27 venues · 222 upcoming events
Things to do in Brooklyn: free events and every venue
Every place we list events for, grouped by neighbourhood. Each venue page shows what’s coming up (recurring shows on their next date), what we’ve listed there before, the address, the subway and what’s nearby — checked by a person, not a crawler.
Free in Brooklyn this week
22 free events in the next seven days, soonest first. Free means the venue prints it as free; a few still ask you to register.
- Carroll Park
THRU WED, OCT 21Movie Under the Stars: Hotel Transylvania (2012)Carroll ParkFree · registration requiredDetails → - Brooklyn Botanic Garden
FreeDAILY · WHILE THEY LASTCommunity TicketsBrooklyn Botanic GardenFreeDetails → - Brooklyn Botanic GardenTHU–SUN · 11 AMSeasonal Highlights TourBrooklyn Botanic GardenFree with garden admissionDetails →
- Lowlands Nursery, Old American Can Factory
THURSDAYS · 1 PMLowlands Nursery volunteer sessionsLowlands Nursery, Old American Can FactoryFree · orientation shift required for newcomersDetails → - Brooklyn Bridge Park
THURSDAYS · SUNSET · FREEBrooklyn Bridge Park Movies With A View presented by PersolBrooklyn Bridge ParkFree · registration requiredDetails → - McCarren Park
THU, OCT 22Movie Under the Stars: Sinners (2025)McCarren ParkFree · registration requiredDetails →
- Oct23Rain Gardens volunteer shiftsSELECT FRIDAYS · 10 AM · Gowanus rain gardensFree
- Oct23Old Stone House: Open HoursFRI, OCT 23 · Washington ParkFree
- Oct23Movie Under the Stars: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)FRI, OCT 23 · Owl's Head ParkFree · registration required
- Oct24Street Trees volunteer sessionsSELECT SATURDAYS · 10 AM · Gowanus street tree bedsFree
- Oct24Park Pitch InSELECT WEEKENDS · Prospect ParkFree · registration required
- Oct24Community Work DaySAT, OCT 24 · Fidler-Wyckoff House ParkFree · registration required
North Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Craft CoBrooklyn Craft Company2 pastGreenpointA Greenpoint workshop space built entirely around single-evening craft classes — macramé, embroidery, candle pouring, block printing, wreaths in season. Nothing here asks for a term commitment.See what's on →
- Bushwick Jewelry Casting
Bushwick Jewelry Casting3 upcomingBushwickA Bushwick casting studio teaching wax carving, casting and finishing to people who want to make a ring rather than buy one.See what's on → - Choplet
Choplet Ceramics Studio8 upcomingWilliamsburgA Williamsburg studio that has been teaching wheel throwing on Grand Street since 2003, with open-studio memberships alongside the classes. Its two-hour tasters are among the cheapest ways to try a wheel in north Brooklyn.See what's on → - Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald Jewelry5 upcomingWilliamsburgA working Williamsburg jeweller that opens its bench for private silversmithing sessions — one instructor, one project, scheduled around you rather than run to a timetable.See what's on → - McCarren Park GreenmarketMcCarren Park Greenmarket1 upcomingWilliamsburgSee what's on →
- Newtown Creek
Newtown Creek3 upcomingGreenpointThe industrial waterway between Brooklyn and Queens, a Superfund site with a slowly returning shoreline that the Alliance cleans, plants and opens for boat tours.See what's on → - Patchen SquarePatchen Community Square1 pastBedford-StuyvesantA community garden square in Bedford-Stuyvesant running free drop-in artmaking for all ages, with a different medium each month and a little free library in the corner.See what's on →
- Stems
Stems Brooklyn4 upcomingBushwickA Bushwick florist that opens its workroom for arranging workshops, from a short bud-vase session to a full signature arrangement.See what's on →
Brownstone Brooklyn
- BKLYN CLAY
BKLYN CLAY1 upcomingGowanusA large modern ceramics studio with several Brooklyn locations, teaching wheel and handbuilding from absolute-beginner tasters up to member access. The intro classes are the ones that turn up on most "first time on a wheel" lists.See what's on →
- BRIC HouseBRIC House5 pastFort GreeneBrooklyn's free-culture engine in Fort Greene: gallery, TV studio, ballroom and stage, and the organisation behind Celebrate Brooklyn! at the Lena Horne Bandshell. Almost everything it programmes is free.See what's on →
