CuRRENT & UPCOMING SHOWS
SOUNDS
FROM THE
GALLERY
Sounds From the Gallery is our free indoor concert series, featuring live music performed within the vibrant atmosphere of our gallery’s art exhibitions!
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Culture Lab LIC's
Culture Lab LIC's premiere New Works Festival will showcase the year-long, original work of our four 2024 Emergence Artists in Residence!
Featuring four separate works by Danie Kohn, Helixx C. Armageddon, Yvonne Huatin Chow, and Gaby FeBland.
2024 Emergence Artist
Residency Program
Culture Lab LIC is excited to announce our 2024 Emergence Artist in Residence!
These diverse and exceptional performace based artists will be a part of Culture Lab LIC's New Works Festival coming this Fall!
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Culture Lab LIC's Emergence Artist Residency is a developmental performing arts program geared toward the support and creation of new work. It offers artists & companies free rehearsal and performance space to develop and produce new performance based work.
Developed in 2021 by Culture Lab LIC Co-Founder and former Director of Performing Arts, Tana Sirois, works created at Culture Lab LIC will be showcased on one of Culture Lab's stages and presented and promoted as a part of the Culture Lab LIC’s Emergence Artist New Works Festival this November. Artists retain creative rights to the work created.
Culture Lab After Dark presents
Nice One! Comedy
Thursday, December 12, 8-10pm
Enjoy New York City's funniest standup comics in the unique setting of our art gallery. Check out the art, enjoy live comedy!
Sponsored by QNSY SPARKLING COCKTAILS, providing a complimentary drink for every ticket so bring your friends!
NICE ONE! COMEDY, presented by Culture Lab After Dark, is a BOAST: Best of Astoria & LIC 2023 Award Winner for Best Standup Comedy Venue!
Special thanks to our sponsors: Plaxall Inc, TF Cornerstone, MetLife, IndieSpace, Con Edison, Volume Industries, Astound Broadband, Steve Madden, Cushman & Wakefield, HRA, M&T Bank, IPG, Wells Fargo Advisors, Cosmopolitan Houses, Gotham, TV Boy, Eventscape, Forrest Sound & Vision, Taylor Creative Inc
Truth & Magic
December 13 & 14, 7pm
A live concert experience centered on generating collective joy by blurring the lines between audiences and performers.
Produced by NYC’s “finest funky disco kids,” Gentleman Brawlers, this 90-minute interactive production will explore multisensory ways to recapture an intimate connection between artists and concertgoers, as well as transporting audiences to where music, dance, play, and nostalgia intertwine. Think: Fuerza Bruta energy + Meow Wolf visuals + American Utopia concert = TRUTH & MAGIC.
As a multi-sensory experience, Truth & Magic welcomes audiences of any age, background, or ability to join us. This production contains all sorts of fun surprises including elements you can taste, smell, see, touch, and hear, so please proceed with caution for any personal sensitivities. By purchasing this ticket you also consent to being filmed for promotional purposes.
Gentleman Brawlers is now proudly fiscally sponsored through The Field, and partnered with NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
PERFORMING ARTS At Culture Lab LIC
Culture Lab LIC is passionate about supporting emerging artists and fostering ambitious work. Over the past four years, our directors have helped produce over 25 professional productions. We have supported original and in-development work, presenting the premiere productions.
We have provided rehearsal space for over 20 theatre/dance and music groups and produced hundreds of events. In 2019 alone, we donated over 1,000 hours of rehearsal space to local theatre and dance companies. Over the past three years, we have created an amazing space for performing artists to learn, grow, take risks and make work. We are proud to create affordable opportunities for our local artistic community here in LIC!
