NOoSPHERE Arts

About

b. 2011   —   NOoSPHERE Arts is a 501c3 organization and cultural center led by a team of international creatives whose backgrounds blend the arts and sciences. Its freewheeling, multidisciplinary approach engages diverse audiences and builds community through a range of vibrant public events in its indoor-outdoor home in New York City's Greenpoint, Brooklyn. NOoSPHERE Arts produces and presents experimental arts programming at the nexus of art and eco-awareness. It is a welcoming platform where migrant artists connect with locals. Uniting music, dance, visual arts, theater, film, poetry & prose, our collaborative productions harness the power of art to drive action towards green living, fair play, and oneness. Our headquarters plays a critical role in our mission: We are located on the bank of heavily polluted Newtown Creek in a former oil refinery—an epicenter of past environmental disasters. It seems a hopeful sign of human power to turn things around that our warehouse is also home to the Kingsland Wildflowers rooftop community gardens: a green corridor in the midst of the industrial wasteland fostering the repopulation of threatened birds, bats and pollinators while also serving as an educational center that offers public programming around environmental sustainability. A partner in the coalition behind Kingsland Wildflowers @ Broadway Stages since 2018, NOoSPHERE Arts serves as its Arts Producer & Presenter: We create multidisciplinary public arts programming addressing humans’ place on Earth, thus extending the reach of the hands-on environmental organizations also operating out of this beloved outdoor community center. Respectful of the fact that we operate on unceded Lenape land, we also use our platform to amplify historically underrepresented voices, particularly local Indigenous communities.