Hello lovelies,
Firstly, apologies for last week's mailing list insanity. An unstable Internet connection resent the list multiple times -- sorry about that! We were amazed to see how few of you unsubscribed, actually. Very heartwarming to know you'll stick with us through the technical glitches that would send most people running for the Internet hills...
As you know, we're hosting two parties this weekend. JaNk! is tonight, 10pm-whenever, $10-$15 sliding scale, $5 after 2am. Bruncha Libre is Sunday, 1-5pm, $5 plus food costs. Details on both below. Please remember to RSVP for both, to get the address and also to help us plan properly. BTW, we've just gone over the menu with our chef, and it should be delicious! Expect brunch staples with a twist.
We're still stalling on the Russian Baths & Apr 24 party announcements. Please forgive us as we get our details straight. It's been a busy month since Valentine's Day madness.
Cheers,
Gemini & Scorpio
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OUR NEXT EVENT, 3/19
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Gemini & Scorpio and Sxip Shirey
present
JaNk! ReDuX
Friday, March 19, 10pm-late, sliding scale $10-15, $5 after 2am
Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary - RSVP for location
http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=389952697867
We're firing up the drum machines, sticking a mic down the mouth of a tuba and inviting you to a surreal live-music-driven dance party. Dirty electronics and live musicians (horns, drums, human beat box), regurgitating old genres like early ska, early hip-hop, techno and house and playing it raw, glitchy and original. With: experimental circus composer Sxip Shirey (backed by Raya Brass Band rhythm section & trumpet), handmade contraption orchestra Electric Junkyard Gamelan, international rhythm wrangler DJ Barney Iller. Janky visuals by Sebastian Patane Masuelli. Live custom silkscreen prints by Printaholics Crew - bring a blank piece of clothing to print. Sxip leaves on tour for three months just after the event, so this is the last chance for JaNk! until summer.
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OUR NEXT EVENT, 3/21
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Gemini & Scorpio and Wasabassco Burlesque
present
Bruncha Libre (vintage jazz edition)
Sunday, March 21, 1-5pm, $5 door / $15 food
Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary - Reserve on site for location
http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=386230331843
Brunch freedom is here! Freedom from long lines, harried waiters, and the feeling that they really wish you'd hurry up already. How about homemade food in a sprawling private loft instead, served up with hot entertainment and chilled cocktails? Enjoy a leisurely meal, relax on a couch or get up and dance on our sprung wood dance floor. For the inaugural event, The Moonlighters will wake you up with an eclectic soundtrack of ragtime, swing, Hawaiian, bluegrass, Latin, and jazz.
Reserve online to get the loft location. Event repeats every 3rd Sunday of the month, alternating live vintage jazz & burlesque entertainment. Please tip the entertainers generously.
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SAVE-THE-DATE, 4/3 & 4/24
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Sat, April 3: Our last Russian Baths party of the season
Sat, April 24: ...mmm, we'll tell you later :)
Details posted to http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html next week. For real this time!
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WEEKEND + WEEK
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THEATER: Anaphylaxis
http://irttheater.org/developing/anaphylaxis
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/99189
Throwing Bones reworks their hit, Anaphlylaxis, from the Seattle Fringe, a chilling meditation on love and memory in the age of genetic modification. Synopsis: Ana is allergic to everything. She was designed that way. Frank is under orders to replace her memory every few days; he's not doing a very good job. When tinkering with DNA has gone too far, human nature takes a turn for the worse. Directed by Sheila Daniels With: Mary Jane Gibson and Scott Nath. (Shows Fri 8pm, Sat 2pm and 8pm, Sun 3pm, IRT Theater, 154 Christopher St. #3B, $15)
PERFORMANCE ART: The 7th Annual soloNOVA Arts Festival
http://www.terranovacollective.org/SoloArtsFestival.php
The soloNOVA Arts Festival is the premier festival for solo performers in New York City. The 7th Annual soloNOVA Arts Festival will feature comedy, dance theatre, storytelling, music, multi-character thrillers, musical comedies, bilingual cabaret, animation, multimedia, and puppetry. The festival celebrates innovative individuals who push the boundaries of what it means to be an artist, aims to redefine the solo form and uniquely invigorates the audience through the time-honored tradition of storytelling. This year, eight performers round out the mainstage offerings. Check website for individual showtimes for each artist. (thru 3/22, Performance Space 122, 150 1st Ave at 9th Street, various showtimes, $20, $15 students)
THEATER: Room #103
http://www.103chelsea.com
Room #103 in theChelsea Hotel is just doors down from where Sid Vicious allegedly murdered Nancy Spungen (we have our own theories, but we digress). Now it's going to be the scene of a night of theater by director James Veitch. The room will be transformed into an art space, and the performance will center around the life of Dylan Thomas, with other famous residents like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen will be making appearances (in the play, not in real life). The performance starts tonight but will be continuing all weekend. (thru 3/27, The Chelsea Hotel, 222 W. 23rd St., 7pm, $18)
