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This Week­end on Gov­er­nors Island: 4 Heads Art Fair, Artshare for Heartshare, Fête Par­adiso and Much More!

Sep 4, 2013 3:51 pm
[cap­tion id=“attachment_7271” align=“aligncenter” width=“300”]Photo courtesy of 4 Heads Pho­to cour­tesy of 4 Heads[/caption] Join us as we wel­come even more art to our his­toric build­ings and green spaces. On Sat­ur­day, the 4 Heads Art Fair opens, along with Art Share for Heart Share. These new exhibits will fea­ture the work and cre­ativ­i­ty of more than 100 artists. Ride vin­tage carousels and car­ni­val rides at Fête Par­adiso! Vis­i­tors will be delight­ed by the fly­ing swings, bicy­cle carousel, pipe organ and French music through­out Nolan Park! 4 Heads Art Fair, Week­ends in Sep­tem­ber, All Day, Build­ing 111, Colonels Row and Nolan Park  Indulge your curios­i­ty by explor­ing the aban­doned mil­i­tary bar­racks of Gov­er­nors Island Art Fair, 100 sin­gu­lar rooms of paint­ing, pho­tog­ra­phy, sculp­ture, instal­la­tion, video, sound and per­for­mance art. Run by artists, for artists, New York’s largest inde­pen­dent exhi­bi­tion enters its 6th year this fall. Once again GIAF orga­niz­ers, 4heads, have sift­ed through a sea of cre­ative pro­pos­als from New York and around the world, giv­ing 100 of the best a full room each, in which to wreak hav­oc as they see fit. 4heads’ pro­grams are tai­lored to serve the under-resourced, attract­ing hid­den cul­ture and fos­ter­ing com­mu­ni­ty through col­lab­o­ra­tive expres­sion. ArtShare for HeartShare, Week­ends in Sep­tem­ber, 11:30am to 5:30pm, Build­ing 15 This exhi­bi­tion show­cas­es the tal­ents and cre­ative abil­i­ties of artists with intel­lec­tu­al and devel­op­men­tal dis­abil­i­ties, includ­ing autism spec­trum dis­or­ders, cere­bral pal­sy, epilep­sy and neu­ro­log­i­cal impair­ment. In addi­tion to rais­ing aware­ness of the capa­bil­i­ties of the peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties, our artists con­tin­u­al­ly progress in their art, express­ing them­selves in beau­ti­ful and mean­ing­ful ways. The ArtShare for HeartShare pro­gram is avail­able to artists in HeartShare Human Ser­vices of New York’s devel­op­men­tal dis­abil­i­ties pro­gram. Par­tic­i­pants in the pro­gram are sup­port­ed in their cre­ative endeav­ors by vol­un­teer artists in res­i­dence and a ded­i­cat­ed com­mit­tee through­out the year. The pro­gram pro­vides pro­fes­sion­al qual­i­ty arts mate­ri­als and cul­mi­nates in an annu­al exhi­bi­tion at the New Cen­tu­ry Artists gallery, in Chelsea gallery dis­trict of Man­hat­tan. The annu­al exhi­bi­tion will be cel­e­brat­ing its 5th year of exhibit­ing in 2013. This is the sec­ond year that ArtShare for HeartShare will be exhibit­ing on Gov­er­nors Island.  Fête Par­adiso, 10:30pm to 6:30pm, Nolan Park For the first time in the US, a spec­tac­u­lar col­lec­tion of vin­tage French car­ni­val rides is open to the pub­lic here on Gov­er­nors Island! The Parisian expe­ri­ence is free to vis­i­tors both young and old at this mag­nifique fair­ground fes­ti­val com­plete with French music and cui­sine! Oth­er events this week­end include FIG­MENT​’s artist designed minia­ture golf, Ris­ing Waters: Pho­tographs of Hur­ri­cane Sandy exhi­bi­tion by the Inter­na­tion­al Cen­ter for Pho­tog­ra­phy and the Muse­um of the City of New York, the New York His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety’s exhib­it ​“WWII & NYC” and so much more 
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