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NEW FEDERAL THEATRE: ANNUAL NTOZAKE SHANGE READINGS SERIES

Who: Joyce Sylvester, Tucker Smallwood, Count Stovall, Paris Crayton III, Elain Graham, more
What: Annual reading series
Where: New Federal Theatre Zoom
When: June 8, 15, and 22, free with RSVP, 7:00
Why: On June 30, New Federal Theatre founder Woodie King Jr. will be retiring after an illustrious and influential fifty-year career. He started the company in 1970 with a “mission to integrate artists of color and women into the mainstream of American theater by training artists for the profession, and by presenting plays by writers of color and women to integrated, multicultural audiences — plays which evoke the truth through beautiful and artistic re-creations of ourselves.” One of the last programs he will oversee is the annual Ntozake Shange Readings Series, honoring the late playwright and poet whose Obie-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf was staged at NFT in 1976 before transferring to the Public.

The series will be held on three successive Monday nights at 7:00 over Zoom. On June 8, Joyce Sylvester and Tucker Smallwood will read Mustapha Matura’s A Small World, directed by Seret Scott, about two Jamaicans who meet after twenty years apart; on June 15, Count Stovall, Paris Crayton III, and Elain Graham perform S. Shephard-Massat’s A Soft Escape, directed by John Scutchins, about childhood friends who are now old and facing the end of their lives; and on June 22, NFT will present Larry Muhammad’s Jimmy’s Last Night at Mikell’s, directed by A. Dean Irby, about James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, and Miles Davis together at a jazz club, with the cast to be announced. All three shows will take place one time only over Zoom; admission is free with RSVP.

VIRTUAL MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL 2021

Who: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Neue Galerie New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Jewish Museum, Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, the Africa Center, and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
What: Virtual arts festival
Where: Online (a few in-person events)
When: Tuesday, June 8, free, 9:00 am – 9:00 pm
Why: For more than forty years, on the second Tuesday of June, art lovers packed the cultural institutions on Fifth Ave., from the Met to El Museo del Barrio, filling the streets and lining up to experience special programs inside and outside for a few hours. With Covid-19 regulations still in place for theaters and museums, the 2021 Museum Mile Festival will be hybrid, with a few events happening in person but most accessible by streaming from home, over Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Everything is free, although some events require advance RSVP, but another bonus is that the festival lasts twelve hours, from nine in the morning to nine at night. Below are some of the highlights from each participating museum.

The Africa Center
“‘Home Is . . .” Series #2: Home Is Where Music Is,’” with Sampa the Great, Wunmi, Jupiter & Okwess, Daniel Dzidzonu, Georges Collinet, Eme Awa, noon
Discussion with Jessica B. Harris, curator of “African/American: Making the Nation’s Table,” and Pierre Thiam, executive chef and co-owner of Teranga, 5:00
Virtual contribution to the Legacy Quilt; child-friendly animation workshop led by artist Ezra Wube

Museum of the City of New York
“Photographing City Life: Live Session with Photographer Janette Beckman,” 4:40
“Curators from the Couch: Stettheimer Dollhouse Up Close,” with Sarah Henry and Simon Doonan, 5:30
“Your Hometown: A Virtual Conversation with Playwright Lynn Nottage,” 6:00
“When the Garden Was Eden: Remembering the 1970s New York Knicks,” with Bill Bradley, Willis Reed, Walt Frazier, Earl Monroe, Bill Murray, and Harvey Araton, 7:00

The Jewish Museum
Lawrence Weiner talks about his career and All the Stars in the Sky Have the Same Face, on the facade of the museum; Rachel Weisz recites Louise Bourgeois’s own words on audio guide for “Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter”; Edmund de Waal and Adam Gopnik discuss de Waal’s latest book, Letters to Camondo; videos of poet Douglas Ridloff responding to the Jewish Museum collection in ASL; panel discussion about public art and equity in museums; family-friendly performances by Aaron Nigel Smith and Joanie Leeds; an interview with Rachel Feinstein about the exhibition “Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone”; discussion with artists Rachel Feinstein and Lisa Yuskavage, filmmaker Tamara Jenkins, and curator Kelly Taxter about storytelling, gender, and identity-based art making; family-friendly performance by the Paper Bag Players at Home

