Music Prisoner’s Cinema is a collaboratively-composed and performed work by Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause for double bass, percussion, and a single candle flame. This piece explores the links between sight, hearing, and perception and is partly inspired by “trataka,” a style of yogi purification meditation that involves staring at a single point (such as ... Read more
DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 6:30 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 6:30 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 6:30 pm _______________________________ Theatre / Film / Performance Performance artist and filmmaker (and occasional amateur microbiologist) Sister Sylvester works with new technologies to make cross-species collaborations, essay films, and lecture performances. Using DNA extracted from a hat worn ... Read more
Music Kara-Lis Coverdale presents a program of solo piano works, A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever, in PS21’s Black Box Theater. Taken from her recent album of the same name, the works are in a way classic nocturnes (i.e. inspired by night), but also evoke tangential, abstract associations: an animation of melodic ... Read more
Film with Live Score / Music Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe weaves together voice and modular synthesis for Nsenene, a live interpretation of the score to the film Grasshopper Republic. Filmed over three years in Uganda and directed by Daniel McCabe, this documentary follows a team of grasshopper trappers as they try ‘to catch the swarm.’ ... Read more
Music Ben LaMar Gay is a composer and cornetist who moves sound, color, and space through folkloric filters to produce electro-acoustic collages. A Chicago native, Ben’s true technique is giving life to an idea while exploring and expanding on the term ‘Americana.’ With his band, the Ben LaMar Gay Quartet, he will dive into the ... Read more
Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. Open Monday—Sunday, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: 10:00—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 Thursdays the saunas are available for private bookings, maximum ... Read more
DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 11:00 am—7:00 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 11:00 am—7:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 11:00 am—4:30 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00 am—2:30 pm, 7:00—8:30 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 11:00 am—2:30 pm, 7:00—8:30 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—2:30 pm, 7:00—8:30 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—4:30 ... Read more
DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _____________________________________ Audio & visual experience ... Read more
DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _________________________________ Audio & reading experience / Theatre The Quiet Volume is a whispered, self-generated and ‘automatic’ performance for two ... Read more
DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _________________________________ Audio & reading experience / Theatre The Quiet Volume is a whispered, self-generated and ‘automatic’ performance for two ... Read more
DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _________________________________ US premiere Audio experience / Participation Not to Scale is a full-length ‘autoteatro’ performance which ... Read more
DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _________________________________ US premiere Audio experience / Participation Not to Scale is a full-length ‘autoteatro’ performance which ... Read more
DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _____________________________ Virtual Reality / Film ‘Shadowtime’ is a word drawn from a new lexicon for the ... Read more
DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 12—8 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 12—8 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12—8 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 12—8 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 12—8 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 12—8 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 12—8 pm _______________________________ US premiere Visual Art / Installation / Film Free The Vivid ... Read more
DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 1:00 pm—8:00 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 1:00 pm—4:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 1:00 pm—8:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 1:00 pm—3:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—6:00 pm ___________________________________ Immersive Experience / Theatre / Visual Art Every point in space ... Read more
Dance / Visual Art In Plain Site sees Trisha Brown Dance Company and PS21 working together for the first time to bring a bespoke collection from the company’s repertoire into Chatham’s newly restored Masonic Hall at dusk, amplifying Brown’s endless affinity for naturalizing movement to the physical environment. For decades Brown’s work has fearlessly explored ... Read more
DATES: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 6:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 6:00 pm _______________________________ US premiere Theatre L’Addition plays out like a deranged game of telephone, except that the message being passed is a single scene on an increasingly distorted loop: A man at a café orders a drink. A waiter pours the drink. And ... Read more
DATES: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 7:30 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 7:30 pm ___________________________________ Theatre / performance Nothing #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. ... Read more
DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 11:00 am—7:00 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 11:00 am—7:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 11:00 am—4:30 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00 am—2:30 pm, 7:00—8:30 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 11:00 am—2:30 pm, 7:00—8:30 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—2:30 pm, 7:00—8:30 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—4:30 ... Read more
DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _____________________________________ Audio & visual experience ... Read more