Hello lovelies,
Yeah yeah, we're late. Did we mention we need help? We're seeking volunteers to help us edit the weekly listings, so we can get them to you faster. In return, you not only get our undying love, but party perks, comps & drinks. We edit via Google docs, so you can help on your own time and from your computer. And you get a sneak peek at what events are coming up! Get in touch with Michelle to help us: virgo at geminiandscorpio.
As you will see below, we are finally making official announcements on our summer plans. July 31: The Lost Circus, our midnight dark cabaret bash, and Aug 14: Balkan Bacchanalia on the High Seas, back on the stunning Clipper City sailboat -- and now only $30 in advance. Excited.
Cheers,
Gemini & Scorpio
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HOUSE OF SCORPIO EVENT: 7/22
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Lip Service, a kissing & cocktails party
Thursday, July 22, 8pm-1am, $5 w/RSVP; $10 without, 21+
Madame X (upstairs), 94 W. Houston bet Thompson and LaGuardia
Please arrive with a PAL and be familiar with our Code of Conduct
Details & RSVP: http://www.houseofscorpio.com
FB: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135969926424204
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OUR NEXT EVENT: 7/31
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Gemini & Scorpio
present
The Lost Circus
Sat, July 31, 11:59pm-4am, $15 w/RSVP; $20 without
Littlefield, 622 Degraw, Gowanus, BK
Details & RSVP: http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html
FB: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141792552504061
The Circus is said to have started in ancient Egypt when the court entertainers of an immortal Pharaoh escaped their slavery under a midnight moon. They have traveled the globe for centuries, gathering talent from every great empire as the empire itself begins to crumble: Istanbul, Saint Petersburg, London, Berlin...and now they have made it across the sea.
With music from times gone by or times that never were: dark string fusion by Brooklyn's own Copal; bohemian cabaret in 13 languages by the six-piece ensemble Vagabond Opera - our special guests directly from Portland, OR. Beautiful costumed creatures perform feats of acrobatics, aerial, tribal bellydance and fire, indoors and out, with secret special guests we can't mention. A premier installation & performance by artist (and Minsky Sister) Kristen Rhea van Liew. Dusty circus visuals set the mood. DJ sophybot fascinates your ears with a renegade circus tent soundtrack. With your ever-dapper host, steampunk author G.D. Falksen. Plus photo-op custom art installation with works by Molly Crabapple and Kathleen Green. Dress code (required): dark cabaret, traveling circus, steampunk Victorian, Edward Gorey, Tim Burton, Mad Max, City of Lost Children. More info TK.
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OUR NEXT EVENT: 8/14
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Gemini & Scorpio and NY Gypsy Festival
present
Balkan Bacchanalia on the High Seas
Saturday, Aug 14
Aboard tall ship Clipper City, Pier 17, South St Seaport, 21+
11:30pm boarding, 11:45pm-2am boat party w/cruise, $30 adv/$40 dock (limited tix)
Official site: http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html
Tix: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/119199
FB: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108356192548440
Taste of last cruise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3AvHJgtA1o
Join us as we raise the massive square-rigged sails of New York's only Tall Ship for a surreal dance party on the high seas. Rebuilt from original plans borrowed from the National Archives, the 160-foot Clipper City, with its masts rising 135' off the deck, is a faithful replica of the clipper ships that plied America's waters more than a century ago.
DJ Joro Boro is on decks all night, keeping it sizzling with his signature EthnoMesh Megalophonia mix. Expect wild music to delight your ears, colorful costumes to delight your eyes, full cash bar to delight your gullet, and plenty of surprises to delight your soul. Find yourself face to face with the Statue of Liberty with a cocktail in one hand, a dance partner in the other, and towering sails soaring above. Dress: gypsy fabulous (though we're taking it easy on costumes this time).
100 cruise tickets available for advance presale, 25 more at the door, first come, first served. We highly recommend buying your tickets early. Rain Date: Sunday, Aug 15 at 9:30pm.
