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Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Opening Reception: Jongil Ma, “Yes, Honey…”

Location

The Gallery at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, June 5, 2010, 3–5PM

Jongil Ma’s room-sized installation, Yes, Honey, you can bounce back and forth, and you are a bit closer to it, engages LMCC’s gallery space in Building 110 on Governors Island and transforms it into colorful mental maps that reference bridges, airport structures, and factory buildings as seen from multiple perspectives. Thin wooden strips of various lengths and types, both colored and uncolored, are flexed, twisted, bundled and arched in unique response to the space, recalling the raw beauty of modern industrial engineering. The enormous physical pressure and tension inherent in the graceful curved lines, delicate joineries, and various forms of manmade structures speaks to the fragile nature of human relationships, and conversely to the balance of nature.

Jongil Ma received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2002. He has participated in public art projects sponsored by the Ministry of Culture & Tourism of Korea in Kwangju and Damyang respectively. He had a solo exhibition at Roger Smith Hotel Gallery in Manhattan and is participating in Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows at Jamaica Center For Arts & Learning in Queens. His work has been featured in international exhibitions including the 2009 International Incheon Women Artist’s Biennale in Korea and he will participate in the upcoming Lodz Biennale 2010 in Poland. His awards have included the INC Visual Arts Award from the AHL Foundation and a Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park.

Jongil Ma’s installation is supported by the AHL Foundation.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Unseen Dances

Presented by current Swing Space resident Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums

Friday, June 11, Installation open 12-4PM; Performance at 2PM

Saturday, June 12, Installation open 12-4PM; Performance at 2PM

Sunday, June 13, Installation open 1-5PM; Performance at 3PM

Presented by Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums with installation by Noah Baen

Audience members are blindfolded. Dancers reveal themselves and define speed, space, location, distance, architecture and bodily effort through sound, touch, heat, smell, vibration, and air currents. Deeply situated in the present moment, Unseen Dances evoke un-socialized instincts, which jostle with context, memory, metaphor and imagery. You, the audience, blindfold yourself. Dissolve the view; now we are tethered in other ways. I brush you. If your skin quivers, have you danced? I move; your eardrums vibrate. Did I dance you? If our thermometers rise, who was in the driver’s seat? Move over there. If we soften, did we change states?

Dana Salisbury's investigations span dance, video, language, site-specific performance installation and visual art. Her dances and videos have been seen in New York at PS 122, Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, University Settlement and the 92nd Street Y. She has created site-specific works for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, NYC's Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and Brooklyn's Old American Can Factory. In 1999, she was awarded a Bessie for her work with the performance collective Red Dive.

Salisbury’s Whole-Body-Seer (2004), inspired by the sensate and imaginative life of the blind, offered experiential equivalents of vision without sight. This work led to the creation of Dark Dining Projects, an on-going series of sensory feasts served to blindfolded guests, which take place in restaurants and arts venues. Dark Dining Projects’ performance/installation, Season, opened the 2008 KO Festival of Performance in Amherst, MA.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

SCHAU

Presented by current Swing Space resident Alexandra Sachs

Location

Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, June 18, 2010, 3–4PM

Saturday, June 19, 2010, 3–4PM

Saturday, June 19, 2010, 5–6PM

Sunday, June 20, 2010, 3–4PM

Sunday, June 20, 2010, 5–6PM

In German, SCHAU means Show, Exhibition or Look! SCHAU is a menagerie of behaviour and identity. SCHAU plays with the real and the fake. Five performers enact shapes, emotions and cliches. It is an exposed state of portrayal which begins in a domesticated wilderness, goes through an opulent opera and finishes as a whimsical tale.

SCHAU is inspired by the musical A Chorus Line, where dancers audition for a Broadway production and are forced to show their psyche and individuality. The absurdity of proving uniqueness within a dance chorus is as contradictory as the conventions of individualism and conformity in society.

Featuring: Einy Aam Sparks, Elke Luyten, Laura Lamp, Geneva Cockrell and Mai Ueda.

Assistant: Chris Ignacio

Getting there: The ferry to Governors Island departs regularly from the Battery Maritime Building in Manhattan and Pier 6 in Brooklyn. Visit the Governors Island website for more information about visiting.

Event | Public Programming – Sitelines

Laura Peterson Choreography: everyone

Dates & Location

June 22–24, 2010, 12:30PM at The Elevated Acre at 55 Water Street

June 22–25, 2010, 2:30PM at Historic Battery Park

Laura Peterson Choreography is a New York City based dance company that creates highly physical and dynamic pieces with a deep sense of design and detail. Inspired by mass games, flash mobs, swarms and flocks everyone explores the visual elements of choreography with a cast of thirty dancers, changing locations, costumes, and sounds.

Event | Public Programming – Sitelines

Laura Peterson Choreography: everyone

June 22–24, 2010, 12:30PM at The Elevated Acre at 55 Water Street

June 22–25, 2010, 2:30PM at Historic Battery Park

Laura Peterson Choreography is a New York City based dance company that creates highly physical and dynamic pieces with a deep sense of design and detail. Inspired by mass games, flash mobs, swarms and flocks everyone explores the visual elements of choreography with a cast of thirty dancers, changing locations, costumes, and sounds.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace – Sitelines

Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks: A-C-E ONE

Location

LentSpace

Dates & Times

Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 5:30–6:30PM

Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 7:30–8:30PM

Thursday, July 8, 2010, 5:30–6:30PM

Thursday, July 8, 2010, 7:30–8:30PM

In this world-premiere commission renowned choreographer Yoshiko Chuma fuses live music, dance and performance to create a unique new work.

A-C-E ONE is a multidisciplinary site-specific spectacle that takes full advantage of the unique architectural features of LentSpace. Dancers and musicians are positioned strategically throughout the space, a limousine moves at a glacial pace through a horticultural installation as performers move in and around a sea of shredded paper. Expect to be surprised.

LentSpace is located in a downtown New York City block between Canal, Varick, Grand, and Sixth Avenue.

Conception, direction, choreography: Yoshiko Chuma

Composition: John King

Costumes: Gabriel Berry

Space consultant: Nick Vaughan

Producer: Bonnie Sue Stein/GOH Productions NYC

Dancers: Yoshiko Chuma, Ursula Eagly, Aaron Mattocks, Yuko Mitsuishi, Ryuji Yamaguchi,

Musicians: Genghis Barbie (4 French horn players from Mars), Rachel Drehmann, Danielle Kuhlmann, Jacquelyn Adams, Ann Ellsworth

Percussion: Eric John Eigner

Onstage backstage performers: Melissa West, Kaya Nakamura, Mary Ellen Carafice

Production consultation: Jenneth Webster

Producer: Bonnie Sue Stein/GOH Productions

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Work Progress Collective: Open Call On the Road

Presented by current Swing Space resident Work Progress Collective

Location

Governors Island

Dates & Times

Sunday, July 11, 2010, 11AM–3PM

WPC's Open Call compiles your recession based imagery and displays both the image and caption in a portable installation in our Governors Island studio. The invite is open to all - hobbyist photographers, cellphone photo enthusiasts, and the like. All types of recession based photographs are encouraged. For more information on how to submit images online through July 31st click here.

WPC Goes On the Road — On July 11, from 11AM–3PM, WPC's Open Call On the Road will interact with island visitors outside of Building 110, traveling to various island locations, interacting with and collecting recession based photographs from island visitors. All submitted photographs will be posted live on the wall. Be sure to visit "the wall" and share your recession snapshots.

11AM–1PM: Near the old library west of Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center

1PM–3PM: Building 25 in Nolan Park

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

A Mountain Soars Over the Ocean

Presented by current Swing Space resident The Friendly Falcons & Their Friend the Snake

Location

In the field across from Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Sunday, July 11, 2010, 3:30–4PM

Saturday, July 17, 2010, 3:30–4PM

Saturday, July 24, 2010, 3:30–4PM

Sunday, July 25, 2010, 3:30–4PM

“A Mountain Soars Over the Ocean” is a story inspired by traveling and the magnificence of nature. Puppetry, folk songs, and sculptures are used to construct a multi-sensory performance. The Friendly Falcons and their musical alter-ego The Hawk is a Lonely Hunter encourage you to join them on the grassy hill across from building 110 to experience a story that can’t sit still and dreams of long roads and soaring mountains.

Event | Public Programming – Sitelines

Deganit Shemy and Company: 2 kilos of sea

Location

John Street United Methodist Church, 44 John Street

Dates & Times

Monday, July 12, 2010, 12:30–1PM

Monday, July 12, 2010, 5–5:30PM

Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 12:30–1PM

Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 5–5:30PM

Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 12:30–1PM

Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 5–5:30PM

Thursday, July 15, 2010, 12:30–1PM

Critically acclaimed Israeli choreographer Deganit Shemy, known for her aggressively physical work, brings five dancers together in the close quarters of the courtyard at John Street United Methodist Church to explore the misinterpretations that occur in a nanosecond, exposing the fragility of time, of relationships, and of accepting.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Here Rests Peggy

Presented by current Swing Space resident Ivy Baldwin Dance

Location

Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, July 16, 2010, 2–3PM

Here Rests Peggy is a new evening-length quartet for performers Lawrence Cassella, Eleanor Smith, Katie Workum, and Ivy Baldwin. Directly inspired by Baldwin’s research fellowship in Bogliasco, Italy, Here Rests Peggy is a dance influenced by everything from the dramatic and stylized world of German Expressionist film, to the outrageous life and art collection of Peggy Guggenheim. Surrounded by an installation of paintings by visual artist Anna Schuleit, the performers appear, reappear, and disappear, both physically and emotionally, traveling in and out of love, anguish, rage, and selfish couplings. Peggy examines what it might mean to remove your “skin of normalcy”. How would we all look walking down the street if we were not afraid of emotional transparency? The performers are accompanied by sound designer Justin Jones’s score that includes a Wurlitzer Organ and 30 small analog cassette players — each tiny sound source a private performance. Additional collaborators include lighting designer Chloe Brown.

Ivy Baldwin Dance, founded in 1999 by choreographer and performer Ivy Baldwin, is a Brooklyn based contemporary dance company. Since its inception, the Company has been presented by Dance Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Dixon Place, LaMaMa E.T.C, Danspace Project, and The New Museum of Contemporary Art, among others, and has toured internationally to the Dans Contemporan International Dance Festival in Bacau, Romania and Tanz im August in Berlin, Germany. The Company has received commissions from DTW (‘06 & ‘09), Dixon Place (‘04 & ‘07), and Dance New Amsterdam (‘07). Ms. Baldwin is the recipient of numerous artist residencies and fellowships including an ArtistNe(s)t Residency in Bacau, Romania and the Bogliasco Foundation’s Jerome Robbins Fellowship in Dance in Bogliasco, Italy. Ms. Baldwin has been fortunate to receive funding from the William and Karen Tell Foundation, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Puffin Foundation, and Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

The Funding Ecosystem: What you should know before you start fundraising

Location

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 125 Maiden Lane, 9th Floor

Dates & Times

Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 6:30–8PM

This workshop reviews basic information that artists need as they begin to research and apply for grants. The session will review types of funding sources; frequently used terms in fundraising; what happens once your application is submitted, and processes to follow and understand from the initial inquiry through receipt of a grant. The goal of this workshop is to prepare artists to understand and better navigate the range of funding resources available to the field.

This workshop is at capacity.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Windowfarms: Food and Tech Meetup

Presented by current Swing Space resident Britta Riley: Windowfarms

Location

LMCC’s Swing Space at 156 William Street

Dates & Times

Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 6:30–9PM

Hosted by Windowfarms, a current Swing Space project at 156 William Street.

