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SUMMARY:Lenio Kaklea: The Birds
DESCRIPTION:PS21 kicks off L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival—and brings it to upstate NY for the first time ever—with Athens-born\, Paris-based choreographer Lenio Kaklea’s The Birds. Drawing on the vivid plumage\, songs\, and movements of birds\, this striking new work reflects on what it means to be seen and heard—and deepens Kaklea’s inquiry into ecology and the human impact on our environment. \nSeven dancers shift between dynamic individuality and the cohesion of a migratory flock\, navigating the tensions of predator and prey. Referencing mating rituals and territorial defense\, Kaklea’s choreography probes a society where freedom and subjugation exist in an increasingly precarious balance. \nThe Birds was presented in November at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles after its premiere at Montpellier Danse in July 2025. Kaklea’s works have been performed at Centre Pompidou\, the National Theatre of Chaillot\, Sadler’s Wells\, Kunstenfestivaldesarts\, Festival d’Automne\, the Serpentine\, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection\, Palazzo Grassi – Pinault Collection\, New York Live Arts\, ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival\, Athens and Epidaurus Festival\, the National Greek Opera\, and Les presses du réel. \nThe Birds is co-presented by PS21: Center for Contemporary Performance and L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival\nLead image © Albert Vidal and Vertex Comunicacio
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/lenio-kaklea-the-birds/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260904T170000
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SUMMARY:PS21’s Free Performance Festival: Commonground
DESCRIPTION:Commonground is PS21’s annual free festival of large-scale contemporary performance and spectacle. A family-friendly celebration of the end of summer\, Commonground welcomes the community to PS21 for performances from renowned international artists across the PS21 landscape. \nThis year’s festival takes place September 4–7\, and features the world premiere of SUPERDRUM X\, a work featuring 100 self-playing drums by Dutch musical collective Touki Delphine featuring a different local drummer each night. Plus: the world premiere of FIELD\, a new PS21-commissioned performance by OBIE award-winning director\, writer\, and electronics artist Andrew Schneider\, that gently removes reality from its normal and turns it inside out. Sayer Mansfield’s DIVE BARN showcase of local artists rounds out the lineup.\nEach day\, we’ll have field day activities for the family leading up the performances: food trucks\, free ice cream\, apple picking\, lawn games\, and more. Join us. \nFriday\, September 4\n5:00 pm: Field day activities begin\n6:00 pm: Andrew Schneider\, FIELD\n7:30 pm: Touki Delphine\, SUPERDRUM X with guest drummer Lesley Mok\nSaturday\, September 5\n5:00 pm: Field day activities begin\n6:00 pm: Andrew Schneider\, FIELD\n7:30 pm: Touki Delphine\, SUPERDRUM X with guest drummer Brian Chase\nSunday\, September 6\n4:00 pm: Sayer Mansfield\, DIVE BARN\n5:00 pm: Field day activities begin\n6:00 pm: Andrew Schneider\, FIELD\n7:30 pm: Touki Delphine\, SUPERDRUM X with guest drummer Brian Chase\nMonday\, September 7\n[rain date for DIVE BARN and FIELD]\n7:30 pm: Touki Delphine\, SUPERDRUM X with guest drummer Booker Stardrum
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/ps21s-free-performance-festival-commonground/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260828T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260829T213000
DTSTAMP:20260813T155222Z
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SUMMARY:600 HIGHWAYMEN: FIVE YEARS
DESCRIPTION:In 2019\, interdisciplinary theater company 600 HIGHWAYMEN—Guggenheim Fellows Michael Silverstone and Abigail Browde\, described by Le Monde as “standard-bearers of contemporary theater-making”—began a visual record of life in rural New York. Each of their works takes a different form; here\, it unfolds as a sustained field of moving images. \nA PS21 commission\, FIVE YEARS is a multi-channel performance installation built from thousands of short clips\, gathered over the course of five years\, in close proximity to daily life.  \nThe footage moves between diary and observation—sunlight across a table\, hands in the dirt\, snow underfoot\, conversations in parking lots\, a taxidermy auction\, a neighbor’s bonfire\, a parade passing through town\, music from an open window. Shown side by side at large scale\, meaning builds through accumulation and adjacency. A child is born. Seasons turn. Routines take shape. \nAt the same time\, other things come into view: protests\, political action\, pandemic conditions. They sit alongside everything else––the domestic and the public\, what is seen close at hand and what unfolds beyond it. \nFIVE YEARS holds to this accumulation\, as more enters the frame: a portrait of time in an ever-fluctuating now.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/600-highwaymen-five-years/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
CATEGORIES:CABA Event,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260821T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260822T213000
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SUMMARY:Annea Lockwood and Claire Chase: Elwha!
