11th Annual Arts Festival

Celebrate community, liberation and healing through the Arts with Socrates Sculpture Park on June 22!

Enjoy family-friendly festivities, including hands-on art-making workshops, live music, spoken word performances, food for purchase and more. During the day, we will be joined by The People’s Bus, a bus formerly used to transport people detained on Rikers Island. In partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Public Artist in Residency program, it has been transformed with input from New Yorkers into a community center on wheels to engage people in NYC’s civic life through beauty and joy.

More events during the day include:

• Live musical performances and spoken word from our Arts community
• An art and photography exhibition
• Screen-printing
• Crown making
• Owl pots and birdhouse painting
• Emancipated Stories – read and respond to the work of writers who are currently incarcerated
• Food for sale to the public – Makina, Ethiopian and Eritrean food truck, and Pinche Vegana, vegan Mexican food truck

Bring some sunblock, grab a blanket or chair, and hang out with us on the waterfront! Rain or shine, come celebrate with us.

The event is free, no RSVP required.

Arts Festival Performers  

1. Marshall McDermott
2. Rev. Keith Gadson Finesse
3. David Coleman
4. Dawud Rahman
5. Jonathan Finkelman
6. David Stewart
7. Rubi Hochland
8. Tony Cruz Celestine
9. Clemese Jack
10. Jasmine Thomas
11. Helen Taylor
12. Tanell Gaskin
13. Hilton Webb Jr.
14. Nestor “Panama” Eversley
15. Samantha White
16. Nadene “Isis” Richardson
17. Francisco Lino
18. Tyler Hoppin
19. Nevel Heslop
20. Luz Hernandez
21. Bruce Leroy
22. Becky Jane Dunham
23. Marvin Wade
24. Gerard Tanella
25. Erobos Abzu Lamashtu OKA “E”
26. Tiffany Amezquita
27. Timmy the Train Eater
28. Julie Herrnkind
29. Ryan Blustone Bennett – Forever in Our Hearts

Contributing Artists