Daily Awesome 8/19-8/24
Naomi Huth
Ignore the heat and eats lots of pizza. That is my plan and it should be yours as well. My computer is having a few issues so I apologize for any problems with the last e-mail.
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 August 19th
FILM: Pineapple Express @ Pier 54, Manhattan
FILM: Shaft @ Rumsey Playfield, Manhattan
Thursday August 20th
ART: Summer Soirees 2009 @ Chelsea Art Museum, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/ART/DANCE: New Russian Choreography @ Storefront for Art and Architecture, Manhattan
ART: The 2009 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Exhibition @ Agora Gallery. Manhattan
FILM/MUSIC: Zero Film Festival's New York Premiere @ Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn
FILM: Catch Me If You Can@ Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn
Friday August 21st
THEATER: Hip to Hip Theatre Company @ Sunnyside Gardens Park, Queens
FILM: Appropriate War: Repositioning Ourselves to the Simulacra @ Elga Wimmer PCC, Manhattan
FILM/MUSIC/DANCE: Passport Fridays 2009 @ Queens Museum of Art, Queens
THEATER: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind @ Kraine Theater, Manhattan
FILM: Double Dirty Dancing @ Monkey Town, Brooklyn
FILM: Twilight @ Rumsey Playfield, Manhattan
PARTY: Fund the Wedge @ Windmill Factory, Brooklyn
Saturday August 22nd
THEATER: Hip to Hip Theatre Company @ Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens
ART/PERFORMANCE: Super Heroes/Villans @ Gershwin Hotel, Manhattan
FILM: Desperately Seeking Susan @ Rumsey Playfield, Manhattan
PARTY: Refuge 2.0 @ Refuge, Queens
THEATER: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind @ Kraine Theater, Manhattan
Sunday August 23rd
SPORT: Astoria Park’s big ping pong session @ Astoria Park, Queens
THEATER: Hip to Hip Theatre Company @ Forest Park, Queens
MUSIC: Jelly presents The Pool Parties 2009 @ East River State Park, Brooklyn
MUSIC: Metropol.Mode + DJ party @ The Bell House, Brooklyn
Monday August 24th
THEATER/MUSIC: Musical Mondays @ Splash Bar, Manhattan
******* Ongoing ******
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 August 19th ******
August 19th Dusk (around 8:30pm)
Pineapple Express @ Pier 54, 14th St. and the Hudson River
Free; On top of getting to watch movies overlooking Hudson River on beautiful summer nights, the other thing I like about River Flicks is that every year they pick a central theme for their screenings. This year's they "know what you did last summer" and screen films released in 2008. Tonight is the finale of this summer's series, and what better way to go out than with last year's stoner classic Pineapple Express.
August 19th 8:00 pm, gates open at 6:00 pm
Shaft @ Rumsey Playfield, enter the Park at Fifth Avenue and 69th Street
Free; (1971) John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) is the ultimate in suave detectives. A cool private eye, Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. 100 min. DJ $mall Change spinning form 6:00-8:00pm
*******
Thursday August 20th
******
August
20th
6:00-11:00pm
Summer Soirees 2009 @ Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W 22 street
For more information email
nicol...@chelseaartmuseum.org, 6-11pm
August 20th
6:00pm
New Russian Choreography @
Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street
$5 suggested donation; Ten buckets of dirt, a chair, a sheaf of hay, a scythe and a sickle. Four Russian artists - two choreographers and two theater directors. A unique site with fluid architecture that blurs the boundary between stage and street. For one evening only, these elements will come together. The result is an event that transcends genres and defies expectations. Join us to find out what happens. Email akadysh...@cecartslink.org to reserve a ticket.
August
20th
6:00-8:00pm
The 2009 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Exhibition @ Agora Gallery, 530 W 25 street
August 20th
7:30pm doors/8:30pm screening/10:30pm–2:00am music
Zero Film
Festival's New York Premiere @ Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street,
Brooklyn
$10 advance, $15 door; The first festival exclusive to
self-financed filmmakers has our New York Premiere at Galapagos Art
Space, in build-up to our weeklong festival in December. Our first
event in New York offers three distinct screening blocks. Open your
free PBR and watch the films being created all around you by New
York's finest underground filmmakers in our Community Block. Next
prepare yourself to be moved by our Made for Zero and Heroes of the
Zero Budget block. Now our seriously visually enhanced After Party
begins with music video premieres and live performances, including
hand held projections. Evening line up: Contributing filmmakers
include Guy Ben-Ner, Alia Raza, Victor Varnado, Rodrigo Lopresti,
Sunset Television, Peru Ana Ana Peru, Jesse Gelaznik, Elaine Lima,
Bianca Ahmadi, Lovisa Inserra, "Mike Smith", Zach Clark,
Mary Wall Bronstein, Jacquelyn Gallo, Lena Dunham, Timothy Saccenti,
and Team Zero and more.
August 20th dusk
Catch Me If You Can @
Brooklyn Bridge Park, 1 Main Street, Brooklyn
Free; DJs from
Brooklyn Radio will provide the pre-film musical entertainment; the
Manhattan skyline will provide the breathtaking backdrop.
http://www.brooklynbridgepark.org
******* Friday August 21st ******
August 21st 6:30-10:00pm
Passport Fridays 2009 @ Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
5th International Outdoor Film, Dance & Music Series
August 21st 7:00pm
Hip to Hip Theatre Company @ Sunnyside Gardens Park, Sunnyside, Queens
Free; If you don’t feel like sweating in line for tickets to Shakespeare in the Park, there’s another chance to get a free dose of the Bard. Woodside-based Hip to Hip Theatre Company presents its last weekend of performances in Queens parks with Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare’s quintessential tragedy – or love story depending upon your perspective. www.hiptohip.org
August 21st 7:00-9:00pm
Appropriate War: Repositioning Ourselves to the Simulacra @ Elga Wimmer PCC, 526 W 26th St. Floor 3
Screening of Vonnegut's Tivo, and discussion curated by Andrea.
August 21st 7:30pm
Double Dirty Dancing @ Monkey Town, 58 N. 3rd St, Brooklyn
Free with $10 minimum; You’ve never seen Dirty Dancing like this before. MonkeyTown repeats its innovative showing of the 1987 classic paired with Holiday, the 2006 shot-for-shot Bollywood remake. Both films will be screening simultaneously with the Bollywood soundtrack playing.
August 21st 8:00 pm, gates open at 6:00 pm
Twilight @ Rumsey Playfield, enter the Park at Fifth Avenue and 69th Street
Free; (2008) When you can live forever what do you live for? A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love the coolest and hottest looking guy at Forks High School , who just happens to be a vampire. This love story has a cult-like following. Catch the original before the sequel premieres. 122 min. DJ $mall Change spinning form 6:00-8:00pm
August 21st 9:17pm-4am
Double Dirty Dancing @ Monkey Town
Twilight @ Rumsey Playfield,
Fund
the Wedge @ Windmill Factory, 155 North 3rd Street, NO. 15,
Brooklyn
$10 advance, $15 door includes one free beer; Final
fundraiser for the Wedge, three days before we go to Burning Man.
Over half the price of the first event and twice the entertainment.
Multiple Loft spaces with great beats, burlesque, circus, the cast of
Fuerzabruta, acrobats, massage stations, aerial performances, video
installations, buy me a Wedgie booth, an art silent auction, the
Wedginator, and a raffle for hundreds of dollars in prizes.
freewedgie.com
******* Saturday August 22nd ******
August 22nd 5:00pm
Hip to Hip Theatre Company @ Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, Queens
Free; If you don’t feel like sweating in line for tickets to Shakespeare in the Park, there’s another chance to get a free dose of the Bard. Woodside-based Hip to Hip Theatre Company presents its last weekend of performances in Queens parks with Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare’s quintessential tragedy – or love story depending upon your perspective. www.hiptohip.org
August 22nd 6:00-11:00pm
Super
Heroes/Villans @ Gershwin Hotel.
