BIMA participants have the opportunity to develop techniques, hone skills, enhance their ability to express themselves in their chosen medium, and collaborate artistically with other participants. In addition, participants choose from a wide range of dynamic weekly workshops.

The entire BIMA community comes together regularly to build community and learn experientially. Participants collaborate to create options for the entire community to celebrate Shabbat. BIMA is supportive of all of the ways in which Shabbat and Judaism are observed.

BIMA participants eat in one of the Brandeis dining halls. Kosher dining (under Orthodox supervision) is available at all meals.

BIMA is a summer arts program for teenagers, focusing on film, music, theater, visual arts and writing. Our mission is to guide students as they develop their imaginative and artistic faculties and explore the relevance of Jewish tradition to their lives. BIMA is committed to the value of a serious and dynamic encounter between artistic expression and Jewish life. We aspire to serve as both a nurturing community and a creative catalyst for this interaction.

BIMA cultivates a vibrant, pluralistic environment for participants to hone their artistic skills, to deepen their Jewish knowledge, and to ask questions about their identity as young Jewish people committed to pursuing the arts.

BIMA also encourages teenagers to see themselves as active participants in a vital Jewish culture, and promotes a reinvigoration of creative expression and artistic imagination within Jewish religious and communal life.