Basilica’s Hope On The Hudson Series
Monday October 8 | 6PM
In collaboration with Oceans 8 Films and the Good Work Institute
With filmmaker Jon Bowermaster
Plus Special Visiting Guests: Slow Money founder Woody Tasch and musical guest LA FORCE (Ariel Engle of Broken Social Scene)
// LIVE | FREE //
Water is life. Seeds are life.
Join us for an evening of film, music, readings and conversation in collaboration with the Good Work Institute to learn how we can better protect these two vital life forces. Hear innovative voices and meet contemporary revolutionary thinkers. Come together to discuss what we need to do as a community to preserve the earth at this crucial moment in our region and planet’s future.
Basilica Back Gallery: Joe Mama-Nitzberg
THINGS REMEMBERED
Opening Sunday October 7th | 4PM – 7PM
// FREE //
Gallery hours:
Opening Sunday October 7th | 4PM – 7PM
Sunday September 30th | 12PM – 5PM
Sunday October 14th | 12PM – 5PM
Sunday October 21st | 12PM – 5PM
Sunday October 28th | 12PM – 5PM
or by appointment
Things Remembered is Joe Mama–Nitzberg‘s first solo exhibition in the Hudson Valley. Comprised of new work of various media, it is a further exploration of Mama-Nitzberg’s recurring interests in Memory, Technology and Language. Combing such disparate elements and strategies as autobiography, music videos, painting, poetry, search engines etc., the artist deftly balances the comic and the tragic without seeming to privilege either.
This exhibition continues Basilica Hudson’s 2018 Back Gallery artist in residency program. The series invites artists to explore the location itself as muse and to create work with the eclectic present and past of this river city as central inspiration.
Back Gallery Opening events are the culmination of artists spending time in and experiencing the space, before opening it up to the public.
Joe Mama-Nitzberg lives and works in Catskill, New York. He received his MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He works in various forms and media including photography, video and collage. His work has been featured in exhibitions at Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Gallerie Catherine Bastide, Regina Rex, David Zwirner, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, the Seattle Museum of Art, the Salzburger Kunstverein, the Renaissance Society, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark), and White Columns, among others. Mr. Mama-Nitzberg is a frequent contributor to Frog Magazine. His work is in the collection of the Walker Art Center and he is a recent recipient of an Art Matters Grant.
IMAGE CREDIT: Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Untitled (Devin 17), video still, 2018
Basilica FREE Family Matinee Series: ¡Viva Kid Flicks!
Sunday August 26 | 3PM
// FREE //
SHORTS: 79 min
in English / no dialogue / with English subtitles
Basilica Back Gallery Series: Annie Bielski
Sunday, August 19 | 7PM
//FREE//
We are delighted to welcome Hudson artist Annie Bielski back to Basilica. Bielski’s innovative, multi-disciplinary work has featured in a number of Basilica events, from her ‘darkwave comedy’ performance at (FREAK) FLAG DAY to her own visual musings on the theme of still life as part of a 2015 group show.
Basilica Non-Fiction Screening Series: Who Got NeXt
Thursday, August 16, 2018 | 7PM
// FREE //
Presented by Basilica Non-Fiction Screening Series in collaboration with NeXt Doc
Learn more about Basilica’s 2018 film program
August’s FREE Basilica Non-Fiction Screening Series event will feature award-winning short narrative films and documentaries made by the young filmmakers of Albany’s Youth FX followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and program directors.
Guerrilla Basilica Improvisations 2018
Sunday, August 12 | 3PM
// FREE //
We are pleased to be working with Art Omi once again to present a free afternoon of fully improvised music, performed by the 2018 Art Omi: Music residents.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Thursday, August 9 2018 | 7PM
// Advance tickets $25 //
Legendary Montreal musical collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor will return to Basilica Hudson on Thursday, August 9th. The band, who last performed at Basilica in 2015, recently released their seventh full-length album Luciferian Towers on their own self-run record label Constellation. The show will mark the band’s third performance at Basilica Hudson.
Basilica Back Gallery Series: SJLA
Opening party Wednesday, August 8, 2018 | 6PM – 9PM
// FREE //
Participants in 2018’s Social Justice Leadership Academy – comprised of Hudson youth ages 12 – 20 – will be the August artists in residents in Basilica’s Back Gallery with an exhibition which explores meaning-making through Afrofuturism.
