Be The Change You Want To See: Celebrating 15 Years of NOoSPHERE Arts
For the past 15 years, Noo Arts has been transforming Greenpoint’s industrial rooftops into venues for environmental art and community collaboration. The nonprofit cultural center — founded by Norwegian artist Sol Kjøk and powered by an international team of creatives and scientists — produces year-round programming that blends performance, visual art, film, and poetry with eco-awareness and public engagement.
Editors’ Selects: September 2025 - Jeannie Rhyu: Entanglement Noo Arts at Kingsland Wildflowers
Across the Atlantic Flyway, specifically over Newtown Creek in Greenpoint, many species such as the Barn Swallow, Yellowthroat, Black-Crowned Night Heron, and Double-Crested Cormorant use the quantum spin to orient their yearly migration towards their ancestral breeding grounds, a feeling and particle entanglement very familiar to immigrants arriving in or leaving New York. Entanglement, Rhyu’s installation at Noo Arts activating Kingsland Wildflowers’ Green Roof, nests four pairs of ceramic eggs amongst wildflowers, recording the stories, journeys, and legacies of these four birds migrating through the area.
Noo Arts Is Reimagining Public Space Through Performance and Nature
In the bloom of native flowers on a rooftop once part of an ExxonMobil factory, something astonishing is happening. Art is taking root—not just as performance or installation, but as ecology, ritual, and resistance. Noo Arts, the multidisciplinary arts center in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, has steadily emerged as a quiet powerhouse of cultural and environmental transformation.
This Weekend in Greenpoint: May 23-25
Enjoy the impeccable vibes of art and dance at sunset during Noo Arts‘ season opener We Are Nature: The Microcosmic Dance at 6:15 p.m.
The Dance Enthusiast's TOP PICKS IN NEW YORK CITY
The Dance Enthusiast released its list of Top Picks in New York City for the week of May 19: Noo Arts’ opening event, We Are Nature: The Microcosmic Dance, has been selected as one of the featured highlights.
NYC’s $60 Million Cultural Development Fund Will Benefit Dozens of Brooklyn Non-Profits
This week, the DCLA released the full list of awardees, revealing dozens of Brooklyn-based nonprofits that stand to receive grants from the fund. They include rooftop experimental arts and theater group Noo Arts.