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Experience music, dance, visual art, comedy, spoken word, and multidisciplinary collaborations from around the world that build upon the eclectic mix of creativity found throughout New York City and beyond.
Big Umbrella Festival returns! Tickets on sale now
Annually each spring, the Big Umbrella Festival welcomes kids, teens, and adults for a dynamic series of programming, designed with and for neurodiverse audiences. The 2025 festival will span three weeks in April, offering distinct events and activations each weekend. Explore the calendar here »Upcoming events
Lincoln Center Presents
American Songbook
History’s Persistent Voice
February 11 at 7:30 pm
Alice Tully Hall
Voices of Black American tradition and artistry are imbued with new life in this multimedia musical recital helmed by operatic soprano Julia Bullock.
Beats, Rhymes & Sights
Fly Love Songs
Co-presented by J.PERIOD
Lincoln Center Presents
February 14 at 7:30 pm
David Rubenstein Atrium
Come out and enjoy a night of dancing and vibing to the best Hip-Hop love songs.
Kids, Teens, and Families
Invoke
Lincoln Center Presents
February 15 at 11:00 am
David Rubenstein Atrium
The multi-instrumental quartet encompasses traditions from across America, including bluegrass, Appalachian fiddle tunes, jazz, and minimalism.
Voices of a People’s History
I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like
Lincoln Center Presents
February 20 at 7:30 pm
David Rubenstein Atrium
For the storytellers, the poets, the playwrights, the dreamers, and all interested in what it means to make art within and from marginalized spaces.
See yourself at Lincoln Center

Be inspired by musicians who defy expectations
American Songbook: Singer Outsiders, curated in collaboration with Tamar-kali and Kathleen Hanna, uplifts women and nonbinary musicians who have shaped the modern landscape of music and continue to drive conversations on gender, identity, and empowerment. This spring series features a bold lineup of powerhouse voices from across the punk, pop, jazz, classical, R&B, and theater worlds—including Julia Bullock, Meshell Ndegeocello, Shaina Taub, Gossip, and more—all for free or Choose-What-You-Pay.
Catch international premieres on the New York stage
In collaboration with the New York Philharmonic, Rubén Blades' large-scale musical work Maestra Vida—a soaring, genre-defying urban drama centered on the Latin American lived experience—will be presented in the U.S. for the very first time. The U.S. premiere of the UK’s most celebrated Hip-Hop dance theater company, Boy Blue, brings movement at its most fluid, distilled, and skilled with Cycles. Through spoken word and dance, Carnival of the Animals reframes Camille Saint-Saëns’ classic as it navigates the shifting societal values and our relationship to democracy.