Vibrant Ground
June 13th , 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Get curious on a sound-walk with live music.
Spend an afternoon among the trees, crypts, and wildlife of Green-Wood Cemetery with ChamberQUEER. After perusing a pop-up market of queer vendors offering sustainable wares, set out on your journey through this leafy sanctuary in the midst of NYC. Led by a musical tour guide, you’ll visit sound installations by Thessia Machado, Seare Ahmad Farhat, Elizabeth Kate, and Alexis C Lamb, where you can join in the music or just listen deeply. Come be delighted, provoked, and refreshed by the blending and blurring of music and the natural soundworld.
Presented as part of ChamberQUEER’S 2026 Festival: Together on the Precipice
Tickets are available on ChamberQUEER‘s website or at the link below.
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Thessia Machado’s nomadic noises is a temporary confluence of sonic circumstances in a particular space in a determined time. The installation is an experience that emerges from a group of sound-making small sculptures interacting with the aural ambience in the cemetery.
Seare Farhat and Elizabeth Kate’s Sacred Sounds: Fractured Spaces is a concert-length work for vocalizing cello that transposes the sacred acoustics of Fairchild Chapel into the environment of Green-Wood Cemetery using live immersive electronics, convolution reverb, and resonant materials suspended around the audience. The work reinterprets the safety, refuge, and resonance of sacred and performance spaces in a way which offers them to all.
Alexis C Lamb’s Resonant Gratitude, here re-imagined in a version for ChamberQUEER, is for musicians and the Living Earth, and is a sonic dialogue between our human music and the more-than-human music of our natural surroundings. It invites listeners and practitioners to recognize nature’s power, wisdom, and vulnerability through sound.
Hailed as “a utopian dream… [at] the cutting-edge of classical music” (The Nation), ChamberQUEER realizes queer liberation through collective music-making, lifting up LGBTQ+ artists and reimagining classical music events as radically inclusive gathering spaces. Our Pride festival, staged around New York City each June, has been commended by The New Yorker; listed by The New York Times as a “Best of Pride” event; and co-presented by organizations including Carnegie Hall Citywide, The Handel + Haydn Society, South Street Seaport Museum, The Green-Wood Cemetery, National Sawdust, Boulanger Initiative, and Five Boroughs Music Festival. Year-round community events, from sight-reading parties to composer-performer “speed dating,” nurture communities of solidarity in an industry steeped in competition. Our founders represent ChamberQUEER as educators and advocates across the country, including appearances on WQXR; presentations on equity and belonging at Chamber Music America and Early Music America’s national conferences; and educational initiatives with Oberlin College and Luna Composition Lab.
Access Information
Immuno-inclusivity: ChamberQUEER provides masks and hand sanitizer at front of house. We strongly encourage the use of masks. If you are feeling sick, please stay home. If you require a mask-only area to attend an event, please email hello@chamberqueer.org
Sensory: We have earplugs at front of house. We encourage you to experience events on your own terms. Move around, stand up, close your eyes, clap, cheer, etc!
We strongly encourage you to refrain from wearing colognes and perfumes to help fragrance-sensitive community members.
The Green-Wood Cemetery’s Modern Chapel is accessible. The pathway between sites on the cemetery grounds has been chosen for maximum accessibility and mostly uses the wide paved roads. However, it is not fully wheelchair-accessible. It contains some cobbled and/or narrow pathways and inclines.
To visit by subway, take the R train to the 25th Street station in Brooklyn. Walk east/uphill one block to our Main Entrance.
Free parking is available within Green-Wood. Please park all vehicles on the right-hand side of the road. Parking on the grass is prohibited.
Questions about services or events? Please call (718)768-7300 or email contactus@green-wood.com
If you have an access need that isn’t covered here, please email hello@chamberqueer.org.
Green-Wood’s public programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, as well as the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.