Middleground Streeter roves the grounds offering juggling performances and lessons.

Learn more about the concept of flying sculpture by visiting these flying foam delta wings.

Chickinman Games & Fun offers a new game called "Socket" as well as a few other fun games to play.

Enjoy flying handmade kites with images of the artist's shadow on them. Michelle Provenzano will be available to help participants learn how to fly the kites.

A spoken word performance and workshop that transforms audience participants into spoken word artists through the use of poetry, sound, and song. After a performance of 2 or 3 original works, participants will be asked to create and perform their own spoken word art using a selected poem, percussive accompaniment, and imagination.

Creative bodypainting transformations inspired by sacred symbolism, visionary art, and cross-cultural shamanic traditions. Nelia, a Ukrainian-born graphic designer, offers body art that demonstrates a deep insight into the truest essence of the person being adorned, using the language of color and shape to create new levels of awareness and delight.

Continuous workshop for kids and parents to make their own spirit wand that will add color and spirit wherever they carry them. Interactive for kids/parents. Educational, too!

The Beat Shop is your one stop source for chunky beats! Come check us out down in the Chapel Bazaar for all of your dancin' & groovin' needs. This week's specials include electronic acts and DJ's from around New York City, playing house, breakbeat, techno, minimal, dubstep, psytrance, and other dancy electronic beats.

This is a sound and noise piece derived from two years of working in fast-paced kitchens in Seattle, WA. Recordings of the frenetic pace in the kitchens offer a huge pool of sounds with which to compose this abstract, dynamic piece that explores sounds as their own entities, free of meaningful association.

Based on a technique of physical theater, this puppet show tries to show that happiness occurs in the tiny things that we almost we do not see.

A three part Coney Island experience, including a traditional Coney Island Circus Sideshow complete with a dialogue and a history of some of Coney Island's sideshows and performers from the past. This one-man sideshow entices participants to "enter the tent" via a bally pitch, swallow swords, hammer nails into his face, place his hand inside animal traps, eat lit cigarettes and razor blades, and demonstrate magical illusions. Authentic sideshow banners painted by Deborah Rinn, will be displayed on the staging area, along with banners from Marie Roberts.

Disorient is an art collective and Burning Man theme camp that creates art projects and art installations using wood, scaffolding, containers, LEDs, geodesic domes, inflatable structures, video, repurposed objects, and vehicles.  At Figment, Disorient will offer a chill space with zero gravity chairs, delta shades, and a sweet sound system.

Shadyvil, a Burning Man theme camp, offers a silk-screening station complete with several screens, designs, and plenty of ink. Bring your own t-shirt and learn how to silkscreen it with a new design.

The Beat Shop is your one stop source for chunky beats! Come check us out down in the Chapel Bazaar for all of your dancin' & groovin' needs. This week's specials include electronic acts and DJ's from around New York City, playing house, breakbeat, techno, minimal, dubstep, psytrance, and other dancy electronic beats.

Picture Me Rollin' is a manufactured surface designed to produce beats as roller luggage is pulled across it. Tones are produced as the wheels of the roller luggage encounter different textures, and these tones will be arranged in a way to create melodies. Multiple parallel surfaces are planned, as to allow for multiple bags to generate more complex melodies. The tones produced are modulated and amplified using contact microphones and Max/MSP.

A Site-specific, Interactive, Quadraphonic Audio Installation Piece based on chance operations. Audience members are welcomed to the Castle Williams with an encouragement to move about the space. Certain unbeknownst participants are actually driving the quadraphonic audio experience. Due to the chance operations, no two performances are alike.

Disorient is an art collective and Burning Man theme camp that creates art projects and art installations using wood, scaffolding, containers, LEDs, geodesic domes, inflatable structures, video, repurposed objects, and vehicles.  At Figment, Disorient will offer a chill space with zero gravity chairs, delta shades, and a sweet sound system.

A free form gathering for individuals to explore movements, undulations, ossiclations, rotations, within the major muscle groups and then collectively apply them to yogic postures, specifically balancing poses. After a guided exploration of the motions and postures, individuals with collaborate with other participants to teach, share, and learn their creations.

Meg (with cookies) invites participants of all ages to decorate delicious cookies with the sweet treats of their choice.

Come make a decorative and colorful terracotta candle-holder or fake piece of cake using sand, dry flowers and tea candles. Open to all ages.

