June 17–July 15 all around Lower Manhattan 2012 Season Festival Guide RiverToRiverNYC.com Free to All River To River® Festival Dear Festivalgoers, Lower Manhattan is a neighborhood that encourages With support from many public exploration—off New York City’s geometric grid, its and private partners since 2002, iconic architecture, winding streets, and waterfront pleasures provide unexpected rewards for our residents, River To River Festival has become workers, and visitors. an essential component of Lower Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), as the lead Manhattan’s vital and vibrant partner for the River To River Festival since 2011, is cultural life. privileged to work with our partners Arts Brookfield, Battery Park City Authority, and The Seaport to create a Each summer, the Festival activates more than 25 indoor cultural celebration that resonates with Lower and outdoor locations in the neighborhood with an Manhattan’s particular topography. The Festival’s unparalleled collection of music, dance, theater, visual program has its own icons, histories, and surprises. art, film, and participatory experiences by renowned and breakout artists from New York City and beyond. For River To River Festival is made possible by our sponsors. more than 100,000 attendees from around the region We express our deepest thanks to our Founding and and overseas, River To River Festival provides an intense Title Sponsor American Express, as well as the Alliance and rewarding way to experience Lower Manhattan’s for Downtown New York, The Port Authority of New waterfronts, parks, plazas, and other hidden treasures. York and New Jersey, The Lower Manhattan The Festival’s densely packed schedule of daytime, Development Corporation, HUD, and other underwriters. evening, and weekend events showcases Lower Because of their support, all events are free and open Manhattan as a thriving center for cultural activity and to the public. a key destination point for experiencing New York City’s wealth and diversity of heritage, history, dining, The Festival encourages engagement with the shopping, and art. unfamiliar journeys from dance on the water to music in the Chapel, master artists at Rockefeller Park to movies Together River To River Festival partners are working to on the Elevated Acre. And all this interwoven with foster conversations about artistic, community, and culinary delights, natural beauty, and social encounters. environmental concerns associated with urban/ waterfront landscapes in redevelopment, growth, and Take a chance. Take a day. Make your own path. transformation. By showcasing New York City, and in particular Lower Manhattan, as creative, green, and Enjoy the Festival! global, with shows and events that speak to the diverse cultures and tastes from across the region, River To River Festival offers a singular artistic experience for audiences of all ages and backgrounds – and every event is free! The 2012 River To River Festival will take place between June 17 and July 15. Sam Miller Andrew Horwitz LMCC President Director of Public Programs founding and title sponsor The River To River Festival is presented by lead partner Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in collaboration with Founding Partners Arts Brookfield, Battery Park City Authority, and The Seaport. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council leadership support (LMCC)-a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has been a leading voice for arts and culture Downtown and throughout New York City for nearly 40 years, producing cultural events and promoting the arts through grants, services, advocacy, and cultural development programs.
Red positive version Final art 4/29/05 Arts Brookfield-Since 1988, more than 3.5 million people have enjoyed over 2,500 cultural events presented by Arts Brookfield at the World Financial Center. An initiative of Brookfield Office Properties, Arts Brookfield lead media partners is one of the largest free, privately funded arts programs on the east coast. The Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority-is a New York State public benefit corporation whose mission is to create and maintain a balanced community of commercial, residential, retail, and park friends of the festival space within its designated 92-acre site on the Lower West Side of Manhattan. The Seaport-This unique venue continues its reputation for introducing some of the coolest new artists, as well as a great line-up of national and international recording artists. Located at the tip of Manhattan, South Street Seaport is a slice of timeless New York. The River To River Festival 