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SUMMARY:Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at Roulette
DESCRIPTION:Three performances in one night at Roulette\, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026. \n7 pm – Chris Ryan Williams Vibration Trio\n8:15 pm – Billy Hart Quartet\n9:30 pm – BlankFor.ms with Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore \nChris Ryan Williams is an artist and musician based in Brooklyn\, NY whose work unfolds through electroacoustic composition and performance installation. His EP Live earned praise from Jazz Right Now and The Quietus for its “dazzling collaged pieces that ricochet between improvised passages and written material”. His debut LP Odu: Vibration II\, praised by Pitchfork and named one of NPR’s Best New Albums\, reimagines a journey through Plato’s Cave. \nNEA Jazz Master Billy Hart commands the whole spectrum of musical possibility: His drumming is still as fresh as tomorrow. Early on\, Hart performed in D.C. with soul artists such as Otis Redding and Sam and Dave\, and then later with Buck Hill and Shirley Horn. Hart has recorded with Herbie Hancock\, Wayne Shorter\, Miles Davis\, Stan Getz\, McCoy Tyner\, and most other modern jazz legends. The Billy Hart Quartet includes Mark Turner on saxophone\, Ethan Iverson on piano\, and Ben Street on bass. \nBlankFor.ms is a Brooklyn-based artist who creates richly textured music with degraded tapes\, analog circuitry\, and spinet piano. He composes for film and video games\, with contributions including Academy Award Best Picture-nominated film Nickel Boys. In this collaboration\, he is joined by MacArthur Fellow pianist\, composer\, and educator Jason Moran and innovative drummer Marcus Gilmore–two of the most highly-regarded jazz performers of our time. \n\nYou can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass or single-event ticket from Roulette. \n\nBang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play\, a four-day destination music festival\, presented from Thursday\, April 30 through Sunday\, May 3\, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts\, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir\, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists\, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet\, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers\, and the US premiere of Kali Malone. \nFull 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now\, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes. Roulette Members get 20% off full Long Play festival passes! Email development@roulette.org for more information.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/blankfor-ms-with-jason-moran-and-marcus-gilmore-billy-hart-quartet-chris-ryan-williams-long-play-festival/
CATEGORIES:Festivals,Music,Brooklyn Cultural District
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SUMMARY:Hamlet
DESCRIPTION:Kicking off an ongoing partnership between BAM and London’s National Theatre\, director Robert Hastie (Operation Mincemeat) brings his witty\, fearlessly contemporary take on Hamlet across the Atlantic for a four-week run. Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) stars in this sharp\, darkly funny reimagining of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/hamlet/2026-05-01/
CATEGORIES:Theater,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T214000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191842
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SUMMARY:Moby Dick
DESCRIPTION:Regarded as one of the greatest of all American novels\, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick comes to BAM in a new production created by the iconic avant-garde director Robert Wilson for Germany’s Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. This classic tale of obsession and vengeance becomes enigmatic and new in Wilson’s mix of tart dialogue with indie-rock riffs and soaring ballads by British singer-songwriter Anna Calvi.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/moby-dick/2026-05-01/
CATEGORIES:Theater,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T220000
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SUMMARY:DAVE - The Boy Who Played the Harp Tour
DESCRIPTION:British rapper Dave is coming to Brooklyn Paramount as part of The Boy Who Played the Harp Tour!
