NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

New Dance Alliance

Manhattan

The alliance offers arts management services to artistic groups, rents space to dancers and hosts performances, including its annual MIX Festival.

NewFest: The New York LGBT Film Festival

Brooklyn

Founded in 1988, the New Festival is an annual one-week program of gay and lesbian cinema. The festival screens features, shorts and documentaries that explore themes of sexuality by directors from the world over. Screenings take place at the School of Visual Arts Theaters on West 23rd Street during the month of June. In September the festival presents Selections from the New Festival, a two-day program at BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn.

New York Festival of Song

Manhattan

The festival's thematic recitals have included programs from Brahms to the Beatles, from Russian songs to the Argentine tango, from sixteenth-century lute songs to new music.

New York International Children's Film Festival

Manhattan

North America’s largest film festival for children and teens promotes provocative and relevant film for kids. Each year the festival programs new animation, live action and experimental film from around the world, with filmmaker Q&As, production workshops, red-carpet premieres, audience voting and the NYICFF Awards.

New York International Fringe Festival

Manhattan

The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) is the largest multi-arts festival in North America, with more than 200 companies from all over the world performing over two weeks in in August in more than 20 venues.