2012 features work from a number of additional partners: 2012 Presenting Partners The Joyce Theater The Michael Schimmel Center Additional support for certain projects in the River To River Festival has been Trinity Wall Street for the Arts at Pace University provided by: ARTonAIR.org, Asian Cultural Council, The Clocktower Gallery 2012 Program Partners & Radio, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Harpo Foundation, Beth Morrison Projects Make Music New York Jerome Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Metropolitan Waterfront Children’s Museum of the Arts The National Book Foundation Alliance, New England Foundation for the Arts, New York City Percent for Art Come Out & Play The New York Fund, New York Foundation for the Arts, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Cooper-Hewitt, Academy of Sciences Rockefeller Foundation, Time Equities, Inc., U.S. Department of State’s Bureau National Design Museum Poets House of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Regional Arts Organizations. The Drawing Center South Street Seaport Museum With support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, LMCC is also Harvestworks Storm King Art Center partnering with Arup toward three primary goals: achieving operational sus- Improv Everywhere Tribeca Film tainability, developing a framework for sustainable event management for the River To River Festival, and positively influencing public practice in the arts.
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Centre Streets. 4 Broad and 9 Fort Jay 16 Pier 16, 24 Wall Wall Street is located in the The Seaport Street Plaza is located in the heart of is located in the is located at 88 heart of the Governors Island. South Street Pine Street at Financial District. Seaport. Water Street. 5 Castle 9 Parade 17 Pier 17, 25 Whitehall Clinton Ground The Seaport Terminal in Battery Park is a five-minute is located in the is located in the serves as the walk from the South Street South Ferry area ticketing office Manhattan and Seaport. of Lower Manhat- for ferries to the Brooklyn ferry tan and is used by Statue of Liberty landings on the Staten Island and Ellis Island. Governors Island. Ferry. 6 Coleman 10 Mannahatta 18 Poets 26 World Oval Park Park House Financial is part of Coleman is located between is located at 10 Center Plaza Square Play- Front and South River Terrace in is located on the ground on the Streets at the east Battery Park City. Hudson River just border of China- end of Wall Street. outside the World town and the Financial Center Lower East Side. at 220 Vesey St. 7 Good 11 Melville 19 Rockefeller 27 World Companions Gallery Park Financial Senior Center is located on is located at the Center is located at 334 cobblestoned north end of Winter Madison Street Water Street, Battery Park City Garden in the Lower East within the South at the corner of is located at 220 Side. Street Seaport River Terrace and Vesey Street. District. Warren Street. week 1 sun mon tues wed thurs fri sat June 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Bang on Stella Days Edmar Philip Glass Tales: The Three Making & a Can Elevated Acre Castaneda Ensemble Narrative Sisters Decorating Marathon 8pm Trio with Face the Image Good Model Boats WFC Winter WFC Plaza Music One NY Plaza Companions Pier 16, Garden 5:30pm Rockefeller 7am–7pm Senior Center The Seaport 12pm Joseph Park KUN-64 1:30pm 10:30am Transforming Mitchell’s 7pm Toy Pianos Le Grand Trisha Brown Function Harbor Pier 15 Continental Dance Building 110, Melville 4:30pm Pier 16 & 17, Company Governors Gallery Edmar The Seaport Building 110, Island 6:30pm Castaneda 7pm Governors 12pm One NY Plaza The Miracles Island The Flock 5pm Club 1pm House Pier 17, Draw Now!: Project Made in The Seaport Stretch It Battery Park New York 8pm Out! 12pm South Street Fort Jay, Seaport Governors Museum Island Le Grand 6:30pm 2pm Eddie Trisha Brown Continental Palmieri Dance Pier 16 & 17, Rockefeller Company Park Building 110, The Seaport 7pm Governors Island 22 & 23 June 3pm 7pm Eddie Palmieri Le Grand 24 June 2pm Continental Le Grand Continental brings Rockefeller Park Pier 16 & 17, together 200 New Yorkers to The Seaport perform a blend of line dancing 21 June 7pm 7pm and contemporary dance by Appearing with his Afro-Caribbean Jazz Octet, Eddie Palmieri will Chico Mann, choreographer Sylvain Émard. DJ Set Presented by River To River delight audiences in Rockefeller Festival and The Joyce Theater. Park with his charismatic power, Pier 17, bold innovative drive, and historic The Seaport Each performance will be followed compositions. Presented by 8pm by a DJ dance party on Pier 17: Battery Park City Authority. 