Come celebrate community, ecology, and creativity at the 9th Annual Kingsland Wildflowers Festival! Enjoy a full afternoon of rooftop exploration, live performances, arts, hands-on activities, and local food and drinks—all free and family-friendly.

As a Kingsland Wildflowers partner, NOoSPHERE Arts is proud to present site-specific performances, immersive art installations, film, live music, dance, and workshops. 

PERFORMANCES

Pinc Louds – Rooftop Concert (Sunset Stage)

Pinc Louds’ lead singer, Claudi (all pronouns accepted), moved from Puerto Rico to NYC in 2015 to fulfill their dream of playing in the subway. This immersion into the city’s underground, performing daily for a steady stream of New Yorkers, sculpted the sound and look of the band.

Their music blends punk energy and crooner-style singing with elements of art-rock, electronic and Caribbean music to create a sound that is as exciting as it is unique. Their influences include such diverse artists as Pixies, Billie Holiday, Daniel Johnston, Cortijo y su Combo and Animal Collective.

In 2020, with venues closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Pinc Louds began playing regularly at Tompkins Square Park in the East Village. These physically-distanced shows gained popularity and brought together a community hungry for music, joy and human connection. They were hailed as the band that “saved summer” by ABC News and Gothamist as well as "NYC's best imaginary band" by The Village Voice.

Lucy Livingston – Live Performance titled Flower Fun! Snip Snip Glug Glug Heehee Flower Fun, at Last Frontier NYC.

Lucy Livingston is a queer, New York-based, multi-hyphenate artist with a focus on performance and design exploring themes of love, gender, sexuality, and dreams. Her work has been shared throughout New York, as well as Cincinnati and Providence Fringe Festivals. She makes puppets, writes, produces, designs, and literally anything else her (or your) work requires! Hire her! Woohoo! For the festival, Lucy will present a new clown piece, "Flower Fun!" devised with/directed by Bailey Nassetta, with whom she has collaborated for over 10 years!

Petra Zanki  – Murmurations (Work-in-Process Dance Performance)

Murmurations is a high-impact, site-specific choreography with eight dancers reflecting on collective power, interconnection, and Agape. Drawing from the synchronized flight of birds, it envisions dancers as vessels of human potential—capable of navigating chaos through movement and unity.

ONGOING ART INSTALLATIONS & ACTIVATIONS

Dan Gorlick – Meditations on Geological Time Installation (Inside Last Frontier NYC)

Meditations on Geological Time is an interactive sound installation mediating the relationship between geological timescales and phenomenological time through four distinct sound compositions. Each composition sonifies terrestrial phenomena within the range of human hearing as pure-tone sine waves, rendering billions of years of the Earth’s transformations as a legible, contemporary experience. 

Jeannie Rhyu – Entanglement (Art Installation on Upper Meadow) + Printing with the Sun Cyanotype Workshop (Middle Roof)

Mollie Serena  – Entangled Light,  Site-Specific Installation (Sunset Roof)   

Asia Sztencel – Tracing the Wild Garden, a hands-on workshop where visitors of all ages can trace real wildflowers on plexiglass using special pencils—a gentle and creative way to connect with nature through art.

Katy Gunn – Sound Shapes Compositions in tepee (Last Frontier NYC) 

Music by experimental composer and performer Katy Gunn created for ‘Sound Shapes’ project with visual artist Sol Kjøk and sound-healer Boshko Boskovic.

Allison Beda – Fake gALLeRY ART COAT

The piece Fake gALLeRY ART COAT is a collaboration with the artists Monika Stangel and Lori Barnes, and part of the larger work-in-progress DADA tiny ART SHOW + WORLD TOUR.

Jiabao Li - Curated Screenings (Guesthouse Gallery on 2nd fl)

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Kingsland Wildflowers is a 25,000 sqft native pollinator garden nestled in Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s industrial business zone. The project partners include: Alive Structures, Broadway Stages, Newtown Creek Alliance, and NOoSPHERE Arts. 

We are excited to announce the second event of our WE ARE NATURE series!

