Daily Awesome 9/16-9/22
Naomi Huth
So many great events this weekend and not nearly enough time to fit it all in.
Please continue to let me know whom to add onto this list. A lot of you are involved in the arts, so if you know of any events that I should be aware of, please tell me about them.
Enjoy. Naomi
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Wednesday September 16th
FILM: SVA Theater Opening @ SVA Theater, Manhattan
ART: Lithographs & Games @ Puck Building, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/ART/FESTIVAL: You Are Here @ Death By Audio, Brooklyn
Thursday September 17th
ART/FOOD: Specials @ High Line in the 14th Street Passage, Manhattan
ART: The Elements of Fashion @ Blank Space Gallery, Manhattan
ART: Arctic Book Club @ EFA Project Space, Manhattan
ART: Lithographs & Games @ Puck Building, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/ART: Conflux @ Conflux Headquarters Location, Manhattan
COMEDY:The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival @ The Bell House, Brooklyn
THEATER/FILM/ART: Medea @ Le Petit Versailles Garden, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/ART/FESTIVAL: You Are Here @ Death By Audio, Brooklyn
ART: Recession Art Sale @ 679 3rd Ave, Manhattan
ART/PERFORMANCE: New Island Festival @ Governor's Island
Friday September 18th
PERFORMANCE/ART: LentSpace – Public Opening @ City block at Canal, Varick, Grand, and Sullivan Streets, Manhattan
FILM: Charlie Chaplin Movie Night @ ABC No Rio, Manhattan
ART: Lithographs & Games @ Puck Building, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/ART: Conflux @ Conflux Headquarters Location, Manhattan
COMEDY:The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival @ The Bell House, Brooklyn
THEATER/FILM/ART: Medea @ Le Petit Versailles Garden, Manhattan
THEATER: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind @ Kraine Theater, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/ART/FESTIVAL: You Are Here @ Death By Audio, Brooklyn
ART: Recession Art Sale @ 679 3rd Ave, Manhattan
ART/PERFORMANCE: New Island Festival @ Governor's Island
Saturday September 19th
DANCE/WORKSHOP: Bollywood Dance Class @ Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens
SPORT: Yoga in the Park @ Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens
PERFORMANCE: NewMindSpace presents Photograph @ South Seaport, Manhattan
PARTY: 400 Years of Rebellion Dance Party @ The Starr Street Loft, Brooklyn
FESTIVAL/MUSIC: Queens County Fair @ Queens County Farm Museum, Queens
PERFORMANCE/ART: Conflux @ Conflux Headquarters Location, Manhattan
ART: Lithographs & Games @ Puck Building, Manhattan
COMEDY:The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival @ The Bell House, Brooklyn
THEATER/FILM/ART: Medea @ Le Petit Versailles Garden, Manhattan
THEATER: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind @ Kraine Theater, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/ART/FESTIVAL: You Are Here @ Death By Audio, Brooklyn
ART/PERFORMANCE: New Island Festival @ Governor's Island
Sunday September 20th
FESTIVAL/MUSIC: Queens County Fair @ Queens County Farm Museum, Queens
THEATER: Romeo & Juliet @ Astoria Park, Queens
ART: Lithographs & Games @ Puck Building, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/ART: Conflux @ Conflux Headquarters Location, Manhattan
COMEDY:The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival @ The Bell House, Brooklyn
THEATER/FILM/ART: Medea @ Le Petit Versailles Garden, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/ART/FESTIVAL: You Are Here @ Death By Audio, Brooklyn
ART/PERFORMANCE: New Island Festival @ Governor's Island
Monday September 21st
FILM: Movie House on India Street @ West St & India St, Brooklyn
ART: Lithographs & Games @ Puck Building, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/ART/FESTIVAL: You Are Here @ Death By Audio, Brooklyn
ART: Recession Art Sale @ 679 3rd Ave, Manhattan
Tuesday September 22nd
ART: Lithographs & Games @ Puck Building, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/ART/FESTIVAL: You Are Here @ Death By Audio, Brooklyn
ART: Recession Art Sale @ 679 3rd Ave, Manhattan
******* Ongoing ******
September 10th-October 2nd 8:00pm doors/9:00pm performances-late
You
Are Here @ Death By Audio, 49 South 2nd Street, Brooklyn
$8
includes open bar Friday-Sunday 8-10p; You Are Here (the Maze) is a
performance festival in a sculptural maze taking place at
Williamsburg's Death By Audio. Emphasizing the sprawling and
interconnected nature of New York's underground, a trip through the
maze offers a peek inside NYC's DIY art and music scene. A meditation
on passage and desire, You Are Here engulfs the space and presents
beckoning inhabitants, dead ends, and uplifting epitaphs. Medium and
genre vary and overlapping and simultaneous performances are
frequent, each performer establishing a different corner or dead end
as his or hers. Participating artists in the three-week festival
include Calvin Johnson, Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities, Zs,
Excepter, Mick Barr, The Coathangers, Knyfe Hyts 81, The Present,
Loud Objects, Grooms, Extra Life, Mike Pride, Dan Friel, Ninjasonik,
Vaz, Pygmy Shrews, Nine 11 Thesaurus, and many many others. You Are
Here subverts prefab expectations for both audiences and
performers—there is no prescribed order, start time or end time,
duration, location of performance, relation of audience to
performers, and so on. All of the participating artists have been
asked to create something site-specific since the performances will,
in fact, take place within the maze. Audiences will be asked only to
expect something unusual. myspace.com/youareheremaze
September 14th-24th (:00am-5:00pm
Lithographs & Games @ Puck Building, 295 Lafayette, 2nd Fl.
