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House Fest Returns to Gov­er­nors Island August 16 – 19

Aug 7, 2024 10:01 am

Gov­er­nors Island Arts announced today the third annu­al House Fest, a free fes­ti­val cel­e­brat­ing the incred­i­ble range of works pre­sent­ed by the sea­son­al arts, cul­tur­al, edu­ca­tion­al, and envi­ron­men­tal Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence on Gov­er­nors Island. From August 16 – 19, 2024, Gov­er­nors Island Arts will bring togeth­er more than two dozen cul­tur­al part­ners for an annu­al cre­ative cel­e­bra­tion in and around the his­toric for­mer mil­i­tary hous­es of Nolan Park and Colonels Row on the Island, fea­tur­ing more than 50 free dance and music per­for­mances, out­door instal­la­tions, inter­ac­tive work­shops, open stu­dios, and more.

“This year’s House Fest is our biggest yet, fea­tur­ing orga­ni­za­tions and artists from every sin­gle bor­ough in what is tru­ly a city­wide cel­e­bra­tion,” said Lau­ren Haynes, Head Cura­tor, Gov­er­nors Island Arts and Vice Pres­i­dent at the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island. ​“Gov­er­nors Island Arts is priv­i­leged to work along­side our part­ners and col­lab­o­ra­tors to con­tin­ue to bring trans­for­ma­tive per­for­mances and pro­grams to Island vis­i­tors and all New Yorkers.”

“Each year, Nolan Park and Colonels Row come alive with cul­tur­al offer­ings in our city’s most unique set­ting, and we are so excit­ed to high­light this incred­i­ble artis­tic com­mu­ni­ty at House Fest for the third year in a row,” said Juan Pablo Siles, Asso­ciate Cura­tor and Pro­duc­er at the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island. ​“We’re grate­ful to every­one that makes this pro­gram such a suc­cess year after year, and invite all New York­ers to hop on the fer­ry and make some last­ing cul­tur­al mem­o­ries at this year’s House Fest.” 

House Fest will fea­ture sev­er­al new pro­grams pre­sent­ed by Gov­er­nors Island Arts, includ­ing a Pro­jec­tion Map­ping Par­ty curat­ed by Sal­ly Twin, a work­shop with NYC-based drum­line Fogo Azul, per­for­mances from Miri­am Elha­jli, Zoh Amba, and Eliana Glass and Eli Fola, and an inter­gen­er­a­tional social dance par­ty with Dance is Life NYC. These events will take place along­side pub­lic pro­grams and acti­va­tions from the program’s two dozen sea­son­al Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence that include Amer­i­can Indi­an Com­mu­ni­ty House, Res­i­den­cy Unlim­it­ed, Art­Crawl Harlem, Flux Fac­to­ry, Stat­en Island Urban Cen­ter, Swale, Escap­ing Time: Art from U.S. Pris­ons, Bronx Coun­cil on the Arts, the Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary African Dias­po­ran Art (MoCA­DA), and many more. 

A full sched­ule of events and list of pre­sent­ing orga­ni­za­tions can be found at www.gov​is​land​.org/​h​o​u​s​e​-fest, with more events to be announced in the com­ing weeks. 

The 2024 Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence are:
Amer­i­can Indi­an Com­mu­ni­ty House Man­hat­tan, AnkhLave Arts Alliance Man­hat­tan, Art­Crawl Harlem Man­hat­tan, BronxArt­Space The Bronx, Bronx Coun­cil on the Arts The Bronx, Bil­lion Oys­ter Project Man­hat­tan, caribBE­ING Brook­lyn, Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um Man­hat­tan, DuYe Moves Brook­lyn, Escap­ing Time: Art from U.S. Pris­ons Man­hat­tan, Filmshop Man­hat­tan, Flux Fac­to­ry Queens, Foun­tain House Gallery Man­hat­tan, Har­vest­works Man­hat­tan, KODA Brook­lyn, The Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary African Dias­po­ran Arts (MoCA­DA) Brook­lyn, New Art, Deal­ers Alliance (NADA) Man­hat­tan, New York Arts Pro­gram Man­hat­tan, New York Latin Amer­i­can Art Tri­en­ni­al Man­hat­tan, NYC Bird Alliance Man­hat­tan, Pratt Insti­tute Cen­ter for Cli­mate Adap­ta­tion Brook­lyn, Red Hook Ini­tia­tive and Red Hook Art Project Brook­lyn, Res­i­den­cy Unlim­it­ed (RU) Brook­lyn, Stat­en Island Urban Cen­ter Stat­en Island, Swale Brook­lyn, Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil Queens, and the West Harlem Art Fund Man­hat­tan.

About Gov­er­nors Island Arts
Gov­er­nors Island Arts, the pub­lic arts and cul­tur­al pro­gram pre­sent­ed by the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island, cre­ates trans­for­ma­tive encoun­ters with art for all New York­ers, invit­ing artists and researchers to engage with the issues of our time in the con­text of the Island’s lay­ered his­to­ries, envi­ron­ments, and archi­tec­ture. Gov­er­nors Island Arts achieves this mis­sion through tem­po­rary and long-term pub­lic art com­mis­sions, with works cur­rent­ly on view by Jen­ny Kendler, Sheila Berg­er, Sam Van Aken, Duke Riley, Shantell Mar­tin, Rachel Whiteread, and Mark Hand­forth; the annu­al Orga­ni­za­tion in Res­i­dence pro­gram in the Island’s his­toric hous­es; and free pub­lic pro­grams and events like the month­ly INTER­VEN­TIONS per­for­mance series, which has fea­tured Modesto ​“Flako” Jimenez, Indige­nous Enter­prise, Dance Hegin­both­am, Rena Anakwe, and more to be announced. 

Gov­er­nors Island Arts presents its pro­gram­ming with the vision­ary sup­port of the Ford Foun­da­tion, as well the Mel­lon Foun­da­tion, the Cha­ri­na Endow­ment Fund, Don­ald R. Mullen Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion, Stavros Niar­chos Foun­da­tion, Bloomberg Phil­an­thropies, The Gottes­man Fund, Don­ald A. Pels Char­i­ta­ble Trust, the Nation­al Endow­ment for the Arts, and the New York State Coun­cil on the Arts with the sup­port of the Office of the Gov­er­nor and the New York State Legislature.