Downtown Alliance

The Golden Thread: New Adventures in Textile Art by Christian Viveros-Fauné
2025-04-11 00:00 - 2026-05-16 00:00 (America/New_York)
Fiber art exhibition with multiple artists.

Metamorphosis: Chinese Imagination and Transformation
2025-09-10 00:00 - 2026-01-11 00:00
Opening day of a new exhibition that highlights works by 28 contemporary artists of Chinese descent, who explore themes of personal, cultural, historical and material metamorphosis in dynamic and innovative ways. Across painting, sculpture, photography, animation and installation art, these works by established and emerging artists of different generations and backgrounds use experimentation to draw on both Eastern and Western art-making practices and materials. Many of the works will be seen in the U.S. for the first time. Important commissions include new paintings by Sun Xun and an immersive Dream Chamber by Bingyi. The exhibition is organized very loosely around four themes: “Metamorphosis of the Body and Self”, “Metamorphosis of the Environment and Natural World”, “Historical and Cultural Metamorphosis”, and “Spiritual Metamorphosis”.

Mid-Autumn Festival
2025-10-05 14:00 - 2026-10-05 17:00
Hands-on performances and cultural discovery at the Mid-Autumn Festival, one of China’s most cherished holidays centered around family, gratitude, and togetherness. Highlights Include: a lively Uyghur dance performance to kick off the celebration, a captivating shadow puppet show of The Legend of White Snake, make your own snow skin mooncakes to take home and share for the festival, craft rice dough sculptures like bunnies and ducks, enjoy drop-in arts & crafts such as sugar painting, and explore the new exhibition Metamorphosis: Chinese Imagination and Transformation through a family-friendly guided tour with creative art activities.

A Christmas Carol
2025-11-23 00:00 - 2026-01-04 00:00
PAC NYC brings the acclaimed production of A Christmas Carol from London’s The Old Vic to New York in a uniquely intimate staging. Two visionary Tony Award® winners—playwright Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Netflix’s Adolescence), director Matthew Warchus (Matilda The Musical, God of Carnage)—offer a magical interpretation of Charles Dickens’ timeless classic. Brimming with merriment, tasty treats, and holiday cheer, this immersive production wraps the audience around the action, inviting the communal holiday spirit in us all. On a bitter Christmas Eve, a cold-hearted miser is visited by four ghosts. Transported to worlds past, present, and future, Ebenezer Scrooge witnesses what a lifetime of fear and selfishness has led to and sees with fresh eyes the lonely life he has built for himself. Can Ebenezer be saved before it’s too late? Various times.

Es Devlin: Congregation
2025-12-09 00:00 - 2026-01-04 00:00
Congregation, a choral installation, features large-scale chalk and charcoal portraits of 50 Londoners who have experienced forced displacement from their homelands. Presented as a projection-mapped tiered sculpture, the work offers a luminous encounter with those who bring their gifts to a new country. The work was co-authored by the 50 portrait sitters – reflecting on their lives in London, as well as their journeys from more than 25 countries, including Syria, Sudan, Ukraine, and Afghanistan. The accompanying soundscape is composed by Polyphonia, with film sequences created in collaboration with filmmaker Ruth Hogben and choreographer Botis Seva.

Chanukah @ The Seaport
2025-12-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Pier 17
Menorah lighting ceremony, plus music, crafts, treats, lego master workshop, and more.

Trinity Youth Chorus: A Ceremony of Carols
2025-12-14 19:00
Evening of festive music by candlelight when Trinity Youth Chorus returns to St. Paul’s Chapel for their annual rendition of Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. The beloved holiday concert will also feature a new addition to the chorus’s repertoire: Ralph Vaughn Williams’s Fantasia on Christmas Carols, which highlights the tenor and bass voices as well as the organ and strings from Trinity’s famed new-music ensemble, NOVUS.

Chanukah Celebration
2025-12-15 17:30
Hosted by New York City Council members.

