Governors Island hosts a weekend-long creative celebration that features free dance and music performances, outdoor installations, interactive workshops, open studios, panel discussions, and more.

Fri­day, August 16

• Bil­lion Oys­ter Project Meet the Oys­ters Nolan Park Build­ing 16, 10AM-4PM ^
• Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil Exhi­bi­tion Tours Nolan Park Build­ing 7B, 11AM-12PM ^
• KODA Soul Cul­ture: A Film by Renée Cox; Sari Carel: A More Per­fect Cir­cle; Out­door instal­la­tion by Mil­dred Bel­tré Colonels Row Build­ing 407B, 11AM-5PM *
• Swale When Home Leaves You: Immer­sive Oral His­to­ries of Cli­mate Change and Adap­ta­tion Nolan Park Build­ing 11, 12 – 6PM *
• Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil 123 Pol­lu­tion Solu­tion with Chin-Chih Yang Nolan Park Build­ing 7B, 12:30 – 1:30PM ^
• Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil Secret Gar­den inter­ac­tive per­for­mance by Tzu-an Ko and Yin-Chen Chen Nolan Park Build­ing 7B, 2 – 2:30PM ~
• Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil Mem­brane inter­ac­tive dance per­for­mance with Yung-Chieh Kao Nolan Park Build­ing 7B, 3 – 3:30PM ~
• Bil­lion Oys­ter Project Walk­ing tours Nolan Park Build­ing 16, 3 – 4:15PM ^
• Gov­er­nors Island Arts Out­door Con­cert in Colonels Row Colonels Row Lawn, 3 – 4:30PM — An out­door set under the trees of Colonels Row fea­tur­ing live hard­ware mix­es by Jumplink, synth, gui­tar and vocals by Acces­sories, and four-piece jazz band Dage. ~
• Gov­er­nors Island Arts Pro­jec­tion Map­ping Par­ty Parade Ground, 7:30PM — Curat­ed by Sal­ly Twin, this evening cel­e­bra­tion fea­tures live music, pro­jec­tion map­ping onto his­toric build­ings, free food, and drinks. ^

Sat­ur­day, August 17 

• Bil­lion Oys­ter Project Meet the Oys­ters & Oys­ter Games Fam­i­ly Field Day Nolan Park Build­ing 16, 11AM-4PM^
• Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil Exhi­bi­tion Tours Nolan Park Build­ing 7B, 11AM-12PM ^
• KODA Soul Cul­ture: A Film by Renée Cox; Sari Carel: A More Per­fect Cir­cle; Out­door instal­la­tion by Mil­dred Bel­tré; Open Stu­dios Colonels Row Build­ing 407B, 11AM-5PM *
• Bronx Coun­cil on the Arts Open House Colonels Row Build­ing 406B, 11AM-5PM *
• Res­i­den­cy Unlim­it­ed The House of Con­flu­ence: Brico­lage Colonels Row Build­ing 404B, 11AM-5PM *
• Gov­er­nors Island Arts Open rehearsal and drum­ming work­shop with Fogo Azul Nolan Park, 11AM-2PM — Fogo Azul’s, New York City’s pre­mière all-women, trans, and non-bina­ry Brazil­ian Sam­ba Reg­gae drum­line, holds an elec­tri­fy­ing open rehearsal and work­shop open to all ages — no musi­cal expe­ri­ence required. *^
• MoCA­DA Inten­tion Set­ting & Mix­er Nolan Park Build­ing 7A, 12 – 1PM ^
• The Insti­tute for Pub­lic Archi­tec­ture AFTER­IM­AGE exhib­it open­ing and Open [Block] House Nolan Park Build­ing 9, 12 – 4PM *
• West Harlem Art Fund Dream­scap­ing in a Fool’s Par­adise Nolan Park Build­ing 10B, 12 – 4PM *
• AnkhLave Arts Alliance Black Well­ness Week­end Colonels Row Build­ing 408B, 12 – 5PM ^
• Swale When Home Leaves You: Immer­sive Oral His­to­ries of Cli­mate Change and Adap­ta­tion Nolan Park Build­ing 11, 12 – 6PM *
• Har­vest­works Ai Ono­da plays Satie’s ​“Vex­a­tion” Nolan Park Build­ing 10A, 12 – 6:30PM ~
• Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil Mov­ing Memo­ri­als with María Veróni­ca San Martín Nolan Park Build­ing 7A, 1 – 2PM ~
• Bil­lion Oys­ter Project Walk­ing tours Nolan Park Build­ing 16, 1 – 2:15PM ^
• Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil Out­door con­cert with Rad Jet Nolan Park Build­ing 7A, 1 – 2:30PM ~
• MoCA­DA Talk to Motha: Trans Elder Sto­ry­telling & Youth Dis­cus­sion Nolan Park Build­ing 7A, 1 – 2:30PM ^
• Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um Cli­mate Café Colonels Row Build­ing 406A, 1 – 3PM ^
• DuYe Moves The Heart­beat of Brazil: QiGong, Afro-Sam­ba, and Batalá drum­ming Colonels Row Build­ing 405A, 1:30 – 4:30PM ^
• Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil Mem­brane inter­ac­tive dance per­for­mance with Yung-Chieh Kao Nolan Park Build­ing 7B, 3 – 3:30PM ~
• Gov­er­nors Island Arts Island Show out­door con­cert in Nolan Park with Miri­am Elha­jli, Zoh Amba, and Eliana Glass Nolan Park, 3 – 4:30PM — This mul­ti-instru­men­tal ensem­ble brings pow­er­ful­ly unique avant-garde music to House Fest 2024 for a series of solo and group after­noon performances. ~
• MoCA­DA Lunch­room Sur­vival Guide Writ­ing Work­shop by Maleek Rae Nolan Park Build­ing 7A, 3 – 5PM
• Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil Exhi­bi­tion Recep­tion Nolan Park Build­ing 7B, 3:30 – 5PM ^
• Har­vest­works Ampli­fied Solo Bal­loons with Judy Dun­away & Star Catch­er per­for­mance Nolan Park Build­ing 10A, 4:30 – 5:30PM ~