DESCRIPTION:Legendary composer Annea Lockwood has been a pioneer of field-recording and deep listening for decades—a composer of “insatiable curiosity” with “a singular ear for the music of the natural world” (The New York Times) and a special focus on the sounds of rivers. \nClaire Chase is a composer\, MacArthur Fellow\, Harvard professor\, and “the most important flutist of our time” (The New York Times). \nIn Elwha!\, they join forces on the river. \nAfter an astoundingly successful 2011-2014 dam removal project\, Washington’s Elwha River has become a model for ecosystem restoration projects throughout the world: “a thrilling example of what can happen when you take dams out of a river and it takes itself back.” \nElwha! is scored for seven flutes (bamboo water flutes\, glissando flutes\, piccolos\, alto flutes\, bass flutes\, C flutes\, and contrabass flutes)\, all performed by the brilliant Chase\, and multichannel environmental surround sound made from Lockwood’s field recordings of the Elwha. \nChase’s seven flutes respond to the multilayered and kaleidoscopic pitch\, rhythmic\, melodic\, and harmonic material of the Elwha and its many living inhabitants\, alternately conversing with\, rising above\, and being submerged by the wild musics of this iconic\, liberated river.  \nElwha! premiered in late 2025 at The Kitchen and is a part of Chase’s Density 2036\, a 24-year project to develop a new flute repertory leading up to the centennial of Edgard Varèse’s iconic flute solo “Density 21.5” in 2036.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/annea-lockwood-and-claire-chase-elwha/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260613T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260613T210000
DTSTAMP:20260604T232541Z
CREATED:20260604T232541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260604T232541Z
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SUMMARY:Circa
DESCRIPTION:An offsite presentation at Lumberyard in Catskill\, NY: \n“Pure physical theatre\, all about sheer brute strength\, extraordinary dexterity and stunning skills… genuinely poetry in motion…mesmerising in its fluidity” — ArtsHub \nLed by visionary director Yaron Lifschitz\, globally renowned Australian contemporary circus company Circa brings their breathtaking Eternity out of the cathedrals of Brisbane into Catskill’s Lumberyard for its US premiere. Having performed in over 45 countries\, the company is lauded for their “astonishing physical mastery” (The New York Times) and their continued ability to “redraw the limits to which circus can aspire” (The Age).  \nIn this thrilling work\, ten virtuosic performers push the boundaries of balance\, strength\, and trust\, crafting breathtaking acrobatics and movement that feel at once earthly and otherworldly. Set to two monumental works of contemporary spiritual music by Arvo Pärt\, Tabula Rasa and Fratres\, Eternity unfolds as a 65-minute meditation on love\, loss\, hope\, and wonder.  \nHere\, the show is adapted for the first time to a new architecture\, on the eve of a global tour. Taking place in Catskill’s soaring Lumberyard sound stage theater\, the show pushes the boundaries of what we can see and understand—a poetic exploration of the human condition told through soaring lifts\, suspended bodies\, and moments of profound stillness. It is acrobatic theater elevated to spiritual reflection\, where every breath\, every movement\, every note surrounds you.  \nEternity is co-commissioned by Brisbane Festival and City of Newcastle’s New Annual Festival and has been performed in St. John’s Cathedral in Brisbane\, Grand Theatre Groningen in the Netherlands\, Freedom Festival in England\, and will be at the Segerstorm Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa\, CA.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/circa-3/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T210000
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SUMMARY:Circa
DESCRIPTION:An offsite presentation at Lumberyard in Catskill\, NY: \n“Pure physical theatre\, all about sheer brute strength\, extraordinary dexterity and stunning skills… genuinely poetry in motion…mesmerising in its fluidity” — ArtsHub \nLed by visionary director Yaron Lifschitz\, globally renowned Australian contemporary circus company Circa brings their breathtaking Eternity out of the cathedrals of Brisbane into Catskill’s Lumberyard for its US premiere. Having performed in over 45 countries\, the company is lauded for their “astonishing physical mastery” (The New York Times) and their continued ability to “redraw the limits to which circus can aspire” (The Age).  \nIn this thrilling work\, ten virtuosic performers push the boundaries of balance\, strength\, and trust\, crafting breathtaking acrobatics and movement that feel at once earthly and otherworldly. Set to two monumental works of contemporary spiritual music by Arvo Pärt\, Tabula Rasa and Fratres\, Eternity unfolds as a 65-minute meditation on love\, loss\, hope\, and wonder.  \nHere\, the show is adapted for the first time to a new architecture\, on the eve of a global tour. Taking place in Catskill’s soaring Lumberyard sound stage theater\, the show pushes the boundaries of what we can see and understand—a poetic exploration of the human condition told through soaring lifts\, suspended bodies\, and moments of profound stillness. It is acrobatic theater elevated to spiritual reflection\, where every breath\, every movement\, every note surrounds you.  \nEternity is co-commissioned by Brisbane Festival and City of Newcastle’s New Annual Festival and has been performed in St. John’s Cathedral in Brisbane\, Grand Theatre Groningen in the Netherlands\, Freedom Festival in England\, and will be at the Segerstorm Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa\, CA.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/circa-2/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T210000
