Daily Awesome 12/9-12/15
Naomi Huth
Bacon, bacon, wherefore art thou bacon? Wafting through the air of A Very Sandwich Christmas. A must see for this holiday season if you like experimental theater, lewd behavior, witty and amusing songs, and bacon.
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 December 9th
WORKSHOP: Recycled Craft Event: Upcycled Ornaments @ SustainableNYC, Manhattan
LECTURE: Contemporary Performance and the Multiverse @ Sony Wonder Technology Lab, Manhattan
ART/PERFORMANCE: Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima @ Anonymous Gallery, Manhattan
THEATER: A Very SANDWICH Christmas @ Abron Arts Center, Manhattan
Thursday December 10th
ART: Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World @ The Drawing Center, Manhattan
ART: Walter De Maria's The New York Earth Room, 1977 @ Dia Art Foundation, Manhattan
ART: Preview 2010 and Christmas Party @ Blank Space, Manhattan
SHOP/ART: The Clothesline Benefit Art Sale @ ABC No Rio, Manhattan
LECTURE: Dreaded Feast @ Housing Works, Manhattan
ART/PERFORMANCE: Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima @ Anonymous Gallery, Manhattan
ART: Cartoons in Conflict @ Storefront, Manhattan
THEATER/FILM/MUSIC: Sex Crimes @ Walkerspace, Manhattan
THEATER: Christmas Spectacular @ House of Yes, Brooklyn
THEATER: A Very SANDWICH Christmas @ Abron Arts Center, Manhattan
Friday December 11th
LECTURE/ART: Bridge the Gap? 6 @ Storefront for Art & Architecture, Manhattan
MUSIC: Caroling at the Morgan @ Morgan Library & Museum, Manhattan
ART/PERFORMANCE: Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima @ Anonymous Gallery, Manhattan
THEATER/FILM/MUSIC: Sex Crimes @ Walkerspace, Manhattan
ART: Cartoons in Conflict @ Storefront, Manhattan
THEATER: Christmas Spectacular @ House of Yes, Brooklyn
THEATER: A Very SANDWICH Christmas @ Abron Arts Center, Manhattan
Saturday December 12th
PERFORMANCE/MUSIC: Unsilent Night New York @ The Arch in Washington Square Park, Manhattan
SPORT/MUSIC: 2009 Major League Dreidel Tournament @ Knitting Factory, Brooklyn
ART: Audrey Kawasaki: Hajimari and Dalek: And There Was War In Heaven @ Jonathan Levine Gallery, Manhattan
THEATER/FILM/MUSIC: Sex Crimes @ Walkerspace, Manhattan
PARTY: The Danger's Sugar Rum Cherry @ 3rd Ward, Brooklyn
EVENT: SantaCon @ Various Locations, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn
PARTY: Dances of Vice "Trouble in Toyland" @ Rebel, Brooklyn
PARTY: Santacon After Party @ 48 North 3rd St, Brooklyn
ART/PERFORMANCE: Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima @ Anonymous Gallery, Manhattan
ART: Cartoons in Conflict @ Storefront, Manhattan
THEATER: Christmas Spectacular @ House of Yes, Brooklyn
THEATER: A Very SANDWICH Christmas @ Abron Arts Center, Manhattan
Sunday December 13th
LIGHTS: Light Up McCarren @ McCarren Park, Brooklyn
PARTY: Choking on Cufflinks Chanukah/Hanukkah Party @ Secret Project Robot
MUSIC: Music @ Monster Island Basement, Brooklyn
ART/PERFORMANCE: Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima @ Anonymous Gallery, Manhattan
ART: Cartoons in Conflict @ Storefront, Manhattan
Monday December 14th
MUSIC: Lissy Trullie @ Mercury Lounge, Manhattan
THEATER: The Ties That Bind @ Roy Arias Studios, Manhattan
ART: Cartoons in Conflict @ Storefront, Manhattan
THEATER: A Very SANDWICH Christmas @ Abron Arts Center, Manhattan
Tuesday December 15th
ART: Cartoons in Conflict @ Storefront, Manhattan
******* Ongoing******
December 3rd-19th Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday 8:00pm/Saturday 7:00pm & 9:00pm
A Very SANDWICH Christmas @ Abron Arts Center, 466 Grand St, Manhattan
Special show on Monday December 14th 8pm
$20 through December 17; $25 December 18-19; A Very SANDWICH Christmas is a meaty treat that leaks blood and uses bread to soak it up. Featuring a ragtag four piece band, Sandwich is a playful,provocative & horrific musical that examines the art of eating and the blind act of consumption during the festive holiday season; a disastrous anime cartoon with rambunctious rhythm featuring overstuffed animals offering their moral misgivings to the exaggeratedly grotesque humans that feed them. This show will make you laugh while forcing you to smell the burning flesh surrounding your merry little soul. Singalongs included. From the creators of Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage, The Fall & Rise of the Rising Fallen, The Sewers and Panel.Animal. “Stab whom you have to for a ticket: Sandwich is play-making at its meatiest" -Time Out New York Tickets may be purchased at: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/683135
December
10th, 11th, 12th Doors at 8pm. Show at 9pm.
