BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!

New York's longest-running free outdoor performing arts festival, now in its 48th year. Mix of free shows and paid benefit concerts across genres — indie, Latin, Afrobeat, jazz, hip-hop, Caribbean. Annual Juneteenth celebration and a film screening component. Attracts ~250,000 attendees per summer and is a picnicking favorite. (2026 date not yet published; pattern: June – August 2026; first benefit concert July 18 with Royel Otis — verify with the source before planning.)