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 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!

Downtown Neighboring Rights are one of the fastest-growing parts of the music industry, but what are they? And why should they matter to artists and labels in the U.S.? Downtown’s Neighbouring Rights team will explain why more and more countries are signing up to work with the U.S. and why

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

Sound Collective is proud to host production house YouTooCanWoo's Executive Creative Director, Zach Abramson, for an event on Video Game Composition and Production. Zach will share his approach and technique for composing Video Game Music and discuss his past experiences working on the games Just Cause 3 and 4.

Water & Music Creative AI may be the most disruptive technology for the music business since the Napster era of piracy. Generative AI tools for audio, text, and visual art have picked up tens of millions of users, forcing us to rethink traditional notions of creativity, ownership, and attribution. At

Rooted in the tradition of jazz, swing, and the blues, Charles Turner & Uptown Swing have been delivering “that thing” to jazz listeners and swing dancers around the world since 2018. Celebrating the spirit of Harlem with vibrant swing and vital blues, Uptown Swing performs music from the 1920s to

Join us Thursday June 22nd at the Historic Bitter End in the west village to help raise funds for LGBTQ organizations such as Lambda Legal. The evening will feature, Nick Deutsch, Tatiana Lima, Daniel Joseph Baker, Eva Westphal and Austin Marquez