***This event will be postponed until further notice.  Learn more here. We apologize for the inconvenience.***

Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) is an ongoing archival process of “unsmoothing the cyborg,” as Margaret M. Quinlan and Benjamin R. Bates would call it. Tuning into mobility impairment, chronic illness, and physical therapy as aesthetic resources, this practice is an attempted collaboration between a stainless steel plate, seven screws, and a distal radius from the time of their surgical fixation in April 2019 until the hardware is removed sometime in 2020.

With attention to the materiality of disability, ORIF offers porous bones, rubber TheraBand resistance bars, accordion bellows, and strands of homemade pasta as dance partners in movement scores that stew in the blurriness between internal and external.

Dance Center | Room G201, Building G, 2nd floor
6:00 PM reception | 7:00 PM performance and Q & A
Admission: $10 | Snug Harbor Member: $8 | BUY TICKETS HERE

Based in Queens, New York, Kiera Bono is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center, CUNY and teaching at The City College of New York. Approaching biopolitical questions surrounding disability, queerness, food, and diaspora, their work explores performances of assimilation and resistance. Bono’s academic research and practice-based research inform each other deeply, stewing in the blurriness between subject and object, internal and external, consumer and consumed, etc.

PASS is supported in part by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Howard Gilman Foundation.

PASS is a curated performance series that takes place at Snug Harbor. The salon’s focus is on original works in performing arts (music, dance, theater, and multi-media) in different stages of development. When possible, work is developed in residence at Snug Harbor, which serves as an incubation lab. Each PASS has a pre-performance reception and a post-performance artist talk moderated by the curator. PASS is curated by Melissa West, Vice President of Curation.

***This event will be postponed until further notice.  Learn more here. We apologize for the inconvenience.***

This season, Music in Color highlights the life, music, and continually evolving career of composer Eleanor Alberga. A British composer of Jamaican descent, Alberga is prolific in nearly every genre, from opera and choral works to pieces for both chamber ensemble and full orchestra. Her works are commonly played throughout Europe with performances and recordings by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, among others.

WHERE: Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art (Buildings C & G)
Admission: Free | Registration requested here

Playwright and performer Kirya Traber will join OSL to guide audiences through Alberga’s story and inspiration. This concert will include the North American premiere of Alberga’s Shining Gate of Morpheus for horn and string quartet.

Orchestra of St. Luke’s performs at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor as part of its annual five-borough community concert tour, with free concerts designed to be as entertaining as they are educational. Since 2016, the tour has focused on OSL’s Music in Color initiative, a multifaceted program celebrating composers of color through biographical concerts.

Attendees with mobility impairments: For elevator access, please use the entrance at Shinbone Alley. For guests using elevator, please arrive no later than 1:45PM. For questions on (or to RSVP for) wheelchair access, please email Shawna at ssalmon@snug-harbor.org. 

***This event will be postponed until further notice.  Learn more here. We apologize for the inconvenience.***

The best way to learn about compost is to make it, and attending our Turn & Learn will make you a pro. Bring a water bottle, wear closed-toe shoes and clothes you don’t mind getting dirty. If you help us make compost, you can take compost. Please bring your own container.  Please note this is a volunteer event and not a pick-up event. You must volunteer at the work day to receive compost. Supplies may be limited. Registration is strongly recommended.

Free admission | Registration requested
Meet at Compost Demo Site

The NYC Compost Project, created by the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY) in 1993, works to rebuild NYC’s soils by providing New Yorkers with the knowledge, skills, and opportunities they need to make and use compost locally. NYC Compost Project programs are implemented by DSNY-funded teams at seven host organizations, including Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Big Reuse, Earth Matter NY, Lower East Side Ecology Center, Queens Botanical Garden, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, and The New York Botanical Garden. Learn more: www.nyc.gov/compostproject

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Your garden will be the envy of the block with the Plant Sale’s hard-to-find annuals and hardy perennials, including herbaceous peonies, various iris species, and cultivars. Many plants will be suitable for outdoor containers.

Choose from:

• Rare annuals
• Hardy perennials
• Peonies
• Irises
• Herbs
• Cultivars
• Broccoli
• Eggplant
• Kale
• Tomatoes
• Peppers
• Chard

Snug Harbor horticulturalists will be available to help with plant selections, to give professional advice, and answer questions.  The NYC Compost Project will give away 40-pound bags of compost while supplies last.  Your Plant Sale purchases will help fund Snug Harbor’s horticulture program and beautiful botanical gardens.  This event is rain or shine.

Snug Harbor Members Only: Friday, May 1 | 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
General Public: Saturday, May 2 | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Perennial Garden and Carl Grillo Glass House lawn

***This event will be postponed until further notice.  Learn more here. We apologize for the inconvenience.***

Your garden will be the envy of the block with the Plant Sale’s hard-to-find annuals and hardy perennials, including herbaceous peonies, various iris species, and cultivars. Many plants will be suitable for outdoor containers.

Choose from:

• Rare annuals
• Hardy perennials
• Peonies
• Irises
• Herbs
• Cultivars
• Broccoli
• Eggplant
• Kale
• Tomatoes
• Peppers
• Chard

Snug Harbor horticulturalists will be available to help with plant selections, to give professional advice, and answer questions.  The NYC Compost Project will give away 40-pound bags of compost while supplies last.  Your Plant Sale purchases will help fund Snug Harbor’s horticulture program and beautiful botanical gardens.  This event is rain or shine.

