Hello lovelies,
We are still recovering from the epic spectacle that was The Lost Circus. Thank you for coming out and looking incredibly gorgeous and steampunky! For a sampling of costumes and circus treats, check out the awesome photos at MetroMix: http://bit.ly/ab3doC -- and also a set by TimeOut New YOrk: http://tmout.us/ariMWK
If you have photos or video, please email us! You can also upload to our Flickr photo pool, post to the Facebook event or "@" us on Twitter with a link.
Our last event this summer is rapidly approaching. One week to go, and nearly half the tickets are gone already. The party will most certainly sell out, so don't miss out if you want to go. For a taste of the last boat party, see this short video of electric violinist Irine Fong against the Statue of Liberty in the background: http://bit.ly/asGJSf -- and the TimeOut gallery: http://tmout.us/aQEWrW
Cheers,
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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, the king of the EthnoMesh Megalophonia sound (as heard at the infamous Bulgarian Bar, on KEXP radio, and at numerous underground parties), spins alongside special guest from Germany, DJ KK, mastermind of the Balkan Express and Favela Blast parties in Cologne.
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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PERFORMANCE: Poe (...and the museum of lost arts)
http://www.elisekermani.com/Poe.html
Though the two never met in life, Charles Baudelaire (Rinde Eckert), the brilliant French poet was obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe (Theo Bleckmann). Accompanied, and vexed, by Techne (Pamela Z), the capricious goddess of invention, Baudelaire emerges in modern day lower Manhattan determined to find the truth, and to tell the story, of his artistic brother and soul mate. (Sat 7:30PM, Sun 2:30PM, 3LD Art and Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St, $25)
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FRIDAY
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**MUSIC: A battle of the punk brass bands - Stumblebums vs. Mucca Pazza
http://bk.knittingfactory.com/event-details/?tfly_event_id=11963
Come see this colossal event as the world's smallest punk brass band (Brooklyn's own Stumblebum Brass Band) takes on the world's largest punk brass band (30-member Mucca Pazza from Chicago). It's going to be good. [G&S note: Wheeee!] (The Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave, 9pm, $15)
EXHIBITION: Geekdown
http://www.92y.org/shop/92Tri_event_detail.asp?productid=T%2DMM5PA17
Geniuses are born in NY everyday— both literally and figuratively speaking. One local genius birthplace is NYU's ITP (Interactive Telecommunication Program), which produces some of the most influential minds in new media. Tonight, a handful of the school's recent graduates are teaming up with the 92YTribeca gallery to show a group collection of new technology, art and music, which purportedly includes dueling Gameboys, audio light installations and virtual sea creatures. Need we say more? (92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, 8pm Gallery Reception/9pm Performance, $10)
PARTY: Sex, Guac & Roll (One Good Reason)
http://www.houseofyes.org
http://fla.vor.us/2343791-House-of-YES-tickets.html
Come take a bite of life's simple pleasures. Live music, electro funk & roll
DJs, fierce fire and hooping, VJ visuals, Dubstep, Aerial splendor, tequila, & whatever else we desire. Featuring: Sistine Criminals (live original drum and bass, dub step and tech house) DJ mLe direct from Denver, DJ Tecktite, VJ Krunch, Tara McManus fire fiesta. DRESS: Rock star or guac star; tight pants, leather and lace, VIP velvet, tequila cantina girlboots made for walking, groupie gear, dead rocker look, etc (House of Yes, 342 Maujer St, BK, 9:30pm-sunrise, suggested donation: $10 before midnight/$15 after/$20 without rockstar attire)
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SATURDAY
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PARTICIPATORY: The Fourth Annual Time Travel Picnic
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142863209073266
http://www.govisland.com
The oldest & Longest running annual steampunk meet up event in the world. To coincide with the Civil War weekend: "The National Park Service, 119th New York Volunteers, The GawdAwful Mess and Battery G of the First Pennsylvania Light Artillery will provide family friendly activities, living history demonstrations, music and other programs designed to introduce you to the men and women of the Governors Island Garrison." Bring a picnic basket if you wish. Dress Steampunk, Victorian, dandy, etc. (Meet at Pier 101, Governors Island, 1:30pm - 5:00pm, FREE)