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/dave-the-boy-who-played-the-harp-tour/2026-05-01/
CATEGORIES:Music,Brooklyn Cultural District
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SUMMARY:Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at Roulette
DESCRIPTION:Five performances in one day at Roulette\, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026. \n12:00 pm – David Longstreth\n2:00 pm – Michael Brook Cobalt Blue\n7:00 pm – David Lang: Mystery Sonatas with Emma Meinrenken\n8:00 pm – Julia Wolfe Anthracite Fields with the Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trinity Choir\n10:30 pm – Contemporaneous plays Gavin Bryars Jesus’ Blood and The Sinking of the Titanic \nDavid Longstreth is the founder and songwriter behind Dirty Projectors\, a mainstay in the pop and indie rock worlds since the band’s inception in 2002. \nCobalt Blue is an album by the Canadian musician Michael Brook\, released in 1992. Brook supported the album with a North American tour\, playing some shows with John Cale. The album was reissued in 1999\, with an additional disc of live material. \nOriginally premiered as part of a Carnegie Hall residency\, mystery sonatas are inspired by a remarkable set of violin pieces from the 1670s by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Rather than the original fiery sonatas depicting Jesus’ life story\, Lang created intimate spiritual works\, divided into ‘joy\,’ ‘sorrow\,’ and ‘glory\,’ performed here by virtuoso Emma Meinrenken. \nLong interested in labor in America\, Julia Wolfe dove deeply into the coal mining country of her childhood for Anthracite Fields. In researching the piece\, she went down into coal mines\, visited patch towns and the local museums\, and interviewed retired miners. Wolfe says\, “My aim with Anthracite Fields is to honor the people who persevered and endured in the Pennsylvania Anthracite coal region during a time when the industry fueled the nation\, and to reveal a bit about who we are as American workers.” \nOne of the experimental double-bassist’s best-known early works is Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet\, which uses a recorded loop of a homeless man singing an improvised fragment\, with rich string harmonies layered on top. A recording of the piece was made in 1993 with Tom Waits. Here\, Contemporaneous brings the piece to life again. \n\nYou can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass. \n\nBang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play\, a four-day destination music festival\, presented from Thursday\, April 30 through Sunday\, May 3\, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts\, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir\, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists\, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet\, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers\, and the US premiere of Kali Malone. \nFull 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now\, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes. Roulette Members get 20% off full Long Play festival passes! Email development@roulette.org for more information.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/bang-on-a-can-long-play-festival-at-roulette/
CATEGORIES:Festivals,Music,Brooklyn Cultural District
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SUMMARY:Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at BRIC Ballroom
DESCRIPTION:Five performances in one day at BRIC Ballroom\, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026. \n1:00 pm – Michael Gordon Trance with Ensemble Signal\n3:00 pm – Dither and Friends play James Tenney\n5:30 pm – Lucy Railton\n8:00 pm – Mamtos\n10:30 pm –Melaine Dalibert The Vermilion Hours \nGordon says\, “Trance began after a dream I had in July 1994 while I was in residence at the Djerassi Foundation just south of San Francisco.” Brad Lubman: Conductor // Paul Coleman: Sound Director // Jessica Schmitz\, Amir Farsi: Flute/Pan Pipes // David Crowell\, Ed Rosenberg III\, Ken Thomson: Saxophones //  David Friend\, Luke Poeppel\, Lisa Moore: Synthesizer // Red Wierenga: Accordion // Taylor Levine: Guitar // Greg Chudzik: Bass Guitar // Doug Perkins: Percussion // Olivia De Prato: Violin // Lauren Radnofsky: Cello // Seneca Black\, Tim Leopold\, Changhyun Cha\, Kevin Fitzgerald:  Trumpet // Jen Baker\, Lauren Galarraga\, Colin Babcock\, Julie Dombrowski: Trombone \nNew York-based electric guitar quartet Dither and Friends performs works by the great James Tenney\, who is known for revolutionizing algorithmic composition\, plunderphonics\, spectral music\, and microtonal systems. \nLong Play hosts the first live performance in the US of Lucy Railton’s Blue Veil. Blue Veil invites listeners into the realm of precision-tuned states of resonance: states made manifest through Railton’s careful traversal of her cello’s most subtle acoustic characteristics as they harmonically interlock with the mind’s embodied modalities of attention and imagination. \nMatmos is Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt. They are respected\, innovative auteurs in the world of electronic music and sampling culture making music out of a wildly heterogeneous set of objects and sources\, manipulated into surprisingly accessible forms. The result is a model of electronic composition providing the listener with entry points into densely allusive\, baroque recordings that have the direct sensory immediacy of pop music. \nFrench pianist and composer Melaine Dalibert has been exploring the field of generative music for nearly two decades\, developing “paper algorithms” that never sacrifice poetry and great harmonic subtlety. His “vermilion hour\,” a record project initially conceived with David Sylvian (2025)\, will be presented for the first time in the USA in its instrumental version\, combining piano and synthesizer. \n\nYou can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass. \n\nBang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play\, a four-day destination music festival\, presented from Thursday\, April 30 through Sunday\, May 3\, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts\, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir\, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists\, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet\, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers\, and the US premiere of Kali Malone. \nFull 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now\, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/bang-on-a-can-long-play-festival-at-bric-ballroom/
