Gemini & Scorpio

[G&S]: Lost Circus dark cabaret/steampunk party - secret guests announced!

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:38:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, Lost Circus ahead! We've just added two very special guests for Saturday: our favorite circus composer Sxip Shirey, in his last performance in NYC before he leaves for Berlin later on Sunday (aw!), and latex Queen herself, The Baroness, doing a special number involving a girl, masking tape, and some candles (ooh!). Also, TimeOut once again recommends us in their Own This City section (hooray!): <a href="http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/80781/things-to-do-in-nyc-this-weekend/2.html">http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/80781/things-to-do-in-nyc-this-weekend/2.html</a> -- and we hear that we might even make it on to NBC Saturday morning. 6:30am! We doubt any of you will be up, but if you are, tape it for us? So yes, we're pretty excited. Did you RSVP yet? A few things we still need, if you can help us out: volunteers to help decorate an hour before doors on Saturday, and a fire performer to test the venue tomorrow (Thur) night after 9pm. Free admission to all who can help. For volunteering, email virgo at geminiandscorpio; for the fire help, just reply to this email. Cheers, Gemini & Scorpio Online Dating Gurus and Offline Party Mavens <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com</a> FB group: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook">http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</a> YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio">http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio</a> House of Scorpio - the kinkier side of G&S <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> | <a href="http://bit.ly/HoS_FB">http://bit.ly/HoS_FB</a> Please forward along to friends! If this has been forwarded to you: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a> to subscribe for weekly events list, exclusive party invites, giveaways and offers ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 7/31 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present The Lost Circus  (circus meets dark cabaret with a steampunk twist) Sat, July 31, 11:30pm-4am, $15 w/RSVP; $20 without Littlefield, 622 Degraw, Gowanus, BK Details & RSVP: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141792552504061">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141792552504061</a> 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. At the stroke of midnight, discover a circus long lost. With music from times gone by or times that never were: dark string fusion by Brooklyn's own Copal and bohemian cabaret in 13 languages by Vagabond Opera - our special guests from Portland, OR. And announcing our secret guest: circus composer Sxip Shirey, on his last night before he leaves NYC. The circus unfolds to the bands and in between: mind-bending contortion by Jonathan Nosan, aerial dance by Madeline Hoak; tribal fusion bellydance by Lauren Robbiani and special guest Rio; fire & gorgeousness by Ali Luminescent; gypsy fortunetelling by Kai Altair; an original installation & performance by artist (and Minsky Sister) Kristen Rhea van Liew. A special dark performance by the latex queen herself, The Baroness. Beautiful costumed creatures perform feats of fire in the courtyard. 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. Fanciful body artistry by AMBodyArt. 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.  ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 8/14 ===+++===+++===+++=== 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: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> Tix: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/119199">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/119199</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108356192548440">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108356192548440</a> Taste of last cruise: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3AvHJgtA1o">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3AvHJgtA1o</a> 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. ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== Do you have something to share with our readers or events you'd like to have included in our emails? Did we miss anything? We're always open to suggestions & feedback. Write to us at <a href="mailto:gs@geminiandscorpio.com">gs@geminiandscorpio.com</a> and tell us your thoughts. ===+++===+++===+++=== Subscribe/Unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a>

[G&S]: A week away from The Lost Circus / your fun this weekend

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:56:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, We're just one short week away from the fabulous Lost Circus event. NY Post gave us a nod this week, calling the party "a late-night extravaganza...where the big top and cabaret collide" -- more here: <a href="http://bit.ly/cy21WH">http://bit.ly/cy21WH</a> Full info below, and don't forget to RSVP on the G&S site to get $5 off the door price. We're also going to do a guerrilla decor transformation on the event space; more hands are needed. Want to help? Got something to add? (And yes, we've got event comps for helpers.) Email Michelle, who's going to coordinate: virgo at geminiandscorpio. Cheers, Gemini & Scorpio Online Dating Gurus and Offline Party Mavens <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com</a> FB group: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook">http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</a> YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio">http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio</a> House of Scorpio - the kinkier side of G&S <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> | <a href="http://bit.ly/HoS_FB">http://bit.ly/HoS_FB</a> Please forward along to friends! If this has been forwarded to you: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a> to subscribe for weekly events list, exclusive party invites, giveaways and offers ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 7/31 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present The Lost Circus (circus meets dark cabaret with a steampunk twist) Sat, July 31, 11:59pm-4am, $15 w/RSVP; $20 without Littlefield, 622 Degraw, Gowanus, BK Details & RSVP: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141792552504061">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141792552504061</a> 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. At the stroke of midnight, discover a circus long lost. With music from times gone by or times that never were: dark string fusion by Brooklyn's own Copal and bohemian cabaret in 13 languages by Vagabond Opera - our special guests from Portland, OR. The circus unfolds to the bands and in between: mind-bending contortion by Jonathan Nosan, aerial dance by Madeline Hoak; tribal fusion bellydance by Lauren Robbiani and special guest Rio; fire & gorgeousness by Ali Luminescent; gypsy fortunetelling by Kai Altair; an original installation & performance by artist (and Minsky Sister) Kristen Rhea van Liew. Beautiful costumed creatures perform feats of fire in the courtyard. 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. Fanciful body artistry by AMBodyArt. Photo-op custom art installation with works by Molly Crabapple and Kathleen Green. And a few surprise guests we can't mention. Dress code (required): dark cabaret, traveling circus, steampunk Victorian, Edward Gorey, Tim Burton, Mad Max, City of Lost Children. ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 8/14 ===+++===+++===+++=== 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: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> Tix: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/119199">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/119199</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108356192548440">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108356192548440</a> Taste of last cruise: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3AvHJgtA1o">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3AvHJgtA1o</a> 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. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== OPERA: The Last Dreams of Helene Weigel or How to Get Rid of the Feminism Once and For All <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126681437349856">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126681437349856</a> <a href="http://www.panoplylab.org/thefeminism.php">http://www.panoplylab.org/thefeminism.php</a> tix: <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/115185">https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/115185</a> An experimental, documentary opera following Helene Weigel, Bertolt Brecht's wife and "the greatest actress who ever lived" as she snaps the neck of a wild swan, escapes robbery by door-to-door linoleum salesmen, and makes covert visits in her dreams to the nunnery cell of Héloïse d' Argenteuil, the 12th Century philosopher best known in light of her lover Abelard's castration. (Thur-Sun this weekend & next, ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St, 8pm, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== DANCE: Desert Sin's Sex and Taboo: A Surreal Performance Event <a href="http://s80131.gridserver.com/public">http://s80131.gridserver.com/public</a> Desert Sin, an emotionally charged theatrical dance company, is proud to bring you Sex and Taboo: A Surreal Performance Event featuring Desert Sin, Vangeline Theater, Rose Wood, Ms Tickle, Anya Sapozhnikova, and more. An unforgettable night about masturbation, incest, gender and sexuality this is not your grandmother's dance show. Come see some of NY's most innovative talent bringing you Butoh, Burlesque, Tango, Performance Art, Theatrical Dance, and Aerial in erotic and thought-provoking ways you've never seen before. (Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St., DUMBO, BK, 7:00pm, $10 adv/$15 door) DJ/DANCING: Wicked City <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103753293011127">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103753293011127</a> A pre-party for Kostume Kult's FreaKKshow next Saturday, July 31st, where playa style and wicked city attire is encouraged but not required. Prizes for the best dressed or keep it casual and save your freakkiness for next saturday. DI's spinning breaks, electro and dubstep on one of the best sound systems in NYC including DJ MLE, Arrow Chrome, Tarquin, Orion, Morphous featuring ShiZaru + Special Guests. VJ's TBA. Drink Specials: 2 for 1 Happy Hour till 11pm and drink specials for anyone in Costume! 100% of proceeds go to support our Kollective Kuest to build the Libertine Lounge and rent a thumping sound system at Kostume Kult's Burning Man camp. (Club Love, 40 W 8th Street, 9:30 pm to Late, $10 before Midnight - $15 after). ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== EVENT: Sand Sculpting Contest & Unity Day <a href="http://coneyislandfunguide.com/Events/20th-Annual-Sand-Sculpting-Competition_7_24_2010-2366.htm">http://coneyislandfunguide.com/Events/20th-Annual-Sand-Sculpting-Competition_7_24_2010-2366.htm</a> Professionals and amateurs alike compete to create towering edifices and sculptures out of Coney Island's sandy beach. The event (double-billed as Coney Island Unity day) also features live music, kids' entertainers and a special appearance by the cast of John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean. (Coney Island Boardwalk between W 10th and W 12th Sts., 11 am-5 pm, FREE) EVENT: New Museum Block Party <a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/events/462">http://www.newmuseum.org/events/462</a> A day of art activities and performances at Sara D. Roosevelt Park where you can find a range of interactive projects with artists and educators. This year's event is loaded with art projects, hands-on interactive activities and plenty of creative types to help channel your kids' artistic gifts. Receive a complementary guest pass to visit the New Museum on the day of the event. (Sara D. Roosevelt Park & New Museum, Chrystie Street between Delancey and Broome Street, Noon - 5pm., FREE) EVENT: Meet Michael Michael Motorcycle <a href="http://www.michaelmichaelmotorcycle.com">http://www.michaelmichaelmotorcycle.com</a> We are thrilled to welcome Michael Michael Motorcycle to Coney Island for a "Meet the Artist" poster signing party. Once again he has harnessed the spirit of Coney Island and articulated its magic in a signed, numbered, limited edition, screen printed, collectors item. This is the Fourth Coney Island Poster, which we've commissioned Michael Michael Motorcycle to create! The exuberant mermaid conveys the hopefulness bursting in the hot summer air of Coney Island's 2010 season. Drinks afterward next door at Ruby's Bar and Grill. (Lola Star Boardwalk Boutique, Coney Island boardwalk b/t W 12th Street and Henderson Walk, 3pm6pm, $20 limited edition posters available) ART: Art Battles King of New York <a href="http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/1370">http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/1370</a> Four top artists return to paint with the hopes of representing NYC in a three week battle against local artists in Barcelona. Artist: Ben Angotti , Yatika Starr Fields , Andre Trenier and Leif McIlwaine will be battling it out for the chance to take on Spain. (Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St, 7pm-10pm, $10) PARTY: Saved by The Bell House <a href="http://www.thebellhouseny.com/calendar.php">http://www.thebellhouseny.com/calendar.php</a> Mr. Belding & The Bayside Tigers Pep Squad present Saved by The Bell House. Character costumes are strongly encouraged, but simply dressing like a student at Bayside is totally acceptable as well. Yummy themed drink specials all night, 80s/90s tunes by DJ Kellas, performances by the awesome 90s cover band The Bayside Tigers, and DJ Jonathan James. Robicelli's will be on hand selling delicious SBTB-themed cupcakes, and so much more. $3 from every ticket sold will be donated directly to the National Wildlife Federation to assist animals affected by the BP oil spill in the Gulf. (Bell House, 149 7th St, BK, 8pm, $15) TALK: Echoes of Mutilation: The Saints and their Afterlives <a href="http://observatoryroom.org/2010/06/19/mutilation/">http://observatoryroom.org/2010/06/19/mutilation/</a> An illustrated lecture by Colin Dickey, author of Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius. In the wake of the photos of Abu Ghraib, images of torture have been pushed back into the forefront of American consciousness, but Western history has had a long and complicated relationship with images of torture. Colin Dickey discusses images of torture in the cult of Christian saints, particularly Saint Bartholomew (who was flayed alive), Saint Lucy (whose eyes were gouged out) and Saint Agatha (whose breasts were cut off). Inverting the traditional relationship of torturer and powerless victim, Christian imagery turned the act of torture into empowerment, where specific methods of torture became associated with specific saints. As the cult of the saints waned, these images of torture began to filter into European consciousness in bizarre and fascinating ways, appearing in everything from Renaissance anatomy textbooks to the paintings of Paul Gauguin to the feminist art of the 1970s. (Observatory, 543 Union St., Gowanus, BK, 8pm, $5) MULTIMEDIA: BUSHFLIX Art Party <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118857464827199">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118857464827199</a> <a href="http://bushwickprojectforthearts.blogspot.com/">http://bushwickprojectforthearts.blogspot.com/</a> A total sensory experience, with live VJ's, 16mm films, and acoustic improvisations filling a large industrial warehouse space. Watch VJing and experimental films on 3 screens in our plush theater seats, or from the balcony lounge while sippin' wine. Make out with someone inside the video bubble - a 360 degree dome completely filled with moving images. Check out analog video experimentation ...on a wall made out of TV's. Witness vintage 16mm films from multiple clickety-clackin' projectors, while listenin' to old-timey piano playin'. The Danish Mammut Is In Love will be performing at midnight. (Bushwick Project for the Arts, 304 Meserole St., BK, 8pm, $5) PARTY: The CoolDown <a href="http://www.secrettheatre.com">http://www.secrettheatre.com</a> The CoolDown is an exclusive new series of outdoor summer parties featuring visual art installations and live music taking place at The Secret Theatre in Long Island City, Queens. Located a few blocks away from PS1, nestled behind the Long Island City Art Center, The Secret Theatre is a unique outdoor / indoor venue that will be transformed into a multimedia playground led by the world class visual artists of Forward Motion Theater. The live VJ performances provide the artistic backdrop for music spun and performed by a rotating lineup of NYCs most well respected DJs and bands. The jump-off CoolDown party will feature music by Dhundee, Kimskii, DeepField, Jools Palmer and visuals by Forward Motion Theater. (4402 23rd St, bet 44th Rd & 44th Ave, Long Island City, Queens, 8 pm-1 am, $5 at door) VARIETY: Dead Herring Circus Cabaret: A Benefit for the City Reliquary <a href="http://www.circusnyc.com/shows/100706a.html">http://www.circusnyc.com/shows/100706a.html</a> A circus party with aerialists, contortionists, the musical stylings of Corn Mo and post-punk clowning; featuring Book Kennison (Ringling Bros.), Kae Burke (Lady Circus, House of Yes), Corn Mo (Joes Pub, Circus Una), Claudio Carneiro (Cirque du Soleil), Wayne Wilson (Cirque du Soleil), Patrick de Vallete (Cirque du Soleil). Hosted by Jeff Seel and Buttons. (141 S 5th Street, Apt. 1E, BK, 8:30pm, $7$10 sliding-scale donation) PARTY: BUGGIN' OUT - A benefit for Grounded Aerial Dance Theatre <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141119719237374">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141119719237374</a> Come out of your chrysalis and support INSECTINSIDE for the Philadelphia FRINGE Festival...a whirlwind-fantasy-land of flying wasps, fireflies, and a towering praying mantis. Featuring surprise performances from critters doing aerial silk, bungee, and lyra as well as dance, stilts, theater, gymnastics, and poi. Fly down the hall to the Wasp's Nest at the ~WINDMILL FACTORY~ (#15) and shake you thorax to DJ Tarquin - keeping the party buzzing all night. Featuring a swarm of insect performers from : Cirque Du Soleil, Barnum and Bailey Circus, The Metropolitan Opera, De La Guarda, Pilobolus, and Fuerza Bruta. Also catch a sneak preview of the original musical score by jazz fusion musician, John Medeski. (Embody Language Studio/Windmill Factory, 241 Bedford Ave, #7 & #15, BK, 8:30pm, $15/adv, $20/door) VARIETY: Mermaid Lagoon: A Benefit for The Oceanic Preservation Society & The Gulf Coast <a href="http://www.houseofyes.org">http://www.houseofyes.org</a> An alluring and eclectic group of all-female performers will come together for one night only at The House of Yes for the "Mermaid Lagoon" ocean benefit. Funds will go directly to The Oceanic Preservation Society (creators of the Oscar winning documentary "The Cove) and to Gulf Coast clean-up efforts. Kai Altair will perform songs from her solo EP release: Star of The Sea, and the night will also include spellbinding performances by burlesque beauty Veronica Varlow, Ali Luminescent (Coney Island's Best Mermaid 2009), tribal belly dance by Desert Sin, and sea-themed aerial, fire, and glass walking performances by members of Lady Circus. The evening will feature a bio-luminescent lagoon full of bellydancing mermaids and handmade tropical drinks, with DJ Joey Nova spinning a special cocktail of new wave and electro-bellydance all night long. (The House of Yes, 342 Maujer St., BK, 9pm, $15/adv, $20/door) ***MUSIC: Sxip Shirey's "Sonic New York" CD release party <a href="http://www.sxipshirey.com">http://www.sxipshirey.com</a> <a href="http://www.citywinery.com/events/90398">http://www.citywinery.com/events/90398</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111336928914394">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111336928914394</a> Avant-garde composer Sxip Shirey will perform cuts from his latest release 'Sonic New York' with the Carolina Chocolate Drops' Rhiannon Giddens and special downtown guests Adam Matta, Rachelle Garniez, and The Wiyos' Joe "Bass" DeJarnette. With harmonica and megaphone in hand, Shirey taps the loop-sampler with his foot. Dirty hip-hop beats scroll out of the sound system, as his drummer kicks in a counter rhythm that unfurls a tight snare klezmer for a distinctly urban sound. Before the night's over, shards of blue light will bathe the stage as the earthbound shadow reaches for the cosmic: red marbles rolling in electroacoustic glass bowls, industrial flutes, bass siren whistles, regurgitated music box, mutant harmonica, miniature hand bell choir... A confusion of novelty, experimental and electronics, wild and entertaining. [G&S note: we don't need to tell you how much we love Sxip. Those of you who've been to Jank! (and many other parties he's played) can understand why. But if you've never seen a true Sxip solo show, you still have no idea. His new CD is a two-year $17K labor of love, and, quite likely, a goodbye letter to NYC. This is Sxip's ONLY show until fall.] (The City Winery, 155 Varick St, 9pm, $12 adv/$15 door) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== EVENT: Bushwick Arts Day <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144270712256403">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144270712256403</a> We are closing off the streets just for you! The Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council will host its 2nd Annual Sunday Scene events as part of the NYCDOT Weekend Walks Program. It will feature musical performances by Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Neighborhood Super Group Galore, Sangre Nueva Salsa Band and much more. For the kids, we will have arts and crafts activities ALL DAY LONG. And dont forget, the DOMINOES tournament will be on! (Knickerbocker Avenue between Star and Suydam Streets, in front of the Maria Hernandez Park, 12pm-6pm, FREE) MUSIC: Tea with The Curious Shape of Hens <a href="http://www.bowerypoetry.com/#Event/92554">http://www.bowerypoetry.com/#Event/92554</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thecuriousshapeofhens">http://www.myspace.com/thecuriousshapeofhens</a> The Curious Shape of Hens musical brains are coming from some of the branches of American folk music, mostly jazz and the occasional nod to southern hymns and ballads. They also like experimenting. Frankly, they poke around in avant garde puddles of dissonance. Sometimes they just care that their music sounds beautiful. At the end of the show, if you've been moved by a melody enough to lightly touch your sweetheart's elbow, squinted your eyes to better see if they are making those horrible notes on purpose, thought about dancing even a little bit, and laughed with your teeth showing, they would feel like they've done a good weird deed for the day. They keep trying to do this to people with their voices, an alto sax, tenor horn, cello, upright bass, and percussion. Come have tea with them! [G&S note: apparently the band is making Russian Tea Cake(s) for this. Yummy!] (The Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, 2pm, $5) FILM: Muppet Vault <a href="http://bk.knittingfactory.com">http://bk.knittingfactory.com</a> Fraggle Time ToughPigs (a fan site for all things Muppets) and Muppetcast (the only podcast dedicated to the Muppets and Jim Henson) present an afternoon of entertainment, rare footage from the short-living Jim Henson Hour and other classics, singalongs, and trivia for Muppet and Jim Henson fans of all ages. Videos will include commercials from early in Jim Hensons career, clips from the short-lived TV show the Jim Henson Hour, some of the funniest Sesame Street skits ever, and lots of surprises. And what Muppet event would be complete without a little music? Join us for the sing-along portion of the event, as well as Muppet trivia and neat prizes. (The Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave., BK, 2pm-5pm, $5) PERFORMANCE: Fine Art Remixed <a href="http://denartny.com/fine-art-remixed-multimedia-show">http://denartny.com/fine-art-remixed-multimedia-show</a> <a href="http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/event-detail/?id=11141">http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/event-detail/?id=11141</a> A multimedia art show consist of live body painting, live music, interactive story telling, dance performance and more. Featuring live music by Los Huevos and They Would Be Happy People, spoken word by Bekah, storytelling by Tai Odunsi and Kristin Pidemonti, dance performance by Nina Sol and live body painting by Danny Setiawan. (Littlefield, 622 Degraw Street bet 3rd and 4th Ave, BK, 5pm, $15/adv, $20/door) FILM: Gorilla Suit Film Festival Part One <a href="http://www.unionhallny.com/calendar.php">http://www.unionhallny.com/calendar.php</a> Real 16mm film on the big screen; $1 Off Draft Beer special and free popcorn while it lasts! Film archivist Movie Mike will wear his gorilla suit to host this fabulous event. We'll see chapter 1 of Clyde Beatty's Darkest Africa serial (1936) plus this exciting full-length movie: Nabonga (1944); a rousing jungle adventure with Buster Crabbe in search of a lost treasure, lovely young Julie London as the mysterious White Witch, and Crash Corrigan in a gorilla suit as her guardian protector. Buster defies the racist conventions of the period to rescue a native from murder, and is rewarded with vital info. But he's up against bad guy Barton MacLaine and bad girl Fifi D'Orsay, who are following him through the soundstage foliage with larcenous intent. (Union Hall, 702 Union, 8pm, $5) BURLESQUE: The Sophisticates <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111238788927422">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111238788927422</a> The classiest, brassiest, glammiest, hammiest burlesque floorshow in town returns! Bastard Keith and Madame Rosebud team up to bring you the finest in classic burlesque entertainment. Keith sings out, slings drinks and cracks wise while presenting the following lovely ladies: Gal Friday (Miss Coney Island), Ms. Tickle (Best Debut, BHoF 2010), Marlo Marquise (International fetish model and glamour girl) and Rosebud herself. Doc Wasabassco, as ever, tries to keep the wheels greased. The Sophisticates...It's not a show, it's a seduction. (The Oak Room @ The Plaza, 10 Central Park South, 9pm11:30pm, 10 dollars for a bar seat, 15 for a table (full service, and recommended), with a two drink minimum). ===+++===+++===+++=== MONDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== COMMUNITY: Community Garden Planning Meeting <a href="http://times-up.org/calendar/detail.php?calendarid=2883">http://times-up.org/calendar/detail.php?calendarid=2883</a> With the new parks and HPD rules, the city has taken a huge step backward. Community gardens in New York have thrived since the 2002 Spitzer Agreement, which preserved these precious green spaces. Yet, with the Preservation Agreement expiring on September 17, 2010, the city appears to have abandoned its efforts to preserve green spaces. With the new rules, all the gardens may now be legally transferred for development, rather than preserved. In the end, those involved with Times Up! and the garden movement urge the city to reject these rules and makes a final commitment to a green city by making all the gardens permanent once and for all. The group plans to organize to defend these precious spaces using a wide range of means, from legal advocacy to direct action. The group plans to stage a Paul Revere Group Bike Ride to the gardens next week to sound the alarm that the gardens are in danger. (156 Rivington Street, Manhattan, bet Clinton and Suffolk Streets, First Floor, 7p m, FREE) BURLESQUE: Criptease <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105889262796254">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105889262796254</a> <a href="http://www.lepoissonrouge.com">http://www.lepoissonrouge.com</a> Criptease will be a radical, joyful and uproarious night of sexy fun, striptease, and comedy, from performers with and without disabilities that like to push the boundaries of what crips are and arent meant to do. Monday July 26th is the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and President Obama has declared it new day of celebration for all. In taking this day, we are hoping to make an annual antidote to charity posters everywhere, show a lot of T&A, and celebrate 20 years of the ADA by being as sexy as HELL. Hosted by Mat Sealboy Fraser and featuring Julie Atlas Muz, Nik Sin, Liz Carr, MsTickle, Tigger!, Greg Walloch, Lezlie Frye, Chris Harder, Queer Gimp Girl & DJ Momotaro. (Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleeker Street, Doors @ 6:30, 18 & over, $15 advance tickets, $20 at the door) ===+++===+++===+++=== TUESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== COMEDY: The Raspberry Brothers tackle New Moon <a href="http://raspberrybrothers.com/Raspberry_Brothers/Home.html">http://raspberrybrothers.com/Raspberry_Brothers/Home.html</a> <a href="http://bk.knittingfactory.com/event-details/?tfly_event_id=12307">http://bk.knittingfactory.com/event-details/?tfly_event_id=12307</a> The Raspberry Brothers perform a live version of Mystery Science Theater, making fun of Americas favorite bad movies from the front row. This week theyll be tackling New Moon. Have you guys seen Twilight? So bad it's so good. Guess what? New Moon, the sequel, is even badder. Which is goody good for all of us, if the Raspberry Brothers are involved. (The Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave, BK, 8pm, FREE) PERFORMANCE: Gerrification <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127477177292908">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127477177292908</a> <a href="http://dixonplace.org/index2.html">http://dixonplace.org/index2.html</a> An interactive, multi-media show premiering at the 19th annual Hot! Festival, a celebration of queer culture and performance on the Lower East Side. The show, starring Gerry Visco, who is also the writer and director, will reveal the secret strategies Gerry Visco has used to become truly fabulous. She will put into action some of the methods she has used to become a style icon and nightlife personality with the audience and her cast members. She will demonstrate Gerrification, which is guaranteed to make you laugh and have a good time. Gerry Visco believes that feeling good and looking good is synonymous. Gerrification, her divine mission on planet earth, is an anti-gentrification global effort designed to bring joy and beauty to America and the world by inviting people to dress like herby donning a characteristically outlandish platinum wig, cat-eye glasses, and bright clothing. The show celebrates individuality, non-conformism, outer beauty, fashion, pleasure, cosmetics, s ocial interaction, partying, and plain old fun. (Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street bet Rivington & Delancey, 9pm, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== WEDNESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== THURSDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== BURLESQUE: Storybook Burlesque Presents: A Midsummer Nights Dream <a href="http://storybookburlesque.com/">http://storybookburlesque.com/</a> <a href="http://www.galapagosartspace.com/">http://www.galapagosartspace.com/</a> After taking on the Greatest Story Ever Told with The Bible Show, Storybook Burlesque is back with a send up of (arguably) the greatest English writer, William Shakespeare. And what piece of work would be better for the sultry, lusty final days of July than A Midsummer Nights Dream! A Play Within A Play Within a Burlesque show, featuring Jenny C'est Quoi, Magdalena Fox, BB Heart, Rosey La Rouge, Lefty Lucy, Cherry Magdalene, and Victoria Privates. To bring this twenty-one character play to life, each of the seven members of Storybook Burlesque will play multiple roles. Each performer will have one solo performance representing a major character in the play as well as a part in choreographed group numbers that use masks, puppetry, and a chorus of fairies to round out this Midsummer production that is sure to stay with you all season long. (Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St., DUMBO, BK, 8pm, $10/adv, $15/door) PARTY: Disaster! Fundraiser for Haiti <a href="http://thegiddymultitudevaudeville.wordpress.com">http://thegiddymultitudevaudeville.wordpress.com</a> <a href="http://www.houseofyes.org/">http://www.houseofyes.org/</a> The Giddy Multitude examines disaster in it's many forms, and possibly develops solutions for all through the magic healing combination of burlesque, music, comedy, and circus arts. Featuring Miss Em, Junauda Petrus, Gideon Levy, Sweet Lorraine, Busty Kitten and Evangeline. All proceeds from this show will benefit KOFAVIV, a grassroots Haitian women's organization. (House of Yes, 342 Maujer St., BK, 8pm, $10 ===+++===+++===+++=== UPCOMING [Ticketed events likely to sell out and/or offering presale discounts] ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== HOT TIPS [Art opportunities, promotions, sales, news. Non-event ephemera...] ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: Sukkah City <a href="http://www.sukkahcity.com/">http://www.sukkahcity.com/</a> Biblical in origin, the sukkah is an ephemeral, elemental shelter, erected for one week each fall, in which it is customary to share meals, entertain, sleep, and rejoice. Ostensibly the sukkah's religious function is to commemorate the temporary structures that the Israelites dwelled in during their exodus from Egypt, but it is also about universal ideas of transience and permanence as expressed in architecture. The sukkah is a means of ceremonially practicing homelessness, while at the same time remaining deeply rooted. It calls on us to acknowledge the changing of the seasons, to reconnect with an agricultural past, and to take a moment to dwell on--and dwell in--impermanence. 'Sukkah City: New York City' will re-imagine this ancient phenomenon, develop new methods of material practice and parametric design, and propose radical possibilities for traditional design constraints in a contemporary urban site. Twelve finalists will be selected by a panel of celebrated architects , designers, and critics to be constructed in a visionary village in Union Square Park from September 19-21, 2010. One structure will be chosen by New Yorkers to stand and delight throughout the week-long festival of Sukkot as the Official Sukkah of New York City. The process and results of the competition, along with construction documentation and critical essays, will be published in the forthcoming book "Sukkah City: Radically Temporary Architecture for the Next Three Thousand Years." Selected entries will also be displayed in an exhibit at the Center for Architecture in New York City during September 2010. (Entries due by Aug 1) ART: Fall Residencies <a href="http://www.fluxfactory.org/residency/apply/">http://www.fluxfactory.org/residency/apply/</a> Flux Factory is an artist-run not-for-profit organization that provides residencies and work spaces for 14 artists and organizes group exhibits in-house and worldwide as an arts collective. The premises include a gallery, a coworking office, a screen printing lab, and a wood shop. It also has a shared kitchen, library, and lots of great people. Residents benefit from an engaged and creative community, studio visits, monthly art salons, and exposure to a large community of creative collaborators who both maintain personal practices and also develop projects together. All residents have a voice in planning programming and sustaining the organization as a whole. We're looking for an artist, community member, and friend who enjoys being part of a wonderful and active social milieu, and has a willingness to work collaboratively and/or socially. All rooms have big windows and range from $550-700 per month plus utilities. Square footages range from 120-207. Residents must find their own funding for their residency. (Applications are due on August 1st) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: Daniel Merriam <a href="http://www.animazing.com/gallery/merriam/originals">http://www.animazing.com/gallery/merriam/originals</a> <a href="http://www.danielmerriam.com">http://www.danielmerriam.com</a> 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 <a href="http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm">http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm</a> Approximately twenty hand-drawn ballet costume designs by Dorothea Tanning (b.1910) created in collaboration with the early modernist choreographer, George Balanchine. Dating from 19451953, 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 <a href="http://www.bricktheater.com/gameplay">http://www.bricktheater.com/gameplay</a> 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 <a href="http://www.theflea.org">http://www.theflea.org</a> 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? <a href="http://observatoryroom.org/series">http://observatoryroom.org/series</a> 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) MUSIC: Bridge Culture Concert Series <a href="http://www.bridgeculture.org/">http://www.bridgeculture.org/</a> Four weeks of free live performances representing communities from throughout New York City and cultures from around the world. The series will welcome visitors to Brooklyn Bridge Park and help promote cultural exchange throughout NYC. For this kick-off year, Bridge Culture will promote the proud cultures of Brooklyn, India, Russia, and Haiti through music, storytelling and dance. (Saturdays thru 7/31, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1, Old Fultion St at Furman St, DUMBO, BK, 4pm-6pm, FREE) ART: Polaroid: Instant Joy! <a href="http://www.amrichardfineart.com/">http://www.amrichardfineart.com/</a> What is the allure and fascination of the Polaroid? Beyond the sheer magic of seeing an image appear from nothingness, the prints could be remarkably rich, vibrant and resolute, rivaling and sometimes surpassing the finest silver or color prints. The Polaroid print was a living object: you shook it in the air or held it in the warmth of your armpit to accelerate development. With the sharing of the image and the subsequent marvel, taking a picture became an interactive experience. Although space restrictions have not allowed a complete survey of Polaroid art, this show attempts to capture the range of vision, spontaneity and experimentations possible with the Polaroid. The artists selected include Lynka Adams, Michael Anton, Jimmy Baynes, Todd Boebel, Ellen Carey, Brendan Carroll, Chuck Close, William Coupon, Melanie Einzig, Andrew Garn, Stan Gregory, Jack Johnston, Till Krautkraemer, Marc Kehoe, Mimi Lipson, Eric Kroll, Sally Mann, Richard McCabe, Barbara Mensch, Ber Murphy, Nagatani/ Tracey, Bill Ray, F. Scott Schafer, David Stock, Molly Surno, Jennifer Trausch, Robert Vizzini, Robert Warhover and William Wegman. (thru 7/31, A.M. Richard Fine Art, 328 Berry St. bet S. 4th and S. 5th St., Wburg, BK, various times, FREE) FILM: Charlie Chaplin Film Festival <a href="http://www.filmforum.org/films/chaplin.html">http://www.filmforum.org/films/chaplin.html</a> Film Forum is screening all of the Little Tramp's features on original 35mm prints, including classics like Modern Times, The Kid and, naturally, A King in New York. (thru 8/3, Manhattan Film Forum, 209 W Houston St) PERFORMANCE: A Night at the Tombs <a href="https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723515">https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723515</a> 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) ART: CityScapes <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137736202911016">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137736202911016</a> 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 <a href="http://nyartists.org/festivals.html">http://nyartists.org/festivals.html</a> 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 years 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 <a href="http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/events.asp">http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/events.asp</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105022499545831">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105022499545831</a> 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 <a href="http://www.fluxfactory.org">http://www.fluxfactory.org</a> 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 <a href="http://www.newyorkclassical.org/index.php">http://www.newyorkclassical.org/index.php</a> 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 <a href="http://ps1.org/news/view/64/">http://ps1.org/news/view/64/</a> 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 <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy_warhol/">http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy_warhol/</a> The first U.S. museum survey to examine the late work of American artist Andy Warhol (19281987). 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) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== Do you have something to share with our readers or events you'd like to have included in our emails? Did we miss anything? We're always open to suggestions & feedback. Write to us at <a href="mailto:gs@geminiandscorpio.com">gs@geminiandscorpio.com</a> and tell us your thoughts. ===+++===+++===+++=== Subscribe/Unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a>

[G&S]: Sunny days ahead, with music & BBQs & art & circus...

