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SUMMARY:my tongue is a blade by Sweat Variant (Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born)
DESCRIPTION:Learn more. 
URL:https://lmcc.net/events/my-tongue-is-a-blade-by-sweat-variant-okwui-okpokwasili-and-peter-born/2026-06-19/
LOCATION:Colonels Row\, Governors Island
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SUMMARY:Lunar Retreat by Nichole Canuso | Branching Paths
DESCRIPTION:Lunar Retreat is a multi-sensory performance inspired by the gradual distance growing between the Moon and Earth. This immersive journey invites audiences to wander\, witness\, and reflect on how we move through care\, loss\, and transformation—both individually and collectively. Created by choreographer Nichole Canuso in collaboration with a visionary team of designers\, Lunar Retreat opens a space for poetic\, playful\, and communal connection with the shifting rhythms of our planetary bodies. Lunar Retreat reflects on our deep evolutionary ties to the ocean and the moon\, reminding us that we are all interconnected with the natural world. \nVia pre-recorded prompts on headset\, audiences are guided through a performance installation that includes live feed video\, individualized activities and moments of group ceremony. While in residence with LMCC\, Nichole and her collaborators will be in the research and development phase for Lunar Retreat.  \nThe work will be shared in four 45-minute intervals (12:30pm\, 1:30pm\, 3pm\, 4pm) for 12 people at a time. Space is extremely limited\, and reservations are required.  \nRSVP here \n\nARTIST BIOS \nNichole Canuso is a choreographer\, teacher and performer and founder/artistic director of Nichole Canuso | Branching Paths (previously Nichole Canuso Dance Company\, founded in 2004). Dedicated to ensemble-generated processes\, her work aims to create connections across distances and life experiences. Her dedication to dance manifests as performances\, installations\, films and intimate dialogues. Her projects often use technology to bring performers and audiences together in tender exchanges.  \nCanuso’s choreographic projects have been presented by New York Live Arts (NYC)\, American Repertory Theater (MA)\, Los Angeles Performance Projects (CA)\, the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival (NYC)\, HERE (NYC)\, The International Festival for Art and Ideas (New Haven\, CT)\, Judson Church Movement Research(NYC)\, DancePlace (D.C.)\, Links Hall (Chicago)\, ODC (San Francisco)\, Velocity (Seattle) Trafo (Budapest\, Hungary) Onèsimo International Dance Festival (Guadalajara\, Mexico) Mezi Ploty Festival (Prague\, Czechia) Scenscierge Swedish Biennale (Västerås\, Sweden) and Philadelphia FringeArts\, who commissioned several of Canuso’s larger works. Choreographic residencies include 2009 and 2014 fellowships at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (FL)\, MacDowell (NH)\, Millay (NY)\, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (GA)\, Dance OMI (NY)\, The Orchard Project (NY) Headlands Center for the Arts (CA) the BiLateral Residency (Budapest\, Hungary) and Bogliasco Center (Liguria\, Italy) \nShe has been a faculty member of the MFA program at Rowan University/Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training (APT) since 2012. She is a 2017 Pew Fellow\, a 2021 New York Stage and Film/NEXUS fellow and a 2025 United States Artist Fellow.  \nLearn more about her work at www.nicholecanusodance.org. \n\nLunar Retreat is being developed with support from The Pew Center for the Arts and Heritage\, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund\, The Wyncote Foundation\, Starich Foundation and with residency support from Bogliasco Foundation\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, Subcircle and FringeArts. \nLunar Retreat will premiere September 6-22\, 2026 at Leonard Pearlstein Gallery presented by the FringeArts festival \n\nPhoto by Theo Cote
URL:https://lmcc.net/events/lunar-retreat-by-nichole-canuso/
LOCATION:LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island\, Building 110\, Governors Island\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260620T120000
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SUMMARY:June Open Studios
DESCRIPTION:With Open Studios\, LMCC invites the public into the workspaces and creative processes of the 2026 Cohort of Arts Center Residents. These open house events are free and welcoming\, informal\, and accessible to all ages. \nIn addition to the ongoing practices of Arts Center Residents in their studios\, LMCC Dance Resident Nichole Canuso | Branching Paths\, present Lunar Retreat\, a multi-sensory performance inspired by the gradual distance growing between the Moon and Earth. Learn more about the showing here.  \nAlso on view at the Arts Center\, New York City’s first Tempestry Collection: a project featuring sixteen hand-knitted panels or “tempestries\,” each depicting a full year of the city’s daily temperature data rendered into various colors. More information on the Tempestry Project at the Arts Center can be found here. \n\nArtist Activations \nPhoebus Osborne\, Oh\, it’s my ass and my anus | All Day\nA single-channel version of a 4-channel video work by Phoebus Osborne\, Oh\, it’s my ass and my anus explores underground and interior environments as sites of resistance\, intimacy\, and imagination. Weaving footage of limestone caves\, cemeteries\, bathroom DJ sets\, queer beaches\, and domestic spaces\, the piece unfolds as a sensorial field. A layered soundscape of field recordings\, vocals\, and rhythmic pulses guides viewers into altered states of attention\, inviting embodied perception and a luminous\, collective interiority. \nRachel Garber Cole\, My Family Photos |  All Day\nPlease come and use my family photos to tell me stories from your own life. It will be fun and you can voyeur into someone else’s life while I try and voyeur into yours! The workshop is part of project development for my residency project My Family Photos\, which explores 20th century narratives of time and progress against a 21st century backdrop of the climate crisis.\n \nSari Nordman\, Anxiety Boutique Activation Dance | 2:30pm\nThis activation invites viewers to imagine climate extremes and learn more about the story behind the Anxiety Boutique. \n\nAbout The Arts Center Residency \nThe 2026 Arts Center Residency cohort includes 18 artists\, one On-Site Assistant\, and\, for the first time\, two Scholars-in-Residence from Stony Brook University and an Organization-in-Residence: Seaweed City. \n2026 marks the inaugural year of a new partnership with Stony Brook University and Seaweed City\, expanding the residency as a platform for sustained climate inquiry across artistic and academic disciplines. \nLMCC’s 2026 Arts Center Residents are Garrett Allen\, Rachel Garber Cole\, Nicole Cooper\, RedMoon Arts Movement Inc\, Duy Hoàng\, Derek Lee McPhatter\, Tijay Mohammed\, Sari Nordman\, Sabrina Merayo Nuñez\, Phoebus Osborne\, Marie Lloyd Paspe\, Gabriela Salazar\, Lisa Ann Schonberg\, Sara Stern\, Nora Treatbaby\, Tanika I. Williams\, Darla Migan (Stony Brook University) Nobuho Nagasawa (Stony Brook University)\, Seaweed City\, (Organization-in-Residence)\, and Noga Cohen (On-Site Assistant). \nLearn more about the residency here. \n\nAbout The Tempestry Project \nMadison Square Park Conservancy is proud to present New York City’s first Tempestry Collection. Part of the nationwide Tempestry Project\, a collaborative fiber arts initiative that turns climate data into striking visual and tactile works\, this collection offers a unique\, hands-on perspective on environmental change. \nCreated by a community of volunteer knitters\, the project features sixteen hand-knitted panels or “tempestries\,” each depicting a full year of the city’s daily temperature data rendered into various colors. The collection weaves together climate storytelling and civic history. The sixteen years selected\, one from each decade spanning from 1870 to the present\, highlight pivotal moments in Madison Square Park’s evolution\, from its 19th-century redesign to the first public Christmas tree lighting in 1912 to its recognition as an accredited Level 2 Arboretum in 2018. \nPresented in partnership with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at the Arts Center at Govenors Island. \nOn View at the Arts Center May 16 – September 27\, 2026. \n\nPhoto by Elana Engelman-Lado
URL:https://lmcc.net/events/june-open-studios/
LOCATION:LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island\, Building 110\, Governors Island\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Studios
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SUMMARY:my tongue is a blade by Sweat Variant (Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born)
DESCRIPTION:Learn more. 