CATEGORIES:Festivals,Music,Brooklyn Cultural District
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SUMMARY:Hamlet
DESCRIPTION:Kicking off an ongoing partnership between BAM and London’s National Theatre\, director Robert Hastie (Operation Mincemeat) brings his witty\, fearlessly contemporary take on Hamlet across the Atlantic for a four-week run. Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) stars in this sharp\, darkly funny reimagining of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/hamlet/2026-05-02/1/
CATEGORIES:Theater,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T200000
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SUMMARY:Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at BRIC Stoop (FREE)
DESCRIPTION:Three FREE performances in one day at BRIC Stoop\, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026. \n2:00 pm – Orlas\n4:30 pm – Brooklyn Youth Chorus performing works by Caroline Shaw\, Alev Lenz\, and Aleksandra Vrebalov\n6:30 pm – Saha Gnawa \nOrlas\, from the Portuguese word for “shores\,” is a father-and-son project by Chicri and Vic Delnur\, where Brazilian classics meet a modern\, groove-driven edge. Blending samba-jazz\, bossa nova\, disco-funk\, and beyond\, their sound feels both timeless and fresh. For Long Play\, Orlas presents a special set featuring brand-new songs from their upcoming LP\, performed live for the first time alongside highlights from their debut album. Joined by Sarah Maciel\, Laura Pereira\, Felipe dos Santos\, and Thiago Dom\, the band delivers a warm\, immersive live experience that reimagines Brazil’s musical heritage through a contemporary lens. \nOur borough’s finest youth chorus\, making singing accessible to all children\, performs works by renowned choral composer Caroline Shaw\, Turkish-German singer-songwriter Alev Lenz\, and Serbian musician and visual artist Aleksandra Vrebalov. Vrebalov’s In Atlantis is a world premiere for chorus and string quartet commissioned specifically for Long Play. \nSaha Gnawa brings North African futurism to the U.S.\, uniting the founders of Innov Gnawa with leading figures from New York City’s jazz and contemporary music scenes to reimagine modern Gnawa music. \n\nBang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play\, a four-day destination music festival\, presented from Thursday\, April 30 through Sunday\, May 3\, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts\, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir\, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists\, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet\, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers\, and the US premiere of Kali Malone. \nFull 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now\, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/bang-on-a-can-long-play-festival-at-bric-stoop-free/
CATEGORIES:Free,Festivals,Music,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T220000
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SUMMARY:Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at TFANA
DESCRIPTION:Three performances in one night at Theatre for a New Audience\, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026. \n2 pm – Amina Claudine Myers\n4 pm – Matthew Shipp The Cosmic Piano\n6:30 pm – David Murray\, Dezron Douglas\, Nasheet Waits\n8:30 pm – Morton Feldman String Quartet No. 1 performed by Quatuor Bozzini \n\nYou can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass. \n\nBang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play\, a four-day destination music festival\, presented from Thursday\, April 30 through Sunday\, May 3\, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts\, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir\, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists\, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet\, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers\, and the US premiere of Kali Malone. \nFull 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now\, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/bang-on-a-can-long-play-festival-at-tfana/
CATEGORIES:Festivals,Music,Brooklyn Cultural District
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SUMMARY:Hamlet
DESCRIPTION:Kicking off an ongoing partnership between BAM and London’s National Theatre\, director Robert Hastie (Operation Mincemeat) brings his witty\, fearlessly contemporary take on Hamlet across the Atlantic for a four-week run. Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) stars in this sharp\, darkly funny reimagining of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/hamlet/2026-05-02/2/
CATEGORIES:Theater,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T230000
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CREATED:20260430T204422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T204422Z
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SUMMARY:Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at Brooklyn Music School
