August 28, 2011

Above: Yoga Local Launch Party, New York, November, 2009

Yoga Local NYC has curated this Sunday morning outdoor yoga series for the BMW Guggenheim Lab. Please join us for challenging and inspiring classes from a selection of local yoga studios. The heart of yoga is both physical and mental: residing in the dynamic, living tension created by challenging one’s self to grow while accepting our human limitations. Yoga practice can be seen as the embodiment of the BMW Guggenheim Lab’s mission in New York: confronting comfort. Yoga mats will be provided.

Event Video

Photo: courtesy Yoga Local by Kelly Guenther

Due to adverse weather conditions the Lab will be closed on this day. We are working to reschedule this event so please check back in the upcoming weeks for an update.

Signified is a documentary project featuring and highlighting the work of queer-identified individuals who are fostering enriching and sustaining vibrant and diverse communities. The project is comprised of an ongoing web series of short video profiles, an online platform for educational-resource exchange, and a salon forum featuring the work of a diverse range of queer people and organizations. Join us as we discuss the vision behind the project, screen highlights from season 1 of the video series, and hear from two of Signified’s featured subjects, MM Serra and Darnell Moore. Live drumming and refreshments to follow.

Image: created by and courtesy Anna Barsan and Jessie Levandov

Due to adverse weather conditions the Lab will be closed on this day. We are working to reschedule this event so please check back in the upcoming weeks for an update.

Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling freshwater supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and the human scale. The film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water arms race, and highlights the people and institutions addressing the problem. All the while, it begs the question “Can anyone really own water?”

Filmmaker Q&A will follow  screening

6 pm open seating
6:15 pm screening

Text: courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories