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 

Noo Arts + Consumption Book Club: Rooftop Dinner with The Light Eaters!

A rooftop garden gathering exploring plant intelligence, communication, and symbiosis through chef-crafted dishes and guided sensory activities, discussing Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters.

“We are what we eat” – a term often used in passing, without really considering the interconnectedness between ourselves and the ecosystems we belong to, consume from, and affect. Recent science has revealed that the gulf between plant and human experience is not as vast as many of us have been taught to believe. Plants can sense, remember, communicate, and even make decisions, upending everything we thought we knew about the line between "aware" and "inert." This session of Consumption Book Club turns that revelation into a menu, a garden walk, and embodied activities, guided by our reading: The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger.

This gathering will explore plant intelligence, communication, and the strange, sensing world of the beings we so often reduce to background scenery. What does it mean to "consume" when the plants on our plates and in our environments are sensing, remembering, and responding to us all along?

Join us on Sunday, July 26 from 4–7pm at our Kingsland Wildflowers rooftop garden in Greenpoint, where we'll wander among some of the very pollinators and plants that inspired the book while guest chefs join us to serve up a menu designed around themes of botanical sensing, symbiosis, and survival. Between bites, we'll take part in artful activities exploring plant behavior firsthand by looking, touching, and thinking alongside the garden itself.

You'll leave full of quality vegetarian food, new ways of seeing the plants around you, and a zine of recipes, art, and reflections to take home.

No pressure if you haven't finished the book; we'll make sure everyone can join the conversation, with key excerpts available ahead of time. Come hungry, and come curious!

RESERVE YOUR SEATS HERE ~ Pay what you wish above $30!

‍Exhibition opening, Artist Talk and Performance:

Join us for Where Light Settles, the closing exhibition of our current Artists-in-Residence (May–July 2026):Agnes Lin, Anahita Bagheri, Roni Aviv, and Sally Beauti Twin.

📍 Location: Noo Arts open houseon Governors Island (@governorsisland)
404A Colonels Row, NYC

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 18, 11 AM–5 PM

Artist Talk: Saturday, July 18, 2 PM

Performance Agnes Lin and Uma Supatra Campell: 4 PM
Contemporary dancer Uma Supatra Campell dances with a seaweed bioplastic sculpture made by Artist in Residence Agnes Lin. The pair tells a creation story. How do we collaborate with our apocalyptic environments to make home in this new climate reality?

Exhibition on view: July 18 – August 2, 2026
Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 11 AM–5 PM

We look forward to welcoming you!

Open Studios Artists in Residence:
Additionally to their final exhibition our four artists in residence will present their studios and talk about their artistic practice.

Tribe and Vibe Collection (Nathaniel and Janelle Roots) – Presentation & Workshop
Tribe and Vibe Collection is a community-centered organization dedicated to sustainability education and indoor food growing. In partnership with Noo Arts, they are transforming the rustic kitchen into an interactive learning space for indoor gardening.

Saturday, July 18: Join a hands-on workshop exploring indoor gardening and hydroponic growing systems. Participants will sow seeds, learn about sustainable food production, and take home a seed-starting cup to inspire them to grow their own food.

FAKE GALLERY – Tiny DADA Art Show + World Tour
The Tiny DADA Art Show + World Tour brings together miniature Dada-inspired artworks by Canadian and international artists, exhibited in unconventional spaces around the world. Fake Gallery founder Allison Beda joins Noo Arts House on July 18 & 19, presenting a new chapter of the traveling exhibition.

Piñata Smash – Saturday, July 18, 1:00 PM
Join us for a piñata smash in celebration of the miniature artwork Free Candy (This Is Not). If someone manages to break the piñata, there will be free candy for everyone!
Learn more: https://www.fakegallery.art/

Mothership NYC Tarot Show:
Coinciding with our Open House on July 18, we are excited to unveil a new chapter of our ongoing Tarot Exhibition. This presentation features a new selection of works by Mothership NYC, an international artist collective based in Brooklyn.

Opening Reception: Friday, July 18, 11 AM–5 PM

On view through: Sunday, August 9

Games, Grapples, and Growth Grit — it’s all fun and games… until someone grows.

Growing Takes Time is a life-sized interactive arcade where the audience becomes the astronauts, presented as Noo Arts Wildflowers Rooftop with stunning NYC skyline views.

Inspired by Pikmin, performers exist as PIKMII inside a living performance world where collective survival depends on responsiveness, care, and collaboration.

Participants move through childhood anxiety-driven game structures — functioning as levels that build respect, trust, and community.

Blending contemporary dance with jiu-jitsu–inspired partnering, the experience uses conflict, resistance, and cooperation as engines for growth.

Work together and the group levels up. Lose coordination and the game stalls. Resolve tension and the world evolves.

Alongside the arcade, explore a digital art gallery installation in collaboration with Josh Sauceda, showcasing visuals that extend the Growing Takes Time universe.

The audience doesn’t watch the world — they power it.
Play the game. Earn rewards. Grow together.

Event Timeline

Doors Open — 6:00 PM
Immersive Arcade Performance — 7:00–8:00 PM
Rooftop Dance Party — 8:00–10:00 PM

Move through the world, complete missions, and earn rewards — then stay for a post-show rooftop dance party with skyline views.