Holiday Harmonies
2025-12-16 12:00 | Winter Garden
Celebrate the holiday season with this concert featuring talented musicians performing a variety of seasonal favorites

BPC Resiliency Drop-ins
2025-12-16 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-19 10:00 - 11:00
Stop by to meet your Community Construction Liaison and members of the Battery Park City Resiliency project team , have a snack, and give us your thoughts on the work underway. Light refreshments provided.

Mah Jongg & More
2025-12-16 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-19 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-23 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-30 14:00 - 16:00
Join a dedicated group of adult American Mah Jongg enthusiasts for friendly and informal games, or try your hand at other card and board games. Make friends and catch up with neighbors. Sets, cards, and games provided, or bring your own.

BMCC Live: Storytelling Live(s)
2025-12-17 14:30
Performances from the college’s music, speech, communication, and theater arts departments.

Fiber Art Crafts Studio
2025-12-18 13:00 - 15:00
Join this group of fiber art crafters for a fun afternoon of creativity and camaraderie. Bring your projects, which can include—but are not limited to—knitting, crocheting, embroidery and small-loom weaving.

Thekoiway
2025-12-18 18:00
Thekoiway brings their powerful Latin-Alternative sound to the PAC NYC Lobby Stage. Led by Chilean musician and producer Victor Vildósola, this New York City–based project blends Andean folk, funk, soul, hip-hop, and cinematic soundscapes into an immersive live experience where music, visuals, and storytelling collide.

Exposed: Preview Performance
2025-12-18 19:00
Preview of a dance work being developed by Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre.

Light Up the Night Hanukkah Bash
2025-12-18 20:00
Join 400+ young professionals at the Museum from 8-11pm for an open bar, hors d’oeuvres, and spectacular views of the New York Harbor, co-hosted by the Young Friends of the Museum and Founder & CEO of WindowsWear, Jon Harari.

Sarah Lola
2025-12-19 19:00
Sarah Lola is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer whose music weaves classical training, jazz influence, and contemporary storytelling into an intimate, modern sound.

Tribeca Chamber Players
2025-12-19 23:00
Classical music concert.

Death in New York: Extended Daylight Tour (Lower Manhattan)
2025-12-06 11:00 - 13:30 | The Battery (Battery Park)
Explore Lower Manhattan’s complex history through the places where the city confronted burial, disease, justice, and remembrance. This extended walking tour moves from Battery Park to Chinatown and traces how New York’s growth was shaped by epidemics, lost cemeteries, civic unrest, early medical practices, and the politics of the dead. It is a thoughtful and revealing look at the city’s past, based on the book Death in New York, and offers a rare view of the stories that lie beneath the modern streets.

Hot Peas 'N Butter
2025-12-20 13:00
Toe-tapping, multicultural musical experience with Hot Peas ‘N Butter on Saturday, December 20, 2025! This award-winning family band brings together a lively mix of traditional Latin music, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, jazz, bluegrass, country, and rock, creating an engaging and interactive performance for audiences of all ages.

Sing, Choirs of Angels: Holiday Sing-Along
2025-12-20 14:00 | Trinity Church
The spirit of Christmas comes at you in exuberant waves during Trinity’s holiday extravaganza. You’ll experience the uplifting power of St. Paul’s Chapel Choir and Trinity Scholar Choir, in addition to NOVUS brass and percussion, the Choirs of the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), and, of course, Trinity’s own resounding congregation. Repeated at 3:30pm.

Poets Out Loud: An LGBTQ+ Writing Group
2025-12-20 15:30 - 17:30
Poets Out Loud meets the third Saturday of every month to read, write, and celebrate queer poetry. We spend the first half of this meeting writing new work, and sharing our work in the second half. Bring your authentic selves, your best (or worst!) poems, and a love for the written word. Open to all experience levels.

Book Drop: Featuring Children's Books
2025-12-28 10:00 | Winter Garden
100 holiday books are being given away that the whole family can enjoy together. Plus, in anticipation of the upcoming Wicked: For Good movie, there will also be a few Wicked-themed stories to add extra enchantment.