Christmas
Spectacular @ House of Yes, 342 Maujer St, Brooklyn
$20 at door,
$15 pre-sale; Join the Lady Circus and family, as we celebrate the
Holiday Season with our very own Christmas Spectacular…a
ridiculously festive, in-your-face performance extravaganza!
Featuring more talent than that other “Christmas Spectacular”,
this show is overflowing with glitter, glamour, sex, comedy, matching
costumes, synchronized dancing, and outrageous theatrics! buy tickets
here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/91263
December 10th-23rd Daily
Cartoons in Conflict @ Storefront, 6 West 26th St
This unique event gathers the work of 40 political cartoonists from around the world, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Pat Oliphant and Jim Morin. For this exhibition, co-presented by grassroots advocacy organizations Parents Circle/Families Forum and No Longer Empty (which uses formally empty storefronts and as creative exhibition spaces), featured artists share their side on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, often using wit and humor to stir up discussion and to underline the importance of levity in even the most serious issues.
December 9th-January 1st 12:00-6:00pm
Pankabestia:
Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima @ Anonymous
Gallery, 169 Bowery
Traveling from the Karst region of Slovenia to
Venice, Italy, Swoon and 30+ artists braved the waters of the
Adriatic Sea and navigated a fleet of three intricately hand crafted
vessels. The exhibition
includes artwork, objects, and a series of performances based on the
"Swimming Cities" invasion. The environment/experience will
include large-scale wall drawings, original Swimming Cities boat
installations, portions of the ships, found objects acquired from
sea, performances from the original members of the journey, beautiful
photographic documentation from artist Tod Seelie, and art from Spy
Emerson, Monica Canilao and many others. Wednesday through Sunday.
http://anonymousgallery.com/art
December 10th,11th,12th
8:00pm
Sex Crimes @ Walkerspace, 46
Walker St
$20;
Sex Crimes navigates amazing but true sexual legislation, taboos and
history in a scintillating, multi-media cabaret. L. Gabrielle Penabaz
deftly binds you with a kaleidoscopic exposé using her films, dance,
rock-n-roll, sex toys,and whatever comes to her fishnet-twisted mind
- and you don't get a safety word. http://www.SexCrimesCabaret.com
******* Wednesday December 9th ******
December 9th 6:00-7:00pm
Recycled Craft Event: Upcycled Ornaments @ SustainableNYC, 139 Ave A
Free; Come to RePlayGround's FREE recycled craft workshop with Carly Miller and learn how to re-make your used Metrocards into sturdy, origami-style Christmas ornaments. Dazzle your tree and all your friends with your crafty genius. RSVP a must! only 8 spots available! Email Ca...@replayground.com
December
9th 7:00pm
Conversations with Culture: Contemporary
Performance and the Multiverse @ Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 550
Madison Ave
Free with RSVP to artsdev...@ps122.org; PS122
will stage the second panel discussion in the Conversations with
Culture series tonight entitled "Contemporary Performance and
the Multiverse." "The discussion aims to trigger wider
cross-community debates about the role and ramifications of
contemporary performance as a mode of articulating scientific theory
and expressing our human experience of the laws and mysteries of the
physical universe. The conversation uses as its launching pad PS122
artists Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl’s work Terrible Things, a
new collaborative work exploring the multiverse though personal
narrative, particle physics, and a shifting 'set' of 600 marshmallows
that stand in for particles, potential energy, and the sub-atomic
realm." More on the series and Terrible Things below.
******* Thursday December 10th ******
December
10th
6:00-9:00pm
Ree Morton: At the Still Point
of the Turning World @ The Drawing Center, 35/40 Wooster Street
Free; An exhibition of drawing-based works by the late American
artist Ree Morton (1936 –1977) highlights the artist’s
influential body of work, remarkably all produced in a single decade
between her decision to turn to art full-time in the late 1960s and
her tragic death in an automobile accident in 1977, shortly before
her 41st birthday. Video Screening of Ree Morton: An Interview (1974)
at 6:30PM.
