Upcoming Events

Liturgy

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

For this anniversary season, Haela Hunt-Hendrix presents a limited capacity solo program for looped electric guitar, voice, electronics, and piano. Drawing from the Liturgy oeuvre, the evening also features new compositions presented at ISSUE for the first time.

Noveller / Axine M

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Noveller (2009 AIR) debuts selections from her latest album, I Am The Weather, alongside music drawn from across her catalog. Axine M (2024 AIR) performs with fretless guitar, voice, and computer

Artists-In-Residence 2026

rocío sánchez: Caminos

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Developed throughout sánchez’s residency, Caminos provides a framework for musical ideas to emerge and unravel through improvisation, extended technique, and lighting design. sánchez is joined by friends and collaborators che ali, Nava Dunkelman, and Henry Fraser.

Past Events

Mary Margaret O’Hara & Jim White / Rena Anakwe

First Unitarian Congregational Society

Thursday, December 8th, 8pm ET, ISSUE is thrilled to welcome back Canadian artist and vocalist Mary Margaret O'Hara to New York to give a rare performance. She returns after her one off sold out presentation at ISSUE's 22 Boerum theater in 2018—the only time she has performed in the US over the last decade.

Member Event

ISSUE Member Event: Mary Margaret & Marcus O’Hara In Conversation

First Unitarian Congregational Society: Side Chapel

ISSUE is pleased to invite members and special guests to a reception and intimate conversation between Canadian artist and vocalist Mary Margaret O'Hara and her brother, “sculptor, artist, actor, storyteller, funnyman” Marcus O’Hara.

Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship 2022

THE BODY POPULAR: I, OF COURSE, WAS LIVID

The Mark O'Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center

2022 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Theodore Kerr + Housing Works & What Would an HIV Doula Do?, present I, OF COURSE, WAS LIVID. The performance features testimony that women living with HIV provided the CDC as part of the activism done to pressure the US government to create a more inclusive definition of AIDs.

Artists-In-Residence 2022

Sydney Spann & Kiera Mulhern

MITU580

Sound artist and musician Sydney Spann presents their final presentation as an ISSUE Artist-In-Residence with a live performance alongside poet and musician Kiera Mulhern at MITU580 in Gowanus, Brooklyn

Tatyana Tenenbaum: Garment of the Interior

Brooklyn Music School

Choreographer and composer Tatyana Tenenbaum continues her 2022 ISSUE residency with Garment of the Interior, a first public sharing of a new project that emerges from a decade of research into the continuum between voice and movement.

Artists-In-Residence 2022

Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie: Devil Woman (Obeah Woman) Part 3

The Queens Museum

Saturday, November 12th at 8pm ET, at The Queens Museum, Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie presents their third and final work in progress presentation of Devil Woman (Obeah Woman). The piece is an opera in three parts developed as a 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence.

Sold Out! Bergsonist: As If Reality?

CPR – Center for Performance Research

ISSUE in partnership with Harvestworks and Center for Performance Research is pleased to present As If Reality?, a new work from multi-disciplinary artist, musician, designer and 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Selwa Abd (Bergsonist).