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Hello lovelies, Oh the excitement! We've barely put word out on The Lost Circus on 7/31, and RSVPs have been flooding in: 100 in just a week. We're still adding MORE acts, art & performances -- get in touch if you want to participate. We're also going to do a guerilla decor transformation on the event space. Want to help? Got something to add? Email Michelle, who's going to coordinate: virgo at geminiandscorpio. if you're feeling flirty and playful, join us next week for a real-deal makeout party. The last few have been a blast, and this may be the last one for the summer, as we're doing lots of traveling in August. And of course there's the Balkan Bacchanalia on the High Seas, back on the stunning Clipper City sailboat -- and now only $30 in advance. We know it seems a while away, but don't miss out on tickets. With G&S and NYC Gypsy Fest co-producing, the boat fill fill up before you know it. 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If this has been forwarded to you: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a> to subscribe for weekly events list, exclusive party invites, giveaways and offers ===+++===+++===+++=== HOUSE OF SCORPIO EVENT: 7/22 ===+++===+++===+++=== House of Scorpio presents Lip Service 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: <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135969926424204">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135969926424204</a> Bring your best lips (yours and your PAL's), and join us for lubricating cocktails and naughty games with sexy friends and intriguing strangers. Bring toys & games to share (blindfolds? rope? sexy dice?). Foreplay happy hour 8:30-9:30 with $4 beer and $5 cocktails (Indecent Proposal, anyone? or Pussy Galore?). Dress to be kissed: flirty and fun. No casual attire; door man WILL turn you away. ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 7/31 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present The Lost Circus (circus meets dark cabaret with a steampunk twist) Sat, July 31, 11:59pm-4am, $15 w/RSVP; $20 without Littlefield, 622 Degraw, Gowanus, BK Details & RSVP: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141792552504061">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141792552504061</a> 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. At the stroke of midnight, discover a circus long lost. With music from times gone by or times that never were: dark string fusion by Brooklyn's own Copal and bohemian cabaret in 13 languages by Vagabond Opera - our special guests from Portland, OR. The circus unfolds to the bands and in between: mind-bending contortion by Jonathan Nosan, aerial dance by Madeline Hoak; tribal fusion bellydance by Lauren Robbiani; fire & gorgeousness by Ali Luminescent; gypsy fortunetelling by Kai Altair; an original installation & performance by artist (and Minsky Sister) Kristen Rhea van Liew. Beautiful costumed creatures perform feats of fire in the courtyard. 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. And a few surprise guests we can't mention. Dress code (required): dark cabaret, traveling circus, steampunk Victorian, Edward Gorey, Tim Burton, Mad Max, City of Lost Children. ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 8/14 ===+++===+++===+++=== 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: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> Tix: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/119199">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/119199</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108356192548440">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108356192548440</a> Taste of last cruise: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3AvHJgtA1o">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3AvHJgtA1o</a> 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. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== CIRCUS: Modern Times <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/119622">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/119622</a> <a href="http://www.houseofyes.org">http://www.houseofyes.org</a> Constellation Moving Company presents a breathtakingly entertaining piece of aerial-theatre. Modern Times is an exploration of the gap between the World Wars displayed in a burst of hot jazz, and ending in a dark, hot mess. This is the opening preview of Modern Times, which will premier in its entirety at Theater for the New City this August 19-22. Join us for this spectacular aerial, dance and drama conceived and directed by Lori Barber and Maia Ramnath, with choreography and performance by Satomi Shikata, Scott Combs, Katrina Cydylo, Elena Delgado, and Sarah Delp. Featuring live music by Emily Doherty, Travis Tench, Nicole Tourtelot, and Emily Willis of the Band of Bicycles. (Fri and Sat, House of Yes, 342 Maujer St. bet Waterbury and Morgan Doors, 8pm, $15)  PERFORMANCE: Creating Illusion <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132888730072862">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132888730072862</a> Seeing is believing - but perception can be manipulated for beauty or deception. Magician Jeff Grow takes you on a journey where elegant sleight of hand and insight into human behavior collide to dismantle everyday experience and tempts us to question: Why do we choose to believe the unbelievable? Recipient of the 2009 Innovative Theatre Awards for Outstanding Solo Performer & Outstanding Performance Art Production. (Sat 5pm, Sun 7pm, Performance Space 122, 150 1st Ave @ 9th St, $20) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ART OPENING: CityScapes reception <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137736202911016">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137736202911016</a> 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) MUSIC: New York Philharmonic in Prospect Park <a href="http://nyphil.org/concertsTicks">http://nyphil.org/concertsTicks</a> This outdoor performance by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra will feature Tchaikovsky's Polonaise from Eugene Onegin; Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story; and selections from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. The orchestra will be conducted by Andrey Boreyko. (Prospect Park, Long Meadow Ballfields, 8pm, FREE) BURLESQUE: The Pontani Sisters Burlesque-A-Pades <a href="http://www.coneyisland.com/burlesque.shtml">http://www.coneyisland.com/burlesque.shtml</a> Starring THE PONTANI SISTERS, MURRAY HILL, KITTEN DE VILLE, MELODY SWEETS, ANGIE PONTANI, HELEN PONTANI, MS TICKLE & BIANCA DAGGA. The Pontani Sisters first show in Coney Island in 2 years: a special event to kick off the Burlesque-A-Pades 15 city tour. (1208 Surf Ave, 10pm, $15) PARTY: Mata Hari Madness Midsummer Masquerade Ball <a href="http://www.mataharimadness.com">http://www.mataharimadness.com</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l/6faaeDQwhZnad1T-3U5LtCVvs3Q">http://www.facebook.com/l/6faaeDQwhZnad1T-3U5LtCVvs3Q</a> 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. Amazing Presentation and Performance by Veronica Varlow, DArlinda Just Darlinda, Jo Boobs, Porno Jim, Kayti Bunny, Juliette Campbell and Damien Dluxe. Plus a very special Performance Art piece by Alt Porn Star Madison Young! Featuring 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. (The Red Lotus Room, text: MATA HARI to (646) 450-1548 for location, 9pm-4am, VIP cocktail reception 8pm-9pm, $20-40) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== SHOP: Brooklyn's Fanciest Rummage Sale <a href="http://www.oneworldsymphony.org/rummagesale.shtml">http://www.oneworldsymphony.org/rummagesale.shtml</a> [G&S note: Stuff + music + food. Sounds good, but we're not retyping info from flyer.] (St Anne's Church, 157 Montague St, BK, 10am-3am, FREE) WALK: Historic Coney Walking Tour <a href="http://www.saveconeyisland.net/">http://www.saveconeyisland.net/</a> Join Save Coney Island for a stroll down Surf Avenue in which we will discuss Coney Island's surviving historic buildings. Unfortunately, several of these buildings are threatened with imminent demolition. These include Henderson's Music Hall, where Harpo Marx first performed with his brothers Groucho and Gummo, and the Grashorn Building, Coney Island's oldest structure. We will have historic pictures so we can see what the buildings once were; and a few renderings illustrating how these buildings could be creatively restored and reused. This will be a great opportunity to find out more about the corridor that we hope will remain the historic core of a spectacular 21st-century Coney Island that honors the area's heritage. (In front of the Shore Theater, on the corner of Surf and Stillwell, 11am, FREE) MUSIC: 10th Annual Siren Music Festival <a href="http://siren.villagevoice.com/2010">http://siren.villagevoice.com/2010</a> This free, all ages festival features performances throughout the day on two outdoor stages in historic Coney Island, NYC. Band featured are Matt & Kim, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Holy Fuck, Night Marchers, Surfer Blood, Harlem, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Earl Greyhound, Ponytail, Screaming Females, Wye Oak, Dom, Apache Beat, (Surf Ave. at Stillwell Ave., Coney Island, BK, noon-9pm, FREE) ART: BWAC Summer Art Exhibition <a href="http://www.BWAC.org">http://www.BWAC.org</a> The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition hosts the opening of their Summer Art Exhibition. Meet the artists, enjoy music by Klaro, and wander a Civil War-era warehouse on the Red Hook waterfront, filled with 1000 new and provocative works of art by painters, sculptors, photographers, illustrators, glassworkers, mixed media and graffiti artists (499 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, BK, 1-6PM, FREE) SHOP/PARTY: The Parlour Brooklyn's Annual Summer Soiree / Backyard Bazaar <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142870025730257">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142870025730257</a> The Parlour Brooklyn is hosting a Summer Soiree alongside their monthly Backyard Bazaar, teaming up again with In God We Trust for some Brooklyn flea market goodness with a few twists. Vendors Include: Round Designs Jewelry, If You Nasty Vintage, Goldies Soaps, M Carter, Lips Jeans, and more. Hot dog bar from Bark of Park Slope, tarot readings by Marcy Currier, and Mother May I? ice creams and sorbets. Mixologist Mark Drew will be serving up Herradura Tequila. Beer provided by Brouwerij Lane. Music by BB and The New Jerk Times, and DJ Michael Leviton. (72 Greenpoint Avenue, BK, bazaar starts at 12:00pm, music at 6:00pm, FREE) DANCE: Unveiled Belly Dance Showcase <a href="http://www.unveiledbellydance.com">http://www.unveiledbellydance.com</a> <a href="http://www.thebellhouseny.com/calendar.php">http://www.thebellhouseny.com/calendar.php</a> Featuring Professional and Student performances by members of Unveiled Belly Dance Company and guests. Unveiled Dance is a Brooklyn based belly dance company that is know for there theatrical stage performance. This show will feature an array of styles and costumes that are sure to dazzle all. (The Bell House, 179 7th St at 2nd Ave, Gowanus, BK, 2pm, $20 adv/ $25 dos) VARIETY: 357 Lover's Diorama of Friends <a href="http://www.357LOVER.com">http://www.357LOVER.com</a> This Saturday amazing rocker Corn Mo (recently of Straight Up Vampire fame), and his band, .357 Lover, are hosting the hardest rocking variety show of all time, featuring Jason Trachtenburg, Anna Copacabanna, Lady Rizo, and the Love Show. There will be dancing, nudity, and air conditioning. Hosted by Corn Mo. (Ars Nova Theater, 511 West 54th St, Manhattan, 7:30pm - 11:00pm, $10) PERFORMANCE: Rev. Billy Send-off to Appalachia <a href="http://www.Revbilly.com">http://www.Revbilly.com</a> We have tried to bring down Holy Fire upon those logos in the malls. We always do this with an unseen partner working with us -- somewhere out in the world. Now with Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia, we have the same consumer society set-up as the other struggles. There's the same colonizing of labor and natural resources. With this campaign, though, our partners are only nine hours away in Coal River Valley, West Virginia. We get to meet them, and stay with and sing with our hero activists. Come to our Send-off to Appalachia. Put us on that bus. We'll get some love and we'll get some more murdered mountain mud to power our way into the mind and soul of UBS -- that Swiss bank that finances strip-mining now that Chase backed down. Their secret bank accounts are bursting with mountain crimes, and they will change their evil ways. Appalachia-lujah! (92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St, 8pm, $10/no one turned away) PARTY: DISORIENT PRESENTS: COMPRESSOR VI ~ Re-envisioning Metropolis <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=262547762045">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=262547762045</a> <a href="https://disorient.ticketleap.com/c2010/t/fbe">https://disorient.ticketleap.com/c2010/t/fbe</a> Get your Pornjy selves ready for Metropolis, Black Rock City, 2010. The US debut of The Tune Brothers, slammin' house, live Haitian/Brazilian/Latin/Balkan beats, playa-bound artwork, pumping AC, and we go till 6am. Plus DJs: Lushbunny (NYC debut of Disorient's new LA spin master: Electro/tech house bashment), Miss Sabado (Our newest star bringing old-school house with furious flavor), Arrow Chrome (Rockstar, Big Daddy, Compressor Producer, and Tune Brothers Opener), Friar Tuck (Breaks, House, Baile Funk, and sexiness), The Bass (Disorient's secret weapon of house destruction), Douggie Style (Destroyed GlamTech, ready to bop you and drop you with the funk), Been Jammin' (sweet, tough & soulful house), The Latest Artists (Mysterious minimal Canadian grooves). With LIVE BANDS & MUSICIANS in the Glam Tribal Lounge: M'Lumbo mysterious electro-jazz ensemble; Copal (NYC) violin and cello inspired by Middle Eastern rhythms, dark Nordic melodies, Hungarian riffs, Spanish-flavored cadences; Narhed traditional percussion styles ranging from Haitian Voudun to Rumba to West African to Cuban Santeria; Beatbox Guitar An innovative mix of flamenco, psychedelic rock, hip hop and punk; Ray Santiago tasty, hard-driving piano playing and earthy direction; Hot Sauce with special guest Marc Levitt sultry jazz vocals with guitar accompaniment; JustinJustin TOCA & Ale' Ale' Drummers - Amazing Brazilian-flavored drum ensemble. Drink Specials: $6 vodka drinks, $6 Heineken, $5 Miller Light, $3 water. Costume ideas: future-retro to future-techno. (Times Square Arts Center, 669 8th Ave, 9pm-6am, $20) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== *FOOD/MUSIC: 3rd Ward's 3rd Annual Pig Roast <a href="http://www.3rdward.com/events">http://www.3rdward.com/events</a> Goods Chef, Alex McCrery, is spit-roasting 200lb of whole hog, and you're invited to chow it down. There will be heap eats and drinks and free Fire Island Beer Co. brews from 2p 'til we run out. We'll be serving up pulled pork sandwiches, fresh slaw, house pickle spears, beer, cocktails, and more. Enjoy live music ranging from bluegrass to rock to sweet summery tunes from The Fieros, In Cadeo, Le Mood, The Ramblers, Cletus & the Barnburners, and more. (195 Morgan Ave, BK, 2 9pm, FREE) PARTY: Psychobilly vs Punk BBQ! <a href="http://www.publicassemblynyc.com">http://www.publicassemblynyc.com</a> It's Psycho's vs Punks, who can drink, dance and stand the longest, featuring Henchmen (CA Psychobilly); 45 Adapters (NYC Punk); Tex Railer's Doom Town (Boston Psychobilly); The Midnight Saints (VT Punk); Holy Roller Sideshow (Brooklyn Psychobilly); and The Dirty Spiders (NYC Punk). There will also be DJs, BBQ, Vendors and Go-Go. (Public Assembly, 70 N. 6th St., Wburg, BK, 4pm, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== MONDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== MUSIC/FOOD: Guac Rock Concert Cruise <a href="http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2416645&pl=rocksoff">http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2416645&pl=rocksoff</a> <a href="http://nachosny.com">http://nachosny.com</a> Nachos NY will be hosting a huge party complete with guacamole and music. As we sail around the East River, you will get your fill of free guacamole prepared for you by the three winners of Guactacular 2010. Cash bar. Live music from North Highlands, The Beets, and Dry Feet, along with DJ Steve Webb. (The Jewel at Skyport Marina, E. 23rd St and FDR Dr. Manhattan, boat boards at 7pm, sets sail at 8pm, $20/adv, $25/dock) ===+++===+++===+++=== TUESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTICIPATORY: Chaos Cooking Part IX <a href="http://www.chaoscooking.com">http://www.chaoscooking.com</a> A continuing social experiment where up to 50 people cook 50 recipes in 1 kitchen, 4 burners, 1 oven, BBQ. All recipes must be finished in 3 hours while everyone is drinking wine, socializing and putting delectable dishes in their mouths. When you arrive pour yourself some wine, pick your cutie color, sign the book, start making your dish, help someone else, pour yourself some wine, eat some of the dish that was just finished, ask for help, try not to start yourself on fire, try some more dishes, sit down and talk for a while, pour your new friend some more wine, have some dessert, pitch in for cleanup, make plans for this weekend. (Page Not Found, JMZ to Myrtle Broadway/Morgan L, RSVP for address at <a href="mailto:info@chaoscooking.com">info@chaoscooking.com</a>, 7pm, $3-5 to cover the costs and two bottles of wine to drink each) VARIETY: The Love Show's Guide to Sex <a href="http://www.theloveshownyc.com">http://www.theloveshownyc.com</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115590565154921">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115590565154921</a> Forgotten how to do the do, or never, ever even knew? An evening of Provocative Modern Dance, Cabaret, Comedy and Magic. Featuring: Angela Harriell's Love Show Dancers. Reservations are strongly recommended. (The Laurie Beechman Theater in The West Bank Café, 407 W. 42nd St. @9th Ave., 8pm, $10 plus $15 food/drink minimum) *MUSIC: Project Jenny, Project Jan <a href="http://www.brooklynbowl.com/calendar/">http://www.brooklynbowl.com/calendar/</a> The first of our new live shows; we've added a couple of guys to the band and we're playing a lot of new material from out upcoming album. Jeremy Da will be playing drums and Ed RosenBurg will be playing keys and glockenspiel. This will be a bit of an experimental show as it is our first show as a full band. We're coming on last after Your Youth, Mr. Dream and Murder Mystery. (Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave., BK, 8pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== WEDNESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== *BURLESQUE: Revealed Three Year Anniversary <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137192606298598">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137192606298598</a> REVEALED is a burlesque show unlike any other. It's a seduction, a tease, an epiphany, a dare, a conspiracy of pleasure. Hosted by devilishly charming master of ceremonies Bastard Keith and Sensational Stage Kitten Sidekick, Victoria Privates, our third anniversary show stars a selectively picked ensemble of the most beloved burlesque performers in New York, with innovative performances represent the state of the art in risqué entertainment. Featuring tantalizing performances by: Miss Coney Island 2010, GiGi La Femme; Arms O'Neil; Gal Friday; Harvest Moon; Kobayashi Maru; Madame Rosebud; Sapphire Jones; and in her Revealed debut, Russia's Lovely Long-Legged Contortionist, Ekaterina. (The Kraine Theatre, 85 East 4th St, Manhattan 10:00pm -11:30pm, $25) ===+++===+++===+++=== THURSDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== *FOOD: NYC Food Crawl Presents: The July Ice Cream Crawl <a href="http://www.nycfoodcrawl.blogspot.com">http://www.nycfoodcrawl.blogspot.com</a> Ccrawlers will be directed along a route of several locations where you may sample different varieties of a sharable, portable and precious food. This month's culinary exploration will take us though the west side of Manhattan to several establishments offering several ways to tingle taste buds while staying cool. Soft serve, sandwiched, in a cone or in a dish ... ice cream is a simple sweet affording a multitude of creative options for its enjoyment. Bring friends or come meet new ones. Ice cream scorecard, map, and team assignments will be provided. (RSVP for location, 6:30p, FREE) FILM : Until the End of the World <a href="http://628months.blogspot.com">http://628months.blogspot.com</a> Narrative about what we see and hear shape our reality as much as sight and hearing themselves. The struggle between story and actuality seems endless, and perhaps, at the same time, unnecessary. Is it possible that story and perception are one and the same? Come join the discussion led by Laura Simms, with music by Kaia Wong and Jenn Kelly. The dance party after the movie will feature, in a rare New York performance, world-renowned Zimbabwean virtuoso Garikayi Tirikoti playing amplified mbira. There will be beverages and light refreshments. Proceeds to benefit the Mothers and Children Project in Haiti. (6-8 Months Space, 265 West 37th St. @ 8th Ave., 6:30-11pm, $6-$8/sugg donation) VARIETY: Skybox Aerial Variety Show <a href="http://theskybox.org">http://theskybox.org</a> Nothing says heat like fire, and nothing says hot like aerialists. Lucky for you, this month Sky Box brings you lots of BOTH! Featuring NYC's finest aerialists on silk, lyra, rope and hammock as well as performances of burlesque and theatrical pole dance; this month's show is bound to be steamy for more reasons than one. Plus with two aerial acts featuring fire performance, a new meaning of epic will be in action and Sky Box aerial community can't wait! Featuring performances by: Nikki Borodi, Sandhi Ferreira, Ariel Iasevoli, Alaska McFadden, Nicki Miller, Ashley Monroe, Anya Sapozhnikova, Amanda Silaski, Matt Stuart and Chriselle Tidrick. Mistress of Ceremonies: Kae Burke. (House of Yes, 342 Maujer St bet Waterbury and Morgan, Bushwick, BK, 8pm, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== UPCOMING [Ticketed events likely to sell out and/or offering presale discounts] ===+++===+++===+++=== Friday, July 23 DANCE: Desert Sin's Sex and Taboo: A Surreal Performance Event <a href="http://s80131.gridserver.com/public">http://s80131.gridserver.com/public</a> Featuring Desert Sin, Vangeline Theater, Rose Wood, Ms Tickle, Anya Sapozhnikova, and more. An unforgettable night about masturbation, incest, gender and sexuality this is not your grandmother's dance show. Come see some of NY's most innovative talent bringing you Butoh, Burlesque, Tango, Performance Art, Theatrical Dance, and Aerial in erotic and thought-provoking ways you've never seen before. (Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St, DUMBO, BK, 7pm, $10 adv/$15 door) Saturday, July 24 ***MUSIC: Sxip Shirey's "Sonic New York" CD release party <a href="http://www.sxipshirey.com">http://www.sxipshirey.com</a> <a href="http://www.citywinery.com/events/90398">http://www.citywinery.com/events/90398</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111336928914394">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111336928914394</a> Avant-garde composer Sxip Shirey will perform cuts from his latest release 'Sonic New York' with the Carolina Chocolate Drops' Rhiannon Giddens and special downtown guests Adam Matta, Rachelle Garniez, and The Wiyos' Joe "Bass" DeJarnette. With harmonica and megaphone in hand, Shirey taps the loop-sampler with his foot. Dirty hip-hop beats scroll out of the sound system, as his drummer kicks in a counter rhythm that unfurls a tight snare klezmer for a distinctly urban sound. Before the night's over, shards of blue light will bathe the stage as the earthbound shadow reaches for the cosmic: red marbles rolling in electroacoustic glass bowls, industrial flutes, bass siren whistles, regurgitated music box, mutant harmonica, miniature hand bell choir... A confusion of novelty, experimental and electronics, wild and entertaining. [G&S note: we don't need to tell you how much we love Sxip. Those of you who've been to Jank! (and many other parties he's played) can understand why. But if you've never seen a true Sxip solo show, you still have no idea. His new CD is a two-year $17K labor of love, and, quite likely, a goodbye letter to NYC. This is Sxip's ONLY show until fall.] (The City Winery, 155 Varick St, 9pm, $12 adv/$15 door) ===+++===+++===+++=== HOT TIPS [Art opportunities, promotions, sales, news. Non-event ephemera...] ===+++===+++===+++=== VARIETY: Open Casting Call for the Coney Island Talent Show <a href="http://www.thirstygirlproductions.com">http://www.thirstygirlproductions.com</a> Categories for this year's talent contest are: Sassy Seniors, 60 and up; Best Drag Performance or Celebrity Impersonator; Circus Freaks and Sideshow Geeks (including all variety, novelty acts); Dance your Pants Off (including soloists, troupes & step teams); Creative Kids, 9-12years. The Talent Show will be on Sat. July 31st and will be hosted by The World Famous BOB & Miss Saturn! (Applications due 7/20) ART: Sukkah City <a href="http://www.sukkahcity.com/">http://www.sukkahcity.com/</a> Biblical in origin, the sukkah is an ephemeral, elemental shelter, erected for one week each fall, in which it is customary to share meals, entertain, sleep, and rejoice. Ostensibly the sukkah's religious function is to commemorate the temporary structures that the Israelites dwelled in during their exodus from Egypt, but it is also about universal ideas of transience and permanence as expressed in architecture. The sukkah is a means of ceremonially practicing homelessness, while at the same time remaining deeply rooted. It calls on us to acknowledge the changing of the seasons, to reconnect with an agricultural past, and to take a moment to dwell on--and dwell in--impermanence. 'Sukkah City: New York City' will re-imagine this ancient phenomenon, develop new methods of material practice and parametric design, and propose radical possibilities for traditional design constraints in a contemporary urban site. Twelve finalists will be selected by a panel of celebrated architects , designers, and critics to be constructed in a visionary village in Union Square Park from September 19-21, 2010. One structure will be chosen by New Yorkers to stand and delight throughout the week-long festival of Sukkot as the Official Sukkah of New York City. The process and results of the competition, along with construction documentation and critical essays, will be published in the forthcoming book "Sukkah City: Radically Temporary Architecture for the Next Three Thousand Years." Selected entries will also be displayed in an exhibit at the Center for Architecture in New York City during September 2010. (Entries due by Aug 1) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: Daniel Merriam <a href="http://www.animazing.com/gallery/merriam/originals">http://www.animazing.com/gallery/merriam/originals</a> <a href="http://www.danielmerriam.com">http://www.danielmerriam.com</a> 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) DANCE: Angela Harriell & The Love Show present: Robots and Aliens: A Love Story <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131899436845087">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131899436845087</a> <a href="http://www.theloveshownyc.com">http://www.theloveshownyc.com</a> An Interactive Improvisational Dance & Karaoke Installation. Since human beings first became sentient and began to understand the ramifications of working within a society, we have been torn between the need to be efficient, predictable, reliable, productive members of that society (robots), and the desire to expressive, unpredictable, incomprehensible, mysterious individuals (aliens). While some of us may opt for grey suits while others don fabulous drag, none of us can allow one aspect to completely subsume the other. Robot and alien must learn to co-exist; theirs must be a love story. By allowing to some extent, requiring the passerby to choose the direction in which our piece plays out, we give the her or him officially sanctioned permission to act independently and expressively, without ever stepping outside the bounds of the acceptable, robotic behavior that being in public requires. Similarly, the karaoke sing-alongs will encourage the marriage of the two sides. Wh ile the singers will inherently bring themselves to the music, they will also be singing in unison, following the projected lyrics and our singer, and performing an action authorized by the powers that be. Thus, the piece hopes to help urbanites heal the rift between two warring sides of their personalities, all while having a huge amount of fun. (thru 7/21, Chashama 112 W. 44th St, 12pm-8pm/early closings: 6pm on 7/17, 5pm on 7/21, FREE) ART: Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage <a href="http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm">http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm</a> Approximately twenty hand-drawn ballet costume designs by Dorothea Tanning (b.1910) created in collaboration with the early modernist choreographer, George Balanchine. Dating from 19451953, 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 <a href="http://www.bricktheater.com/gameplay">http://www.bricktheater.com/gameplay</a> 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 <a href="http://www.theflea.org">http://www.theflea.org</a> 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? <a href="http://observatoryroom.org/series">http://observatoryroom.org/series</a> 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) MUSIC: Bridge Culture Concert Series <a href="http://www.bridgeculture.org/">http://www.bridgeculture.org/</a> Four weeks of free live performances representing communities from throughout New York City and cultures from around the world. The series will welcome visitors to Brooklyn Bridge Park and help promote cultural exchange throughout NYC. For this kick-off year, Bridge Culture will promote the proud cultures of Brooklyn, India, Russia, and Haiti through music, storytelling and dance. (Saturdays thru 7/31, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1, Old Fultion St at Furman St, DUMBO, BK, 4pm-6pm, FREE) ART: Polaroid: Instant Joy! <a href="http://www.amrichardfineart.com/">http://www.amrichardfineart.com/</a> What is the allure and fascination of the Polaroid? Beyond the sheer magic of seeing an image appear from nothingness, the prints could be remarkably rich, vibrant and resolute, rivaling and sometimes surpassing the finest silver or color prints. The Polaroid print was a living object: you shook it in the air or held it in the warmth of your armpit to accelerate development. With the sharing of the image and the subsequent marvel, taking a picture became an interactive experience. Although space restrictions have not allowed a complete survey of Polaroid art, this show attempts to capture the range of vision, spontaneity and experimentations possible with the Polaroid. The artists selected include Lynka Adams, Michael Anton, Jimmy Baynes, Todd Boebel, Ellen Carey, Brendan Carroll, Chuck Close, William Coupon, Melanie Einzig, Andrew Garn, Stan Gregory, Jack Johnston, Till Krautkraemer, Marc Kehoe, Mimi Lipson, Eric Kroll, Sally Mann, Richard McCabe, Barbara Mensch, Ber Murphy, Nagatani/ Tracey, Bill Ray, F. Scott Schafer, David Stock, Molly Surno, Jennifer Trausch, Robert Vizzini, Robert Warhover and William Wegman. (thru 7/31, A.M. Richard Fine Art, 328 Berry St. bet S. 4th and S. 5th St., Wburg, BK, various times, FREE) FILM: Charlie Chaplin Film Festival <a href="http://www.filmforum.org/films/chaplin.html">http://www.filmforum.org/films/chaplin.html</a> Film Forum is screening all of the Little Tramp's features on original 35mm prints, including classics like Modern Times, The Kid and, naturally, A King in New York. (thru 8/3, Manhattan Film Forum, 209 W Houston St) PERFORMANCE: A Night at the Tombs <a href="https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723515">https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723515</a> 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) DANCING/MUSIC: MoonDance <a href="http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/events.asp">http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/events.asp</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105022499545831">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105022499545831</a> 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 <a href="http://www.fluxfactory.org">http://www.fluxfactory.org</a> 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 <a href="http://www.newyorkclassical.org/index.php">http://www.newyorkclassical.org/index.php</a> 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 <a href="http://ps1.org/news/view/64/">http://ps1.org/news/view/64/</a> 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 <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy_warhol/">http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy_warhol/</a> The first U.S. museum survey to examine the late work of American artist Andy Warhol (19281987). 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) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== Do you have something to share with our readers or events you'd like to have included in our emails? Did we miss anything? We're always open to suggestions & feedback. Write to us at <a href="mailto:gs@geminiandscorpio.com">gs@geminiandscorpio.com</a> and tell us your thoughts. ===+++===+++===+++=== Subscribe/Unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a>

[G&S]: Introducing: The Lost Circus..circus meets dark cabaret with a steampunk twist

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:45:00 GMT

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 Online Dating Gurus and Offline Party Mavens <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com</a> FB group: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook">http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</a> YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio">http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio</a> House of Scorpio - the kinkier side of G&S <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> | <a href="http://bit.ly/HoS_FB">http://bit.ly/HoS_FB</a> Please forward along to friends! If this has been forwarded to you: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a> to subscribe for weekly events list, exclusive party invites, giveaways and offers ===+++===+++===+++=== HOUSE OF SCORPIO EVENT: 7/22 ===+++===+++===+++=== 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: <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135969926424204">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135969926424204</a> ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 7/31 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present The Lost Circus Sat, July 31, 11:59pm-4am, $15 w/RSVP; $20 without Littlefield, 622 Degraw, Gowanus, BK Details & RSVP: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141792552504061">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141792552504061</a> 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. ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 8/14 ===+++===+++===+++=== 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: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> Tix: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/119199">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/119199</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108356192548440">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108356192548440</a> Taste of last cruise: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3AvHJgtA1o">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3AvHJgtA1o</a> 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. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== *EVENT: City Solstice, aka Manhattan-Henge <a href="http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge">http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge</a> <a href="http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/resources/starstruck/manhattanhenge">http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/resources/starstruck/manhattanhenge</a> 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 <a href="http://www.bkhiphopfestival.com">http://www.bkhiphopfestival.com</a> 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) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== CIRCUS: The Underworld <a href="http://www.deconstructivetheatreproject.org">http://www.deconstructivetheatreproject.org</a> 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 <a href="http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/23-kickstarter-sneak-previews">http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/23-kickstarter-sneak-previews</a> 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 <a href="http://www.Hichristina.com">http://www.Hichristina.com</a> 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 <a href="http://www.galapagosartspace.com/">http://www.galapagosartspace.com/</a> 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 <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127226670651967">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127226670651967</a> <a href="http://www.etaals.com">http://www.etaals.com</a> Tix: <a href="https://secure.www.memberconnections.com/olc/pub/LVNI/events/event_order.cgi?tmpl=events&event=2302254">https://secure.www.memberconnections.com/olc/pub/LVNI/events/event_order.cgi?tmpl=events&event=2302254</a> 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 (<a href="http://www.theirc.org/">http://www.theirc.org/</a>), 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) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTY: Union Hall 4th Anniversary BBQ <a href="http://www.unionhallny.com/home.php">http://www.unionhallny.com/home.php</a> 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 <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106667509366316">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106667509366316</a> Live updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/kaleidoscopenyc">http://twitter.com/kaleidoscopenyc</a> 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 <a href="http://mixandmatch2010.eventbrite.com">http://mixandmatch2010.eventbrite.com</a> <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/groups/mix">http://www.vimeo.com/groups/mix</a> 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 <a href="http://www.returnofrococo.com">http://www.returnofrococo.com</a> 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 <a href="http://www.myspace.com/unionpool">http://www.myspace.com/unionpool</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/staggerbackbrassband">http://www.myspace.com/staggerbackbrassband</a> 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 <a href="http://www.Hichristina.com">http://www.Hichristina.com</a> 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 <a href="http://www.fluxfactory.org">http://www.fluxfactory.org</a> Flux Factory is throwing a party. The theme is burlesque-World Cup-double birthday-toga party. Well 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 <a href="http://www.radiohive.org/radiohive-benefit/">http://www.radiohive.org/radiohive-benefit/</a> 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) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== FEST: Bastille Day on 60th St. <a href="http://www.bastilledaynyc.com/act3.html">http://www.bastilledaynyc.com/act3.html</a> 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 Frances 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 <a href="http://www.websterhall.com">http://www.websterhall.com</a> <a href="http://www.theqas.net">http://www.theqas.net</a> 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, its an art party. Featuring Dillon Porters adaptation of Shakespeares 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 <a href="http://www.olmcfeast.com">http://www.olmcfeast.com</a> 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 <a href="http://www.rocksoff.com/shows/555">http://www.rocksoff.com/shows/555</a> 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 <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134393906570747">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134393906570747</a> 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) ===+++===+++===+++=== MONDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== TUESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== WEDNESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== TALK/PARTY: A Picture of Haiti: Six Months Later <a href="http://www.honey-space.com">http://www.honey-space.com</a> 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) ===+++===+++===+++=== THURSDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTY: Siren Music Fest Kick-off Party <a href="http://meanredproductions.com/2204">http://meanredproductions.com/2204</a> 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 <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120359348005499">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120359348005499</a> 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) ===+++===+++===+++=== UPCOMING [Ticketed events likely to sell out and/or offering presale discounts] ===+++===+++===+++=== Friday 7/16 PARTY: Mata Hari Madness Midsummer Masquerade Ball <a href="http://www.mataharimadness.com">http://www.mataharimadness.com</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l/6faaeDQwhZnad1T-3U5LtCVvs3Q">http://www.facebook.com/l/6faaeDQwhZnad1T-3U5LtCVvs3Q</a>; 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) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: Daniel Merriam <a href="http://www.animazing.com/gallery/merriam/originals">http://www.animazing.com/gallery/merriam/originals</a> <a href="http://www.danielmerriam.com">http://www.danielmerriam.com</a> 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 <a href="http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm">http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm</a> Approximately twenty hand-drawn ballet costume designs by Dorothea Tanning (b.1910) created in collaboration with the early modernist choreographer, George Balanchine. Dating from 19451953, 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 <a href="http://www.bricktheater.com/gameplay">http://www.bricktheater.com/gameplay</a> 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 years 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 & Merediths Production of Gormanzee & Other Stories <a href="http://www.theflea.org">http://www.theflea.org</a> 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 & Merediths wide stylistic range, from fast-paced comedy and tight choreography, to stark dramatic conflict, to eerie and inventive puppetry. Anna & Merediths past work includes Brains, First Place Winner of Spoke the Hubs 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? <a href="http://observatoryroom.org/series">http://observatoryroom.org/series</a> 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 <a href="https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723515">https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723515</a> 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 <a href="http://www.fluxfactory.org">http://www.fluxfactory.org</a> 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 theyll be gone, but will have no idea where theyre going or what theyll 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 <a href="http://ps1.org/news/view/64/">http://ps1.org/news/view/64/</a> 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 <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy_warhol/">http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy_warhol/</a> The first U.S. museum survey to examine the late work of American artist Andy Warhol (19281987). 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) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== Do you have something to share with our readers or events you'd like to have included in our emails? Did we miss anything? We're always open to suggestions & feedback. Write to us at <a href="mailto:gs@geminiandscorpio.com">gs@geminiandscorpio.com</a> and tell us your thoughts. ===+++===+++===+++=== Subscribe/Unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a>

[G&S]: Our summer plans (7/31 - dark cabaret/circus; 8/14 - gypsy/brass sail) and ticket giveaways

