Uptown/Downtown

Performances May 30 and May 31, 2008

A workshop and performance opportunity offered in partnership with The Field and Harlem Arts Alliance. How do you define uptown or downtown work? Is it based on aesthetics? Culture? Geography? Five "uptown" and five "downtown" artists will develop short works over the course of six weeks this spring, culminating in performances at two of Manhattan's newest venues: The Gatehouse at Harlem Stage and Dance New Amsterdam.

A nomadic lecture series which opens to the public rarely visited and often prohibited spaces in Lower Manhattan.

RE:Construction

Launched November 13, 2007

At a time when Lower Manhattan is experiencing one of the largest public and private construction undertakings in the nation’s history LMCC and The Downtown Alliance respond with Re:Construction, a project that channels the energy of Downtown’s rebuilding process by recasting construction sites as “canvases” for innovative public art and architecture.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council is pleased to present a series of three theme-based self-guided audio walking tours exploring the meaning, reception, and context of public art in Lower Manhattan.