SAWDUST 10.01.15-08.01.17 SNAPSHOT Dear Friends,

It's hard to believe that it's been only 20 months since our opening night, which set in motion a ride of success consisting of more than 660 unique performances of the highest quality, ripe with discoveries.

When I reflect on how we blazed this path so quickly, I think, first of all, of our programming. It is daring, combines emerging and established artists, is powered by diversity, and addresses today’s most pressing issues. Artists in residence, curators, and world-renowned artists work alongside the NS team to collaborate, incubate, and create the music of the future. I also think of our architecture: a pure design and acoustic miracle that brings joy to both performers and patrons.

We believe National Sawdust is at the center of a music revolution where genres, ages, origins, and talents get together to create and celebrate the musical emotion we all value and need.

Join us!

Jean-Pierre Chessé President of the Board of Trustees

Dear Friends,

As a composer, I believe the role of an artist in the 21st century should be that of creator, educator, performer, and entrepreneur. I believe that 21st-century composers/artists need to be thinking about what impact they can have on their existing community, both locally and globally.

Our hope is to create an inclusive home where artists and audiences can learn, explore and listen creatively. I believe that by giving audiences access to the artists in this intimate way, in this intimate venue, we will make a unique contribution to New York City’s musical ecosystem.

Paola Prestini Composer, CEO and Artistic Director

“...tough and full of magic.” - New York Magazine Education, Mentorship and Career Development Since Opening...in Numbers! • First ever call to female composers in the Hildegard Competition, judged by composers Angélica Negrón, , and Paola Prestini. • Two finalists will receive funding and have their work premiered at NS, conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya. Supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. • New partnership with University of Michigan and Juilliard School will open up NS’ performance venue 660 performances to host works in progress for students, as well as provide guided mentorship in areas such as project management and marketing. 52,000 audience members from: 5 boroughs of New York City, 47 states, and 53 countries across the world 2.1M unique media impressions 47 world premieres 12 operas 63 commissions 50 New York Times reviews

“The buzz has shifted to National Sawdust.” – The Washington Post

Festivals Winterreise Nights • A curated series by throat singer Tanya Tagaq and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, with Northern voices and discoveries represented. Season 3: 12 World Premieres | 3 New Opera Presentations by Anna Clyne, Marcela Rodriguez and Spring Revolution Kate Soper | New Operas by Kate Soper, , , Paola Prestini, • A festival inspired by rite and revolution. • Includes John Zorn’s mystical music, Brazilian music curated by composer Felipe Marcela Rodriguez and Du Yun| 4 New Work Presentations | 11 Curators | 10 Lara, and the Velvet Revolution, a deep dive into the music of China, curated by Residencies | 10 Workshop Presentations | Continued Festivals, Series and Labs composer Du Yun.

Season 3 Theme: Origins FERUS In Season 3, we turn our lens of music discovery to a fresh theme: Origins. Origins will • A series held every January focused on interdisciplinary work in progress, aimed be a deep dive into the roots of culture itself through the music of our varied histories. towards getting the work recognition by placing it during national conferences such What does that look like? as those of International Society for the Performing Arts and Association of Performing Arts Presenters. • It’s the Refugee Orchestra premiering a work by the next great woman composer. • It’s Sudanese pop singer Sinkane curating the best music of African diaspora and New Series first-generation immigrant culture. • NIGHTGOWNS, curated by Sasha Velour, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race, are • It’s a two-day expedition into the Amazon, guided by leading Brazilian artists Felipe evenings of short performances dedicated to celebrating the diversity, depth, and Lara and Stéphane San Juan. wild power of drag. • It is an insistent return to empathy, celebrating the multicultural, the borderless, and the marginalized through their music and stories. Through sharing the Origins of Returning Series disparate artists, we hope to remind the world of the common bonds that we all Stone Commissioning Series share. • A monthly curated series by John Zorn features the top avant grade jazz and out-of-the-box musicians. Residencies and Curators The Revolution • Pursuing the Origins theme, National Sawdust has enlisted artists with roots in six • Curated by NS’ Katie Jones, this monthly series shines light on and Harlem continents as curators. based artists and musicians that are in the breeding ground of the independent pop • 11 world-class curators ranging from violinist Jennifer Koh to clarinetist Kinan genre. Azmeh. Heroes Residency Support • The Heroes series celebrates our compositional heroes. • National Sawdust’s Residency Program provides both individual artists and groups • This year we celebrate the 80th birthday of famed composers Joan Tower and John with space and technical/marketing staff support through recordings, rehearsals Corigliano. and shows as well as commissions. Operas • Over 80 hours of staff support for each residency with a total financial commitment • NS will develop, present and premiere commissioned operas involving women of $450k (in kind and reward payments combined) ensure that these dedicated composers Anna Clyne, Du Yun, Missy Mazzoli, Paola Prestini, Marcela Rodriguez artists can present their new works in various stages of development in concert. and Kate Soper, in addition to a new chamber opera by Nico Muhly, presented with • 12 Residencies ranging from Contemporaneous to the Refugee Orchestra. musicians from the International Contemporary Ensemble.