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:27:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, Just when you thought we may slow things down for the summer, here we are announcing our wicked hot-weather plans. More may be to come, too. - July 31, our only proper G&S costumed blow-out for the summer: a long-lost circus with a dark cabaret soundtrack. Expect a steampunk'd art/performance/music happening akin to our memorable Halloween Masquerade Macabre adventure. Details next week. - Aug 14, we've plotted & schemed our way back on to the Clipper City for one more summer sail, this one co-produced with NY Gypsy Festival -- which means a bangin' gypsy-balkan-ethnomesh soundtrack courtesy of DJs Joro Boro & Kosta. Details next week. BTW, Last week's sail exceeded all expectations in its sheer awesomeness. A short video by our DJ Barney Iller of electric violinist Irine Fong against the Statue of Liberty in the background: <a href="http://bit.ly/asGJSf">http://bit.ly/asGJSf</a> -- and lots of photos in TimeOut: <a href="http://tmout.us/aQEWrW">http://tmout.us/aQEWrW</a> - Other dates of note: the next House of Scorpio makeout party is Thur, July 22. Then, our dear friend, the amazing Sxip Shirey, is hosting a ridiculous CD release party on July 24 for his *stellar* new record Sonic New York. Incidentally, if you haven't picked up a copy yet, we can't recommend it highly enough. Listen for free & download for $12 (all $ directly to artist): <a href="http://sxip.bandcamp.com">http://sxip.bandcamp.com</a> - And finally...ticket giveaway! Lincoln Center Out of Doors presents a fantastic show on Wed with our friends JC Hopkins, Justin Bond & Joey Arias. Quick, answer how many years LC Out of Doors is celebrating this season and WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS to the show. 10th correct answer wins the tickets. 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If this has been forwarded to you: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a> to subscribe for weekly events list, exclusive party invites, giveaways and offers ===+++===+++===+++=== G&S SEEKING LOFT ===+++===+++===+++=== A 1,500-3,000 sq ft loft we can live, work and party in on a regular basis (or just rent out for events), with outdoor space for smokers & movies & BBQs. We're looking off the Q/C/F trains in Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, etc, though open to other locations for event rentals, incl Manhattan. Got any leads? Send them our way. If you can help us, you'll get VIP status in our new party palace. ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 7/31 ===+++===+++===+++=== At the stroke of midnight, discover a circus long lost. Circus meets art meets dark cabaret, on a spacious dance floor. Stay tuned. ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 8/14 ===+++===+++===+++=== We set sail once again on the magnificent Clipper City sailboat, in a gypsy-balkan-brass dance-fueled throwdown with DJs Joro Boro & Kosta. Stay tuned. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== *PERFORMANCE: Straight Up Vampire <a href="http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,4995">http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,4995</a> The History of Vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania as Performed to the Music of Paula Abdul. It's 1763 and there are vampires in Philadelphia. Paula Abdul Blackwood is a beautiful young quaker girl being forced into marriage with the wheelwright's son. Jack Sheridan, a politically idealistic young vampire, is the man she loves. Everywhere there is dissent. Fractious parties debate the future of the colony. MC Skat Kat and Benjamin Franklin vie for power in the Assembly. With Nick Jones, the O'Debra Twins, and Corn Mo as Benjamin Franklin. (Fri/Sat, Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette St, 9:30pm, $15) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: Gallery of Yes <a href="http://www.houseofyes.com">http://www.houseofyes.com</a> Cheap art, adventurous sideshows, live music, fire spinning, and psychedelic projections. Gallery of Yes offers art accessibility through affordability. We are featuring work from over a dozen NYC based artists, most of which is priced under $100 with nothing more than $200. Artists from a wide range of disciplines are showing their work to create a multimedia wonderland for art hunters. Gallery of Yes will feature a gallery-style viewing period from followed by performances at by Data Dog and Second Nature. Also featuring Dr. Adventure's SuperHero Circus and Side-Show. Including: Dr.Adventure's Tonics, Tinctures, Potions and Elixers, the SuperYoga of Amazing Amy, the Mighty Strongman, the Mysterious Half Man/Half Girl, the Terrifying Wild Man, Death Defying Feats of Might and Invulnerability, Wristo the Ultra-Clown, Sexy Super People, and Much More. (House of Yes, 342 Maujer St., Bushwick, BK, 6pm-8:30 gallery viewing, 9pm live music, FREE/before 8:30, $5-12 sliding scale af ter) MUSIC: Martin Bisi, HUMANWINE and Marissa Nadler <a href="http://www.myspace.com/theendcredits">http://www.myspace.com/theendcredits</a> <a href="http://www.marissanadler.com/">http://www.marissanadler.com/</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/humanwine">http://www.myspace.com/humanwine</a> Martin Bisi , plays guitar and sings, and combines singer-songwriter story-telling with indie/post-punk/No Wave rock and experimental psychedelia. Marissa Nadler's music may contain less 'freak' folk or experimental elements than much of the music evolving from the folk scene today, but it is no less relevant or intriguing. The synthesizer, organ, and lap steel layer nicely with Nadler's ethereal voice and give her music a sound that is somehow both melancholy and triumphant. HUMANWINE's everchanging line up will consist of Holly Brewer, M@ McNiss, Paul Dilley, n8 Greenslit & Vessela Stoyanova. The Muzik of HUMANWINE is fluid and changing with each line up. Often 1 or more players on stage will be playing together for the first time and that methodology is the fabric of what makes them so special from their approach to songwriting through their presentation of their work whether it be in live performances or the videos and mini movies they create. (Union Pool, 484 Union Ave., Wburg, BK, 8pm, ?) *MUSIC: Ghost Train Orchestra <a href="http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com">http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com</a> The Ghost Train Orchestra is trumpeter Brian Carpenter's large instrumental ensemble. Tonight they perform jazz stomps from four seminal Harlem and Chicago bandleaders of the late 1920s: Don Redman, Tiny Parham, Fess Williams, and Charlie Johnson. With Brian Carpenter (trumpet, harmonica, voice), Oscar Noriega (clarinet), Andy Laster (alto, baritone saxophones), Jessica Lurie (clarinet, alto, tenor saxophones), Curtis Hasselbring (trombone), Mazz Swift (violin), Cynthia Sayer (banjo), Ron Caswell (tuba), Rob Garcia (trap kit). (Barbes, 376 9th St., BK, 10pm, $10 donation to band) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== MUSIC: ISTANBULIVE II: The Sounds & Colors of Turkey <a href="http://www.istanbulive.org">http://www.istanbulive.org</a> <a href="http://www.summerstage.org/music.html">http://www.summerstage.org/music.html</a> For five hours, several of Turkey's best and brightest artists will perform a free-to-the-public show featuring a myriad of sounds within the east-meets-west mold including Turkish rock, jazz, dance, pop and folk music. This celebration of Turkish Music features performances from Kenan Dogulu (with a 12 piece live band); Duman; Ilhan Ersahin's Istanbul Sessions; Sukriye Tutkun; DJ Ozan Dogulu; and folk dance by Collage Dance Ensemble. (Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 2pm, FREE) *DJ/DANCING: PS1 Warm Up <a href="http://ps1.org/news/view/64/">http://ps1.org/news/view/64/</a> 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). This week's Warm Up features Delorean (live); Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang (live); Glasser (live); John Talabot (DJ set); and Korallreven (DJ set). [G&S note: yeah, we know, this is big enough not to need out listing -- but it's impossible not to love the series.] (Every Sat thru 9/4, PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave at 46th Ave, 2pm-9pm, $15) DJ/DANCING: Ride the Snake We're celebrating the birth of America with the same hardcore spirit that founded our nation -- Ride the Snake style. Too many people have become soft in the luxurious perception of freedom. Freedom is not a luxury, though. It is a right -- a right that requires a bit of ferocity. Freedom is for people who will remain accountable to its glorious bastions, even when those bastions require sacrifice. Featuring Dirty Finger, God Ox, the Brooklyn What, Jellybean Fiasco, Cobra Krames, Fake Money, and special guest. Art/performance by Scattered Sam King of America and Billy Ehret. Barbecue all night by Davo. Open bar all night! (372 Ten Eyck St., BK, 10pm-6am, $20) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== EVENT: Nathan's Hot Dog Contest <a href="http://www.nathansfamous.com">http://www.nathansfamous.com</a> The world's greatest eaters will compete at the historic Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island today. (Nathan's Famous, 1310 Surf Avenue at Stillwell Ave, doors 10am, contest 12pm, FREE) DJ/DANCING: Sunday Best <a href="http://www.sundaybestnyc.co">http://www.sundaybestnyc.co</a> The Fourth is shaping up to be a perfect summer's day and Sunday Best is celebrating. Dance the afternoon away in a spacious courtyard and then scale a nearby warehouse to catch the fireworks from the roof. Resident DJs Justin Carter, Eamon Harkin and Doug Singer are set to declare musical independence, alongside ever-funky guest Rich Medina. (Brooklyn Fireproof, 19 Ingraham St, BK, 3pm-9pm, $8/adv, $12/door) TALK: A Barnum Bicentenary <a href="http://www.coneyisland.com/museum.shtml">http://www.coneyisland.com/museum.shtml</a> Talk and performance by Trav S.D. and friends in observance of P.T. Barnum's 200th birthday: if P.T. Barnum had lived he would have turned 200 years old on July 5 of this year, which is about the age he once claimed Joice Heth, George Washington's nurse was. In observance of the fact, Trav S.D. will speak on the legacy of Barnum and Barnumism (bunkum, hokum, humbug and hooey) in vaudeville and show business in general. And because showmanship is the name of the game, he will be joined by the great Lorinne Lampert, a.k.a., Uke-Lola tap-dancing; song-singing, uke-playing, juggling vaudevillian extraordinaire. What better place to spend the 4th than Coney Island? Watch the hot dog eating contest! Ride the rides. Go for a dip. And then come see the real dips at our presentation. (Coney Island Museum, 1208 Surf Avenue, second floor, Coney Island, BK, 4:30pm, $5) ***PARTY: The Liberty Belle Spectacular <a href="http://www.libertybellespectacular.com">http://www.libertybellespectacular.com</a> A Vintage Fourth of July Rooftop Extravaganza w/Live Bands, Dancing, Burlesque, Fireworks. Featuring: Gelber & Manning and The Star Spangled Orchestra, MC Dandy Wellington, The Minsky Sisters, Jezebel Express, Sit & Die Co, Perle Noire, Bob Leive. Guest Mixologist Fredo Ceraso. (July 4th, Empire Hotel Rooftop, 44 West 63rd St, 7pm, $20 in advance, $25 at the door, 21+) PARTY: Sci-Fi Fourth of July <a href="http://www.surrealestatenyc.wordpress.com">http://www.surrealestatenyc.wordpress.com</a> Surreal Estate, Brooklyn's largest and most diverse collective space invites you to a barbecue and three-floor party on the 4th of July. Live Music, B-Boy vs. B-Girl Battle, Dance-tastic DJs, BBQ, & BlackLight Decoration. Bring your grilling favorites and set them sizzling on the hood of the UFO that just made a rooftop landing! We're introducing our interstellar guests to the best Brooklyn can offer, especially the otherworldly sounds of our favorite music, including the international rhythms and grooves of DJ Geko Jones, the epic Israeli pop duo Hank and Cupcakes, the gyspy jazz beats of DJ Poodle Cannon, and the electrifying accordion/violin of The Homeless People. Scope out the tricky moves of New York's best three-legged, four-armed breakdancers at the Breakdancing Battle as they compete for $300 prize money on our new wooden dance floor. After all that dancing, we'll show our visitors how to cool their green skin in the kiddie pool, and give them some cold spiked ice te a. After all, Surreal Estate has a perfect view of the fireworks from the roof and three floors of the best kind of alien contact. Come and meet our new friends and help us welcome them to the U.S. of A!(Surreal Estate, 15 Thames St, BK, 8p-4am, $10 door) ===+++===+++===+++=== MONDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== MUSIC: KRISTEENYOUNG <a href="http://bk.knittingfactory.com">http://bk.knittingfactory.com</a> KRISTEENYOUNG wants the piano to kick your ass. Their new album, Music for Strippers, Hookers, and the Odd On-Looker, feels like it was born in the boxing ring, not some sun-dappled Laurel Canyon living room. She sought to recapture the fiery, dangerous noise early rockers like Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino wrought from the instrument's eighty-eight keys, albeit in a wholly modern way. Young's foil in KRISTEENYOUNG is drummer Baby Jef White, whose energy and fills bring to mind the great British drummers, but whose groove is undeniably American. Think John Bohnam meets Timbaland on Keith Moon Street. Together, the duo has forged a sound full of percussive impact and melodic grandeur. (Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Avenue, Wburg, BK, 7pm, $10/adv, $12/door) CIRCUS: Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Show <a href="http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?ShowCode=BIN6">http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?ShowCode=BIN6</a> <a href="http://www.galapagosartspace.com">http://www.galapagosartspace.com</a> Come to DUMBO, Brooklyn where a five spot still offers you a spectacular night of tap dancing bears, Kung Fu juggling, clown bands, aerialists suspended above your beverage while you are carefully suspended over a body of water, sword swallowers, physical comedy, contortionists and cowboys. Hosted by Keith Bindlestiff. (Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St., DUMBO, BK, 7pm, $5) *DANCE: Broadway Underground <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132214360124884">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132214360124884</a> Restoring the spirit of entertainment, Broadway Underground floors audiences of every age with spontaneous and rhythmic comedy. Tappers, Jared Grimes and DeWitt Fleming host this "blast from the past" phenomenon filled with amazing talent straight off the New York City streets. Artists move to this city every day to be discovered. Broadway Underground sifts through the web of talented hopefuls and unleashes sheer raw artistry onto a stage filled with live music and packed audiences. Every show offers new acts and hilarious skits from the real life stories of roommates Jared and DeWitt, who found their start singing and dancing underground in the subways of New York City. The open session ends the evening where artists flock to the stage for their minute of fame as they launch themselves into the den of live talent to be seen by all the world. (BB Kings in Time Sq, 237 W. 42nd St bet Bway and 8th Ave., 8pm-10pm, $12) ===+++===+++===+++=== TUESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== MUSIC: Bushwick Book Club <a href="http://www.bushwickbookclub.com">http://www.bushwickbookclub.com</a> The Bushwick Book Club takes the longwinded pontification out of book clubs and replaces it with engaging, unexpected songs about the book of the month. This month: Original songs inspired by the Diaries of Anais Nin. Songwriters include Corn Mo, Alyson Greenfield, Scott Massarsky, and Susan Hwang. We'll have Nin-inspired snacks and drink specials too. Things could get a little randy. (Goodbye Blue Monday, 1087 Broadway, between Lawton and Dodworth, BK, 8-10pm, FREE) COMEDY: The Raspberry Brothers Back To The Future II <a href="http://ny.knittingfactory.com">http://ny.knittingfactory.com</a> Bring your July 4th leftovers and we'll gorge ourselves on surplus potato salad, casseroles, cole slaws, and cold burgers. To help you digest- the Raspberry Brothers will make fun of an extremely pro-American film. Back To the Future 2! This movie has corny lines, nonsense plot twists (It takes 88 miles an hour to go back in time?), historical rewriting (Rock n' Roll was invented by a very white teenager) and corporate sponsorship. The Raspberry Brothers can't wait. (Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave, Wburg, BK, 8pm, FREE) PARTICIPATORY: Hipnic: Kaleidoscope Music Lab <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134946306519415">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134946306519415</a> It's not just your random Hipnic... come to this special Hipnic to frolic, join in the music circle and build hand made instruments for the weekend's Kaleidoscope 3. Please bring items that can be assembled into something that might make sweet sounds. i.e. empty cans, pieces of steel or tin, kazoos - be creative.... we'll have help from members of the band Bone Gunn and musicians who DIY their own "sin-struments". What you might experience - uber friendly enchanted folk you won't always know, frankincense, musical chairs, hoe downs, drum and guitar circles, uniquely unbranded boozery, salsa dancing, gazpacho and your own spirit. Please bring something to share be it water, vino, food stuffs and if you want to be a part of the music, something that makes sound -- especially this week! (Highline, 15th St., lower balcony, 7pm-10pm, FREE) CIRCUS: Wanted! The Runaway Circus presents Wanted! Suspects are known to be highly hilarious, approach without caution! These smooth criminals are willing to go to extraordinary measures to distract you from your summer doldrums. What measures? How about trapeze, acrobatics, slapstick, magic, juggling and more. This troupe has performed all across North America including the Western Canadian Islands. Members have studied the circus arts extensively in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Seattle. So bring the whole family and be prepared because the Runaway Circus is here to take your breath away! (House of Yes, 342 Maujer St. bet Waterbury and Morgan, Bushwick, BK, 8pm, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== WEDNESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== OPENING THEATER: Anna & Meredith's Production of Gormanzee & Other Stories <a href="http://www.theflea.org">http://www.theflea.org</a> 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) MUSIC: JC Hopkins Biggish Band, Joey Arias & Justin Bond <a href="http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/msns-10-jc-hopkins-biggish-band-with-special-guests">http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/msns-10-jc-hopkins-biggish-band-with-special-guests</a> Onetime folk-rocker JC Hopkins may be living proof that swing will eventually hook us all. Known for crafting original songs that sound like instant classics, the bandleader's sumptuous unit needs no introduction among local Lindy hoofers. Tonight's provocative revue pushes the limits of ribald, racy spectacle, when Biggish Band singer Champian Fulton and singer/tapper Dewitt Fleming Jr. share the stage with several of downtown's most famous divas, including legendary Billie Holiday acolyte Joey Arias, iconic torch singer Justin Bond, and the hard-swinging Broadway star Lea DeLaria. [G&S note: this will be a beautiful show, for sure. We may even have some tickets to give away to it on our Twitter! @gemini_scorpio] (Damrosch Park, 62nd Street bet Columbus and Amsterdam, 6:30pm, $17) *FILM/MUSIC: Flood Tide: Remixed With Live Soundtrack by Dark Dark Dark <a href="http://www.floodtidefilm.com">http://www.floodtidefilm.com</a> <a href="http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/films/153-flood-tide-remixed">http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/films/153-flood-tide-remixed</a> Flood Tide tells the story of four musicians who craft extraordinary boats out of whatever junk they can find and set out for open water. A remixed version of the film -- accompanied by a live musical score by chamber folk sextet Dark Dark Dark -- will open Rooftop Films' series at Socrates Sculpture Park. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, Flood Tide was shot on the Hudson River during the real-life art-raft project The Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea, a concept dreamed-up by the artist Swoon and built by an eclectic group of artists and performers. In the summer of 2008 the crew built and floated seven large, boat-sculptures down the Hudson River. Director Todd Chandler, cinematographer Ava Berkofsky and collaborators from the bands Dark Dark Dark and Fall Harbor made a fictional film along the surreal voyage. Screening in advance of the upcoming feature film (to be released Fall 2010), Flood Tide: Remixed is a 50-minute composition of footage from Flood Tid e. Featuring material not used in the narrative film, Flood Tide: Remixed is a meditative journey down a strange and meandering river that flows both ways with the tides. This debut showing is less than a mile away from where the Swimming Cities fleet ported in the East River two years ago. (Socrates Sculpture Park, Broadway @ Vernon Blvd, LIC, Queens, 7pm doors/7:30m live music/8:30pm film, FREE) PARTICIPATORY: The Big Quiz Thing's Summer Fun Spectacular <a href="http://www.bigquizthing.com">http://www.bigquizthing.com</a> The Big Quiz Thing, New York's premier live game show, brings its multimedia trivia goodness to 92YTribeca for its debut Summer Fun Spectacular. Featuring the world's first ever live-trivia Color War, along with Smart-Ass Points for wrong but funny answers, a beachy audio round, the Lightning Round, the Three-Way Finale, the BQT trophy, clever banter, nerdy smack-talking, and tons more fun in the metaphorical sun. Best of all, fantastic prizes, including $250 in cash, and tickets to future 92YTribeca events. And hey, free imaginary barbecue. This is the Big Quiz Thing's only NYC event in July, so miss it at your desperate peril. (92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St, 7:30p, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== THURSDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== *MUSIC: Beats Antique & special guests <a href="http://www.beatsantique.com">http://www.beatsantique.com</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121195371238628">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121195371238628</a> tix: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/111612">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/111612</a> With: Billi Shakes and the Phakespear Orchestra. DJs: Joro-Boro, Hellfire Machina, Morphous w/Shizaru, Tarquin and DJ Big Joe Daddy (NYC Debut). With Performers: Dhyana and Irina Kom, belly dancers. Telah, "Portrait of the Moon"- hoop meditation. Growing like wildfire under the canopy of live electonica and world roots music comes Beats Antique, a masterful merge of modern technology, live instrumentation and seductive performance, Beats Antique combines the sounds of the Middle East and orchestral gypsy music with the styles of hip-hop, brass band, downtempo, glitch and dubstep in a new collage of music that is mixed and broken down with clever breakbeats for an adept international flair. Beats Antique is producing an un-charted style of music by adding live horns, accordion, glockenspiel, viola, string quartets, kalimba, clarinet and various unusual instruments to their big beat arrangements. Billi Shakes and the Phakespear Orchestra is an electro-pop performance group blending 1920's originals, Hip-Hop, Libertine Punk and Electro-Mash is one of a kind and timeless as it is ground-breaking. (Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleeker St, 9pm, $2 5 adv/$30 door, 21+) ===+++===+++===+++=== UPCOMING [Ticketed events likely to sell out and/or offering presale discounts] ===+++===+++===+++=== **MUSIC: Rocks Off Concert Cruise with Hungry March Band & Texas Couscous <a href="http://www.rocksoff.com/shows/555">http://www.rocksoff.com/shows/555</a> 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. (Sun 7/11, Skyport Marina, 23rd St. and FDR Drive, 7pm-11pm, $20/adv, $25/dock) ***OUT OF TOWN: Going Places (Doing Stuff) III <a href="http://www.fluxfactory.org">http://www.fluxfactory.org</a> 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. (7/10 8/28, location with ticket, $20) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: Daniel Merriam <a href="http://www.animazing.com/gallery/merriam/originals">http://www.animazing.com/gallery/merriam/originals</a> <a href="http://www.danielmerriam.com">http://www.danielmerriam.com</a> 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) PARTICIPATORY: Play Me, I'm Yours <a href="http://www.streetpianos.com/nyc2010/">http://www.streetpianos.com/nyc2010/</a> An artwork by British artist Luke Jerram who has been touring the project globally since 2008. 60 pianos will be distributed and then unveiled across New York City by Sing for Hope. Located in public parks, streets and plazas the pianos will be available until 5th July for any member of the public to play and engage with. (thru 7/5, various locations, FREE) EXHIBIT: Where New York Began - Archaeology at the South Ferry Terminal <a href="http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm">http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm</a> 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) ART: Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage <a href="http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm">http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm</a> Approximately twenty hand-drawn ballet costume designs by Dorothea Tanning (b.1910) created in collaboration with the early modernist choreographer, George Balanchine. Dating from 19451953, 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: Undergroundzero Festival <a href="http://www.ps122.org/performances/undergroundzero_2010.html">http://www.ps122.org/performances/undergroundzero_2010.html</a> Now in its 4th year, the undergroundzero festival of experimental theater offers a unique flying repertory of innovative work by renowned local and international theater makers. Artists bring a production of their choice to this summer laboratory where risk-taking is encouraged and expected. (7/6-7/25, PS122, 150 First Ave. at E. 9th St., various times, $20) TALK: Oxberry Pegs Presents: Animators Are God? <a href="http://observatoryroom.org/series">http://observatoryroom.org/series</a> 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 <a href="https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723515">https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723515</a> 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) ART: Andy Warhol The Last Decade <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy_warhol/">http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy_warhol/</a> The first U.S. museum survey to examine the late work of American artist Andy Warhol (19281987). 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) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== Do you have something to share with our readers or events you'd like to have included in our emails? Did we miss anything? We're always open to suggestions & feedback. Write to us at <a href="mailto:gs@geminiandscorpio.com">gs@geminiandscorpio.com</a> and tell us your thoughts. ===+++===+++===+++=== Subscribe/Unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a>

[G&S]: Kissing + mermaids + pride + parties = busy weekend!