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WEEKEND + WEEK
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*EVENT: City Solstice, aka Manhattan-Henge
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/resources/starstruck/manhattanhenge
At Stonehenge, one day a year has particular astronomical significance: the Sun rises in perfect alignment with several of the stones on summer solstice, the first day of summer. For Manhattan, a place where evening matters more than morning, twice a year the Sun sets in exact alignment with the Manhattan grid, fully illuminating every single cross-street for the last fifteen minutes of daylight. These two days give you a photogenic view with half the Sun above and half the Sun below the horizon -- on the grid. The day before July 12, the entire ball of the Sun will be visible on the horizon -- on the grid. If the Manhattan grid matched the geographic north-south line, then our special days would be the equinoxes, the two days on the calendar when the Sun rises due east and sets due west. But Manhattan is rotated 30° east from geographic north, shifting the special days elsewhere in the calendar. For best effect, position yourself as far east in Manhattan as possible. But en
sure that when you look west across the avenues you can still see New Jersey. Clear cross streets include 14th, 23rd, 34th. 42nd, 57th, and several streets adjacent to them. The Empire State building and the Chrysler building render 34th street and 42nd streets especially striking vistas. (Sun/Mon 8:24pm)
MUSIC: The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
http://www.bkhiphopfestival.com
The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival is a celebration of Hip-Hop music and culture. Our aim is to highlight Hip-Hop's legacy as an agent of artistic progression, community building and social change. We do this by producing a variety of events from musical performances, Family Day, film screenings, gallery shows and more. The Festival is more than a concert or outdoor fair. It is more of a family reunion for lovers of this great culture. People come from Flatbush to Berlin to enjoy the Brooklyn sun. Our hope is to produce a world class event in Brooklyn where the best and brightest travel to Brooklyn. As well as celebrating Hip-Hop culture we want to establish Brooklyn as a worldwide destination. We also endeavor to support local artists from Brooklyn and the NYC area while not creating an insular event for, by and in Brooklyn. In an effort to create a truly open event Brooklyn Bodega does everything in their power to keep the festival affordable. (Fri/Sat, details on site)
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FRIDAY
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CIRCUS: The Underworld
http://www.deconstructivetheatreproject.org
Bored with the cushioned confines of Mount Olympus, a dissolute band of gods decides to go slumming in hell...An evening of Olympic-sized debauchery featuring aerial silk, trapeze, fire performance, and live music performances by: Kae Burke, Ryan Homsey, Adam Hussein, Nicki Miller, Danielle Natoli, Adam Scott, Sam Shine, The Shivers, Bronwyn Sims, Adam J. Thompson, and Ben Williams. With interactive projection installations by Phil Gulley, DJ Scot Bowman keeping you dancing all night and specialty drinks by Andriana Santiago. Party Committee: Mitch Dean, Crys Huyett, Arielle Lever, Nicki Miller, Jon Mark Ponder, Andriana Santiago, and Adam J. Thompson. In partnership with The Sky Box and Quiet Color. All proceeds support the development of The Deconstructive Theatre Project's The Orpheus Variations, premiering in September 2010. (House of Yes, 342 Maujer St bet Morgan and Waterbury, Bushwick, BK, 8pm, $15)
FILM: Kickstarter Film Festival
http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/23-kickstarter-sneak-previews
Kickstarter will host its first-ever film festival, a night highlighting the very best of the site's film and video projects. We'll screen 90 minutes of footage from feature films, stop-motion animation, documentaries, theater, art, dance, and more. Some of our favorite local food projects will cater, from pies to artisanal sodas to fresh foods grown in Kickstarter-funded urban farms. Before the screening enjoy the amazing Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band, the focus of the Kickstarter-funded Brasslands documentary. The venue holds roughly 700 people — 300 on the roof and 400 in the courtyard below (there are two screens). Rooftop seats are sold out; courtyard seats sold at the door. (Old American Can Factory, 232 Third Street, Gowanus, BK, 8pm, $10)
ART: Retro Art Opening
http://www.Hichristina.com