NS+ • National Sawdust+, created by Elena Park, brings artists and thinkers together for stimulating, and often unexpected, concerts and conversations in an intimate setting. Artists from Marina Abramović to Patti Smith connect music with larger cultural issues and explore them through conversation and innovative musicianship. National Sawdust: Our Story

“National Sawdust is a smashing success” - The New Yorker

In the 22 months since opening, more than 52,000 audience members have experienced nearly 660 NS performances. We have provided commissions and project development support to 25 artists and groups, and countless new compositions have had their world premieres on our stage. We were named in the Best of 2015 lists by both and New York Magazine, and were finalists for receiving the Classical:NEXT Innovation Award, which honors “forward-thinking activities taking place around the world.”

Board Artistic Advisory Board Grant Aldonas Laurie Anderson Courtenay Casey Andrew H. Bart Jean Pierre Chesse, President Helena Christensen Rick D’Avino, President Emeritus Kevin Dolan, Founder and Chair Renée Fleming Chris Grymes Joanne Hubschman Stephen Godfroy Sarah Johnson Richard Kessler Elizabeth Madigan Jost Ellen O’Brien Kelly Brigitte Lacombe Harvey Mogenson, Treasurer Fabien Moreau Nico Muhly Paola Prestini James Murphy Phillip Rapoport Elena Park, Advisory Board Chair Kris Sebastian Terry Riley Jill Steinberg, Vice President Limor Tomer Christopher Whitman Jeremy Turner Dan Widawsky Suzanne Vega Peter Zuspan, Secretary Karen Wong John Zorn

"I just want to encourage you to support National Sawdust. If you like music the way I like music, and you want to hear something fresh and new, and you want to hear the grassroots development of the future and the hope of music... Let's support what's fresh and new." – Reneé Fleming, NS Advisory Board Member

Second Season Highlights

Programming Snapshot: Seasons 1 & 2 Rentals and Partnerships

• 47 World Premieres • Mark by AVON Product Launch // January 2017 • 1 Opera premiere in collaboration with Aix-en-Provence and Rolex • TUMBLR // 10th Anniversary Party // February 2017 during • 11 New Opera Productions fashion week. • 12 Curators • 10 Residencies • Spotify Conference // Summer 2017 • 12 Workshop Presentations • 3 Festivals: Winnterreise, Spring Revolution, and FERUS • Mozart in the Jungle // An Amazon TV series // Summer 2017 • Launch of Heroes Series focusing on Philip Glass • Launch of Stone Commissioning Series curated by John These selected deals bought in over 200k of revenue to the Zorn nonprofit. • Launch of Summer Labs: incubation labs for local emerging artists Development

• Increased contributed support by 50%. New Media Development • Secured institutional support from such distinguished • NS Productions: Current works have appeared at the foundations and government agencies as the Virginia B. Kennedy Center, Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall, Toulmin Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Celebrate Brooklyn, New Victory on Broadway, Ford Achelis and Bodman Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and Theater with LA Opera, and more. New York City Department of Cultural Affairs • The Log Journal: The Log Journal is an online resource for • Raised 10% of annual budget at the Spring Gala, a music news and thoughtful criticism, spearheaded by spectacular curated concert and party that celebrities, veteran journalist Steve Smith. renowned philanthropists and the NS community have come to anticipate, and love to attend. • Sawdust Label: Sawdust Label is the non-profit, in-house record label and recording studio of National Sawdust. • Welcomed gala chair Ann Ziff, speakers Julianne Sawdust Label releases content that reinterprets genre, Moore and David Byrne, and honorees Renée Fleming facilitates provocative collaboration, and encourages new and Philip Glass. Previous attendees have included U2, ways of listening. Marina Abramović, and David Hyde Pierce.