DTSTAMP:20260604T232230Z
CREATED:20260604T232230Z
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SUMMARY:Circa
DESCRIPTION:An offsite presentation at Lumberyard in Catskill\, NY: \n“Pure physical theatre\, all about sheer brute strength\, extraordinary dexterity and stunning skills… genuinely poetry in motion…mesmerising in its fluidity” — ArtsHub \nLed by visionary director Yaron Lifschitz\, globally renowned Australian contemporary circus company Circa brings their breathtaking Eternity out of the cathedrals of Brisbane into Catskill’s Lumberyard for its US premiere. Having performed in over 45 countries\, the company is lauded for their “astonishing physical mastery” (The New York Times) and their continued ability to “redraw the limits to which circus can aspire” (The Age).  \nIn this thrilling work\, ten virtuosic performers push the boundaries of balance\, strength\, and trust\, crafting breathtaking acrobatics and movement that feel at once earthly and otherworldly. Set to two monumental works of contemporary spiritual music by Arvo Pärt\, Tabula Rasa and Fratres\, Eternity unfolds as a 65-minute meditation on love\, loss\, hope\, and wonder.  \nHere\, the show is adapted for the first time to a new architecture\, on the eve of a global tour. Taking place in Catskill’s soaring Lumberyard sound stage theater\, the show pushes the boundaries of what we can see and understand—a poetic exploration of the human condition told through soaring lifts\, suspended bodies\, and moments of profound stillness. It is acrobatic theater elevated to spiritual reflection\, where every breath\, every movement\, every note surrounds you.  \nEternity is co-commissioned by Brisbane Festival and City of Newcastle’s New Annual Festival and has been performed in St. John’s Cathedral in Brisbane\, Grand Theatre Groningen in the Netherlands\, Freedom Festival in England\, and will be at the Segerstorm Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa\, CA.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/circa/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260606T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260606T210000
DTSTAMP:20260524T000633Z
CREATED:20260524T000633Z
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SUMMARY:Oki Dub Ainu Band
DESCRIPTION:Led by Ainu musician OKI (Oki Kano)\, the Oki Dub Ainu Band comes to Chatham from the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. This one-of-a-kind band energetically weaves together reggae\, afro beats\, and electronic music with the folk music of the Ainu—Japan’s northernmost indigenous people—creating a driving\, unexpected\, and celebratory performance. Kano plays the tonkori\, a five-stringed harp-like instrument native to the Ainu\, continuing his journey to bring this traditional instrument into new contexts and new audiences.  \nCo-presented with Japan Society\, New York.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/oki-dub-ainu-band/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T210000
DTSTAMP:20260524T000335Z
CREATED:20260524T000335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260524T000335Z
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SUMMARY:The Next Festival of Emerging Artists
DESCRIPTION:Praised for performances that “traverse the palette of emotions” with “gorgeous tone and an edge-of-seat intensity” (The New York Times)\, Grammy-nominated cellist and composer Andrea Casarrubios joins The Next Festival of Emerging Artists\, returning to PS21 for the fourth consecutive year.  \nFor America’s 250th anniversary\, Next Fest presents a program of vital work by women immigrant composers. Artistic Director Peter Askim leads the string orchestra in world premieres by Iranian-American Niloufar Nourbakhsh\, Festival alumna Adeliia Faizullina (Uzbekistan)\, and Wang Lu (China)\, alongside timely works by acclaimed composers Clarice Assad (Brazil) and Aleksandra Vrebalov (Serbia). The centerpiece is a newly commissioned double concerto for cello\, percussion\, and strings by the Spanish-born Casarrubios\, which she will perform as soloist alongside the festival fellows. \nThe Next Festival of Emerging Artists is a trailblazing arts immersion program for early-career string musicians and composers from around the world\, providing them opportunities for mentorship\, performance\, and multidisciplinary collaboration. Their 2026 season celebrates the vital contributions of migrant women composers to the American musical landscape\, highlighting diverse\, global voices in this series of evocative world premieres. \nThe fellows of the Next Festival will spend the week prior to the performance in residence at PS21\, workshopping the pieces and conducting community engagements at Chatham Middle School. PS21 is proud to continue to deepen this relationship year-over-year.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/the-next-festival-of-emerging-artists-2/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260301T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260301T190000
DTSTAMP:20260127T161253Z
CREATED:20260127T161253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T161253Z
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SUMMARY:Sauna Sessions at PS21
DESCRIPTION:Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond\, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. \nOpen Monday—Sunday\, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: \n10:00—11:00 am\, 11:20—12:20 pm\, 12:40—1:40 pm\, 2:00—3:00 pm\, 3:20—4:20 pm\, 4:40—5:40 pm\, 6:00—7:00 pm \nThursdays the saunas are available for private bookings\, maximum capacity 6-7 people. \nSauna Sound Installation by Kara-Lis Coverdale \nThe restorative potential of music and sound is an essential tenet of Kara-Lis Coverdale’s driving instinct in her work. She has a series of durational immersion works written specifically in consideration of sauna architectures\, and her original compositions for saunas can be experienced on PS21’s grounds throughout the festival.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/sauna-sessions-at-ps21-19/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T190000
