The Lower East Side Arts & Culture Open House features 20 organizations! North Sites include Loisaida Inc, Lower Eastside Girls Club, Performance Space New York, Swiss Institute, and Ukrainian Museum (note that times vary by location). Kickoff your exploration of North Sites at the Swiss Institute located at 38 St Marks Place to pick up a map and more information about Lower East Side Arts & Culture Open House.

Loisaida Inc, 12-4pm
Featuring Ecolibrium: Empowering Community for Sustainable Energy Equity. Ecolibrium, an initiative by Loisaida, Inc., integrates community activism, technology, and capacity building to foster educational excellence, expand career opportunities in the green economy, and create a sustainable pathway for community ownership and long-term well-being.

Lower Eastside Girls Club, 12-4pm
Explore the LES Girls Club’s permanent art collection and learn about their free programs! The Girls Club connects young women and gender-expansive youth of color to healthy and successful futures through free, innovative year-round programming and mentoring.

Performance Space New York, 12-6pm
Experience PSNY’s Open Room, transformed by Black Quantum Futurism into a sanctuary prioritizing community-based work that uplifts temporal autonomy, play, experimentation, spatial reclamation, and collective visioning.

Swiss Institute, 12-8pm
Featuring guided walking tours and SI’s latest exhibition Energies, inspired by the E 11th St windmill project. The exhibition includes influential historic artworks alongside contemporary positions and new commissions that address ecological affordances and effects, social formations, and political arrangements attached to energy past and present.

Ukrainian Museum, 12-2pm.
Visit the Ukrainian Museum and discover more about the Ukrainian community in New York at its very heart – the historic Ukrainian Village neighborhood. Learn more about Ukrainian culture, traditions, history, and art. Stand with Ukraine!

The Lower East Side Arts & Culture Open House is organized annually by FABnyc. More information on all 20 Lower East Side sites can be found at www.fabnyc.org

Accessibility capacities vary by site.

• Loisaida Inc.: Drinking fountain or water bottle filling station
• The Lower Eastside Girls Club: Gender neutral restrooms available, Drinking fountain or water bottle filling station, Quiet or Sensory-Friendly Space
• Performance Space New York: Gender neutral restrooms available, Drinking fountain or water bottle filling station, Lactation room available for nursing
• Swiss Institute: Gender neutral restrooms available, Drinking fountain or water bottle filling station

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