In Greenwich Village, NYC: Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes Lookalike Contest Comes to Washington Square Park

On Sunday, Oct. 25 at 1pm, Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village will host a lookalike contest with two targets at once: Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes. The event goes by the title "You Can See Everything," and organizers are looking for the best New York knockoffs of the pair.

The event page opens with a tongue-in-cheek rationale. Third spaces are disappearing and screen time is at an all-time high, it says, so the organizers have been driven to "extreme measures." Their answer is yet another lookalike competition, pitched as a playful way for people to build community in person. The page promises lies, laughs and, above all, fun, and it describes the afternoon as a celebration of Fielder's latest endeavor in what it calls investigative truth-seeking. It is signed "Liz and Nathan," and it insists, with a wink, that everything is 100 percent truthful.

The poster, made in a cut-and-paste collage style, repeats the details: 1pm, Sunday, October 25th, Washington Square Park, and a $50 cash prize. Entry is free. Anyone who wants to compete needs to RSVP and fill out the contestant form linked from the event page. Contestants and spectators gather at the park at 1pm.

After the contest, the party moves to The Alligator in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for a ticketed afterparty. The organizers describe it only as a very familiar local rehearsal filming spot, with a wink.

Whether you plan to dress up as Fielder or Holmes or just watch the costumes, it is an offbeat, low-cost way to spend a fall Sunday afternoon in Manhattan. For readers in Japan who follow Fielder's work, it also shows how fans in New York turn a favorite project into a street-level event.