Downtown Brooklyn Lunar New Year 2026 Celebration
2026-02-21 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Ring in the Lunar New Year of the Horse at Albee Square and City Point BKLYN! Choy Lay Fut will bring Downtown Brooklyn good fortune again this year with their traditional Lion Dances, and DJ Boogie will rock us into the new year with his music sets on the plaza at Albee Square.
at City Point BKLYN:

1:00-3:00pm | Big Horse Community Build; Hands-on STEM fun; Bessie Nails – Pinky Nail Art; Creative crafts & more!; $1 Dumplings at DeKalb Market Hall
1:00pm + 1:30pm | Lion Dance performances by Choy Lay Fut (Prince St. Corridor)
3:40pm + 4:10pm | Lion Dance performances by Choy Lay Fut (DeKalb Market Hall)

At Albee Square Plaza:

2:00-4:30pm | DJ Boogie
2:10-3:20pm | Lion Dance performances by Choy Lay Fut
Brooklyn FC, Happy Munkey, The Fresh Grocer, and Raising Cane’s will be on-site with information and promotions

Lion Dance performances by Choy Lay Fut:

1:00 | City Point BKLYN
1:30 | Lion Dancers Photo Op (City Point BKLYN)
2:10pm | Albee Square Plaza*
2:40pm | Albee Square Plaza*
3:20pm | Albee Square Plaza*
3:40pm | DeKalb Market Hall
4:10pm | DeKalb Market Hall

*This Lunar New Year, Vivian N., founder of Artsy Anxious Girlie, will be creating paper lanterns inspired by her grandmother’s legacy. Join us to witness her artistry. Visit our tent after each performance on the plaza for a chance to win one of these one-of-a-kind lanterns (while supplies last)!
This event is co-presented by:

Humbe
2026-03-05 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-03-06 19:00 - 22:00
Mexican singer-songwriter Humbe is coming to Brooklyn Paramount as the first USA stop of his DUEÑO DEL CIELO tour!

Jazz Ain't Boring
2026-03-18 19:00 - 22:00
Jazz Ain’t Boring is a live music experience that explores how jazz continues to shape modern sound and dance culture. Blending DJ sets with live band performance, the program moves fluidly between classic jazz recordings, contemporary interpretations, and the hip-hop, house, and soul records they inspired.
Throughout the evening, DJs and musicians trade energy—moving from Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Lou Donaldson into the records that sampled them, from A Tribe Called Quest and Wu-Tang Clan to Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, and beyond.
The result is a dynamic listening and dance-floor experience that treats jazz not as museum music, but as a living foundation for groove, rhythm, and celebration.
Curated and hosted by #SampleSaleMusic members DJ Dottie Womack, Reg Wyns, Tai Allen, Emanuel Ruffler, and Ian Forde, the program highlights jazz’s enduring influence while inviting the audience to move, listen, and connect across generations of sound.

Bringing The Shãm (شام) to BAM
2026-04-04 18:00 - 19:30
Acclaimed Syrian-American rapper Omar Offendum premiered his hit Little Syria in the Fishman Space in 2022, and has since sold out dozens of shows around the world. Now, he’s back for a very special Fisher Takeover marking Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM), celebrating 150+ years of Arab cultural heritage in New York City.

Caroline Davis // Matt Mitchell
2026-04-07 20:00 - 22:00
A double bill of two solo sets incorporating improvisation: saxophonist Caroline Davis, on saxophone and electronics, and a completely improvised performance by pianist Matt Mitchell.
Caroline Davis performs solo, taking a creative approach to the nexus between saxophone and electronics. Pieces for Caroline’cs performance will include the following selections and will be decided upon spontaneously, given the atmosphere of the room and the people present. The interactive technology used in this performance includes patches developed for the Organelle by Caroline and others (the technobear, shreeswifty, critterandguitari, tony j morton, nobuyasu sakonda, soxsa, varicela, nicky-system, samesimilar, and chrisk in Pure Data) as well as a Boss loop station with mixer capabilities. All the titles and songs are in reverence to bell hooks:
Love as a practice of freedom
Radical openness
Maintenance of commitment
Accept when
Belief in one’s capacity to transform
What it means to listen
Eliminating elimination
Matt Mitchell opens the evening. Following the Obliquity Records releases of his critically lauded and completely improvised solo piano albums Illimitable and Sacrosanctity, Mitchell will play a completely improvised, spontaneous performance on solo piano.
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

