Since its inception in 1987, the organization has presented more than 150 musical events in New York and it has served as an alternative to mainstream classical music institutions.

Barbès is a bar and performance space located in the South Slope part of Brooklyn.

In the heart of Brooklyn, at the crossroads of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues, Barclays Center is setting a new standard as the showcase venue for the world’s most thrilling entertainment and sports events.

Bargemusic is a 102-foot coffee barge that has been converted into a floating concert hall for chamber music. It offers concerts every week, 52 weeks a year in an acoustically rich room with 130 seats.

Enter Barnard‚ gates at 117th and Broadway and the experience is unique. Immediately obvious is how picturesque and green their four-acre campus is, and how intimate it feels in the midst of New York City.

BAC serves as a creative laboratory, meeting place and performance space for artists from around the world. BAC also presents contemporary, innovative work at low or no cost to to the public.

Every year, Batoto Yetu provides more than 300 hours of free dance instruction to underprivileged youth from the five boroughs of New York. Classes are held in Harlem every Saturday.

On the 43-acre campus of Bronx Community College and overlooking the Harlem River, the consortium provides access to free art exhibitions and music and dance programs to Bronx residents of all ages.

This 2,894 seat, three-tiered theater opened in 1929 to present motion pictures and vaudeville entertainment. The ornately decorated, neo-Grecian venue is most famous, however, as a music hall, which has been its primary offering since the 1970s.

During the week of October 15-22, 2013, the creativity of Brazil will take over New York in a hub on West Broadway, and in simultaneous activities happening at exclusive satellites throughout the city.