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:36:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, A ridiculous week, this one, as Pride hits NYC with full rainbow force. Before you get to the awesomeness below, of gay (LGBT) & gay (fun!) variety, a few of our own reminders: - Come make out with us tonight. Don't forget your PAL and (for you really really broke folks) a $5 off password: BUNNY RABBIT. If you can afford to support us at the full $10 rate, we highly appreciate it (really, people, 10 bucks for a makeout party!). - Only 20 presale tickets remain for tomorrow's Circus & Mermaids Cruise. We reserved 20 more for the dock, first come, first served.) Break out your circus/mermaid best, as we're going to have TimeOut photo coverage tomorrow! - An exclusive free ticket offer from a fave venue, Galapagos Art Space, for Tuesday's Jenny Rocha show, which comes highly recommended. Secret free ticket link below with event description. Cheers, Gemini & Scorpio Online Dating Gurus and Offline Party Mavens <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com</a> FB group: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook">http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</a> YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio">http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio</a> House of Scorpio - the kinkier side of G&S <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> | <a href="http://bit.ly/HoS_FB">http://bit.ly/HoS_FB</a> Please forward along to friends! If this has been forwarded to you: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a> to subscribe for weekly events list, exclusive party invites, giveaways and offers ===+++===+++===+++=== G&S SEEKING LOFT ===+++===+++===+++=== A 1,500-3,000 sq ft loft we can live, work and party in on a regular basis (or just rent out for events), with outdoor space for smokers & movies & BBQs. We're looking off the Q/C/F trains in Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, etc, though open to other locations for event rentals, incl Manhattan. Got any leads? Send them our way. If you can help us, you'll get VIP status in our new party palace. ===+++===+++===+++=== HOUSE OF SCORPIO EVENT: 6/25 ===+++===+++===+++=== House of Scorpio presents Lip Service Friday, June 25, 8:30pm-2am, $10 w/RSVP; $15 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: <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114358141942203">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114358141942203</a> Bring your best lips (yours and your PAL's), and join us for lubricating cocktails and naughty games with sexy friends and intriguing strangers. Bring toys & games to share (blindfolds? rope? sexy dice?). Foreplay happy hour 8:30-9:30 with $4 beer and $5 cocktails (Indecent Proposal, anyone? or Pussy Galore?). Dress to be kissed: flirty and fun. No casual attire; door man WILL turn you away. As a special treat, at 9pm we present a short class by Marah Fellicce on discovering your kissing style. Marah is a featured lecturer at The Kink Academy, and has presented her kiss class to audiences in NJ, NY, MA, OH, LA, RI, VT. More on Marah: kissnotes.wordpress.com. ===+++===+++===+++=== G&S NEXT EVENT: 6/26 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present Circus Mermaids on the High Seas Saturday, June 26 Aboard tall ship Clipper City, Pier 17, South St Seaport, 21+ 11:30pm - 2:30am boat party w/cruise, $35 adv/$40 dock (limited tix) Official site: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=95291708117">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=95291708117</a> Tickets: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/115203">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/115203</a> Gemini & Scorpio raise the massive square-rigged sails of New York's only Tall Ship for a costumed 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. Our circus soundtrack is provided by DJ Barney Iller: a "ridiculous collectro" who flows flawlessly through Bmore beats, tropical bass, ethnotek, dubstep, jungle, showtunes, rock and hip hop, for a seriously effective, ultra party combo move. "Barney Iller has been makin peeps do dances they've never done before for many many years now...his sense of humor only serves to reinforce his sense of how to make you dance like you're feelin the holy spirit." - Whomptronica. 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. Dress: circus freaks set sail; sailors; mermaids; nautical adventurers; clown fish. That Mermaid Parade costume is too good to only break out once a year! 100 cruise tickets available for advance presale, 25 more at the door, first come, first served. Please note: last year's sailboat mermaid party sold out in two days. We highly recommend buying your tickets early. Circus performers get in FREE - contact us to arrange details. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== ART/PERFORMANCE: BoCoCa Arts Festival <a href="http://www.bococaartsfestival.com/index.php">http://www.bococaartsfestival.com/index.php</a> Building on the successful launch of the BoCoCa Arts Festival last summer, this ten-day event will criss-cross the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, presenting emerging works in theater, music and visual art. All work will be "cast" in unconventional business venues, challenging the perception of art, as well as showcasing the characteristics of these three unique neighborhoods. (Fri-Sun, various locations, see site for info) FOOD/FILM: 4th Annual NYC Food Film Festival <a href="http://www.nycfoodfilmfestival.com">http://www.nycfoodfilmfestival.com</a> Films about food, served with food featured in the films; 27 films in all. Benefitting Food Bank For New York City. (Fri-Sun, various locations, see site or details) PUPPETS: 12th Annual Labapalooza This mini festival of new puppet theater features over half a dozen quirky works-in-progress from St. Ann's Puppet Lab. This year's Labapalooza!embraces a wide range of new avant-garde puppet works from a 19th century French watchmaker to roving zombies; a world overrun by coyotes to Salvador Dali's subconscious. (Fri-Sun, St Anne's Warehouse, DUMBO, $20) FEST: 6th Annual Afro-Punk Festival <a href="http://www.afropunk.com/page/afropunk-10-nyc">http://www.afropunk.com/page/afropunk-10-nyc</a> The lineup ranges from punk legends Bad Brains and 24-7 Spyz, to underground AP favorites J*DaVeY, Game Rebellion, and alternative hip-hop masters Mos Def and P.O.S. APX "Battles For The Streets": Our skate/BMX clinics and battles will be in full effect with the sickest pro skaters and riders, $5,000 worth of prizes, sponsored by Nike 6.0, Nike SB, Skullcandy and truth.And as always, some of our favourite visual artists, fashion designers, and food will be on hand to make the experience even wilder. The festival is the main event of the year for the global Afro-punk community and the definitive destination for audiences looking to experience true Afro-punk culture. (Fri-Sun, Commodore Barry Park, Flushing Ave & N Elliot, Fort Greene, BK, Fri FREE; Sat/Sun $20) THEATER: Too Much Pride Makes the Baby Go Gay <a href="http://www.nyneofuturists.org">http://www.nyneofuturists.org</a> New York Neo-Futurists present 30 Gay Plays in 60 Straight Minutes. 30 plays reveal the struggle, the joy, the power of being out and proud in NYS in support of acceptance and freedom for all the world's citizens. The award-winning New York Neo-Futurists will be raising money to benefit LGBT advocacy in Uganda through the Fund for Global Human Rights, in an effort to combat proposed legislation that could make it a criminal offense to be gay, with punishment by imprisonment and even execution. (Fri/Sat, Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th St bet 2nd & 3rd Avenues, 10:30pm, $20) PERFORMANCE: JACKIE BEAT: IN 3-D <a href="https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/653275">https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/653275</a> Are you ready for a real summer blockbuster? Filled with unexpected explosions of violence, copious sex, gallons of special effects makeup, and a mega-watt performance from one of (West) Hollywood's "biggest" stars. This action-packed evening of new material and classic hits is must for anyone who has chosen a lifestyle that goes against God and nature. Don't miss Jackie's filthy take on Dolly Parton's "9 to 5", her musical explanation of the gay hanky code of the 1970's as set to "Tie A Yellow Ribbon", and her controversial ode to pedophilia set to Bryan Adam's "Heaven." (Fri/Sat, The Gramercy Theater, 127 East 23rd St at Lexington Ave, 10pm, $25 - $35) SHOP: American Crafts Festival <a href="http://www.craftsatlincoln.org">http://www.craftsatlincoln.org</a> Featuring more than 400 top crafters and dealers from across the country. The event will take place outside under the big tents, so come ready to enjoy the perfect summer-day experience, with great handmade art, music, organic foods and much more. (Sat/Sun, Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 10am - 9pm, FREE) PERFORMANCE: 15th Annual Vision Festival <a href="http://www.visionfestival.org/schedule/vision15">http://www.visionfestival.org/schedule/vision15</a> New York City's premier multidisciplinary celebration of innovative jazz music, dance, poetry and art returns! This year's theme, "The Creative Option", represents our commitment to bring cutting-edge music to new generations of listeners. Emerging artists and young bands are very important in maintaining a link between the pioneering legends and the innovators of the future. There will be more than 60 events, including innovative music and dance performances, poetry readings, film and visual art installations, and several important panel discussions that focus on issues relevant to the music business. (thru 6/30, various locations, times and costs, see site for details) DANCE: Khmeropédies <a href="http://www.bacnyc.org/index.php/events/performances/HGPS062410-Phuon">http://www.bacnyc.org/index.php/events/performances/HGPS062410-Phuon</a> Created by French-Cambodian choreographer Emmanuèle Phuon, with four traditional Khmer dancers from Cambodia, this piece explores the thrilling meeting of Western choreographic forms and traditional Khmer dance. The performance will be followed by a discussion with the artists. (Fri and Sat, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Howard Gilman Performance Space, 450 W. 37th Street, Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm and 7:30pm, $15) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== LGBT: The 17th annual Drag March <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127958410557869">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127958410557869</a> The very first Drag March happened 17 years ago as an (unofficial) part of the Stonewall 25 commemorations - the organizers of Stonewall 25 didn't wish leather or drag at their event thus our event was propelled into being. We still gather (unofficially) to march each year because... well... we can! Put on a frock and join us. Dress for complex! Rain or shine. (Tompkins Square Park West side entrance, 7pm, March to the Stonewall Inn at Sheridan Square, FREE) ART/MUSIC: Sympathetic Resonance <a href="http://www.3rdward.com/events">http://www.3rdward.com/events</a> Our spacious lobby has been transformed into a beautiful chamber of sound, with 56 sound-producing units projecting from the walls by installation artist, Joshua Kirsch. Joshua will perform his interactive instrument-sculpture, then turn the aluminum keyboard to you, the guest. Plus, the Xylopholks will complement the exhibit with a rollicking set of ragtime xylophone music, all played in furry costumes. And, enjoy free craft brews courtesy of Fire Island Beer Co., Ithaca Beer Co., and Southampton Publick House in a sound-and-motion-sensitive room by Michael Doherty, artist, programmer, and 3rd Ward instructor. (3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave, Wburg, BK, 7pm-10pm, FREE) PARTY: 2nd Annual SMUT Art Show & Fundraiser <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133270590032874">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133270590032874</a> Join the Lowbrow Society for the Arts at Brooklyn Fire Proof for a night of art, drinks, dancing, debauchery, and SMUT! Featuring a gallery full of photography, installation, video and illustration to feast your lascivious eyes upon. Artists include Lenora Jayne, Gwynn Galitzer, Annie Sprinkle, Gerry Visco and Lorna Gaddis. The evening will also include burlesque performances, live body painting, go-go boys and a wet t-shirt contest. Music provided by DJ Barney Iller; Action & Gamma Ray; and DJ Tommy D & Dolla Bill. (Brooklyn Fireproof, 199 Ingraham St at Porter Ave, Bushwick, BK, 7pm, FREE before 9pm, $5 after 9pm, $10 after 12am) DJ/DANCING: Hot It Up! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127095903998039">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127095903998039</a> Our monthly exploration of tropical rhythms and bass sounds is back; come and join the dance party. Featuring the amazing afro-beat ensemble The People's Champs who will shake you down to the ground with their funky sounds, with musicians from Baja and Dry Eye Crew, Slavic Soul Party!, Jo Jo Kuo and his Afrobeat Collective, John Brown's Body, and more. DJs: DJ Shakey (Rubulad, Warper); Reaganomics (Pure Fire, Botanica); DJ Stylus (Brooklyn Wonderland). Come, dance, drink, HOT IT UP! (Littlefield, 622 Degraw between 3rd & 4th Ave, Gowanus, BK, 11pm-4am, $5 with RSVP to <a href="mailto:brooklynwonderland@gmail.com">brooklynwonderland@gmail.com</a> or before midnight, $8 afterwards, 21+) **PARTY: DESIRE: A Masquerade / The Enchanted Menagerie <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124131224277035">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124131224277035</a> <a href="http://www.leechappell.com">http://www.leechappell.com</a> <a href="http://dancesofvice.com">http://dancesofvice.com</a> Extravagantly Costumed Performance Artists, Over the Top Drag Queens & Hot Masked Go-Go Boys, Baroque Inspired Decor with Interactive Visual Displays will create a stunning event that envelopes your senses and tantalizes your brain. In the Grand Ballroom, DJ's/Producers HECTOR FONSECA & ALYSON CALAGNA, Sony/Epic Recording Artist, OH LAND making her American Debut, MC's - SHEQUIDA & SYBIL BRUNCHEON, 3-D Visuals and Interactive by Wetcircuit. On the second floor, Shien Lee & Muffinhead Present a Decadent Modern Jazz Age Event featuring live music by Shanghai Foxtrot, Grandpa Musselman & His Syncopators with special guest star The Incomparable Iggy; mesmerizing performance art by The Flying Fox and Sequinette; an enthralling fashion show by Kristin Costa Designs; and vintage and glam dance music all night by DJ Miz Margo. $500 CASH PRIZE For BEST COSTUME. (Capitale, 130 Bowery, 10pm, $30) PARTICIPATORY: We Hardly Knew V <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123450697690982">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123450697690982</a> At the end of this month, one of the youngest subway lines in New York, the venerable V train, will be discontinued. To celebrate its short life, and express our vexation at MTA service cuts, please join us for a very special celebration on the last Friday of this month. We will meet by the last car and ride the last V train all the way to Forest Hills. Wear orange or something V-related. Bring instruments & noise-makers. From the creators of Q Diamonds Aren't Forever & 1 More Time for the 9, and the annual NYC Pillow Fight and Bubble Battle, NYCentric and Newmindspace. (2nd Ave. V station - Uptown platform, 11pm-1am, cost of subway ride) PARTY: Nasty Boys <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126557617382925">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126557617382925</a> A Rock & Roll Fantasy for Boys, Girls, and Trannys. Live performances: 11:15 - SORCERESS, 12:00 - BENJAMIN ICKIES & This Ambitous Orchestra, 01:00 - CAMP NASTY - an all star rock n roll cover band w/Michael T; Nathanial John, Dave Dynamite, Joshua Lee of (The Party Death) and more. DJs: Michael T, Nathanial John & Special Guests spinning trashy rock & roll. (Don Hill's, 511 Greenwich Ave at Spring St, 11pm-4am, $10/$5 with FACEBOOK RSVP, 21+) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: Eyebeam Open Studios <a href="http://eyebeam.org/events/open-studios-0">http://eyebeam.org/events/open-studios-0</a> A rare, inside look at current research and in-progress work. Eyebeam is pleased to host Open Studios in our state-of-the-art design, research, and fabrication shared workspaces; showcasing video art, ethnographic database research, open/linked data systems, code and humor, and hardware design for artists. (Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, 540 W 21st St, FREE) **PARTICIPATORY: Bubble Battle NYC 2010 <a href="http://newmindspace.com/bubblebattlenyc2010.php">http://newmindspace.com/bubblebattlenyc2010.php</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133167850033170">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133167850033170</a> Millions of bubbles fly through the air as we converge in Times Square for a magical bubble battle! Loosely based on the Dr. Seuss classic The Butter Battle Book. Bring bubble toys, bubble generators, bubble solution, and plenty of AA batteries :) We will meet at the red steps in Times Square, fill our weapons and pull the trigger! (Times Square - Father Duffy Square, W 47th St. & Broadway, 6pm, FREE) PARTY: POP! The Bubble Battle Afterparty <a href="http://newmindspace.com/bubblebattlenyc2010.php#pop">http://newmindspace.com/bubblebattlenyc2010.php#pop</a> Facebook: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/pop2k10">http://tinyurl.com/pop2k10</a> After the beautiful bubble battle in Times Square, join us for a bangin' afterparty in a Williamsburg loft, with chillout nooks & a huge rooftop with lots of fun stuff. Sticking to our tradition of taking favorite childhood activities and making them bigger, we'll be constructing a silly ball pit with oversized silver spheres, and filling the roof with tons of random, soft objects (bring some to add!) Featuring bangin' music, some of our favorite DJ's, bubbles, Chinatown toys, the silver ball pit, and a medium-sized inflatable pool. Bring a bathing suit if you dare! This event is a fundraiser for Newmindspace activities later this summer. (Location emailed to RSVPs on Friday evening / e-mail to pop (at) Newmindspace.com, 10pm - 4am, $15, 18+) DRINKS: HOT! Festival kickoff party <a href="http://www.hotfestival.org">http://www.hotfestival.org</a> Hosted by the hottest downtown girlfriend duo, Anti-Diva's Liz Liguori and Jessie Mann. The pair always has several surprise performers, smoking DJ's, and a super cool vibe in this regular party that has attracted the arts and performance crowd from all over the city. The friendly crowd enjoys delicious artisanal cocktails with premium drinks and organic ingredients and there's always the DP special of $3 PBR. Anti-Diva is the perfect place to end up after the annual Dyke March. (The Lounge at Dixon Place bet Delancey/Rivington, 161A Chrystie St, 6:30pm-1am, FREE) BURLESQUE: The Gay Divorce Show & 2nd Annual PRIDE Show <a href="http://www.hypergender.com">http://www.hypergender.com</a> In this salute to Queer Pride, HyperGender Burlesque will bring you some beloved burlesqueers who will excite you, shock and make you feel at home among the strange, the bizarre and the campy. Hosts: Award winning duo recently seen at Miss LEZ pageant, NYBF festival and more, N & JZ Bich. Guests: DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA - hailed by the Village Voice as the "Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza"; POISON EVE - once described as "a rare carnivorous night-blooming lily, flaunting neither falsies nor realies" and one of the founders of the seminal downtown drag troupe Blacklips Performance Cult; MISS BAMBI GALORE - compared to a "tattooed goddess" by San Francisco RVA News; CHARLIE DEMOS - the prolific musical chameleon; BIANCA DAGGA - the winner of GO's nightlife award for sexiest burlesque performer in NYC; FUSSY CHANEL- actress by day, improv's funny femme fatale by night; LETA LE NOIR - HyperGender's favorite stage kitten. And HyperGender's resident videographer and b-day girl ANTI-SOCIAL. Pre show Music to get your groove by N. FREE LUBE AND CONDOM GIVEAWAYS courtesy of NYC Condoms. WARNING: The show is rated NC-17. (WOW Cafe, 59-61 E. 4th St, 4th Fl, doors 7:30, show 8pm, $10) PARTY: By the Silvery Sea <a href="http://www.witsend.com">http://www.witsend.com</a> The Dorothy Parker Society presents the fabulous Wits End 1920s Jazz party. Swing and tap those toes into the glorious summer season with us as we celebrate the wonder of the underwater world in Jazz Age style! Songs inspired by the sea and fabulous uke tunes brought to you by NYC favorites, The Moonlighters! Free hors doeuvres from 7-8pm provided by Flute Bar! Make it a full vintage evening out, and come early for dinner at Flute! Attire: Vintage/vintage-style evening attire 1910s-1940s; no casual attire is permitted. We will have a fabulous prize for the best dressed guy or gal whose attire is inspired by the sea/vintage nautical attire! Free beginner dance lesson at 8:30pm. (Flute Bar Midtown, 205 W. 54th St., 9pm-12am, $12) DJ/DANCING: Eclectic Method + DJ Rok One <a href="http://www.eclecticmethod.net/2010/04/07/puma-event-details-tbd/">http://www.eclecticmethod.net/2010/04/07/puma-event-details-tbd/</a> Fresh off their 5-sets in 3 days at Bonnaroo, a live performance at the Webby Awards, and a headlining slot at Pittsburgh's biggest party of the summer, Eclectic Method return to NYC for the first time in months to play Puma City downtown. Open bar 9-10pm. (PUMA Social Club, 210 Front St corner of Beekman St, Space #1560, 9pm, FREE) PARTY: Masked Marauders <a href="http://irenekotnik.com/party">http://irenekotnik.com/party</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132482383445108">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132482383445108</a> Masked Marauders & Grace Jones meet up for a night of exotic revelry. Channel your inner monsters and join us in the swamp water of Brooklyn for this bizarre spectacle: a night of debauchery and madness in an epic masquerade mashup. Live acts by: Sigmund Droid - jump up fun; Kooley High - break beats bliss; Quizas - zzzzzbbbrrrzzpshhhh. Dj sets: Safety Scissors ecletic pop glitch; America's Buns - bass n shakes; Stylus (Brooklyn Wonderland) - pump it up. Costumes HIGHLY recommended: Surprise us...Shock us..Horrify us! Your photo will be taken by Vogue in a special photo booth and we will operate an exclusive competition with special prizes. All funds go towards making the film "Dark Allies" happen... the production is already underway and there needs to be more money raised. (Littlefield, 622 Degraw St, Gowanus, BK, 8:30pm-4am, $8 before midnight, $10 after) DJ/DANCING: Haven <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130835980279052">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130835980279052</a> Drink specials, visuals, and dope music all night Long. While the Dj's are diggin deeper, sweat it out on the dance floor all night or sit back and watch the sunrise with beautiful people. DJs: Dego (2000Black, 4Hero, Silhouette Brown), Dhundee (Sugarcuts Inc, GYDO), OP! (Suite 903, I Love Vinyl), Tyler Askew (Rude, MFT), DRM (Bastard Jazz). Bringing you the best in: Future Flavors, House, Dirty Disco, Broken Beat, Dubstep, Electro and more. (300 Douglass St bet 3rd and 4th, Gowanus, BK, 10pm-8am, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== MUSIC: Bang on a Can Marathon <a href="http://bangonacan.org">http://bangonacan.org</a> The annual incomparable eclectic super-mix of genre defying music co-presented by the River to River Festival® and Arts World Financial Center returns! Bring your ears for 12 hours of uninterrupted live ear-bending border-crossing music from around the corner and around the globe. Some highlights include: the much-anticipated U.S. premiere of Fausto Romitelli's Professor Bad Trip performed by the Talea Ensemble; the Bang on a Can All-Stars' brand new collaboration with Warp records' electronic songstress Mira Calix; Signal led by conductor Brad Lubman performing Shelter - the visually stunning collaboration between Bang on a Can co-founders Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe and Ridge Theater with projections by Bill Morrison and Laurie Olinder; a special appearance by guitarist, composer, and bandleader Vernon Reid; Dutch percussion masters Slagwerk Den Haag; African crossover innovators Burkina Electric; French acoustic composer and double bass player Florent Ghys; composer/saxophonist Steve Coleman and his trio; the 18-piece John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble; the New York debut of Kyrgz jaw harp virtuosos Kambar Kalendarov and Kutman Sultanbekov; the wild and wonderful emerging Brooklyn duo Buke and Gass; a world premiere from electro-composer-inventor Tristan Perich; Evan Ziporyn and Boston's astonishing Gamelan Galak Tika; the unparalleled theatricality of German composer and pianist Mortiz Eggert, New York tween sensations Face the Music ; German recorder virtuosos Quartet New Generation; Canadian guitarist and composer Tim Brady, New York's celebrated JACK Quartet in Iannis Xenakis' Tetras; and more. (World Financial Center Winter Garden, 250 Vesey Street, 12pm-12am, FREE) CIRCUS: Showboat Shazzam! <a href="http://www.waterfrontmuseum.org/circus/schedule2010.htm">http://www.waterfrontmuseum.org/circus/schedule2010.htm</a> A sensational variety series that bring professional performers from around the globe to Red Hook. Hosted by Artistic Director Karen E. Gersch aboard Captain David Sharps' beautifully restored Barge No. 79, the shows offers old time family entertainment and classical circus artistry. Every Sunday boasts an entirely new roster of acts! (The Waterfront Museum & Showboat Barge, Pier 44 at Conover and Beard Streets, across from Fairway, Red Hook, BK, 1pm, Adults - $16, kids - $12) LGBT: Gay Pride March <a href="http://www.nycpride.org/march.html">http://www.nycpride.org/march.html</a> This year marks the occasion of the 41st Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, and the March Committee is planning an exciting celebration. This year's Grand Marshals: Dan Choi & Judy Shepard. Stick around after the parade has dispersed into parties all around town to see the best lighting display this side of the Hudson. (Step-Off @ 39th & 5th, starts at noon; fireworks at Pier 54, Hudson River Park at 13th St, 10:30pm, both FREE) *PERFORMANCE/MUSIC: Alpha Women Attack the Lower East Side It's the roaring return of the yearly punk and variety show produced by Our Lady of Perpetual PMS and THE SHADOW - NYC's underground newspaper since 1988. Featuring comedy by Juliet Jeske; politics by Jerin Alam; poetry by Sarah B.; angry guitar by Chloe Matheou; punk ukulele by Amie Amis; burlesque by the Chi-Ciones; music by Jessica Delfino; art-punk lunacy by the Ruffian Arms and much more. (Tompkins Square Park, 7th St. and Ave. A, 2pm-6pm, FREE) MUSIC: Omar Souleyman + CSC Funk Band <a href="http://www.issueprojectroom.org">http://www.issueprojectroom.org</a> Famed Syrian star Omar Souleyman uses an amalgamation of live poetry intercept, synths, electronics, and drum machines, presenting a vibrant and utterly unique perspective on Syrian music.The CSC Funk Band is Minimalist Funk. Repetition experiments. Improvisation exercises. Family fun. All star band killing it featuring Colin L (usaisamonster), Matt Mottel (talibam), Matt Clarke (Ostinato), Jimmy Thomson (Gwar), Jesse Lent (Monte Vista), Jonny Matteo(La Fundacion), Dave Kadden (Invisible Circle), Wes Buckley (Dick Heaven), a horn section. bongos. solos. Psychadelic. (The (OA) Can Factory, 232 3rd St at 3rd Ave, Gowanus, BK, 4 pm, $10) ***PARTY: Disguise Ball Fundraiser Gala <a href="http://hichristina.com/donate02.html">http://hichristina.com/donate02.html</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133657523312742">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133657523312742</a> Christina and Fritz are working around the clock to make each and every one of our gala guests hand-made outrageous masks and disguises. Walk in the door and be given a disguise to perfectly accent special traits of your personality. The evening starts with two-for-one drinks to die for. Then get paparazzi pictures in the bubble shower with Christina and Fritz in your new disguise and transition into a snip-snappy hour of HiChristina! inspired spectacle with partner/stranger/disguise dancing and pass the secret handshake. The evening concludes with a fast-talking, country-style auction of works by "Friends of HiChristina!" including: a couture dress by New York designer Alisha Trimble, an oil painting of yourself with Christina and Fritz by artist Patrick 'The Mangina' Bucklew, a hypnotism session with Audrey Sussman PhD, a screenwriting class with award-winning screenwriter Jacob Krueger, and more. Hosts and performers include: 'The Amazing' Sxip Shirey, 'Nonsense NYC' Jeff Stark, 'Bowieball' Deryck Todd, 'Mixel Pixel's' Kaia Wong, 'The Mangina' Patrick Bucklew, 'Darling Musical Maestro' Alexa Wilding, 'Trash Worships' Roland Politi, 'Sexperiment' Gerry Visco, 'Music Man' Eyal Marcovici, 'Acting!' Kadin Daniel, 'The Vegan Roast' Shan Raoufi, 'Tom Cruizy' Amy Uzi, 'Miracle Man' Kevin Balktick, 'Zen Photographer' A. Jesse Jiryu Davis, 'From the Cybil Lake Show' Cybil Lake, 'Tarot Card' Courtney Weber, 'Ask A Scientist' Ilir Topalli, 'Radical Chic' Swoon Magazine, 'Tabla Sensation' Deep Singh, and many, many more. (Dixon Place, 161 Chrystie St, LES, 7pm, $20/adv, $25/door) *MUSIC: Tinariwen / Sway Machinery <a href="http://www.thebellhouseny.com/calendar.php">http://www.thebellhouseny.com/calendar.php</a> <a href="http://www.tinariwen.com">http://www.tinariwen.com</a> <a href="http://www.swaymachinery.com">http://www.swaymachinery.com</a> Tinariwen is a band of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali, formed in 1979. Tinariwen's biography has variously been described as "the most compelling of any band" (Songlines), "the most rock'n'roll of them all" (The Irish Times), "hard-bitten" (Slate.com), and "dramatic" (The Independent). The Sway Machinery, with members of Balkan Beat Box, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire and Antibalas, lays down the sounds of Malian guitars, Saharan beats, Afro-pop horns and the B-L-U-E-S. (The Bell House, 149 7th St, Gowanus, BK, 7:30pm, $25 adv/$30 doors) ===+++===+++===+++=== MONDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ART/MUSIC: New Instruments for Improvisation and Experimental Approaches <a href="http://www.harvestworks.org">http://www.harvestworks.org</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/bmECim">http://bit.ly/bmECim</a> An investigation into contemporary sound art and experimental music using custom made electronic instruments, considering the methods and intentions of 4 artists building new instruments and specialized interfaces. In a day-long series of presentations, talks and performances these artists will discuss how their practice as improvisers, sound artists and experimental musicians lead to inventing their own tools, and how these inventions in turn influenced their musical performance techniques. (Here Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue, 2pm-10pm, $20) ===+++===+++===+++=== TUESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PERFORMANCE: Move It! <a href="http://here.org/shows/detail/307">http://here.org/shows/detail/307</a> <a href="http://www.parallelexit.net">http://www.parallelexit.net</a> MOVE IT! is an annual free performance series hosted by Parallel Exit featuring physical and visual theatre artists. The purpose of the series is to elevate the public profile of physical and visual theatre in New York and to bring this growing international art form to NYC audiences. Featuring an incredible lineup: Phenomenal Physical Comedy from Parallel Exit's Joel Jeske; Side-splitting Sideshow from Coney Island Chris; Playfully Poignant Puppetry from J.E. Cross and The Cosmic Bicycle Theatre; Jazzy and Jubilant Juggling from Jen Slaw and Book Kennison; Phantasmic Physical Theatre from Shana Solomon. SEATS ARE VERY LIMITED - RSVP TO <a href="mailto:monika@parallelexit.net">monika@parallelexit.net</a> to reserve yours now. (HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue, 7pm, FREE) **DANCE/MUSIC: Jenny Rocha & Her Painted Ladies, with Brian Newman <a href="http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=JEN16">http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=JEN16</a> <a href="http://www.jennyrocha.com">http://www.jennyrocha.com</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/briannewmanmusic">http://www.myspace.com/briannewmanmusic</a> Jenny Rocha's skillful, sensual, communicative and bold modern dance is the performative anchor of the night. Brian Newman is a brilliant new trumpet phenomenon and bandleader. Think of a dashing young Sinatra, add some of the bad reputation of Bobby Darin and a lot of late nights playing with the top jazz players in the city, add loads of charm, and you have Brian Newman. (Galapagos Art Space,16 Main Street, DUMBO, BK, 8pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== WEDNESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== FILM/PARTICIPATORY: GREASE Sing-A-Long <a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/events/free_summer_movies">http://www.nycgovparks.org/events/free_summer_movies</a> A prelude to the July 8 release of a newly restored print of the film version of the Broadway musical hit starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Viewers are encouraged to dress up as their favorite GREASE character, including Sandy, Danny, and Cha Cha. This event opens the Summer On the Hudson "Movies Under the Stars" series, which continues with such "Tall Tales" films as "Go Fish" and "Pan's Labyrinth." (Riverside Park, Pier 1 @ 70th Street, 8:30 pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== UPCOMING [Ticketed events likely to sell out and/or offering presale discounts] ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTY: The Liberty Belle Spectacular <a href="http://www.libertybellespectacular.com">http://www.libertybellespectacular.com</a> A Vintage Fourth of July Rooftop Extravaganza w/Live Bands, Dancing, Burlesque, Fireworks. Featuring: Gelber & Manning and The Star Spangled Orchestra, MC Dandy Wellington, The Minsky Sisters, Jezebel Express, Sit & Die Co, Perle Noire, Bob Leive. Guest Mixologist Fredo Ceraso. (July 4th, Empire Hotel Rooftop, 44 West 63rd St, 7pm, $20 in advance, $25 at the door, 21+) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: Daniel Merriam <a href="http://www.animazing.com/gallery/merriam/originals">http://www.animazing.com/gallery/merriam/originals</a> <a href="http://www.danielmerriam.com">http://www.danielmerriam.com</a> 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: Key to the City <a href="http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2010/keytothecity">http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2010/keytothecity</a> For centuries, the key to the city has been used to honor a city's heroes and visiting dignitaries. Now, artist Paul Ramírez Jonas has created a Key to the City that is not only a symbolic award, but also a functional keyopening spaces across all five boroughs of New York City. This Key to the City is intended for everyday citizens, who will award one another the key for reasons large and small. Once in hand, the key launches a citywide exploration of back doors, front gates, community gardens, graveyards, and museums that suggests that the city is a series of spaces that are either locked or unlocked. (Key kiosk open June 3 to 27, Times Square, Broadway bet 43rd & 44th Sts, MF 2p8p; SaSu 12p8p; Locks available through Labor Day) PARTICIPATORY: Play Me, I'm Yours <a href="http://www.streetpianos.com/nyc2010/">http://www.streetpianos.com/nyc2010/</a> An artwork by British artist Luke Jerram who has been touring the project globally since 2008. 60 pianos will be distributed and then unveiled across New York City by Sing for Hope. Located in public parks, streets and plazas the pianos will be available until 5th July for any member of the public to play and engage with. (thru 7/5, various locations, FREE) EXHIBIT: Where New York Began - Archaeology at the South Ferry Terminal <a href="http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm">http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm</a> 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) TALK: Oxberry Pegs Presents: Animators Are God? <a href="http://observatoryroom.org/series">http://observatoryroom.org/series</a> 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 <a href="https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723515">https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723515</a> 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) ART: Andy Warhol The Last Decade <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy_warhol/">http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy_warhol/</a> The first U.S. museum survey to examine the late work of American artist Andy Warhol (19281987). 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) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== Do you have something to share with our readers or events you'd like to have included in our emails? Did we miss anything? We're always open to suggestions & feedback. Write to us at <a href="mailto:gs@geminiandscorpio.com">gs@geminiandscorpio.com</a> and tell us your thoughts. ===+++===+++===+++=== Subscribe/Unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a>

