Time of Now festival

Date/Time

06/25/2022 11:00am–6:00pm

Location

Mass MoCA (1040 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams, MA 01247, North Adams MA)

Mass MoCA’s annual festival of thought and performance explores themes of fragility, community and repair through pop-ups, performances, talks and film screenings by artists, musicians, dancers, designers and thinkers, including exhibiting artists Lily Cox-Richard and Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Helga Davis, Treya Lam and more.

“We have lived through two years of a pandemic that has isolated us, exhausted us, and often divided us while forever changing the way we live and work,” the museum says. “At the same time, we’ve witnessed a long-awaited awakening across the culture at large about racism, its relationship to capitalism, and the deeply entrenched inequities that both systems produce.

“This day of events provokes questions about our current state of well-being, our interdependence and our desire for communion and collective action as we emphasize the need to better care for ourselves and others. Time of Now celebrates the museum as a safe haven and a place to come together, where the creation and experience of art can be restorative acts.”

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In Weep Holes at Mass MoCA, Lily Cox-Richard has made fire pits and given them to people in the community to use them and return them.

Marc Swanson explores loss for humans and the natural world in A memorial to ice at the dead deer disco at Mass MoCA.

Bright Ideas offers local brews at night in the Mass MoCA courtyard.

Armando Guadalupe Cortés’ 'Castillo' honors the people and the land in his native Mexico with clay figurines as well as vivid feathers, stones, seeds and more, at Mass MoCA. — Armando Guadalupe Cortés’ ‘Castillo’ honors the people and the land in his native Mexico with clay figurines as well as vivid feathers, stones, seeds and more, at Mass MoCA.

Armando Guadalupe Cortés’ 'Castillo' honors the people and the land in his native Mexico with vividly bright seeds as well as stones, feathers, figurines and more, at Mass MoCA. — Armando Guadalupe Cortés’ ‘Castillo’ honors the people and the land in his native Mexico with vividly bright seeds as well as stones, feathers, figurines and more, at Mass MoCA.

In kelli rae adams - Forever in Your Debt, bowls fill the hallway at Mass MoCA, some filled with coins and sme empty, considering the weight of student loans. — In kelli rae adams – Forever in Your Debt, bowls fill the hallway at Mass MoCA, some filled with coins and sme empty, considering the weight of student loans.

Sculptor Anina Major weaves clay into baskets on a wooden pier in 'All Us Come Across Water' at Mass MoCA. — Sculptor Anina Major weaves clay into baskets on a wooden pier in ‘All Us Come Across Water’ at Mass MoCA.

People gather among the local restaurants, taco truck and microbrewery in the Mass MoCA courtyard at night.

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