MUSIC: 8th Annual NYC Musical Saw Festival
http://www.MusicalSawFestival.org
Concert and art exhibit revolving around the 300 year old art of playing music on a carpenter's handsaw. For the past eight years Astoria (Queens) became a pilgrimage spot for musical saw players from all over the world. Last year the festival got into the Guinness Book of Records for the Largest Musical Saw Ensemble with 53 saw players playing together, beating the previous record from Poland (28 saw players). The festival includes world premiers of music written especially for the musical saw (including a piece for three musical saws), as well as the Chorus of the Saws, all musical saw players playing together. Musical saw solos and ensembles, performing many music styles (jazz, classical, pop, folk, show tunes, etc.) performed by musical saw players from all over the world. (Hellenic Cultural Center, 27-09 Crescent Street (corner of Newtown Avenue), Queens, 2pm, $10
WORD: The Liar Show
http://theliarshow.blogspot.com
Each Liar show features four performers telling gripping, personal stories that will make you laugh or just make you glad you don't live with them. But listen carefully, because only three of these basically honest people are telling the truth. The fourth is making it all up. After all the stories have been heard, you'll interrogate the storytellers and guess which one's the Liar. If you're right, you'll walk away with an inflated ego and an unbelievable "I Can Tell A Lie" t-shirt, amid a bitter chorus of, "Congratulations, Einstein," from the empty-handed losers. Featuring: PETER AGUERO - The Moth Host and Grandslam Champion; JIM O'GRADY - New York Times, Huffington Post; MICHELE CARLO -Author, Fish Out Of Agua; DAN ALLEN - Comedy Central. With guest host PETER AGUERO Keeping this unbelievable crew honest - or not. He will also be telling a story. Believe it - or not. RESERVATIONS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: 212-989-9319. (Cornelia St Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street bet W 4th & Bleecker, 5
:45pm, $8 admission plus one $7 drink min)
PARTICIPATORY: Ice Blocking
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129521477067590
Ice blocking is a recreational activity in which individuals race to the bottom of a hill sitting on large blocks of ice. It is sometimes recommended as a good activity for dating and scout camps. In the United States ice blocking is thought to be regional, occurring in the West. The only equipment needed is some large blocks of ice and thick, preferably padded, clothing. Hessian sacks or old towels have been recommended to sit on. Enthusiasts have been known to make "customized" ice blocks by freezing ropes into them to act as handles, and mixing colouring agents into the water prior to freezing. Hazards include falls, bruises, bug bites and getting covered in mud. The bottom of the slope being used should be a wide area free from obstructions. Short grass is reported to give the best experience, due to lower drag and hence higher speed. BYOB (Bring Your Own Blocks). (Central Park Dog Run, 78/79th Street inside the park, East Side, 7-8:30pm, FREE)
MUSIC: Asphalt Orchestra / Balkan Beat Box / Mucca Pazza
http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/lc-ood-2010
An iconoclastic 12-piece marching band conceived by Bang on a Can, the Asphalt Orchestra performs ambitious processional music from every cornerof the world. Its selections have the ability to coax funk from the funereal and turn a halftime show into a marvel of sophistication. Featuring world premiere commissions by Yoko Ono and David Byrne with Annie Clark. Movement by Susan Marshall and Mark DeChiazza. Uniforms by Elizabeth Hope Clancy. The globetrotting brainchild of drummer-producer Tamir Muskat, sax monarch Ori Kaplan, and dynamic MC Tomer Yosef, Balkan Beat Box transforms equal parts Balkan-Mediterranean traditions, punk intensity, electronic cool, jazz discipline, and hiphop attitude into a globalist groove extravaganza. The astounding 30-plus member circus punk marching band Mucca Pazza bulks up anarchic brass arrangements with gloriously mischievous polyphony. And cheerleaders. Balkan Beat Box presented with support from the Consulate General of Israel in New York.
