from the Press Release:
a soft afternoon
Pioneer Works Second Sundays
July 13, 2025
2-3pm
Free with RSVP
Location:
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
(718) 596-3001
Performance will take place in the Pioneer Works Science Studios
About Second Sundays:
Since 2013, Pioneer Works has hosted Second Sundays, a free monthly open house. Highlighting our programs, artists-in-residence, and Red Hook community members, Second Sundays features open studios, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food—with programming across all three floors and in our garden.
Food and drink by Nathanael Cox, Prima Brooklyn, and Pioneer Works Bar.
Pioneer Works is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
About the performance:
Conceived by choreographer Abigail Levine, a soft afternoon is an exchange of creative work, personal and critical reflections by poet Kimberly Alidio, composer Seth Cluett, performance artist Asia Stewart, and dancer and scholar Kristopher KQ Pourzal. Borrowing its format from a course once taught by Alvin Lucier, a soft afternoon expands the vision of who the fabled experimental avant garde of New York was, what it did, and how it has been repurposed, re-politicized, reimagined, and remade. Conceived as a preamble to Levine’s forthcoming performance Six Quiet Dogs, this program is supported by a grant from Brooklyn Arts Council.