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Brooklyn Nets Home Game

Barclays Center 620 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center A new era for Nets basketball began with the opening of Barclays Center for the 2012–13 season. The state-of-the-art arena offers fans an intimate setting, outstanding sightlines, premium amenities, and the distinctive Brooklyn Taste program, bringing the borough's culinary favorites to the arena's concessions, suites, restaurants, and clubs. Located in the heart […]

$15

NYC Winter Jazzfest 2025

Celebrating 21 years, NYC Winter Jazzfest is proud to continue highlighting artists deserving greater attention while nurturing an audience for Black American Music and amplifying artists' messages of justice, wellness and progressive change on and off the stage. Artist-in-Residence Makaya McCraven will perform four different sets. Festival highlights include an opening night concert with Aja […]

$85

World Music Concert Series – QC Jazz Collective

Forest Park

Get warm from the cold with the soothing notes from the QC Jazz Collective! Part of our FREE Fall & Winter World Music concert series at Oak Ridge at Forest Park, in collaboration with the Queens College School of Arts and NYC Parks. Artists include: Drums: David Najera Gonzalez Trombone: Kazoo Murakami Piano: Yeon Ji […]

Free

Eastwood Manor Bridal Show

Eastwood Manor 3371 Eastchester Road, Bronx, NY, United States

FREE TICKETS Wednesday, January 15, 2025 6:30pm – 9:30pm Eastwood Manor 3371 Eastchester Road Bronx, New York 10469 Boss Lady Bridal Expos is recognized as one of the top bridal shows. As always, the expo features top wedding professionals. Our expo has everything you need for an incredible and memorable event. It features top wedding planners, who […]

Free

Brooklyn Poetry Slam

Brooklyn Museum 3rd floor. 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Amplify the voices of Brooklyn at a series of pay-what-you-can slams, presented by poets and cofounders Mahogany L. Browne and DJ Jive Poetic. Come to listen to poets, or arrive early to sign up if you’d like to join the slam (limited availability). Brooklyn Poetry Slam rules  Brooklyn Poetry Slam is a two-round performance poetry […]

Free

FREE ART-MAKING FOR ALL AGES LED BY TEEN COUNCIL!

The Bronx Museum 1040 Grand Concourse The Bronx, NY 10456 718-681-6000

Wednesday, February 12 5:00 – 6:30 PM All Ages Welcome FREE! Drop-In, No RSVP Needed You’re invited to The Bronx Museum for an evening of free and fun art-making activities for all ages led by members of our Teen Council! This event also marks the conclusion of the fall semester of the Museum’s Teen Council […]

Labor of Love Art Exhibit

Queens Public Library Bay Terrace 18-36 Bell Boulevard, Bayside, NY 11360 (718) 423-7004

Black History Month: "A Labor Of Love" Art Exhibit QPL is proud to present our Black History Month art exhibit, "A Labor of Love." Original works of art will celebrate our 2025 Black History Month theme, "African Americans and Labor," and focus on the profound ways that work of all kinds — free and unfree, […]

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Brooklyn Botanic Garden 1000 Washington Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11225

Wander through beautifully curated gardens, conservatories, and season exhibits. Discover a variety of plants, flowers, and peaceful landscapes in this urban oasis. Brooklyn Botanic Garden is an urban botanic garden that connects people to the world of plants, fostering delight and curiosity while inspiring an appreciation and sense of stewardship of the environment. Brooklyn Botanic […]

New York Aquarium

New York Aquarium 602 Surf Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11224

Discover marine life from around the world at the New York Aquarium. Visit exhibits featuring sea lions, sharks, and other fascinating creatures. Your conservation journey starts here! Experience curated events at the New York Aquarium led by our WCS Educators. See animals up close, explore exhibits, and get hands-on in our classrooms. Become an ocean […]

THE TONGUE & THE LASH AND A RETURN TO CIVIC DISCOURSE

Town Hall 123 West 43rd Street (Between 6th Ave and Broadway) New York, NY 10036

The Town Hall celebrates James Baldwin and the 60th anniversary of the Baldwin/Buckley Cambridge debate with the New York premiere of the chamber opera, THE TONGUE & THE LASH by Damien Sneed, composer/conductor and Karen Chilton, librettist. Making her Town Hall and New York directorial debut, the opera will be directed by world-renowned mezzo-soprano, Denyce […]

$45

The House That Jack Built: The Many Friends of Hal Jackson

BergenPAC 30 North Van Brunt Street, Englewood, NJ, United States

Hal Jackson was a radio pioneer who broke racial barriers on the airwaves. This exhibition features photographs of Hal with a variety of his peers through the years taken by different artists, many of whom were unknown, along with photos taken by Debi B Jackson. The exhibition was installed by Kenia Akridge. Who is Hal Jackson? […]

The Moth Returns to Harlem – Highlights of True Stories

The Moth 138 Convent Avenue (West 135th Street and Convent Avenue) New York, NY 10031

Join us for an evening of stories, shared live as five storytellers take the stage and share a true, personal story from their life: joy and heart, in equal measures. Stories of glory and defeat, taunting fate, laughing in the face of danger, and the moments that forever changed the course. Doors open at 6:30 […]

   

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