(25min. run time) www.drawingcenter.org
December
10th
6:00-9:00pm
Walter De Maria's The New
York Earth Room, 1977 @ Dia Art Foundation, 141 Wooster Street
Free;
Walter De Maria’s The New York Earth Room has been on long-term
view to the public since 1980 and consists of 250 cubic yards of
earth. This work was commissioned and is maintained by Dia Art
Foundation.
December 10th 6:00-8:00pm
Preview 2010 and Christmas Party @ Blank Space, 511 W 25th St, Suite #204
Blank Space presents “Preview 2010,” a sneak peek of 6 artists who will be exhibiting at Blank Space in the upcoming year: Nuala Clarke, Cathy Daley, Jonny Detiger, Damara Kaminecki, Susan Schwalb, and Douglas Witmer. Seeing their work together allows for a lively visual dialogue that highlights the different approaches each artists takes towards color, materials and subject matter.
December 10th 7:00-10:00pm
The Clothesline Benefit
Art Sale @ ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street
Free; Affordable works
on paper for $25-50. Past Clothesline Shows were lots of fun, with
many surprising things hanging on the line. Proceeds benefit the ABC
No Rio Building Fund.abcnorio.org
December 10th 7:00-8:30pm
Dreaded Feast @ Housing Works, 126 Crosby St
Free; With all the holiday hoopla that engulfs the city, the Dreaded Feast's unabashed anti-cheer is refreshing. In the first part of the evening, Greg Kotis of Urinetown fame gives us the lowdown on "The Truth About Santa"; George Plimpton's son reads his late father's popular "Guide to Gift Giving"; and other notable writers lash out at the "season to be jolly." All this merriment culminates with a party that's perfect for mingling with the featured guests and fellow audience members.
******* Friday December 11th ******
December 11th 11:00am-8:00pm
Bridge the Gap? 6 @
Storefront for Art & Architecture, 97 Kenmare St
A day of open
lectures and conversations at Storefront, organized by Center for
Contemporary Art: an international series of conferences that aims
to create an ongoing forum between artists, scientists, designers and
thinkers of the humanities in which ideas are exchanged and
reciprocal stimulation and influence can occur. The first BTG?, held
in 2001 in Kitakyushu (Japan) brought together 30 specialists from
the arts, sciences and humanities (www.btgjapan.org); the second in
took place in Milan, the third in Chiang Mai, the fourth in
Kitakyushu/Shanghai and the fifth in Venice. Each event involved a
profound change in scale and context of the BTG? format.
December 11th
6:30–8:30pm
Caroling
at the Morgan @ Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave
Free; Come hear traditional and popular holiday music performed throughout the Morgan by singers from Mannes College The New School for Music. Tickets are not required for this event. www.themorgan.org
******* Saturday December 12th ******
December 12th 7:00pm
Unsilent Night New York @
The Arch in Washington Square Park
Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night
is a free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual
parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs and mp3s, and played through a
roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets every
December. People bring their own boomboxes and drift peacefully
through a cloud of sound which is different from every listener's
perspective. Since 1992, this 45-minute work has grown into a
worldwide annual communal event that has become an essential part of
many winter holiday celebrations. Anyone can produce
this--individuals, arts organizations, museums, universities, towns &
cities have presented it. Start your own! Contact us for details.
http://www.unsilentnight.com/about.html
December 12th 7:00pm
2009 Major League Dreidel
Tournament @ Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn
$10
Online & $15 at the Door; 7:00pm - Chachke, Treats &
Spinning Practice; 8:00pm - 'Hanukkah Gone Metal' with Gods of Fire;
9:00pm - 2009 MLD Tournament; 11:00pm - Category Sixx, 'World's
Greatest Air Band'; The 2009 MLD Tournament is going to be
spincredible, as Virtual Dreidel attempts to retain his Spin The
Dreidel title. Gods of Fire will perform their new album “Hanukkah
Gone Metal”, an eight song collection of original and traditional
tracks celebrating all the fun and importance of the Festival of
Lights. “Hanukkah Gone Metal” is available online now and it will
melt your gelt!
