Downtown Brooklyn

Santa Land at Atlantic Terminal
2025-12-13 11:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-09 11:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-07 11:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Get ready for a magical holiday experience at Santa Land all December long, located on the main level of Atlantic Terminal near McDonald’s. Santa Land is the ultimate destination for festive fun, where families can meet Santa, capture memorable photos, and celebrate the joy of the season.
Come Join Santa & Friends on Saturday, December 6 from 12pm-4pm for Brooklyn’s 6th Annual SANTA LAND PARADE!!!
See link to register and for schedule of specific events.

Exhibition | Poetics of the Photographic: Language of Resistance
2025-12-13 11:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-12 11:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-11 11:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-10 11:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-09 11:00 - 18:00
Poetics of the Photographic: Language of Resistance brings together artists who push photography beyond its material limits, using its grammar of light, index, and trace to examine how images operate as tools of investigation and interrogation—means through which histories are not only recorded but actively contested.

BKLYN Holiday-topia
2025-12-13 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-11 11:00 - 15:00
Celebrate the season at CityPoint with free photos with Santa, Holiday crafts, Dreidel decorating and more!
BKLYN Holiday-topia is a festive celebration featuring free Santa family photos, holiday crafts, dreidel decorating, and merry moments for everyone — including your furry friends. Come make joyful memories and kick off the holidays — Brooklyn style! All activities will be free and on a first come, first serve basis.
Saturday, December 6 (11 am – 3 pm)

Photos with Santa
Gingerbread house crafts (not real gingerbread cookies but paper crafts)
Snow globe decorating
LEGO building
Magical appearance by the Sugar Plum Fairy from 1–3 PM

Sunday, December 7 (11 am – 3 pm)

Photos with Santa
Snowman crafts
Snow globe decorating
LEGO building

Special Pet Night: Thursday, December 11 (6 – 8 pm)
Holiday photos for furry friends and their families (must arrive with pet). This special evening is designed to capture joyful moments between pets and their people.

Saturday, December 13 (11 am – 3 pm)

Photos with Santa
Cookie decorating
LEGO building

Sunday, December 14 (11 am – 3 pm)

Photos with diverse Santa
Face painting
Dreidel decorating
Hanukkah specials
LEGO building

Please note for your Santa Studio visit:
Photography by Noémie Trusty, capturing the sparkle and joy of Brooklyn families this holiday season and beyond. Photos are available on a first-come, first-served basis. One ticket per family. One free portrait per family. Additional photos for purchase. Upon arrival, please scan the QR code on-site to join the virtual waitlist. Scanning the QR code is required to participate. This ticket does not guarantee entry.

GOLFZON Social's Football Watch Parties
2025-12-13, 2025-12-12, 2025-12-11, 2025-12-10, 2025-12-09, 2025-12-08
Catch every college and pro game this season on Golfzon’s massive screens, with unbeatable food and drink specials that keep the energy high from kickoff to the final whistle.
Game Day Lineup:
🍗 $45 Beer & Wing Combos – A winning play for any fan.
🍺 $5 Domestic Drafts – All game, every game.
🍻 $20 Bucket Deals – Share the love (or don’t).
🔥 Tailgate Platters – 24 wings + 2 beer buckets.
📅 Fantasy Football Draft Night Specials – Private room discounts for your league.
🥳 Happy Hour Pricing All Game Long – Score big on drinks & apps.

Lobby Nights With Dane Deveraux
2025-12-12 20:00 - 2025-12-13 01:00
Dane Deveraux sets the mood from 8pm–1am!
Part of the Lobby Nights series at Ace Hotel Brooklyn.

The Incredible Drunkertons
2025-12-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-12-11 19:00 - 21:00
A satirical performance duo riffing on the best of the Groovy Seventies, Sizzle and Funk are the recovering child stars of The Drunkertons, a hit primetime television series. After the show’s cancellation five seasons in, Sizzle and Funk were barred from performing under their stage names. Legal battle behind them this December, The Incredible Drunkertons take to the stage at 651 ARTS with a festive catalog of covers and original songs.

Elliott Sharp: Feedback Book Launch & Duets with James Brandon Lewis
2025-12-10 20:00 - 22:00
This two-part evening kicks off with a reading from Elliott Sharp‘s new book Feedback (Wesleyan University Press) punctuated with guitar solos, and followed by improvised duets with James Brandon Lewis on saxophone and electronics.

Sound + Fury Trivia Nights
2025-12-10 19:00 - 22:00
HOW IT WORKS:
• 4 rounds of 5 questions each.
• Wager 1, 2, 3, or 4 on the first 4 questions.
• 5th question is worth a fixed amount.
• Each question has a song clue to help you or maybe throw you off.
RULES:
• NO CHEATING. Cheating is for suckers.
• SUBMISSION IS ALL DIGITAL. Be sure to bring a charged phone.
• TEAMS are limited to groups of 7 or less.

