Daily Awesome 2/10-2/17
Naomi Huth
Love is in the air. Happy Valentine's Day everyone. I think this is a wonderful day full of romance and pretty things. Enjoy everyone.
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 before Wednesday.
Enjoy. Naomi
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Wednesday February 10th
LECTTURE: Dot Dot Dot @ Galapagos, Brooklyn
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
ART: Group Show @ No Longer Empty, Manhattan
Thursday February 11th
FILM: Rhode Island International Film Fest Shorts @ Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden, Queens
PERFORMANCE: Unsound Festival New York @ Various Locations
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
ART: Group Show @ No Longer Empty, Manhattan
Friday February 12th
PERFORMANCE: You Are My Carbon, And This Is Our Lair @ 147 Roebling St, Brooklyn
ART: SoukJin Park develops pink ribbon @ LMCC Project Space, Manhattan
MUSIC: Steve Conte & the Crazy Truth @ NLE, Manhattan
FILM: The Man Who Fell to Earth @ Rubin Musem of Art, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE: Unsound Festival New York @ Various Locations
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
ART: Group Show @ No Longer Empty, Manhattan
Saturday February 13h
TOUR: Couch Potato Tour @ Maple Grove Cemetery, Queens
ART: Where They At @ Abrons Arts Center, Manhattan
FILM: Tryptophantasia: An Animation Film Screening @ Wild Project, Manhattan
PARTY: Mardi Gras North @ Wonderland, Queens
PERFORMANCE: Unsound Festival New York @ Various Locations
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
ART: Group Show @ No Longer Empty, Manhattan
Sunday February 14th
PERFORMANCE: You Are My Carbon, And This Is Our Lair @ 147 Roebling St, Brooklyn
MOVIE/FOOD: Valentine's Day Dinner and a Movie: It Happened One Night @ BAM Rose Cinemas, Brooklyn
PARTY: The Vault of Golden Vapours @ Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary loft, Brooklyn
PERFORMANCE/MUSIC: Valiumtines's Day @ Galapagos, Brooklyn
COMEDY: Sunday Funnies: SNC's Night of Cheapo Valentines Fun @ The Tank, Manhattan
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
ART: Group Show @ No Longer Empty, Manhattan
******* Ongoing******
January 9th-Febuary 21st W-Sun 12:00-6:00pm
Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, 30 Washington Street, Brooklyn
$2; The pair collaborates à la a game of Exquisite Corpse, aware of the other's involvement but blind to specific compositional details, building their installation in much the same way as strangers living in proximity build their cities in unknowing tandem. And it is precisely this unpredictable urban jumble of flesh and concrete that the pair both celebrates and transcends in PIXELVILLE. A combination of biota-based sculptural elements by Alroy mingle with digital projections by Shor to create a microcosm of the future city — no longer a physical location, the "city" has become a state of mind, a pattern of fluctuating energy that has taken on an increasingly metaphorical existence with the advent of digital media.
January 16th -February 13th Wednesday-Sunday 12:00-7:00pm
Group Show @ No Longer Empty, 14 E 4th Strett
Free; Invader, Joe Diebes, Josh Jordan, Kaz Oshiro, Meredyth Sparks, Naama Tsabar, Nayland Blake, Paul Villinski, R. Luke DuBois, Richard Garet, Ryan Brennan, Siebren Versteeg, Ted Riederer "Never Can Say Goodbye" curated by Asher Remy-Toledo, Manon Slome, Steven Evans. http://nolongerempty.com
February 4th-11th
Unsound Festival New York @ Various Locations
Unsound Festival New York is an ambitious music festival taking place in ports in Manhattan and Brooklyn from Feb. 4-14. The focus is on electronic and experimental music, with a lot of latitude between the two, and the premise comes on loan from Krakow, Poland, where Unsound has been running yearly since 2003. Highlights for here include Lillevan and Vladislav Delay at the Atrium at Lincoln Center (Feb. 4); Carl Craig and nsi. playing live to Andy Warhol films at Walter Reade Theatre (Feb. 5); Moritz von Oswald at Le Poisson Rouge (Feb. 6); Morgan Geist at Littlefield (Feb. 11); and a big dubstep night with 2562, Untold, and lots more at Public Assembly (Feb. 13).
******* Wednesday February 10th ******
February 10th 7:00pm
Dot Dot Dot @ Galapagos, 16 Main St, Brooklyn
$10; The Dot Dot Dot Lecture Series is meant for broad explorations of interaction design, business, and aesthetic inspiration. Practitioners and thought leaders give short talks in an informal setting. Wisdom will be revealed and methods will be shared in a environment intended to satisfy both social and scholarly pursuits.