Marketing • 900k Unique Website visitors • 1.2M Page Views • 32k Unique Email Subscriptions • 25k Social Followers Financials

Brief Financial History

Open Date: October 1, 2015

National Sawdust opened with no operating capital, relying on the generosity of a few individuals willing to donate or finance the first two years.

Entering year three, with solid achievements in all areas and a stellar reputation, we are now embarking on the creation of a Founder’s Fund.

This fund will help build a cushion and avoid day to day cash challenges, while expanding the best of the last year’s programs and initiatives.

Founder’s Fund

In less than two years, National Sawdust has built a multifaceted home for internationally renowned programs that support new music. We have also built an effective management team and diverse revenue streams that are allowing our mission to expand and reach audiences around the world. Building on these achievements, it is now time to raise our first major fund to kickstart our third season.

Objectives: • To continue fulfilling our mission to nurture the next generation of artists and audiences, and to help artists become entrepreneurs, advocates and educators • To expand outreach with new media and social platforms • To export our productions around the world • To build a large community of members and supporters • To create a strong financial base Programming our Future: What the Founder’s Fund will enable us to accomplish

Season 3: 12 World Premieres | 3 New Opera Presentations by Anna Clyne, Marcela Rodriguez and Kate Soper | New Operas by Kate Soper, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Paola Prestini, Marcela Rodriguez and Du Yun| 4 New Work Presentations | 11 Curators | 10 Residencies | 10 Workshop Presentations | Continued Festivals, Series and Labs

Season 3 Theme: Origins In Season 3, we turn our lens of music discovery to a fresh theme: Origins. Origins will be a deep dive into the roots of culture itself through the music of our varied histories. What does that look like? • It’s the Refugee Orchestra premiering a work by the next great woman composer. • It’s Sudanese pop singer Sinkane curating the best music of African diaspora and first-generation immigrant culture. • It’s a two-day expedition into the Amazon, guided by leading Brazilian artists Felipe Lara and Stéphane San Juan. • It is an insistent return to empathy, celebrating the multicultural, the borderless, and the marginalized through their music and stories. Through sharing the Origins of disparate artists, we hope to remind the world of the common bonds that we all share.

Residencies and Curators • Pursuing the Origins theme, National Sawdust has enlisted artists with roots in six continents as curators. • 11 world-class curators ranging from violinist Jennifer Koh to clarinetist Kinan Azmeh.

Residency Support • National Sawdust’s Residency Program provides both individual artists and groups with space and technical/marketing staff support through recordings, rehearsals and shows as well as commissions. • Over 80 hours of staff support for each residency with a total financial commitment of $450k (in kind and reward payments combined) ensure that these dedicated artists can present their new works in various stages of development in concert. • 12 Residencies ranging from Contemporaneous to the Refugee Orchestra. Festivals Winterreise Nights • A curated series by throat singer Tanya Tagaq and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, with Northern voices and discoveries represented.

Spring Revolution • A festival inspired by rite and revolution. • Includes John Zorn’s mystical music, Brazilian music curated by composer Felipe Lara, and the Velvet Revolution, a deep dive into the music of China, curated by composer Du Yun.

FERUS • A series held every January focused on interdisciplinary work in progress, aimed towards getting the work recognition by placing it during national conferences such as those of International Society for the Performing Arts and Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

New Series • NIGHTGOWNS, curated by Sasha Velour, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race, are evenings of short performances dedicated to celebrating the diversity, depth, and wild power of drag.

Returning Series Stone Commissioning Series • A monthly curated series by John Zorn features the top avant grade jazz and out-of-the-box musicians.

The Revolution • Curated by NS’ Katie Jones, this monthly series shines light on Brooklyn and Harlem based artists and musicians that are in the breeding ground of the independent pop genre.

Heroes • The Heroes series celebrates our compositional heroes. • This year we celebrate the 80th birthday of famed composers Joan Tower and John Corigliano.