DESCRIPTION:Two performances in one night at Brooklyn Music School\, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026. \n7:30 pm – Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause \n9:30 pm – Shoko Nagai and Satoshi Takeishi – VORTEX \nThe duo of Tristan Kasten-Krause and Sarah Hennies works collaboratively to compose large-scale compositions employing drones\, psychoacoustic phenomena\, and extended techniques on double bass and an array of gongs\, bells\, vibraphone\, and other percussion instruments. Their work includes delicate interplay of high-pitched tones\, deep resonances\, and patient\, slowly unfolding extended durations that evoke a mysterious sonic landscape. \nVORTEX features Shoko Nagai (piano\, accordion\, analog synthesizers\, electronics) and Satoshi Takeishi (playing a unique “hybrid set” consisting of both western and eastern traditional percussion instruments). Their blend of acoustic instruments and electronic processing create a vivid sonic world. \n\nYou can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass. \n\nBang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play\, a four-day destination music festival\, presented from Thursday\, April 30 through Sunday\, May 3\, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts\, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir\, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists\, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet\, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers\, and the US premiere of Kali Malone. \nFull 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now\, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/bang-on-a-can-long-play-festival-at-brooklyn-music-school/
CATEGORIES:Festivals,Music,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T214000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T165635Z
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SUMMARY:Moby Dick
DESCRIPTION:Regarded as one of the greatest of all American novels\, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick comes to BAM in a new production created by the iconic avant-garde director Robert Wilson for Germany’s Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. This classic tale of obsession and vengeance becomes enigmatic and new in Wilson’s mix of tart dialogue with indie-rock riffs and soaring ballads by British singer-songwriter Anna Calvi.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/moby-dick/2026-05-02/
CATEGORIES:Theater,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T120000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191842
CREATED:20260430T203952Z
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SUMMARY:AAPI Month: Intergenerational Hula Class
DESCRIPTION:Discover how movement connects us to our environment\, our stories\, and one another. This intergenerational class—designed for children (8+) through adults of all ages and abilities—brings together the flowing\, imaginative spirit of Island Flow with the grounding\, heart‑centered practice of Hula Noho (Seated Hula).\n\nInspired by Hawaiian\, Asian\, and Pacific Island cultures\, participants explore a blend of standing and seated movement\, martial‑arts‑influenced techniques\, and the expressive foundations of hula and mele. Whether moving on your feet or seated\, we honor the balance of respect and responsibility that guides island life\, learning what it means to care for ourselves and our community.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/aapi-month-intergenerational-hula-class/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Workshops,Dance,Brooklyn Cultural District
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SUMMARY:Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at Brooklyn Music School
DESCRIPTION:Four performances in one day at Brooklyn Music School\, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026. \n12:30 pm – Music of Éliane Radigue with Quatuor Bozzini\n3:00 pm – There’s a Yearnin’: Wildebeest Wind Quintet with Jeff Lederer and Mary LaRose\n5:30 pm – Julius Hemphill Music for Six Saxophones led by Marty Ehrlich\n7:30 pm – Ross and Stomu Takeishi For Living Lovers \nThe encounter between QB and Radigue points to the challenging nature of auditory availability in Radigue’s music. Yet\, as one may experience while listening to this set\, such acute awareness transfers to all listeners of Radigue’s music: Radigue’s sound holds the potential to shake expectations regarding performance\, listening\, and music making. This performance is supported by the Québec Government Office in New York. \nThere’s a Yearnin’ shines a light on notated compositions for winds by Ornette Coleman\, Eric Dolphy\, and Oliver Nelson. This performance will mark the world premiere of a woodwind sextet by Dolphy which was found in the Library of Congress archives. The set also features Ornette Coleman’s Forms and Sounds quintets and saxophonist/clarinetist Lederer’s arrangements of compositions by Oliver Nelson with original lyrics by vocalist Mary LaRose. Also included is the premiere of Lederer’s own new work Cruxifiction (not a word).”  