PEM Presents
PEM Presents further activates the museum as a global center for art, culture and creativity with artist residencies, live performances, lecture series, symposia and conferences. Be prepared to be delighted by world-class artistry in music, theater, dance, film and more! Learn about artistic processes and support the development of artists with local, regional, national and global perspectives.
All events take place in PEM’s Morse Auditorium.
Events
THEATER
Shayok Misha Chowdhury: RHEOLOGY
Sunday, March 2, 2025 | 2–3 pm
FREE
Experience RHEOLOGY, the newest work by award-winning playwright and director Shayok Misha Chowdhury, a performance memoir created and performed with his mother, the physicist Bulbul Chakraborty. Her specialty is rheology, the laws governing the malleability and movement of matter under force.
This program is supported by the Lowell Institute.
THEATER
New York Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
Saturday, March 8, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 9, 2025 | 2 pm
$25 members; $35 nonmembers
View a barrage of 30 short plays from the New York Neo-Futurists. Each play offers something different — something funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irrelevant, terrifying or musical. The New York Neo-Futurists are a radically dynamic ensemble of multidisciplinary artists who fuse elements of poetry, game and performance art to create ever-changing theatre to respond to the world.
MUSIC
American Modern Opera Company: Zarabanda Variations
Sunday, May 11, 2025 | 2–3 pm
$25 members; $35 nonmembers
Conceived by performer, composer and American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) member Keir GoGwilt, Zarabanda Variations brings together a group of visionary composers and performers who are inspired by musical histories of 16th- and 17th-century New Spain (present-day Mexico parts of the United States). The familiar tonalities and harmonies of early Baroque music are warped into contemporary and futuristic soundscapes. This musical work will have its world premiere at Lincoln Center in the summer of 2025.
MUSIC
New York Korean Performing Arts Center
Saturday, May 17, 2025 | 2–4 pm
Included with admission
Join us for two performances and workshops of the Buchae Chum (Korean fan dance) and Sogo Chum, a traditional Korean small drum dance, by the New York Korean Performing Arts Center. The group consists of professional performers in Korean traditional music and dance from the Korean American community in the New York area, and is committed to promoting intercultural understanding and appreciation of Korea’s artistic heritage and history.
MUSIC
G-Hwaja
Sunday, May 18, 2025 | 2–3 pm
Included with admission
This quartet combines Western and Korean traditional instruments, melding disparate tones and styles. G–Hwaja strives to popularize Korean traditional music by delivering a dynamic and vivid image of Korea to the modern world.
MUSIC
Iseul Kim’s Two Voices Ensemble
Sunday, May 25, 2025 | 2–3 pm
Included with admission
Hear from a 9-piece ensemble led by visionary composer, pianist, singer and world traveler Iseul Kim. Performing Korean traditional music and Western classical music, Two Voices is a culmination of traditional, classical, jazz and world music concepts that transforms into an original, signature sound.
MUSIC
La Daniella: Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure
Saturday, June 8, 2025 | 2 pm
Included with admission
In this puppet musical set in Brooklyn, a sweet but lonely mermaid named Gooey makes an unlikely friend in a rude, mangy rat named Scabby. Together they set out on a journey to the Gowanus Canal, a land of trash and opportunity. There the two friends encounter a mysterious suitcase that they soon discover belongs to a couple of less than friendly mobsters. Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure will have its world premiere at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn in February 2026.
Check back for upcoming PEM Presents programming for the remainder of 2025. Visit pem.org/events.
PEM Presents is made possible by The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.
All images courtesy of the artists.