Arts

NY400 Week: New Island Festival

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Location
Governors Island
New York 

Direct from Holland, the New Island Festival will set up stakes on New York City's Governors Island from September 10–13 and again from September 17–20. The festival will kick off the fall with concerts, exhilarating DJ sets, provocative theatre, stunning site specific performance and dazzling visual arts, performed by world class Dutch performers. More than 150 artists will perform during the festival.

Portions of the festival will be free to the public. A select number of performances will require paid tickets,
which can be purchased in advance or upon arrival on the Island. Visitors can also purchase a festival pass,
which will provide them with access to all events for the duration of the festival.

The New Island Festival brings the greatest elements of European outdoor performing arts festivals to
Governors Island. It will combine works that have previously been featured in the world-renowned Dutch
“Oerol and De Parade Festivals” and provide opportunities for artists to create site-specific works on the
Island. All of Governors Island will be the stage for the Dutch, who will utilize the waterfront promenade,
historic homes, barracks and open green spaces to re-imagine this Island in the middle of New York Harbor.

Highlights of the festival include the return of Director's Ivo van Hove's Toneelgroep Amsterdam (last
season's Opening Night at BAM) and his acclaimed productions of Hedda Gabler and Streetcar Named
Desire at New York Theatre Workshop; TUIG's Salto Vitale, an enormous site specific outdoor spectacle
that has toured summer festivals all over Europe; and the US premiere of Silent Disco - a joyous dance party
where all the participants wear headphones.

TICKETS AND HOURS OF OPERATION

The New Island Festival will play Thursday–Sunday on the following schedule:

Thursday:  4 - 11 PM

Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 11 AM - 11 PM

A festival pass to this spectacular international event will be just $35 and allows entry to all events for the
duration of the festival; single tickets will be available beginning at $5 per event. Buy your tickets in advance via www.newislandfestival.com All performances are in  English. The festival will be accessible via a free ferry from southern Manhattan.

TRANSPORTATION TO GOVERNOR'S ISLAND

The Governors Island Ferry departs from the Battery Maritime Building located adjacent to the Staten Island
Ferry. The ferry terminal is accessible by subway: the 1 to South Ferry, on weekdays the 4 or 5 to Bowling
Green, weekdays the W to Whitehall and R on weekends and weekdays to Whitehall.

The New Island Festival is a ‘government sponsored’ event and is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The Festival is organized by Theater Instituut Nederland (TIN), Oerol and Mobile Arts (producer of the Boulevard of Broken Dreams and the Parade). TIN  is semi-governmental agency and is overall responsible. The New Island Festival is sponsored by: Heineken, Time Out, ING, Province of Fryslân, Flanders House, Iamsterdam and Unigroup UTS.