December 12th 7:00-9:00pm
Audrey Kawasaki: Hajimari and Dalek: And There Was War In Heaven @ Jonathan Levine Gallery, 529 W 20th St, 9E
Audrey Kawasaki's new series includes paintings on wood panel, and some on paper, all of which feature the artist’s signature, sultry female subjects. Dalek continues to build upon the creative departure marked in his 2007 show Desperate, Rejected, and Angry—when he dropped the Dalek moniker to reveal his true name and debuted a new series of paintings rich in color and complex layers, reducing his popular Space Monkey character to its basic underlying geometric components for the first time.
December 12th
The Danger's Sugar Rum Cherry @ 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave
'Tis the season when were supposed to act nice, but this night is naughty and filled with our vice. A slightly delirious, all-night holiday event. Bring your own mistletoe. thedanger.com for more details.
December 12th All Day starting at 10:00am
SantaCon @ Various Locations
Free; Santacon is one of our favorite participatory happenings on the calendar. The idea is simple: deck yourself out in that red and fur-lined regalia and march with thousands of others similarly bedecked (the sheer variety of get-ups is spectacular) through New York's streets, bodegas, parks, and most especially, bars. Besides imbibing and being jolly, singing carols is another Santacon custom, except these titles are at once familiar and hilariously WTF, with jingles like "Police Navidad" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Raver." http://nycsantacon.com/
December 12th 9:00pm-2:00am
Dances of Vice
"Trouble in Toyland" @ Rebel, 251 West 30th St
$20;
Search beneath the merry facade of Winter Toyland and you'll find
there's trouble afoot! Dances of Vice welcomes you to a surrealist's
Toyland, where daily dolls go missing, and the toy soldiers have gone
quite deranged... Dress Code: Little Bo Peep, Hansel & Gretel,
Mary Contrary, Jack Nimble, Toy Soldiers, Dolls, Little Boy Blue,
Puss in Boots, Wind-up ballerinas, Miss Muffet, Peter Piper, Jack in
the Box, Jack & Jill, Elves, Queen of Hearts - or vintage and
formal evening attire.
December 12th 10:00pm
Santacon After Party @ 48 North 3rd St, Brooklyn
$10 before midnight with rsvp to http://www.loseyourshit.com/LYS/RSVP.html; A warehouse party w/ DJ Small¢hange, Eli Escobar, Dave Q and Incyde (Dub War), and Dirty South Joe; Lights by Lady Firefly; Performances by Lady Circus & Sandhi Ferreira
******* Sunday December 13th ******
December 13th 4:00-10:00pm
Choking on Cufflinks Chanukah/Hanukkah Party @ Secret Project Robot, 128 River Street, Brooklyn
There will be a Menorah Lighting, Latkes, Dredels, (C)Hanu(k)kah Gelt, drinks, etc. There will also be bands who may or may not have a practicing Jewish member (i.e. Jacques Detergent (frei), The Mad Scence (frei), German Measles (frum).) and the sweet fragrance of frying latkes. http://www.wfmu. org/playlists/ VR
December 13th 6:00pm
Light Up McCarren @ McCarren Park, Brooklyn
Finding Christmas lights a bit unoriginal this time of year? Tonight, the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition’s newest project gets switched on in McCarren Park. Living Objects, an installation by the lights-and-kinetics artist Jason Krugman, features three humanoid sculptures woven through with white lights. At 6pm, the lights in the park will be turned off, letting the glow of these surreal sculptures take center stage for a moment. A reception will follow the lighting at Light-Up Brooklyn, one of the project’s main sponsors.
December 13th 8:00pm
Music @ Monster Island Basement, 128 River St, Brooklyn
$7; Blank Dogs, Led Er Est, Tickley Feathers, and Silk Flowers
******* Monday December 14th ******
December 14th 7:00pm
Lissy Trullie @ Mercury Lounge, 217 E Houston St
$13/$15; Lissy Trullie is a brash, fetching artist with a solid hold on songwriting and game way of flirting with snarls and snaps. Her sound is very much early punk as practiced by the likes of Elvis Costello and Pat Benatar, with lots of ringing (not crunchy) guitars and just enough care for composition to create the illusion of being off-the-cuff. Trullie's 2009 album, Self-Taught Learner, has earned her lots of attention, and there's reason to believe she'll stick around too.
December 14th 8:00pm
The Ties That Bind @ Roy Arias Studios, 300 W 43rd St, 5th fl
$10. suggested donation; An evening of short plays to benefit CockEyed Optimists: The Divide, Just Say Something, Who's Talkin' 'Bout Popeye, The M Word, Just Knots, Anything for You, and Poets & Prophets