Snug Harbor Members Only: Friday, May 1 | 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
General Public: Saturday, May 2 | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Perennial Garden and Carl Grillo Glass House lawn

***This event will be postponed until further notice.  Learn more here. We apologize for the inconvenience.***

Learn how to make a little compost go a long way!  Do you know the difference between compost extract and compost tea? Find out during this workshop. Let us introduce you to the many easy ways to support soil life and plant health with compost. We will walk you through a simple DIY compost tea brewing system that will cost under $25 and give you tips on making and applying both compost tea and compost extract properly.

Meet at Compost Demo Site
Free admission | Registration requested here

The NYC Compost Project, created by the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY) in 1993, works to rebuild NYC’s soils by providing New Yorkers with the knowledge, skills, and opportunities they need to make and use compost locally. NYC Compost Project programs are implemented by DSNY-funded teams at seven host organizations, including Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Big Reuse, Earth Matter NY, Lower East Side Ecology Center, Queens Botanical Garden, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, and The New York Botanical Garden. Learn more: www.nyc.gov/compostproject

***This event will be postponed until further notice.  Learn more here. We apologize for the inconvenience.***

Join the party and rejoice in the rich diversity of the LGBTQ and allied community. Come celebrate with live music, artists, craft vendors, food trucks, youth area, drag performers, beverage area, and more. This event has activities for the whole family.

North Meadow | Admission: Free

***This event will be postponed until further notice.  Learn more here. We apologize for the inconvenience.***

The best way to learn about compost is to make it, and attending our Turn & Learn will make you a pro. Bring a water bottle, wear closed-toe shoes and clothes you don’t mind getting dirty. If you help us make compost, you can take compost. Please bring your own container.  Please note this is a volunteer event and not a pick-up event. You must volunteer at the work day to receive compost. Supplies may be limited. Registration is strongly recommended.

Free admission | Registration requested
Meet at Compost Demo Site

The NYC Compost Project, created by the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY) in 1993, works to rebuild NYC’s soils by providing New Yorkers with the knowledge, skills, and opportunities they need to make and use compost locally. NYC Compost Project programs are implemented by DSNY-funded teams at seven host organizations, including Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Big Reuse, Earth Matter NY, Lower East Side Ecology Center, Queens Botanical Garden, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, and The New York Botanical Garden. Learn more: www.nyc.gov/compostproject

***This event will be postponed until further notice.  Learn more here. We apologize for the inconvenience.***

rebeca medina’s Jardín Salvaje is a practice of decolonizing the body through questioning the division between nature and culture. It is a movement-based piece that asks about the process, and illuminates the thresholds, of becoming: becoming animal, becoming plant.

Through posturing an encounter with the natural world, the work explores what states of the body are relevant to becoming another living, non-human species. By tracing human interactions with plants and animals, medina’s well honed obsession with observing non-human beings offers an entry point into navigating this multispecies web of relationships and the states it naturally invokes in the body. Collaborators include Mor Mendel, Tatyana Tenenbaum, and Joshua Boliver (lights).

6:00 PM reception & 7:00 PM performance followed by a brief Q & A
Cottage B | Cottage Row
Admission: $10 | Snug Harbor Member: $8 | BUY TICKETS HERE

Choreographer and dancer rebeca medina is originally from Bogotá, Colombia. She attended the dance school Danza Común in Bogotá while studying the anthropology of the body at Los Andes University. After graduating in 2007, her choreographic questions and ideas about interdisciplinarity led her to obtain a master’s degree in theater and live arts from the National University of Colombia in 2011. Since then she has been collaborating with theater companies, choreographers, video artists, poets, photographers, musicians and herbalists, among other artists.

PASS is supported in part by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Howard Gilman Foundation.

PASS is a curated performance series that takes place at Snug Harbor. The salon’s focus is on original works in performing arts (music, dance, theater, and multi-media) in different stages of development. When possible, work is developed in residence at Snug Harbor, which serves as an incubation lab. Each PASS has a pre-performance reception and a post-performance artist talk moderated by the curator. PASS is curated by Melissa West, Vice President of Curation.

***This event will be postponed until further notice.  Learn more here. We apologize for the inconvenience.***

The best way to learn about compost is to make it, and attending our Turn & Learn will make you a pro. Bring a water bottle, wear closed-toe shoes and clothes you don’t mind getting dirty. If you help us make compost, you can take compost. Please bring your own container.  Please note this is a volunteer event and not a pick-up event. You must volunteer at the work day to receive compost. Supplies may be limited. Registration is strongly recommended.

Free admission | Registration requested
Meet at Compost Demo Site

The NYC Compost Project, created by the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY) in 1993, works to rebuild NYC’s soils by providing New Yorkers with the knowledge, skills, and opportunities they need to make and use compost locally. NYC Compost Project programs are implemented by DSNY-funded teams at seven host organizations, including Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Big Reuse, Earth Matter NY, Lower East Side Ecology Center, Queens Botanical Garden, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, and The New York Botanical Garden. Learn more: www.nyc.gov/compostproject