Explore the minds of New York City youth through five groups’ workshops, showcases, performances and more at this free youth-led fair hosted on Governors Island.
WORKSHOPS
**Workshop selection is part of the registration process. You will choose your workshops during registration, subject to availability.**
Sign up for hands-on workshops that combine art, mechanical engineering, storytelling and design. Each workshop invites you to transform simple materials into something uniquely yours. Throughout the day, engage in our partner Street Lab’s drop-in workshops that explore the concept of play.
KALEIDOSCOPE:See the world change in front of your eyes as you build your own customizable, light-up kaleidoscope.
WOODEN PUPPETS: Learn hands-on woodworking skills to create a magnetized, moveable, character wooden puppet perfect as a fridge magnet, action figure or whatever else your mind conjures.
STOP MOTION ANIMATION GAME: Step into your own world and tell a story with this hands-on gamified animation workshop. Explore design, storytelling and stop-motion with unexpected narrative twists.
COLLAPSIBLE PAPER LANTERNS: Use circuitry and construction skills to make glowing collapsible paper lanterns to hang in your bedroom or take on a night walk!
FASHION
Step into a gallery of garments that tell stories of culture, identity and change in fashion over time. See the talent of NYC youth as they showcase their technical skills in pattern making, sewing, and garment design.
Exhibiting alongside the fashion cohort, participants from our partner organization Sew So Fresh will display collections rooted in creativity and craftsmanship. Each collection showcases the sewing and textile techniques they have developed over the past six weeks, bringing their ideas to life.
STORYTELLING
Experience another world through a short film written, directed and produced by BSS youth participants.
Dive into a creative film world that explores language, communication and the way it shapes relationships, identity and belonging. Get the behind the scenes of Beam Center on Governors Island through this documentary. Hear perspectives from Beam Center staff, participants and Governors Island community across the island. Stick around after for live Q&As hosted by the youth filmmakers!
Additionally, we are excited to feature films from Brooklyn Combine that tell stories of creative New Yorkers, their communities and more.
MUSIC & MOVEMENT
Experience a narrative story brought to life through both modern dance and original music enjoyable for all audiences. Move your body and join in on line dance lessons with our movement team throughout the day!
Be front row to DJ sets and music performances in partnership with Building Beats. Hear original tracks, and digital production created by NYC youth.
FOOD LABS
Come and see how everyday natural materials like sand, straw and clay turn into something extraordinary– a Cobb pizza oven, created by the Food team!
Explore youth-created cook books inspired by heritage and participants' cultural backgrounds. Interact with food installations made from unconventional craft materials, we encourage you to explore all these spaces in shifting perspectives on food.
Special thanks to GrowNYC and Earth Matter for their contribution of ingredients and expertise that helped bring the cookbooks to life.
DESIGN
Inspired by television and film, the Design Studio combined RFID technology, mechanics, coding, fabrication and storytelling to create an interactive sculptural piece: a large-scale Demogorgon and an enchanted garden.
Wander through the narrative story of ‘Grim Garden’ as you become part of the narrative of exploring a garden of natural disasters in our ecosystem today and ways to combat these changes in the community.