Downtown Brooklyn

Les Arts Florissants
2025-12-06 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-12-05 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
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.

Whiskey Myers & Friends
2025-12-06 19:00 - 22:00
Whiskey Myers & Friends c0mes to Brooklyn Paramount.

The Brooklyn Nutcracker
2025-12-06 19:00 - 21:00
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

Najee Omar's Little Black Book
2025-12-06 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-12-05 19:00 - 20:30
Join Najee Omar at 651 ARTS for a poetic theater experience about life, love, and everything in-between.
Little Black Book follows a recently out Brooklyn poet as he looks back on the lovers who shaped him, ultimately discovering the power of self-love. Inspired by real stories and personal experience, the play turns memories of heartbreak, intimacy, and desire into living theater through poetry, movement, and live DJ mixes.

Playing Shylock
2025-12-06 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-12-05 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-12-04 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-12-03 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-12-03 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-12-02 19:30 - 21:00
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.

Delight Before Christmas
2025-12-06 14:00 - 15:00
Join The Brooklyn Public Library for a short interactive holiday play for the whole family! Based on Clement C. Moore’s classic poem The Night Before Christmas, this play was written by Lynn Marie Macy and offers a rollicking good time with humans, reindeer and mice, with a surprise guest at the end! Brought to you by local theater company Theater 2020.

The Lay Out Holiday Pop-Up Market
2025-12-06 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.

BRIC's Winter Wonderland 2025
2025-12-06 12:00 - 16:00
BRIC House unveils a wintry realm brimming with family fun, where art, music, dance, and interactive media weave a magical tapestry. Enjoy a cozy cup of hot cider, exciting live performances, and festive art making activities
RSVP Recommended.

Exhibition | Poetics of the Photographic: Language of Resistance
2025-12-06 11:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-05 11:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-04 11:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-03 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
2025-12-06 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
2025-12-06, 2025-12-05, 2025-12-04, 2025-12-03
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.

For All Your Life
2025-12-05 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-12-04 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-12-03 19:30 - 21:00
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.

Fletcher: One Night Only Intimate Performance with ggwendolyn
2025-12-04 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-12-03 19:00 - 22:00
Fletcher brings his One Night Only Intimate Performance with ggwendolyn to Brooklyn Paramount.

Sound + Fury Trivia Nights
2025-12-03 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.