Are you interested in how technology can impact the food system? Come meet other like-minded folks and learn about 5 innovative projects.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Windowfarms: Lunch Time Opening

Presented by current Swing Space resident Britta Riley: Windowfarms

Location

LMCC’s Swing Space at 156 William Street

Dates & Times

Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 12:30–1PM

Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 12:30–1PM

Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 12:30–1PM

Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 1–2PM

Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 1–2PM

Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 1–2PM

Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 1–2PM

Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 1–2PM

Drop in and learn about Windowfarms during your lunch break.

Event | Public Programming – Sitelines

Deganit Shemy and Company: 2 kilos of sea - Encore Performance

Location

John Street United Methodist Church, 44 John Street

Dates & Times

Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 12:30–1PM

Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 5–5:30PM

Critically acclaimed Israeli choreographer Deganit Shemy, known for her aggressively physical work, brings five dancers together in the close quarters of the courtyard at John Street United Methodist Church to explore the misinterpretations that occur in a nanosecond, exposing the fragility of time, of relationships, and of accepting.

This is an encore performance! Don't miss it!

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Windowfarms: Dinner Workshops

Presented by current Swing Space resident Britta Riley: Windowfarms

Location

LMCC’s Swing Space at 156 William Street

Dates & Times

Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 6:30–8PM

Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 6:30–8PM

Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 6:30–8PM

Get prepared for the fall harvest. Get prepared for a fall harvest. Bring your dinner after work. Start your seeds, plan your system, & prep your bottles with the Windowfarms team.

$25 materials fee and some homework suggested before you come. RSVP to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Visual Arts Studios Open House

Location

Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, July 23, 2010, 11AM–4:30PM

Saturday, July 24, 2010, 11AM–6PM

Sunday, July 25, 2010, 11AM–6PM

Please join us as our visual artists-in-residence open their studios at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center for a final time before completing their residencies. Seventeen individual artists and three collaborative groups have been working in LMCC’s new studios on Governors Island since March, developing new projects in a wide range of media. Come see the exciting new work they have created.

Resident artists include: Jae Hi Ahn, Rachel Bacon, Ouida Biddle, Jessica Bruah, David Colosi, Jessica Feldman, Jenn Figg, The Friendly Falcons and Their Friend the Snake, Moo Kwon Han, GH Hovagimyan, Matthew Jensen, The Shining Mantis, Sungmi Lee, Sunghee Pae, Birgit Rathsmann, Larry Shea, Hidemi Takagi, Work Progress Collective, Chin Chih Yang, and Maeung Gyun You.

Check out bios and examples of their work here.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Matthew Jensen: “Searching for Something…”

Presented by current Swing Space resident Matthew Jensen

Location

The Gallery at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Gallery Hours

July 23 – August 29, 2010

Fridays: 11AM–4:30PM

Saturday and Sundays: 11AM–6PM

Matthew Jensen’s project Searching For Something Previously Unknown or Forgotten on Governors Island combines landscape photography, collections of artifacts found lying in plain sight, video, and installation to reconnect the Island back to New York City. His images will index overgrown lots and put inaccessible areas back into public view. The work will be shown along with his ongoing project Nowhere In Manhattan, which uses the classical idea of wonderment when exploring the last parcels of “nowhere” throughout the borough.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Kinetic Light Drums

Presented by current Swing Space resident Jenn Figg

Location

In the Magazine at Fort Jay, Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, July 23, 2010, 1–4PM

Saturday, July 24, 2010, 1–5PM

Sunday, July 25, 2010, 1–5PM

Jenn Figg and Matthew McCormack are preparing their kinetic light drum sculptures for performances on Governors Island July 23 - 25, 2010. Their performance installation, titled Kinetic Light Drums, is part of a larger investigation of energy transformation and public interaction.

The light drum performance will reverberate the old gunpowder storage magazine in historic Fort Jay on Governors Island. Within sight of Jersey City, Manhattan, and Brooklyn, the Island landscape is undergoing rapid change as the large open spaces are challenged by the demand for commercial development and cultural enhancements. The cool darkness of the restored magazine will explode with human generated light and sound. The audience will be invited to become performers alongside local percussionists. The performance of this work in Fort Jay is a way for us to reclaim and appropriate a space that has been off limits to civilians.

Kinetic Light Drums works on a principle of biorhythms. The light created within the instrument is organic and dynamic, rather than the mechanized strobes of police lights and the television. While referencing these pulsing lights, they are intended to disrupt and unwind the catatonic effects of the stupefying, hypnotic, and poisonous light vibrations prevalent in our everyday experience.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Opening Reception: Matthew Jensen, “Searching for Something…”

Location

Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, July 24, 2010, 3–5PM

Please join us for an opening reception for Matthew Jensen’s project, Searching For Something Previously Unknown or Forgotten on Governors Island.

Matthew Jensen’s project Searching For Something Previously Unknown or Forgotten on Governors Island combines landscape photography, collections of artifacts found lying in plain sight, video, and installation to reconnect the Island back to New York City. His images will index overgrown lots and put inaccessible areas back into public view. The work will be shown along with his ongoing project Nowhere In Manhattan, which uses the classical idea of wonderment when exploring the last parcels of “nowhere” throughout the borough.

Event | Public Programming – Sitelines

Phil Soltanoff: SIT, STAND, WALK, LIE DOWN…

Location

Governors Island, near the entrance to Fort Jay

Dates & Times

Saturday, July 31, 2010, 3:30–4PM

Sunday, August 1, 2010, 3:30–4PM

In SIT, STAND, WALK, LIE DOWN… award winning theater director Phil Soltanoff creates a promenade performance on Governors Island. Performed by a mass of people using movements derived from the simplest gestural vocabulary, SIT, STAND, WALK, LIE DOWN… aims to reveal the qualities of a particular space by painting it with choreographed movement.

Event | Public Programming – Sitelines

Christopher Williams: The Voyage of Garbhglas (excerpt)

Location

Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City, 290 Vesey Street at North End Avenue

Dates & Times

Monday, August 2, 2010, 12:30–1PM

Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 12:30–1PM

Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 12:30–1PM

Thursday, August 5, 2010, 12:30–1PM

In this new work, Bessie Award-winning choreographer Christopher Williams brings his signature imaginative style to Irish Faerie lore and 6th and 7th century adventure tales known as Imramma in which saints, heroes, or troubled men are set adrift in boats with no oars, encountering strange, uncharted magical lands with curious inhabitants. Featuring original music by Gregory Spears.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

“Patient Boy” by Aaron Landsman, directed by Mallory Catlett

Presented by current Swing Space resident Mallory Catlett

Location

Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, August 6, 2010, 2:15–3PM

Saturday, August 7, 2010, 2:15–3PM

Patient Boy is a three-part theater piece about nostalgia, punk rock, the legacy of activism, and kids who burn down malls. It starts with three monologues by 40-year-old men in a bar, who reminisce to a silent boy about their glory years in unknown bands. Later the boy hooks up with a nice vegan squatter girl, and together they go around the country wreaking havoc on the empty shells of shopping centers. Eventually they take it too far. Years later, they reminisce to the audience about their glory crimes in unknown towns.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Forwards/Backwards

Presented by current Swing Space resident Forwards Backwards

Location

Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, August 6, 2010, 1:45–2:15PM

Friday, August 6, 2010, 3:15–3:45PM

Saturday, August 7, 2010, 1:45–2:15PM

Saturday, August 7, 2010, 3:15–3:45PM

Forwards/Backwards is a palindromic, semi-musical performance for vocalist, VHS playback, and synchronous audio. Over the course of 15 minutes, a vocalist relates various historical anecdotes about the possibility, and potential pitfalls of time travel, all the while attempting to keep time with a visual metronome played back on VHS. The presentation addresses time in many forms – musical rhythm and meter, the philosophy of time and being, calendars, time-zones, and Spanish imperialists. It also, for reasons we will keep to ourselves for now, relies very heavily on the performers specific and expert knowledge of the material he is delivering.

Event | Public Programming – Sitelines

LoVid: Trichrome Navigation

Location

Broad Street between Exchange Place and Beaver Street

Dates & Times

Monday, August 9, 2010, 12:30–1PM

Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 12:30–1PM

Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 12:30–1PM

Thursday, August 12, 2010, 12:30–1PM

In Trichrome Navigation interdisciplinary artist duo LoVid lead a team of performers and audience members through an obstacle course, carrying electronic components from one side to another, building an electronic musical instrument that produces live sound. Beginning with minimal sound and movement, the performance progresses to a crescendo of increasing density and sound.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Windowfarms: Opening Reception

Presented by current Swing Space resident Britta Riley: Windowfarms

Location

LMCC’s Swing Space at 156 William Street

Dates & Times

Thursday, September 2, 2010, 6:30–9PM

Visit the space to see the completed Windowfarms installation including a short talk about the R&D-I-Y process.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Windowfarms: Dinner Workshop

Presented by current Swing Space resident Britta Riley: Windowfarms

Location

LMCC’s Swing Space at 156 William Street

Dates & Times

Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 7–8:30PM

Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 7–8:30PM

Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 7–8:30PM

Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 7–8:30PM

Get prepared for the fall harvest. Get prepared for a fall harvest. Bring your dinner after work. Start your seeds, plan your system, & prep your bottles with the Windowfarms team.

$25 materials fee and some homework suggested before you come. RSVP to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Floating World

Location

The Gallery at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Hours

September 10 – October 10, 2010

Fridays: 11AM–4:30PM

Saturday and Sundays: 11AM–6PM

LMCC is pleased to present Floating World, a group exhibition of works created by the visual artists-in-residence in the inaugural session of Swing Space in Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island. Each of the artists who participated in this residency session has been influenced by their time on the Island, as well as the daily voyage there and back. The collection of works presented in Floating World will reveal the artists’ diverse processes from photography to video to sculpture and installation. Some work directly interprets aspects of the landscape, the seascape, the architecture, topography, and history of the Island, while other work demonstrates the exciting response to an intense period of time in-residence on this “Floating World.”

Featuring: Jae Hi Ahn, Rachel Bacon, Ouida Biddle, Jessica Bruah, David Colosi, Jessica Feldman, Jenn Figg, The Friendly Falcons and Their Friend the Snake, Moo Kwon Han, Wojciech Gilewicz, GH Hovagimyan, The Shining Mantis, Sungmi Lee, Sunghee Pae, Birgit Rathsmann, Larry Shea, Hidemi Takagi, Work Progress Collective, Chin Chih Yang, and Maeung Gyun You

Floating World is curated by Erin Donnelly and Melissa Levin.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Opening Reception: Floating World

Location

The Gallery at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Hours

September 10 – October 10, 2010

Fridays: 11AM–4:30PM

Saturday and Sundays: 11AM–6PM

LMCC is pleased to present Floating World, a group exhibition of works created by the visual artists-in-residence in the inaugural session of Swing Space in Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island. Each of the artists who participated in this residency session has been influenced by their time on the Island, as well as the daily voyage there and back. The collection of works presented in Floating World will reveal the artists’ diverse processes from photography to video to sculpture and installation. Some work directly interprets aspects of the landscape, the seascape, the architecture, topography, and history of the Island, while other work demonstrates the exciting response to an intense period of time in-residence on this “Floating World.”