A three part Coney Island experience, including a traditional Coney Island Circus Sideshow complete with a dialogue and a history of some of Coney Island's sideshows and performers from the past. This one-man sideshow entices participants to "enter the tent" via a bally pitch, swallow swords, hammer nails into his face, place his hand inside animal traps, eat lit cigarettes and razor blades, and demonstrate magical illusions. Authentic sideshow banners painted by Deborah Rinn, will be displayed on the staging area, along with banners from Marie Roberts.

Middleground Streeter roves the grounds offering juggling performances and lessons.

The Beat Shop is your one stop source for chunky beats! Come check us out down in the Chapel Bazaar for all of your dancin' & groovin' needs. This week's specials include electronic acts and DJ's from around New York City, playing house, breakbeat, techno, minimal, dubstep, psytrance, and other dancy electronic beats.

The inspiration for the name The NZASSA company is rooted in a word commonly used in the Ivory Coast, which refers to refers to a collage of discarded material sewn together into one unique and beautiful patchwork fabric.  This African Dance Workshop is open to all participants, regardless of experience level.

A spoken word performance and workshop that transforms audience participants into spoken word artists through the use of poetry, sound, and song. After a performance of 2 or 3 original works, participants will be asked to create and perform their own spoken word art using a selected poem, percussive accompaniment, and imagination.

Performance Art - Street Performance

Chickinman Games & Fun offers a new game called "Socket" as well as a few other fun games to play.

Disorient is an art collective and Burning Man theme camp that creates art projects and art installations using wood, scaffolding, containers, LEDs, geodesic domes, inflatable structures, video, repurposed objects, and vehicles.  At Figment, Disorient will offer a chill space with zero gravity chairs, delta shades, and a sweet sound system.

This Living Statue/Roving Street Mime/Clown will demonstrate to participants his ability to stand still and not blink for excessive amounts of time.

An artist and a small group of Assistant Artists, all appropriately dressed and carrying clipboards, will roam the island and recruit people to fill out a checklist of wars and police actions undertaken by the US since 1944. Many of the wars/police actions listed will have occurred, but some will be made up. The recruits will be asked 1) whether each war/police action happened or didn�t happen and 2) whether the war/police action was just or unjust. (E.g. Dominican Republic, 1965? Chili, 1973? Falkland Islands, 1982? Grenada, 1983?) Recruits� answers will be recorded on the checklist. Potential recruits will be targeted broadly, and will include (but not be limited to) high school students, the middle aged, women, drug users, felons, and illegal immigrants. A legal definition of war vs. police action will be on hand for reference, and once the checklist has been completed, participants can be told, upon request, which war/police actions actually occurred. However, the Artist and Assistant Artists will necessarily refrain from commenting on the justness or unjustness of the war/police actions. The results may be tallied and statistically configured in future.

A staunch member of the Tupperware Party,The Governor of Governor Island and members of his Cabinet (including secret service )will be available for ribbon cutting, announcements, handshaking, babyholding, and platform giving. The Governor of Governor's Island is an interactive performance project.

A troupe of slghtly wacky, period-dressed Dutch Troubadors wander around the Nutten Island (once called Island of Nuts), serenading passersby and participants with songs of ancient revelry. The troupe will engage with participants and attempt to enlist them to join their band as they ramble about the island from event to event.

A solo dance performance to entertain the masses.

Disorient is an art collective and Burning Man theme camp that creates art projects and art installations using wood, scaffolding, containers, LEDs, geodesic domes, inflatable structures, video, repurposed objects, and vehicles.  At Figment, Disorient will offer a chill space with zero gravity chairs, delta shades, and a sweet sound system.

Come and learn the art of hoop dance. Hoops will be provided. No experience necessary!

"Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition" is a photography exhibition that invites the Brooklyn Museum's visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process. Taking its inspiration from the critically acclaimed book, "The Wisdom of Crowds," in which New Yorker business and financial columnist James Surowiecki asserts that a diverse crowd is often wiser at making decisions than expert individuals, Click! explores whether Surowiecki's premise can be applied to the visual arts. Is a diverse crowd just as "wise" at evaluating art as the trained experts? The exhibition panel will be held at FIGMENT. Panelists include James Surowiecki, Jeff Howe - contributing editor at Wired Magazine, Eugenie Tsai - Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, and Shelley Bernstein - Manager of Information Systems and organizer of Click!. The panel will be moderated by Nicole Caruth - manager of interpretive materials at the Brooklyn Museum and also a freelance writer and curator.