Operas • NS will develop, present and premiere commissioned operas involving women composers Anna Clyne, Du Yun, Missy Mazzoli, Paola Prestini, Marcela Rodriguez and Kate Soper, in addition to a new chamber opera by Nico Muhly, presented with musicians from the International Contemporary Ensemble.

NS+ • National Sawdust+, created by Elena Park, brings artists and thinkers together for stimulating, and often unexpected, concerts and conversations in an intimate setting. Artists from Marina Abramović to Patti Smith connect music with larger cultural issues and explore them through conversation and innovative musicianship. Education, Mentorship and Career Development • First ever call to female composers in the Hildegard Competition, judged by composers Angélica Negrón, Du Yun, and Paola Prestini. • Two finalists will receive funding and have their work premiered at NS, conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya. Supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. • New partnership with University of Michigan and Juilliard School will open up NS’ performance venue to host works in progress for students, as well as provide guided mentorship in areas such as project management and marketing.

Community and Activism • NS will continue its powerful Town Hall series with organizations such as UN Women. • NS will continue its education series, Very Young Composers, with El Puente Leadership for Justice & Peace and the Manifesto Project, two partner organizations that reach into young people’s lives and empower them to become creators and leaders.

Summer Labs • A summer incubation lab for up-and-coming artists brings new multimedia projects to fruition. • These four-week residencies offer local creators the chance to develop new works with all the financial and institutional benefits a first-rate venue can provide. • Artists receive in-kind contributions of up to $5,000, generous rehearsal time, full tech support, audio and video recordings, a comprehensive marketing package, a final public performance, and consideration for further development during the regular season.

Initiatives

NS Productions Multimedia productions are commissioned by National Sawdust and travel to festivals around the world. Current works have appeared at the Kennedy Center, Stanford, Celebrate Brooklyn, New Victory on Broadway, the Ford Theater with LA Opera, and more.

The Log Journal The Log Journal is an initiative that we launched in Season Two, spearheaded by veteran journalist Steve Smith. Its launch was cited by Michael Cooper in his New York Times coverage of Season 2, posted on August 16, 2016, and printed the next day. It was also cited by Alex Ross in his New Yorker column of February 8, 2017, in a column titled "Making Art in a Time of Rage". In our approach to the arrival of Season 3, we will offer a series of profiles meant to introduce each of the season's curators and resident artists in turn, increasing awareness and anticipation for what they'll create at NS. We also will develop and implement a new article category, Hildegard, meant specifically to emphasize the creative work and achievements of women composers. In July 2017 we launched a weekly newsletter meant not only to promote content produced by The Log Journal, but also to contextualize that work within a rich matrix of other noteworthy stories pertaining to music, media, and culture, from outlets throughout the city and around the world. Sawdust Label Sawdust Label is the non-profit, in-house record label and recording studio of National Sawdust. Sawdust Label releases content that reinterprets genre, facilitates provocative collaboration, and encourages new ways of listening. With a catalogue ranging from electronics to contemporary opera, the label is a platform for artists with profound understanding of their craft to experiment and stretch the limitations of how that craft is practiced. The highest grossing Sawdust Label albums are Wolf Hall at $18,701 and Sxip Shirey’s debut album at $5,465.

“[The Sawdust Label is] an essential new voice in the future of American Music” - Q2, WQXR Business Development

NS Media Membership Program • Post-produce 600 concerts • Substantially increase through new community and • Prepare development of our streaming platform marketing initiatives implemented with a larger for Season 4 marketing team and new GM

NS Productions Community Building • Build a catalogue of all commissioned and • Continue free Make Music NY celebrations, which curated work invite new curious music lovers into our space • Develop partnerships with festivals globally • Enlist local businesses and community partners • Develop strong revenue streams for NS through ticketing and programming exchanges Productions • New local education initiatives and partnerships with School of NY Times and local charter schools NS Recording Studio • Grassroots marketing initiatives such as pop ups • Finish recording studio with newly acquired and street fairs equipment from the City of New York • Double recording income from recording shows F&B Revenues and sessions • Increase through new initiatives launched by GM and innovative food/music programming Programming Highlights

“National Sawdust has become more than a just place to see engaging contemporary music of all stripes. The Williamsburg venue has embraced its role as an educational space, with engaged programming that links the music to broader social issues.” - Time Out New York

