The River To River Festival is an annual performing arts festival with events held from June through July in Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York...

, NYC. The festival's programming includes free music, dance, film, arts, and play events open to the public.

History

Along with original partners the Alliance for Downtown New York and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the festival was conceived as a way to revitalize Lower Manhattan after 9/11. Over the past ten years it has become a cultural institution, drawing over 100,000 people each year to venues in Lower Manhattan.. It has hosted top musicians including Animal Collective

Animal Collective

Animal Collective is an experimental psychedelic band originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in New York City. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare , Panda Bear , Deakin , and Geologist...

, Spoon, Camera Obscura

Camera obscura

The camera obscura is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. It is used in drawing and for entertainment, and was one of the inventions that led to photography. The device consists of a box or room with a hole in one side...

, The Avett Brothers, Ruben Studdard,and Bela Fleck. The 2011 schedule “Made In New York” focused many of their programs on iconic New York artists and institutions: From Patti Smith and Laurie Anderson to STREB, Jules Feiffer, the TriBattery Pops Tom Goodkind Conductor and an Evening At The Bottom Line.

Affiliated venues

• Battery Park
  Battery Park
  Battery Park is a 25-acre public park located at the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City, facing New York Harbor. The Battery is named for artillery batteries that were positioned there in the city's early years in order to protect the settlement behind them...
  
  
• Castle Clinton
  Castle Clinton
  Castle Clinton or Fort Clinton, once known as Castle Garden, is a circular sandstone fort now located in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, New York City, in the United States. It is perhaps best remembered as America's first immigration station , where more than 8 million...
  
  
• The Elevated Acre (55 Water Street)
• Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts
  Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts
  The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts is the principal theatre of Pace University and is located at the University's New York City campus in Lower Manhattan. Facing City Hall near the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge and blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, it provides performance and...
  
  
• Pier 17
  South Street Seaport
  The South Street Seaport is a historic area in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located where Fulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District. The Seaport is a designated historic district, distinct from the neighboring Financial District...
  
  
• Rockefeller Park
• The Seaport
  South Street Seaport
  The South Street Seaport is a historic area in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located where Fulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District. The Seaport is a designated historic district, distinct from the neighboring Financial District...
  
  
• World Financial Center Plaza
• World Financial Center Winter Garden
• Zuccotti Park
  Zuccotti Park
  Zuccotti Park, formerly called Liberty Plaza Park, is a publicly accessible park in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is a controlled by Brookfield Properties. The park was created in 1968 by Pittsburgh-based United States Steel, after the property owners negotiated its creation with city...