Featuring: Jae Hi Ahn, Rachel Bacon, Ouida Biddle, Jessica Bruah, David Colosi, Jessica Feldman, Jenn Figg, The Friendly Falcons and Their Friend the Snake, Moo Kwon Han, Wojciech Gilewicz, GH Hovagimyan, The Shining Mantis, Sungmi Lee, Sunghee Pae, Birgit Rathsmann, Larry Shea, Hidemi Takagi, Work Progress Collective, Chin Chih Yang, and Maeung Gyun You

Floating World is curated by Erin Donnelly and Melissa Levin.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Carrie Ahern Dance: SeNSATE

Location

LMCC Swing Space at 14 Wall Street

Dates & Times

Saturday, September 18, 2010, 8–11PM

Sunday, September 19, 2010, 4–7PM

Saturday, September 25, 2010, 6–9PM

Sunday, September 26, 2010, 4–7PM

Saturday, October 2, 2010, 8–11PM

Sunday, October 3, 2010, 4–7PM

After its critically acclaimed premiere at the Brooklyn Lyceum in November 2009, Carrie Ahern Dance’s SeNSATE is adapted for the underground, multi-level vault at 14 Wall Street, where the piece was initially created and rehearsed. Ahern invites SeNSATE’s performers and audience to bring their fetters and flaws and struggle to push the confines of reinforced steel walls and the boundaries of their bodies. The audience is free to come and go within the vault spaces anytime during the three designated hours, experiencing the dance from anywhere they choose.

Dancers Carrie Ahern, Donna Costello, David Figueroa, Kelly Hayes, and Jillian Hollis perform for the duration. Composer Anne Hege performs live with an original score that uses her voice and innovative self-made instruments to meld seamlessly with the movement. Costumes are by Naoko Nagata and the lighting environment is by Jay Ryan.

Tickets: $25 general; $15 artists/students

*September 25 benefit performance tickets $75 and include post-performance cocktails and conversation with the artists.

Tickets available at www.carrieahern.com or www.brownpapertickets.com/event/121392

Use Discount Code: LMCC for $15 Tickets!

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

Making Temporary Public Art & Performance: What Artists Need to Know

Location

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 6:30–8PM

Led by Erin Donnelly, Special Projects Consultant, LMCC and Independent Curator

As luxury towers rise, storefronts vacate, and new public spaces are designed, community and street life have become more important than ever. Artists have the opportunity to connect with civic life through the creation of temporary public art. What kinds of resources are available to guide you in making temporary public art in New York City? What essentials must you plan for in order to realize your project? This talk will introduce such resources as well as address such logistical and legal matters as securing locations, obtaining permits and insurance.

This workshop is at capacity. To stay informed about future opportunities, please subscribe to our newsletter!

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Mumbo-jumbo, a work-in-progress by Christopher Williams

Presented by current Swing Space resident Christopher Williams

Location

Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, October 1, 2010, 1–2PM

Join choreographer Christopher Williams with dancers Raja Kelly and Paul Singh for a work-in-progress showing of an excerpt of his latest work Mumbo-jumbo followed by an question and answer session and open discussion.

Inspired by masked ritual practices of the Mandingo people of Western Africa, controversial 19th century juvenile literature such as Tar-Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris, The Adventure of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg by Florence Kate Upton, and Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman, Mumbo-jumbo is a duet incorporating imagery from the ancient mythological trope of the exposed or feral child and exploring “sticky” situations that occur as a result of racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and abandonment. The work is set to snippets of found music, and the costumes are by Carol Binion.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

SIP/watershed

Presented by current Swing Space resident iLAND Inc. - Jennifer Monson

Dates & Locations

Saturday and Sunday, October 2 & 3 and October 9 & 10

10:30 and 11:30AM: Performances will take place in the Rehearsal Studio at Building 110

4 and 5PM: Performances will take place at Yankee Pier

SIP is an investigation into the NYC watershed viewed as a meta-choreography of the historical, geological, and cultural layers of the interaction of built and natural phenomena of water in the region. Choreographer and iLAND Artistic Director Jennifer Monson, Sound Artist Chris Cogburn, Costume Designer Katrin Schnabl, Architect Kate Cahill, and Choreographer/Dancer Maggie Bennett will create a process that interweaves their forms through listening, observing, moving in and with water affecting the NYC watershed – from along the edges of NYC’s shoreline to the headwaters of the Hudson in the upper reaches of the Adirondacks.

The SIP collaborators invite the public into their process through a dynamic structure that frames and reflects the constantly shifting nature of the watershed. Each event builds a system of listening, observing, and moving that creates a porous and fluid experience - the intimacy of which is designed to sustain an immersive experience for both the public and the artists.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Visual Artist Open House

Location

Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, October 8, 2010, 11AM–4:30PM

Saturday, October 9, 2010, 11AM–6PM

Sunday, October 10, 2010, 11AM–6PM

Please join us as the second session of Swing Space visual artists-in-residence open their studios at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center. Sixteen individual artists and two collaborative groups have been working in LMCC’s new studios on Governors Island since August, developing new projects in a wide range of media. Come see the exciting new work they have created.

Resident artists include: Lee Arnold, Gretchen Bennett, J Carpenter, Rick Caruso, David Colosi, Shingo Francis, Mariam Ghani + Erin Ellen Kelly, Aoife Hand, Christina Kelly, Michael Krondl, Jessica Lagunas, Carolyn Lambert + Siobhan Rigg, Katherine McLeod, Joy Nagy, Kirsten Nelson, Raphael Perret, Evan Robarts, and Shino Soma

More information about our current residents including biographies and examples of their work is available here.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

See it through, a work-in-progress by Beth Gill

Presented by current Swing Space resident Beth Gill

Location

Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Sunday, October 10, 2010, 3–3:45PM

Beth Gill’s two week residency at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center will be a focused work period for Gill and her dancers, Anna Carapetyan, Danielle Goldman, Jennifer Lafferty, Tara Lorenzen and Marilyn Maywald, to continue developing and investigating material for their upcoming season at The Chocolate Factory in June 2011.

About her work, Gill says:

‘This is a dance that I've wanted to make and tried to make before -- a dance that challenges me as a choreographer to craft with deliberation, sensitivity, vision and an awareness of you the viewer. It is a dance work that demands dancers with skill, confidence, and drive. With every day, we are learning more about moving and about each other. This is what I know.

Other things are coming up: patterns, geometry, femininity, color, culture and questions about whether this is old or new. If in fact it is old, why can't I let it go and move on?’

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

Working With A Fiscal Sponsor: A Panel Discussion

Location

LMCC, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 6:30–8PM

Moderated by Mary Six Rupert, Consultant, Dancer & Dance Educator

Panelists: Kevin Augustine, Lone Wolf Tribe; Diane Debicella, Fractured Atlas; Elena M. Paul, Esq., Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

A fiscal sponsor is an organization that agrees to act as a non-profit umbrella for an individual or group, receiving tax-deductible donations and grant funds on their behalf. What opportunities does fiscal sponsorship open up for artists and emerging organizations? How is fiscal sponsorship structured and are there any recommended best practices in working with a fiscal sponsor? This discussion will gather diverse perspectives from a legal expert, a sponsorship provider, and a sponsored artist to provide practical recommendations and clarify common misunderstandings of fiscal sponsorship.

TNT: Training, Networking, and Talks is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. TNT is also supported by New York State Council on the Arts and The Joan Mitchell Foundation.

This event is at capacity.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

The TEAM — "Mission Drift" open rehearsal

Presented by current Swing Space resident The TEAM - Mission Drift

Location

Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Thursday, November 4, 2010, 2:45–4:30PM

Friday, November 5, 2010, 2:45–4:30PM

LMCC and The TEAM (Theatre of the Emerging American Moment) invite you to two open rehearsals of Mission Drift, a musical and pioneering journey west and east across the USA in search of an unbiased portrait of American Capitalism, told through atomic blasts, lizard ballet, and people with bank accounts.

Featuring music composed by Heather Christian, and created by The TEAM in the blazing heat of a Las Vegas June, Mission Drift is the newest work-in-progress from this award winning ensemble. These bare-bones open rehearsals are a final opportunity for the company to get structural feedback on the evolving work (begun in May 2008) before its spring 2011 premiere. Please join us for snacks and conversation.

Audiences should plan to take the 2:15 ferry, departing from Slip 6, Battery Maritime Building at 10 South Street, Manhattan (directly north of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal).

Run-time for the performance will be approximately 100 minutes, after which audiences are invited to stay for tea and conversation. Return ferries are scheduled for 5PM and 6PM.

ALL Audiences must RSVP to theteamplays@gmail.com if they wish to attend. This is due to island security.

Please email theteamplays@gmail.com with "WORKSHOP RESERVATION" in the subject heading, as well as the number of tickets, name, and contact information. Seating is highly limited so early reservations are strongly encouraged.

Event | Artist Residencies – International Residencies

Artist Talk with CEC ArtsLink Fellow Kristaps Gulbis

Location

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Thursday, November 4, 2010, 6–8PM

Please join us for an artist talk with Kristaps Gulbis followed by a wine reception. In this public program, he will discuss his public art practice and international projects as the culminating event of his residency.

Gulbis is a 2010 CEC Artslink resident artist hosted by LMCC in New York City from October – November 2010. For his residency, he maintains a studio in Building 110: LMCC Arts Center at Governors Island.

Kristaps Gulbis is a sculptor, who lives and works in Latvia. He has participated in numerous contemporary art projects in more than 20 countries such as a solo exhibition at Leitrim Sculpture Centre in Ireland, group exhibitions including the Lodz Biennale in Poland and at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, as well as a residency in Sapporo, Japan, to name just a few. His project "Pink House" (together with A. Bikse) was presented at the 51st Venice Biennale.

The CEC ArtsLink Residency offers artists and arts managers from Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus a five-week stay at an established, non-profit arts organization in the United States.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Swing Space Open House

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Thursday, December 16, 2010, 2:30–6PM

Friday, December 17, 2010, 10AM–2PM

Swing Space visual artists-in-residence open their studios at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at the culmination of their residencies. Fifteen individual artists and two collaborative groups have been working in LMCC’s studios on Governors Island since August, developing new projects in a wide range of media. Come see the exciting work they have created!

Resident artists include: Lee Arnold, Gretchen Bennett, J Carpenter, Rick Caruso, David Colosi, Shingo Francis, Mariam Ghani + Erin Ellen Kelly, Aoife Hand, Christina Kelly, Michael Krondl, Jessica Lagunas, Carolyn Lambert + Siobhan Rigg, Katherine McLeod, Joy Nagy, Kirsten Nelson, Evan Robarts, and Shino Soma

More information about our current residents, including biographies and work samples, is available here.

The open house and open rehearsals are free and open to the public.

Ferries for Governors Island depart from the Battery Maritime Building at 10 South Street, Manhattan. Photo ID will be required to check-in.

Ferry Departure Schedule:
Thursday, December 16
2:15PM, 3:15PM, 4:15PM
Return ferries depart at 3PM, 4PM, 5PM, and 6PM.

Friday, December 17
10 AM, 11AM, 12:15PM, 1:15PM
Return ferries depart at 10:45AM, 12PM, 1PM, and 2PM.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Faye Driscoll Dance Group Presents Open Rehearsals

Presented by current Swing Space resident Faye Driscoll Dance Group

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Thursday, December 16, 2010, 2:30–3:15PM

Friday, December 17, 2010, 1:15–2:30PM

Driscoll and her dancers invite guests to experience rehearsals of early explorations of new work; a duet featuring Driscoll and Jesse Zaritt, which examines beauty through myth, ritual, masculine/feminine bleed of power, and the performance of dissolving selves. What is the beauty of real transformation? Is it like a snake shedding its skin versus a cultural obsession with self-improvement like botox lips? How are they indicators of the same urge?

The open rehearsals are free and open to the public. Due to island security ALL guests must RSVP if they wish to attend.

Getting there

Ferries for Governors Island depart from the Battery Maritime Building at 10 South Street, Manhattan. Photo ID will be required to check-in.

Ferry Departure Schedule:
Thursday, December 16
2:15PM
Return ferries depart at 4PM.