Sun­day, August 18 

• Bil­lion Oys­ter Project Meet the Oys­ters & Oys­ter Games Fam­i­ly Field Day Nolan Park Build­ing 16, 11AM-4PM^
• Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil Exhi­bi­tion Tours Nolan Park Build­ing 7B, 11AM-12PM ^
• KODA Soul Cul­ture: A Film by Renée Cox; Sari Carel: A More Per­fect Cir­cle; Out­door instal­la­tion by Mil­dred Bel­tré Colonels Row Build­ing 407B, 11AM-5PM *
• DuYe Moves Chore­og­ra­phy in Progress with Gaitrie Sub­ryan Colonels Row Build­ing 405A, 12 – 3PM ^
• West Harlem Art Fund Dream­scap­ing in a Fool’s Par­adise Nolan Park Build­ing 10B, 12 – 4PM *
• Swale When Home Leaves You: Immer­sive Oral His­to­ries of Cli­mate Change and Adap­ta­tion Nolan Park Build­ing 11, 12 – 6PM *
• Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil Parade on Your Rain work­shop and per­for­mance led by Rhon­da Wep­pler & Trevor Mahovsky Nolan Park Build­ing 7B, 1 – 3PM ^
• Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil Mem­brane inter­ac­tive dance per­for­mance with Yung-Chieh Kao Nolan Park Build­ing 7B, 3 – 3:30PM ~
• Gov­er­nors Island Arts Out­door per­for­mance by Eli Fola Colonels Row, 3 – 4PM — Niger­ian Amer­i­can mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary sound artist, sax­o­phon­ist, DJ, and pro­duc­er Eli Fola presents his hybrid set ​“Yoru­ba Tech Soul,” an inno­v­a­tive fusion of Afro­House, tech­no, jazz, and clas­si­cal music. ~

Mon­day, August 19

• KODA Sari Carel: A More Per­fect Cir­cle; Out­door instal­la­tion by Mil­dred Bel­tré Colonels Row Build­ing 407B, 11AM-5PM *
• Gov­er­nors Island Arts Dance is Life social dance par­ty Liggett Ter­race, 5 – 9PM — Abdiel Jacob­sen and Natasha Dig­gs bring their social dance par­ty to Gov­er­nors Island dur­ing House Fest. Cre­at­ed as a pub­lic com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice to pro­vide the vital force that dance and music ignites with­in humans, this event unites peo­ple of all walks of life through com­mu­nal heal­ing and celebration.