Chelsea Music Festival announces Family Event: Every Storybook Counts at St. Paul’s German Church, 315 W. 22nd St, NYC, set for Saturday, June 27, 2026 from 10:30am–12pm. Tickets are free and can be reserved here. Grab your friends, kids, and neighbors and join us at this free, family-friendly gathering. Join us for activities that highlight American composers, interactive storytelling with music, and bookmaking for your stories! Adults must be accompanied by a child. This event will feature visual artist Paul Collins’ exhibition of selected books from his Unbannable Library project. RSVPs are required.
Paul Collins is an artist and teacher in Nashville, TN. Paul has an MFA from Yale University and has been a resident at Skowhegan, the MacDowell Colony, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Hambidge Center, and the Vermont Studio Center. Paul teaches at Austin Peay State University.
Paul is an advocacy publisher developing public art projects that celebrate the diverse stories that make my community specific, real, and magnificent.
Current ongoing projects include @unbannablelibrary and @unzinenashville. And, of course, drawing: I'm always going somewhere and drawing to try to learn & figure things out. The Unbannable Library is a community effort to fight censorship and intimidation in our libraries. Teams of artists, writers, teachers, librarians, and students are joining forces to create larger-than-life interactive book sculptures based on banned books and original written works of singular voice and experience. Designed for display and use at libraries everywhere, this rich collection of interactive book sculptures is literally TOO BIG to ban.
The result of collaborations between local artists, writers, teachers, students, and community members, these unique larger-than-life books employ text and image to draw attention to the voices and stories subject to censorship. In 2024 and 2025, this exhibition spanned a dozen sites across Middle Tennessee, New York, and Kentucky to allow wide access for viewers to experience and interact with the voices of those affected by book bans. The Unbannable Library is growing in 2026. paulpaul.com
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ABOUT THE CHELSEA MUSIC FESTIVAL Chelsea Music Festival celebrates great music by convening world-leading musicians & artists in the performing, culinary, and visual arts for an international audience. The Festival invites artists, composers, and performers to collaborate in pursuit of new perspectives in artistic expression. Inspired by its Chelsea roots, the Festival reflects the creativity of one of New York City's most dynamic neighborhoods. Programs span musical genres ranging from classical to contemporary to jazz, with a special emphasis on Festival commissions by composers whose works are not in the traditional Western canon. In addition, the Festival hosts an online library of recordings so music enthusiasts, artists, and students alike can explore unique interpretations of classical, jazz, and contemporary works via high-quality videos of world-class performances.
Since 2010, the Festival has established itself as a critically-acclaimed, accessible, and interactive gateway to chamber music in non-traditional concert spaces such as art galleries, public squares, schools, and churches. Programming includes concerts, lectures, exhibitions, family events, and free outreach performances. In 2020, the Festival inaugurated its Online Encores and Online Originals YouTube series; Online Encores presents highlights from Festival archives while Online Originals presents new performances and recordings. We are proud to give emerging voices, particularly those of women and people of color, a stage and work to build an audience and intimate community to support a new generation of musicians, composers, and artists.
Festival Sponsors & Partners: Aion Entertainment, Arts and Minds, Brotherhood Winery, The Cannery Collective, Carl Brandt, Inc., Columbia Alumni Association Arts Access, Concert Theatre Works, Con Edison - Veterans Group, Consulate General of Germany in New York, Fordham University, German International School New York, Groupmuse, Innovative Percussion, Institute of Culinary Education, Denise and Michael Kellen Foundation, Masterwork Arts Foundation, Materials for the Arts, Music Conservatory of Westchester, National Endowment for the Arts, New School College of Performing Arts, Niederegger, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Open Jar Studios, Pier 57, Poets House, Radeberger Gruppe USA, Sennheiser, Skylight Arts Productions, Steinway & Sons, Tarisio Fine Instruments & Bows, Vet Tix, WBGO, Weinhaus Traubengold, WQXR, Xtronx.
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