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FRIDAY
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VARIETY: Sentimental Nostalgia Cabaret and Burlesque
For the pulse of those pre-Giuliani nights that ended the next morning, the cutting sounds of music that pushes the limits of creative sanity, or just the notes that floated through the air when Calvin Coolidge was president, Sentimental Nostalgia Cabaret and Burlesque is a night of artistic abandon and wild sensuality. Featuring the most eclectic and authentic lineup in the New York underground, Sentimental Nostalgia Cabaret features the music of the Drunkard's Wife, Amour Obscur, Torcher Chamber Orkestra, Nathan Carpenter, Darren Deicide, Alex's Genuine Trio and a Balkan jam in the back room. Burlesque beauties Dorothy Darker, Deity, Grace Gotham, Rose De La Morte, Remy Vicious, Umbilica, (NY Debut), Mitzy Mae (NY Debut) and a special performance by Miss Bea B Heart light up the stage. [G&S note: this event & Jank! are mere blocks from each other. Grab a flyer at either space and check out the other party with a discount.] (Red Lotus Room, 893 Bergen bet. Classon and Frankl
in, BK, 10pm, $10)
OPENING: ABC No Rio's Ides of March - The Seventh Biennial Building-Wide Exhibition
http://www.abcnorio.org/ides2010
Artists: Cesar Arredondo, Fabian Berenbaum, Doris Cacoilo, Kevin Caplicki, Christopher Cardinale, Michael Cataldi, Chris Clary, Barrie Cline, Peggy Cyphers, Michael De Pasquale, Nanna Debois Buhl, Charlotte Doglio, Ian Dolton-Thornton, Jade Doskow, Es Muss Sein Quartet, Mike Estabrook, Lambert Fernando, Fred Fleisher, Flux Factory, Julie Hair, Suckzoo Han, Joann Harrah, Rebecca Howland, Akiko Ichikawa, it/EQ Community Arts Collaborative, Vandana Jain, Darren Jones & Ryan Roa, Christina Kelly, Sarah Kipp & Phyllis Kipp, Ben Knight, Vikki Law, Emilie Lemakis, Liz N Val, RTST, Jens Maier-Rothe, Julie McCabe, Judith Modrak, Alan Moore, Nsumi Collective, Jann Nunn, Olek, Angela Organ, Douglas Einar Olsen, Perfect 8, Dave Powell, Dave Pugh, Ed Radford & Rob Shepperson, Michelle Rollman, Scott Seaboldt, Chanika Svetvilas, Subject to Change, Three Wise Goats, Seth Tobocman, Cat Tyc, Vydavy Sindikat, Carol Warner, Jen Zarkzewski & Kristen Rhea van Liew, and Z Collective with Insurgent
Theatre. (show thru 4/9, ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street, 7pm, Hours - Sun 1-6pm, Tues-Thu 5-9pm, FREE)
TALK: Insects, Naturalists, Dioramas and World Travels
http://observatoryroom.org/2010/01/17/insects-naturalists-dioramas-and-world-travels/
Curious Expeditions and Observatory present a talk of insects, world travel, and art with Joianne Bittle, contributing artist to the current Observatory show Entomologia, and diorama artist for the American Museum of Natural History. Artist Joianne Bittle will discuss her series of beetle paintings, A Royal Family, as well as her large, four-paneled graphite drawing of the jewel beetle from Southeast Asia. These works are the result of six years of observing, from life, four different types of beetle specimens. Watch an image timeline of diorama projects she has completed at the American Museum of Natural History and learn about the naturalists and scientists at the Museum who have inspired her work. In addition, Bittle will discuss influential artists, her travels around the world as well as her current paintings and drawings of the black-tailed jackrabbit and its harsh environment, the desert. (Observatory, 543 Union Street at Nevins, BK, 8pm, $5)
MUSIC: Haitian Jazz Concert - Buyu Ambroise and the Blues in Red Band
http://www.artforchange.org
In keeping with our month long celebration of the richness and resilience of Haitian people and culture, please attend Art for Change's 2nd benefit featuring Jazz and Zouk music of Buyu Ambroise and the Blues in Red Band. Door profits to benefit Haiti relief and rebuilding efforts conducted by established organizations. Refreshments will be served. Art for sale from the current exhibit 'Haiti: Beyond Mountains There Are Mountains'. (AfC's The People's Gallery, 1699 Lexington Avenue at 106th Street, lower level, 7-11pm, $20/suggested donation)
ART: Postcards from Gowanus
http://www.postcardsfromgowanus.blogspot.com
A creative research program exploring a multitude of approaches to mapping Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood. An exhibit and radio narrowcast will occur at Cabinet's gallery space. Postcards from Gowanus features work by Bianca, Patrick Carey, Penny Duff, Kasia Gladki, Juan David Gonzalez-Monroy, Gabrielle Herbst and Allie Tyspin, Amir Husak, Maria Papadomanolaki, Heidi Prenevost and David Smith, Sterling Basement, and Bryan Zimmerman. Friday night performances by Juan David Gonzalez-Monroy, Sterling Basement, and Gabrielle Herbst and Maria Papadomanolaki (Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, bet Union and Sackett, BK, 6-9pm, FREE)
MUSIC: Lady Rizo: Unescorted
http://www.ladyrizoandtheassettes.com
http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,4644
The incomparable "cabaret star" (NY Magazine) Lady Rizo is back for an unchaperoned evening of song and decadence. You may have seen her here at Joe's Pub with her "glam bottom baring dance troupe the Assettes " (Village Voice), celebrating the billboard top ten in the monthly series Our Hit Parade, or midtown at the gothic Night Hotel co-hosting the weekly transnational lounge Foreign Affairs. But here is your chance to have her all to yourself. Her seamless mix of baudy humor and elegance has been likened to Mae West but its her vocal chops that have garnered recent attention: collaborating with both Yo-Yo Ma & Moby on albums this year, singing selections of the American Songbook in front of the internationally acclaimed 36 -piece orchestra The Knights, and at MOMA for a sold out cabaret for the Kirchner Exhibit. Let her lashes beguile you as she interprets an irresistible mix of popular songs from all eras backed by some of the finest musicians in New York City. (Joe's Pub