URL:https://lmcc.net/events/my-tongue-is-a-blade-by-sweat-variant-okwui-okpokwasili-and-peter-born/2026-06-20/
LOCATION:Colonels Row\, Governors Island
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260705
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260706
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SUMMARY:CATCHBALL
DESCRIPTION:The CATCH 5th of July Weekend Spectacular! kicks off with CATCHBALL: an entirely made-up\, participatory\, all-ages\, abjectly amateur\, viciously competitive wiffleball→kickball game on the Governors Island Parade Ground.  \nYes\, CATCHBALL playfully engages themes of American identity\, belonging\, and competition\, but honestly it’s just a fun summer game. John Adams said “Games and Shews.” We listened. \nIt’s The Nutten Island Batteries versus The Emancipation Day Revivalists and anyone can play! Play-by-play\, color commentary\, and umpiring (when we remember the rules) will be provided by downtown luminaries\, anchored by Theresa Buchheister. The game will feature transitional tunes from The Vintage DJ (Jonathan E. Jacobs). Picnickers welcome along the 1st and 3rd base lines — BYOBlanket. \nWhether you wanna play Center or Commissioner — or seriously just want some crackerjacks — we hope you’ll join us for the best goddamned game of CATCHBALL this raggedy-ass democracy has ever imagined! \n\nGet into it here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetpPesiQF4A3QaIWvnfdYJS_Hhkq7vqLyQnz_6D_Wt3J0kyg/viewform \nCATCH is everyone’s favorite Obie Award–winning\, itinerant\, rough-and-ready series of performance parties. Satisfying the promise of New York City since 2003\, CATCH gives stage to an ever-expanding universe of emerging artists and downtown luminaries — pouring equal portions of community\, love\, and beer.    catchseries.org   @catchperfseries  \n\nAbout River To River\nThe River to River Festival was created in the aftermath of 9/11 to heal and celebrate New Yorkers’ resiliency through the power of art. Since 2002\, hundreds of thousands of attendees have experienced the work of hundreds of artists and performers. River To River is a celebration of what is possible when artistic creativity\, cultural institutions\, civic bodies and corporate entities come together in mutual support. \nSponsors\nFunding for the River To River Festival is provided by The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs\, Howard Gilman Foundation\, Lily Auchincloss Foundation\, and The Robert Lehman Foundation. River To River is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding for Leslie Wayne: The Unintended Blues is provided by The Deborah Buck Foundation\, Morgan Stanley Blue Rider Group and New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists Grant. Additional funding for esperanza spalding: In Concert is provided by Battery Park City Authority.  Additional funding for the Bill T. Jones project is provided by Battery Park City Authority\, The National Endowment for the Arts\, and Harkness Foundation for Dance.
URL:https://lmcc.net/events/catchball/
LOCATION:Governors Island Parade Ground\, Governors Island
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260705
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SUMMARY:CATCH Performance Series
DESCRIPTION:Taking place the day after the 4th of July\, join in a convening of artists and audience for an unruly evening of performance that considers the complexities of that history and this moment (in a building first erected as a munitions warehouse for a military headquarters and repurposed as a 40\,000 square-foot cultural destination). \nHosted by Carmelita Tropicana ! — “a feminist\, sex-positive lesbian from Havana who borrows stereotypes to send them up\, campily ridiculing bigotry\, misogyny\, machismo\, colonialism” (The New York Times) the evening will be a raucous reconsideration of a loaded holiday.  \nFeaturing:\nSaúl Ulerio !\nMartita Abril !\nSugar Vendil !\nmiriam elhajli !\nCat Rodriguez !\nevan ray suzuki !\n(Amy) Rose Khoshbin !\nCristina Moya-Palacios !\nAditi Juneja / Democracy 2076 ! \nDoors Open at 4:45PM | Performances start at 5:30PM | Tickets available for purchase online or at the door. \nContent Warning: Guests of all ages are welcome but performances may contain simulated violence\, sexual content\, nudity and explicit language. \n  \n\nCATCH is everyone’s favorite Obie Award–winning\, itinerant\, rough-and-ready series of performance parties. Satisfying the promise of New York City since 2003\, CATCH gives stage to an ever-expanding universe of emerging artists and downtown luminaries — pouring equal portions of community\, love\, and beer.    catchseries.org   @catchperfseries  \nAbout River To River\nThe River to River Festival was created in the aftermath of 9/11 to heal and celebrate New Yorkers’ resiliency through the power of art. Since 2002\, hundreds of thousands of attendees have experienced the work of hundreds of artists and performers. River To River is a celebration of what is possible when artistic creativity\, cultural institutions\, civic bodies and corporate entities come together in mutual support. \nSponsors\nFunding for the River To River Festival is provided by The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs\, Howard Gilman Foundation\, Lily Auchincloss Foundation\, and The Robert Lehman Foundation. River To River is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding for Leslie Wayne: The Unintended Blues is provided by The Deborah Buck Foundation\, Morgan Stanley Blue Rider Group and New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists Grant. Additional funding for esperanza spalding: In Concert is provided by Battery Park City Authority.  Additional funding for the Bill T. Jones project is provided by Battery Park City Authority\, The National Endowment for the Arts\, and Harkness Foundation for Dance. \n\nOriginal image of Meaghan Robichaud at CATCH 77 by Sam Leon.
