Mi gente! Your favorite Brooklyn Cultural Showcase - Capicu turns 19! We usually celebrate in March… but this year we’re doing it on Friday April 17th for something special: we’re honoring the birthday of our O.G. (Original Griot): poet, painter, photographer, philosopher TAINOIMAGE!

We’ve got a limited People’s Open Mic (pull up early if you want a slot), plus a featured set from legendary musician DASO!

Plus, the Brooklyn block party sounds of DJ Cocotaso, and the Capicu family you come to know and love!

Wednesdays are comedy nights in the Stage Room! This week we have Laughing Friends and Energizer Honeys back to back starting at 6pm. Come have a laugh! It’s good for the soul.

Cuba is currently under a devastating economic embargo intensified by the Trump administration. The United States has been starving Cuba economically since the 1960s and the current ratcheting up of sanctions has plunged the country into deeper crisis. Join us for a night of short films and a talkback from NYC-DSA members who joined the recent Nuestra America convoy to Cuba. We'll show two shorts from post-revolutionary Cuba on feminism and city culture by director Sara Gómez and contemporary shorts from the independent Cuban news organization Belly of the Beast. We'll have a discussion to follow and all proceeds will benefit La Red Afro-Cubana de Personas Trans, an LGBTQ Solidarity group in Cuba. This screening is part of a series of anti-imperialist films and fundraisers in April and May with the NYC-DSA Anti-War Working Group. Stay tuned for more!

Welcome to NYC’s original Drunk Spelling Bee + Comedy + DJ Party, where spelling fails meet tequila shots & comedy. Grab a drink, laugh, spell poorly, and dance it out, all in one unforgettable night in Bushwick.

While residents in Brooklyn struggle to afford housing, food, and healthcare, our elected officials like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer vote to send billions of tax dollars to Israel. Join us to learn how the Israel Lobby-including AIPAC-has bought and paid for our Brooklyn representatives with millions of dollars to ensure they prioritize a foreign government's interests over ours. This teach-in will be interactive and relevant to different amounts of prior knowledge building connection to global conflicts and local issues.

Every first Sunday of the month! Two step, line dance, country music! These dances just keep getting better and better. The Slide Stops bring all their country-lovin’ energy to this fun monthly social.

Two step lessons begin at 8:30 sharp with Sara Juran

We’re throwing a bash to send rank-and-file Amazon workers from across the city to the LaborNotes conference in Chicago later this year. We have multiple speakers, live music, and a DJ dance party late into the night!

Professors, experts, and storytellers giving thought-provoking lectures during Happy Hour. This month, Professor Jennifer Weaver explores how narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy shape dating dynamics. It examines why certain personalities feel magnetic at first, how manipulative patterns emerge, and what warning signs help individuals protect themselves in modern relationships.

MELT is an art & music festival where all proceeds will benefit the Immigration Defense Project. This organization advocates for justice by offering legal advice, training, and community defense for those affected by deportation and people who want to help other people in need. Come hang out with On The Fly studios, Brooklyn’s newest kitschy-est production company! Meet other artists, enjoy live performances and art vending and help raise money for those affected by ICE raids. To secure your advance tickets please RSVP via the partiful in the following instagram bio: @on_the_fly_studios. 

Olive Grove Initiative Presents: Punks 4 Gaza
Vendor Market opens at 6pm. Show at 7pm. DJs into the late night….
𝑭𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈: Plastinated Human Nervous System (@p.h.n.s), Capo (@capocapocapocapocapo), Casca (@casca.nj), Decarthus (@decarthus)
𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒔 𝒈𝒐 𝒅𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒛𝒂!

This show features some of NYC’s most exciting clowns, characters, and experimental comedians in acts of devotion to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Hosted by Catherine Davis, this noir-themed edition includes emcee Didi Vendredi who is determined to figure out the true identity of the mysterious letter-sending Mister Tapenade with help from the detectives, dames, saxophonists, and city officials she’s invited to the show.

**The Clinic** is an elimination-style tournament featuring **8 artists** going head-to-head for the title of **Clinic Champion**. Artists compete across multiple rounds, showcasing their performance, stage presence, and originality. Each round, the outcome is determined by a combination of **crowd voting** and **official judges’ scoring. The artist who outperforms the competition in the final round earns the title of **Clinic Champion** — but the journey doesn’t end there. The champion must return to **defend their crown** at future Clinic events, taking on new challengers eager to claim the title.

DJ Will spins sound and light in a multi-sensory experience to celebrate the love-filled long weekend.

Are you a hot person on a warming planet looking to mingle with your fellow climate cuties? If you care about our Planet Earth, you are already a beautiful person. There’s still hope for sustainable love in this world — and we’ll help you find it! Put down the apps, come to our Valentines mixer on Tuesday 2/10 at @starrbarbk and make sparks fly ❤️‍🔥

Raise your voice in joyous collective song at this evening of music by and for the working class, hosted by Sing in Solidarity! It’s totally free so all are invited to sing, play, or just clap along. Lyrics packets will be provided. Hootenannies are participatory musical gatherings rooted in the 1940s Greenwich Village folk scene, where left-wing musicians hosted collective singing parties blending music, storytelling, and politics. Even through the Red Scare, these gatherings sustained protest culture. Sing in Solidarity proudly carries that revolutionary tradition forward today. Sing in Solidarity is the official choir of NYC-DSA. Follow @nycdsachoir to learn more.What to bring: friends, instruments, righteous rage, joyful militancy, and defiant hope.

A NIGHT OF LOVE, RAGE, AND MUTUAL AID🖤 🤘🎸🪩🩰 To feed someone is a radical act of love!
Join us for a night of live bands, pole dancing, tattoos, and local art! This event will raise funds to continue restocking the community fridge with quality, choice food every single week and to distribute grocery store gift cards to our community members❤️🖤❤️
Performances By…My Friend Noel, Spite Fences, 6 Local Pole Dancers. If you’re able, please bring cash to tip our incredible performers 💸💸💸
Tickets to enter the Stage Room here: ➡️https://partiful.com/e/96zJwcELrt9TQYLg4YSS?source=share

This Dance Battle is hosted by Punk Something and @cypher4gaza with 100% of proceeds going to @dahnounmutualaid. Dahnoun does invaluable work providing food, clothing, tents and direct cash aid to families on the ground in Gaza ❤️💚🤍🖤

1v1 open styles, all music! Dj’ed by our resident @breakskee & we’re so honored to announce our incredible judging panel: @bigmikeomegasupreme , @cocomotionnyc & @shadow_pine🤩🤩

Join us for a night of great music, extraordinary dancing, and collective solidarity. Featuring @breakskee spinning all genres on vinyl, and special guests from @dancers_for_palestine !!