Each year Fourth Arts Block organizes the FAB! Festival to showcase and celebrate artists, arts organizations, and venues in the E. 4th Street Cultural District. The Festival has performances of music, dance, theater, cabaret, visual art and film on mulitple indoor & outdoor stages. The Festival also features gourmet food vendors, local merchants in the best flea market around, and activities for children. The Festival is for the enjoyment of people of all interests and ages.

To see the details on the 2009 FAB! Festival & Block Party, visit the Festival homepage. The next festival is on Saturday September 25th, 2010. To join the line-up or get more information please email Lauren Parrish at lauren@fabnyc.org.

Sign-up for the ultimate all-access pass to the East 4th Street Cultural District. The FAB Pass offers year-round discounts online and at the box office for shows at 16 different theaters in the District and beyond. The FAB Pass also offers deals in dining and shopping, at restaurants and boutiques throughout the East Village. For a complete list of all the deals the FAB Pass has to offer, download this PDF guide (coming soon!).

If you are looking for a night out in the East 4th Street Cultural District, FAB has best access to both discount priced and regularly priced tickets to theater, dance, film, and other events. Available both online through both our Calendar of events or our FAB Deals section, FAB Tix will point you to the best in East Village arts.

For even deeper discounts, visit the FAB Tix Booth at FAB Central (61 East 4th Street) on Thursdays and Fridays between 1PM-6PM. During those hours, FAB has 2-for-1 and other discount tickets available for shows over the coming weekend. Checkout our home page for what's available each day and then swing on by to grab the cheapest tickets in town.

Fourth Arts Block has been working in the past two and half years with urban design firm Starr-Whitehouse to re-envision the look of the E. 4th Street Cultural District. Working with elements as basic as street lighting and signage, tackling issues as complicated as pedestrian traffic flow, and with the help & opinions of Cooper Square Committee, Cooper Square Mutual Association, residents of the District, merchants, and all the cultural organizations, a mutually approved of how to improve the physical appearance and use of the E. 4th Street Cultural District, has been created. To view this plan, please click here and for updates on our progress, please click here.

Renovations have begun and scaffolding is now a semi-permanent presence on the East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery. FAB's new public art program called ArtUp, a rotating exhibit, is an attempt to coexist with scaffolding by embellishing it with artwork that references a revitalization of the East Village / Lower East Side. ArtUp's third exhibit, "Between Coincidences", features work by local photographer, Alex Harsley, who, for nearly 50 years, has documented events that have taken shape in the Bronx, Harlem, and the East Village.
To be considered for future exhibitions, please e-mail Joyce Manalo at joyce@art-forward.com and include low res images, resume, and website address.

Energy Assessments: FAB has been helping Envirolutions train high school and college students to conduct energy assessments, and then connecting them to local theaters and boutiques to perform assessments to improve the over all greening of the District.

Green Hosting: FAB is proud to use green web hosting to help reduce our carbon footprint. More Green Initiatives coming soon!