, 425 Lafayette, 10pm-11:25, $15)
EVENT: Akim Funk Buddha's Soul Cabaret "Funk Raiser"
http://www.houseofyes.org/
An enchanting evening of Soulful cabaret created by a troupe of international dancers and circus performers. Akim Funk Buddha travels through time and space with his magical Boom box, meeting perplexing characters such as Carmen from Bizet's 18th Century Opera. Witness a prolific journey of action packed interactions that include martial arts, aerial dance, and urban dances such as, body popping, vouging and a hot underground style called 'Waacking.' : A re-emerging dance from the 70's as seen on Soul Train. Come Support, enjoy the show and get your drink and dance on! Hang after the show for a funky party with D.J. Small Change. Bringing you the classics of Funk, Soul & Afrobeat. Co-Hosted by Carrol Henning (Belly Dancer/Comedian) Performers Include: Aerial Dance- Kay Burke, Stephanie and Ruby. Vocals/ co-choreographer "Carmen the urban opera"- Princess Lockerooo - Dancers - Svea Schneider, Rebecca Fox, Katrin Blantar, Ray Davis, Loui, Martina, Akiko Tokuoka (The Funky Geish
a), Jed Forman, and John Mitchel. (House of YES, 342 Maujer Street, BK, 9pm, $10)
PARTY: Wonderland in Spring Ball
http://dancesofvice.com/home.html
Dances of Vice impresario Shien Lee and Blasphemina's Closet designer Samantha Rei join forces to present th "Wonderland in Spring Ball", featuring the musical flourishes of 24-piece avant-garde chamber rock orchestra This Ambitious Orchestra, with special performing guests ZooG von Rock as MC, Cor-leonis on theremin, aerial and burlesque performances by the stunning Veruca Honeyscotch and Rita MenWeep, the mysterious Malvoye the Mentalist, and fairy-tale fashion shows featuring the work of Blasphemina's Closet, Kristin Costa, I Do Declare, Apatico and Bionic Unicorn. Set in the stunning cultural venue that is Galapagos Art Space and decorated byPUREVILE/Anthropologie display designer Wren Britton, Dances of Vice and Samantha Rei invite you to pay homage to the spirit of Alice in Wonderland in Dadaistic celebration of the liberating effects of nonsense, beauty, and surrealism. 40 VIP Tickets available at $50.00 with reserved prime VIP table seating, specialty gift bag, tea sn
acks & cupcakes from Nine Cakes Bakery & free admission to DOV: Mood Indigo. (Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St, BK, 10:30pm, $25/advance, $30/door, $20/after 1AM, $50/VIP)
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SATURDAY
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PARTY: Jank! Redux
http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html
See above
WALK: Explore Dead Horse Bay
http://atlasobscura.com/obscura-day
Dead Horse Bay is named for the bones that still wash up there, remnants from horse rendering plants on what was once Barren Island. From the 1850s through the 1920s, when horses were the cars clogging the streets of New York, their carcasses were used to manufacture glue and fertilizer, and the boiled bones were dumped in the bay. In 1926, the waters surrounding Barren Island were filled in with sand, coal and garbage to make Floyd Bennett Field, and in the 1950s, the cap on a twenty year old garbage dump burst, scattering the sand with eras of waste. Today the beach is littered with thousands of toys, vintage bottles, horse bones, and a slew of wacky trash from eras past. Luckily, we're into that kind of thing! Join Underwater New York in exploring this treasure trove of lost history, stories and objects. Group meets at Park Ranger's office near the Floyd Bennett Field parking lot on Aviation Road, just off Flatbush. Check website for directions and to RSVP. (Dead Horse Bay
Beach,BK, 2pm, FREE)
PERFORMANCE ART: Michael Alan Mad Max Draw-A-thon
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=410202740557
http://www.michaelalanart.com/drawathon/
Raw, ferocious and and explosive, the struggle for post-apocalyptic existence featuring sludge, slave girls, road warriors, bikes, machine bodies and parts – at a 2000 sqft old church located in the heart of Greenpoint. This 8 hour performance was built for the need for a long, relaxed and wild happening. Come watch art come to life, come draw, write and paint at this dirty, grungy, silently chaotic tribute to MAD MAX. (Greenpoint Warehouse-Church, 309 Ekford Street, 6pm-1:45am, $20/online, $23/door)
FILM: Nothing Lasts Forever
http://www.92y.org/shop/92Tri_event_detail.asp?category=92Tri+92YTribeca+Film888&productid=T-MM5FM17
A rare screening of Nothing Lasts Forever from Tom Schiller, one of the original SNL writers. Starring Zach Galligan, Bill Murray, and Dan Aykroyd, it's set in Manhattan's future (in which the Port Authority is in charge) but sports a totally retro look. Mr. Schiller will be there to introduce the film, to date unreleased. One of the original writers for Saturday Night Live, Tom Schiller is best known for his short films starring John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Phil Hartman and Chris Farley. Nothing Lasts Forever, Schiller's still-unreleased feature film, takes place in a futuristic Manhattan run by the Port Authority, where bureaucratic testing regulates the lives of the island's inhabitants. His creative hopes dashed after failing the artistic licensing exam, idealist Adam Beckett seeks a way out, resulting in a journey through the subterranean channels of the city and then to the moon. Inspired by Orwell and Art Deco and composed of b&w, color and 30s stock footage, Nothing La