An old-fashioned art opening from 1865 and 1965 mashed up! Wear your petticoats, your civil war mustache, your luscious swimsuit and your bag dress mumu cocktail number nine! Come to HiChristina tonight to see new photography by two contrasting and exciting artists, Ona Weatherford, Yael Gamson, and A. Jesse Jiryu Davis!! Color snapshots taken each day for a year on disposable cameras battle with cool black and white studied portraits of zen monks and street people. Dance on one wall and get enlightened on the other. The night includes performances by Big Woman, Tittens, Booty Monitor, and culminates in L*O*V*E Sparkle partner dancing! Expect a short guided meditation intermezzio. Get crazy and then suddenly relax tonight at HiChristina! Experience the mixer of a lifetime complete with social games from 1965 and dance tips from 1865! Extra points for 1960s or 1860s attire. (HiChristina, 163 Eldridge St, 9pm, $7, BYOB)
MUSIC: Hungry March Band & Texas Couscous
http://www.galapagosartspace.com/
Playing their first NYC show, Texas Couscous is the joyful meeting of thirty companions of misfortune, united by ties of melodious marriage and crazy instruments. Writing with their left hands and left with their right hands, their music is like a snarling Djiboutian cheetah. They aim to serve you a tagine of explosive music again and again. Local favorites the Hungry March Band are a booming ensemble of saxes, trombones, trumpets, sousaphones, and a full percussion section. They are often joined by the Pleasure Society, a troupe of baton twirlers, hula hoopers, and dancers, who blur the boundary between band and audience. Vigorously digesting music from wherever brass bands are heard — the Balkans, India, New Orleans, Latin America — and combining it with a knowledge of big band, free jazz, and punk rock, the Hungry March Band blares forth with one of the most original musical voices in NYC. (Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St., DUMBO, BK, 10pm, $10)
DJ/DANCING: Bass Drive for Haiti
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127226670651967
http://www.etaals.com
Tix: https://secure.www.memberconnections.com/olc/pub/LVNI/events/event_order.cgi?tmpl=events&event=2302254
With: SUB SWARA, DAVE Q (DUB WAR), KRADDY (EX-GLITCH MOB), DJ Slav, DJ Sashwat. All profits of the event will be donated to the International Rescue Committee (http://www.theirc.org/), which has relief teams on the ground in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. IRC is working with local aid groups to provide assistance to survivors, including food, shelter, and other necessary resources to thousands of families. (Pubic Assembly, 70 North 6th St, W'burg, BK, 10pm-4am, $12-20)
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SATURDAY
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PARTY: Union Hall 4th Anniversary BBQ
http://www.unionhallny.com/home.php
Union Hall is celebrating its 4th anniversary! We'd love for you to come out and BBQ with us in our garden. We'll raise a toast, play some games and dance to the soul music from DJ Bug Bear! No cover! Just good times! 1 hour open bar Reyka vodka lemonades from 1pm-2pm. Reyka vodka lemonades are $5 afterwards. $6 Jerk Chicken and $5 veggie burgers on the grill! (Union Hall, 702 Union St. at 5th Ave., Park Slope, BK, 12pm, FREE)
***PARTICIPATORY: KALEIDOSCOPE III: RAINBOW UNICORN
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106667509366316
Live updates: http://twitter.com/kaleidoscopenyc
New York City. It's like no other place in the world. And no other night delivers a greater promise than Kaleidoscope. Kaleidoscope is a magical parade around NYC... imagine you in Ultra-Brite technicolor.. brass bands, boom trikes, fire spinning, revelry, performance, picnics, merriment, love, colors & music.. everything you loved about the first two Kaleidoscopes....Oh, and a WHOLE LOTTA UNICORNS! Please bring the following: Metrocard, Instruments, Food to share (our first stop will be a picnic), Friends, Proper hydration, Gifts for your 500 new best friends, Cameras, Smiles, Appropriate clothes for the weather, Kites...And of course....UNICORNS. This will be a peaceful event. If you have any concerns feel free to ask anyone wearing white, but no, they will not tell you the next location, half the fun is in not knowing. PLEASE be smart about your actions and refrain from doing anything that would jeopardize the event from proceeding. Dress: choose a solid color in the ROYGB
IV spectrum (you can come with a group of friends in one color, too). (location with RSVP, 5pm, FREE)
MULTIMEDIA: Mix & Match
http://mixandmatch2010.eventbrite.com
http://www.vimeo.com/groups/mix
Mix & Match is a group for video artists that reuse, remix, and re-edit FOUND FOOTAGE in creative ways. This one-night festival will highlight all of the best remixes and mashups that have been submitted in the past year. (Bushwick Starr, 207 Starr St, BK, 7-11pm, $7 adv / $10 door)
PARTY: The Return of Rococo Party: A Baroque Bash
http://www.returnofrococo.com
The extravagance of 1770 rococo Paris meets the eclecticism of 2010 underground NYC nightlife. Magic by: Shane Gillen, Fire and Poi-dancing by: Anna Leah, Burlesque by: Kat Mandu, Burlesque by: Miss Em, Belly/Fire Dancing by: Serafina, Avant-Garde Burlesque: Vivian, Electronic Baroque Rock and Live Art by: Snazz Mammoth and Colorform. (teneleven, 171 Ave C, 8pm, $10?)
*VARIETY/MUSIC: Another Night at the Circus
http://www.myspace.com/unionpool
http://www.myspace.com/staggerbackbrassband
Stagger Back Brass Band presents a night of music and performance including clowns, aerialists and the best ragtime band in New York City- Xylopholks! The most wonderful amalgamation of brass, circus, pretty and furry you've ever seen in the last few months at least! Stagger Back will be featuring guests in our musical membership for the evening too, being joined once again not only by the stellar playing of Jen Baker and Satoru Ohashi, but also for the first time by the inimitable Jessica Lurie, of Circus Amok and the Tiptons saxophone quartet fame. (Union Pool, 484 Union St., Wburg, BK, 9pm, $10)
ART/PARTY/PARTICIPATORY: The Christina and Fritz Live-In Installation Plus Outrageous Hat Hair Experiences
http://www.Hichristina.com
This is the first ever total immersion experience from HiChristina. Tonight enter a wacky new universe on Eldridge Street in the LES. On the other side of the tape, Christina and Fritz have created a living installation with lots of ready-made experiences. Choose a chair: the massage block, the hair cut stool, the confessional curtain, a get-served-a-drink chair, an exercise corner, and other stools for the bold or curious. Enter the room and peer from afar or don one of several different hats and cross through the looking glass. Be a servant, a piece of furniture, an uncle, a best friend, a grandma, or invisible: put on the hat with the role that fits your mood at the moment. Trade hats with new friends. Welcome to the fun -- a surreal playhouse with Christina in kitchen utensils and Fritz in velvet rainbow sparkler. A docent will be prepared to answer questions and point out interesting features. All sequins, all the time. (HiChristina, 163 Eldridge St, 10pm, $10, BYOB)
PARTY: Flux Factory party
http://www.fluxfactory.org
Flux Factory is throwing a party. The theme is burlesque-World Cup-double birthday-toga party. We’ll have kickin’ video art projections by John Kilduff, an upside down room by Matthew-Robin Nye, delicious dancefloors, and surprises. With DJs Charlos, Tinseltown, and Inside François. (Flux Facory, 39-31 29th Street, LIC, 9pm-late, $5, donation bar)
PARTY: A Multi-Chambered Hive of Delights and Surprises
http://www.radiohive.org/radiohive-benefit/
Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn, RADIOHIVE will be mustering all of its collective brilliance and wit to produce a night benefiting The Most Beautiful Buzz Of All...RADIOHIVE.ORG. A space will be transformed into a multi-chambered Hive of delights and surprises, designed to elicit giddy laughter, thoughtful pauses, and serious rump shaking. DJs Sister Sundown, HaHa and Mdot will spin, a photo booth will photo, a kissing booth will kiss, and a story booth will let you tell your own tale. Homemade magic from Brooklyn's own Sister Liquors, beer, wine, and maybe some moonshine will round out the evening. All proceeds go towards getting your favorite pirate radio collective a new transmitter and better equipment to keep the community radio humming. (1399 Pacific St., BK, 10pm, $10/sugg donation)
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SUNDAY
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FEST: Bastille Day on 60th St.