URL:https://lmcc.net/events/catch-5th-of-july-weekend-spectacular/
LOCATION:Lower Gallery\, The Arts Center at Governors Island 110 Andes Road
CATEGORIES:Public Programs,River To River Festival
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260725
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260726
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SUMMARY:City of Water Day Panel
DESCRIPTION:Free | Saturday\, July 25 at 3:15pm | Lehman Gallery\, LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island \nLMCC in partnership with Stony Brook University invites you to a City of Water Day discussion at the Arts Center at Governors Island. Artists and academics will address topics from art-making and creativity to climate change and the environment\, as they relate to our shared waterways and waterfront. \nThe discussion will be moderated by LMCC CEO & Artistic Director\, Moe Yousuf\, and include current LMCC’s Arts Center artist Leslie Wayne\, as well as artists and scientists from Stony Brook University. \nThe panelists will include: \n\n\nLuke Eddins\, Seaweed City\, LMCC 2026 Arts Center Resident\nJoseph Labriola\, Lecturer\, Writing & Rhetoric\, Stony Brook University\nLuis Medina\, Assistant Professor\, School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences\, Stony Brook University\nKate Schwarting\, Director of Exhibitions & Curator\, Gallery North\nLeslie Wayne\, artist\, The Unintended Blues on view at the Arts Center at Governors Island\nMoe Yousuf\, LMCC Chief Executive Officer & Artistic Director\, moderator\n\n\nAfter the discussion\, stick around for questions and informal conversation with panelists and other attendees.\n  \nRSVP at July 25 Open Studios and select the City of Water Day Panel tickets. RSVP HERE.\n\nAlso on July 25 at the Arts Center:\n \n12-5pm\, Meet the 2026 Cohort of Arts Center Residents during Open Studios. This open house events is  free and welcoming\, informal\, and accessible to all ages. Artist activations will take place throughout the day\, including a screening\, live broadcast\, listening installation\, a ClimArt Cafe\, and participatory activities. \nFrom 1-3pm\, take part in Recycled Runway\, a free\, family-friendly art-making workshop with Sari Nordman. Create a colorful\, one-of-a-kind wearable accessory from recycled plastic that celebrates your individual NYC style! Central to her practice\, Nordman addresses eco-anxiety through environmental art projects that foster social engagement and utilize recycled plastic. The workshop will be ongoing so visitors are welcome to participate for as long as they would like. \nRSVP for all activities HERE. \n  \nAbout City of Water Day\nNow in its 19th year\, City of Water Day — taking place this year on Saturday\, July 25 — is a  region-wide day organized by Waterfront Alliance and New York–New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program (HEP)\, to champion a climate-resilient New York and New Jersey harbor. Dozens of communities across all five boroughs\, Westchester and Rockland counties\, and New Jersey will host events on and near the water that celebrate the importance of a resilient and equitably shared waterfront. From free kayaking to rowing to hands-on workshops\, these events offer community members opportunities for fun\, education\, and access to their local waterfront. https://www.cityofwaterday.org/ \n  \nPhoto by Tobias Reich on Unsplash \n 
URL:https://lmcc.net/events/city-of-water-day-panel/
LOCATION:LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island\, Building 110\, Governors Island\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260725T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260725T170000
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SUMMARY:July Open Studios
DESCRIPTION:With Open Studios\, LMCC invites the public into the workspaces and creative processes of the 2026 Cohort of Arts Center Residents. These open house events are free and welcoming\, informal\, and accessible to all ages. Artist activations will take place throughout the day\, including a screening\, live broadcast\, listening installation\, a ClimArt Cafe\, and participatory activities. RSVP and let us know you’re attending! \n  \nJuly Open Studios Artist Activations:  \nRachel Garber Cole\, My Family Photos |  All Day\nPlease come and use my family photos to tell me stories from your own life. It will be fun and you can voyeur into someone else’s life while I try and voyeur into yours! The workshop is part of project development for my residency project My Family Photos\, which explores 20th century narratives of time and progress against a 21st century backdrop of the climate crisis. \nTijay Mohammed\, Message to My Ancestors |  All Day\nParticipants are invited to write messages and prayers to their ancestors on pieces of fabric\, which are then woven into a collective installation at AnkhLave House 408B Colonels Row on Governors Island. Honoring African traditions of ancestral remembrance\, the evolving installation becomes a sacred space for emotional release\, cultural pride\, collective reflection\, and the enduring celebration of ancestral wisdom. \nDarla Migan\, eat slow sketch