- BBGBrooklyn Botanic Garden26 upcomingCrown HeightsFifty-two acres behind the Brooklyn Museum, with a certificate-level horticulture school attached. Free Community Tickets are available daily for anyone who needs them, and weekdays are pay-what-you-wish from December through February.See what's on →
- Brooklyn Brainery
Brooklyn Brainery25 upcomingProspect HeightsA Prospect Heights storefront running cheap single-evening classes on more or less everything — cheese, cyanotypes, local history, knitting. Most cost less than a cinema ticket.See what's on → - Brooklyn Glass
Brooklyn Glass2 upcomingGowanusA Gowanus glassblowing and neon studio offering short introductory sessions — make-a-paperweight, bend-your-own-neon — as well as longer courses.See what's on → - BKMW
Brooklyn Metal Works14 upcomingProspect HeightsA dedicated metalsmithing school rather than a general craft studio: eight-week courses that build technique in order, one-day setting and engraving workshops, and short tasting courses for people who want to find out whether they like a bench before committing to one.See what's on → - Brooklyn MuseumBrooklyn Museum0 pastProspect HeightsThe borough's encyclopedic museum on Eastern Parkway, whose free First Saturday evenings — music, films, talks, hands-on art — are among the best-known free nights in the city.See what's on →
- Brooklyn Stitch
Brooklyn Stitch Studio14 upcomingGowanusA sewing room inside Gowanus Creative Studios teaching one finished object per evening — a zip pouch, a tote, a set of scrunchies — on machines provided.See what's on → - Gasworks
Gasworks NYC6 upcomingGowanusA Gowanus ceramics studio built around evening and weekend intro sessions rather than long terms, which makes it a common choice for one-off visits and small groups.See what's on → - Gowanus CanalGowanus Canal (Salt Lot)5 upcomingGowanusThe Conservancy's working yard on the canal's edge, where volunteers grow street trees, mix compost and plant the rain gardens that keep stormwater out of the water.See what's on →
- Lena Horne BandshellLena Horne Bandshell0 pastPark SlopeThe open-air stage at the north-west corner of Prospect Park, home of BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! — the longest-running free outdoor performing arts festival in New York, running from June into September.See what's on →
- Makeville
Makeville Studio10 upcomingGowanusA Gowanus woodshop that teaches on machines rather than around them: short evening courses in furniture making, turning and hand tools, plus one-session shop-basics projects you take home the same night.See what's on → - Prospect Park
Prospect Park10 upcomingPark SlopeOlmsted and Vaux's second park, and the one they preferred. The Alliance runs volunteer stewardship across it — invasive removal, trail work, litter — alongside free tours, greenmarkets and the Lefferts Historic House.See what's on → - Textile Arts CenterTextile Arts Center15 upcomingGowanusA Gowanus centre for weaving, natural dyeing, screen printing and sewing, with a residency programme alongside the public classes. It is the widest fibre-arts timetable we track in the city.See what's on →
- UrbanGlass
UrbanGlass52 upcomingDowntown BrooklynOne of the largest public-access glass studios in the country, above the old Strand Theatre in Downtown Brooklyn: hot shop, flameworking benches, kilns and a full class programme for beginners upward.See what's on →
South Brooklyn
- Bay Ridge GreenmarketBay Ridge Greenmarket1 upcomingBay RidgeSee what's on →
- Craftsman Ave
Craftsman Ave15 upcomingSunset ParkA Sunset Park workshop in the Industry City complex running hands-on evenings in woodworking and leather, plus a whiskey barrel-ageing session that is not quite either.See what's on → - Green-Wood
Green-Wood Cemetery1 upcomingGreenwood HeightsSee what's on → - Pioneer Works
Pioneer Works1 upcomingRed HookA former ironworks in Red Hook turned into a cultural centre with artist studios, a garden, a recording studio and a science programme. Its Second Sundays open house — free, monthly, all three floors — is the best-value afternoon in Brooklyn.See what's on →