The exhibition is a collection of color lithographic items that Jacquelyn Ottman has been collecting for the past three decades that were produced by the J. Ottmann Lithographing Co., in the 1880s and 90s. These include sample of Puck magazine, advertising trade cards (for Singer sewing machine, Franco American soups), and even brightly colored board games.
September
17th-20th
Conflux
@ Conflux Headquarters Location, NYU, Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant
St.
$5 Suggested Donation; Conflux, the art and technology
festival for the creative exploration of urban public space, is
pleased to announce the full festival schedule of interactive
workshops, talks, and performances to take place September 17-20,
2009. Festival Headquarters will be located in the East Village's
historic Barney Building (34 Stuyvesant St.), home of partner and
host NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human
Development's Department of Art and Art Professions. All festival
events are free, with a suggested donation of $5. September 17th
6:30pm:Kick-off Event: Public Space Potluck @ Battery Park, Manhattan
(meet near the Picnick Kiosk). September 18th
8:30pm: Foursquare at Conflux tour @ Conflux HQ, 34 Stuyvesant St.
September 19th
7:00-10:00pm: Glowlab at Conflux party .@ Glowlab, 30 Grand St. Full
Festival Schedule: confluxfestival.org/2009/schedule/
September 17th-20th
The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival @ The Bell House, 149 7th St, Brooklyn
$15; Perhaps best known for playing the grumpy landlord on Flight of the Conchords, Eugene Mirman has been charming New York audiences for years with his particular brand of self-deprecating and absurdist humor and deep deadpan delivery. This weekend, he brings his personally curated comedy festival back to select Brooklyn venues after a successful debut last year.
September 17th-October 9th 6:00-9:00pm opening
Recession Art Sale @ 679
3rd Ave
Free; In a 5,500 square foot gallery space, 30 artists and
30 out-of-work professionals will participate in Recession Art Sale,
an art and commerce event. The objective is to create income, comment
on current shifts in the market economy, and foster a sense of
community amongst artists, sellers, and buyers. Unemployed
individuals affected by the current economic recession will be
engaged as sellers to market the works on exhibit. Hosting the event
is Anita Durst's nonprofit arts organization, Chashama, which has
worked successfully with conceptual artist and Executive Producer of
Recession Art Sale, Elanit Kayne. A multi-channel outreach to sellers
was conducted through the use of print and online advertising, job
opportunity sites, and social media in order to attract an eclectic
group of qualified applicants. While some sellers have a background
in the arts (a former employee of the Whitney Museum, Art History
graduates), other qualified sellers include former IT workers and
teachers and will receive art consultation training.
recessionartsale.com; cultureinside.com
September 17th-20th & September 24th-27th 8:00pm
Medea
@ Le Petit Versailles Garden, 346 East Houston St
Medea at Le
Petit Versailles is a cross-culturally cast production of a modern,
poetic new translation of the classic Greek play. The production is a
site-specific collaboration by local artists from a variety of
fields, including dance, visual arts, film, theatre, and experimental
music. The audience steps from Houston Street into another world
where the action occurs all around and among them. At first glance it
may appear that Euripides in 431 BC had little to say to us about our
sophisticated modern age; but when investigating deeper into our own
lives, we find his haunting tale hits closer to home than we might
like to admit. Exile, gender roles, submission to power and familial
obligations are timeless themes we continue to play out and gain
particular insight into when returning to the ancient Greeks.
