The Downtown Urban Arts Festival

The Downtown Urban Arts Festival is proud to announce it's 21st season with a line-up of exciting, emerging, new playwrights. Held this year at the Peter Jay Sharpe Theater a Playwright's Horizon, every Wednesday through Saturday June 7th through June 24th at 7:30pm.

ChamberQUEER 2023: We Refract – 6/10 @ Red Eye

ChamberQUEER 2023: We Refract features seven amazing composers, performers, and improvisers – Jules Biber, Aviva Jaye, Alexis C. Lamb, Brian Mummert, Rajna Swaminathan, Darian Donovan Thomas, and Yoshi Weinberg – celebrating Pride Month with a sonic tapestry of queer community. Expect everything from Schubert to world premieres!

Anti Social Camp Opening Ceremony

Anti Social Camp Celebrity guests will greet our 150 artists, songwriters and producers in a series of in-depth interviews, kicking off a week full of music creation and live events. Last year included Nile Rodgers, JP Saxe, Rob Thomas and Rostam from Vampire Weekend. And then our Anti Social Women

Ep. 7: How to Market With or Without a Budget

How to Build a Sustainable Music Career & Collect All Revenue Streams Season 3 will be a series of live podcast tapings & in-person interactive workshops during New York Music Month this June at Tower Records’ new Tower Labs space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Address: 151 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11249

Anti Social Camp Industry Showcase

18 artists play one song each in a thrilling concert to showcase our campers’ talent. Last year included performers WALK THE MOON, Sadie Jean, King Mala and an appearance by NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Anti Social Camp is the biggest songwriting camp in the world. From June 12 through June

A New York Evening Celebrating Peggy Lee

The GRAMMY Museum is continuing our takeover of The Big Apple at 92NY with a celebration of Peggy Lee featuring an intimate conversation with Mo Rocca and Peggy Lee's granddaughter Holly Foster Wells, plus a special performance from Kristin Chenoweth, in partnership with the City of New York Mayor's Office

Ep. 8: Your Live Strategy & Efficient Touring

How to Build a Sustainable Music Career & Collect All Revenue Streams Season 3 will be a series of live podcast tapings & in-person interactive workshops during New York Music Month this June at Tower Records’ new Tower Labs space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Address: 151 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11249

Finding Fans You Didn’t Know You Had

Downtown New audiences can be found in every corner of the world on platforms that exist to serve every interest. With so much unchartered territory to explore, how does an artist and their team find and engage the fans of the future? Speaking to the platforms and companies that have

Violin Performance by Hajnal Pivnick and a Reading & Discussion of the Novel Maddalena and the Dark

P&T Knitwear, in partnership with the Luminarts Cultural Foundation, is pleased to present Julia Fine for a reading & discussion of her new book, Maddalena and the Dark, along with an accompanying violin performance from Hajnal Pivnick, audience Q&A, and book signing. Lush and heady, swirling with music and magic, Maddalena and the Dark is a Venetian fairytale about the friendship between two girls and the boundless