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
“Design at Home: Design a Repeating Pattern”; “Rebellion in Design: Developing a Blueprint for the Future,” with Virgil Abloh, James Wines, and Oana Stănescu; virtual tour of “Contemporary Muslim Fashions”; “Studio Series: Quilting,” with William Daniels, 4:00 (RSVP required)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
“Summer Solstice” live virtual tour of works featuring the sun and light; an audio guide for “Off the Record” exhibition; “Spotlight” video series with Guggenheim Abu Dhabi collection artists; prerecorded conversation with curator Vivien Greene and scholar Maile Arvin as part of the Artwork Anthology series, about Gauguin’s In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Drop-in Drawing — “How to Draw The Met Using Perspective Drawing”; Storytime with the Met — You Can’t Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum; Silent Gallery Tour — the Temple of Dendur in the Sackler Wing; Silent Gallery Tour — the Roof Garden Commission: Alex Da Corte, As Long as the Sun Lasts; MetTeens — “Little-Known Met”; #MetKids — “How Do You Dance in Armor?”; #MetKids — “How Did They Get All This Art into the Museum?”; Artist Interview — The Facade Commission: Carol Bove, The séances aren’t helping; “Conserving Degas,” with conservator Glenn Peterson

El Museo del Barrio
Virtual tour of “Estamos Bien — La Trienial 20/21” led by the curators; recorded interviews with participating artist Candida Alvarez; in-person outdoor performance by NYC-based Afro-Caribbean group San Simón at Central Park’s Harlem Meer at 6:00

Neue Galerie New York
Prerecorded lectures, virtual tours, and concerts

THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE’S ANNUAL SPRING GALA

Who: Harry Lennix, Arin Arbus, Anne Bogart, Bill Camp, Will Eno, Simon Godwin, Kathryn Hunter, Taibi Magar, John Douglas Thompson, Awoye Timpo, more
What: Theatre for a New Audience annual spring gala
Where: TFANA online
When: Monday, June 7, free with RSVP, VIP reception 6:30, streaming program 7:30
Why: Theatre for a New Audience was founded by Jeffrey Horowitz in 1979, but it was the company’s 2013 move to its new home in Fort Greene, the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, that rocketed it to a new level. On June 7, TFANA’s annual spring gala will be held live online, celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday; the Bard turned 457 in April. “We are celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday 457 years on because Shakespeare is, of course, never over,” Horowitz said in a statement. “A production of Hamlet ends, but the play doesn’t. Shakespeare’s work keeps getting reinvented. Last year, like so many other plans, our annual spring gala was canceled due to the pandemic. For a while, it was a question: Should we postpone again? But gathering as a TFANA community, even remotely, seemed more important than ever this year — to take stock of what we’ve been through, lost, and accomplished, and to look ahead to the future.”

Among the participants will be such actors, writers, and directors as Arin Arbus, Anne Bogart, Bill Camp, Will Eno, Simon Godwin, Kathryn Hunter, Taibi Magar, John Douglas Thompson, and Awoye Timpo; New York City public teacher Marie Maignan will receive the Samuel H. Scripps Award for Extraordinary Artistic Achievement from US representative Jahana Hayes (D-CT), and Amanda Riegel and the Thompson Family Foundation will be presented with the Life in Art Award. The evening will be emceed by actor and TFANA board member Harry Lennix; the VIP preshow begins at 6:30, followed at 7:30 by the gala. There is also a silent auction that features such items as golf and wine vacations, opera and theater tickets, jewelry, art, pet portraits, and more.

UNDINE

Paula Beer stars as the mysterious title character in Christian Petzold’s award-winning Undine (photo by Christian Schulz)

UNDINE (Christian Petzold, 2019)
IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave.
Film at Lincoln Center,
Opens June 4
www.ifccenter.com
www.filmlinc.org

Master German writer-director Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Barbara) gives a unique contemporary twist to a classic European fairy tale in Undine, which opens June 4 at IFC Center and Lincoln Center as well as online. The less you know about the original myth the better, but let’s just say it involves a water nymph, romance, betrayal, and death.

