Join us on this multi-sensory journey through time, space, generations, and dimensions! This multi-disciplinary dance work-in-progress [...]

651 ARTS in partnership with The Billie Holiday Theatre present Song Salon. An intimate night of [...]

651 ARTS and DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks present Roots Party Zine Release! Join multi-disciplinary artist Edisa Weeks [...]

WHAT DOES IT REALLY TAKE TO BUILD A DYNAMIC HOME FOR CONTEMPORARY MULTI-DISCIPLINARY BLACK GENERATIVE THEATER [...]

Verses At Work is hip hop theater at it’s finest. New York City-based hip hop artist, [...]

We open our fall season with Performing an Afro Future–an in-depth conversation featuring a panel of [...]

651 ARTS’ Second Annual Juneteenth Celebration will culminate with the Sonic Liberation Dance Party that will [...]

Those with dreams of getting on the ones and twos and moving a crowd will have [...]

Monica L. Williams, 651 ARTS’ Chief Curator and Director of Programs, will moderate this conversation with [...]

651 ARTS will present the first in-person gathering for Black Dance Stories as part of its new LIVE @651ARTS series. Conceived and co-created by Charmaine Warren, The Black Dance Stories series launched in June 2020 in response to Black dance artists' need to talk about life during COVID-19 and support the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Dance Stories will feature Rena Butler, Reggie Wilson, Tiffany Rea-Fisher, and Jamar Roberts.

651 ARTS will present the first in-person gathering for Black Dance Stories as part of its new LIVE @651ARTS series. Conceived and co-created by Charmaine Warren, The Black Dance Stories series launched in June 2020 in response to Black dance artists' need to talk about life during COVID-19 and support the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Dance Stories will feature Rena Butler, Reggie Wilson, Tiffany Rea-Fisher, and Jamar Roberts.

A new ballet from Jeremy McQueen’s Black Iris Project, presented by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and 651 ARTS. “WILD” follows a young boy’s journey celebrating his 14th birthday while detained at a juvenile detention facility and explores the effects of isolation and imprisonment on childhood development.

651 ARTS premieres I WISH MF WOOD, part of our VIRTUAL GRIOT, an original digital series featuring performing artists in the role of Griots as they deliver powerful messages from their neighbors to the people in their neighborhoods.

Intergenerational conversation with theater-makers who chart their path towards success leaving legacy, inspiring the field & impacting the world.

We Are Here (Brooklyn) is a celebration of Bedford-Stuyvesant’s rich cultural legacy—a testament to its past [...]

For its first year, 651 ARTS’ Juneteenth Celebration: (RE)VISION will highlight films that look through the lens of futurism and movement to illuminate stories about the Black perspective and the Black experience in America told through a hybrid presentation that explores what it means to be Black and how to imagine a way forward together.

For its first year, 651 ARTS’ Juneteenth Celebration: (RE)VISION will highlight films that look through the lens of futurism and movement to illuminate stories about the Black perspective and the Black experience in America told through a hybrid presentation that explores what it means to be Black and how to imagine a way forward together.

For its first year, 651 ARTS’ Juneteenth Celebration: (RE)VISION will highlight films that look through the lens of futurism and movement to illuminate stories about the Black perspective and the Black experience in America told through a hybrid presentation that explores what it means to be Black and how to imagine a way forward together.

Works In Progress Final Presentation Featuring 651 ARTS 2020/21 Resident Artists COURTNIE “The Kaleidoscope Kickback” Recorded [...]

Part 2 of 2. A healing performance-ritual built around Black queer survival techniques and tailored specifically for Zoom.