Current Events
Underwater New York is excited to present a limited online screening of the award-winning documentary Strange Fish: The Anonymous Heroes of Zarzis, followed by a live discussion with director Giulia Bertoluzzi, moderated by migration studies scholar Eleanor Paynter.
On Febuary 22nd, 2013, UNY invited three writers with connections for the Bronx to read original work in conjunction with the exhibition Process and Progress: Drew Manahan, Meta Local Collaborative and the Bronx River Alliance at the Bronx River Art Center. Carolyn Ferrell, Rich Villar, and Allison Amend chose from a fresh list of objects found in the Bronx River--most by local volunteers as they undertook the task to clean it up--to inspire their work.
UNY was invited to curate a reading in conjunction with the American Folk Art Museum's exhibition COMPASS: Folk Art in Four Directions, that took place at the South Street Seaport Museum from June 2012-March 2013.
Bridget Talone, Joe Fritsch, and Leah Umanksy read for Underwater New York at the 2nd Annual New York City Poetry Festival on Governor's Island. To gear up for the reading, they each wrote us some new haikus.
More than sixty people joined us on an exploration of New Dorp and Cedar Grove Beaches on Staten Island’s eastern shore, led by poet and longtime Cedar Grove resident Jen Fitzgerald and historian Josh Jakob. Here are some of the photographs from that day! Read more about the beaches here and be sure to click over to the blog We Heart NY and to BK Rabblerouserto see more great documentation of the event.