Paula Beer was named Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival and at the European Film Awards for her powerful performance as Undine Wibeau, a historian who gives architectural tours of expansive, heavily detailed models of the past, present, and future of Berlin for the Senate Administration for Urban Development. Early on, when her boyfriend, Johannes (Jacob Matschenz), tells her that he is in love with another woman, Nora (Julia Franz Richter), Undine sternly says, “If you leave me, I’ll have to kill you.” There is no reason to doubt her.

Distressed by the situation, she is standing uneasily in a café, looking at an aquarium filled with colorful fish and a small statue of a diver when Christoph (Franz Rogowski), who just attended one of her talks, hesitantly approaches her and offers praise for the lecture. An accident shatters the glass of the aquarium and Undine and Christoph are knocked to the ground, drenched in water. As the fish squirm for life on the floor, Undine and Christoph instantly fall in love. “I’m usually under water,” Christoph, an industrial diver, says to her. German romanticism and French Impressionism mix with magical realism and a revenge thriller as Christoph and Undine run around together, reveling in their love until another accident results in serious trouble.

Undine (Paula Beer) is an architectural historian who is drawn to water in myth-based drama

Among the distinguished writers and composers who have told their own versions of the story of Undine are Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Oscar Wilde, E. T. A. Hoffman, Edgar Allan Poe, Sergei Prokofiev, Hans Christian Andersen, Seamus Heaney, Claude Debussy, and DC Comics. Audrey Hepburn won a Tony for her performance as the title character in Jean Giraudoux’s Ondine on Broadway in 1954. In 2010, Neil Jordan’s Ondine, coincidentally also released on June 4, starred Colin Farrell as a fisherman who catches a woman known as Ondine (Alicja Bachleda) who has a special connection with water.

Water is central to Petzold’s film, from the aquarium to Christoph’s job to Johannes’s pool. Berlin itself was built on a swamp, adding relevance to Undine’s architectural lectures, in which she explains that the name of the city means “dry place in the marsh.” When she is searching for Johannes, she goes into the men’s bathroom and one of the faucets is dripping, the noise echoing down an empty hallway. When Johannes wants to go away with Undine, he tries to lure her by mentioning he’s booked the room they like “overlooking the pond.” Much of the film takes place underwater, with the actors in and out of their scuba gear, beautifully filmed by cameraman Sascha Mieke. (Unfortunately, the giant catfish is animated.) Hans Fromm is the aboveground cinematographer, lushly capturing the streets of Berlin as well as the forest surrounding the lake where Christoph works with Monika (Maryam Zaree) and Jochen (Rafael Stachowiak).

Beer and Rogowski have an intense chemistry that drives the film; they starred together in Petzold’s previous film, Transit, which deals with political refugees, stolen identity, and forbidden love, and are both magnetic here again, whether aboveground or below. The soundtrack’s theme features pianist Vikingur Ólafsson’s gorgeous, haunting rendition of Bach’s Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974 – 2. Adagio. “Everything is there in Johann Sebastian’s music: architectural perfection and profound emotion,” Ólafsson has said, which relates directly to Petzold’s film itself.

SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS

Daphne Oram is one of the women pioneers of electronic music featured in Sisters with Transistors

SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS (Lisa Rovner, 2020)
Metrograph Digital
June 3-9
metrograph.com
sisterswithtransistors.com

“This is the story of women who hear music in their heads, of radical sounds where there was once silence, of dreams enabled by technology,” Laurie Anderson says at the beginning of Lisa Rovner’s revelatory Sisters with Transistors, which is back by popular demand for a return engagement on Metrograph Digital. In the film, available June 3-9, Rovner highlights electronic musicians Clara Rockmore, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Éliane Radigue, Maryanne Amacher, Bebe Barron, Suzanne Ciani, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, and Wendy Carlos, trailblazers who deserve more recognition for their ingenuity and their influence on the music of today while blasting through gender stereotypes of the mid-twentieth century and beyond. “Technology is a tremendous liberator,” Spiegel notes. “It blows up power structures.”

