Open Studios returns May 20 & 21! Join us for a weekend of performances, film screenings, and the 26th edition of The Clemente's Open Studios! 🥳
Saturday, May 20 , 4pm - 8pm
Sunday, May 21, 2pm - 6pm
Housing more than 46 visual artists’ studios and 11 visual and performing arts organizations, The Clemente community is thrilled to welcome friends, colleagues, and neighbors back into their home on the Lower East Side. The public is invited to explore this multigenerational community of artists, some of whom have lived and worked in the neighborhood for more than two decades, and residents of participating residency programs. The Clemente stands as a complement and bridge to the area's current development, housed in the beautiful, former PS 160 designed in 1897 by Charles B. J. Snyder in the Dutch neo-Gothic style.
This year’s Open Studios weekend will feature five floors of visual and performing arts as part of the 5th edition of Public Spaces Open Studios (PSOS2023). Juried by Maria del Carmen Carrion, this year's PSOS will feature work from artists such as Manuel Acevedo, Ophelia Arc, Jennie Booth, Lucia Warck-Meister, and more!
Throughout the weekend, enjoy participatory programming like the Capoeira Festival from Afro Brazil Arts and poetry readings from FELT Theater, as well as film screenings as part of the Kabayitos Microcinema Film Festival. All events are FREE and open to the public.
See the programming schedule below.
Special Events
Saturday, May 20, 2023
4:00 - 5:00 PM Cool Culture + The People’s Bus present: Money Monster, Ground Floor
4:00 PM FELT Inc. Poetry Performances, 311
4:00 - 5:00 PM Capoeira Festival, Flamboyán Theater, 1st Floor
4:30 PM Microcinema, Kabayitos Theater
6:00 PM FELT Inc. Poetry Performances, 311
6:00 PM Microcinema, Kabayitos Theater
6:00 - 8:00 PM Capoeira Festival, Flamboyan Theater, 1st Floor