Local History

Weeksville is getting a new shade structure! Join us Friday, March 27th, from 6-8 pm for a community design workshop to help shape it.

Take a well-deserved pause and join us for our Rest and Restore yoga session led by Six of Sensate Wellness.

Join us for a Women’s History Month community event and an interactive day of celebration! Honoring the legacy of Zora Neale Hurston, the groundbreaking writer of Their Eyes Were Watching God, cultural anthropologist, folklorist, playwright, and choreographer.

Take a well-deserved pause and join us for our Rest and Restore yoga session led by Six of Sensate Wellness.

Take a well-deserved pause and join us for our Rest and Restore yoga session led by Six of Sensate Wellness.

Join us for the opening reception of “Peace in Destruction: Art from Rikers Island,” presented by Groundswell at Weeksville Heritage Center.

On June 4th, Black & Free: Pleasure Histories will bring together film, performance, and storytelling to trace the legacies of Black queer and trans life through pleasure, resistance, and self-expression.

Join us on Saturday, June 6, 2026, from 10 AM to 6 PM for the 5th annual Black Man’s Health Festival at Weeksville!

Join Weeksville Heritage Center, Creative Urban Alchemy, and the Beam Center to unveil Osisi Obodo, a new modular shade and gathering structure, on Thursday, June 25.

HBO and Weeksville Heritage Center present a special screening of The Gilded Age, Season 3, Episode 8 with Executive Producer Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Weeksville Green Market returns on August 22, 12- 5 p.m. 

Our ongoing film series, Weeksville Watchnight, returns Thursday, August 27th, from 6-9 pm with host Juju Bae.

Weeksville Green Market returns on September 19, 12- 5 p.m. 

As Climate Week approaches, join us for a community conversation. Kwolanne Felix, Haley Duren, and Vanessa Sanchez join moderator Noella Williams to share their advocacy for environmental justice across food, education, and community organizing.

On October 17, 2026, Weeksville Heritage Center and VisionIntoArt invite you to a day-long community experience in Brooklyn. The program weaves together performance, creative workshops, and community conversations that explore the key themes and inquiries of We Were Fridays—cultural memory, Gullah Geechee heritage, diaspora, and intergenerational storytelling.