CuRRENT & UPCOMING SHOWS
Queensboro Dance Festival
Tour Year's Eve Launch Party
Friday, June 6, 7 - 10pm
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A social gathering for QDF community of dancers, friends, and supporters before QDF goes on tour!
Culture Lab LIC is proud to be the host sponsor for the 2025 Queensboro Dance Festival's launch party! This is a special gathering for this year's QDF dance companies, crew, friends, partners, funders, and supporters to all meet and mingle before going on the 2025 QDF Tour the next day. Find us in the back gallery. Your ticket cost helps support our Queens dancers!
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Queensboro Dance Festival is touring across Queens' parks, plazas, and streets June 7-Sept 13. Through public performances, classes, and community parties, QDF presents diverse Queens-based dance companies with the mission to strengthen the dance community in Queens and inspire a greater appreciation for Queens dance. Learn more about the artists and tour schedule at www.queensborodancefestival.org.
Sunset
JAZZ
Sunset Jazz is a free, indoor jazz music series every Friday at Culture Lab LIC. Come listen to incredible musicians, have a drink and take in the art.
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Click Here for May-October schedule.
LIVE in
THE LOT
Live in The Lot is our free summer concert series, featuring live music performed outdoors* every weekend!
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​​Click Here for more info!
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*Weather permitting. Schedule subject to change. Be sure to check Culture Lab LIC on Instagram and Facebook for latest schedule and lineup updates.
Pasar Malam New York's
NY Indonesian Food Bazaar at Culture Lab LIC.
Saturday, June 7, 2-9pm
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Celebrating Indonesian Culinary & Culture!
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Join us for:
-Zumba and dance performances
-Live music
-Authentic Indonesian cuisine
-Stunning Manhattan views
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Enjoy halal, vegetarian, and vegan options!
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Sponsored by:
- Mandiri Bank
- Indonesian Culinary Enthusiasts Inc.
- Taste of Surabaya
- MetroPlus Health
- BNI NY
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Supported by:
- Culture Lab LIC
- Consulate General of Republic of Indonesia in NY
Culture Lab After Dark presents
Nice One! Comedy
Upcoming Dates:​
Thursday, June 12, 8pm
Laughs meet art at Culture Lab LIC, where stand-up comedy takes center stage in a vibrant gallery setting!​
Thanks to our sponsors:
Plaxall, TF Cornerstone, Steve Madden, Howard Gilman Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts
Praise The Disco Ball
A Disco Party Like No Other
Sunday, June 22 · 7 - 11pm
Mirrorball Madness! Join us to celebrate disco culture with BOMBZR's live band and the electrifying Waacking dance, captivating audiences since the '70s!
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This All-Star Band includes musicians who’ve worked with Diana Ross, Ashford & Simpson, Chic and more.
There may be special guests and the night will also spotlight Waacking—an electrifying street dance style born in the 1970s Los Angeles gay club scene. Known for its sharp arm movements, dramatic poses, and explosive energy, Waacking captivated mainstream audiences when Diana Ross invited Waackers to perform at Caesar’s Palace in 1974. Decades later, it continues to thrive as a bold and influential art form.
John Yao & His 17-Piece Instrument
Points in Time
Album Preview Concert
Thursday, June 26, 7:30 - 9:30pm
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It’s been 20 years since trombonist, composer, arranger, and bandleader John Yao arrived in New York City; 10 years have passed since the release of his first big band album, the exuberant Flip-Flop. He’ll celebrate that tandem anniversary with Points in Time, the long-awaited follow-up by John Yao and His 17-Piece Instrument (JY-17).
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While the album arrives as a commemoration of those two significant dates, the music it contains is deeply informed by a number of professional and personal milestones that have marked that two-decade journey.
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Set for release on July 11, 2025, via See Tao Recordings, Points in Time is enriched and invigorated by a wealth of experiences that Yao has enjoyed since Flip-Flop heralded the arrival of “a strong compositional voice and effective band-leader able to use his 17-piece band to paint across a wide spectrum and infuse his complex writing with a thoughtful balance of audacity, structure, humor, and sonic might” (All About Jazz)
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For the album’s repertoire, Yao culled favorite tunes from throughout his discography, revising small-band compositions in vibrant new big band arrangements and showcasing the new pieces he’s penned over the past ten years.
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REVERB
The Famous Lady Lovers
with Cookie Woolner
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An immersive program series that connects the echoes of queer history to the present through history lessons and live performance.
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Thursday, June 19, 7 - 10pm
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Join our host lecturer, Cookie Woolner (author of The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall), for a vital evening in which we explore the history of Black singers whose immense talents and lived queer experience shaped the creation of the Blues as an artform.
Broken Bone Bathtub:
The Documentary
A love letter to independent artists everywhere.
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NYC Premiere, Friday, July 11
Screening: 7pm
Post-film talkback: 8:30pm
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In this love letter to independent artists everywhere, we follow solo performer Siobhán O’Loughlin in the final stretch of a years-long immersive tour in other people's bathtubs. As the world’s capacity to deeply connect becomes increasingly compromised, Siobhán's journey inspires audiences to seek out live experiences that bring us together.
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Friends and Lovers of New York City! Your time has FINALLY come! Broken Bone Bathtub: The Documentary's official premiere party is here, and you're invited.
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The dress code is *red carpet* (whatever that means to you), so don your celebratory aesthetic, and join us for this screening and revelry featuring:
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- A special talk back Q + A with Siobhán O’Loughlin, producer Joe Schroeder, and Culture Lab's own Tess Howsam following the film
- A step and repeat photo opp
- Adorable Broken Bone Bathtub merch (pins, stickers, and custom soap!)
- A helluva good time with awesome humans!
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Seating is limited, and we will sell out – so get your tix and plan your fit!
PERFORMING ARTS At Culture Lab LIC
Culture Lab LIC is passionate about supporting emerging artists and fostering ambitious work. Over the past four years, our directors have helped produce over 25 professional productions. We have supported original and in-development work, presenting the premiere productions.
We have provided rehearsal space for over 20 theatre/dance and music groups and produced hundreds of events. In 2019 alone, we donated over 1,000 hours of rehearsal space to local theatre and dance companies. Over the past three years, we have created an amazing space for performing artists to learn, grow, take risks and make work. We are proud to create affordable opportunities for our local artistic community here in LIC!
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