Friday, December 17
1:15PM
Return ferries depart at 3PM.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Swing Space presents a Work-in-Progress performance by Faye Driscoll Dance Group

Presented by current Swing Space resident Faye Driscoll Dance Group

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 2:30–3:30PM

Faye Driscoll Dance Group will present a work-in-progress on her newest work; a duet featuring Driscoll and Jesse Zaritt, which examines beauty through myth, ritual, masculine/feminine bleed of power, and the performance of dissolving selves. What is the beauty of real transformation? Is it like a snake shedding its skin versus a cultural obsession with self-improvement like botox lips? How are they indicators of the same urge?

The open rehearsals are free and open to the public. Due to Island security ALL guests must RSVP if they wish to attend.

Ferries for Governors Island depart from the Battery Maritime Building at 10 South Street, Manhattan. Photo ID will be required to check-in.

Ferry Departure Schedule:
Tuesday, December 21
2:15PM
Return ferries depart at 4PM and 5PM.

Event | Public Programming – Access Restricted

Access Restricted: Lower Manhattan Revealed "Cultural Memory"

Location

7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich Street, 45th Floor

Dates & Times

Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

A conversation between Clifford Chanin, Founder of The Legacy Project and Steven Davis, FAIA, Davis Brody Bond Aedas

What are global issues of art in the aftermath of trauma and how does cultural memory inform design such as that of the National September 11 Memorial Museum? Completed in 2006, 7 World Trade Center replaced the last building to fall on 9/11 and offers not only a bird’s-eye view of Ground Zero construction, but also a panoramic outlook.

Click here for more information and to RSVP.

Event | Arts Services – Training

Promote Yourself! An Introduction to Public & Media Relations for Artists

Location

LMCC, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor, New York, New York

Dates & Times

Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 6:30–8PM

Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

As an artist you create art, but if you want your art to be seen or heard, you have to think about how your work will reach its audience. Understanding public and media relations is an essential part of a successful communications campaign that will garner press coverage and visibility for your art project and for yourself. In this free, three-part workshop, participants will learn how to develop targeted PR and media plans, craft written press materials, and reach out to the media.

Artists may sign up for a stand-alone introductory workshop on January 26 or register to be considered for the full, three-session intensive. Class size for Sessions 2 & 3 is restricted to 20 participants to allow for one-on-one attention and work in small groups. Participants should be prepared to complete homework assignments between sessions.

For more information and to register for the workshops, click here.

Event | Public Programming – Access Restricted

CANCELED Access Restricted: Lower Manhattan Revealed "Actions: What You Can Do With the City"

Location

195 Broadway, former AT&T Building, between Fulton and Dey Streets

Dates & Times

Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

A curatorial talk by Giovanna Borasi, Curator of Contemporary Architecture and Mirko Zardini, Director, both from The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal

The curators of Actions: What You Can Do With the City, described as “99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world,” discuss the exhibition and how citizens’ actions of walking, gardening, recycling, and playing have renewed and re-imagined cities. Actions was presented in 2009 by The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and the Graham Foundation in Chicago in 2010. Built in the neo-Classical style in 1912, the former AT&T headquarters features a forest of Doric columns in the lobby. The building was also the location from which the first trans-Atlantic call was made to London in 1927.

This Access Restricted event has been cancelled due to inclement weather. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Event | Public Programming – Access Restricted

Access Restricted: Lower Manhattan Revealed "Unbuilding New York"

Location

The Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, between Park Place and Barclay Street

Dates & Times

Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

LMCC presents the third lecture of this year's Access Restricted series - "Unbuilding New York" - an interview with journalist and author Jeff Byles (Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition) and Michael Sorkin, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and the Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program, City College of New York, and Principal, Michael Sorkin Studio at The Woolworth Building on Wednesday, February 9, 6:30PM.

The past decade’s building boom—and bust—has wrought unprecedented changes upon New York City’s urban fabric, particularly Downtown, where restless reconstruction has brought both crisis and opportunity. In this conversation, two authors of urban issues will discuss “unbuilding” to explore the potent urban, civic, and environmental impacts of this timely topic. The tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1913, The Woolworth Building with its signature neo-Gothic spire was originally marketed as the “Cathedral of Commerce.”

This Access Restricted lecture is at capacity. There is no waiting list for this event.

Info Session | Artist Residencies – Workspace

Workspace Information Session

Location

LMCC, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Friday, February 18, 2011, 3–5PM

Thursday, March 10, 2011, 7–9PM

Attend an Info Session at which LMCC staff review the Workspace Application Guidelines and answer questions about the residency and the selection process.

Event | Public Programming

Maybe I should have called it 'My Life in Nineteen Minutes'

Location

74 Pine St. (entrance on Pearl St.)

Dates & Times

Saturday, March 5, 2011, 2PM–2AM

Taking its name from Alexander Calder's response to 'Work in Progress,' his 1968 theatrical production, Maybe I should have called it 'My Life in Nineteen Minutes' is a twelve-hour one-day event that presents a continuous series of artist film screenings, performances and music. Influenced by Calder's investigations into improvisational performance, appropriated materials and continual change through the development of his iconic 'mobiles,' Maybe I should have called it 'My Life in Nineteen Minutes' will traverse history by reading it through the present moment, zigzagging through different scenarios via the slippage of time and space. It will engage an active audience through different media and temporalities via numerous set-changes, playfully interrogating life's intermissions.

Artists: Dara Birnbaum, Steven Cairns, Alexander Calder, Mike Cooter, Friends, Michael Fullerton, Nick Hallett & Brock Monroe, Phillipa Horan, Yves Klein, Torsten Lauschmann, Gordon Matta-Clark & Jamie Davidovich, Herbert Matter, Matt McCormick, Rivane Neuenschwander, Tony Oursler, PC Worship, Pablo Pijnappel, Sally Potter, Laure Prouvost, Hans Richter, Giles Round, Holton Rower, Gryphon Rue, Snowden Snowden, Corin Sworn, Mika Tajima, Alexis Marguerite Teplin, Cara Tolmie, White Suns, William Wegman

Curators: Conceived by Victoria Brooks; 'Episodes' curated by Victoria Brooks, Isla Leaver-Yap & Joe Ahearn/AIR

Sponsors: A Calder Foundation Project, co-sponsored by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and in association with AIR, Art International and the Clocktower Gallery

Event | Artist Residencies – Workspace

Workspace: Works-in-Progress: Open Studios

Location

LMCC Workspace Studios, 125 Maiden Lane, 14th Floor

Dates & Times

Sunday, March 6, 2011, 12–6PM

Get a behind-the-scenes look at artists’ studios! Workspace, LMCC’s studio residency program is opening its doors for the first time this year. Meet 18 visual artists and 6 writers in their studio spaces and see the work they have been making since September. Residents are working in all media and genres in unique spaces generously donated by Downtown real estate owners. Come see how LMCC is changing what it means to work Downtown.

More information about our current residents including bios and work samples is available on our website.

Works-in-Progress: Open Studios is presented in association with Armory Arts Week.

Event | Public Programming – Access Restricted

Access Restricted: Lower Manhattan Revealed “Make History Now”

Location

Seaport Museum New York, 12 Fulton Street

Dates & Times

Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

A conversation between Greg Sholette, artist, author, activist, co-founder, REPOhistory and Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Queens College, New York, and John Kuo Wei Tchen, public historian, dumpster diver, co-founder of the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas and Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Gallatin School, New York University, moderated by Frederick Kaufman, Professor at City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism. Co-presented by Seaport Museum New York.

How can local history become a tool to reclaim time and space from master narratives? When is the process of forgetting convenient for urban development? And how has history itself become a hip marketable means of gentrification? This evening’s conversation will touch upon REPOhistory’s Lower Manhattan Sign Project (1992) and Tchen's “below the grid” history of the intermingled and creative port culture of Mannahatta, informing a discussion of the politics of public space. The Seaport Museum attic space once housed the old Fulton Ferry Hotel.

RSVP is required for this event. The link to RSVP goes live on the Access Restricted webpage at 12noon on March 1st. Please mark your calendars accordingly.

Event | Public Programming – Access Restricted

Access Restricted: Lower Manhattan Revealed “Screening: Mixed Use, Manhattan”

Location

Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, CUNY, 25 Broadway, 7th Floor Auditorium

Dates & Times

Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

“Screening: Mixed Use, Manhattan” Douglas Crimp, author, art historian, and Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester introduces an evening of films by artists Joan Jonas, Gordon Matta-Clark, James Nares, and Charles Simonds Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, The City College of New York (CUNY), 25 Broadway, 7th Floor Auditorium

Douglas Crimp, co-curator with Lynne Cooke of the exhibition Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present, shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia last year, introduces artists’ films from the exhibition that explore various uses of the former industrial areas of Lower Manhattan during a period of the area's transformation. City College CUNY Center for Worker Education is located at 25 Broadway in the former Cunard Line Building, along what was once "Steamship Row."

RSVP is required for this event. The link to RSVP goes live on the Access Restricted webpage at 12noon on March 15th. Please mark your calendars accordingly.

Event | Arts Services – Talks

Work Sample Dos and Don'ts

Location

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor Between Pearl and Water Streets

Dates & Times

Thursday, March 24, 2011, 6:30–8PM

In order to access funding, residencies and other professional opportunities, artists are often required to submit work samples for consideration. Who reviews work samples? How are they reviewed? How important is formatting? Context? Our interactive workshop will cover these issues and provide a series of examples from a range of artistic disciplines that will allow participants to consider what makes a work sample compelling and why.

Led by LMCC's Grants & Services team

Workshop is free, but space is limited.

RSVP is required.

This event is at capacity. There is no waiting list for this event.

Event | Public Programming – Access Restricted

Access Restricted: Lower Manhattan Revealed “The Lenape: Lower Manhattan's First Inhabitants”

Location

Pershing Hall, Governors Island; Free luncheon and ferry access are provided

Dates & Times

Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 11:30AM–2PM

LMCC presents the final lecture of this year's Access Restricted series - "The Lenape: Lower New York's First Inhabitants," a lecture by Dr. David M. Oestreicher, curator (In Search of the Lenape: The Delaware Indians, Past and Present), lecturer, consultant, and independent scholar. Combining archaeological and historical evidence with decades of firsthand ethnographic and linguistic research, this lecture covers the culture, prehistory, and history of the Lenape (Delaware Indians) in this region as well as their subsequent displacement and emigration to enclaves in Oklahoma, Ontario, and Wisconsin in the 18th and 19th centuries. Pershing Hall, one of the many historic buildings on Governors Island, features WPA murals depicting American military history.

Combining archaeological and historical evidence with decades of firsthand ethnographic and linguistic research, this lecture covers the culture, prehistory, and history of the Lenape (Delaware Indians) in this region as well as their subsequent displacement and emigration to enclaves in Oklahoma, Ontario, and Wisconsin in the 18th and 19th centuries. Pershing Hall, one of the many historic buildings on Governors Island, features WPA murals depicting American military history.

Please arrive promptly at 11:30AM for ferry departure from the Battery Maritime Building, directly east of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal in Lower Manhattan. The lecture in Pershing Hall is a seven-minute walk from the Soissons Dock on Governors Island. The return ferry to Manhattan is by the 2PM ferry from Governors Island. For ADA access, please contact LMCC.

Please note: This program does not include a building tour. Additionally, the program is now scheduled for an earlier time (11:30AM). The ferry to Governors Island departs promptly from the Battery Maritime Building, so please be there no later than 11:30AM. Late comers will not be admitted.

RSVP goes live Tuesday, April 5, 12PM on our website. Visit Access Restricted to RSVP at that time.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Sinking Ship Productions Presents a Workshop Showing of Flatland

Presented by current Swing Space resident Sinking Ship Productions

Location

The Vaults at 14 Wall Street

Dates & Times

Thursday, April 14, 2011, 3–5PM

Friday, April 15, 2011, 7–9PM

On the last night before the new Millennium, A. Square, an inhabitant of Flatland, is visited by a Sphere from the land of three dimensions. Sphere takes him on a journey to discover the true nature of the universe. But in Flatland, the notion of a third dimension is heresy, and one who preaches such heresy must be silenced...