[G&S]: Mermaids and campfires and tall ships

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:53:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, We were away at muggy, steamy, muddy, dusty Bonnaroo all last week, without so much as a charged phone, and so had to skip out on last week's listings without much warning. Sorry, all! We really thought we'd have internet access & time out there; what fools we were. We're back with a vengeance this week, though -- just see how much is going on this weekend (an honorable mention to the Mermaid Parade, Campfire party, and the "Play me, I'm Yours" project out of UK). And of course we have our own parties lined up for next week: the amazing Manhattan cruise on a 1800's-replica tall ship on Saturday and the next House of Scorpio makeout party on Friday. The cruise is half-sold-out already, so jump on those tix. The makeout party should be a stellar one, especially since it's likely the ONLY one we're having on a weekend night. An aside on that: Friday night parties are more expensive to host, with higher bar & staff guarantees. We had to raise the price by $5 to accommodate that, but if you're seriously broke, use the password BUNNY RABBIT at the door to go back to the original (and future) price. Cheers, Gemini & Scorpio Online Dating Gurus and Offline Party Mavens <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com</a> FB group: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook">http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</a> YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio">http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio</a> House of Scorpio - the kinkier side of G&S <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> | <a href="http://bit.ly/HoS_FB">http://bit.ly/HoS_FB</a> Please forward along to friends! If this has been forwarded to you: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a> to subscribe for weekly events list, exclusive party invites, giveaways and offers ===+++===+++===+++=== G&S SEEKING LOFT ===+++===+++===+++=== A 1,500-3,000 sq ft loft we can live, work and party in on a regular basis (or just rent out for events), with outdoor space for smokers & movies & BBQs. We're looking off the Q/C/F trains in Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, etc, though open to other locations for event rentals, incl Manhattan. Got any leads? Send them our way. If you can help us, you'll get VIP status in our new party palace. ===+++===+++===+++=== HOUSE OF SCORPIO EVENT: 6/25 ===+++===+++===+++=== House of Scorpio presents Lip Service Friday, June 25, 9pm-late, $10 w/RSVP; $15 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: <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114358141942203">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114358141942203</a> Bring your best lips (yours and your PAL's), and join us for lubricating cocktails and naughty games with sexy friends and intriguing strangers. Bring toys & games to share (blindfolds? rope? sexy dice?). Foreplay happy hour 9:30-10:30 with $4 beer and $5 cocktails (Indecent Proposal, anyone? or Pussy Galore?). Dress to be kissed: flirty and fun. No casual attire; door man WILL turn you away. ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 6/26 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present Circus Mermaids on the High Seas Saturday, June 26 Aboard tall ship Clipper City, Pier 17, South St Seaport, 21+ 11:30pm - 2:30am boat party w/cruise, $35 adv/$40 dock (limited tix) Official site: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=95291708117">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=95291708117</a> Tickets: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/115203">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/115203</a> Gemini & Scorpio raise the massive square-rigged sails of New York's only Tall Ship for a costumed 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. Our circus soundtrack is provided by DJ Barney Iller: a "ridiculous collectro" who flows flawlessly through Bmore beats, tropical bass, ethnotek, dubstep, jungle, showtunes, rock and hip hop, for a seriously effective, ultra party combo move. "Barney Iller has been makin peeps do dances they've never done before for many many years now...his sense of humor only serves to reinforce his sense of how to make you dance like you're feelin the holy spirit." - Whomptronica. 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. Dress: circus freaks set sail; sailors; mermaids; nautical adventurers; clown fish. That Mermaid Parade costume is too good to only break out once a year! 100 cruise tickets available for advance presale, 25 more at the door, first come, first served. Please note: last year's sailboat mermaid party sold out in two days. We highly recommend buying your tickets early. Circus performers get in FREE - contact us to arrange details. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== WORD: 11th Annual Lit Mag Marathon Weekend The two-day affair starts Saturday with "The Magathon," in which editors representing various journals (including Fence, Gigantic, and Electric Literature) read their favorite selections from their latest issues at the New York Public Library. Sunday is their Giant Lit Mag Fair at Housing Works, where hundreds of literary magazines will be on sale for the super-low price of $2 a copy. Magazine editors will also be on hand to meet and greet. (Sat: 'The Magathon', New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd St, 4-6:30pm, FREE; Sun: 'The Giant Lit Mag Fair', Housing Works Used Book Café, 126 Crosby St, 12-5pm, FREE) FILM: Bicycle Film Festival Tenth Anniversary <a href="http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/new-york/">http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/new-york/</a> Four days of film screenings, parties, and openings. (Fri-Sun, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, see site for details) ART/PERFORMANCE: BoCoCa Arts Festival <a href="http://www.bococaartsfestival.com/index.php">http://www.bococaartsfestival.com/index.php</a> Building on the successful launch of the BoCoCa Arts Festival last summer, this ten-day event will criss-cross the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, presenting emerging works in theater, music and visual art. All work will be "cast" in unconventional business venues, challenging the perception of art, as well as showcasing the characteristics of these three unique neighborhoods. (6/18-6/27, various locations, see site for info) FOOD/FILM: 4th Annual NYC Food Film Festival <a href="http://www.nycfoodfilmfestival.com">http://www.nycfoodfilmfestival.com</a> Films about food, served with food featured in the films; 27 films in all. Benefitting Food Bank For New York City. (6/23-27, various locations, see site or details) PARTICIPATORY: Play Me, I'm Yours <a href="http://www.streetpianos.com/nyc2010/">http://www.streetpianos.com/nyc2010/</a> An artwork by British artist Luke Jerram who has been touring the project globally since 2008. 60 pianos will be distributed and then unveiled across New York City by Sing for Hope. Located in public parks, streets and plazas the pianos will be available until 5th July for any member of the public to play and engage with. (starts 9am Monday, thru 7/5, various locations, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== FILM: Rooftop Films: New York Non-Fiction <a href="http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/15-new-york-nonfiction">http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/15-new-york-nonfiction</a> New York City scratches, splashes, survives, creates, gets sick, dies, makes music, mourns, becomes activated, does its hair, and is reborn in a different shape to do it all again - or to do something entirely different. This year's New York Non-Fiction program traces this city and its citizens, both remembered and forgotten. New York has changed a lot over the past 30 years and yet so much is still there, under facades, behind trees, under layers of the new. It is still New York, full of struggle, of possibility, of hope. (350 Grand St. @ Essex, LES, 8pm, $10) PARTY: Tango del Diablo (The Devil's Tango) <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121862697830463">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121862697830463</a> tix: <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=L6J3EDNUZDDXY">https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=L6J3EDNUZDDXY</a> Dances of Vice takes you to the dance halls of 1930s Buenos Aires for an evening of hot Argentinian tango at the historic Players Club by Adriel Azure y la Orquesta Infernal, featuring tango, dance and burlesque performances by the sensational Medianoche, devilish vixen Madame Rosebud, and Andrea Beeman, the famed Enchantress of Bioluminosity. Tango diva Sarah la Rocca will be offering a beginner's tango lesson starting at 8:15. Vintage or formal evening attire requested. (The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South, 8pm-12am, $20 Adv, $25 Doors) PARTY: Punk Jews <a href="http://www.punkjews.com">http://www.punkjews.com</a> Musical performances by Y-love, Moshiach Oi, Eden, Blanket Statement, Stein. Art installations by Elke Reva Sudin, Rivka Karasik, and Ira Kaufman. Open bar & raffle giveaways. All proceeds will go towards the production of the "Punk Jews" online documentary series. "Punk Jews" is an online documentary series that follows a community of Jewish musicians, artists, and activists, who are creating a new, unconventional culture around their heritage and religion. (Sixth Street Community Synagogue, 325 East 6th Street, between 1st and 2nd avenues, 10pm, $15 includes open bar) BURLESQUE: Sextacular! Sextacular! <a href="http://joeynova.wordpress.com/about/sextacularsextacular">http://joeynova.wordpress.com/about/sextacularsextacular</a> District Attorney Prudence Blueballs is ordered to shut down all things having to do with sex in New York city, starting with Sextacular! Sextacular! Charmingly egocentric host Joey Nova and his absinthe-conjured sidekick, The Green Fairy, try to stop her from closing down the show by seducing her with titillating acts by some of the hottest performers in Theatre, burlesque, and cabaret. Featuring dazzling light & fire shows, astounding aerial acts, tantalizing burlesque performances, rock n rock cabaret, punk rock cancan girls, and rocket-fueled glam rock band Starbolt 9 as the Sextacular! Sextacular! house band. (Theaters at 45 Bleecker St, 45 Bleecker St., 10:30pm, $25) PARTY: First Ever Gay Gay Gay Party! Kick off Pride Week by welcoming award winning queer hip-hop/dance artist Jasper James back to Brooklyn for the premier of her latest music video Love with live performances by Jasper James, Backspace, and Don PV. The night will feature aerial performances by Lady Circus and sideshow acts by Brooklyn's finest performance artists and acrobats. Sideshow acts by: Anya Sapozhnikova, Kae Burke, Matthew Camp, Lauren Howe, Kid Akimbo, Jackie Carlson, Dan Paul Roberts, Teresa Nasty, Kyle Rostan, Nikki Borodi, Kathryne Van Asshee, Jade Curtis, Madalena Pak-Kei Mak, Brett Lord, Dilan Walpola, and Jade Curtis. (House of Yes, 342 Maujer St, Bushwick, BK, 10:30pm, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== **ART: Crest Fest 2010 <a href="http://cresthardwareartshow.com/wordpress/">http://cresthardwareartshow.com/wordpress/</a> Join us for the opening day celebration of the Crest Hardware Art Show. Now in its 9th year, Crest Fest is a true highlight of Brooklyn's summer season. From paintings and sculpture, to photography, video, industrial design, and much more, all pieces are installed contextually throughout 10,000 sq ft indoors and out. The free outdoor concert will feature 8 bands and 15 DJs. (Crest Hardware, 588 Metropolitan Ave, Wburg, BK, 12pm-11pm, FREE) FOOD: Cross Species Adventure Club <a href="http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/ooz/projects/xspecies/">http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/ooz/projects/xspecies/</a> <a href="http://eyebeam.org/events/crossxspecies-adventure-club">http://eyebeam.org/events/crossxspecies-adventure-club</a> Eyeveam hosts Cross Species (xSpecies) Adventure Club, a supper club for humans and non-humans to explore a tasty bio-diverse future. Each event is an experience of the depth and complexity of our interconnections with nonhumans, exploring the web that traces our gastronomic, economic and material interdependency with butterflies, snails, geese, bats and other intelligent and delicious creatures. This supper club will present 5 courses of foods delicious and nutritious to both humans and nonhumans, with wine, beer and edible cocktail pairing and a take-home. This on-going lifestyle experiment is created by Natalie Jeremijenko, Mihir Desai, Emilie Baltz and other intelligent creatures. Dinner preceded by a workshop. Seating is strictly limited. (Eyebeam, 540 W 21st St., 3pm Workshop, 7pm Dinner, $40/workshop, $100/dinner, $120/both) ***PARADE: The Mermaid Parade <a href="http://www.coneyisland.com/mermaid.shtml">http://www.coneyisland.com/mermaid.shtml</a> A completely original creation of Coney Island USA, the Mermaid Parade is the nation's largest art parade and one of New York City's greatest summer events. Founded in 1983 by Coney Island USA, the not-for-profit arts organization that also produces the Coney island Circus Sideshow, the Mermaid Parade pays homage to Coney Island's forgotten Mardi Gras which lasted from 1903 to 1954, and draws from a host of other sources resulting in a wonderful and wacky event that is unique to Coney Island. The Mermaid Parade celebrates the sand, the sea, the salt air and the beginning of summer, as well as the history and mythology of Coney Island, Coney Island pride, and artistic self-expression. The Parade is characterized by participants dressed in hand-made costumes as Mermaids, Neptunes, various sea creatures, the occasional wandering lighthouse, Coney Island post card or amusement ride, as well as antique cars, marching bands, drill teams, and the odd yacht pulled on flatbed. This ye ar King Neptune Lou Reed and Queen Mermaid Laurie Anderson will rule over the proceedings. (Coney Island, see site for a map of the route, 2pm, FREE) PARTICIPATORY: Hungry Marching Band at the Mermaid Parade You are invited to march with the Hungry Marching Band at the Mermaid Parade! You must dress in the colors and RSVP to join us as we have a special non competitive placement this year in the VIP section near the very front of the parade. You will not be let in if you show up out of costume colors. Colors: Gold and White, GOLD and WHITE. Dress: Use your imagination - Mermaid, Jelly Fish, Crab, Viking, Pirate (but remember colors!) Musicians: We could use some extras, contact us if you are bringing an instrument. Bring: your own water and props, only bring what you can carry or bring your own push cart. Needs: new banners, banner carriers, people to hold the poles for the dragon, flag wavers, dancers, kids, golden buggies... Bribes: We are not competing but feel free to bring bribes for the judges, this is a crazy tradition for the mermaid parade so feel free to take part. (W.21st St bet Surf Ave and the Boardwalk, Coney Island, BK, 12:45pm, RSVP to <a href="mailto:taraball@earthlink.net">taraball@earthlink.net</a>, FREE ) PARTY: Mermaid Parade Ball <a href="http://www.coneyisland.com/mermaidparadeball.shtml">http://www.coneyisland.com/mermaidparadeball.shtml</a> The official afterparty of the Mermaid Parade, hosted by Adam (The First Real Man) Rinn and Featuring NYC's finest Burlesque and Sideshow Superstars in all their aquatically themed glory! Confirmed performers Little Brooklyn, Creamy Stevens, Miss Coney Island 2009 Gal Friday, Tigger, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Jenny C Quoi, Fem Appeal, Juliet Jeske as Princess Sunshine, Go Go By LaMaia, Sizzle Dizzle and Lefty Lucy, Shimmering Mermaids...Metal Goddess Belly Dancers, DJ Gregg 'The Dutchman' Van Vranken. Live music by The Razorbacks. Special Appearance by the Coney Island Circus Sideshow and The Coney Island Girlie Freak Show! (New York Aquarium, 602 Surf Ave. @ W. 8th St., Coney Island, BK, 6pm-11:30pm, $20/adv, $25/door) BIKE: CRITICAL FLUFF: Afternoon Bike Rally <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110417882311801">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110417882311801</a> A slow roll around Prospect Park -- then its off to the secret BMX course where we'll remove the shrubbery and begin what the French call "idiotie". For the ride bring water, gatorade, snickers.... no stress, no mess, this is real chill. The BMX course is an intramural event... so we're not going to compete for anything except de-fam-ation and misfortune. For those attempting this please bring helmuts, goggles, gauze and big smiles... for those watching, continue on with your snickers, this shall be fun. You're all at your own risk. (Grand Army Plaza, to the right of the Farmers Market, Prospect Heights/Park Slope, BK, 3:30pm, FREE) DJ/DANCING: GlobeSonic Sound System on the Hudson <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114326235270824">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114326235270824</a> Focusing on the modernization of world music, GlobeSonic Sound System is "a DJ collective spinning a high-energy ecstatic dance celebration of the earth's musical heritage, weaving traditional music with modern aesthetics." The collective consists of music impresario Fabian Alsultany, Bill Bragin (Director of Outdoor Programming at Lincoln Center) and author/yoga instructor and RS contributor Derek Beres. Featuring DJ's Fabian Alsultany, Bill Bragin & Derek Beres + Duke Mushroom on percussion with special guest, Kevin Mambo on saxophone from FELA!. (Riverside Park South, The Pier on 68th St. and the Hudson River, 4pm-11pm, FREE) DJ/DANCING: Opulent NYC: Opulent Temple at Burning Man Benefit <a href="http://opulent-temple-nyc.eventbrite.com">http://opulent-temple-nyc.eventbrite.com</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123827860979624">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123827860979624</a> Opulent Temple is an internationally recognized crew who throw one of the premiere events at the iconic Burning Man festival in Nevada every summer. Known for their unique production of fire throwing dj booths, state of the art lazer shows, self made art projects, and showcasing world class talent - they throw what is regarded as one of the greatest parties in the world. Bringing their hopes for 2010 on tour, they bring their unique vibe and a sweet line up to Water Taxi Beach. Featuring: DJ Dan, The Scumfrog, JonH of the Fort Knox Five - DJ Set, Syd Gris, Hoj, Todd Fatjo & more. (Water Taxi Beach, 2 Borden Ave, Long Island City, Queens, 1pm-2am, $15 presale, $10 donation before 5pm, $20 after) MUSIC: Adrian Younge & the Black Dynamite Sound Orchestra <a href="http://www.arsnovanyc.com">http://www.arsnovanyc.com</a> Rock/soul/funk phenom Adrian Younge, including songs from his original score from recent hit Black Dynamite is joined by a six-piece band in an evening of music inspired by the great blaxploitation soundtracks of the 1970's. (Art Nova, 511 West 54th Street @10th Ave, 7pm and 10pm, $20) MUSIC: Celebrate Brooklyn! <a href="http://www.bricartsmedia.org/events/bitches-brew-revisited">http://www.bricartsmedia.org/events/bitches-brew-revisited</a> A dazzling, multi-generational lineup converges to explore the legacy of Miles Davis' landmark album on the 40th anniversary of its release. While the soul of the master is manifest in the project, the music stretches out into otherworldly territory, becoming whatever it was Davis intended in 1969: spacious, black-magic stealth funk. (NY Times) The night begins with the virtuosic Mike Stern, one of the premier jazz-fusion guitarists of his generation and a veteran of Davis' band. DJ Logic, Marco Benevento, Graham Haynes, James Blood Ulmer, Lonnie Plaxico, and Cindy Blackman will be stirring up the musical cauldron. (Prospect Park Bandshell, 9th Street & Prospect Park West, 6:30pm-10pm, $3/sugg donation) **PARTY: The Waltz Ball <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125874564107916">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125874564107916</a> The Golden Angel Waltz Orchestra presents The Waltz Ball -- yes that's right only waltzes all night long. Waltzes that are from all over the world, dense in sound, seemly sweet but sometimes chaotic and always in '3'. Yes, it is a ball as well, so everyone is required to be in their most flamboyant, most dazzling, most Victorian, most risqué garments. We believe that people these days need a little encouragement for those romantic couples dances so we have also hand-made 19th century dance cards that will facilitate those budding waltz enthusiasts to share in the joys of waltzing with all on the dance floor. We also are bringing in four of the most cutting edge dance instructors, charming yet slightly twisted. You see, they are really clowns, they are at the waltz ball to be the charmers, the instigators, the fashion consultant--and yes, the dance instructors as well. (Jalopy, 315 Columbia St, Red Hook, BK, 9-11:30pm, $10?) PARTY: 5th Annual Red Carnaval: Toca Cielo <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134298559920714">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134298559920714</a> Another amazing night of Brazil flavors, house music, drummers, performers, dancing and beautiful people. Featuring DJ TRUE; John Julius Knight; Samba Dancers (Fabiana & Christina ); JustinJustin Toca & Ale' Ale' Drummers; Enrique 'Quique' Guerrero on Sax; and Little Alex. (Cielo Club, 18 Little W. 12th St, 10pm-4am, $15/before 1am, $25/after) ***PARTY: Campfire <a href="http://www.wandbnyc.com/">http://www.wandbnyc.com/</a> Join scoutmasters Winkel and Balktick for a warehouse wilderness campout. We will bivouac upon the shores of Sunset Park. Our home for the night features 21,000 square feet of column-free space and three-story ceiling that reach to the heavens. Lucky scouts will explore a hinterland of revelry and imagination. Jamboree the night away with rustic beats, illuminating art installations, summer camp games, cozy tents, ghostly performances, hearty mountain provisions and the most jubilant troop this side of the East River. (Sunset Park, BK, RSVP for location, 10pm-sunrise, $15/adv, $20/door) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== FOOD/PARTICIPATORY: Chaos Cooking <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126868764009673">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126868764009673</a> A continuing social experiment where up to 55 people cook 55 recipes in 1 kitchen, 4 burners, 1 oven. All recipes must be finished in a 3 hours while everyone is drinking wine, socializing and putting delectable dishes in their mouths. How it works: Post the name of your recipe to the FB event wall. Bring the ingredients necessary for everyone to try a little bit of your dish, extra knives & cutting boards (if you have them) and two or three bottles of wine per person. Throw in $3-5 into a donation jar towards clean up, common ingredients like butter, olive oil, skewers, broken glasses and dishes and to the hosting space. Bring: extra knives, cutting boards, tupperware if possible. (Rsvp to <a href="mailto:info@chaoscooking.com">info@chaoscooking.com</a> for exact location, 6-11pm, $3-5 plus 2 Bottles of wine per person) POETRY: Projections: A Motion Picture Reading Series <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120666161307018">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120666161307018</a> <a href="http://www.autotypograph.com/projectionspressrelease.html">http://www.autotypograph.com/projectionspressrelease.html</a> The only event showcase in NYC spotlighting practices specifically at the intersection of poetics, performance, and the moving image. The event will feature multidisciplinary poets, artists, and scholars James Copeland, Kate Eichhorn, and Danny Snelson. An evening of reading, film, and performance that nods in part at early 20th-century practices of live film narration like Benshi in Japan and Gavrilov Translation in the USSR, while also incorporating contemporary post-production video editing techniques as well as electronic strategies of appropriation and misuse like data sculpting, browser poetry, and computational aesthetics. Curated by Paolo Javier and Jeremy J F Thompson, Projections presents a multidisciplinary ensemble of poets, filmmakers, musicians, performance artists, scholars, critics, and editors who reposition the reading series as a multi-genre platform. (Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery bet Houston and Bleecker, 6pm-7:30pm, $6) COMEDY: Cognac Live Radio Orchestra <a href="http://www.horsetrade.info/CALusm.html">http://www.horsetrade.info/CALusm.html</a> Cognac is a collective of friends, writers, comedians, musicians and dancers. Their show is an original hour of sketch comedy show in live radio format, complete with sound and foley effects and musical soundtrack. To top it off, every show features at new dance from NYC's premiere comedy dance troupe, Cocoon Central Dance Team. (Under St Mark Theatre, 94 St. Marks Place bet 1st and Ave A., 7pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== MONDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== **MUSIC: Make Music New York <a href="http://makemusicny.org/">http://makemusicny.org/</a> A live, free musical celebration across the city that takes place each June 21 the longest day of the year. On that day, hundreds of public spaces throughout the five boroughs sidewalks, parks, community gardens, and more become impromptu stages for over 1,000 free concerts. Musicians of all ages, creeds, and musical persuasions perform for new audiences, who come out from under their headphones to hear unfamiliar groups risk-free on the first day of summer. (Various locations, 11am-10pm, FREE) BURLESQUE: Well, Why Don't You Marry Us? A Night of Burlesque for Marriage Equality benefiting the Empire State Pride Agenda. Some of the best, brightest and bawdiest stars of New York's burlesque scene will join forces to perform in support of marriage equality right here in the Empire State. Featuring the amazing talents of Nasty Canasta, Gal Friday, Legs Malone, Jezebel Express, Tigger!, Minnie Tonka, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Bea B. Heart, Cybil Libertease and Madame Rosebud, all hosted by the dastardly Bastard Keith. Throughout the evening, raffle tickets will be sold for some amazing prizes, some nice, most naughty, all excellent. 100% of the evening's proceeds will benefit the Empire State Pride Agenda, New York's statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights and advocacy organization. (The Kraine Theater, 85 E. 4th St. @ 2nd Ave, 8pm, $15) ===+++===+++===+++=== TUESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== BODY: Yoga at the Great Lawn <a href="http://flavorpill.com/win/yoga/enter?publication=newyork">http://flavorpill.com/win/yoga/enter?publication=newyork</a> Join 10,000 yoga aficionados and curious on-lookers for the world's largest yoga session. This event produced by Flavorpill and is extravagantly ambitious, featuring performances by the infamous Reggie Watts, Grammy nominated musician 13 Hands, slam-poet Buddy Wakefield, and the unmissable O'Nkosi Rhythms with others. The session will be lead by Elena Brower with assistance from dozens of New York Cities top Yogi's. This is one of those bright, beautiful and absolutely free events that makes life in this city more breathable. Registration has been extended for anyone receiving this message, enter the code "dngr" when registering. (Great Lawn in Central Park, 5:30pm-9pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== WEDNESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== **PARTY: Carnival of the Streets Freedom Tickler EP Release Party <a href="http://www.freedomtickler.org">http://www.freedomtickler.org</a> It started in a balmy Bushwick basement in the Fall of 2007, drifting through the subway platforms of New York, busking across the country and adorning the silver screen before moving on up to the University of the Streets with this week's long-awaited release of Freedom Tickler's first self-titled EP. A one of a kind release party, featuring musical performances by Freedom Tickler, The London Souls and DJ Sophybot along with artwork by James Lloyd Brinklow, Rodrigo Gonzales and Linda Thithavong, sideshow performances, tarot readings and more. Costumes are encouraged and, with 4 types of craft beer, a fuel-pump-turned-sangria-dispenser and a particularly special brand of mojito available, we've got all the refreshments you need to fuel this carnival right. Show up in costume and get a free sangria. (University of the Streets, 130 E. 7th St., 8pm-12am, FREE?) PARTY: NYC Pride Kick Off Party <a href="http://gay.barefootwine.com">http://gay.barefootwine.com</a> Join Spin Cycle as we kick off Gay Pride with a huge free party sponsored by Barefoot Wine and Logo TV's newest reality competition show RuPAUL'S DRAG U. Catch a performance by PANDORA BOXX and the launch of The Barefoot Wine Foot Fetish Shoe Auction benefiting Heritage of Pride (featuring shoes from Jackie Beat, Edie, Shequida, Hedda Lettuce, Mimi Imfurst, Sweetie, Gusty Winds, Britney Houston, Sister My otis, Linda Simpson, Peppermint and more). Hosted by Dallas DuBois, Logan Slaughter, and Gusty Winds. Music by Keo Nozari (Club 57 / Rock-It) and complimentary Barefoot Wine & Bubbly. RSVP at. Space is limited. (The Gramercy Theater, 127 East 23rd Street @ Lexington Ave., 8-10pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: Daniel Merriam <a href="http://www.animazing.com/gallery/emails/merriam2010.html">http://www.animazing.com/gallery/emails/merriam2010.html</a> <a href="http://www.danielmerriam.com/">http://www.danielmerriam.com/</a> 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) THEATER: Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play <a href="http://epictheatreensemble.org/current-show">http://epictheatreensemble.org/current-show</a> Hailed by the New Yorker's John Lahr as extraordinary, bold, and inventive, Sarah Ruhl's PASSION PLAY takes us behind the scenes of three communities attempting to stage the death and resurrection of Christ. From Queen Elizabeth's England to Hitler's Germany to Reagan's America, Ruhl's exploration of devotion takes us on a humorous yet unsettling journey filled with lust, whimsy, and a lot of fish. (extended thru ?, Irondale Center at the Lafayette Avenue Church, 85 South Oxford Street BK, various times, $22.50-$42.50) ART: Key to the City <a href="http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2010/keytothecity">http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2010/keytothecity</a> For centuries, the key to the city has been used to honor a city's heroes and visiting dignitaries. Now, artist Paul Ramírez Jonas has created a Key to the City that is not only a symbolic award, but also a functional keyopening spaces across all five boroughs of New York City. This Key to the City is intended for everyday citizens, who will award one another the key for reasons large and small. Once in hand, the key launches a citywide exploration of back doors, front gates, community gardens, graveyards, and museums that suggests that the city is a series of spaces that are either locked or unlocked. (Key kiosk open June 3 to 27, Times Square, Broadway bet 43rd & 44th Sts, MF 2p8p; SaSu 12p8p; Locks available through Labor Day) EXHIBIT: Where New York Began - Archaeology at the South Ferry Terminal <a href="http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm">http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm</a> 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) BURLESQUE: A Night at the Tombs <a href="https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723515">https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723515</a> 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) ART: Andy Warhol The Last Decade <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy_warhol/">http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy_warhol/</a> The first U.S. museum survey to examine the late work of American artist Andy Warhol (19281987). 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) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== Do you have something to share with our readers or events you'd like to have included in our emails? Did we miss anything? We're always open to suggestions & feedback. Write to us at <a href="mailto:gs@geminiandscorpio.com">gs@geminiandscorpio.com</a> and tell us your thoughts. ===+++===+++===+++=== Subscribe/Unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a>

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Hello lovelies, We can finally give you first word of our June plans, and let us tell you, they are GRAND. Grand, as in, a midnight cruise around Manhattan Saturday, June 26, on a real-life tall ship with 135-ft tall masts. Details below, including ticket link. Only 100 tix are available, so don't miss out -- last year's event sold out in two days. TimeOutNY leaked the news their Summer Arts Preview issue: "Dress like a clown, drink like a fish, and dance with the New York City skyline as your backdrop" - <a href="http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/85360/summer-arts-preview-june/4.html">http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/85360/summer-arts-preview-june/4.html</a> Quick note of change: our next Bruncha Libre is tentatively scheduled for June 20, though we're awaiting news from our new location for confirmation. We'll update RSVPs as soon we have info, so make sure to RSVP on the site for the latest. Exciting corset news this weekend, for you costume enthusiasts: one of the best makers of corsets in the country, Dark Garden, in coming to NYC from SF for this weekend only (squee!). They are selling at the designer market on Mulberry bet Prince/Houston Sat & Sun 11-7, and G&S members get a 10% discount just by mentioning our name (double squee!). Cheers, Gemini & Scorpio Online Dating Gurus and Offline Party Mavens <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com</a> FB group: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook">http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</a> YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio">http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio</a> House of Scorpio - the kinkier side of G&S <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> | <a href="http://bit.ly/HoS_FB">http://bit.ly/HoS_FB</a> Please forward along to friends! If this has been forwarded to you: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a> to subscribe for weekly events list, exclusive party invites, giveaways and offers ===+++===+++===+++=== G&S SEEKING LOFT ===+++===+++===+++=== A 1,500-3,000 sq ft large space we can live, work and party in on a regular basis (or just rent out for events), with outdoor space for smokers & movies & BBQs. We're looking off the Q/C/F trains in Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, etc (though open to other locations for event rentals, incl Manhattan). Got any leads? Send them our way. If you can help us, you'll get permanent VIP status in our new party palace. ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 6/20 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present Bruncha Libre Sunday, June 20, 1-5pm, $10 door / $10 food (optional), all ages Private loft - Reserve on site for location RSVP: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121837781185001">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121837781185001</a> Brunch freedom is here! Freedom from long lines, harried waiters, and the feeling that they really wish you'd hurry up already. How about a catered brunch by our favorite chef in a sprawling sunlit private loft instead, served up with hot jazz and chilled cocktails? Enjoy a leisurely meal, relax on a couch or get up and dance on our sprung wood dance floor. This month: Baby Soda Jazz Band lays it down street-jazz-style, with an eclectic set of influences ranging from 30's era swing, New Orleans jazz and southern gospel. Reserve online to get the loft location. Event repeats every 3rd Sunday of the month. Please tip the entertainers generously ($5-10 suggested). Kitchen closes 4:30pm. ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 6/26 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present Circus Mermaids on the High Seas Saturday, June 26 Aboard tall ship Clipper City, Pier 17, South St Seaport, 21+ 11:30pm - 2:30am boat party w/cruise, $35 adv/$40 dock (limited tix) Official site: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=95291708117">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=95291708117</a> Tickets: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/115203">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/115203</a> Gemini & Scorpio raise the massive square-rigged sails of New York's only Tall Ship for a costumed 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. 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. Dress: circus freaks set sail; sailors; mermaids; nautical adventurers; clown fish. That Mermaid Parade costume is too good to only break out once a year! 100 cruise tickets available for advance presale, 25 more at the door, first come, first served. Please note: last year's sailboat mermaid party sold out in two days. We highly recommend buying your tickets early. Circus performers get in FREE - contact us to arrange details. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== FEST: 3rd Annual World Science Festival <a href="http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/2010/all-events-by-date">http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/2010/all-events-by-date</a> The World Science Festival, an unprecedented annual tribute to imagination, ingenuity and inventiveness, takes science out of the laboratory and into the streets, theaters, museums, and public halls of New York City, making the esoteric understandable and the familiar fascinating. A week-long exploration of science, from cutting-edge research to works in theatre, film, and the arts inspired by science. [G&S note: some events already sold out; don't sleep on this. Some cool stuff in there!] (Fri-Sun, various venues, see site for details) SHOP: 6th Annual Renegade Craft Fair <a href="http://www.renegadecraft.com/brooklyn">http://www.renegadecraft.com/brooklyn</a> A craft, art, design and DIY spectacular featuring over 300 of today's finest indie-craft talents from all over the nation, free workshops, entertainment and more. Rollicking appearances by Providence's favorite 19-piece brass ensemble What Cheer? Brigade on Saturday at 1pm, and NYC's own legendary Hungry March Band on Sunday at 2pm. Plus free-to-use photobooth provided by The Magnolia Photobooth Co. (Sat/Sun, McCarren Park, welcome station at Bedford Ave. and N.12th St, Wburg, BK, 11am-7pm, FREE) ART: Bushwick Open Studios <a href="http://www.artsinbushwick.org">http://www.artsinbushwick.org</a> Bushwick Open Studios is a self-organized, collaborative festival produced by Arts in Bushwick. Now in its fourth year, the festival is proud to feature more than 300 shows in over 150 locations. You can pick up the BOS 2010 printed map and program at one of our 14 hub spaces or at various coffee shops around the Bushwick area. Closing party Sunday 9pm-12am, 330 Melrose St, 3rd Floor @ Knickerbocker, FREE w/BOS propgram; $5 without. (Fri-Sun, see site for details, FREE) PERFORMANCE/MULTIMEDIA: Kaleida Crash Test <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121944317843142">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121944317843142</a> A three day event coinciding with the Bushwick Open Studios festival. Featuring a coalition of diverse local artists, live experimental/performance art, live music, dance, video, BBQ and unique DJ sets spinning into the night. The AIM is a unique open-air pop-up experimental space. 3,000 square feet with two truck trailers built out as gallery, lounge and performance space. Kaleida Crash Test features works by Marina Reiter, Masha Gitin, Livia Fiercely, Martin Seck, Nikolai Shveitser, P. Giguere, John Loggia, and Danger Dan Dubios. Installations by Takashio Hiyasu, David Tully, Miles Emery, Kristian Austin, Jackie Connolly and Miles Pflanz. Performances by Grady Gerbracht, John Loggia, Ayizan Sanon, Jose Hinestrosa, Takashio Hiyasu, Martha Wiliams, Jen Kosky and Parenthesis. Onsite screenprinting by Bushwick Print Lab. Blazing projections and media mashing by Z Collective, Jeremy Slater and Glass Bead Collective. Veggie skewers and grass fed beef BBQ by Hibachi Tiki Hut. Mus ic archivist/journalist and DJ Brandon Jourdan will be spinning obscure punk, post-punk and hip-hop, English will be bringing the best of dirty funk and British underground, DJ Christopher Ernst will be cooling things down with Techno, House, and Dubstep, all wrapped up by music maestro Spontaneous Underground. (Fri-Sun, AIM, 1407 Myrtle Ave, Bushwick, BK, 12pm-3am, FREE?) COMMUNITY: Redhook Fest <a href="http://www.redhookfest.com">http://www.redhookfest.com</a> Featuring M.U.G.A.B.E.E., La Excelencia and Joseph Webb & Beautiful Fire. There will be community resources (health services information, job training programs, etc.) from over a dozen local non-profits; kayak rides in New York Harbor; face-painting; art projects; and breathtaking views of New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty. (Fri and Sat, Fri at Coffey Park, Sat at Louis J. Valentino, Jr. Park and Pier, Fri 6pm-9pm, Sat 11am-7pm, FREE) PARTICIPATORY: Come Out and Play <a href="http://www.comeoutandplay.org">http://www.comeoutandplay.org</a> Come Out & Play is a three-day festival of street games. Target human "asteroids" in a real-life interpretation of Asteroids and catch falling "bombs" in live-action remake of the Atari classic Kaboom; track each other in high-tech hide-and-seek games like HALI and GeoMelee; swing giant red plastic bats to whack soccer balls in fast-paced new sport Field Crumpets; take to the streets around the Gowanus Canal under cover of night for a strategic water-gun battle called CounterSquirt; compete to create the best fairy-tale around Prospect Park; exercise your engineering muscles in The 2010 First Annual Paper Plane Derby; plunge into a life-sized maze in Cross My Heart + Hope to Die; hunt your friends in Humans vs. Zombies, or play bAR Pong, a live-action mixture of the video game classic Pong and the party game Beer Pong. Games take place around Park Slope, Prospect Park and the Gowanus Canal. Game registration is on a first-come-first serve basis, so stop by the festival HQ at the Lyceum to grab a spot in games you like. (Fri-Sun, hub at Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Ave, Park Slope, BK, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: MISC Video and Performance, Performances and Reception NY Studio Gallery is pleased to present the 4th Annual MISC Video and Performance. A multi-media experience featuring a variety of emerging, mid-career and established artists working in diverse genres ranging from video, animation, live performance, or video installation. Video loops and installations will be accessible during gallery hours, while performances are scheduled during reception night. Video installations include pieces by Ron Diorio, Peter Dobill, and Lynn Herring. Projected Animation Loop by Jonathan Monaghan, Kanako Okazaki, Ben Pederson, Lai-Chung Poon, Elise Roedenbeck, Devlin Shea, Carmen Tiffany. Video Loop by Arielle Falk, Jason Head, Morrisa Maltz, Liz Rodda, Bradly Dever Treadaway, Traci Tullius, Joy Whalen. Rooftop projection (weather permitting) by Kyung Woo Han. Performances by Hector Canonge, Genevieve White, Mike Richison, Mekanik Dolls and (Jess Ramsay and Seyhan Musaoglu). (exhibit thru 7/3, NY Studio Gallery, 154 Stanton St at Suffolk, LES, 7pm- 11pm, FREE?) PARTY: Faerie Noir Soiree <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120401544662620">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120401544662620</a> Performances by St. Eve, Kai Altair, Johnny Rabbits and Veronica Varlow. House of St. Eve drinks will be available. Please let the House of Collection inspire you to your peak of old-time finery - bring your decrepitude and your dazzle, your faerie, your steamy, your punk. (House of Collection, 315 Berry, 9:30pm, $10/costume, $15/without) PARTY: Doctor Adventure's Super-Hero Circus Sideshow Birthday SPECTACULAR! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125907444099293">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125907444099293</a> Come and join the Super-Hero Circus Sideshow for a Night of Mayhem, Terror, Joy and Laughter in Celebration of the Birthday of the Infamous Dr.Adventure! Musical Guests include: Dj Joro Boro (Fucking Bonkers, No mercy on your Brain); Dj Morphous feat. Shizaru (Love/Thunder Gumbo Resident DJ); Dos Melo (Cumba Mela); Feliz Cumbe (Cumba Mela); Richard Vindaloo (Hip Hop, Fantastic); The Super Circus Fiddle Band; The Homeless People. Performers/Acts Include: Dr.Adventure's Miracle Tonic and Wonder Roadshow; The Amazing Strong Woman; The Mysterious Half Boy Half Girl; The Painted Lady; Professor Danger's Danger Show (Modern Gypsies); Dr. Trust M.E. (Fire Spinning, Drunk); The Wild-Man of Providence; and Pain Theater. Delicious food by Davo. (Castle V, 99 Richardson, Wburg, BK, 10pm-6am, $10, $5/super costume or birthday present for Dr. Adventure) PARTY: Gnome on the Range <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113001912063925">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113001912063925</a> <a href="http://blackrocktickets.com/view/7">http://blackrocktickets.com/view/7</a> <a href="http://gnomecamp.com">http://gnomecamp.com</a> The age of exploration is upon us, and the humble garden gnome has shaken his Appalachian roots and turned his twinkling eyes westward, towards the wide-open plains and endless deserts of the Great American West. Join us in preparing the gnomes for their manifest destignome: to go west, young gnome, go west in this once-in-a-lifetime event. With Panti-Gravity, bootie-house duo extraordinaire; John Reinhold and Conway Jennings, ass-grabbing tech-house all the way from Richmond, VA. Tektite, house-infused breaks to break dance, break out, or break up. Ahmed Hashim, titillating sexjamz to make ya gyrate 'n grind. DJ Morphous featuring ShiZaru, and Tim the Enchanter. Plus: Cheap libations at the Whiskey and Gnomes Saloon, down-gnome cabaret by NYC Fringe Fest Outstanding Performer Halley Bondy, pose-with-a-gnome photo booth by NickDigital, Manifest Destignome Evolving Ema by Shizaru Zoe, gnome hat decoration station by Tiny Gnome Enterprises Magical mushroom garden by Sparky's Ho use of Shrooms, visuals by the Ephemeral Jaygo Fire performance by special guests from near and far Rooftop chillout lounge with panoramic city views and of course the not-to-be-missed, once-a-year-only Girls of Gnome Camp Cabaret Striptease. Costume suggestions: down-home gnome, unicorn from the OK Corral, centaur cowboy, campfire sprite, roaming buffalo, naughty saloon nymph, desert sylph, slutty schoolmarm, prairie dawg, tumbleweed. This is a fundraiser for the Gnome Adoption Agency: all proceeds go towards finding loving homes for gneedy garden gnomes at events across the country, from the Figment Festival to Burning Man and beyond. (Gnome Sanctuary, address w/RSVP, Prospect Heights, BK, 10:30pm-6:30am, $15/adv, $20/door with costume, $25/without) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== EVENT: 10th Annual Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival <a href="http://www.eldridgestreet.org/eggrolls10">http://www.eldridgestreet.org/eggrolls10</a> A unique slice of Lower Manhattan - where Chinatown meets the Jewish Lower East Side - comes to life. Chinese and Jewish musicians, dancers, storytellers and folk artists present their traditions and art forms. Relish a good old-fashioned egg cream while watching a mesmerizing performance of Chinese opera & acrobatics. (Eldridge Street Synagogue, 12 Eldridge Street bet Canal & Division, Noon-4pm, FREE) COMEDY: Spoons Toons and Booze <a href="http://ny.knittingfactory.com">http://ny.knittingfactory.com</a> Saturday (late) Mornings at the Knitting Factory in June. It's the ultimate punk rock brunch- Retro Cartoons, Free Sugar Cereal, and Delicious Adult Beverages (try a white Russian with Cocoa Puffs - it's outrageously good!). Come vote for the cartoons to be screened. Comedian hosts, Jerm Pollet and Michael Austin, will be armed with a huge selection of amazing animation- Duck Tales, Thundercats, Jem, Gummi Bears, Smurfs...and hundreds of others for you to choose from. The cereal buffet will have all the shades of the food-coloring rainbow and all the marshmallow bits you can handle. Mix 'em up and create your own new flavor. Fruity Pebbles and Count Chocula in milk? Then add vodka for a kick! (Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan, Wburg, BK, 12pm, FREE) LEARN: DIY Urban Agriculture Workshop <a href="http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org">http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org</a> A hands-on urban agriculture workshop with hosts DoTank Brooklyn. From worms to seed bombs to vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window farms, you'll gain new tools to help you engage in and enhance your urban environment. Bring curiosity, cameras, and something to write on. (The Change You Want To See Gallery, 84 Havemeyer St, W'burg, BK, 1-3pm, $15 entry to cover materials) PARTY: 7 Wonders of The Tank Anniversary Celebration Seven years ago, The Tank opened its doors with little experience, less capital and no idea what would come. Over seven years, this experiment in collaborative, creative community-building has been proven a success. We now present over 400 events a year, serving over 1,000 artists and 15,000 attendees. We run international festivals, have been given a Proclamation by the City Council and serve as an incubator for some of the most surprising artists working in New York. And at the same time, we continue to be a home for new work and emerging artists, with ridiculously low prices and a can-do spirit. In celebration of our continued survival join us for a festival of performances, presentations & delights-that-defy-definition. Performances include Homunculus Mask Theater, The Chris and Paul Show, Epic Win Burlesque and The Quiet of the Early Morning: A Chinese Ghost Opera. (The Tank, 354 W. 45th Street, 2pm-12am, $20) MUSIC: Black Brooklyn Drum Call <a href="http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/1498">http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/1498</a> A celebration of the different African drumming styles practiced in Brooklyn in a nod to the borough's long history with the practice. Nearly a dozen different styles of drumming as practiced in African, Afro-Caribbean, African American and Hispanic diasporic communities including Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic will be performed. The gathering serves as both an entertaining jam, as well as a chance to introduce people who may be familiar with only one type of drumming style such as the popular Djembe form, a fast drumming style from Senegal to the variety that exists. The event will also include drum-making workshops and drumming demos. The public is invited to bring drums and learn the distinctive beats of Black Brooklyn, then join in the All-Brooklyn Drum Jam. Immediately following the jam, join us for a symposium on the history of African drumming traditions in Brooklyn moderated by world-renowned Brooklyn drummer Neil Clark e. (Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza at Flatbush and Eastern Parkway, 2-5:30 pm, FREE) PARTY: Illuminate Register: <a href="http://www.opencenter.org/illuminate-spiritual-dance-club/">http://www.opencenter.org/illuminate-spiritual-dance-club/</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101352023245608">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101352023245608</a> Discover the fiery lights of your authentic self and dance the rhythms of your liberated spirit. Club culture meets Earth based medicine in ILLUMINATE, an invitation to explore the hypnotic rhythms of the body and bring to light the lost contours and landscapes of one's own being. Led by internationally renowned SoulHealer Parashakti & the GateKeepers, Live DJ's, Native American Wisdom teachings and guest performers and musicians; ILLUMINATE draws on exhilarating ceremonies, invocations, live drumming and a world music ecstatic dance party to create a safe space in which participants can liberate their true selves and feel a sincere connection with others. 8:00pm-8:30pm Intention Ceremony with GateKeepers; 8:30pm-10:00pm Parashakti's Dance Of Liberation; 10:00pm-Midnight Wisdom Teachings with the Elders in the Liberation Sanctuary; 8:30-11:30pm Global Music in the Dance Hall with Cumba Mela DJs; 11:30-Midnight Closing Ceremony. (New York Open Center, 22 East 30th Street bet M adison & 5th, 7:30pm-12:00am, $30) FILM: Gallery and Film Fiesta <a href="http://www.alternativearts.org">http://www.alternativearts.org</a> The final event of The Lucky 7's Art Festival, presented by the Alternative Arts Association. The screening will include the works of Lawrence Whiteside of Cinema Set Free, Brian MacMillan, Joshua Thompson, and Andrea Gise. Also on display will be the works of Michael Anthony Mitchell, Kevin Lawler, Maggie Fischer, and Kate Leathers. (1221 Astoria Blvd at 14th St., Astoria, Queens, 8pm, $7 sugg donation) MUSIC: Through the Keyhole <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123713334328575">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123713334328575</a> <a href="http://copalmusic.com/">http://copalmusic.com/</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/jaggery">http://www.myspace.com/jaggery</a> <a href="http://armyoftoys.com/">http://armyoftoys.com/</a> An evening of avant-garde music with theatrical elements featuring performances by Copal, Jaggery and Walter Sicket & the Army of Broken Toys. NYC-based band Copal weaves soundscapes inspired by Middle Eastern rhythms, dark Nordic melodies, Hungarian riffs, Spanish-flavored cadences and harmonies to paint pictures and landscapes. Jaggery can be described as arty, avant-garde & ethereal siren rock. Walter Sicket & the Army of Broken Toys has been called "wildly unusual and diverse in material and presentation, a Dada-esque circus carnival run amuck, and just plain good not-always-so-clean' fun." Ticket price included a week of free yoga! Limited capacity: please RSVP your full name and guest names to <a href="mailto:hannah@copalmusic.com">hannah@copalmusic.com</a> (YogaWorks, 359 Broadway at Grand, Soho, 9pm-1am, $10) PARTY: "Summer of '86" <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122224097817991&ref=ts">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122224097817991&ref=ts</a> Party like it's 1986 in a brand-spankin' new Williamsburg space...with 2 rooftops, 2 dancefloors, 2 swimming pools, and a waterslide! Featuring CHERYL; DJ Leah of the Nouvellas; DJ Mojo; Vick Valentino; DJ Curly; and DJ Cashbar. Plus flying go-go dancers; firedancing by Cynthia; performances by CHERYL and wild art. Come dressed 80's. Costume suggestions: Raybans, neon, Miami Vice, Ferris Bueller, Top Gun, new wave, etc. (RSVP for location, Wburg, 10pm-6am, $10) PARTY: Beauty + Ruin <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131506383528849">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131506383528849</a> <a href="http://www.thedanger.com">http://www.thedanger.com</a> Two-dozen artists have built a landscape of beauty and ruin within large geodesic domes, ragged tents and hidden lounges spread across 13,000sqft of raw Brooklyn loft. Featuring brash brass bands, live Afro-Haitian drum cores and dj's playing jump-up-dance music featuring: Mikerline Afro-Haitian Dance + Drum Troupe, The Rude Mechanical Orchestra, The Hungry March Band, dj Kiva, Cumba Mela, Junglez, The Stellar Chic Duo, dj Zemi 17. Plus mischief, fire and overhead performance by Anya Sapozhnikova, Carrie Cash, Tajna Tanovic, Kae Burke and the 626 Roving Sangria Pump. Drinks will be cheap, the night will be full and the fire will be real. (3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave, 9:00pm-sunrise, $15 before 11:30pm, $20 after, Strictly 21+) ===+++===+++===+++=== TUESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: The Museum Mile Festival <a href="http://www.museummilefestival.org">http://www.museummilefestival.org</a> One day a year, for the past 31 years, nine of the country's finest museums, all ones that call Fifth Avenue home, collectively open their doors for free for a mile-long block party and visual art celebration. This traffic-free, music- and art-filled celebration fills the street and sidewalks of Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th street, the mile now officially designated as Museum Mile. Over 50,000 visitors attend the festival annually. (various museums, 5th Ave, 6-9pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== UPCOMING [Ticketed events likely to sell out and/or offering presale discounts] ===+++===+++===+++=== FOOD/PERFORMANCE: BLUE <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/111979">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/111979</a> Live Dinner Theater. Blue, as it relates to the skies and the seas, represents clarity, optimism and crisp cool atmosphere. Enjoy a one night performance and three course meal from NEW HUE, the people who brought you RED for Valentine's day. This time we will evoke the energy of the wind and waves to bring you six continuous performances in our 360 degree stage and seemingly endless ceiling. Be treated like royalty, feast on the bounties of the ocean, served by giants and mused by sirens. Expect Food, music, video art, dancers, stilters, acrobatics, Ice sculpture, fire and fantasy. Share with us a one night experience like no other. Formal attire is requested, the color blue is suggested. Seating is ****very*** limited. (June 13, House Of Yes, 342 Maujer St, Bushwick, BK, $50) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: Mark Ryden: The Gay 90s Old Tyme Art Show <a href="http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2010-04-29_mark-ryden/press-release/">http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2010-04-29_mark-ryden/press-release/</a> An exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by the Los Angeles artist Mark Ryden. This will be Ryden's first significant solo show in New York since 2003. In his hauntingly beautiful and masterfully executed oil paintings, Ryden creates his own contemporary mythologies whose archetypes include fairy tale creatures, historical figures, and pop cultural icons. Seamlessly juxtaposing macabre motifs like meat grinders and disembodied presidents with eye-pleasing ingénues and seductive landscapes, the artist produces a vision of society in which menace and comfort are inseparably interwoven. These labor-intensive canvasses deftly rework centuries of art history, combining the grandeur of Spanish and Italian religious painting with the decorative richness of Old Master compositions and the lush textures of French Neo-Classicism. (thru 6/5, Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 10th Ave at 27th St, FREE) ART: Daniel Merriam <a href="http://www.animazing.com/gallery/emails/merriam2010.html">http://www.animazing.com/gallery/emails/merriam2010.html</a> <a href="http://www.danielmerriam.com/">http://www.danielmerriam.com/</a> 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) THEATER: Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play <a href="http://epictheatreensemble.org/current-show">http://epictheatreensemble.org/current-show</a> Hailed by the New Yorker's John Lahr as "extraordinary", "bold", and "inventive", Sarah Ruhl's PASSION PLAY takes us behind the scenes of three communities attempting to stage the death and resurrection of Christ. From Queen Elizabeth's England to Hitler's Germany to Reagan's America, Ruhl's exploration of devotion takes us on a humorous yet unsettling journey filled with lust, whimsy, and a lot of fish. (extended thru ?, Irondale Center at the Lafayette Avenue Church, 85 South Oxford Street BK, various times, $22.50-$42.50) DANCE: Le Cirque Feerique <a href="http://www.companyxiv.com">http://www.companyxiv.com</a> <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106445">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106445</a> Step right up to the golden tent! With Le Cirque Feerique, Company XIV will delight and amaze, as they re-imagine your favorite childhood fairy tales as only Austin McCormick and his exquisite troupe can. Don't miss this Baroque confection for all ages, a magical menagerie of opera, dance, theatre and opulent design. McCormick incorporates a myriad of dance styles, fusing Baroque, classical ballet, flamenco, ballroom, contemporary partnering and Indian dance, along with contemporary movement. The show includes an array of music, including pieces by Vivaldi, Aphex Twin, Lady Gaga and Bizet, and features a special guest, the Charites Baroque Opera Trio. This lush extravaganza includes classic fairy tales such as Charles Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella, Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Princess and the Pea, The Brothers Grimm's The Fisherman and His Wife, Munro Leaf's Ferdinand the Bull and more. (thru 6/8, Saturdays 2PM and 7PM, Sundays 2PM and 5PM, Company XIV 303 Bond Theatre, 303 Bond St @ Union st, $30) PUPPETS: Great Small Works' Ninth International Toy Theater Festival <a href="http://www.stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=47">http://www.stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=47</a> Hundreds of artists from around the world (Holland, Mexico City, Helsinki, Montreal, Los Angeles), around the neighborhood (Midwood, DUMBO, Manhattan) and places in between (Philadelphia, Chicago, Vermont) will converge on St. Ann's Warehouse for a two-week celebration of the power of the miniature. Great Small Works and guest artists reinvent the 19th-century tradition of Toy Theater for contemporary audiences. The expansive warehouse will be reconfigured to house intimate performing spaces where dramatic spectacles will unfold, alongside a grand exhibition of toy theaters both historic and new. (thru 6/13, St. Ann's Warehouse, 66 Water St., various times, $20 per show, $75 for full festival pass) EXHIBIT: Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters <a href="http://www.japansociety.org">http://www.japansociety.org</a> Showcasing over 130 woodblock prints, GHMM spans the career of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, who died the year our Civil War broke out, but whose explosive panels of blood-lusting warriors, tattooed vagrants, wanton vixens, and acid-trip monsters could pass for cutting-edge comics. Artful violence runs from samurai gangs slashing it out on a castle rooftop, to a giant skeleton attempting to forestall a beheading, to Morozumi Masakiyo Kills Himself with a Landmine...while apparently also thrusting a sword into his mouth. For psychedelic madness, there's Octopus Games, with evil cephalopods brawling, playing instruments, and dancing; Sakata Kaido-maru Wrestles with a Giant Carp; and Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugoro III as the Spirit of the Cat Stone. Perhaps most modern of all, Kuniyoshi produced a small collection of erotic prints, which aren't on display but are presented in the back of the exhibition catalog. (thru 6/13, Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, Tues-Thurs 11am-6pm, Fri 11am-9pm, Sat and Sun 11am-5pm, $12, Fri night FREE) ART: Key to the City <a href="http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2010/keytothecity">http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2010/keytothecity</a> For centuries, the key to the city has been used to honor a city's heroes and visiting dignitaries. Now, artist Paul Ramírez Jonas has created a Key to the City that is not only a symbolic award, but also a functional keyopening spaces across all five boroughs of New York City. This Key to the City is intended for everyday citizens, who will award one another the key for reasons large and small. Once in hand, the key launches a citywide exploration of back doors, front gates, community gardens, graveyards, and museums that suggests that the city is a series of spaces that are either locked or unlocked. (Key kiosk open June 3 to 27, Times Square, Broadway bet 43rd & 44th Sts, MF 2p8p; SaSu 12p8p; Locks available through Labor Day) EXHIBIT: Where New York Began - Archaeology at the South Ferry Terminal <a href="http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm">http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm</a> 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) THEATER: The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street <a href="http://www.horsetrade.info/season11/Haunting.html">http://www.horsetrade.info/season11/Haunting.html</a> Who or what is haunting 85 East 4th Street? The building is considered to be one of the most haunted spots in all of NYC. Its terrible past is riddled with murders, suicides, and horrible deaths, which began even before the present building was erected over a hundred years ago. Sightings of ethereal beings and strange noises, unexplainable occurrences, foul smells and cold spots have made this location familiar to ghost hunters and scientists of the paranormal. It all began in 1882 when the original tenement collapsed, killing 31 Italian immigrants. From then on, the ground itself was said to be cursed. When the current building was erected at the turn of the century, an exorcism was held to rid the building of evil...it didn't work. After a night of terror, the priest left the priesthood. Within a year, the builder's son died falling down the long staircase...and the mother hung herself in what is now the theater. The owner succumbed to madness and still haunts the place. These are only a few of the terrifying characters and incidents Radiotheatre will uncover in "The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street." When Radiotheatre examined the building's sordid history in 2004, the show sold out its entire run, received a slew of great reviews and was nominated for a number of New York Innovative Theatre Awards. Now, in an all new production with a cast of storytellers, an original orchestral score and a plethora of sound effects, Radiotheatre returns to 85 E. 4th Street to resurrect its restless ghosts. Join Radiotheatre as they uncover the buildings gruesome past and maybe even speak to some of the troubled spirits who still reside there...(thru 10/31, The Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street, various times, $20) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== Do you have something to share with our readers or events you'd like to have included in our emails? Did we miss anything? We're always open to suggestions & feedback. Write to us at <a href="mailto:gs@geminiandscorpio.com">gs@geminiandscorpio.com</a> and tell us your thoughts. ===+++===+++===+++=== Subscribe/Unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a>

[G&S]: Memorial Day weekend in NYC = BBQs, dance parties, and lots of room to enjoy them

Fri, 28 May 2010 20:05:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, The calendar is looking pretty good for this weekend, which is usually a somewhat dead one in NYC (but wait till next). See below for some excellent options, and here's one more we're pretty excited to check out: Saturday's opening of Luna Park in Coney Island. We've been a bit quiet about our upcoming plans, but no worries, we'll be spilling the beans sometime next week. Fun times ahead, with brunches and boats and circuses and and and... G&S SEEKING LOFT, a 1,500-3,000 sq ft large space we can live, work and party in on a regular basis (or just rent out for events), with outdoor space for smokers & movies & BBQs. We're looking off the Q/C/F trains in Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, etc (open to other spots for event rentals, incl Manhattan). Got any leads? Send them our way. If you can help us, you'll get permanent VIP status in our new party palace. Cheers, Gemini & Scorpio Online Dating Gurus and Offline Party Mavens <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com</a> FB group: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook">http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</a> YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio">http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio</a> House of Scorpio - the kinkier side of G&S <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> | <a href="http://bit.ly/HoS_FB">http://bit.ly/HoS_FB</a> Please forward along to friends! If this has been forwarded to you: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a> to subscribe for weekly events list, exclusive party invites, giveaways and offers ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: The 15th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts <a href="http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/les.htm">http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/les.htm</a> The Lower East Side Festival of the Arts loves to bring back old favorites while continuing to always spice it up with new talent so we keep evolving. Those who've already confirmed for LES 2010 include: Jazz great David Amram, Talk Show originator and the man with the biggest heart in Show Biz, Joe Franklin, Funny Women Reno, Penny Arcade and Lavinia Co-op, and Funny Men Zero Boy, steve ben Israel and Gary Corbin, The New York Theatre Workshop, avant-gardian Jim Neu, La MaMa, The Rod Rodgers and Mariana Bekerman Dance Companies, Alicia Svigals, and the list is growing every day. (Fri-Sun, various locations and times, LES, FREE) *NATURE: City Solstice, aka Manhattan-Henge <a href="http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge">http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge</a> <a href="http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/resources/starstruck/manhattanhenge/">http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/resources/starstruck/manhattanhenge/</a> 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 8:17pm) DANCE: DanceAfrica 2010: Performance <a href="http://www.bam.org">http://www.bam.org</a> Now in its 33rd year, DanceAfrica, guided by the vision of artistic director Chuck Davis, unites dance companies from near and far to celebrate the cultures of Africa and its Diaspora. This year, the Pamodzi Dance Troupe from Zambia offers a medley of traditional music and dance rich with Zambian heritage. They will be joined by the American companies Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Illstyle & Peace Productions from Philadelphia, and Brooklyn's very own BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble for a program that promises to inspire. A Memorial Day weekend tradition, DanceAfrica is packed with dance, music, art, and film eventsplus the-one-and-only DanceAfrica outdoor bazaar. (BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Avenue, BK, Fri and Sat 7:30pm, Sun and Mon 3pm, $20-$50) PERFORMANCE: 7th Annual Alternative Arts Festival <a href="http://www.alternativearts.org">http://www.alternativearts.org</a> The Alternative Arts Association is proud to present the premier arts festival of the summer: The Lucky 7's Art Festival. Set to span four nights over two weeks, this bi-borough blowout will include the works of over 30 artists from all across the globe. The events feature theater, dance, music, burlesque, film and visual arts. See website for full details. (Fri/Sat/Thur/next Sat, various times and locations, $7) FEST: 3rd Annual World Science Festival <a href="http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/2010/all-events-by-date">http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/2010/all-events-by-date</a> The World Science Festival, an unprecedented annual tribute to imagination, ingenuity and inventiveness, takes science out of the laboratory and into the streets, theaters, museums, and public halls of New York City, making the esoteric understandable and the familiar fascinating. A week-long exploration of science, from cutting-edge research to works in theatre, film, and the arts inspired by science. [G&S note: some events already sold out; don't sleep on this. Some cool stuff in there!] (Wed-Thur this week, Fri-Sun mext week, various venues, see site for details) THEATER: Great Small Works' Ninth International Toy Theater Festival <a href="http://www.stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=47">http://www.stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=47</a> Hundreds of artists from around the world (Holland, Mexico City, Helsinki, Montreal, Los Angeles), around the neighborhood (Midwood, DUMBO, Manhattan) and places in between (Philadelphia, Chicago, Vermont) will converge on St. Ann's Warehouse for a two-week celebration of the power of the miniature. Great Small Works and guest artists reinvent the 19th-century tradition of Toy Theater for contemporary audiences. The expansive warehouse will be reconfigured to house intimate performing spaces where dramatic spectacles will unfold, alongside a grand exhibition of toy theaters both historic and new. An opening reception will be held for the toy theater exhibition on 5/30, from 4pm -7pm. (5/30 thru 6/13, St. Ann's Warehouse, 66 Water St., various times, $20 per show, $75 for full festival pass) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTICIPATORY: Flash Protest of BP Oil Hemorrhage <a href="http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2010/05/110884.html">http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2010/05/110884.html</a> Please read and follow these directions precisely, and SHARE them with your fellow protesters, many of whom will not see them. Word of mouth made this event huge, and word of mouth will make it beautiful. There will also be a dozen marshals with large MARSHAL BP badges who will be directing the group on site. Thank you!! DO converge at 6 pm sharp at the BP station on Houston between Broadway and Lafayette. DO NOT be early or late. DO NOT demonstrate ANY violence, verbal or physical, to the police, to your fellows, or to property. If you are detained DO NOT resist. If you or another are detained or harassed CALL OR TEXT (917) 544-5604. DO wear either a costume of your choice or white clothes (that you don't mind getting sludgy). DO bring a water bottle full of dirty (with dirt, molasses, food coloring or water-based paint) to pour on yourself. At 6:15 EXACTLY you may walk onto the station's property and pour this oil on yourself or your (willing) neighbor to demonstrate wh at the people and wildlife in the Gulf are suffering. At this point when we are asked to leave we will be trespassing, so we advise you to leave when requested to do so. (BP Station, Houston at Lafayette, 6-6:30pm, FREE) PERFORMANCE: Adira Amram & The Experience and The Continuing Story of Carla Rhodes <a href="http://s80131.gridserver.com/public">http://s80131.gridserver.com/public</a> Adira Amram has been performing her sly, sexy and subversive musical comedy all over NYC and beyond. Along with her backing dancers The Experience, she has recently toured North America with master scratch DJ Kid Koala's newest musical collaboration The Slew. She is currently working on a new album as a follow up to her 2009 release Hot Jams For Teens "The Continuing Story of Carla Rhodes" is a ventriloquial rock opera featuring rock'n'roll ventriloquist Carla Rhodes (New York Magazine's "Ten New Comedians That Funny People Find Funny"). Carla is assisted by a cast of colorful characters she meets on the way from teenage frustration to artistic satisfaction. Featuring live music by The Extravaganzas. (Galapagos Art Space, 15 Main St, DUMBO, BK, 7pm, $15) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTICIPATORY: Mango Workshop <a href="http://www.japansociety.org/hiroki_otsuka">http://www.japansociety.org/hiroki_otsuka</a> Sign up for one or more two-hour sessions with internationally acclaimed artist, Hiroki Otsuka, Japan Society's Mangaka-in-Residence. A professional comic book illustrator since 1994, Brooklyn based Japanese artist/illustrator Hiroki Otsuka honed his craft drafting and inking comic book cells for a variety of projects, and began illustrating for a number of major Japanese publications in 2004. Start your visit by seeing our exhibition: Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection. Choose one or more of the five themes from the show as the inspiration for your character: Warriors, Beautiful Women, Theater, Landscapes, and Humor. Participants receive free admission to Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection. Workshops take place on the first floor in the Murase room amidst a bamboo garden and an indoor waterfall. Tickets include materials and free admi ssion to the gallery. (Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, 11am-1pm, $30) WALK: Historic Coney Walking Tour This Saturday <a href="http://www.saveconeyisland.net">http://www.saveconeyisland.net</a> Celebrate the grand opening of Luna Park with a walking tour of Coney Island's remaining historic buildings. The guided tour will cover the Coney Island Historic District that we are urging the Landmarks Preservation Commission to create, as well as some of Coney's existing landmarks. Learn more about Coney Island's rich history, the importance of preserving it, and what Save Coney Island is doing to protect what remains of this extraordinary heritage. (In front of the Shore theater, corner of Surf and Stillwell Aves, BK, 11am, FREE?) BIKE: Graffiti Bike Ride <a href="http://times-up.org/index.php?page=graffiti-ride">http://times-up.org/index.php?page=graffiti-ride</a> Get out of the gallery and onto a bike this afternoon to witness firsthand how location is often the only difference between an art exhibit and vandalism. TIME'S UP!the 20-year-old grassroots environmental grouphas organized the Graffiti Ride to promote non-polluting transportation and reveal some often overlooked masterpieces at the same time. Jake Dobkin, who has scouted street art for 10 years, will lead the 10- to 15-mile tour past well-known murals and to more hidden locations throughout Bushwick, Williamsburg, DUMBO, and downtown Brooklyn, as well as spots in Queens and East Harlem. Along the way, learn about the history, social implications, and shifting trends of New York graffiti culture. (Meet at 99 South 6th St, under the Wburg Bridge, BK, 2pm, FREE) PARTY: BOOM n BBQ <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/112549">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/112549</a> An Eating and Drinking Daytime Dance to benefit BOOM Trike NYC. Featuring DJs: Morphous (KK, Bass Fueled Mischief); Reza (Moonlightenment); DJuice (HOY); The Bass (Disorient/NYC); and Blanco (BOOM Trike). Plus, hooping and stilt walking performances, delicious BBQ by Chef Paul Macias and yoga/movement/meditation classes courtesy of the Loom Studios. (The Loom, 1087 Flushing Ave, BK, 12pm-6pm, $15 suggested donation) PARTICIPATORY/BIKE: Bike Wash Body Wash <a href="http://www.hichristina.com">http://www.hichristina.com</a> Bikini clad workers wash your body and your bike on the sidewalk outside in the heat, with suds and warm water. Perfect fun for the hot day's sun! Air dry or blow dry or shake-like-a-dog dry. Get washed in paint and put your body on the canvas. Cool off inside in the shade. Leg warmers, arm warmers, head bands and spicy red candies to heat you up. Cool mints to dry you down. And after you're done, hang out and talk about summer vacations past and future. (163 Eldridge St, 4-7pm, $10 donation for a sparkling clean bike and/or bod, BYOB) PARTY: GlobeSonic Sound System on the Hudson <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123632610985506">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123632610985506</a> Focusing on the modernization of world music, GlobeSonic Sound System is "a DJ collective spinning a high-energy ecstatic dance celebration of the earth's musical heritage, weaving traditional music with modern aesthetics." The collective consists of music impresario Fabian Alsultany, Bill Bragin (Director of Outdoor Programming at Lincoln Center) and author/yoga instructor and RS contributor Derek Beres. Featuring DJ's Fabian Alsultany, Bill Bragin & Derek Beres + Duke Mushroom on percussion. (Riverside Park South, The Pier on 68th St. and the Hudson River, 4pm-11pm, FREE) MUSIC: Raya Brass Band <a href="http://www.mehanata.com">http://www.mehanata.com</a> It's another festive Saturday night in the LES with Raya Brass Band. The lovely Tina Richerson will be holding down the door and we will be doing our usual stalking around the room and bamboozling every possible combination of dancers, diners, uncomfortable first dates, annoyed people waiting for the real instruments to stop and the robots to start, you get the idea. Real, raw, energetic brass music from the Balkans and Brooklyn! (Mehanata Bulgarian Bar, 113 Ludlow at Rivington, 9pm, $10) PARTICIPATORY: LED Lightsaber Battle NYC <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118898574797002">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118898574797002</a> <a href="http://newmindspace.com/ledlightsaber.php">http://newmindspace.com/ledlightsaber.php</a> Join us for a massive battle of Jedi vs. Sith in downtown New York City. Pick a side of the force and use that venerable, ancient, glowing tool: the lightsaber, in the ultimate nocturnal showdown. This event is being built by Urban Playground Movement NYC. Lightsaber Truck by Newmindspace. Here's how the lightsaber truck will work: When you reserve a lightsaber, your name will be placed on a list, and an hour before the battle begins, Newmindspace will start distributing lightsabers for the battle. We will have plenty of permanent markers, so please write your initials on the handle to use for future battles! (Chrystie Park, E. Houston and Chrystie St., 9pm-11pm, FREE, $5/lightsaber) PARTY: Wit's End & The Dorothy Parker Society Present : The Star Spangled Soiree <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119404121410558">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119404121410558</a> Celebrate the vibrant history of America this Memorial Day weekend at the Star Spangled Soiree! Patriotic vintage dance tunes brought to you by favorites Sly Blue & Jesse Selengut! Free Hors D'Oeuvres 7pm-8pm...come down early and have dinner at Flute! Free Beginner Dance Leson at 8:30pm with Jeri Lynn Astra. Come in your finest vintage patriotic attire - 1910s/1920s/1930s/1940s! Bring out that red, white, and blue and enjoy dancing and have some vintage cocktails with us! (Flute Bar, 205 W. 54th St., 7pm-12am, $12) MUSIC: MATUTO <a href="http://www.Barbesbrooklyn.com">http://www.Barbesbrooklyn.com</a> Imagine the sound of a Brazilian Carnaval in the Appalachian Mountains. A sound where brazilian percussion rumble beneath blues drenched vocals, telecaster twangs, accordion acrobatics, and folksy fiddle tunes.Through the unorthodox blend of Brazilian Percussion and American Bluegrass, Matuto has created an organic, animated sound all its own. (Barbes, corner of 9th St & 6th Ave, Park Slope, BK, 10pm, $10 sugg. donation to band) PERFORMANCE: !Muffinhead and Eric Schmalenberger Present: BANZAI! <a href="http://www.muffinheadland.com">http://www.muffinheadland.com</a> Returning for round two, Banzai! is THE art and performance bash that brings together the best of nightlife, performance and modern art in a mix of crazed, inspired uproar. With over 50 of the most WOWtastic artists from all over the New York creative scene, one can only imagine the sort of delicious delights that await our bashful Brooklyn in this ultra-special Memorial Day hyperfun soiree. Aiming to immediately disrupt the context in which viewers can experience art and performance, !Muffinhead and Eric Schmalenberger work to bring together some of the most innovative and enjoyable masterminds in the art world of today. There is no hierarchy of media here and anyone willing to travel to the limits of their imagination or beyond has a home. More then just an art event or a performance event, BANZAI! cross-pollinates the best aspects of the creative community and allows them to infect, affect, effect, and deflect one another. This evening promises to bring you art dynamics, i ntergalactic modern dance, sexy hermaphrodite strip tease, nerdcore hip-hop, powerful kitten magic, overly glamorous light shows and a whole mess-load of ferocious gender bent realness. Climaxing with an eclectic dance party courtesy of very special guest DJ Michael Cavadias (Lily of the Valley), BANZAI! is a big bang on red hot roller skates and the main reason you probably won't be back at work until Tuesday. (Red Lotus Room, 893 Bergen Street bet Classon and Franklin, BK, 8pm-3am, $10/adv, $15/door) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== MULTIMEDIA: RE/Mixed Media Festival 2010 <a href="http://www.lofilounge.org/remixed-media-festival-2010/">http://www.lofilounge.org/remixed-media-festival-2010/</a> <a href="http://www.galapagosartspace.com">http://www.galapagosartspace.com</a> <a href="http://janlarsenart.com/outer.html">http://janlarsenart.com/outer.html</a> The RE/Mixed Media Festival contributes to the ongoing conversation about remixing, mashups, copyright law, fair use, and the freedom of artists to access their culture in order to build upon it. Featured throughout the celebration of all things remix will be film and video artists, DJs, live video remixers, sound artists, an "artists only" panel discussion, game culture demos, musicians, a silent auction of remixed visual art curated by JAN LARSEN ART and even a remixed fashion show. Featured artists include: Ricky Powell, Steinski, Perry Bard, Sweatshoppe, Elisa Kreisinger, Deanna Zandt, Jesper Juul, Hobo Tech, Mad Happy and many others. Produced by The League of Independents (LOFI) and Galapagos Art Space. Full calendar of events can be found at remixedmedia.org. (Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street DUMBO, BK, 2pm, FREE) PARADE: The Great Small Works Greatest Smallest Parade! It's Parade of Teeny Tiny Floats with a Big Bangin' Community Brass band through the streets of Dumbo to kick off the Toy Theater Festival (see ONGOING). The parade will end at St. Ann's Warehouse, where there will be an opening reception (4 PM to 7 PM) for the Toy Theater Festival's Temporary Toy Theater Museum. Floats will be displayed in the lobby of the Warehouse for the duration of the afternoon. (38 Water St, DUMBO, BK, 3pm-4pm, FREE) PARTICIPATORY: NYC Zombie Crawl <a href="http://nyczombiecrawl.com/news">http://nyczombiecrawl.com/news</a> Spend the day of the Lord as one of the undead this week, as part of the annual NYC Zombie Crawl. This year's monster mash will begin with zombification and pizza and groaning up Bedford to McCarren Park for games like zombie football, blood fights, and human tug of war. Then, the all-ages Zombie Dance Party A Go Go will begin at the Knitting Factory with a wide variety of undead-themed entertainment, including a trailer screening of Play Dead, a movie that describes itself as Shawn of the Dead-meets-Friday Night Lights; zombie burlesque and a hot zombie contest; and the Raspberry Brothers' mocking of old-school zombie films. For zombies who just want to dance, there will be a dance party, live music by the Undead (former Misfit Bobby Steele's band), and, of course, a Thriller dance led by Thrill the World. (The Charleston, 16 Main Street Williamsburg, BK, 3pm, FREE; Zombie Dance Party A Go Go, Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave. Williamsburg, BK, $10) DJ/DANCING: Sunday Best Season Opening <a href="http://www.sundaybestnyc.com">http://www.sundaybestnyc.com</a> Sunday Best is a nice party for Sunday afternoons and evenings produced by resident DJs Doug Singer, Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin. Each weekend, they are joined by incredible guests while we get busy eating huaraches, drinking sangria, and dancing it all off. This week's guest -Michael Mayer (who plays the warmest, most melodic version of techno that we've ever heard). RSVP to <a href="mailto:RSVP@sundaybestnyc.com">RSVP@sundaybestnyc.com</a> (BKLYN Yard, 400 Carroll Street bet Bond and Nevins, BK, 3pm-9pm, $8/before 4pm with RSVP, $12/door) FILM: Last Summer at Coney Island: Benefit Preview Screening with JL Aronson <a href="http://www.uniondocs.org/last-summer-at-coney-island-benefit-preview-screening-with-jl-aronson/">http://www.uniondocs.org/last-summer-at-coney-island-benefit-preview-screening-with-jl-aronson/</a> In recognition of Coney Island's newest amusement park opening Memorial Weekend, we're hosting a benefit preview screening of JL Aronson's upcoming documentary, Last Summer at Coney Island. We will screen a 93 minute fine cut version of the documentary. The film will be going to festivals soon but needs to raise money first to pay for all the archival imagery and music licensing. Last Summer is a thorough rendering of Coney Island's roller coaster relationship with redevelopment, focusing on the last few years as the City, a private developer and the public all wrestled over the future of this legendary amusement destination. This is an important film about an important place and what better weekend to support it? Filmmaker JL Aronson will be present to discuss this project after the screening, along with beer, hot dogs, candy apples and merriment. (Union Docs, 322 Union Ave., BK, 7:30pm, $9-20 sliding scale donation) FILM: Movie Night at Glasslands Gallery <a href="http://glasslands.blogspot.com">http://glasslands.blogspot.com</a> Our awe-inspiring first annual animation screening. Enjoy a cold beer and relax as you watch amazing creatives unleash their power. In case you didn't know already, you most likely will not have to attend work the next day so stay late and delve into exciting conversations with your local artists. Featured Filmmakers include Alisa Stern & Peter Ahern, Andrew Hess, Bill Plympton, David Sheahan, Drew Henkels, Jacob Reinstein, James Buran, Jeffrey P. Martell, and Julia Pott. (Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent, Wburg, BK, 8pm, $5) PARTY: Oh! You Pretty Things: KILLER QUEENS <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121458101215953">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121458101215953</a> tix: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/111498">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/111498</a> Michael T, Benjamin Ickies, Shien Lee & Twig the Wonderkid present a musical homage to the brilliant talents of Queen, Roxy Music and David Bowie + Fashion Shows, Burlesque & Live DJs in a FabRock and Roll Dance Party. MC: NC Shuva. LIVE MUSIC: This Ambitious Orchestra (12:30 & 1:30), Michael T and the Vanities (11:30), Judas Priestess: America's All-Girl Tribute to Judas Priest (10:30), .357 Lover (9:30), Sorceress (8:30). FASHION SHOWS (12:30): Berit New York, Renee Masoomian, John Ashford. Late-Nite BURLESQUE: The Flying Fox, Nasta Canasta. GLAMTASTIC DJs: Twig the Wonderkid , Keanan Duffty [Slinky Vagabond], Dj Patrick , Kelle Calco [Colored Boys]. Spin: Glam Rock, Glam Punk and Glam Goth. Hosts: Kayvon Zand, Laura Rebel Angel, Lady Valtronic, Allure. Glam Make-overs: Miss Jayme Jennings. Photo booth: Steven Rosen Photography. Door: Thomas Onorato. Dress Code: Regal, Queenly, Foxy-Roxy, Leather Stache Gay Daddy channeling Freddie Mercury or Rob Halfo rd, Brain Eno asexual fantasies, Ziggy Stardust or Thin White Duke [72-76] Roxy Music Cocktail "space lounge" Chic, Victorian, Futurist, Glam Punk Trash. (The Highline Ballroom, 431 West 16th St, 8pm-4am, $15) ===+++===+++===+++=== MONDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== FOOD: Parked <a href="http://bklynyard.com/mon-may-31st-opening-weekend-parked">http://bklynyard.com/mon-may-31st-opening-weekend-parked</a> The most delicious in NYC food trucks, gathered in one spot. Yum. Including Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream, CravingsNYC, Dessert Truck, Rickshaw Dumplings, Halo Berlin, Pizzamoto, Green Pirate Juice Truck, Steve's Key Lime Pie, Robicelli Cupcakes, & Greenpoint Food Market vendors. (BKLYN Yard, 388 Carroll St bet Bond and Nevins, Gowanus, BK, 12-7pm, FREE, all ages) MUSIC: Green-Wood's 12th Annual Memorial Day Concert <a href="http://www.green-wood.com/store.php/store/category/2/event/40">http://www.green-wood.com/store.php/store/category/2/event/40</a> A concert by the ISO Symphonic Band, featuring select compositions by Green-Wood Cemetery's permanent residents Fred Ebb, Leonard Bernstein, Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Paul Jabara. Bring a folding chair, a blanket and a picnic lunch. Cookout food, snacks and drinks, as well as Historic Fund books and apparel will be for sale. (Green-Wood Cemetery, 25th Street and Fifth Avenue, 2:30 pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== THURSDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== MUSIC: DELTA DREAMBOX <a href="http://www.Barbesbrooklyn.com">http://www.Barbesbrooklyn.com</a> Miss Blood of the Moonlighters leads this blues string band which concentrates on Mississippi Delta Blues from the 1920's-40's, and features material by Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie, Charlie Patton, Bo Carter, Ma Rainey, and other blues greats of the era. (Barbes, corner of 9th St & 6th Ave, Park Slope, BK, 10pm, $10 sugg. donation to band) **MUSIC: Two Man Gentlemen Band & Al Duvall <a href="http://www.two-man-gentlemen-band.com">http://www.two-man-gentlemen-band.com</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/alduvall">http://www.myspace.com/alduvall</a> The Two Man Gentlemen Band is original, old-time, two-man music played at a reasonable volume and a lively pace. Al Duvall plays a mix of Tin Pan Alley, old-timey country and Victorian parlor songs. [G&S note: we LOVE these guys, and they're virtually never in town anymore. Charming & sweet music. We never get tired of it.] (The Jalopy Theater, 9pm-12am, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== UPCOMING [Ticketed events likely to sell out and/or offering presale discounts] ===+++===+++===+++=== PERFORMANCE/ PARTY: Dr. Sketchy's The Art Monkeys Ball <a href="http://www.drsketchy.com/">http://www.drsketchy.com/</a> In the 1920's, Parisian art students and models overtook the streets in the Bal des Qua't'z'Arts. It was a riotous, costumed end-of-the-semester celebration immortalized in Henry and June. The Art Monkey's Ball resurrects the tradition for a new century. The Art Monkey's Ball takes the Dr. Sketchy's cabaret meets art school formula and puts it on overdrive. Artists will draw burlesque queens and aerialists, caged Art Monkeys and dancers covered in little more than paint. Cigarette girls will deal art supplies. Guests will smoke hookah, consume pastel French macaroons and absinthe. Mass games of Exquisite Corpse will be played, art students will become models, and the space will be transformed into an installation, with gigantic Molly Crabapple creatures capering over the walls. (Saturday June 12, The Red Lotus Room, 893 Bergen Street , Gowanus, BK, 6-10pm, $10 if purchased online before June 1/ $15 if purchased online after; $15 at the door in costume; $20 at the door in stre et clothes; $100 VIP tickets available--comes with 2 free vodka drinks, front row table and limited edition 5" x 5" art monkey silkscreen) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== THEATER: Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play <a href="http://epictheatreensemble.org/current-show">http://epictheatreensemble.org/current-show</a> Hailed by the New Yorker's John Lahr as extraordinary, bold, and inventive, Sarah Ruhl's PASSION PLAY takes us behind the scenes of three communities attempting to stage the death and resurrection of Christ. From Queen Elizabeth's England to Hitler's Germany to Reagan's America, Ruhl's exploration of devotion takes us on a humorous yet unsettling journey filled with lust, whimsy, and a lot of fish. (extended thru ?, Irondale Center at the Lafayette Avenue Church, 85 South Oxford Street BK, various times, $22.50-$42.50) THEATER: The Waistmaker's Opera <a href="http://www.downtownart.org/">http://www.downtownart.org/</a> <a href="http://www.fabnyc.org/downtownart.php">http://www.fabnyc.org/downtownart.php</a> In 1909, sparked by events at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, more than twenty thousand garment workers, most of them young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an eleven week strike in New York. The Waistmaker's Opera brings attention to these young women's' accomplishments, their courage, and their extraordinary determination. (thru 5/30, Sat and Sun, Starting at Washington/Greene Streets, ending at Cooper Union,19 East 3rd Street, 12pm and 2:30pm, $15) FILM: Stranger than Fiction Documentary Film Series @ IFC <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/series/stranger-than-fiction/stf-spring-2010/">http://www.ifccenter.com/series/stranger-than-fiction/stf-spring-2010/</a> The hit documentary series celebrates its 13th season at IFC Center, boasting a lineup of sneak previews, tributes and rediscovered classics, with filmmakers in person for post-screening discussions. Organized by Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen. Filmmakers in person at all shows. Check website for film listings. (Thru 6/1, IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave. at W. Third Street, Tuesdays @ 8pm, $16) ART: Mark Ryden: The Gay 90s Old Tyme Art Show <a href="http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2010-04-29_mark-ryden/press-release/">http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2010-04-29_mark-ryden/press-release/</a> An exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by the Los Angeles artist Mark Ryden. This will be Ryden's first significant solo show in New York since 2003. In his hauntingly beautiful and masterfully executed oil paintings, Ryden creates his own contemporary mythologies whose archetypes include fairy tale creatures, historical figures, and pop cultural icons. Seamlessly juxtaposing macabre motifs like meat grinders and disembodied presidents with eye-pleasing ingénues and seductive landscapes, the artist produces a vision of society in which menace and comfort are inseparably interwoven. These labor-intensive canvasses deftly rework centuries of art history, combining the grandeur of Spanish and Italian religious painting with the decorative richness of Old Master compositions and the lush textures of French Neo-Classicism. (thru 6/5, Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 10th Ave at 27th St, FREE) ART: Daniel Merriam <a href="http://www.animazing.com/gallery/emails/merriam2010.html">http://www.animazing.com/gallery/emails/merriam2010.html</a> <a href="http://www.danielmerriam.com/">http://www.danielmerriam.com/</a> 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) DANCE: Le Cirque Feerique <a href="http://www.companyxiv.com">http://www.companyxiv.com</a> <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106445">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106445</a> Step right up to the golden tent! With Le Cirque Feerique, Company XIV will delight and amaze, as they re-imagine your favorite childhood fairy tales as only Austin McCormick and his exquisite troupe can. Don't miss this Baroque confection for all ages, a magical menagerie of opera, dance, theatre and opulent design. McCormick incorporates a myriad of dance styles, fusing Baroque, classical ballet, flamenco, ballroom, contemporary partnering and Indian dance, along with contemporary movement. The show includes an array of music, including pieces by Vivaldi, Aphex Twin, Lady Gaga and Bizet, and features a special guest, the Charites Baroque Opera Trio. This lush extravaganza includes classic fairy tales such as Charles Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella, Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Princess and the Pea, The Brothers Grimm's The Fisherman and His Wife, Munro Leaf's Ferdinand the Bull and more. (thru 6/8, Saturdays 2PM and 7PM, Sundays 2PM and 5PM, Company XIV 303 Bond Theatre, 303 Bond St @ Union st, $30) EXHIBIT: Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters <a href="http://www.japansociety.org">http://www.japansociety.org</a> Showcasing over 130 woodblock prints, GHMM spans the career of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, who died the year our Civil War broke out, but whose explosive panels of blood-lusting warriors, tattooed vagrants, wanton vixens, and acid-trip monsters could pass for cutting-edge comics. Artful violence runs from samurai gangs slashing it out on a castle rooftop, to a giant skeleton attempting to forestall a beheading, to Morozumi Masakiyo Kills Himself with a Landmine...while apparently also thrusting a sword into his mouth. For psychedelic madness, there's Octopus Games, with evil cephalopods brawling, playing instruments, and dancing; Sakata Kaido-maru Wrestles with a Giant Carp; and Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugoro III as the Spirit of the Cat Stone. Perhaps most modern of all, Kuniyoshi produced a small collection of erotic prints, which aren't on display but are presented in the back of the exhibition catalog. (thru 6/13, Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, Tues-Thurs 11am-6pm, Fri 11am-9pm, Sat and Sun 11am-5pm, $12, Fri night FREE) EXHIBIT: Where New York Began - Archaeology at the South Ferry Terminal <a href="http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm">http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm</a> 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) BUY: Brooklyn Indie Market <a href="http://www.brooklynindiemarket.com">http://www.brooklynindiemarket.com</a> Brooklyn Indie Market is a collective of up-and-coming and emerging fashion and product design, made up of designers taking their love of all things handmade into its 3rd season. (Sat 11-7pm/Sun 11-6pm thru Aug, red+white tent, Smith St. between Union and President St, Carroll Gardens, 11am-7pm, FREE) EXHIBIT: American High Style <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/american_high_style/">http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/american_high_style/</a> To mark the new relationship between the Brooklyn Museum and the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum presents an exhibition of some of the most renowned objects from its costume collection. American High Style consists of approximately eighty-five dressed mannequins and a selection of hats, shoes, sketches, and other fashion-related material that will reintroduce the collection, long in storage, to the public. The exhibition is organized in groups representing the most important strengths of the collection. Works by the first generation of American women designers such as Bonnie Cashin, Elizabeth Hawes, and Claire McCardell are featured, as well as material created by Charles James, Norman Norell, Gilbert Adrian, and other important American designers. Also included are works by French designers who had an important influence on American women and fashion, such as Charles Frederick Worth, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jeanne Lanvin, Jeanne Paquin, Ma deleine Vionnet, and Christian Dior. The Metropolitan Museum of Art will celebrate the arrival of the Brooklyn Museum costume collection at the Met with a related exhibition, American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, on view May 5August 15, 2010. (thru 8/1, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Parkway, BK, various times, $10/sugg donation) ART: Instant Gratification The Second Coming of Polaroid <a href="http://www.theimpossibleproject.com">http://www.theimpossibleproject.com</a> There are 300 million Polaroid cameras in the world and zero Polaroid film makers. Until now. An art company called the Impossible Project bought the last Polaroid film factory and this Friday celebrates the return of pre-digital spontaneity with wine, cheese and the only new supply of Polaroid film left for sale. Expect photo shoots that will never be posted on Facebook. (thru Aug 22, The Impossible Project, 425 Broadway, 5th Floor, 3pm, FREE) THEATER: The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street <a href="http://www.horsetrade.info/season11/Haunting.html">http://www.horsetrade.info/season11/Haunting.html</a> Who or what is haunting 85 East 4th Street? The building is considered to be one of the most haunted spots in all of NYC. Its terrible past is riddled with murders, suicides, and horrible deaths, which began even before the present building was erected over a hundred years ago. Sightings of ethereal beings and strange noises, unexplainable occurrences, foul smells and cold spots have made this location familiar to ghost hunters and scientists of the paranormal. It all began in 1882 when the original tenement collapsed, killing 31 Italian immigrants. From then on, the ground itself was said to be cursed. When the current building was erected at the turn of the century, an exorcism was held to rid the building of evil...it didn't work. After a night of terror, the priest left the priesthood. Within a year, the builder's son died falling down the long staircase...and the mother hung herself in what is now the theater. The owner succumbed to madness and still haunts the place. These are only a few of the terrifying characters and incidents Radiotheatre will uncover in The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street, written and directed by Dan Bianchi, and starring Frank Zilinyi and Joe Fellman. When Radiotheatre examined the building's sordid history in 2004, the show sold out its entire run, received a slew of great reviews and was nominated for a number of New York Innovative Theatre Awards including Best Performance Art' and Best Sound Design'. Now, in an all new production with a cast of storytellers, an original orchestral score and a plethora of sound effects, Radiotheatre returns to 85 E. 4th Street to resurrect its restless ghosts. Join Radiotheatre as they uncover the buildings gruesome past and maybe even speak to some of the troubled spirits who still reside there(thru 10/31, The Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street, various times, $20) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== Do you have something to share with our readers or events you'd like to have included in our emails? Did we miss anything? We're always open to suggestions & feedback. Write to us at <a href="mailto:gs@geminiandscorpio.com">gs@geminiandscorpio.com</a> and tell us your thoughts. ===+++===+++===+++=== Subscribe/Unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a>

