BAM Next Wave 2024

Next Wave is where well-known visionaries and trailblazing rebels unleash their groundbreaking creativity onto the world. This year, BAM plunges into a spectrum of past, present and in-progress works that perfectly capture the here-and-now. Join in exploring dynamic, cutting-edge visions and untapped artistic frontiers as we come together to reconstruct, revitalize and revolutionize creativity.

I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long
Nov. 4-9, 2024
Coinciding with election week, BAM Curator at Large Hanif Abdurraqib celebrates the power of possibility with a new series of poetry events extending throughout BAM’s spaces.

Frontera
Nov. 8 & 9, 2024
This large-scale multimedia dance and live music event created by choreographer Dana Gingras for Animals of Distinction explores personal autonomy in a surveillance age.

Gaviota
Nov. 13-23, 2024
The North American debut of a stripped-down, intimate Spanish-language interpretation of Chekhov’s landmark play, The Seagull.

Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists
Nov. 13-17, 2024
Portuguese playwright and director Tiago Rodrigues returns to BAM with an audacious, penetrating and impossibly compassionate work about the sacrifices made in the name of a better world.

Sun Dogs: Filmmaker and Composer Pairings
Nov. 18 & 19, 2024
Composers and filmmakers create short-format films and new music for live orchestra, featuring compositions by Arooj Aftab, Devonté Hynes, and more.

American Railroad
Nov. 23, 2024
Rhiannon Giddens and Silkroad highlight the voices, stories and songs of African American and immigrant laborers who built the Transcontinental Railroad.

Mercedes, Part 1
Dec. 3-8, 2024
This multidisciplinary documentary, gallery and healing room installation by Modesto Flako Jimenez honors the grandmother who raised him and illustrates her impact on the Latine community.

Journey LIVE
Dec. 6 & 7, 2024
In an alchemical collision of mediums, live musicians respond to the real-time actions of on-stage gamers as they explore the gorgeous universe within the hit video game Journey.

TECHNE
Jan. 4-19, 2025
TECHNE, a multi-part experience comprising large-scale digital artworks, immerses viewers in realms created with cutting-edge technologies, telling stories of evolution and unlocked potential.