PASS: It’s About Time by Abbie Goldberg

Name: PASS: It’s About Time by Abbie Goldberg
Start: 2026-05-02T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-02T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden

Schedule

Sat May 02 2026 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden | New York, NY

What if time isn’t just something you read on a clock? It’s About Time is an imaginative mash-up of theater, live music, and variety entertainment, packed with storytelling and delightful surprises—featuring migrating birds, a curious scientist with a flower clock, and even a puppet living a whole life in the blink of an eye.
Filled with humor and imagination, this lively performance invites audiences of all ages to explore how people, plants, and animals experience time in wonderfully different ways.

It’s About Time is a kind of play/musical/variety show/all around general spectacle about, well, time! It explores questions such as, what is time? How do we experience it? How do rocks experience it? How do trees experience it? How has our understanding of time been shaped by capitalism and other forces? It’s About Time disrupts notions of linear time with alternatives like crip time and queer time (how being disabled and/or queer troubles relationships to history, futurity, pace, and success). Some of the vignettes include: a pair of birds struggling to schedule a time to migrate together, a person with ADHD brushing their teeth while a puppet lives out a life cycle from birth to death, Carl Linnaeus talking about his day in terms of his famous flower clock, a doctor diagnosing a patient with nostalgia and many more! Will this play shake our conception of time to the very core, leaving us with no choice but to discover new realms of possibility, paths to liberation, and conceptions of reality? Only time will tell!
Join us for pre-performance refreshments beginning at 1 PM. The performance starts at 2 PM and will be followed by a brief Q & A with the artists.
When: May 2 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Where:
The Carpenter’s Shop
View Directions and Site Map: https://snug-harbor.org/visit/directions/
Admission:
General Admission: $10.00
Snug Harbor members: 20% Discount
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About Abbie Goldberg
Abbie Goldberg is a multidisciplinary artist from the mountains of Maine. They are a member of Pink Umbrella Theater’s inaugural Disability Cohort. They are also an alumnus of Broadway Advocacy Coalition’s Theater of Change program and the Join for Justice Community Organizing Fellowship. They developed their full-length work Believing Cassandra as part of The New Opera and Musical Theater Initiative, and their piece 504: The Musical (written with collaborator Mason McDowell) at New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing program. Their work has been performed at Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub, Theatre Creation in Tokyo, Japan, Rattlestick Theater, Rockwood Music Hall, and more. Their writing has been published by HowlRound, Autostraddle, Dame, Sinister Wisdom, AK Press, and more. They are also a cofounder of the troupe 8 Oily Dykes with whom they perform under the name Chava GoodTime. They have been reviewed as “such a good storyteller” by their psychiatrist.
ABOUT PASS (PERFORMING ARTS SALON SATURDAYS)
PASS is a residency program focused on the creation and development of original works in dance, music, theater, and multi-disciplinary performance. Artists live and work in one of our historic cottages, with access to rehearsal space to develop their ideas and take creative risks. At the end of each residency, artists share their work in a public work-in-progress performance across the campus. PASS provides space, time, financial, and curatorial support to incubate artists in the development of their work. Founded by Gabri Christa in 2015 and directed by Melissa West since 2017, PASS is a unique, sought-after opportunity for performing artists living, creating, and presenting new work in New York City. Snug Harbor is proud of its role as an arts incubator and cultural anchor for Staten Island.
PASS: Performing Arts Salon Saturdays residency program is made possible through generous lead support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, with additional support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Snug Harbor is a proud partner with the CUNY Dance Initiative.