DTSTAMP:20260127T161140Z
CREATED:20260127T161140Z
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SUMMARY:Sauna Sessions at PS21
DESCRIPTION:Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond\, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. \nOpen Monday—Sunday\, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: \n10:00—11:00 am\, 11:20—12:20 pm\, 12:40—1:40 pm\, 2:00—3:00 pm\, 3:20—4:20 pm\, 4:40—5:40 pm\, 6:00—7:00 pm \nThursdays the saunas are available for private bookings\, maximum capacity 6-7 people. \nSauna Sound Installation by Kara-Lis Coverdale \nThe restorative potential of music and sound is an essential tenet of Kara-Lis Coverdale’s driving instinct in her work. She has a series of durational immersion works written specifically in consideration of sauna architectures\, and her original compositions for saunas can be experienced on PS21’s grounds throughout the festival.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/sauna-sessions-at-ps21-18/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260227T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260227T190000
DTSTAMP:20260127T161041Z
CREATED:20260127T161041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T161041Z
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SUMMARY:Sauna Sessions at PS21
DESCRIPTION:Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond\, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. \nOpen Monday—Sunday\, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: \n10:00—11:00 am\, 11:20—12:20 pm\, 12:40—1:40 pm\, 2:00—3:00 pm\, 3:20—4:20 pm\, 4:40—5:40 pm\, 6:00—7:00 pm \nThursdays the saunas are available for private bookings\, maximum capacity 6-7 people. \nSauna Sound Installation by Kara-Lis Coverdale \nThe restorative potential of music and sound is an essential tenet of Kara-Lis Coverdale’s driving instinct in her work. She has a series of durational immersion works written specifically in consideration of sauna architectures\, and her original compositions for saunas can be experienced on PS21’s grounds throughout the festival.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/sauna-sessions-at-ps21-17/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T210000
DTSTAMP:20260127T190900Z
CREATED:20260127T190900Z
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SUMMARY:Autumn Knight - Nothing #62: a bluff
DESCRIPTION:DATES: \nWednesday\, February 18\, 2026\n7:30 pm \nThursday\, February 19\, 2026\n7:30 pm\n__________________________________-\nTheatre / performance \nNothing #62: a bluff is the third part of Autumn Knights’s investigation into the Italian concept of “dolce far niente” – the sweetness of nothingness. Knight is alone\, responding spontaneously to a space\, its features\, and its audience. a bluff is a deliberation on our economies of time\, attention\, and survival\, and the creative role within those realms.  It works within the inexhaustible possibilities each audience member brings.  \nAt once compelling\, confronting\, perhaps funny\, and awkward\, this is a masterwork of new performance. Drawing from her training in theater and the psychology of group dynamics\, Knight makes performances that reshape our perceptions of race\, gender\, and authority. \n“Autumn leads with humor and curiosities in really incredible ways\, …[a]t the end\, seems like you have been cared for\, even if you have gone through a few layers of complexity.” Ryan Dennis\, ARTnews
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/autumn-knight-nothing-62-a-bluff-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T190000
DTSTAMP:20260127T160941Z
CREATED:20260127T160941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T160941Z
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SUMMARY:Sauna Sessions at PS21
DESCRIPTION:Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond\, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. \nOpen Monday—Sunday\, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: \n10:00—11:00 am\, 11:20—12:20 pm\, 12:40—1:40 pm\, 2:00—3:00 pm\, 3:20—4:20 pm\, 4:40—5:40 pm\, 6:00—7:00 pm \nThursdays the saunas are available for private bookings\, maximum capacity 6-7 people. \nSauna Sound Installation by Kara-Lis Coverdale \nThe restorative potential of music and sound is an essential tenet of Kara-Lis Coverdale’s driving instinct in her work. She has a series of durational immersion works written specifically in consideration of sauna architectures\, and her original compositions for saunas can be experienced on PS21’s grounds throughout the festival.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/sauna-sessions-at-ps21-16/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T190000
DTSTAMP:20260127T160841Z
CREATED:20260127T160841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T160841Z
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SUMMARY:Sauna Sessions at PS21
DESCRIPTION:Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond\, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. \nOpen Monday—Sunday\, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: \n10:00—11:00 am\, 11:20—12:20 pm\, 12:40—1:40 pm\, 2:00—3:00 pm\, 3:20—4:20 pm\, 4:40—5:40 pm\, 6:00—7:00 pm \nThursdays the saunas are available for private bookings\, maximum capacity 6-7 people. \nSauna Sound Installation by Kara-Lis Coverdale \nThe restorative potential of music and sound is an essential tenet of Kara-Lis Coverdale’s driving instinct in her work. She has a series of durational immersion works written specifically in consideration of sauna architectures\, and her original compositions for saunas can be experienced on PS21’s grounds throughout the festival.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/sauna-sessions-at-ps21-15/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260223T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260223T190000