sts Forever features the inspired cast of Zach Galligan, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sam Jaffe and Lauren Tom. (92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street, 7pm, $12)
ANIMATION: The Tom Stathes Cartoon Carnival
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=340862277236
http://www.cinebeasts.com
http://www.cartoonsonfilm.blogspot.com
A two-part program of hand-selected 16mm treasures abandoned by history and reactivated by whiz kid curator Stathes. The lineup promises a mix of the bizarre, raunchy, and beloved: packed both with favorites and super-obscure characters and gags. The shorts range in vintage from the 1910s to the 60s, each one on the best possible print available. The evening also promises an open bar with custom cocktails, free popcorn, a bake sale to benefit Cinebeasts, and some classic 78rpms jazz records following the cartoons. (Vaudeville Park, 26 Bushwick Ave at Devoe, Wburg, BK, 7:30-10:30pm, $6)
PARTY: BARTY - The Brooklyn Art Party
BARTY was conceived as a way to build a 'pop-up' pro-art community, with the goal of providing a venue where creative souls can celebrate their work together and convene to talk shop, network, and forge collaborations. This grassroots venture should appeal to artists and musicians (both established and starting out), as well as art buyers, curators, gallery owners, promoters—and creative enthusiasts of all shapes and sizes!" Tonight they throw a gallery show, and music showcase, followed by a DJ'ed dance party. Featuring art by: Rheanna Abbott, Elizabeth Adams, Brian Batt, Molly Bosley, Mariano Henestrosa, Brian Whiteley and Lauren E. Wool. Featuring music by: The Rich Get Richer, DJ Le Yawn. (Terminal Art & Event Space, 343 Broadway, Wburg, BK, 8pm, FREE)
FILM: Housebroken - Marie Losier Film Screening
http://www.fluxfactory.org/
Flux Factory is presenting an evening of film by Marie Losier for the closing of our inaugural exhibition, Housebroken. Losier's films center on large-scale collaborations with fantastical elements and loose narratives. She has worked extensively with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Guy Maddin, George Kuchar, and several other contemporary luminaries. The screening includes the new musical Tu Mens!, Cet Air La, and Papal Broken Dance (Flux Factory, 39-31 29th Street, LIC, Queens, 8pm, $15/suggested donation)
MUSIC: Soul & Brass
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=359133769167&ref=mf
Featuring Mighty Fine, The Part Time Hoodlums Brass Band and Oweinama Biu A.K.A DJ Captain Heartlock. Call (718) 218-6934 for info. (Zebulon, 258 Wythe Avenue, Wburg, BK, 9pm, FREE)
BURLESQUE: Wassabassco
http://unionhallny.com/
http://wasabassco.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=352056873359
This Saturday, Wasabassco takes over Union Hall for an entire night of The Best Burlesque in Brooklyn, containing not one, but two full shows featuring a mix of Wasabassco favorites and performers new to our show. Early Show: 9-11pm hosted by Nasty Canasta, with Marlo Marquise, Sizzle Dizzle, Stormy Leather and the Wasabassco debut of BB Heart. Late Show: 11:00pm-1:00am Starring GiGi La Femme with Kobayashi Maru, Sapphire Jones, and the Wasabassco debuts of The Flying Fox, Kita St. Cyr, and Victoria Privates. (Union Hall, 702 Union Street, Park Slope, BK, 8:30pm doors, 9pm early show, 11pm late show, $10)
PARTY: Mood Indigo: Harlem Renaissance Retrospective
http://dancesofvice.com/home.html
Dances of Vice celebrates the music and culture of the Harlem Renaissance in the hottest strut in town with our dapper MC Dandy Wellington, burlesque beauty and songbird Dulce de Leche, 1920s style tap sensation Jen Minsky of the Minsky Sisters, the salacious syncopations of Grandpa Musselman & His Syncopators, and the swingin' Adriel Azure & His Dream Indigo Orchestra. (Red Lotus Room, 893 Bergen St, BK, 9 PM, $16.50/advance, $20/door, $10/with Wonderland ticket)
DANCE: Swing Goth Moving Party
http:// www.sullivanhallnyc.com/
Swing Goth is a new approach to partner dancing that brings the focus back to your partner and the music and away from a footwork obsessed pass-time. Brian and Kyna's light-hearted approach to instruction is more likely to make you laugh than to leave you frustrated. Informed by past rather than trying to recreate it, Swing Goth may not be your grand-father's swing, but (with a little bit of practice) it can be yours. "What we do is probably not "swing" and who we are is probably not "goth...." but what is swing and what was goth? We see no way in which we're not the combination of both. Beyond the semantics only one question matters, 'Would you care to dance?'" No experience or partner necessary. (Sullivan Hall, 214 Sullivan St., doors 11:30pm, lessons 12-1am, party 1-4am, $12)
PARTY: GlamTech IV
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=333677161045&ref=mf
In the stunning big room at Warsaw, Disorient's newest DJ and 2010 playa virgin, François K (Deep Space/Body & Soul/Wave Music), plays sexy organic house with dub flavors. Plus a live video/audio performance by Reality Engine, and support from Narcotic Rhythms (Reda + The Bass from Disorient) and Tim Fielding (Journeys By DJ). In the cantina, funky stuff all night from Douggie Style, Disorient's Friar Tuck, and DJ Master Flynn (Thrills and Skills). Also expect a flurry of breathtaking performances and your friendly neighborhood Pornj Patrol -- Disorient's team hosting the party and making sure everyone stays safe and happy. Blinky, reflective, silver, lasers: think 80s club dancers facing off against 70s glam rockers at Thunderdome. Big 3D projections and video on dark screens, sexy beats. There will be performances including hoops, flags and dance, as well as installation art, visual projections, black light murals and body painting. (The Polish National Home in Williamsburg
, 261 Driggs Ave, BK, 10pm-5am, $20/adv, $25/door, $30/adv with TechGlam, $35/door with TechGlam)
PARTY: TechGlam
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=333677161045&index=1
Keep grooving after GlamTech in an intimate, well-stocked Prospects Height loft. Address must be kept on the DL until GlamTech, but we've had many a fine party at Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary, including "DX", our New Year's Day afterparty. $3 shuttles run from GlamTech to TechGlam. Featuring DJs Miss Sabado, The Latest Artists, Reality Engine, and Horus, plus holomagic video projections by VJ Lenkadu. [G&S note: FREE admission to our Bruncha Libre party the next day for anyone still standing. Just pay for any food you order.] (Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary, Address with RSVP, 5am-12pm, $15/door or $10/adv as part of GlamTech package)
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SUNDAY
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PARTY/FOOD: Bruncha Libre
http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html
See above
ART: Graffiti Manhattan
http://www.newyorktalksandwalks.com/cgi-bin/calendar/long_calendar.cgi
Take a walking tour of some of the city's best street art, featuring murals of Kiss, Obama and Joe Strummer. You'll get to see examples of how graffiti is now used for advertising, plus some "pure" graffiti. The special guest will be Ike Ilkiw, retired NYPD detective, who has personally arrested many of the world's most famous graffiti artists. He now works for the MTA on graffiti duty, so he certainly has an eye for the stuff; he just doesn't like it on subway cars. (East Village Tavern, 158 Ave C, 1pm, $12)
FILM: Silent Film Clowns Series
http://www.silentclowns.com/nowshowing.html
When the cinema began every film was a short subject, but as the industry grew so did the length of its films and shorts became a pre-feature special attraction. Comedy shorts were a standard part of the typical theatre bill, and this program provides a wide sampling of the art form. Our line-up is Ben Turpin in "Love's Outcast" ('21), "Up On The Farm" ('25) with Lee Moran, Lupino Lane in "Movieland" ('26), "What! No Spinach?" ('26) with Harry Sweet, and Snub Pollard as 'The Old Sea Dog" ('22). (Arclight Theatre, 152 W 71 St bet. Bway & Columbus, 2pm, $10, $5 for seniors, kids and members)
DRINKS: Hoopy Hour
http://www.meetup.com/hoopnotica-hooping-nyc
Join us for a fun afternoon of hooping, great music, yummy Mexican food and delicious cocktails. Everyone is welcome and there is no charge - just pay for what you order. We'll have an Ipod player so feel free to bring music you like hooping to and we can rotate tunes. Hoops provided to play with, and Hoopnotica hoops will also be available for purchase. (Iguana, 240 W. 54th Street between 8th and Broadway, 2:30-6pm, FREE to attend, pay for what you order)
CIRCUS: Bindlestiff Cavalcade of Youth
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/94327
http://www .bindlestiff.org
Coney Island USA, Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts, Inc., and Playful Productions present a special showcase for young variety performers, ranging from amateurs to world-class professionals. Juvenile jugglers, diminutive dancers, adolescent acrobats and a host of other moppets and mummers present a full show of vernal vaudeville. Acts range from debuting amateurs to world-class champion performers -- all under the age of 21.In its seventh year, the Cavalcade continues to feature an amazing array of young talent. You may see juvenile unicyclists, tap dancers, magicians, clowns, and contortionists sharing the stage with Broadway-bound singers and classically trained musicians. Although this show features all children performers, it is not your average school recital. Appropriate for all audiences, this show is definitely not just for kids (Sideshows by the Seashore, 1208 Surf Avenue, Coney Island, BK, 4pm, $10 youth, $15 adults)
PRIVATE STUDIO SHOW: Molly Crabapple
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=346616528982&ref=nf
http://www.mollycrabapple.com
View fine art and black and white illustrations from the past and present. All artwork will be on sale and everyone is welcome to visit from fancy pants art buyers to those new to fine art collecting and looking to build up their acquisitions. This is aimed to help collectors get something affordable, so you will find never before on the market yet well-priced ink on paper illustrations to get you started. If you're just interested in viewing the art in person, but are too broke to buy, the artist requests that you bring champagne, absinthe, cherries or other decadent goodies for us to share. Checks and cash accepted. (private loft, RSVP on facebook for address, 4-6pm, FREE)
FILM: Soviet Commercials of 60-80s
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=313215741908&ref=nf
http://www.shorefronty.org/page.aspx?id=189430
The program was compiled by Diafilm Festival of Retro Advertising. It includes rare footage produced by then Leningrad Studio of Documentary Films in 60-80s. Themes vary, as the featured spots include those social advertising ads produced for Department of Health and Education, Police and Fire Department, along with commercials for electronics and appliances, umbrellas and coat buttons. The evening will also feature mini exhibit of vintage advertising calendars & after-party with DJ Spacedog spinning "Melodiya" records of 80s Russian pop. Limited seatings. Advance tickets at www.shorefrontny.org. (Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach, Inc., 3300 Coney Island Avenue, BK, 5-10pm, $10)
