Happenings

Photoville 2025

Photoville 2025

Photoville 2025 will kick off with a celebratory opening weekend on June 7-8, 2025, and will run through June 22, 2025. As the sun goes down on the Opening Day of the Photoville 2025 festival, the annual Opening Night Celebration begins featuring an exploration of the stories behind the lens in CatchLight’s “Night of Photojournalism” and a preview of “Witness” by Tamir Kalifa.

Artichoke Dance Company will present Immersive Performance Tours of Gowanus

Dance of the Gowanus

Artichoke Dance Company presents Immersive Performance Tours of Gowanus in an ever changing landscape along the superfund waterway in the heart of brownstone South Brooklyn.

Annual Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk from Saturday, May 10th to Sunday, May 18th from 12:00 pm-6:00 pm

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk 2025

Brooklyn will come alive with over 125 local artists at 70 local businesses for the Annual Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk 2025 from May 10 to 18, showcasing the diverse talents of emerging and established artists at galleries,salons, boutiques, restaurants, and home decor shops.

Oscar yi Hou (born Liverpool, UK, 1998). Coolieisms, aka: Sly Son Goku turns 23, 2021. Oil on canvas, 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 61 cm). Courtesy of James Fuentes LLC. © Oscar yi Hou. (Photo: Jason Mandella, courtesy of James Fuentes LLC)

East of sun, west of moon

East of sun, west of moon is a timely, focused exhibition of new works by UOVO Prize–winner Oscar yi Hou, composed of eleven recent paintings that primarily highlight queer Asian American subjects. The show opens October 14, 2022, shortly after the reopening of the Brooklyn Museum’s Arts of Asia galleries on September 30.

Gowanus Dredgers tour of the Gowanus Canal during the Battle of Brooklyn tour canoe trip passes beneath the world's highest subway station over the waterway. ©Mark D Phillips.

Open House Weekend returns to Gowanus

On October 21-23, 2022, the 20th Annual Open House NY Weekend gives access to places not open to the public including the Gowanus Canal. Each day from 1pm to 6pm, the Gowanus Dredgers will offer exploratory canoe voyages to view post-industrial buildings and abandoned shorelines, now colonized by wildlife and new developments.