show : pilot episode |  All Day\neat slow sketch show is a Black queer experimental broadcast universe dreamt through food\, live sonic scoring\, communal play\, and shared nourishment as tools for collective liberation. this pilot episode builds a world inside a volcano. an invitation to practice overflowing\, to refuse the slow quiet training of the self into something smaller than what it actually is. participants move through play\, movement\, performance\, and a shared meal. the only way out is through. and we are going out together. \nFeaturing: \nSur\, creator\, host spatial designer\, cook\nzella\, featured guest\, movement facilitator\, co-experimenter\ndarla\, curator\, community participant\nthe experimental school for Black imagination\, co presenting organization\ngovernors island\, filming location\, two-day production \nNicole Cooper\, ClimART Cafe & LMCC Artist Studio Tour | 90 minutes\, 12-1:30pm\nShare your emotions about climate change with a caring community\, then explore the creative climate artwork of LMCC resident artists on a studio tour. Art resonates with our deepest feelings—this gathering offers space for reflection\, imagination\, and connection. WHAT TO EXPECT: Introductions\, grounding meditation\, and open discussion of climate emotions. Led by resident artist Nicole Cooper in partnership with Climate Cafe NYC and Climate Imaginarium\, followed by a tour of 2-3 resident studios. No experience necessary. Space limited to 12! Reservations are required: Please RSVP here.  \nPhoebus Osborne\, Oh\, it’s my ass and my anus | 25 minute screenings\, 12-2pm\nA single-channel version of a 4-channel video work by Phoebus Osborne\, Oh\, it’s my ass and my anus explores underground and interior environments as sites of resistance\, intimacy\, and imagination. Weaving footage of limestone caves\, cemeteries\, bathroom DJ sets\, queer beaches\, and domestic spaces\, the piece unfolds as a sensorial field. A layered soundscape of field recordings\, vocals\, and rhythmic pulses guides viewers into altered states of attention\, inviting embodied perception and a luminous\, collective interiority. \nLisa Schonberg\, The Insects are Present | 2pm\nA work-in-progress listening experience based on Lisa’s sonic research on the ephemeral\, rich compost habitats at Earth Matter on Governor’s Island. The Insects are Present is a public installation of a modular\, generative music composition system. This system of recording\, processing\, and playback prompts interactions between real-time environmental sounds\, human messages\, and Schonberg’s percussion\, with a focus on hidden soundscapes of insects and other invertebrates. \nMarie Lloyd Paspe\, this is how we disappear | 3pm\nIt is said that engkanto (Tagalog for *spirits*) live in the wilderness\, quiet paths\, and the large trees in the Philippines. If one passes them without paying their respects\, one may get sick. What if societies no longer re-member how to ask nature for her permission to pass — slowly\, slowly\, fragments of ancestral bodies erode\, and with them\, their memory. Through acts of retrieval\, re-membering\, labor\, and home tending\, choreopoetics and a shifting soundscape physicalize the resilience of the engkanto and the lands of the Global South most vulnerable to climate change. this is how we disappear is a durational work to come walk through and go as you need. As you visit\, take our mom’s advice and say “tabi tabi po\,” or “may I pass\,” to pay respects to the unseen spirits that exist within the natural world. \nMarie Lloyd Paspe\ngushes (music)\nChing-I Chang (handwoven textiles) \nActivations are subject to change.  \nAlso on July 25 at the Arts Center: \nFrom 1-3pm\, take part in Recycled Runway\, a free\, family-friendly art-making workshop with Sari Nordman. Create a colorful\, one-of-a-kind wearable accessory from recycled plastic that celebrates your individual NYC style! Central to her practice\, Nordman addresses eco-anxiety through environmental art projects that foster social engagement and utilize recycled plastic. The workshop will be ongoing so visitors are welcome to participate for as long as they would like. Reservations encouraged for headcount and supplies. \nAt 3:15pm\, join LMCC Artistic Director\, Moe Yousuf\, artist Leslie Wayne and academics from Stony Brook University for a City of Water Day panel as they discuss issues at the intersection of art-making\, climate change and the environment. Reservations encouraged. \n\nAbout The Arts Center Residency \nThe 2026 Arts Center Residency cohort includes 18 artists\, one On-Site Assistant\, and\, for the first time\, two Scholars-in-Residence from Stony Brook University and an Organization-in-Residence: Seaweed City. \n2026 marks the inaugural year of a new partnership with Stony Brook University and Seaweed City\, expanding the residency as a platform for sustained climate inquiry across artistic and academic disciplines. \nLMCC’s 2026 Arts Center Residents are Garrett Allen\, Rachel Garber Cole\, Nicole Cooper\, RedMoon Arts Movement Inc\, Duy Hoàng\, Derek Lee McPhatter\, Tijay Mohammed\, Sari Nordman\, Sabrina Merayo Nuñez\, Phoebus Osborne\, Marie Lloyd Paspe\, Gabriela Salazar\, Lisa Ann Schonberg\, Sara Stern\, Nora Treatbaby\, Tanika I. Williams\, Darla Migan (Stony Brook University) Nobuho Nagasawa (Stony Brook University)\, Seaweed City\, (Organization-in-Residence)\, and Noga Cohen (On-Site Assistant). \nLearn more about the residency here. \n\nPhoto by Gregory Gentert