DTSTAMP:20260127T160741Z
CREATED:20260127T160741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T160741Z
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SUMMARY:Sauna Sessions at PS21
DESCRIPTION:Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond\, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. \nOpen Monday—Sunday\, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: \n10:00—11:00 am\, 11:20—12:20 pm\, 12:40—1:40 pm\, 2:00—3:00 pm\, 3:20—4:20 pm\, 4:40—5:40 pm\, 6:00—7:00 pm \nThursdays the saunas are available for private bookings\, maximum capacity 6-7 people. \nSauna Sound Installation by Kara-Lis Coverdale \nThe restorative potential of music and sound is an essential tenet of Kara-Lis Coverdale’s driving instinct in her work. She has a series of durational immersion works written specifically in consideration of sauna architectures\, and her original compositions for saunas can be experienced on PS21’s grounds throughout the festival.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/sauna-sessions-at-ps21-14/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T190000
DTSTAMP:20260127T201640Z
CREATED:20260127T201640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T201640Z
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SUMMARY:Alex Harvey & Victoria Finney - The Willows
DESCRIPTION:Theatre \nA hallucination in sound and voice\, Alex Harvey’s adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows exploits a tension between dream-time and clock-time through Victoria Finney’s lamplit one-woman recitation of the legendary short story.  \nDrawing on Blackwood’s entanglement with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn\, occult modernism and early 20th-century mystical experimentation\, Harvey and Finney’s interpretation treats the text not merely as fiction but as an incantation— a deliberate shaping of inner experience through rhythm\, cadence\, breath and a phantasmic sound design. Blackwood and his esoteric contemporaries believed that words\, spoken in the right order\, could open the mind\, expand perception\, even shift reality. This adaptation approaches the story in exactly that way. \nThis immersive performance revives the nearly-lost practice of adult storytelling: a communal act of sitting in a darkened space\, surrendering to a voice\, and allowing one’s inner world to be shaped by language. What emerges is both intimate and mythic—a fire-lit encounter with a text that links 19th-century gothic nature writing to the birth of 20th-century psychological horror. A cross between Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Blair Witch Project. \nThe Willows is not a reading\, nor a play\, nor a radio drama. \nIt is a ritual of attention—a space where story becomes spell\, voice becomes instrument\, and the natural world becomes a site of supernatural rupture.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/alex-harvey-victoria-finney-the-willows/
LOCATION:Stonykill Coffee & Records\, 36 Main St Fl. 2\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T190000
DTSTAMP:20260127T200302Z
CREATED:20260127T200302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T200302Z
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SUMMARY:Sophia Brous & Gundega Laiviņa - Songs for the Dark
DESCRIPTION:DATES:\nSaturday\, February 21\, 2026\n5:30 pm \nSunday\, February 22\, 2026\n5:30 pm\n________________________________\nWorld premiere \nMusic / Theatre \nSongs for the Dark is a new performance exploring the ritual of song that holds us.  \nDevised by Australian interdisciplinary artist/composer Sophia Brous with collaborating performers from the Hudson Valley and Berkshires region\, and Latvian dramaturg Gundega Laiviņa\, the performance examines the global repertoire of lullabies that help us through the dark.  \nBringing together song and personal storytelling\, this show is a testimony to our universal need to be soothed and secure. Part immersive performance\, concert nocturne\, and public testimonial\, it is an invitation to witness each other’s humanity together. \nCommissioned by PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/sophia-brous-gundega-laivina-songs-for-the-dark-2/
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T190000
DTSTAMP:20260127T193154Z
CREATED:20260127T193154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T193154Z
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SUMMARY:LaJuné McMillian - Constellations
DESCRIPTION:DATES:\nThursday\, February 19\, 2026\n5:30 pm \nFriday\, February 20\, 2026\n5:30 pm \nSaturday\, February 21\, 2026\n5:30 pm \nSunday\, February 22\, 2026\n5:30 pm\n______________________________\nWorld premiere \nDance  \nConstellations is a performance from LaJuné that weaves figure skating\, movement\, and projected light into a study of connection\, memory\, and renewal. Skaters appear as moving stars whose paths intersect\, separate\, and return to one another in a shifting constellation of shared experience.  The work highlights detailed movement and close formation patterns: light\, shadow\, and motion create a cosmic landscape where moments of solitude blend with moments of collective strength\, while sound and color shape an environment that feels expansive and grounded at the same time.  \nConstellations offers a portrait of community forming through movement. The performance centers care\, curiosity\, and the brilliance of embodied presence. The experience invites audiences into a world filled with resonance\, wonder\, and celestial energy.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/lajune-mcmillian-constellations-4/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T170000
DTSTAMP:20260127T201116Z
