Cal Stalvig will contribute to NAFAS festival by bringing the ancient and sacred magic of candlelight. Fire has long been at the heart of human social, imaginative, and spiritual life, and candles extend the tradition of the hearth—the place where people gather, share food, tell stories, perform, and find warmth.
Sama Beydoun’s Mother Tongue is an ongoing photo-based project exploring memory, migration, and matriarchy through food. It began as a personal reflection after leaving Lebanon, documenting the relationship between generations of women in her family, and evolved into a broader investigation of transmission within the Lebanese diaspora.
Emmanuel “Gus” Reckel is a baker, educator, and culinary artist who approaches food through wild fermentation, traditional nutrition, and hospitality. For Gus, food isn't just sustenance—it's a hands-on way to bring people together, share stories, and explore plant-based eating.
Join a candle-making workshops at Asahi-so where participants encounter the magic of candlelight, apiculture, and botany while immersed in the perfume of beeswax.
This event happens at Asahi-so, NAFAS venue partner
Omusubi can be a meal or a quick snack. A brand-new omusubi will be born, using flavors and textures connected to Japan, Brazil, and Egypt. This will be a time to make omusubi, eat together, and listen to the stories behind the rice and ingredients.
4.5 Ways of Appreciation by Yu Ohara is a performance that physically explores four approaches to the reception of art through tasting: the Japanese concepts of “鑑賞 kanshō,” “観照 kanshō,” and “賞玩 shōgan,” and the Chinese concept of “品鑑 pinjian.”
Haku Kato is a poet from Kanagawa Prefecture. Kato began working as a poet in August 2025 and published a first collection of poems, Tokyo White Night Flight (fourteen poems), He will read his poems in the BUoY gallery, directed by Thierry Thieû Niang
Join California-based artist Tara de la Garza for a hands-on workshop exploring the creative potential of discarded plastic bags and packaging. Tara’s artistic practice is dedicated to reimagining single-use plastics, transforming everyday waste into objects of beauty and reflection.
《SHIT》 is a workshop in which participants experience a series of steps: excreting, carbonizing the excrement, cooking it, and transforming it into bread, then eating it.
Each guest arrives with two ingredients. From this unexpected collection, the group imagines a menu, cooks, and shares a meal together. Throughout the evening, participants take turns documenting what unfolds, from the first gestures in the kitchen to the conversations and encounters around the table.
On Sundays, artist Mari Katayama likes to bake cookies at home with her daughter.
On this special Sunday, Mari comes to BUoY with her daughter and her own oven, the only one she trusts. Together, they will bake cookies in the café and offer them to the public.
Takenoko Lab is an experimental performance designed around the concepts of bamboo as food, and bamboo woodwind instruments (shō, shakuhachi).This experimental event will allow participants to physically experience the process by which a single bamboo stalk transforms from a bamboo shoot (food) underground, to a musical instrument like the sho or shakuhachi above ground, and finally to sound produced by human breath.
In an age where words are constantly produced, consumed, and forgotten—where endless streams of information and artificial intelligence threaten to overwhelm our own voices, Café Mizuumi to Eat Words invites visitors to slow down and savor language, one word at a time.
Furicha Free Live + Furicha Experience Session is a live performance and participatory workshop inspired by Japan’s traditional foamed-tea culture. Combining the rhythmic sounds and movements of whisking tea with electronic music, projections, and audience participation, the project reimagines the social and sensory traditions of Furicha in contemporary Tokyo.
in partnership with Institut Français du Japon / Villa Kujoyama, we invite artists Hélène Deléan and Clément Caignart for an informal presentation of their current research project N88DL, a speculative fiction that takes shape around the invention, by Momofuku Ando in Osaka in 1958, of instant noodles.
For the final day of NAFAS Tokyo, Julie Dind presents an eleven-hour durational performance exploring food, ritual, time, and collective experience.
Alone at the heart of BUoY’s vast concrete basement—a raw, cavernous space whose material weight seems to hold both silence and memory—the artist’s solitary presence becomes at once fragile and persistent.
In this performance created for NAFAS Tokyo, Wakita Kizuku examines what becomes part of one's being—before, during, and after a meal—through the act of eating.
In this performance created for NAFAS Tokyo, Wakita Kizuku examines what becomes part of one's being—before, during, and after a meal—through the act of eating.
What do we really see when we look at animals in a zoo? Are we observing another species or are we confronting reflections of ourselves? Perhaps the zoo does not simply preserve the past of humanity, but reveals its present, and even hints at its future.