******* Thursday February 11th ******
February 11th 8:00pm
Rhode Island International Film Fest Shorts @ Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden, 29-19 24th Avenue, Queens
Predict which flick has the most Academy Award potential after you screen the Rhode Island International Film Fest’s best short film submissions, the latest offering from Astoria Indies at the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden. www.astoriaindies.com
******* Friday February 12th ******
February 12th 1:00-6:00pm & 7:00-9:00pm
You Are My Carbon, And
This Is Our Lair @ 147 Roebling St, Brooklyn
Arielle Bier and
Adina Bier explore the boundaries and freedoms of twinning and
interconnectedness through live installation/durational performances
in the gallery. The sisters will create an encapsulating lair using
webbing and suspended pods of sheet rope to perform in. Inspirations
for this work include ritualistic practices such as inuit throat
singing, butoh dance and nesting.
February 12th 6:00-7:00pm
SoukJin Park develops pink ribbon @ LMCC Project Space, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor
Korean-born visual artist SoukJin Park has spent the last two months in the LMCC Project Space developing pink ribbon, a sculptural installation and photography project exploring themes of innocence, sexuality, beauty, and absurdity. SoukJin will open her studio for visitors, and will present a durational performance during the artist's reception. No RSVP necessary. Open Hours: Wednesday – Friday, February 10 - 12, 2-6PM
February 12th 7:00pm
Steve Conte & the Crazy Truth @ NLE, 4th St and Broadway
$10; Did you catch the New York Dolls play a limited standing performance at Tower Records on November 25, 2006? Either way, catch Steve Conte of the New York Dolls perform once more but four years later. Check out the 2006 photos in the meantime here. Steve Conte will be playing songs from his debut album (Varese Vintage Records). RSVP at nolongerempty.org
February 12th 9:30pm
The Man Who Fell to Earth @ Rubin Musem of Art, 150 W17th St
Free w/ $7 drink min; Sci-fi author Norman Spinrad introduces the film. Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him. He does not count on the greed and ruthlessness of business here on Earth, however.
******* Saturday February 13th ******
February 13th 1:00-3:00pm
Couch Potato Tour @ Maple Grove Cemetery, 127-15 Kew Gardens Rd, Queens
$8; RSVP to friend...@aol.com; It’s too cold to wander through Maple Grove Cemetery just yet, but from the indoor comforts of its Center you can now partake in a “Couch Potato Tour.” The first one, led by local historian Carl Ballenas, introduces history buffs to some of Maple Grove’s legendary love stories. Example: Dominicus and Catalina Vandeveer, ancestors of the early Dutch settlers, who in 1868 together faced a highway robber on Jamaica Avenue.
February 13th 6:00-9:00pm
Where
They At @ Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St
Free; A multimedia
archive of New Orleans Bounce, by Aubrey Edwards and Alison
Fensterstock. Opening with with bounce DJ Lefty Parker and
performance by Vockah Redu. The Abrons Arts Center is proud to
announce Where They At, an exhibition that portrays the founders,
architects, and players in the regional rap known as bounce music, a
phenomenon born out of New Orleans housing projects. Mardi Gras
Indian chants, brass band beats, and call-and-response routines
equally inform bounce music, which almost invariably samples the
Showboys’ Drag Rap (aka Triggerman) and features lyrical patterns
that focus on sex, parties and dancing. It invites -- even demands --
audience participation by calling out dance steps or prompting
replies.
February 13th 7:00-10:00pm
Tryptophantasia: An Animation Film Screening @ Wild Project, 195 East 3rd St
$5/$7; Tryptophantasia is a psychotropic event that brings to you some of the best, cream of the crop, underground, psychedelic animations the universe has yet to offer. The screenings that will be projected in Wild Project’s theater may reveal some of the deepest secrets of the universe! If you are ready for consciousness expansion, don’t miss this event, as it will elevate your mind beyond the beyond. Anywhere from 24-28 short films will be screened for two hours varying in style, quality, and nature... and ranging from paradigm shifting animations to mystical videos, tripadelic motion graphics, mind warping experiments, occult surrealism, and lots more. This event is geared to alter your very being to a higher level of super hue-man exaltation & inspiration through the display of some very extraordinary projected screenings. http://vimeo.com/channels/tryptophanatic.