[G&S]: The afterglow...and weekly listings / help us find a new home!

Fri, 21 May 2010 20:17:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, We've got one thing to say about the House of Scorpio "Lip Service" makeout launch party last night: whee!!!! How freakin' fun was THAT? Not a peep more, no photos, no video -- but we'll do it again next month. Get on the *other* mailing list here: <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> We still need help editing weekly listings...Do YOU want to be our personal listings hero, and help us help thousands plan their weekends? Aside from instant rock star status, you get a sneak peek at upcoming events and can redeem editing credits for admission to our parties. And of course we'll love you forever. If you're willing to give us a few hours of your time, please get in touch with Michelle at virgo > geminiandscorpio -- she'll walk you through all the details. Lastly, but perhaps most importantly, G&S is looking for a permanent home - a large space we can live, work and party in on a regular basis. We're looking off the Q/C/F trains in Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, etc. 1,500sq ft minimum, outdoor space pretty important. Got any leads? Send them our way. if you can help us, you'll get permanent VIP status in our new party palace. 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If this has been forwarded to you: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a> to subscribe for weekly events list, exclusive party invites, giveaways and offers ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== FILM: Migrating Forms <a href="http://migratingforms.org">http://migratingforms.org</a> An annual, ten-day festival dedicated to new film and video, Migrating Forms developed from the New York Underground Film Festival (NYUFF), which ended in April 2008. Led by the former directors and programmers of NYUFF, Migrating Forms continues the tradition of presenting experimental cinema and visual arts film/video. The second annual festival will present new work by more than 62 arts and nine special programs and retrospective screenings. (May 14-23, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave, see site for details) CIRCUS: The Horror Show www.houseofyes.org/events/horror <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115309088504573">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115309088504573</a> Circus meets ballet meets nightmare. Written and directed by Anya Sapozhnikova, the show is built out of darkness, sex and hot jazz. Taking place in New Orleans (specifically at 315 Toulouse St, Halt Cemetery and a 1140 Royal St), set to the whiskey soaked music of the Stumblebum Brass Band, the show follows a love triangle from inception to demise. Unlike previous Lady Circus productions, the dance numbers, choreographed by Brett Lord, are just as death defying as the acrobatics in the air. Consistent with the House of Yes reputation, the show is packed with theatrical feats, bourbon will flow cheaply, and the lines between stage and reality are blurred. Joining longtime Lady Circus members Lori Barber, Jordann Baker and Anya Sapozhnikova, dancers Kathryn van Assche, Megan Hornaday, Nikki Nasto and Brett Lord (known to some as Carrie Ca$h) complete the cast. Live music by Stumblebum Brass Band. (Fri/Sat, House of Yes, 342 Maujer St., BK, 8pm, $20) MUSIC: 2nd Annual Brooklyn Folk Festival <a href="http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/brooklyn-folk-fest">http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/brooklyn-folk-fest</a> This festival will feature the best in old-time music, blues, pre-blues, jug band music, New Orleans jazz, folk style songwriting, Greek, African and Mexican folk music and dance with concerts, workshops, and a Sunday afternoon square dance. (Fri-Sun, Jalopy Theater, 315 Columbia Street, Gowanus/Red Hook, BK, 10pm-12:00am, $15 per day for the main stage evening concerts and workshops or $40 for all three evenings; $5 per day for Saturday afternoon concerts and Sunday afternoon outdoor stage.) PERFORMANCE: The Bushwhack Series <a href="http://www.thebushwickstarr.org/CurrentSeason.html">http://www.thebushwickstarr.org/CurrentSeason.html</a> The Bushwhack Series is a performance festival devoted to the development of new experimental work within the neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn. This annual series celebrates what is unique about our arts community, and serves as a platform to share that with the larger NYC area. Featuring artists as diverse as Reggie Watts and Banana Bag & Bodice theater company. (The Bushwick Starr, 207 Starr Street between Irving + Wyckoff, Bushwick, BK, 8pm, $?) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: Arts in Bushwick/Bushwick Open Studios Preview and Art Sale <a href="http://bos2010.artsinbushwick.org/benefit">http://bos2010.artsinbushwick.org/benefit</a> <a href="http://www.lumenhouse.com">http://www.lumenhouse.com</a> A cash-and-carry art sale and cocktail party featuring 50+ pieces donated by BOS2010 participating artists. All work is under $200 and all proceeds go to support Arts in Bushwick and Bushwick Open Studios 2010. (Lumenhouse, 47 Beaver Street @ Park (L to Morgan, J/M to Flushing), 7:30pm-10pm, FREE) **PERFORMANCE/PARTY: A Fabulous and Feral Fundraiser for the Ninth International Toy Theater Festival <a href="http://www.greatsmallworks.org">http://www.greatsmallworks.org</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113466888690705">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113466888690705</a> An evening in two parts. Part One, The Fabulous: CHAMPAGNE CABARET. Splendid Spectacle and Top Notch Noshing. Performances by: Margaret Leng Tan, Queen of the Toy Piano. Clare Dolan, puppeteer extraordinaire. Rima Fand, luminous violinist and vocalist. AND--Great Small Works. (One Arm Red, 10 Jay St, DUMBO, BK, 7pm, $50). Part Two, The Feral: DANCE YOUR FUNKIN' BRASS OFF! DJs and Live Bands: Slavic Soul Party, Fiery Balkan brass, hip-grinding American grooves, and ecstatic anthems both new and old: just what its name says. Debo Band, Boston's 11 piece Ethio-groove collective. Spanglish Fly, a spicy musical dish comprised of bugaloo, Latin soul and shingaling. Hungry March Band, Brooklyn's own legendary street brass marching band. DJ Dusty Walker. (St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water Street, DUMBO, BK, 10pm-2am, $15 adv incl a drink / $20 door). Both events: $60. PARTY: Quiet Colors Magic Wedding <a href="http://quietcolor.com/qc/?p=4031#more-4031">http://quietcolor.com/qc/?p=4031#more-4031</a> Your presence is cordially requested to witness the official union of Miss Katie Kristine Darling and David Randall Sherman. You may think you know the drill, you've been to weddings before, but we guarantee you'll never be a part of one as magical as this. Live bands and magicians will entrance and engage you while love and refreshments abound! Your attendance makes you a member of the wedding PARTY, as we go all-out to send away the happy couple in truly sensational and jovial fashion. Monster Island Basement will be transformed into the ultimate wedding reception featuring live performances kicked off by QC house band The Prenups, followed by Sunglasses, Carnivores & Swimming In Speakers. ensuring that the dance party runs deep into the night. In between acts, professional magicians and wondrous emcee Eric Walton will keep us enchanted until the grand marriage. Following the ceremony by an actual ordained minister, Project Jenny/Project Jan will blast us with dance tunes t hrough the AM! Admire the wedding decor, enjoy drinks with the happy couple, and bring all your friends to partake in holy matrimonial fun. (Monster Island Basement, 128 River St @ Metropolitan Ave, W'burg, 8PM, All Ages, $10) PARTY: Rooftop party Live music: ROOSEVELT DIME - 10 pm - Americana tunes. MESCHIYA LAKE AND DEM LITTLE BIG HORNS - 11 pm - New Orleans tunes. NO SMALL MONEY BRASS BAND - midnight - Ghanian brass tunes. (8th Fl Roof, 170 Tillary near Flatbush, 10pm-2am, FREE/donation to bands) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== SPORT: Punk Rope Games <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109052982450457">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109052982450457</a> EVENTS: Styrofoam Javelin Throw, Double Unders, Arm Cross, Spoons, Long Rope, Punk-Ups, Knitting Circle , Rubber Chicken Toss, Around the Bases Relay. AWARDS CEREMONY & BBQ Immediately following the Games @ The Gibson, 108 Bedford Ave @ N. 11th St. BBQ (cheap dogs & burgers, veggie & regular). Iced coffee courtesy of The Beaner Bar. Coconut water courtesy of VitaCoco. (Softball Field #1, McCarren Park, N. 12th & Bedford, W'burg, BK, 10:30am - 4:00pm, FREE) ART: "Desire" Group Art Exhibition <a href="http://www.desiregroupshow.blogspot.com">http://www.desiregroupshow.blogspot.com</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119244138087709">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119244138087709</a> A wildly talented and eclectic group of artists come together to give their unique and thought provoking perspectives on desire. We will converge upon a swanky red suite in the Chelsea Hotel and transform it into a luscious rich jungle of art. We will fill every crevice in the space with a wide array of art, even the bathtub will host an installation. Expect to be moved, dazzled, inspired, and in awe by what they present to you at this show. The work will be informed by the artists' unique and diverse set of inﬂuences and backgrounds spanning taxidermy, sculpture, fashion, ﬁlm, architecture, photography, installation, performance art, and graphic design. Note: There is limited space capacity in the suite. If you arrive and there is a large group in the space, you may have to wait for a few minutes in the lobby utnil the space clears. (The Chelsea Hotel, Suite 1024, 222 West 23rd St, 11am-7pm, FREE) EVENT: Sixth Annual Bicycle Fetish Day <a href="http://www.cityreliquary.org/6th-annual-bicycle-fetish-day-saturday-may-22nd-2010/">http://www.cityreliquary.org/6th-annual-bicycle-fetish-day-saturday-may-22nd-2010/</a> It's a block party for your bicycle: biking activities, bike competitions, bike rides, bicycle advocacy groups and artists selling their wares, BBQ grill and more. Contests include: Best Vintage Bike, Best Shiny Bike, Best Family Bike, Best Mutant Bike, Best in Show and much more! Win great bike prizes donated by: Outlier Tailored Performance, Velo Brooklyn Bushwick Bike Shop, Bicycle Doctor, and not just one, but two free bikes from NYC Bikes and Trek Bikes. Performances by: Apocalypse Five and Dime, Heels on Wheels, DJ Stacher & Dirtyfinger. After party 6-10pm at the City Reliquary with Brooklyn Beers for sale and ran dance tunes spun by DJ Tinseltown. (Havemeyer st btwn Grand and Metropolitan aves, W'burg, BK, Noon 6pm, FREE; Afterparty at the city Reliquary, 6 10pm, 370 Metropolitan Ave, FREE) ***PARTICIPATORY: Dance Parade & Festival <a href="http://www.danceparade.org">http://www.danceparade.org</a> The fourth annual New York City Dance Parade will bring over 6000 dancers, 164 organizations and over 65 unique styles and disciplines of dance to the streets of Manhattan in celebration of culture, community and the art of movement. All are invited to join this kid-friendly event intended to unite, but also raise awareness of the importance of dance in the community. Registered dance groups range from ballet to belly dance, B-boy to the rumba, and from salsa to swing. In addition to the dance companies and individual dancers, colorful floats, live bands and DJs will waltz, tango and pirouette down the parade route. The event culimates with DanceFest, a free festival offering performances on two stages, dance lessons, workshops and social dancing throughout the basketball courts. (Broadway from 21st St to Tompkins Square Park, Parade 1pm - 3pm, Festival in Tompkins Square Park 3pm - 7pm, FREE) FOOD/MUSIC: 5th Annual Scott Joplin BBQ & Celebration <a href="http://www.stmichaelscemetery.com">http://www.stmichaelscemetery.com</a> American Songbook composer / "King of Ragtime" Scott Joplin was interred at St. Michael's Cemetery on April 5th, 1917. FREE Barbeque and Music. Vince Giordano & his Nighthawks, eleven-piece band playing music of the 1920s & '30s for your dancing & picnic pleasure. (St. Michael's Cemetery, 72-02 Astoria Blvd, Queens, FREE) PARTY: 3rd Ward's 4th Birthday BBQ <a href="http://www.3rdward.com/events">http://www.3rdward.com/events</a> To celebrate our 4th BDay, we're flooding our space, inside and out, with live music, cheap BBQ and summer drinks, art, crafts, screen-printing (bring your tees), free workshops and synchronized biking. Featuring live music from Pink Noise, Stumblebum Brass Band, Hank & Cupcakes, Naked Hearts, DJ Drew Heffron, and DJ Sirlinda, and a VJ battle from Moviehouse. Also, enjoy bike blended libations from the Band of Bicycles and more. Plus, this marks the first anniversary of our Free Bikes program. Local bike organizations will join us with treats, tune-ups and competitions. (3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave, Bushwick, BK, 2pm, FREE) PARTY: Sliding Down Maslow's Pyramid (Two Stage Party) Join us for a experimental 12 hour journey in fulfilling our needs. We will start at the top of Maslow's pyramid, strap on our downhill ski's and let gravity take us down. 1. We'll start the journey with Creativity, Morality, Spontaneity, lack of prejudice and more intimate community. Collaborative live painting on canvas and de-robed bodies, art gallery opening of photography, collages & prints starting as low as $20. Free Back yard BBQ or bring your own to grill. Performance art. Professional hair cuts, Church of Pop installation alter. 2. We will then transition into the lower pyramid by increasing our self confidence and fulfilling the more basic of our physical needs. House Party with Prima Primo, Raccoon Fighter, full art body & face painting, photobooth, housemade artisan beers, late night pillow pools. Women receive 3 free kiss tickets, redeemable after 12. Free Rolling Rock- 9-10:30pm. (Page Not Found space, RSVP to <a href="mailto:pagenotfoundspace@gmail.com">pagenotfoundspace@gmail.com</a> for exact address, off the L, Top Pyramid 5pm-9pm, FREE; Bottom Pyramid 9pm-5am, $15 or $10 with password "GS") PARTY: RoxanneLola MovementMachine Spring Fundraiser <a href="http://web.mac.com/aazuerner/Roxann_Lola_Movement_Machine/RoxanneLola_MovementMachine.html">http://web.mac.com/aazuerner/Roxann_Lola_Movement_Machine/RoxanneLola_MovementMachine.html</a> Featuring DJ duo The Heathered Greys/Balkan rhythms by Raya Brass Band/Experimental movers Launch Movement Experiment/Post-modern dance vixen Deborah Karp/a preview of RoxanneLola's Surrounded with live music by Porcelain Skyline/Hula Hoops/Twister/and more. All drinks included. (St. Cecilia's Convent, 22 Monitor St btw Herbert and Richardson, L to Graham Ave, 8pm, $20 sugg don, no one turned away for lack of funds) PARTY: Dance Dance Library Revolution <a href="http://thedeskset.org/?p=1670">http://thedeskset.org/?p=1670</a> Your chance to GIVE a paperback dictionary or thesaurus, GET a complimentary drink courtesy of Enid's, DANCE your tail off, and WIN amazing prizes in the Four-Eyes Raffle. The party is a community-based labor of love in memory of our friend Carlos Alvarez, who passed away last summer. A passionate believer in prisoners' rights and access to information, Carlos had hoped to DJ the next DDLR. In his stead, DJs Mr. Jonathan Toubin from New York Night Train, Fine Wine from WFMU, Megan Awesome, Jimmy T, and Jason Andrews are spinning all night long, and donating their fees to the Books Through Bars cause in Carlos's name. (Enids, 560 Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint, BK, 10pm, FREE) PARTY: Thunder Gumbo: Bollywood Adventure <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118627334843266">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118627334843266</a> The Story: After the uprising on Dr. Moreau's Holiday Island, Dr. Adventure narrowly escaped imprisonment from the mutant manimals. He crafted a small raft using bamboo and the hides of his slain guards, and sailed West. As luck would have it, he was rescued by Bollywood Superstar Amitabh Bachchan's mega-yacht. They cordially invited the sunburned Dr. on board and partied all the way to Bombay. The Doc was clearly in need of a celebration, so he convinced Amitabh to let us party on a palatial Bollywood film set- conveniently located in the heart of Williamsburg. A veritable pantheon of Indian celebrities shall be attending, therefore an RSVP will be required to attend this party. Expect banging Bhangra and subcontinental sounds by: DJ Sonu, Joro Boro, Geko Jones, DJ Shakey, DJ Barney Iller & Thunder Gumbo resident DJ Morphous. Costume suggestions: Bollywood glitterati, Hindu gods, sacred cows, British imperialists, yogi's, fakir's, Indian pop stars, royalty, untouchables...An d will you be pleased to meet: Sitar and tabla players; A Bollywood film set; On site technical support call center; Authentic peasant toilet; Sacred cows; Blue body painting. Free Indian buffet from 10-11pm. (RSVP to <a href="mailto:ThunderGumbo@gmail.com">ThunderGumbo@gmail.com</a> for W'burg (Lorimer stop) location and password, to be revealed Saturday, 10pm til your next lifetime, $10 in costume, $15 in Western clothes) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== MUSIC: Thee Majesty <a href="http://www.issueprojectroom.org">http://www.issueprojectroom.org</a> Genesis P-Orridge's provocative and heart-wrenching 'cut-up' narratives will be underscored by Bryan Dall's guitar, sample soundscapes, noise elements and tabla beats. Thee Majesty began in 1998 as a spoken word project, originally founded by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and Bryin Dall of 4th Sign of the Apocalypse, A Murder of Angels and Dreams Into Dust. Featuring P-Orridge, Thee Majesty is made up of a revolving group of members including Morrison Edley of Psychic TV. (The (OA) Can Factory, 232 3rd St at 3rd Ave, Gowanus, BK, 5 pm, $10) ***PARTY: Lick This: A Benefit for Sparky's Wheel of Tesla <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118247984862509">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118247984862509</a> In 1893, Nikola Tesla debuted polyphase electrical power, revolutionizing the safety and efficiency of electrical transmission. We're going to completely disregard his advancements, and encourage you to come get your cheap thrills with the help of some arcane electrical equipment and pretty lab assistants. So dust off your mad scientist finery, and don your tinfoil hat. Get a shot and a shock, a ride in the electric chair, or visit the battery licking station. Proceeds will go to building Sparky's Wheel of Tesla!, an interactive installation that will be part of Figment's season long sculpture garden on Governor's Island. [G&S note: you'll find us here in white lab coats, ready to shock you personally. Fun with electricity and alcohol, how could we resist!] (East River Bar, 97 S. 6th St, W'burg, BK, 6-11pm, $5) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== PERFORMANCE: The Very Best of Penny Arcade <a href="https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/730995">https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/730995</a> Catch this veritable sampler of the landmark, expansive and genre pushing work of the Queen of Downtown Underground Performance -- Penny Arcade. A funny and insightful new evening of seamlessly integrated selections from her most acclaimed works. Celebrates 25 years of take-no-prisoner performances including Old Queen, Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore, Bad Reputation and New York Values. Her first ever "Greatest Hits" show. (Saturdays thru 5/22, Laurie Beechman Theatre, 407 West 42nd St, 7:30pm, $20 + $15 food/drink minimum) THEATER: Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play <a href="http://epictheatreensemble.org/current-show">http://epictheatreensemble.org/current-show</a> Hailed by the New Yorker's John Lahr as extraordinary, bold, and inventive, Sarah Ruhl's PASSION PLAY takes us behind the scenes of three communities attempting to stage the death and resurrection of Christ. From Queen Elizabeth's England to Hitler's Germany to Reagan's America, Ruhl's exploration of devotion takes us on a humorous yet unsettling journey filled with lust, whimsy, and a lot of fish. (thru 5/30, Irondale Center at the Lafayette Avenue Church, 85 South Oxford Street BK, various times, $22.50-$42.50) THEATER: The Waistmaker's Opera <a href="http://www.downtownart.org/">http://www.downtownart.org/</a> <a href="http://www.fabnyc.org/downtownart.php">http://www.fabnyc.org/downtownart.php</a> In 1909, sparked by events at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, more than twenty thousand garment workers, most of them young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an eleven week strike in New York. The Waistmaker's Opera brings attention to these young women's' accomplishments, their courage, and their extraordinary determination. (thru 5/30, Sat and Sun, Starting at Washington/Greene Streets, ending at Cooper Union,19 East 3rd Street, 12pm and 2:30pm, $15) FILM: Stranger than Fiction Documentary Film Series @ IFC <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/series/stranger-than-fiction/stf-spring-2010/">http://www.ifccenter.com/series/stranger-than-fiction/stf-spring-2010/</a> The hit documentary series celebrates its 13th season at IFC Center, boasting a lineup of sneak previews, tributes and rediscovered classics, with filmmakers in person for post-screening discussions. Organized by Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen. Filmmakers in person at all shows. Check website for film listings. (Thru 6/1, IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave. at W. Third Street, Tuesdays @ 8pm, $16) ART: Mark Ryden: The Gay 90s Old Tyme Art Show <a href="http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2010-04-29_mark-ryden/press-release/">http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2010-04-29_mark-ryden/press-release/</a> An exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by the Los Angeles artist Mark Ryden. This will be Ryden's first significant solo show in New York since 2003. In his hauntingly beautiful and masterfully executed oil paintings, Ryden creates his own contemporary mythologies whose archetypes include fairy tale creatures, historical figures, and pop cultural icons. Seamlessly juxtaposing macabre motifs like meat grinders and disembodied presidents with eye-pleasing ingénues and seductive landscapes, the artist produces a vision of society in which menace and comfort are inseparably interwoven. These labor-intensive canvasses deftly rework centuries of art history, combining the grandeur of Spanish and Italian religious painting with the decorative richness of Old Master compositions and the lush textures of French Neo-Classicism. (thru 6/5, Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 10th Ave at 27th St, FREE) ART: Daniel Merriam <a href="http://www.animazing.com/gallery/emails/merriam2010.html">http://www.animazing.com/gallery/emails/merriam2010.html</a> <a href="http://www.danielmerriam.com/">http://www.danielmerriam.com/</a> 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) DANCE: Le Cirque Feerique <a href="http://www.companyxiv.com">http://www.companyxiv.com</a> <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106445">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106445</a> Step right up to the golden tent! With Le Cirque Feerique, Company XIV will delight and amaze, as they re-imagine your favorite childhood fairy tales as only Austin McCormick and his exquisite troupe can. Don't miss this Baroque confection for all ages, a magical menagerie of opera, dance, theatre and opulent design. McCormick incorporates a myriad of dance styles, fusing Baroque, classical ballet, flamenco, ballroom, contemporary partnering and Indian dance, along with contemporary movement. The show includes an array of music, including pieces by Vivaldi, Aphex Twin, Lady Gaga and Bizet, and features a special guest, the Charites Baroque Opera Trio. This lush extravaganza includes classic fairy tales such as Charles Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella, Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Princess and the Pea, The Brothers Grimm's The Fisherman and His Wife, Munro Leaf's Ferdinand the Bull and more. (thru 6/8, Saturdays 2PM and 7PM, Sundays 2PM and 5PM, Company XIV 303 Bond Theatre, 303 Bond St @ Union st, $30) EXHIBIT: Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters <a href="http://www.japansociety.org">http://www.japansociety.org</a> Showcasing over 130 woodblock prints, GHMM spans the career of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, who died the year our Civil War broke out, but whose explosive panels of blood-lusting warriors, tattooed vagrants, wanton vixens, and acid-trip monsters could pass for cutting-edge comics. Artful violence runs from samurai gangs slashing it out on a castle rooftop, to a giant skeleton attempting to forestall a beheading, to Morozumi Masakiyo Kills Himself with a Landmine...while apparently also thrusting a sword into his mouth. For psychedelic madness, there's Octopus Games, with evil cephalopods brawling, playing instruments, and dancing; Sakata Kaido-maru Wrestles with a Giant Carp; and Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugoro III as the Spirit of the Cat Stone. Perhaps most modern of all, Kuniyoshi produced a small collection of erotic prints, which aren't on display but are presented in the back of the exhibition catalog. (thru 6/13, Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, Tues-Thurs 11am-6pm, Fri 11am-9pm, Sat and Sun 11am-5pm, $12, Fri night FREE) EXHIBIT: Where New York Began - Archaeology at the South Ferry Terminal <a href="http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm">http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm</a> 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) BUY: Brooklyn Indie Market <a href="http://www.brooklynindiemarket.com">http://www.brooklynindiemarket.com</a> Brooklyn Indie Market is a collective of up-and-coming and emerging fashion and product design, made up of designers taking their love of all things handmade into its 3rd season. (Sat 11-7pm/Sun 11-6pm thru Aug, red+white tent, Smith St. between Union and President St, Carroll Gardens, 11am-7pm, FREE) EXHIBIT: American High Style <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/american_high_style/">http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/american_high_style/</a> To mark the new relationship between the Brooklyn Museum and the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum presents an exhibition of some of the most renowned objects from its costume collection. American High Style consists of approximately eighty-five dressed mannequins and a selection of hats, shoes, sketches, and other fashion-related material that will reintroduce the collection, long in storage, to the public. The exhibition is organized in groups representing the most important strengths of the collection. Works by the first generation of American women designers such as Bonnie Cashin, Elizabeth Hawes, and Claire McCardell are featured, as well as material created by Charles James, Norman Norell, Gilbert Adrian, and other important American designers. Also included are works by French designers who had an important influence on American women and fashion, such as Charles Frederick Worth, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jeanne Lanvin, Jeanne Paquin, Ma deleine Vionnet, and Christian Dior. The Metropolitan Museum of Art will celebrate the arrival of the Brooklyn Museum costume collection at the Met with a related exhibition, American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, on view May 5August 15, 2010. (thru 8/1, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Parkway, BK, various times, $10/sugg donation) ART: Instant Gratification The Second Coming of Polaroid <a href="http://www.theimpossibleproject.com">http://www.theimpossibleproject.com</a> There are 300 million Polaroid cameras in the world and zero Polaroid film makers. Until now. An art company called the Impossible Project bought the last Polaroid film factory and this Friday celebrates the return of pre-digital spontaneity with wine, cheese and the only new supply of Polaroid film left for sale. Expect photo shoots that will never be posted on Facebook. 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[G&S]: Sunday's Bruncha Libre a TimeOut pick / House of Scorpio launch party next Thursday