(Lincoln Center Plaza, 62nd Street: Asphalt Orchestra at Hearst Plaza, 6pm, Balkan Beat Box/Mucca Pazza at Damrosch Park Bandshell, 7pm, FREE)
MUSIC: Reggie Watts + more
http://www.thebushwickstarr.org
Energetic, category-defying beat-boxing-musical-comedy rap from Reggie Watts. With Matthew Varvil, Springs (Mike Visser) and Sharon Van Etten. “Sharon Van Etten plays bittersweet neofolk so slow, spare and subtle that you might have to crane your neck to hear it. The Brooklyn songsmith’s tunes are definitely worth the effort." - Time Out New York. "Sharp, wry and elusive...Reggie Watts moves seamlessly from skits to songs to off- kilter stand-up, while talking in a subway train full of accents." - The New York Times (The Bushwick Starr, 207 Starr Street, BK, doors 8pm, $8)
DJ/DANCING: The Afrokinetic 7 Year Anniversary
http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/1398
Afrokinetic is back at it again, celebrating it's 7 Year Anniversary in NYC. Founder and resident DJ Chris Annibell is in command of the turntables while Afrokinetic drummers Amon and Jimmy Lopez keep us rooted in the folkloric rhythms of the afro-latino diaspora. DJ Chris Annibell, founder and resident DJ of NYC's Afrokinetic parties, spins a seemless mix of afro-funk, house, soul, broken beat, latin grooves and jazz. An accomplished DJ and Producer, Annibell has hosted and shared the stage with the likes of Osunlade, Gilles Peterson, Nickodemus, Rich Medina, Ben Watt, Vikter Duplaix, Daz-I-Kue, Tortured Soul, DJ Spinna, Soulive, DJ Cam, Thievery Corporation... just to name a few. (Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleeker Street, 10pm, $10)
PARTY: House of Yes
http://www.houseofyes.org
House of Yes needs a Van so that we can spread the love, across the city and possibly across the world! What better way to fundraise for a van than by having a DANCE PARTY? Come....Dance your ass off. Have a drink or two. Flirt with someone. Experience life with your body in motion. No reason to not have the time of your life. Why waste your weekend in a bar? The House Of Yes calls you to come out and play with us. With Ezrach, DJ Reck, (Brick Bandits Crew), DJ M.C. K-Swift - Hip-Hop, House, Club, UK Garage, Reggae, Cumbia,& Afro-Centric. Complimentary Vodka Drinks- 10-11pm (House of Yes, 342 Maujer St, BK, doors 9:30pm, $7)
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SUNDAY
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MONDAY
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PARTY: Pedicab Rights Fundraiser
Join us for a lovely evening of snacks, drinks, bike movies and good company, as we raise funds (and morale) for the legal battle to protect pedicabs and pedicab freedoms. There will also be a bicycle raffle sponsored by Times Up. The Story from Pedicab Driver Duncan: This past June I took a pedicab ride with my partner from Brooklyn into the city. While we walked the pedicab on the Manhattan Bridge we got passed by a cyclist who turned out to be an attorney for the DCA (Department of Consumer Affairs). This individual decided to take secret camera phone pictures of us on the bridge and to send these photos to a NYPD detective. The result was a very hefty unlawful ticket sent to my good friend and pedicab distributor. Beyond that, the DCA is now trying to use this case as a vehicle to not allow any pedicab usage on bridges between Boroughs whatsoever! This would be a huge blow to our industry, and an insult to pedicab drivers throughout the city. PLEASE, if you can, come cele
brate pedal power, and help us raise the funds to pay for the legal fees necessary to win this case...and keep pedicab drivers free to walk our vehicle's between boroughs. (C. Spot Studio / Theater of the Magical Real, Vinegar Hill, BK, RSVP to misscspot/gmail.com for address, 7pm gat / 8:30pm program, sliding scale $15-$20 includes food, entertainment, and grown-up drinks)
COMEDY: Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113859238665941
Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, Hot Tub is back. This is our first show back, but we're on every Monday after that. Every show will feature new sketches from Kurt and Kristen, and amazing stand-up and sketch from all the people you love. It's like, you know, really old school. Today's special guests:
EUGENE MIRMAN (Flight of the Conchords, Delocated), ANDREA ROSEN (Michael & Michael Have Issues, Wainy Days) and MIKE LAWRENCE (2010 ECNY nomination for Emerging Comic Award). (Littlefield, 622 Degraw, 8:00pm - 11:30pm, $5)
BURLESQUE: Beatles Burlesque
http://www.BeatlesBurlesque.com
All live music, all Beatles, all girls. Featuring NYC's FAB FOUR "Ticket to Ride" and some top notch burlesquers: JO BOOBS, MINNIE TONKA, STRAWBERRY FIELDS, KITA ST CYR and Sacrificial Lamb...BOOBOO DARLIN'. With the Gogo Team of: MADAME DLUX, TIPSY ROSE LEE & ANA D. CALAMITY CHANG as your hostess "Yoko Chang". (Public Assembly, 70 north 6th st, 9pm - 11:30pm, $10)
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TUESDAY
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COMMUNITY: Community Gardens Pep Rally & Hearing
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144318798928900
http://www.NYCCGC.org
