River To River Festival

Schedule:

12:00 p.m - 5:00 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).

4:00 p.m and 6:00 p.m: South Cove Song at South Cove, Battery Park City
John P. Hastings
South Cove Song is a site-specific music performance, featuring a brass ensemble, centered on the past(s), present(s), and future(s) of Lower Manhattan.

12:00 p.m - 5:00 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.

7:00 p.m: Whale fall abyss at the South Street Seaport Museum
mayfield brooks
Choreographer mayfield brooks presents whale fall abyss in the cargo hold of the Tall Ship Wavertree, calling up ghosts and ancestors from the intersecting histories of whalers and slave ships.