The Wildebeest Wind Quintet is: Michel Gentile\, flute // Katie Scheele\, oboe // Mike McGuiness\, clarinet // Sara Schoenbeck\, bassoon // Nathan Koci\, horn \nMarty Ehrlich is the chief researcher of the Julius Hemphill Archive at New York University\, and performed with Hemphill over a twenty-year period\, as a member of the Julius Hemphill Big Band and the Julius Hemphill Saxophone Sextet. He continued the work of the Sextet for a decade after Hemphill’s death in 1995\, keeping these seminal compositions before the public. \nFor Living Lovers is the duo of acoustic guitarist Brandon Ross and acoustic bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi. Founded in 2002\, the duo has been critically acclaimed for its unique sonic language and musical direction\, consistently finding their way onto annual critics’ “best of” lists. Ross and the duo are Chamber Music America New Jazz Works grantees (Immortal Obsolescence 2017). Their newest release\, Natural Name is out on Sunnyside Records\, 2025. \n\nYou can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass. \n\nBang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play\, a four-day destination music festival\, presented from Thursday\, April 30 through Sunday\, May 3\, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts\, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir\, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists\, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet\, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers\, and the US premiere of Kali Malone. \nFull 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now\, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/bang-on-a-can-long-play-festival-at-brooklyn-music-school-2/
CATEGORIES:Festivals,Music,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T193000
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CREATED:20260430T204031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T204031Z
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SUMMARY:Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at BRIC Ballroom
DESCRIPTION:Three performances in one day at BRIC Ballroom\, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026. \n1:00 pm – Anzû Quartet and Friends play Ken Thomson\n3:30 pm – Exceptet performs Vangelis L’Apocalypse des animaux\n6:00 pm – Florent Ghys and Mantra Percussion with opener Owen Weaver \n“Each project from the composer and multi-reed player Ken Thomson has been good news\,” wrote The New York Times about the Bang on a Call All-Stars clarinetist and composer’s newest co-led project\, the Anzû Quartet.  Anzû Quartet\, a collaboration of musicians from Bang on a Can\, Eighth Blackbird\, Mivos Quartet and Bearthoven\, play the New York premiere Ken Thomson’s “Uneasy” (released on Cantaloupe Music 2025)\, then add to their forces to play Thomson’s 2018 clarinet quintet “Pall.”  Plus the US premiere of “Keep Your Head Down” (2026) for bass clarinet and piano. \nExceptet performs Vangelis’s pioneering score to the first episode of Frédéric Rossif’s 1973 docuseries\, L’Apocalypse des animaux\, live-to-film\, arranged by clarinetist Chuck Furlong. Vangelis’s music accompanying this documentary has become a cult classic\, but to our knowledge\, this Rossif series has never been screened in the US—certainly not with a live chamber ensemble! Featuring material that doesn’t exist anywhere else\, this performance brings to life both a classic film and its score. \nZemblanity and Other Serendipities sonifies visual accidents\, whether fortuitous or deliberately staged. Written for small percussion instruments\, electronics\, and video\, the piece is a series of uninterrupted short movements\, with video starting in bucolic downtown St. Louis and finishing among the playful trees of Oregon. The piece weaves ordinary moments into rhythmic and harmonic material\, transforming incidental gestures into musical structures that shift between inevitability and unexpected discovery. Owen Weaver opens with Same Face!. \n\nYou can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass. \n\nBang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play\, a four-day destination music festival\, presented from Thursday\, April 30 through Sunday\, May 3\, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts\, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir\, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists\, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet\, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers\, and the US premiere of Kali Malone. \nFull 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now\, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/bang-on-a-can-long-play-festival-at-bric-ballroom-2/
CATEGORIES:Festivals,Music,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260430T204349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T204349Z
UID:10012511-1777816800-1777831200@www.downtownbrooklyn.com
SUMMARY:Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at BRIC Stoop (FREE)
DESCRIPTION:Two FREE performances in one day at BRIC Stoop\, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026. \n2:00pm – Kalia Vandever\n4:30pm – Miles Okazaki plays Thelonious Monk \nKalia Vandever is a trombonist and composer whose approach to the trombone is distinctive and defined by their sonorous tone and lyrical improvisational voice. They lean into the challenges of the instrument and allow patience and melody to guide their process. \nMiles Okazaki is a NYC-based guitarist whose approach to the guitar is described by the New York Times as “utterly contemporary\, free from the expectations of what it means to play a guitar in a group setting — not just in jazz\, but any kind.” His six-album recording of the complete compositions of Thelonious Monk for solo guitar is an unprecedented project that Nate Chinen called “the six-string equivalent of a free solo climb up El Capitan.” \n\nBang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play\, a four-day destination music festival\, presented from Thursday\, April 30 through Sunday\, May 3\, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts\, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir\, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists\, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet\, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers\, and the US premiere of Kali Malone. \nFull 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now\, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/bang-on-a-can-long-play-festival-at-bric-stoop-free-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Festivals,Music,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260430T204120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T204120Z
