Downtown Brooklyn

Word. Sound. Power. 2026
2026-04-24 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
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.

Mizik Ayiti! Residency Spring Series | Twoubadou Lakay
2026-04-23 18:00 - 21:00, 2026-04-16 18:00 - 21:00
Join Haiti Cultural Exchange on Thursdays for the Mizik Ayiti! Residency Series. The Spring residency will be held by Twoubadou Lakay.
Twoubadou Lakay is a collective of master musicians rooted in the rich traditions of Haitian music. The ensemble blends the storytelling spirit and dancing guitars of Haitian Twoubadou with deep Haitian rhythms, jazz sensibilities, and improvisational dialogue. Twoubadou Lakay is tradition reimagined through a contemporary lens. Their sound is both intimate and expansive—grounded in lakou culture, yet reaching across the diaspora—creating a musical space where heritage, memory, and innovation meet.
Twoubadou Lakay’s Haiti Cultural Exchange residency will feature core members Bobby Raymond, Markus Schwartz, Gary Josama, Gama Josama, Joe Montour, Camille Hostin and Roland Cameau in revolving formations. Twoubadou Lakay invites audiences into a living, breathing experience of Haitian musical expression—honoring the past while shaping its future.
Twoubadou Lakay’s five-week residency at HCX will feature unique performances weekly.

Sound + Fury Trivia Nights
2026-04-22 19:00 - 21:30
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!

Spring Open Houses: BASIS Independent Brooklyn
2026-04-18 09:40 - 12:00
BASIS Independent Brooklyn is presenting its Spring Open Houses! These events are one of the best ways for families to experience the BASIS Independent community, hear from teachers, and see firsthand how they are redefining education across the school’s two Brooklyn campuses.
Spring Open House:

Saturday, April 18 (PreK-Grade 2)
Saturday, April 25 (Grades 3-12)

For both Open Houses, doors will open at 9:40 AM ET, and the event will last approximately until 12:00 PM ET. Students are encouraged to join us as well.

Teatro La Plaza's Hamlet
2026-04-04 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-04 14:00 - 16:00, 2026-04-03 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-02 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-01 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-03-31 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-03-29 14:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-28 19:30 - 21:30 and 4 more dates
“★★★★★ Brilliant …This infectiously exuberant production serves as a reminder that Shakespeare is accessible to all, and Hamlet is for everyone” The Telegraph
“A performance like none I’ve ever witnessed during my 30-plus years of writing about entertainment and arts and culture … the complete definition of theatre for the mind, spirit, soul and imagination … The troupe delivers an all-encompassing crossover narrative that penetrates the heart.” The Chicago Tribune
“★★★★★ “The ferocious, left‑field freshness of its approach… shaken up, translated, fragmented, relived and reconstructed in spectacular style … offering a non‑stop feast of new insights … the show still ends with an exhilarated audience leaping up to dance onstage with the company; thrilled by the joy, the irreverence, the profound insight, and the deep sense of human solidarity” The Scotsman
In this brilliant, funny, and moving adaptation, Peruvian director Chela De Ferrari intertwines the text of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with the lived experiences of a young ensemble of eight actors with Down syndrome. With wry humor, playful energy, pop music, and pointed critique, the performers confront the play’s timeless themes—grief, revenge, and existence—with striking honesty and insight. Drawing resonant parallels between Shakespeare’s Denmark and our contemporary world, they offer a vision of a more just and joyful imagined future.

Knit Together
2026-03-28 15:30 - 17:00
Join Library for Arts & Culture to spend quality time working on knitting or crochet projects, getting inspired, and building friendships with fellow fiber enthusiasts. All skill levels are welcome, and they can help you cast on and knit your first stitches if you’re looking to learn!
Knitting is a relaxing, mindful activity that helps reduce stress while giving your hands something creative to focus on. Come work on your projects, share tips and inspiration, and connect with others as you build community through a shared love of yarn.

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.

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

Theatre for a New Audience: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
2026-03-01 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-03-01 14:00 - 16:00, 2026-02-28 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-02-28 14:00 - 16:00, 2026-02-27 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-02-24 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-02-22 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-02-22 14:00 - 16:00 and 1 more date
Who should lead in a land where the political rules are rapidly shifting and reordering, class revolt is raging, and basic food has become unaffordable? Is there a place for Coriolanus (McKinley Belcher III), a noble war hero and uncompromising aristocrat, both admirable and detestable, who refuses to hide his contempt for the newly empowered plebeian citizens?
Director Ash K. Tata stages Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Coriolanus incorporating live performance and a media-saturated landscape where the alienation of gaming violence and screen combat are contrasted with the intensity of IRL battles, and the relationship of Volumnia (Roslyn Ruff) and her son Coriolanus gives human shape to the political drama.
