Looking Forward to the Final Week of the 20th edition of River To River
There is still time to experience this final week of River To River 2021!
If you see that an in-person event is sold out online, don’t fret – we welcome walk-ups! Be sure to arrive early to join the standby line. Due to limited capacity, entry is not guaranteed without a reservation.
Black Gotham Experience
As Above So Below
In-person events:
June 24, 26* at 4:30-6:30 pm
*UPDATE FOR JUNE 22 TOUR:
Due to inclement weather, the walking tour for Tuesday, June 22 has been POSTPONED to Saturday, June 26 at 4:30 pm-6:30pm. We encourage you to arrive by 4pm in order to experience the Monument before the tour begins.
Tour begins at African Burial Ground National Monument
At the intersection of African Burial Ground Way (formerly Elk Street) and Duane Street 290 Broadway, New York, NY
Through a series of walking tours and podcasts by Kamau Ware and Rodney Leon, As Above So Below will create an interactive multidisciplinary set of experiences to engage, inspire and educate the public about the impact of the African Diaspora on the establishment and development of New York City.
esperanza spalding
Songwrights Apothecary Lab
In-person events:
June 22 : Shareback at 7pm
Presented in partnership with The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
Flamboyán Theater
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
107 Suffolk St [map]
You're invited to visit esperanza spalding, her fellow songwrights, researchers and mentors at Songwrights Apothecary Lab, a series of intimate share backs in addition to the performance.
Visitors will experience music shared by the lab that continues spalding's exploration of how musicians meaningfully incorporate therapeutic practices and knowledge into their work.
Join us for an intimate experience as the Lab collective performs their music and shares their creative process.
Womxn in Windows
In-person event:
On view now through June 27
Seaport District
192 Front Street
A Ritual of Sisterhood, 2018 - Rikkí Wright
193 Front Street
Generational Gravity, 2020 - Christine Yuan
Fucked Like A Star, 2018 - Stefani Saintonge
10 Fulton Street
Phiran Walli (A Girl Who Walks), 2019 - Jasdeep Kang
Flor de Azalea, 2017 - Jazmin Garcia
1 Fulton Street
All of the above films are repeated at this location
Presented in partnership with The Howard Hughes Corporation
Womxn in Windows is a multi-part video installation that focuses on the confluence of culture and society in an exploration of female identity. As part of the River to River Festival, Womxn in Windows presents the work of five female-identifying artists; placing videos in the windows and storefronts of Lower Manhattan.
WS, a longer super nova
Directed by Arthur Jafa
Digital screenings:
June 24 at 8pm
June 26 at 3pm
Produced by Nanette Nelms
WS, a longer super nova, director Arthur Jafa gives us a glimpse into the genius mind of Jazz Master Wayne Shorter being his inimitable stream of consciousness self. Jafa records an ongoing and intimately wild conversation between Mestre Shorter and brilliantly inspired Jazz force esperanza spalding.
WS, a longer super nova will stream digitally on LMCC.net/R2R on select dates.
The Stranger
Directed by Damon Davis
Digital screenings:
Online now through June 27
Created by Damon Davis while in residence in Ghana, The Stranger is an allegorical story about Davis, a Black American, returning to the place of his origin, West Africa. It speaks to the complex relationship between the Diaspora and the continental African people, as well as the rift that slavery created and the expectations of a person returning to a "homeland" they have never been.
Kamau Ware
Land of the Blacks
Digital text on LMCC.net
Before NYC had its name, there were 28 farmsteads belonging to Black landowners that stretched from today’s southeastern corner of Chinatown north and westward to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. For centuries, these lands & stories have been traversed with little to no acknowledgment.
Created by Kamau Ware, founder of Black Gotham Experience, Land of the Blacks is a project that explores these people of African descent who negotiated their freedom in the colony of New Netherland in the 1600s, in what is now the borough of Manhattan.