Ring in the New Year right with a proper follow up for our previous sold out NYE events. This year, we’re bringing it old school with a Space Invader-themed party just in time for the Mayan calendar to end. 18andCounting + Billy Brown will be providing the beats you have to move to. Urban Chestnut [...]
On Sunday, October 2nd, The Luminary welcomes Oneohtrix Point Never (aka Daniel Lopatin) to the Elevator Music Series. OPN is the experimental electronic project of Daniel Lopatin, who is also known for his work with 80′s synth revivalists GAMES. Raglani and Kevin Harris will open the show. Tickets are $10adv/$12dos and are available online here. [...]
On Friday, October 28th, The Luminary welcomes Eleanor Friedberger (of The Fiery Furnaces) to the Elevator Music Series. As half of The Fiery Furnaces, Friedberger has become one of the most acclaimed and engaging voices in contemporary music. In her first solo effort, she has created an album as accessible and immediate as any [...]
THE LUMINARY CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS POST PERFORMANCE 3: High Places August 20th, 2011 from 6-10pm at the Old Post Office Plaza For the second year in a row The Luminary Center for the Arts and the Partnership for Downtown presents the Post Performances, a free monthly performance series to be held once a [...]
THE LUMINARY CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS POST PERFORMANCE 4: My Brightest Diamond September 11, 2011 from 7-10pm at the Old Post Office Plaza For the second year in a row The Luminary Center for the Arts and the Partnership for Downtown presents the Post Performances, a free monthly performance series to be held once [...]
We have begun hosting intimate, experimental shows upstairs in the Studio and Installation Space. The space has vaulted 20′ ceilings, gorgeous natural reverb and is ideal for small, direct experiences with musicians and performers. Combining the attributes of a studio–experimentation, process, communication–with the comfortable environment of a kitchen, library and meeting space, these shows are [...]
On September 26th, The Luminary welcomes Deerhoof and Sleepy Kitty to the Elevator Music Series. Deerhoof has become one of the most influential and exciting indie bands over their 20 year history and are known for their unpredictable and ecstatic live shows. They will be joined by local standouts Sleepy Kitty, whose own pop collages [...]
For the second year in a row The Luminary Center for the Arts and the Partnership for Downtown presents the Post Performances, a free monthly performance series to be held once a month in the summer of 2011 at the Old Post Office Plaza. The Post Performances will pair innovative visual artists and musicians to [...]
On July 1st at 8pm, The Luminary will host a special performance upstairs by NewVillager and US English as a part of the US English-curated GOLDEN C/AGE CONCERTS in which they pair installations and innovative sounds together each show. NewVillager is a band/art collective from San Francisco and NYC that will be returning from a [...]
On July 4th, The Luminary presents a special show with of Montreal as a part of the monthly Elevator Music Series. Of Montreal will perform in the intimate gallery space at The Luminary in this unique opportunity to see the band in the kind of creative setting the band is most at home in. It [...]
THE LUMINARY CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS POST PERFORMANCE 1: Oberhofer + Ryan Thayer June 4th, 2011 from 7-10pm at the Old Post Office Plaza For the second year in a row The Luminary Center for the Arts and the Partnership for Downtown presents the Post Performances, a free monthly performance series to be held [...]
On March 22nd, The Luminary welcomes Small Black to the Elevator Music Series. The band’s pulsing patchwork synths and pop hooks lock in for a mesmerizing and dynamic live show. Building off of 2010′s swelling “New Chain” full-length, Small Black has become one of the most highly-anticipated new bands over the past year. Rising stars [...]
On Friday, April 22nd, The Luminary welcomes The Joy Formidable to the Elevator Music Series. The Joy Formidable’s panoramic and anthemic rock has found them superstardom in their native UK and growing acclaim in the US after earning raves from Rolling Stone, NME, The New York Times and Pitchfork and sharing the stage with Passion [...]
On Sunday, March 27th, The Luminary presents post-dubstep pioneers Mount Kimbie to the Elevator Music Series. Mount Kimbie has released some of the most organic and exciting electronic music coming out of the dubstep era in London over the past several years. The two-piece merges found-sound samples and rolling percussion to pioneer a new direction [...]
On Saturday, April 23rd, The Luminary welcomes Lightning Bolt to the monthly Elevator Music Series. Lightning Bolt is a noise rock duo from Providence, Rhode Island, composed of Brian Chippendale on drums and vocals and Brian Gibson on bass guitar. Lightning Bolt are known for their guerrilla-style live performances, where they typically play on the [...]