The Poetry Brothel is a new and dreamlike twist on a poetry reading, based on the concept of a brothel. Here's how it works: The poets play "whores" and the visitors play "customers," but instead of physical intimacy, the poets offer the intimacy of their poetry by giving private, one-on-one readings. Of course, every good brothel needs a furtive "front" or cover business; this one is part saloon and part salon, offering a blackjack table, live portrait painting, and tarot card readings, with spectacular and covert performances from our poets, performers, artists throughout the event.

Creative bodypainting transformations inspired by sacred symbolism, visionary art, and cross-cultural shamanic traditions. Nelia, a Ukrainian-born graphic designer, offers body art that demonstrates a deep insight into the truest essence of the person being adorned, using the language of color and shape to create new levels of awareness and delight.

The artist, Anya Liftig, will weave herself into the environment of Governors Island using only her body and reclaimed materials. 

This work uses concepts from developmental psychology to look at relationships between dancers in performance. The piece starts with the dancers in solitary play and continues through parallel play into group play to explore how these different ways of interacting can help to maipulate choreography. The piece shows the difference between active and passive involvement between performers exchanging movement and then words.

A troupe of slghtly wacky, period-dressed Dutch Troubadors wander around the Nutten Island (once called Island of Nuts), serenading passersby and participants with songs of ancient revelry. The troupe will engage with participants and attempt to enlist them to join their band as they ramble about the island from event to event.

Circlesinging, (as developed by Bobby McFerrin and Voicestra), is a form in which a leader/facilitator, during the course of an improvisation, develops and gives out parts to different sections of the ensemble (which is essentially acting as a choir or vocal orchestra). The piece continues as the leader or other members of the group solo over those parts. While this is happening, the leader is also still directing the ensemble, sometimes taking parts out, putting them back in, and changing them altogether. Both participating in and witnessing the creation of the music that emerges is often an exhilarating and joyful (many have said spiritual) experience.

Come visit the kid-friendly Limbonade Stand, where the ground is the limit. Exercise your body to balance all that imagination exercise you're getting! Based on your limberness and comfort level we'll put you through your appropriately-challenging limbo paces set to the cheesiest tunes around, then reward you with ice-cold lemonade when you've limbo'd your finest. Come in a group and see how low you can go or come by yourself and make new friends.  See you at the Limbo bar!

Day de Dada is a collective of performance artists based in Staten Island who will travel all over Governors Island collecting random words from people, then offer impromptu Mad Lib readings of their manifesto, complete with nonsense words, fetching costumes,and audience participation.

Enjoy flying handmade kites with images of the artist's shadow on them. Michelle Provenzano will be available to help participants learn how to fly the kites.

Diorama-rama will be a table/stand with supplies provided to make imagined landscapes, maps, and cityscapes of Governors Island. Participants will use xeroxed images, glue, and non-toxic water-based paints for participants to create their own vision of the island. Mixed in with displays of example maps will be images of other islands to offer perspective on different ways pieces of land are used, developed, preserved or destroyed. A digital piece taken of images of all the participant creations will be made following the event.

A workshop for building Intrepid Cameras designed to record video of various types of urban explorations not always available directly to humans. The workshop participants will be divided in groups and can propose their own Intrepid Camera Missions, or they may choose to build cameras that can be, for example, thrown from the top of buildings to document the landscape vertically (like school egg-drop projects), attached to moving vehicles, or flown around the city on other urban adventures. All materials must be brought by the workshop participants, who will be encouraged to create solutions from cheap, recycled materials and use low end cameras available to them. Limit: 30 participants.

A Site-specific, Interactive, Quadraphonic Audio Installation Piece based on chance operations. Audience members are welcomed to the Castle Williams with an encouragement to move about the space. Certain unbeknownst participants are actually driving the quadraphonic audio experience. Due to the chance operations, no two performances are alike.