CREATED:20260127T201116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T201116Z
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SUMMARY:Julian Brave NoiseCat: We Survived the Night: A Coyote Story in Four Parts
DESCRIPTION:World premiere \nTheatre \nAcross his genre-defying work\, Julian Brave NoiseCat often turns to the narrative arts of his people who tell stories about mythic ancestors like the trickster Coyote to make sense of the world and themselves\, cutting through colonial fictions while pushing the boundaries of nonfiction to illuminate vital truths. The “Coyote Story\,” an artform once practiced by Indigenous peoples from Central America to Western Canada\, is one of the oldest and most significant oral traditions in human history. In this one-man show\, NoiseCat brings this dying art off the page and onto the stage through song\, dance\, and oratory. \nJulian Brave NoiseCat—writer\, filmmaker\, and champion powwow dancer\, is a multi-hyphenate storyteller and artist from the Secwépemc and St’at’imc nations. His documentary\, Sugarcane\, directed alongside Emily Kassie was nominated for an Oscar in 2025. NoiseCat’s best selling book\, We Survived the Night\, grounds and is the source for this work.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/julian-brave-noisecat-we-survived-the-night-a-coyote-story-in-four-parts-2/
LOCATION:Spencertown Academy\, 790 NY-203\, Spencertown\, NY\, 12165\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T160000
DTSTAMP:20260127T201513Z
CREATED:20260127T201513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T201513Z
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SUMMARY:Walid Raad - Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Talk / Visual Art \nIn this Artist Talk\, Walid Raad\, presents\, images\, stories\, and concepts from his three ongoing long-term projects: The Atlas Group (1989-2004); Scratching on Things I Could Disavow; and Sweet Talk: Beirut (Commissions). Raad’s focus remains on how extreme forms of violence affect bodies\, minds\, culture\, art and tradition. \nRaad’s presentation will also engage the work of artist\, writer and thinker Jalal Toufic\, whose book\, The Collected Writings (1991-2024) of a Mortal to Death was recently released by No Place Press.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/walid-raad-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Crandell Theatre\, 48 Main Street\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T160000
DTSTAMP:20260127T195907Z
CREATED:20260127T195907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T195907Z
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SUMMARY:sweat variant / Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born - my tongue is a blade
DESCRIPTION:DATES: \nSaturday\, February 21\, 2026\n1:00—4:00 pm \nSunday\, February 22\, 2026\n1:00—4:00 pm\n____________________________________\nUS premiere \nDance / Installation / Visual Art \nmy tongue is a blade is a three-hour movement performance-practice that is a work with relation\, memory\, and reflection. It asks: What are the limits of our attention and how does that test the strength of our bonds? Four performers commit to remembering each other\, holding each other\, bearing each other\, and sustaining the world that contains them. This rich visual and sonic landscape is an invitation to the audience to witness this practice and resonate within it.  \nmy tongue is a blade will be performed by Okwui Okpokwasili\, Bria Bacon\, Kris Lee and AJ Wilmore.  \nWe are interested in building a spectacle of radical intimacy\, where both performers and audience are acknowledged as being locked in a mutual gaze. We build gestural vocabularies and narrative frameworks that are concerned with the problem of memory in the inherent instability of the construction of a persona. \nWe hope to activate a space that allows the audience to question who they are looking at and how they are looking. We hope this creates a critical space of wonderment\, of uncertainty and of mystery. It is in this space that we believe we can see each other anew. \nPerformance details: This is a 180 minute durational piece – We encourage audiences to come and go throughout the piece. Entry is rolling through the duration of the installation\, and space is available on a first-come\, first-served basis with two slotted entry times. Guests are welcome to arrive any time at or after their ticketed admission and stay for as long as they like.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/sweat-variant-okwui-okpokwasili-peter-born-my-tongue-is-a-blade-2/
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T200000
DTSTAMP:20260127T174557Z
CREATED:20260127T174557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T174557Z
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SUMMARY:John Fitzgerald - The Vivid Unknown: CloudQatsi
DESCRIPTION:DATES:\nMonday\, February 16\, 2026\n12—8 pm \nTuesday\, February 17\, 2026\n12—8 pm \nWednesday\, February 18\, 2026\n12—8 pm \nThursday\, February 19\, 2026\n12—8 pm \nFriday\, February 20\, 2026\n12—8 pm \nSaturday\, February 21\, 2026\n12—8 pm \nSunday\, February 22\, 2026\n12—8 pm\n_______________________________\nUS premiere \nVisual Art /  Installation / Film\nFree \nThe Vivid Unknown: CloudQatsi is an ephemeral installation of projected light and water vapor\, shaped by the violent nexus of nature\, humans\, and technology. The work reimagines Koyaanisqatsi — Godfrey Reggio’s seminal 1982 film — using a generative AI model and ongoing conversations between Fitzgerald and Reggio. \nCast onto a drifting veil of mist\, light gathers\, fades\, and returns. The image breathes\, loosening the boundaries between atmosphere and environment\, machine and element\, presence and disappearance. As the very ground beneath us shifts from terra firma to techno firma\, the installation lingers at the threshold\, asking quietly: which age is this\, the sunset or the dawn?
