FRIDAY, September 5, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

ERIC GABRIEL is an NYC born and raised songwriter, pianist, and producer. Once generously described as somewhere between Bootsy Collins and Willie Nelson, Gabriel is occasionally groovy, at times introspective, and always pulling from a wide array of folk, soul, and 70s rock. Gabriel's debut solo album Samara (March 2025) was recorded almost entirely live with producer Philip Weinrobe (Adrianne Lenker, Florist).

Gabriel was also the cofounder and bandleader of Melt from 2017-25. Called "one groovy super-organism" by NPR, Gabriel's writing and arrangements helped bring the group numerous North America headline tours and support slots with artists such as Grouplove and Lawrence. ericgabrielmusic.com

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ABBY LLOYD: "Amidst the twinkling lights of Brooklyn at Christmastime, "Elves on the Edge" follows the escapades of Candy and Cookie, two elf rockers who escaped the North Pole seeking fame in New York City's underground music scene. While unwrapping their new lives, Candy and Cookie find their friendship put to the test. As the clock counts down to their groundbreaking performance, can Candy and Cookie resolve their conflicts in time for the show?" abbylloyd.us

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J.M. HAMADE (starnightdwell) (they/them) is an author, researcher, artist, and educator based in New York City. Their work bridges contemporary creative modalities with archaic forms of knowing. starnightdwell.com

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ABRAHAM ADAMS is the author of Ambulance Chasers (MIT Press, 2022) and a recent finalist for the Oxford Poetry Prize. His artwork has been exhibited in various galleries in the US and Europe. time.farm

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SATURDAY, September 6, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

LUCIA LOVE is a painter whose work focuses on metaphysical allegory, with compositions populated by angels, devils, imagined characters and historical figures. Reality and fantasy blend in colorful compositions that range from swaths of psychedelic pattern, to hyperrealistic rendering. Conversely, their writing focuses on situating contemporary art and artists in a larger historical context. Their work has appeared in Art21 Magazine, The NYT, and Hyperallergic, they are a Pioneer Works residency alum, a Shandaken Paint School fellow, and their work has been included in The Bunker Artspace of Beth Rudin DeWoody, and the Xiao Museum collection. LUCIALOVE.SUBSTACK.COM

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KERRY DOWNEY has recently had solo shows at Soloway Gallery and Underdonk in Brooklyn, NY. They have also exhibited at the Bard CCS / Hessel Museum (Annandale, NY); Queens Museum (Flushing, NY); Leslie Lohman Museum of Art (New York, NY), Knockdown Center (Maspeth, NY); and Kate Werble (New York, NY). Downey's publication, We collect together in a net, was published by Wendy's Subway (2019). They are a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. Their work has been in Artforum and The Washington Post and their writing has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Art Journal Open. Downey holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Hunter College. Downey is currently a guest faculty in Visual and Studio Arts at Sarah Lawrence College. kerrydowney.com

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JANTAR is an experimental easy listening ensemble from New York City. thejantar.com

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HANNAH BANG (b. 1998, South Korea) is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans video, painting, performance, and installation, exploring the layered nature of human consciousness. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in the United States and South Korea, including a solo at SCAD C-5 in Atlanta, and a show at Cedar House Gallery in Savannah, and group exhibitions in New York. In 2023, she completed the NES Artist Residency in Iceland. Founder of IN 3 SECONDS, a web magazine for artists and events, she holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons and a BFA from SCAD. hannahbang.com

PING HO is a Taiwanese artist and curator who blends the genres of images, sound, and objects to forge a unique intersection where mundaneness, nature, place, and time converge. By constantly entering and exiting different mediums, she explores themes of transition and migration through art-making, curation, and community-building. Her practice centers on creating inclusive, engaging, and accessible platforms for conversation and expression, often taking a site-responsive approach to activate unconventional spaces. Collaborating with performance and multidisciplinary artists, she challenges conventional viewing experiences. Additionally, she has a passion for archives and data composed of fleeting moments in life. pingho.art

