Latest Events in Pioneer(February Updated)

Join the upcoming event, "Paint with Friends," featuring a captivating Black Cockatoo painting session on June 14, 2024, from 7 to 10 pm. Immerse yourself in a three-hour artistic experience at the Wollongong Surf Leisure Resort in Fairy Meadow. Let your creativity flow as you bring this stunning bird to life on canvas. The event promises a relaxing and enjoyable atmosphere, perfect for unleashing your inner artist. Located at 201 Pioneer Road, Fairy Meadow, NSW 2519, this painting session offers a unique opportunity to socialize with fellow art enthusiasts while honing your painting skills. Don't miss this chance to create a masterpiece and bond with friends over a shared love for art. Mark your calendars and get ready for a memorable evening of creativity and fun.

The Australian Strongman Alliance Nationals 2024 will feature 5 events taking place at the prestigious Wollongong Surf Leisure Resort in Fairy Meadow. This indoor event will be conveniently located just across from the beach, offering attendees a picturesque setting to witness the intense competition. Access to the resort and event details will be announced soon, providing an opportunity for fans and participants to plan their attendance accordingly. The event is scheduled for August 31, 2024, with tickets priced at A$125. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to witness some of the country's strongest athletes compete in this highly anticipated championship. Stay tuned for more information on the events and how to secure your spot at the Australian Strongman Alliance Nationals 2024.

Join us at Pioneer Works for a conversation between artist Olafur Eliasson and art historian Gloria Sutton, on the occasion of Eliasson’s new public artwork Lifeworld. Eliasson and Sutton will discuss how architecture and omnipresent digital technology affect the ways in which we perceive ourselves and interact with one another. They will explore the current state of public space in city centers, and the relevance of abstraction to portray the complexities of our current moment. Art, in Eliasson’s view, can offer alternative ways to comprehend the current pressures that shape existence in the here-and-now. On view in Times Square from November 2nd to 30th, 2024, Lifeworld will use the advertising screens to introduce a slow and undefined blur of shape and color into New York’s iconic city space. Every evening at 11:57PM, the advertising screens that usually display crisp, sensational visuals give way to soft, slow, liminal perspectives derived from the surrounding fast-paced site. The works of Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson are driven by his interests in perception, movement, embodied experience, and feelings of self and community. Since the early 1990s, his wide-ranging shows—featuring installations, paintings, sculptures, photography, and film—have appeared in museums around the globe. Through installations and large-scale artworks Eliasson explores ways to connect sensorily with our immediate environments, as in The weather project, (2003, Tate Modern, London); The New York City Waterfalls (2008); and Ice Watch in Copenhagen (2014), Paris (2015), and London (2018); Commissioned by CIRCA, Lifeworld (2024), is on view in the public spaces of Piccadilly Circus in London, Kpop Square in Seoul, Kurfürstendamm in Berlin and Times Square in New York in collaboration with Midnight Moment by Times Square Arts. Online, the artwork takes shape in the global digital space of WeTransfer. Gloria Sutton is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at Northeastern University. A research affiliate in the Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sutton also serves on the Advisory Committee of the MIT List Visual Arts Center and Voices in Contemporary Art. Her scholarship has been supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation and the Getty Research Institute where she is working on her current book, Pattern Recognition: Contemporary Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. This program is presented by Pioneer Works, and made possible in collaboration with WeTransfer and CIRCA. Information Source: Pioneer Works | eventbrite

Connect with your creative side and join us for our no-experience-required art class-all supplies included-directed by trained, local artists, who will guide you through “Marble Pour” acrylic on wood cutout. COST: $45 per person LIMITS: Ages 13+ welcome WHAT’S INCLUDED: All your art supplies. Food & beverages sold separately. LOCATION: Heartbreakers Bar & Grill – Chaska PLEASE NOTE Registration must be purchased in advance as seats are limited. Information Source: Paint & Sip Minnesota by Your Bearded Artist, LLC | eventbrite

Pioneer Blues Sunday Afternoon Session with Blues Arcadia & supported by Shade Hadie Come join us for an afternoon of soulful blues music at Pioneer Village! Get ready to groove to the smooth sounds of Blues Arcadia and enjoy the supporting act by the talented Shade Hadie. It's going to be an unforgettable Sunday filled with good vibes and great music. Don't miss out on this epic event! Information Source: Pioneer Blues - Paulette Steele | eventbrite

Press Play is organized by Pioneer Works and is free and open to the public. Publishing at Pioneer Works comprises our imprint, Pioneer Works Press, and magazine, Broadcast. Dec 7 + 8, 2024 12pm-7pm pioneerworks.org Press Play is organized by Pioneer Works and is free and open to the public. A suggested donation of $20 will help sustain our program and includes a limited-edition Press Play bag designed by New York-based artist duo Shanzhai Lyric and the newest issue of Broadcast. Information Source: Pioneer Works | eventbrite

Toitū! brings together a panel of leaders from te ao Māori who have demonstrated determination and commitment to the revitalisation, endurance and growth of te reo Māori. Their stories of lived experience will give us a snapshot into what it takes to be a language warrior in this day and age, during these uncertain times. Information Source: DEBORAH SMITH | eventbrite

We will hand select local musicians to compete in our 3rd Open Mic Competition! First Place wins $500, an opening spot for AFC show, AFC merch, and 2 tickets for each performer! Second place wins $200, Merchandise, & 2 tickets for each performer! Proceeds from this event will go towards supporting the AFC's 2025 Free Concert series in Lithia Park! If you want to apply to perform: Submission open now until Monday Feb 24th. We will announce artists on February 28th. How to Submit: Please include the Following info: 1. Name of the Performer: 2. How many people will perform 3. 2 Live videos 4. Any ways to connect, website, instagram, etc. Email all this info to Ashlandfolkcollective@gmail.com with the subject title Open Mic Submission . Drinks will be served. This event is 21+ Information Source: Ashland Folk Collective | eventbrite

On March 23rd, join Pioneer Works for the third iteration of Warpmode, a conversatoin series that provokes collective re-thinkings of accepted realit with the conceptual card game. Black Beyond’sWarpmode is a conceptual card game and social experience created by artist Jazsalyn to stimulate conversations grounded in Black Metatheories: Afrofuturism, Afronowism, Afrovoidism, and Afropocalypse. In the game, players draw cards and respond to existential prompts to reconfigure Black social and theoretical frameworks. The game has lent itself to a multipart series—co-presented by Onassis ONX and Pioneer Works, in partnership with Metalabel—in which Jazsalyn, the Artistic Director of Black Beyond, has curated sessions to converse with various artists who have deep insights into a focus metatheory, before inviting audience members to partake directly in Warpmode. For the third session in this series, she and American Artist will engage the theme of Afropocalypse, using the latter artist's exhibition Shaper of God as a contextual reference. Information Source: Pioneer Works | eventbrite

Since 2013, Pioneer Works has hosted Second Sundays, a free monthly open house featuring live music, experiments and workshops that activate our campus in partnership with artists-in-residents and community members in Red Hook. More to be announced soon! Information Source: Pioneer Works | eventbrite