Merry Melodies with Brooklyn Music School
2025-12-09 17:00 - 18:30
Immerse yourself in the magic of the season with Brooklyn Music School’s talented musicians bringing classic holiday tunes to life. From heartwarming carols to soulful renditions of your favorite festive melodies, experience the joy of the holidays through the power of music.
The performances will take place on the ground floor at Atlantic Terminal near McDonald’s.

I Think You Should Dance!
2025-12-08 20:00 - 2025-12-09 01:00
Free brings I Think You Should Dance! to the Ace Hotel Brooklyn Lobby for a night of funk, disco and soul!

Craft & Release 009: Endings
2025-12-08 19:00 - 21:00
Join Ace Hotel Brooklyn for an evening of live storytelling with Craft & Release where 6 writers will take the stage to share their narratives about being ENDINGS.
Craft & Release is a community for artists across mediums to sharpen their skills, share their stories and connect with fellow makers. Founded on the premise that our gifts are not ours to keep, Craft & Release hosts speciality workshops, artist showcases and an array of live and digital events tailored to helping artists release their work into the world.
Releases are remarkable nights when drinks flow, stories are shared, and connections are made. For creatives, this series provides a space to showcase their most intimate creations with a vibrant, diverse, and engaged community.
Tell a story about an ending: the closing of a chapter, a goodbye, or a farewell to something or someone you thought would last forever. Or about an ending you didn’t see coming, or one that you knew was inevitable. Share the moment you realized something was over—the end of a romance, a phase in your life, the city you left behind, the job you walked away from, or the dream you once had. Talk about the end of an era, a friendship that quietly faded away, or the moment you let go of something you no longer needed. Recount a difficult goodbye, the one that broke you, or the one that left you with a sense of relief.
Photo: Luis-Nieto-Dicken

Sylvie Courvoisier with Mary Halvorson and Wadada Leo Smith
2025-12-07 20:00 - 22:00
Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier shares a special performance celebrating two major 2025 duo releases with frequent collaborators Mary Halvorson and Wadada Leo Smith. Not only will this mark the first time the two projects will be featured together in a single evening, the performance will come fresh off the release of Angel Falls, Courvoisier and Leo Smith’s very first duo album.

The Brooklyn Nutcracker
2025-12-07 15:00 - 17:00
A re-imagined holiday classic that celebrates the diversity of our borough, The Brooklyn Nutcracker fuses ballet, hip-hop, and a rich tapestry of global dance genres to create a new family tradition for the modern era.
Photo: Kyle Froman

For All Your Life
2025-12-07 15:00 - 16:30
For All Your Life is a performance, film, and social experiment that investigates the value of Black life and death, drawing on the life insurance industry for method and metaphor. In the film, Brooklyn choreographer and performer Leslie Cuyjet delivers a seminar that reveals how the insurance business is linked to the historical slave trade, how people grapple with the inevitability of death, and how monetary value is affixed to human life. In performance, Cuyjet embodies the passions and conflicts underlying such transactions.

Les Arts Florissants
2025-12-07 15:00 - 16:30
Curious about what Christmas might have sounded like to Louis XIV? Early-music expert William Christie and his world-renowned French ensemble Les Arts Florissants take up that question with style, performing two seasonal works by the French Baroque composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Master of Music at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris.
The program includes two key works by Chapentier, among the greatest composers of sacred music during the Grand Siècle: Messe de Minuit pour Noël, a mass setting based on the melodies of 10 French Christmas carols, and Pastorale de Noël, a lyrical recounting of the Nativity story.

Playing Shylock
2025-12-07 14:00 - 15:30
Playing Shylock, by Mark Leiren-Young
Starring Saul Rubinek
Actor Saul Rubinek brings his critically-acclaimed performance in Playing Shylock to New York City for its US premiere!
In this powerhouse performance, Rubinek adds another unforgettable character to his four-decade-spanning career in movies, television and theatre. In series like FRASIER, STAR TREK TNG, HUNTERS, THE MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL, and SCHITT’S CREEK, and movies like WALL STREET, AGAINST ALL ODDS, UNFORGIVEN, TRUE ROMANCE, FAMILY MAN, and the BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, Rubinek’s characters are critically acclaimed and captivating.
Playing Shylock delivers unexpected laughs as Rubinek masterfully balances sharp wit with profound insights, finding surprising humor in the collision between centuries-old prejudice and modern cultural sensitivities.

The Lay Out Holiday Pop-Up Market
2025-12-07 13:00 - 18:00
Atlantic Terminal is spotlighting Brooklyn’s own Black-owned small businesses, from handmade goods and artisanal treats to skincare, apparel, home essentials, and more. It’s the perfect chance to shop local, meet the makers, and support the incredible entrepreneurs who shape Brooklyn’s creative culture. Join The Lay Out on the ground floor of Atlantic Terminal and kick off your holiday weekend by showing love to the BK-based Black-owned brands that keep our community thriving.
Shop small. Shop local. Shop Black-owned.