http://www.bastilledaynyc.com/act3.html
Each year, Bastille Day on 60th Street brings the best of France to New York for an afternoon of activities and delights for the entire family. Kids can play a round of pétanque or get their faces painted at the Kids Corner booth. From tasting delicious treats to listening to music at our day-long concert, everyone will enjoy the myriad attractions provided by artists and artisans from various regions of France, as well as other French-speaking countries. For more than ten years, Bastille Day on 60th Street has been the largest public celebration of the historic friendship between France and the United States commemorating France’s own Independence Day on July 14, 1789. Shop the French-themed market stalls, try your luck at the raffle, and stop by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) at 22 East 60th Street for wine and cheese tastings; Vive la France! (60th St. bet 5th Ave. and Lexington Ave., 12pm-6pm, FREE)
ART: The Quarterly Art Soirée Midsummer Art Party
http://www.websterhall.com
http://www.theqas.net
A mega 16 hour long celebration; at any given moment, in every single room throughout Webster Hall, patrons can enjoy the smorgasbord of arts and performances on display without the pomp and rigidity of the traditional gallery. In other words, it’s an art party. Featuring Dillon Porter’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night Dream“, Andrew J. Nemr and Cat Paying Dues, a Sam Bassett film presented by Jim Muscarella, Candy Couture Fashion Show, Fort Apache Tattoo Studio, Animal Mechanical, Splice, Into the Wild Comedy Show, StonedFire, and hundreds of other amazing artists rocking out all day long in The Greatest Art Concert on the Planet! The Quarterly Art Soirée (The QAS) was founded to exhibit, expose, and promote the best talent in painting, music, film, fashion, theater, graphic design, performance, installation and video art while celebrating the rich cultural history of the Webster Hall venue. The QAS seeks to showcase art in a vibrant and unassuming manner so
that the form is not held to the traditional pedestals of the “white-cube” gallery, sleek runway, or classic stage. Rather, the prospective spectator may witness the creations as an organic part of a communal environment – where not one thing is set apart from another – and where art may fuse with everyday life. (Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St., 12pm-4am, $10/adv, $15/door)
FEST: The Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Feast and Festival of the Giglio
http://www.olmcfeast.com
In Italian Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the residents of the community look forward to the annual Giglio Feast held every July. Since 1903, when the Nolani immigrants first held their transplanted feast in this Brooklyn neighborhood, this festa has attempted to maintain many of the traditions from the Mezzogiorno, while adjusting to the new culture in America and accommodating the pressure to change. This feast, which has been taking place in Brooklyn for over 100 years, commemorates an extraordinary bit of southern Italian history which culminated in the canonization of an erstwhile bishop of the small city of Nola. Not even Catholic until his thirty-seventh year, Paulinus was destined to become a renowned religious hero of that region. Though he was to serve as Bishop of Nola from 409 AD to 431 AD, it was an alleged episode, that took place shortly after his elevation to bishop, for which the Nolani hold him in such high regard. The highlight of the festival (along with deep-fri
ed oreos and zeppolis) is the ceremonial lifting of St. Paulinus of Nola, a saint who was showered with lillies, or gigli, upon making a lot of crazy sacrifices. The 65-foot, nearly four-ton tower will be lifted by over a hundred men several times before the festival ends July 18, but the lifts to watch begin this Sunday. [via Brooklyn Based, one of our fave newsletters.] (near Our Lady of Mt. Carmel at N. 9th and Havemeyer, W'burg, BK, 1pm, FREE)
**MUSIC: Rocks Off Concert Cruise with Hungry March Band & Texas Couscous
http://www.rocksoff.com/shows/555