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/john-fitzgerald-the-vivid-unknown-cloudqatsi-7/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T180000
DTSTAMP:20260127T172709Z
CREATED:20260127T172709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T172709Z
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SUMMARY:Andrew Schneider - NOWISWHENWEARE (the stars) Open Universe
DESCRIPTION:DATES:\nMonday\, February 16\, 2026\n1:00 pm—8:00 pm \nTuesday\, February 17\, 2026\n1:00 pm—4:00 pm \nWednesday\, February 18\, 2026\n1:00 pm—8:00 pm \nThursday\, February 19\, 2026\n1:00 pm—3:00 pm \nSaturday\, February 21\, 2026\n11:00 am—3:00 pm \nSunday\, February 22\, 2026\n11:00 am—6:00 pm\n___________________________________\nImmersive Experience / Theatre / Visual Art \nEvery point in space occurs once at each moment of time. NOWISWHENWEARE (the stars) is a new interactive theatrical installation that pushes this idea to its literal extreme.  \nAn unseen narrator guides each participant through an individualized journey into a precisely programmed matrix of light—and the cosmos of themselves. the stars traces every decision that you have ever made as a contributing factor to being ‘here’ and being ‘now.’ With nearly 4\,000 reactive LED lights and a 496-channel soundscape\, Andrew Schneider’s powerful installation draws you into a contemplative and deeply personal encounter with time\, memory and presence. Part-meditation\, part-exploration\,  this dazzling fusion of tech and theatre is a rare chance to get lost in the stars.  \nTwo distinct experiences are offered in The Dark – Open Universe and Guided – each unique and compelling in different ways.  \nThis is a non-seated\, interactive experience in which audience members are free to move around the space. The venue is wheelchair and walker accessible\, and chairs can be provided on request.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/andrew-schneider-nowiswhenweare-the-stars-open-universe-6/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T163000
DTSTAMP:20260126T214146Z
CREATED:20260126T214146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T214146Z
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SUMMARY:Ice Skating at PS21
DESCRIPTION:DATES: \nMonday\, February 16\, 2026\n11:00 am—7:00 pm \nTuesday\, February 17\, 2026\n11:00 am—7:00 pm \nWednesday\, February 18\, 2026\n11:00 am—4:30 pm \nThursday\, February 19\, 2026\n11:00 am—2:30 pm\, 7:00—8:30 pm \nFriday\, February 20\, 2026\n11:00 am—2:30 pm\, 7:00—8:30 pm \nSaturday\, February 21\, 2026\n11:00 am—2:30 pm\, 7:00—8:30 pm \nSunday\, February 22\, 2026\n11:00 am—4:30 pm\n___________________________________-\nEnjoy ice skating on the grounds at PS21\, with nature and community. Booked in 90-minute sessions during the Dark Festival. Skates are available to rent on a first-come basis. You are welcome to bring your own. \nNote: The rink will be closed during LaJuné McMillian’s Constellations performance.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/ice-skating-at-ps21-7/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T150000
DTSTAMP:20260127T183849Z
CREATED:20260127T183849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T183849Z
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SUMMARY:Sister Sylvester & Deniz Tortum - Shadowtime
DESCRIPTION:DATES:\nTuesday\, February 17\, 2026\n12:00—5:00 pm \nWednesday\, February 18\, 2026\n12:00—5:00 pm \nThursday\, February 19\, 2026\n12:00—5:00 pm \nFriday\, February 20\, 2026\n12:00—5:00 pm \nSaturday\, February 21\, 2026\n11:00 am—3:00 pm \nSunday\, February 22\, 2026\n11:00 am—3:00 pm\n_____________________________\nVirtual Reality / Film \n‘Shadowtime’ is a word drawn from a new lexicon for the anthropocene. It is the feeling of occupying two irreconcilable times simultaneously. Making breakfast for a child\, while knowing that in that child’s lifetime a species of flower that has existed for millennia has gone extinct. Driving to try and make work on time it occurs to you that the gas in your engine is the compressed bones of prehistoric creatures. \nShadowtime takes these temporal incompatibilities and explores them in the realm of virtual reality and simulation theory. To exist in the virtual world is to have two bodies\, four hands\, two hearts—to exist in two worlds at the same time. Alma\, a mysterious guide to this double world\, leads you through questions around climate crisis\, grief\, and the provocation of the virtual as a retreat or shelter\, or as a place from which to come to learn how to be in two places\, two times\, simultaneously.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/sister-sylvester-deniz-tortum-shadowtime-6/
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T150000
DTSTAMP:20260127T182649Z
CREATED:20260127T182649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T182649Z
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SUMMARY:Ant Hampton with Tim Etchells - Not to Scale
DESCRIPTION:DATES:\nTuesday\, February 17\, 2026\n12:00—5:00 pm \nWednesday\, February 18\, 2026\n12:00—5:00 pm \nThursday\, February 19\, 2026\n12:00—5:00 pm \nFriday\, February 20\, 2026\n12:00—5:00 pm \nSaturday\, February 21\, 2026\n11:00 am—3:00 pm \nSunday\, February 22\, 2026\n11:00 am—3:00 pm\n_________________________________\nUS premiere \nAudio experience / Participation \nNot to Scale is a full-length ‘autoteatro’ performance which draws two participants into shared experiments and intertwined processes of drawing\, erasing and listening. Guided by a binaural soundtrack\, participants create a shared journey using pencil on blank sheets of paper. Crude doodles soon come to life in a comical and unsettling picture book narrative that plays constantly with the tension between creation and destruction\, life and death\, energy and entropy.  By simply following the prompts as best you can\, things start to happen: performance is triggered from even the smallest movement. \nThings – stories\, pictures\, ideas – appear and disappear constantly on the page\, a site which starts to unfold into a lo-fi carnival of possibility; a carnage of crossing out\, overlapped drawings and landscape traces. \nLike Ant Hampton’s other ‘autoteatro’ work\, including his previous collaborations with Tim Etchells (The Quiet Volume\, Lest We See)\, by simply following the prompts as best you can\, things start to happen: performance is triggered from even the smallest movement. And they have never been so small.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/ant-hampton-with-tim-etchells-not-to-scale-8/