22 June–The Miracles Club 23 June–Chico Mann 24 June–Body Language Bang on a Can Stella Days (2012) Marathon Presented in association WFC Winter with Tribeca Film Garden 18 June 8pm 17 June Elevated Acre at 12pm–12am 55 Water Street A 12-hour super-mix of boundary- Starring Martin Sheen, Stella Days portrays the busting music from around the dramatic struggle between a man and his globe, 25 Years of the Bang on conscience. Set in a small town cinema in rural a Can Marathon features rare Ireland, the film encapsulates the dilemma of Ireland performances by pioneering in the mid-1950’s. musicians. Presented by River To River Festival, Arts Brookfield and Bang on a Can. Spotlight Legacy and Lineage Philip Glass Ensemble Much of the music programming has been shaped around the idea of legacy and lineage, bringing together iconic or well-established artists who have created a significant body of work, and presenting them in juxtaposition to the emerging and mid-career artists that they have influenced. The Philip Glass Ensemble gives a retrospective concert in Rockefeller Park, its only free New York City performance during a season celebrating the composer’s 75th birthday; musical child prodigies Face the Music will open the show, honoring the composer by perform- ing his seminal piece Glassworks. Bang on a Can celebrates 25 years with their annual Bang on a Can Marathon and Alarm Will Sound celebrates the John Cage centennial with a newly re-imagined staging of his epic Song Books. The Festival photo by: Fernando Aceves, cover photo by: Steve Pyke Steve by: photo cover Aceves, Fernando by: photo also includes concerts featuring the “An unprecedented free work of a new generation of retrospective performance by composers influenced by Glass the Philip Glass Ensemble in including Nico Muhly at St. Paul’s Rockefeller Park in celebration of Chapel, Paola Prestini at The Michael the composer’s 75th birthday.” Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace The New York Times University and Ecstatic™ Summer at the World Financial Center. week 2 sun mon tues wed thurs fri sat June 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Art Inspired Underneath Underneath Emily Elbert Angelo M SHOW Keeping the by the Sea Where We Where We One Liberty Trio Broad & Wall Harbor Safe Pier 16, Are Are Plaza One NY Plaza Street Pier 16, The Seaport Wall Street Wall Street 12:30pm 12:30pm 1pm The Seaport 10:30am Plaza Plaza Underneath SHOW Twelfth 10:30am Trisha Brown 1pm 1pm Where We Broad & Wall Night Trisha Brown Dance Co. Oceanic Angelo M Are Street Castle Clinton Dance Co. Building 110, Verses Trio Wall Street 1pm 7pm Bldg 110, Gov. Is. Governors Michael WFC Plaza Plaza 1pm Island Schimmel 5:30pm 1pm Source of Showcase 1pm Center for the Uncertainty I Smyth Tribeca Annual Arts at Pace The Science Brooklyn @Seaport 7pm Showcase Mannahatta/ University of Local Bridge 3pm Veronica Opening Manhattan 7:30pm Food Walking Tour Folk Art Falls with Celebration South Street Melville South Street in Four The People’s Poets House Seaport Collaborator Gallery Seaport Directions Temple 1pm Museum Elevated Acre 6:30pm Museum South Street Pier 17, Brooklyn Bridge 1pm 8pm Poets House 1pm Seaport The Seaport Walking Tour Le Grand Poetic City Twelfth Museum 7pm Seaport Museum Continental with Night 6:30pm Act Without 1pm Pier 16 & 17, Suzanne Castle Clinton Twelfth Words II Draw Now!: The Seaport Vega & 7pm Night Theatre Alley Windfall 2pm Gabriel Third World Castle Clinton 9pm Alphabet Draw Now!: Kahane Rockefeller 7pm Ft. Jay, Gov. Is. Drawing Rockefeller Park 2pm Circle Park 7pm Showcase Fort Jay, 7pm Smyth Tribeca Trisha Brown Governors Twelfth Showcase 7pm Dance Co. Island Night Smyth Tribeca Act Without Bldg 110, Gov. Is. 2pm Castle Clinton 7pm Words II 3pm Body 7pm Act Without Theatre Alley SHOW Language, Act Without Words II 9pm Broad & Wall St. DJ Set Words II Theatre Alley 5pm Pier 17, Theatre Alley 9pm Feel…Form The Seaport 9pm Whitehall Term. 2:30pm 6pm Artists Oceanic Verses Veronica Falls Twelfth Night Respond: Castle Clinton Mark di Michael with The 7pm Suvero Schimmel Center People’s Temple Showcase Building 110, Smyth Tribeca Governors for the Arts at Pier 17, 7pm Island 3pm Pace University The Seaport Ecstatic™ 25 June 7:30pm 29 June 7pm Summer: Trisha Brown Roomful of Dance Co. This full-length multimedia opera London four-piece Veronica Falls by acclaimed composer Paola mixes sweetness and light with Teeth with Building 110, Merrill Garbus Governors Prestini is set against the backdrop dissonance and darkness, adding of the Mediterranean Sea, where in the sinister sides of 50s and 60s & William Island two ghosts reenact their courtship, love songs to make visceral pop Brittelle and 3pm a sailor searches for lost songs, music with an edge and a beat. Judd Electric and a scholar discovers a common Greenstein’s Kulintang past. Produced by Beth Morrison The Yehudim and Manado Projects and commissioned by Third World WFC Plaza Choir VisionIntoArt. Presented by Rockefeller Park 7pm St. Paul’s River To River Festival with 27 June 7pm Michael Schimmel Center for Electric Chapel Third World, one of the longest- Midwife 7:30pm the Arts at Pace University. lived reggae bands, will mix in elements of R&B, funk, and rock Pier 15 to produce upbeat music at 7:30pm sunset by the Hudson. Presented Showcase by Battery Park City Authority. Smyth Tribeca 9pm Sat 30 June Make a day of it! e 10:30am 6pm Keeping the Harbor Safe FEEL…FORM Pier 16, The Seaport 1 by luciana achugar 4 The NYPD’s job is to keep everybody safe. Learn about the NYPD Harbor Unit and the boats that they use. Afterward, Whitehall Terminal, make your own police boat model. This is a great event for South Ferry the family! FEEL…FORM is a dance meditation on the relationship between aesthetics and ideology. For River To River 2012, Enjoy brunch at one of the Bessie Award winning choreographer many cafes and restaurants luciana achugar revisits the work in a at the Seaport. Check out site-based context. more dining options on the r Downtown Alliance NYC app, available at y RiverToRiverNYC.com. t 1pm Brooklyn Bridge Walking Tour 2 South Street Seaport Museum Join us for a walking exploration and discussion of the history of construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Take a free ferry to Governors Island! For roundtrip ferry schedules departing from both 7pm Manhattan & Brooklyn, visit govisland.com. Ecstatic™ Summer: 5 t Roomful of Teeth with Merrill Garbus & William Brittelle 3pm and Judd Greenstein’s The Yehudim Trisha Brown 3 WFC Plaza Dance Company Vocal octet Roomful of Teeth, performs new composition Governors by Merrill Garbus of TUnE-yArDs and composer William Island Brittelle. Judd Greenstein’s The Yehudim opens the concert. Presented by River To River Festival and Arts Brookfield. The Company is in residence at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island for three weeks in June Enjoy the many restaurants at World Financial Center and leading up to performances Battery Park City. Check out more dining options on the of Astral Converted at the Downtown Alliance NYC app, available at RiverToRiverNYC.com. Park Avenue Armory. week 3 sun mon tues wed thurs fri sat July 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 Fraunces Folk Art FEEL…FORM Megan Burtt History & Basket- Tavern: NYC in Four Whitehall & The Cure Archaeology weaving Landscapes Directions Terminal For Love Walking Tour Pier 16, Pier 16, South Street South Ferry One NY Plaza South Street The Seaport The Seaport Seaport 1pm 12:30pm Seaport 10:30am 10:30am Museum Twelfth Twelfth Museum Graphic The Flock 1pm Night Night 1pm Design– House Project FEEL…FORM Castle Clinton Castle Clinton Patrick Now in Coleman Oval Whitehall 7pm 7pm Watson with Production Park Terminal Arieb Azhar Loney Dear Building 110, 12pm South Ferry Michael Pier 17, Governors Trisha Brown 1pm Schimmel Electric The Seaport Island Dance Co. Inverted Sky Center for the 7pm 11am Building 110, Rockefeller Arts at Pace Midwife Twelfth History & Gov. Island Park University Pier 15 Night Archaeology 1pm 4pm 7:30pm 30 June–02 July Castle Clinton Walking Tour Juliana F. May The Bridge 7pm South Street Fort Jay, to Broadway 7:30pm Seaport Gov. Island Rockefeller Electric Midwife, by Museum 2pm Park choreographer and multiple 1pm BESSIE award-winner Beth Gill, is Draw Now!: 7pm We’re a performance of symmetry. Six Floating Red, Yellow, Electric women form two trios that mirror Blue Poets House Midwife each other’s movements, creating 4pm Fort Jay, Pier 15 an intricately patterned tapestry. Gov. Island 7:30pm Twelfth Night 2pm The Runway Castle Clinton Trisha Brown Elevated Acre 7pm Dance Co. 8pm Source of Building 110, Uncertainty II Gov. Island Michael 3pm Schimmel Artists Center for the Respond: Arts at Pace Mark di University Suvero 7:30pm Building 110, Gov. Island 3pm SHOW Broad & Wall Street 5pm FEEL…FORM Whitehall Term. Arieb Azhar South Ferry 6pm Michael Twelfth Night Schimmel Center Castle Clinton for the Arts at 7pm Electric Pace University Midwife 03 July 7:30pm Pier 15 Pakastani Sufi and folk music Patrick Watson with Loney Dear 7:30pm artist Arieb Azhar leads a quartet Pier 17, The Seaport of musicians in an eclectic mix of Composer urban and folk-based songs 06 July 7pm Portrait: grounded in Sufi and other A chance to hear from Patrick Watson’s newest album Adventures In Nico Muhly humanist poetries from across Your Own Backyard, which was made at home after a grueling five-year St. Paul’s Eurasia. Azhar pays tribute to Irish run that saw Watson and his band tour the world. Plus Swedish Chapel balladeers, and Croatian gypsies. sensations Loney Dear. 8:30pm Sun 01 July Make an outing of it! e 12pm 5pm Flock House Project SHOW by Mary Mattingly 1 by Maria Hassabi 4 4 Coleman Oval Park Broad & Wall Street Former LMCC resident artist Mary Mattingly brings The Flock SHOW premiered in November 2011 at the House Project to Lower Manhattan. Built collaboratively upon Kitchen. Now for the 2012 River To River reclaimed, redesigned, and rethought materials within a gift Festival, Hassabi extends SHOW’s culture, Flock House sets out to inspire reinvention of mobile exploration of audience and performer structures in a time when growing urban populations are faced further by staging it in a public space. with imminent environmental, political, and economic instability. Existing beyond the frame of the theater, new parameters of performance will emerge as SHOW is set within the conditions of the open air, pervious to passersby and Pack a picnic and head to other variants. Governors Island. For ferry schedules e visit govisland.com. y t Have dinner at one of the many Lower Manhattan restaurants. 2pm Check out more dining options on the Downtown Alliance NYC Draw Now!: Red, Yellow, Blue app, available at: RiverToRiverNYC.com. Fort Jay, Governors Island 2 Red, Yellow, Blue is a kinetic installation featuring a cast of 12 dancers and 4 visual artists that use moving bodies to create 8:30pm visual design in 3-dimensional space. Composer Portrait: The 5 Choral Music of 3pm Nico Muhly Artists 3 St. Paul’s Respond: y Chapel Mark di Suvero Part of the Sundays at St. Building 110, Paul’s series, this unique presentation of choral works Governors showcases a world premiere Island composition by Nico Muhly Join Ranger Connie O’Nassis commissioned by the River (alter ego of artist Lillian To River Festival, Trinity Wall Gerson) for an awe-inspiring Street, and Beth Morrison trip around historic Nooten Projects as well as Muhly’s Eyelandt focusing on the other choral works and a works of Mark di Suvero. Head back to Manhattan. selection of Renaissance For ferry schedules choral works. visit govisland.com. Spotlight Giving Dance An Extended Life More than just music, the River To River Festival offers the opportunity to see dance works re-imagined for a new space, giving them an extended life, and in some cases allowing the public to observe or participate in the creative process. This framework not only encourages the artist to deepen their original exploration, it also allows the artist “Finally New York gets a to translate the work to the site and contemporary dance festival.” make it available to new audiences. The New York Times Throughout the 2012 Festival, audiences will have the opportunity to experience site-based works by luciana achugar, Wally Cardona, Beth Gill, Maria Hassabi, Tara O’Con, and Tere O’Connor all around Lower Manhattan. week 4 mon tues wed thurs fri sat sun July 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 Tere Tere Ian Link Dana Leong Tap It Out Ink, Pull, Roll: Creating O’Connor O’Connor One LIberty Trio WFC Plaza Printmaking Sailor’s sun Dance Dance Plaza One NY Plaza 12, 1 & 2pm South Street Valentines Mannahatta Mannahatta 12:30pm 12:30pm The Setup: Seaport South Street Park Park Architectural Tere Junko Fisher Museum Seaport 2pm 2pm Walking Tour O’Connor 80 Broad St. 10:30am Museum 08 The Saints Locos Por South Street Dance 4pm Tamimiami 10:30am Tour Juana Seaport Mannahatta Twelfth Pixilation The MP3 Knot Tying TBD WFC Plaza Museum Park Night Project Experiment Workshop 7pm 5:30pm 1pm 2pm Castle Clinton Governors Governors Pier 16, Side by Side Twelfth Tere O’Connor The Setup: 7pm Island Island The Seaport Elevated Acre Night Dance Junko Fisher 11am 12pm 10:30am Eleanor 8pm Castle Clinton Mannahatta 80 Broad St. Friedberger Come Out Building 110: Graphic 7pm Park 4pm with & Play Open House Design– La India 2pm Occupy Ex Cops Field Day Governors Now in Rockefeller Twelfth Night Wall Street: Pier 17, Governors Island Production Park Castle Clinton Camera & The Seaport Island 12pm Building 110, 7pm 7pm Subject 7pm 12pm Artists Governors The Saints South Street Building 110: Respond: Island The Saints Seaport Come Out Open House Mark di 11am Tour Tour & Play TBD TBD Museum After Dark