WORD: W.O.(e).R.D. (Women of Experience Read Downtown)
http://www.thewildproject.com/events/index.shtml
Lively redheads, Heather Litteer and Jo Weldon curate and produce an evening
of readings and performance for your pleasure. Miss Litteer, actress of stage & screen and Jackie Factory Legend (as Jessica Rabbit Domination) and Miss Weldon, Exotic Dance Queen and Headmistress of The NY School of Burlesque, present a bevy of frighteningly irresistible women. Series readers include: Penny Arcade, Zoe "LZ" Hansen, L. Gabrielle Penabaz, Mary Raffaelle, The Bottle Girl, Bridget Umbarger, Cid Scantlebury, Chi Chi Valenti, Gerry Visco, Julie Atlas Muz, and World Famous *BOB*. Call 212-228-1195 for info. Tickets available in advance at www.ovationtix.com (The Wild Project, 195 East 3rd St bet. Aves A&B, 8pm, $8)
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MONDAY
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EVENT: Lovesphere 15
http://metal-tiger.com/lovesphere15/
Lovesphere, a 67-year event, has taken place every Vernal Equinox since 1995, broadcast on Mezamishi (Alarm Clock) in Japan & the pioneer in video streaming Metal-Tiger.com, venues including ABC No Rio, Resistance Theater, CBGB's, Theater for the New City, Medicine Show Theater, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, the Zipper and Pianos. It began in 1995 with a performance of the Mammals of Zod and the Gametones at Exit Art in Soho on the Vernal Equinox, and has since spiraled completely out of control. The plan is to present a Lovesphere event every Equinox until 2061. On March 22, Lovesphere 15 presents a multimedia variety show, including music, dance & spoken word designed with ChromaDepth 3D Technology to heighten your depth perception experience. This years performers include: Judy Sky, Meg Montgomery, Emmallyea Swon Young, Lin Rivers, Grand Pepper of Reality, Dawoud Kringle & Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi, Dan Gaydos, Fist of Kindness, Alessandro, Orin Buck, Firefly Lab, Terri F
errari & Vlad T.(Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, 8pm, $10)
EVENT: Semiospectacle: A Literary Review
http://www.semiospectacle.com/
http://www.ps122.org/performances/semiospectacle.html
This verbal varieté strategizes the explicitly semiotic spectacle in a multimedia showcase of live art representing an encounter between academic lecture hall, poet's theater, and vaudeville house. Its players cut across the disciplinary boundaries of scholarship, pedagogy, cabaret, poetics, and performance. Linguistic illusionists expose the parlor trick of transparent speech, conjuring floating signifiers that levitate forty-four feet above the floor. Costumes sewn from three million majuscules burst at the semes. The auditorium oscillates between reading room and performatorium. The linguistic turn transmogrifies into a shimmy. Curated by Mashinka Firunts. Performances by Vaginal Davis, Lord Whimsy, Dr. Lucky, Jeremy J F Thompson, Paolo Javier, Daniel Scott Snelson, Shonni Enelow. Steno Pool: An Interactive performance. Featuring: Leesa Abahuni, Nicole Abahuni, Jen Zak, Matt Jones, Kristen Rhea van Liew, Fyodor Pavlov, Lawrence Gullo, Kyle Hittmeier, Lindsay Comstock. Musi
cal Accompaniment by: Grandpa Musselman & His Syncopators, Intertitlular Tap by The Minsky Sisters. One minute curatorial lectures by Mashinka Firunts 8 PM show is sold out – tickets still available for 10 PM show with pre-show reception at 9:30. (Performance Space 122, 150 First Avenue at 9th Street, 10pm, FREE, reservations required)
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FILM: Of Love and Winter
http://bk.knittingfactory.com/event-details/?tfly_event_id=5937
Of this and that Cinema Screening Series kicks off our first season with the Russian film "4" by Ilya Khrzhanovsky. An apocalyptic journey through the dark heart of the new Russia. Three strangers meet in a Moscow bar one late night and spin fantastic stories, all of them lies. They depart and journey their separate ways through a landscape filled with decaying meat, wild dogs, ravenous crones, cloned piglets, and modern industrial horrors. A completely unique and disturbing film, 4 was held up by Russian censors who wanted 40 minutes cut, but relented after the film won acclaim at film festivals around the world. (Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave, W'burg, BK, 6:30pm, $5)
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WEDNESDAY
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EVENT: Cinema Soiree
http://www.nycharities.org/events/eventlevels.aspx?ETID=1176
Help support the 2010 season of Outdoor Cinema, Socrates Sculpture Park's popular, free festival of live music and film (the Museum curates the film portion), by attending the Cinema Soirée. This lively evening will feature performances by Mariachi Citlalli and Les Sans Culottes and additional music by DJs Luz Mob (African, Caribbean, Gypsy, and Funk), Anderson Trinidade (Agua NYC), and Uppercut (Brittpop). Cash bar with cocktails by St. Germain. All proceeds will benefit Socrates Sculpture Park's Outdoor Cinema 2010 program. Your donation will also put your name in lights on the Park's website as an Outdoor Cinema Star. (Fontana's Bar, 105 Eldridge Street between Broome and Grand streets, 7-10pm, $25)
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THEATER: Revolution!?
