Shows | Performance Space New York

THE FIT: Honeymoon Is Over

An electrifying night of ska, punk, and rock.

THE FIT takes the stage to perform their debut album in full, along with brand-new tracks from their upcoming second release. With their raw direct sound and endlessly inventive riffs, THE FIT is destined to make their mark on the NYC scene and beyond. This is the time. This is the band. Get ready to dance, sing, and shout. THE FIT is here. With special guests AYLA and DJ Evan, who will keep the afterparty alive, the night promises nonstop music and fun.

The Cyborg Stork – We the Youth Lecture

Details coming soon <3

Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance Book Launch with Candice Hopkins and special presentations by Spiderwoman Theater and Jeffrey Gibson (Movement) | Forge Project x OPEN ROOM

Join us for an evening of readings, performance screenings, and discussion on occasion of the launch of the new publication Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance.

Drew Kahu’āina Broderick and Lana Lopesi in dialogue (Relation) | Forge Project x OPEN ROOM

Drew Kahu’āina Broderick and Lana Lopesi discuss collaborative practice, intellectual genealogies and the complexities of being in relation across diverse and interrelated waters. Convened for the international Indigenous art criticism residency, Confluence, this conversation builds upon intimate, community-wide, and expansive sites of engagement.

Drew Kahu’āina Broderick

Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick is an artist, curator, educator, and writer from Mōkapu, Kailua, Koʻolaupoko. Raised in a matriarchy on the windward side of Oʻahu, his work is guided by the multigenerational efforts of queer folk and Native Hawaiian women—especially his mother, aunties, and maternal grandmother—who have devoted their lives to art, culture, education, healing, and community in Hawaiʻi. Drew is a founding member of grassroots film initiative kekahi wahi (2020–) along with filmmaker Sancia Miala Shiba Nash. kekahi wahi is committed to documenting transformations across the Hawaiian archipelago and sharing stories of the greater Pacific through time-based media.

Lana Lopesi

Lana Lopesi (Sāmoa) is a writer and academic from Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. Currently she works as an Assistant Professor in the department of Indigenous Race and Ethnic Studies, at the University of Oregon. There she teaches across her research areas of Pacific studies, Indigenous feminisms and contemporary art. Her research draws on Indigenous feminist thinking and focuses on Samoan diasporic subjectivity and specifically how Samoan moving image reveals distinct Samoan subjectivities made in relation. She is the author of False Divides, Bloody Woman, and Pacific Arts Aotearoa. Lana is co-editor of Towards a Grammar of Race: In Aotearoa New Zealand and Pacific Spaces: Translations and Transmutations.

a story, a river, a mirror, a map

a story, a river, a mirror, a map: Forge Project Reading Room opens with a celebration in the courtyard at Performance Space New York, with food from La Morada (BX), homemade salsas, and music by HEAVY PLEASURE, alongside karaoke, exchange, and a shared table to visit as part of Forge Project’s residency at Open Room in PSNY. Guided by a map of the Mahicannituck and where its tributaries meet the sea, a story, a river, a mirror, a map is similarly a space of exchange of distinct but connecting waters, narratives, and bodies of thought.