In 1838, free Black New Yorkers built Weeksville as a self-sufficient community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn where everything you needed was right within reach. Nearly two centuries later, that spirit is still alive in every program, gathering, and conversation that happens here. What follows is an invitation to be part of it. Here is a preview of what to expect during the Fall season. Check the Weeksville Heritage Center events page or join our newsletter for updates!
All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Weeksville Heritage Center is located at 158 Buffalo Avenue, Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Rest and Restore Yoga
Ongoing through December 2026 | Saturdays, 11 AM | 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Free weekly yoga classes led by Six of Sensate Wellness. Rest and Restore Yoga is open to all ages, physical abilities, and experience levels. No RSVP required. Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors close 10 minutes after class begins.
Upcoming dates: September 12, September 26, October 10, October 24 (2 PM), November 7, November 21, December 5, December 19.
Weeksville Green Community and Farmer’s Market
September 19 and October 24, 2026 | 12 to 5 PM | 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
The Weeksville Green Community and Farmer’s Market is a free, family-friendly public market. The market features fresh produce from GrowNYC, Black-owned vendors, wellness workshops, movement practices, oral history, literary programming, and film. Select vendors accept EBT/SNAP and HealthBucks, which offer $2 back for every $2 spent on fruits and vegetables.
The September 19 market includes a 3:30 PM panel, Where Do We Go From Here?, featuring Kwolanne Felix, Haley Duren, and Vanessa Sanchez, moderated by Noella Williams. The conversation explores climate justice, animal rights, ecofeminism, and what sustainable futures look like for communities like ours.
Admission: Free. EBT/SNAP and HealthBucks accepted.
The Waiting Room: Endometriosis, Body Autonomy and Collective Care
October 3, 2026 | 12:00 to 4:00 PM | 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
A free public gathering centering endometriosis education, bodily autonomy, and collective care. Featuring panelists Dr. Jessica Opoku-Anane, Dr. Monica R. McLemore, Jamila Williams Kane, NP, and Shakira K. O’Garro, LMHC. Created and curated by Amyra León and presented in collaboration with Weeksville Heritage Center.
Admission: Free.
Jeffrey Zeigler’s We Were Fridays
October 17, 2026 | 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
We Were Fridays is an interdisciplinary performance and community engagement project led by cellist and composer Jeffrey Zeigler. Featuring new compositions by Etienne Charles, Tamar-kali, Hannah Ishizaki, and Zeigler; choreography by Flexn pioneer Reggie “Regg Roc” Gray; and interactive book design by sister sylvester, the work traces a line from the West African Griot tradition through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to the American South and the Great Migration. Developed in partnership with VisionIntoArt.
Tickets: Visit VisionIntoArt for details.
Keeping Memories: Oral History Practices that Host Kin and Community
October 22 and November 19, 2026 | 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Keeping Memories: Oral History Practices that Host Kin and Community is a free conversation series exploring oral history as a living practice of memory, relation, and community care. Featuring artists Jeary Payne and Laurie Zamí Germain, the program considers how Black and diasporic communities preserve memory through intimate spaces, collective gathering, and practices rooted in kinship, place, and belonging.
Admission: Free.
Weeksville Watch Nights
October 30 and November 12, 2026 | 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Weeksville Watch Nights is an ongoing film and conversation series bringing together filmmakers, artists, historians, and community members to engage Black history, political struggle, cultural memory, and collective care through cinema and dialogue. Evenings include screenings, performances, and post-film discussion.
October 30: Weeksville Watch Night presented in partnership with the Black Indie Collective.
November 12: Weeksville Watch Night: True North, presented in partnership with Rada Studio.
Admission: Free.
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December 10, 2026 | 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Sessions is an experiential sound program that transforms the performance space into an immersive room for deep listening, contemplation, movement, and feeling. Featuring curated music and live performance, Sessions is a space for collective rest and sonic reflection. session (9) will be presented by Lovie.
Admission: Free.
Visit Weeksville Heritage Center
Weeksville Heritage Center is located at 158 Buffalo Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Along with year-round arts, education, and community programming, visitors can explore the history of Weeksville through guided tours of the Historic Hunterfly Road Houses, surviving homes that offer a rare window into Black life in 19th- and early 20th-century Brooklyn.
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About Weeksville Heritage Center
Weeksville Heritage Center is a nonprofit cultural institution in Crown Heights, Brooklyn dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of Weeksville, one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America. Founded in 1838, Weeksville was a self-sufficient haven for free and formerly enslaved Black New Yorkers, home to doctors, teachers, farmers, and tradespeople who built a community on their own terms. Today, the Center at 158 Buffalo Avenue serves as a living historic site and community anchor, offering arts programming, education, historic tours of the Hunterfly Road Houses, and free public events year-round.