The Urbane Arts Club
Events & Classes
From musical performances to literary readings and artistic debates, we aim to spark conversation and bring the arts to life. Conspire with us!
Jazz & Gin: A Speakeasy Soirée
A special monthly event series in partnership with Prohibition Productions, featuring live jazz, DJ, swing dance lessons, and craft cocktails in our historic Brooklyn Speakeasy!
Upcoming dates:
Friday, July 24
(Summer break)
Friday, October 30 (Spooky Jazz)
Lectures on Tap
Upcoming Dates:
Wednesday, July 15: "Friends on the Other Side:Tales of New Orleans Cemeteries" with JR Pepper
Thursday, July 30: "Art, Class, and Liberation!" with Dr. Ilk Yasha
Sign up below, or email urbanebrooklyn@gmail.com to learn more about Urbane Arts Member discounts.
20k words in 3 days Summer Binge Writing Retreat with Chloé Caldwell
Join us Thursday, August 20th -- Sunday, August 23rd at The Urbane Arts Club in Brooklyn for a generative writing retreat. The goal is 20k new words, and with Chloé's support, exercises, encouragement, and inspiration, you will meet it! All the retreats lead to lifelong friendships, that's just one of the bonuses. No one leaves until 20k!
Sign up below, or email urbanebrooklyn@gmail.com to learn more about Urbane Arts Member discounts.
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Monday, July 6 - July 27: Literature and Catastrophe: Germany, Austria, and the First World War
Sign up below, or email urbanebrooklyn@gmail.com to learn more about Urbane Arts Member discounts.
Sips & Scholars: The Architecture of Red Vienna with Isi Litke
Class is in session this summer on Thursday, July 16! Brooklyn Public Library is partnering with the Brooklyn Institute of Social Research to offer the second annual Sips & Scholars series, free lectures all over Brooklyn.
Between 1919 and 1934, Vienna undertook an ambitious experiment in municipal socialism, aiming to improve the lot of the city's burgeoning working class population through comprehensive reforms to labor law, welfare, education, public health, housing, and infrastructure. Perhaps the most enduring achievement of "Red Vienna," as this period has come to be known, was the construction of 400 Gemeindebauten: municipal housing blocks that combined low-cost workers' dwellings with communal facilities such as laundries, gardens, theaters, and kindergartens. This talk will explore the political and architectural ideas that shaped interwar Vienna's building program, and ask what lessons Red Vienna contains for contemporary debates over public housing and progressive municipal reform.
Food and refreshments will be available! Please RSVP in advance.
The Mouth of the Sun Performance & Discussion
Join us on Tuesday, July 7 at 7pm and listen to creative writing by Muslim women and gender-expansive folk and join a discussion on harnessing personal stories to create change.
I COMMIT
TO FRICTION AND THE UNDERTAKING OF THE PEARL…
I AM TASTING MYSELF
IN THE MOUTH OF THE SUN
– June Jordan
This event celebrates the 2026 cohort of participants in The Mouth of the Sun, a creative incubator program presented by Arts & Democracy and author Roohi Choudhry.
