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This week only, we’re heavily discounting our #PWPress publications to make way for new projects. Find artist-created books for $5, $10, & $15—sales raised from the PW Store are reinvested into funding new, ambitious projects by emerging and underrepresented artists and writers.

Gift Guide

From November 28 through December 14, take 20% off products in the Gift Guide with code: ULTRAFESTIVE. 

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Pioneer Works will be closed for normal gallery hours this October 14 & 15 for Ragas Live Festival 2023, learn more 

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Please note, Pioneer Works will be closed for daily admissions until July 7th. We 

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Celebrate 10 years of Pioneer Works by shopping the PW Press Archive Sale! Through October 31, take 10% off Pioneer Works Press items with code 

Flash Flood Closures

Building Closures Due to Flash Floods

Due to weather conditions, Pioneer Works is suspending open gallery hours for Friday, September 29. MHYSA's performance has been rescheduled for Sunday, October 1, with all tickets being transferred to the new date.

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 for the entire month of April and receive an automatic 20% off books, records, apparel, and more. Members save 35%—learn more about membership 

Our galleries and garden are closed to the public today for a United Sounds NYC Festival 2024. Learn more about the festival 

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Our galleries and garden are closed on Thursday, September 18 for a private event. We will resume regular hours on Friday, September 19, 2025.

Aura Closure 5/27

Please note:

 will close early at 5pm on Saturday, May 27. Learn more and plan your visit 

CEO Announcement

Just Announced: Pioneer Works Names Mara Manus Chief Executive Officer

The Board of Directors of Pioneer Works is pleased to announce that Mara Manus, former Executive Director for New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), has been appointed as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer. 

We are grateful for your engagement and support of Pioneer Works over the last year. Now through December 31st, we’re fundraising to meet our end of year goal and close out 2024.

85% of our programming is free or accessibly-priced and we rely on our community of supporters to make that possible. Give now to ensure that we can continue nurturing artists and audiences through 2025.


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We're pleased to announce the first major renovation of Pioneer Works! To accommodate the first phase of our construction, we're temporarily relocating to 133 Imlay Street opening in Spring 2022.

Early Closure 5/10/23

Due to programming, Pioneer Works will be closed to the public on Wednesday, May 10. We will be open from Thursday through Sunday for the remainder of the week. Learn more and plan your visit 

Our galleries and garden are currently closed for installation. We will reopen on 

Friday, September 12, 2025, from 7–9 PM

Raúl de Nieves, Tega Brain, and Sam Lavigne

Second Sundays Activation

Antidote Performance at Abrons Arts Center

Antidote

False Harmonics #13: Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch's Inner Spaces and Amirtha Kidambi & Matteo Liberatore (Duo) 

Red Hook Holiday Market

Strike! Digital Sabotage with Grayson Earle

TICKETS ONLY AVAILABLE TO PW MEMBERS LEVEL $250 AND ABOVE

Supper Club with Yara Herrera

Environmental Music and Personal World Building with Matt Evans

Can Art Transform How We Experience Public Space? with Olafur Eliasson & Gloria Sutton

YATTA & HxH

Opening Reception for Liz Magic Laser: Convulsive States

Exploring Intuitive Sound Notations with Martha Skou


THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN
SUNFLOWER BEAN
MODEL/ACTRIZ
ROCKET
SLOW FICTION


BLONDE REDHEAD
LES SAVY FAV
MAN MAN
MONOBLOC
PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE
BEC LAUDER AND THE NOISE

United Sounds NYC Festival 2024 

[Sold Out] Science vs. Fiction: Werner Herzog on Every Man for Himself and God Against All

False Harmonics #17: Natural Information Society & Ben Vida feat. Yarn/Wire

Memory Scripting through Image with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo

Broadcast Bash

Supper Club with Chakriya Un (Kreung Cambodia)

CUNY Educators 
Kendra Krueger 
 
Program Director 
Marisa Prefer

Community Sensor Lab

2022 Village Fête After Party 10th Anniversary Celebration

Location
 
Pioneer Works
 
159 Pioneer St
 
 
Theme
 
Psychedelic Dream 
 
For press inquiries, please contact <a href="mailto:press@pioneerworks.org">press@pioneerworks.org</a>.
 
 
For sponsorship inquiries, please contact <a href="mailto:laurel@pioneerworks.org">laurel@pioneerworks.org</a>. 
Unable to attend but would still like to contribute? Make a fully tax-deductible donation to our annual fund <a href=pioneerworks.org/support>here</a>!
 