http://www.czechmarionettes.org/
Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre will probe revolution with stilts and strings in "Revolution!?," a theater spectacle that examines revolutions throughout the history of mankind as a backdrop for the extraordinary peaceful 1989 Velvet Revolution in former Czechoslovakia. "Revolution!?," the brainchild of Pavel Dobrusky and Vit Horejs, has been brewing over the last 18 months, including script development and a rehearsal period in Brno, Czech Republic last August. The piece will be performed in the tradition of Central European medieval street and traveling circus shows, using puppetry, object theater and circus arts. Czech and Czech-American theater artists will collaborate to offer their particular perspectives on the Velvet Revolution of 1989 and an overview of the very notion of revolution. Characters, live and puppets, will include Prometheus, Jesus, Jan Hus, Jean Paul Marat and the "Cleaning Lady" who repeatedly mops up bodies and rubble. Dobrusky and Horejs will
draw script materials from the Titanomachy (when the Olympian gods overthrew the Titans), the Agrarian Revolution (when organized agriculture started and animals were domesticated), the Spartacus Rebellion, the rise of Christianity, the 15th century Hussite movement of peasants in Czech lands, the American, French, Industrial and Russian Revolutions; the Counterculture, the Computer Revolution and the Czech Velvet Revolution. Directed by Pavel Dobrusky (Agentural Dell'Arte/Prague) and Vit Horejs (The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre/NYC). (thru 3/21, Community Space Theater, 239 East 5th Street, Suite 1-D, Thurs-Sun 8pm, Sun 3pm, $10)
ART: Housebroken: Flux Factory Exhibit
http://www.fluxfactory.org
Housebroken, Flux's inaugural show curated by Jean Barberis and Georgia Muenster, will be a gala celebration of Flux Factory's newest home. Dozens of artists will exhibit works throughout the building, with over 100 installations and performances. (thru 3/21, Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St., LIC, Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm)
PUPPETS: Emperor and Queen
http://www.puppetworks.org
Puppetworks presents its winter presentations of "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Snow Queen," two classic fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Adapted for the marionette stage by Puppetworks' Artistic Director Nicolas Coppola, "The Emperor's New Clothes" tells the tale of a vain emperor who buys a set of 'invisible' clothes, only to march down the street in his underwear. The play is accompanied by the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. "The Snow Queen" tells the story of a mysterious lady who throws ice into the heart of a boy so that he becomes cold and mean. The story is accompanied by Norwegian folk tunes and other music from Norwegian composer Edvard Greig. (thru 3/28, Puppetworks, 338 6th Ave. at 4th St., Park Slope, BK, 12:30 and 2:30, $8)
INSTALLATION/PERFORMANCE: Flight 18
http://www.flight18.net
Taking place within a 6,000 square foot former retail store, FLIGHT 18 is an interactive performance that invites its passengers on board a spaceship voyaging toward the outer limits of space. FLIGHT 18 is an environmental entertainment experience offering a public forum where performers and audience can interact and freely express themselves. Discreet BYOB, also bring an open mind and come prepared to dance a bunch. (Thur-Sun thru 3/28, 210 Front St at Beekman, time varies, $18)
THEATER: Glee Club
http://www.bluecoyote.org/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=296403078348
Blue Coyote Theater Group is proud to present GLEE CLUB, written by Matthew Freeman and directed by Kyle Ancowitz. A sold-out hit at last summer's Antidepressant Festival at The Brick, Blue Coyote remounts this hilarious play about eight misfit members of Romeo, Vermont's cut-throat Glee Club. They are on the verge of meltdown after their soloist makes the disastrous decision to save his own life. Will they be ready in time for the big recital? And isn't music the most important thing? GLEE CLUB is a comedy about singing. Singing makes people happy. In classic Matthew Freeman style, underlying the spot-on comedy is a darker thread that explores the destructive decisions that accompany blind ambition. Called "the feel good tragedy of the year" by playwright James Comtois during its short run at the Antidepressant Festival last summer, GLEE CLUB features the infectious song "The World Will Make You Smile" (music and lyrics by Stephen Speights) that had audience members humming
and howling. (thru 4/3, Access Theater, 380 Broadway at White St., 8pm, $15/previews, $25)
ART: Slash: Paper Under the Knife
http://collections.madmuseum.org/html/exhibitions/485.html