The play interweaves an adaptation of Edwin A. Abbott's 1884 satirical and prescient novella with an exploration of contemporary physics theories involving extra dimensions of space.

Using puppetry, object manipulation, physical theater and a range of technology from overhead projectors to lasers, Flatland tells the story of humanity's search to comprehend the world beyond what we see and experience.

Presented in association with the Ensemble Studio Theater Free and open to the public. RSVP here

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

Making the Transition to Being a Teaching Artist - A hands-on workshop

Location

LMCC, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 6:30–8PM

Teaching artists new to the K-12 arts education field are faced with countless questions: Where do I look for work? What should my resume look like? What's the best way to write a lesson plan? How much should I expect to be paid? In this interactive workshop, two veteran teaching artists address these essential questions as well as provide practical steps, approaches, and strategies to developing a teaching art practice. Through interactive dialogue, role-play and best practices in resume writing, lesson planning and classroom management, participants will be armed with the essential tools and information they need to enter the field. This workshop is a follow-up to last April's panel discussion on becoming a teaching artist.

Workshop is free, but space is limited.
This workshop is at capacity and registration is now closed. Please subscribe to our online newsletter for information about our upcoming workshops.

Contact Haowen Wang, Program Manager, Grants & Services 212-219-9401 x129 or by email at hwang@lmcc.net

Event | Support Us

The Downtown Dinner 2011

Location

Cipriani Wall Street,

Dates & Times

Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 6–10PM

The Downtown Dinner 2011, featuring Silent Auction, Cipriani Wall Street

Event | Artist Residencies – Workspace

2011 Workspace Open Studio Weekend

Location

Workspace Studios, 125 Maiden Lane, 14th Floor

Dates & Times

Friday, May 13, 2011, 7–9PM

Saturday, May 14, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, May 14, 2011, 5–7PM

Sunday, May 15, 2011, 12–5PM

Join us in the studios of LMCC’s Workspace artists and writers-in-residence for an opening reception, open hours, and a reading! Representing all media and genres—from painting and sculpture to installation, photography, video, and performance; from poetry and fiction to playwriting and creative non-fiction—artists and writers will present the work they’ve been making since the start of their residencies in September 2010.

In partnership with downtown’s generous real estate community, since 1997 Workspace, LMCC’s 9-month residency program, has provided valuable space, time, and community for experimentation, professional development, and dialogue to emerging visual artists and writers.

Full Schedule of Events:

Friday, May 13, 7-9PM Opening Reception
Saturday, May 14, 12-5PM Open Hours
Saturday, May 14, 5-7PM Open Texts: Readings and Performances by Writers-in-Residence
Sunday, May 15, 12-5PM Open Hours

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Swing Space presents Workshop Performances of Gay Rodeo By-Laws (GRBL)

Presented by current Swing Space resident Luke Leonard/Monk Parrots

Location

The Vaults at 14 Wall Street

Dates & Times

Saturday, May 21, 2011, 2–4PM

Sunday, May 22, 2011, 7–9PM

Since January, Swing Space Artist-in-Residence Luke Leonard has been working in The Vaults at 14 Wall Street developing Gay Rodeo By-Laws (GRBL), a new performance event with his theater group, Monk Parrots. Utilizing the vast square footage of the Lower Vault to explore distance as a major theme, GRBL is a performance bordering on site-specific installation.

Loosely inspired by the poetic-documentary style of James Agee's book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, GRBL examines 'citizens' and follows a family of three rejects while spurring questions about Western heritage and social perception.

The stage design requires a long hallway effect. Scenic drops hang at intervals down the length of the stage. During the performance, scenery drops to show another new performance space and as the piece unfolds, each layer will allow for an accumulation of potent symbols and visual fields evoking a journey through the 'world' of GRBL.

Dates & Times::

Saturday, May 21, 2PM Followed by a Q&A with GRBL creators moderated by director/writer/actress and Monk Parrots Board Member Nicole Potter-Talling Sunday, May 22, 7PM

Locations:

The Vaults at 14 Wall Street

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required: info@monkparrots.org

Space at The Vaults at 14 Wall Street is generously donated by Capstone Equities.

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

Create Your Own Artist Website With WPFolio & Wordpress

Location

LMCC, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

Thursday, May 26, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

This workshop will provide artists with the basic skills to create, update & maintain a personal website with WPFolio, a free and open source website theme on WordPress. Step-by-step instructions will be provided to install and configure a portfolio website while participants follow along on their personal laptops. At the end of this two-hour workshop, participants will be able to leave with a basic working portfolio site, ready to be updated with future contents.

WPFolio is built by media artist Steve Lambert and a team of open source developers and designed for artists like you. Click here for more information and to RSVP. Workshop 1 and Workshop 2 are NOT SEQUENTIAL. The same workshop is being offered twice to allow for more artists to participate.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

No One is an Island

Location

The Gallery of Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, May 27, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, May 28, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, May 28, 2011, 3–5PM

Sunday, May 29, 2011, 12–5PM

Friday, June 3, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, June 4, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, June 5, 2011, 12–5PM

Friday, June 17, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, June 18, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, June 19, 2011, 12–5PM

Friday, June 24, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, June 25, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, June 26, 2011, 12–5PM

Friday, July 1, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, July 2, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, July 3, 2011, 12–5PM

Monday, July 4, 2011, 12–5PM

Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud Featuring works by Robert Fischer, Katie Holten, Janelle Iglesias, Carlos Irijalba, William Lamson, Greg Lindquist, Leah Raintree, Begonia Santa-Cecilia, and Kasper Sonne.

LMCC is pleased to present No One is an Island, a group show curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud which examines our relationship with nature and the natural world. Since the Environmentalism movements of the 1970s, we have acknowledged our interconnectedness with nature, rather than a subjugating separation from it. As a result, the definition of and our cultural associations with nature have shifted—geologically, theoretically, ecologically and economically. Governors Island itself, the location of the exhibition, has been altered and shaped by human activity, from its acquisition in 1637 from Native Americans to the addition in 1912 of a hundred acres of rocks and dirt from the extraction of the Lexington Avenue Subway line to the backside of the island. The artists’ works in No One Is an Island takes various approaches to discussing “nature” in both theme and media.

Dates & Times:

On View: Friday, May 27 – Monday, July 4
Fridays-Sundays (and Monday, July 4), 12-5PM
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 28, 3-5PM

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Beth Gill presents an Open Rehearsal and a Work-in-Progress Showing of Electric Midwife

Presented by current Swing Space resident Beth Gill

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, May 27, 2011, 1:30–3PM

Saturday, May 28, 2011, 1:30–3PM

Beth Gill’s newest dance piece, Electric Midwife, which is being developed at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center, continues the focus of previous choreographic works and investigates contemporary dance ideologies through a subtle refinement of form. Electric Midwife is a highly structured, formal and minimalist dance piece for six women designed to instigate a meditation around the elusive subject matters of perception and sensation. Gill and her dancers slowly developed Electric Midwife over a yearlong process of garnering their skills into a rare dance, which celebrates the power of art in which concept and craft reinforce each other. Electric Midwife will premiere at The Chocolate Factory on June 17.

Electric Midwife collaborators include composer Jon Moniaci, lighting designer Madeline Best, and features dancers Anna Carapetyan, Danielle Goldman, Jennifer Lafferty, Tara Lorenzen, Nicole Mannarino and Marilyn Maywald.

Location: Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Ferries to Governors Island depart regularly from Manhattan and Brooklyn. Visit the Governors Island website for more information about ferry schedules and visiting the island.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Works-in-Progress: Open Studios

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, May 28, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, May 29, 2011, 12–5PM

Visual artists working at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center experience a retreat-style residency over the course of 5 months at Governors Island. With unparalleled access to the Island, and sweeping views of New York Harbor, parkland, and cityscapes on all sides, artists-in-residence have been working since early March in diverse media including photography, performance, installation, painting, and sound art. Join us at Governors Island to visit the artists in their studios and view their works-in-progress!

For more information about Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center, including biographies of our current residents, please visit our website.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Choreographer Laura Peterson presents an Open Rehearsal of Wooden

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Sunday, May 29, 2011, 1:30–3PM

Laura Peterson continues the ongoing development of Wooden at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center. Wooden is a series of dances inspired by natural architecture and outdoor installation art. The choreography blends disjointed disintegration, liquid improvisation and complex circular composition with the mathematical precision of nature’s geometry. Wooden is a long-term project that will premiere in its entirety this November at HERE Arts Center.

Dancers include Kate Martel, Edward Rice, and Laura Peterson.

Location: Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Ferries to Governors Island depart regularly from Manhattan and Brooklyn. Visit the Governors Island website for more information about ferry schedules and visiting the island.

Info Session | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Swing Space Information Session

Location

LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, June 17, 2011, 3–5PM

LMCC is currently accepting applications to Swing Space for placement during 2012. Attend an Info Session for Visual Artists at which LMCC staff will review the Application Guidelines and answer questions about the Swing Space program and selection process. Space is limited. RSVP is required.

Click here to reserve a seat for June 17 Info Session at LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island.

The ferry to Governors Island is free and departs regularly from Manhattan and Brooklyn. Visit the Governors Island website for more information about visiting the island, including ferry schedules.

Learn more about Swing Space here, including how to apply.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Premiere of "WASHINGTON SQUARE DANCES"

Presented by current Swing Space resident Naomi Goldberg Haas/Dances For A Variable Population

Location

Washington Square Park, the Eastern End of he Park

Dates & Times

Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 6:30–8PM

Thursday, June 23, 2011, 6:30–8PM

Friday, June 24, 2011, 6:30–8PM

Saturday, June 25, 2011, 6:30–8PM

4 Free Concerts
Wednesday - Saturday, June 22-25 at 6:30 PM

Location:

Washington Square Park, the Eastern End of the Park
Performance preview at 6 PM nightly with dancers in three locations in the park: at the Arch, on the Holley Plaza, and in the Pathways
All performances are free and no reservations are necessary
*Added: A Community Dance Workshop, headed by Naomi Goldberg Haas, will take place June 18 at 10 AM. The Workshop is open to adults of all ages and abilities. Participation is free/No RSVP required.

DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION (Artistic Director/Choreographer Naomi Goldberg Haas) has been invited to participate in the celebration of the newly renovated Washington Square Park. The unique company, with members of all ages, will present the new Washington Square Dances, inspired by composer Terry Riley's landmark 1964 composition "In C," remixed by contemporary composers and performed by a company of women ages 24 to 81 (yes, 81).

DVP unites senior citizens with young professional dancers in works of rich colloquial movements, blending with a contemporary style that erases the traditional boundaries between dancers and non-dancers. Their performances explore how these disparate groups can learn from one another about the nature of movement and expression.

Director Naomi Goldberg Haas is a dance artist who choreographs performances with diverse communities and professional dancers. For Washington Square Dances, she has created a piece that celebrates community, the joy of dance, and the arrival of summer in New York City.

NAOMI GOLDBERG HAAS has worked in concert dance, theater, opera and film, collaborating with The Klezmatics, composer Michael Nyman and Max Richter, and other outstanding artists. She choreographed the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner's It's An Undoing World, as well as his A Dybbuk at the Public Theater, as well as plays presented at MTC, the McCarter Theater, and the NYSF/Delacorte Theater. On film, her work includes Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame. Ms. Goldberg Haas' work with Silesian Dance Theater and persons with disabilities was presented at the XVI and XVII Annual International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Bytom, Poland, and most recently at the Chutzpah Festival in Vancouver, B.C. As a teacher, her credits include California State U/Long Beach and Loyola Marymount University. She currently teaches at University Settlement, the Harkness Dance Center of the 92nd Street Y, NYU, and Dance New Amsterdam, and is on the advisory board of The Yard. After training at the School of American Ballet in New York, Goldberg Haas danced with the Pacific Northwest Ballet. She also holds an MFA from the Tisch Dance Department at NYU.

DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION (DVP), founded in 2005 and based in lower Manhattan, is directed by Naomi Goldberg Haas. Creating theatrical dance with both professional dancers and diverse communities, DVP works with children, persons with disabilities who thought dance was denied them, and seniors who thought dance was beyond them. DVP has been critically and popularly received in venues that include The Public Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, outdoor festivals, non-traditional venues such as the Whitehall Terminal for the State Island Ferry, and many others. The Company is supported by a range of institutions from the Harlem Arts Alliance to the New York State Council on the Arts. Most recently DVP had the honor of being the first dance company commissioned by the Friends of the High Line for performances of "Autumn Crossing."

Washington Square Dances is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space program through a real estate donation from Capstone Equities, the NYU Community Fund and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Swing Space presents a Work-in-Progress showing of The Golden Veil by NTUSA

Presented by current Swing Space resident The National Theater of the United States of America

Location

The Vaults at 14 Wall Street

Dates & Times

Friday, June 24, 2011, 8–10PM

Saturday, June 25, 2011, 8–10PM

Swing Space resident theater group, The National Theater of the United States of America (NTUSA), will show sections of The Golden Veil, a new play being developed in The Vaults at 14 Wall Street by the NTUSA that will premiere at The Kitchen in 2012.

The Golden Veil is about Poverty—specifically the ways in which we, as a culture, engage with poverty—not only as a subject for representation but as an ideological tenet and an inescapable reality.

The Golden Veil is also about Narrative—specifically our human need to find value and beauty in the most terrible of experiences through recounting and revising them. With The Golden Veil, we examine our tendency as artists and Americans to romanticize poverty, and we ask the question: can we afford it?

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

TNT Workshop - The Funding Ecosystem: What You Should Know Before Fundraising

Location

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
,125 Maiden Lane, 9th Floor

Dates & Times

Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 6:30–8PM

Led by Kay Takeda, Director, Grants & Services, LMCC

This workshop reviews basic information that artists need as they begin to research and apply for grants. The session will review types of funding sources, frequently used terms in fundraising, what happens once your application is submitted, and processes to follow and understand from the initial inquiry through receipt of a grant. The goal of this workshop is to prepare artists to understand and better navigate the range of funding resources available to the field.

The Funding Ecosystem is offered each summer as part of a three-month focus on fundraising technical assistance, intended to help artists & arts professionals to leverage their abilities to prepare successful grant applications.

Workshop is free, but space is limited.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Work-in-Progress Performance: Tere O’Connor

Presented by current Swing Space resident Tere O’Connor

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, July 1, 2011, 2:30–3:30PM

Tere O'Connor will offer an informal, work-in-progress showing of his latest work being developed at LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island. In this work, O'Connor extracts structural conceits from the closeted gay experience to drive a choreographic process. Using the body as a site of convergence and transformation, dance itself becomes an artifact of otherness. The fully developed work will have its premiere at Danspace Project in December of 2011.

Performers: Matthew Rogers, Niall Noel Jones, Paul Monaghan, Michael Ingle.

The performance will take place at Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island. For ferry schedules, visit the Governors Island website. Free and open to the public.

Info Session | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Swing Space Information Session

Location

The Vaults at 14 Wall Street

Dates & Times

Thursday, July 7, 2011, 7–9PM

LMCC is currently accepting applications to Swing Space for placement during 2012. Attend an Info Session for Performing Artists at which LMCC staff will review the Application Guidelines and answer questions about the Swing Space program and selection process. Space is limited. RSVP is required.

Click here to reserve a seat for the July 7 Info Session at the Vaults at 14 Wall Street.

Learn more about Swing Space here, including how to apply.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

The Investigation, Constitution, and Formation of Flock House

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, July 15, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, July 16, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, July 17, 2011, 12–5PM

Friday, July 22, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, July 23, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, July 24, 2011, 12–5PM

Friday, July 29, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, July 30, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, July 31, 2011, 12–5PM

Friday, August 5, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, August 6, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, August 7, 2011, 12–5PM

Friday, August 12, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, August 13, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, August 14, 2011, 12–5PM

On view: July 15 - August 14 Opening Reception: Saturday July 16, 3-5PM

Hours: Friday-Sunday, 12-5PM

LMCC is pleased to present The Investigation, Constitution, and Formation of Flock House, an exhibition that examines the urgency and cyclicality of urban development and proposes building for a time when migration and adaptable forms of habitation are a necessary and standard part of city life. This exhibition poses the question: What will our built environment look like when we live in a city where boundaries are flexible?

The Investigation, Constitution, and Formation of Flock House probes into a social sculpture - an autonomous Micronation that will traverse New York City on a choreographed journey. Beginning by constructing the tools to make the materials, Flock House is created from abandoned vehicles dredged up from the New York waterways that have been formed into a recycled building material. It proposes experiments in compact, migratory living: interdependent, collaborative journeys.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Open Studio Weekend

Location

The Visual Arts Studios at Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, July 16, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, July 17, 2011, 12–5PM

Visual artists working at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center experience a retreat-style residency over the course of 5 months at Governors Island. With unparalleled access to the Island, and sweeping views of New York Harbor, parkland, and cityscapes on all sides, artists-in-residence have been working since early March in diverse media including photography, performance, installation, painting, and sound art. Join us at Governors Island to visit the artists in their studios as they prepare to complete their residencies!

For more information about Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center, including biographies of our current residents, please visit our website.

Featured Artists:
John Andrew
Louisa Armbrust
Hector Canonge
Blake Carrington
Aaron Fox
Nicholas Fraser
Lillian Gerson
Nina Horisaki-Christens
Ilja Karilampi
Suzanne Kelser
Charles Koegel
Patrick Mohundro
MTL (Nitasha Dhillon, Alexis Savino, and Amin Husain)
Laura Nova
Reeta Saeed
Adam Parker Smith
Bari Pearlman
Sweet Home (Yeimi Salazar and Melvin Sanchez)
Dannielle Tegeder
David Colosi -- On-Site Assistant

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Work-in-Progress Performance: World of Wires, Directed by Jay Scheib

Presented by current Swing Space resident Jay Scheib

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, July 16, 2011, 1:30–3PM

Working with a roster of regular collaborators, Jay Scheib joins forces with performers Sarita Choudhury, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Jon Morris, Ayesha Ngaujah, Tanya Selvaratnam, Natalie Thomas, and designers Josh Higgason, Sara Brown, and Anouschka Trocker to develop World of Wires, the third and final installment of Scheib's science vs. fiction performance trilogy: Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems. Based loosely on Daniel Galouye's science fiction masterpiece Simulacron-3 and Fassbinder's sci-fi television series Welt am Draht, World of Wires chronicles the discovery of an immense computer simulation of the world—the people, the weather, the movement of markets, emotions, etc. When one of the scientists designing the simulation goes missing, her partner begins to investigate the disappearance. As her investigation spirals into chaos she discovers that she herself is part of the simulation she had been hired to design, and her colleague had simply been deleted.

Scheib and his team will be developing World of Wires on Governors Island during the month of July. Join us as they present their progress during a 60 minute presentation. Ferries to Governors Island depart regularly from the Battery Maritime Building, Manhattan and Brooklyn. Visit the Governors Island website for more information.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Choreographer Deganit Shemy presents an Open Rehearsal of 2 Kilos of Sea

Presented by current Swing Space resident Deganit Shemy and Company

Location

The Performing Arts Studios at Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Sunday, July 17, 2011, 12–2PM

2 Kilos of Sea is a dance originally created while working in a church courtyard, a space that juxtaposes layers of religious and social meaning and metaphor with a physical layout and design that creates concrete spatial limitations and hard borders.

During their residency at Governors Island Deganit Shemy & Company have been working on a new theatrical version of 2 Kilos Of Sea with a new set design for the stage.

Costumes: Deganit Shemy & Denisa Musilova
Creative Dancers: Denisa Musilova, Savina Theodorou, Elyssa Dole, Michael Ingle and Rebecca Warner.
Sound Design: Jim Dawson
Set and Lighting Design: Lenore Doxsee

Free and open to the public. For information about ferry schedules and visiting Governors Island, click here.

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

Workshop: Budgeting 101

Location

LMCC, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Thursday, July 21, 2011, 6:30–8PM

Led by: Haowen Wang, Program Manager, Grants & Services, LMCC

A budget is a planning tool. Yet for many artists, the process of building a budget is unfamiliar, and can seem complicated or confusing. In this workshop, participants will learn how to construct a line item budget that represents anticipated expenses and income for a sample artistic project. The session will also include a review of basic budgeting terms and concepts, and address the importance of balancing and reconciling actual costs to your budget. Budgeting 101 is offered each summer as part of a three-month focus on fundraising technical assistance, intended to help artists & arts professionals to leverage their abilities to prepare successful grant applications.

Workshop is free, but space is limited.

This workshop is at capacity. For more information about future workshops at LMCC, please subscribe to our online newsletter for updates.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

LMCC presents a Work-in-Progress Performance: World of Wires, Directed by Jay Scheib

Presented by current Swing Space resident Jay Scheib

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Sunday, July 24, 2011, 2:30–3:30PM

Working with a roster of regular collaborators, Jay Scheib joins forces with performers Sarita Choudhury, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Jon Morris, Ayesha Ngaujah, Tanya Selvaratnam, Natalie Thomas, and designers Josh Higgason, Sara Brown, and Anouschka Trocker to develop World of Wires, the third and final installment of Scheib's science vs. fiction performance trilogy: Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems. Based loosely on Daniel Galouye's science fiction masterpiece Simulacron-3 and Fassbinder's sci-fi television series Welt am Draht, World of Wires chronicles the discovery of an immense computer simulation of the world—the people, the weather, the movement of markets, emotions, etc. When one of the scientists designing the simulation goes missing, her partner begins to investigate the disappearance. As her investigation spirals into chaos she discovers that she herself is part of the simulation she had been hired to design, and her colleague had simply been deleted.

Scheib and his team will be developing World of Wires on Governors Island during the month of July. Join us as they present their progress during a 60 minute presentation.

Event | Arts Services – Other Resources

Artists Summer Institute: 5 Day Professional Development Intensive for New York City Artists

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 9AM–7PM

Thursday, July 28, 2011, 9AM–7PM

Friday, July 29, 2011, 9AM–7PM

Saturday, July 30, 2011, 9AM–7PM

Sunday, July 31, 2011, 9AM–7PM

The Artists Summer Institute (ASI) is a free, five-day professional development intensive for 55 New York City artists working in all disciplines, offered through a partnership of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Creative Capital.

Held at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island, the Artists Summer Institute offers a unique opportunity for artists to step outside their daily routines and focus on their professional skills and artistic goals in bucolic, community setting. The Institute combines the best of LMCC’s Basic Finance for Artists program and Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program (PDP) to provide a more comprehensive range of training, tools and resources for working artists. The Institute is designed to help artists build a path to greater sustainability and self-sufficiency. Participants will receive arts-focused professional training in the areas of strategic planning, verbal communications, marketing and promotion, Internet optimization, financial management and business planning.

