Events 2025

With Womens Work: crys cole / Maayan Tsadka

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Between March 20-22, the organization will present new, live performance scores at its 22 Boerum Pl. theater as part of ongoing activations of the With Womens Work Series. ISSUE presents new projects by sound artists and composers crys cole and Maayan Tsadka.

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With Womens Work: Scores & Composition Workshop with Beth Anderson

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE invites composer Beth Anderson to host a workshop at 22 Boerum Pl. as part of ongoing activations of the With Womens Work Series. This event is part of a set of performances, talks, and screenings that reengage the series first offered as digital commissions at ISSUE in 2021, where several participating artists drew inspiration from Anderson’s scores.

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With Womens Work: Annabelle Playe - Arrow & Synchronicity / Panel Conversation featuring Annea Lockwood

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Between March 20-22, the organization will present new, live performance scores at its 22 Boerum Pl. theater as part of ongoing activations of the With Womens Work Series. ISSUE presents “Arrow & Synchronicity” by French multidisciplinary artist Annabelle Playe. The evening will conclude with a panel conversation moderated by writer-researcher Sami Hopkins featuring artists Audrey Chen, crys cole, and Annea Lockwood.

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With Womens Work: Sydney Spann / Audrey Chen

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Between March 20-22, the organization will present new, live performance scores at its 22 Boerum Pl. theater as part of ongoing activations of the With Womens Work Series. ISSUE presents new projects by NYC-based sound artist and musician Sydney Spann featuring Kiera Mulhern & Duncan Moore, and Berlin-based vocalist Audrey Chen.

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Zosha Warpeha: Shadow, Come

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

For her first commission, 2025 Artist-In-Residence Zosha Warpeha will adapt the tuning of her sympathetic-stringed Hardanger d’amore in response to the acoustics of the 22 Boerum Pl. theater.

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Sold Out! Qiujiang Levi Lu (卢秋江): Metanoia

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE is pleased to present Metanoia, a work-in-progress solo performance at 22 Boerum Pl. by 2025 Artist-In-Residence Qiujiang Levi Lu (卢秋江). Using geophone sensors, a customized in-mouth speaker, feedback, body drumming, choreographed movements, and interactive light installations, the piece amplifies and externalizes what is otherwise unseen and unheard.

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Leila Hassan / Bergsonist

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE invites audiences to the 22 Boerum Pl. theater to experience new projects by multidisciplinary artists Leila Hassan and Selwa Abd (Bergsonist).

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Building on their 2021 digital commission as part of ISSUE’s Distant Pairs series, Sofia Jernberg and Tomeka Reid reunite for ISSUE's 2025 Winter Season Opening concert, live at Brooklyn Music School. This event showcases Jernberg and Reid in a unique quartet, joined by NYC-based pianist Craig Taborn and Norwegian bassist Ole Morten Vågan.

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