The World
Financial Center at which the Winter Garden (pictured above)
is a main focal point is located:
within Lower Manhattan's Battery Park City on the western
edge just off of the Hudson River.
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Events
& Exhibitions at the WFC
Unless otherwise indicated, the following items take place at
the Winter Garden
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NEW YORK CHINESE CULTURAL CENTER
CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Arts & Crafts: 1:00 - 2:30 pm (North Balcony)
Performances: 2:30 - 4:00 pm (Stage)
WFC Winter Garden
Celebrate the most popular Chinese holiday with gravity-defying acrobatics, festive musical ensembles, costumed folk dancers, and of course the lion dance! Young audiences learn traditional techniques of paper cutting, dough figurines, face painting, and calligraphy.
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WFC IN THE LOOP
Friday, January 20, 2012
12 - 2:00 pm
Courtyard (across from Starbucks)
In The Loop will be partnering with www.habitatnyc.org to donate all of this year's projects to twelve deserving families who will become first-time homeowners in 2012. We're beginning with kitchen accessories, and will continue to work our way through the rooms of a home as 2012 unravels.
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New Sounds Live
BILL MORRISON: A MODERN MASTER OF SILENT FILM
January 31 -
February 3, 2012
7:30 pm
WFC Winter Garden
Curated by John Schaefer, host of WNYC Radio's New Sounds and Soundcheck
Bill Morrison has reinvented the lost art of the silent film–often using decaying footage from old silent movies but also creating his own luminous, evocative world out of new images and new music. This series looks at a selection of Morrison's major works, all done in collaboration with some of the finest new-music composers. The opening and closing films are shown with live orchestral accompaniment: The Miners' Hymns features a riveting, brass-heavy score by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, played by the Wordless Music Orchestra; and the grand finale, Decasia, brings the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble to perform Michael Gordon's score. In between, the new film The Great Flood is paired with music by eclectic guitar hero Bill Frisell, and Spark of Being includes an electro-acoustic score by trumpeter and bandleader Dave Douglas.
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Tony Nominated Star To Deliver A Musical Love Letter To Lower Manhattan With Free Valentine’s Day Concert
Presented by Arts Brookfield at World Financial Center
Monday, February 13, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Tony nominated songwriter and performer Bob Stillman to perform love songs by Gershwin, Laura Nyro, Rodgers & Hart, Steve Wonder and Magnetic Fields
Tony Award-nominated performer and composer Bob Stillman (Grey Gardens, Dirty Blonde) will explore love’s trials and tribulations through songs by an eclectic mix of artists ranging from the Magnetic Fields to Rodgers & Hart at a free Valentine’s concert at the World Financial Center Winter Garden on Monday, February 13th.
It Could Happen To You: A Valentine’s Day Celebration with Bob Stillman is conceived and produced for Arts Brookfield by Ligeti Artists LLC and TheShowStore.com.
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TEXTILE STUDY GROUP OF NEW YORK
CROSSING LINES: THE MANY FACES OF FIBER
December 6, 2011 -
February 19, 2012
Tuesday - Sunday, 12 - 4:00 pm
WFC Courtyard Gallery
Curated by Rebecca A. T. Stevens
Crossing Lines highlights the diversity of contemporary fiber art through works of varying sizes, shapes, and aesthetics. Through techniques like weaving, knotting, and stitching, member artists explore the flexible attributes of this versatile medium to create stunning new works that investigate the formal properties of fiber and comment on art, life and the human condition.
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NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE
PLAYING MOLIÈRE
Tuesday - Sunday
February 4-17, 2012
(Open Rehearsals)
February 21 & 22, 2012
(Previews)
February 23-March 11, 2012
(Performances)
All Shows begin at 7:00 pm
WFC Winter Garden
New York Classical Theatre returns to the World Financial Center with Playing Molière. Using their signature performance style, Panoramic Theatre, this unique production of Moliere’s shorter comedies hearkens back to the 17th century playwright’s roots in the Commedia dell’Arte. The characters of Playing Molière, including cuckolded husbands, sneaky servants, demanding fathers, and quick-witted lovers, have inspired an entire generation of physical comedians such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers.
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Past Events:
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WFC IN THE LOOP
Friday, April 15, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
12:00 - 2:00 pm
WFC Courtyard
Calling all crafters! World Financial Center In The Loop provides yarn, patterns, and expert instruction to create projects with a purpose. This spring we will continue to make baby hats and booties to benefit Living for the Young Family through Education (LYFE) and will start a new toy project! Visit www.wfcintheloop.blogspot.com for details.
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ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS & WRITERS
ART.WRITE.NOW. National Exhibition, showcasing this year’s winners of the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and ART.WRITE.NOW. Atelier, a storefront presentation of live art production by past winners of the Awards
ART.WRITE.NOW. 2011 National Exhibition
June 1 - 19, 2011
Tuesday - Sunday, 12:00 - 4:00 pm
ART.WRITE.NOW Atelier
June 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 12:00 pm –4:00 pm
WFC Courtyard Gallery
ART.WRITE.NOW. 2011 features stunning examples of teen-produced work in the areas of film, photography, sculpture, poetry, painting, fashion, drawing, short stories, video game designs, and more. These talented teenagers, winners in the 2011 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, follow in the footsteps of Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford, John Baldessari, Philip Pearlstein, Sylvia Plath, and Joyce Carol Oates, who all won Awards when they were in high school.
- Tribeca Film Festival
'Drive In'
at the World Financial Center
3 Days of Free Film
Each Night at the
following times Feature:
6:00 pm: Live Entertainment
8:00 pm: Film Screening
- World Financial Center's Screamin' Green Halloween
Saturday, October 30, 2010
12:00 - 4:00 pm
D Green your Halloween at the World Financial Center! Join artist-educators for mask and costume making with funky recycled and repurposed materials, compete with other witches and warlocks in “Put a Spider in the Brew”, “Bowling for Ghosts” and a twist on the traditional “Bobbing for Apples,” and enjoy organic and fair-trade candy treats. Exchange last year¹s costume for a new one at the Costume Swap, each gently used and ready-to-wear. Mini parades led by the Hungry March Band will take place on the Plaza at 1, 2 and 3pm, and the day ends with a Ghosts & Goblins Parade to Poets House for a reading of spooky poems and seasonal snacks.
Ride your bike to the event! Free valet bicycle parking provided by Transportation Alternatives.
World Financial Center Shops & Restaurants will have Screamin’ Green Halloween specials and sales!
- The NutCracker
by the New York Theatre Ballet
WFC Winter Garden
Wednesday, December 1 at
12:30pm & 6:00 pm
Start off the holiday season with New York Theatre Ballet’s production of everyone’s favorite, The Nutcracker. This ballet performance is sure to enchant and delight the entire family.
- Santa's Winter Garden
WFC Winter Garden
Saturday, Dec 11 from
10:00am–1:00pm & 2:00–7:00pm
Sunday, Dec 12 from10:00am–1:00pm & 2:00–5:00pm
Monday, Dec 13 from
10:00am–1:00pm & 2:00–7:00pm
The beautiful Winter Garden is the setting for Santa, reindeer and some lively Elves! Bring your family, co-workers, partners, and friends for a holiday photo with the Gent of Generosity.
- Big Apple Chorus
WFC Complex
December 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 17, 22, 2010
12:30 - 1:30 pm
December 18 & 19, 2010
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Here's that wonderful troupe performing a cappella versions of our favorite holiday tunes.
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