Governors Suvero Artists 7pm 7pm 6:30pm @Seaport Island Building 110, Respond: 12pm Gov. Island Missy Twelfth 9pm Mark di Night Architectural 3pm Suvero Mazzoli & Victoire with Castle Clinton Walking Tour CHERYL: Building 110, 7pm South Street On the Governors Matt Mehlan and Skeletons Ecstatic™ Seaport Waterfront Island The Saints Museum Pier 16, 3pm Michael Tour Summer: Schimmel TBD A Far Cry 1pm The Seaport The Art of Center for the 7pm Orchestra The Setup: 5pm Letterpress: Arts at Pace with Junko Fisher Twelfth Workshop 7:30pm John Oneohtrix 80 Broad St. Night South Street Ashbery Point Never 4pm Castle Clinton Seaport Poets House & David 7pm Museum 7pm Lang We’re 3pm George WFC Winter Floating Alarm Will Garden Poets House Sound Twelfth Clinton & 4pm Michael Night Parliament 14 July 7pm Presented by Twelfth Night Schimmel Castle Clinton Funkadelic Center for the 7pm Rockefeller River To River Castle Clinton Park Festival & Arts 7pm Arts at Pace The Saints 7pm Brookfield. University Tour Ecstatic™ 7:30pm Meeting Point Summer: TBD A Far Cry 7pm Orchestra w/ Oneohtrix Blake Point Never Carrington, & David Lang Taylor WFC Winter Deupree, Garden and Daniel 7pm Iglesia St. Paul’s George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic Missy Mazzoli & Victoire Chapel Rockefeller Park with Matt Mehlan & Skeletons 7:30pm 12 July 7pm Michael Schimmel Center George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic are one of the 11 July 7:30pm most influential names in funk music. Epic in both sound This musical portrait of “postclassical and size, this collective of wildly talented musicians queen bee,” composer Missy Mazzoli, revolutionized soul music in the 70s and have been will feature her on keyboard fronting playing together for over 50 years. Presented by her internationally beloved ensemble Battery Park City Authority. Victoire performing songs with Matt Mehlan with his band Skeletons. Sun 15 July Head back to Manhattan. For ferry schedules visit govisland.com. Make a date of it! 4 10:30am 5pm Creating Sailor’s Valentines CHERYL: On the South Street Seaport Museum 1 Waterfront r In the 1800s, sailor’s valentines were often made by sailors’ Pier 16, loved ones while they were away at sea. Using colorful shells After you’ve finished and other materials, children, and families will create their own The Seaport dancing, grab a quick bite valentine in the style of the 19th century designs. Art Party Impresarios to eat in Lower Manhattan. CHERYL bring their signature Check out more dining high-concept hi-jinks–DJs options on the Downtown Enjoy brunch at one of the and dancing, characters in Alliance NYC app, available many cafes and restaurants costume, hands-on art-mak- at: RiverToRiverNYC.com. at the Seaport. Check out ing activities for grown-ups more dining options on the and more. Dockworkers, r Downtown Alliance NYC priests, blonde ladies, and app, available at: fishmongers populate the RiverToRiverNYC.com. pier and The Ambrose for a y waterfront dance party. t Take a free ferry to Governors Island! For roundtrip ferry schedules departing from both Manhattan & Brooklyn, visit govisland.com. t 3pm The MP3 Experiment Governors Island 2 The MP3 Experiment is a participatory public event created by New York comedy group 7:30pm Improv Everywhere. Participants download an Alarm Will Sound mp3 file, head out to the same public location, 5 and press play simultaneously. Full instructions, Michael Schimmel Center including mp3 download link, will be posted on improveverywhere.com. for the Arts at Pace University Alarm Will Sound performs John Cage’s Song Books. The members of the ensemble did a production of Song Books as students years before starting Alarm Will Sound and much y of what they’ve accomplished since then in innovating the concert-hall experience goes right back to the excitement 12-5pm they felt during that first Song Books. U.S. Premiere, Building 110: Open House Co-comissioned by River To River and The Holland Festival. LMCC’s Arts Center at 3 Governors Island Join us during Open House, when we celebrate the culmination We hope you’ve enjoyed the 2012 River of the 2012 Swing Space Spring Session featuring 20 visual To River Festival. See you next year! artists-in-residence as well as performing artists-in-residence who will present works-in-progress. Week 1 Le Grand Continental 29 fri SHOW 17 sun Pier 16 & 17, The Seaport 2pm SHOW Broad & Wall Street 5pm Bang on a Can Marathon Draw Now!: Drawing Circle Broad & Wall Street 1pm FEEL…FORM WFC Winter Garden 12pm Fort Jay, Governors Island 2pm Twelfth Night Whitehall Terminal South Ferry Transforming Function Body Language, DJ Set Castle Clinton 7pm 6pm Building 110, Governors Island Pier 17, The Seaport 2:30pm Showcase Twelfth Night 12pm Artists Respond: Mark di Suvero Smyth Tribeca 7pm Castle Clinton 7pm The Flock House Project Building 110, Governors Island 3pm Veronica Falls Electric Midwife Battery Park 12pm Trisha Brown Dance Company with The People’s Temple Pier 15 7:30pm 18 mon Building 110, Governors Island 3pm Pier 17, The Seaport 7pm Composer Portrait: Nico Muhly Stella Days Electric Kulintang & Manado Choir Act Without Words II St. Paul’s Chapel 8:30pm Elevated Acre 8pm St. Paul’s Chapel 7:30pm Theatre Alley 9pm 02 mon 19 tues 25 mon 30 sat Folk Art in Four Directions Edmar Castaneda Trio Underneath Where We Are Keeping the Harbor Safe South Street Seaport Museum WFC Plaza 5:30pm Wall Street Plaza 1pm Pier 16, The Seaport 10:30am 1pm Joseph Mitchell’s Harbor Oceanic Verses Trisha Brown Dance Company FEEL…FORM Melville Gallery 6:30pm Michael Schimmel Center for the Building 110, Governors Island 1pm Whitehall Terminal South Ferry 1pm 20 wed Arts at Pace University 7:30pm Poets House Annual Showcase Collaborator Opening Celebration Inverted Sky Philip Glass Ensemble Rockefeller Park 4pm with Face the Music Elevated Acre 8pm Poets House 1pm Rockefeller Park 7pm 26 tues Brooklyn Bridge Walking Tour The Bridge to Broadway Rockefeller Park 7pm 21 thurs Underneath Where We Are South Street Seaport Museum Wall Street Plaza 1pm 1pm Electric Midwife Tales: The Narrative Image Pier 15 7:30pm One NY Plaza 7am Angelo M Trio Draw Now!: Windfall Alphabet WFC Plaza 5:30pm Fort Jay, Governors Island 2pm The Runway KUN-64 Toy Pianos Elevated Acre 8:00pm Pier 15 4:30pm The Science of Local Food Trisha Brown Dance Company Melville Gallery 6:30pm Building 110, Governors Island 03 tues Edmar Castaneda 3pm One NY Plaza 5pm Poets House Poetic City with FEEL…FORM Suzanne Vega & Gabriel Kahane SHOW Whitehall Terminal South Ferry Made in New York Broad & Wall Street 5pm 1pm South Street Seaport Museum Rockefeller Park 7pm 6:30pm Twelfth Night FEEL…FORM Twelfth Night Castle Clinton 7pm Whitehall Terminal South Ferry Castle Clinton 7pm Eddie Palmieri 6pm Rockefeller Park 7pm Act Without Words II Arieb Azhar Theatre Alley 9pm Twelfth Night Michael Schimmel Center for the 22 fri Castle Clinton 7pm Arts at Pace University 7:30pm Three Sisters 27 wed Emily Elbert Showcase 05 thurs Good Companions Senior Center Smyth Tribeca 7pm 1:30pm One LIberty Plaza 12:30pm Megan Burtt & The Cure For Love Underneath Where We Are Ecstatic™ Summer: Roomful of One NY Plaza 12:30pm Le Grand Continental Teeth with Merrill Garbus & Pier 16 & 17, The Seaport 7pm Wall Street Plaza 1pm Twelfth Night William Brittelle and Castle Clinton 7pm The Miracles Club Brooklyn Bridge Walking Tour Judd Greenstein’s The Yehudim 06 fri Pier 17, The Seaport 8pm South Street Seaport Museum 1pm WFC Plaza 7pm 23 sat Twelfth Night History & Archaeology Electric Midwife Walking Tour Making & Decorating Castle Clinton 7pm Pier 15 7:30pm Third World South Street Seaport Museum Model Boats Showcase 1pm Pier 16, The Seaport 10:30am Rockefeller Park 7pm Smyth Tribeca 9pm Showcase Patrick Watson with Loney Dear Trisha Brown Dance Company Pier 17, The Seaport 7pm Building 110, Governors Island 1pm Smyth Tribeca 7pm Act Without Words II Week 3 Twelfth Night Draw Now!: Stretch It Out! Castle Clinton 7pm Fort Jay, Governors Island 2pm Theatre Alley 9pm 01 sun 07 sat Trisha Brown Dance Company 28 thurs Fraunces Tavern: Building 110, Governors Island Angelo M Trio NYC Landscapes Basketweaving 3pm One NY Plaza 12:30pm Pier 16, The Seaport 10:30am Pier 16, The Seaport 10:30am Le Grand Continental SHOW The Flock House Project Graphic Design–Now in Pier 16 & 17, The Seaport 7pm Broad & Wall Street 1pm Coleman Oval Park 12pm Production Building 110, Governors Island 11am Chico Mann, DJ Set Source of Uncertainty I Trisha Brown Dance Company Pier 17, The Seaport 8pm @Seaport 3pm Building 110, Governors Island 1pm History & Archaeology Walking Tour Folk Art in Four Directions Juliana F. May Fort Jay, Governors Island 2pm South Street Seaport Museum Week 2 South Street Seaport Museum 1pm 6:30pm Draw Now!: Red, Yellow, Blue 24 sun Fort Jay, Governors Island 2pm We’re Floating Art Inspired by the Sea Twelfth Night Poets House 4pm Castle Clinton 7pm Trisha Brown Dance Company Pier 16, The Seaport 10:30am Building 110, Governors Island Twelfth Night Trisha Brown Dance Company Showcase Castle Clinton 7pm Smyth Tribeca 7pm 3pm Building 110, Governors Island 1pm Artists Respond: Mark di Suvero Source of Uncertainty II Mannahatta/Manhattan Act Without Words II Michael Schimmel Center for the Theatre