Lincoln Center Presents
Summer for the City
June 12–August 10, 2024
200+ FREE or Choose-What-You-Pay events for all New Yorkers!
Fast Track reservations open Mondays at noon
In addition to General Admission, we’re offering a FREE Fast Track option for most Summer for the City events—giving you priority access. Bookmark this page »New discoveries meet timeless classics
Don't miss the 2024 season of the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, taking place July 20 – August 10. Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center »Upcoming events
Summer for the City
BAAND Together Dance Festival | Kids, Teens, and Families
Dance Workshop With Dance Theatre of Harlem
Inside Ballet
Lincoln Center Presents
August 02 at 5:00 pm
LeFrak Lobby, David Geffen Hall
Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Artistic Director, Robert Garland, leads a workshop on the rudiments of ballet study, with an interactive choreographic exploration.
Summer for the City
POP UP: Step it UP
Lincoln Center Presents
August 02 at 5:00 pm
Hearst Plaza
The winning Step It Up NYC competition teen dance group premieres their final dance routine at Lincoln Center!
Summer for the City
Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center
Festival Orchestra Pre-Show Panel Discussion
Can experiencing the arts be good for your health?
Lincoln Center Presents
August 02 at 6:00 pm
Griffin Sidewalk Studio, David Geffen Hall
Join leading artists and researchers in a 3-part series of conversations exploring the intersection of the arts and healing.
Summer for the City
Social Dance | Silent Disco
Luis Perico Ortiz & His Orchestra
Plus, Silent Disco With Gia Fu
Lincoln Center Presents
August 02 at 6:30 pm
The Dance Floor
Legendary Puerto Rican salsa trumpeter Luis "Perico" Ortiz brings his orchestra and over 50 years of experience to this social dance concert.
Find your bliss as Lincoln Center's outdoor spaces transform
From June 12—August 10, our outdoor campus transforms into a welcoming oasis where neighbors and New Yorkers from across the city can gather, relax, participate in performances, enjoy expanded food options, read a new book, create art, and even play outdoor games! The outdoor spaces are designed by Visual Director Clint Ramos and inspired by flora and fauna of the American prairie—evoking the ideals of Life, Liberty, and Happiness—with greenery and plants by Donyale Werle Design. Explore spaces & venues »This is your place to BE this summer
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CELEBRATE new commissions for the first time
In July and August, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center performs the North American premiere of Huang Ruo’s City of Floating Sounds, an interactive work that fuses music and technology with a mobile app-enabled soundscape and live performance, and a world premiere by Hannah Kendall, inspired by scripture from Job:27 and Schumann’s Symphony No. 2. Through August 9, experience the next generation of experimental canon with this summer's category-defying Living Music Underground series, curated by Nadia Sirota.![](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.lincolncenter.org/image/upload/v1711643259/h1ubbujfkzuywz2uunl4.png)
PARTICIPATE at the intersection of arts and civic engagement
Join us for our Civic Saturdays performance series, designed to unite friends and strangers in the spirit of shared community, including the Civic Speakeasy hosted by poet-in-residence Mahogany L. Browne. In August, our longtime partner, Voices of a People's History, hosts The People Speak—and Sing!, a performance of songs and readings that speak to the themes of liberty and the pursuit of happiness. On August 10, pop culture meets activism with the Ruidosa Fest, the Latine-led international feminist platform, with a full day of lectures, live music, and a late-night silent disco.![](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.lincolncenter.org/image/upload/v1711643406/djwgtra6rbkmrubp8ea4.png)