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T150000
DTSTAMP:20260127T171728Z
CREATED:20260127T171728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T171728Z
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SUMMARY:Ant Hampton & Time Based Editions - Borderline Visible
DESCRIPTION:DATES:\nMonday\, February 16\, 2026\n11:00 am—5:00 pm \nTuesday\, February 17\, 2026\n11:00 am—5:00 pm \nWednesday\, February 18\, 2026\n11:00 am—5:00 pm \nThursday\, February 19\, 2026\n11:00 am—5:00 pm \nFriday\, February 20\, 2026\n11:00 am—5:00 pm \nSaturday\, February 21\, 2026\n11:00 am—5:00 pm \nSunday\, February 22\, 2026\n11:00 am—3:00 pm\n_____________________________________\nAudio & visual experience \nTicket price includes a copy of the book\, which contains a link to the audio track and can therefore be experienced again individually at any point\, in multiple languages. \nBorderline Visible begins as a journey from Lausanne to Izmir in 2022 by two artist friends\, one of whom must stop. As the other continues towards Turkey\, suddenly alone\, the narration grows into a moving and troubled psychogeography as it shifts between ‘we’ and ‘I\,’ present and past\, piecing together value and meaning from the very human ruins of aspiration\, history and language.  \nAnt Hampton’s careful\, at times miraculous\, process of reconnection gradually lights up a constellation: voices and earthquakes\, the Sephardic diaspora\, tourism and forced movement\, breakdowns and dementia\, the end of the Ottoman Empire\, swifts and swallows\, Eliot’s The Waste Land and an urgent insight into hidden atrocities at the edge of Europe being funded from its centre.  \nAnt Hampton is co-director of the Time Based Editions series\, publisher of Borderline Visible. As with all Time Based Editions\, an audio track combines narration\, soundscape and instructions that guide you over  a given time through the book. Ticket price includes a copy of the book\, which can be experienced again individually at any point in multiple languages. \n“The book-as-performance becomes a kind of “survival process” that illuminates those excluded from the country of the visible.” —Daniel Sack \n“Your understanding of what a book can be will change forever.” —Lara Pawson \n“Hampton has been creating an international furore for years with his autoteatro performance works without actors … ‘Borderline Visible’ is an extraordinary experience … The interplay between soundscape and picture book works perfectly. Sometimes pages are black or you have to close your eyes\, like black-outs in a film. Some pages you have to let slide past your fingers like an old filmstrip – then the landscape passes you by. Thus history\, politics and art come together poignantly\, in an intelligent work in which\, after Hampton\, the audience travels their own journey.” —De Volkskrant (NL) ★★★★☆ \n“an extremely engaging psychogeographical framework constantly enriched by Hampton’s searching mind and razor-sharp political rage.” —Marijn Lems\, Theaterkrant (NL) \n“…distilled with subtlety and humanity… A magnificent way of approaching politics through exploration\, extended time\, and touch.” —Marie-Pierre Genecand\, Le Temps (CH) \nWinner of the IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) 2023 DocLab award for Creative Technologies.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/ant-hampton-time-based-editions-borderline-visible-9/
LOCATION:the Chatham Bookstore\, 27 Main Street\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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SUMMARY:Sauna Sessions at PS21
DESCRIPTION:Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond\, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. \nOpen Monday—Sunday\, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: \n10:00—11:00 am\, 11:20—12:20 pm\, 12:40—1:40 pm\, 2:00—3:00 pm\, 3:20—4:20 pm\, 4:40—5:40 pm\, 6:00—7:00 pm \nThursdays the saunas are available for private bookings\, maximum capacity 6-7 people. \nSauna Sound Installation by Kara-Lis Coverdale \nThe restorative potential of music and sound is an essential tenet of Kara-Lis Coverdale’s driving instinct in her work. She has a series of durational immersion works written specifically in consideration of sauna architectures\, and her original compositions for saunas can be experienced on PS21’s grounds throughout the festival.
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/sauna-sessions-at-ps21-13/
LOCATION:PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century\, 2980 Route 66\, Chatham\, NY\, 12037\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="PS21%3A Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century":MAILTO:info@ps21chatham.org
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SUMMARY:Sister Sylvester - Constantinopoliad
DESCRIPTION:DATES:\nThursday\, February 19\, 2026\n11:00 am—6:30 pm \nFriday\, February 20\, 2026\n11:00 am—6:30 pm \nSaturday\, February 21\, 2026\n11:00 am—6:30 pm \nSunday\, February 22\, 2016\n10:00 am—6:00 pm\n________________________________\nUS premiere \nInstallation / Audio & Reading Experience / Visual Art \nA response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy\, Sister Sylvester’s Constantinopoliad is a handmade book\, read collectively by the audience inside of a sound installation. The work is Inspired by the blank and torn-out pages in “Constantinopoliad\, an epic\,” the journal the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing archives through time; and by the ghosts\, both erotic and historical\, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.  
URL:https://visitchathamny.com/event/sister-sylvester-constantinopoliad-4/
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