In her feature-length debut, writer, director, and coproducer Rovner (Constellations) uses archival footage of Rockmore playing the Theremin with a string quartet in 1934, Derbyshire and Oram explaining how they constructed their unique arrangement of tape reels and computers at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the 1950s and ’60s, Ciani twisting nobs on a wire-laden setup at the Bonino Gallery in New York City in 1974 (and later performing on The David Letterman Show), Radigue talking about how she employed the sounds of airplanes to develop her electronic compositions, Carlos developing her own software and adjusting the synthesizer in her West Side studio, and Barron and her husband using circuit boards to create scores for avant-garde films as well as Forbidden Planet and the Doctor Who theme.

Revolutionary, antiwar, and queer composer Oliveros searches for inner peace through music. Amacher utilizes complex science to make new sounds. Amacher is shown collaborating with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. “She wanted to develop an extremely rigorous approach to listening, to activating sites, to thinking outside of the composition as it’s known,” composer Nadia Botello says about Amacher. “She didn’t want to push around dead white men’s notes.”

Rovner speaks with several of the artists in addition to such musicians as Rhys Chatham, Kim Gordon, Morton Subotnick, Holly Herndon, Charles Amirkhanian, Jean-Michel Jarre, and others who sing the praises of these pioneers. The Metrograph website takes a deep dive into the history of these women with a Q&A with Rovner; the essay “Sounding Out Electronic Music’s Female Pioneers” by Margaret Barton-Fumo; an interview with Anderson; a “Sound of Liberation” panel with Rovner, Spiegel, Ciani, Arushi Jain, Moor Mother, Gavilán Rayna Russom, and Madame Gandhi, moderated by Geeta Dayal; and a conversation about women in tech with Emmy Parker, LaFrae Sci, Suzi Analogue, Stephi Duckula, and moderator Alissa DeRubeis. In the end, it is the women composers themselves who best sum it all up.

“Technology is a natural extension of man; man has always played with tools. Man has always developed tools,” Carlos says in an old interview. “The machine doesn’t write the music; you tell the machine what to do. The machine is an extension of you.” And Spiegel, shown feeding pigeons on Staple St. in 2018, elucidates, “We were, in a way, trying to make a bit of a revolution, but I don’t think we would have put it in such grandiose terms. We were trying to put music back in touch with itself.”

MAYA LIN: GHOST FOREST

Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest will decompose in Madison Square Park through mid-November (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Madison Square Park Oval Lawn
Exhibition continues through November 14
madisonsquarepark.org
whatismissing.net

Postponed for a year because of the pandemic, Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest is up and dying a slow death in Madison Square Park. The exhibition shines a light on climate change, logging practices, environmental degradation, extreme deprivation, and other human interventions that are destroying the natural world. Ghost Forest consists of forty-nine forty-foot-tall Atlantic white cedars from the Pine Barrens in New Jersey. The bare trees, around eighty years old, are not technically dead yet, but they will wither away through November 14 as the grass and trees of the park turn green around them over the summer before fading as fall heads into winter. “Throughout the world, climate change is causing vast tracts of forested lands to die off,” Lin says in her artist’s statement. “They are being called ghost forests; they are being killed off by rising temperatures, extreme weather events that yield saltwater intrusion, forest fires, and insects whose populations are thriving in these warmer temperatures, and trees that are more susceptible to beetles due to being overstressed from these rising temperatures. In southwestern Colorado where my family and I live in the summer, these forests — killed off by beetles — are all around us. As I approached thinking about a sculptural installation for Madison Square Park, I knew I wanted to create something that would be intimately related to the park itself, the trees, and the state of the earth.”

The “gentle giants,” as Lin calls them, form a kind of twisting maze that visitors can walk through (except in the rain.) The bare trunks and branches evoke griefs large and small: It’s hard not to think of the isolation and loss of the past fourteen months of the Covid-19 crisis; in addition, Lin’s husband, photography collector and dealer Daniel Wolf, died of a heart attack in January at the age of sixty-five. The display was supposed to consist of fifty trees, but one didn’t survive the transport, another fatality. Lin is most well known for her Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC; other earthworks and environmental installations by Lin include The Secret Life of Grasses at Storm King, Map of Memory: Hudson River Timeline at the Hudson River Museum, Seven Earth Mountain at Pier 94, A History of Water at the Orlando Museum of Art, and the 2011 short film Unchopping a Tree, which asks, “If deforestation were happening in your city, how quickly would you work to stop it?”

