PEM Presents

Saturday, April 25, 2026 from 2—3 pm

Three multidisciplinary artists collaborated over nine months to produce this 30-minute performance-based installation that engages the natural world.

Sunday, March 1 | 2–3:45 pm

Included with admission

Join us for a rollicking adventure at sea with the Sons of Town Hall, the transatlantic folk duo of songwriters David Berkeley and Ben Parker. Performing as their 19th-century alter egos Josiah Chester Jones and George Ulysses Brown, these two multitalented musicians conjure a captivating world of song and theater. 

Sunday, September 14 | 2–3 pm

Included with admission

Join us for a presentation and reception celebrating the 2025 Artists for Humanity Fellows. These multidisciplinary artists will share new works made over the course of their fellowship in response to their own sustainability research and a look into Andrew Gn: Fashioning the World.

Saturday, June 7, 2025 | 2 pm

Included with admission

In this puppet musical set in Brooklyn, a sweet but lonely mermaid named Gooey makes an unlikely friend in a rude, mangy rat named Scabby. Together they set out on a journey to the Gowanus Canal, a land of trash and opportunity. There the two friends encounter a mysterious suitcase that they soon discover belongs to a couple of less than friendly mobsters. Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure will have its world premiere at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn in February 2026.

Sunday, May 25, 2025 | 2–3 pm

Included with admission

Hear from a 9-piece ensemble led by visionary composer, pianist, singer and world traveler Iseul Kim. Performing Korean traditional music and Western classical music, Two Voices is a culmination of traditional, classical, jazz and world music concepts that transforms into an original, signature sound.

Sunday, May 18, 2025 | 2–3 pm

Included with admission

This quartet combines Western and Korean traditional instruments, melding disparate tones and styles. G–Hwaja strives to popularize Korean traditional music by delivering a dynamic and vivid image of Korea to the modern world.

Saturday, May 17, 2025 | 2–4 pm

Included with admission

Join us for two performances and workshops of the Buchae Chum (Korean fan dance) and Sogo Chum, a traditional Korean small drum dance, by the New York Korean Performing Arts Center. The group consists of professional performers in Korean traditional music and dance from the Korean American community in the New York area, and is committed to promoting intercultural understanding and appreciation of Korea’s artistic heritage and history.

Sunday, May 11, 2025 | 2–3 pm

$25 members; $35 nonmembers

Conceived by performer, composer and American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) member Keir GoGwilt, Zarabanda Variations brings together a group of visionary composers and performers who are inspired by musical histories of 16th- and 17th-century New Spain (present-day Mexico parts of the United States). The familiar tonalities and harmonies of early Baroque music are warped into contemporary and futuristic soundscapes.

Saturday, March 8, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 9, 2025 | 2 pm

$25 members; $35 nonmembers

View a barrage of 30 short plays from the New York Neo-Futurists. Each play offers something different — something funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irrelevant, terrifying or musical. The New York Neo-Futurists are a radically dynamic ensemble of multidisciplinary artists who fuse elements of poetry, game and performance art to create ever-changing theatre to respond to the world.

Sunday, March 2, 2025 | 2–3 pm

FREE

Experience RHEOLOGY, the newest work by award-winning playwright and director Shayok Misha Chowdhury, a performance memoir created and performed with his mother, the physicist Bulbul Chakraborty. Her specialty is rheology, the laws governing the malleability and movement of matter under force.

This program is supported by the Lowell Institute.