Join NYCCGC and its Supporters for the PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING NEW RULES FOR PARKS/HPD COMMUNITY GARDENS, set to replace the expiring 2002 OAG "Community Gardens Agreement" -- i.e. the community gardens of NYC might be about to lose their protection under law from developers. Pep rally at 9 am. Join us for coffee & light breakfast, rain or shine. Then be ready for showtime at 10am. Bring flowers, songs, pictures and veggies. (Elliot Chelsea Green Grounds Community Garden, 425 West 25th St bet 9th & 10th Aves. - directly across from the Rec Center, where the hearing is at 11am, FREE)
WORD: Fish Out of Agua: My Life on Neither Side of the (Subway) Tracks
http://www.michelecarlo.com
Reading, signing, and launch party. With razor-sharp wit and unabashed honesty, Michele Carlo takes readers on her hilarious and shocking ride of growing up as red-headed, freckled faced Puerto Rican in the Italian'hood of the Bronx -- when it was burning -- through her adult life in Brooklyn where she eventually learns to accept herself, her family, and her cultural identity in her memoir. Michele Carlo is a writer, performer and comedic storyteller who has lived in four of the five boroughs of New York City. Her stories have been published in Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul, Lost and Found: Stories from New York and Smith Magazine. She has often appeared with The Moth and other NYC storytelling communities. Like almost every other writer in NYC, Michele is a Brooklynite (since 1988) with no plans of leaving anytime soon. (The Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main St, DUMBO, BK, 7-9pm, FREE)
MUSIC/FILM: Rooftop Tusovka
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102697073122121
TIX: http://www.jccinmanhattan.org/cat-content.aspx?catid=2885#22318
See Balkan Gypsy band ROMASHKA play and stay for the US premiere screening of "The Black Lamb", a new feature film released in Moscow earlier this year from MosFilm. The film, subtitled in English, features a soundtrack recorded by ROMASHKA. "The Black Lamb" has been called "Beverly Hillbillies in Moscow". A large family of Caucasians inherits a car wash in the center of Moscow and everyone in the city colludes to drive them out: the cops, the fire department and a Rolls-Royce riding oligarch. In the end, love triumphs over evil, and all the cars come clean. Generously sponsored by Zyr Vodka. Snacks & drinks provided. (The JCC Roof, 334 Amsterdam Ave. @ 76th St, 7:30pm - 10:30pm, $15 members/$20 non-members)
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ONGOING
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ART: CityScapes
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137736202911016
Featuring the photographic work of Vinny Cornelli, Mari Keeler, Shane Perez and Bryan Raughton, CityScapes demonstrates a variety of angles, details and vantage points unique to NYC and other major metropolitan cities around the world. From multiple exposure photography and models posing in precarious locations to textured urban environments and the grimy gems of the City, this New Century art exhibition aims to uncover the hidden treasures constantly found on the streets of NYC and fuse them within our daily lives. (show thru 8/6, 68 Jay St, Suite 416, BK, 6pm-9pm, FREE)
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)
THEATER: International Cringe Fest ‘10
http://nyartists.org/festivals.html
A theater festival celebrating Bad Musicals, Bad Plays, and Bad Films, where the audience annually decides which shows get The Golden Pineapple, Silver Tomato, and Bronze Banana… and which actors get the Jack Lemons. This year's festival, in the Grand Theatre features a disturbing series of oddly-named works that are, above all, mercifully short….and sometimes hilarious. (thru 8/8, Producers' Club, 358 W. 44 St., various times, $25)
DANCING/MUSIC: MoonDance
http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/events.asp
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105022499545831
Whether you've been dancing for years or want to learn how to swing like a pro, Hudson River Park's MoonDance is your chance to strut your stuff under the stars. Free lessons from Dance Manhattan begin the evening before New York City's favorite dance bands perform. Featured styles include swing, tango and salsa. (Every Sunday through 8/8; 7/18 – Salsa with Los Hermanos Colon; 7/25 – Salsa with Nu D'Lux; 8/1 – Tango with Hector DelCurto's Eternal Tango Orchestra; 8/8 –Swing with George Gee Swing Orchestra Pier 54 at W. 14th St. Free dance lessons at 6:30pm. Live bands at 7pm; FREE)
***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)
THEATER: Much Ado About Nothing
http://www.newyorkclassical.org/index.php
New York Classical Theatre's hallmark is accessibility and a panoramic staging approach to performance. Site-specific productions are adapted to showcase the unique visual components of each venue through innovative design and choreographic elements. Throughout the performance, the audience follows the actors from place to place, as the plot unfolds from scene to scene. In this way, the spectators become active participants in the drama itself. Our current production, Much Ado About Nothing, is a Shakespearean comedy about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero. (thru 8/29, Battery Park thru 8/1, W. 103rd St. and Central Park West thru 7/27-8/29, see site for details, FREE)
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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