URL:https://lmcc.net/events/july-open-studios/
LOCATION:LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island\, Building 110\, Governors Island\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Recycled Runway
DESCRIPTION:Recycled Runway: an All-Ages Climate Art Workshop with Sari Nordman.\nCreate a colorful\, one-of-kind wearable accessory from recycled plastic that celebrates your individual NYC style! Arts Center Resident Artist Sari Nordman addresses eco-anxiety through environmental art projects that foster social engagement and utilize recycled plastic. Drawing on 15 years of experience as a teaching artist in NYC public schools\, Sari finds joy in sharing their practice and collaborating with diverse communities.  \nAll materials will be provided\, though participants are encouraged to bring clean\, colorful recycled plastics such as shopping bags\, newspaper sleeves\, and toilet paper or paper towel packaging. Stay for the entire event or drop in for a few minutes. \nThe workshop will be ongoing from 1-3pm\, and visitors are welcome to participate for as long as they would like. \nReservations to help us track interest and capacity are not required but are ENCOURAGED!  \n  \n\nSari Nordman is an interdisciplinary artist. She creates public art projects\, fiber-art installations and mixed media works. Many of her projects have been informed by climate change and respond to environmental justice issues. \nNordman’s works have been exhibited at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (Jamaica Flux)\, South Street Seaport (Art at The Edge) and Thomas Cole National Historic Site (Upstate Art Weekend). Her works have received grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, Frame Contemporary Art Finland and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). She is a participant in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s (LMCC) 2026 Arts Center Residency Program. She has served on environmental artist panels discussing her works and the social engagement in her process at the Hirshhorn Museum\, COAL + ICE at The Kennedy Center and Climate Art Panel at South Street Seaport. \nNordman develops a podcast Tower: Bridging Voices on Climate Change. She holds a M.F.A. from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. \nsarinordman.com  \n\nPhoto by Sari Nordman
URL:https://lmcc.net/events/recycled-runway-art-workshop-with-sari-nordman-2/
LOCATION:LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island\, Building 110\, Governors Island\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260801T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260801T150000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Animal Encyclopedia
DESCRIPTION:Step into a space of imagination and invention\, where new hybrid creatures begin to appear! \nUsing images from books and their own drawings\, participants will create collages that merge dinosaurs with present-day animals. \nAs these creatures take shape\, participants enter a world of storytelling and transformation. Together\, these creatures form a speculative bestiary—an imagined collection of living beings that might exist in possible worlds. Each creation becomes a page in this shifting Hybrid Animal Encyclopedia\, a meeting point of memory and invention\, nature and imagination\, past and future. Participants and families take their collages and drawings home\, each holding a personal fragment of this imagined world. \nReservations to help us track interest and capacity are not required but are ENCOURAGED!  \nThe workshop will be ongoing from 1-3pm\, participants are welcome to stop by and stay for as long as they wish. \n\nBased in New York since 2001\, Nobuho Nagasawa is a transnational\, transdisciplinary artist trained in Berlin and invited to the United States by the California Institute of the Arts in 1986. She creates immersive\, site-responsive environments shaped by time\, process\, and collective engagement. Approaching each site like an archaeologist\, she uncovers hidden histories\, ecological and psychological traces within the landscape. Her practice explores how perception\, memory\, and embodied experience shape our sense of place. Nagasawa has received major grants and awards\, including DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the California Arts Council\, multiple Japan Foundation grants\, and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Among more than forty completed public art commissions\, she has earned three Design Excellence Awards. A recent project exhibited at MoMA received a dozen awards\, including Woman-Designed NYC. Her work has been exhibited at Prague Castle\, the Ludwig Museum\, the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico\, and the Alexandria Library in Egypt\, and represented in biennials and triennials across Europe\, Asia\, Africa\, and the Middle East. From 2026 to 2028\, her work will be featured in exhibitions at Mudam (Museum of Contemporary Art Luxembourg)\, Lenbachhaus Munich\, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. \n\nPhoto courtesy of Nobuho Nagasawa
