World Trade Center Performing Arts Center Inc

Lobby stage:as part of our mission to cultivate bonds between extraordinary artists and community and provide public access to the arts, perelman performing arts center (pac nyc) provides free entertainment on the vartan and clare gregorian stage in the pac nyc lobby. Performances on our lobby stage are free and open to the public. In 2024 we had over 150 free programs including music, spoken word, dance, and multi-generational and family programming. Pac nyc collaborates with diverse curators who work with artists from around nyc and the world to program the lobby stage. We also work with consulates to present culturally specific programming and our civic alliance partners to bring new and emerging voices to the stage.

Civic engagement & future programming:pac nyc is strengthening our ties to a variety of communities through ongoing partnerships with our four anchor alliances: borough of manhattan community college, center for independence of the disabled, ny immigrant coalition, the interfaith center, and our foundational alliance, the lenape center. Our artistic and producing teams are developing future seasons of multidisciplinary programming through commissions and workshops. In january 2024, in partnership with the civis foundation, we launched the democracy cycle, a multi-year commissioning program designed to support new works that illuminate the promise, practice, imperfection, and opportunity of democracy. We received over 450 applications for our first open call and commissioned eight new works in the first year of the program.