classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God
which premiered on ABC’s Oprah Winfrey Presents.
Parks is currently writing an adaptation of the film The
Harder They Come for a live stage musical. Parks is
the Master Writer Chair at The Public Theater, and she
also serves as a professor in dramatic writing at New
York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Suzan-Lori Parks’s play, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, was presented by BACA Downtown in the 1980s.
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Honoree
Ben Lovett GRAMMY Award-winning musician, producer, and entrepreneur
Ben Lovett is a GRAMMY-Award winning
musician who has been living in Brooklyn
for four years. Outside of Lovett’s work
with his band, Mumford & Sons, he is a producer,
an entrepreneur, and a philanthropist. This year
marks the tenth year of Communion, Lovett’s
multi-faceted music business entity. Communion
promotes shows, releases records, and publishes
songwriters. In 2010, Lovett expanded Communion
into Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Communion is credited
with the emergence and growth of some fantastic
Brooklyn artists, including Rubblebucket, Caveman,
and hundreds more. While in Brooklyn, Lovett also
produced Austin To Boston, an internationally
acclaimed documentary capturing the journey
of four artists across America in vintage camper
vans. Lovett is a partner in Givers and Takers, a
neighborhood bar in Gowanus, Brooklyn. He is a
board member of Barclays Center and Soho House
and a public advocate for Global Citizen, a New
York-based organization focused on global poverty
relief. Lovett is currently spearheading a project
which allows people from any community across
the world to submit stories that will be transformed
into songs by world-renowned artists.
Communion, Ben Lovett’s music business entity, promotes shows, releases records, publishes songwriters, and supports emerging artists.
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PerformersBatala NYC
Founded by percussionist Stacy Kovacs, Batala NYC is an all-
woman Samba-reggae drum ensemble based in Brooklyn.
Batala NYC has shared bills with Reggie Watts and Cyndi
Lauper and was the featured opener for the Rolling Stones
on their 50th Anniversary Tour in Brooklyn and Newark, NJ.
Rachel Brown
Wyclef Jean dubbed Rachel Brown’s music “the future of
R&B.” Brown’s distinctive songwriting blends elements
of her roots (Ethiopian, Bermudian, and Southern) with
sounds from a childhood spent listening to soul greats,
Motown, and hip-hop. The daughter of fashion designer
Amsale Aberra, Rachel Brown’s live performance combines
sultry vocal stylings with vintage flair.
The Bones of J.R. Jones
Fresh from a national tour supporting G. Love and Special
Sauce, The Bones of J.R. Jones performs 21st Century blues
and folk with the passion of a teenage punk band. Recently
expanded from a one-man band into a full ensemble, The
Bones released their sophomore record, Spirit’s Furnace,
just in time for Alive with Art.Photo credit A.J. Mason
Photo credit Courtesy of the artist
Photo credit Courtesy of the artist
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Brooklyn Arts Council Programs
Arts in EducationCurrently, BAC brings approximately 300 teaching
artists into 90+ schools, afterschool programs,
and senior/community centers throughout New
York City in all arts disciplines, providing close
to 16,000 students, teachers, parents, and seniors
with hands-on arts instruction and professional
arts performances. The participants reflect the
vast diversity of Brooklyn.
Folk ArtsBrooklyn is home to a wide range of artists from
across the globe. We preserve and present the
cultural traditions of these immigrant-based
communities through thematic, research-based
public programming initiatives in music, dance,
visual, and material arts.
Grants & ServicesBAC’s Community Arts Grants program was
established in the early 1980s. With funding
from city, state, and other sources we recently
awarded nearly $350,000 in approximately 140
grants to artists and small cultural and community
groups. The program offers extraordinary training
to early career artists in how to secure funding
for their public projects and programs.
BAC helps artists and arts groups achieve
their goals through professional development,
fiscal sponsorship, opportunities announcements,
project promotion and marketing assistance,
networking opportunities, referrals, and extensive
one-on-one assistance.
Brooklyn Arts Council uses a strategic combination of proactive and responsive initiatives to address
the needs of Brooklyn artists, cultural organizations, and audiences. By creating and supporting exciting
cultural events and activities for Brooklynites, BAC provides forums for critical thinking and self-expression
for young people and adults, enriches the landscape, and generates engaging experiences that inspire
and expand horizons.
Our roster of programs and services includes the following:
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Creative CoalitionsCreative Coalitions is a unique community and
economic development initiative designed
to build arts infrastructure. By combining
community organizing and technical assistance,
this program provides artists and arts groups
with professional development seminars,
mentorship, and assistance in presenting public
events that bring high-quality arts programming
to underserved communities. BAC has worked in
East Bushwick, Brownsville, and East New York/
Cypress Hills and intends to expand this model
program to other parts of Brooklyn.
Online Artist Registry and Directory of Brooklyn Arts OrganizationsThese web-based databases provide a platform
for over 7,200 Brooklyn-based artists and over 800
cultural groups to promote and present their work,
to connect with new opportunities, and to earn
income through their creative endeavors.
Services to ArtistsBAC helps artists and arts groups achieve
their goals through professional development,
fiscal sponsorship, opportunities announcements,
project promotion and marketing assistance,
networking opportunities, referrals, and one-on-
one assistance.