Urban Mysticism is a lifestyle that integrates a modern context and modern practices with ancient spiritual values and archetypes. We discuss issues that pertain to spirit, culture, subculture and technology with a hip, urban edge. The Urban Mystic Village will have Reiki healing, interactive spiritual based games for children, workshops and more! We will also have speakers such as Temple Builder Brilliant for a discussion of sacred geometry, crystal grids, Kabbalistic magic and Burning Man. This summer the most intricate and powerful crystal grid since Atlantis will be woven around Black Rock City. Come and find out how a marriage of ancient Kabbalistic magic, Taoism and Zen will transform the Burning Man festival into a single great prayer of healing for the entire globe.

Lettuce Lane is an interactive pathway planted with lettuce seedlings that participants will harvest for making their own locally harvested salad. Instructions will be outlined for harvesting, and identification guide will instruct participants to identify variation in the taste and shape of up to 8 different types of greens.

The Beat Shop is your one stop source for chunky beats! Come check us out down in the Chapel Bazaar for all of your dancin' & groovin' needs. This week's specials include electronic acts and DJ's from around New York City, playing house, breakbeat, techno, minimal, dubstep, psytrance, and other dancy electronic beats.

Jester Jaimi begs, borrows, and steals paint, boards, brushes and lumber to construct easels for artists (from amateurs to graffiti masters) to use. The sections worthy of preservation will be cut out of the boards and the remaining artifacts will be gifted back to the community.

Design and build a bicycle-powered ice cream churner!

The Beat Shop is your one stop source for chunky beats! Come check us out down in the Chapel Bazaar for all of your dancin' & groovin' needs. This week's specials include electronic acts and DJ's from around New York City, playing house, breakbeat, techno, minimal, dubstep, psytrance, and other dancy electronic beats.

NYC DJs come together to spin Hip-hop, House, and Electro for anyone who wants to dance. Lineup: * Sintactic (Hip-Hop, House, Baltimore Club and Electro) * d_juice (treasure tech and island house) * miss mikayla (Hip-Hop and House) * Speakeasy (Hip-Hop, R&B and Neo-Soul)

The Beat Shop is your one stop source for chunky beats! Come check us out down in the Chapel Bazaar for all of your dancin' & groovin' needs. This week's specials include electronic acts and DJ's from around New York City, playing house, breakbeat, techno, minimal, dubstep, psytrance, and other dancy electronic beats.

This is a sound and noise piece derived from two years of working in fast-paced kitchens in Seattle, WA. Recordings of the frenetic pace in the kitchens offer a huge pool of sounds with which to compose this abstract, dynamic piece that explores sounds as their own entities, free of meaningful association.

NYC DJs come together to spin Hip-hop, House, and Electro for anyone who wants to dance. Lineup: * Sintactic (Hip-Hop, House, Baltimore Club and Electro) * d_juice (treasure tech and island house) * miss mikayla (Hip-Hop and House) * Speakeasy (Hip-Hop, R&B and Neo-Soul)

Design and build a bicycle-powered ice cream churner!

NYC DJs come together to spin Hip-hop, House, and Electro for anyone who wants to dance. Lineup: * Sintactic (Hip-Hop, House, Baltimore Club and Electro) * d_juice (treasure tech and island house) * miss mikayla (Hip-Hop and House) * Speakeasy (Hip-Hop, R&B and Neo-Soul)

The Brooklyn Children's Museum will bring several animals to Governors Island, including snakes and lizards, and will offer a child-friendly workspace.

A walk through the "wilds" of Governor's Island will teach participants what wild plants you can eat and use as medicine, both on the island and all over New York.

Shadyvil, a Burning Man theme camp, offers a silk-screening station complete with several screens, designs, and plenty of ink. Bring your own t-shirt and learn how to silkscreen it with a new design.

Circlesinging, (as developed by Bobby McFerrin and Voicestra), is a form in which a leader/facilitator, during the course of an improvisation, develops and gives out parts to different sections of the ensemble (which is essentially acting as a choir or vocal orchestra). The piece continues as the leader or other members of the group solo over those parts. While this is happening, the leader is also still directing the ensemble, sometimes taking parts out, putting them back in, and changing them altogether. Both participating in and witnessing the creation of the music that emerges is often an exhilarating and joyful (many have said spiritual) experience.

Travel back into the Womb, put yourself inside a Thought Balloon, be the first on your block to go *inside* a latex balloon, or dance The Bubble from the *inside*!~

A solo dance performance to entertain the masses.

Check out our costume giveaway booth. Kids are welcome to try on all sorts of cool new costumes, free to take home.

