October 2 | 5pm | SWISS INSTITUTE
Curator Tour of Current Exhibits
Swiss Institute (SI) is offering a curator led tour of the current exhibitions on view: TENET and SI ONSITE. Please RSVP to education@swissinstitute.net. Free.
October 2 – 8 | MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA
[VIRTUAL] Mid-Autumn Moon Family Festival!
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Mooncakes, lanterns, and the Jade Rabbit on the moon! Explore the customs and traditions behind this harvest festival with arts & crafts, story time, and more family fun! Celebrate with us from home all week long from Oct 2- Oct 8! Free.
October 2 | 1pm | ABRONS ARTS CENTER
2019-2020 Visual Artist AIRspace Residency Exhibition
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Abrons Arts Center opens the opens the 2019-2020 Visual Artist AIRspace Residency Exhibition, featuring work that Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Arisleyda Dilone, Alicia Mersy, and Charisse Pearlina Weston developed during their residency at Abrons. The exhibition will be presented at Abrons, at Henry Street Settlement Campus sites, and online.
Abrons invites you to join in the Abrons Amphitheater to pick up an exhibition map and physically distanced DJ set by Ted Kamal.
October 2 | 2pm | GREEN MAP
How Green Is My City?
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How Green is My City is an exhibit of Green Maps made in the Lower East Side and around the world, currently being presented at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. This online workshop demonstrates how to use OGM2, Green Map’s new mapping platform, now in Beta. Free.
October 2 & 3 | all day | ARTISTS ALLIANCE
You Don’t See Me
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Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space presents You Don’t See Me, an exhibition that critically engages ‘material as a suppressed history.’ Curated by Tariku Shiferaw, who is a current artist-in-residence of the LES Studio Program, featuring artists Layo Bright, Adrienne Gaither, Mylo Mu, and Na’ye Perez. Free.
October 3 | 1-2pm | EARTH CELEBRATIONS
LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival
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Join Earth Celebrations at the LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival featuring our Climate Solution Costumes as Living Sculpture @ La Plaza Cultural Garden (9th St. Ave C SW Corner), 9th & C Garden and 6th and B Garden on Saturday October 3rd from 1-2pm. Community culture and resilience in the age of Covid are on display in a physically distanced climate arts presentation with Earth Celebrations spectacular Climate Solution Costumes as Living Sculpture. Come to the urban gardens jungle like a zoo and masked for safety, as audience views the exhibition from outside the garden gates. Free.
October 3 | 2-5pm | GENE FRANKEL THEATRE
Wowie Zowie
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Open ended secret performances of poetry & performance art, happening every hour by Helixx Armageddon, Scooter LaForge psychic painting/ portraits, Eileen Dover as Madonna vogue, Thomas Gordon as Kar Load of Klowns Punchy , Alex Sepassi, Jorge Clar performance art, Yoshiko Chuma dance and secret guests.
October 3 | 12 – 5pm | East 4th between Bowery & Second Ave
4th Street Arts Alive!
Socially distanced and free arts activities from East 4th Street groups
4th St. Photo Gallery | Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company | Downtown Art | FABnyc | Frigid New York | IATI | KGB Bar | La MaMa | New York Theatre Workshop | The New York Neo-Futurists | WOW Cafe Theater
FABnyc and Downtown Art
70 East 4th Street, outside and indoors
12pm – Intermittent Imprints: to walk along the river | Raul Ayala
Procession and ritual installation of Intermittent Imprints: to walk along the river, a four-story tall fabric mural by Raul Ayala, that unveils the neighborhood’s pre-colonial ecologies, with the waterway that once flowed through East 4th Street down to the East River acting as a reference point for considering our vital relationship to water in a time of rapidly advancing climate change. In front of 70 East 4th Street.
1pm – 5pm – On being home while feeding the lungs.| Antigona Gonzalez
Multi media exhibition of On being home while feeding the lungs, a bilingual oral history project by artist Antigona Gonzalez which developed from outreach calls to isolated Lower East Side seniors in Spring 2020. The exhibition may only be visited by reservation; a maximum of 7 people will be allowed inside at any time. Indoors, 70 East 4th Street. Reservation link
FRIGID New York
3pm – SILENT BUT DEADLY – A Mime Experience
SILENT BUT DEADLY & Sour Grapes Productions. Using our head, shoulders, knees, and toes, we’ll be contorting and wiggling into your hearts (and possibly nightmares, sorry.)
DANCES by Kinesis Project with Estro-Genius Festival; artists will offer dances and experiences outdoors along 4th Street
WOW Café Theater
2:30 – 5pm – The WOW Museum of Community Liberation
WOW Café Theater offers a live and virtual journey into collective resilience, reflection, and restoration through stories, songs, poems, dance, and drama, because “without community there is no liberation” (Audre Lorde). Sidewalk pop-ups, East 4th between Bowery & Second Ave
KGB Bar and Red Room
Times Vary – Jazz and Dance on KGB Bar and Red Room’s Stoop
2pm Simona Smirnova Lithuanian Zither Performance
4pm Bellydance by Amanda
4:15pm Calvin Johnson New Orleans Jazz Horn (he’ll be playing out of our 2nd floor window to keep
distance
La MaMa
1 – 3pm – ARTS ALIVE at La MaMa
Three Resident Artists of La MaMa’s 59th Season (Shauna Davis, John Maria Gutierrez, and Justin Hicks) create new experiential installations as we reflect on our current modes of restructuring community and art in the wake of COVID-19.
