The annual Kingsland Wildflowers Festival returns - now in its 10th iteration! This free, family-friendly event will include exciting activities throughout, around and on top of our one-of-a-kind campus:
🤸🏾♂️Dance & Live Music across the roofs!
🎪 Circus Acts ~ Aerialists suspended from sky-high ceilings!
🎥 Animation Shorts Showcase!
🎨 Painting Exhibits @ Last Frontier NYC!
🧑🏿🎤 Street Dance Workshop with ISTNY!
🪻 Explore our rooftop wildflower meadows
🐟 Learn about native wildlife & ecology of Newtown Creek
💚 Meet local community & environmental organizations
🌼 Buy native plants for your garden
🥗 Enjoy food & drinks with friends & family
SCHEDULED ARTS PROGRAMMING:
Brittany Harris— Rooftop Concert: Strings & Vocals
Brooklyn powerhouse multi-instrumentalist and composer who effortlessly levels up from playing Carnegie Hall and SNL stages with chart-topping stars to crafting epic original music and soundscapes for film, TV, and theater.
2:00 – 2:20 PM (5th Floor – Upper Meadow)
3:00-3:40 PM (4th Floor – Sunset Stage)
4:00-4:40 PM (4th Floor – Sunset Stage)
Anna (Xing-xing) Nordmoe — Aerialist/Violin Virtuoso
Force of nature who soars through the air while playing her fiddle upside down. On the ground, she is a touring violinist for The Outsiders’ 1st National Tour and frequently appears on Broadway and other NYC venues ranging from MSG to Carnegie Hall.
2:45 – 2:50 PM (M1 – Last Frontier NYC)
4:30 – 4:35 PM (M1 – Last Frontier NYC)
5:30 – 5:35 PM (M1 – Last Frontier NYC)
It's Showtime NYC— Rooftop Street Dance
Legendary dance collective creating excellence in the next generation of street and club dancers while advancing these dance forms as significant American artistic and cultural traditions.
2:20 – 2:30 PM (4th Floor — Middle Roof)
3:40 – 3:50 PM (4th Floor — Sunset Stage)
5:00 – 5:15 PM (4th Floor – Sunset Stage)
It's Showtime NYC — Street Dance Workshop*
An open FlexN workshop covering foundation and groove, open to teens and adults. Flexn is a Brooklyn-born dance style, rooted in unique movements that come straight from Brooklyn while influenced by Jamaican dance hall/brukup.
*This workshop is generously sponsored by Howard Gilman Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Foot Locker Foundation, and The Hyde and Watson Foundation. This program is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
4:00 – 4:45 PM (M2)
William Hartland& Company — Q&R with Filmmakers
Intro to the ongoing cavalcade of animation shorts by Professor Willy Hartland and some of his best students from Parsons and Sarah Lawrence College
4:00-4:20 PM (2nd floor – Guesthouse Gallery)
Liz Hepp & Molly Gorin — Rooftop Dance
Back by popular demand, an updated version of the classic, site-specific dance Jesture Eggs
5:45– 6:00 PM (Stage Roof, viewable from 5th and 4th floors)
ALL-DAY ART INSTALLATIONS & ACTIVATIONS
On Rooftops:
Harriet Harriss & Pratt Students — Right to Flight
The winning proposal for Noo Arts’ Public Art Residency Award 2026: A sculptural installation of 5 birdboxes modeled after iconic NYC skyscrapers addressing the issue of avian death resulting from habitat loss and building window collisions.
(5th Floor - Upper Meadow)
Mollie Serena— Entangled Light
A site-specific light sculpture that reflects on quantum vibration, perception, and the interconnectedness of space and self.
(4th Floor - Sunset Stage)
Indoors:
Sol Kjøk— Paintings
Broadway Stages’ Artist-in-Residence on the M1 floor, aka Last Frontier NYC, since 2014, Sol paints large-scale figurative abstractions that are at once highly physical and metaphysical.
(M1 – Last Frontier NYC)
Noo Arts Legacy Artists — Selections 2010-2026
A sampling of works donated by international artists for the nonprofit’s benefit auction marking its 16th anniversary this fall.
(M1 – Last Frontier NYC)
William Hartland & Co — Cavalcade of Animation Shorts
Curated by animation professor Willy Hartland, this show features his award-winning New York City Sketchbook, as well as a selection of animated shorts made by some of his best students from Parsons and Sarah Lawrence College.
(2nd floor – Guesthouse Gallery)
Ground Floor Lot:
Asia Sztencel – Tracing the Wild Garden
Join us for a relaxed, creative workshop where visitors of all ages can trace real wildflowers from the garden using special pencils and clear plexiglass sheets. A gentle, hands on way to connect with nature and art. No experience needed!
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Kingsland Wildflowers is a 25,000 sqft. native pollinator garden nestled in Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s industrial business zone. The project partners are @nooarts_org; @alivestructures; @broadwaystages and @newtowncreek