UID:10012514-1777816800-1777838400@www.downtownbrooklyn.com
SUMMARY:Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at BAM Fisher
DESCRIPTION:Bang on a Can celebrates legendary composer Steve Reich with this Birthday marathon at BAM’s Fisher. Hear Dither+ perform Electric Counterpoint and Sō Percussion+ perform Sextet\, Four Organs\, and Piano Phase\, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026. \n2 & 6 pm – Dither+ perform Electric Counterpoint\n3 & 7 pm – Sō Percussion+ perform Sextet\, Four Organs\, and Piano Phase \n\nYou can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass. \n\nBang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play\, a four-day destination music festival\, presented from Thursday\, April 30 through Sunday\, May 3\, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts\, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir\, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists\, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet\, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers\, and the US premiere of Kali Malone. \nFull 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now\, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/bang-on-a-can-long-play-festival-at-bam-fisher/
CATEGORIES:Festivals,Music,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T233000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260428T181607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T161948Z
UID:10012505-1777818600-1777851000@www.downtownbrooklyn.com
SUMMARY:Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at Roulette
DESCRIPTION:Four performances in one day at Roulette\, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026. \n2:30 pm – Morton Feldman Three Voices with Charlotte Mundy\n5:00 pm – Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant avec Folie à Quatre\n7:30 pm – Philip Glass Glassworks with Bang on a Can All-Stars\n10:00 pm – Secret Chiefs 3 \nFor Feldman’s 100th birthday\, Charlotte Mundy performs Three Voices\, which was written as an homage to three of his friends: Philip Guston\, Frank O’Hara\, and Joan La Barbara. The live singer’s voice intertwines with pre-recordings of the other two parts\, mostly without text\, but with the occasional blowing in of O’Hara’s “Wind.” \nLong Play presents Seances by Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant avec Folie à Quatre. Two previous albums had been released by Trio-Convulsant (Mary Halvorsen\, Ches Smith\, and Trevor Dunn). In this third installment Trevor adds a string and winds quartet with cellist Tomeka Reid\, the violin/viola of Carla Kihlstedt\, flutist Anna Webber and Oscar Noriega on bass clarinet and clarinet. \nThe Bang on a Can All-Stars premiere a brand-new arrangement of Glassworks\, via Glass’ longtime collaborator Michael Riesman. In 1982 Philip Glass became the first composer since Aaron Copland to join the CBS Masterworks label. His first album for the label\, Glassworks\, tripled all sales projections\, pleasing audiences\, critics and Glass himself. \nSecret Chiefs 3 is an American experimental rock group led by guitarist/composer Trey Spruance\, performing a wide range of musical styles\, mostly instrumental\, including surf rock\, Persian\, neo-Pythagorean\, Indian\, death metal\, film music\, and electronic music. Spruance has expressed interest in\, and drawn inspiration from\, various mystical or occult systems such as Sufism\, Kabbalah\, Hermeticism\, and alchemy. \n\nYou can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass. \n\nBang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play\, a four-day destination music festival\, presented from Thursday\, April 30 through Sunday\, May 3\, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts\, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir\, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists\, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet\, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers\, and the US premiere of Kali Malone. \nFull 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now\, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes. Roulette Members get 20% off full Long Play festival passes! Email development@roulette.org for more information.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/bang-on-a-can-long-play-festival-at-roulette-2/
CATEGORIES:Festivals,Music,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T164000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260325T165635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T165635Z
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SUMMARY:Moby Dick
DESCRIPTION:Regarded as one of the greatest of all American novels\, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick comes to BAM in a new production created by the iconic avant-garde director Robert Wilson for Germany’s Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. This classic tale of obsession and vengeance becomes enigmatic and new in Wilson’s mix of tart dialogue with indie-rock riffs and soaring ballads by British singer-songwriter Anna Calvi.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/moby-dick/2026-05-03/
CATEGORIES:Theater,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260325T160930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T160930Z
UID:10012088-1777820400-1777827600@www.downtownbrooklyn.com
SUMMARY:Hamlet
DESCRIPTION:Kicking off an ongoing partnership between BAM and London’s National Theatre\, director Robert Hastie (Operation Mincemeat) brings his witty\, fearlessly contemporary take on Hamlet across the Atlantic for a four-week run. Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) stars in this sharp\, darkly funny reimagining of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/hamlet/2026-05-03/