URL:https://lmcc.net/events/hybrid-animal-encyclopedia-workshop-with-nobuho-nagasawa/2026-08-01/
LOCATION:LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island\, Building 110\, Governors Island\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T210000
DTSTAMP:20260724T134930Z
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SUMMARY:esperanza spalding
DESCRIPTION:esperanza spalding in collaboration with dancer\, theater and filmmaker Kayla Farrish\, presents an evening of new dance and music – crafted live and in real time.   \nGrowing from spalding’s years of study and experimentation around how to re-merge “jazz” music & dance\, and Farrish’s multi-disciplinary work of transforming feeling\, story\, and humanity through dance\, this is a unique first public sharing of their creative collaboration. \nThe ensemble of three musicians and three dancers has been in workshop throughout 2026\, developing shared grammar and vocabulary to musically and movementally compose a story\, engage in improvisational dialogue\, and translate the vibrant energies\, sensations\, and ideas coursing between\, within\, and around them. Alchemizing and manifesting what could be\, through and with one another… \nPerforming with spalding and Farrish\, the ensemble will include:\nJamal Abrams\, dance\nKar’mel Antonio Wade Small\, dance\nJustin Tyson\, drums & keyboards\nDayna Stevens\, saxophone & electronics\nTaiya Cheng\, sound engineer \nFree | August 8\, 7pm | Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park | Let us know you’re attending! RSVP here. \nPresented by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in partnership with Battery Park City Authority as part of the 2026 River To River Festival. \nPLEASE NOTE: No assigned seating\, first come\, first served in the amphitheater seating. Lawn chairs and blankets are permitted on the Wagner lawn. Patrons may be asked to make room to allow for more guests. Food and beverage will be available for purchase\, picnics are allowed. \n\n \nesperanza spalding is an eaabibacliitoti* artist\, trained and  initiated in the North American jazz lineage and tradition. Her  work interweaves various combinations of instrumental music\,  improvisation\, singing\, composition\, poetry\, dance\, therapeutic  research\, storytelling\, teaching\, restorative urban land & artist sanctuary custodianship\, and growing in love as a daughter\,  sister\, cousin\, niece\, auntie\, great-auntie\, friend.  \nShe founded and serves as co-director of Prismid Sanctuary\, a  non-profit that creates and stewards restorative artist residency &  workshop space in Portland\, Oregon (Prismid.org).  \n  With her dance project “Off Brand gOdds” and the Songwrights  Apothecary Lab she leads multi-week performances\, workshops\,  teaching\, and therapeutic-arts research residencies. She is a  2024 recipient of the Doris Duke Foundation Artist Award and a  2016 Ford Foundation “Art of Change” Fellow.  \n  \n \nKayla Farrish is a Black American Director merging dance-theater\, filmmaking\, narrative\, and sound score. Her commissions include Limon Dance Company\, Whim W’him\, Ririe Woodbury\, Armstrong Now!\, Danspace\, Little Island\, Harlem Stage\, American Dance Festival and beyond. She creates live works\, films\, site-specific/immersive pieces\, and collaborations with musicians such as esperanza spalding\, Trixie Whitley\, Moor Mother\, and Melanie Charles. Presenting spaces include Lincoln Center\, Park Avenue Armory\, Symphony Space\, and National Sawdust\, Joyce Theater\, among receiving support from Works & Process\, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective\, Baryshnikov Arts\, La Mama Theater\, and others. \nShe received the Sundance Uprise Grant for Emerging BIPOC Directors\, Bessie Awards for December 8th and NYLA’s “Motherboard Suite”\, New York Times Top 2021 Dance Performances “Roster” and “Breakout Star.” She is a recipient of the Harkness Promise Award for 2022. She premiered reimagined archival work for Limon at Joyce Theater (2024). She toured “Put Away the Fire\, dear” supported by NEFA National Dance Project. She received Watermill Center’s Baroness Nina Von Maltzahn Fellowship and the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Choreographer Award (2023).  She is a 2025 CUNY Dance Initiative Artist\, NYFA/NYSCA Choreography Fellow\, 2026 NY Support for Artists Grantee\, and Danse Mirage Foundation Choreography commissioned artist. \n  \n*European-African ancestored being influenced by American cultures living in Indigenous Territories of Turtle Island \n\nFunding for esperanza spalding: In Concert is provided by Battery Park City Authority.   \nFunding for the River To River Festival is provided by The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs\, Howard Gilman Foundation\, Lily Auchincloss Foundation\, and The Robert Lehman Foundation.  River To River is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.  \n \n\nPhotos by Rob Lewis.
