Join ICP in the Lower East Side at Seward Park for a special birding event led by the organization, NYC Queer Birders. After learning about the local bird population, the group will walk to ICP for an introductory tour of our current exhibition, Sheida Soleimani: Panjereh followed by a hands-on activity using Soleimani’s bird silhouettes to make custom stickers and anti-strike window decals designed to protect birds from flying into windows.
Bring your own binoculars. Limited binoculars will be available but are not required to join the program. We welcome all bird enthusiasts, regardless of experience.
This ticket includes admission to ICP’s exhibition, Sheida Soleimani: Panjereh.
About NYC Queer Birders walk:
NYC Queer Birders started in February 2020 as a way to cultivate community and explore the natural world of New York City with LGBTQA+ bird-lovers. Queer Birders hosts birding events all year round, in all 5 boroughs. If you love birds, meeting new people, and spending afternoons outside in a queer-friendly setting, we would love to have you join us! We welcome all bird enthusiasts, regardless of experience.
About Hannah Kirshenbaum:
Hannah Kirshenbaum is an avid birder and lifelong lover of the natural world. In 2020 they founded NYC Queer Birders as a way to cultivate community and explore the natural world of New York City with LGBTQIA+ bird-lovers. Through all the seasons, Hannah leads educational birding events in all 5 boroughs and beyond. They love to welcome all bird enthusiasts, regardless of experience. Hannah's favorite bird is a Ruby-crowned kinglet because they are so adorable and you're lucky if you get to see their ruby crown!
About Sheida Soleimani: Panejerah
The International Center of Photography (ICP) is proud to present Panjereh, an exhibition by Iranian-American artist Sheida Soleimani. Panjereh—which means ‘window’ or ‘passageway’ in Farsi—builds on Soleimani’s ongoing Ghostwriter series, in which she explores her parents’ experiences of political exile and migration as a lens to examine broader systems of geopolitics. Known for her intricate, studio-based compositions that combine photographs, props, live animals and even her own parents in surreal, magical realist scenes, Soleimani expands her practice in Panjereh with the debut of a new body of work featuring injured birds. These images draw from her work as a wildlife rehabilitator and founder of Congress of the Birds, a federally licensed wild bird rehabilitation center in Rhode Island. The exhibition will also include a new site-specific wall drawing created specifically for ICP’s galleries.
Sheida Soleimani, Khoy, 2021 © Sheida Soleimani, Courtesy Edel Assanti, London and Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels
