The JGI is partnering with Medgar Evers College to present live jazz experiences, artist talks and outdoor concerts for the central Brooklyn community. In partnership with the Dept. of Mass Communication, Creative & Performing Arts, and Speech, and University President Patricia Ramsey. Further education programming is in the works aimed at K-12 students in Brooklyn.

The JGI's Continuum Fellows are a cohort of New York-based musicians and multidisciplinary artists in early-to-mid-career, each tasked with curating shows and interdisciplinary events that can unite generations and audiences. Stay tuned here and at instagram.com/jgi.newyork for a full announcement, including the inaugural class of nine fellows and details on the first residency.

The JGI presents shows and participates in festivals around New York. Our first concert, at Bedford Central Presbyterian Church, brought together the congregation at one of Crown Heights' most historic churches and a public audience for performances by Amina Claudine Myers, Samora Pinderhughes, poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Courtney Bryan, Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez. (The concert was connected with nearby satellite events, at the Brooklyn Peace Center and Medgar Evers College. We partner with existing institutions to present intergenerational performances at festivals including Winter JazzFest and the John Coltrane Jazz Appreciation Day Festival in Harlem's . The JGI's New York Community Initiative targets central Brooklyn and Harlem as historic centers where creative Black music continues to grow.

The Soundoff Sessions are a biweekly series of performances and open sessions taking place on Thursday nights at Cafe Erzulie in Brooklyn.

The JGI offers a curated nightly listings calendar for the New York jazz scene, edited by Hank Shteamer. Stay tuned for a forthcoming magazine, sphere: a journal of jazz in motion.