Arts & Entertainment

More than 100 independent films from around the world are set to screen at the Greenpoint Film Festival in August.

The Kingsland Wildflowers Festival returns, inviting New Yorkers to experience performance, ecology and imagination in full bloom this July.

Bimini Cricket, a comedic burlesque performer, impressed the crowd in Coney Island with a dual performance as a dancing rat and a take on “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang.

Downtown Brooklyn comes alive with a plethora of free, all-ages activities packed with music, movement, culture and connection.

Hundreds gathered for the documentary screening of "Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story" at Brower Park in Crown Heights for an evening of film and music.

Writers with a flair for fear have until Aug. 10 to enter the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival's IndieBoom horror screenplay contest.

Independent artists across North America have a new opportunity to break through, as Kota the Friend launches a multi-city open verse challenge tied to his upcoming No Rap on Sunday Tour.

Brooklyn is turning its bars and restaurants into classrooms with the launch of Sips and Scholars, a free public lecture series designed to spark big ideas over drinks.

Josh Sharp’s one-man comedy show “ta-da!” is an experimental multimedia performance with lewd jokes, rogue text slides and a “Herculean feat of stupidity.”

Red Hook’s historic waterfront comes alive this summer with art that explores music, the steel industry and motion as the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition launches three new exhibitions.