After 25 years of peace and justice work by the Society of St. Francis, and three years of the Biko Transformation Center we are standing on the threshold of new eginnings.

Our mission is to promote inter-generationalism, breakdown ethnic differences, champion peace and social justice in our communities, and create a platform for the cultural sciences (dance, music, poetry, and media). The Biko Transformation Center is now the light at the corner of Granite St. where children are nurtured through the arts; a place for regular First Friday cultural performances for all ages! Free fitness classes, collaboration with churches and community organizations. It is the center for movement building: a place where 4th World Street Library, Garifuna cultural preservation, Granite St. Block Association, Granite St. Garden and numerous art associations converge. It is also a Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium performing site. It is a house of hospitality, a house of spirituality, and home for the Biko Arts Collective.

City of Endangered Languages 

New York has long been a city of immigrants, but linguists now consider it a laboratory for studying and preserving languages in rapid decline elsewhere in the world.

Speakers of Garifuna, which is being displaced in Central America by Spanish and English, are striving to keep it alive in their New York neighborhoods. Regular classes have sprouted at the Yurumein House Cultural Center in the Bronx, and also in Brooklyn, where James Lovell, a public school music teacher, leads a small Garifuna class at the Biko Transformation Center in East Bushwick-NYTimes.