The World Science Festival is an unprecedented annual tribute to imagination, ingenuity and inventiveness,
taking science out of the laboratory and into the theaters, museums, and public halls of New York City.
Last years Galapagos speakers included TED Prize winner
Jill Cornell Tarter,
Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse,
author and physicist
Nobel Prize winner Lawrence Krauss
and NPR phenom
Faith Salie
SWISS MISS / CreativeMornings is such pure content and industry leadership that it draws 250 people
to Galapagos in DUMBO on a Friday morning at 8:30am. Wow. Swissmiss is a design blog and studio
run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a 'swiss designer gone NYC'. This creative industries event includes
a 15-20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. Past speakers include
Paola Antonelli,
Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York,
Allan Chochinov, editor-in-chief of Core77.com,
Michael Bierut
of Pentagram Design, and TED speaker / photographer Rachel Sussman rachelsussman.com
Galapagos Art Space presents its flagship series Floating Kabarette. Part cabaret, part burlesque and part variety each show features some of the best performers from New York City and beyond! Hosted by Olga & Bjorn of Theater Reverb. Floating Kabarette happens every Saturday night. Check our schedule page for a detail description of performers for each night.
“If you want your low necklines with a highbrow gloss, head for Galapagos to catch the Floating Kabarette.” – Brooklyn Paper
"Some of New York City’s best performers." – The New York Times
Resident Artist:
Jenny Rocha & Her Painted Ladies
Jenny Rocha is the artistic director and choreographer of Rocha Dance Theater. She is also a dancer, teacher, and costume designer. Rocha Dance Theater's current work includes The Pistol Pretty Project and The Painted Ladies Project. As a resident artist at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO Brooklyn Rocha Dance Theater presents “Jenny Rocha and Her Painted Ladies”. This performance project is a fusion of dance, physical comedy, percussion and burlesque-creating Rocha’s modern day vaudeville. A Galapagos favorite, skillful, sensual, communicative bold work.
"Fierce self-confidence...authoritative work.” Jennifer Dunning – New York Times
Tanya Gagné's interest in the trapeze all started in a barn in Washington state while she was house-sitting for the Flying Karamazoff Brothers. She then quite literally traveled the seven seas, working for two and a half years as a rigger and deck hand aboard two- and three-mated Baltic trading ships.
Initially self-taught in the circus arts, she began her official training with Irina Gold in NYC. She then traveled far and wide to train, including stints at London's Circus Space, and studying with Jean Palacy in France and Master Lu Yi at the Circus School of the Arts in San Francisco. Tanya's dance/theater works have been produced in New York City at Galapagos Art Space, PS 122, Judson Memorial Church's Movement Research Series, La MaMa Theater, the Puffin Room, and Dixon Place; as well as in Europe, with performances at Kunstler Haus in Vienna and the Potsdam Theater in Berlin. We love Tanya, a brilliant performer with strong vision and clear, focused work on a scale that rivals .
Floating Kabarette hosts Olga and Bjorn make up the principals of Theatre Reverb, a company of interdisciplinary artists from the United States and Central Europe that specializes in the creation of entertaining and unpredictable experiments in performance, video and spectacle. Their performances are hybrids of cultures and performance styles and combine elements of physical theatre, clown, sketch comedy, multimedia, Indian dance, and performance art, set against a backdrop of sampled media and stream-of-consciousness comedy.
Suspended Cirque’s debut show “Across the Water” played at the Galapagos Art Space this past April to a standing-room-only audience three nights running.
Suspended Cirque is an exquisite group of performers who create breathtaking theatricaly-based aerial acrobatic performances. The performance takes place above, around, below, among the audience — no part of the Galapagos Art Space is left unexplored, and the audience is an integral part of the event.
“…[Suspended Cirque's] sense of fun and play, the company’s sheer exuberance is contagious.” – Lauren Wissot, TheaterOnline.com
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“…there was poignant intimacy in the daredevilry.” –Leigh Witchel, Dance Writer (NY POST, Ballet Review)
A resident record label in a performance venue? Indie-classical phenomenon New Amsterdam Records was formed as a haven for the young New York composers and performers whose visionary music will drive sonic New York for decades to come. This is intelligent, smart artists producing work steps ahead of the mainstream and New Amsterdam Records - William Brittelle, Judd Greenstein and Sarah Kirkland Snider - are one of the brilliant new models that the death and implosion of the recording industry has given birth too. Newspapers and television and publishing should all take note; what this record label is creating is first and foremost - for their artists and themselves - is freedom and a success based on intelligent, smart work directly connected to audiences and artists alike.
