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Smorgasburg at The Shed 8/22
This summer, the largest open-air food market in the United States sets up an outpost on The Shed’s Plaza with 20 vendors showcasing food and drink from around the world. Smorgasburg is open Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11 am to 6 pm; entry to the Plaza is free.
Smorgasburg at The Shed 8/8
This summer, the largest open-air food market in the United States sets up an outpost on The Shed’s Plaza with 20 vendors showcasing food and drink from around the world. Smorgasburg is open Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11 am to 6 pm; entry to the Plaza is free.
Mindfulness in the Galleries @ the Noguchi
Join us on first Saturday mornings this summer for meditation and mindfulness in the galleries before the Museum opens to the public. This limited series is led in partnership with Mindful Astoria and offers a pause to bring us back to ourselves. Each session includes guided meditation and an extended conversation with one work of art. You do not need to have any prior experience with mindfulness or meditation to attend, and all materials will be provided.
Open Call Exhibition: CAIN COLEMAN@ The Shed
Launched as part of The Shed’s inaugural-year program, Open Call is a large-scale commissioning program for early-career, NYC-based artists.
In New Information, Cain Coleman (of the Dragon Sisters) takes the audience on a journey of self-exploration and the relentless pursuit of artistic expression. An immersive environment pulls the audience into an unforgettable evening, featuring original music, live instrumentation, performance art, and captivating visual art. Building off Coleman’s roots in Brooklyn’s queer nightlife scene, New Information combines the artistry of a concert or theater performance with the energy and community of a vibrant dance party.
Open Call Exhibition: GARRETT ZUERCHER@ The Shed
Launched as part of The Shed’s inaugural-year program, Open Call is a large-scale commissioning program for early-career, NYC-based artists.
Garrett Zuercher’s Inside/Look opens an empathetic window onto the diversity of Deaf identity and the unique challenges Deaf artists face. The narrative performance compares and contrasts the experiences of individual Deaf theater artists whom Zuercher has interviewed since November 2022, including artists with a range of experiences across nationality, sexuality, religion, other disabilities, and more. From the video recordings of these conversations, Zuercher edited a single video that serves as a visual script for a live stage performance featuring the original interviewees.
Open Call Exhibition: KYLE DACUYAN @ The Shed
Launched as part of The Shed’s inaugural-year program, Open Call is a large-scale commissioning program for early-career, NYC-based artists.
Across episodic investigations of language and gesture, Kyle Dacuyan considers cultural constructions of masculinity. What protective characters arise from fictions of vulnerability, and how do those figures shape structures of empire? Dad Rock is an export, a mood, and a method. Dad Rock is a monologue that falls apart because of poetry.
Open Call Exhibition: Yaa Samar! @ The Shed
Launched as part of The Shed’s inaugural-year program, Open Call is a large-scale commissioning program for early-career, NYC-based artists.
Produced and performed by Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (YSDT, Palestine/NYC) and directed/choreographed by Samar Haddad King with text and additional original music by King, each Gathering is a singular event that calls you to join as participant or witness in the collective action. The cast features seven international YSDT performers—from Japan, Palestine, Taiwan, Turkey, the UK, and the US—and six local artists.
Open Call Exhibition @ The Shed
Featuring 10 new artworks encompassing sculpture, paintings, and video installations by emerging NYC artists who have skillfully intertwined personal stories with global history, this exhibition offers a fresh perspective on current societal issues and is a testament to the power of community- and care-based responses to our world’s challenges.
West Side Fest @ The Shed
Join The Shed and our neighbors in the West Side Cultural Network for the first West Side Fest, a day of free admission, special indoor and outdoor programming, crafts for kids, artmaking for all ages, and more.
The festival wraps up with a block party at The Shed from 3 to 7 pm, featuring dance sets by The Dragon Sisters and Ladies of Hip-Hop, as well as ongoing DJ sets by Riobamba, BEARCAT, and Ashley Venom.
Summer Sway: Dj m0ma @ The Shed
Raised in Queens, New York, Sudanese-born mOma is the embodiment of the versatile New York DJ and music producer. His sets consist of an agile blend of hip hop, dancehall, Afrobeats, soca, amapiano, baile funk, soul, R&B, disco, house, international sounds, and underground dance grooves all mixed with an equal share of classic jams, rare gems, and modern-day dance floor hits.
Summer Sway: Nuevayorkinos @ The Shed
Nuevayorkinos is a digital archive, multimedia project, and party series dedicated to preserving ÑYC Latino and Caribbean culture and history through family photographs, videos, and stories. Established in February 2019, Nuevayorkinos accepts submissions from Latino and Caribbean New Yorkers, taken in the five boroughs before 2010.
Dance Performance: Rod Rodgers Dance Company @ The Shed
This event is part of the exhibition: Tiona Nekkia McClodden: The Trace of an Implied Presence. At the invitation of Tiona Nekkia McClodden, the company will present a dance performance as part of McClodden’s exhibition The Trace of an Implied Presence.
Summer Sway | Ladies of Hip Hop Dance Collective @ The Shed
LAST DAY OF SUMMER SWAY AT THE SHED!
Join The Shed on August 27 for the final Summer Sway of the Summer: Ladies of Hip-Hop Dance Collective.
Ladies of Hip-Hop Dance Collective (LDC) is an all female intergenerational dance collective that creates dance works illuminating the strength, power and diversity of women in hip hop.
Summer Sway | Rich Medina @ The Shed
DJs, dance battles, and parties galore!
Join The Shed on August 26, in a Summer Sway: Rich Medina edition. Bring your family and friends and be inspired by the rich history and the vibrant presence of Black social dance in our city and beyond.
Summer Sway | Soul Summit Music @ The Shed
DJs, dance battles, and parties galore!
Join The Shed on August 19, in a Summer Sway: Soul Summit Music edition. Bring your family and friends and be inspired by the rich history and the vibrant presence of Black social dance in our city and beyond.
Summer Sway | Camille A. Brown & Dancers’ Every Body Move @ The Shed
DJs, dance battles, and parties galore!
Join The Shed on August 13, in a Summer Sway: Camille A. Brown & Dancers' Every Body Move edition. Bring your family and friends and be inspired by the rich history and the vibrant presence of Black social dance in our city and beyond.
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