IATI Theater, in collaboration with Lo Fi Dance Theory
1 – 3pm – 101.2: An outdoor virtual dance exhibition
IATI Theater presents an outdoor and socially-distanced exhibition of 101.2. Filmed in early May of 2020 while most of the world was still under lockdown, dancers used a map inspired by New York City’s grid systems on the Lower East Side. The map is annotated with statements inspired by the writings of Jane Jacobs and are gentle suggestions or prompts that can be taken into action through reflection, in movement, or on the streets.
New York Neo-Futurists
Time and Locations Vary – The Neo-Futurists Will See You Now
The Neo-Futurists Will See You Now Randomized performance art appointments with the New York Neo-Futurists.
12 – 1:45pm: The Neo-Futurists Will See You Now at The Kraine Theater
2-3pm: The Neo-Futurists Will See You Now at La MaMa
4:45 – 5pm: “How To Maintain…” a ritual group movement in front of New York Theatre Workshop
Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company
2:45 – 4:30pm– Dance, music and more…Oh My!
Visit the home of Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company and learn all about the programs and performances @theAO. See a visual display of our past, present and future…come get to know us better.
Rod Rodgers Dance Company
4pm (subject to change) – Ballroom Vogue Class & Showcase from Iconic Dance Project
Join for fun class with Vogue dance, runway style & ballroom in in Rod Rodger’s backlot at 11 E. 3rd St.! Join for Yoga in the backlot, Monday through Saturday at 1pm.
October 3 | 3:30pm | EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE ART SCHOOL
Virtual Drawing Workshop with Thomas Legaspi
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Come and explore techniques for drawing in pencil in this FREE, fun, virtual, two-hour workshop! Bring paper, a drawing pencil and an eraser. Login to Zoom and learn the basics of line, form, shape, value and tone. Work from a photo of a still life that will be shared before the workshop or set up your own still life at home. The instructor will start with a live demo and then participants will draw on their own. Feedback will be provided along the way to support you in finishing your drawing by the end of the workshop. Free.
October 3 | 5pm | KINESIS PROJECT
Hyper Local Dance Out
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Co-produced with Dance Rising
Are you a dancer, choreographer, or other dance professional in any dance form? Sign up. Get the score. Professionals in the dance community are invited to sign up, dance and record that dance indoors or outdoors on Oct 3 between 5:00-5:30pm
October 3 | 7pm | Abrons Arts Center
Y Este Cuerpo También/This Body, Too Screening and Talk
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Arisleyda Dilone presents a work-in-progress excerpt from their forthcoming feature-length
documentary, Y Este Cuerpo También/This Body, Too, which chronicles the filmmaker’s journey as a queer intersex woman in a clan of Dominican-American women. The film considers the literal
construction of womanhood and femininity within their own family in an effort to make space for
complexity, collective healing, and personal growth. The screening will be followed by a discussion
between Dilone and film curator Dessane Lopez Cassell.
This event will take place online. ASL interpretation and closed captioning will be provided for the
post-screening discussion.
October 3 | 8pm | METROPOLITAN PLAYHOUSE
Virtual Playhouse Reading of The Clod by Lewis Beach
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In this play from 1914, a family living on the Mason Dixon line in the midst of the US Civil War is caught between a desperate Union soldier’s pleas for shelter, and a demanding Confederate officer’s insistence they give him up. A surprise twist ending and its decidedly unromantic vision of the war challenged the prevailing theatrical tone of the era, and force us to ask today, whatever the issue, how sure are we that we know what side we’re on? Screened using Metropolitan’s increasingly sophisticated and elegant online reading techniques, and available from its airing the evening of October 3 through October 7th. Free.
October 4 | 11am | MAGNUM FOUNDATION
Photography and Social Justice: Sharing Works in Progress
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As part of this year’s Photoville Festival, Magnum Foundation will be sharing some inside looks into the processes and experiences of our 2020 Photography and Social Justice Fellows as their projects near completion. From the persistent undercurrents of trauma in Puerto Rico post-Hurricane María, to the challenges facing formerly incarcerated youth upon re-entry in Venezuela, and from personal explorations of masculinity, family, and identity, and how they intersect with disability, to challenging harmful practices and stigmas around menstruation in Nepal, this diverse, international group of visual storytellers is exploring new approaches to socially engaged documentary practice. Free.
October 7 | 11am | TENEMENT MUSUEM
Virtual Tour: Baldizzi Family
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Take a break from reality and enjoy the irreverent storyteller and puppeteer Vít Hořejš as he re-tells classic Czech and Slovak fairy tales from his socially-distanced Hudson River Valley refuge with the help of brilliant guest-musicians from across the globe.
