Invisible Dog Begins Second Season with 'Farm City', 9/12

The Invisible Dog & Crossing The Line invite you to Farm City, a festival of urban agriculture. Bergen Street and the whole building will be transformed into an actual farm.  That day, we will also proudly host Open Studios, whereas our artists will share their art along with culinary delights to create a truly multi-sensorial experience.  This tasty day for both mouth and mind cannot be missed.  We hope you can please join us Sunday September 12th from 11am to 7pm.

The Fair is a wild new take on the traditional County Fair, a day-long celebration of art and food grown in Brooklyn! Festivities engage all the senses: hear live music performed by local Bang on a Can marching band Asphalt Orchestra; taste delicacies prepared by local chefs inspired by ingredients from Brooklyn farms; view specially commissioned work exploring the culture of agriculture by local artists; get a feel for materials needed to produce your own food in workshops by Brooklyn Food Coalition; participate in a Blue Ribbon Competition hosted by GreenThumb; and browse a marketplace with some of Brooklyn's small-batch artisanal food purveyors curated by Greenpoint Food Market. Cap it off with The Food Experiments' live cooking competition-Brooklyn Roots-featuring savory samples and refreshing drinks from Brooklyn Brewery, Six Points Brewery, Red Hook Wines, Brooklyn Oenology, Kings County Distillery and others.

Co-curated by Derek Denckla, editor of thegreenest.net and founder of FarmCity.US., the festivities are designed to share the principles, practices, and surprising revelations of Urban Agriculture including rooftop farms, urban homesteading, city beekeeping, and parking lot agriculture, to name a few. Through a host of homegrown events and activities this lively and living celebration will reveal the rich terrain in our own backyards, with a clear nod to the community's agrarian roots and an exploration of the future of farming the urban jungle.

To celebrate and compliment the culinary events of Farm City, the 29 artists of The Invisible Dog will host a special Open Studios event.  On top of opening their studios to visitors to view their art in the space it is created, artists will be serving up their own favorite flavors in the form of food and beverages.  Come taste their art, come see their food at this multi-sensorial event

Crossing the Line is FIAF's fall festival, conceived as a platform to present vibrant new works by a diverse range of trans-disciplinary artists transforming and furthering cultural practices on both sides of the Atlantic. Initiated, conceived, and produced by FIAF in partnership with leading New York cultural institutions, the fourth annual edition will, for eighteen intensive days, continue to deliver the highest caliber of original work, with a specific focus on the artist's role as a critically important thinker and catalyst for social change.
 
The fourth edition of Crossing the Line is co-curated by Lili Chopra, Artistic Director at FIAF and Simon Dove, Director, Herberger Institute School of Dance at Arizona State University, and runs from September 10 - 27, 2010. A number of the programs will utilize FIAF's own spaces, including Florence Gould Hall, the FIAF Gallery, Tinker Auditorium, and Le Skyroom. Established partners in New York City will also host events, including Anthology Film Archives, Columbia University, Dance Theater Workshop, Dancing in the Streets, Danspace Project, The Invisible Dog  Art Center, ISSUE Project Room, Japan Society, The Joyce Theater, Movement Research, and Performance Space 122.