February 13th 7:00pm
Mardi Gras North @ Wonderland, 3801 23rd Ave, Queens
$10
entrance & $10 all you can eat buffet; All money raised goes to
Recostruct Art, a nonprofit that brings art to underserved
communities. They work mostly with inner city/minority youth (teens
and 20s) who have raw talent but may lack guidance, education and
arts training. We teach video, comics, painting, collage, creative
writing and culinary arts and provide professional development. The
party will raise money to bring these great programs to kids in New
Orleans and orphans in Romania. Food: fried chicken, BBQ, gumbo,
catfish, sweet potato cake (all youcan et $10 buffet- with a plug
from Time Out NY), cupcakes by Sugarmama. Drinks: Baileys plus hot
chocolate, pomegranate screwdrivers, Original Sin Cider, Magic Hat,
Sugar Hill and other microbrews. Music: live jazz, New Orleans music
and classic hip hop DJ. Art: affordable art gallery, live graffiti
painting, masks and fashion craft stations, face (and body!)
painting. Eye Candy: burlesque, voodoo-freakout anti-fashion shoot,
airbrush body painting, sequin bikinis and lots of feathers. Treats:
beads, masks, and maybe a pinata full of candy and cash!
www.reconstructart.org
******* Sunday February 14th ******
February 14th 1:00-6:00pm
You Are My Carbon, And
This Is Our Lair @ 147 Roebling St, Brooklyn
Arielle Bier and
Adina Bier explore the boundaries and freedoms of twinning and
interconnectedness through live installation/durational performances
in the gallery. The sisters will create an encapsulating lair using
webbing and suspended pods of sheet rope to perform in. Inspirations
for this work include ritualistic practices such as inuit throat
singing, butoh dance and nesting.
February 14th 6:00 & 8:15pm
Valentine's Day Dinner and a Movie: It Happened One Night @ BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn
$64 for dinner & movie/ $12 just movie; At first, newspaperman Clark Gable doesn't give a damn about affluent runaway Claudette Colbert, going as far as to erect a "Wall of Jericho" between their beds during their cross-country meet. But since this is Frank Capra and his brand of all's-well-that-ends-well comedy, that macho dam can't hold back the amour for long. Indeed, this screwball caper is thoroughly pleasant and charming in its depiction of a classic opposites-attract romance. Valentines can do the film before dinner, after dinner, or sans dinner — though tonight's menu advises otherwise, with first courses like lobster risotto, duck confit crepes, and a melted leek and gruyere tart.
February 14th 7:00pm-2:00am
The Vault of Golden Vapours @ Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary loft, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
7pm admission with dim sum dinner $40 / 9pm: $20 / 11pm: $10; RSVP to lar...@insight2.com for address; On Chinese Moon Year's Eve, a dreamful night in an opium den of our making. Recline in languid repose and drift in the pleasures of intimate performance, golden-throated singers, tales told in glistening flesh, exotic cocktails and delectable dim sum. Full event tickets include catered dim sum dinner & dessert. Featuring live vintage Chinese jazz by Shien Lee of Shanghai Triad and Dances of Vice, Chinese ballads by talented young composer Natti Vogel, Asian-inspired burlesque by Dame Cuchifrita and GrandmaFun, and your opium den madam The Flying Fox. Late-nightÊethno-loungeÊgrooves by DJ Nightshade. Love tarot readings by Marcy Currier. Decadent body painting by 2nd Skin. Custom mural by Molly Crabapple. And of course drinks by The House Of St Eve (yes, t.h.o.s.e. Drinks)... This will be an intimate affair that we expect to sell out, with only 100 full-admission tickets available for presale. This party is also the offical relaunch of the newly redecorated Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary loft. Even if you've seen it before, you've never seen it like this. Dress code: Asian opulence, sexy lounge, crimson + gold, trailing sleeves and dress trains, colorful kimonos, printed silks.
February 14th 7:00pm
Valiumtines's Day @ Galapagos, 16 Main St, Brooklyn
$15; Valiumtime's Day with Adira Amram, John Roberts, Heloise & The Savoir Faire and special guest Reggie Watts! No date this February 14? Hot date but no plans? Make your way to Galapagos for Valiumtine’s Day, where you can choose to wallow in self-pity or engage in copious amounts of PDA. Valiumtine’s Day is a no-holds-barred variety show, guaranteed to improve your mood and change your life. The show features some of NYC’s hottest music and comedy acts, including Adira Amram, John Roberts, Heloise Williams (of Heloise & The Savoir Faire), and very special guests.
February 14th 9:30 pm
Sunday Funnies: SNC's Night of Cheapo Valentines Fun @ The Tank, 354 W 45th St
$10; Cheap drinks, free chocolates, and grade school Valentines for a recession style romance! Hosted by Rachel Axelrod. With Jessie Richardson, Caroline Castiglia, Joe Dixon, Chris Booth, Devin Sanchez, Jay Hoskins, Evan Morgenstern.