K2 Friday Night: Himalayan Heritage Gratitude Night

Cocktails, art, and music make a heady mix during K2 Friday Nights, where admission is free every Friday from 6:00 to 10:00 PM. Café Serai becomes the K2 Lounge, offering a special drink menu to accompany the evening’s DJ, R Dubbs.

Join us as we express gratitude to our Himalayan community partners for two decades of close collaboration. We will salute the past 20 years at our 150 West 17th Street location and toast to the future as the Rubin transforms into a global museum.

• Arrive early for 2-for-1 drinks from 6:00–7:00 PM.
• Watch the Reimagine durational performance Per(server)e by Sonam Tshedzom Tingkhe from 6:00 to 7:00 PM.
• Enjoy a sneak peak of Jamyang Norbu’s new book, Echoes from Forgotten Mountains: Tibet in War and Peace, at 7:00 PM.
• Participate in the Flag Project 2.0 throughout the evening.
• Explore all the galleries, dive deeper with an exhibition tour at 7:15 PM, and kick off your weekend with the Rubin.

Coming with friends? Learn about group reservations and tours.

About the DJ

R Dubbs (Robbie Krevolin) loves nothing more than to get you moving to a world of sounds you’ve never heard before, digging deep into the times when genres were blurring, drum machines were plentiful, and systems were made for booming. It’s always love, baby.

About the Author:

Novelist, historian, playwright, and polemicist Jamyang Norbu is known as one of the leading exiled Tibetan writers at work today, principally on account of his numerous books and essays on Tibetan politics and history. His novel The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes won the Crossword Book Award (“India’s Booker”) in 2000, and has been translated into a dozen languages. He is also the author of Illusion and Reality, Buying the Dragon’s Teeth, Shadow Tibet, Don’t Stop the Revolution, and Echoes from Forgotten Mountains: Tibet in War and Peace. Norbu was a member of the Tibetan resistance force in the early 1970s. He is the grandfather of Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now artist Losel Yauch. Norbu currently lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.

Special thanks to our Himalayan community partners including: Adhikaar, Asian American Federation, Bhutanese Community of New York, Buddhist Council of New York, Business Center for New Americans (Accompany Capital), Center for Universal Peace, The Culture Tree, Dalai Lama Library and Learning Center, Dronchok Tara Center, Endangered Language Alliance, GMIN-Grassroots Movement in Nepal, Himalayan Library, Himalayan  Pantry Inc., India Home, Kushtara, Ladakhi Community of New York, Mero Gaon, Mongolian Connection, Mustang Community of New York, Nepal Hip Hop Foundation, Nepali Youth, New York/New Jersey Tibetan Sunday School, Palyul Dharma Center New York, Sherpa Association, Shijay Center, Regional Tibetan Women’s Association of New York and New Jersey,  Siddhartha School, Tibetan community of New York/New Jersey, Tzuchi Foundation, UN Women USA-NY, Voices of Tibet-Tibetan Oral History Project, WindHorse, YindaYin Coaching Center, and the many artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, and Buddhist teachers who have collaborated with us over the past 20 years.

Lead support for the Rubin Museum is provided by the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Bob and Lois Baylis, Barbara Bowman, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Noah P. Dorsky, Fred Eychaner, Christopher J. Fussner, Agnes Gund, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global, the Estate of Lisina M. Hoch, Henry Luce Foundation, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Matt and Ann Nimetz, The Randleigh Foundation Trust, Shelley and Donald Rubin, Tiger Baron Foundation, and Ellen Bayard Weedon Foundation. 

General operating support of the Rubin Museum of Art is provided by Daphne Hoch Cunningham and John Cunningham, Anne E. Delaney, Dalio Philanthropies, Janet Gardner,  Dan Gimbel of NEPC, Inc.,  The Prospect Hill Foundation, Basha Rubin and Scott Grinsell, Namita and Arun Saraf, Linda Schejola, Eric and Alexandra Schoenberg, Eileen Caulfield Schwab, Jesse Smith and Annice Kenan, Tsherin Sherpa, Tong-Tong Zhu and Jianing Liu, with generous donations from the Museum’s Board of Trustees, individual donors and members, and corporate and foundation supporters. 

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

The Rubin Museum’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of Governor Kathy Hochcul and the New York State Legislature.

Photo by Filip Wolak