Events and Performances
Brooklyn Poetry Slam | May 31, 2022
May 31, 2022 • 6:30 PM @ BRIC House Ballroom · FREEJoin host Jive Poetic and guest DJ Rico Frederick for the Brooklyn Poetry Slam, back in-person at BRIC House! Featuring poet Vincent Hill.
Opening Night: Kamasi Washington | Ravyn Lenae | DJ Reborn
Jun 8, 2022 • 6:00 PM @ Lena Horne Bandshell · FREEJoin us for opening night of BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! 2022 with Los Angeles-born multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Kamasi Washington! Featuring opening performances by Ravyn Lenae and DJ Reborn.
Maxi Priest | Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra
Jun 11, 2022 • 6:30 PM @ Lena Horne Bandshell · FREEJoin us for a 2022 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! concert featuring British reggae fusion legend Maxi Priest and Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra!
Benefit Concert: Phoebe Bridgers
Jun 14, 2022 • 6:00 PM @ Lena Horne BandshellA Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter with a dreamy and hook-filled indie pop heart, Phoebe Bridgers’ witty lyrical perspectives, sadly beautiful songs, and commanding melodies quickly jettisoned her to worldwide acclaim.
Benefit Concert: Phoebe Bridgers
Jun 15, 2022 • 6:00 PM @ Lena Horne BandshellA Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter with a dreamy and hook-filled indie pop heart, Phoebe Bridgers’ witty lyrical perspectives, sadly beautiful songs, and commanding melodies quickly jettisoned her to worldwide acclaim.
Benefit Concert: Davido
Jun 16, 2022 • 6:30 PM @ Lena Horne BandshellStreamed over 2 billion times and handpicked by FIFA to lead their 2022 World Cup Soundtrack collaboration “Hayya Hayya (Better Together),” American born, Nigerian raised afrobeats icon Davido has cemented his position as a global force within the music scene.
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! meets NPR Tiny Desk Contest On The Road
Jun 18, 2022 • 6:00 PM @ Lena Horne Bandshell · FREEJoin us as NPR's Tiny Desk Contest On The Road Tour culminates with its final concert – a first-of-its-kind joint showcase at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Featuring Fantastic Negrito, Seratones, Linda Diaz, and this year’s Tiny Desk Contest winner Alisa Amador.
Juneteenth UNITYFEST 2022
Jun 19, 2022 • 6:30 PM @ Lena Horne Bandshell · FREEJoin us for Juneteenth UNITYFEST, a BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! concert co-presented by Robert Randolph Foundation.
Fonseca | La Cumbiamba eNeYé
Jun 24, 2022 • 6:30 PM @ Lena Horne Bandshell · FREEJoin us for a 2022 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! concert featuring beloved Latin Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Fonseca with an opening performance by La Cumbiamba eNeYé.
Family Show: Cirque Kalabanté: Afrique En Cirque | Natu Camara
Jun 25, 2022 • 3:00 PM @ Lena Horne Bandshell · FREEJoin us for our 2022 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Family Show, featuring Montréal-based Cirque Kalabanté with an opening performance by Natu Camara.
Vic Mensa | aja monet
Jul 8, 2022 • 6:30 PM @ Lena Horne Bandshell · FREEJoin us for a 2022 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! concert featuring rapper and activist Vic Mensa with poet and musician aja monet.
Crumb | Slauson Malone 1
Jul 9, 2022 • 6:30 PM @ Lena Horne Bandshell · FREEJoin us for a 2022 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! concert featuring Crumb – whose seductive sound hovers somewhere between the hazy worlds of psych rock, lo-fi dream pop, and spaced-out free jazz – with an opening performance by Slauson Malone 1.
Kronos Quartet & Sam Green: A Thousand Thoughts | Roomful of Teeth
Jul 14, 2022 • 6:30 PM @ Lena Horne Bandshell · FREEJoin us for a 2022 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! performance of A Thousand Thoughts: A Live Documentary with the Kronos Quartet Written and Directed by Sam Green and Joe Bini, with opener Roomful of Teeth.
Chicano Batman | Charlotte Dos Santos
Jul 16, 2022 • 6:30 PM @ Lena Horne Bandshell · FREEJoin us for a 2022 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! concert featuring Los Angeles psych-soul four-piece Chicano Batman with an opening performance by Charlotte Dos Santos.
Ragamala Dance Company: Sacred Earth
Jul 22, 2022 • 7:00 PM @ Lena Horne Bandshell · FREEJoin us for a 2022 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! dance performance: Sacred Earth by Ragamala Dance Company, an enchanting work for seven dancers accompanied live by an ensemble of five musicians that explodes with color, rhythm, and ecstatic movement.
John Cameron Mitchell & Amber Martin | Bridget Everett & The Tender Moments | Special Guests
Jul 23, 2022 • 6:30 PM @ Lena Horne Bandshell · FREEJoin us for a 2022 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! perfomance featuring Tony Award-winning star of stage and screen John Cameron Mitchell and international cabaret powerhouse Amber Martin, with an opening performance by Bridget Everett & The Tender Moments + Special Guests.
Apply Now: 2022-23 BRIC Documentary Intensive
Jul 25, 2022 • 7:00 PM @ BRIC Media Center · $150Documentaries and nonfiction filmmaking are in a golden age, and now is your chance to get in on the action!
The Beths | SASAMI | Charlotte Cornfield
Jul 29, 2022 • 6:00 PM @ Lena Horne Bandshell · FREEJoin us for a 2022 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! concert featuring performances by Auckland, New Zealand’s rapturous power pop quartet The Beths and singer-songwriter and producer SASAMI, opened by Charlotte Cornfield.
Film Night: Fame | Sing Harlem
Jul 30, 2022 • 6:30 PM @ Lena Horne Bandshell · FREEJoin us for our 2022 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Film Night: We'll be screening the 1980 cult-classic musical Fame with an opening performance by Sing Harlem.
Benefit Concert: Khruangbin
Aug 4, 2022 • 6:00 PM @ Lena Horne BandshellKhruangbin is a three-piece band from Houston, Texas, formed in 2009 with Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald Johnson on drums. Taking influence from 1960's Thai funk - their name literally translates to "Engine Fly" in Thai - Khruangbin is steeped in the bass-heavy, psychedelic sound of their inspiration, Tarantino soundtracks, and surf-rock cool.