Please note: This event is ages 21+.

2022 Village Fête After Party | 10th Anniversary Celebration

[Sold Out] Net Making with Mimi Bai

Second Sundays: May 2023

Vision Festival 25

Press Play

Opening Reception for Charles Atlas, Anya Kielar, and Umber Majeed

For Freedoms: Beyond The Box 4 (JUSTICE for Our Future)

Rethinking Residencies Symposium

Crit Night at Ace Hotel Brooklyn

Esther Perel: Mating in the Metacrisis

(161 Water Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10038 — Entrance on Water Street & John Street)

Black Beyond: Warpmode with Tamar Clarke-Brown and Jazsalyn, featuring Dreamcrusher

Visual Arts

2023 Open Call Information Session

Scientific Controversies No. 24: Body, Brain and Consciousness

From Cryptozoo to Blurry

Science & Society: AI and Us

Poncili Creación & Laser Days, Nu Jazz, Evicshen, Ex Wiish, and MC Alex Tatarsky

Community Lunch with Renae Wilson of Dear Henry

2023 Village Fête After Party

Doors: 7PM

Show: 8PM


Tickets

Advance: $25

Day-of: $30

black midi, DJ Python, and Nordra

Nerikomi with ann/drew gayle

Fabric Making with Anya Kielar

Electroacoustic Strategies with HxH

Location
 
Pioneer Works
 
159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11321
 
 
Doors: 7pm 
 
Program: 8pm
 
 
RSVP required

Scientific Controversies No. 23: James Webb Space Telescope

Scientific Controversies No. 26: Dogs

Deerhoof, Body Meat, iiisa

False Harmonics #22: Franck Vigroux & Kurt D'Haeseleer, Amma Ateria, Michael Foster & Strings feat. Shelley Hirsch

False Harmonics #11: Battle Trance and Darius Jones / Shahzad Ismaily / Ryan Sawyer Trio

 Arooj Aftab and Yasmin Williams

Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Tashi Dorji

Second Sundays: April 2025

Curated in partnership with Boom Collective

Louis Cole Choral Music

Activated Archives with Umber Majeed

Monument Media with Umber Majeed


7PM MV Carbon
7:45PM Mesa Ritual
8:30PM Hieroglyphic Being
9:15PM Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton

False Harmonics #18: Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton, Hieroglyphic Being, Mesa Ritual, and MV Carbon

The Art Ensemble of Chicago

Exoplanet Inspired Cyanotypes with Betsy Kenyon

Writing the Ephemeral with Jordan Kisner

August 24

Vocal Health for Touring Artists with Amirtha Kidambi

Scientific Controversies No. 25: Is Math Invented or Discovered?

Tour Without End Screening feat. The Blow, Macy Rodman, and CRICKETS

Constructing Portraits with Rachel Stern  

Live Coding Music with Maxwell Neely-Cohen

Julian Brave NoiseCat: We Survived the Night

Rewilding with Natalie Elliot

Tickets
 
Advance: $20 
Day-of: $30

Florist & Mirah

Andy Stott, Carrier 

Drafting an Access Statement with Finnegan Shannon

Tickets:
 
$20 Advance
 
$25 Day-of

Hiro Kone, James Hoff, and Ov Stars (members of Psychic TV)

[Sold Out] Pit Fire and Raku Ceramics with Nicholas Oh

Free Film: NYC Launch

Different: Primatologist Frans de Waal in Conversation with Isabella Rossellini 

For Freedoms: Beyond The Box 3 (HEALING through Community Collaboration)

 Kelly Moran Performances in Tin Drum: Medusa

Warpmode: Afropocalypse 

FOR SPONSORSHIP AND TABLE INQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT 

Gala 2024

Second Sundays: June 2025

Doors: 4PM
 
Panel Discussion: 5PM
 
 
PANELISTS
 
Beth Citron
 
Scott Ewalt
 
Caleigh Fisher
 
 
MODERATOR
 
Douglas Rushkoff

BREYER P-ORRIDGE: We Are But One Panel Discussion

Amplified: The Art of Rock and Roll

Who’s Afraid of Gender?