The exhibition takes the pulse of the international art world's renewed interest in paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the remarkably diverse use of paper in a range of art forms. Slash is the third exhibition in MAD's Materials and Process series, which examines the renaissance of traditional handcraft materials and techniques in contemporary art and design. The exhibition surveys unusual paper treatments, including works that are burned, torn, cut by lasers, and shredded. A section of the exhibition will focus on artists who modify books to transform them into sculpture, while another will highlight the use of cut paper for film and video animations. (thru 4/4, Museum of Art and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, $15/Thur 6-9pm by donation)
INSTALLATION: SUPERCONDUCTOR
http://www.honey-space.com/
An installation by Daphane Park. Informed by various alternative Western healing technologies and shamanistic rituals, SUPERCONDUCTOR is composed of a set of "objects of performance", an original soundtrack, and a daily, 3-hour performance by the artist. Each of these elements is conceived as an instrument or practice with the potential for therapeutic renewal, and the installation as a whole is undertaken as a benediction for the destructive force inherent in the creative process, and life in general. As a healing site, SUPERCONDUCTOR is open for anyone to directly participate and engage. A soundtrack composed by David Marshall, Rachael Bell, and Derrick Barnicoat provides the sonic landscape of SUPERCONDUCTOR. Created for the installation, the composition is influenced by the discovery of low-frequency sound emanating from black holes at the pitch of B-flat. Current scientific theory holds that this sound plays an important organizing role in the formation of galaxies, and
thereby, the astrophysical evolution of the universe, and life itself. (thru 4/10, Honey Space, 143 11th Ave bet 21st and 22nd, Tues-Sat 11am-6pm, performance 3-6pm daily)
ART: American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion
http://www.fitnyc.edu/336.asp
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) presents American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion, the first exhibition to explore how the "philosophy of beauty" is allied to the craft of dressmaking. Each of the 75 looks on display was chosen to exemplify the relationship between technical ingenuity and artistic excellence. Curator Patricia Mears has focused on approximately 25 American fashion designers, ranging from the obscure, such as Jessie Franklin Turner, whose work dates from the late 1910s, to rising stars of the present day, such as the Mulleavy sisters of Rodarte. Other designers featured include Adrian, Bonnie Cashin, Maria Cornejo, James Galanos, Halston, Elizabeth Hawes, Charles James, Charles Kleibacker, Claire McCardell, Norman Norell, Rick Owens, Ralph Rucci, Isabel Toledo, Pauline Trigère, Valentina, Yeohlee, and Jean Yu. (thru 4/10, Museum at FIT, Seventh Avenue at 27 Street, FREE)
THEATER: CALIGULA MAXIMUS
http://www.lamama.org/index.html
LaMaMa e.t.c. presents Alfred Preisser and Randy Weiner's CALIGULA MAXIMUS, a project with Hammerstein & Weiner, LLC, Christopher McElroen, Alfred Preisser and Kingsize, USA. Caligula Maximus, which blends circus, music, dance and theater, takes place on the last night of the notorious dictator's life, in his palace where he is stage managing, directing and starring in one of his famous "entertainments" which test the limits of human intellect and appetite. Audiences should expect the unexpected! Not suitable for children! CALIGULA MAXIMUS takes place on the last night of the notorious dictator's life, in his palace where he is stage managing, directing, and starring in one of his famous "entertainments" which test the limits of human intellect and appetite. Caligula, sensing the encroachment of monotheistic religions (Christianity and Judaism) holds a phantasmagoric revival meeting in which he attempts to save the world by ushering in a new religion with himself as its princ
iple prophet and god. Caligula's "senate" is an outrageous collection of circus performers, wrestlers, animals, show girls and freaks who enact his spectacles and indulge his whims and fantasies. As the revival meeting reaches fever pitch, his troupe grows weary of being used as toys, gains a sense of their own power and, bedecked in the war paint and leather costumes of barbarian invaders, descend upon him and murder him in mob frenzy. Expect circus, music, dance, rhetoric, and the unexpected. (thru 4/11, The Annex/Ellen Stewart Theater, 74A East 4th Street, bet 2nd and Bowery, Thurs and Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm and 10pm, $30)
EXHIBIT: Where New York Began - Archaeology at the South Ferry Terminal
http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm
Before building the new South Ferry station, a huge archaeological dig was conducted. The site is rich with history from the days of the Native Americans and the city's first western settlers, and much was uncovered, including parts of Battery Wall and over 65,000 artifacts. A new exhibit at the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex and Store in Grand Central Terminal will be showing 100 of these artifacts, plus documents and images that illuminate life in New York hundreds of years ago. (thru 7/5, New York Transit Museum Annex, Grand Central Terminal, FREE)
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