Please join us on Friday, June 21 for PS21’s 2024 Gala!

Our pinnacle event of the season, the Gala spans the PS21 campus, featuring a cocktail fountain in the orchards, a farm-to-table dinner under the big tent, a silent auction, and a performance of Noli Timere by acclaimed choreographer Rebecca Lazier in our pavilion theater.

Noli Timere is a soaring aerial performance-installation—eight dancers moving within, on, under, and around Janet Echelman’s voluminous floating iridescent net sculpture, up to 25 feet in the air. Rebecca Lazier’s choreography, with an original score by cellist and composer Jorane, daringly synthesizes experimental dance, avant-garde circus, installation art, music, engineering, public sculpture, and social practice.

Noli Timere (“be not afraid,” in Latin) makes the interconnectedness of the human and natural realms visible and tangible: a change in one element has cascading effects. The work is guided by urgent questions: how do we survive in a changing world, cope with instability, and live with precarity? During a time of unprecedented uncertainty, Noli Timere revels in our interconnectivity and resilience.

Food for the evening will be provided by Hudson’s James Beard Award-nominated chef Jeffrey Gimmel of Swoon KitchenBar, and Chatham’s Bimi’s Canteen.

All proceeds from the Gala allow PS21 to continue to provide everyone in our community affordable access to adventurous performing arts, to present our PATHWAYS series of free and low-cost community programming, and to keep our 100-acre campus maintained and open to the public every day.

Attendees who purchase tickets before June 1 will be honored in the printed program. Support the PS21 mission by purchasing tickets—or a table! Those under 45 can take advantage of our discounted tickets. And if you can’t make it, consider a donation in lieu of attending!