Rocks Off concert cruise involves a full bar onboard, restrooms, food, brass bands, you name it... You basically sail to nowhere, except it takes 3 hours to get there. Up, down, around, the upper and lower east side of Manhattan, out into NY Harbor, etc. Playing for the first time, Texas Couscous is the joyful meeting of thirty companions of misfortune, united by ties of melodious marriage and crazy instruments. Writing with their left hands and left with their right hands, their music is like a snarling Djiboutian cheetah. They aim to serve you a tagine of explosive music again and again. Local favorites the Hungry March Band are a booming ensemble of saxes, trombones, trumpets, sousaphones, and a full percussion section. They are often joined by the Pleasure Society, a troupe of baton twirlers, hula hoopers, and dancers, who blur the boundary between band and audience. Vigorously digesting music from wherever brass bands are heard — the Balkans, India, New Orleans, Latin Am
erica — and combining it with a knowledge of big band, free jazz, and punk rock, the Hungry March Band blares forth with one of the most original musical voices in NYC. (Skyport Marina, 23rd St. and FDR Drive, 7pm-11pm, $20/adv, $25/dock)
FOOD: Dances of Vice Baroque Banquet
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134393906570747
Dances of Vice presents the first of a monthly series of decadent Baroque and Rococo themed dinner parties at the elegant Duane Park Restaurant & Lounge. Enjoy beautiful Baroque arias performed by Charites Music and live harpischord by the mesmerizing Mistress of Harpsichord as you dine from a sumptuous selection of specialty foods fit for the tables of Louis XIV. Reservation & early arrival strongly recommended - Call (212) 732-5555. (Duane Park Restaurant & Lounge, 157 Duane St, 7-10:30pm, FREE)
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MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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WEDNESDAY
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TALK/PARTY: A Picture of Haiti: Six Months Later
http://www.honey-space.com
Six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, as the rubble and human needs have slowly shifted out of media focus, we want to get smarter about what's happening on the ground, what projects are really making a difference, and how we can support them. So we've invited representatives from organizations working across the spectrum to speak from their perspectives: from several of the top NGOs working in Haiti to artists and grassroots organizations developing solutions to some of the most urgent needs of water, housing, and medicine. And we invite you to join us. Funds raised by the event will support a long-term clean water project in the Central Plateau sponsored by charity: water and Partners in Health, and Swoon and Ben Wolf's Konbit Shelter project, which seeks to build durable community shelter in the community of Barrier Jeudi before the rainy season fully sets in. Featuring: Charity: Water, Clinton Foundation, Partners In Health, and Swoon, Ben Wolf, and Konbi
t Shelter. Afterparty with DJ Dhundee, a silent art auction organized by Swoon and Ben Wolf, Haitian food, mango juice, and rum. (Honey Space, 148 11th Ave bet 21st and 22nd st, 6:30p doors, 7-8p presentations and discussion, 8-10p party; $30+ donation)
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THURSDAY
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PARTY: Siren Music Fest Kick-off Party
http://meanredproductions.com/2204
The 10th annual Siren Music Festival has arrived, and MeanRed is joining forces with Toyota Matrix to throw you a banger of a kick off party. FREE BOOZE and FREE Entry when you RSVP. (The Green Building, 450 Union St, Gowanus, BK, 8pm, FRE w/RSVP, 21+)
PERFORMANCE: Cramp-us: Aloha from Hell
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120359348005499
You're invited to enjoy season's beatings with Tigger!, The Lady Aye, Bambi the Mermaid, Bunny Love, The Flying Fox, Creamy Stevens, and Julie Atlas Muz. The evening will pay tribute to legendary Cramps frontman, Lux Interior, and keep the true spirit of the Krampus holiday alive in their hearts. More than just a loving homage to one of rock's finest performers, Cramp-us is the season of giving. That's why in addition to the evening's burlesque/sideshow pageantry, each paid admission will be entitled to an Old World-style spanking from our own in-house, Pagan-inspired, horned, devil beast. It's our gift to you and we like to believe Lux would've wanted it that way. (Sideshows by the Seashore, 1208 Surf Ave, Coney Island, BK, 9pm, $10)
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UPCOMING
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Friday 7/16
PARTY: Mata Hari Madness Midsummer Masquerade Ball
http://www.mataharimadness.com
http://www.facebook.com/l/6faaeDQwhZnad1T-3U5LtCVvs3Q; www.mataharimadness.com
