On May 30, 2026, Noo Arts welcomes Right to Flight: a rooftop installation and live performance on the Kingsland Wildflowers green roof in Greenpoint, asking a simple but urgent question: Who is the city for?

Led by international author, architect, artist, and Pratt Institute professor, Dr. Harriet Harriss, in collaboration with fashion and textile designer, Brooke Garner, artist Leslie Ruckman, and students from the Pratt MS Historic Preservation Program, the project brings together architecture, public art, and collective ritual to raise awareness about the hundreds of thousands of migratory birds that die each year colliding with New York City buildings. Harriet’s sculptural birdbox installation placed along the skyline will be complemented by a human-size grief nest embedded with handwritten community messages featuring cast bird-carcass memorials by Leslie Ruckman.

On Sunset Sage, live music by Celine du Tertre drawn from the songs of four extinct migratory birds: the Passenger Pigeon, Bachman's  Warbler, Eskimo Curlew, and Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, whose reincarnations will prance across the rooftops in costumes by fashion and textile designer Brooke  Garner. Led by dancer Mariko  Endo, audience members will be invited to move together as a “flock,” reflecting on interdependence between human and avian life.

This opening night spectacle transforms Right to Flight into a collective ritual for interspecies care, made possible by the generous support of Pratt Institute's Historic Preservation Program

The art installation, conceived and creatively directed by Dr. Harriet Harris is made up of five bird nesting boxes and feeders modeled on iconic NYC City skyscrapers. Addressing the issue of avian death resulting from habitat loss and building window collisions, the birdhouses made of Baltic birch are collectively built with students from Pratt’s Historic Preservation Program and Greg Sheward. The installation will remain on view throughout the summer as part of WE ARE NATURE: Transformation Stories, Noo Arts' 2026 season and our annual Residency Award.

The commissioning of this site-specific artwork combining aesthetic form with care for wild birds was made possible by a generous donation from JFM Foundation, New York City.

Donation-based & open to the public
DOORS OPEN 6:15PM | EVEN START 6:30PM
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Games, Grapples, and Growth Grit — it’s all fun and games… until someone grows.

Growing Takes Time is a life-sized interactive arcade where the audience becomes the astronauts, presented as Noo Arts Wildflowers Rooftop with stunning NYC skyline views.

Inspired by Pikmin, performers exist as PIKMII inside a living performance world where collective survival depends on responsiveness, care, and collaboration.

Participants move through childhood anxiety-driven game structures — functioning as levels that build respect, trust, and community.

Blending contemporary dance with jiu-jitsu–inspired partnering, the experience uses conflict, resistance, and cooperation as engines for growth.

Work together and the group levels up. Lose coordination and the game stalls. Resolve tension and the world evolves.

Alongside the arcade, explore a digital art gallery installation in collaboration with Josh Sauceda, showcasing visuals that extend the Growing Takes Time universe.

The audience doesn’t watch the world — they power it.
Play the game. Earn rewards. Grow together.

Event Timeline

Doors Open — 6:00 PM
Immersive Arcade Performance — 7:00–8:00 PM
Rooftop Dance Party — 8:00–10:00 PM

Move through the world, complete missions, and earn rewards — then stay for a post-show rooftop dance party with skyline views.

RAIN DATE: June 21st

Featuring PIKMII Performers: Juwai Pitkin, Macee Eppard, Ashton Atteberry, Anna Patterson, Peter Elizalde, Dahlia Levine, Joy Raylon Hill, Cam Arnold, Kerry Sheehan

Featuring Command Center: Nirah Burwell
Created & Directed by Karley Wasaff
Digital Gallery Collaboration: Josh Sauceda / ARCHIV3
Presented in partnership with Noo Arts

This project is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts.