Galapagos Art Space moving to Dumbo
The new Galapagos Art Space will live on 16 Main Street in Dumbo starting spring or early summer 2008. It will be New York City’s first LEED certified “green” cultural venue. The current space in Williamsburg will operate regularly through the weeekend of June 17, continuing only on weekends and special occassions from there on.
Lymbyc Systym performing at Galapagos Art Space earlier this year.
We love Williamsburg, we were born here in 1995, but we simply can’t afford to remain in Williamsburg and produce the work that we feel is our most valuable contribution to the cultural ecosystem of New York City.
In December 2005 our rent went up by $10,000.00 a month.
Now, in order to extend our lease past November, our landlord requires a 30% increase in rent.
As a venue, our core responsibility is to create audiences for the artists we present and help expand the cultural environment for the benefit of the community we live in.
In DUMBO we’ll be able to present the theater, dance, performance art, music, cinema, lectures / literary events, and the non profit fundraising that we believe is our core mission and the most important contribution we can make to our community.
It must be said that our landlords are lovely people who, way back in 1995, gave us an opportunity that no one else was willing to offer. The rent increases they?ve offered us are, incredibly, still below the market rate.
We’ll be working with them to make sure that 70 North 6 Street remains a venue of cultural significance and doesn?t become the North 6 Street’s next American Apparel or, god forbid, a Starbucks.
We’ll have an interesting announcement about 70 North 6 Street very soon.
