The Egg Presents: OPEN HOUSE

The Egg’s OPEN House is back! A free, full building party with arcade games, movies, DJs, live performances, pop-ups and more. 

Featuring:
✨ Brooklyn Raga Massive performing Terry Riley’s “In C” with visuals by video artist Seema Lisa Pandya
✨ Movies: Koyaanisqatsi (1982) & The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)
✨ DJ sets by the Honey Collective, who showcase women and femme DJs in the 518, featuring Jen Haley, Goldee Dust and Rally 
✨ Arcade games & giant board games
✨  Family Circle with The RED Bookshelf to help kids develop literacy skills and become their own superhero
✨  LEGO building hosted by the Colonie Public Library
✨ Pop-ups by Pastime Legends & NYS Museum
✨ All hosted by the incomparable Typhoid Mary, named the 2025 Best Drag Performer by The Times Union

We are thrilled to partner with Art on Lark to celebrate a full day of walkable art in Albany. Start your day on nearby Lark Street for a family-friendly street festival with local businesses, artists, makers, music, and great food before making your way over to The Egg. 

This event is free to attend, with a suggested $15 donation to support future programming. Please RSVP; it helps us prepare for crowd size!

This event is supported by the Albany County Arts & Culture Grant Program through the Advance Albany County Alliance.

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Brooklyn Raga Massive (BRM) is a collective of forward thinking musicians rooted in Indian classical music. Their arrangement of Terry Riley’s iconic minimalist work, In C, incorporates ragas, Indian ornamentation, driving tabla rhythms, improvised solos and an instrumentation of sitar, bansuri, vocals, tabla, oud, violin, cello, bass, dragon mouth trumpet, frame drums and percussion. BRM has performed In C for 12 years and early on, Terry Riley himself suggested they take more liberties and solos. BRM went on to compose In D, a tribute to the maestro based in specific ragas. For this Egg performance, BRM will play In C (in D) incorporating a few elements of their original work, with musical direction from Neel Murgai, and accompanied by stunning video art from artist Seema Lisa Pandya.

Composed in 1964, In C’s basic structure consists of 53 cells of music for any instrumentation, short fragments that each performer repeats, displaces and moves through at their own will. Terry Riley is a long time practitioner of Indian classical vocal music, having studied with Pandit Pran Nath, but he confirmed that “I have never heard an ensemble like this playing In C.” BRM brings the composition full circle with this unique rendition.

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Honey Collective showcases women and femme dj’s in the 518, featuring residents Jen Haley, Goldee Dust and Rally and their guests.

Jennifer Maher Coleman is a dj, composer, singer, and visual artist. Originally from Chicago, Jennifer has played house, techno, and breaks under the moniker DJ Jennifer Haley around the Northeast since 1995. Her mixtapes have been recognized by Urb and Mixmag. She currently fronts the synth-pop band Architrave.

Goldee Dust has been DJing around the Albany area for over 10 years. Her sets weave in a mix of timeless disco and funky grooves that branch out to the darker side of techno, house and electro. This summer she’ll be hosting a weekly radio show on WCDB.FM Albany, highlighting different eras and styles of dance and electronic music.

Rally curates and delivers an immaculate blend of disco and soulful house.

https://soundcloud.com/honeycollective518

https://soundcloud.com/jenniferhaley

https://soundcloud.com/goldee-dust

https://soundcloud.com/rally-2