FIGMENT NYC 2009

FIGMENT is an arts event unlike any other.  This weekend, thousands will converge on Governors Island to transform this great public space into an explosion of creativity.  The event will include large-scale interactive sculpture, performances, music, visual art, games, and other activities by over 400 participating artists. Be sure to visit The Human Weeble Wooble, a classic early original sculpture first created by David Henry Brown Jr. (of the Fantastic Nobodies) in 1994 for a show called The Deviant Playground. Cast in a huge concrete mold, the artist will be hosting the Weeble for Figment visitors throughout the weekend.

Where:
Governors Island.  Reachable by convenient and free ferries from lower Manhattan (Battery Maritime Building, near 1,4,5,R,W trains) or Brooklyn (Fulton Ferry Landing, near 2,3,A,C trains).

When:
FIGMENT 2009:  June 12 – 14 (Friday 10 – 5, Saturday and Sunday 10 – 7)
City of Dreams Interactive SculptureGarden:  June 12 – October 11 (Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays)
City of Dreams Artistic Mini-Golf Course:  June 12 – October 11 (Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays)

The event is free and open to the public, and devoid of any corporate sponsorship or advertising. Bringing bicycles, picnic lunches, and plenty of drinking water is encouraged.

FIGMENT 2009 is made possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Both funds are administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.