October 7 | 3pm | GOH Productions
[Virtual] Naptime Stories for the Absurd Times
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Take a break from reality and enjoy the irreverent storyteller and puppeteer Vít Hořejš as he re-tells classic Czech and Slovak fairy tales from his socially-distanced Hudson River Valley refuge with the help of brilliant guest-musicians from across the globe.
October 7 | 7pm | PERFORMANCE PROJECT @ UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT
SHARE! Salon (via Facebook LIVE)
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SHARE! is a performance series that honors artists at every stage of development on one equal platform. It’s a time to testify, to be witnessed and to be praised so we can hope and heal together. Featuring (in alphabetical order) Mijori Goodwin, TJ Rocka Jamez, Alice Klugherz, Tatyanna Santana, and sections of work from NOVA BLACK and Jiawen Hu & Jing Dong (The Square). Free.
October 7 | 8pm | POETRY PROJECT
White Men, White Whales, and Whitehead with Lisa Jarnot
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This lecture, the first in a series of four, explores the doctrine of discovery that haunts American poetry. Lisa Jarnot engages in an autobiographical interrogation of what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, and what it means to have white privilege and write poetry. Free.
October 8 | 10am | INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
ICP Community Programs: Teen Storytellers Impacting Change
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An ICP Community Programs alum will moderate the panel and facilitate discussion about the student panelists’s individual and shared experiences in Community Programs. Each panelist will share a portfolio of their images, along with a prepared written piece to reflect ICP’s curricular focus. Free.
October 8 | 3pm | VILLAGE PRESERVATION
Virtual Tour: A Historic Tour with Fourth Arts Block
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Fourth Arts Block, spanning East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue, is an incredible microcosm of the East Village’s layered history, distinctive architecture, and cultural innovations. Over the past hundred years, its buildings have housed German music societies, Italian theaters, Yiddish publishers, Union halls, Puerto Rican and Ukrainian social clubs, and drag venues — all predecessors of the experimental theater and performance arts district that thrives there today. Village Preservation’s Sarah Bean Apmann and Louisa Winchell will illuminate forgotten histories and examples of adaptive reuse as they lead a virtual stroll down this iconic block. Free.
October 8 | 7pm | TENEMENT MUSEUM
Virtual Tour: Contraceptives and Controversies
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Join us on YouTube Live for a discussion on the history of birth control from the 1870s into the 1930s. During this 60-year period, contraceptives fluctuated from being legal, accessible, and innovative, to being sold in underground markets leading to dangerous choices for those looking to limit their fertility. Adapted from our highly popular Tenement Bedrooms specialized tour, we will trace the whirlwind history of contraceptives through the lives of two women who lived in 97 Orchard: Caroline Schneider—a German immigrant who ran a Lager Bier saloon with her husband in the building, and Rosaria Baldizzi—an Italian immigrant who raised two children with her husband during the Great Depression. Through their lives, we will consider the choices available to them, and discuss the influential people who impacted their reproductive choices. Free.
October 8 | 7pm | ABRONS ARTS CENTER
Emily Johnson/Catalyst: Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter
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Abrons continues their monthly ceremonial fire centering Indigenous protocol and knowledge with guest artists and activists engaging us via music, dance, poetry, and more. Organized by Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet. We invite you to join us for a physically distanced gathering as we welcome the evening with neighbors, stories, and songs. Free.
October 9 | 1pm | PERFORMANCE PROJECT @ UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT
Through Gardens: a dance solo by Oxana Chi
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Short film followed by a discussion with the artist via FB Live
In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II
An epic dance solo grappling with topics of migration, borders, and movement in the 20th and 21st centuries. An ode to women’s power of resilience and hope. Oxana Chi recalls the tragic story and beautiful art of Chinese-Jewish-Russian dancer Tatjana Barbakoff, a successful expressionist dancer and political activist in the 1920s/1930s. The dance blends Western & Eastern dance styles and blurs the boundaries between traditional and contemporary aesthetics. Through Gardens creates an intimate and incisive universe, showing how the loaded legacy of deportation resonates in our present society. Free.
October 9 | 3pm | VILLAGE PRESERVATION
Virtual Tour: A Historic Tour with Fourth Arts Block
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The Fourth Arts Block, spanning East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue, is an incredible microcosm of the East Village’s layered history, distinctive architecture, and cultural innovations. Over the past hundred years, its buildings have housed German music societies, Italian theaters, Yiddish publishers, Union halls, Puerto Rican and Ukrainian social clubs, and drag venues — all predecessors of the experimental theater and performance arts district that thrives there today. Village Preservation’s Sarah Bean Apmann and Louisa Winchell will illuminate forgotten histories and examples of adaptive reuse as they lead a virtual stroll down this iconic block.
October 9 – 10 | ARTIST ALLIANCE INC.
This side, or the other…
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Cuchifritos Gallery and Residency Unlimited are pleased to present This side, or the other… a culminating group exhibition of work by the 2020 NYC-Based Artist Residents Elizabeth Moran, Carlos Rosales-Silva, Christopher Udemezue, and Ziyang Wu. Their respective practices take on historiography, knowledge-making, socioeconomic structures, and the digitization of contemporary society. Free.