Courtesan. Exotic dancer. Secret agent. She was all three. Which one are you? Join us for an evening of erotic imagery, Playful flirting, and stolen glances all mixed together with intrigue, a twist of kink and a dash of the absurd. With Performances by: Kayti Bunny, Paige Stevenson, Dwan Daniels, The Pixie Harlots, Machine Dazzle and Song Siren the lovely Juliette Campbell. DJs: Tim The Enchanter, Tektite, Friar Tuck. Plus: The Sweet and Vicious Domination Station hosted by Elisa BLynn; Photo booth Hosted By Joe Che; Kissing Booth hosted By Chemistry NYC; Tasting Treats by Dallas; Masters of Massage by Ideal Intimacy. Costumes encouraged but not required. All proceeds going to support The Desiree Alliance and 2010 Conference: a diverse, volunteer-based, sex worker-led network of organizations, communities and individuals working in harm reduction, direct services, political advocacy and health services for sex workers. [G&S note: Use the password "friend" for $5 off the pric
e]. The Red Lotus Room, 9pm-4am, VIP cocktail reception 8pm-9pm, $20-40)
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ART: Daniel Merriam
http://www.animazing.com/gallery/merriam/originals
http://www.danielmerriam.com
If you dream in full color, Daniel Merriam's paintings are a wildly-hued journey into the imagination. "In Merriam's watercolors, drowsy moonfaces, Victorian houses and the matic repetition create a childlike whimsy layered with meaning." - Art & Antiques. "The ... artist's stunning erotic, fanciful drawings of the primordial garden have earned him a worldwide reputation among serious collectors and connoisseurs. Working in the unforgiving medium of transparent watercolor, his artistical style is the product of solid technical skills, an illustrator's precision and storyteller's sense of adventure." -- EGO Magazine. [G&S note: we are rarely blown away by new art, perhaps because so much of it is post-post-post you-name-it. This artist speaks directly to our theatricality & surrealism-loving little hearts: think Alice in Wonderland meets Gaudi via MirrorMask. (Or, a more whimsical Mark Ryden.)] (Through ?, Animazing Gallery, 461 Broome Street, (bet Greene and Mercer), FREE)
ART: Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage
http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm
Approximately twenty hand-drawn ballet costume designs by Dorothea Tanning (b.1910) created in collaboration with the early modernist choreographer, George Balanchine. Dating from 1945–1953, the designs will be shown together for the first time, and will be accompanied by archival photographs and ephemera related to the staged productions. This series explores the dynamic intersections of dance, performance, visual art, and costume, while drawing important parallels to Tanning's early discoveries in both painting and sculpture. Taking the form of traditional fashion plates, the blithely rendered drawings are suggestive of bodies in motion and portrayals of outlandish characters through the quirky detailing and sensual drapery of the costumes. (thru 7/23, Wed-Fri 12-6pm, Thur 2-8pm, 35 Wooster St, FREE)
THEATER: Game Play
http://www.bricktheater.com/gameplay
Game Play explores the collision of technology, theater, performance art, and video game culture by staging the collaborative work of performance and media artists across the digital spectrum. For 2009, Game Play's inaugural year, works for the celebrated festival included "Adventure Quest," "Thank You But Our Princess is in Another Castle," and "Suspicious Package: Rx". This year’s performances include “Grand Theft Ovid,” “A Short Lecture of a Different Time,” and “Theater of the Arcade: Five Classic Video Games Adapted for the Stage.” (thru 7/25, The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave., Wburg, BK, various times, $15)
THEATER: Anna & Meredith’s Production of Gormanzee & Other Stories
http://www.theflea.org
The evening features Bill It, a kinetic portrait of the restaurant industry, The House on the Shore, the story of the sole resident of a shuttered beach town, and Gormanzee, a macabre puppet comedy exploring ritualistic primate slaughter. These three one-acts showcase Anna & Meredith’s wide stylistic range, from fast-paced comedy and tight choreography, to stark dramatic conflict, to eerie and inventive puppetry. Anna & Meredith’s past work includes Brains, First Place Winner of Spoke the Hub’s 2009 Winter Follies and recipient of The Looking Glass Theatre Space Grant, and The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, Time Out NY Critics’ Pick at FringeNYC 2008. (thru 7/25, The Flea Theater, 41 White Street, bet Broadway & Church Streets, Wed, Thurs and Sun at 7pm,
Fri and Sat at 9pm, $20)
TALK: Oxberry Pegs Presents: Animators Are God?
