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Event Categories

• Networking, Career, and Wealth Building Events 🚀

• Parties 🎉

• Live Music, Concerts, Festivals 🎹

• Comedy

• National Events Outside of NYC

Networking, Career, Wealth-Building, and Community Events

1. [12/3] Afrofusion Dance Class Benefiting Communities in Haiti, Jamaica and Sudan (Ripley Grier Studios)

2. [12/3] The People’s Budget Party (3 Dollar Bill)

3. [12/3] Black ERG Collective Presents Do the Right Thing - Financial Fluency Demystified 

4. [12/4] The New Bronx Chamber of Commerce Holiday Party 

5. [12/4] Not Your Average Open Mic (Lips Cafe)

6. [12/4] Thirsty Thursdays Speaker & Author Series (The Penthouse)

7. [12/4] Not Your Average Open Mic (Bed Stuy)

8. [12/4] Next To Blow Music Festival - Universal Music Group Edition

9. [12/5] Wrapped: A Nous Holiday Social

10. [12/5] Madison Club Christmas Tree Ball (Cipriani)

11. [12/5] Special Film Screening - Fatherless No More - A First Gen Film (New Plaza Cinema)

12. [12/6] Harlem Night Market 

13. [12/6] Miss EmpowHer IT Girl Walk (NYC) (BK Heights

14. [12/6] Harlem Fashion Week Holiday Fashion Show + Popup (Aloft Harlem Hotel)

15. [12/6] Black Excellence Festival Financial Literacy Mini Master Class

16. [12/6] UCBLK: A Black Variety Show

17. [12/7] BLOSM City: Flow No. 1 | A Women’s Wellness Experience (Brooklyn)

18. [12/7] Brooklyn Poets Annual Awards Gala (Dumbo Loft)

19. [12/9] 4th Annual Black Film Space Awards

20. [12/10] Black ERG Collective Toy Drive and Holiday Mixer (Nexo)

21. [12/11] Women Over Dinner Harlem (Harlem)

22. [12/12] A Haute Holiday Party - A Very It Girl Holiday (Lucky’s Bar)

23. [12/13] Black Health Connect Holiday Party (The Mezzanine)

24. [12/14] Broadway Night Out - The Thespian’s Holiday Dance Party (High Bar NYC)

25. [12/16] The Grammy Museum Presents A New York Evening with Ayra Starr 

26. [12/16] Fun Flex Holiday RnB Dinner Party and Toy Drive (City Winery

27. [12/17] Black Men in Tech Presents The Holiday Exchange Networking Mixer and Toy Drive

28. [12/19] Network While Black Presents Reindeer Games - Ugly Christmas Sweater and Karaoke Night (Saint James Libations)

29. [12/19] Winterfest Business Expo (Brooklyn)

30. [12/20] Samples N’ Friendsmas (Sobs)

31. [12/31] 500 Grand Black Tie NYE Event

32. [12/31] The Block Association Presents 500 Grand NYE Black Tie Gala (Continent)

Parties 🎉

1. [12/4] Rum Bar BK Presents Jay Day Celebrating the Music of Jay-Z (Rum Bar)

2. [12/5] Cuffing Season Party (Delux Fluxx)

3. [12/5] Vino Vriday 2 Year Anniversary Party (The House)

4. [12/6] Noise Complaint (Time Out Market)

5. [12/6] RN'VIBRATIONS “THE RNB PARTY (Jolene Sound Room)

6. [12/6] Late Nite R&B Presents: "Riddim & Blues" The Dinner Party Experience

7. [12/6] Fazo and Friends (Damballa)

8. [12/6] The Kickback Collective Presents The RnB Social (DL)

9. [12/11] Airplane Mode: 106 Live (Aura Cocina)

10. [12/13] Pizza Zoo Christmas (HK Hall)

11. [12/19] For Lovers Only Presents Something to Feel (Jolene Sound Room)

12. [12/19] Winter After Dark - The Uptown Holiday Party (Rowhouse)

13. [12/20] Pretty Girls Love Amapiano (The House)

14. [12/26] El Hooky Party (Republica)

15. [12/20] Furtado Global Presents Club 1BD featuring Durand Bernarr (Queens)

16. [12/30] Butter: The Creative Black Tie (Chocolate Factory)

Live Performances, Concerts, Theater 🎹

1. [12/4] Waiting to Exhale 30th Anniversary - In Concert Live to Film (King’s Theatre)

2. [12/5] Erykah Badu Mama’s Gun 25th Anniversary Tour Afterparty

3. [12/5] Eric Benet and Raheem Devaughn Live (State Theater New Jersey)

4. [12/6] Burna Boy World Tour (UBS Arena)

5. [12/7] Raekwon & Mobb Deep - 30th Anniversary Tour (Brooklyn Paramount)

6. [12/10] Rakim Holiday Show - Requests Only (SOBs)

7. [12/11] Common, Natasha Beddingfield, Anthony Ramos Performing Live Benefiting Children in Conflict (Brooklyn Paramount)

8. [12/11] The Cool Kids Presented by Hannibal Burress (Isola BK)

9. [12/11] Graph Live in Concert (Brooklyn Monarch)

10. [12/11] Styles P, Sister Nancy, and Renee Neufville of Zhane Live (Brooklyn Monarch)

11. [12/12] Eric Roberson Live (SOBS}

12. [12/13] Brooklyn Peace Center Presents Fourth Annual Jazz Night Peace on Earth Featuring Michelle Coltrane

13. [12/13] Power 105.1 Presents Power Sessions Featuring Cash Cobain, Zeddy Will, Mariah the Scientist and G Herbo (Hammerstein Ballroom)

14. [12/18] DMX 55: Celebrating the Life + Legacy of Earl Simmons, Hosted by the Estate of Earl Simmons + Jonathan Mannion, with guest performances by Denzel Curry and .idk.

15. [12/19] A Merry Club Quarantine Christmas Featuring DJ D-Nice (Newark Symphony Hall)

16. [12/21] Lenny’s Listening Room - A Christmas Story (Love’s Club)

17. [12/23] The Redemption Experience Tour - Rod Wave (Barclays)

18. [12/26] Rotimi Performing Live (HK Hall)

19. [12/30] Clipse Live (Brooklyn Paramount)

Comedy

1. [12/13] Donnell Rawlings and Friends (Crown Hill Theater)

National Events Outside of NYC

1. [12/10-13] Techsgiving Summit 2025 (Washington, D.C.)

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