Requiem for: A Tuesday The Hubble Cantata NS opened its 2016-17 season with Requiem for: A Tuesday – a musical Produced by NS’ production company in commemoration of the 25th ceremony administered by Helga Davis and bass-baritone Davóne Tines, with anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch, Paola Prestini’s The music by Davis, Tines, Shara Nova, and Lou Reed, as well as spirituals Hubble Cantata marries music, visuals and scientific discovery in an arranged by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw. Requiem exploration of the interconnectedness of humanity with the cosmos. The full features Reggie “Regg Roc” Gray and his D.R.E.A.M. Ring dance troupe; the Hubble experience includes “Fistful of Stars,” a virtual reality film by Eliza dancers reenact several fatal encounters between young black men and law McNitt that takes the viewer on the journey of the telescope through space. enforcement. As poet and playwright Carl Hancock Rux wrote, “Through the The film was featured at the SXSW Festival and has just been accepted to the physicality of sound and dance, the work creates, rather than destroys, Cannes Film Festival. The complete production premiered at Celebrate bridges between human bodies and space.” Brooklyn to an audience of 6,000 and toured to The Kennedy Center and will travel next to the Ford Theater with the Los Angeles Opera.

NS+ Series Pussy Riot Theatre: Revolution Presents: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo In a climactic finale to NS’ Spring Revolution Festival this March, members of NS Curator Anthony Roth Costanzo, the star countertenor, brought the 2017 Pussy Riot performed the East Coast premiere of “Revolution.” Based on the opera season to a stunning conclusion with Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo, a book by bandleader Maria Alyokhina, “Revolution” tells the Pussy Riot story of co-production with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Cath Brittan, and protest art and political activism in a hostile state. The hour-long piece was National Sawdust. Director Christopher Alden (Olivier Award, Golden Mask directed by Yury Muravitsky and produced by Alexander Cheparukhin, with Award) took on Handel’s rarely staged serenata, a spectacular 90-minute video footage by Taisia Krugovykh and video art by Katya Sсheglova. “CliffsNotes” version of a Handel opera. The production used innovative video technology to create multi-dimensional visual landscapes and reimagined recitatives by composer and sound designer Mark Grey. Alden’s production found parallels between Handel’s 18th-century telling of Ovid’s mythological tale and our current era defined by power, class, and the brutality of thwarted desire. The New York Times called the production “radical,” “excitingly contemporary, and “inventive.” NS Donors Encore Circle ($10,000+) Mark Gude and Paul Sekhri Dillon Smith Freeman Aeen Avini of TOWN Residential Susan and John Steinhardt Lorraine Gallard American Express One Anonymous Donor Nomi Ghez and Michael Siegal Dan and Sally Breen Dorothy Tapper Goldman Lynn A. Calpeter Bravo Circle ($2,000+) Lois Grass Olivia and Jean Pierre Chessé Jeremy Adelman Frank Guigliano Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Josie and Kow Atta-Mensah David Hariton Steven and Roberta Denning Tina and Jeffrey Bolton Mary Harmon Kevin Dolan John Burt Seth Harrison Renée Fleming Susan Cahn and Mario Batali Warren Ilchman Hearst Ted Cornwell Elissa and Bill Johnson HSBC Private Bank Jennie and Richard DeScherer Julie Kidd The Henry and Joanne L. Hubschman Ettinger Foundation Zac Kleinhandler Charitable Fund Joan and Peter Faber Edwina and Kin Kwan Ellen O’Brien and Peter Kelly Liane Fredel Maribel Leiberman Catherine Levene and Roger Krulak Nicole Gary and Christopher Pesce Lemberg Foundation Daniel R. Lewis Jeanne Giordano and Bob Frasca Sahra Lese Elizabeth Madigan Jost Harlan Greenman Peter Marrs Jenny Miller and Steve Dutton Agnes Gund Daniel Mitura Gwen and Harvey Mogenson Jen and Robby Gutmann David Orticelli The Mordant Family Alice Handy and Peter Stoudt Dr. Ariel Ostad Morgan Stanley Ron Harvey Jackie Walters Park Pamela Murphy and Rick D’Avino Ruth and Stephen Hendel James Paul Michelle Nakash Ivey Inman and Justin Monsen Theresa Riley Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Sy Jacobs Susan W. Rose Fund for Music Pamela Olson and Grant Aldonas Todd Kaplan Rich Rosenblum PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Stephanie and Larry Kleinman Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners Kristin and Phillip Rapoport Karen LeFrak Philip Tretiak Gustavo Rigoli Helen Little Elizabeth Tunick Rolex David Majure Beatrice and Michael Tusiani Diana and Jonathan F.P. Rose Fabien and Leslie Moreau Thomas Vieira Rob Rudnick Kathryn and Emmanuel Morlet Thomas Visone Kris Sebastian and Alberto Cribiore Nancy Newcomb and John Hargraves Maureen Whiteman and Lawrence Zlatkin Rachel Shapiro and Chris Grymes Fanette Pollack and John Breit Linda and Jim Wolcott Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Andrea Propp and John Knorring Aspasia Zoumas Catharine and Jeffrey Soros Carla and David Rosenbloom Jill and Bill Steinberg Meryl Rosofsky and Stuart Coleman Foundation and Government Supporters Robert L. Turner Husnia and Nizam Siddiq Achelis and Bodman Foundations Diane and Stephen Volk Sarah Billinghurst and Howard Solomon Amphion Foundation Kelcy M. Whitman Family Fund Robert Soros Aaron Copland Fund for Music Daniel and Rachel Widawsky Leila Maw Straus Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Valda Witt and Jay Hatfield Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation BMI Foundation Zakaria Family Foundation Phyllis Urman-Klein and Peter Klein D’Addario Foundation Ann Ziff Joni Walser and Andy Church Dutch Culture USA One Anonymous Donor Sheila and Michael Walsh Howard Gilman Foundation Jacqueline and Kevin Waraksy New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Ovation Circle ($5,000+) Mimi Lin and Eric Wei New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Arup Karen Wong Entertainment Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation New York State Council on the Arts Andy Bart Applause Circle ($1,000+) Norwegian Consulate General Stéphanie and Xavier Botteri Maria and Adam Abeshouse Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation Bureau V Joan and Alan Ades Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Cheswatyr Foundation Susan Baker and Michael Lynch Jody Cukier Peggy and Ralph Brown Adeline and Sylvain Desjonqueres Noreen and Ken Buckfire *List includes donors since Sept. 1, 2016 Joel Graber Jarret Christie Jane Gross Arthur Colarossi The Hargrove Pierce Foundation Orla Coleman and Rikki Tahta Caren Heller and Fabrizio Michelassi Lois Conway Lin and Stephen Jamison Trish and David Crowe Sarah Johnson Bernadette Cruz City Council Member Stephen Levin Ronald Dabrowski Meyer Sound Laboratories Murat Eyuboglu Paola Prestini and Jeffrey Zeigler Jeanne Donovan Fisher John C. Rutherford Stephen Foster The Reviews Are In!

