2012 has been a landmark year for ISSUE Project Room, but we currently face a serious challenge— damage to the ceiling of our theater has forced us to relocate all of our programming to alternate venues for the foreseeable future. As we prepare to continue programming outside of our home in 2013, we ask for your help.

Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim on Sergei Tcherepnin's "Massage Performance" in The New York Times.

A Critic's Pick this week in the Wall Street Journal: on November 15th, Iranian philosopher and novelist Reza Negarestani and composer Florian Hecker come together in a live performance – less a collaboration, than a synthesis between philosophy and sound.

Musicologist Juliet Forshaw interviews 2012 Artist-in-Residence Hunter Hunt-Hendrix in anticipation of the final performance of his residency. Following his controversial chapbook Transcendental Black Metal, he presents selections from his ever-in-progress libretto for the opera “OIOION” November 13, 2012.

Kurt Gottschalk in the December 2012 Issue of the WIRE Magazine on Voices and Echoes, September 28 + 29.

Winter ISSUE is an Art Lottery and party benefiting ISSUE Project Room, featuring a special performance by Thurston Moore's Chelsea Light Moving. With drinks by David Wondrich— the world's foremost expert on the American cocktail— catering by Lucullan Foods, and Joseph Keckler as MC, this event is not to be missed!

Due to the events surrounding Hurricane Sandy, and resulting the transport shutdown, all programs this week have been postponed. Affected concerts include “Massage Performances” by Sergei Tcherepnin (10/31), “Albedo Prospect” by Ed Osborn (11/1), and Frances-Marie Uitti + Carol Robinson in Residence.

ISSUE Project Room's renovation project has reached new milestones, selecting the architectural firm WORKac to design the renovation of our historic McKim, Meade and White theater. We are also pleased to announce that an additional $1.9 million has been raised for our capital campaign.