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SUNDAY, September 7, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

JAYSUN SILVER is an independent rock n' roll artist, documentary filmmaker and journalist living in Brooklyn, New York. He released his debut solo album "NO EXCUSES!" in February 2025, and his two-person punk band, MURKY CIRCUS, released their debut EP "CIRCUS FIRSTUS" in June 2025. He has played in venues across New York City including Pianos, Freda and Hart Bar. His documentary "Our 20s," composed from a video diary he kept every day of the year 2020, premiered at the 2024 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. jaysunsilver.com

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NECHAMA WINSTON (b. Brooklyn, NY, 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in NYC. Winston is the co-founder and editor of New Poetics Publishing and works at Asya Geisberg Gallery, NYC. She received an MFA from Bard College-International Center of Photography, and a BA in Art History and Behavioral Neuroscience from CUNY Hunter College, NYC. Winston looks at the philosophical implications of photography to form alternative political imaginaries. Using mostly black and white film, Winston's current focus is on how material darkness helps foster an enhanced bodily awareness of vision. nechamawinston.com

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ANDREW LAMPERT has made many films, videos, and performances for quite a while. He co-authors the advice column Hard Truths with Howie Chen for Art in America. Working with Christine Burgin, he is the publisher and editor of The Further Reading Library, an imprint that released its first five books in 2025. andrewlampert.com

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WALNUT FALCONS is a noise folk band from New York City. They are currently in the process of recording their third album. @walnutfalconsofficial

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ISABELLA THORPE-WOOD is a British curator and performance-maker, working across expanded choreography, performance art and experimental writing. Their work reacts to the exclusivity, codes of behaviour and regimes of in/visibility subject to institutionalised spaces, instead encouraging relational ontologies, new modes of collectivity, alternative systems of value and artistic process over polished pieces. She often explores the social, architectural, physical, psychological and theoretical modalities of corners, using them as starting points for reimagining the implications of centre spaces, and figures central to those spaces. They propose corners as an alternative social centre, queering normative perspectives and orientations in the process. isabellathorpe-woods.com (pw: bellacurates)

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FRIDAY, September 12, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Self-taught artist, DARIUS @OGpopzIG CARTER, creates art as a form of therapy and was introduced to art by his mother and studied art at Texas Southern University under professors: Dr. Alvia Wardlaw, Leamon Green and Harvey L. Johnson. Art Spaces that have acquired Carter's Artwork are: ART IS BOND. Gallery, Bishop Gallery, Hogan Brown Gallery and University Museum at Texas Southern University. @ogpopzig

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CONRAD CHEUNG is an artist, writer, and educator working across installation, architecture, performance, and video. Their practice constructs counter-systems — spatial, social, and procedural — that make space for illegible and multispecies forms of assembly and refusal. They are Assistant Professor of 3D + Extended Media at the University of Florida; hold an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as the Eldon Danhausen Fellow in Sculpture; and have exhibited at MCA Chicago, Mana Contemporary, and other venues internationally. Current work includes essays on digital exhaustion, public projects with cultural/ecological organizations in Florida, and collaborations as The Institute for Improvisational Infrastructures and nonhumanities. conradcheung.com

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ANDREA MORENO's practice moves through sound, video, sculpture, performance and installation to explore systems of hidden knowledge—what is esoteric, spiritual, and beyond ordinary perception. Influenced by mysticism, speculative fiction, and post-humanist thought, she approaches materials as living collaborators that shift and guide form.

