Gemini & Scorpio

[G&S]: More Drowned Ball pics / Peepshow Carnival 5.27 / weekend listings

Fri, 11 May 2012 19:22:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, We had a hilariously fun meeting for Peepshow Carnival last week, and are SO damn excited to bring you something this ridiculous, and for a good cause, too. Let us know if you want to participate in any way (art, performance, setup, running games); all help is welcome. Party info below, and website has been updated with RSVP form for the loft. We got another gorgeous set of Drowned Ball pics on FB, from the incredible White Crow Photography: <a href="http://on.fb.me/DB_3">http://on.fb.me/DB_3</a> - we can't seem to tag these quite yet, but are trying to work it out with the photographer. But go look! 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://bit.ly/GS_facebook">http://bit.ly/GS_facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Tumblr: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr">http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_ytube">http://bit.ly/GS_ytube</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</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: 5/27 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present Peepshow Carnival Memorial Day Sunday, May 27, 5pm-12am (TBC) Must RSVP for Gowanus, BK address, $5-15 sliding scale donation RSVP: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/199601806828204">https://www.facebook.com/events/199601806828204</a> Every year Team in Training, the largest endurance sports training program in the world, raises money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by offering training for the New York City marathon and triathlon (.9 mile swim + 25 mile bike ride + 6.2 mile run). In order to participate and in exchange for the training, each participant is asked to raise a minimum of $2900 for the non-profit. Gemini & Scorpio's longtime door person, stage manager and all-around right-hand-man, Sal Genna, has stepped up to train and participate in the triathlon -- and we have stepped up to help him raise the money for this cause. Of course, we're going to do it in slightly askew G&S fashion. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step right up to the Peepshow Carnival, a loft wonderland of midway games of skill and chance made up mostly of...marshmallow peeps. That's right, for the first time ever (we hope), show your mettle at games of: Bobbing For Peeps, Shoot The Peep, Peep Eating Contest, Peep Darts, Peep Toss, Peep Jousting, How Many Peeps in a Jar, and lots more. Play the games, eat the peeps, earn gold stars, and trade them in for Secret Prizes. We've got THIRTY FIVE HUNDRED of the little buggers, and we intend to use them all. Also, expect burgers and bloody marys (plus more veg-friendly snacks), and a full cash bar. Plus: performances, weirdness, and music. And maybe even fire-meets-peeps, if we can make that work (peep s'mores!). The Peepshow is going to take place inside and on the roof our as-yet-unfinished loft in Gowanus, BK (with occasional excursions to a third outdoor location). SEEKING PEEP-TICIPANTS! We're looking for artists and volunteers to participate in making this most absurd fundraiser happen, especially crafting and running the games. Won't you run away and join the Carnival? Email us: gs at geminiandscorpio.com with the words "Peepshow Carnival" in the subject. We'd love to have you. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== MUSIC: Bayou and Brooklyn Music Festival <a href="http://www.bayou-n-brooklyn.com">http://www.bayou-n-brooklyn.com</a> Second annual music festival. Sound of Cajun fiddles and zydeco accordions fill the air during Bayou and Brooklyn's three-day Cajun-Creole-Zydeco Festival transforming this gem-of-a venue into a haven for bayou-born sounds, dancing, community jam sessions, dance bands, and opportunities to join in playing a rubboard. Take a journey along walls through the eyeballs of artist Eric P. Richardson, make reverie at an open jam session or feast on Saturday night's Louisiana-famous Jesse Lege's gumbo (the real deal). Celebrity Cajun and Creole musicians flying up north of the Mason Dixon Line for this event. It's like a visit to NOLA followed by some Acadiana without leaving Brooklyn. (Fri-Sun, Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, 315 Columbia St bet Hamilton and Woodhull, BK, $15 one day pass, $35 for three days) ART: Buddy's Den <a href="http://theshowroomnyc.com/TT_Underground/Home.html">http://theshowroomnyc.com/TT_Underground/Home.html</a> Buddy is a hunter. A cute adorable one. But Buddy doesn't prize the ordinary wild animal, he seeks to collect the eccentric-- fantastic, strange, and unique creatures and odds and ends from the likes no one has ever seen before. Enter Buddy's Den, a group show exhibiting fantasy taxidermy from select New York-based artists. Sponsored by Beerlao. Beer. (TT Underground, 91 Second Ave bet 5th and 6th St, opening Friday 7-11pm, FREE / show thru 5/18, 2-7pm) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTY/FOOD: Heavy Metal Parking Lot: 666 Burger Launch Party The city's only Satanic Burger truck will be celebrating its launch with an old school Heavy Metal Parking Lot Party. Think - an enormous empty parking lot with majestic views of Manhattan, an evil looking truck slinging burgers, fries (and special surprises) and Heavy Metal superstar DJ Monachus droppin block rockin beats on the 1's an 2's. BYOB, though we may have some on hand...Also, you'll have the chance to sample 666 Burger's new discovery - a legal drug that does awesome things to ya. (Water Taxi Parking Lot, 54th Avenue and 2nd Street LIC, Queens, 8pm-12am, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== SHOP: Pop Souk <a href="http://www.popsouk.com">http://www.popsouk.com</a> Nightlife personalities, artists, musicians, DJs, designers, fashion junkies, drag queens and the rest of us who make up the creative landscape of Downtown NYC, are usually blessedand cursedwith fabulously overflowing closets. More than just a marketplace, Pop Souk is an event where you'll find some of the most talented New Yorkers hanging out in their own personal pop-up shops and hocking treasures from their own closets, selling their own designs, or tempting you with delights from their own kitchens. Come hear your favorite New York DJs spin, hang out with cocktails in the lounge, have your make up and nails done, get tattooed, taste the delicacies you never knew these night creatures could make and, of course, shop for your new Spring wardrobe, all on three levels of a newly-renovated nightclub.(Greenhouse, 150 Varick St, 12-6pm, FREE) EVENT: Earth Celebrations 2012 Hudson River Pageant <a href="http://www.earthcelebrations.com/arts-pageants/hudson-river-pageant-2012">http://www.earthcelebrations.com/arts-pageants/hudson-river-pageant-2012</a> The 4th annual Earth Celebrations' Hudson River Pageant is an ecological parade and performance art event that features a magnificent parade of giant 15-foot river species puppets, spectacular costumes representing oysters, seahorses, blue crabs, wetlands, and over 70 species of local fish. Starting at 1pm, the river species will dance their way from the Irish Hunger Memorial along the waterfront to Horatio Street in the Hudson River Park. Music, dance, performances and poetry highlighting the river and its habitats include an Oyster Planting, Live Fish Release, River Cleansing, and Boat Dance with costumed kayaks, rowboats, and paddle boards. [G&S note: volunteers still needed for this, as costumed characters & puppet/parade marshals / contact mail at earthcelebrations dot com] (Starts at Irish Hunger Memorial at Vesey St, 1pm-5pm, FREE) FOOD: 3rd Ward's Sixth Annual Birthday BBQ <a href="http://www.3rdward.com/rsvp">http://www.3rdward.com/rsvp</a> Swing by for live music, delicious eats, educational workshops and live comedy with UCB & Moviehouse. In 2006, 3rd Ward opened with a new idea: a one-stop innovation incubator for you to make something, learn something, and be something. Six years later, we're going strong and have you to thank. Our friends at Rucola have partnered with some of the best in the Brooklyn food scene to create our most exciting BBQ menu yet. Expect amazing eats from Brooklyn Cured Sausages, Four & Twenty Blackbird Pies, Shelsky's Smoked Fish and more. With live tunes from The Stumblebum Brass Band, Off The Record Featuring Dan Neustadt, DJs My Favorite Mixtape and more. Demos and workshops in some of our most unique classes. Bike Mechanics Workshops: Learn essential bike anatomy and how to quick change a flat. Sewing & Craft: Learn the essential sewing basics and fanciful fabric making. Woodworking: Learn how to make your own cutting board. Circuits & Electronics: Learn how to incorporate LEDs in to textiles and turn a pencil into an electronic musical instrument. Moviehouse: They are sending their 5th season into the abyss with Fear and Dying in Brooklyn: A Comedy Show. Check out the comedy stylings of Angel Yau and her friends from UCBcomedy.com. With films, music videos and live comedy. RSVPs required. (3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, 2pm-8pm, FREE) MUSIC: Gamelan Bunga Kota (City Flower), played by the Gamelatron <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgibin/webscr?cmd=_sxclick&hosted_button_id=MWHNKBGHL4BZA">https://www.paypal.com/cgibin/webscr?cmd=_sxclick&hosted_button_id=MWHNKBGHL4BZA</a> Artist Aaron Taylor Kuffner, aka Zemi17, the creative director of the Gamelatron project, has created an installation in the living space of an urban loft in Dumbo Brooklyn. The new installation features the Padma Bhuwana, an 8 petaled lotus flower in its first public showing with robotic mallets and sculptural mounts crafted during his Artist Residency at TechShop in San Francisco earlier this year and gongs newly imported from Bali. The Gamelan Bunga Kota (City Flower), like the flower that grows between the cracks in the sidewalk, is an oasis and an anomaly. It is a precious flower that reminds us that even in the land of concrete life is growing, budding and evolving. Kuffner will perform 2 concerts, at 7pm and 9pm respectively, controlling the gongs with various pad and button MIDI controllers. An offering of Fruit is required for entrance from all guests. Cash Wine, Prosecco and Water Bar on site. Advance tickets strongly encouraged. (135 Plymouth St. Loft 209, Brooklyn , 7pm, $15) PUPPETS: Entertaining Thoughts <a href="http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/entertaining-thoughts_191053">http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/entertaining-thoughts_191053</a> Entertainer/comedienne Leslie Carrara-Rudolph (original cast member of Henson Alternative's Stuffed and Unstrung, Emmy-nominated Sesame Street puppeteer) gives a one night only performance full of hilarious stories and revamped show tunes joined by her colorful entourage of puppet characters and a special guest performance by Paul Rudolph, creator of GLANK. A wildly original and totally out there cabaret experience for adults who want to laugh like kids again. [G&S note: ET2012 for 10% off tix.] (The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater at the West Side YMCA, 5 W 63rd St, 8pm, $?) PARTICIPATORY: Welcome to the Thunderdome <a href="http://2menenter1manleaves.eventbrite.com">http://2menenter1manleaves.eventbrite.com</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/298128716930539">http://www.facebook.com/events/298128716930539</a> We are building a giant dome, rigging it with bungees, and drenching you in beer so you can fight to the death in a 19th century church. Music by Savage Severe and Comandante Zero. Special effects by Light Harvest Studios. 2 Men Enter, 1 Man Leaves. (Church at 626 Bushwick Ave, BK, 10pm-3am, $10 adv/$15 door/discounted entrance for awesome costumes) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== [late-night SAT] DJ: Bubbles and Bass presents: Love and Light <a href="http://bubblesandbass.ticketleap.com/loveandlight">http://bubblesandbass.ticketleap.com/loveandlight</a> The black lights have dimmed and you're still up so come chillax with the best of our community. Following Disorient and Kostume Kult's Black and Light Ball, Bubbles and Bass is throwing the afterparty the way it should be: fun, friends, and sunshine. The champagne will be flowing at the bar, the music will bring alive the play in you. We'll be relaxing in the cuddle puddle and on a beautiful Brooklyn rooftop. As the warmth of the morning rushes over you, connect with an old friend or start a conversation with a new one. This fundraiser is going to support our sunrise circus, circus play on the playa. Sunrise Circus is about inclusivity, breaking down the boundaries between performer and observer, encouraging all to find the joy in the experience of play. There will be a plethora of circus toys and equipment to make your morning special. Special performers include: Jill Maglio and Jeff Cacossa, juggling duo extraordinare; Telah Quemere, hoops and sunrise fire. Featuring the m usical stylings of DJ Everyday, Mystika, and DJ $mall ¢hange. [G&S note: you may recognize the location.] (Private Loft, 255 Douglass St, Gowanus, BK, 4-11am, $15-50) DJ: The Magic Garden: Funk vs. Disco <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/134780263319384">http://www.facebook.com/events/134780263319384</a> tix: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/248086">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/248086</a> Get your groove on for a beautiful Sunday evening in one of NYC's most lovely neighborhood gardens. No Parking teams up with NYC Silent Disco to bring the best some A-list funk and disco DJs to go head to head. Two channels on our headphone party system, you get to pick which DJ does it for you. On the funk/soul side: Chairman Mao, DJ Prestige, and Nydia Ines. On the disco/boogie side: Monk-One, Patrick Billard, and $mall ¢hange. Kid friendly (leave the booze at home, or enjoy a drink at any of the neighborhood bars); plenty of room for hoops and other dance toys; "no parking" in full effect. The cost of the event includes a headphone set-up for the evening. In addition to this cost, each participant must bring a valid debit / credit card as part of the headphone check out process. At the end of the night, any participants who do not return their headset, or who return a broken headset, will be charged the full replacement cost of the headset to this debit / credit card. (La Plaza Cultural, 9th St at Avenue C, 3-9pm, $15 adv / $20 door) ===+++===+++===+++=== MONDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== MUSIC: BTK Band <a href="http://www.horsetrade.info/ONgoingEvents/BTKBand/BTKband.html">http://www.horsetrade.info/ONgoingEvents/BTKBand/BTKband.html</a> Raconteurs regale the audience with true stories from their lives while The BTK Band, NYC's hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band, improvises music and lyrics to turn their stories into songs. (Under St. Marks, 94 St. Marks Place, 9pm, $5) ===+++===+++===+++=== THURSDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== MUSIC/WORD: Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion <a href="http://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/?p=9475">http://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/?p=9475</a> A book launch party for Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion. Ethnomusicologist Marion Jacobson's new book is being hailed as the first history of the piano accordion and the first book-length study of the accordion as a uniquely American musical and cultural phenomenon. This book traces the changing idea of the accordion in the United States and its cultural significance over the course of the twentieth century. From the introduction of elaborately decorated European models imported onto the American vaudeville stage and the instrument's celebration by ethnic musical communities and mainstream audiences alike, to the accordion-infused pop parodies by "Weird Al" Yankovic, Jacobson considers the accordion's contradictory status as both an "outsider" instrument and a major force in popular music in the twentieth century. The book launch party will feature special performances by accordionists, including Guy Klucevsek and Dallas Vietty & the Musette Project. (The Bo wery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, 6-7:30pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: PYSANKA: The Ukrainian Easter Egg <a href="http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html">http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html</a> Pysanky are the unique Ukrainian Easter eggs known the world over for their intricate, colorful designs. Drawn from the Museum's extensive folk arts collection, the nearly 300 eggs are decorated in a variety of regional styles, rich colors, and assorted motifs; many are the work of acclaimed artist Sofika Zielyk. The hand-crafted pysanky are made using raw eggs, dyes, and beeswax in a wax-resist method process, known as batik. The process results in colorful eggs ornamented with an array of detailed geometric, floral, and faunistic symbols. The art of creating Ukrainian pysanky (from the word pysaty to write) has been handed down from generation to generation. This ancient art form is taught in workshops Sat/Sun thru 4/1 (adults & children over 12). The Ukrainian Easter Traditions workshop on March 24, for students age 16 and older, offers hands-on training in baking Easter breads and other traditions related to the holiday. March 31: an opportunity to watch artists in acti on as they create beautiful pysanky. In addition to the demonstrations, the award-winning short film Pysanka by Slavko Nowytski will be shown continuously from 1-5 p.m. (thru 5/27, The Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th St bet 2nd/3rd Ave, $8 / plus $10-25 for special workshops) THEATER: The Bachelors' Tea Party <a href="http://www.stolenchair.org/bachelorsteaparty.html">http://www.stolenchair.org/bachelorsteaparty.html</a> The Bachelors' Tea Party is an absurd and absurdly intimate new comedy inspired by the relationships of Elsie de Wolfe (Lady Mendl) and Bessie Marbury, who referred to themselves as "The Bachelors," after they took up joint residence sans men in the first years of the 20th century. Before she invented the profession of interior decorator, de Wolfe was a struggling Broadway performer, known more for her costumes than her acting, and her partner Bessie Marbury, legendary agent and broker, was introducing America to Oscar Wilde and discovering Cole Porter. In a playfully perverse take on a young girl's imaginary tea party, de Wolfe and Marbury will delight and torment each other and entertain a coterie of special guests, "performed" by dolls assembled around the table, with audience members seated only inches away. The play is set in a real Victorian-esque tea salon, and seating is extremely limited - please make reservations. (Sundays thru 6/3, Lady Mendl's Tea Salon, 56 Irving Pl bet 17th & 18th St, 5pm, $10 performance with $35 required tea service plus tax and tip) ART: This Side of Paradise <a href="http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/speakeasy-paradise">http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/speakeasy-paradise</a> The gates of the Andrew Freedman Home will open to the public. The Home was once built to be a haven, a paradise, for the rich elderly who had lost their fortunes. Bequeathed by millionaire Andrew Freedman, the Home provided not only food and shelter but all the accoutrements of a rich and civilized life style white glove dinner service, a grand ball room, a wood-paneled library, billiard room and a social committee who organized concerts, opera performances and the like. Referencing this quixotic history, This Side of Paradise will reference the past and reconnect the vision of Andrew Freedman to today's Bronx and its realities. The exhibition and its extensive public programming onsite and offsite will draw together the economic and social history of the Home with the present day realities of the Bronx and its residents. The selected artists' will work in a site-specific manner and will respond to such issues as memory, immigration, storytelling, aging and the creation of fantasy that the original concept of the Home "being poor in style" suggests. This Side of Paradise will celebrate human ingenuity, the strength of the human spirit and the resilience needed to fashion beauty, hope and rejoicing. (thru 6/5, 1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, tours Thurs-Sun, 1pm-7pm) ART: A Cut Above: 12 Paper Masters <a href="http://www.christopherhenrygallery.com/#/EXHIBITIONS/Current/1">http://www.christopherhenrygallery.com/#/EXHIBITIONS/Current/1</a> A group exhibition celebrating the renaissance of cut paper as an artistic medium. The exhibition features 12 international artists who choose to draw with a knife, saw or scissors as an integral part of their practice. A timely show, it responds to widespread current debates surrounding the use of cut paper and books in contemporary artistic practice, exploring the work of 12 artists engaged in paper manipulation. Individually, these artists are praised for their distinctive techniques and approach to working in this medium. As a collective, A Cut Above provides an insight into how the medium has gained traction on the international art stage and presents a broad spectrum of works by emerging and established artists from the United States and abroad, some exhibiting in New York for the first time. (thru 6/24, Christopher Henry Gallery, 127 Elizabeth St at Broome, 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>

[G&S]: Cinco de Mayhem tomorrow / Peepshow Carnival needs YOU / weekend listings

Fri, 04 May 2012 22:12:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, Late today, sorry! If this makes you unhappy, help us edit the listings :P We seriously could use help every week, and we give thanks in party credits. We're ready to dance our butts off tomorrow at Cinco de Mayhem - the DJ lineup is killer. RSVP to get the location, and we'll see you at our loft tomorrow night. Bring flow toys & fire, if that's your thing -- large roof. Our May 27 Peepshow Carnival needs your help! Seeking artists & volunteers to make the games and entertainments, and we need as many hands as we can get. Volunteer meeting Wednesday, 6-8pm -- come hang out with us at the loft and talk ideas & execution for this ridiculous event. If you need the address, use the Cinco de Mayhem RSVP form. Drowned Ball pics, if you missed them last week: <a href="http://bit.ly/I9cFX9">http://bit.ly/I9cFX9</a> (TimeOut NY). Facebook: <a href="http://on.fb.me/DB_p1">http://on.fb.me/DB_p1</a> & <a href="http://on.fb.me/DB_p2">http://on.fb.me/DB_p2</a> (Linus Gelber official photo sets - tag yourselves.) 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://bit.ly/GS_facebook">http://bit.ly/GS_facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Tumblr: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr">http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_ytube">http://bit.ly/GS_ytube</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</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: 5/5 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present Cinco de Mayhem Sat, May 5, must RSVP for Gowanus, BK address, 10pm-late, FREE before 11pm/$10 after, 21+ RSVP: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/304538259618766">https://www.facebook.com/events/304538259618766</a> Cinco De Mayo commemorates a Mexican military victory over the French in the Battle of Pueblo, on May 5, 1862. Somehow, 150 years later, it has become an excuse to party. Who are we to complain? We invite you all to our new loft in Gowanus, to drink enough tequila to wake up tomorrow in Mexico and not remember a thing, and dance all night to Latin-spiced globalbeat ethnotek best with: king of the eclectic loft party sound Barney Iller, ethnomesh master Joro Boro, late-night Rubulad favorite Reaganomics, and DJ KindB of World Class International crew. Live percussion. Fire dancers & hoopers welcome (9k sq ft roof). Festive dress always encouraged, but no costume required. Cheap drinks, good times. There may even be an appearance by a Satanic Burger Truck. ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 5/27 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present Peepshow Carnival [G&S site not yet updated -- but same RSVP form/address as Cinco de Mayhem] <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/199601806828204">https://www.facebook.com/events/199601806828204</a> Sun, May 27, must RSVP for Gowanus, BK address, 5pm-12am (or so), cheap/sliding scale Every year Team in Training, the largest endurance sports training program in the world, raises money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by offering training for the New York City marathon and triathlon (.9 mile swim + 25 mile bike ride + 6.2 mile run). In order to participate and in exchange for the training, each participant is asked to raise a minimum of $2900 for the non-profit. Gemini & Scorpio's longtime door person, stage manager and all-around right-hand-man, Sal Genna, has stepped up to train and participate in the triathlon -- and we have stepped up to help him raise the money for this cause. Of course, we're going to do it in slightly askew G&S fashion. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step right up to the Peepshow Carnival, a loft wonderland of midway games of skill and chance made up mostly of...marshmallow peeps. That's right, for the first time ever (we hope), show your mettle at games of: Bobbing For Peeps, Shoot The Peep, Peep Eating Contest, Peep Darts, Peep Toss, Peep Jousting, How Many Peeps in a Jar, and lots more. Play the games, eat the peeps, earn gold stars, and trade them in for Secret Prizes. The Peepshow is going to take place inside and on the roof our as-yet-unfinished loft in Gowanus, BK, on Memorial Weekend Sunday, May 27, 5pm to 12am. We're looking for artists and volunteers to participate in making this most absurd fundraiser happen, specifically crafting and running the games. Won't you run away and join the Carnival? Email us: gs at geminiandscorpio.com with the words "Peepshow Carnival" in the subject. We'd love to have you. BTW, we have already acquired about THIRTY FIVE HUNDRED of the little buggers, and more are likely on sale at the drug store nearest you. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== WORD: Pen World Voices Festival of International Literature <a href="http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1096">http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1096</a> 100+ writers from 25 countries descend upon the city for the seventh annual pen world voices festival of international literature. Marking PEN American Center's 90th anniversary, this year's festival features performances, discussions, one-on-one conversations, and readings. The Standard, New York and The Standard, East Village along with the High Line are the Festival hubs, with venues crisscrossing the city, from Harlem to Wall Street, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA. (Fri-Sun, various locations + prices) ART/WORD: LMCC Workspace Open Studios <a href="http://www.lmcc.net/residencies/workspace/open_studio_weekend">http://www.lmcc.net/residencies/workspace/open_studio_weekend</a> Join us in the studios of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace artists- and writers-in-residence for an opening reception, open hours, and a reading. Representing all media and genresfrom painting and sculpture to installation, photography, video, and performance; from poetry and fiction to playwriting and creative non-fictionartists and writers will present the work they've been making since the start of their residencies in September 2011. In partnership with Downtown's generous real estate community since 1997, LMCC's nine-month residency program Workspace has provided valuable space, time, and community for experimentation, professional development, and dialogue to emerging visual artists and writers. (Workspace Studios, 125 Maiden Lane, 14th Fl, Fri 7-9pm opening Reception / Sat 12-7 [incl readings] / Sun 12-5, FREE w RSVP) MUSIC: Barbes 10th Anniversary <a href="http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com">http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com</a> Best-of-Barbes music programming all weekend. Fri: BANNING EYRE 7:00pm A solo guitar set by the writer, guitarist and Afropop producer. ERIK FRIEDLANDER 8:00pm A solo set by the downtown cellist. THE PARKER STRING QUARTET 9:00pm Our favorite Quartet (who won last year's grammy) are back at barbes for the first time in 2 years. LAS RUBIAS DEL NORTE 10:00pm Celebrate their ten years of performance, with special guests the Parker string quartet. CHICHA LIBRE 11:00pm Back from South America - get ready for a Psychedelic cumbia dance party. PATTY FARREL, SARAH ALDEN & QUINCE MARCUM sing old labor songs 12am. // Sat: A live broadcast of WFMU's Transpacific Paradise with Rob Weisberg & Irene Trudell. 6 to 9:00pm. LAS RUBIAS DEL NORTE 6:00pm The longest running barbès band... CHICHA LIBRE 6:30pm showcase some of the material from their new CD: Canibalismo. NATION BEAT 7:20pm Maracatu drumming, New Orleans second line, Appalachian music and country-blues. QUINCE MARCUM 7:50 Greek Rembetika and American work songs. PIERRE DE GAILL ANDE 8:00pm Piere sings his translations of George Brassens songs with Bad Reputation. ONE RING ZERO 9:00pm Gypsy-klezmer circus-flea-cartoon-music meets lit and prog-rock. BANDA DE LOS MUERTOS 10:00pm NY's only Mexican Banda plays a repertoire from Sinaloa and beyond. // Sun: SANDA WEIGL & SHOKO NAGAI 7:00pm Love songs from Romania, Germany and elsewhere. MICHI WIANCKO 8:00pm The violinist plays a combination of classical piece and her own crossover compostions with a full band. ENDANGERED BLOOD 9:00pm Jim Black/Trevor Dunn/Oscar Noriega and Chris Speed. SMOKEY'S SECRET FAMILY 10:00pm Smokey Hormel and friends' smoking tribute to early congolese music. STEPHANE WREMBEL. 11:00pm The Gypsy Swing virtuoso plays his own compositions. (Barbes, 376 9th st, Park Slope, BK, $10 sugg donation directly to each band) PARTICIPATORY: The FLow Market <a href="http://www.FlowMarket.org">http://www.FlowMarket.org</a> donate: <a href="https://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/fiscal/profile?id=5420">https://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/fiscal/profile?id=5420</a> A place for spinners to play, learn, share and grow. In the FLoasis, the vendor tents will be full of toys, clothes for spinning, food and drinks for sale. There will be an open spin area to try things out -- please bring your own props to play with. Stay after dark Saturday for a Spinning showcase, featuring choreographed performances by some of the best. Open spin jam both nights for experienced, insured spinners who have taken the safety class. Next door at the Annex, there will be a second outdoor area with classes all day in hoop, poi, fans, staff, movement and more. (Sat/Sun 12am-12pm, The Floasis at HQ, 1342-A Dekalb Ave, BK, FREE / 1 day class pass $20 / weekend class pass $35) ART: Frieze Art Fair <a href="http://friezenewyork.com/visitors">http://friezenewyork.com/visitors</a> Frieze New York features 180 of the most exciting contemporary art galleries in the world. Frieze New York presents the most forward-thinking galleries from around the globe, bringing an international focus to the dynamic contemporary art scene in New York. In addition to being able to see work by over 1,000 of the world's leading artists, visitors can experience Frieze Projects, the fair's program of artists' commissions, and Frieze Talks, a program of debates, panel discussions and keynote lectures. Frieze New York is housed in a bespoke temporary structure designed by New York-based SO-IL architects. Located in the unique setting of Randall's Island Park, Manhattan, and overlooking the East River, the fair is easily accessible by public transport. Dedicated Frieze ferry and bus services are included in the admission price.Tickets for Frieze New York must be bought in advance. (Fri-Mon, Randall's Island Park, hours vary, $25-70, adv ticket required) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== MUSIC/DANCE: The Festival of Japan: Drums + Dance <a href="http://www.japanesefolkdance.org">http://www.japanesefolkdance.org</a> A celebratory performance for the 20th anniversary of the Japanese Folk Dance Institute of NY. Our "Festival" is a collaborative performance with Sukeroku Taiko of Tokyo, Japan demonstrating the lively, infectious folk dances of Japan, as well as the spellbinding rhythms of taiko drumming. The essence of Japanese traditional culture, uniting movement and sound in a pure expression of the Japanese spirit. Minbuza, the main performing group of the Japanese Folk Dance Institute of NY, will showcase a wide selection of traditional folk dances from all over Japan. Sukeroku Taiko, one of the premier taiko groups in Japan. is internationally renowned for their dynamic movements and furious drumming. Accompanying Sukeroku Taiko on flute will be the brilliant Shinobue player Nobuko Miyazaki. (The Theater of the Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Avenue, 7pm, $25 adults/$15 students & senior citizens) EVENT: Lust, Art, & Money: Film Screening, Performance, and Panel <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238536">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238536</a> Femina Potens Art Gallery is on the road and teamed up with Lowbrow Society for the Arts annual SMUT art show. Join a panel of feminists, queer artists, activists, counter-culture renegades and performance artists for a night of interactive performance art, film screenings, and artist panel discussion on the Intersections of Racy Performance Art & the more commercial risque ventures. Where does conceptual performance work end and where does our libido begin? How do queer performance artists who are also in radical pornography, decipher the difference between what is art & what is not? These are just some of the questions we will examine through film, art, and performance. Performers include Narcissister, Ellen Stagg, Barbarra Carrellas, Beatrice Schleyer, Jincey Lumpkin, Madison Young, and Najva Sol, with films by Madison Young, Emilie Jouvet, Rozen Debowe, and Dylan Ryan. (950 Hart Gallery, 950 Hart St, BK, 9pm, $5-50, space limited) VARIETY: .357 Lover's Spectacular Showtime Show <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/336324579758284">https://www.facebook.com/events/336324579758284</a> Aerial: Una Mimnagh, Kristine Petrucione, Tyler V. Shaquiri, Jason Mejias and Sarah Brodsky. Dance: Angela Harriel's Love Show Dancers. Music: Katie Mullins. Video Stylings: B.A. Miale (BAMiAM.tv). Rock and Roll: .357 Lover. (Big Sky Works, 29 Wythe Ave @ N 14th St, W'burg, 9pm, $10) BIKE: Central Park Moonlight Ride <a href="http://times-up.org/index.php?page=moonlight-ride-manhattan">http://times-up.org/index.php?page=moonlight-ride-manhattan</a> This is a fun, relaxing auto-free ride through Central Park. Enjoy the tranquillity of the park & its beautiful ponds & waterways: a nature lover's dream. Totally safe. Bike guides front & rear. (Columbus Circle, SW corner of Central Park, 10pm, FREE) DJ: Vitamin B vs. No Parking on the Dancefloor <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/375072452543620">https://www.facebook.com/events/375072452543620</a> While No Parking has been on a slight hiatus, we've decided to team up again and mix and match styles into the early morn, with 8 strictly professional selectahs providing entertainment in the 5th dimension. With DJs Barney Iller, $mall ¢hange, Tim The Enchanter, Tektite, Duane, DJ Fucci, Michna aka Egg, Foo Young, Cecil Grey. Tickets will be issued to ppl standing around on the dancefloor. Don't let our sexy cops fool you...these tough bitches will pepper spray your balls faster then you can say #OWS. Plus visuals, cuddle area, cheap drinks, etc. (House of Yessss, 342 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, 10pm, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTY: Holy Sh*t Papacitos Cinco de Mayo Drink-a-Thon <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/210931845681956">https://www.facebook.com/events/210931845681956</a> Everybody knows there's only one place to be on Cinco de Mayo and that place is Papacitos' Backyard. Hot damn, this year Cinco de Mayo is on a Saturday. So just like in years past, you can come party all day long, with the added bonus of being able to sleep all day after you've had your Breakfast Tacos Sunday morning. This year we are proud to feature Flor de Toloache, NYC's infamous all-female Mariachi band. And the sweet surf rock stylings of Rumble Foot in the backyard all day and night. The give-aways are bigger than ever too, with our esteemed sponsors: El Jimador, Sauza, Espolon, Corona, Tecate, and Modelo doling out the loot for all you party monsters all day long. Come early, stay Late... that's our motto. We'll see ya there. Best tacos in Greenpoint, huge backyard, cheap beer, frozen margaritas, giveaways. (Papacitos Brooklyn, 999 Manhattan Ave between Huron St & Green St, 11am-4am, FREE) SHOP: 4th Annual Spring Handmade Cavalcade <a href="http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/event/114311">http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/event/114311</a> Etsy New York, your local street team, hosts its fourth annual Spring Handmade Cavalcade at the arts and performance venue Littlefield in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood. From 11AM until 5PM shoppers can load up on clothing, jewelry, accessories, paper goods, bath and body treasures, toys, housewares and more, all handmade by some of the most creative local artisans and crafters in the NYC metropolitan area. Hang out and celebrate Cinco de Mayo with our Cavalcade Cocktail from your Littlefield bartender, being served specially for this event. All are encouraged to arrive early, for the first 100 shoppers will receive an amazing goodie bag packed with a unique sampling of handmade wares from members of Etsy New York and local small businesses sponsoring the event. With each purchase, shoppers will also receive a raffle ticket for a chance to win one of three Etsy New York prize packages, filled with handmade donations from our talented members. (Littlefield, 622 Degraw Stree t b/w 3rd/4th Ave& Green St, 11am-5pm, FREE) PARTY: Sancho's Cinco De Mayo Fiest En El Rio <a href="http://www.rocksoff.com/shows/1891">http://www.rocksoff.com/shows/1891</a> Rocks Off is proud to announce our first annual Cinco De May Fiesta En El Rio, that means a party on the river,' for all you gringos. Join us as we take over Pier 81 in a celebration of good livin' and all things Mexican. Pier 81 juts out over the Hudson River for amazing views and cool breezes all afternoon long. Live music thanks to Yacht Rock Revue and Lucha-Libre inspired wrestling featuring the stars of Evolve Wrestling throughout the day. There will be lots more entertainment all over the pier; from limbo contests to Mexican-themed face painting and music from New York City's only all-female Mariachi band 'Mariachi Flor De Tolocahe'.Thanks to our sponsors PACIFICO and NEGRO MODELO the Mexican cervezas will be flowing all day long. We'll also have a wide range of tequilas available as well as margaritas. Also nachos, quesadillas, burritos, and more. All Ages to enter - 21+ to drink, rain or shine.