Fri, 14 May 2010 21:00:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, Have you RSVP'd for Bruncha Libre on Sunday? If you're coming, please let us know by tomorrow morning, as we'll be doing our food shopping in the afternoon. Oh and did you see? The event has once again been picked by TimeOut as part of "Your perfect Weekend" - <a href="http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/80781/things-to-do-in-nyc-this-weekend/3.html">http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/80781/things-to-do-in-nyc-this-weekend/3.html</a> - hooray! In case you missed it yesterday, we are officially launching House of Scorpio, the kinkier side of G&S. We sometimes get word of events that are not appropriate for the general list, and we've been wanting to branch out into creative "adult" parties for a while, too...so this will be where you find it all in the future. As a taste of what's to come, we're listing our first HoS party below, but all future events will go out via the new list. Subscribe at <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> -- and get on the new FB group here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=259688232814">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=259688232814</a> Cheers, Gemini & Scorpio Online Dating Gurus and Offline Party Mavens <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com</a> FB group: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook">http://tinyurl.com/gs-facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</a> YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio">http://www.youtube.com/user/geminiandscorpio</a> Please forward along to friends! If this has been forwarded to you: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a> to subscribe for weekly events list, exclusive party invites, giveaways and offers ==+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 5/16 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present Bruncha Libre Sunday, May 16, 1-5pm, $10 door / $10 food (optional), all ages Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary - Reserve on site for location RSVP: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122522157762020">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122522157762020</a> Brunch freedom is here! Freedom from long lines, harried waiters, and the feeling that they really wish you'd hurry up already. How about a catered brunch by our favorite chef in a sprawling sunlit private loft instead, served up with hot jazz and chilled cocktails? Enjoy a leisurely meal, relax on a couch or get up and dance on our sprung wood dance floor. This month: Tin Pan Band lays it on thick with their sultry renditions of New Orleans spirituals and every day drinking songs. Reserve online to get the loft location. Event repeats every 3rd Sunday of the month. Please tip the entertainers generously ($5-10 suggested). Kitchen closes 4:30pm. Hi res press photos: <a href="http://tinpanbluesband.com/wordpress/?page_id=546">http://tinpanbluesband.com/wordpress/?page_id=546</a> ==+++===+++===+++=== HOUSE OF SCORPIO LAUNCH EVENT: 5/20 ===+++===+++===+++=== House of Scorpio presents Lip Service Thursday, May 20, 8pm-12am, $5 w/RSVP; $10 without, 21+ Madame X, 94 W. Houston bet Thompson and LaGuardia Please arrive with a PAL and be familiar with our Code of Conduct Details & RSVP: <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> FB event: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121117191251312">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121117191251312</a> A kickstart makeout party to celebrate the launch of House of Scorpio, the kinkier side of Gemini & Scorpio, and the imminent NYC arrival of Kinky Salon, San Francisco's most fun play party. Bring your best lips (yours and your PAL's), and join us for lubricating cocktails and naughty games with sexy friends and intriguing strangers. Let's get to know each other better before getting down and dirty at the first Kinky Salon next month. Foreplay happy hour 8-9pm with $4 beer and $5 cocktails. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== THEATER: Shakespeare's Richard II <a href="http://www.sonnetrepertorytheatre.org">http://www.sonnetrepertorytheatre.org</a> <a href="http://www.matchbookproductions.org">http://www.matchbookproductions.org</a> Re-imagined as a tale told by 19th Century artists railing against Imperialism, Richard II brings an uncommon aspect to the play: flight. Eight actors, five low-flying trapezes, and live music combine to raise the language of Shakespeare to new heights. (Fri/Sun/Mon 7pm, Sun 3pm, The Tank, 354 W. 45th St. bet 8th and 9th, $15) ART: SONYA Studio Stroll <a href="http://www.sonyaonline.org">http://www.sonyaonline.org</a> The Stroll is a self-guided tour of SONYArtist members' studios and galleries within our community including Ft. Greene, Clinton Hill, Wallabout and the western edge of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. (Sat/Sun, 12pm-6pm, FREE, rain or shine) CIRCUS: The NYC Aerial Dance Festival 2010 <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101602716551372">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101602716551372</a> tix: www.theatermania.com Fly-by-Night Dance Theater announces this year's festival - a show that presents Aerial Dance as Concert Dance in works that push the boundaries of both. The performance will include dancers in silks, lyra, straps, bungee, corde lisse, and trapeze. Featured Aerial Guests: Above and Beyond Dance, Akim Funk Buddha's with Ruby and Stephanie Hope, Amanda Goble, General Mischief Dance Theatre/Emily Smyth Vartanian & Andrea Skurr, Heather Hammond / Helium Aerial Dance, Kristin Young, tick tock dance. (Sat 8:30pm, Sun 7pm, Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Family Auditorium @ The JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at West 76th St, $25 adv / $35 door) PERFORMANCE: Tiny Theater <a href="http://www.bricktheater.com/tiny">http://www.bricktheater.com/tiny</a> Tiny Theater is a performance festival that aims to include theater, dance, multi-media, puppetry, etc. Works are no longer than 10 minutes and are presented festival style in a 6' x 6' x 6' box constructed of PVC pipeperformers and scenic elements must not exist outside the box at any point during each piece. The festival is presented by The Brick, and was originally presented by the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator. (PROGRAM A: 8pm Friday the 14th/10pm Saturday the 15th; PROGRAM B: 10pm Friday the 14th/8pm Saturday the 15th, The Brick, 575 Metropolitan, W'burg, BK, $18 for either program/ $30 for both) PERFORMANCE/MULTIMEDIA: Derrick Adams: Go Stand Next To The Mountain & Narcissister: This Masquerade <a href="http://www.thekitchen.org/event/203/0/1/">http://www.thekitchen.org/event/203/0/1/</a> Visual and performance artist Derrick Adams presents the premiere of Go Stand Next To The Mountain, a suite of live performances exploring the complex relationships between man and monuments. With an original music score and a live DJ set as the soundtrack, the evening evolves through masquerade, dance, sound, video projection, and sculptural installation, incorporating divergent pop culture references, ranging from 1970s educational television to the film Clash of the Titans to Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child" lyrics. Narcissister creates absurd and playful, neo-burlesque vignettes exploring the relationships among race, gender, and sexuality. For This Masquerade, she debuts a new series of perfomances alongside her cast of masked cohorts to offer up a complex and riotous critique of popular culture's spurious ideas about black femininity. (Fri/Sat, The Kitchen, 512 West 19th St, 8pm, $10) FEST: Steampunk World's Fair <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155405365759">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155405365759</a> <a href="http://www.SteampunkWorldsFair.com">http://www.SteampunkWorldsFair.com</a> A full-scale, all-weekend-long event devoted to the Steampunk world. We have musical performances (including the esteemed Professor Elemental and the amazing HUMANWINE, as well as Black Tape For A Blue girl, Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys, The Absinthe Drinkers, Matt DeBlass, G.D. Falksen, Psyche Corporation, and a list that just goes on and on and on until you begin to realize that we have the finest collection of Steampunk music in the world!), salons and workshops and discussions and wicked lounges and people like photographer Kyle Cassidy of "Who Killed Amanda Palmer" fame, at least one Grand Ball of extraordinary proportions, and s lovely Tea. Steamy artisans and vendors of extraordinary skill. A Lovecraftian Murder Mystery Dinner is available as well. [G&S note: out in scary Jersey. But we thought you should know.] (Fri-Sun, Radisson Hotel, Pisscataway, NJ, see site for details) FILM: Migrating Forms <a href="http://migratingforms.org">http://migratingforms.org</a> An annual, ten-day festival dedicated to new film and video, Migrating Forms developed from the New York Underground Film Festival (NYUFF), which ended in April 2008. Led by the former directors and programmers of NYUFF, Migrating Forms continues the tradition of presenting experimental cinema and visual arts film/video. The second annual festival will present new work by more than 62 arts and nine special programs and retrospective screenings. (May 14-23, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave, see site for details) CIRCUS: The Horror Show www.houseofyes.org/events/horror <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115309088504573">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115309088504573</a> Circus meets ballet meets nightmare. Written and directed by Anya Sapozhnikova, the show is built out of darkness, sex and hot jazz. Taking place in New Orleans (specifically at 315 Toulouse St, Halt Cemetery and a 1140 Royal St), set to the whiskey soaked music of the Stumblebum Brass Band, the show follows a love triangle from inception to demise. Unlike previous Lady Circus productions, the dance numbers, choreographed by Brett Lord, are just as death defying as the acrobatics in the air. Consistent with the House of Yes reputation, the show is packed with theatrical feats, bourbon will flow cheaply, and the lines between stage and reality are blurred. Joining longtime Lady Circus members Lori Barber, Jordann Baker and Anya Sapozhnikova, dancers Kathryn van Assche, Megan Hornaday, Nikki Nasto and Brett Lord (known to some as Carrie Ca$h) complete the cast. Live music by Stumblebum Brass Band. (Fri/Sat; Thurs-Sat next week, House of Yes, 342 Maujer St., BK, 8pm, $20) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: Willoughby Windows v2.0 <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107643805944616">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107643805944616</a> After a phenomenal debut, Ad Hoc Art and Metrotech BID have again partnered to bring forth another grouping of innovative artists for a second rendition of the initiative titled Willoughby Windows. Willoughby Windows transforms 13 vacant storefronts into a street level gallery that brings art direct to the community. Over 13 accomplished artists with roots in the street art movement have created their site-specific works for this project. This network of visual experiences helps redefine how people visiting, working, and living in Downtown Brooklyn think about and interact with their environment during a time of great transition. Artists include: C. Damage, Chris Mendoza & Pablo Power, Daryll Peirce, Faust, Hellbent, Jef Aerosol, Joe Iurato, Laura Lee, LogikOne, Ron English, Skewville, and Thundercut. (106 Willoughby St, Bushwick, BK, 2-6pm, FREE) VARIETY: The Feast of Little Ax Broadnax <a href="http://mccarrenhall.org/">http://mccarrenhall.org/</a> The Feast will be a performance dinner for 50 guests. In honor of this evening's beacon, gospel singer Willmer "Little Ax" Broadnax, old school gender rebel and one of the "Kings of the gospel highway", all servers and performers will be in their most decked out dragtime attire. Performances will take place as an integral part of your dinner experience. The feast will be prepared by master chef Laurel Bell. This evening is being hosted by the Konbit Shelter project, a sustainable rebuilding project which aims to build structures for the earth quake affected community of Fondwa, Haiti this coming June. This is an intimate event. You *must* RSVP to Heather Macionus: <a href="mailto:hmacionus@gmail.com">hmacionus@gmail.com</a> (McCarren Hall, location with RSVP, Wburg, BK, 7pm, $30) FILM: Rooftop Films Opening Night <a href="http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/2-this-is-what-we-mean-by-short-films">http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/2-this-is-what-we-mean-by-short-films</a> Rooftop opens our 14th year of "Underground Movies Outdoors" with our annual program of some of the most unique and astonishing cinema in the world. At Rooftop, we love small stories that represent the big picture, personal cinema that speaks to everyone, dynamic low-budget films that pack the wallop of the grandest features. The films we show address important cultural and political issues with the daring opinions of emerging artists. These fantastic short films are filled with ideas that are as sharp as anything you'll see in a feature film, but get their message across in a hurry using innovation, originality and outlandish creativity. (Open Road Rooftop above New Design High School, 350 Grand St., 8pm, $10) FOOD/MUSIC: Dances of Vice: Shanghai Foxtrot No.3 <a href="http://www.dancesofvice.com">http://www.dancesofvice.com</a> Shien Lee and Grandpa Musselman & His Syncopators present the Shanghai Foxtrot band, performing live Chinese jazz, blues and swing at China1 in a monthly series of vintage dinner parties. Enjoy delicious dim sum and cocktails in a gorgeous setting reminiscent of 1920s Shanghai. Seating is limited for guests wishing to dine and watch the show from 8:30pm, so reservations between 7-8:30 are recommended (212-375-0665). The Uptown Purr will be vending vintage clothing, accessories and curios at the event. (China 1 Antique Restaurant & Lounge, 50 Avenue B, 8-11:30pm, $5 or FREE w/ Dining Reservation) PARTY:Night of a Thousand Stevies 20: Sisters of The Moon <a href="http://www.mothernyc.com/stevie">http://www.mothernyc.com/stevie</a> THE JACKIE FACTORY's 20th annual NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STEVIES. This year's moonlit, milestone edition was inspired by one of Stevie's most enduring and iconic songs, SISTERS OF THE MOON. This year's bill features Legends of Stevie Realness from all eras of the show, and honors them all, our Sisters (and Brothers) of the Moon. "Enchantresses of Ceremony" CHI CHI VALENTI and HATTIE HATHAWAY will introduce this staggering cast: Returning performers are BELLADONNA (CALIFORNIA), SHERRY VINE, JUSTIN BOND, THE HO-HOS, GYPSY WILDE, JAZMEN FLOWERS (MISSISSIPI), SWEETIE, ADAM DUGAS, AMBER MARTIN & MIA THEODORATUS, HEATHER LITTEER, CHARLENE CORAN (COLORADO), ST. EVE, BILLY O, POISON EVE, THE DIVINE GRACE, VELOCITY CHYALDD, BELLA LUNA, MISS KELLY WEBB, JONNY TINGLE, BROOKE MCMAHAN (FLORIDA), VANGELINE THEATER, DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA, MACHINE DAZZLE, PAIGE STEVENSON and AMBER RAY. New performers: JULIE MYERS aka NEARLY NICKS (CANADA) who performs Stevie in varied venues from Las Vegas to T oronto, THE PEARL DANDY (UK) a British Asian singer-songwriter from East London, hometown Dragstar GUSTY WINDS and chanteuse ERICKATOURE AVIANCE. Also making her NOTS debut this year is the director/choreographer RACHEL KLEIN, who will create the opening number with her theater company RACHEL KLEIN PRODUCTIONS. Our all-Stevie, all-Fleetwood DJs are the much-loved CRAIG SPENCER and POISON EVE, with a set by NOTS co-producer JOHNNY DYNELL, who has created many of our special show mixes through the years. Suggested Dress: Moon Goddess, Enchanted Eveningwear, Black Widow Spider Effects, Beribboned and Bedecked Tambourines, Wiccan Glamour, Wrapped in Velvet, Important Platform Boots, White Winged Dove After Midnight, Moonstones and Moon Motifs, Lindsey Or John McVie Pagan Menswear, Black Robes Trailing, Silver Threaded Shawls, Cloaks and Cokespoons or Your Personal Best Stevie Nicks Realness, All Eras. (Highline Ballroom, 9pm, presale sold out, $25 at door first come first served, all ages) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== COMMUNITY: Tree Education & The Rites of Spring <a href="http://www.theoldstonehouse.org">http://www.theoldstonehouse.org</a> Tree education and tree bed gardening. Also, Vandra Thorburn will introduce a revolutionary way of handling food waste based on the Japanese method of fermenting organic matter called bokashi. 1 pm - 11th Annual Puppeteers Cooperative Rites of Spring. A giant puppet pageant in which Spring has a fling with Winter, and a large field of dandelions becomes completely hysterical. (Old Stone House, 336 Third St. at Fifth Avenue, 10 am 2 pm, FREE) MUSIC: Wall to Wall Behind the Wall <a href="http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6005-wall-to-wall-behind-the-wall">http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6005-wall-to-wall-behind-the-wall</a> As Symphony Space's first international Wall to Wall marathon, Wall to Wall Behind the Wall explores the wealth of great music emanating from Eastern Europe from the end of World War I through the Cold War to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. During this complicated time, music commissioned by the state for propaganda was counterbalanced by music of protest, some of which was subtly subversive, some more overt in its socio-political commentary, as well as by more personal music of the spirit. Connections to the musical avant garde and affinities with the West also played a role, although much of this music was underground during the height of the Cold War. (Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street,11am-11pm, FREE) PARTICIPATORY: PS 132's Kite Festival and Benefit <a href="https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/mccarrenpark/events/2010/05/15/kite-day">https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/mccarrenpark/events/2010/05/15/kite-day</a> Join us for PS 132's 6th Annual Kite Festival. Festival includes performances from Hungry March Band & Audra Rox, arts-n-crafts, kite making and kite flying, face painting, yummy snacks, a planting booth and more. [G&S note: and Hungry March Band? We got this from their list, so can only assume.] (McCarren Park, Driggs Ave. at Lorimer St, 12-4pm, FREE) PARTY: Cosplay Party 2.0 <a href="http://www.japansociety.org/event_detail?eid=32623f5c">http://www.japansociety.org/event_detail?eid=32623f5c</a> Following the massive success of Japan Society's KRAZY! Cosplay Party in 2009, the Society hosts its second annual cosplay event, Cosplay Party 2.0, in conjunction with the exhibition Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters. Fans are invited to create and showoff costumes of their favorite characters, and share their enthusiasm for anime, manga, and video games. Cosplay Party 2.0 includes a screening of Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone (2010, 100 min., in Japanese with English subtitles. Rated: PG-13) in Japan's Society's big screen theater; a costume competition with special appearances from Uncle Yo, World Cosplay Summit 2009 Team USA, manga Artist Hiroki Otsuka; prizes from Kinokuniya Bookstore; musical entertainment by cosplay DJ Ruby Red; a photo booth; free admission to Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters; and more! Oms/b will be serving onigiri (riceballs) and tea in the lounge! (Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, 3pm-8:30pm, $20) FILM: Chain <a href="http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/9260">http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/9260</a> Written, directed, and photographed by Jem Cohen. With Miho Nikaido, Mira Billotte. A leading light of Brooklyn-based independent cinema, Jem Cohen has collaborated with numerous musicians over the years, including Patti Smith, R.E.M., Vic Chesnutt, Terry Riley, T. Griffin, Fugazi, and Elliott Smith. Chain, featuring an original soundscape by Godspeed You Black Emperor!, is one of his most ambitious projects to datea strange and subtle hybrid of fiction and documentary. Filming around the world, often clandestinely, over a six-year period, Cohen evokes a superlandscape of big-box malls, highways, fast food franchises, airports, industrial parks, and corporate offices, creating a portrait of alienated late-capitalist consumerism that also has moments of transcendent beauty. 99 min. (The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 St, 4pm, $10) PARTICIPATORY: Capture the Flag 2010: War at South Street <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112131775491327">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112131775491327</a> It's been more then 8 months since our last Capture The Flag and we are now back to kick off 2010 with another epic game. Red Team will be trying to fight for their first victory while Team Yellow will be trying to hold onto their undefeated status. (South Street Seaport, 5-9pm, FREE) INSTALLATION: Michael Alan's Hansel Gretal; The Adventures of the House <a href="http://www.thelivinginstallation.com">http://www.thelivinginstallation.com</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122002141152853">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122002141152853</a> What happens when a child's mind melts, shatters and becomes a Living Installation? Hansel, Gretel and 7 other curious creatures live and eat in Michael Alan's bizarre and beautiful gingerbread happy house built in the lobby of The Gershwin Hotel, 15 feet tall. The full cast including the Painting Witch, the Gingerbread-baking bug man and a blind Smurf. A 5 Hour performance featuring a special appearance by Krusty Krust the Crack Clown. A hybrid of the wildest, strangest, funniest Fairy Tales smashed together into one big POOF. Starring; Auntie Transformer {Teresaaa}, Matthew Brennan, Michael Alan, Sarah Seely, Steve Perez, Dave Modelo, Sara Brown, Dylan Morgan. Live music by Tim Love "Lee" plus all new pre-made music by Michael Alan and Steve Perez. (Gershwin Hotel, 7 W 27 St, 6:00pm - 11:00pm, $17 online/$20 at the adventure) SOCIAL DANCING: New York Swing Dance Society's 25th Anniversary Celebration <a href="http://www.nysds.org">http://www.nysds.org</a> Harlem Renaisance Orchestra plays from 8:00 to midnight, usually broken up into four sets. At 7 PM - Special DVD showing "NYSDS early years" - Instead of a lesson this week, in honor of the NYSDS 25th Anniversary, Margaret will show excepts from her Masters thesis videos and other early footage of great dancers such as Frankie Manning and George Lloyd, at NYSDS dances at the Cat Club and other venues. We invite people to come and share with the group any photographs they may have from those years. DJ: John Festa. (St Jean Baptiste Church, 184 E 76th St at Lexington Ave, 7pm-12am, $15 / $11 Students and Seniors) FILM: Sci-Fi Summer Season Opening Mothra <a href="http://www.coneyisland.com/films.shtml">http://www.coneyisland.com/films.shtml</a> Directed by Ishiro Honda , 1961. Mothra, a favorite of all of the Japanese monsters, inhabits the island of Beiru. When the island, used for atomic tests, is found to be amazingly free of radiation an expedition of the island reveals some very odd sites, including a pair of women who are only a foot tall. When the women are taken by the explorers, and exploited in a vaudeville show, Mothra invades Tokyo to get them back wreaking havoc on all who get in her way. Starring: Frankie Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kyoko Kagawa, Ken Uehara, Emi Ito. Sony; Rated G; 88 minutes. (Coney Island Museum, 1208 Surf Ave bet Stillwell Ave. and West 12th Street, 8:30pm, $5) PARTY: BLACK & LIGHT BALL 5: Black Lights, Big City <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=253870826862">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=253870826862</a> <a href="http://www.kostumekult.com/events/blb2010">http://www.kostumekult.com/events/blb2010</a> Disorient & Kostume Kult present an annual black-lit, fancy dress ball and Burning Man project fundraiser. With a large, centrally located venue in the Times Square area, this year we pay special homage to Burning Man's 2010 "Metropolis" theme, inviting all to come into Manhattan to share the metropolitan spirit for a 12-hour, interactive arts event with multiple rooms of DJ music, participatory fun and luminescent finery. Featuring DJs spinning electro house, dubstep and groovy breaks in 3 rooms include: Lee Mayjahs?, Nigel Richards, Arrow Chrome, Narcotic Rhythms, Sequoia, Miss Sabado, Captain Shaggy2K, DJ MLE, John O'Connor and others TBA soon. VJ Lenkadu mixing live visuals; live music and video performance by Lenkadu; Glitter Light Sound Art Collaboration by 01 and xo; Artificial Reproduction Interactive Projections by Coexist; and Psychedelic Light Mechanisms by Dave Wade Brann. Light sculpture, glowing inflatables, staged performances, dance lessons, fashion accessory vending, neon body painting and anything YOU might want to contribute. This year's sub-theme --"Black Lights, Big City"-- celebrates New York City and the Metropolitan lifestyle: past, present and future. Suggested styles include Glamorous Black Light Reactive, Upscale Neon, Electro-Luminescent, Retro NYC and Broadway Theatrical. (Times Square Arts Center, 669 8th Avenue at 42nd Street, 6pm-6am, $20/adv, $25/door w/costume, $50/door w/o costume) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PUPPETS: PUNCH PUppet Slam: "No sleep til Brooklyn!" <a href="http://www.bricktheater.com">http://www.bricktheater.com</a> PUNCH puppet slam - NYC's most consistent puppet slam - is roaming the city from venue to venue bringing you the most amazing puppet theater around. There will be puppet mayhem - everything from humanette wackiness to toy theater to Greek myth to a comic tapeworm therapist - from Wonderspark Puppets, Evolve Company, Kate Brehm, James Walton, Susan Beauregard, Aidan Koehler plus some bonus movies that didn't make "Screening Night." (The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave. @ Lorimer St., W'burg, BK, 7pm, $10) VARIETY: Zero Boy and pals welcome Armitage Shanks <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126090310739982">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126090310739982</a> Welcoming Armitage Shanks, the MC from Circus Contraption and an amazing performer. He is taking a stop from his European tour here in NY. Music, comedy, weirdness in a carnival like atmosphere. A night of mayhem in honor of Armitage Shanks. Starring Armitage Shanks, Master Lee, Lady Rizo, Chris Rozz, Zero Boy and surprise guests. (Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th St, 8-10pm, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== MONDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== SHOP/PARTY: Thrift On! Clothing (and stuff) swap party <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121910337821769">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121910337821769</a> Dj Shakey presents the world famous clothing swap party. BRING IN your old clothes and stuffto donate to our rummage tables! TAKE HOME items free from our piles of booty! FREE RAFFLE of previously owned prizes! CONTESTS, COMEDY, AND MAYHEM TOO! DJ SHAKEY and MAN "S" spin second-hand records and amuse you. "The More You Party, The More You Save!" NOTE: to all vintage clothing store owners, "pickers", flea marketers, and resellers of any kind, you are NOT welcome at this event, we are watching you, and you will be BOUNCED !!!! (Botanica Bar, 47 E. houston st. b/t. Mott and Mulberry, 9pm - 2am, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== TUESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== TALK: The Secret Science Club - The Perfect Swarm <a href="http://secretscienceclub.blogspot.com">http://secretscienceclub.blogspot.com</a> Biologist and mathematician Iain Couzin of Princeton's Collective Animal Behavior Lab discusses swarming locusts, marching army ants, and even crowds of bugged-out Homo sapiens. He asks: How did collective animal behavior evolve and what are the fundamental principles underlying this behavior? What enables groups of animals to move in unison? How does individual behavior influence group dynamics? Can crowds of species (even humans) undergo dramatic personality changes? Dr. Couzin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Adjunct Faculty in the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. He is a member of the Faculty of 1000 Biology and the recipient of a Searle Scholar Award in 2008 and the Mohammed Dahleh Award in 2009. (The Bell House, Gowanus, BK, 7:30pm, FREE) MULTIMEDIA: alva noto: unitxt <a href="http://www.thekitchen.org">http://www.thekitchen.org</a> The minimalist electronic musician alva noto will perform the recent audio-video work unitxt, which relies on mathematical processes to govern rhythm, utilizing machine noises - modems, telephones, and fax tones - for most of its array of clicks and blips. The title of this performance could be read as 'unit extended' (referring to a unit of a rhythmic grid) or 'universal text' (referring to a universal language, e.g. mathematic constants, measurements) and is represented in spoken word and by codes in sound itself. The visuals are based on the real-time manipulation / modulation of soft- and hardware-generated patterns by audio signals which are constantly changing without any recurrence.(The Kitchen, 512 West 19th St, 8pm, $15) FILM: My Perestroika <a href="http://stfdocs.com/films/my_perestroika">http://stfdocs.com/films/my_perestroika</a> MY PERESTROIKA follows 5 ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times from their sheltered childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia. After an impressive festival circuit that has included Sundance, Full Frame, New Directors New Films, and Hot Docs, My Perestroika will be playing at IFC Center. (IFC Center, 8pm, $?) ===+++===+++===+++=== WEDNESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== CIRCUS: ACME: The Pinnacle of Movement <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124663024217802&ref=ts">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124663024217802&ref=ts</a> A variety show celebrating motion, momentum, and object manipulation! Join us for an amazing display of all types of movement from dance to acrobatics, contact juggling, aerial, hoop dance-- the list goes on. Featuring Sera Solstice, Jeff Calafato, Brett Lord, Katherine Blackburne, Ali Luminescent, and Amy Verebay. ( House of Yes, 342 Maujer St., 9:15pm, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== THURSDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTY: STYLE OFF and RE-FRIED DISCO <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112786812091988">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112786812091988</a> WILLIAMSBURG FASHION WEEKEND and ARTHUR ARBIT presents STYLE OFF and RE-FRIED DISCO, DANCE JOINTS all night by killer DJs, up and coming SUPERSTARS preforming LIVE and DIRECT, PLUS a STYLE CONTEST judged by local designers, and stylers: SIRI from TREEHOUSE, MACSWELL from RUFFIO HEARTS LIL' SNOTTY, SAIRA HUFF from TOTAL CRAP UNINC., NICK from too many bands to mention. THE THEME THIS TIME IS ISLANDER Vs. HIGHLANDER, top prize is $100. Performing LIVE: PINK STALLONE with JOEY WASHINGTON, NMELESS, V COUNT MACULA, the DJs , DOTT (Pat from These Are Powers), ROBOT DEATH CULT, ELECTRIC LADY, SPONGE BATH (OJ from Golden Triangle), MEN and WOMEN. (Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent Ave. bet. S.2nd and S.3rd, W'burg, 9pm-4am, $?) ===+++===+++===+++=== UPCOMING [Ticketed events likely to sell out and/or offering presale discounts] ===+++===+++===+++=== Sunday, May 23 PARTY: Lick This: A Benefit for Sparky's Wheel of Tesla <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118247984862509">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118247984862509</a> In 1893, Nikola Tesla debuted polyphase electrical power, revolutionizing the safety and efficiency of electrical transmission. We're going to completely disregard his advancements, and encourage you to come get your cheap thrills with the help of some arcane electrical equipment and pretty lab assistants. So dust off your mad scientist finery, and don your tinfoil hat. Get a shot and a shock, a ride in the electric chair, or visit the battery licking station. Proceeds will go to building Sparky's Wheel of Tesla!, an interactive installation that will be part of Figment's season long sculpture garden on Governor's Island. [G&S note: giving you a heads-up as this event gives an excellent opportunity for costuming & participation. You got a week! Get creative!] (Sun 5/23, East River Bar, 97 S. 6th St, 6-11pm, $5) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== ARTMeat Show <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114422888578010">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114422888578010</a> <a href="http://www.jeffreysmeatmarket.com">http://www.jeffreysmeatmarket.com</a> When it gets down to the meat of it we choose to look at our carnivorous nature through an artistic lens. The instinctive, the primal and the culinary are all connected. Each of us is made of flesh and blood and some artists have an image of meat to share. Featuring Artists: Alexander Hirka * Amy Shapiro * Betty Taopat Kao * Jessica Nissen * Kenneth Colosky * Nina Katan * Sherri Eldin * Troy C. Frantz. (show thru?, Jeffrey's Meat Market, 104 Essex St, 3:00pm - 7:00pm, FREE) PERFORMANCE: The Very Best of Penny Arcade <a href="https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/730995">https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/730995</a> Catch this veritable sampler of the landmark, expansive and genre pushing work of the Queen of Downtown Underground Performance -- Penny Arcade. A funny and insightful new evening of seamlessly integrated selections from her most acclaimed works. Celebrates 25 years of take-no-prisoner performances including Old Queen, Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore, Bad Reputation and New York Values. Her first ever "Greatest Hits" show. (Saturdays thru 5/22, Laurie Beechman Theatre, 407 West 42nd St, 7:30pm, $20 + $15 food/drink minimum) THEATER: Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play <a href="http://epictheatreensemble.org/current-show">http://epictheatreensemble.org/current-show</a> Hailed by the New Yorker's John Lahr as extraordinary, bold, and inventive, Sarah Ruhl's PASSION PLAY takes us behind the scenes of three communities attempting to stage the death and resurrection of Christ. From Queen Elizabeth's England to Hitler's Germany to Reagan's America, Ruhl's exploration of devotion takes us on a humorous yet unsettling journey filled with lust, whimsy, and a lot of fish. (thru 5/30, Irondale Center at the Lafayette Avenue Church, 85 South Oxford Street BK, various times, $22.50-$42.50) THEATER: The Waistmaker's Opera <a href="http://www.downtownart.org/">http://www.downtownart.org/</a> <a href="http://www.fabnyc.org/downtownart.php">http://www.fabnyc.org/downtownart.php</a> The Waistmaker's Opera is an original rock musical that will be performed in the streets of New York's former garment district and the Lower East Side fromMay 8-30 every Saturday & Sunday at Noon and 2:30PM. In 1909, sparked by events at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, more than twenty thousand garment workers, most of them young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an eleven week strike in New York. The Waistmaker's Opera brings attention to these young women's' accomplishments, their courage, and their extraordinary determination. (thru 5/30, Sat and Sun, Starting at Washington/Greene Streets, ending at Cooper Union,19 East 3rd Street, 12pm and 2:30pm, $15) FILM: Stranger than Fiction Documentary Film Series @ IFC <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/series/stranger-than-fiction/stf-spring-2010/">http://www.ifccenter.com/series/stranger-than-fiction/stf-spring-2010/</a> The hit documentary series celebrates its 13th season at IFC Center, boasting a lineup of sneak previews, tributes and rediscovered classics, with filmmakers in person for post-screening discussions. Organized by Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen. Filmmakers in person at all shows. Check website for film listings. (Thru 6/1, IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave. at W. Third Street, Tuesdays @ 8pm, $16) ART: Mark Ryden: The Gay 90s Old Tyme Art Show <a href="http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2010-04-29_mark-ryden/press-release/">http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2010-04-29_mark-ryden/press-release/</a> An exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by the Los Angeles artist Mark Ryden. This will be Ryden's first significant solo show in New York since 2003. In his hauntingly beautiful and masterfully executed oil paintings, Ryden creates his own contemporary mythologies whose archetypes include fairy tale creatures, historical figures, and pop cultural icons. Seamlessly juxtaposing macabre motifs like meat grinders and disembodied presidents with eye-pleasing ingénues and seductive landscapes, the artist produces a vision of society in which menace and comfort are inseparably interwoven. These labor-intensive canvasses deftly rework centuries of art history, combining the grandeur of Spanish and Italian religious painting with the decorative richness of Old Master compositions and the lush textures of French Neo-Classicism. (thru 6/5, Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 10th Ave at 27th St, FREE) DANCE: Le Cirque Feerique <a href="http://www.companyxiv.com">http://www.companyxiv.com</a> <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106445">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106445</a> Step right up to the golden tent! With Le Cirque Feerique, Company XIV will delight and amaze, as they re-imagine your favorite childhood fairy tales as only Austin McCormick and his exquisite troupe can. Don't miss this Baroque confection for all ages, a magical menagerie of opera, dance, theatre and opulent design. McCormick incorporates a myriad of dance styles, fusing Baroque, classical ballet, flamenco, ballroom, contemporary partnering and Indian dance, along with contemporary movement. The show includes an array of music, including pieces by Vivaldi, Aphex Twin, Lady Gaga and Bizet, and features a special guest, the Charites Baroque Opera Trio. This lush extravaganza includes classic fairy tales such as Charles Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella, Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Princess and the Pea, The Brothers Grimm's The Fisherman and His Wife, Munro Leaf's Ferdinand the Bull and more. (thru 6/8, Saturdays 2PM and 7PM, Sundays 2PM and 5PM, Company XIV 303 Bond Theatre, 303 Bond St @ Union st, $30) EXHIBIT: Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters <a href="http://www.japansociety.org">http://www.japansociety.org</a> Showcasing over 130 woodblock prints, GHMM spans the career of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, who died the year our Civil War broke out, but whose explosive panels of blood-lusting warriors, tattooed vagrants, wanton vixens, and acid-trip monsters could pass for cutting-edge comics. Artful violence runs from samurai gangs slashing it out on a castle rooftop, to a giant skeleton attempting to forestall a beheading, to Morozumi Masakiyo Kills Himself with a Landmine...while apparently also thrusting a sword into his mouth. For psychedelic madness, there's Octopus Games, with evil cephalopods brawling, playing instruments, and dancing; Sakata Kaido-maru Wrestles with a Giant Carp; and Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugoro III as the Spirit of the Cat Stone. Perhaps most modern of all, Kuniyoshi produced a small collection of erotic prints, which aren't on display but are presented in the back of the exhibition catalog. (thru 6/13, Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, Tues-Thurs 11am-6pm, Fri 11am-9pm, Sat and Sun 11am-5pm, $12, Fri night FREE) EXHIBIT: Where New York Began - Archaeology at the South Ferry Terminal <a href="http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm">http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm</a> 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) BUY: Brooklyn Indie Market <a href="http://www.brooklynindiemarket.com">http://www.brooklynindiemarket.com</a> Brooklyn Indie Market is a collective of up-and-coming and emerging fashion and product design, made up of designers taking their love of all things handmade into its 3rd season. (Sat 11-7pm/Sun 11-6pm thru Aug, red+white tent, Smith St. between Union and President St, Carroll Gardens, 11am-7pm, FREE) EXHIBIT: American High Style <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/american_high_style/">http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/american_high_style/</a> To mark the new relationship between the Brooklyn Museum and the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum presents an exhibition of some of the most renowned objects from its costume collection. American High Style consists of approximately eighty-five dressed mannequins and a selection of hats, shoes, sketches, and other fashion-related material that will reintroduce the collection, long in storage, to the public. The exhibition is organized in groups representing the most important strengths of the collection. Works by the first generation of American women designers such as Bonnie Cashin, Elizabeth Hawes, and Claire McCardell are featured, as well as material created by Charles James, Norman Norell, Gilbert Adrian, and other important American designers. Also included are works by French designers who had an important influence on American women and fashion, such as Charles Frederick Worth, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jeanne Lanvin, Jeanne Paquin, Ma deleine Vionnet, and Christian Dior. The Metropolitan Museum of Art will celebrate the arrival of the Brooklyn Museum costume collection at the Met with a related exhibition, American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, on view May 5August 15, 2010. (thru 8/1, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Parkway, BK, various times, $10/sugg donation) ART: Instant Gratification The Second Coming of Polaroid <a href="http://www.theimpossibleproject.com">http://www.theimpossibleproject.com</a> There are 300 million Polaroid cameras in the world and zero Polaroid film makers. Until now. An art company called the Impossible Project bought the last Polaroid film factory and this Friday celebrates the return of pre-digital spontaneity with wine, cheese and the only new supply of Polaroid film left for sale. Expect photo shoots that will never be posted on Facebook. (thru Aug 22, The Impossible Project, 425 Broadway, 5th Floor, 3pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== Do you have something to share with our readers or events you'd like to have included in our emails? Did we miss anything? We're always open to suggestions & feedback. Write to us at <a href="mailto:gs@geminiandscorpio.com">gs@geminiandscorpio.com</a> and tell us your thoughts. ===+++===+++===+++=== Subscribe/Unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events_list.html</a>