Theophobia are brilliant and earnestly weird… If you've been a little bored of the art you've been seeing lately and you miss a sense of glam in your musicians, or you want to see a band who recently passed out celery during their set, check them out.
The Invisible Dog (New York) and BUoY Arts Center (Tokyo) are launching a call to artists for NAFAS, a Tokyo month-long festival in September 2026 where art and food share the same table, and where audiences are invited to savor multiple artistic propositions.
This one-time, site-specific sequence of happenings is a tribute to Iranian and Afghan women whose audacious emotions have fueled the force of rebellion through millennia. In three consecutive performance workshops, each two hours long, we will slow down—physically, emotionally, and very, very literally—while continuing to move.
The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome Jen Rosenblit and Simone Aughterlony. As part of the research for their performance work The Dumps, and as an extension of their Technical Residency at the Center for Performance Research Simone Aughterlony and Jen Rosenblit organize In Our Decline, a symposium aroused by an urgent and necessary un-doing of things – aging, un-worlding, decay, ruination, and collapse.
The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome Raja Feather Kelly and his performance BUNNY BUNNY
Written, Directed and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly, BUNNY BUNNY is an ensemble Devised danced-theatre production and installation exploring desire and surveillance.
This is a fictional story based on the real-life events of six bunny rabbits who are stuck in a house. They work together, and have their lives taped and find out what happens when bunnies stop being polite and start getting real. Reality TV meets, McCarthyism, meets the human condition in imagined and anthropomorphic realities.
The Invisible Dog is thrilled to present as a part of Strand for Women, Eileen Ahmadpour’s Peeling pomegranates, A Ritual of Love and Presence at Atelier Jolie, from 12:00-3:00pm and 6:30 - 8:30pm
The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome Brandon Woolf, Leonie Bell, and Matt Korahais for a two night event of The Stinking Nose.
CATCH is a party that centers short and/or in-progress live performances and other time-based media.
CATCH is the Obie award-winning, itinerant, rough-and-ready series of performance parties that whirled through Brooklyn (and Austin, Chicago, Philly, etc) every couple months 2003–2017, took a breather, and is back fresh for 2024.
CATCH promotes community and the exchange of ideas across a broad constellation of progressive artists, scenes, and their friends and fans, by curating, producing, promoting and documenting parties that center short (and frequently in-progress) performances and videos.
As apart of the Collective Threads exhibition and programming, The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome Layla Klinger for a large scale lacemaking demonstration as well as Katherine Fox-Glassman and her daughter for a bobbin lacemaking demonstration.
The Invisible Dog Art Center and the Fisher Center at Bard are thrilled to present The Search Of Power by Tania El Khoury, as part as Under The Radar Festival 2025.
On a night with a sudden electricity outage in their Beirut neighborhood, the artist and her historian husband discussed the history of power cuts in Lebanon.
The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome Scout Davis for The Ashlee Simpson Lip-Sync.
The Ashlee Simpson Lip-Sync is a homage to the pop rock star from the early 2000’s. The piece explores what it means to come out of the shadows of what others perceive you as in this world while holding true to your authentic self.
The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome back CATCH!
CATCH is a party that centers short and/or in-progress live performances and other time-based media.
CATCH is the Obie award-winning, itinerant, rough-and-ready series of performance parties that whirled through Brooklyn (and Austin, Chicago, Philly, etc) every couple months 2003–2017, took a breather, and is back fresh for 2024.
CATCH promotes community and the exchange of ideas across a broad constellation of progressive artists, scenes, and their friends and fans, by curating, producing, promoting and documenting parties that center short (and frequently in-progress) performances and videos.
The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome ISSUE Project room and AvanTokyo to present esteemed Japanese band ASA-CHANG & Junray for their debut U.S. performance. Drawing on material from the project’s entire discography, they perform as a trio: ASA-CHANG (percussion), Yoshihiro Goseki (saxophone, flute), Sena Oshima (violin), and the “Junray Tronics” soundsystem. The evening will also feature Argentinian experimental artist Alma Laprida whose creative pursuits encompass composition, improvisation, performance, installation, and radiophonic pieces.
The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome back Catch! featuring: Anh Vo,
Anooj Bhandari, Diana Oh, Emily Johnson, Kimiko Tanabe, Miriem Bennani, Nazareth Hassan, and Sex Work Survival Guide.
