About this Event
TIME
Enter TIME, an interdisciplinary evening where photography, live classical performance, and audience creation of Canvas of Sound come together in an exploration of how we experience, preserve, and remember time.
WHAT THE EVENING INCLUDES
• Visual Art & Photography
Explore the work of featured photographer Eliso Babuadze, presented in New York for the first time.
• Short Artist Documentary
A glimpse into Eliso Babuadze’s artistic world, process, and perspective.
• Live Classical Performance
Violin · Cello · Piano
An intimate live performance by internationally acclaimed young artists, featuring the premiere of a solo violin work by Ajibola Rivers alongside music by Debussy, Piazzolla, Gershwin, Popper, Azarashvili, Kreisler, Saint-Saëns, Barber’s Adagio for Strings, and more.
• Audience-Created Art — “Canvas of Sound”
The audience becomes part of the artistic journey, responding to the music through color and visual expression. All materials are provided.
• Time with the Artists
Stay after the performance for art, conversation, connection, and time with the featured artists.
Presented by Light & Bloom Concert Platform, TIME unfolds through three connected forms of expression: photography captures moments that have passed, music transforms the present, and the audience creates a visual memory of what remains.
The evening begins with an exhibition of selected works by Eliso Babuadze, a musician and photographer based in Finland. Her photographs hold fragments of life, place, and human experience still—inviting us to look more closely at moments that might otherwise disappear.
The exhibition leads into a live classical performance shaped as one complete artistic journey. Moving across different eras, styles, and cultural voices, the musical program explores the many ways we experience time: through memory and nostalgia, movement and change, stillness and reflection.
Rather than following a single historical period, the music creates its own passage through time, allowing distant musical worlds to meet within one shared present.
Near the conclusion of the performance, audience members who wish to participate will be invited to translate their experience of the music onto a small canvas.
There is no prescribed image, technique, or interpretation—and no artistic experience is needed. The canvas is simply a personal response to what you heard, felt, remembered, or imagined during the performance.
All materials will be provided.
Following the final musical work, the individual canvases will be brought together to form The Canvas of Sound—a collective installation created by the audience through one shared experience.
What begins as an individual response to music becomes part of something larger: a visual record of a moment that existed only once, among the people who were there to experience it.
Throughout the evening, selected moments from the performance and creative process will be photographed. Images will later be shared with attendees, allowing fragments of the experience to live beyond the evening itself.
In TIME, photography preserves what has passed. Music transforms the present. And together, we create what remains.
Evening Schedule
6:45 PM — Doors Open
TIME begins at 7:00 PM. Please plan to arrive by 7:00 PM to experience the project from its beginning.
7:00 PM — Photography Exhibition + Film
Enter TIME through the photographic works of Eliso Babuadze. Explore the exhibition at your own pace while a short film is screened during the gallery experience.
Approximately 7:40 PM — Live Classical Performance
The audience gathers for the musical centerpiece of TIME, featuring a curated chamber program exploring our relationship with time.
Following the performance — Canvas of Sound + Reception
The experience continues through audience creation, followed by a reception with the artists.
No artistic experience is necessary. There is no correct way to create your canvas. Each response becomes an individual record of what the music awakened in that moment.
All materials will be provided.
The individual works will then become part of The Canvas of Sound, a collective artwork created by the audience and artists of TIME.
8:30 PM - Guests are invited to stay for a reception and connect with the participating artists after the concert.
9:30 PM — Evening Concludes
Important Information
Audience participation in The Canvas of Sound is entirely optional. No previous artistic experience is required, and all materials will be provided.
To preserve the atmosphere of the performance, late seating may be limited or delayed until an appropriate moment.
Photography and Video
Personal photography and video recording are welcome before and after the musical performance. Please refrain from taking photographs or recording video during the concert.
When sharing content from the event on social media, please tag @light_and_bloom_concerts.
TIME will also be professionally documented through photography, including selected moments from the performance, audience participation, and the creation of The Canvas of Sound. Event photographs will be shared with attendees following the event.
Guests who prefer not to be photographed may indicate this during checkout so appropriate arrangements can be made.
Event venue & nearby stays
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street, New York, United States
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