DUMBO boasts such cutting-edge digital companies as Etsy, drop.io, Carrot Creative, Brownstoner Media LLC, Workshop, Heeb Magazine, and agencies including Big Spaceship, Brooklyn Digital Foundry, and Huge - and Digital DUMBO is it's brain trust. Started byMike Germano of Carrot Creative, Brian Lemond of Brooklyn Foundry, and Sam Lessin of Drop.io Digital DUMBO is what all creative economy breakout communities need; a social focal point to gather best-thinkers and critical contributors around. Digital DUMBO is that instrument.
"At an event in DUMBO last night, the little cobblestone-lined corner of Brooklyn snuggled under the Manhattan Bridge was officially named New York's digital district."
Think science lectures with beer. Think tomorrows super-heroes today. Think Nerd as the new rock star. Think global warming, now think green; now think technology. Who on earth can save the planet? Only two people - Batman and Nerds, and we haven't seen the real Batman, well, ever.
Nerd Nite is an informal gathering at which Nerds and non-nerds alike meet, drink and learn something new. Wait, now I can go out and get smart? If the future of going out at night is to explore and make real the social networks we pre-form online, then Nerd Nite is the forerunner of everything that's about to happen over the five years as an entire industry shifts gears. Did Galapagos just give away it's booking strategy? No, we were sharing!
Chocolate, peanut butter. Birds, bees. All discussed, dissected, and mated about.
The Dot Dot Dot Lecture Series is an industry-leading gathering of the best thinkers in the design-tribes. Liz Danzico brings todays top design thinkers to Galapagos for a night of short lectures and presentations in a environment intended to satisfy both social and scholarly pursuits.
Open Variety Night, hosted by Keith Bindlestiff of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, is where a five spot still offers you a spectacular night of tap dancing bears, Kung Fu juggling, clown bands, aerialists suspended above your beverage while you are carefully suspended over a body of water, sword swallowers, physical comedy, contortionists and cowboys. If you drew a line through 20th / 21st century arts and culture, and found your way to the center of that universe you'd find the variety arts, a goldmine of talent, vision and skill, and you'd find the animating force behind anything and everything that gets on a stage now, and for the next hundred years.
Opera Grows in Brooklyn is rebuilding the American opera model. Premiered in March 2009 at Galapagos with the idea of illuminating Brooklyn as a critical cultural habitat for contemporary operatic work, the first performance - a sellout - was an immediate success in the opera community. But more importantly, Opera Grows in Brooklyn discovered - right where they thought it would be - a new audience starved for an intense, acoustic, narrative operatic musical experience. We like new thinkers, people willing to risk a career to prove a point, and more often than not these are the about-to-be leaders reshaping industries. Look out Metropolitan Opera, the barbarians are at the doors, and their armed with the latest in hats with horns and divas that have come to eat your lunch.
Born out of the success of 21c Liederabend (Time Out New York Best of 2009 Pick for Classical/Opera) produced at Galapagos in November 2009 by Beth Morrison Projects, VisionIntoArt and Opera On Tap, the 21c Salon Series is an on-going series curated and produced by Beth Morrison Projects that surveys contemporary vocal music in the form of art song, opera, and music-theatre and comes in many forms including acoustic, amped up, classical, indie-classical, post-classical, and new forms of vocal music waiting to be discovered.
Resident Artist:
Tami Stronach Dance
Tami Stronach Dance is a 'project based' company creating deeply intelligent dance movement. It helps that Tami Stronach is a fearless creator. For each new work Stronach draws from a select group of top-level designers and dancers to create work that sets a new standard for American movement based work. Since its' formation in 2000 the company has been commissioned and or presented by over 20 venues in NYC including Danspace Project at Saint Marks Church, Dance New Amsterdam, Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce Soho, Joe's Pub, and PS122 among others.
"Stronach is a choreographic doctor of the human condition ..... her medicine is potent."..."some of the best performances, by some of the best performers that downtown modern dance has to offer." The Dance Insider, Philip Sandstrom, 2005 "The inside of Tami Stronach's head must be an interesting place to visit. Ideas, images, styles must be constantly waltzing around, changing partners, flying apart, and re-cementing themselves oddly. An entrancing work." Village Voice, Deborah Jowitt, 2005
Wait, a magazine - an actual magazine (editors even!) - brave enough to create live programing based on their own content? Impressive.
If you know why babies fake smiles, how botox brightens up the world, or why a little too much silver will make you blue in the face, then you'll probably clean up at this event. Plus, they've got the dirt on Mr. Potato Head, White Castle, and an Iranian bear that became a Polish war hero.
Bonus question! What are four benefits we can count on from global warming? Answer; mountains will get taller, satellites will spin faster, Greenland will get richer, and jellyfish will rule the high seas!
Part game show, part new-model media experiment, Mental Floss is one of the smartest games in town......
The AIGA/NY Members Series is an ongoing series of events that are open to the general public, but cater to Member's concerns for content, networking and price. These events will be comprised of workshops and how-to sessions, as well as more social evenings geared toward raucous fun in galapagos art space. Want to know more? Come and see for yourself! www.aigany.org
