Mad World 25

Mad World 2025 is en route/root! This year’s theme is Queer Ecologies, inspired by Staten Island’s Queer Ecologies Garden by the New York Restoration Project and Alice Austen House. The project celebrates the history of gardens as secret meeting places and sanctuaries for queer people, and features the planting and interpretation of non-binary and sex-changing species, such as ferns. We’re excited to keep with that same spirit!

Event Programming

1pm - 11pm: Fine art exhibition, pop up shop, vegan and vegetarian cuisine

5pm: Artist talk with Dakota Gearhart, creator of Life Touching Life, and Sabrina Imbler, author of How Far the Light Reaches

1pm - 8pm: Experimental film screening spotlighting artworks about the natural world

8pm - 10pm: Performances featuring Untitled Queen, God Complex, Paris Alexander, Tiresias, Esther The Bipedal Entity

Event Venue

SoMad, 34 East 23rd Street, New York, United States