Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the world-renowned, 16-acre performing arts center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, this spring will launch Restart Stages, a sweeping initiative that will create tem outdoor performance and rehearsal spaces—an outdoor performing arts center—as well as other outdoor civic venues to help kickstart the performing arts sector and contribute to the revival of New York City.
Restart Stages will launch on World Health Day, April 7, with a special performance for healthcare workers.
Designed with expert advice from medical and public health professionals, Restart Stages will create a safe, welcoming, accessible and dynamic environment for arts and community organizations from across New York City.
All offerings will occur outdoors, with safety protocols in place for artists, audiences and staff. Restart Stages venues will include a cabaret-style stage on Hearst Plaza; dedicated family and kids' areas with arts activities for young people; venues for rehearsals, opening up the artistic process to visitors; space for public school graduations, recognizing the extraordinary achievements of students under difficult circumstances; and an outdoor reading room, created in partnership with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Artistic programming will feature Lincoln Center’s world-class constituent organizations, including outdoor performances of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s annual Summer Evenings concerts; film screenings from Film at Lincoln Center; a concert and cabaret series by Lincoln Center Theater; and dance workshops from New York City Ballet.
Select Restart Stages events will be offered via livestream on Lincoln Center and partner organization digital platforms, increasing access nationally and internationally.
This project will help bring back New York’s rich and vital performing arts ecosystem by also reaching far beyond the Lincoln Center campus to include a wide range of cultural and community partners and guest curators, including the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Harlem Week and the Harlem Arts Alliance, Korean Cultural Center New York and Weeksville Heritage Center.
Lincoln Center also will bring its commitment to civic and community service to Restart Stages, supporting communities that have been hardest-hit by the virus and resulting economic catastrophe. Alongside arts programming, Lincoln Center will offer blood drives in partnership with the New York Blood Center, food distributions in partnership with Food Bank For New York City and also serve as a designated primary election polling place in partnership with the Board of Elections.
Restart Stages is being developed in coordination with NY Pops Up, part of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s New York Arts Revival.
The project is made possible by the support of the Lincoln Center board of directors and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, as part of the SNF-Lincoln Center Agora Initiative, a collaboration that reimagines and reactivates public space for a new era.
“The cultural community has an urgent role to play in the revitalization of New York, to showcase that our city is not just back economically, but spiritually and socially. Which is why we knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that as the city reopened it was our absolute obligation and privilege to be first in line to support our constituents, New Yorkers and the cultural community,” said Henry Timms, president and chief executive of Lincoln Center. “We are building this outdoor campus to be ready, so that when the time comes, we do not miss a single day. We will fling our metaphorical doors wide open on day one in celebration of New York and the resolute, remarkable people who make it the best city on earth.”
Stavros Niarchos Foundation co-president Andreas Dracopoulos said, “Reimagined and reactivated public space could be a shot in the arm for civic life in New York and around the world. SNF is proud to support Lincoln Center in realizing a more expansive and inclusive vision for public space, one that sees arts, culture, education and community engagement as facets of the same civic project.”
Since the pandemic began, Lincoln Center has driven efforts to bring the power of the arts to New Yorkers outdoors and digitally, from Love From Lincoln Center concerts for individual essential workers, to works of art that elevate the voices and lived experiences of people of color in America, such as Carrie Mae Weems’ installation Resist COVID/Take 6!, Davóne Tines’ Vigil and digital commissions like The Baptism by Carl Hancock Rux. Future international collaborations with the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center in Athens will bring new approaches to cultural engagement in both cities.
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