VIKA KIRCHENBAUER PGM 1
Six experimental shorts by Vika Kirchenbauer, from a seductive address out of a black void to a work on the impossibility of tickling yourself. She is there in person.
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X AMENDMENTS: Carla Kihlstedt, Rafael Osés, Holland Andrews, Gelsey Bell, Anaïs Maviel, Kalyn Harewood, and Dither (Night 2)
An improvised piece for voices, electric guitars, and the audience itself, with the Bill of Rights as its raw material. Kihlstedt, Holland Andrews, and Gelsey Bell are among the performers.
VIKA KIRCHENBAUER PGM 2
Four shorts by Vika Kirchenbauer that take on the art economy's labor politics and its complicit institutions, from a welcome address to a study of early public art exhibitions. The filmmaker attends.
PI RECORDINGS 25th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION // Luke Stewart Silt Trio +
Bassist Luke Stewart's Silt Trio, with Brian Settles on tenor and Chad Taylor on drums, joins reedman Daniel Carter to mark a quarter century of an independent creative-music label.
Terence Tao: Six Math Essentials
Fields Medalist Terence Tao talks with Janna Levin about his first popular book, tracing its six pillars, from algebra as abstraction to the mathematics of change, as a creative way of thinking.
VACANCES
Filmed over ten years at a Provence villa, this documentary follows a bohemian countess grandmother and her strained family around the pool. The filmmaker will be there in person.
Ravi Coltrane Centennial Celebration
Ravi Coltrane, who has spent years curating his parents' recordings, leads two different quartets, one with Virelles, Douglas and Blake, in the Vanguard's intimate basement room.
PLAYING WITH FIRE: AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY
Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens close their ecosexual climate trilogy with a film about fire, narrated partly by a white peacock, and they open each show with a performative "Ecosex 101."
Art of Solo: James Brandon Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, Janel Leppin, Jenna Camille, Kalia Vandever, Val Jeanty, Shara Lunon, and Alexis Marcelo
Eight solo artists, from saxophonists to a flutist, cellist, vocalist and electronic percussionist, in a residency that pairs poets, musicians and artists across generations.
boiling rain
A gathering built around a medical mannequin named Jeanie, made by a choreographer who has worked as a frontline nurse for ten years. It honors health care workers and closes a grief trilogy.
WOMEN IN ANIMATION PGM 1: ANIMATED ANIMALS
Ten shorts spotlighting women in animation, from a silent flower-fairy film to Mary Ellen Bute and Sally Cruikshank, many from 35mm and 16mm. Mindy Johnson and Rachael Guma introduce.
Ragas Live Festival 2026
Twenty-four hours of South Asian classical music from more than 50 artists, with tributes to Toumani Diabate and Umm Kulthum, plus Fareed Ayaz & Abu Muhammad Qawwal.
AVATARS: THE DOMINATRIX SLEEPS TONIGHT
Six shorts spanning four decades, by or with people from the leathersex scene, treat the dominatrix as an elusive figure of artifice. Includes Beth B's band video and overlooked and censored work.
Leenalchi, Femcel
A seven-piece Seoul band turns pansori, the Korean storytelling song tradition, into bass-heavy psychedelic funk. Two bassists, four vocalists, no guitars. Local post-punk duo Femcel opens.
Lecture on the History of Skywriting
Paul Lazar plays the sky itself in Anne Carson's text, moving through song, dance, video and phone calls, with imagery by Annie-B Parson. Strange, funny and tender.
WOMEN IN ANIMATION PGM 2: ON BEING A WOMAN
Nine animated shorts by women, from a 1930s Lotte Reiniger film to Signe Baumane's Birth, with Faith Hubley and Caroline Leaf in between, all on the subject of being a woman.
GIFT: A Live Score by Eiko Ishibashi & Film by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Eiko Ishibashi, a multi-instrumentalist who moves between film scores, improvisation and songwriting, plays live to Ryusuke Hamaguchi's GIFT in a rare main-hall appearance.
MULTI-MEDIA RESOURCE CENTER PGM 1: CONFESSIONS AND SEX HISTORIES
Candid, playful erotic portraits from the National Sex Forum, anchored by Wardell Pomeroy, a former Kinsey collaborator, interviewing a sexologist-in-training about her history.
Archtober: Ancestral Ecologies Sunset Tour
The garden's curators walk you through a site-specific exhibition of new work by the first fellows of a new art and environment fellowship, with the tour timed for sunset.
Panel Discussion: Photography Education
Four people who run photography programs talk about who gets to tell the story: Shahidul Alam of Pathshala, Helen Alonzo Hurtado of Las Fotos Project, Gary Knight of VII, and Michael Kamber.