URL:https://lmcc.net/events/esperanza-spalding/
LOCATION:Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park\, 20 Battery Place\, New York\, NY\, 10280\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T150000
DTSTAMP:20260722T160719Z
CREATED:20260521T154206Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Animal Encyclopedia
DESCRIPTION:Step into a space of imagination and invention\, where new hybrid creatures begin to appear! \nUsing images from books and their own drawings\, participants will create collages that merge dinosaurs with present-day animals. \nAs these creatures take shape\, participants enter a world of storytelling and transformation. Together\, these creatures form a speculative bestiary—an imagined collection of living beings that might exist in possible worlds. Each creation becomes a page in this shifting Hybrid Animal Encyclopedia\, a meeting point of memory and invention\, nature and imagination\, past and future. Participants and families take their collages and drawings home\, each holding a personal fragment of this imagined world. \nReservations to help us track interest and capacity are not required but are ENCOURAGED!  \nThe workshop will be ongoing from 1-3pm\, participants are welcome to stop by and stay for as long as they wish. \n\nBased in New York since 2001\, Nobuho Nagasawa is a transnational\, transdisciplinary artist trained in Berlin and invited to the United States by the California Institute of the Arts in 1986. She creates immersive\, site-responsive environments shaped by time\, process\, and collective engagement. Approaching each site like an archaeologist\, she uncovers hidden histories\, ecological and psychological traces within the landscape. Her practice explores how perception\, memory\, and embodied experience shape our sense of place. Nagasawa has received major grants and awards\, including DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the California Arts Council\, multiple Japan Foundation grants\, and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Among more than forty completed public art commissions\, she has earned three Design Excellence Awards. A recent project exhibited at MoMA received a dozen awards\, including Woman-Designed NYC. Her work has been exhibited at Prague Castle\, the Ludwig Museum\, the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico\, and the Alexandria Library in Egypt\, and represented in biennials and triennials across Europe\, Asia\, Africa\, and the Middle East. From 2026 to 2028\, her work will be featured in exhibitions at Mudam (Museum of Contemporary Art Luxembourg)\, Lenbachhaus Munich\, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. \n\nPhoto courtesy of Nobuho Nagasawa
URL:https://lmcc.net/events/hybrid-animal-encyclopedia-workshop-with-nobuho-nagasawa/2026-08-15/
LOCATION:LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island\, Building 110\, Governors Island\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260829T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260829T150000
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CREATED:20260521T153036Z
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SUMMARY:Recycled Runway
DESCRIPTION:Create a colorful\, one-of-kind wearable accessory from recycled plastic that celebrates your individual NYC style! Arts Center Resident Artist Sari Nordman addresses eco-anxiety through environmental art projects that foster social engagement and utilize recycled plastic. Drawing on 15 years of experience as a teaching artist in NYC public schools\, Sari finds joy in sharing their practice and collaborating with diverse communities.  \nAll materials will be provided\, though participants are encouraged to bring clean\, colorful recycled plastics such as shopping bags\, newspaper sleeves\, and toilet paper or paper towel packaging. Stay for the entire event or drop in for a few minutes. \nThe workshop will be ongoing from 1-3pm\, and visitors are welcome to participate for as long as they would like. \nReservations to help us track interest and capacity are not required but are ENCOURAGED!  \n  \n\nSari Nordman is an interdisciplinary artist. She creates public art projects\, fiber-art installations and mixed media works. Many of her projects have been informed by climate change and respond to environmental justice issues. \nNordman’s works have been exhibited at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (Jamaica Flux)\, South Street Seaport (Art at The Edge) and Thomas Cole National Historic Site (Upstate Art Weekend). Her works have received grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, Frame Contemporary Art Finland and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). She is a participant in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s (LMCC) 2026 Arts Center Residency Program. She has served on environmental artist panels discussing her works and the social engagement in her process at the Hirshhorn Museum\, COAL + ICE at The Kennedy Center and Climate Art Panel at South Street Seaport. \nNordman develops a podcast Tower: Bridging Voices on Climate Change. She holds a M.F.A. from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. \nsarinordman.com  \n\nPhoto by Sari Nordman
URL:https://lmcc.net/events/recycled-runway-art-workshop-with-sari-nordman/
LOCATION:LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island\, Building 110\, Governors Island\, New York\, NY\, United States
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