Disorient is an art collective and Burning Man theme camp that creates art projects and art installations using wood, scaffolding, containers, LEDs, geodesic domes, inflatable structures, video, repurposed objects, and vehicles.  At Figment, Disorient will offer a chill space with zero gravity chairs, delta shades, and a sweet sound system.

A workshop in which participants will learn how to knit the plastic from plastic bags, making a practical recyclable resource into a fanciful piece of art.

A solo dance performance to entertain the masses.

A free form gathering for individuals to explore movements, undulations, ossiclations, rotations, within the major muscle groups and then collectively apply them to yogic postures, specifically balancing poses. After a guided exploration of the motions and postures, individuals with collaborate with other participants to teach, share, and learn their creations.

A kiddie pool filled with rose petals. People can lie in the petals and luxuriate or throw them around in confetti fasioni

This work uses concepts from developmental psychology to look at relationships between dancers in performance. The piece starts with the dancers in solitary play and continues through parallel play into group play to explore how these different ways of interacting can help to maipulate choreography. The piece shows the difference between active and passive involvement between performers exchanging movement and then words.

Live Music.

In the 1890s women enjoyed playing tennis on the courts on Governor's Island. In this version of Victorian Volley, the female athletes will be dressed, as they would have been in the nineteenth century, in Victorian dresses. Although many know of the GI's remarkable historical buildings few know of their tennis courts or are aware of the fashion constraints of female athletes one hundred years ago. The experience of witnessing such a match will appear absurd yet viewers will soon realize the scene is not imagined, but a recreation of actual events.

A conversation between representatives of the Action Arts League and FIGMENT. Matt Goldberg, a board member of the Action Arts League and career expert in online media, will engage in a lively dialog with Audrey Boguchwal, moderator of the FIGMENT lecture series and advocate of online participatory culture.

A drum & dance circle open for spectators to watch or join.  Dance lessons will be incorporated, as well as a yoga lesson at the conclusion.

This lecture focuses on the idea that humanity is currently in a period of rapid growth, transformation, and change. With the increase of technology and information what is considered reality is in the midst of a self-evolving process. The artist plays a pivotal role not only in creating his/her art but as a co-creator of reality itself. Alan Steinfeld, founder of New Realities, discusses the artist role in the formation of these emerging new realities.

The Moth Presents Heat: Stories about Summer in the City Hosted by Andy Borowitz: humorist (The New Yorker), writer (The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers, The Trillionaire Next Door) Featuring stories by: Ed Gavagan James Braly (www.jamesbraly.com) An hour of storytelling program featuring favorite storytellers from The Moth. The Moth has been called New York's hottest and hippest literary ticket by The Wall Street Journal, and features simple, old-fashioned storytelling on thoroughly modern themes by wildly divergent raconteurs.

A literary pamphlet and performance piece. The Dance Away Your Debt pamphlet is filled with creative writing and art, following themes drawn from early and contemporary American religious and political pamphlets. The primary goal of New Acquisition is to expose the creative work by emerging female artists and writers via mass distribution of pamphlets and to further engage the audience in dancing away their own debt!

A walk through the "wilds" of Governor's Island will teach participants what wild plants you can eat and use as medicine, both on the island and all over New York.

A two-part mini lecture series on culture jamming as a method to communicate to the masses. The two speakers will explore culture jamming - a mocking of the homogeneous nature of pop culture, often through guerrilla communication - in the context of a resistance movement and an art movement. Culture jamming can reawaken a sense of wonder and fascination about one's surrounding environment, inspired by the frequent intentional ambiguity of the culture jamming technique, which stimulates personal interpretation and independent thinking. The speakers will discuss its successes and failures in communicating its message through several examples.

The Planetary Dance, Anna Halprin's visionary work, is a unique dance through which individuals and groups can give voice to important global issues including war, oppression, pollution and poverty. As a part of Figment/NYC, this rhythmic circular dance will engage participants by teaching large or small groups a simple running or walking pattern. Accompanied by drummers, participants will dedicate their dance to a personal or social cause as a way to inform and energize the dance, spirit and community.  This dance is open to people of all ages.

Splash is a site specific performance originally created for a drained outdoor pool with 8 dancers in brightly colored buckets filled with water. Splash can also be performed in other appropriate outdoor venues (like in the grass at Governors Island) This dance is a structured improvisation to an exciting collage of music about water. Splash is a great crowd pleaser and tons of fun!