For more information, click here.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

The Story of Flock House, told by Mary Mattingly

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, August 6, 2011, 3:30–4:30PM

As a self-sufficient, inhabitable, and micronational space, Flock House explores a city in which structures combine, separate, and recombine, reflecting the daily movements and relationships of metropolitan life. By augmenting community resources through workshops and organized events Flock House embellishes the etiology of civic folkways, offering opportunities for collaboration, celebration, and invention. Through a combination of slides, videos, diagrams, and plans, Mary Mattingly tells the story of Flock House, from its creation, history, to the Flock House as a living, social space.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Deganit Shemy & Company Present a Work-in-Progress Presentation of 2 Kilos of Sea

Presented by current Swing Space resident Deganit Shemy and Company

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Sunday, August 21, 2011, 2:30–4PM

2 Kilos of Sea is a dance originally created while working in a church courtyard, a space that juxtaposes layers of religious and social meaning and is a metaphor with a physical layout and design that creates concrete spatial limitations and hard borders.

During their residency at Governors Island, Deganit Shemy & Company have been working on a new theatrical version of 2 Kilos Of Sea with a new set design for the stage.

Please join us on Governors Island as the company presents a work-in-progress performance of 2 Kilos of Sea.

Costumes: Deganit Shemy & Denisa Musilova
Creative Dancers: Denisa Musilova, Savina Theodorou, Elyssa Dole, Michael Ingle and Rebecca Warner.

Sound Design: Jim Dawson
Set and Lighting Design: Lenore Doxsee

This event is free and open to the public. For ferry schedules and information about visiting Governors Island, click here.

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

Workshop: Grantwriting Basics for Artists

Location

LMCC, 125 Maiden Lane Floor 2

Dates & Times

Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 6:30–8PM

Led by: Kay Takeda, Director, Grants & Services, LMCC

Individual artists face significant challenges in fundraising, whether the focus is on projects or opportunities to support their artistic development. One of the biggest challenges includes writing clear and informative grant proposals. This 90-minute workshop will cover the basic components of most grant proposals, providing tips and exercises to help make future proposals more effective.

Grantwriting Basics for Artists is offered each summer as part of a three-month focus on fundraising technical assistance, intended to help artists & arts professionals to leverage their abilities to prepare successful grant applications. Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement for our fall workshops on our website.

TNT: Training, Networking, and Talks is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and The Joan Mitchell Foundation.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

The Truth Is I Am You

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, September 2, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, September 3, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, September 4, 2011, 12–5PM

Monday, September 5, 2011, 12–5PM

Friday, September 9, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, September 10, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, September 11, 2011, 12–5PM

Friday, September 16, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, September 17, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, September 18, 2011, 12–5PM

Saturday, September 24, 2011, 12–5PM

Sunday, September 25, 2011, 12–5PM

On view August 26 - September 25
Closing Reception: Saturday, September 24, 3-5pm

A project by The Cause Collective, with work by Ryan Alexiev, Jim Ricks, and Hank Willis Thomas.
Co-presention with Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA)

The Truth Is I Am You is a floating poem highlighting the practices of coexistence that exemplify culturally diverse communities like New York City. Lining the walls of the 2,000 square foot exhibition space, the poem starts with "The truth is I am you" and ends with "The truth is I love you" translated into the 24 most spoken languages in New York City. The poetry on the walls is installed along with silver helium inflated balloons floating in the gallery space. The audience is invited to contribute to the poem by writing their own truths on the surface of the balloons.

Referencing Andy Warhol's “Silver Clouds”, which originally debuted in 1966, the piece attempts to use the exhibition space as a point of entry into other systems of considering who we are, what we value, where we come from, and where we are going.

The Cause Collective is a team of artists, designers and ethnographers creating innovative art in the public realm. Their projects explore and enliven public spaces by creating a dynamic conversation between issues, sites, and the public audience.

MoCADA is committed to fostering a greater awareness and appreciation of the arts and cultures of the African Diaspora as it relates to contemporary urban issues. The experiences and cultural contributions of people of African descent have been marginalized throughout history and MoCADA’s mission is to undertake the responsibility of rewriting that history in order to give a more accurate portrayal of the contributions of people of African descent to the artistic and global landscape

The Truth Is I Am You is part of InSite: Art + Commemoration

Photo: THE TRUTH IS I AM YOU, Helium Balloons, The Cause Collective, 2006

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Kimberly Bartosik Presents a Work-in-Progress Performance of Ecsteriority3

Presented by current Swing Space resident Kimberly Bartosik/daela

Location

Fort Jay, Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, September 3, 2011, 3–5PM

Ecsteriority3 is the third part of choreographer Kimberly Bartosik’s Ecsteriority trilogy. In this work, by Bartosik and long-time collaborator Marc Mann, she further develops her interest in decay and the collapsibility of space, while delving into a rigorous exploration of duration. Ecsteriority3 is a 20-minute dance, looped 12 times, to take place over a four-hour period. Created for a site-specific performance at the French Embassy in New York, Bartosik and her company will show the progress of its development on the porch of the old barracks inside the 19th Century Fort Jay on Governors Island. In Ecsteriority3, Bartosik radically mingles the performer and audience realities, rendering the piece dependent on the presence of spectators who join the performers in the space, staying as long as they choose, and establishing a crucial, balancing sense of real time.

Ecsteriority3 will premiere on September 17 during Crossing the Line, an annual fall festival organized by FIAF (the French Institute - Alliance Française). It is commissioned by FIAF and was created in residence at the Herberger School of Art and Design, School of Dance, at Arizona State University. Special thanks to the National Park Service, Governors Island National Monument for hosting this performance.

Event | Public Programming – InSite: Art + Commemoration

Ten Years After 9/11: Remembrance and Reconciliation Through Poetry

Location

Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street

Dates & Times

Saturday, September 10, 2011, 3–5PM

Presented by Poets House and Tirinity Wall Street in association with LMCC

Poets House and Trinity Wall Street, in conjunction with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, present a reading by some of America’s leading poets as part of the 10th anniversary commemoration of 9/11. The event will be held in the sanctuary of Trinity Church, located in downtown Manhattan, just a few blocks from Ground Zero. Poets Mark Doty, Marie Howe, Major Jackson, Lawrence Joseph, Cornelius Eady, J. Chester Johnson, Martha Rhodes and others will read poems of grief, remembrance and reconciliation. A reception with the poets will follow.

On September 11, Poets House will be open for reading and reflection. Poems of remembrance and reconciliation will be posted for all to read. Poets House is located at 10 River Terrace, at Murray Street.

Event | Public Programming – InSite: Art + Commemoration

In Performance: Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

Location

Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City

Dates & Times

Saturday, September 10, 2011, 5–7PM

Sunday, September 11, 2011, 5–7PM

Presented by The Joyce Theater

The Joyce Theater presents two free, outdoor performances to commemorate the ten-year anniversary of 9/11. Featuring performances by Limon Dance Company with Voices of Ascension, Paul Taylor Dance Company with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and a new work created by Jessica Lang, this stunning program of dance and music pays tribute to loss, remembrance, and the cycle of life.

General admission lawn-seating is available on a first-come, first served basis.

LMCC is proud to be a promotional partner of the Joyce Theater for this special program.

In Performance: Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 is made possible by the Joyce Theater Foundation with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust..

Event | Public Programming – InSite: Art + Commemoration

Artist Talk: Xu Bing, "Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?"

Location

Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY

Dates & Times

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

Join Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) for a conversation with renowned artist, Xu Bing on the artistic and spiritual implications of his first American installation of "Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?"

Also participating in the discussion is Lydia Liu, Wu Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.

This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP to programs@mocanyc.org

Event | Public Programming

Together We are New York: Asian Americans Remember and Re-vision 9/11

Location

McNally Auditorium, Fordham University Law School, 140 West 62nd Street

Dates & Times

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 7–9PM

A poetry project by Kundiman

“The sense of urgency to write often comes from a place of necessity – to discover truth, to challenge the simplification of stories.” – Hossannah Asuncion

The ten-year anniversary of 9/11 will bring an outpouring of emotions and remembrances; Together We Are New York helps to ensure Asian American community voices are presented and shared as a vital part of the fabric of city memory and the nation’s journey forward. To remember the diverse communities affected by the events of 9/11, Kundiman, an organization dedicated to the creation and promotion of Asian American poetry, engaged nine poets to interview Asian Americans on their experiences that day and in the decade since. The material will be crafted into poems for a series of public performances and dialogues, uniquely combining historical documentation with artistic production and public engagement. The program will open with a performance on September 13 at Fordham University, with additional performances and events to be scheduled. Check back soon for more details.

Featured poets: Hossannah Asuncion, Tamiko Beyer, Marlon Esguerra, April Heck, Eugenia Leigh, Bushra Rehman, Zohra Saed, Purvi Shah, R.A. Villanueva

Public funding for Together We Are New York is provided by LMCC’s Fund for Creative Communities, which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, and by the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, which is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Event | Public Programming – InSite: Art + Commemoration

Xu Bing: Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?

Location

The Spinning Wheel Building, 5 West 22nd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 12–6PM

Thursday, September 15, 2011, 12–6PM

Friday, September 16, 2011, 12–6PM

Saturday, September 17, 2011, 12–6PM

Sunday, September 18, 2011, 12–6PM

Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 12–6PM

Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 12–6PM

Thursday, September 22, 2011, 12–6PM

Friday, September 23, 2011, 12–6PM

Saturday, September 24, 2011, 12–6PM

Sunday, September 25, 2011, 12–6PM

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 12–6PM

Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 12–6PM

Thursday, September 29, 2011, 12–6PM

Friday, September 30, 2011, 12–6PM

Saturday, October 1, 2011, 12–6PM

Sunday, October 2, 2011, 12–6PM

Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 12–6PM

Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 12–6PM

Thursday, October 6, 2011, 12–6PM

Friday, October 7, 2011, 12–6PM

Saturday, October 8, 2011, 12–6PM

Sunday, October 9, 2011, 12–6PM

LMCC presents the first installation of a project by renowned Chinese artist Xu Bing, utilizing the dust that the artist collected from the streets of Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11. Recreating a field of dust across a floor surface, punctuated by the outline of a Zen Buddhist poem, the work explores the relationship between the material and the spiritual world, and the complicated circumstances created by different world perspectives.

Xu Bing (1955- ) was born in Chongqing, China but grew up in Beijing. He was sent to the countryside to perform farm labor as an “educated youth” during the final years of the Cultural Revolution and then entered The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 1977, where he studied and taught in the printmaking department, receiving both his bachelor's and master's degrees there. In 1990 Xu moved to the United States, eventually relocating to New York in 1992. His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums spanning the globe and he has been the recipient of awards and honors including a 1999 MacArthur Fellowship and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Columbia University in 2010. He currently works out of his studios in Beijing and Brooklyn, and since January 2008 has served as vice president of CAFA, his alma mater.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Poems from the Sky

Location

The Gallery at Building 110: LMCC’s Art Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, September 17, 2011, 12–2PM

This Family Program is inspired by the exhibition The Truth Is I Am You, a project by The Cause Collective, which places speech bubbles of poetry in 24 different languages on the walls along with silver helium inflated balloons floating in LMCC's gallery at Building 110. We will explore poetry and stories that come out of the great blue canopy of our earth's sky. While all visitors are invited to contribute to the poem by writing their own truths on the surface of the balloons, for this event children will be able to make books in the shape of blimps and float their own poetry upon them.

Co-sponsored by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, and Poets House.

Free and open to the public. For information about Governors Island, including ferry schedules, click here.

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

Workshop: Building and Cultivating Relationships with Individual Donors

Location

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor, between Water & Pearl Streets

Dates & Times

Monday, September 26, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

Led by Dara Silverman, Fundraising Consultant

Good fundraising is all about real connections, conversations and relationships. Fundraising from individuals is becoming more important than ever. Individual artists and small grassroots organizations may face particular challenges in knowing how to start. This workshop is designed to help participants learn how to strengthen and grow the base of relationships for themselves, their arts organization, art group or art project for today and years to come. Ideas will be shared to participants on relationship building, fundraising, templates for tracking current and prospective donors, and tools to share with their team or board for successful fundraising.