petitve...@earthlink.net; lpvtv.blogspot.com
September 17th -20th All Day until Midnight
New Island Festival @ Governor's Island
Free; When a group of New Yorkers visited the 10-day Oerol Festival on the Dutch island of Terschelling, they had one thought: New York has to see this. Based on the 28-year-old tradition of Oerol, all of Governors Island is now transformed into a venue for art and artists. The old officers’ barracks and houses, the green spaces, even the ferry ride itself are all part of the show. Mining the remarkable history of Governors Island for material, the New Island Festival brings site-specific theater, music, dance, and art installations from Holland’s top artists, right into the middle of New York harbor. The festival center is a 400-foot long, 7-foot wide dining table. It is a stage, a catwalk, and of course the heart of the biggest open-air dining room in the world. www.newislandfestival.c
Every Friday & Saturday, 10:30 pm
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind @ Kraine Theater, 85 East Fourth Street
$10 plus the roll of a six sided die ($11-$16); Written by the New York Neo-Futurists; Our show is an ever-changing attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes--an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The single unifying element of these plays is that they are performed from a perspective of absolute honesty. We always appear as ourselves on stage, speaking directly from our personal experiences. Each short play is written by a performer, honed by the ensemble, and randomly collaged with twenty-nine other plays through high energy audience participation. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work. Each night of performance, we aim to create an unreproducable living newspaper of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, the visceral and experimental.
******* Wednesday September 16th ******
September 16th
12:00-5:00pm
SVA Theater Opening @ SVA
Theater, 333 West 23 St
Free; Following top-to-bottom renovations that transformed a former first-run movie house into a state-of-the-art facility for artist talks, film screenings and other cultural events, the School of Visual Arts (SVA) will celebrate the opening of the SVA Theatre today with an afternoon of free screenings celebrating the the artistic movements of the early 20th century 12:00pm:Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies, 1936; 100 minutes); 1:45pm: Man with the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929; 68 minutes); 3:00pm: Aelita: Queen of Mars (Yakov Protazanov, 1927; 100 minutes); 4:45pm: A selection of shorts by Fernand Leger and Man Ray.
******* Thursday September 17th ******
September 17th
4:00-8:00pm
Specials @ High Line in the 14th Street Passage
Free; Featuring works by Fiona Tan and Regina Silveira, and a potato and corn croquette with red cabbage and avocado taco. Specials is a collaboration between artists Lisa Sigal and Paul Ramírez Jonas, launched in June 2009. For this ongoing, roving art project, the artists have constructed a mobile unit composed of vendor carts and a 10 x 4 foot wall. On one side of the wall, they hang artwork by a wide range of artists; on the flip side, they serve homemade tacos, free of charge. Each time Specials is presented, the artwork and the type of taco change, in the manner of restaurants’ daily menu specials or art galleries’ changing exhibition schedules. This project deliberately blurs the boundaries between visual art, performance, social gathering space, and festive event. As the artists have stated, "Specials will continue to evolve following a desire to go beyond tired dichotomies of inside/outside, art audience/non art audience, viewer versus participant. It is not This or That; it is This and That."
September 17th
6:00-8:00pm
Arctic Book Club @ EFA Project Space, 323 West
39th St, 2nd Fl
Free; A collaboration between Flux
Factory and EFA Project Space, and the result of a group of artists'
process-based responses to the book, An African in Greenland. Tété
Michel Kpomassie's book, An African in Greenland, is the account of
the author's unique journey from his native Togo to Greenland. As a
young man living in Africa, Kpomassie happened across a book about
Greenland. Fascinated with the distant Arctic island, he embarked on
a ten-year journey across Africa and Europe, working as a translator,
and eventually able to complete his odyssey and live in Greenland.
projec...@efa1.org; efa1.org
September 17th 6:00-8:00pm
The Elements of Fashion @ Blank Space Gallery, 511 W 25th St, Suite #204
Free; Two pairs of fashion photographers show off a small sampling of their avant guarde fashion photographs just in time for the end of fashion week.
******* Friday September 18th ******
September 18th 7:00pm-Dusk
LentSpace – Public Opening @ City block at Canal, Varick, Grand, and Sullivan Streets
Free; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) presents LentSpace, a free outdoor cultural space open to the public, made possible by the loan of a Trinity Real Estate development site. LentSpace transforms an entire city block into a platform for contemporary art exhibitions complemented by public programs.
