Headset Rental:
$15 ($13 for Members)
Get ready to kick off the summer with the return of everyone’s favorite Silent Disco Dance Party. Guild Hall’s Furman Garden will be lit up and ready to greet dancers for some uproariously quiet movin’ and groovin’. Wireless headsets will feature three different channels, including 70s disco and funk, 80s and 90s pop and hip-hop, and hits from the 2000s to today. Each station is represented by a color, so when you notice someone having a great time, you can just switch over to that color and join them!
Blue Channel: Pop and Contemporary from the 80’s to today with DJ Sits-a-Lot (Amy Kirwin)
Green Channel: Disco & Funk with DJ Mister Lama
Red Channel: Hip-Hop & Rap with DJ Almond Z
Skip the lines and reserve your headphones in advance – which also guarantees you will get them on arrival! Headsets can be rented on site, but advance reservations are recommended.
Wine, beer, a signature cocktail, and snacks will be available at Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar located in the front lobby.
$15.00 ($10.00 Members)
Free for Members of the Shinnecock Nation
In conjunction with the exhibition, First Literature Project, Guild Hall Community Artists-in-Residence, Christian Scheider and Wunetu Wequai Tarrant will join Anthony Madonna, Guild Hall Patti Kenner director of learning + new works for a conversation on the project, and their two-year residency with Guild Hall.
$15 ($10 Members)
Creative Lab is a series of interdisciplinary workshops designed and led by Guild Hall’s Visiting, Exhibiting, and Resident artists. Each Creative Lab invites participants to learn about an artist’s practice through an open lecture and a participatory workshop.
This evening’s Lab is led by Shinnecock artist, Ahanu Valdez. Valdez is a mixed-media artist specializing in poetry, pottery, and watercolor painting. The Lab will focus on the work she created as part of Ayim Kutoowonk, a Shinnecock Language revitalization collective, currently on view in the Guild Hall exhibition, First Literature Project.
Participants will create seashell imprints in clay, following the personal and creative practice of Valdez as documented in her exhibited work, Piece Upon A Piece.
Creative Lab is a series of interdisciplinary workshops designed and led by Guild Hall’s Visiting, Exhibiting, and Resident artists. Each Creative Lab invites participants to learn about an artist’s practice through an open lecture and a participatory workshop.
This evening’s Lab is led by mixed-media artist, Darlene Charneco. Charneco is a contemporary Latin-American artist whose mixed-media mapping series looks at people, networks, homes, and communities as part of a larger organism’s growth stage.
The Lab will focus on Charneco’s Guild Hall exhibition, Field Mappings – Weaves and Touchmaps, culminating in the creation of a collective “Learning Library,” connecting our memories, relationships, and intentions.
Creative Lab is a series of interdisciplinary workshops designed and led by Guild Hall’s Visiting, Exhibiting, and Resident artists. Each Creative Lab invites participants to learn about an artist’s practice through an open lecture and a participatory workshop.
This evening’s Lab is led by interdisciplinary artist-duo and 2024 Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence, LoVid. LoVid’s practice focuses on aspects of contemporary society where technology seeps into human culture and perception. Throughout their interdisciplinary projects over two decades, LoVid has maintained their signature visual and sonic aesthetic of color, pattern, and texture density, with disruption and noise.
The Lab will focus on LoVid’s most recent project, Heartsleeves Portrait Studio. The project is an immersive environment for portrait creation, inviting participants to enjoy a playful and embodied relationship with the work they collect. The Portrait Studio uses live camera input to process the participants’ images by applying LoVid’s algorithmically generated moving patterns.
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First Literature Project proposes to support Native nations in their efforts to maintain and further their languages, narratives, and oral traditions. Employing a new immersive storytelling platform, 3D video is mixed with virtual reality to re-create the timeless experience of sitting face-to-face with a storyteller.
First Literature Project utilizes the newly released Apple Vision Pro headset to present the immersive experience Padawe, developed over a two-year period by Guild Hall Community Artists-in-Residence Wunetu Wequai Tarrant and Christian Scheider. The exhibition also features video works by the Shinnecock language revitalization collective Ayim Kutoowonk and interviews with members of the Shinnecock Nation.
Timed entry is required to experience First Literature Project’s virtual-reality work. Admission is free. Patrons who wear glasses or corrective lenses are strongly encouraged to wear contact lenses.
Organized by Anthony Madonna, Guild Hall Patti Kenner Director of Learning + New Works.
Timed entry is required to experience First Literature Project’s virtual-reality work. Limited space is available every half hour from Friday to Monday, during the times below, and can be reserved HERE. Advance reservations are recommended to ensure time slots, but are not required.
- 12 PM
- 12:30 PM
- 1 PM
- 1:30 PM
- 2 PM
- 2:30 PM
- 3 PM
- 3:30 PM
- 4 PM
- And Fridays at 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6, & 6:30 PM
In conjunction with the exhibition, A Creative Retreat: Portraits of Artists, Guild Hall collection artist Linda K Alpern will join Director of Visual Arts Melanie Crader in conversation about Linda’s career, her works in the exhibition, and the stories behind her photographs.
Creative Lab is a series of interdisciplinary workshops designed and led by Guild Hall’s Visiting, Exhibiting, and Resident artists. Each Creative Lab invites participants to learn about an artist’s practice through an open lecture and a participatory workshop.
This evening’s Lab is led by documentary photographer, Linda K Alpern. Alpern has spent decades photographing subjects in and around New York City and at her home on the East End of Long Island. Among them are poignant portraits of her communities, patients, and close relationships with artists such as Alfonso Ossorio, Chuck Close, and Mable D’Amico.
The Lab will focus on Alpern’s photography practice, evoking ideas of time & memory, experimentation with film & various reflective surfaces, and her work currently on view in the Guild Hall exhibition, A Creative Retreat – Portraits of Artists.