http://observatoryroom.org/series
Meet them in person and decide for yourself in this series of screenings, lectures, and presentations on the illusion of life co-hosted by GF Newland and Trilby Schreiber. From time immemorial, some mere mortals have sought to play God! They have "pursued nature to her hiding-places" like a bunch of Dr. Frankenstein's, driven by a bold desire to create life. They are the Animators, and somehow, they have done it, but how? How do they do it? How will they do it in the future, if any, and for God sake's why??? For answers to these and other questions, don't miss a night of this scintillating series of lectures, screenings, and presentations by the gods themselves! From Winsor McKay to Ren and Stimpy, the Golem to video games, automata to Avator, phantasmagoria to animatronics, Pygmalian to puppet theatre, this series will examine the ways in which animators play god (with a little g). (thru July 29, Observatory Room, 543 Union St, Gowanus, BK)
PERFORMANCE: A Night at the Tombs
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723515
Chicago meets TransAmerica in this new musical. While cooling her 6-inch heels in the clink, fabulous Bianca Leigh tries to make sense of how a skinny Jersey boy with dreams of becoming a great Shakespearean actor ended up as a high-priced dominatrix. Both hilarious and moving, Bianca brings to vivid life more than a dozen characters, from her disapproving mother to a sadistic corrections officer. Presented by Theatre Askew featuring original music by Avenue Q's Jeff Whitty, Taylor Mac and more. (Thursdays through 8/5, Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery bet Houston & Bleecker Street, 8pm, $18)
PERFORMANCE: 19th Annual HOT! Festival of Queer Performance and Culture
New York's HOT! Festival is the longest running LGBTQ Festival in the world. The Village Voice calls it "New York's Best Gay Theater Festival!" For 19 years, Dixon Place has presented emerging and established artists in the Queer universe who present their finest works in theater, music, dance, performance, and literature. 2010's HOT! Festival features Dynasty Handbag, Scotty Heron, Frank DeCaro, Robert Richards, Holly Hughes, World Famous Bob, Reno, Liz Liguori & Jesse Mann, and over 60 more artists. Many shows in our cozy cocktail lounge are free and you're invited to our post-show parties where you meet your favorite artists. (thru 8/7, Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St bet Delancey/Rivington, most shows $10 adv/$15 door/$25 for any 3/$60 fest pass)
***OUT OF TOWN: Going Places (Doing Stuff) III
http://www.fluxfactory.org
Flux Factory is pleased to announce our third annual Going Places (Doing Stuff) artist-led bus tours! Think of it as "adventure as performance art." The content of the tours is entirely up to the artist, and destinations are kept secret. Artists have "carte blanche" to lead a bus-full of people on an odyssey around the greater New York/Quad-State area. Before each tour, we provide only the following information: artists' name, title of adventure, duration, and a list of needed supplies. In other words, when people sign up for a tour, they know what to bring and how long they’ll be gone, but will have no idea where they’re going or what they’ll experience. Last year's adventures included ziplining to swimming holes, breaking world records, a trip to an abandoned mental asylum, a demolition derby, and camping in the rain. The tours will be on board a school bus propelled by vegetable oil provided by the Rude Mechanical Orchestra. All tours are first-come, first-serve. Tickets g
o on sale one week before each tour. They go like hotcakes. Please check the Flux Factory website for details. (thru 8/28, location with ticket, $20)
PARTY: PS1 Warm Up
http://ps1.org/news/view/64/
MoMA PS1's historic Warm Up music series begins this Saturday. This highly anticipated outdoor series celebrates its twelfth year of exposing audiences to the best in experimental music and live bands, performances, and DJs. Coinciding with the annual Young Architects Program, this year's Warm Up will merge with a new courtyard installation, Pole Dance, created by the architectural firm Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu (SO - IL). (Every Sat thru 9/4, PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave at 46th Ave, 2pm-9pm, $15)
ART: Andy Warhol The Last Decade
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy_warhol/
The first U.S. museum survey to examine the late work of American artist Andy Warhol (1928–1987). Encompassing nearly fifty works, the exhibition reveals the artist's vitality, energy, and renewed spirit of experimentation. During this time Warhol produced more works, in a considerable number of series and on a vastly larger scale, than at any other point in his forty-year career. It was a decade of great artistic development for him, during which a dramatic transformation of his style took place alongside the introduction of new techniques. (thru 9/12, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Parkway, BK, various times, $10)
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