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!

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

Music Publishing 101

Downtown Music Publishing is a complicated business, but if you understand it, you’ll be armed with the knowledge to get the most out of your music. Our panel of experts will take you through the essential parts of publishing that everyone should know, what you’re missing out on if you

Studio40 Work-in-Progress Showcase

NY Public Library Join up-and-coming artists and creators to celebrate and preview their work—all made by the creative community at The New York Public Library's Studio40! Studio40 is a free creative space and recording studio located in the Pasculano Learning Center at NYPL's Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) in midtown

Collective Masters Live: Riccardo Merlini and Alex Cohen

The next event in our Collective Masters Live series features Riccardo Merlini and Alex Cohen on June 15th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Riccardo and Alex will share their techniques for developing lightning-fast speed and brain-twisting ambidexterity on the drum set.

343 Labs Performance Showcase

In this event, we feature our growing community of incredible live performers with a diverse cross-section of musical genres, setups, and instrumentation.  Anyone can sign up in advance to perform, but an electronic element of the performance is required as this event is hosted by a music production school.  You