Domino, a multidisciplinary venue and creative hub, will open in April 2027 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at the iconic Domino Sugar Refinery, which has been the heart of the neighborhood’s industrial waterfront for more than a century.

Domino will feature a cultural calendar designed to make it a year-round gathering place for New York’s creative community. Programming includes concerts, club nights, comedy, film screenings, live podcast tapings, fashion, and art events. Artist rehearsals, recording sessions, educational programs, and collaborations with local cultural organizations and nonprofits are also planned.

Domino will be operated by tvg Hospitality in partnership with Emerson Hospitality. Guests will enter Domino through the building’s industrial infrastructure, including its 240-foot-tall chimney.

The venue maintains its integrity as an independent by joining the National Independent Venue Association. As a member, Domino uses the independent platform DICE as its ticketing platform. The venue also promises to not take a cut of artist merchandise sales.

“Williamsburg was my introduction to New York City, as it was for so many artists and musicians twenty years ago,” Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons says. “The neighborhood has changed enormously since then, but for decades, people have sought and found community in places like the one we’re building. Domino is our chance to carry that on: somewhere artists can develop ideas, audiences can discover something new, and neighbors feel they belong. Neighborhoods change. The need for a place like this never does.”

Domino is going to establish a cultural board to uphold the "open-room philosophy," intended to keep its programming rooted in community. The board is made up of New Yorkers from diverse industries and backgrounds that will meet quarterly to review programming, champion emerging artists and voices, spot opportunities to broaden genre, scene, audience, and community reach, and offer impartial recommendations on behalf of the neighborhood.

“Independent venues built Brooklyn’s neighborhoods and NYC’s nightlife economy. Our hope is for the city and state to support us as an industry as we welcome tvg Hospitality’s new venue and the independent spirit it brings to Brooklyn,” Jen Lyon, owner of MeanRed Productions, President of NYIVA, says.

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