Join us on the rooftops for a solstice gathering where sound, movement, and light converge in celebration of art, nature, and collective presence. This special event will feature the debut of our 2025 Residency Award installation (by artist Jeannie Rhyu), the unveiling of Entangled Light, a site-specific installation created by artist Mollie Serena for the Sunset Stage, the release of MaYita’s new concert experience and album: SOMOS, and a live dance performance by Mizuho Kappa.

- SOMOS is a sacred musical offering to honor the peak of the sun’s light, the MaYita Summer Solstice Medicine Music Concert is a heart-opening ceremony where ancestral rhythms, healing music, and sacred chants guide the community into deep remembrance and joyful celebration. Aligned with the energy of the solstice, MaYita channels prayers of light, unity, and transformation through her voice and presence, creating a portal for collective healing, connection, and renewal. This is more than a concert - it is a living ceremony of music, spirit, and soul. 

Maya Martínez - Guardian of Sound on this Musical Journey:

Since time immemorial, sound has been a creative force, a vibration that unites, heals, and transforms. Maya Martínez is a daughter of that sacred energy, a tireless traveler of sound art who has dedicated her life to the study, performance, and healing through music. Born in Colombia and shaped by the diversity of New York, her voice echoes from multiple latitudes. Along the way, she absorbed the essence of classical music in Havana and the vibrant pulse of jazz in Brooklyn, perfecting her craft to weave melodies that speak to the soul. With Pacha Massive, her sound resonated in legendary venues, sharing space with Café Tacuba, Bomba Estéreo, and Aterciopelados. But her journey didn't stop there. Maya embraced discipline, challenge, and evolution while serving as a sound engineer in the U.S. Army, becoming the first graduate of this specialty from the Army Music School. There, sound took on new dimensions, from technical precision to its power of connection. Guided by ancestral wisdom, her sonic exploration led her to the indigenous communities of Central and South America, where she learned the mysteries of sound as medicine. Amid ceremonial chants and deep vibrations, she understood that music is not just art: it is a vehicle for healing. Today, under the spirit of MaYita Music, Maya intertwines lineages, cultures, and generations, restoring harmony to the world with every note. Her mission is clear: to honor sound as a transformative force, awaken ancestral memories, and activate the universal heartbeat that reminds us that, in music, we are one.

- MIZUHO KAPPA will present a live dance performance centered around the embodiment of electrons as they move through the universe.

“The embodiment of electrons as they move through the universe.
Entropy—a measure of uncertainty or “mixedness” in a quantum system—reveals how information is distributed and how order decays over time.
It plays a crucial role in understanding quantum entanglement,
a phenomenon where two or more particles become correlated in such a way that the state of one instantly reveals information about the other, regardless of distance.

We meet.
We separate.
We mix.

Our states remain connected.”

MIZUHO KAPPA is a choreographer and performing artist with a degree in Entomology, originally from Osaka, Japan. She has recently performed with Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More NY, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, and Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks, among others. She is an assistant artistic director of dance-theater company PROJECT/TAG . Her multidimensional choreographic works have been presented at The Shed, La MaMa, Dixon Place, Gene Frankel Theater, TheaterLab, Kennedy Center, The Brick, Ars Nova and more. She also collaborates with cross-disciplinary artists, including a neuroscience researcher, a transmedia playwright, a hybrid writer, and a choreographic researcher. These works have been showcased at New Museum, New York Hall of Science, Open Source Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, City University of Hong Kong, House of Yes, Chocolate Factory and beyond. She is a commissioned choreographer for Peridance Contemporary Dance Company's 2025 Spring Season, also a recipient of the GALLIM Moving Artist Residency. Kappa was a resident artist at Experimental Film Virginia 2022, where she performed lead roles in two award-winning films, Devouring Stones Up Close and Sole, both of which premiered at Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival. The way she conveys narratives through these intricate and simultaneous scientific experiments has been described as 'Evoking and Unhinged' (Brooklyn Magazine) and ‘Potent’ (The New York Times).

Doors: 6 PM

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Our programs are made possible in part with public support from the New York State Council on the Arts, with support from Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and Broadway Stages.

We are excited to announce our 2025 Season, kicking off our outdoor season with an evening of music, dance, and performance!