Andrea graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Technology. She graduated with her Master's in Sound Art at Columbia University. andreammoreno.com

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BANANA KETCHUP COMEDY is a Filipina comedy collective based in New York City, founded by Patricia Dinglasan and Kyle Marian. Their shows often partner with Filipino and Asian-American small businesses, fostering community and laughter alongside good food. They're best known for starting the Filipino Comedy Festival. @bananaketchupcomedy

MAKATI COMEDY is a night market show featuring Filipino fusion tapas fresh out of the kitchen of comedian chefs Josh Ri'Esgo and David Jin. @makatishow

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SATURDAY, September 14, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

LAURA HORNE is a New York City-based artist whose practice focuses on sound, new media, photography, and assemblage. Horne studied at the University of Windsor and OCAD University in Toronto. Before moving to New York in 2017, Horne was the co-director of Christopher Cutts Gallery in Toronto for ten years. In 2013, Horne founded Tussle, an online platform for art criticism, focusing on emerging artists, and providing project spaces for collaborations. Horne also co-curates "On the Edge of the Infinite," (2023) a recurring event at various locations in New York, which are tributes to the timeless human tradition of envisioning the end. @laura.a.horne

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"Why?" JUNE SEO questions the unexamined, searching for understanding beyond the obvious. The way of creation is the same way to explore the phenomenon of nature. Through his work, he seeks ambiguous answers to the fundamental questions that shape his understanding of humankind.

June holds a BFA in Theatre from Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, and an MFA in Contemporary Theater and Performance, minor in Design Studies, from The New School, Performing Arts and Parsons. In 2019, June founded a multidisciplinary team of artists, Project.A.Artgroup, which follows "Unbounded Creativity" and currently serves as creative director. projectaartgroup.com

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TIFFANY ZORILLA (LOLA LIBRE) is a multidisciplinary artist creating participatory performances that blur the line between public and private. Her work transforms audiences into co-creators, exploring vulnerability, societal projection, and the charged space between innocence and transgression. ciguapacafe.com

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AMY BEECHER (b. 1984, New York, NY) is a multimedia artist working in digital imaging, performance, and installation. Beecher earned a BA from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT.

In 2020 she joined the faculty of Emerson College as an Assistant Professor of Visual Art and Media Studies. She lives and works between Southern Vermont and New York City. Her podcast, a growing archive of dialogues with other artists from 2013 onward, is The Amy Beecher Show. amybeecher.studio

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SUNDAY, September 14, 6:00 PM - 8:15 PM

PAULA DE MARTINO is a Chilean artist based in NYC since 2022. She has an MFA from Hunter College. Paula's work (at the time this performance was first conceived in 2019) revolved around performance, being her sculptures, videos and paintings "evidence" that her alter-ego's existed. This performance revisits that. paulademartino.com

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KRIS PIÑA is an alternative singer-songwriter whose first musical forays took place in the small, mountainous Lebanese town in which he grew up. After 2 years of releasing music, he went on tour this year in the U.S. and in WANA, co-headlining the region's largest student organized music festival "AUB Outdoors" in Beirut, Lebanon. Now based in New York, he is preparing to release his debut EP "who have i become" in October. @krispinamusic

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ZACHARY DELAMATER is a Brooklyn-based queer & disabled artist/designer/writer. In 2024, they completed the Hunter College MFA program with a concentration in Sculpture & were awarded the Nancy Ashton Memorial Prize "in recognition of work in the MFA program as an artist & leader." (Howard Singerman, former chair Department of Art/Art History) Recently, their work has appeared in Paper, Flanelle & Out magazines, in the NADA exhibition "Lighter Touch: Care as a Radical Gesture," & in the "Poetry Hell" reading series. They've had solo exhibitions at the Czech Center NY (2017) & in Black Mountain, NC at the School of the Alternative (2016). @longhaulgaultier

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STAVER KLITGAARD is primarily an acrylic painter who explores loneliness through ghosts, dipping their toes into play writing with their best friend CASEY McSHERRY who is performer (singing, acting, cosplaying) and illustrator. sklitgaard.com

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Flowers Fest 2025 is organized by Sonya Derman, Xinan Helen Ran and Dino Takashi.