September
18th 8:00pm-1:00am
LentSpace –
Public Opening @ City block at Canal, Varick, Grand, and Sullivan
Streets
Charlie
Chaplin Movie Night @ ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington
$5; A Benefit for
Books Through Bars. 8:00pm - The Gold Rush (1925); 10:00pm - Modern
Times (1936); Midnight - Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
******* Saturday September 19th ******
September 19th 11:00am-5:00pm
Bollywood Dance Class @ Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Ave, Queens
$10; If you’ve ever fancied taking a class in say Bollywood dance à la Slumdog Millionaire, the Afro-Braziian martial art, Caporeira, or basic drawing and painting, look no further than the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning. Myriad 10-week fall workshops kick off on October 3, 6 and 7. Before committing, sample a few during today’s Open House. Sign up on-site and the $10 registration fee will be waived. www.jcal.org
September 19th 9:30-10:30am & 11:00am-12:00pm
Yoga in the Park @ Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens
Free; Socrates offers free Kripalu Yoga, a system of Hatha Yoga that integrates body postures, breathing techniques, relaxation and meditation. Taught by Monique Schubert, participants are encouraged to integrate their yoga practices with
this very special waterfront environment of nature and art. Suitable for all experience levels. Participants should bring a mat or towel.
September 19th 4:00pm
NewMindSpace presents Photograph @ South Seaport
Newmindspace presents: People photographing people photographing people. All you need is a camera! Also consuming alcohol in public is legal in South Street Seaport for those 21+.
September 19th 9:00pm-4:00am
400
Years of Rebellion Dance Party @ The Starr Street Loft, 207 Starr St,
Brooklyn
$10 - 20 sliding scale donation at the door; Don't miss
this rockin' dance party for rebels, revelers and revolutionaries
September 19! When Henry Hudson's Dutch ship the Half Moon inched
around Mannahatta Island September 12, 1609, little did he know that
his arrival would set in motion four centuries of resistance and
rebellion. Forget Hudson! Let's revel in this 400 years of resistance
and rebellion with music by Rebel Diaz, Riot-Folk Collective,
Broadcast Live and DJ Radio Rios! Get your groove on and join The
Indypendent newspaper in celebrating the rebels and dreamers —
Native Americans, runaway slaves and indentured servants,
abolitionists, anarchists, labor reformers, women suffragettes,
antiwar and civil rights activists, environmental defenders and many
more — who have made the “Other New York” and another world
possible. We will quench your thirst with revolutionary cocktails
including the Hudson Hangover, Anti-capitalista with Rum, and the
famous Arunito Mojito. If you dress like your favorite revolutionary
or rebel, we'll give you a free drink!
September 19th 11:00am-6:00pm
Queens County Fair @ Queens County Farm Museum, 3-50 Little Neck Parkway, Queens
$7; You don’t really have to escape to the country to attend a bona fide blue ribbon-competition fair. At the Queens County Farm Museum, the Queens County Fair is an annual tradition with plenty of livestock, crafts, and pie-eaters. Husk corn, listen to a German band, and kick off fall with a proper hayride. www.queensfarm.org
******* Sunday September 20th ******
September 20th 11:00am-6:00pm
Queens County Fair @ Queens County Farm Museum, 3-50 Little Neck Parkway, Queens
$7; You don’t really have to escape to the country to attend a bona fide blue ribbon-competition fair. At the Queens County Farm Museum, the Queens County Fair is an annual tradition with plenty of livestock, crafts, and pie-eaters. Husk corn, listen to a German band, and kick off fall with a proper hayride. www.queensfarm.org
September 20th 4:00pm
Romeo & Juliet @ Astoria Park, Queens
Free; Didn’t get to hang out in the park with a picnic basket and see some Shakespeare this summer? You have one more chance today. If it doesn’t rain, Astoria’s own Curious Frog Theatre Company will take it to Astoria Park to perform a modern, pared down version of Romeo & Juliet. www.curiousfrog.org
******* Monday September 21st ******
September 21st 8:30pm
Movie House on India Street @ West St & India St, Brooklyn
Over four nights the India Street mural will feature projections by filmmakers, animators, and documentarians. The series wraps up with two decidedly Brooklyn documentaries: Uncertain Industry and Up on the Roof. Each of the wall’s five empty spaces will simultaneously turn into a screen, inviting the audience into the world of the artists. After the screenings, the filmmakers and artists will speak with each other and the audience about the creative process that went into creating the mural and the films. http://nbpac.wordpress.com/