According to quantum theory, stillness doesn’t exist. A particle can never be at complete rest. And vacuum is by no means empty space but contains fleeting particles that continuously pop in and out of existence. Our 2025 outdoor season programming will offer a reflection on the fast, indiscernible dynamics that underpin the microscopic world that makes up every component of nature. This year’s theme, WE ARE NATURE: The Microcosmic Dance, is part of the global celebrations of the UN’s International Year of Science and Technology marking the centenary of quantum physics. Through art, music, dance and other performances, our featured talent will interpret some of the scientific, philosophical, and human aspects related to the quantum nature of the world. Uncertainty, entanglement, and delocalization are keywords of quantum jargon but also qualities of our lives. The season will explore creative intersections of quantum and human nature in a unique blend of art and science, allowing the public to reflect on the beauty and mystery of our universe, and harnessing the contemplation of microscopic frenzy to deliver inner peace.

May 25th Season Opening event will include:

- A dance duet performance called Someone I Used to Know, performed by the dancers Toni Owens (she/her) and Arthur “Trace” Yeames (he/him), and created by our Choreographer in Residence, Petra Zanki.

Petra Zanki (she/her) is a Croatian-American award-winning immigrant choreographer living in Brooklyn, New York. Petra graduated from MFA Choreography program at CODARTS University in Rotterdam in 2023, and is a current Brooklyn Arts Fund Award 2024 recipient. She was nominated as the best upcoming choreographer on Zagreb Dance Platform, and granted multiple residencies across Europe among which two-year choreographic scholarship from ICK-Amsterdam/Emio Greco and Croatian HIPP-TSP. Her works have been shown across Europe, US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. In NYC she presented her works at Estrogenius Festival NYC, PRELUDE Festival/ Segal Center Cuny, DanceFest-Dance Parade, Mark Morris Dance Center, Movement Research/Judson Church, PS122/Dixon place, ChaShaMa/Gambit Works, and Pen & Brush. The texts about her works have been published in magazines Tanz, Performance Art Journal-MIT, Performance Research Journal, and The Bomb. Growing up in Croatia during the war, Petra’s main interest remains the transformation of pain into landscapes of beauty for the benefit of humanity.

This residency invites Petra Zanki to engage deeply with NOoSPHERE Arts’ rooftop spaces and seasonal programming, creating and presenting new or evolving site-specific choreographic work inspired by our annual theme and the surrounding urban ecology. Throughout the WE ARE NATURE season, Petra will activate our rooftop gardens and open-air environments as both stage and source, drawing from the rhythms, climate, and community of the space. Her residency will culminate in public performances that explore the intersection of movement, place, and ecological awareness.

Someone I Used to Know is a dance duet of memory and identity, where two bodies move like voices in conversation: exploring the lingering presence of someone once loved or known, how that person’s essence imprints and echoes inside you, and how fragments of others: past relationships, past selves, layer into your search for who you are now. The choreography unfolds like a memory surfacing: intimate, seeking, sometimes tender, sometimes distant. Movements loop and break, gestures repeat with variation, like echoes trying to return to their source. This is a duet you think of while gazing into a Brooklyn sunset: soft light grazing rooftops, the hum of the city below, the warmth of the day slipping away. It lives in that space between presence and absence where nostalgia feels almost physical, and the body becomes a vessel for everything unsaid.

- A Live Set by Lulada Club: a NYC's premier all-women salsa orchestra, a groundbreaking ensemble that showcases the incredible talent and creativity of female musicians at the forefront of the city's music scene. These powerhouse performers bring their unique voices and energy to every note. Lulada Club creates a dynamic, unforgettable experience that resonates with audiences from all walks of life. Each performance is not just a concert but an invitation to dance, connect, and celebrate the vibrant, inclusive community they’ve built—a celebration of culture, rhythm, and the strength of women in music.

Doors: 6:15PM

Show:  6:45PM

Sunset: 8:15PM

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Our programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY is the first Italian theater Festival to take place in all five NYC boroughs. It was created by KIT - Kairos Italy Theater – and KIT Italia together with Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU in 2013, the official Year of Italian Culture in the United States. In Scena! presents – each year – a survey of the best Italian Theater, from Italy, in New York. It features full productions that have already toured in Italy as well as readings of Italian plays in translation, workshops, lectures and exchanges between Italian and International artists. Its goal is to promote greater awareness of Italian theater and Italian artists among New York theatergoers, and to build a bridge between the artistic scenes in Italy and New York, so that they may each support and inspire the other. Over the years, In Scena! has been supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of Italy in Washington D.C., the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, in Los Angeles, in Toronto, The Consulate General of Italy in Detroit, Bernie Wohl Community Center at Goddard Riverside, the Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies, BAAD-Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Culture Lab LIC, Casa Belvedere Italian Cultural Foundation, Snug Harbor Cultural Center and the College of Staten Island – among many other partners and institutions.

• Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

Adapted and Directed by Nick Gabriel, Stage Manager Kevin Wang, 

With Meridian Anastasia, Sophia Chacon, Feras Halabi, Finn Mackimmie, Isabella Kaplan, Michael Reese Shald, Sam Trott, Kevin Wang 

This original adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author was originally conceived by author and director Nick Gabriel at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and further developed in response to the # MeToo movement. Gabriel has recreated a version of this metatheatrical, Existentialist classic that is faithful to Pirandello’s original vision, while contemporizing the circumstances to reflect the current cultural zeitgeist.

SYNOPSIS 

SSix Characters in Search of an Author is populated with a group of actors and a director who are rehearsing a play called The Rules Of The Game Just as their rehearsal gets underway, six characters appear at the stage door. The characters that appear at the stage door are not characters in The Rules Of The Game They are characters in a different, unnamed, unfinished dramatic narrative and they demand that their stories be heard.

-In English

Running Time: 75 min

• Like an Octopus in a Guitar (Come un Polpo nella Chitarra)

Written by Marco Ziello, Directed by Licia Amarante and Marco Ziello

Performed by Annachiara Castorino, Gerardo D’Amato, Francesco Del Gaudio, Sabrina La Regina, Paola Santamaria & Marco Ziello

Presented by ON Teatro Formazione Cultura

Best Drama 2024 at Roma Comic OFF

SYNOPSIS 

When the protagonist of Like an Octopus in a Guitar decides he no longer wants to leave the house, he develops an obsession with Death and begins to spend his days imagining his funeral. A funny and absurd journey inside the mind of an individual who is slowly losing his memories, where the actors’ bodies become a metaphor and instrument for remembering. In this suspended world, in which even the names of the characters have been forgotten, dream and reality merge to tell the story of a man’s internal battle. A battle between the desire to heal and the temptation to remain, forever, playing with Death. 

-In Italian with English Supertitles

Running Time: 70 min

NOoSPHERE Arts will host two of the festival performances @ Last Frontier NYC:

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Contemporary Composition + Performance Art + Freedom & Feminism!

The current sailors onboard our international seacraft have plenty of goodies to share! Come join us for Sound in Peace: spoken voice & electronics and presented by composer Sarah Weaver (US); 1000 Tears: a performance art dance by interdisciplinary artist Alexa Wilson (New Zealand); and a video presentation by artist/vocalist Arghavan Agida (Iran/Sweden) on her international Artdom project. Plus, as a warm-up two days prior to the salon, a screening with Q&A by Filmmaker/Conceptual Artist/DADA Gallerist Allison Beda (Canada).

There is no cover charge, but please bring some cash to make it rain on our fabulous presenting artists — tipping the talent is part of the fun!

This monthly salon series, which aims to nurture artists and our local community, is part of an ongoing collaboration between NOoSPHERE Arts and the nearby artist residency platform Mothership NYC.

Physical Theater + Performance Art + Sculpture + Singing Mushrooms + Live Music with Attitude 

The March Crew of our international seacraft is ready to share its prodigious talents: Come join us for an artist talk by sculptor Miriam Lenk (Germany) and performances by multihyphenate creator Lucy Livingston (US) & interdisciplinary artist Alexa Wilson (New Zealand)! Plus, live acts by some amazing local creatives: Symbiotic symphony by storyteller Willow Gatewood (US) and hilarious tunes by Las Melinas (Colombia)!

There is no cover charge, but please bring some cash to make it rain on our fabulous presenting artists — tipping the talent is part of the fun!

This monthly salon series, which aims to nurture artists and our local community, is part of an ongoing collaboration between NOoSPHERE Arts and the nearby artist residency platform Mothership NYC.