You are invited to explore Governors Island through sound, led by Andrea Williams of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology. This hour-long soundwalk focuses on mindful listening to the varied environments and acoustic spaces of the Island. Following the soundwalk will be a brief group discussion on sound and ecology. Groups are limited to 10 people each.

Disorient is an art collective and Burning Man theme camp that creates art projects and art installations using wood, scaffolding, containers, LEDs, geodesic domes, inflatable structures, video, repurposed objects, and vehicles.  At Figment, Disorient will offer a chill space with zero gravity chairs, delta shades, and a sweet sound system.

Conscious Hip Hop artist

The Beat Shop is your one stop source for chunky beats! Come check us out down in the Chapel Bazaar for all of your dancin' & groovin' needs. This week's specials include electronic acts and DJ's from around New York City, playing house, breakbeat, techno, minimal, dubstep, psytrance, and other dancy electronic beats.

Originated as a method of drama therapy, Developmental Transformations is also used in groups to create community connection and allow adults to reclaim their playful healthy selves. This workshop engages participants in playful improvisation together through movement, sound, and role play. No prior experience (in anything but being alive) is necessary.

The Beat Shop is your one stop source for chunky beats! Come check us out down in the Chapel Bazaar for all of your dancin' & groovin' needs. This week's specials include electronic acts and DJ's from around New York City, playing house, breakbeat, techno, minimal, dubstep, psytrance, and other dancy electronic beats.

A boogie rock band.

Returning to FIGMENT for a second year, this site-specific dance performance set near Fort Jay on historic Governor's Island tells the story of slightly schizophrenic General, Russell Rodin, who commandeers thousands of troops in epic battles of the mind. It also features the original Royal Governor of NY, Edward Hyde, and a participatory noisemaker drum corps full of homemade instruments and costumed players.

Figment's very own Curatorial Advisor, LadyBee, Burning Man's art curator, will show several years' worth of images from Burning Man and talk about community-based interactive art, the Burning Man art grant program, and the history of the event. She will discuss community building through art making, emphasizing projects that embody that concept, including: Serpent Mother, Crude Awakening, and Homouroboros. The talk will focus on recent art, primarily from 2006 and 2007. www.burningman.com

A slide-accompanied discussion of the artist, Lucy Orta, and her collaborative and participatory work as a model for a politically engaged and aesthetically sophisticated art practice. Coming out of Europe in the early 1990's, Orta's work was first received in connection to the theory of Relational Aesthetics. This discussion will reconsider her work through a feminist performance trajectory that connects her to the public actions of such pioneers as Suzanne Lacy, Adrian Piper and Lygia Clark. Such a reframing underlines the important political and even Utopian aims of artists such as Orta, who use the empathetic potential of participatory art to imagine a more just, more equitable and more beautiful world, and questions the political implications of an art world that would prefer this work be considered as purely theoretical in its achievements.

A lecture on a series of mixed-media works that interpret the work of Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect that designed Central Park, Prospect Park, Morningside Park, Eastern Parkway, Riverside Park and most of the major parks throughout the United States. Viewers will learn more about Olmsted and have the opportunity to use a sign-in book to describe what they see as the benefits of having parks and how parks enrich their lives. The lecture appears in conjunction with an art installation of pieces created by the speaker. Each piece pays homage to a different Olmsted work, integrating glass, paper and other shapes to complement the landscape he created.

Relax, ground, energize, and balance yourself through the seven chakras of your body. Take a journey through the energy centers (chakras) of the body using breath, meditation, yoga, stretching, toning and more. No previous training necessary to enjoy the class.

An interactive workshop and performance for senior adults using dance to explore the beauty and surprises of the older body in motion. Members of the company range in age from 28-78 and audience members of all ages are welcome to join.

The Beat Shop is your one stop source for chunky beats! Come check us out down in the Chapel Bazaar for all of your dancin' & groovin' needs. This week's specials include electronic acts and DJ's from around New York City, playing house, breakbeat, techno, minimal, dubstep, psytrance, and other dancy electronic beats.

A staunch member of the Tupperware Party,The Governor of Governor Island and members of his Cabinet (including secret service )will be available for ribbon cutting, announcements, handshaking, babyholding, and platform giving. The Governor of Governor's Island is an interactive performance project.

Middleground Streeter roves the grounds offering juggling performances and lessons.