River To River Festival

Schedule:

2:00 p.m - 7:00 p.m: The (chrysalis) Archives at The Arts Center at Governors Island, Lower Gallery
Jaamil olawale kosoko
Multidisciplinary artist jaamil olawale kosoko presents an exhibition with video, installation, imagery, and performance as part of their evolving practice that combines Black and queer theoretical, literary and spiritual lineages with biographical and bodily knowledge.

2:00 p.m - 7:00 p.m: PlaceHolder at The Arts Center at Governors Island, Cafe
Kayla Hamilton and Kate Speer share an installation in dialogue with their performance project PlaceHolder–a collaboratively made experience that exposes how perception actualizes and strips identities.

12:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m: LMCC's Workspace Open Studios at 101 Greenwich Street
Open Studios offers a glimpse into the creative process and artistic development of LMCC’s Workspace artists-in-residence.
Current Workspace 2023-24 Artists-in-Residence: Francheska Alcántara, Blanka Amezkua, Lucas Baisch, Elvira Clayton, Francisco Donoso, SaraNoa Mark, Miriam Simun, Corinne Spencer, Alex Strada, Cici Wu, and Jessica Lagunas (On-Site Assistant, Workspace '22-23).

5:30 p.m - 7:00 p.m: Love for New York’s Waterways: Stories from the Stoop at Nolan Park, Governors Island
Organized in partnership with Billion Oyster Project
Rain location: The Arts Center at Governors Island, Studio A4
Inspired by the often overlooked experiences of African-American maritime workers - Love for NY’s Waterways: Stories from the Stoop is a Moth-style storytelling and open mic event that celebrates the legacy of the African-American water stewards of New York.

2:00 p.m - 9:00 p.m: Whale fall reckoning at The Arts Center at Governors Island, Upper Gallery
Mayfield brooks
Using found objects, sound, light, movement and projection, mayfield brooks conjures an abyssal underwater world that transforms the formerly munitions storage warehouse into an imagined site of the decomposed whale.