Forty-nine bare trees rise like doomed skyscrapers in Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Ghost Forest is part of Lin’s “What Is Missing?” project, an online global memorial where people can share memories of something from the natural world that has disappeared or is diminishing or discuss specific examples of ecological conservation and restoration. Be sure to listen to Ghost Forest Soundscape, thirteen minutes of sounds made by the gray fox, cougar, barred owl, American black bear, elk, harbor seal, bat, beaver, bottle nose dolphin, and wild turkey, a powerful reminder of living beings that once could be heard and seen in and around New York; in conjunction with Ghost Forest, there will also be a series of in-person and online talks. “We will be coordinating public programs that focus on nature-based solutions to climate change as well as highlighting the ecological history of Manhattan through a soundscape of species that were once common in the city,” Lin explains. “We are faced with an enormous ecological crisis — but I also feel that we have a chance to showcase what can be done to help protect species and significantly reduce the climate change emissions by changing our relationship to the land itself.” To counteract the project’s carbon footprint, Lin, the Natural Areas Conservancy, and the Madison Square Park Conservancy will be planting more than one thousand trees and shrubs across all five boroughs.

From June 1 to 11, the public is invited to answer the question “How has climate change altered your daily life?”; the responses will be posted on a reflection board at the north corner of the Oval Lawn as well as on social media. On June 4 at 9:00 am (free with advance RSVP), the park will host, on Zoom, its sixth annual public art symposium, “Greening Public Art,” highlighted by a keynote conversation with Lin, Rodale Institute board member Maria Rodale, Nature Conservancy in New York executive director Bill Ulfelder, and Perfect Earth Project founder Edwina von Gal, moderated by Andrew Revkin of the Earth Institute at Columbia. Other speakers include Una Chaudhuri, Marina Zurkow, Anita Fields, Nicholas Galanin, Allison Janae Hamilton, Tavares Strachan, and Lucia Pietroiusti and moderator Sarah Douglas. On June 15 at 6:00, the park and Fotografiska New York team up for an art talk with Gabriella Demczuk, who documents ghost forests across the United States; advance registration is required. On September 21 at 6:00 Fotografiska will host an art talk with Lin and Elizabeth Kolbert as part of Climate Week NYC, followed October 19 at 6:00 with Lin and von Gal discussing climate change with moderator Sarah Charlop-Powers. And on November 9 at 6:00, Fotografiska will livestream David Scott Kessler’s experimental film The Pine Barrens, with a live score by the Ruins of Friendship Orchestra. If only the world would listen.

In addition, Music on the Green is a series of live concerts with Carnegie Hall held on Wednesday nights within Ghost Forest; below is the full lineup:

Wednesday, July 7, 6:00
Music by Barber, Bartók, Copland, Caroline Shaw, others
Cort Roberts, horn
Adelya Nartadjieva, violin
Gergana Haralampieva, violin
Halam Kim, viola
Madeline Fayette, cello

Wednesday, July 14, 6:00
Music by Messiaen, Copland, Kaija Saariaho, Reena Esmail, others
Leo Sussman, flute
Wilden Dannenberg, horn
Jennifer Liu, violin
Halam Kim, viola
Madeline Fayette, cello

Wednesday, July 21, 6:00
Bach’s Goldberg Variations, India Gailey’s Mountainweeps, John Luther Adams’s Three High Places, others
Halam Kim, viola
TBD, violin
Arlen Hlusko, cello

Wednesday, July 28, 6:00
Andrea Casarrubios’s Speechless, Leven Zuelke’s At a Cemetery, and works by Ravel, Fauré, Debussy, and Ellington
Sae Hashimoto, percussion
Suliman Tekalli, violin
Ari Evan, cello

Wednesday, August 4, 6:00
Satie’s Gnossiennes, John Psathas’s Fragment, and works by Duke Ellington and Chick Corea
Ian Sullivan, vibraphone
Sae Hashimoto, marimba

Wednesday, August 11, 6:00
Hans Abrahamsen’s wind quintet Walden, Hannah Lash’s Leander and Hero, and works by Beach, Piazzolla, Still, others
Amir Farsi, flute
Stuart Breczinski, oboe
Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet
Nik Hooks, bassoon
Cort Roberts, horn

RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL 2021

Mariana Valencia’s Futurity is part of 2021 River to River Festival

Multiple locations
June 10-27, free (some events require advance RSVP)
RSVPs open June 1
lmcc.net

The twentieth annual River to River Festival, one of the most eagerly awaited events of each summer, runs June 10-27, with free live performances and screenings on Governors Island, in Battery Park City, the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, and other locations. Curated by Lili Chopra and Nanette Nelms, the 2021 edition features works that explore female identity, the African diaspora, colonialism, and other sociopolitical issues. Everything is free, but some events require advance RSVP, beginning June 1; from the way New Yorkers have responded to other live, free performances as the city opens up following the pandemic lockdown, you better be at your computer, ready to go, if you want to snag some tickets.

Among the highlights are processions through Battery Park City led by Miguel Gutierrez, Okwui Okpokwasili, and the Illustrious Blacks; a concert honoring Wayne Shorter, with esperanza spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Leo Genovese; the premiere of Arthur Jafa’s WS, a longer super nova, a tribute to Shorter; Maria Hassabi’s TOGETHER, which was booked immediately when it was part of the 2019 Performa Biennial; and nora chipaumire’s Nehanda, an opera based on the 1898 court case The Queen vs. Nehanda, involving a medium who was also a heroic revolutionary leader in Southern Rhodesia. Several films will be available to livestream following its public premiere.

Thursday, June 10
Opening Concert honoring Wayne Shorter, with esperanza spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Leo Genovese, La Plaza, the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, 114 Norfolk St., followed by premiere of Arthur Jafa’s WS, a longer super nova, Flamboyán Theater, 107 Suffolk St., free with RSVP, 7:30

Saturday, June 12
A Day at The Arts Center at Governors Island, with site-specific exhibitions by Meg Webster and Onyedika Chuke, a participatory sculpture by Muna Malik, Open Studios with LMCC 2021 Arts Center artists-in-residence, Damon Davis’s film The Stranger, and more, free with RSVP, noon – 5:00

June 12-22
esperanza spalding, Songwrights Apothecary Lab, live installation, the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, 107 Suffolk St., more info to come

June 12, 17, 24, 8:00, June 19, 26, 3:00
Livestreaming of Arthur Jafa’s WS, a longer super nova, followed by discussion with Wayne Shorter, esperanza spalding, Greg Tate, and Craig Street, free with RSVP

June 13-27
Damon Davis, The Stranger, allegorical film shot in Ghana about a Black American returning to his place of origin, starring Sel Kofiga, Damon Davis, Lola Ogbara, and Dalychia Saah, narrated by Ria Boss, with a score by Owen Ragland, digital streaming, free

Sunday, June 13
Processions, with Miguel Gutierrez, Teardrop Park, Battery Park City, free with RSVP

Sunday, June 20
Processions, with Okwui Okpokwasili, Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City, free with RSVP

Friday, June 25
Processions, with the Illustrious Blacks, South Cove, Battery Park City, free with RSVP

June 15-27
Womxn in Windows, multipart video installation in storefront windows exploring female identity, co-curated with Zehra Ahmed, Seaport District, free

June 16, 19, 22, 24
Black Gotham Experience, As Above So Below, interactive walking tours about the African diaspora in Lower Manhattan, featuring Kamau Ware and Rodney Leon, begins at 192 Front St., free with RSVP, 5:30 – 7:30

June 25-27
Mariana Valencia, Futurity, queerstories featuring Star Baby, Studio A3, the Arts Center at Governors Island, free with RSVP, 1:00 & 4:30

June 26-27
Maria Hassabi, TOGETHER, location TBA, free with RSVP, 6:00

Saturday, June 26
nora chipaumire, Nehanda, immersive, participatory, and durational filmed performance, La Plaza, the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, 114 Norfolk St., free with RSVP