We hope you’ll join us for Bahar Behbahani’s DAMASK ROSE: A GATHERING, where we’ll be at Pool 3 for a Eight-Treasure Tea Kids Circle.

Guided by conceptual ideas of shade, wind, immigrant flora, and diasporic ecological and ancestral knowledge, this performance/installation, taking place in the heart of the Island at Liggett Terrace, brings together nonprofit organizations, food and drink storytellers, herbalists, tea practitioners, musicians, and many other like-minded communities and partners to share a moment of joy and resilience.

Reserve your free spot here. and we’ll see you Saturday, May 16, from 1-5PM on Governors Island.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Bahar Behbahani is an artist, educator, and collaborator whose interdisciplinary work explores memory, erasure, adaptation, and the search for a sense of place. For over a decade, the Persian garden has served as a central metaphor in her practice — bridging personal history with wider histories of power, climate, and the futurity of ancestral knowledge. Her recent projects include a public commission for the 2024 Creative Time Summit and participation in the Sharjah Biennial 15, among others. She has received awards from Creative Capital, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. A transplant from the land of sun, she has adapted New York as her home, where she teaches at CUNY and creates space for questioning dominant narratives through art and dialogue.

More information about the event here.