Two non-sequential workshops will be offered, each accommodating 30 participants. The first workshop will be for individual artists and the second for representatives of small arts organizations.

Workshop for Individual Artists:
Monday, September 26, 6:30-8:30PM

Workshop for Small Arts Organizations:
Tuesday, September 27, 6:30-8:30PM

Event | Grants – Creative Curricula

Creative Curricula Information Sessions

Location

LMCC, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Thursday, September 29, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

Creative Curricula makes matching grants to support partnerships between Manhattan schools and teaching artists or cultural organizations. This year, grants of up to $3,000 will be provided for in-classroom projects that focus on the integrated study of arts and non-arts subjects.

Learn more about the program and how to apply by attending this information session at LMCC's office. First time applicants are required to attend.

Event | Public Programming – InSite: Art + Commemoration

SLOT by Jill Magi: Reading and Reception

Location

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Project Space, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

Join Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Ugly Duckling Presse to celebrate the publication of SLOT by writer, poet and visual artist, Jill Magi. An experiential investigation of how we move through cultural landmarks and institutions, SLOT presents a lyrical and thinking response to official, landscaped memory. In the book, a person slips in and out of highly designed museums and memorials, looks for a mentor who is more than a tour guide, rebels during the official tour, and occasionally finds the lament she is looking for: in comparisons across history, in ambiguous photo sequences, and in poetry. The resulting text stages a quiet argument between the persistent urge to "slot" things—into narratives, frames, archives—and a clear view of what, by resisting, remains.

A short reading of selected passages from the book by Joanna Sondheim, Johannah Rogers and Jill Magi will be followed by a reception. The book and a special, limited edition broadside will be available for purchase.

About Jill Magi

Jill Magi is the author of Cadastral Map (forthcoming, Shearsman), Torchwood (Shearsman), Threads (Futurepoem), as well as the chapbooks Die for love, furlough (In Edit Mode Press), Confidence and Autonomy (Ink Press), Poetry Barn Barn! (2nd Avenue), Cadastral Map (Portable Press), and numerous small, handmade books. Her essays have been anthologized in The Eco-Language Reader (Portable Press/Nightboat Books) and Letters to Poets (Saturnalia Books), and visual works have been exhibited at the Textile Arts Center, the Brooklyn Arts Council, apexart, and Pace University. In 2011, she was an artist-in-residence at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, and she was a writer-in-residence with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2006-07. Jill runs Sona Books, a chapbook press, and for her small press work she was recognized by Poets & Writers magazine as among the 50 most inspiring authors in 2010.

Event is free, but RSVP is required.

This event is part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's InSite: Art + Commemoration, a program that honors the ten-year anniversary of 9/11 by inviting artistic response to a decade of recovery and change in Lower Manhattan and beyond through exhibitions, performances, poetry, and ideas.

Support for InSite: Art & Commemoration is provided by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

Panel Discussion: Artist & Entrepreneur

Location

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Thursday, October 27, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

Artists are becoming increasingly recognized as entrepreneurs. But how are artists actually using business tools and practices to start their own artistic enterprises and advance their own artistic goals? This event will feature real-life experiences and strategies of three artists, and a moderated discussion on related challenges, lessons and rewards.

Featured artists: Matthew Deleget, Stephanie Diamond, Caroline Woolard

Event is free, but RSVP is required.

Questions? Contact Haowen Wang, Program Manager, Grants & Services 212-219-9401 x129 or by email at hwang@lmcc.net

TNT: Training, Networking, and Talks is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and The Joan Mitchell Foundation.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Paola Prestini Presents a Workshop Performance of Oceanic Verses at Governors Island

Presented by current Swing Space resident Paola Prestini

Location

Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, October 28, 2011, 3:30–5:30PM

Oceanic Verses by composer-in-residence Paola Prestini follows four separate story lines as a sailor (folksinger Claudio Prima) on the sea sails between ports; a Queen (improviser Helga Davis) views the Earth from her isolated mountain; a mother (soprano Hila Plitmann) prepares her daughter for a wedding, and a revolutionary soldier (Chris Burchett) provides a work song for the laborers. The lives of all come together by the end of the opera. Oceanic Verses musically paints a picture of Italy as it once was, a cross section of cultures expressed through song.

In this performance workshop Singer Helga Davis works with film by Ali Hossaini to create a multi-layered performance in relation to the film.

(Free ferry to Governors Island departs from the Battery Maritime Building, 10 South Street, Manhattan at 3:15PM.)

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Final Open Studios at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Location

Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, December 9, 2011, 12–6PM

Swing Space visual artists-in-residence open their studios at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at the culmination of their residency. With unparalleled access to the Island and sweeping views of New York Harbor, parkland, and cityscape, twenty individual artists have been working in LMCC’s studios on Governors Island since August, developing new projects in a wide range of media. Join us to learn about their artistic processes and to see the exciting work they have created!

For more information about Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center, including biographies of our current artists-in-residence, please visit our website.

Featured Artists:

Louise Barry
Aisha Bell
Karen Bell
Ingrid Burrington
Erin Diebboll
Zachary Fabri
Brad Farwell
Asuka Goto
Valérie Hallier
Luke Haynes
Tom Henry
John Houck
Nicki Manchisi
Katja Mater
Hanna Mattes
Dana Sherwood
Gian Maria Tosatti
Jayoung Yoon
Srey Bandaul—ACC Fellow
David Colosi—on-site assistant

Dates and Times:

Friday, December 9, 12–6PM
This event is free and open to the public.

Location and Ferry Hours:

The ferry will depart from Manhattan at 15 minutes past the hour from 12:15–5:15PM.
Return ferries depart on the hour from 2–6PM.
The ferry departs from the Battery Maritime Building, 10 South Street, Manhattan. Please enter through the glass doors. The building is green and located directly northeast of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal on the East River.

Info Session | Artist Residencies – Workspace

Workspace 2012-2013 Information Session

Location

125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10038

Dates & Times

Thursday, December 15, 2011, 7–9PM

Now in its 15th year, Workspace is a 9-month studio residency focused on creative process and professional development for emerging visual artists and writers. Through the program’s offerings, which include studio space, studio visits, talks and seminars, access to a network of peers, and public programs, Workspace encourages creative production, professional development, and community building in the early stages of an artist’s or writer’s career. Selected residents are expected to be active in their studio throughout the nine months – using it as a space for experimentation and dialogue.

LMCC has been able to address the critical need for affordable studio space in Lower Manhattan by securing and adapting temporarily vacant office space Downtown in partnership with generous real estate owners. Since its inception in 1997 at the World Trade Center, Workspace has provided hundreds of artists and writers with studio space in some of the city’s most noted landmarks. Workspace studio locations change frequently, but are always located in Lower Manhattan. Attend an Info Session at which LMCC staff will review the Application Guidelines and answer questions about the residency program and selection process.

Info Sessions will take place at the LMCC office, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10038. A reservation is required. Space is limited.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

An Afternoon of Dance Presentation in Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center on Governors Island

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center on Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, December 16, 2011, 2:15–6PM

And lose the name of action is a new performance in development by Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, featuring Gutierrez, Michelle Boulé, Hilary Clark, Luke George, K.J. Holmes and Ishmael Houston-Jones. Inspired by discoveries in neuroscience and paranormal phenomena, and drawing on the mysterious logic of improvisation, this new piece pushes Gutierrez’s persistent questions about the wonder of living with an ephemeral body into the beyond.

Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People will begin at 2:30PM.

(glowing), which will premier at EMPAC in April 2012, is presented as work-in-process in its early development. (glowing) is inspired by the Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki's essay "In Praise of Shadows" that illustrates illusory images and beauty of darkness found in old Japanese houses. Two dancers from Ethiopia and Senegal will join the group in January 2012. The group will explore commonalities between African dance and Yamazaki’s somatic practice, “Fluid Technique,” which was developed with influences in Butoh and Noguchi Gymnastics.

Kota Yamazaki and performers will begin at 4:30PM.

Dates and Times:
Friday, December 16, 2:15–6PM
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required.

Location and Ferry Hours:

Building 110
The ferry will depart from Manhattan at 15 minutes past the hour from 2:15–5:15PM.
Return ferries depart on the hour from 3–6PM. The ferry departs from the Battery Maritime Building, 10 South Street, Manhattan. Please enter through the glass doors. The building is green and located directly northeast of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal on the East River.

Info Session | Artist Residencies – Workspace

Workspace 2012-2013 Information Session

Location

125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10038

Dates & Times

Monday, January 9, 2012, 4–6PM

Now in its 15th year, Workspace is a 9-month studio residency focused on creative process and professional development for emerging visual artists and writers. Through the program’s offerings, which include studio space, studio visits, talks and seminars, access to a network of peers, and public programs, Workspace encourages creative production, professional development, and community building in the early stages of an artist’s or writer’s career. Selected residents are expected to be active in their studio throughout the nine months – using it as a space for experimentation and dialogue.

LMCC has been able to address the critical need for affordable studio space in Lower Manhattan by securing and adapting temporarily vacant office space Downtown in partnership with generous real estate owners. Since its inception in 1997 at the World Trade Center, Workspace has provided hundreds of artists and writers with studio space in some of the city’s most noted landmarks. Workspace studio locations change frequently, but are always located in Lower Manhattan. Attend an Info Session at which LMCC staff will review the Application Guidelines and answer questions about the residency program and selection process.

Info Sessions will take place at the LMCC office, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10038. A reservation is required. Space is limited.

Event | – Workshop Series

Linking Money to Mission – A Workshop for Nonprofit Arts Organizations

Location

125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10038

Dates & Times

Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 10AM–1PM

Event | – Workshop Series

Workshop: Work Sample Dos and Don'ts

Location

125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10038

Dates & Times

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 6:30–8:30PM

In order to access funding, residencies and other professional opportunities, artists are often required to submit work samples for consideration. Who reviews work samples? How are they reviewed? How important is formatting? Context? Our interactive workshop will cover these issues and provide a series of examples from a range of artistic disciplines that will allow participants to consider what makes a work sample compelling and why.

Date and Time: Wednesday, February 29, 6:30-8:30PM

Location: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor
Between Pearl and Water Streets [map]

Workshop is free, but space is limited and registration is required.
Registration will be available on Wednesday, February 15th, at 12PM.

Event | The Downtown Dinner 2012

The Downtown Dinner 2012

Location

Cipriani Wall Street. 55 Wall St. New York, NY 10005

Dates & Times

Monday, April 23, 2012, 6–10PM

Each year at The Downtown Dinner, LMCC celebrates exceptional corporate, civic, and artistic leaders for their unique contributions to the vitality of Lower Manhattan. We are delighted to announce this year’s honorees:

Kevin Burke & Con Edison
Robert R. Douglass & the Alliance for Downtown New York
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum Architecture & Engineering Team:

Michael Arad/Handel Architects and
Peter Walker/PWP Landscape Architecture for the Memorial
Davis Brody Bond for the Memorial Museum
Snøhetta for the Memorial Museum Pavilion
And their many colleagues

The Downtown Dinner — LMCC’s most significant fundraising tool — provides essential support for LMCC’s free arts programs and services, which serve thousands of artists and arts groups and reach an audience of 100,000+ each year. Tickets start at $1,000 each and tables for 10 start at $10,000. Even if you cannot attend, your contribution will go directly towards our efforts to “make art happen” Downtown and throughout Manhattan.

To purchase tickets/tables, please complete the Reservation Form. For more information, please contact Maureen McMahon at 212.219.9401 x101 or mmcmahon@lmcc.net.