(Pier 81 (World Yacht Pier) West 41st Street and West Side Highway, 12pm- 5pm, FREE) PARTY: Deco Japan <a href="http://www.eventbee.com/v/decojapan">http://www.eventbee.com/v/decojapan</a> Dances of Vice and Japan Society present an evening with the modern girl (moga) and her kaleidoscopic world of dancing, drinking, and late night revelry. Learn a new step on the dance floor with Tim & Akemi, sip an intoxicating tonic and take in the sultry sounds of live pre-War jazz by the Kuni Mikami Jazz Quintet featuring vocalist Mari Koga. Also, watch fashionable flirtation comes to life as real life mogas wearing deco era style fashion designed by Allure Original Styles shimmy through the halls of Japan Society's exhibition Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Cutlure 1920-1945. Period attire is strongly encouraged.(Japan Society, 333 W 47th St, 7pm-12am, $15 adv/$20 door) PARTY: BangOn.NYC Cinco De Mayo Party <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/246682">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/246682</a> BangOn.NYC does Cinco De Mayo with a pile-driver. We've commandeered a massive, brand-new space featuring two dance floors with two different sounds, a roof deck, and pro-wrestling arena. Expect pinatas filled with "adult" party favors, body-building Luchadors pumping iron, TWO LIVE MEXICAN WRESTLING SHOWS, and thumping electro/funk/disco beats from atop our new boombox stage. Featuring: Udachi, Dirtyfinger, $mall ¢hange, Alex English, Golden Pony. (232 Varet St, BK, 10pm-5am, $15 adv/$20 door) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTY: Esca-Dolo-Consu-Armada Explosion <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/349440745106656">https://www.facebook.com/events/349440745106656</a> A BBQ party with bands: Los Dolomites, Escarioka, Consumata, Amour Obscur, Chico Selectah, Radio Armada. DJs follow. $10 all you can eat and drink from several kegs. (221 Stuyvesant Ave, ground floor, between Madison and Monroe, 12pm-12am, FREE) VARIETY: Faceboyz Folliez Full Moon Madness <a href="http://faceboyzfolliez.com/">http://faceboyzfolliez.com/</a> What happens when the most diagnostically mentally disordered cast ever assembled on stage gather on a Full Moon? I have no f*cking idea except that you would be insane to miss it. Produced and hosted by Faceboy. Starring: St. Rev. Jen Miller, Velocity Chyaldd, Stormy Leather, Amanda Whip, Payje Flash. With short films by ASS Studios directed by Courtney Fathom Sell. Guest Writer: Daniel Indalecio Guzman. Musical Guest: Ben Lerman. Burlesque Guest: Scooter Pie. (The Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, 10pm-1am, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== TUESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== WALK: Petal Storm <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/230758057025039">https://www.facebook.com/events/230758057025039</a> Our amateur ornithologists are leading a birdwatching tour to examine the mating rituals of little-known local species. Be a part of the magic. Questions? Contact airelant at gmail. Brought to you by the Shadow Parks Department. (Gramercy Cafe, 184 3rd Ave [ends in W'burg], 6:15am-8am [yes, AM.]) FILM: Colette: A Pirate in Venice <a href="http://www.gershwinhotel.com/love/special-events">http://www.gershwinhotel.com/love/special-events</a> Neke Carson and Michael Wiener are proud to announce the preview of the half-hour documentary on Colette, A Pirate in Venice edited and filmed by Frederike Schaefer. A Pirate in Venice began as a personal documentation of Colette's voyage and evolved into a documentary/collage. It is not meant to be a comprehensive documentary on Colette's work, but a poetic portrait of the artist. The documentary includes her apparitions (spontaneous performance) in Venice, interspersed with selected images and footage of her art throughout her career. Although it does not follow a chronological sequence, it does capture the essence of the artist. (The Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th St. 8pm, $10) BURLESQUE: Victorian Vixens <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9665489">https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9665489</a> The ladies of Geek Girl Productions will take you back to a time where steam still powered our engines, people roamed the land in search of adventure, and the skies were full of zeppelins and airships. The Victorian and steampunk inspired acts that the girls have prepared are going to show a bit more than ankle and will get you nice and ready for the Steampunk World's Fair on May 18th. Performers include: Apathy Angel, Brooklyn Babydoll, and Draga de Sade. Hosted by Juliet Jeske- bringing to life many vivid characters including the jaded Princess Sunshine, the fabulous Contessa Mocha and the sizzling Mistress U Betcha in an often musical, always hilarious fashion. (Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, 10pm, $8 adv/ $12 door) ===+++===+++===+++=== WEDNESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== Artist & volunteer meeting for Peepshow Carnival at our loft, 6-8pm. We bring snacks & drink, you bring your fabulous selves. If you need the address, use the Cinco de Mayhem RSVP form at <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> ===+++===+++===+++=== THURSDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== BURLESQUE: Ultimate Pindowns Wrestling <a href="https://shop.coneyisland.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=742">https://shop.coneyisland.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=742</a> It's time for a Spankdown at Coney Island. Witness sexy stars of the Burlesque Stage and beyond come together to battle it out for Ultimate Pindowns Coney Island Championship Belt. Featuring Lucille Ti Amore, Rosabelle Selavy, Golden Evadora, Running Water, Freddy Malaboca, Aimee Animal and other amazing surprise challengers. Referee Sweet Lorrain. Hosted by Manchego. We hope you will join us as these fierce competitors showcase themselves and then wrestle for the bragging rights to the Coney Island Wrestling Championship Title. (Coney Island Museum and Sideshow, 1208 Surf Ave., Doors 8pm/show 9pm, $12) ===+++===+++===+++=== HOT TIPS [Art opportunities, promotions, sales, news. Non-event ephemera...] ===+++===+++===+++=== COMMUNITY: Information Sessions for USA Projects <a href="http://www.usaprojects.org">http://www.usaprojects.org</a> USA Projects is a community where: accomplished artists can post projects; arts supporters can help fund projects with tax-deductible donations; partner organizations help spread the word and offer challenge funds. Please RSVP by May 4 with the location in your subject heading: rsvp at UnitedStatesArtists dot org [G&S note: artists/creatives, this is a possible funding/grant source for you.] Monday: Pregones Theater, 571 Walton Avenue, The Bronx, 3-5pm; The Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer St, 4-5:30pm or 6:7:30pm. Tuesday: Film Society of Lincoln Center, Elinor Burin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater, 165 West 65th Street, 4th Fl, 7-9pm. Wednesday: BAM, Peter J. Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette, Fort Greene, BK, 10-11am. Thursday: Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette St, 10-11am. ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: PYSANKA: The Ukrainian Easter Egg <a href="http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html">http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html</a> Pysanky are the unique Ukrainian Easter eggs known the world over for their intricate, colorful designs. Drawn from the Museum's extensive folk arts collection, the nearly 300 eggs are decorated in a variety of regional styles, rich colors, and assorted motifs; many are the work of acclaimed artist Sofika Zielyk. The hand-crafted pysanky are made using raw eggs, dyes, and beeswax in a wax-resist method process, known as batik. The process results in colorful eggs ornamented with an array of detailed geometric, floral, and faunistic symbols. The art of creating Ukrainian pysanky (from the word pysaty to write) has been handed down from generation to generation. This ancient art form is taught in workshops Sat/Sun thru 4/1 (adults & children over 12). The Ukrainian Easter Traditions workshop on March 24, for students age 16 and older, offers hands-on training in baking Easter breads and other traditions related to the holiday. March 31: an opportunity to watch artists in acti on as they create beautiful pysanky. In addition to the demonstrations, the award-winning short film Pysanka by Slavko Nowytski will be shown continuously from 1-5 p.m. (thru 5/27, The Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th St bet 2nd/3rd Ave, $8 / plus $10-25 for special workshops) THEATER: The Bachelors' Tea Party <a href="http://www.stolenchair.org/bachelorsteaparty.html">http://www.stolenchair.org/bachelorsteaparty.html</a> The Bachelors' Tea Party is an absurd and absurdly intimate new comedy inspired by the relationships of Elsie de Wolfe (Lady Mendl) and Bessie Marbury, who referred to themselves as "The Bachelors," after they took up joint residence sans men in the first years of the 20th century. Before she invented the profession of interior decorator, de Wolfe was a struggling Broadway performer, known more for her costumes than her acting, and her partner Bessie Marbury, legendary agent and broker, was introducing America to Oscar Wilde and discovering Cole Porter. In a playfully perverse take on a young girl's imaginary tea party, de Wolfe and Marbury will delight and torment each other and entertain a coterie of special guests, "performed" by dolls assembled around the table, with audience members seated only inches away. The play is set in a real Victorian-esque tea salon, and seating is extremely limited - please make reservations. (Sundays thru 6/3, Lady Mendl's Tea Salon, 56 Irving Pl bet 17th & 18th St, 5pm, $10 performance with $35 required tea service plus tax and tip) ART: This Side of Paradise <a href="http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/speakeasy-paradise">http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/speakeasy-paradise</a> The gates of the Andrew Freedman Home will open to the public. The Home was once built to be a haven, a paradise, for the rich elderly who had lost their fortunes. Bequeathed by millionaire Andrew Freedman, the Home provided not only food and shelter but all the accoutrements of a rich and civilized life style white glove dinner service, a grand ball room, a wood-paneled library, billiard room and a social committee who organized concerts, opera performances and the like. Referencing this quixotic history, This Side of Paradise will reference the past and reconnect the vision of Andrew Freedman to today's Bronx and its realities. The exhibition and its extensive public programming onsite and offsite will draw together the economic and social history of the Home with the present day realities of the Bronx and its residents. The selected artists' will work in a site-specific manner and will respond to such issues as memory, immigration, storytelling, aging and the creation of fantasy that the original concept of the Home "being poor in style" suggests. This Side of Paradise will celebrate human ingenuity, the strength of the human spirit and the resilience needed to fashion beauty, hope and rejoicing. (thru 6/5, 1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, tours Thurs-Sun, 1pm-7pm) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== 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]: Drowned Ball photos / CInco de Mayhem next week / Peepshow Carnival 5/27 teaser

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:20:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, Wow, what a party last Saturday. We <3 you guys. You looked completely incredible, every mermaid and sailor among you, and rocked the ship till late night. We even had two real sailors get pulled in from the street by some party guests! If you have photos, please send us links & post them to Facebook. Here's what we got for you: TimeOut was at The Drowned Ball, and they were "particularly impressed with Gemini & Scorpio's take on the tragedy. The partyers captured the zeitgeist and honored the ship, Downton Abbey glamour and zombies all in one magnificently macabre event." Pics: <a href="http://bit.ly/I9cFX9">http://bit.ly/I9cFX9</a> - thank you! Our official photographer, as always, was the incredible Linus Gelber, and he's posted two galleries on Facebook: <a href="http://on.fb.me/DB_p1">http://on.fb.me/DB_p1</a> & <a href="http://on.fb.me/DB_p2">http://on.fb.me/DB_p2</a> (tag yourselves!) We will see some of you tonight at the Lip Service makeout party, and hopefully lots more of you at next week's Cinco de Mayhem. And save the date for Peepshow Carnival, Sunday, May 27. Teaser below -- and please get in touch if you can help. Need lots of artists & crafters on this one. 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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 ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 5/5 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present Cinco de Mayhem Sat, May 5, must RSVP for Gowanus, BK address, 10pm-late, FREE before 11pm/$10 after, 21+ RSVP: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/304538259618766">https://www.facebook.com/events/304538259618766</a> Cinco De Mayo commemorates a Mexican military victory over the French in the Battle of Pueblo, on May 5, 1862. Somehow, 150 years later, it has become an excuse to party. Who are we to complain? We invite you all to our new loft in Gowanus, to drink enough tequila to wake up tomorrow in Mexico and not remember a thing, and dance all night to Latin-spiced globalbeat ethnotek best with: king of the eclectic loft party sound Barney Iller, ethnomesh master Joro Boro, late-night Rubulad favorite Reaganomics, and DJ KindB of World Class International crew. Live percussion TBC. Fire dancers & hoopers welcome (9k sq ft roof). Festive dress always encouraged, but no costume required. Cheap drinks, good times. There may even be an appearance by a Satanic Burger Truck. ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 5/27 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present Peepshow Carnival Sun, May 27, must RSVP for Gowanus, BK address, 5pm-12am (or so), cheap/sliding scale Every year Team in Training, the largest endurance sports training program in the world, raises money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by offering training for the New York City marathon and triathlon (.9 mile swim + 25 mile bike ride + 6.2 mile run). In order to participate and in exchange for the training, each participant is asked to raise a minimum of $2900 for the non-profit. Gemini & Scorpio's longtime door person, stage manager and all-around right-hand-man, Sal Genna, has stepped up to train and participate in the triathlon -- and we have stepped up to help him raise the money for this cause. Of course, we're going to do it in slightly askew G&S fashion. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step right up to the Peepshow Carnival, a loft wonderland of midway games of skill and chance made up mostly of...marshmallow peeps. That's right, for the first time ever (we hope), show your mettle at games of: Bobbing For Peeps, Shoot The Peep, Peep Eating Contest, Peep Darts, Peep Toss, Peep Jousting, How Many Peeps in a Jar, and lots more! Play the games, eat the peeps, earn gold stars, and trade them in for Secret Prizes! The Peepshow is going to take place inside and on the roof our as-yet-unfinished loft in Gowanus, BK, on Memorial Weekend Sunday, May 27, 5pm to 12am. We're looking for artists and volunteers to participate in making this most absurd fundraiser happen, specifically crafting and running the games. Won't you run away and join the Carnival? Email us: gs at geminiandscorpio.com with the words "Peepshow Carnival" in the subject. We'd love to have you! BTW, we have already acquired about THIRTY FIVE HUNDRED of the little buggers, and more are likely on sale at the drug store nearest you. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== BURLESQUE: The 1st Annual New York Boylesque Festival <a href="http://www.nyboylesquefestival.com">http://www.nyboylesquefestival.com</a> Jen Gapay of The New York Burlesque Festival/Thirsty Girl joins forces with NYC's King of Queer Sleaze, Daniel Nardicio to prove that Burlesque isn't just for women anymore. Feature]ing over 30 amazing boylesque performers from around the globe, the festival kicks off Friday April 27th with its Teaser Party at the East Village's sexy venue, Tammany Hall, hosted by The World Famous *BOB*. Performers include Brewster (NYC), Wrong Note Rusty (Toronto), Faux Pas (NYC), Trojan Original (Seattle), Bastard Keith (NYC), Manchego (NYC) James & The Giant Pastie (Toronto) Chad Ferro (NYC) Paco Fish (Baltimore) and many more. Saturday April 28th, rev your engines for The Main Event at Chelsea hot spot, Rebel. Hosted by (NYC's Big Tittied Honky Soul Mama) Sweetie, The Main Event features 20 + amazing performers from around the globe including; Tigger (NYC), The Evil Hate Monkey (NYC), Mahogany Storm (Toronto), Hot Toddy (Chicago), GO-GO Harder (NYC), Mat Fraser (London), The Luminous P ariah, (Seattle), Paris Original-Poetry in Motion (Seattle), Dew Lily (Toronto), Jonny Porkpie (NYC), Mr. Gorgeous (NYC), and the amazing troupes Boylesque TO (Toronto), & Mod Carousel (Seattle), with additional national boylesque performers to be announced. (4/27 at Tammany Hall, 152 Orchard St., 7pm doors, 8pm show, $12 advance, $15 door. 4/28 at Rebel, 251 West 30th St., 7pm doors, 8pm show, $20 advance, $25 door) EVENT: NYC 19th Century Extravaganza <a href="http://nyncs.wordpress.com">http://nyncs.wordpress.com</a> The Extravaganza is a 3-day, 95% free, all-ages festival celebrating NYC Victorian-era History, Art, and Culture! The festival features classes, hands-on workshops, demonstrations, and performances highlighting 19th-century life in New York City, plus Neo-Victorian and Steampunk culture, art and fashion today. The festival culminates in a full-day of Victorian-style outdoors picnicking, performances, fashion shows and merry-making. Participating through costume and period dress is welcome and encouraged. Events include: Victorian Unmentionables Lecture: Women's 19th-century Undergarments; 19th-century Pub Crawl (period costume welcome); Oscar Wilde in New York Walking Tour; steampunk / neo-Victorian fashion show; 19th-century reenactment base ball game (with the old rules and costumes); DIY Victorian-style hand sewing class; Victorian medicinal herbal remedies workshop; old time photo booth; open air figure drawing class; Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes demo and class; outdoor 19th Century Hearth Cooking Demonstration; and Atlantic Avenue: The World's First Subway Lecture. (Fri/Sat: see site for details; Sun: Old Stone House of Brooklyn, Washington Park/JJ Byrne Playground, 3rd St @ 5th Ave, Park Slope, NY 10am-6pm, FREE) PARTICIPATORY: iSpy <a href="http://www.fluxfactory.org/projects/ispy">http://www.fluxfactory.org/projects/ispy</a> Flux Factory a participatory conceptual game show that brings together live streaming video, consenting audiences, and unsuspecting participants for a rollicking good time through the misuse of surveillance. The federal government has unrestricted access to your email, local police departments can track your phone's location without a warrant, and we freely post our daily minutiae on Facebook anyway. Instead of lamenting that we're sleepwalking into a surveillance state, iSpy repurposes these technologies for an interactive theatrical experience. Come ready to team up and win subversive challenges involving live aerial surveillance, piñatas, World of Warcraft, and many more surprises. Each night, two featured players carry networked cameras in public space, beaming video back to the Flux gallery-turned-game show studio where they coordinate with the rest of their team to score more points. The team with the highest score wins a rare and special prize. (Sat/Sun, Flux Factory, 39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, Queens, 6pm, FREE) PUPPETS: Puppet Playlist #13: Motown <a href="http://www.puppetplaylist.com">http://www.puppetplaylist.com</a> Puppet Playlist is bringing Motown to Downtown (Manhattan). Let's Get It On. Puppet Playlist takes brilliant puppeteers and talented musicians and slams them together into an evening of live theater to stir the senses. This Playlist will feature original works of puppetry inspired by the songs of Motown artists, mixed with live musical interpretations by some of New York's most exciting young singer-songwriters. FEATURING PIECES BY: Brodrick Jones, Jessica Simon & Taylor Bibat, Jake Bazel & Vivian Viera, Tom McDonagh & Kate Leitch, Dana Morgan & Millie Taylor and Arlee Chadwick WITH MUSIC BY: Swear & Shake, The Maestrosities, Anna Leuchtenberger & Dave Broome, Matt Singer, and Emily Hope Price (of Pearl and the Beard). Join us for drinks upstairs at KGB bar after the last show of the night. (Mon 8pm; Tues 7:30pm and 9:30pm, The Kraine Theatre, 85 East 4th St, $8 adv / $10 door) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== FILM: Battle for Brooklyn <a href="http://dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3004">http://dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3004</a> See the critically acclaimed and Oscar short-listed documentary about the fight against Atlantic Yards, just 3 blocks away from the eastern end of the Atlantic Yards project site. Following the film there will be a panel discussion about the project, the current state of the impact on and response from the community, and the future of our neighborhoods. Scheduled to be on the panel are: Daniel Goldstein, Co-founder of Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn; Michelle de la Uz, Executive Director of the Fifth Avenue Committee; Gib Veconi, Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council; Councilmember Letitia James; Rev. Mark V. C. Taylor, Church of the Open Door. (Brown Memorial Baptist Church, Clinton Hill, 52 Gates Ave bet Waverly and Washington Ave, 6:30pm, FREE) *OPENING: Nicole Aptekar's Expanded Taxonomy <a href="http://www.AreYouDevoted.com">http://www.AreYouDevoted.com</a> Expanded Taxonomy is a 15-piece collection of laser cut sculptures built out of composite images. Depth emerges from Aptekar's subtractive process to reveal abstract forms. Expanded Taxonomy utilizes negative space to uncover nuanced structures. The sculptures that populate this exhibit imply time by iteration; the subtle changes of each layer uncover new images, the sum of which give birth to Aptekar's sculptures. The modifications of each tier form the paper skeleton that is the framework of her 3D designs. This series explores elegance and articulation. Aptekar makes adept use of her own laser to achieve a clean precision. Her expertise in designing complex structures and executing them in a decisive manner is not new to Aptekar's work, but in Expanded Taxonomy Aptekar showcases yet another evolution of her process. The technical achievements become transparent as beauty of the work entices the observer's attention. (show thru 5/18, Devotion Gallery, 54 Maujer St, Bushwick , BK, 7-11pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ***EVENT: International Obscura Day <a href="http://obscuraday.com">http://obscuraday.com</a> A day of expeditions, back-room tours, and hidden treasures in your home town. Most NYC events sold out, but a few remain. See site for various independent events. BIKE: Bicycle Blitz Thru Staten Island <a href="http://levysuniqueny.com/events/bicycle-blitz-through-staten-island">http://levysuniqueny.com/events/bicycle-blitz-through-staten-island</a> Join licensed NYC tour guide, native Brooklynite, history geek, beer nerd and bicycling enthusiast Matt Levy on a 15 mile bike ride through the wilds of Staten Island. We'll adventure through the mysterious suburbs of SI on a historical & foodie curated tour of the most misunderstood borough in NYC. From the St. George Ferry Terminal, our first stop will be the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum in Rosebank, where we'll learn about the inventor of the Teletrophono, as well as his roommate, the Hero of Two Worlds. After a quick museum tour we'll roll down to legendary Lee's Tavern for a clam pie and beer break. Fortified by carbs we'll bike to the end of the island for Killmeyer's Old Bavaria Inn and Beer Garden. Tour fee doesn't include cost of beers or pizza at our foodie / beer garden stops. Bike ride is one-way, approx 15 miles of hilly SI terrain. We will be taking the legendary SI Railway back to the ferry. (RSVP Matt at levysuniqueny dot com, Staten Island Ferry-St George Terminal, 10am-end, $30, includes entrance at Garibaldi-Meucci Museum) PARTICIPATORY: Street Games Festival <a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/street-games">http://www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/street-games</a> Get moving with: Stickball, Pogo sticks, Hula Hoops, Double-Dutch, Hippity Hop, Yo-Yos, Skateboarding clinics, Knicks Groove Truck, Street hockey. New activities this year include: Soap Box Derby; Sky Bounce Youth Handball Tournament; Red Bull Skills Challenge; Arts & Crafts with Scribble Shop. KISS FM will be spinning music and emceeing from the main stage and the Dance Theater, of Harlem will perform twice. In the event of rain, Street Games will be moved indoors to the Thomas Jefferson Recreation Center located in the park. (Thomas Jefferson Park, 114th St & 1st Ave, 11am-3pm, FREE / rain or shine) BIKE: Old Croton Aqueduct Bike Tour <a href="http://www.newyorkcityh2o.org">http://www.newyorkcityh2o.org</a> In 1842, the original Croton Aqueduct began delivering water to New York City from the Croton River 41 miles to the north. In the decades leading up to the aqueduct's completion the city had suffered epidemics of Asiatic Cholera and Yellow Fever because water came from increasingly polluted wells.The aqueduct was an incredible work of engineering never before accomplished on such a large scale. It delivered 40 million gallons of clean reliable drinking water daily to a rapidly growing city. Join NYC native Matt Malina and Hannah Riseley-White as we bike the route of the Old Croton Aqueduct from the NYPL to the Highbridge. (Meet at the NYPL 42nd St, 12pm, $20 / Students and teachers $10) CLASS: Anthropomorphic Insect Shadowbox Workshop <a href="http://observatoryroom.org/2012/02/25/anthropomorphic-insect-shadowbox-workshop-with-former-amnh-senior-insect-preparator-daisy-tainton-2">http://observatoryroom.org/2012/02/25/anthropomorphic-insect-shadowbox-workshop-with-former-amnh-senior-insect-preparator-daisy-tainton-2</a> Rhinoceros beetles: nature's tiny giants. Adorable, with their giant heads and tiny legs, and wonderful antler-like protrusions. If you think they would be even more adorable drinking tiny beers and holding tiny fishing poles, we have the perfect class for you! In today's workshop, students will learn to makeand leave with their own!shadowbox dioramas featuring carefully positioned beetles doing nearly anything you can imagine. An assortment of miniature furniture and foods will be made available to decorate your habitat, but students are strongly encouraged to bring any dollhouse props they would like to use. 1:12 scale is generally best. Daisy Tainton was formerly Senior Insect Preparator at the American Museum of Natural History, and has been working with insects professionally for several years. Eventually her fascination with insects and love of Japanese miniature food items naturally came together, resulting in cute and ridiculous museum-inspired yet utterly unrealist ic dioramas. Beetles at the dentist? Beetles eating pie and knitting sweaters? Even beetles on the toilet? Why not? (The Observatory, Gowanus, BK, Limited Class Size/must RSVP to morbidanatomy gmail, 1-4pm, $65) *EVENT: Funhaus <a href="http://www.nycfunhaus.com">http://www.nycfunhaus.com</a> Ten hours of new tech, toys, performance, dance - open to the planet. Very participatory. An interactive showcase for people to experience products as they were intended. Projects range from solar, safety, light, neuroscience, biochemistry, film, education, music, and food. The goal is to change how people think about new ideas they'll be able to get their hands on in the near future. In between the magic are successfully funded performers from Kickstarter providing a festive -- wow factor for the senses. Everything is local: the ideas, sounds and inventions are all New York based. As compared to a standard tech conference or show, at Funhaus you can touch and play with every idea and product in the space, you can talk to the inventors and talented artists, and you can watch amazing performers and creative's that will stir your spirit. Artisanal foodie firms will overwhelm the palette with samples and offerings galore. Who makes up the show: Inventors from Kickstarter, NYU's ITP program, and startups in New York City. (46 Bridge, DUMBO, BK, 4p, exhibition, 9pm soiree, $5) BENEFIT: A Parlor Party <a href="http://www.thekitchen.org/event/317/0/1">http://www.thekitchen.org/event/317/0/1</a> ...to benefit our upcoming production of the Golden Veil. Sing, dance, and toast the night away with the National Theater of the United States of America, its family, friends, and lovers. Come get a foretaste of the intimate theatrical environment we are creating for you out of stuff from our living room. Help us meet our funding goal by hanging out with us. Evening entertainments will include: A glimpse of the song and dance of the Golden Veil; Sonic Time Travel from the Vintage DJ; Balkan no-wave village music from the Drunkard's Wife, as well as dramatic readings, parlor tricks, and dancing. (Uncanny Valley , 26-09 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, 7pm, $15) PARTY: BLUNDERLAND 2 (RETURN TO BLUNDERLAND) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/303166419754254">https://www.facebook.com/events/303166419754254</a> tix: <a href="http://www.smarttix.com/">http://www.smarttix.com/</a> (search Blunderland) Expect nothing and be delivered everything from an evening that will incorporate some of the most explosive talent in today's nightlife and performance scenes. To be followed by an epic dance party to keep everyone going well into the night. Performances will include a very special introduction from The Empress of New York City Nightlife and co-creator of Jackie 60 and Night of a Thousand Stevies the legendary Chi Chi Valenti. Followed variety sets made to mangle your mind with special guests including multimedia wizard Rob Roth accompanied by Chad Hammer, David Sloan and the Love Show Dancers, satirist extraordinaire Mike Albo, circus geniuses Ryan Shinji Murray and Angela Butch, The Gothic Contortions of Rachel Klein Productions, Burlesque from Medianoche and Cheeky Lane, and the incredible duo Nobuya and Tsubi serving you something you ain't getting elsewhere. Following will be a live set from Brooklyn Boogaloo Blowout featuring the incomparable Leah Siegel, bringing you v intage R&B, Soul, and Funk to get your feet moving and light your heart on fire. Before, after, between, and around the performances, enjoy a bit of a dance party courtesy of The Legendary Steve Lewis and The House of Yes's DJ K'MAZING. Food stand provided by It's Veggie Time's Andriana Santiago. (Red Lotus Room, 893 Bergen St, Crown Heights, BK, 10pm, $15 adv / $20 door) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PERFORMANCE: Secret City: Money <a href="http://www.thesecretcity.org">http://www.thesecretcity.org</a> An Obie Award-winning, monthly gathering of artists and those who believe in the arts. Part cabaret, part salon, part tent revival, each month has a different theme and a variety of guest artists. With a fantastic line-up of artists and friends coming to illuminate Money, a rich and complicated topic. Modern-day troubadour Andru Bemis will play his banjo and sing some songs; new-economy and barter queen, Caroline Woolard will perform a disappearing act; artist Peter Simensky will show us the beautiful, reconstituted currency he makes Chef Barrett Washburne is making black-eyed peas and collard greens. There will be a story about money and mortality. And, the Secret City Singers will perform Pennies from Heaven. With free childcare. (Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St bet Rivington and Delancey, 11:30am, $10) PARTY: HOUSE OF FIELD'S GLOBAL WARMING SUNSET BBQ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/341934799202029">https://www.facebook.com/events/341934799202029</a> Celebrate the Warm Weather and our New Shop Opening at the End of May. PATRICIA FIELD, WITH LADYFAG and DJ MATEOS, and: Sushi, Artie Hach, Codie Ravioli Leone, Connie Girl, David Dalrymple, Russian Dennis, Ingrid Nilsen, Dai Burger, Barbie Beach, Leo Gugu, Hiraku, Reiko, Joey Pauline. Plus Join Raffaele, Miss Queen Vixen herself, for her last party with the House of Field. Global Warming Fashion Costume Contest. BBQ ON THE HOUSE. DRESS CODE: GLOBAL WARMING SEXY GLAMOUR. RSVP at PATRICIAFIELD dot COM. (230 Fifth Ave, Rooftop, 4-10pm, FREE) WORD: The Pathological Sublime and The Anatomical Unconscious <a href="http://corneliastreetcafe.com/Performances.asp?sdate=4/29/2012&from_cal=0">http://corneliastreetcafe.com/Performances.asp?sdate=4/29/2012&from_cal=0</a> Celebrating the publication of his essay collection, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams, cultural critic and cult author Mark Dery will lecturewith unforgettable slideson the hallucinatory Crypt of the Capuchin monks in Rome, the uncanny wax mannequins at La Specola in Florence, and the 19th-century Chinese artist Lam Qua's paintings of patients with eye-poppingly bizarre tumors, which so fascinated Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. that he wrote an article exhorting all "worshippers of morbid anatomy" to see the paintings, a textbook example of what Holmes called "the pathological sublime." Mark Dery is a cultural critic. He is best known for his writings on the politics of popular culture in books such as The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink,Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century, Flame Wars, and Culture Jamming. Admission price includes a drink. (The Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, 6 pm, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== MONDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ACTIVISM/PERFORMANCE: Night Before May Day...and all through the city <a href="http://revbilly.com/events/night-before-may-day">http://revbilly.com/events/night-before-may-day</a> Church of Stop Shopping presents a performance and party, honoring pro bono lawyers who defend Occupiers. After confronting Big Ag banksters at the Waldorf and after the student debt scam rallies across the city, the American Spring rushes toward us. Join us Monday night, when members of the Direct Action working group will talk about the risks, strategies and schedule of May Day in New York and around the world. The special one-night engagement will feature excerpts from the song-cycle the choir recently created from the words of the Declaration of the Occupation, adopted by the NYC general assembly at Zuccotti Park in October 2011. With inspiration by Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir. (155 1st Avenue, between 9th and 10th st, 7pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== TUESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ACTIVISM: May Day 2012 <a href="http://www.maydaynyc.org">http://www.maydaynyc.org</a> No work, No housework, No school, Take the streets. 8am-2pm: Midtown action staging zone in Bryant Park including: Free food, a free market, skill shares, workshops, teach-ins, speak- outs, public art, performances, and opportunities for action. 8am-2pm: 99 Pickets at corporate Midtown targets to disrupt business as usual. 10am-2pm: Free University at Madison Sq Park. 2pm: OWS March from Bryant Park with 1,000 guitars to Madison Sq Park and on to Union Square. 4pm: Convene in Union Square for a rally with labor, immigrants, and all the 99%! There will be music including, but not limited to, Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), Das Racist, and Immortal Technique. 5:30pm: A solidarity march from Union Square to Wall Street. 