Downtown Brooklyn

Sound + Fury Trivia Nights
2026-05-27 19:00 - 21:30, 2026-06-03 19:00 - 21:30, 2026-06-10 19:00 - 21:30, 2026-06-17 19:00 - 21:30, 2026-06-24 19:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York)
Wednesday night is Trivia Night at Sound + Fury, where you can pit your trivia skills against others and compete for prizes. Craft beer and great food are, of course, all part of the evening’s festivities!

Mizik Ayiti! Residency Late Spring Series | Rasin Okan
2026-05-28 18:00 - 21:00, 2026-06-04 18:00 - 21:00, 2026-06-11 18:00 - 21:00, 2026-06-18 18:00 - 21:00
Join HCX on Thursdays for the Mizik Ayiti! Residency Series. The Spring residency will be held by Rasin Okan!
This residency honors the legacy of mizik rasin in Haiti and abroad and its role in collective storytelling. Rasin Okan will share popular folk songs from legends such as Lenord Fortune (a.k.a. Azor) and Jacques Fortere (a.k.a. Wawa), as well as original songs that echo the courage of Haiti’s freedom fighters while calling us to remember, reconnect, and rise. This residency is a sacred pilgrimage home—a journey for healing, reflection, and protection. We invite you to take this symbolic trip with us through rhythm, drum, dance, and song. Let the music move your spirit. Let the memory ignite your soul.
45-minute performances will take place at 6:30 & 7:45 PM on each Thursday.

About Rasin Okan: Born of Haiti’s mizik rasin movement, Rasin Okan is a Brooklyn-based Haitian roots ensemble. In the spirit of rasin sèch (directly translated to dry roots), Rasin Okan emphasizes the sounds and songs of traditional Haitian Vodou ceremonial music without much electric accompaniment. Led and co-founded by Jean E. Montina, Sanba Mayombe, the group writes original songs and evocative folk music to insight the revolutionary spirit of Haiti’s freedom fighters, set to a pulsating rhythm.
Members: Jean E Montina (Sanba Mayombe), Trudy Pierre (Sanba Verite), Wilgainson Toussaint (Sanba Nènèl), Gregory Fanor (Atis Alèz), Véronëque Ignace (Awoyo)

Tickets include a complimentary beverage.
Special pop-up offerings from Bon Pâtés.
Limited capacity, RSVP strongly recommended.

Friday Nights with Quiana Parks
2026-05-29 20:00 - 2026-05-30 01:00
Quiana Parks takes over the Lobby of Ace Hotel Brooklyn for a Friday night residency bringing her soulful blends, high-energy cuts, and timeless classics to the decks.
Quiana Parks is a multidisciplinary artist and DJ whose presence behind the booth mirrors the pulpit she grew up around—commanding, connective, and spiritually charged, yet infused with a youthful, joyful energy that is unmistakably her own.
Blending open format, house, hip hop, Jersey club, and timeless classics, her sets create an atmosphere that feels both sacred and electric—where rhythm becomes release and every room turns into a shared experience.

I’m Almost There
2026-06-09 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-06-10 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-06-11 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-06-12 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-06-13 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-06-13 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-06-14 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-06-16 19:30 - 21:00 and 9 more dates
Love at first sight is easy… letting it through the front door is a freaking Odyssey.
All he wants to do is let the perfect man in. But can he overcome his unhinged neighbor, a seductive cult, a self-obsessed vampire, and a cat intent on dragging him to hell?
Written and performed by Todd Almond (Girl from the North Country, Gossip Girl) and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer (Good Night, and Good Luck; The Band’s Visit), I’m Almost There is a rueful, hilarious, and poignant modern love story in song about a man crossing a sea of doubts to find happiness… and good coffee. Initially developed by the award-winning producers of Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit comes to BAM for a three-week run ahead of a major US tour.
Joined onstage by musicians Erin Hill (harp/vocals) and Noah Max Amick (bass), Almond weaves his deeply personal, universally relatable songs into a luminous, lyrical confession about fear, longing, and the courage it takes to let love in. It’s intimate yet epic and laugh-out-loud funny in all the places it hurts most.
I’m Almost There was commissioned by Audible and first produced in Edinburgh and New York City by Audible, Francesca Moody Productions, and DryWrite.

Lakay Foutbòl | World Cup 2026 | Haiti vs. Morocco
2026-06-24 16:00 - 22:00
HCX is HQ to watch Haiti’s national team Les Grenadiers bring us to World Cup victory!
Hosted in collaboration with Maison Demar, this series of watch parties will feature summer evening kick-backs with cold drinks, great vibes, exclusive product releases by Haitian fashion designers and lifestyle brands.
Grenadye Alaso!
Wednesday, June 24: Haiti vs. Morocco
Doors open at 4pm | Kick off at 6pm
Location: HCX, 35 Lafayette Ave Brooklyn, NY 11217

Crime Wave Book Club with Andrei & Patrick
2026-06-24 18:30 - 20:30
Join McNally Jackson for a walk on the wiiiiild side of crime fiction. We’ll tour through the hardboiled classics of Chandler, Cain and Hammett; acquaint ourselves with contemporary masters like Ellroy and Mosley; international noir in translation; the fractured psyches of Thompson and Highsmith; even genre-bending experiments in horror and science-fiction!
We’ve got something to satisfy any and all tastes for all you darkly depraved delinquents.
This month we’ll discuss Patricia Highsmith’s well crafted thriller with a queer twist, The Talented Mr. Ripley.
[A] masterwork of American noir.…Scene by masterful scene, sentence by sentence, with each disturbing thought and memory, Highsmith reveals how Ripley’s psyche veers out of bounds, a slow drip punctuated by shocking jumps.— Carole V. Bell, NPR
Murder, in Patricia Highsmith’s hands, is made to occur almost as casually as the bumping of a fender or a bout of food poisoning. This downplaying of the dramatic… has been much praised, as has the ordinariness of the details with which she depicts the daily lives and mental processes of her psychopaths. Both undoubtedly contribute to the domestication of crime in her fiction, thereby implicating the reader further in the sordid fantasy that is being worked out.— Robert Towers – New York Review of Books
It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a “sissy.” Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game. “Sinister and strangely alluring” (Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly) The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for self-invention is as unnerving—and unnervingly revealing of the American psyche—as ever.
Contact Genay, at bookclubs@mcnallyjackson.com with any questions.

Kou Records: David Torn // Aliya Ultan and the Boreas Quintet
2026-06-24 20:00 - 22:00
An evening curated by Kou Records, founded by Charmaine Lee and Randall Dunn, presenting recent and forthcoming artists from the label’s Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 cohorts. Live visuals by Mark Dorf.
Presented by Kou Records in partnership with Roulette.
David Torn performs solo in celebration of now i imagine a place not the same, his new release on Kou Records, a singular encounter with his decades-long practice of real-time composition, looping, and electric guitar extended into something entirely its own.
Aliya Ultan brings her Kou Records debut Looks Far Woman to the stage with the Boreas Quintet, the music reimagined for cello, two violas, violin, and bass.
Aliya Ultan and the Boreas Quintet
Aliya Ultan cello
Fung Chern Hwei viola
Georges Mefleh viola
Theo Espy violin
Eivind Opsvik bass
