Midnight Moment Performance by Mali Obomsawin and Deerlady

Join us for a special performance by Mali Obomsawin and Deerlady on Friday, April 11 from 11:30pm to 12am in the heart of Times Square as we celebrate April’s Midnight Moment with artist Cannupa Hanska Luger and co-presenting partner For Freedoms. The event is free and open to all, but we recommend that you register in advance.

Bassist, singer and composer Mali Obomsawin (Odanak First Nation) will play a set with her band, Deerlady, followed by a newly commissioned piece composed for Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Midnight Moment.

Presented by Times Square Arts, Midnight Moment is the public art series synchronized nightly from 11:57pm to 12am on 95 screens in Times Square, featuring a different artist’s work each month and reaching millions of viewers a year since 2012.

Luger's Midéegaadi is on view nightly from April 1–30. A multi-channel video featuring the artist adorned in vibrant regalia, Midéegaadi centers dance, reverence and ancestral Indigenous traditions as a call for a grand return of the North American bison— an animal that once ranged the vast plains of North America in abundance. Broadcasting his work across Times Square at a monumental scale, Luger highlights Indigenous knowledge and culture as critical to our collective survival.