CATEGORIES:Theater,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T230000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260430T172146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T204213Z
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SUMMARY:Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at TFANA
DESCRIPTION:Three performances in one night at Theater for a New Audience\, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026. \n4 pm – Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton\n6:30 pm – The Kris Davis Trio featuring Robert Hurst and special guest Jeff Tain Watts\n9 pm – Sylvie Courvoisier and Wadada Leo Smith \nSaxophonist/composer Steve Lehman and his long-running trio – featuring bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Damion Reid – are joined by special guest tenor saxophonist Mark Turner for The Music of Anthony Braxton\, commemorating the 80th anniversary of Braxton’s birth. \nKris Davis Trio performs music from “Run the Gauntlet\,” her latest album. A testament to Davis’ singular voice within the jazz landscape\, “Run the Gauntlet” serves as a metaphor for overcoming challenges to achieve one’s goals. In this project\, Davis pays homage to six trailblazing women pianists: Geri Allen\, Carla Bley\, Renee Rosnes\, Angelica Sanchez\, Marilyn Crispell\, and Sylvie Courvoisier. \nSylvie Courvoisier is a Swiss American pianist\, composer\, improviser\, and bandleader whose work bridges the rigor of European chamber music with the exploratory spirit of the city’s downtown jazz scene. She is known for her distinctive compositional voice and fearless improvisation. Wadada Leo Smith is a Pulitzer Prize–nominated composer\, trumpeter\, and visionary artist whose work has profoundly shaped the landscape of creative music for more than five decades. \n\nYou can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass. \n\nBang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play\, a four-day destination music festival\, presented from Thursday\, April 30 through Sunday\, May 3\, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts\, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir\, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists\, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet\, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers\, and the US premiere of Kali Malone. \nFull 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now\, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/bang-on-a-can-long-play-festival-at-tfana-2/
CATEGORIES:Festivals,Music,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T173000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260415T192208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T192208Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Guitarist Tomas Rodriguez: Album Release Concert in Brooklyn
DESCRIPTION:Join guitarist and composer Tomas Rodriguez for an intimate album release concert – presented by The Brooklyn Classical Guitar Society – celebrating his fourth recording\, Whispered Awakening. Centered on original solo guitar works\, the program gently weaves together Spanish\, Afro-Peruvian\, Cuban\, and West African influences into a sound that feels both rooted and quietly expansive. \nRodriguez’s music is guided by warmth\, groove\, and a thoughtful exploration of the guitar’s lineage across Africa and the Americas. As The New York Times noted\, he is “a guitarist whose influences span the Latin world\,” praising his work as “unique” and “highly recommended.” \nDon’t miss this rare live performance by Tomas Rodriguez at South Oxford Space in Brooklyn on May 3rd! Doors open at 4pm.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/an-evening-with-guitarist-tomas-rodriguez-album-release-concert-in-brooklyn/
CATEGORIES:Music,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T193000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260421T175217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T152429Z
UID:10012223-1777919400-1777923000@www.downtownbrooklyn.com
SUMMARY:Music & Machines: A Panel discussion (in partnership with the Brooklyn Book Festival)
DESCRIPTION:A discussion with journalist and authors Liz Pelly (Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist) and David Hadju (The Uncanny Muse: Music\, Art and Machines from Automata to AI). \n\n\nHow is technology shaping the future of music\, and what does that mean for artists\, listeners\, and culture? \nJoin the Brooklyn Book Festival and the NYU 370 Jay Project for Machines & Music\, a dynamic conversation exploring the evolving relationship between music and technology. The discussion moves from early mechanical instruments to today’s AI-driven soundscape and considers how these shifts are changing the way music is created\, distributed\, and experienced. \nWhether you are a student\, creative\, technologist\, or simply curious about how platforms like Spotify and emerging AI tools are transforming the industry\, this event offers a chance to hear directly from leading voices thinking critically about these changes.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/music-machines-a-panel-discussion-in-partnership-with-the-brooklyn-book-festival/
CATEGORIES:Free,Talks/Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260505T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260505T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260325T160930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T160930Z
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SUMMARY:Hamlet