$17/$20 at the adventure;
Characters will come out nude and proud. Sinister, captivating,
flexing their super powers holding the Gershwin captive, the trails
of what is just. Draw, write or watch, living art as they fight,
struggle and attack. A group of time travelers from A.D, the 40s. and
the future will rise for power. A story of Love, power and flight.
Don’t miss this one, 25 wild action heroes and she-killers. P.S in
the back room- a secret performance characters dressing and changing,
come draw the process of alteration. live music by Neke Carson home
made music by Michael Alan
August 22nd 8:00 pm, gates open at 6:00 pm
Desperately Seeking Susan @ Rumsey Playfield, enter the Park at Fifth Avenue and 69th Street
Free; (1985) A bored suburban housewife, seeking adventure to her life, accidentally gets hit on the head, wakes up with amnesia, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan (starring the coolest chameleon, Madonna). 104 min. DJ $mall Change spinning form 6:00-8:00pm
August 22nd 10:00pm-6:00am
Refuge 2.0 @ Refuge,
Ridgewood, Queens
$10 before midnight/ $15 after; The new world is
just upon the horizon, explorers. We have finally liberated the first
floor of our big old warehouse, making Refuge truly massive in all
senses of the word. Come celebrate Refuge's expansion with music in
both indoor spaces, a beautiful rooftop, interactive art
installations, and the pulsating vibe of this converted warehouse.
Light art by Jason Eppink, creator of the Light Ripple, Pixelator and
Print After Party. Candy Crack delivery by Club Animal, the big blue
mascot who gives you free bouncy rides on the subway. Psychedelic
string art upstairs. Human carpet performance by Kevin Carpet.
*******
Sunday August 23rd
******
August
23rd
11:00am-4:00pm
Astoria Park’s big ping pong session @ Astoria Park, Astoria, Queens
Presented by Triple R Events and Build it Green! NYC. Hit a few balls yourself or just get comfy on a blanket and watch an open match from the sidelines. www.3r-events.blogspot.com
August 23rd 5:00pm
Hip to Hip Theatre Company @ Forest Park, Queens
Free; If you don’t feel like sweating in line for tickets to Shakespeare in the Park, there’s another chance to get a free dose of the Bard. Woodside-based Hip to Hip Theatre Company presents its last weekend of performances in Queens parks with Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare’s quintessential tragedy – or love story depending upon your perspective. www.hiptohip.org
August 23rd 6:00pm
Jelly presents The Pool Parties 2009 @ East River State Park, 90 Kent Ave, Brooklyn
Free; Girl Talk, Max
Tundra, and Wiz Khalifa. www.thepoolparties.com
August 23rd & 24th All Day
Metropol.Mode + DJ party @ The Bell House, 149 7th St, Brooklyn
$10/$15 for both days; Celebrating the abundant, diverse, and cutting-edge creativity that emerges from high population-density urban areas. The performance space at The Bell House will be transformed with an installation of floating walls suspended from the existing exposed 20-foot beams. The 8'x4' walls will feature works by local artists, with alternating performances highlighted on stage and in the crowd by local musicians, djs, performance artists, and clothing designers.
******* Monday August 24th ******
August 24th 7:00pm-Midnight
Musical Mondays @ Splash
Bar, 50 W 17th St
Free; Each Monday night, a packed
house roars for everything from classic gems (Barbra’s “Don’t
Rain On My Parade,” Carol Channing’s “Hello, Dolly!” and
Angela Lansbury’s “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”) to new
favorites (Sutton Foster in The Drowsy Chaperone, Christine Ebersole
in Grey Gardens and the Tony Awards Jersey Boys medley) to
show-stopping diva brilliance (Patti Lupone’s “A New Argentina,”
Idina Menzel’s “Defying Gravity,” and Jennifer Holliday’s
“And I’m Telling You”).