Alley 9pm Building 110, Governors Island South Street Seaport Museum 3pm Arts at Pace University 7:30pm 1pm Week 4 08 sun Twelfth Night Knot Tying Workshop Castle Clinton 7pm Pier 16, The Seaport 10:30am The Saints Tour Graphic Design–Now in TBD 7pm Production John Ashbery BECOME A FRIEND! Poets House 7pm Building 110, Governors Island MAKE RiverToRiverNYC.com/donate 11am George Clinton & Artists Respond: Mark di Suvero Parliament Funkadelic Building 110, Governors Island Rockefeller Park 7pm All of us at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) 3pm 13 fri — the lead producer of the River To River® Festival — The Art of Letterpress: Tap it Out believe that arts and culture play a crucial role in the Workshop WFC Plaza 12, 1 & 2pm vitality of our communities. For nearly 40 years, LMCC South Street Seaport Museum The Setup: Junko Fisher 3pm has spurred cultural development in Lower Manhattan 80 Broad St. 4pm through unique arts initiatives. Twelfth Night Twelfth Night Castle Clinton 7pm Castle Clinton 7pm As a supporter and Friend of LMCC, you can be part of The Saints Tour Eleanor Friedberger with Ex Cops TBD 7pm our efforts to infuse Downtown with arts and culture, Pier 17, The Seaport 7pm making it a more desirable place to live, work, learn, and Blake Carrington, Taylor Deupree, Come Out & Play After Dark and Daniel Iglesia @Seaport 9pm play. Thank you for helping LMCC make art happen here! St. Paul’s Chapel 7:30pm 14 sat 09 mon Ink, Pull, Roll: Printmaking When you become a Friend of LMCC, you: Tere O’Connor Dance South Street Seaport Museum Mannahatta Park 2pm 10:30am ä*DLQDFFHVVWRSUHPLHU5LYHU7R5LYHUHYHQWVRSHQVWXGLR The Saints Tour Tamimiami Pixilation Project previews, and exclusive art receptions that provide unique TBD 7pm Governors Island 11am opportunities to meet artists, cultural leaders, and Side by Side Come Out & Play Field Day Downtown stakeholders; Elevated Acre 8pm Governors Island 12pm 10 tues Building 110: Open House ä&RQWULEXWHWRIUHHDUWVSURJUDPPLQJ'RZQWRZQÛLQFOXGLQJ Tere O’Connor Dance Governors Island 12pm the Festival — which reaches more than 120,000 residents, Mannahatta Park 2pm Architectural Walking Tour workers, and visitors, and support more than 1,000 artists and Locos Por Juana South Street Seaport Museum 550 small arts groups from across New York City who work WFC Plaza 5:30pm 1pm Downtown and throughout the borough of Manhattan; Twelfth Night The Setup: Junko Fisher Castle Clinton 7pm 80 Broad St. 4pm ä3DUWLFLSDWHLQSURJUDPVDQGIRUXPVWKDWDGGUHVVVXVWDLQDELOLW\ La India We’re Floating practices in the arts, the development of Lower Manhattan’s Rockefeller Park 7pm Poets House 4pm cultural identity, and the future of Downtown. The Saints Tour Twelfth Night TBD 7pm Castle Clinton 7pm Additional Benefits of Becoming a Friend of LMCC 11 wed Ecstatic™ Summer: A Far Cry Orchestra with Oneohtrix Point Ian Link $25 - $99 LMCC tote bag One LIberty Plaza 12:30pm Never & David Lang Architectural Walking Tour WFC Winter Garden 7pm $100 - $249 The above benefit, plus… South Street Seaport Museum 15 sun Invitation for two to the R2R Bash, the launch 1pm Creating Sailor’s Valentines party for the 2012 River To River Festival Tere O’Connor Dance South Street Seaport Museum Mannahatta Park 2pm 10:30am $250 - $499 All of the above benefits, plus… Twelfth Night The MP3 Experiment Invitation for two to 2 River To River VIP events Governors Island 12pm Castle Clinton 7pm Invitation for two to 3 LMCC special events The Saints Tour Building 110: Open House TBD 7pm Governors Island 12pm $500 - $999 All of the above benefits, plus… Missy Mazzoli & Victoire with Artists Respond: Mark di Suvero Invitation for two to the River To River 2012 and Matt Mehlan and Skeleton Building 110, Governors Island 2013 Stakeholder Convenings Michael Schimmel Center for the 3pm Arts at Pace University 7:30pm CHERYL: On the Waterfront Invitation for two to the River To River 2013 12 thurs Pier 16, The Seaport 5pm Conference Dana Leong Trio Twelfth Night All of the above benefits, plus… Castle Clinton 7pm $1,000+ One NY Plaza 12:30pm Advanced reservations for two to select Tere O’Connor Dance Alarm Will Sound Mannahatta Park 2pm Michael Schimmel Center for the River To River performances The Setup: Junko Fisher Arts at Pace University 7:30pm Advanced reservations for two to Access 80 Broad St. 4pm Restricted events (limited availability) Occupy Wall Street: Camera & Subject To make a donation, visit RiverToRiverNYC.com/donate South Street Seaport Museum LMCC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit tax-exempt organization. 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