DESCRIPTION:Kicking off an ongoing partnership between BAM and London’s National Theatre\, director Robert Hastie (Operation Mincemeat) brings his witty\, fearlessly contemporary take on Hamlet across the Atlantic for a four-week run. Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) stars in this sharp\, darkly funny reimagining of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/hamlet/2026-05-05/
CATEGORIES:Theater,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260414T143628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260429T160208Z
UID:10012165-1778079600-1778083200@www.downtownbrooklyn.com
SUMMARY:Wednesday Wonders
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy the wonders of Abolitionist Place—where every Wednesday in May and June offers a new adventure! Presented with support from Council Member Lincoln Restler and the New York City Council. \nMay 6\, 13\, 20 and 27 \nBrianna Kalisch \nBrianna Kalisch isn’t just a stilt walker — she’s a multi-talented circus artist\, performer\, and creative producer whose work blends physical artistry with storytelling. Catch her as she struts through the park and learn the art of stilt walking! All skill levels are welcome and equipment will be provided. Registration required: Sign up here! \nPlease register each child who wishes to participate individually. Children must be under parental or care provider supervision during the event. \nJune 3\, 10 and 24 \nFlow Juggle \nToss some fun into your day with Brooklyn’s favorite juggler\, Martin Kalwill. Whether you’re a total beginner or looking to up your juggling game\, Martin has tips and tricks for all. All skill levels are welcome and equipment will be provided. \nWednesdays in May\, learn to stilt-walk with Brianna Kalisch – stilt walker extraordinaire and multi-talented circus artist.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/wednesday-wonders-2/2026-05-06/
CATEGORIES:Downtown Brooklyn Presents,Free,Family-friendly
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260430T203635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T203635Z
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SUMMARY:Pizza Beer Pairing Event at Little Pizza Parlor
DESCRIPTION:One of NY’s best breweries and pizzerias team up for an amazing night! Join Little Pizza Parlor on Wednesday May 6 for the launch of their very own Pizza Pilz beer\, crafted and brewed especially for us by Round Table Brewery. \nJoin the inaugural party to the beer pairing series from 5-7pm to enjoy free samples of their new brew paired with French Onion pie.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/pizza-beer-pairing-event-at-little-pizza-parlor/
CATEGORIES:Free,Eat + Drink
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260421T195933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260421T195933Z
UID:10012240-1778094000-1778103000@www.downtownbrooklyn.com
SUMMARY:Sound + Fury Trivia Nights
DESCRIPTION: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!
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/sound-fury-trivia-nights/2026-05-06/
CATEGORIES:Games,Eat + Drink
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260325T160930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T160930Z
UID:10012090-1778095800-1778103000@www.downtownbrooklyn.com
SUMMARY:Hamlet
DESCRIPTION:Kicking off an ongoing partnership between BAM and London’s National Theatre\, director Robert Hastie (Operation Mincemeat) brings his witty\, fearlessly contemporary take on Hamlet across the Atlantic for a four-week run. Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) stars in this sharp\, darkly funny reimagining of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/hamlet/2026-05-06/
CATEGORIES:Theater,Brooklyn Cultural District
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T103000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260409T181717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T174120Z
UID:10012161-1778144400-1778149800@www.downtownbrooklyn.com
SUMMARY:Moms Who Move BKLYN
DESCRIPTION:A Breakfast Conversation with the Mothers Powering Our Borough\n\n\n\n\nCelebrating the impact of mothers across Brooklyn’s communities\, businesses\, and civic life. \nModerated by award-winning journalist and speaker Grace Bastidas\, the panel will gather change maker moms for a conversation about Motherhood In Brooklyn: how moms are driving new ideas\, navigating challenges\, and taking the lead in shaping the borough’s diverse communities. \n\nGrace Rauh — Executive Director\, 5BORO Institute\nLaurie Cumbo – Former Commissioner Department of Cultural Affairs\nLatham Thomas – Founder\, Mama Glow Foundation\nKatie Denny – Executive Director\, North Brooklyn Parks Alliance\nCynthia McKnight – President\, Community Education Council 13\n\nAll ticket proceeds will be donated to Brooklyn Org. Participants will be able to pick their very own flower bouquet at their Show Bklyn Some Love Flower Bar at the end of the event.
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/moms-who-move-bklyn/
CATEGORIES:Talks/Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T191843
CREATED:20260414T202207Z
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SUMMARY:Table Tennis Thursdays
DESCRIPTION:Team DBP will be serving a series of lunchtime ping pong games. Find a partner\, grab a paddle and let the games begin!  \nEach week’s event will be divided into 15-minute session. Please sign up for the session you wish to attend – one registration per person. If you wish to play with a friend\, please sign up individually for the same session. \nmay 7: REGISTER HERE\nmay 14: REGISTER HERE\nmay 21: REGISTER HERE\nmay 28: REGISTER HERE\nJune 4: REGISTER HERE\nJune 11: REGISTER HERE\nJune 18: REGISTER HERE\njune 25: REGISTER HERE
URL:https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/table-tennis-thursdays/2026-05-07/
CATEGORIES:Downtown Brooklyn Presents,Free,Sports,Family-friendly
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