“Cutting-edge chamber opera is prominent at the stylish Williamsburg music club…” -The New Yorker

“This artist-led, non-profit music venue is cutting-edge in many ways… it has the music community of New York incredibly excited. Ideal for music lovers.” -Urbanologie

"...an vital part of the New York music scene." -New York Times

“The new Establishment [of classical music]… includes Paola Prestini, the founding artistic director of National Sawdust.” -New York Magazine/Vulture

#2 on the WSJ’s “Insider’s Guide to Brooklyn” -Wall Street Journal

“National Sawdust… quickly establish[ed] itself as the preeminent presenter and resource for an eclectic diversity of downtown and contemporary concert music composers and performers.” -I Care If You Listen

“National Sawdust has world-class sonics and is a perennially enjoyable place to take in a show.” -New York Music Daily

“Nothing quite like [National Sawdust] exists in New York City, or anywhere else in the world, and it must be seen (and heard) to be believed indeed.” -The Village Voice

“...Brooklyn's contemporary music sanctuary...” -I Care If You Listen

“Always a pleasure to visit and revel in the exquisite sonics at National Sawdust.” -Lucid Culture “Williamsburg’s bright new diamond National Sawdust will change the way modern music is made.” - Village Voice .com/nationalsawdust Artist Led: Visionary, independent, unafraid. .com/nationalsawdust Support #nationalsawdust instagram.com/nationalsawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249 nationalsawdust.org