Arts ConsultancyBAC works with public agencies, real estate
projects, and community groups to place art
in new spaces and launch new endeavors, such
as public art commissions and cultural tourism
initiatives that promote visibility and income for
Brooklyn artists.
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Congratulations to the
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50th Anniversary
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Congratulations to the Honorees:
Suzan-Lori Parks 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winning
Playwright
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Ben Lovett Grammy Award-Winning Band
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wishes to thank
Brooklyn Arts Council
for your tireless efforts, commitment and tremendous support of Brooklyn'sdiverse cultural community for the past 50 years!
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Suzan-Lori Parks and Ben Lovett
for your devotion to and promotion of Brooklyn'sadventuresome artistic spirit throughout your esteemed careers.
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Congratulations, Brooklyn Arts Council!
HAPPY 50TH ANNIVERSARY!
Pam Brier & Peter Aschkenasy
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Jack Esterson A.I.A. and Hon. Richard J. Montelionecongratulate BAC on its
50TH ANNIVERSARY
and Suzan-Lori Parks & Ben Lovett on
their achievements and contributions to Brooklyn’s cultural landscape.
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Congratulations to SUZAN-LORI PARKSas she is honored by the Brooklyn Arts Councilon the occasion of their 50th Anniversary GalaMay 3, 2016
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BAC Board Of DirectorsHonorary Chairman Honorable Eric L. Adams Brooklyn Borough President
Chairman Dr. Thomas F. Schutte
Vice Chairs Peter Aschkenasy Antonia Yuille Williams
Treasurer Frazier Holloway
Secretary Michael A. Armstrong Audrey Frank Anastasi Michele Arbeeny, Esq. Julia Chu Malick Cisse Jennifer L. Davis Jack Esterson, A.I.A. Ellen Gottlieb Sidney R. Jean, Esq. Alan Ket Dan Marks Theresa Schieber Jennifer L. Smith Valerie D. White
Directors Emeriti Theodore Gunn Susan Rowland
Alive With Art Event CommitteeEllen Gottlieb, Co-Chair
Malick Cisse, Co-Chair
Michele Arbeeny, Esq.
Julia Chu
Jack Esterson, A.I.A.
Alan Ket
Theresa Schieber
Jennifer L. Smith
Antonia Yuille Williams
BAC StaffRobert Lucas Development Director
Christopher Mulé Folk Arts Director
Azure Osborne-Lee Grants Coordinator
Stephanie Skaff Arts in Education Coordinator
Jasmine D. Wagner Marketing and Communications Manager
Courtney J. Wendroff Operations and Visual Arts Director
Charlotte A. Cohen Executive Director
Philip Alexander, Ph.D. Arts in Education Director
Eric Bernal Arts in Education Intern
Maureen Chung Communications Coordinator
Susan Dunbar Development Assistant
Melissa Estro Fiscal Associate
Katy Finn Arts in Education Manager
Thomas Fordham Finance Director
Diego Foronda Development Assistant
Karina Krainchich Arts in Education Coordinator
Farrah Lafontant Community Initiative Associate
Morgan Lindsey Tachco Grants and Services Director
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BAC Supporters
Major corporate, foundation, and in-kind support is provided by:
Altman Foundation
Booth Ferris Foundation
Brooklyn Brewery
Brooklyn Community Foundation
CME Group Community Foundation
ConEdison
Henry Nias Foundation
Howard Gilman Foundation
Investors Bank
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
Lily Auchincloss Foundation
MetroPlus Health Plan
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
M&T Bank
Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust
Sixpoint Brewery
TD Charitable Foundation
The Bay and Paul Foundations
The H.W. Wilson Foundation
The New York Community Trust
The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation
The Scherman Foundation
Tiger Baron Foundation
Two Trees Management Co., LLC
Waterfront Wines
Whole Foods
Major individual supporters are:
Michele Arbeeny, Esq. Pamela Brier and Peter Aschkenasy Julia Chu Ellen Gottlieb Nadia and Achilles Perry Dr. Thomas F. Schutte
Additional support comes from Blankslate and Materials for the Arts.
Brooklyn Arts Council’s programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from:
National Endowment for the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council
New York Council on the Humanities
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation
New York State Assembly Members James Brennan, William Colton, Jo Anne Simon, Helene Weinstein
New York City Department of Youth and Community Development
New York City Department for the Aging
New York City Council Members Robert Cornegy, Laurie Cumbo, Chaim Deutsch, Rafael Espinal, Mathieu Eugene, Vincent J. Gentile, David Greenfield, Brad Lander, Stephen Levin, Alan Maisel, Darlene Mealy, Carlos Menchaca, Antonio Reynoso, Mark Treyger, and Jumaane D. Williams
Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams
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Special Thanks
Brooklyn Arts Council extends much
gratitude and a special thank you to
Mumford & Sons, Florence & The Machine,
Barclays Center, Bonaroo Music Festival, Capitol
Records, Forest Hills Stadium, Brooklyn Brewery,
Malick Cisse, Robyn Feldman, Ibrahim Maqbool,
Dan Erickson, Susan Rowland and the Rowland-
Si f ton Family, Tom Fruin, Rober t Banat
Photography, William Cohen, Wendy Feuer,
Betti-Sue Hertz, Robert Hickman, Ivor Noyek,
Etienne Frossard, Randy Sweetman and
B&B Duplicators, Naturally Delicious, and
Communion Presents.
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