The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome Brian Andrew Whiteley with a one day installation of Human Petting Zoo.
One Night Only: Immerse yourself in a unique atmosphere where you can pet, play, and connect with live humans in furry outfits. The immersive art installation features performers in cosplay suits, video and projection art, paintings, a functional furry fountain, hay bails, live music and electronic sets by Prism House with select instrumentalists.
Durational Duet redefines love beyond heteropatriarchal constraints, based on Indigenous, matriarchal, and mammalian notions of the dyad—a pair fitting together toward nourishment and impenetrability.
In Leni’s Last Lament, which swept top awards at its one-night-only United Solo Festival in Manhattan last March, Hitler’s controversial filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, poses as a misunderstood victim as she attempts to justify and sanitize her notorious past. Set in Leni’s editing room and presented as a macabre, comic cabaret with a live accordionist — the play is a wild ironic ride full of hard-to-believe insights into this provocative figure as she reassembles her life to create a more palatable portrait. Leni’s Last Lament opens on March 15 for Women’s History Month at The Invisible Dog Arts Center in Cobble Hill.
The Invisible Dog Art Center, Fisher Center at Bard, and Under the Radar Festival are thrilled to present the New York City premiere of Tania El Khoury's Cultural Exchange Rate. Presented in partnership with Under the Radar, Mark Russell, Festival Director & ArKtype, Festival Producer
Wassaic Project Holiday Party for Artists and Lovers is back for a second year at The Invisible Dog.
The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome Nick Westrate and an ensemble of four New York theater actors (Lucy Owen, Brad Koed, Mallory Portnoy and Will Rogers) for their rendition of A Streetcar Named Desire.
The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome Anti-Social Music and Ghost Ensemble as they present an evening of recent commissions exploring cellophane, patternicity, breath cycles, and inflating arboreal harmonica-playing sound sculptures, featuring the world premiere of Carl Bettendorf's Variations on 4x25 Notes (2022-23) and the New York premiere of Miya Masaoka's Spirals of Energy (2023). Two other recent commissions by ensemble-member composers, Sky Macklay's Harmonifriends and James Ilgenfritz's Apophenia V: Outmoded Large Crumbling Oval Lime-Green Midwestern Plastic-Frame Reading Glasses, receive their second New York performances, and cellist Tyler J. Borden performs Caroline Louise Miller's Vessel (2013).
The Invisible Dog and Prelude Festival are thrilled to present The Anthropologists' axes, herbs and satchels.
Rooted in the history and embodied wisdom of doulas and midwives, "axes, herbs and satchels" is a celebration of traditional knowledge held in the Black birth worker community and a potent examination of maternal mortality. The Anthropologists' axes, herbs and satchels offers midwifery as a gift to humanity and doulas as resistance.
The Invisible Dog Art Center is thrilled to welcome ISSUE Project Room for their 20th anniversary, which will be celebrated with a series of commissioned programs. Join us for this performance featuring Theodore (ted) Kerr and Michael R. Jackson.
The Invisible Dog Art Center is thrilled to welcome ISSUE Project Room for their 20th anniversary, which will be celebrated with a series of commissioned programs. Join us for this performance featuring Lime Rickey International (Leyya Mona Tawil) and Masma Dream World (Devi Mambouka).
French choreographer Thierry Thieu Niang is creating a mesmerizing dance performance inspired by the artwork of visual artist Camille de Galbert. Both Niang's choreography and Galbert's artwork share a profound exploration of movement and materiality.
Born in 1989, Nidal Abdo is Palestinian by his father and Ukrainian by his mother. From the Yarmouk camp in Syria where he was born he started dancing at a young age at the Ballet Dance School of the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus in 1999, then his journey began with the Syrian Enana dance company in 2005 to be a trained dancer in the beginnings until he became a professional dancer participating and traveling with the band in many festivals and in different countries.
Join us for an unforgettable summer workshop with renowned French choreographer Thierry Thieû Niang. This exciting opportunity invites participants of all ages whether you're a professional or simply have a passion for movement. Get ready to delve into the world of contemporary dance and explore your creative potential.
“Fare la scarpetta", Italian for "making the little shoe", is a gesture made after eating a delicious dish. The bread dances on the surface of the plate, improvising its walk, picking up the best parts of the meal. This gathering will articulate the idea of the Scarpetta motion, and bring it to the forefront, oscillating between the artistic act of painting and the gastronomic act of eating.