Locations
 
Roxy Cinema 
2 6th Avenue, Cellar Level, New York, NY 10013 
Saturday, November 12, 2022
 
Block Cinema 
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208 
Friday and Saturday, November 4-5, 2022 
 
2220 Arts 
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation

Tickets

$25 Advance

$30 Day of


Schedule

7:00 pm Doors

7:30 pm Jay Gandhi and Abhik Mukherjee

8:30 pm In D by Brooklyn Raga Massive & Terry Riley (virtual)

9:30 pm Innov Gnawa

2021 Audio Broadcast
Friday, Nov. 19, 12am–12am
 24 Hour WKCR Broadcast 
<a href="https://pioneerworks.org/programs/livestream-ragas-live">Listen here</a>
 
 
Encore Livestream Rebroadcast of Ragas Live Festival 2020 
Saturday, Nov. 20 7pm–Sunday, Nov. 21, 7pm 
<a href="https://pioneerworks.org/programs/ragas-live-festival-2020">Watch here</a>

Ragas Live: In D by Brooklyn Raga Massive and Terry Riley (Virtual), Innov Gnawa, Jay Gandhi, and Abhik Mukherjee

In addition to direct ticket purchases, entry to this concert is also open to 3-day Long Play Festival Pass holders.

Kim Gordon

Attendees will receive a code for a 10% discount on a copy of Nina Simone's Gum, redeemable through the Pioneer Works Store.

Warren Ellis: Nina Simone's Gum Book Launch

LOCATION
 
PIONEER WORKS
 
159 PIONEER STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11231
 
 
TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ON SEPTEMBER 7
 
 
$225 GENERAL ADMISSION
 
$200 MEMBERS
 
 
MEMBERS RECEIVE EARLY ACCESS
 
PLEASE EMAIL <a href="mailto:danielle@pioneerworks.org">DANIELLE@PIONEERWORKS.ORG </a>TO RECEIVE UPDATES
 
 
#PWSUPPERCLUB

Supper Club with Nick Curtola (The Four Horsemen)

Please RSVP. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served.

A Trip to Infinity: Screening and Q&A with Jon Halperin, Steven Strogatz, & Janna Levin

Canceled: Building the Virtual Landscape with Woody Sullender

False Harmonics #23: Brìghde Chaimbeul, Cleek Schrey & Nora Brown, Laura Ortman

Community Lunch: Jam'It Bistro

Omar Souleyman & Kill Alters

Bringing Worlds Together: A Rethinking Residencies Reader Book Launch

At Pioneer Works

Online via Zoom

Street Photography with Noah E. Morrison

 Outdoor Painting with Black Painters Academy

False Harmonics #19: ICE Performs Earl Howard's Boson1

Opening Reception for BREYER P-ORRIDGE: We Are But One

Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231

Supper Club Curated by Akwasi Brenya-Mensa (Tatale)

Plantasia

Doors: 7pm
 
Program: 8pm
 
 
Free with RSVP

Sean Carroll:  The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion

 individual tickets available to this show.

Entry to this concert is only open to 

Terry Riley 90th Birthday Tribute with Bang on a Can All-Stars, Gyan Riley, and Special Guests

False Harmonics #8: Matthew Shipp, Michael Bisio, Jason Hwang, Ama Birch & David Henderson perform with Alex Harsley’s The First Light

Doors Open 7:00pm
Conversation: 8:00pm
Reception before and after in the Garden
RSVP required

Upcoming Programs

múm

Mindy Seu: A Sexual History of the Internet

Stained Glass Class with Jonny Campolo

Science & Society: Heat Advisory

Pino Palladino & Blake Mills

Observe the Moon Night

Science vs Fiction: Gary Shteyngart

Tomorrow Comes the Harvest: Jeff Mills featuring Jean Phi Dary & Prabhu Edouard

Second Sundays: October 2025

Julian Brave NoiseCat: We Survived the Night

YOB with Windhand

Ragas Live Festival 2025

Hania Rani presents Chilling Bambino, Piotr Kurek

Members Night with Pioneer Works Artists-In-Residence

Andy Stott, Carrier

Second Sundays: November 2025

Chokehole

The American Analog Set perform “Magic Hour” (2 Nights)

Press Play

DakhaBrakha

Past Programs

Supper Club with Yara Herrera

Second Sundays: September 2025

Opening Reception for Raúl de Nieves, Tega Brain, and Sam Lavigne

Second Sundays: August 2025

Amplified: The Art of Rock and Roll

Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Tashi Dorji

The Woods by San Fermin & BalletCollective

Rachel Kushner: Creation Lake