For four days in April, BRIC Arts Media hosted the second annual BRIC Open Festival: an exploration of the borders that exist in and around our world. Today, we're bringing you stories from the borders people cross to get into, out of, around and through Brooklyn. In the first, a mother makes an impossible decision in order to give her children a better life. Then, a group of high school students leave Brooklyn for the weekend, and wind up all over the world. Then, back at home, a community is divided by a seemingly invisible line. And finally, we go back to school and back in time with a group of kids who are tracing their family's roots around the globe to Brooklyn, USA. ••• Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sachar Mathias and Emily Boghossian. Thanks to Alexandra Brauni, Candi and Ana for carrying us across one of the world’s most treacherous borders. Thanks to Rohi Pandya, and the PS 10 Diversity Committee and students for bringing us along on their journey. Thanks to Carolyn, and the students at The Academy of Urban Planning for letting us tag along as they ventured out of Brooklyn, through the Northeast and around the world. Thanks to Rachel Jacobs and the people of Crown Heights for helping us find our way around Brooklyn. This episode featured music from the de Wolfe music library and opened with a Darnell Moore interview from one of our other podcasts, 112BK. If you like what you hear, think we got something wrong or just want to get in touch, you can leave us a comment, tweet us at BRIC RADIO or leave a message at (347) 504-0801. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit ww.bricartsmedia.org/radio. Read the transcript here: https://bit.ly/3tYffMa