RAIN DATE: June 21st

Featuring PIKMII Performers: Juwai Pitkin, Macee Eppard, Ashton Atteberry, Anna Patterson, Peter Elizalde, Dahlia Levine, Joy Raylon Hill, Cam Arnold, Kerry Sheehan

Featuring Command Center: Nirah Burwell
Created & Directed by Karley Wasaff
Digital Gallery Collaboration: Josh Sauceda / ARCHIV3
Presented in partnership with Noo Arts

This project is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts.

Rowan van As (1991, Goes, NL) is a Rotterdam-based artist working across sculpture, performance, music, and public space. His work creates situations for encounters, conversations, and improvisation. Developed during his residency at NARS Foundation in NYC, The Oyster Piano Bar is a mobile sculpture and piano bar that has already appeared on the streets of Brooklyn, sparking unexpected conversations, spontaneous music, and shared oysters.

On June 13, Rowan brings The Oyster Piano Bar to Governors Island, where he will perform at Noo Arts House, 404A Colonels Row. Stop by for a conversation, an oyster, or a song between 1–5 PM.

📍Noo Arts House, 404A Colonels Row

Noo Arts invite you to an artists talk by our guest artists Alan Long and Michael McLoughlin.

Over refreshments, Alan and Michael will discuss the work they have developed in response to Governors Island and give a sense of their journeys through artmaking to the island this year.

Location:

Noo Arts House, 404a Colonels Row Governor’s Island, NY

Alan Long will present his previous works, processes and also give an insight into a site-specific piece for Governors Island entitled "Comfort Road" that Alan is realizing throughout May and June. Comfort Road is a site-specific piece that reverses the normal relationship between artist (Alan Long) and viewer by making the work itself the “currency” used by the artist to gain a glimpse into a moment that changed someone, either positively or negatively. Alan is placing original artworks created in 404a (NooArts House) around Governors Island.

These works are free for the public to keep, but in return he asks participants to send him a memory of a moment in their life when something transformed them as a person, and how this shaped them from that point onward. The outcome is a series of unique conversations and insights, showing how both large and small moments can have lasting impacts that change us as humans

For more information contact: alan@alanlong.art

Website: alanlong.art

Michael McLoughlin’s exhibition, Welcome to the Island; Well Done Everyone celebrates connectivity, the journeys made, and the life cycles we share. It welcomes everyone who arrives on the island. The work is based on the migration of the Chimney Swift (The Flying Cigar). Chimney Swifts spends much of the year in South America, including Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru. They live on the wing, eating and sleeping in the air. Each summer, they return to the East Coast of the USA, New York, and Governors Island to nest and breed. The artworks in the exhibition place the journey of the Chimney Swift who arrive on Governors Island each May, with our own human migrations. The exhibition has been made possible with the support and funding of Culture Ireland and Limerick School of Art & Design (TUS).

**Welcome to the Island; Well Done Everyone continues at Noo Arts House until June 12th.

For more information contact: hello@mmcloughlin.org

Website: mmcloughlin.org

WE ARE NATURE: Sunset Serenades
Come join us for a chill Saturday night community hang out!
Noo Arts is thrilled to launch our 2026 WE ARE NATURE season with a rooftop concert by our beloved Musician-in-Residence, the soon to be world-famous experimental singer-songwriter Katy Gunn. Everyone is welcome!

The only constant in life is change. This summer, Noo Arts will celebrate this concept by expanding their rooftop programming in Brooklyn across the river to a house full of arts on Governors Island. At a time when uncertainty and fracture can feel overwhelming, it is especially important to remember that breakdown precedes transformation—and that collective imagination and action shape what comes next.

Location:

Colonels Row Building on Governor’s Island (404A Colonels Row (aka 404A Comfort Road)

Event Schedule:

Welcome to the Island; Well Done, Everyone

Site-specific, spatial audio artwork by Michael McLoughlin

Welcome to the Island; Well Done, Everyone is a site-specific, spatial audio artwork developed in situ. The piece integrates sound, drawing, and social interaction, exploring migration cycles and connectivity across continents. Through a compelling analogy between the journeys of migratory birds and migrant people, the work raises urgent environmental and socio-political questions while inviting visitors to reflect on the interconnectedness of all systems—flora, fauna, and humans alike. Michael’s installation will remain on view for one month, offering visitors an ongoing experience of interaction, observation, and contemplation.

Honey Fungus

9-minute interactive VR experience led by a queer mycelial guide created by Jonah King

Guided by a queer, sentient mycelial entity, users navigate interactive vignettes where sensory actions shape the environment and AI-generated poetic spores reveal the Earth’s hidden vitality. Rooted in queer ecology and post-humanist thought, the project challenges boundaries between human and non-human life, exploring intimacy, identity, and ecological responsibility. Through VR embodiment, participants shrink through fungal layers, merging with the environment in a radical meditation on relationality, resilience, and stewardship.

Mushroom Music by Willow Gatewood

An immersive Mushroom Music installation which explores the hidden rhythms of fungi, creating a sensory environment where sound, space, and ecological imagination intersect.

Mothership NYC presents PICK A CARD, ANY CARD

A Tarot-Themed Traveling Show

For every third Saturday, the deck of artworks will be reshuffled, with new artworks ‘drawn’ and reconfigured in the exhibition space.

 Join us for a casual, semi-public gathering for the NEW INC Y12 Creative Science track and community. An open evening to share what you’re working on—video, sound, text, objects, small experiments—in short, informal formats.

The night extends into a multi-rooftop hangout with sound, projections, drinks, and Noo Arts’ unique backdrop. Bring something, or just come by.