7pm: Assembly of the 99% and more to be announced in person! WORD: Punderdome 3000 <a href="http://www.punderdome.com">http://www.punderdome.com</a> Hosted by a self-proclaimed Rodney Dangerfield impersonator and his daughter, Fred and Jo Firestone, Punderdome 3000 is a pun competition for wierdos and pun-lovers alike. All are welcome to attend this wild and crazy round-robin event, but only the first 24 individuals/duos to sign-up at the door will have a chance to compete. Pun-masters are determined through a human clap-o-meter system, voted on by the audience. Great big kitchen appliance prizes guaranteed. We're excited to announce that our celebrity judge will be comedian Ophira Eisenberg. "concentrated, unabashed silliness that I longed to bottle and smuggle out in my purse" -- The New Yorker. (Littlefield, 622 Degraw St, Gowanus, BK, 7pm doors / 8pm show, $7 door / $6 adv) EVENT: Great Small Works May Day Spaghetti Dinner' R-and-R <a href="http://www.greatsmallworks.org">http://www.greatsmallworks.org</a> Come celebrate after a day of great displays of common interest and shared physical expression. Contemplate the power that arises from collectively withdrawing cooperation and consent, however you do it. Featuring: the radiant May Day music of Stagger Back Brass Band, in their 6th annual May Day extravaganza; Great Small Works' improvised Living Newspaper shadow show about the events of this May Day 2012; We Shall Not Be Moved: The Musical Story of the 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down Strikes, written and directed by Phil Andrews, featuring Cara Francis, Josh Lerner and Xavier, with music by Apocalypse Five and Dime; a May Day Crankie by Vermont puppeteer and filmmaker Meredith Holch; Bloomberg's Fifth Largest Army in the World: Puppet Study #1, about New York's Finest, inspired by 1930s work of Workers' Dance League, by Maura Gahan and Jacobs/Campbell Dance. Food and drinks will be available throughout the night. Please come by and share stories of how you occupied your May Day. (ONE ARM RED, 10 Jay Street, 9th fl, DUMBO, BK, 8pm, sliding scale $5-15) ===+++===+++===+++=== WEDNESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ***MUSIC: Sxip's Hour of Charm (Sxip's Birthday Show) <a href="http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,6135">http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,6135</a> Incredible performance composer Sxip Shirey presents a night that will be absolutely over-stuffed with incredible music and sound performance. Including Glass harmonica player Jonny Rogers, human beat boxer Adam Matta, loop, and electronics and violinist Todd Reynolds, Haitian electronic sound artist Val Inc., singing costumed singing ensemble Hydra, Parisian Electro-Cajun Feloche, accordionist Kevin Kardah singing Dead Milkmen, and Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls. This could only happen in NYC. (Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette, 9:30; $15) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== THEATER: Prometheus Within <a href="http://lamama.org/ellen-stewart-theatre/prometheus-within/">http://lamama.org/ellen-stewart-theatre/prometheus-within/</a> By Skysaver Productions. Written, designed and directed by Theodora Skipitares. Music composed by Sxip Shirey. Inspired by Aeschylus' PROMETHEUS BOUND, Theodora Skipitares returns to the subject of medicine, with a look at stem cell science, genetic engineering, and organ theft. With a dazzling array of puppet styles and a bold use of scale, PROMETHEUS features live music composed by Sxip Shirey, multi-dimensional acrobatics by Jonathan Nosan in the title role, and video. PROMETHEUS asks the question: Whose body is it anyway? (thru 4/29, Ellen Stewart Theatre, 74A East 4th Street, Thur-Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2:30pm, $13 student & senior/$18 adult) THEATER: Julie S. Caesar and the Real housewives of Trevi, <a href="http://www.livefeednyc.org">http://www.livefeednyc.org</a> tix: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/232990">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/232990</a> Meet the Real Ladies of Trevi, the pill-popping, chardonnay-swilling, Botox-injecting reality stars who'll cut a bitch for a chance at media glitz. Julie S. Caesar & The Real Housewives of Trevi combines Shakespeare's timeless tragedy of betrayal and politics with Bravo's wildly popular television franchise for a darkly satirical look at those in hot pursuit of fame and the tension between public ambition and personal morality. A site-specific, immersive theater spectacle, the performance leverages Twitter as the new platform for interactive theaterviewers can comment on the events as they unfold with tweets projected onscreen in real time. Written & Directed by Andi Stover, Costumes by Machine Dazzle. (Mondays 4/16, 4/23 & 4/30, The ACE Hotel, 20 W. 29th St, doors 7pm/curtain 8pm, $40) ART: PYSANKA: The Ukrainian Easter Egg <a href="http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html">http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html</a> Pysanky are the unique Ukrainian Easter eggs known the world over for their intricate, colorful designs. Drawn from the Museum's extensive folk arts collection, the nearly 300 eggs are decorated in a variety of regional styles, rich colors, and assorted motifs; many are the work of acclaimed artist Sofika Zielyk. The hand-crafted pysanky are made using raw eggs, dyes, and beeswax in a wax-resist method process, known as batik. The process results in colorful eggs ornamented with an array of detailed geometric, floral, and faunistic symbols. The art of creating Ukrainian pysanky (from the word pysaty to write) has been handed down from generation to generation. This ancient art form is taught in workshops Sat/Sun thru 4/1 (adults & children over 12). The Ukrainian Easter Traditions workshop on March 24, for students age 16 and older, offers hands-on training in baking Easter breads and other traditions related to the holiday. March 31: an opportunity to watch artists in acti on as they create beautiful pysanky. In addition to the demonstrations, the award-winning short film Pysanka by Slavko Nowytski will be shown continuously from 1-5 p.m. (thru 5/27, The Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th St bet 2nd/3rd Ave, $8 / plus $10-25 for special workshops) THEATER: The Bachelors' Tea Party <a href="http://www.stolenchair.org/bachelorsteaparty.html">http://www.stolenchair.org/bachelorsteaparty.html</a> The Bachelors' Tea Party is an absurd and absurdly intimate new comedy inspired by the relationships of Elsie de Wolfe (Lady Mendl) and Bessie Marbury, who referred to themselves as "The Bachelors," after they took up joint residence sans men in the first years of the 20th century. Before she invented the profession of interior decorator, de Wolfe was a struggling Broadway performer, known more for her costumes than her acting, and her partner Bessie Marbury, legendary agent and broker, was introducing America to Oscar Wilde and discovering Cole Porter. In a playfully perverse take on a young girl's imaginary tea party, de Wolfe and Marbury will delight and torment each other and entertain a coterie of special guests, "performed" by dolls assembled around the table, with audience members seated only inches away. The play is set in a real Victorian-esque tea salon, and seating is extremely limited - please make reservations. (Sundays thru 6/3, Lady Mendl's Tea Salon, 56 Irving Pl bet 17th & 18th St, 5pm, $10 performance with $35 required tea service plus tax and tip) ART: This Side of Paradise <a href="http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/speakeasy-paradise">http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/speakeasy-paradise</a> The gates of the Andrew Freedman Home will open to the public. The Home was once built to be a haven, a paradise, for the rich elderly who had lost their fortunes. Bequeathed by millionaire Andrew Freedman, the Home provided not only food and shelter but all the accoutrements of a rich and civilized life style white glove dinner service, a grand ball room, a wood-paneled library, billiard room and a social committee who organized concerts, opera performances and the like. Referencing this quixotic history, This Side of Paradise will reference the past and reconnect the vision of Andrew Freedman to today's Bronx and its realities. The exhibition and its extensive public programming onsite and offsite will draw together the economic and social history of the Home with the present day realities of the Bronx and its residents. The selected artists' will work in a site-specific manner and will respond to such issues as memory, immigration, storytelling, aging and the creation of fantasy that the original concept of the Home "being poor in style" suggests. This Side of Paradise will celebrate human ingenuity, the strength of the human spirit and the resilience needed to fashion beauty, hope and rejoicing. (thru 6/5, 1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, tours Thurs-Sun, 1pm-7pm) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== 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 Drowned Ball tomorrow / Cinco de Mayhem May 5 / weekend listings

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:26:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, The Drowned Ball is tomorrow, SQUEE! We've been wanting to do a party like this for a few years, so to see it finally materialize is very exciting. There are still tickets left, but the party was a critics' pick in both Village Voice - <a href="http://bit.ly/HXFODO">http://bit.ly/HXFODO</a> - and TimeOut this week - <a href="http://bit.ly/HFm3Sv">http://bit.ly/HFm3Sv</a> - so we're not sure how many will be left by tomorrow. We will have door sales, first come, first served. For first class tickets that include the custom art print, here's the link to the gorgeous original: <a href="http://bit.ly/DB_art">http://bit.ly/DB_art</a> Our next parties after this are the makeout one for HoS (see link in signature) and a Cinco de Mayo loft-party-in-a-construction-zone. Details below. 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://bit.ly/GS_facebook">http://bit.ly/GS_facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Tumblr: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr">http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_ytube">http://bit.ly/GS_ytube</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</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: 4/21 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present The Drowned Ball A grandiose remembrance of 100 anniversary of RMS Titanic's first and last voyage Sat, April 21, Zanger Hall, 347 West 34th St, 9pm-3am, 21+ Tickets $25-85 presale / $10 more at door, if left / $15 at door after 12am Details: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/344930908890321">https://www.facebook.com/events/344930908890321</a> Tix: <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238213">https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238213</a> Poster art preview: <a href="http://www.teeteringbulb.com/?p=1819">http://www.teeteringbulb.com/?p=1819</a> Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> (#DrownedBall) The greatest ship ever built sets sail once more. In the grand ballroom, an orchestra plays to slow-swaying aristocracy, all sparkling diamonds and rustling silk, while in steerage below, the lower classes stomp to fiddles and accordions. But mere hours later, disaster strikes, and with no escape possible, mayhem ensues. Upstairs: waltzes from around the world by Golden Angel Waltz Orchestra. Downstairs: Strung Out String Band whirls you into an old-time vortex as you're surrounded by immersive video projections by Fictive. Asphyxia's Ghost couture apparatus by Kaytee Papusza. DJs to follow on both floors, with a wild remix of early Americana and modern beats: Joro Boro, $mall ¢hange, DirtyFinger, and Shakey. In the tradition of turn-of-century Grand Bal art posters, artist duo Teetering Bulb have created a one-of-a-kind painting to commemorate the event. Skink Ink Fine Art Printing ran a limited unnumbered edition of 50 12x18 prints on archival cotton rag paper, only available to event guests as bundled with 1st class tickets ($50) or at the event, if any left ($60). Ticket levels*: 1st & 2nd classes board 9pm, and enjoy an hour of complimentary champagne, and a waltz dance class at 9:30: $85 with custom art print; $35 without. Steerage boards 10pm: $25. If any tickets are available at door, they're $10 more; only $15 after 12am. This event will sell out. Dress code: Turn-of-century-ball meets Mermaid Parade meets zombies. Dress upper class or steerage, before the iceberg or after -- or even as the iceberg itself. Sea creatures most welcome, especially luminescent ones. Ocean explorers, bring your cameras. *This event is a fundraiser for our new loft party space. Please support at the highest level you can afford. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== SHOP: Manhattan Vintage Show <a href="http://www.manhattanvintage.com/upcoming.shtm">http://www.manhattanvintage.com/upcoming.shtm</a> Vintage clothing and antique textile show and sale. (Fri 1-8pm, Sat 11am-6pm, Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W. 18th St, $20) EVENT: Congress of Curious Peoples <a href="http://www.coneyisland.com/congress.shtml">http://www.coneyisland.com/congress.shtml</a> Since the 1860's, Coney Island has been a beacon for strange and interesting people. For generations, it has attracted the curious and the enlightened, the onlooker and the performer. Every spring Coney Island USA convenes The Congress of Curious Peoples, a 10-day gathering of unique individuals at Sideshows by the Seashore and the Coney Island Museum, celebrating Coney Island's subversive and exciting power and exploring its political, artistic, and spectacular possibilities through performances, exhibitions, and films by important artists in the world of the 21st century sideshows. Adding to the madness, Coney Island USA introduces the Congress for Curious People. Consisting of a 2-day symposium, this additional congress will take a scholarly yet popular approach to the curiosities and wonders of Coney Island and seek to investigate--via lectures and and a scholarly conference--the relationship between education and spectacle in American amusements, the collection of curios ities from the renaissance to the present, and the display of "freaks" and "primitive peoples" in fairgrounds and worlds fair settings. The series will celebrate the interdisciplinarity of Dime Museums while calling into question both popular and scholarly assumptions about the importance of Coney Island's legacy, its sordid past, and its titillating present. (Fri-Sun, Sideshows by the Seashore and The Coney Island Museum, 1208 Surf Ave, Coney Island, BK, $5-$25 per event / $75-$100 congressional pass) PEROFMRANCE: Aghoria <a href="http://www.aghoria.com">http://www.aghoria.com</a> <a href="http://www.madsharpproductions.com">http://www.madsharpproductions.com</a> tix: <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/233612">https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/233612</a> Staged in a magnificent cathedral, Mad Sharp Productions presents "Aghoria", a multidimensional performance piece based loosely off the ascetic lifestyle of the Aghori sadhus. Blending theater, dance, and large scale sculpture, Aghoria explores the resonant power of the human mind in a landscape of steel, silk, and symmetry. Written and produced by Linden Renz, directed by Seanna Sharpe, with Sound Design by Brandon Wolcott (Fri-Sun, 626 Bushwick Ave., 8pm doors/8:30pm show, $20-$60) PARTICIPATORY: iSpy <a href="http://www.fluxfactory.org/projects/ispy">http://www.fluxfactory.org/projects/ispy</a> Flux Factory a participatory conceptual game show that brings together live streaming video, consenting audiences, and unsuspecting participants for a rollicking good time through the misuse of surveillance. The federal government has unrestricted access to your email, local police departments can track your phone's location without a warrant, and we freely post our daily minutiae on Facebook anyway. Instead of lamenting that we're sleepwalking into a surveillance state, iSpy repurposes these technologies for an interactive theatrical experience. Come ready to team up and win subversive challenges involving live aerial surveillance, piñatas, World of Warcraft, and many more surprises. Each night, two featured players carry networked cameras in public space, beaming video back to the Flux gallery-turned-game show studio where they coordinate with the rest of their team to score more points. The team with the highest score wins a rare and special prize. (Sat/Sun this weekend & next, Flux Factory, 39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, Queens, 6pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== WORD: Imagining Space <a href="http://www.yurisnightny.net">http://www.yurisnightny.net</a> An Evening of Panel Discussion and Presentation. Space is Limited- to RSVP, please email <a href="mailto:yurisnightnyc@gmail.com">yurisnightnyc@gmail.com</a>. 7pm: Mingling at our social hour and enjoy the artwork from Alexander Polyakov. 8pm: ART PANEL + QandA, James Vogel, Ted Southern, Jason Silva, 8:50pm: Consider the Source "Music and Math." 9pm: TECHNOLOGY PANEL + QandA, Makenzie Lystrup, 9:3pm: Music, conversation, dancing and compilation video of the history of space flight. Costumes welcome. (The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, 7pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== BURLESQUE: The New Nerdlesque Review <a href="http://plancast.com/p/agv4/epic-win-burlesque-presents-new-nerdlesque-review">http://plancast.com/p/agv4/epic-win-burlesque-presents-new-nerdlesque-review</a> In the past 3 years there has been an explosion of geeks onto the burlesque scene and it is high time that those newer talents got a chance to shine and be introduced to burlyq fans the world over. The New Nerdlesque Review is a showcase of the best and brightest of the most recent crop of pop culture devotees. The performers in this show, for the most part, have only been in the burlyq scene for a year or less and all of them lovingly embrace their very nerdy interests. Presented by Epic Win Burlesque. Come and hoot, holler and cheer for the newest nerds to hit the stage! Featuring: Stella Chu, Essence Revealed, Bombazeen Bean, Sweet N'lo, Ruby Solitaire, Angelique A'lamode. Hosted by: Nasty Canasta and Nelson Lugo. Kittening provided by Clara Coquette. (R-Bar, 218 Bowery, 7:30pm door/8pm show, $10) VARIETY: Super Fun Superfund Variety Show, April Extravaganza <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/377382498959426/">https://www.facebook.com/events/377382498959426/</a> Carla Rhodes & Cecil Sinclair: vexing ventriloquism, Dale Seever: shocking spirit portraits, Rob Lok: death-defying daredevilry, Adam Kuchler: physics-bending feats, Jeff Seal: side-splitting comedy, David Boyd: mystifying magic, Zero Boy: sound-trip storytelling, Chris Gerhard: violence, tears, and literature, Paris: heart-stopping hip hop juggling, The Bad Advice Column: exactly what it advertises, Sweet Soubrette: songs to inspire and delight, Cobra Gold: songs to befuddle and confuse, and more. Cheap drinks, tasty treats, and fabulous prizes, including one hand-selected mystery treasure from the Film Biz Prop Shop help make Super Fun a night of unbelievable variety entertainment. (Film Biz Prop Shop, 540 President Street, 8pm, $8-12) DANCE: Swing Remix Dance Party <a href="http://www.swingremix.com">http://www.swingremix.com</a> Music for shaggers, tappers, ballers, and hoppers. The Grand Street Stompers are a good old-fashioned New Orleans kind of swinging hot jazz band, led by fresh-from-New-Orleans trumpeter Gordon Au. Our Dance Workshop will feature Balboa Style with Paolo Pasta Lanna. "Learn some cool components of the Balboa and then we'll work it into your Swing. "This is a class you don't want to miss. (Basic Ballroom, 335 West 35th St, 8:30pm, $14-20 adv/$16-20 door) VARIETY: The Naked Truth <a href="http://www.goldstar.com/events/new-york-city-ny/the-naked-truth">http://www.goldstar.com/events/new-york-city-ny/the-naked-truth</a> What mysteries lie behind the glitz and glamour of the greatest burlesque stars in the world? All is revealed when game show and burlesque show come together for a night of full disclosure like no other. First, watch in awe as internationally-renowned performers bump and grind, tease and titillate, sway and strip. Then, get in on the action as you try to expose their intimate secrets for the chance to win decadent prizes! You could win over $300 worth of prizes from Babeland, The New York School of Burlesque, Hard Case Crime, Gotham Burlesque, and more! Hosted by Jonny Porkpie with announcer Scott Rayow, and guest stars Julie Atlas Muz, Peekaboo Pointe, Trixie Little & The Evil Hate Monkey, and stage kittens Bunny Buxom and Satira Sin. (The Triad Theater, 158 West 72nd St, 10pm, $35-45) PARTY/DJ: Playground <a href="http://lovethatfeverplayground.eventbrite.com">http://lovethatfeverplayground.eventbrite.com</a> DJs: Featuring EDDIE ELIAS, Reda Briki & Sid Vaga. What to Expect: Dreamy Playground & Forest, Tall Hot Pink Furrrrrrrrry Lolli-POP trees, Woodsy Trees with Bubbly Balloons Leaves, Floating Flowers, Cupcake and Melting Ice cream Decor, Interactive Games, Black Light. Body Painting by Liquidmatter, Bodyworx,Transformational Bodypainting. What to wear: Haruhiko dream dolls, Subversive Fairies, Wonderland Chic, Sexy, Ballerina, Fantastical Heroes, Fantasy Creatures, Barbies & Kens. Drink special: Lollipop and Sugary Sweet Delights. 21+. (Safe Harbor, 446 Broadway, 10pm-7am, $25) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PERFORMANCE: Alison Knowles - 'Make a Salad' <a href="http://www.thehighline.org/events/all/2012/4/earth-day-celebration">http://www.thehighline.org/events/all/2012/4/earth-day-celebration</a> High Line Art invites artists to think of creative ways to engage with the uniqueness of the architecture and design of the High Line and to foster a productive dialogue with the surrounding neighborhood and urban landscape. Fluxus artist Alison Knowles, in collaboration with Jessica Higgins and Joshua Selman, restages Make a Salad, an iconic event originally performed in 1962. The artist chops lettuce and other vegetables to the beat of live music, and then produces a giant salad by tossing the ingredients together in a grand gesture.The audience is invited to take part in the action by eating the finished salad. (The High Line, Chelsea Market Passage, W. 16th St., 10am, FREE) BURLESQUE: Freshly SLEAZED: The Intro to Boylesk Showcase <a href="http://www.gogoharder.com">http://www.gogoharder.com</a> Go-Go Harder brings you yet another brawny, ballzy revue that's 100% man--not from concentrate. Featuring his Intro to Boylesk Class students, these novice strip teasers have been learning the A-Z of the G-string for 7 weeks and now finally show YOU what they've learnedand what they're made of. Each boy will perform his own class-crafted Boylesk routine, PLUS, special performances by Go-Go Harder and returning "alum" of the class of 2011. And raffle prizes by The Pleasure Chest, free donut holes and sticky sweet nibbles and treats, and $5 Bloody Mary's and screwdrivers. Come hungry because Harder is serving up a menu that's heavy on the meat with a piece for every appetite. (Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, 1pm door/2pm show, $8) ===+++===+++===+++=== WEDNESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== DANCE: Let Them Eat Cake, A Cabaret Dance Homage to All Things French <a href="http://www.theloveshownyc.com">http://www.theloveshownyc.com</a> The Love Show presents a tribute to the land of baguettes, cigarettes, Marie Antoinettes and all variety of other 'ettes! Featuring: Translated charming & naughty French ballads by Bad Reputation, Angela Harriell & The Love Show Dancers, Emcée, David F. Slone, Esq. (Drom, 85 Avenue A, 9:30pm doors/10pm show, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== THURSDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== FILM/PERFORMANCE: The Devil's Carnival <a href="http://www.thedevilscarnival.com">http://www.thedevilscarnival.com</a> tix: <a href="http://thedevilscarnivaltour.eventbrite.com">http://thedevilscarnivaltour.eventbrite.com</a> After collaborating on 2008's cult hit Repo! The Genetic Opera, Director Darren Lynn Bousman and writer/actor Terrance Zdunich had nowhere to go but down: all the way to hell! With their signature tastes for horror flicks and rock music, Bousman and Zdunich have fired up an underworld unlike any other in this genre-bending, groundbreaking new film. Sinners are invited to a theme park where they endure the repetition of their transgressions. Lucifer and his colorful cast of singing carnies guide these lost souls through their wild, warped amusement park. The event is a film-plus experience featuring burlesque, special personality meet and greets, Q&A forums, sing-alongs, costume contests, and a whole lot of devilish behavior. Audiences will get to enjoy never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage and bonus features from Repo! The Genetic Opera and an exclusive viewing of The Devil's Carnival. (Times Scare NYC, 669 8th Ave, 7pm & 10pm, $35-45) DJ: The Warper Party, 6 Year Anniversary Blowout <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/280755582003051/">https://www.facebook.com/events/280755582003051/</a> DJ Shakey and BangInclude present New York's largest electronic music showcase. 28+ electronic music acts on multiple floors. Projected Images, Workshops, and Interactive Art too. 21+. (The Delancey, 168 Delancey St, 8pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== ART: The Pop-Up Museum of the Gowanus Canal <a href="http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com">http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com</a> Working with found materials from all around the Gowanus neighborhood, we will create a new "history" of the region and its traditions (a not entirely serious one). As a collective, we will plow through a century of objects in order to remix in miniature the Gowanus, Observatory, and the whole enterprise of the museumthe whole enterprise of producing, categorizing, and showing off knowledge. Quick, fast, and dirty, the Pop-Up Museum presents the unpresentable: change itself. (thru 4/22, The Observatory, 543 Union Street, enter via Nevins, FREE) EVENT: The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens <a href="http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/orchid-show">http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/orchid-show</a> The Orchid Show takes vertical gardens to new heights in its 10th year. Renowned botanist and vertical gardening provocateur Patrick Blanc creates towering spectacles of tropical life. Dangling from Blanc's signature ''green walls,'' thousands of orchids abandon the constraints of gravity. (thru 4/22, New York Botanical Garden, 200th St & Kazimiroff Blvd, Bronx, 10am - 7pm, $20) THEATER: Prometheus Within <a href="http://lamama.org/ellen-stewart-theatre/prometheus-within/">http://lamama.org/ellen-stewart-theatre/prometheus-within/</a> By Skysaver Productions. Written, designed and directed by Theodora Skipitares. Music composed by Sxip Shirey. Inspired by Aeschylus' PROMETHEUS BOUND, Theodora Skipitares returns to the subject of medicine, with a look at stem cell science, genetic engineering, and organ theft. With a dazzling array of puppet styles and a bold use of scale, PROMETHEUS features live music composed by Sxip Shirey, multi-dimensional acrobatics by Jonathan Nosan in the title role, and video. PROMETHEUS asks the question: Whose body is it anyway? (Ellen Stewart Theatre, 74A East 4th Street, Thur-Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2:30pm, thru 4/29, $13 student & senior/$18 adult) THEATER: Julie S. Caesar and the Real housewives of Trevi, <a href="http://www.livefeednyc.org">http://www.livefeednyc.org</a> tix: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/232990">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/232990</a> Meet the Real Ladies of Trevi, the pill-popping, chardonnay-swilling, Botox-injecting reality stars who'll cut a bitch for a chance at media glitz. Julie S. Caesar & The Real Housewives of Trevi combines Shakespeare's timeless tragedy of betrayal and politics with Bravo's wildly popular television franchise for a darkly satirical look at those in hot pursuit of fame and the tension between public ambition and personal morality. A site-specific, immersive theater spectacle, the performance leverages Twitter as the new platform for interactive theaterviewers can comment on the events as they unfold with tweets projected onscreen in real time. Written & Directed by Andi Stover, Costumes by Machine Dazzle. (Mondays 4/16, 4/23 & 4/30, The ACE Hotel, 20 W. 29th St, doors 7pm/curtain 8pm, $40) ART: PYSANKA: The Ukrainian Easter Egg <a href="http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html">http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html</a> Pysanky are the unique Ukrainian Easter eggs known the world over for their intricate, colorful designs. Drawn from the Museum's extensive folk arts collection, the nearly 300 eggs are decorated in a variety of regional styles, rich colors, and assorted motifs; many are the work of acclaimed artist Sofika Zielyk. The hand-crafted pysanky are made using raw eggs, dyes, and beeswax in a wax-resist method process, known as batik. The process results in colorful eggs ornamented with an array of detailed geometric, floral, and faunistic symbols. The art of creating Ukrainian pysanky (from the word pysaty to write) has been handed down from generation to generation. This ancient art form is taught in workshops Sat/Sun thru 4/1 (adults & children over 12). The Ukrainian Easter Traditions workshop on March 24, for students age 16 and older, offers hands-on training in baking Easter breads and other traditions related to the holiday. March 31: an opportunity to watch artists in acti on as they create beautiful pysanky. In addition to the demonstrations, the award-winning short film Pysanka by Slavko Nowytski will be shown continuously from 1-5 p.m. (thru 5/27, The Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th St bet 2nd/3rd Ave, $8 / plus $10-25 for special workshops) THEATER: The Bachelors' Tea Party <a href="http://www.stolenchair.org/bachelorsteaparty.html">http://www.stolenchair.org/bachelorsteaparty.html</a> The Bachelors' Tea Party is an absurd and absurdly intimate new comedy inspired by the relationships of Elsie de Wolfe (Lady Mendl) and Bessie Marbury, who referred to themselves as "The Bachelors," after they took up joint residence sans men in the first years of the 20th century. Before she invented the profession of interior decorator, de Wolfe was a struggling Broadway performer, known more for her costumes than her acting, and her partner Bessie Marbury, legendary agent and broker, was introducing America to Oscar Wilde and discovering Cole Porter. In a playfully perverse take on a young girl's imaginary tea party, de Wolfe and Marbury will delight and torment each other and entertain a coterie of special guests, "performed" by dolls assembled around the table, with audience members seated only inches away. The play is set in a real Victorian-esque tea salon, and seating is extremely limited - please make reservations. (Sundays thru 6/3, Lady Mendl's Tea Salon, 56 Irving Pl bet 17th & 18th St, 5pm, $10 performance with $35 required tea service plus tax and tip) ART: This Side of Paradise <a href="http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/speakeasy-paradise">http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/speakeasy-paradise</a> The gates of the Andrew Freedman Home will open to the public. The Home was once built to be a haven, a paradise, for the rich elderly who had lost their fortunes. Bequeathed by millionaire Andrew Freedman, the Home provided not only food and shelter but all the accoutrements of a rich and civilized life style white glove dinner service, a grand ball room, a wood-paneled library, billiard room and a social committee who organized concerts, opera performances and the like. Referencing this quixotic history, This Side of Paradise will reference the past and reconnect the vision of Andrew Freedman to today's Bronx and its realities. The exhibition and its extensive public programming onsite and offsite will draw together the economic and social history of the Home with the present day realities of the Bronx and its residents. The selected artists' will work in a site-specific manner and will respond to such issues as memory, immigration, storytelling, aging and the creation of fantasy that the original concept of the Home "being poor in style" suggests. This Side of Paradise will celebrate human ingenuity, the strength of the human spirit and the resilience needed to fashion beauty, hope and rejoicing. (thru 6/5, 1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, tours Thurs-Sun, 1pm-7pm) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== 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]: Your weekend listings and G&S party reminders for next week & beyond

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:29:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, Packed weekend, and of course that means our listings are late today. Sorry. We're always looking for people to help us edit the weekly newsletter -- it's basic Google Docs stuff, and you can earn credits towards party admission. Reply if you might be able to help. - The most exciting thing first: the final art for The Drowned Ball is up at <a href="http://bit.ly/DB_art">http://bit.ly/DB_art</a> -- and as much as we already love the work of Teetering Bulb, this may be the most gorgeous thing we've ever seen them do. It even went a bit viral on Twitter/Tumblr/Facebook this week. Remember, your only chance to own this print is either with a 1st class ticket to the party, or by purchasing directly at the event, while they last. We're only printing 50, and going all out with print & paper quality, too. - We're getting press confirmations for The Drowned Ball, and so far it's an editor pick in TimeOut for this week's Titanic event roundup -- <a href="http://bit.ly/HFm3Sv">http://bit.ly/HFm3Sv</a> -- and we know it's hitting TONY again next week, as well as The Village Voice. And you may have heard about it on WNYC earlier today. So you guys better get on those ticket purchases! - The next makeout party is Fri, Apr 27 - details over at <a href="http://www.houseofscorpio.com">http://www.houseofscorpio.com</a> Reminders from last week: - May 5 (Cinco de Mayo!) is our next loft-party-in-a-construction-zone. Killer DJ lineup, cheap drinks, all the Brooklyn loft party fun you can handle. Details below. - May 27, the Sunday of the Memorial Day Weekend, we're planning something Ridiculously Epic involving...marshmallow peeps. If you're a crafty/artist type intrigued by this, drop us a line. Facebook alert: FB has changed settings for groups, so if you relied on being a G&S group member to get your party invites, that's NO LONGER HAPPENING (WTF, FB, really?!). All upcoming events can be found via the group or our profile, but we're not sure how to handle the invites anymore, since we hate spamming via friend invites. We'll let you know if we figure something out -- or let us know if you have dealt with this already! 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://bit.ly/GS_facebook">http://bit.ly/GS_facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Tumblr: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr">http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_ytube">http://bit.ly/GS_ytube</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</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: 4/21 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present The Drowned Ball A grandiose remembrance of 100 anniversary of RMS Titanic's first and last voyage Sat, April 21, Zanger Hall, 347 West 34th St, 9pm-3am, 21+ Tickets $25-85 presale / $10 more at door, if left / $15 at door after 12am Details: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/344930908890321">https://www.facebook.com/events/344930908890321</a> Tix: <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238213">https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238213</a> Poster art preview: <a href="http://www.teeteringbulb.com/?p=1819">http://www.teeteringbulb.com/?p=1819</a> Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> (#DrownedBall) The greatest ship ever built sets sail once more. In the grand ballroom, an orchestra plays to slow-swaying aristocracy, all sparkling diamonds and rustling silk, while in steerage below, the lower classes stomp to fiddles and accordions. But mere hours later, disaster strikes, and with no escape possible, mayhem ensues. Upstairs: chamber music by Trio Mio Myo and waltzes from around the world by Golden Angel Waltz Orchestra. Downstairs: Strung Out String Band whirls you into an old-time vortex as you're surrounded by immersive video projections. Michaeline Sexton is adorned in Asphyxia's Ghost couture apparatus by Kaytee Papusza. DJs to follow on both floors, with a wild remix of early Americana and modern beats: Joro Boro, $mall ¢hange, DirtyFinger, and Shakey. In the tradition of turn-of-century Grand Bal art posters, artist duo Teetering Bulb are creating a one-of-a-kind painting to commemorate the event. Skink Ink Fine Art Printing will run a limited unnumbered edition of 50 12x18 prints on archival cotton rag paper, only available to event guests as bundled with 1st class tickets ($50) or at the event, if any left ($60). Ticket levels*: 1st & 2nd classes board 9pm, and enjoy an hour of complimentary champagne, and a waltz dance class at 9:30: $85 with custom art print; $35 without. Steerage boards 10pm: $25. If any tickets are available at door, they're $10 more; only $15 after 12am. This event will sell out. Dress code: Turn-of-century-ball meets Mermaid Parade meets zombies. Dress upper class or steerage, before the iceberg or after -- or even as the iceberg itself. Sea creatures most welcome, especially luminescent ones. Ocean explorers, bring your cameras. *This event is a fundraiser for our new loft party space. Please support at the highest level you can afford. ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 5/5 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present Cinco de Mayhem Sat, May 5, must RSVP for Gowanus, BK address, 10pm-late, FREE before 11pm/$10 after, 21+ RSVP: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/304538259618766">https://www.facebook.com/events/304538259618766</a> Cinco De Mayo commemorates a Mexican military victory over the French in the Battle of Pueblo, on May 5, 1862. Somehow, 150 years later, it has become an excuse to party. Who are we to complain? We invite you all to our new loft in Gowanus, to drink enough tequila to wake up tomorrow in Mexico and not remember a thing, and dance all night to Latin-spiced globalbeat ethnotek best with: king of the eclectic loft party sound Barney Iller, ethnomesh master Joro Boro, late-night Rubulad favorite Reaganomics, and DJ KindB of World Class International crew. Live percussion TBC. Fire dancers & hoopers welcome (9k sq ft roof). Festive dress always encouraged, but no costume required. Cheap drinks, good times. There may even be an appearance by a Satanic Burger Truck. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== *EVENT/PARTICIPATORY: Til Death Do You Part - Marry Yourself <a href="http://www.EncouragingPriestess.com">http://www.EncouragingPriestess.com</a> <a href="http://www.Chashama.org">http://www.Chashama.org</a> A one-on-one live-art piece that mocks the classic, quickie Lost Vegas wedding: the difference is that you marry yourself, not someone else - complete with mini-chapel, costuming, rings, multiple choice vows, and a wedding photo. Host-Guides fuss over you and the Encouraging Priestess personally presides over your ceremony. What happens in the mirror when you repeat those vows into your eyes? Are the vows for real? It's up to you. Guests and attendants celebrate as you emerge, freshly married, and ready to plan that honeymoon with yourself. Free libations by Original Sin Cider. Space is limited, sign up early. [G&S note: we highly recommend this brief & unique experience.] (Chashama, 266 West 37th St, Ground Floor, Fri 8pm12am, Sat/Sun 1pm-6pm, FREE/$10-20 sugg donation) PERFORMANCE: Million Dollar Follies <a href="http://www.eventbee.com/v/ickies/event?eid=891395241">http://www.eventbee.com/v/ickies/event?eid=891395241</a> This Ambitious Orchestra and The Lady Circus drag the classic Musical Revue of the roaring 20's kicking and screaming into the 21st century. The tried and true formula created by Florenz Ziegfeld himself is put up against soundscape of New York City's nightlife today. The Lady Circus spills from the stage onto your lap and flies high above your head with production numbers dripping in sex and diamonds. This Ambitious Orchestra swells and throbs with their raucous symphonic renderings of LMFAO, Led Zeppelin, Cab Calloway, Beyonce and more. This is a bunch of really close friends making up the perfect world and willing it to become real. Things are finally as they should be, we've all made it and you're invited to celebrate with us. This is bottle service in Bushwick and you will not be told to stop dancing on top of your table. Starring: Anya Sapozhnikova, Benjamin Ickies, Kae Burke, Whiskey Business, Airin De Skies, Scooter Pie, MilitiA (of Judas Priestess), and Lisa D. NYC'S own DJ K-Mazing's prime directive is giving the dance floor a musical history lesson of booty shaking , transcends bass and time with songs that will inevitably keep you dancing like there's no tomorrow, smiling like a sweepstakes winner & repeatedly yelling at the top of your lungs, "I f'n love this song. [G&S note: use code IMFANCY for $5 off tix] (Fri/Sun, House of Yes, 342 Maujer St, Bushwick, BK, Fri 9pm doors/10pm show, Sun 2pm doors/3pm show, $20-$120) WORD: 6th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair <a href="http://anarchistbookfair.net">http://anarchistbookfair.net</a> A one-day exposition of books, zines, pamphlets, art, film/video, and other cultural and very political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide. The Book Fair also always includes two days of panels, presentations, workshops, and skillshares on to provide further opportunities to learn more and share your own experience and creativity. The goal of the book fair is to enable people to connect with one another as well as to provide broader access to the rich and varied field of anarchist ideas and practices. We call for all anarchist publishers, zinesters, film/videographers, artists and all members of the worldwide anarchist community. Come meet local anarchists and others from all over the globe looking to connect with other anarchists. Whether you are an old anarchist with deep ties and knowledge or anarcho-curious and looking to find out more about anarchy, the book fair is for you. The NYC Anarchist Book Fair is a place where the ideas, activism, ethics, creativity an d history of the contemporary anarchist movement come together in an exciting weekend of community and collaboration. Sat: tables w books & art. Sun: workshops/panels. (Sat-Sun, Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Sq South, 11am-9pm, FREE) PERFORMANCE: Lunatic Cunning <a href="http://dixonplace.org/html/Godwin_Feb12.html">http://dixonplace.org/html/Godwin_Feb12.html</a> Premiere performance by James Godwin, puppetry and performance art pioneer and founder of raunchy puppet troupe, The Elementals (Uncle Jimmy's Dirty Basement), whose creations have been described by The Village Voice as "gorgeously wrought mutants who look like they evolved downstream from a nuclear waste dump and talk like vulgar barflies." Lunatic Cunning is a solo, semi-autobiographical 'mockumentary', mixing experiences from Godwin's own life such as work with Julie Taymor on Across the Universe, as well as appearances on Saturday Night Live, Chappelle's Show, PBS and with the Muppets--with a humorous examination of the occult roots of puppetry and performance art. (Fri/Sat this weekend & next, Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St, 7:30pm, $15adv/ $18door / $12 stu/sen) EVENT: Congress of Curious Peoples <a href="http://www.coneyisland.com/congress.shtml">http://www.coneyisland.com/congress.shtml</a> Since the 1860's, Coney Island has been a beacon for strange and interesting people. For generations, it has attracted the curious and the enlightened, the onlooker and the performer. Every spring Coney Island USA convenes The Congress of Curious Peoples, a 10-day gathering of unique individuals at Sideshows by the Seashore and the Coney Island Museum, celebrating Coney Island's subversive and exciting power and exploring its political, artistic, and spectacular possibilities through performances, exhibitions, and films by important artists in the world of the 21st century sideshows. Adding to the madness, Coney Island USA introduces the Congress for Curious People. Consisting of a 2-day symposium, this additional congress will take a scholarly yet popular approach to the curiosities and wonders of Coney Island and seek to investigate--via lectures and and a scholarly conference--the relationship between education and spectacle in American amusements, the collection of curios ities from the renaissance to the present, and the display of "freaks" and "primitive peoples" in fairgrounds and worlds fair settings. The series will celebrate the interdisciplinarity of Dime Museums while calling into question both popular and scholarly assumptions about the importance of Coney Island's legacy, its sordid past, and its titillating present. (this week thru next weekend, Sideshows by the Seashore and The Coney Island Museum, 1208 Surf Ave, Coney Island, BK, $5-$25 per event / $75-$100 congressional pass) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== FILM: NYC Anarchist Film Festival <a href="http://nycanarchistfilmfestival.com">http://nycanarchistfilmfestival.com</a> A community forum that seeks to show what is not normally seen in mainstream media. We wish to provide the physical and mental space for a culture of resistance by showing people how brave, intelligent, and capable we really are. Brad's footage will be shown in remembrance, and we'll screen the Academy Awardnominated film, If a Tree Falls, about the Earth Liberation Front. Before and after the feature, we'll show extensive footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement and the recent uprisings in north Africa and Europe which inspired it. There will be a series of shorts, speakers, and Q&A's about global human rights struggles, police brutality, and the history of general strikes around the world, culminating in what to expect for May Day 2012. The NYC Anarchist Film Festival was started in 2006 in honor of Brad Will, who was murdered in Oaxaca, Mexico by a government paramilitary sniper while filming a protest at a barricade. Will actually recorded his own assassination, and his footage became the basis of the first NYC Anarchist Film Festival. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. (56 Walker St. between Church & Broadway, 3pm, $10 donation) FILM: My Mars Bar Move <a href="http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar#day-12">http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar#day-12</a> Anthology is overjoyed to present this new film by Jonas Mekas, a tribute to the dear, departed Mars Bar. Our neighbor ever since we moved to the Second Avenue Courthouse building in 1988, the Mars Bar represented an undiluted blast of the old East Village, keeping alive the punk sensibility and anarchic attitude that's increasingly a thing of the past in this part of the city. Destined to be replaced by yet another glass condo building, and taking a piece of our heart with it to the grave, the Mars Bar nevertheless lives on through Mekas's lens. For some twenty years, Mars Bar, at the corner of First Street and Second Avenue, Manhattan, has been my bar. That's where we went for beer and tequila whenever we had to take a break from our work at Anthology Film Archives, and it was also a bar where most of those who came to see movies at Anthology ended up after the shows. We always had a great time at Mars Bar. It was always open, there was always the jukebox, and very often t here was no electricity, and it was old and messy and it didn't want to be any other way it was the last escape place left in downtown New York. So this is my love letter to it, to my Mars Bar. Mars Bar as I knew it." J.M. (Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave, 8pm) PEROFMRANCE: Aghoria <a href="http://www.aghoria.com">http://www.aghoria.com</a> <a href="http://www.madsharpproductions.com">http://www.madsharpproductions.com</a> tix: <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/233612">https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/233612</a> Staged in a magnificent cathedral, Mad Sharp Productions presents "Aghoria", a multidimensional performance piece based loosely off the ascetic lifestyle of the Aghori sadhus. Blending theater, dance, and large scale sculpture, Aghoria explores the resonant power of the human mind in a landscape of steel, silk, and symmetry. Written and produced by Linden Renz, directed by Seanna Sharpe, with Sound Design by Brandon Wolcott (Fri & Fri-Sun next weekend, 626 Bushwick Ave., 8pm doors/8:30pm show, $20-$60) KRAFTJERKS: You Are Waiting In The Queue <a href="https://www.facebook.com/#./events/374888059196340">https://www.facebook.com/#./events/374888059196340</a> A Kraftwerk Shut-Out Fest. Anna Copa Cabanna, Joe McGinty, and BAMiAM.tv present a chronological exploration of the sonic and visual experiments of Kraftwerk, with a live presentation of their semi-complete repertoire in the Big Sky Works Atrium. The evening consists of a live performance and visualization of some of Kraftwerk's studio albums. Tonight: The Man-Machine (1978) the Anna Copa Cabanna Show, Computer World (1981) Joe McGinty's Circuit Parade, featuring Mike McGinnis (woodwinds), Leon Dewan (Dewanatron), and Dorit Chrysler (Theremin), Techno Pop (1986) the Dirty Boogaloo, and DJ Ursula1000 before, after and in between. Both nights will feature a larger than life keytar-triggered light show by BAMiAM.tv. (Big Sky Works, 29 Wythe Ave, W'burg, BK, 9:30pm, $10) PARTY: HiChristina. Lucky Penny, Luck, Fortune, and Science <a href="http://www.hichristina.com/calendar.html">http://www.hichristina.com/calendar.html</a> This Friday the 13th your luck is about to change, from good to gooder and (wanna) bet to better. Been waiting for that special moment to wear your Moonboots? Now's the time. At HiChristina tonight, superstitions and luck meet hypotheses and science. Explore three booths: voodoo magic/tarot cards, palm reading/leprechaun, and Sally the Rational Explanation for Everything. Then brush your hair back and bend your ears for six short lectures (5 min ea.) including: "I Live with Ghosts", "My Dancing Robot", "Optimism Will Make You Live Forever", "The Quantified Self", and the ever popular "Just Because I'm a Vegan Doesn't Mean I Can't Carry Around A Lucky Rabbit Tail." DJ Wicked Sweaty pumps up the jams for the dance party conclusion-explosion. (IvanaHelsinki Concept Store, 251 Elizabeth Street (Between Houston and Prince), 10pm, $15 adv/$20 door) PARTY: Horned Ball 2012 <a href="http://kostumekult.com/events/hb12">http://kostumekult.com/events/hb12</a> Kostume Kult's longest running Burning Man camp fundraiser. Every year HB is a riot of Horns and other Costumery as the animals stir and break free of winter sluggishness. Bibiblical Apocalypse Meets Spring Rebirth. A Bacchanal with Imminent Peril and Maximal Sexiness. Cometh to Brooklyn, bow down to Yahweh and beware the gaze of his laser beam eyes. Judgement day is upon us. Come as any horned critter or anything biblical or apocalyptic. Any form of costumery is welcome as long as an effort is made. Be unique or stylish. Be there early or you may miss the boat. DJs in two rooms including: Everyday, Jerad Hioki, Boris "Burning Elf," Tektite, Shaggy, Higher Nebulae, Mystika, Michael NightTime.Art/ Interaction: Horned Toad, Petting Zoo, Cross-Breeding Shadow Puppet Theater, Live Critter Shuffleboard, Kruise Directives, Embarkation Photo Booth, and the return of the G(wr)ONG SHOW. Animal herding (performances) lead by Emcee Christopher and Guncle. Body painting by Transformation al Bodypainting. (Warsaw, 261 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn, 9pm til 5am, $30 door & costume/$40 door & street clothes) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== COMMUNITY/FOOD: FEAST #13 <a href="http://feastinbklyn.org/?p=737">http://feastinbklyn.org/?p=737</a> FEAST (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) is a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund new and emerging art makers. At each FEAST, patrons give a $20 donation for which they receive supper and a ballot. Diners spend the evening reviewing a series of project proposals and conversing with the artists behind each idea. Attendees cast a vote for their favorite proposal, and by the end of the night, the artist who garners the most votes is awarded a grant comprised of that evening's door money. The projects being presented around the theme of Cultural Labor (details on site): Ballet on the Barricades, Feedback Farms, Flip the Table: Youth Food Council (YFC), The New York City Ghost Bike Project, GRNPNT BLACKBELT, Hand in Hand: A Visual Guide to the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, May Day Radio, & The Stoop Instrument Library. (Church of the Messiah, 129 Russell St, BK, 5-8pm, $20 sugg donation) FOOD: NYC Food Crawl: April Coffee <a href="http://www.nycfoodcrawl.blogspot.com">http://www.nycfoodcrawl.blogspot.com</a> After a few months' break, the NYC Food Crawl is back for what will likely be its final food crawl under current management. The Crawl has been running since 2009, and is proud to have introduced New York to affordable, portable food and new friends (almost) monthly since then. We choose a different theme monthly of portable, inexpensive delicacies such as dumplings, samosas, and knish -- then map a route of different locations where they can be enjoyed. Teams are assigned, route maps are distributed, and folks are encouraged to go at their own pace as they make new friends. Coffee is a classic and ancient beverage, having been served in Central and South America since long before the arrival of Europeans. Highly addictive and delicious, coffee has also acquired many cultural connotations in the modern age. Images of black-clad Beatniks sipping espresso contrast sharply with overworked suits chugging back drip coffee throughout the day. Although New York has traditionally bee n deprived of quality coffee destinations, this has changed in recent years, and coffee snobs everywhere can find something to their liking. Come train your palette with this oh-so-delightful beverage. (RSVP for location, 6pm, FREE/pay as you go) PARTY: Auditorium, Episode V <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/132046853589422">http://www.facebook.com/events/132046853589422</a> Loft party for lovers of ambient, experimental, downtempo and slow electroacoustic sounds. Expect an inspired soundtrack, immersive eight-channel sound, enchanting lighting, mountains of rugs and seas of pillows. All music is performed live. Our audiologists for the evening are Morgan Packard, Forma, Rob Byrd & Zemi17. Our venue is a 5,000 square foot prop house in the heart of Williamsburg. It features 15′ ceilings and an expansive collection of antiques and curiosities. (Acme Studio. 63 North 3rd St., W'burg, 9pm-2am, $10 adv/$15 door) WORD: The Master Debaters, The Dictionary <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/197172147059368">https://www.facebook.com/events/197172147059368</a> What's that you say?. Dictionaries are boring?. We beg to differ. Join us as we explore and probe the wonderful world of words. Discover with The Master Debaters the true definitions of "junk," "shaft," "douche," and many other words whose meanings over time have since changed. We'll try to keep it clean, but we're making no promises. (Gotham City Improv, 48 W. 21st St., 10pm) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== VARIETY: Save The "Muppet" <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/198339886948279">https://www.facebook.com/events/198339886948279</a> Bring the Family and Join us for some laughs with a Circus Variety Show and Tribute to our favorite Puppets. This Show is a Benefit to help cover medical costs for 2 year old rescue pup Baloo who recently was diagnosed with EPI a disease of his pancreas. In honor of Baloo and his tail who we call Muppet we will celebrate his journey back to health and honor our favorite puppets via circus, live music, dance aerial and more. Family Friendly. (The Muse, 32D south 1st St, BK, Doors 2:3pm/Show 3pm, Kids under 12 $15/Adults Presale $15/Adults Door $15) EVENT: The Rematch <a href="http://www.dukeriley.info/projects/the-rematch">http://www.dukeriley.info/projects/the-rematch</a> The American broadcast of Duke Riley's Rematch, a river race among the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Race feed from Zhujiajiao, China. Performance by Lara Allen. Just a reminder: Gambling is illegal. From the artist: "Thousands of years ago, the Jade Emperor decided to assign an animal's name to every year, in order to simplify the calendar for the people of China. A swimming race among 12 animals across the mighty river was organized to determine the sequential order in which year they would appear. This would become the Shengxiao, the Chinese zodiac. It is a well known that the rat, the winner of the race, cheated. Nevertheless, this oversight established an order that has remained a celebrated tradition for centuries. In the interest of fairness, I propose a rematch. Working with local artists and communities along the canals of Zhujiajiao, China in April 2012, I will restage this race. All of the zodiac animals will be represented by actual live animals. Each will be fer ried separately through the canals in boats paddled by expert rowers from the community. In addition, each boat will be decorated by a different local artist according to the animal it carries. An awards ceremony will take place on a floating grandstand. Prizes and trophies will be awarded to the first, second and third place animals/rowers. They will pose for photographs with Riley and local dignitaries. A feast with the participants will follow." (Manhattan: Magnan Metz Gallery, 521 West 26th St bet 10th and 11th Ave; Brooklyn: Egg and Dart Club, RSVP for address: eggdartclub]at]gmail.com; 6-10pm / race 8pm, FREE/sugg don benefits the displaced animals of the former Shanghai private zoo) PARTY: 7th Annual KinkyJews Chocolate Seder <a href="http://kinkyseder-efbevent.eventbrite.com">http://kinkyseder-efbevent.eventbrite.com</a> Afterparty: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/264034967017168">https://www.facebook.com/events/264034967017168</a> OK all you Seder-Matzochists, it's that time of year again. Hundreds of Jews and Goyim alike have attended the one and only KinkyJews Chocolate Seder, now in its seventh consecutive year. Remember, this is a CHOCOLATE SEDER where we use candy and sweets to symbolize the traditional Passover foods. You will indulge in four cups of chocolate milk, chocolate covered matzah, Hillel S'mores, and licorice whips. There will be NO formal meal served. The KinkyJews Seder is followed immediately by "The Living Room" fetish/play party. (Affaire, 50 Ave B, 7pm, $25/Combo Seder+Afterparty $30) WORD: Film Noir: The Poetry Brothel in Black and White <a href="https://www.facebook.com/#./events/172076426247010">https://www.facebook.com/#./events/172076426247010</a> A Poetry Society of New York fundraiser. It was a dark and stormy night in New York City, but who cares -- all the nights were dark and stormy. It was late, and we'd found ourselves inside a hidden speakeasy, wound in pure black silk, hair in victory rolls, tall as skyscrapers, and round as the barrels of a shotgun. Of course we never carried anything that large back then. Let's just say we always had a pistol behind the gin mill, cocked and ready to blow one down if he deserved it. You might be wondering how a couple of cats like us came to get mixed up in a rat race like this. well, I'll tell you. 'Cause this is noir, sweetheart, and we are the Poetry Brothel. With live jazz standards, sultry burlesque, intimate poetry readings by your favorite poetry whores, and perhaps a mystery or two to be solved. We'll be painted head to toe in shades of grey, impatiently awaiting your arrival. So dress up, darlings. Come in black and white. Bring your doll. Throw her around the dance floor. All proceeds of this installment go toward the Second Annual New York Poetry Festival. (The Back Room, 102 Norfolk St, 8pm-1am, $10, 21+) ===+++===+++===+++=== WEDNESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PERFORMANCE: Jeff Grow - Creating Illusion <a href="http://jeffgrow.net/Creating_Illusion.html">http://jeffgrow.net/Creating_Illusion.html</a> Showman. Magician. Conman. Jeff Grow explores the diverse facets of the art of deception and confidence - whether for entertainment or manipulation, beauty or deceit; the tools of the conjurer can be seen all around us. Elegant sleight of hand and insight into human behavior collide to dismantle everyday experience and explore the art of creating illusion. Recipient of the NY Innovative Theatre Awards: Outstanding Solo Performer & Outstanding Performance Art Production. (The Kraine Theater, 85 E. 4th St bet 2nd and 3rd Ave, 8-9:30pm, $15-18) WORD/BURLESQUE: Naked Girls Reading - Shakespeare <a href="http://www.NakedGirlsReadingNYC.com">http://www.NakedGirlsReadingNYC.com</a> Join New York's "Best Story Hour" (The Village Voice Best of NY) for in-the-buff readings of Shakespearean soliloquies, scenes and sonnets; modern interpretations of these classic works; historical musings on the identity of literature's most mysterious genius, and more. Host Nasty Canasta and eternal muse Anja Keister are joined by Sapphire Jones, Iris Explosion and special guest Ludella Hahn as the Naked Girls "bare the Bard." Iambic pentameter never looked this good. Naked Girls Reading NYC is the perfect intimate live event: a monthly nude literary salon featuring in-the-buff readings by local burlesque luminaries, professional librarians, authors and other Naked Girls. (UNDER St. Marks, 94 St. Marks Place bet 1st Ave & Ave A, 9pm, $20 or two for $35) ===+++===+++===+++=== THURSDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== MUSIC: Sweet Soubrette + Big Band <a href="http://www.livingroomny.com/artist/sweet-soubrette">http://www.livingroomny.com/artist/sweet-soubrette</a> Sweet Soubrette is led by New York native Ellia Bisker, whose contemporary influences range from the dark theatrics of the Dresden Dolls to the biting humor of the Magnetic Fields to the surprising arrangements and poetic lyrics of Regina Spektor. "One of New York's most intriguing songwriting forces...rock star command and intelligently crafted music." -The Deli Magazine. "What's better than a ukulele band backed by a horn section? Nothing. Not a thing." -The Brooklyn Paper. (Living Room, 154 Ludlow St, 9pm-11pm) MUSIC: Vermont Joy Parade, Underscore Orkestra, Amour Obscur <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/139706202823832">https://www.facebook.com/events/139706202823832</a> Vermont Joy Parade explores the evolution of joy in songs orchestrated with accordion, banjo, cornet, euphonium, pump organ, and everything in between. The Underscore Orkestra is a Portland OR based band, playing a blend of Balkan, Klezmer, Gypsy Jazz and Swing, with a repertoire consisting of both original and traditional material. Amour Obscur is a Brooklyn-based gypsy punk band that offers a theatrical performance that draws from the striking visual aesthetics of the Weimar cabaret and American sideshow. (House of Yes, 342 Maujer St, 9pm-1am, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== CIRCUS/DANCE: The 3rd Annual Comedy in Dance Festival <a href="http://www.triskelionarts.org">http://www.triskelionarts.org</a> A curated smorgasbord of work with a comic bent featuring the work of nearly 30 NYC choreographers and clowns. April 13: Jessica Jolly & Sarah Konner, Mari Meade Dance Collective, Billy Schultz as the Song and Dance Man, Annika Sheaff, NeonLights, Karesia Batan||The Physical Plant, Jamie Benson, Heather Kemp, alex|xan: the Median Movement. April 14: alex|xan: the Median Movement, Ad Hoc Jazz Dance Group, Kate Taylor, Tough Cookie Dance, Jordan Isadore, Jackie Moynahan/JaxDance, Spark(edIt) Arts, Coccon Central Dance Team. (thru 4/14, Triskelion Arts Aldous Theater, 118 N. 11th St. 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, 8pm, $15) THEATER: HA! <a href="http://www.workshoptheater.org/jewelbox/2012/ha">http://www.workshoptheater.org/jewelbox/2012/ha</a> The NYC premiere of 3 internationally acclaimed comedies by Rich Orloff / directed by Ric Sechrest. OEDI: a farcical retelling of the Oedipus Rex story, faces the overlooked fact that if Oedipus married his mother, she had to be old enough to be his mother. THE NEWS FROM ST. PETERSBURG: a Chekhovian spoof set in 1905 Russia, examines the effect of a rumor on an aristocratic couple, their doctor, and an overworked and temporarily overjoyed serf. THE WHOLE SHEBANG: the play that asks the question, "What if the entire universe was just some nerd's science project?" (thru 4/15, WorkShop Theater Company/Jewel Box Theater, 312 West 36th St bet 8/9, 4th Fl, $18) ART: The Pop-Up Museum of the Gowanus Canal <a href="http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com">http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com</a> Working with found materials from all around the Gowanus neighborhood, we will create a new "history" of the region and its traditions (a not entirely serious one). As a collective, we will plow through a century of objects in order to remix in miniature the Gowanus, Observatory, and the whole enterprise of the museumthe whole enterprise of producing, categorizing, and showing off knowledge. Quick, fast, and dirty, the Pop-Up Museum presents the unpresentable: change itself. (thru 4/22, The Observatory, 543 Union Street, enter via Nevins, FREE) EVENT: The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens <a href="http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/orchid-show">http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/orchid-show</a> The Orchid Show takes vertical gardens to new heights in its 10th year. Renowned botanist and vertical gardening provocateur Patrick Blanc creates towering spectacles of tropical life. Dangling from Blanc's signature ''green walls,'' thousands of orchids abandon the constraints of gravity. (thru 4/22, New York Botanical Garden, 200th St & Kazimiroff Blvd, Bronx, 10am - 7pm, $20) THEATER: Prometheus Within <a href="http://lamama.org/ellen-stewart-theatre/prometheus-within/">http://lamama.org/ellen-stewart-theatre/prometheus-within/</a> By Skysaver Productions. Written, designed and directed by Theodora Skipitares. Music composed by Sxip Shirey. Inspired by Aeschylus' PROMETHEUS BOUND, Theodora Skipitares returns to the subject of medicine, with a look at stem cell science, genetic engineering, and organ theft. With a dazzling array of puppet styles and a bold use of scale, PROMETHEUS features live music composed by Sxip Shirey, multi-dimensional acrobatics by Jonathan Nosan in the title role, and video. PROMETHEUS asks the question: Whose body is it anyway? (Ellen Stewart Theatre, 74A East 4th Street, Thur-Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2:30pm, thru 4/29, $13 student & senior/$18 adult) THEATER: Julie S. Caesar and the Real housewives of Trevi, <a href="http://www.livefeednyc.org">http://www.livefeednyc.org</a> tix: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/232990">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/232990</a> Meet the Real Ladies of Trevi, the pill-popping, chardonnay-swilling, Botox-injecting reality stars who'll cut a bitch for a chance at media glitz. Julie S. Caesar & The Real Housewives of Trevi combines Shakespeare's timeless tragedy of betrayal and politics with Bravo's wildly popular television franchise for a darkly satirical look at those in hot pursuit of fame and the tension between public ambition and personal morality. A site-specific, immersive theater spectacle, the performance leverages Twitter as the new platform for interactive theaterviewers can comment on the events as they unfold with tweets projected onscreen in real time. Written & Directed by Andi Stover, Costumes by Machine Dazzle. (Mondays 4/16, 4/23 & 4/30, The ACE Hotel, 20 W. 29th St, doors 7pm/curtain 8pm, $40) ART: PYSANKA: The Ukrainian Easter Egg <a href="http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html">http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html</a> Pysanky are the unique Ukrainian Easter eggs known the world over for their intricate, colorful designs. Drawn from the Museum's extensive folk arts collection, the nearly 300 eggs are decorated in a variety of regional styles, rich colors, and assorted motifs; many are the work of acclaimed artist Sofika Zielyk. The hand-crafted pysanky are made using raw eggs, dyes, and beeswax in a wax-resist method process, known as batik. The process results in colorful eggs ornamented with an array of detailed geometric, floral, and faunistic symbols. The art of creating Ukrainian pysanky (from the word pysaty to write) has been handed down from generation to generation. This ancient art form is taught in workshops Sat/Sun thru 4/1 (adults & children over 12). The Ukrainian Easter Traditions workshop on March 24, for students age 16 and older, offers hands-on training in baking Easter breads and other traditions related to the holiday. March 31: an opportunity to watch artists in acti on as they create beautiful pysanky. In addition to the demonstrations, the award-winning short film Pysanka by Slavko Nowytski will be shown continuously from 1-5 p.m. (thru 5/27, The Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th St bet 2nd/3rd Ave, $8 / plus $10-25 for special workshops) ART: This Side of Paradise <a href="http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/speakeasy-paradise">http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/speakeasy-paradise</a> The gates of the Andrew Freedman Home will open to the public. The Home was once built to be a haven, a paradise, for the rich elderly who had lost their fortunes. Bequeathed by millionaire Andrew Freedman, the Home provided not only food and shelter but all the accoutrements of a rich and civilized life style white glove dinner service, a grand ball room, a wood-paneled library, billiard room and a social committee who organized concerts, opera performances and the like. Referencing this quixotic history, This Side of Paradise will reference the past and reconnect the vision of Andrew Freedman to today's Bronx and its realities. The exhibition and its extensive public programming onsite and offsite will draw together the economic and social history of the Home with the present day realities of the Bronx and its residents. The selected artists' will work in a site-specific manner and will respond to such issues as memory, immigration, storytelling, aging and the creation of fantasy that the original concept of the Home "being poor in style" suggests. This Side of Paradise will celebrate human ingenuity, the strength of the human spirit and the resilience needed to fashion beauty, hope and rejoicing. (thru 6/5, 1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, tours Thurs-Sun, 1pm-7pm) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== Do you have something to share with our readers or events you'd like to have included in our emails? Did we miss anything? 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[G&S]: New events announced; Drowned Ball details & art; weekend listings

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:34:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, We've just set some dates for the upcoming months, and BOY are you going to love what's going on with us into summer. Fun times. But, in order: - SQUEEEE! Your first look at the Drowned Ball custom fine art poster by Teetering Bulb artist duo is finally here: <a href="http://bit.ly/DB_art">http://bit.ly/DB_art</a> (How gorgeous is that thing? And it's not even done yet!). The 12x18 poster is now only $50 with your first class ticket ($85 total), or $60 at the party, while they last. - May 5 (Cinco de Mayo!) is our next loft-party-in-a-construction-zone. Killer DJ lineup, cheap drinks, all the Brooklyn loft party fun you can handle. Details below. - May 27, the Sunday of the Memorial Day Weekend, we're planning something Ridiculously Epic involving...marshmallow peeps. If you're a crafty/artist type intrigued by this, drop us a line. Shhh, secret for now. But save the date. Facebook alert: FB has changed settings for groups, so if you relied on being a G&S group member to get your party invites, that's NO LONGER HAPPENING (WTF, FB, really?!). All upcoming events can be found via the group or our profile, but we're not sure how to handle the invites anymore, since we hate spamming via friend invites. We'll let you know if we figure something out -- or let us know if you have dealt with this already! 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://bit.ly/GS_facebook">http://bit.ly/GS_facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Tumblr: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr">http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_ytube">http://bit.ly/GS_ytube</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</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: 4/21 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present The Drowned Ball A grandiose remembrance of 100 anniversary of RMS Titanic's first and last voyage Sat, April 21, Zanger Hall, 347 West 34th St, 9pm-3am, 21+ Tickets $25-85 presale / $10 more at door, if left / $15 at door after 12am Details: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/344930908890321">https://www.facebook.com/events/344930908890321</a> Tix: <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238213">https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238213</a> Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> (#DrownedBall) The greatest ship ever built sets sail once more. In the grand ballroom, an orchestra plays to slow-swaying aristocracy, all sparkling diamonds and rustling silk, while in steerage below, the lower classes stomp to fiddles and accordions. But mere hours later, disaster strikes, and with no escape possible, mayhem ensues. Upstairs: chamber music by Trio Mio Myo and waltzes from around the world by Golden Angel Waltz Orchestra. Downstairs: Strung Out String Band whirls you into an old-time vortex as you're surrounded by immersive video projections. Michaeline Sexton is adorned in Asphyxia's Ghost couture apparatus by Kaytee Papusza. DJs to follow on both floors, with a wild remix of early Americana and modern beats: Joro Boro, $mall ¢hange, DirtyFinger, and Shakey. In the tradition of turn-of-century Grand Bal art posters, artist duo Teetering Bulb are creating a one-of-a-kind painting to commemorate the event. Skink Ink Fine Art Printing will run a limited unnumbered edition of 50 12x18 prints on archival cotton rag paper, only available to event guests as bundled with 1st class tickets ($50) or at the event, if any left ($60). Ticket levels*: 1st & 2nd classes board 9pm, and enjoy an hour of complimentary champagne, and a waltz dance class at 9:30: $85 with custom art print; $35 without. Steerage boards 10pm: $25. If any tickets are available at door, they're $10 more; only $15 after 12am. This event will sell out. Dress code: Turn-of-century-ball meets Mermaid Parade meets zombies. Dress upper class or steerage, before the iceberg or after -- or even as the iceberg itself. Sea creatures most welcome, especially luminescent ones. Ocean explorers, bring your cameras. *This event is a fundraiser for our new loft party space. Please support at the highest level you can afford. ===+++===+++===+++=== OUR NEXT EVENT: 5/5 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present Cinco de Mayhem Sat, May 5, must RSVP for Gowanus, BK address, 10pm-late, FREE before 11pm/$10 after, 21+ RSVP: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/304538259618766">https://www.facebook.com/events/304538259618766</a> Cinco De Mayo commemorates a Mexican military victory over the French in the Battle of Pueblo, on May 5, 1862. Somehow, 150 years later, it has become an excuse to party. Who are we to complain? We invite you all to our new loft in Gowanus, to drink enough tequila to wake up tomorrow in Mexico and not remember a thing, and dance all night to Latin-spiced globalbeat ethnotek best with: king of the eclectic loft party sound Barney Iller, ethnomesh master Joro Boro, late-night Rubulad favorite Reaganomics, and DJ KindB of World Class International crew. Live percussion TBC. Fire dancers & hoopers welcome (9k sq ft roof). Festive dress always encouraged, but no costume required. Cheap drinks, good times. There may even be an appearance by a Satanic Burger Truck. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== PUPPETS: Planet Egg, Puppet Cinema <a href="http://www.puppetcinema.com">http://www.puppetcinema.com</a> Puppet Cinema - an innovative and exciting new format in which the audience sees the puppeteers working on stage while the action is filmed and projected as a movie in real time with a full score and live Foley - is the perfect way to tell the Planet Egg adventure, creating both an intimacy with the puppets and a cinematic grandness worthy of a space odyssey. Planet Egg is the story of an outer-space robot who crashes down onto an all-organic planet where he encounters locals unlike anyone he's ever known. (HERE, 145 6th Ave, Fri 7pm & 10:30pm/Sat 2pm & 7pm/Sun 7pm, $15) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== WORD: The Highwaymen NYC <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/201402713291900">https://www.facebook.com/events/201402713291900</a># Poets: Matthew Zingg, Gina Mobilio, Mike Lala, Julie Kantor. Matthew Zingg's poetry appears in The Madison Review, The Awl, Opium Magazine and Cider Press Review among others. He received his MFA in poetry from Adelphi University and currently lives in Brooklyn. Gina Mobilio studied poetry under Jerry Williams at Marymount College and her "coarse, confessional" writings have been featured at Sidewalk Cafe, Cafe Orwell, Goodbye Blue Monday and the Bowery Poetry Club. Her professional writing has appeared in American Cheerleader Magazine, BULLETT Magazine and American Songwriter Magazine and in 2008 her play, The Parlor Room, was produced by the Phoenix Performing Arts Center. She currently resides in Astoria, Queens. Michael Lala is the author of two chapbooks: Under the Westward Night (Knickerbocker Circus 2011) and [fire.] ( Press 2011). His work has appeared or will in DIAGRAM, the Red Cedar Review, Sink Review, La Fovea, GQ Italy, Explosion-Proof, and elsewhere. He gr ew up in the United States and Tokyo, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he curates for Fireside Follies, Recession Art, and Culturefix NYC. Julie Kantor just completed her first manuscript, the currently unpublished, The Beautiful West. She is a M.F.A. candidate in poetry at Columbia University where she teaches in the Undergraduate Writing Program. She is also a musician and plays in the new band, Cycles. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. Event is BYOB and chapbooks will be available. (Paper Swan Loft, 260 Moore St #301, 7pm-9pm, FREE) VARIETY: Pussy Faggot 3-Year Anniversary <a href="http://www.publicassemblynyc.com/?wtpage=event&id=2929">http://www.publicassemblynyc.com/?wtpage=event&id=2929</a> Hosted by Penny Arcade and Jordan Fox. DJs Nita Aviance, John Renaud and Andrew Andrew. Open Vodka Bar from 8:00 - 9:00 pm. Performances throughout the night by BOURGEOIS AND MAURICE (London), ALASKA THUNDERFUK (Pittsburgh), NEEDLES JONES (Philadelphia), KHI ARMAND, DESIREE BURCH, NATH ANN CARRERA, DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA, GERRY & THE TWINKS, NICK HALLETT, RICKY KELLY, KYLE KUPRES & NICHOLAS GORHAM, TARA MATEIK, SHANE SHANE, SICK CELL and SANTIAGO VENEGAS. Arrive early for Max Steele's Fag City, a literary salon curated and hosted by Steele. Fag City features readings and performances by Joseph Keckler, Caroline Contillo, Lauren Savitz, YVA, Penny Arcade in addition to Steele himself. (Public Assembly, 70 N. 6th Street, Williamsburg, 8pm, $6 RSVP/ $10 door) PARTY: Toxic Beach Blanket Pop-Up Party <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/409895049036166">https://www.facebook.com/events/409895049036166</a> "Put the superfun back in superfund." The Gowanus is a neighborhood in fluxa place where past, present, and future are collidingnot to mention nature and industry, construction and decay. Join us for a night of good, clean toxic fun in celebration of the Hollow Earth Society's ongoing Pop-Up Museum. Featuring specialty "Gowanus Punch" drinks and henna tattoos for sale, free comestibles, video and sound art, and performances including burlesque, comedy, puppetry, and music. Presented by the Hollow Earth Society. With burlesque from Lindy Lollipop and Gretta Vendetta, comedy by Eric Grundhauser, puppets by The Great Gouldini, and henna artists Grace Baxter and Emi Brady. (Observatory, 543 Union Street, BK, 8-11pm, $7) VARIETY: Big Sky Works <a href="http://www.bigskyworksbrooklyn.com">http://www.bigskyworksbrooklyn.com</a> Tonight with Corn Mo, Vic Thrill, and T-Pow. With Zero Boy, Una Mimnagh, the Wau Wau Sisters, and BAMiAM.tv. A night of music, comedy, aerial feats, visuals and straight-up outrageousness from some of the wackiest in the biz. (Big Sky Works, 29 Wythe Ave at N 14th St, W'burg, BK, 9pm, $10) DJ: Vitamin B Sakura Sessions <a href="http://www.vitaminbreaks.com">http://www.vitaminbreaks.com</a> https//www.facebook.com/vbparty In honor of April, the best month of the NYC year, and also the time when cherry blossoms are in bloom, Vitamin B is going Japanese (again) with The Sakura Sessions. With Lee Mayjahs from PEX and Tim the Enchanter, who will be releasing a mix CD, Face Down, the second edition of the Vitamin B CD series. Grab a free copy at the door. Join us for top shelf chilled sake, Japanese cocktails and snacks all night. As always "hoopy hour" till 11:30 - half off drinks with hoop. (House of Yes, 342 Maujer St, BK, 10pm 4am, $10, 21+) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTICIPATORY: Pillow Fight NYC 2012 <a href="http://www.newmindspace.com/pillow-fight-nyc-2012">http://www.newmindspace.com/pillow-fight-nyc-2012</a> New York City's 7th annual, and the world's 5th annual Pillow Fight Day. Bunny edition: Pillows fly and bunny ears soar as you converge for a giant urban pillow fight. Swing and whack as you evade pillow-wielding assailants wearing bunny ears and toting chocolate eggs. Bring a soft pillow, bunny ears and wait for the countdown. Pillow fight. (Washington Square Park, 3pm, FREE) VARIETY: Raise the Roof: A Benefit for Coney Island USA <a href="http://coneyisland.com">http://coneyisland.com</a> Due to a wood-eating beetle invasion, a large portion of Coney Island USA's recently landmarked 1917 building has been severely compromised. The beetles have long since moved on, but the damage left in their wake requires emergency reconstruction. Structural engineers were able to put essential structural supports into place to ensure a safe summer season, but the rising costs of repairs has wiped out CIUSA's budget. The benefit features raucous good fun with Fisherman's Xylophonic Orchestra and a fabulous cavalcade of performers including Anita Cookie, BB Heart, Bastard Keith, Cherry Delight, Donny Vomit, Dr. Lucky, Go-Goat Boy (aka James Habacker), Jonny Porkpie, La Maia, Legs Malone, Little Brooklyn, Maddy Mann, Madame Rosebud, Miz Margo, Rosie 151, Sizzle Dizzle, Velocity Chyaldd, and more. Raffle prizes include books from Molly Crabapple, pasties and other burlesque accessories, over $250 worth of NYC burlesque show tickets and show memorabilia from this year and years past. (Sideshows by the Seashore, 1208 Surf Avenue, Coney Island, BK, 9pm, $20) DJ: The Dirty South Bounce <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/314661381931142">https://www.facebook.com/events/314661381931142</a> Dirty South Rap & New Orleans Bounce music all night: Rap, Crunk, Trill, Chopped & Screwed, Hip Hop. "You will sweat, dance, shout, and get outright dirty." With Rusty Lazer, Cobra Krames, DirtyFinger, Joro Boro, and Wckids. Presented by: Matt Cuba, UncleChow, and Forever Fresh. No dress code - please dress comfortably. (Public Assembly, 70 North 6th St, BK, 10pm-4am, $10 before midnight, 21+, must have ID) DJ: Balkan De Janeiro, Vol. 3 No Man's Land Presents: Psychedelic Cumbia beats to broken chalga, samba, Balkan crunked madness, Indian dance hall, 3ball, Moombahton, Baile Funk, y mas. With Escarioka, Dj Mishto -(Burdel Dali Presents/ Mehenata), Joro Boro- Burning Man/ World Wide, and the return of the Cumba Mela Crew, with 2melo, Atropolis, Thornato. Favela cash bar. (House of Yes, 342 Maujer St, BK, 10pm-late, $10 before midnight/$15 after) ===+++===+++===+++=== THURSDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== *EVENT/PARTICIPATORY: Til Death Do You Part - Marry Yourself <a href="http://www.EncouragingPriestess.com">http://www.EncouragingPriestess.com</a> <a href="http://www.Chashama.org">http://www.Chashama.org</a> A one-on-one live-art piece that mocks the classic, quickie Lost Vegas wedding: the difference is that you marry yourself, not someone else - complete with mini-chapel, costuming, rings, multiple choice vows, and a wedding photo. Host-Guides fuss over you and the Encouraging Priestess personally presides over your ceremony. What happens in the mirror when you repeat those vows into your eyes? Are the vows for real? It's up to you. Guests and attendants celebrate as you emerge, freshly married, and ready to plan that honeymoon with yourself. Free libations by Original Sin Cider. Space is limited, sign up early. (Chashama, 266 West 37th St, Ground Floor, Thu/Fri 8pm12am, Sat/Sun 1pm-6pm, FREE/donations welcome) DJ: YURI's NIGHT: GAGARIN WORLD DANCE PARTY <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/167732893347283">https://www.facebook.com/events/167732893347283</a> This Yuri's Night we're celebrating heroes of Space, as we look up at the stars and wonder if we're all alone. Authentic Soviet era space disco and Fly Me To The Moon, mixed with highly combustible balkan gypsy beats set the atmosphere and provide jet-fuel for this dance party. ET or Earthling, Sovietsky or Amerikansky, all are welcome to dance the night away and get high enough to reach the sky. Music by the Party Squad M.D.MiX & D.N.KA. (DROM, 85 Ave A, 10pm-3am, 4?) ===+++===+++===+++=== UPCOMING [Ticketed events likely to sell out and/or offering presale discounts] ===+++===+++===+++=== CLASS: Slapstick <a href="http://www.newyorkdowntownclown.com/clown-classes.html">http://www.newyorkdowntownclown.com/clown-classes.html</a> Just in time for the new Three Stooges Movie - The Slapstick 1 class will cover all the basics of slapstick and then some. After learning a foundation in slapstick comedy (slaps, trips, slips, and safety) you will learn a new fall, bits of business, and comedy act structures in each class. The last day you will present an act you have created on your own, using the comedy concepts learned. All levels welcome. Only four spots open the first class on 4/11 is FREE to try. (Westside Dance Project, 260 W 36th St b/w 7th and 8th aves, 3rd floor, class runs for 6 Wednesdays 4/11- 5/16, 5:30-7pm, $75 if paid before 4/11, $100 after) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== THEATER/WORD: 0,2012: THE LAST FUTURIST LAB <a href="http://www.targetmargin.org/our-season/lab">http://www.targetmargin.org/our-season/lab</a> In early 20th century Russia, young poets, directors, dancers and artists of every kind brought thrilling new challenges to the arts: wave after wave of experimentation and rebellion produced the highest gross tonnage of creative steel worldwide. 0,2012: The Last Futurist Lab explores the Russian avant-garde, aiming to find the literary hooligan in us all. (thru 4/7, The Bushwick Starr, 207 Starr Street btw. Irving & Wyckoff, $15) MAGIC: Elephant Room <a href="http://www.stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=72">http://www.stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=72</a> Three magicians. Two acts. One show. Zero boring stuff. Sub-zero intelligence. It's time to make it all add up In the Elephant Room. Illusionists Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic and Daryl Hannah invite you to a place of secrets. Of mystery. The place between the back of your mind and the tip of your tongue. Let's pretend it's a room a real room. And you're really here. In the Elephant Room. Oh, and by the way your mind was just totally blown clean through the back of your head. They will confound, amaze, mystify and move you. They'll leave you slack-mouthed, devoid of any bodily function, your hands twitching from their wrists, a puddle of crushed perception. The twisted minds of the dreamscape vaudeville all wear bowlers and the kinetic junk play machines machines machines machines machines machines machines, team up with the shaman-like powers of magician Steve Cuiffo (The Amazing Russello; Lenny Bruce) to create an experience you weren't even aware existed. (thru 4/8, St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water St, dumbo, BK, $25+) THEATER: HA! <a href="http://www.workshoptheater.org/jewelbox/2012/ha">http://www.workshoptheater.org/jewelbox/2012/ha</a> The NYC premiere of 3 internationally acclaimed comedies by Rich Orloff / directed by Ric Sechrest. OEDI: a farcical retelling of the Oedipus Rex story, faces the overlooked fact that if Oedipus married his mother, she had to be old enough to be his mother. THE NEWS FROM ST. PETERSBURG: a Chekhovian spoof set in 1905 Russia, examines the effect of a rumor on an aristocratic couple, their doctor, and an overworked and temporarily overjoyed serf. THE WHOLE SHEBANG: the play that asks the question, "What if the entire universe was just some nerd's science project?" [G&S note: use code HA to get $9 tix for shows 3/30-4/2] (thru 4/15, WorkShop Theater Company/Jewel Box Theater, 312 West 36th St bet 8/9, 4th Fl, $18) COMEDY/DANCE: The 3rd Annual Comedy in Dance Festival <a href="http://www.triskelionarts.org">http://www.triskelionarts.org</a> A curated smorgasbord of work with a comic bent featuring the work of nearly 30 NYC choreographers and clowns. April 5: The Raving Jaynes, Jackie Moynahan/JaxDance, Mari Meade Dance Collective, Tough Cookie Dance, Charles Gushue, Not Getting Naked, Leanne Schmidt and Company (and guests). April 6: Billy Schultz as the Song and Dance Man, Sarah Horne/A Dance Can + Company, Lola Lola Dance Theatre/Jessica Bonenfant, Leanne Schmidt and Company (and guests), SUNPROJECT, Donnell Oakley, The Good To Go Girls. April 7: Deborah Kaufmann-Too Short to Fall Over, Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre, Cocoon Central Dance Team, Tough Cookie Dance, Not Getting Naked, Annika Sheaff, Neon Lights, Ad Hoc Jazz Dance Group, Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre. April 12: Donnell Oakley, Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre, Lola Lola Dance Theatre/Jessica Bonenfant, white road Dance Media, Jamie Benson, Jessica Jolly & Sarah Konner, Jordan Isadore, Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre. April 13: Jessica Jolly & Sarah Kon ner, Mari Meade Dance Collective, Billy Schultz as the Song and Dance Man, Annika Sheaff, NeonLights, Karesia Batan||The Physical Plant, Jamie Benson, Heather Kemp, alex|xan: the Median Movement. April 14: alex|xan: the Median Movement, Ad Hoc Jazz Dance Group, Kate Taylor, Tough Cookie Dance, Jordan Isadore, Jackie Moynahan/JaxDance, Spark(edIt) Arts, Coccon Central Dance Team. (thru 4/14, Triskelion Arts Aldous Theater, 118 N. 11th St. 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, 8pm, $15) ART: The Pop-Up Museum of the Gowanus Canal <a href="http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com">http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com</a> Working with found materials from all around the Gowanus neighborhood, we will create a new "history" of the region and its traditions (a not entirely serious one). As a collective, we will plow through a century of objects in order to remix in miniature the Gowanus, Observatory, and the whole enterprise of the museumthe whole enterprise of producing, categorizing, and showing off knowledge. Quick, fast, and dirty, the Pop-Up Museum presents the unpresentable: change itself. (thru 4/22, The Observatory, 543 Union Street, enter via Nevins, FREE) EVENT: The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens <a href="http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/orchid-show">http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/orchid-show</a> The Orchid Show takes vertical gardens to new heights in its 10th year. Renowned botanist and vertical gardening provocateur Patrick Blanc creates towering spectacles of tropical life. Dangling from Blanc's signature ''green walls,'' thousands of orchids abandon the constraints of gravity. (thru 4/22, New York Botanical Garden, 200th St & Kazimiroff Blvd, Bronx, 10am - 7pm, $20) ART: PYSANKA: The Ukrainian Easter Egg <a href="http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html">http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html</a> Pysanky are the unique Ukrainian Easter eggs known the world over for their intricate, colorful designs. Drawn from the Museum's extensive folk arts collection, the nearly 300 eggs are decorated in a variety of regional styles, rich colors, and assorted motifs; many are the work of acclaimed artist Sofika Zielyk. The hand-crafted pysanky are made using raw eggs, dyes, and beeswax in a wax-resist method process, known as batik. The process results in colorful eggs ornamented with an array of detailed geometric, floral, and faunistic symbols. The art of creating Ukrainian pysanky (from the word pysaty to write) has been handed down from generation to generation. This ancient art form is taught in workshops Sat/Sun thru 4/1 (adults & children over 12). The Ukrainian Easter Traditions workshop on March 24, for students age 16 and older, offers hands-on training in baking Easter breads and other traditions related to the holiday. March 31: an opportunity to watch artists in acti on as they create beautiful pysanky. In addition to the demonstrations, the award-winning short film Pysanka by Slavko Nowytski will be shown continuously from 1-5 p.m. (thru 5/27, The Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th St bet 2nd/3rd Ave, $8 / plus $10-25 for special workshops) ART: This Side of Paradise <a href="http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/speakeasy-paradise">http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/events/event/speakeasy-paradise</a> The gates of the Andrew Freedman Home will open to the public. The Home was once built to be a haven, a paradise, for the rich elderly who had lost their fortunes. Bequeathed by millionaire Andrew Freedman, the Home provided not only food and shelter but all the accoutrements of a rich and civilized life style white glove dinner service, a grand ball room, a wood-paneled library, billiard room and a social committee who organized concerts, opera performances and the like. Referencing this quixotic history, This Side of Paradise will reference the past and reconnect the vision of Andrew Freedman to today's Bronx and its realities. The exhibition and its extensive public programming onsite and offsite will draw together the economic and social history of the Home with the present day realities of the Bronx and its residents. The selected artists' will work in a site-specific manner and will respond to such issues as memory, immigration, storytelling, aging and the creation of fantasy that the original concept of the Home "being poor in style" suggests. This Side of Paradise will celebrate human ingenuity, the strength of the human spirit and the resilience needed to fashion beauty, hope and rejoicing. (thru 6/5, 1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, tours Thurs-Sun, 1pm-7pm) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== Do you have something to share with our readers or events you'd like to have included in our emails? Did we miss anything? 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[G&S]: Your party lineup this weekend

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:52:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, Wonderfully varied happenings this weekend; we may even come out and play. We've been mostly sitting out the fun stuff as our loft has kept us ridiculously busy -- as you saw from our first two parties there, there's a lot more work to do, and we definitely still need help & money to do it. The upcoming Titanic party is a fundraiser for the next bit of construction -- please buy tickets at the highest level you can afford. And of course let us know if you want to participate, or if you can help on the loft directly. Got construction skills and any time to gift? As always, party invite & your weekend listings below. Some amaaaazing Swing House pics from the loft via White Crow Photography on FB: <a href="http://on.fb.me/HqICNc">http://on.fb.me/HqICNc</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://bit.ly/GS_facebook">http://bit.ly/GS_facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Tumblr: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr">http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_ytube">http://bit.ly/GS_ytube</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</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: 4/21 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present The Drowned Ball A grandiose remembrance of 100 anniversary of RMS Titanic's first and last voyage Sat, April 21, Zanger Hall, 347 West 34th St, 9pm-3am, 21+ Tickets $25-95 presale / $10 more at door, if left / $15 at door after 12am Details: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/344930908890321">https://www.facebook.com/events/344930908890321</a> Tix: <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238213">https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238213</a> Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> (#DrownedBall) The greatest ship ever built sets sail once more. In the grand ballroom, an orchestra plays to slow-swaying aristocracy, all sparkling diamonds and rustling silk, while in steerage below, the lower classes stomp to fiddles and accordions. But mere hours later, disaster strikes, and with no escape possible, mayhem ensues. Upstairs: chamber music by Trio Mio Myo and waltzes from around the world by Golden Angel Waltz Orchestra. Downstairs: old-timey band and immersive video projections. Ghostly apparition by Kaytee Papusza Couture. DJs to follow on both floors. In the tradition of turn-of-century Grand Bal art posters, artist duo Teetering Bulb will create a one-of-a-kind painting to commemorate the event. Skink Ink Fine Art Printing will run a limited unnumbered edition of 50 12x18 prints on archival cotton rag paper, only available to event guests as bundled with 1st class tickets ($60) or for sale at the door ($75). Ticket levels*: 1st & 2nd classes board 9pm, and enjoy an hour of complimentary champagne, and a waltz dance class at 9:30: $95 with custom art print; $35 without. Steerage boards 10pm: $25. If any tickets are available at door, they're $10 more; only $15 after 12am. This event will sell out. Dress code: Turn-of-century-ball meets Mermaid Parade meets zombies. Dress upper class or steerage, before the iceberg or after -- or even as the iceberg itself. Sea creatures most welcome, especially luminescent ones. Ocean explorers, bring your cameras. *This event is a fundraiser for our new loft party space. Please support at the highest level you can afford. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== SHOP: La China Loca Tea Party and Sample Sale <a href="http://www.lachinaloca.com">http://www.lachinaloca.com</a> La China Loca (Anastasia Andino), a hat maker with a film-noir edge is combining forces with contemporary fashion designer Nathalie Kraynina. Nathalie graduated from FIT and soon was trained by designers like Michael Kors and Badgley Mischka. She has been featured as a "Designer To Watch" by Refinery 21 and received epic reviews from Time Out NY, Village Voice and Brooklyn Exposed. La China Loca has immersed herself in the styles from classic western, film noir, kung fu and old mobster cinema. Her hats have been worn by Grace Jones, Lady Miss Kier, Madonna and have been featured on NBC's 30 rock. Tea, wine, and treats will be served while you check out the two designer's creative and wearable designs and score up to 70% off. (Studio de La China Loca, 385 South 5th St between Hooper and Hewes Sts, Fri 4-7pm / Sat 12-7pm, FREE) BURLESQUE: The Burning Bush Vs. The Second Coming - Round 2 <a href="http://www.arsnovanyc.com">http://www.arsnovanyc.com</a> A Hot and Holy Burlesque Showdown. Prepare yourself for a bawdy battle of truly biblical proportions. New York's Heavyweight Hebrew Hotties, The Schlep Sisters, take on the singing and dancing Titans of Teen Christendom, Maddy Mann and Lexi Miller, in a no-holds-barred Passover vs. Easter bawdy battle of biblical proportions. Everyone's favorite illegitimate son, Bastard Keith, will keep the girls in check to ensure everyone plays nice. Round 2 pits Moses against Jesus, resurrection against liberation, and chocolate bunnies against gefilte fish. These girls are hotter than horseradish and curvier than a communion wafer. So come cheer for your favorite prophet and see which side wins. (Ars Nova Theater, 511 West 54 St, Fri/Sat doors @ 7:30pm / show @ 8pm, $15 adv / $20 door) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTY: Haus Party: The Future is Now <a href="http://tinyurl.com/treehaus-party">http://tinyurl.com/treehaus-party</a> What does your future look like? Utopian? Dystopian? Half cy-borg? Toxic refugee? This is the party to find out. Dance to tunes by DJ Make Believe with a polar-shifting performance from Plunge Into Death. Partake in soothing libations and newfangled gelatinous refreshments. Visit the Multispecies Salon and behold the newly constructed "Utopia for the Golden Frog of Panama." You may also consult our on-call oracle as we all keep vigil around the flame. Only fabulous futurists need attend. A vintage three-foot bowling trophy is on offer to the best dressed guest. Frisbees, vegan baked goods, and a two-foot bowling trophy will be awarded to runners up. (Treehaus, 94 Monroe St, 8pm-3:30am, FREE) VARIETY: Waterfront Follies <a href="http://galapagosartspace.com/event/the-waterfront-follies">http://galapagosartspace.com/event/the-waterfront-follies</a> Allow us to transport you a century into the past to the golden age of vaudeville. Our fearless ringleader has searched far and wide to bring you the most remarkable acts from all over the world. Let your senses be soothed by our singing sirens, your spirits soar with our flying trapeze, your jaws drop at death defying feats of skill, your hearts flutter in the seductive embrace of our cabaret dancers, and your minds be confounded by the unexpected twists and turns our puckish host has in store. Let us entertain and take you to a place where nothing is what it seems and anything is possible behind the draped curtains of a house of vaudeville. (Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St., dumbo, BK, 9pm doors/10pm show, $20) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== EVENT: Dinner Party For Two <a href="http://www.michaelalanart.com/art/upcoming-projects">http://www.michaelalanart.com/art/upcoming-projects</a> From Michael Alan: "A private engagement taking place at my luxurious home where you can smell rats miles away. Dinner Party For 2. A couple on their first date with a nice table and candle, waiting to be served, feeling the luxurious atmosphere misplaced in an art studio, encounter the wildest waiter anyone could wait for. ME. Alien. I will crash this dinner for two, undress and redress them, glue them to their chairs, turn their spoons into clay spaghetti, melt their heads and make them a living, breathing, eating family party. Join us, get lost in time, place and space, watch the soundtrack animate the performers in a living music video with new music from Renaldo from Renaldo and the Loaf, Japanther, Worm Carnevale, Jesse Jones from Yuppicide, Tim Love Lee, Kenny Scharf, Ramsey Jones and more. This is not a business, this is not a play, this is not a movement, this a reaction to too much too much too much. Its time to slow down and give yourself a chance to come to a ha ppening. There are a lot of different people that come and its really peaceful. What do you do? Relax, write, draw, get high, stay sober, dance, make a friend, don't talk to anyone, leave disgusted but whatever you do you will not forget. This is a show where we try to install a memory into your bank because we forget everything." (Chinatown location, 7-11pm and 11:30-2:30am / 40 people each show, $20) PARTY: Wit's End <a href="http://www.ClubWitsEnd.com">http://www.ClubWitsEnd.com</a> Wit's End and the Dorothy Parker Society invite you to celebrate the social life of the Jazz Age. Come in your finest 1920s & 1930s vintage or vintage inspired evening attire and celebrate in style with live hot jazz, vintage cocktails and good times. Free dance lesson at 8:30 with instructors Jeri Lynn Astra and Neal Groothuis. Live hot jazz from the Red Hook Ramblers. Dress code: Coat and tie for gents, cocktail / evening attire for ladies / 1920s, 30s and 40s vintage is encouraged. (Flute Midtown, 205 West 54th St near Broadway, 7pm-Midnight, $12) EVENT: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: The Saloon Stigmata Edition <a href="http://www.facebook.com/bloodwrestling">http://www.facebook.com/bloodwrestling</a> Celebrate and skewer Easter & Passover with The Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling. We are live lady warriors, w/ridiculous characters & vendettas, who wrestle in fake blood to punk rock. Ferocious, hilarious matches w/punk rock soundtrack spun by DJ Luca (The Afterbirth). Featuring Easter & Passover wrestling characters such as: Our Lady of Perpetual PMS, Referee Mike SOS (SOS, Seizure Crypt), Shesus Christ, Challah Back Girl, The Angel of Death, The Gorgeous LADS of Bloodwrestling, & more. Plus bloody half-time entertainment, too. Men are recommended to come with a female friend. This is a MIXED event in the spirit of true fun & sports satire. Anyone disrespectful or disruptive will be removed, perhaps dismembered. (The Double Down Saloon, 14 Avenue A btwn Houston & 2nd St, doors 7:30 for the last half of Happy Hour / Show 8-10pm, FREE / donations to our fake blood fund appreciated, 21+ / ID required) MUSIC: The Balkan Shout Out <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/227994">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/227994</a> "The Balkan Shout Out" is a fundraising event to benefit the EEFC (East European Folklife Center). The EEFC has been a home to Balkan music, dance and culture in United States for over 25 years. The Balkan Shout Out, has been conceived to do just that: give a shout of thanks out to those who have helped in nurturing New York's thriving Balkan cultural community. This year we will be featuring the hip-swiveling, dancefloor-filling, rural party music of Brazil's northeastern states of Forro in the Dark a NYC-based Brazilian ex-pats. Raya Brass Band does it on the dance floor, mashing up the music of Eastern Europe with American dance grooves, they will grace us with their exuberant Balkan brass dance music. Eva Primack will be debuting with her brand new brass band sure to get you dancing. (Ukrainian National Home, 140 2nd avenue, 8-12pm, $13) MUSIC: Ghost Train Orchestra & Baby Soda <a href="http://jalopy.biz/store/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=261">http://jalopy.biz/store/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=261</a> This will be GTO's last show for some time so don't miss an opportunity to see the 10-piece perform brand new material live.Great Train Orchestra will be performing all new unrecorded reimaginings of chamber jazz from the late 1930s and early 1940s originally conceived by bandleaders Alec Wilder, John Kirby, Raymond Scott, and Reginald Foresythe. The music created by these four was full of wonder, beauty, and adventure. Featuring special guests, Baby Soda Jazz band. (Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia St, 8:30pm, $10) Rubulad Presents: Party Monsters' Ball <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/181415175308591">https://www.facebook.com/events/181415175308591</a> Hearken back to New York Nightlife's nights of yore and shake what God gave us in a Victorian Gothic Church. Live music by: Spanglish Fly, honey, King Coyote (w/ Victor Sheely and Jonah Larrama). Your DJs: $mall ¢hange (WFMU), Rusty Laser (New Orleans Sissy Bounce of Big Freedia fame), Repo Man. Plus: Light Circus Extraordinaire by Norm Francoeur, G. Scopitronic's Non-Stop Funnies Film Fest, Springle by Karl Scholz, Hot ***ing Tamales- and more. Dress like a 1980's club kid, psychotic clown, blundering buffoon, Limelight VIP room denizen, platform sneakers, neon and loud prints, candy raver, cigarette girl and all other looks to kill. Note that it's April Fools' Eve; there may be pranks. (626 Bushwick Ave, 10pm, $10 before 11pm or way late, $15 in costume, $20 otherwise) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== EVENT: The City Reliquary's 10 Year Anniversary <a href="http://www.cityreliquary.org/the-city-reliquarys-10-year-anniversary">http://www.cityreliquary.org/the-city-reliquarys-10-year-anniversary</a> We're so very pleased to report that the City Reliquary is starting its 10th year of existence. We've grown so much over the past 10 years; from tiny windowfront displays to a legitimate Museum and events space. AND we've been working harder than ever to make this our biggest year yet. At the celebration, we will unveil an all new GIFT SHOP featuring local, hand-made products and NYC gifts and two new room-sized DIORAMAS and several new civic DISPLAYS. The event starts with the grand ribbon cutting ceremony followed by much pomp, circumstance, and refreshments for all. (City Reliquary, 370 Metropolitan Ave, W'burg, BK, 12-6pm, FREE) EVENT: The Chocolate Ritual <a href="http://www.nyc-ppp.org/NYC_PPP/Chocolate_Ritual_2012.html">http://www.nyc-ppp.org/NYC_PPP/Chocolate_Ritual_2012.html</a> Celebrate April Fool's Day and the Veneralia (feast of Venus) with an updated version of The Chocolate Ritual and a chocolate fondue party to follow. We will have Pagan chocolates and mints for sale including Chocolate Altar Tools. Pagan Pride T-shirts will be available as well. All proceeds go towards the Maypole Joe Memorial Scholarship Fund. Last year we raised $500. This year our goal is to award $1,000 to a Pagan student in the greater New York area. Tickets include the ritual, fondue party and a Pagan themed chocolate to take home (while supplies last). (The Kaplan Assembly Room (Rm.101) in the LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St, 1pm, $10adv/$15 door) PARTY: Dracula Meets The Clockwork Man <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/235894789839442">https://www.facebook.com/events/235894789839442</a> Welcome to you all, Goths and Geeks, Steampunks and lovers of unique and unparalleled fun - to benefit our longtime artistic director, Gil Cnaan, who is currently in the hospital with heart failure. Gil has spent the last several years of his life creating amazing places for non-ordinary people to feel safe and at home and to have a great time. We're going to help him out, and we've got a truly spectacular evening planned. Featuring the darkly comic music and murder ballads of Voltaire (www.voltaire.net); the "Steampunk Black" rock of Platform One (www.platform-one.com) ;a visit from that performance troupe of ridiculous and wonderful dandies, the Royal Baritarian Players (www.baritaria.com); the rich science fiction world, spectacular voice, and dramatic performance of Psyche Corporation (www.psychecorporation.com); Dame Ashley Rogers; Steam-Funk Productions, and more. 100% of proceeds go to Gil's hospital bills. (Drom, 85 Ave A, 3-11:30pm, $20) PARTICIPATORY: 4th Annual Make New Friends: Outdoor Adventure Edition <a href="http://www.hichristina.com/calendar.html">http://www.hichristina.com/calendar.html</a> Tired of old friends?-You're not alone- we are too. This April Fools Day meet an entirely new social network. Does it seem that your old friends have lost interest in you or your amazing new projects? Not attending your important events, dates or openings? Do they assume that because you two are "Old Pals" that they can take advantage of you, yet not even call on your birthday? Well, here at HiChristina we say, "Out with the old and in with the new." You deserve friends who appreciate you for who you are, respect your lifestyle and choices, friends who call you back right away. And what better day to meet new friends than on the silliest day of the year. Join us in the great outdoors of Central Park for a wild adventure guided by Fritz and Christina. Snack on ice cream sandwiches, wrangle balloons, overcome obstacles, do some crazy athletics, lie in the grass and listen to poetry (leaves of grass/bring your own), and meet the troll under the bridge. RSVP for secret start loca tion and code word. (Central Park, 6pm, $10 adv/ $15) PARTY: Fools For Freedom <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/323037821082767">https://www.facebook.com/events/323037821082767</a> A TopFree Circus on April Fools Day, as well as a fund and awareness raiser for equality. Proceeds go to transforming the law that penalize women for going topless -- specifically a NJ Supreme Court case threatening to put Phoenix Feeley in prison. Enjoy cocktails & catering, a variety show, a dance party, and more. Featuring a Silent Auction- the performers are all donating one sexy personal item to be bid on. Performers include: The Great Throwdini, topless fiery dancers, the Circus Maven and much more. Disguised as both Sheriff and Deputy, Kayla Coveneye will punish all topless males and non topfree females--additionally she will torture you with her mad hulahooping skills. DJuice will lend us his musical talents for us to rip up the dance floor. Body Painting by Jim Su. Women- top free is recommended & tops may issue a penalty. Men- you may get a ticket if you don't cover up so pasties are recommened. Tickets and penalties may consist of spankings, lickings, fools day pra nks, or other naughty made up stunts. A limited supply of hand made pasties by the performers will be available for sale. (House of Yes, 342 Maujer St, 6pm-12am, $10, 21+) VARETY: Faceboyz Folliez <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/912203">https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/912203</a> Bold bawdy Burlesque, live Chanteuse & Chanteurs, Freaky Flickers & Top Bananas. Faceboyz Folliez pays homage to the days of yore with a distinctively downtown twist. Inspired by the famed Folies Bergere a core group of downtown legends, upcoming newbies and special guests present a variety show of the weird and wonderful with an emphasis on bawdy humor and beauteous burlesque. The Folliez ensemble draws on their eclectic talents and collective experiences to take the Parisian pleasures of the 1800's to the diverse denizens of the downtown scene.As you can see from the line-up we've brought back some our favorite performers for this very special April Fool's Day show oh and we're going to have an ass dancing contest. The winner will receive an all access pass to the upcoming Assdance film Festival. Starring: St. Rev. Jen Miller, Velocity Chyaldd, Stormy Leather, Amanda Whip, Payje Flash, With short films by ASS Studios directed by Courtney Fathom Sell. Guest Writer: Zoe Hans en. Musical Guests:The Fools and Sean T. Hanratty. Burlesque Guests: Evelyn Vinyl and Deity Delgado. Ass dancing contest. (Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery St, 10pm, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== WEDNESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== ***ART/PARTY: FIGMENT Groundbreaking: The Factory <a href="http://figmentproject.org/groundbreaking">http://figmentproject.org/groundbreaking</a> In the years since FIGMENT adopted its name from Andy Warhol, we've never really looked back to consider Warhol and the scene he created around The Factory... until now. Immerse yourself, with the artists and volunteers who make FIGMENT happen, in the by-gone era of The Factory, in a gorgeous 70's-era SoHo loft. Bid on the works of some of New York City's best emerging artists. Enjoy drinks, hors d'oeuvres, performances, music, and surprises. Embrace our art heritage and prepare for the future of FIGMENT. "I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'FIGMENT'."Andy Warhol, 1985. [G&S note: while the cost for this event is way above our usual limit, it supports an incredible FREE summer art event that is so dear to our hearts that we volunteer our limited time to help make it happen. It's also downright cheap, compared to most such fundraising soirees. We strongly urge you to support, at the highest level you can afford (buy VIP tickets. buy tickets for your friends. bid on art. etc)] (Safe Harbor Studio, 446 Broadway, 3rd Fl, 6-10pm, $75 adv/ $95 door; $250 VIP Ticket Package for 4 Guests, adv only) ===+++===+++===+++=== THURSDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== VARIETY: Circus o Burlesque A Mania Insania <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/237845292972497">https://www.facebook.com/events/237845292972497</a> The stars of Great Canadian Burlesque return to NYC with a fun-filled hour of steamy burlesque, mind messing magic and killer sideshow. A night with local icons, circus freaks and international showgirls from north of the border. Join Doctor M as he takes you into the od...d world of his everyday. A world that includes the beautiful Fionna Flauntit, the sweet Dolly Berlin, the sultry Esther DeVille, and Belly Dancer The French Swan from T.O. alongside Headmistress and NYC ICON Honi Harlow, contortion dancer Amazing Amy and the pain-proof circus of Lady Aye. Sword Swallowing.. Human Blockhead.. Tests in Telepathy.. Contortion.. Shakin' n Shimmy Galore.. Pasties Twirling & More. (Under St Marks Theatre, 94 St. Marks Pl, 10:30-1:30, $12) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== THEATER: The One Act Factor <a href="http://www.secrettheatre.com">http://www.secrettheatre.com</a> The One Act Factor is a brand new competition style one-act play festival held this year in March at The Secret Theatre. Each week actors, playwrights, and directors band together and compete to win cash prizes in Best Play, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress in a showdown similar to the popular talent shows we've all seen on TV. As the weeks go by, teams advance to the final rounds through audience votes. Awards are also determined by celebrity judges who will give encouragement and advice to all the contestants. This new form of one act festival is sure to be fun for all involved: actors, directors, playwrights and audience members alike. New plays in competition each weekend. Semi-finals Thursday, 3/29 and Friday, 3/30. Finals Saturday, 3/31. (The Secret Theatre, 4402 23rd St LIC, Queens, select Thur/Fri/Sat 8pm, $15) THEATER/WORD: 0,2012: THE LAST FUTURIST LAB <a href="http://www.targetmargin.org/our-season/lab">http://www.targetmargin.org/our-season/lab</a> In early 20th century Russia, young poets, directors, dancers and artists of every kind brought thrilling new challenges to the arts: wave after wave of experimentation and rebellion produced the highest gross tonnage of creative steel worldwide. 0,2012: The Last Futurist Lab explores the Russian avant-garde, aiming to find the literary hooligan in us all. (thru 4/7, The Bushwick Starr, 207 Starr Street btw. Irving & Wyckoff, $15) MAGIC: Elephant Room <a href="http://www.stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=72">http://www.stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=72</a> Three magicians. Two acts. One show. Zero boring stuff. Sub-zero intelligence. It's time to make it all add up In the Elephant Room. Illusionists Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic and Daryl Hannah invite you to a place of secrets. Of mystery. The place between the back of your mind and the tip of your tongue. Let's pretend it's a room a real room. And you're really here. In the Elephant Room. Oh, and by the way your mind was just totally blown clean through the back of your head. They will confound, amaze, mystify and move you. They'll leave you slack-mouthed, devoid of any bodily function, your hands twitching from their wrists, a puddle of crushed perception. The twisted minds of the dreamscape vaudeville all wear bowlers and the kinetic junk play machines machines machines machines machines machines machines, team up with the shaman-like powers of magician Steve Cuiffo (The Amazing Russello; Lenny Bruce) to create an experience you weren't even aware existed. (thru 4/8, St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water St, dumbo, BK, $25+) THEATER: HA! <a href="http://www.workshoptheater.org/jewelbox/2012/ha">http://www.workshoptheater.org/jewelbox/2012/ha</a> The NYC premiere of 3 internationally acclaimed comedies by Rich Orloff / directed by Ric Sechrest . OEDI: a farcical retelling of the Oedipus Rex story, faces the overlooked fact that if Oedipus married his mother, she had to be old enough to be his mother. THE NEWS FROM ST. PETERSBURG: a Chekhovian spoof set in 1905 Russia, examines the effect of a rumor on an aristocratic couple, their doctor, and an overworked and temporarily overjoyed serf. THE WHOLE SHEBANG: the play that asks the question, What if the entire universe was just some nerd's science project? [G&S note: use code HA to get $9 tix for shows 3/30-4/2] (thru 4/15, WorkShop Theater Company/Jewel Box Theater, 312 West 36th St bet 8/9, 4th Fl, $18) ART: The Pop-Up Museum of the Gowanus Canal <a href="http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com">http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com</a> Working with found materials from all around the Gowanus neighborhood, we will create a new "history" of the region and its traditions (a not entirely serious one). As a collective, we will plow through a century of objects in order to remix in miniature the Gowanus, Observatory, and the whole enterprise of the museumthe whole enterprise of producing, categorizing, and showing off knowledge. Quick, fast, and dirty, the Pop-Up Museum presents the unpresentable: change itself. (thru 4/22, The Observatory, 543 Union Street, enter via Nevins, FREE) EVENT: The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens <a href="http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/orchid-show">http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/orchid-show</a> The Orchid Show takes vertical gardens to new heights in its 10th year. Renowned botanist and vertical gardening provocateur Patrick Blanc creates towering spectacles of tropical life. Dangling from Blanc's signature ''green walls,'' thousands of orchids abandon the constraints of gravity. (thru 4/22, New York Botanical Garden, 200th St & Kazimiroff Blvd, Bronx, 10am - 7pm, $20) ART: PYSANKA: The Ukrainian Easter Egg <a href="http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html">http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html</a> Pysanky are the unique Ukrainian Easter eggs known the world over for their intricate, colorful designs. Drawn from the Museum's extensive folk arts collection, the nearly 300 eggs are decorated in a variety of regional styles, rich colors, and assorted motifs; many are the work of acclaimed artist Sofika Zielyk. The hand-crafted pysanky are made using raw eggs, dyes, and beeswax in a wax-resist method process, known as batik. The process results in colorful eggs ornamented with an array of detailed geometric, floral, and faunistic symbols. The art of creating Ukrainian pysanky (from the word pysaty to write) has been handed down from generation to generation. This ancient art form is taught in workshops Sat/Sun thru 4/1 (adults & children over 12). The Ukrainian Easter Traditions workshop on March 24, for students age 16 and older, offers hands-on training in baking Easter breads and other traditions related to the holiday. March 31: an opportunity to watch artists in acti on as they create beautiful pysanky. In addition to the demonstrations, the award-winning short film Pysanka by Slavko Nowytski will be shown continuously from 1-5 p.m. (thru 5/27, The Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th St bet 2nd/3rd Ave, $8 / plus $10-25 for special workshops) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== 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]: Tickets now on sale for The Drowned Ball, Sat 4/21

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:31:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, We are busy confirming amazing acts for this event, but in the meantime, ticket sales are now open. Updated invite & link below. As this event is a fundraiser for our new party space, we ask you to support at the highest level you an afford. All profits will go into rent & construction costs, so we can bring you more amazing loft parties by late spring/early summer. Artists/performers/creative souls: we'd love to have your participation. Let us know what ideas you may have for this party! 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://bit.ly/GS_facebook">http://bit.ly/GS_facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Tumblr: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr">http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_ytube">http://bit.ly/GS_ytube</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</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: 3/17 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present The Drowned Ball A grandiose remembrance of 100 anniversary of RMS Titanic's first and last voyage Sat, April 21, Zanger Hall, 347 West 34th St, 9pm-3am, 21+ Tickets $25-95 presale / $10 more at door, if left / $15 at door after 12am Details TK: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/344930908890321">https://www.facebook.com/events/344930908890321</a> Tix: <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238213">https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238213</a> Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> (#DrownedBall) The greatest ship ever built sets sail once more. In the grand ballroom, an orchestra plays to slow-swaying aristocracy, all sparkling diamonds and rustling silk, while in steerage below, the lower classes stomp to fiddles and accordions. But mere hours later, disaster strikes, and with no escape possible, mayhem ensues. Expect immersive video projections, DJs, and art installations in addition to live bands -- details TK. In the tradition of turn-of-century Grand Bal art posters, artist duo Teetering Bulb will create a one-of-a-kind piece of art to commemorate the event. Skink Ink Fine Art Printing will run a limited unnumbered edition of 50 12x18 prints on archival cotton rag paper, only available to event guests as bundled with 1st class tickets ($60) or for sale at the door ($75). Ticket levels*: 1st & 2nd classes board 9pm, and enjoy an hour of complimentary champagne, and a waltz dance class at 9:30: $95 with custom art print; $35 without. Steerage boards 10pm: $25. If any tickets are available at door, they're $10 more; only $15 after 12am. This event will sell out. Dress code: Turn-of-century-ball meets Mermaid Parade meets zombies. Dress upper class or steerage, before the iceberg or after -- or even as the iceberg itself. Sea creatures most welcome, especially luminescent ones. Ocean explorers, bring your cameras. *This event is a fundraiser for our new loft party space. Please support at the highest level you can afford. ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== 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]: Weekend listings & teaser invite for 4/21 The Drowned Ball [on RMS Titanic]

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:18:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, We are delighted to report that our second party at the loft went smoothly & happily. We <3 our new home. Thank you for celebrating its not-yet-opening with us! We haven't seen any photos from the night, but if you have them, post them to the FB event page and/or email us links. We'd love to share them with everyone. We are finally ready to reveal our first teaser for our epic April event: The Drowned Ball, being a grandiose remembrance of 100 anniversary of RMS Titanic's first and last voyage. Read on below, and expect details and tickets next week. 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://bit.ly/GS_facebook">http://bit.ly/GS_facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Tumblr: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr">http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_ytube">http://bit.ly/GS_ytube</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</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: 3/17 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present The Drowned Ball A grandiose remembrance of 100 anniversary of RMS Titanic's first and last voyage Sat, April 21, Zanger Hall, 347 West 34th St, 9pm-3am, $25+, 21+ Details TK: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> Tix TK: <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238213">https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238213</a> Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> (#DrownedBall) The greatest ship ever built sets sail once more. In the grand ballroom, an orchestra plays waltzes to slow-swaying aristocracy, all sparkling diamonds and rustling silk, while in steerage below, the lower classes stomp to fiddles and accordions. But mere hours later, disaster strikes, and with no escape possible, mayhem ensues. Details TK. This will sell out; plan to buy your tickets in advance. Dress code: Turn-of-century-ball meets Mermaid Parade meets zombies. Dress upper class or steerage, before the iceberg or after -- or even as the iceberg itself. Sea creatures most welcome, especially luminescent ones. Ocean explorers, bring your cameras. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== CIRCUS: Cream of the Big Top, Spring Circus Cabaret <a href="http://bigskyworksbrooklyn.com/228/cream-of-the-big-top-spring-circus-cabaret">http://bigskyworksbrooklyn.com/228/cream-of-the-big-top-spring-circus-cabaret</a> Hosted by Jennifer Miller of Circus Amok and starring Amy G, Adam Kuchler, Felicia O'Brien, Krin Haglund, Ambrose Martos, Cody Shreger, Rob Lock, Alissa Fellers, Rudi Macaggi, Summer Lacy, Russel Brown, Gen Ohta, Kristin Olness, Alyssa Abeyta, Jeff & Buttons, Tess Emerson, Sarah Brodsky, Clara La France, Carla Cantrelle, Amazing Amy, Jean Loscalzo, David James, Anna Pillot Fedak, Billy Shultz, Melissa Anne, Solomon the Peculiarist, & BAMiAM.tv (Fri/Sat, Big Sky Works, 29 Wythe Ave, W'burg, BK, 8pm, $15) COMEDY: Future Party <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/234008">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/234008</a> What happens when a New York-bred comedy duo teams up with a multi-award-winning Montreal-based sketch comedy troupe? Future Party. A sketch comedy double-bill from another dimension. James & JF (NYC) offer up Channel One - TV in the future as performed by the last two people on earth. Let us explain: we escaped the end of civilization in a time machine, then created our own version of TV shows to entertain ourselves (just go with it) but wind up performing them to unexpected time-traveling audiences. From the duo said to have "winning comedic timing" by The Happiest Medium (NYC). Rounding out the double-bill, Uncalled For (Montreal) brings Today Is All Your Birthdays, a comedic, philosophical, sci-fi take on birth, death, time travel, Darwin's theory of evolution, hypnotism, sandwiches, and the meaning of life. It is intelligent, theatrical, free-flowing, stream-of-consciousness hilarity that doesn't bother with vulgarity or cynicism, from the company that PLANK magazine cal led "one of the most innovative and reliable sketch troupes in the country." (Fri/Sat, The Tank, 151 W. 46th St. 8th floor, 7pm, $10 adv/$12 door) PERFORMANCE: Lovesphere 17 - Bubbles: A Communophenomenological Manifesto <a href="http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/lovesphere.htm">http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/lovesphere.htm</a> A gradually stiffened theater improvisation for seven, with music, endeavoring to unhinge our angles, meet with our angels, and re-see our world as flexible, luminous spheres - year 17 of the 67-year performance project. Heavily influenced by Peter Sloterdijk's Spheres Trilogy, especially Volume I: Bubbles, BUBBLES returns to the Lovesphere roots of improvised theater (Lovespheres 0-4, in the mid 90's, were improvised musicals.) Communophenomenology is an attempt to reverse the damage materialism did to the idea of communism, and the damage fascism did to phenomenology, by using the theater encounter to explore intersubjectivity. BUBBLES will straddle the line between dance, theater, musical improvisation, butoh and group meditation. (Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue bet 9th and 10th St, Fri/Sat 8pm, Sun 4pm, $10) THEATER: Devil in the Hole: A New American Fairytale <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/231279">https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/231279</a> Devil in the Hole tells the story of Jabe, a poor farmer who desperately wants to provide for his new wife and accidentallyunlocks an evil from deep within the forest. With only a mysterious guitar and faith to spur him on, Jabe must battle the forces of evil in order to save everything he loves. Witches swoop overhead, giant puppets emerge from the darkness and an onstage country rock band underscores the mammoth clashes between good and evil. (Sat 8pm/Sun 3pm, The House of Yes, 32 Maujer St, BK, $20) ART: Comic New York symposium <a href="http://conferences.cdrs.columbia.edu/comicny">http://conferences.cdrs.columbia.edu/comicny</a> The Comic New York symposium brings together creators and academics to discuss the intertwined histories of American comics and the town where they were born: New York City. From the role of New York as breeding ground for generations of comics talent to the political, periodical, and alternative nature of the comics themselves, the best NYC has to offer celebrates this unique medium. KEYNOTE: the featured session is a discussion with Chris Claremont and his long-time editor Louise Simonson, in recognition of Claremont's recent gift of his complete archives to Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Also participating: Al Jaffee, Irwin Hasen, Paul Levitz, Dean Haspiel, Peter Kuper, John Romita Sr. and John Romita Jr., Louise Simonson, and Molly Crabapple. (Faculty Room, Low Library, Columbia University, bet. Broadway and Amsterdam Aves near West 116th St, Sat 10am-6:30pm/Sun 10am-5pm, FREE) CIRCUS: Caught in the Act <a href="http://www.circuswarehouse.com">http://www.circuswarehouse.com</a> tix: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/234707">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/234707</a> Always unique, Caught in the Act shows bring audiences inside the traditional and new circus worlds, allowing them to share in the excitement and development of all new acts, as well as in the mastery of professionals in an unstructured setting. Catch the latest, greatest installment, with pro program acts in progress, as well as performances by the pros who instruct, guest instruct, or work out at the Warehouse. (Sat/Sun, Circus Warehouse, 53-21 Vernon Blvd, LIC, doors 7:30pm/show 8pm, $15) OPERA/BURLESQUE: Curiouser & Curiouser, An Opera-Burlesque Circus in Wonderland <a href="http://www.operationbrooklyn.com/upcoming-shows-2">http://www.operationbrooklyn.com/upcoming-shows-2</a> Don't be late for this very important date. In celebration of his 75th birthday in March, David Del Tredici, the composer whose name has become synonymous with "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," will perform his rarely-seen "Haddocks' Eyes" at a two-evening Alice-themed opera-burlesque party. Composers Manly Romero and Susan Botti will also be on hand to present music from their Alice-inspired operas alongside Rita MenWeeps burlesque-circus "Through the Peeping Glass." OPERAtion Brooklyn is a partnership between Opera on Tap and American Opera Projects, two of Brooklyn's most acclaimed producers of indie opera. Previously presented under the title Opera Grows in Brooklyn, the series premiered in March 2009 at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Brooklyn with the idea of presenting the most daring of contemporary opera and song in a relaxed, nightclub-style evening that encouraged drinks and discussion as part of the new classical experience. (Sun/Mon, Galapagos Art Space, 16 M ain St., Brooklyn, Doors 7pm/Show 8pm, $20 adv/$25 door/$30 both shows) FILM: Come On Eileen <a href="http://comeoneileen.eventbrite.com">http://comeoneileen.eventbrite.com</a> <a href="http://reruntheater.com">http://reruntheater.com</a> A bittersweet comedic drama that's "as good a film about problem drinking as you'll see" (The Evening Standard). The directorial feature debut of actress Finola Geraghty (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, BACKBEAT) makes its North American theatrical premiere. As summer stretches out in North London, former aspiring dancer and single mother Eileen (Jackie Howe) sees her two grown children are about to fly the nest. A new relationship suddenly comes into her life, and briefly she blooms. However, her new boyfriend Bill (Stephen Taylor) is a pot-smoking ex-cricketer with his own issues. Their fling opens the door to Eileen's insecurity and paranoia, and one day under the guise of celebrating her new "love," she accepts a glass of champagne. Once she starts drinking, this relapsed alcoholic becomes a magnet for disaster. Featuring a top-notch British cast including Freddie Jones (THE ELEPHANT MAN), Noel Fielding (THE MIGHTY BOOSH), Julia Davis (FOUR LIONS) and Mercedes Grower (REVOLVER), the f ilm treads a fine line between darkness and humor as it moves from a sedate suburban cricket club to its raucous conclusion at a pop music festival. Stars JACKIE HOWE and MERCEDES GROWER in person Fri/Sat. Video intro by Filmmaker FINOLA GERAGHTY Fri. (Fri/Sat/Mon/Thur 7pm, Fri/Sat/Tue/Wed 10pm, reRun Gastropub Theater, 147 Front St, DUMBO, BK, $7) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTY: Not An Alternative party in the new No↔Space <a href="http://notanalternative.org">http://notanalternative.org</a> We've been busy hibernating and incubating through the winter months and we're delighted to announce the arrival of Spring, the new No↔Space, and Occupy baby, Mila Amie Economopoulos Jones. We'd love it if you'd join us to celebrate all the above. Not An Alternative is a hybrid arts collective and non-profit organization with a mission to affect popular understandings of events, symbols, and history. No↔Space is host to free lectures, screenings, panel discussions, workshops and artist presentations. During the day it is a collaborative office space for freelancers and cultural producers. (No↔Space, 67 West St, Suite 304, bet. Milton & Noble, Greenpoint, BK, 6-10pm, FREE) MUSIC: Brooklyn Folk Festival Preview Concert and Benefit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/119990204796930">https://www.facebook.com/events/119990204796930</a> tix: <a href="http://bit.ly/wAxBXi">http://bit.ly/wAxBXi</a> A sneak peak at the 2012 Brooklyn Folk Festival, with: 8pm Elizabeth Butters, 9pm Four O'Clock Flowers, 10pm The Whiskey Spitters, 11pm The Dust Busters. All proceeds from the event will benefit the production of this year's festival (5/18-20). We'll be handing out free drink tickets for the folk festival, too. (Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia St, BK, 8pm-1am, $10) PARTY: The Red and Black Masquerade Ball <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/218073624944343">https://www.facebook.com/events/218073624944343</a> Dance, film, visual art, music and Bordello-themed debauchery. Forget typical notions of indie rock events in favor of something much bloodier and theatrical. We bring you Buto, Aerialists, Brooklyn bands, projection installation and knife-fighting. Alright, maybe not knife fighting, but we're filming the whole event just in case. Sullied Accolades opening the evening with a accoustic set, bringing pre-jazz influenced swamp rock. Violin, upright bass, harmonica and guitar. Yuki Kawahisa and Jitensha: Buto Dance by esteemed artist Yuki Kawahisa. New York City rock band The Renaldo THE Ensemble is best known for their absurdist concerts, which incorporate clowning, vaudeville and first rate rock and roll. THE players are classically trained musicians, and their shows feature diverse genres including tango, opera, hip hop and rock. Red Bedlam: whiskey-drenched and blood-soaked 5 piece Americana with a heaping dose of dark melodrama. Cello, trumpet, bass drums and guitar/mandolin /banjo. Plus guest appearance by Lady Circus. The DCD Collective are three DJ's who bring you an uninhibited mix of dance, indie and hip-hop tunes. Dress to impress in Red and Black attire. (House of Yes, 342 Maujer, 8pm-3am, $12 includes a drink) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== *PARTY: Coney Isand Spring Gala 2012 / 30th Anniversary of the Mermaid Parade <a href="http://www.coneyisland.com/gala.shtml">http://www.coneyisland.com/gala.shtml</a> This year's gala event will feature a dazzling display of daring feats executed by the cast of Sideshows by the Seashore, some of New York's most talented and titillating burlesque performers, a glorious gamut of go go gals and guys, as well as special musical guests for your auditory pleasure. Be on the lookout for all kinds of surprises. From the The Coney Island Circus Sideshow, performers include Insectavora, Kryssy Kocktail, Princess Pat, Serpentina, and Scott Baker with Aerial Artistry by Ekaterina, Fire Dancing by Sasha Fire Gypsy, Burlesque by BB Heart, The Go Go Stylings of Amelia Bareparts, Apathy Angel, Dottie Dynamo, Evelyn Vinyl, Go Go Harder, Jezebel Express, Justina Flash, LaMaia, Magdalena Fox, Raven Twin, Rosie LaRogue, Sara Hassan, and Sizzle Dizzle; Juggling by Kyle Petersen; and Live Body Painting by Dr. Flux. Hosted by Adam The First Real Man with VIP Host and Hostesses Creamy Stevens, Kat Mon Dieu, Marni Halasa, Noah D'Klein and Tigger. Also expect Speci al Guests from over 30 Years of Mermaid Parades, including former Royalty. All proceeds go directly towards funding Coney Island USA's innovative arts programming. (Webster Hall, 125 East 11th St., 7pm-11pm with a very special Circus Afterparty at 11pm, $60-$250) BODY/DJ: Ecstatic Dance NYC at Jivamukti Yoga School <a href="http://ecstaticdancenyc.com">http://ecstaticdancenyc.com</a> New York, you said you wanted to dance more often. We do, too. A container for freeform movement and conscious dance, we offer three hours of dance, great music and DJ's who "get it." Move however you wish, in an alcohol-free environment. No shoes and no chit-chat on the dance floor helps us keep it intentional and all about dance. DJ $mall ¢hange blesses us up, with three hours his eclectic, soul-filled sound. Jivamuktea fuels us with nibbles and sips. See you on the dance floor. (Jivamukti Yoga School, 841 Broadway, 2nd Floor, 7:30-10:30pm, $20/$15 if you take the 5pm or 6pm yoga class) MUSIC: Brooklyn Old-Time Bluegrass Extravaganza: Reprise <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/402627989754641">https://www.facebook.com/events/402627989754641</a> Swing/Bounce/Drink/Rejoice with three of the County's Finest Bluegrass Acts. The Third Wheel Band is an American Roots group from New York City with influences ranging from bluegrass and country, to folk and talking blues, to early jazz and rock 'n' roll. Union Street Preservation Society is the complete roots string band experience -- bluegrass and blues, old-time and early jazz, all with a progressive bent. The Whistling Wolves: the best harmonica, ukulele, fiddle, guitar, whistling, banjo, jaw harp, mandolin, bass, jug, vocal harmony group around. Buy tickets in advance; it sold out last time. (Union Hall, 702 Union St, Park Slope, BK, 8pm, $8) PARTY: We Love the Golden Girls 5 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/220463871379947">https://www.facebook.com/events/220463871379947</a> Dress in your granny's best for the fifth annual "Golden Girls" drag tribute party. 8pm - Screening of classic episodes. 10pm - Open cheesecake bar and DJ NATH ANN. Plus Danny Digital's now classic GG Theme Song Remix. 11pm - The Golden Girls Drag Tribute Marathon, including GG-inspired performance and live re-enactments of the best scenes ever, hosted by LINDA SIMPSON. Late night - the best Golden Girl lookalikes win prizes. Trivia hosted by Eliot Glazer. PLUS: for the first time ever--STAN SEARCH. The best person to come dressed as Stan wins eternal glory--and cheesecake. As always, there will be granny clothing, makeup and hair help out on the lanai. PERFORMERS, Amber Martin ("Blanche"), Angela DiCarlo ("Sophia"), Adam Feldman, Alexia Tate, Carla Rhodes, Cole Escola, Colin Self, Fantasy Grandma, Gerry Visco, Glenn Marla, Margoh Channing, Nath Ann Carrera, Raven Snook, Shane Shane, Susie Q and more. (Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher Street, 8pm-4am, $10/FREE after 1am) **PARTY: Mothership, A Low-Gravity Fundraiser <a href="http://www.acavallomothership.eventbrite.com">http://www.acavallomothership.eventbrite.com</a> <a href="http://www.acavallo.org">http://www.acavallo.org</a> We are so out of here. We've roamed the wasteland for years, gathering up freaks of all flags, celebrating and memorializing, creating and destroying. Now it's time for A Cavallo the Carousel to return to the desert, and await the vessel that will take us on our final journey. You won't believe the sweet ride we've got coming to pick us up. And we mean UP. So if you want to go UP, you're gonna have to get DOWN. For we have summoned the MOTHERSHIP. If you want on, you gotta speak the language. That language is FUNK. And you speak it with your ASS. It's how those on the Mothership communicate with rhythmic movements of their highly developed space asses, just like bees. But our asses don't sting our asses are for pleasure. There will be translators on board: Navegante Funk assembled from funky electrons, Bad Buka Gypsy punk + P-Funk = Gypsy F-Punk, Night Of The Living Funk. A mass of ass brass, DJ Barney Iller Will hurt your pelvis, Smallchange Is an encyclof unkapedia, DJ Shakey Gives you the shakes (in your ass), DJ Snicklefritz Fritzes your snickle good. ALSO: Shoot the Grey Before it probes you. Fun in the Zero-G Fuck Pod, And, a Major Malfunction. Extravehicular Activity Wear: George Clinton Replicant, Dancebot, Stevie Wonder/Geordi La Forge hybrid, Silver Dreadlocks, ASStronaut, Psychedelic Officer from the Funk Federation, Life Support Booty Shorts, Galactic Am-bass-ador, Alien Afro, Anything Noel Fielding from the Mighty Boosh. [G&S note: yes, it is an actual ship/carousel. This is the amazing project's Burning Man fundraiser.] (Acme Studio, 63 N. 3rd between Wythe & Kent, BK, 9pm, $15 adv/$20 door) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PERFORMANCE: Secret City: Wonder <a href="http://thesecretcity.typepad.com">http://thesecretcity.typepad.com</a> The Secret City is an Obie Award-winning organization serving the spiritual, social and human needs of artists. We do this by creating and providing live, interactive programs that engage a growing community in restoring the sacred roots of art-making. Our primary program is our monthly service. Spring has sprung, and all the live things are bursting with life, including these remarkable bodies of ours. Join us as we celebrate THE BODY and all the amazing things it is and does. Always, free childcare. [G&S note: think of this as Church of Art, in the best possible way.] (Dixon Place, 161A Christie St, 11:30am, $10 suggested don) CLASS/FOOD: Terrarium Brunch Workshop <a href="http://greenerynyc.com">http://greenerynyc.com</a> tix: <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/229479">https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/229479</a> Every apartment could use more green, and a terrarium is great low-maintence way to get some lushness at home. Join Greenery NYC and Yummy Eats for a special boozy brunch workshop: learn how to build terrariums and maintain verdant miniature environments in glass while enjoying amazing food and tasty libations. Each student will be provided the glass, soil, plants, and decorative finishes to create an original terrarium. Yummy Eats will be available before, during and after the workshop and is included in the ticket price. (t.b.d. 224 Franklin St, Greenpoint, BK, 1-4pm, $75) FOOD/CLASS: Ferment, Ferment Wherever You Are <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/343712742331509">https://www.facebook.com/events/343712742331509</a> The annual fermented foods party. Join a celebration of homemade fermented food and drink. Fermentation is everywhere and it deserves our love and attention. The goal is to encourage people to ferment foods, come together to enjoy them and share their experiences making them. In a world of fetishization of the food professional, let's celebrate the amateur fermenter. Think of this as not only a party, but also an informal tasting. Do you make something special with your homemade ferments? Maybe you concoct a unique mustard from your own vinegar, or cook up a satisfying soup from your own miso, or perhaps you incorporate home-aged cheese into some delicious dish. Or you make an awesome kraut. If so, this is your opportunity to share these types of things. The guidelines are simple: bring a homemade fermented food or drink or something made with a homemade ferment to share. If you're unsure if it's fermented, just drop me a line and ask. There will also be a few mini-presentati ons/workshops going on throughout the afternoon and evening, including beer brewing and vegetable ferments. If you've got skills and you'd like to present, let us know. (The Brooklyn Free School, 372 Clinton Ave, 4-8pm, FREE/pass the hat) ===+++===+++===+++=== TUESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== COMMUNITY: FIGMENT Meet & Greet <a href="http://www.figmentproject.org">http://www.figmentproject.org</a> Meet fellow participatory arts enthusiasts and learn how you can help make FIGMENT NYC 2012 happen in a low-pressure, high-fun setting. Everyone is welcome - from seasoned FIGMENT veterans to the participatory art-curious. There will be drinks from the bar and excellent options from the Bar's menu. Keeping the "no agenda" feeling, the "Idea Lab" will be open for us to get creative. We'll happily match folks who have questions with folks who have answers. Get your proposals thought thru with an extra eye for the Governor's Island/NYC details. There will be nametags and a lot of mingling and meeting incredible people; some you know and some you are destined to meet. This is a great place to find out what's going on, reconnect with FIGMENT, figure out how you can get more involved, and hatch big plans for what we want to make happen in 2012. (Upstairs at Central Bar, 109 East 9th St btwn 3rd and 4th Ave, 6-10pm, FREE) CLASS: Promote Yourself: An Introduction to Public & Media Relations for Artists <a href="http://www.lmcc.net/arts_services/workshops">http://www.lmcc.net/arts_services/workshops</a> Led by Heidi Riegler, founder & principal of Riegler Media | Marketing, this workshop discusses what is PR and why we need it. As an artist you create art, but if you want your work to be seen or heard, you have to think about how your work will reach its audience. Understanding public relations is an essential part of a successful communications campaign that will garner press coverage and visibility for your art project and for yourself. The workshop draws on the perspectives of various media specialists, including journalists, and critics. Key aspects of media relations and the dos and don'ts of working with media will be discussed, with examples drawn from projects in a range of artistic disciplines. Heidi has worked with organizations such as Symphony Space, LMCC, FIAF, Harlem Stage, ISO, American Place Theater, Brooklyn Information and Culture, Riverside Theater, Midori & Friends and the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts as well as a range of individual artists, includin g Richard Maxwell, Grisha Coleman, Debra Wanner, Brenda Ray, Nami Yamamoto, Iris Klein, and Daniel Alexander Jones. (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd floor, 6:30-8pm, FREE/RSVP required) WORD: Illocutions, A Cabaret of Radical Performative Poetries <a href="http://www.greatsmallworks.org/events/index.php?display=day&stamp=1332277607&day=27&returnto=month">http://www.greatsmallworks.org/events/index.php?display=day&stamp=1332277607&day=27&returnto=month</a> With reading/performances by Lee Ann Brown, Tracie Morris,Tomas Urayan Noel, Eugene Ostashevsky, Poets of the #OWS Poetry Anthology and Robert Kocik, Daria Fain and The Phoneme Choir and the NYC premiere of Great Small Works' Toy Theater of Terror as Usual, Episode 13: Whistles & Leaks. Curated by Caroline Crumpacker, Roberto Rossi and the Trans-Auteur Urban Spiel Project. No one is turned away for inability to pay. (One Arm Red, 10 Jay Street, 9th Floor, Brooklyn, 7:30pm, $15) BURLESQUE: The Pink Room, David Lynch Burlesque <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/234176">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/234176</a> When Francine "The Lucid Dream" first began producing The Pink Room Burlesque over a year ago, she had no idea where it would lead us, but she had a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange. The Pink Room show will feature burlesque inspired by Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, Fire Walk With Me, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Drive and other Lynch films. Francine can't tell you whether it is going to be from Inland Empire or The Straight Story but she guarantees you that it will be both wonderful and strange. The Pink Room specialty cocktails will be served all night & David Lynch films will played on the screen at the bar. Hosted by Schaffer the Darklord. Performances by: Boo Boo Darlin', Gemini Rising, Francine, Ruby Valentine, RunAround Sue, Tansy & Victoria Privates & Go-Go by Foxy Vermouth. 2 drink minimum. (The Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston, 8pm, $10 adv/$15 door) FASHION: Something New presents: Dress Up/ Get Down <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/313308685398995">https://www.facebook.com/events/313308685398995</a> <a href="http://lowbrowsociety.org">http://lowbrowsociety.org</a> Something New is a monthly creative showcase curated by fringe art-happening mavens The Lowbrow Society for the Arts (The Gowanus Art Fair, SMUT.) which brings New York City's best underground creators to the surface for a night of non-stop inspiration. Dress Up/ Get Down is not a fashion show, but a show about fashion. Check your laminated badges and notions at the door-- prepare for a night that explores the other side of wearable art. Hosted by Leo Gugu Geaux. Featuring: Monster burlesque by Laura McMillan, Cosmopolitan cabaret by Rococo Caine, Cheeky readings from Ryan O'Connell (Thought Catalog), Couture Opera by Joseph Keckler, and Flashback Fashion Attack by Third Earth Designs. Roving performances by Occupy Fashion Week & Gerry and the Twinks. Special set by Stylin' Queer Rapper Mykki Blanco. DJ Nolita Selector (Reggay, Azucar.) keeps the booty-shorts bumpin'. Plus a mini pop up shop, photobooth, and a Faux-shion contest with fabulous prizes from badass female owned c ompanies: AuH20, Yours Truly Brand, and Uncropped Magazine. (Drom, 85 Ave A, 9pm, $10, Reduced w/ RSVP) ===+++===+++===+++=== WEDNESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== WORD: Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art <a href="http://centerforthehumanities.org/james-gallery/events/Are-You-Experienced-How-Psychedelic-Consciousness-Transformed-Modern-Art">http://centerforthehumanities.org/james-gallery/events/Are-You-Experienced-How-Psychedelic-Consciousness-Transformed-Modern-Art</a> Join New York Times art critic Ken Johnson, artist Carroll Dunhamand medical anthropologist and historian of science Nicolas Langlitz (Anthropology, New School for Social Research) for a discussion about the enduring influence that the use of hallucinogens and the psychedelic experience has had on American culture. In his new book, Are You Experienced? Johnson asserts that in the 1960's "some kind of awakening took place in art...and the creative and intellectual energies that were brought to life are still feeding the imaginations of artists today." Moderated by Miciah Hussey (English, The Graduate Center, CUNY). Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities. (The James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, 6:30pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== THURSDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PUPPETS: The Scapegoating of Bradley Manning, Wikileaks and the Terror of the War Against Terror <a href="http://arts.columbia.edu/scapegoating-bradley-manning-wikileaks-and-terror-war-against-terror">http://arts.columbia.edu/scapegoating-bradley-manning-wikileaks-and-terror-war-against-terror</a> Great Small Works presents The Toy Theater of Terror as Usual: Episode 13. The evening also will include commentary on the persecution of Bradley Manning by Ed Steck and artist Paul Chan, presenting images of Occupation. With its tiny personae and miniaturized tableaux, puppet theater/toy theater provides an unusual perspective on the terrorism our leaders never fail to warn us about. Such theater also provides new modes for thought and action in these dire times that talks and conferences fail to do. (Columbia University, 101 Prentis Hall, 632 W 125th St, 7:30pm, FREE) EVENT: Harley Davidson of NYC Unveiling <a href="http://www.shawpromotion.com/events/andrew-w-k-hosts-the-unveiling-of-the-new-custom-harley-davidson-of-nyc-motorcycles/">http://www.shawpromotion.com/events/andrew-w-k-hosts-the-unveiling-of-the-new-custom-harley-davidson-of-nyc-motorcycles/</a> Harley Davidson of NYC and SHAW Promotion present The Unveiling of the New, Custom Harley Davidson of NYC Motorcycles RSVP required for entry. Harley Davidson of NYC has a new line of motorcycles designed for the younger generation driving the city streets today. Sleeker, endlessly customizable, and more affordable. Master of Ceremony, Andrew W. K. w/ DJs Josh Madden & Samuel Valentine. Open Bar 8PM-10PM sponsored by 44 North Vodka, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Mercy. Also featuring Harley Davidson of NYC Motorcycle Photo Booth, Raffles, Giveaways, and more. (Santos Party House, 96 Lafayette St, 8pm, FREE) ===+++===+++===+++=== UPCOMING [Ticketed events likely to sell out and/or offering presale discounts] ===+++===+++===+++=== Sat 3/31 PARTY: Rubulad - Party Monsters' Ball In which we hearken back to New York Nightlife's nights of yore and shake what God gave us in a Victorian Gothic Church. live music by: Spanglish Fly, honey, King Coyote (w/ Victor Sheely and Jonah Larrama). your djs: $mall ¢hange (WFMU), Rusty Laser (New Orleans Sissy Bounce of Big Freedia fame), Repo Man. plus: Light Circus Extraordinaire by Norm Francoeur, G. Scopitronic's Non-Stop Funnies Film Fest, Hot ***ing Tamales! and too much more. Dress like a 1980's club kid, psychotic clown, blundering buffoon, Limelight VIP room denizen, platform sneakers, neon and loud prints, candy raver, cigarette girl and all other looks to kill. Our rules apply, but smoking in the church yard please. Note that it's April Fools' Eve; there may be pranks. Door prizes for early birds. (626 Bushwick Ave, BK, $10 before 11pm or way late, $15 in costume all night, $20 otherwise) Wed 4/4 ***ART/PARTY: FIGMENT Groundbreaking: The Factory <a href="http://figmentproject.org/groundbreaking">http://figmentproject.org/groundbreaking</a> In the years since FIGMENT adopted its name from Andy Warhol, we've never really looked back to consider Warhol and the scene he created around The Factory... until now. Immerse yourself, with the artists and volunteers who make FIGMENT happen, in the by-gone era of The Factory, in a gorgeous 70's-era SoHo loft. Bid on the works of some of New York City's best emerging artists. Enjoy drinks, hors d'oeuvres, performances, music, and surprises. Embrace our art heritage and prepare for the future of FIGMENT. "I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'FIGMENT'."Andy Warhol, 1985. [G&S note: while the cost for this event is way above our usual limit, it supports an incredible FREE summer art event that is so dear to our hearts that we volunteer our limited time to help make it happen. It's also downright cheap, compared to most such fundraising soirees. We strongly urge you to support, at the highest level you can afford (buy VIP tickets. buy tickets for your friends. bid on art. etc)] (Safe Harbor Studio, 446 Broadway, 3rd Fl, 6-10pm, $75 adv/ $95 door; $250 VIP Ticket Package for 4 Guests, adv only) ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== THEATER: The One Act Factor <a href="http://www.secrettheatre.com">http://www.secrettheatre.com</a> The One Act Factor is a brand new competition style one-act play festival held this year in March at The Secret Theatre. Each week actors, playwrights, and directors band together and compete to win cash prizes in Best Play, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress in a showdown similar to the popular talent shows we've all seen on TV. As the weeks go by, teams advance to the final rounds through audience votes. Awards are also determined by celebrity judges who will give encouragement and advice to all the contestants. This new form of one act festival is sure to be fun for all involved: actors, directors, playwrights and audience members alike. New plays in competition each weekend. Semi-finals Thursday, 3/29 and Friday, 3/30. Finals Saturday, 3/31. (The Secret Theatre, 4402 23rd St LIC, Queens, select Thur/Fri/Sat 8pm, $15) CIRCUS: Stunt Lab <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/29765/1330648200000/prm">https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/29765/1330648200000/prm</a> Mark Hayward (yo-yo champion, member of a world-champion juggling team, and a spintop champion) and Jonathan Burns (contortionist) have been flaunting their useless skills for years, and are at the top of the circus/variety arts field, but they are concerned because recently a competitor has emerged. They have decided to get seriously scientific about their latest undertaking; breaking a world record. Using everyday objects, their quick wit, and years of training, this duo creates unique and unusual tricks and stunts that are sure to please thrill seekers of all ages. Join this unlikely pair in their laboratory as they prepare themselves mentally and physically to be the best at useless skills no one else would or should attempt in pursuit of "The Greatest Stunt of All Time." (thru 4/1, Canal Park Playhouse, 508 Canal St., Sat/Sun 1pm & 4pm, $20) PERFORMANCE: Elephant Room <a href="http://www.stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=72">http://www.stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=72</a> Three magicians. Two acts. One show. Zero boring stuff. Sub-zero intelligence. It's time to make it all add up...in the Elephant Room. Illusionists Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic and Daryl Hannah invite you to a place of secrets. Of mystery. The place between the back of your mind and the tip of your tongue. Let's pretend it's a room a real room. And you're really here. In the Elephant Room. Oh, and by the way your mind was just totally blown clean through the back of your head. They will confound, amaze, mystify and move you. They'll leave you slack-mouthed, devoid of any bodily function, your hands twitching from their wrists, a puddle of crushed perception. The twisted minds of the dreamscape vaudeville all wear bowlersand the kinetic junk play machines machines machines machines machines machines machines, team up with the shaman-like powers of magician Steve Cuiffo, The Amazing Russello; Lenny Bruce, to create an experience you weren't even aware existed. (thru 4/8, St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water Street, Dumbo, $25+) CIRCUS: Ahhh Ha! <a href="http://www.newvictory.org">http://www.newvictory.org</a> Aerialists that act. Comedians that fly. Acrobats that dance. Do Jump's multi-talented ensemble enthralls audiences with their incredible physical skill, hilarious comedy and moments of heart-stopping beauty, all set to live music by the Afro-Hebrew ensemble Klezmocracy. Ahhh Ha. takes you on a transformational journey from the sublime to the ridiculous and back again, fusing athletics with aesthetics, choreography with creativity, and theater with illusion to create a whole new world of wonder. (thru 4/14, The New Victory Theater, 209 W 42nd Street, $9$38) ART: The Pop-Up Museum of the Gowanus Canal <a href="http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com">http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com</a> Working with found materials from all around the Gowanus neighborhood, we will create a new "history" of the region and its traditions (a not entirely serious one). As a collective, we will plow through a century of objects in order to remix in miniature the Gowanus, Observatory, and the whole enterprise of the museumthe whole enterprise of producing, categorizing, and showing off knowledge. Quick, fast, and dirty, the Pop-Up Museum presents the unpresentable: change itself. (thru 4/22, The Observatory, 543 Union Street, enter via Nevins, FREE) EVENT: The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens <a href="http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/orchid-show">http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/orchid-show</a> The Orchid Show takes vertical gardens to new heights in its 10th year. Renowned botanist and vertical gardening provocateur Patrick Blanc creates towering spectacles of tropical life. Dangling from Blanc's signature ''green walls,'' thousands of orchids abandon the constraints of gravity. (thru 4/22, New York Botanical Garden, 200th St & Kazimiroff Blvd, Bronx, 10am - 7pm, $20) ART: PYSANKA: The Ukrainian Easter Egg <a href="http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html">http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html</a> Pysanky are the unique Ukrainian Easter eggs known the world over for their intricate, colorful designs. Drawn from the Museum's extensive folk arts collection, the nearly 300 eggs are decorated in a variety of regional styles, rich colors, and assorted motifs; many are the work of acclaimed artist Sofika Zielyk. The hand-crafted pysanky are made using raw eggs, dyes, and beeswax in a wax-resist method process, known as batik. The process results in colorful eggs ornamented with an array of detailed geometric, floral, and faunistic symbols. The art of creating Ukrainian pysanky (from the word pysaty to write) has been handed down from generation to generation. This ancient art form is taught in workshops Sat/Sun thru 4/1 (adults & children over 12). The Ukrainian Easter Traditions workshop on March 24, for students age 16 and older, offers hands-on training in baking Easter breads and other traditions related to the holiday. March 31: an opportunity to watch artists in acti on as they create beautiful pysanky. In addition to the demonstrations, the award-winning short film Pysanka by Slavko Nowytski will be shown continuously from 1-5 p.m. (thru 5/27, The Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th St bet 2nd/3rd Ave, $8 / plus $10-25 for special workshops) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== 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]: Swing House 4th Anniversary tomorrow / geek-tastic weekend listings

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:15:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, We are rather excited to open our loft doors to you tomorrow night. Yes, it still looks like a construction zone -- but that transformation is half the fun. And hey, if you can help, come at least 2 hours early tomorrow, and be comped to Swing House after. Of course, the upside of construction zone parties is not much caring about making a mess. There may even still be some chocolate cake left stomped into the floor boards from the French Cabaret party... speaking of which - here's the official FB photo set from that event by our usual photo hero Linus Gelber: <a href="http://on.fb.me/FOnRZl">http://on.fb.me/FOnRZl</a> We can also do fire on our giant roof, so if anyone wants to bring fire toys, just let us know - free admission there, too. RSVP to get the address, and we'll see you tomorrow! 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://bit.ly/GS_facebook">http://bit.ly/GS_facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Tumblr: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr">http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_ytube">http://bit.ly/GS_ytube</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</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: 3/17 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present Swing House 4th Anniversary Vintage/remix speakeasy dance party: "Gatsby-era fun with a twist of new-school vibe" (Village Voice) At our new loft - must RSVP for Gowanus, BK address 9pm-late / dance class 9:30pm, 21+ $15 & theme dress required until 12am / $10 after for electro-swing afterparty Details & RSVP: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/340665502639271">https://www.facebook.com/events/340665502639271</a> Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> (win free tickets) A classic speakeasy party in a secret Brooklyn loft, with live swingin' sounds by vintage jazz bands, blazing burlesque divas, exotic cocktails, and the best electro-swing DJs remixing and reinventing vintage grooves late into the night. Charleston dance class by Jeri Lynn Astra & Neal Groothuis at 9:30pm, followed by live music until 12:30am by Aaron Johnson and his Golden Age Orchestra, an 11-piece hot jazz ensemble. The Rhinestone Follies, NYC's only all-classic burlesque troupe, provide glittering burlesque to and between band sets. Vintage goes remix at midnight, as resident DJ Dhundee drops irresistible electro-swing gems for your dancing pleasure. After 2am, DJ Shakey will take us into early morning with her eclectic beats. It'll be one of those perfect BK loft party nights. We may even do a little fire on our 9k sq ft roof. The Jazz Age never ended, it just got funky. Dress accordingly: "An event worth wearing that ridiculous zoot suit for." - TimeOut NY; "Corsets and top hats tweaked with studs and leather are totally appropriate." - The New York Times. Suggestions: vintage (1920s-1940s) with a modern twist, cabaret, burlesque, Weimar Berlin, classic Hollywood, classy, sassy, tailored, hats, feathers, sequins, beads. Effort required. Dress code modern-friendly after 1am for the electro-swing dance party. Twitter ticket giveaway: for every 20 new followers (starting at 2,460), we'll give away a pair of tickets to one lucky winner, from now until 3/15. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== THEATER: 64 - A Vaudeville of the Mind <a href="http://here.org/shows/detail/866">http://here.org/shows/detail/866</a> 64 is a vaudeville of the mind. There is nothing we do, say or think that stands alone. Using photographs from the NY Times, Jennilie Brewster created 64 paintings which inspired Timothy Braun to write 64 one page plays. Surf Reality reimagined the plays as a multimedia collage of theater, painting, soundscapes, video, animation and song. Like fireflies, ideas blaze, wink out and reappear in a new context. Life is just as complex and nonlinear. Its all interconnected: the brutal with the absurd. After all, no rain means no rainbows; without mud there can be no lotus flower. (HERE 145 Sixth Ave, enter on Dominick Street one block south of Spring, Fri/Sat 7pm, Sat 2pm, $15) EVENT: 35th Annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament <a href="http://www.crosswordtournament.com">http://www.crosswordtournament.com</a> Directed by New York Times Crossword Puzzle Editor Will Shortz, this is the nation's oldest and largest crossword competition. Solvers tackle eight original crosswords created and edited specially for this event. Scoring is based on accuracy and speed. Prizes are awarded in more than 20 categories, including a $5,000 grand prize. Evening games, guest speakers, and a wine and cheese reception allow solvers to meet each other in a relaxed and entertaining atmosphere. (Brooklyn Bridge Marriott, 333 Adams St, BK, Fri 8-11pm/Sat 9:30am-11pm games & reception: $80-$255; Sunday: playoffs 9am-2pm, $30 to spectate) EVENT: 12th Anniversary New York City FIRST Mega-Celebration of Science and Technology <a href="http://www.nycfirst.org/nycfirst-events/nyc-championships">http://www.nycfirst.org/nycfirst-events/nyc-championships</a> New York City FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) along with over 200 school-age robotics teams from across the New York City, USA, Brazil, Canada, Turkey and Jamaica will compete over a three day mega competition weekend, with winning teams advancing to the global competition. The FIRST Mega-Celebration brings three intense robotics competitions under one roof: FIRST Robotics Competition (high school), FIRST Tech Challenge (high school), and FIRST LEGO League (middle school) student teams compete to win the regional competition and for a chance to go onto the global competition. [via TheSkint] (Jacob Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th St, Fri-Sun 9am-4:30pm, FREE) FOOD: Chinatown Restaurant Week <a href="http://www.chinatownrestaurantweek.com">http://www.chinatownrestaurantweek.com</a> During the first annual Chinatown Restaurant Week, diners can score multiple-course prix fixe dinners starting at just $18.88 per person. (Fri-Sun) WORD: In the Cypher <a href="http://inthecypher.org/">http://inthecypher.org/</a> Part poetry slam, part theater, In The Cypher brings us back to the roots of hip-hop where words and music, sound and fury, worked towards social change. The show dips back and forth, like a hip-hop montage, cutting from a variety of multi-media and multicultural expressions used to enlighten and enliven the discussion of race and skin color. (thru 3/16, WOW Cafe Theater, 59-61 East 4th St., 7pm, $12 advanced, $15 students/seniors, $18 general) THEATER: That Beautiful Laugh <a href="http://lamama.org/the-club/that-beautiful-laugh">http://lamama.org/the-club/that-beautiful-laugh</a> Created and Directed by Orlando Pabotoy, this program is an exploration of laughter featuring clowning, live music, and joy, this high-energy, rhythmically-driven comedy piece was inspired by the creators nightly bedtime ritual of developing stories with his young son. The first monologue of the show is purely written from the brain of a five year old. The cast will perform live original music and new renditions of old favorites to complement this hilarious journey about the power and beauty of laughter in our lives. (this weekend & next, La Mama, 74A East 4th Street, Fri. & Sat. at 10pm, Sun. at 5:30pm, Thurs 3/22 at 10pm, $18) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== OPENING: David Lynch <a href="http://www.jacktiltongallery.com">http://www.jacktiltongallery.com</a> Revered as a filmmaker who has produced such iconic American works as Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire and the television series Twin Peaks, Lynch has exhibited his art internationally since the eighties. This is his first solo exhibition in New York since 1989. Lynch works across many different media to create paintings, sculpture, works on paper and photographs. Recent paintings combine primitively drawn figures and text with thick textured areas of paint and, often, inserted lit colored light bulbs. Framed in thick gold frames under glass (inspired by Francis Bacons frames), they become box-like, objects in their own right. Narrative subjects exhibit Lynchs trademark whimsy, wit and humor along with his recognizable penchant for the ambiguous, yet precisely depicted, frozen moment that unveils an instinctual, often violent or tragic human emotion, almost verging on the absurd. Lynchs abstract sculpture, also incorporating lit light bulbs, is simultaneously anthropomorphic, surreal and humorous. Lynchs world view and his ability to capture a mysterious undercurrent in the American psyche illuminates his art across all media. (show thru 4/14, Tilton Gallery, 8 East 76th St., reception 6pm - 8pm, Tues - Sat, 10-6pm, FREE) WORD: Occult Bloodlines: Sex with Fairies, the Celtic faith, and the Nephilim <a href="http://observatoryroom.org/2012/02/07/sex-with-fairies">http://observatoryroom.org/2012/02/07/sex-with-fairies</a> An illustrated lecture with Maja DAoust. The mysteries of the fairy races have haunted our cultures since primitive times. Where do stories of "other folk" come from? Why does every race seem to have tales of humanoid creatures who steal human babies, interbreed with them and have supernatural powers? Join Maja, the White Witch, as we examine some of the meaning behind the stories of the fairy folk through Celtic, Jewish, and Vedic cultures. Look at fossil evidence showing parallels to the possibilities of different hominoid species, not quite human, that have been spoken of since time immemorial. Maja DAousts interest in alchemy and the esoteric sciences spans her lifetime. After completing her Bachelors Degree in Biochemistry, she studied Oriental Medicine and acupuncture and later earned her Masters Degree in Transformational Psychology at the University of Philosophical Research with a focus on Shamanism, the I Ching, and ancestors in her thesis work. Maja co-wrote a book, The Secret Source, with Adam Parfrey, now in its second edition. She also co-hosts a weekly radio show, Expanding Mind, with Erik Davis on the Progressive Radio Network. (Observatory, 543 Union St #1E, Gowanus, BK, 8pm, $8) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== COMMUNITY: Occupy Wiliamsburg Breakfast It's the 6-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, and Occupy Williamsburg is celebrating with a free breakfast in the park followed by a festive march across the Williamsburg Bridge and then on to Zuccotti Park. Please bring some hula hoops or other playful accessories, and let's celebrate spring together. (Continental Army Plaza, corner of South 4th and Roebling, 11am, FREE) EVENT: Cherry Blossoms: Japan Fest <a href="http://bulletinsdistribution.amnh.org/calendar/event/Cherry-Blossoms:-Japan-Fest">http://bulletinsdistribution.amnh.org/calendar/event/Cherry-Blossoms:-Japan-Fest</a> Noon2:30 pm: Shinto Blessing, Okinawan Dance and Music, Welcome Remarks, and Taiko Drums. Noon5 pm: Woven Cherry Blossom Installation, Flower Arranging, Origami, Ink Brush Painting, and Tea Ceremony, Games, Kamishibai Storytelling, Art of Cloth Wrapping, and Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Information. 3pm: Shadow Puppet performance of "Princess Kaguya," a 10th-century traditional folk tale, about a bamboo cutter who one day is surprised to see a glowing bamboo, cuts it open, and discovers to his surprise, an infant girl. The performance is followed by demonstrations of how the puppets are manipulated and the techniques used "behind-the-scenes". Then, Matsuri Folk Dance Festival. (American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St, FREE with $19 museum admission) PARTICIPATORY: Leprechauns Against Boring Parades Protest <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/186240851492238">https://www.facebook.com/events/186240851492238</a> Come come cheer on the parade marchers in protest of the fact that the parade organizers The Ancient Order of Hibernians do not allow Costumes (or gay groups) to march in the Parade. Under the flag of "Artists for Inclusion" please join us and bring mock-serious protest signs to waive at the battalions of cops, veterans, firefighters and random political groups who march by. The hilarious part is that everyone in the parade loves us, but the Hibernians get really angry when the marchers "break ranks" to come take pics with us. At 11am sharp, every major NY area politician marches by so DO NOT BE LATE or you will miss the incredulous reactions of Mayor Bloomberg and a legion of pandering politicians. Come in all forms of green, facepaints or as any Irish, Gaelic or Celtic critter. Be a Banshee, Faerie or a red-bearded Leprechaun. Let the Leprechauns March! Magically Delicious, Tragically Oppressed! Don't Drop the Irish Spring! LepreCon costumed bar crawl to follow. (St. Pa tricks Day Parade, look for protest corral at 58th St/5th Ave or nearby, 11am-1pm, FREE) PARTY: Saint Patrick's Day For Sinners <a href="http://www.wasabassco.com">http://www.wasabassco.com</a> This St. Patrick's Day, The Bell House offers you an alternative to drunken douchebaggery with an all redhead burleque revue and party. It's a night of drinking, celebration and guaranteed fun featuring musical guests Amour Obscur, and an All-Redhead edition of Wasabassco Burlesque starring Albert Cadabra, Bettina May, Firefly, Gal Friday, Gin Minsky, Hula Hoop Harl't Melissa-Anne, Justine Joli, Madame Rosebud, Nasty Canasta, Scooter Pie, and Stormy Leather. All redheads get in free and the best emerald-underwear costume wins a round of drinks. No green beer, no Pogues cover bands, no bridge & tunnel fake-Irish - just great music, naked redheads, good beer and whisky, and awesome people. (Main Event Hall at The Bell House, 149 7th St, BK, 8pm - 11pm, $10) DANCE/BURLESQUE: The Love Show <a href="http://www.theloveshownyc.com">http://www.theloveshownyc.com</a> Erin Go Braless. Celebrating the day when everyone's an Irish stereotype with a night of dance, burlesque, comedy, magic, and song. Come get your shamrocks off. The Love Show gets the sexy goin' with their tightly choreographed and costumed numbers, theatrical appeal and gorgeous girls and boys. A little cabaret, a little ballet and a whole lotta rock and roll, The Love Show has entertained all audiences from the glitzy nightclub life to the gritty downtown theater. Classically trained dancers and detailed choreography tell a story with every number... a story both intimate and universal. Featuring Angela Harriell and The Love Show Dancers; Master Magician, The Great Dubini; Emcée, David F. Slone, Esq. and surprise guests. (Drom, 85 Ave A, doors at 8pm, show at 9pm, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTICIPATORY: Carbon Dust Drawing Workshop with Anatomical Specimens <a href="http://observatoryroom.org/2011/12/07/carbon-dust">http://observatoryroom.org/2011/12/07/carbon-dust</a> Drawing class with Board Certified Medical Illustrator Marie Dauenheimer, MA, CMI. Carbon dust is a technique perfected by medical artist Max Brodel, at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, in the late 19th century. This techniquewhich, until the digital age, was an essential component of medical illustration educationallows the artist to create luminous, textural, three-dimensional drawings by layering carbon dust on prepared paper. The workshop will teach students the use of this all but forgotten medium, and guide each student in the creation of a finished work based on real anatomical specimens supplied by the instructor. The workshop will also include a historical lecture placing carbon dust drawings in the context of the history of anatomical and medical art. The instructor will provide all materials necessary for this workshop, and will also share finished carbon dust drawings for study. Marie Dauenheimer is a Board Certified Medical Illustrator working in the Washingto n, DC Metropolitan area. She specializes in creating medical illustrations and animations for educational materials, including posters, brochures, books, websites and interactive media. In addition to illustrating Marie teaches drawing, life drawing and human and animal anatomy at the Art Institute of Washington. MUST RSVP to morbidanatomy gmail.com as class size is limited to 10. (Observatory, 543 Union St #1E, Gowanus, BK, 10am-4:30pm, $75) SWAP: BK Swappers Two Year Anniversary at 3rd Ward <a href="http://www.3rdward.com/rsvp">http://www.3rdward.com/rsvp</a> Come join us for a day of swapping, discussions, and demonstrations. This event celebrates BK Swappers' two years of building community and empowering people to turn their home food production from a hobby to a habit. Throughout the day, there will be educational demos from 3rd Ward Class Instructors and talks from some of Brooklyn's best DIY food crafters, writers and small-business owners. In addition to the food swap at 4 pm there will be a swap for non-edible items (jewelry, medicinal herbs, candles, crafts, perfumes, body-care products, etc.) and cookbooks. (3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave., BK, Demos and Discussions 12:30pm - 4:00 pm, Non-Edible Swap 2:00 pm, Food Swap 4:00 pm, FREE) WALK: Fading Ads of Greenpoint Walking Tour <a href="http://wordbrooklyn.com/event/fading-ads-greenpoint-walking-tour">http://wordbrooklyn.com/event/fading-ads-greenpoint-walking-tour</a> Get a glimpse into Greenpoints history with a walking tour, led by author and photographer Frank Jump. For nearly 20 years, Jump has been documenting the fading ads that are visible, but less often seen, all over New York. Disappearing from the sides of buildings or hidden by new construction, these signs tell the stories of the businesses, places and people whose lives transpired among them. Frank will introduce his book and give an overview before the walk. If it rains, well have a virtual slideshow tour at WORD instead. (Word, 126 Franklin St, Greenpoint, BK, 2pm store / 2:30pm walk, FREE) EVENT: Murray Hill's Annual MISS LEZ Pageant <a href="http://bk.knittingfactory.com/event/101341">http://bk.knittingfactory.com/event/101341</a> The wacky, way-popular pageant is back, with a panel of judges featuring Michael Musto, the World Famous *BOB*, Dynasty Handbag, Katrina del Mar and Jincey Lumpkin. Lesbian, queer, FTF, gender-bending or trans contestants were nominated via Twitter, and will compete in swimsuit, evening gown, interview and talent categories for a prize package that includes a brand-new Hitachi Magic Wand. (Knitting Factory Brooklyn, 361 Metropolitan Ave, W'burg, BK, 8pm, $15 adv / 20 DoS) ===+++===+++===+++=== WEDNESDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== WORD: Kevin Smith <a href="http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/73247">http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/73247</a> Many a self-help book claim that success takes hard work and self-discipline. But tonight, let filmmaker Kevin Smith of Clerks fame tell you otherwise at his book-release event for Tough Sh*t: Life Advice From a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good. Smith, who last year announced that his next film, Hit Somebody, will be his last, explains why Ferris Bueller is his "personal savior," the life lessons he has learned from Wayne Gretzky, and the best way to tell your critics to suck it. As Smith is an excellent storyteller and loves nothing more than to talk and talk and talk about how moronic the film industry is, the evening should be a lively one. (Barnes & Noble, 33 E. 17th St., Doors 5pm/Event 7pm, FREE) ART/WORD: Karma-Con Part II: Studio Salon <a href="http://www.rmanyc.org/events/load/1650">http://www.rmanyc.org/events/load/1650</a> Enjoy an evening of comics and cocktails and watch the creative process in process. A coalescing of new and old, comic artists and illustrators take a modern view of the ancient Buddhist symbol, the Wheel of Life. Visit the museum to meet artists, Molly Crabapple, Ben Granoff, Josh Neufeld, Michael Kupperman, and Katie Skelly as they create initial sketches, sell and sign their work, and share their processes of creation in an open studio setting.The Wheel of Life: (bhavachakra, srid pa'i 'khor lo) acts as a representation of samsaric existence for Buddhist practitioners. The Wheel of Life is thought to have been drawn by Shakymuni Buddha himself as a way to simply illustrate the six realms, interdependent existence and the sources of suffering. (Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W 17th St, 6pm, FREE) MUSIC: Bogota or Bust. An Evening with Hungry March Band <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/359515507421802">https://www.facebook.com/events/359515507421802</a> A fundraiser of brass-tacular proportions, to help send Hungry March Band to the Ibero-American Theatre Festival in Bogotá, Colombia. Featuring New York City's inimitable Hungry March Band, it'll be a raucous evening hosted by Bastard Keith, featuring musicians, aerialists, and a full concert from the band itself. Funds generated throughout the evening will go toward the band members on their upcoming journey south to Bogotá, Colombia, for the Ibero-Americano Theatre Festival, March 27-April 9. A silent auction will be conducted, featuring prizes such as an iPod full of Hungry March Band tunes, a Hello Kitty snowboard, Louboutin Shoes, a $100 gift certificate to Lucky Dog, original artwork, limited edition merchandise, a performance from the band at your event, bar tabs, salon styling, gift certificates, and loads of other exciting offers. (Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St, DUMBO, BK, Doors: 6pm / Show: 7pm, $20) PERFORMANCE: Jeff Grow - Creating Illusion <a href="http://jeffgrow.net/Creating_Illusion.html">http://jeffgrow.net/Creating_Illusion.html</a> Showman. Magician. Conman. Jeff Grow explores the diverse facets of the art of deception and confidence - whether for entertainment or manipulation, beauty or deceit; the tools of the conjurer can be seen all around us. Elegant sleight of hand and insight into human behavior collide to dismantle everyday experience and explore the art of creating illusion. Recipient of the NY Innovative Theatre Awards: Outstanding Solo Performer & Outstanding Performance Art Production. (The Kraine Theater, 85 E. 4th St bet 2nd and 3rd Ave, 8-9:30pm, $15-18) WORD/BURLESQUE: Naked Girls Reading - Steampunk <a href="http://www.NakedGirlsReadingNYC.com">http://www.NakedGirlsReadingNYC.com</a> Before there were rocketships, there were airships; before there were robots, there were automata and 'mechanical men.' And before there was electricity, there was steam. Join New York's "Best Story Hour" (The Village Voice Best of NY) for in-the-buff readings of science-fiction adventure tales from a pre-Industrial age, as Naked Girls Reading NYC presents STEAMPUNK: featuring writings from the genre's earliest origins in Victorian literature, classics by Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, and contemporary tales of Analytical Engines and clockwork men. Host Nasty Canasta and independent reader Anja Keister are joined by Dangrrr Doll and Justina Walford - plus audience favorite Barbara Gordon, The Naked Librarian - as the Naked Girls share stories of a steam-powered future that never was at Naked Girls Reading STEAMPUNK. Dirigible parking available on a first-come, first-served basis. (UNDER St. Marks, 94 St. Marks Place bet 1st Ave & Ave A, 9pm, $20 or two for $35) ===+++===+++===+++=== THURSDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PERFORMANCE: Norooz Celebration <a href="http://www.persianartsfestival.org/news">http://www.persianartsfestival.org/news</a> Bowery Arts + Science, City Lore and the PAF ring in the Persian New Year with contemporary literary and musical performances that will delight all ages and backgrounds. Featuring: Multi-media performances by poets on the subjects of life, death, homeland and love. Poets include Roger Sedarat, Sara Goudarzi, Amir Parsa and Kaveh Bassiri. Poems will be projected in Persian morphing into English translations from the roof of the POEMobile, a hand-painted truck and traveling cinexma of words, onto buildings and street nearby. Film viewing of Niloufar Talebis "Persian Rite of Spring: the story of Nowruz" celebrating the Persian New Year. Musical performance by Middle East-meets-Brooklyn band, Vatan, sponsored by PAAIA. Performance Art by Aphrodite Desiree Navab: Through her performances, her photographs and writings, Aphrodite explores the symbolism, inevitability and beauty of the rite of Spring. (VII Gallery, 28 Jay St, DUMBO, BK, 7-11pm, FREE) CIRCUS: I ♥ BOB, The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Guy <a href="http://theatreworkscitytech.org/parallelexit">http://theatreworkscitytech.org/parallelexit</a> Inspired by the films City Lights and An American In Paris, NYCs Drama Desk-nominated Parallel Exit premieres an evening-length comic ballet following the story of two desperately lonely characters attempting to connect within the speed and chaos of 21st century New York. Created by director Mark Lonergan, choreographer Ray Hesselink, and composer Wayne Barker, featuring a live original score. Parallel Exit creates physical theatre inspired by the films of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. (Voorhees Theatre, 186 Jay St, BK, Thu/Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm, $10/$6 students) PERFORMANCE: Darkie <a href="http://dixonplace.org/index2.html">http://dixonplace.org/index2.html</a> <a href="http://www.akynos.com">http://www.akynos.com</a> Conceived and Directed by Akynos, with Chicava Honeychild as Jezebel, Essence Revealed as Josephine Baker, The Maine Attraction as Tar Baby,The Incredible, Edible, Akynos as The Hottentot Venus, Afua Monk Addo as The Songstress, Yamaneika Saunders as The Comedian. Hosted by Ashley Brockington. From cinema to magazines, desk employee to stripper; from least favorite child to least desirable love interest, the darker complexioned woman experiences discrimination and irreverence throughout much of her life. Akynos.com presents Darkie, which aims to highlight the often overlooked beauty and talents of these darker shades of ebony by conceptualizing her struggle, pain, beauty and grace through the lens of performance art. (Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, 10:30pm, $20) ===+++===+++===+++=== UPCOMING [Ticketed events likely to sell out and/or offering presale discounts] ===+++===+++===+++=== Sat 3/24 **PARTY: Mothership, A Low-Gravity Fundraiser <a href="http://www.acavallomothership.eventbrite.com">http://www.acavallomothership.eventbrite.com</a> <a href="http://www.acavallo.org">http://www.acavallo.org</a> We are so out of here. We've roamed the wasteland for years, gathering up freaks of all flags, celebrating and memorializing, creating and destroying. Now it's time for A Cavallo the Carousel to return to the desert, and await the vessel that will take us on our final journey. You won't believe the sweet ride we've got coming to pick us up. And we mean UP. So if you want to go UP, you're gonna have to get DOWN. For we have summoned the MOTHERSHIP. If you want on, you gotta speak the language. That language is FUNK. And you speak it with your ASS. It's how those on the Mothership communicate with rhythmic movements of their highly developed space asses, just like bees. But our asses don't sting our asses are for pleasure. There will be translators on board: Navegante Funk assembled from funky electrons, Bad Buka Gypsy punk + P-Funk = Gypsy F-Punk, Night Of The Living Funk. A mass of ass brass, DJ Barney Iller Will hurt your pelvis, Smallchange Is an encyclof unkapedia, DJ Shakey Gives you the shakes (in your ass), DJ Snicklefritz Fritzes your snickle good. ALSO: Shoot the Grey Before it probes you. Fun in the Zero-G Fuck Pod, And, a Major Malfunction. Extravehicular Activity Wear: George Clinton Replicant, Dancebot, Stevie Wonder/Geordi La Forge hybrid, Silver Dreadlocks, ASStronaut, Psychedelic Officer from the Funk Federation, Life Support Booty Shorts, Galactic Am-bass-ador, Alien Afro, Anything Noel Fielding from the Mighty Boosh. [G&S note: yes, it is an actual ship/carousel. The party is the amazing project's Burning Man fundraiser.] (Acme Studio, 63 N. 3rd between Wythe & Kent, BK, 9pm, $15 adv/$20 door) Tue, 3/27 CLASS: Promote Yourself: An Introduction to Public & Media Relations for Artists <a href="http://www.lmcc.net/arts_services/workshops">http://www.lmcc.net/arts_services/workshops</a> Led by Heidi Riegler, founder & principal of Riegler Media | Marketing, this workshop discusses what is PR and why we need it. As an artist you create art, but if you want your work to be seen or heard, you have to think about how your work will reach its audience. Understanding public relations is an essential part of a successful communications campaign that will garner press coverage and visibility for your art project and for yourself. The workshop draws on the perspectives of various media specialists, including journalists, and critics. Key aspects of media relations and the dos and don'ts of working with media will be discussed, with examples drawn from projects in a range of artistic disciplines. Heidi has worked with organizations such as Symphony Space, LMCC, FIAF, Harlem Stage, ISO, American Place Theater, Brooklyn Information and Culture, Riverside Theater, Midori & Friends and the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts as well as a range of individual artists, includin g Richard Maxwell, Grisha Coleman, Debra Wanner, Brenda Ray, Nami Yamamoto, Iris Klein, and Daniel Alexander Jones. (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd floor, 6:30pm - 8pm, FREE/RSVP required) Wed, 4/4 ***ART/PARTY: FIGMENT Groundbreaking: The Factory <a href="http://figmentproject.org/groundbreaking">http://figmentproject.org/groundbreaking</a> In the years since FIGMENT adopted its name from Andy Warhol, we've never really looked back to consider Warhol and the scene he created around The Factory... until now. Immerse yourself, with the artists and volunteers who make FIGMENT happen, in the by-gone era of The Factory, in a gorgeous 70's-era SoHo loft. Bid on the works of some of New York Citys best emerging artists. Enjoy drinks, hors d'oeuvres, performances, music, and surprises. Embrace our art heritage and prepare for the future of FIGMENT. "I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'FIGMENT'."Andy Warhol, 1985. [G&S note: while the cost for this event is way above our usual limit, it supports an incredible FREE summer art event that is so dear to our hearts that we volunteer our limited time to help make it happen. It's also downright cheap, compared to most such fundraising soirees. We strongly urge you to support, at the highest level you can afford (buy VIP tickets. buy tickets for your friends. bid on art. etc)] (Safe Harbor Studio, 446 Broadway, 3rd Fl, 6-1pm, $75 adv/ $95 door; $250 VIP Ticket Package for 4 Guests, adv only) ===+++===+++===+++=== HOT TIPS [Art opportunities, promotions, sales, news. Non-event ephemera...] ===+++===+++===+++=== LEARN: Bee Keeping <a href="http://www.boroughbees.com/2012/03/wanna-be-my-apprentice.html">http://www.boroughbees.com/2012/03/wanna-be-my-apprentice.html</a> Brand new rooftop apiary seeks 12 volunteer beekeeping apprentices* for the 2012 bee season (April-October/November). Working in small teams, our apprentices will gain hands-on experience in both basic and advanced beekeeping techniques, with a focus on treatment-free and organic beekeeping, and have the opportunity to pay it forward and mentor next years students. This 20 hive apiary poised on an expansive rooftop in the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard will play host to NYCs first hands-on beekeeping training program. Through education and outreach we aim to foster an inclusive community of new beekeepers and arm them with the tools they need to play an active role of the long-term sustainability of our city. The apiary is a joint project of Brooklyn Grange Farm and Timothy ONeal of Borough Bees. *This is not a beekeeping 101 course; ideal candidates will be able to demonstrate some degree of knowledge, but hands-on experience isnt necessary. to apply: email bigappleapia ry at gmail no later than March 21st with details about yourself and your interest in the apprenticeship. No resume necessary; creative applications encouraged. ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== THEATER: The One Act Factor <a href="http://www.secrettheatre.com">http://www.secrettheatre.com</a> The One Act Factor is a brand new competition style one-act play festival held this year in March at The Secret Theatre. Each week actors, playwrights, and directors band together and compete to win cash prizes in Best Play, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress in a showdown similar to the popular talent shows we've all seen on TV. As the weeks go by, teams advance to the final rounds through audience votes. Awards are also determined by celebrity judges who will give encouragement and advice to all the contestants. This new form of one act festival is sure to be fun for all involved: actors, directors, playwrights and audience members alike. New plays in competition each weekend. Semi-finals Thursday, 3/29 and Friday, 3/30. Finals Saturday, 3/31. (The Secret Theatre, 4402 23rd St LIC, Queens, select Thur/Fri/Sat 8pm, $15) ART: The Pop-Up Museum of the Gowanus Canal <a href="http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com">http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com</a> Working with found materials from all around the Gowanus neighborhood, we will create a new "history" of the region and its traditions (a not entirely serious one). As a collective, we will plow through a century of objects in order to remix in miniature the Gowanus, Observatory, and the whole enterprise of the museumthe whole enterprise of producing, categorizing, and showing off knowledge. Quick, fast, and dirty, the Pop-Up Museum presents the unpresentable: change itself. (thru 4/22, The Observatory, 543 Union Street, enter via Nevins, FREE) EVENT: The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens <a href="http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/orchid-show">http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/orchid-show</a> The Orchid Show takes vertical gardens to new heights in its 10th year. Renowned botanist and vertical gardening provocateur Patrick Blanc creates towering spectacles of tropical life. Dangling from Blanc's signature ''green walls,'' thousands of orchids abandon the constraints of gravity. (thru 4/22, New York Botanical Garden, 200th St & Kazimiroff Blvd, Bronx, 10am - 7pm, $20) ART: PYSANKA: The Ukrainian Easter Egg <a href="http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html">http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_120301pysanky.html</a> Pysanky are the unique Ukrainian Easter eggs known the world over for their intricate, colorful designs. Drawn from the Museum's extensive folk arts collection, the nearly 300 eggs are decorated in a variety of regional styles, rich colors, and assorted motifs; many are the work of acclaimed artist Sofika Zielyk. The hand-crafted pysanky are made using raw eggs, dyes, and beeswax in a wax-resist method process, known as batik. The process results in colorful eggs ornamented with an array of detailed geometric, floral, and faunistic symbols. The art of creating Ukrainian pysanky (from the word pysaty to write) has been handed down from generation to generation. This ancient art form is taught in workshops Sat/Sun thru 4/1 (adults & children over 12). The Ukrainian Easter Traditions workshop on March 24, for students age 16 and older, offers hands-on training in baking Easter breads and other traditions related to the holiday. March 31: an opportunity to watch artists in acti on as they create beautiful pysanky. In addition to the demonstrations, the award-winning short film Pysanka by Slavko Nowytski will be shown continuously from 1-5 p.m. (thru 5/27, The Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th St bet 2nd/3rd Ave, $8 / plus $10-25 for special workshops) ===+++===+++===+++=== ===+++===+++===+++=== Do you have something to share with our readers or events you'd like to have included in our emails? 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[G&S]: Art explosion weekend in NYC / full Swing House details for next week

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:31:00 GMT

Hello lovelies, We're so proud of our editor helpers: look how early we're out today. Now we're able to go play at Fountain Art Fair -- that and a slew of others art events are all over town this weekend. You must go to at least one: it's your duty as a New Yorker. In the meantime, we're getting ready for our 4th Anniversary Swing House party at our loft next week, and we've added glittering burlesque girls for early in the night and more electro-swing beats for later. That, plus maybe some fire on the roof, will make it one of those perfect BK nights. See invite below. Please RSVP for this so we know how many of you are coming -- still working out exact capacity at our space, so this helps. 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://bit.ly/GS_facebook">http://bit.ly/GS_facebook</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> Tumblr: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr">http://bit.ly/GS_tumblr</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/GS_ytube">http://bit.ly/GS_ytube</a> Flickr pool: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio">http://www.flickr.com/groups/gemini_scorpio</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: 3/17 ===+++===+++===+++=== Gemini & Scorpio present Swing House 4th Anniversary Vintage/remix speakeasy dance party: "Gatsby-era fun with a twist of new-school vibe" (Village Voice) At our new loft - must RSVP for Gowanus, BK address 9pm-late / dance class 9:30pm, 21+ $15 & theme dress required until 12am / $10 after for electro-swing afterparty Details & RSVP: <a href="http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html">http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html</a> FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/340665502639271">https://www.facebook.com/events/340665502639271</a> Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio">http://www.twitter.com/gemini_scorpio</a> (win free tickets) A classic speakeasy party in a secret Brooklyn loft, with live swingin' sounds by vintage jazz bands, blazing burlesque divas, exotic cocktails, and the best electro-swing DJs remixing and reinventing vintage grooves late into the night. Live music until 12:30am by Aaron Johnson and his Golden Age Orchestra, an 11-piece hot jazz ensemble. The Rhinestone Follies, NYC's only all-classic burlesque troupe, provide glittering burlesque to and between band sets. Then, vintage goes remix as resident DJ Dhundee drops irresistible electro-swing gems for your dancing pleasure. After 2am, DJ Shakey will take us into early morning with her eclectic beats. It'll be one of those perfect BK loft party nights. Weather permitting, we may even do a little fire on our 9k sq ft roof. The Jazz Age never ended, it just got funky. Dress accordingly: "An event worth wearing that ridiculous zoot suit for." - TimeOut NY; "Corsets and top hats tweaked with studs and leather are totally appropriate." - The New York Times. Suggestions: vintage (1920s-1940s) with a modern twist, cabaret, burlesque, Weimar Berlin, classic Hollywood, classy, sassy, tailored, hats, feathers, sequins, beads. Effort required. Dress code modern-friendly after 1am for the electro-swing dance party. Twitter ticket giveaway: for every 20 new followers (starting at 2,460), we'll give away a pair of tickets to one lucky winner, from now until 3/15. ===+++===+++===+++=== WEEKEND + WEEK ===+++===+++===+++=== EVENT: The End is Here <a href="http://www.boweryboogie.com/2012/03/the-end-is-here-saying-goodbye-to-billys-antiques-this-friday">http://www.boweryboogie.com/2012/03/the-end-is-here-saying-goodbye-to-billys-antiques-this-friday</a> After nearly three decades in business the infamous Tent housing Billy's Antiques and Props on Bowery and Houston will be taken down forever. Shop owner Billy Leroy, Proprietor Tony Goldman of Goldman Properties and the filmmakers behind "Dirty Old Town" a feature narrative that prefigured this moment, have come together to host a final farewell celebration. The event Friday evening will be hosted by renown New York writer and personality Anthony Haden Guest, featuring a line-up of eulogists and performers including Kembra Phaler, The Virgins, TV Baby, Clayton Patterson, and Andrew Andrew. Then at 3pm on Sat, the tent will begin its first phase of demolition. The tarps and fabric, enduring over 30 years of New York weather, both cultural and environmental, will be taken down forever. In a gothic burial ceremony, the "Flesh" of the tent will be peeled from the skeletal "Bones" of the structure and placed in a coffin. The coffin will be paraded around the block by pallbearers, while a funeral march is strummed by guitarist and tent-matriarch Lorraine Leckie. The coffin will be chained to the inside fence, and the remaining hollow structure will be painted fire-engine red in the days to follow. (Billy's Antiques and Props, 76 East Houston St., Fri 7pm-12am, Sat 3pm-end, FREE) ART: The Armory Show <a href="http://www.thearmoryshow.com">http://www.thearmoryshow.com</a> This leading international contemporary and modern art fair and one of the most important annual art events in New York. Now celebrating its fourteenth year, the Armory Show is re-establishing itself as the most adventurous and dynamic contemporary art fair in New York City. The 2012 edition will feature an international roster of exciting, leading galleries, the acclaimed Armory Show VIP program, a lively opening night party at MoMA, the eclectic and engaging Open Forum program with major art- world figures, Armory Film, a series featuring an international selection of leading contemporary video and experimental films curated by Moving Image, and Armory Arts Week in partnership with New York's top cultural institutions. (Piers 92 & 94 in the Passenger Ship Terminal complex, 12th Ave @ 55th St., Fri/Sat noon - 8pm, Sun noon - 7pm, $30 / students, seniors & groups over 10: $15) ART: VOLTA NY <a href="http://ny.voltashow.com/index.php">http://ny.voltashow.com/index.php</a> An invitational show of solo artists' projects and is the American incarnation of the successful young fair founded in Basel in 2005. VOLTA NY was conceived by art critic and fair director Amanda Coulson to continue the original mandate of a tightly-focused, boutique event that is a place for discovery. Both Basel and New York fairs provide a showcase for current art production and relevant contemporary positions regardless of the artist or gallery's age. By putting the focus back on artists through exclusively featuring solo projects, VOLTA NY promotes a deep exploration of the work of its selected projects, an opportunity for discoveries that move beyond those afforded by a traditional art fair. While many fairs provide a broader overview, with more represented artists in each booth, visitors to VOLTA NY compare the experience to a more focused series of intense studio visits. (7W 34th St, Fri-Sun 11am-7pm, $15/$10 students, $40 w Armory show) ART: SCOPE <a href="http://www.scope-art.com/index.php/artshow/new-york-2012">http://www.scope-art.com/index.php/artshow/new-york-2012</a> SCOPE Art Show returns to New York City for the eleventh year, with an exciting, high-profile location across from The Armory Show. The 30,000 square foot pavilion will feature over 50 international galleries and museum-quality programming that will highlight groundbreaking, emerging work in contemporary art and beyond. The SCOPE pavilion will also be home to the newly launched SCOPE Foundation Series, showcasing a variety of projects, events and performances across multiple creative genres, including art, design, film and fashion. With over 45 art fairs spanning more than a decade, SCOPE has solidified its position as the premier showcase for international emerging contemporary art and multi-disciplinary creative programming. (SCOPE Pavilion, 57th St & West Side Highway, Fri/Sat 11am-8pm, Sun 11am-7pm, $20/$15 students) ART: Fountain Art Fair <a href="http://www.fountainartfair.eventbrite.com">http://www.fountainartfair.eventbrite.com</a> Presenting an edgy alternative to the traditional art fair, Fountain Art Fair will take the historic 69th Armory by storm this weekend with an exhibition of avant-garde artwork and installations, special events, contemporary performance art, live music, and a site-specific projection. Friday's Opening Reception features appearances by art-improv collective Art Liars, DJ set by New York legend Fab 5 Freddy, and a live performance by psych-rockers Spirit Animal. Fri 711pm - Artlog Opening Reception, Fab 5 Freddy (DJ set), Spirit Animal; Sat 711pm - Art For Progress Party. (69th Regiment Armory, 68 Lexington Ave at 25th Street, Sat/Sun 1pm7pm, $10 day ($8 adv) / $15 weekend pass ($13 adv)) ART: Independent Art Fair <a href="http://www.independentnewyork.com">http://www.independentnewyork.com</a> Independent is a the temporary exhibition forum devised by and for gallerists. The layout of INDEPENDENT is customized to reflect the spatial and curatorial concerns of the 43 participants and to optimize the public's viewing experience. Architect Christian Wassmann, in addition to devising the exhibition layout, created 29º Observatory, a site-specific environment on the roof of the building. The roof installation as well as the spatial configuration of the building layout is based around the concept of aligning with the true North-South axis of the earth. (548 W 22nd 2nd-4th fl, Fri-Sat 11am8pm, Sun 11am4pm, FREE) ART: Work/Space 2012 <a href="http://www.theinvisibledog.org/?p=9299">http://www.theinvisibledog.org/?p=9299</a> Work/Space 2012, the 2nd installment of the annual 32 in-house artist group exhibition and open studios event. Curated by Whitney V. Hunter, Work/Space 2012 will introduce the public to the new artists of the Invisible Dog Art Center as well as exhibit new works by the center's returning artists. Over this weekend long event, the public will have the unique opportunity to visit and meet with the in-house artists in their studios. Work/Space 2012 will showcase a broad range of work from the classical to the contemporary, fine art to design by these Brooklyn-based artists' who are bound together by the physical space they share at The Invisible Dog Art Center. Featured Artists: Douglas Adesko, Juan Alfaro, Dean Alfonzo, Bina Altera, Rachel Barrett, Vanessa Belli, Gabriel Benzur, Malcolm Brown, Liz Burow, Chong Gon Byun, Julia Cocuzza, Andre Da Loba, Dillon Dewaters, Maria Gracia Donoso, Pascale Gueracague, Nancy Hubbard, Whitney V. Hunter, Nemo Hoffman, Oliver Jeffers, Kiya Kim , Anna Levikova, Gilles Lyon, Anne Mourier, Joanna Neborsky, Prune Nourry, Sarah Palmer, Claudia Paneca, Mac Premo, Xavier Roux, Aaron Ruff, Anita Sto, and Susan Weinthaler. (The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen St, Sat 1-10pm/Sun 1-6pm, Sat Opening Reception 6-10pm, FREE) PUPPETS: Electric Bathing <a href="http://www.maboumines.org/productions/electric-bathing-mabou-minessuite-resident-artist-program">http://www.maboumines.org/productions/electric-bathing-mabou-minessuite-resident-artist-program</a> Coney Island circa 1910. Two garment factory workers escape from respectability into a world of fantasy where shirtwaists become kites, fans transform into seagulls, hatboxes are rides, spools of thread are anchors, and ropes are the ocean tide. Conceived and Created by Sarah Provost and Lake Simons. (Fri-Sun, Mabou Mines, 150 First Ave at 9th St, 7pm, FREE with RSVP to rap at maboumines dot org) CIRCUS: Mumbo <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/222636">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/222636</a> In this dark, poignantly perverse circus tale, Mumbo the Magnificent Monkey rises to fame, learning the ropes from trainer Trixie Petite. But the fate of the circus is always subject to the whim of Monsieur Dingling, whose insatiable greed and baser instincts threaten Trixie and Mumbo at every twist and turn. Inspired by the pantheon of tragic circus elephant stories (Jumbo, Water for Elephants, Modoc) but told by a "primate" in place of a pachyderm. Starring the award winning acrobatic burlesque superduo- Trixie Little and The Evil Hate Monkey and the master of inappropriate improvisation, Bradford Scobie. With live, original music by Gato Loco- NYC's grittiest Latin-cartoon-jazz-psychedelic rock band. Daring Feats. Shameless Humor. Occasional Tragedy. Partial Nudity. Bring extra cash: there is a bar and amazing circus themed vegetarian treats will be for sale too. (House of Yes, 342 Maujer,off L Train Grand Street stop, Fri-Sun, Doors 7pm/Show 8pm, $20) FOOD: Chinatown Restaurant Week <a href="http://www.chinatownrestaurantweek.com">http://www.chinatownrestaurantweek.com</a> During the first annual Chinatown Restaurant Week, diners can score multiple-course prix fixe dinners starting at just $18.88 per person. (Fri thru next Sun) ===+++===+++===+++=== FRIDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== PARTICIPATORY: Geeks vs. Nerds Trivia Happy Hour <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/296934190372907">https://www.facebook.com/events/296934190372907</a> Our regular Friday Night Happy Hour gets competitive with this special Geek Week trivia night on the theme "Geeks vs. Nerds." How do you tell which one you are? Clock what most bothers you about this sentence: "Aragorn's story is one not only of protecting Frodo on his way to Mordor, but of returning to Dagobah and becoming it's rightful king." If you said "ARRGGH! Someone confused The Lord of the Rings with Star Wars!", you're a geek. If you said, "ARRGGH! The possessive form of 'it' does not have an apostrophe!", you're a nerd. If your head exploded, you're probably both. Hosted by Kevin Harrington of Boston's Geek Week Comedy and Jen Dziura, co-host of the famed Williamsburg Spelling Bee. Drink and mingle with other geeks and nerds as Jen and Kevin pipe in every 20 minutes or so with quiz questions. Play alone or as a team. (Housing Works' Bookstore Café, 126 Crosby St, 6-8pm, FREE) ART: The Museum Museum, A Museum of Museums <a href="http://www.brooklynlaunchpad.org">http://www.brooklynlaunchpad.org</a> New York City has a world-class set of cultural institutions, but it is widely understood that to take it all in would be a superhuman endeavor. Therefore, The Levys' Unique New York is offering, for one night only, the chance to absorb the highest quality exhibits on art, history, science and car service, including a spectacularly unqualified docent-led tour. This is a one-night-only curated experience where visitors can explore the microscopic world of amoebas through 2D viewing platforms; where guests will be thrown into the past by the City Reliquary's traveling suitcase of antiquity; where modern-day curiosity seekers can experience the world-renowned Museum of Car Service, from the inside to the out. The Museum Museum's main exhibit will be a documentary, the Quest for Cameltoe, featuring Rev Jen, the zany, wry and irreverent Lower East Side Art-Star who may be one of NYC's last living eccentrics. The Quest for Cameltoe (64 min, 9:30pm) shows Reverend Jen creating mysti fying works of art, traveling to exotic European cities, getting sloshed on wine and creating the only Troll Doll Museum in the world. Works by TJ Hospodar, Wendy Chan, Jason Thompson, 0h10 M1ke, and the City Reliquary. Wine and cheese will be served. (LaunchPad, 721 Franklin Avenue, BK, 8-11pm; $5) THEATER: New York Neo-Futurists present: The Fair Use Show <a href="http://www.nyneofuturists.org">http://www.nyneofuturists.org</a> The New York Neo-Futurists will perform a special, one-weekend-only version of their ongoing, award-winning show "Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind," featuring 30 short, completely original plays in 60 minutes that were inspired by film, television, theater, and literature. The Neo-Futurists offer their distinctive take on popular culture in a way that is both personal and communal. Art-house, low-brow, cult classic and everything in-between. (Kraine Theatre, 85 East 4th St, 10:30pm, $11 + the Roll of a Six-Sided Die (total $12-$17)) PARTY: Festival of Colors <a href="http://www.festivalofcolors.org">http://www.festivalofcolors.org</a> inspiration: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqsRFAJVN9c">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqsRFAJVN9c</a> Come enjoy a night of revelry full of bands, DJs, good company, and flinging vibrantly colored powder at each other. 1000+ capacity venue. MUSIC: A crazy jam band (with members of Pseudo Nerve At Sundown, Chocolate Boy, and Silver Airplane); Wodge Daddy (Hip Hop on Vinyl); Sophia M.A. (House); Landon Gardner Case (EDM); Burgersundae (Moombahton), plus a slew of EDM DJs. Projection Mapping by Morgan Freeman. Cheap drinks. Clothing that you don't care about ending up multicolored, sunglasses/eye protection, and a bandana/face covering are highly recommended. The powder is non-staining when dry, but if you get wet it may stain. Powder will be $2 / 100g bag -- we will have 10 colors to choose from. Holi, the Hindu festival of colors celebrates the coming of spring, fruitful harvests, unity, joy, and a tale from the Bhagavad Gita. One of Holi's biggest customs is the loosening strictness of social structures, which normally include age, sex, status, and caste. Additionally, Holi l owers the strictness of social norms. No one expects the decorum of normal life; as a result, the atmosphere is filled with excitement and joy. [G&S note: we can't promise this will be GOOD, just unique & colorful.] (1260 Atlantic Ave, between Bedford and Nostrand, 8pm-4am, $10) ===+++===+++===+++=== SATURDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== CONCERT: Sail Away Benefit Concert & Fundraiser <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/241446995948330">https://www.facebook.com/events/241446995948330</a> A walk-on-water worthy sendoff for banjo virtuoso Morgan O'Kane's Sail Away concert voyage: a month-long seafaring tour of the East Coast. In mid-Apriljoined by fiddler Ferd Moyse, dobro pickin' all-around rouser Zeke Healy, and spoons master Liam CrillO'Kane will board a 36ft sailboat in the Florida panhandle and set sail ever northward, dropping anchor along the way for performances along the east Coast. To conclude the tour, the band will sail right up the Gowanus Canal for a homecoming concert. Before they head south, friends, family, and a raucous, shreddin' bunch of bands will give Morgan O'Kane and company a bon voyage celebration. The lineup includes Spirit Family Reunion, Dog That Bites Everyone, Veveritse Brass Band, Black Cat Rock, Moon Hooch, Vic Thrill, and of course Morgan O'Kane. Plus stunning aerial performance by T-Pow and mammoth sand paintings created on-site by installation artist Joe Mangrum. Music will begin early in the evening and will continue long into the night. Documentarians will be on hand to record the event for an upcoming film, and every bit of the proceeds raised at the Sail Away Benefit Concert & Tour Launch Party will go toward funding the tour and keeping these fine gentlemen afloat, scurvy-free, and Brooklyn bound. (Gowanus Ballroom, 55 9th street #61 Doors 5pm, $10) MUSIC: Red Baraat's 1st Annual Festival of Colors tix: <a href="https://secure.gigmaven.com/events/7662/orders/new">https://secure.gigmaven.com/events/7662/orders/new</a> In recognition of Holi, the most celebrated festival in India, we are psyched to announce Red Baraat's 1st Annual Festival of Colors. Traditionally, a bonfire is built ("Holi" means burning) and people throw colored powder at one another, celebrating the end of winter and welcoming spring's abundant colors. While we can't throw powder at one another in a club setting, we can certainly all come together in a musical atmosphere filled with excitement and joy. So bring out those colorful outfits and let's party to some Bhangra Funk. (Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, 7pm, $15 Adv/$22 Day Of) PARTY: Swing Remix Dance <a href="http://swingremix.com/pages/eventdetails.htm#20120310">http://swingremix.com/pages/eventdetails.htm#20120310</a> Led by Singer & Song writer Jesse Selengut, Tin Pan connotes a world from the past the most dominant and enlightened strains of American music of the early part of the 20th century jazz, blues and American popular song. But it would be a mistake to say that Tin Pan is fixed in that past. Rather, it is music created to be enjoyed profoundly and joyously in the present. Our Dance Workshop will feature Jazz Up your Lindy Hop with Adam Brozowski. "Learn some cool components of the Lindy Hop and then we'll Jazz it up." Open to all levels. In his 15 years Swing dancing Adam has performed around the world, and gathered over 15 national and regional titles for his dancing. Along the way Adam has taught Swing, Lindy Hop, Vintage Jazz and Tap at studios and workshops around the country. (Basic Ballroom, 335 West 35th St, 8:15pm, $16 Dance/$25 Workshop & Dance) ===+++===+++===+++=== SUNDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== WORD: Kiss*Punch*Poem <a href="http://www.magnettheater.com/shows/37889-Kiss*Punch*Poem">http://www.magnettheater.com/shows/37889-Kiss*Punch*Poem</a> Some of New York's finest improvisers team up with some of New York's finest poets for a mad night of starving hysteria. It goes like this: the audience shows up and writes a poem together. Then the performers improvise a bunch of scenes inspired by the audience's poem. Then a poet performs one of their own poems. Then more improv. Then more poems. More improv. More poems. More improv. The whole thing ends with a brand spanking new work of poetry written on the spot and inspired by the whole damn show. You'll probably laugh, you might cry, you will make an exquisite corpse. The Improvisers: Charlie Whitcroft, Chet Seigle, Alex Marino, Elana Fishbein, Louis Kornfeld, Nathan Peterman, Beth Newell, Paul Barker, Bianca Casusol. The Poets: Mahogany Browne, Corrina Bain, John Paul Davis, Thomas Fucaloro. (Magnet Theater, 254 West 29th Street, 9:30pm, $5) ===+++===+++===+++=== MONDAY ===+++===+++===+++=== DRINKS: 5th Anniversary Poly Cocktails <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/396134263733776">https://www.facebook.com/events/396134263733776</a> house rules: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/openloveny/doc/10150236723973435">https://www.facebook.com/groups/openloveny/doc/10150236723973435</a> What started as a small gathering of 10 friends and lovers has now grown to a mailing list of more than 1,000 people. Our goal was to celebrate polyamory and create much-needed community. We are very proud of what this community has accomplished in that time, the contributions from regular attendees of Poly Cocktails, and our affiliation with Open Love NY and the great work we've done together. Plan on bringing food to share, and we'll have some special surprises in store. Come solo or bring your wife, husband, "others," girlfriends, boyfriends -- yours and theirs -- and meet like-minded people. If you identify as polyamorous, if you are in an open relationship, or if you want to learn more about this loving and progressive way of life, we invite you to come and get advice and support, have some drinks and laughs, and build our community. New folks, please come see our hosts and greeters with lighted name tags and introduce yourselves. Drink Specials: $4 wine. $4 beers. $5 Ja ck Daniels. (Affaire, 50 Avenue B bet 3rd & 4th Sts, 7pm-12am, FREE) WORD: Illuminating the Illuminating, A Lecture on the Moon <a href="http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/illuminating-the-illuminating-a-lecture-on-the-moon/Event?oid=2215786">http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/illuminating-the-illuminating-a-lecture-on-the-moon/Event?oid=2215786</a> What is going on with the Moon? This "second-city" of celestial bodies continues to confound humanity some 6000 years into our spiritual quest through time and space with profound questions: What is it made of? Where does it come from? Why does it wax and wane? And does it follow any set pattern at all? Unlike the Sun, whose very reliability has made it the paragon of stars, with countless religions and cultural monuments dedicated to its trustworthiness, the Moon's haphazard performance, evident recklessness, and self-indulgent caprice have effectively limited its appeal to crackpots, maniacs, and female ethno-hippies throughout the ages. Join Jamie Hook for a lecture that promises to shed light on this misunderstood satellite, with reference to history, aesthetics, metaphysics, and of course sex. Jamie Hook is a socially omnivorous urban dandy who makes his home in Greenpoint. A filmmaker, theatre director, and writer, Mr. Hook lives by his wits and his keen eye for the odd and interesting. The OCD Lecture Series offers him a venue to display all of his marvelous urban finds, and he has previously contributed lectures on topics (and substances) including The Artist Barry White; Pigeon Slums; Japanese Artificial Vagina Technologies; and (memorably) Salvia, as Popularized by Miley Cyrus. You should also know that he likes pickles, hot sauce, and red wine in that order. (Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, BK, 7:30pm, FREE) MUSIC: Underground Horns, Turkuaz and The Funk Ark <a href="http://brooklynbowl.com">http://brooklynbowl.com</a> An amazing evening of Funk, Afro Beat and World Fusion at the Brooklyn Bowl. The Brooklyn-based funk army known as Turkuaz is known throughout New York City and the east coast as the band that plays louder, faster, and harder than all the rest. The stage show combines influences from Sly and the Family Stone to Talking Heads into an explosive auditory and visual circus. Underground Horns is a Brooklyn based brass band playing Afro Funk Bhangra New Orleans grooves and beyond. Their special recipe includes some funk, jazz, hip hop mixed with brass band traditions spiced up with African and other world rhythms with tonal inflections from the Big Easy, central Africa, the Maghreb and the Baltic states. The Funk Ark is the creation of Will Rast, the band's composer, pianist, and spokesperson, fulfilling his lifelong desire of turning his soul over to The Funk. Rast worked as a freelance jazz session player and made a name for himself as a stylistically versatile sideman with vario us R&B and world music artists. (Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave, BK, doors at 6pm, show from 8pm - 11pm, $8) ===+++===+++===+++=== UPCOMING [Ticketed events likely to sell out and/or offering presale discounts] ===+++===+++===+++=== Wednesday, April 4 ***ART/PARTY: FIGMENT Groundbreaking: The Factory <a href="http://figmentproject.org/groundbreaking">http://figmentproject.org/groundbreaking</a> In the years since FIGMENT adopted its name from Andy Warhol, we've never really looked back to consider Warhol and the scene he created around The Factory... until now. Immerse yourself, with the artists and volunteers who make FIGMENT happen, in the by-gone era of The Factory, in a gorgeous 70's-era SoHo loft. Bid on the works of some of New York City's best emerging artists. Enjoy drinks, hors d'oeuvres, performances, music, and surprises. Embrace our art heritage and prepare for the future of FIGMENT. "I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'FIGMENT'."Andy Warhol, 1985. [G&S note: while the cost for this event is way above our usual limit, it supports an incredible FREE summer art event that is so dear to our hearts that we volunteer our limited time to help make it happen. It's also downright cheap, compared to most such fundraising soirees. We strongly urge you to support, at the highest level you can afford (buy VIP tickets. buy tickets for your friends. bid on art.)] (Safe Harbor Studio, 446 Broadway, 3rd Fl, 6-1pm, $75 adv/ $95 door; $250 VIP Ticket Package for 4 Guests, adv only) ===+++===+++===+++=== HOT TIPS [Art opportunities, promotions, sales, news. Non-event ephemera...] ===+++===+++===+++=== LEARN: Bee Keeping <a href="http://www.boroughbees.com/2012/03/wanna-be-my-apprentice.html">http://www.boroughbees.com/2012/03/wanna-be-my-apprentice.html</a> Brand new rooftop apiary seeks 12 volunteer beekeeping apprentices* for the 2012 bee season (April-October/November). Working in small teams, our apprentices will gain hands-on experience in both basic and advanced beekeeping techniques, with a focus on treatment-free and organic beekeeping, and have the opportunity to pay it forward and mentor next year's students. This 20 hive apiary poised on an expansive rooftop in the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard will play host to NYC's first hands-on beekeeping training program. Through education and outreach we aim to foster an inclusive community of new beekeepers and arm them with the tools they need to play an active role of the long-term sustainability of our city. The apiary is a joint project of Brooklyn Grange Farm and Timothy O'Neal of Borough Bees. *This is not a beekeeping 101 course; ideal candidates will be able to demonstrate some degree of knowledge, but hands-on experience isn't necessary. to apply: email bigappleapia ry at gmail no later than March 21st with details about yourself and your interest in the apprenticeship. No resume necessary; creative applications encouraged. ===+++===+++===+++=== ONGOING ===+++===+++===+++=== THEATER: The One Act Factor <a href="http://www.secrettheatre.com">http://www.secrettheatre.com</a> The One Act Factor is a brand new competition style one-act play festival held this year in March at The Secret Theatre. Each week actors, playwrights, and directors band together and compete to win cash prizes in Best Play, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress in a showdown similar to the popular talent shows we've all seen on TV. As the weeks go by, teams advance to the final rounds through audience votes. Awards are also determined by celebrity judges who will give encouragement and advice to all the contestants. This new form of one act festival is sure to be fun for all involved: actors, directors, playwrights and audience members alike. New plays in competition each weekend. Semi-finals Thursday, 3/29 and Friday, 3/30. Finals Saturday, 3/31. (The Secret Theatre, 4402 23rd St LIC, Queens, select Thur/Fri/Sat 8pm, $15) ART: The Pop-Up Museum of the Gowanus Canal <a href="http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com">http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com</a> Working with found materials from all around the Gowanus neighborhood, we will create a new "history" of the region and its traditions (a not entirely serious one). As a collective, we will plow through a century of objects in order to remix in miniature the Gowanus, Observatory, and the whole enterprise of the museumthe whole enterprise of producing, categorizing, and showing off knowledge. Quick, fast, and dirty, the Pop-Up Museum presents the unpresentable: change itself. (thru 4/22, The Observatory, 543 Union Street, enter via Nevins, 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. 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