Vicky Chow & Mivos Quartet perform Morton Feldman’s ‘Piano and String Quartet’
2026-04-08 20:00 - 22:00
Vicky Chow and Mivos Quartet join forces to perform Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet in celebration of the composer’s 100th anniversary. Lasting approximately 90 minutes, this monumental work is one of Feldman’s most iconic late compositions, unfolding in an expansive, hushed sound world that invites deep, sustained listening. Piano and String Quartet was commissioned and premiered in 1985 in Los Angeles by Aki Takahashi and the Kronos Quartet, and has since become a touchstone of late 20th-century experimental music.
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

Jackson Wang MAGICMAN2 WORLD TOUR
2026-04-10 20:00 - 22:00
Jackson Wang brings the MAGICMAN 2 WORLD TOUR to Brooklyn on Friday, April 10.

BRIC House Party presents, TERAPIA
2026-04-11 21:00 - 2026-04-12 02:00
TERAPIA is bringing its deep-rooted, communal energy to BRIC House Party! Born in 2022, the collective channels the spirit of verbenas in the Caribbean region of Colombia – open-air celebrations where music, movement, and togetherness are inseparable. Expect room-filling sound inspired by the iconic picós (giant painted soundsystems), pulling from champeta, soukous, salsa, cumbia, charanga, pachanga, and beyond. This is global music not as a playlist, but as a living, breathing experience meant to move bodies and open space.
More than a party, TERAPIA creates a ritual. It’s a place where ancestral rhythms resurface, stories pass between generations, and joy becomes an act of presence and resilience. At BRIC House, TERAPIA invites you into a shared moment: one rooted in identity, collective memory, and the simple, powerful act of coming together on the dance floor.
Please Note: This event is 21+.

Dear Everything
2026-04-22 19:30 - 20:10
When the adults in a small town try to sacrifice the nearby forests for money, teenager Sophia galvanizes her fellow young people to stop it—endowing them with a sense of empowerment they never thought possible. With an electrifying rock score, Dear Everything is a thrilling, raucous call to collective action addressing the most pressing issue of our day.

Word. Sound. Power. 2026
2026-04-24 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-04-25 19:30 - 21:00
Word. Sound. Power. returns with a celebration of women in hip-hop culture, amplifying femme voices across generations and communities. Join BAM for a showcase featuring amazing emcees, spoken-word artists, and a special guest co-host along with MC Baba Israel and the unparalleled DJ Reborn. Let the music move you, and share in the powerful tradition of channeling hip-hop and poetry into an immediate, exhilarating message for the moment.

Stevie: A Life in the Key of Songs
2026-05-14 19:30 - 21:15, 2026-05-15 08:00 - 21:15, 2026-05-16 08:00 - 21:15
PoetWarrior Productions and the Black Rock Coalition present Stevie: A Life in the Key of Songs, a three-night celebration.
Between 1972 and 1976, Stevie Wonder released five albums that changed the course of popular music: Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness’ First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life. The BRC Orchestra, an all-star collective of premier musicians and world-renowned guests, performs those five masterpiece albums in their entirety over the course of three nights.

The Post Office
2026-05-16 19:30 - 20:40, 2026-05-17 19:30 - 20:40, 2026-05-19 19:30 - 20:40, 2026-05-20 19:30 - 20:40, 2026-05-21 19:30 - 20:40
The ghost of Benjamin Franklin, the first US Postmaster General, is drawn into a thoroughly contemporary conflict among co-workers in a one-room post office about gay marriage, free speech, racial and class divides, and democracy itself in a provocative new opera by composer Laura Kaminsky (As One) and poet/librettist Elaine Sexton (Site Specific).
Produced by American Opera Projects, The Post Office makes its New York premiere featuring a cast of five singers and piano, and a set designed by Charles Renfro, a partner in the distinguished architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro with a long history of involvement in the performing arts.

The Met in HD: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
2026-05-30 13:00 - 15:50
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz. A reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell.
