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Don’t miss the final week­end for some of our exhibits, plus Octo­ber treats ahead!

Sep 28, 2017 1:46 pm

The leaves are falling and the col­ors are chang­ing! As Sep­tem­ber comes to a close, so do some of our exhibits. Don’t miss the clos­ing week­end of the 4heads Gov­er­nors Island Art Fair, the Sculp­tor’s Alliance, the Police Muse­um and our goats at Earth Mat­ter’s Com­post Learn­ing Cen­ter. Take a look below for what’s going on, and stay tuned for more Octo­ber happenings! 

4heads Gov­er­nors Island Art Fair, Sat­ur­day & Sun­day, 10 AM‑6 PM, Colonels Row & Liggett Hall *Last week­end!*
This week­end is your last chance to check out 4heads Gov­er­nors Island Art Fair! Over 100 artists have trans­formed the for­mer mil­i­tary homes of Colonels Row and the Island’s icon­ic Liggett Hall. Pic­tured above is work by sculp­tor Nor­man Mooney. 

Gov­er­nors Island Okto­ber­fest, Sat­ur­day, 12 – 5 PM, Colonels Row
Gov­er­nors Island Beer Co. is proud to host the first ever Okto­ber­fest on Gov­er­nors Island this Sat­ur­day. Don your bavar­i­an garb and enjoy a mug hold­ing con­test, tra­di­tion­al Bavar­i­an food, enter­tain­ment and more! Rade­berg­er and Bra­u­fac­tum Pro­gus­ta will be avail­able for purchase. 

Peas and Car­rots head back to Goodale Farms, Sat­ur­day & Sun­day, 12 – 1 PM, Earth Mat­ter Com­post Learn­ing Cen­ter, Urban Farm
Each year our friends at Earth Mat­ter bring two vis­it­ing goats to live in our Urban Farm! Peas and Car­rots (with chick­ens and oth­er ani­mals!) con­tribute to the com­post­ing process by con­sum­ing New York­ers’ veg­etable scraps. After this week­end, they will return to Goodale Farms. Join us in bid­ding them farewell, and learn how Com­post is made for the last week­end of the season. 

Vin­tage Police Car Show, Sat­ur­day, 10 AM‑6 PM, Per­sh­ing Hall park­ing lot *Last week­end for the Police Muse­um exhibits!*
The New York City Police Muse­um is excit­ed to announce the Annu­al Vin­tage Police Car Show for its’ final week­end on Gov­er­nors Island! Over 20 vehi­cles from as ear­ly as the 1950s will make their way to Gov­er­nors Island this Sat­ur­day. The Muse­um will also be sell­ing select­ed items from the gift shop. 

Sculp­tor’s Alliance: Met­al, Fri­day-Sun­day, 11 AM‑5 PM, Nolan Park 7B *Last week­end!*
Come explore the last week­end of the Sculp­tor’s Alliance’s show Met­al! This exhib­it fea­tures a range of 3D con­cepts and forms of expres­sive sculp­ture, with each piece made entire­ly of met­al or incor­po­rat­ing met­al. Clos­ing recep­tion on Sun­day from 2 – 5 PM. 

Night of 1,000 Jack O’Lanterns, Thurs­day-Sun­day, Octo­ber 26 – 29, Colonels Row
We are ready to light up New York Har­bor this Octo­ber! Come see more than 1,000 illu­mi­nat­ed jack o’lanterns carved by artists, live carv­ing demon­stra­tions, and take home your own pump­kin at this tru­ly unique jack o’lantern jaunt here on Gov­er­nors Island. Tick­ets avail­able here

Per­for­mances This Weekend

Exquis­ite Corpse Com­pa­ny invites you to a wed­ding… or per­haps the funer­al… Jump to the sur­re­al world of A Rib­bon About a Bomb as you cycle and muse on with Fri­da Kahlo, Reme­dios Varo and Leono­ra Car­ring­ton through the aban­doned halls of a man­sion. Tick­ets avail­able here.
Fri­days 3 PM, Sat­ur­days & Sun­days 2 & 4 PM, Colonels Row 407B

The Ris­ing Sun Per­for­mance Com­pa­ny presents Lab­o­ra­to­ri­um: a 12 Week Mul­ti-Pur­pose The­atri­cal Artist Retreat & Res­i­den­cy. Each week a dif­fer­ent play­wright and/​or direc­tor to will devel­op new play scripts and works in progress as well as site spe­cif­ic devised works!
Sat­ur­days & Sun­days begin­ning at 12 PM, Nolan Park 11

When the world is mad, does embrac­ing mad­ness make you sane? Cre­at­ed by the Dys­func­tion­al Col­lec­tive this sum­mer on Gov­er­nors Island, The Bac­chae is a freely adapt­ed, fem­i­nist take on Euripi­des’ tragedy. Per­for­mances are approx­i­mate­ly 30 min­utes long and may be too intense for young chil­dren.
Sat­ur­day & Sun­day, 2:30 & 4:30 PM, Nolan Park 8B

Come watch — or par­tic­i­pate in! — the pre­mier of Aquatopia, a par­tic­i­pa­to­ry per­for­mance as part of Prat­t’s Blue Week 2017. Musi­cians, stu­dents, and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers col­lab­o­rate and explore togeth­er sea­walls, ocean­ic think­ing, and eco­log­i­cal reimag­in­ing of for­mer­ly del­uged sites in light of ris­ing seas.
Sat­ur­day 2 PM, The Scram­ble at the Hills