The story of an extraordinary community museum for music, art, science, dance, poetry, and Black history in Brooklyn that most people have never heard of. Crown Heights in the 1970s: As New York City navigated economic disaster, and America at…
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MOMENT JUNE EVENTS
MOMENT NYC is proud to be a member of the Municipal Arts Society of NY’s 2026 Enduring Culture Initiative. Stay tuned for our upcoming live MAS program and exhibit “Revisiting MUSE” this fall!
Art Party Happening with Clara Joy
MOMENT NYC’s next event is this Saturday, June 29th at 8pm. Guest curator Clara Joy presents an evening with music and dance — traditional, of the moment, and bound only by the limits of imagination. This is guaranteed to be…
Ilé Ìlù | House of Drums: A Celebration of Afro-Descendant Music & Culture
DJs & Live Music: Jazz, Bata, Rumba, Palo, Bomba + Visuals/Art, Food & Bar. Saturday, May 13 · 7pm – midnight Golden Palace 123-08 Jamaica Avenue Queens, NY 11418 Event Schedule7pm | Doors – DJs Nina Creese & DrumPriest8pm |…
Giant Step – Retrospective 1990-1995
A convergent moment in downtown New York City club history MOMENT NYC invites you to a retrospective on the groundbreaking underground Giant Step party of the 1990s. This roving downtown party attracted generations of artists, jazzers, MCs, dancers, celebrities, and…
Everybody L.E.S. Culture Mash Music Fest
MOMENT NYC & Subterra Soundsystem present a live music mash-up party celebrating the diversity that has kept the Lower East Side / East Village so interesting and creative for over a century. Ticket Link DROM 85 Avenue A, NYC, Sunday,…
Alice Barker, 102 Harlem Renaissance Dancer Relives Her Youth
102 year old Alice Barker, who danced at clubs such as The Apollo, Cotton Club, and Zanzibar Club, with legends including Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, recently got a chance to see footage of herself from the…
“Danny Says” Finally Comes to NYC!
The documentary film “Danny Says” about Danny Field’s – the visionary, publicist, booking agent, and musical connector who first booked Max’s Kansas City, managed the Ramones and made the Doors famous – is finally having it’s New York City premiere.…
James Murphy and the Future Sounds of NYC’s Subway
James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem has been working toward his longtime vision of making the NYC subway system a more musical experience. Here he is talking about it in a recent interview on WQXR. and here is a short…
We Like It Like That – The Story of Latin Boogaloo – Wed, Aug 5, 6
We Like It Like That – The Story of Latin Boogaloo Mathew Ramirez Warren, USA, 2014, DCP, 81m Wednesday, August 5, 8:30pm Walter Reade Theater – tickets Boogaloo—which fuses R&B, doo-wop, and soul with mambo and other Caribbean styles and…