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Naomi Huth
Aug 12, 2009, 11:41:55 AM8/12/09
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Breaking News: All the mermaids are living in Israel.
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 12th
MUSIC: Antifolk Festival @ Sidewalk Café, Manhattan
DANCE: Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight @ South Cove Plaza in Battery Park City, Manhattan
FILM: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind @ Ballfields at McCarren Park, Brooklyn
PERFORMANCE: Wau Wau Sisters' Last Suppper @ Performance Space, Manhattan
MUSIC: NYC's 1st Music Video Film Festival + Band Battle @ Public Assembly, Brooklyn
FILM: Sex & the City @ Pier 54, Manhattan
MUSIC: Roots and Ruckus @ Jalopy Theatre, Manhattan
Thursday August 13th
DANCE: Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight @ South Cove Plaza in Battery Park City, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE: Duke Riley’s Those Who Are About to Die Salute You @ Queens Museum of Art, Queens
MUSIC: Blondie, Pat Benatar & The Donnas @ Asser Levy/Seaside Park, Brooklyn
FILM/ART: A Night of Works by What We Know So Far @ 3rd Ward, Brooklyn
PARTY: Flux Factory 15th Birthday @ Flux Factory, Queens
FILM: Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid@ Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn
MUSIC: Antifolk Festival @ Sidewalk Café, Manhattan
Friday August 14th
DANCE/MUSIC/FILM: Passport Fridays: Iran @ Queens Museum of Art, Queens
ART: Brooklyn Bailout Burlesque @ Factory Fresh, Brooklyn
MUSIC/PARTY: Globesonic Summer on the Hudson @ Riverside Park South, Manhattan
MUSIC: PopGun presents PJPJ & Mixel Pixel @ Littlefield, Brooklyn
MUSIC: Antifolk Festival @ Sidewalk Café, Manhattan
Saturday August 15th
ART: Mom & Popism @ 210 Elizabeth St, Manhattan
FESTIVAL: Burmese Festival @ Myanmar Baptist Church, Queens
PRTY: Boom Boat Compressor on the Water @ Queen of Hearts, Manhattan
MUSIC: Third Ear Training 3.0 @ Newton Barge Terminal Park, Brooklyn
PARTY/ART: Eidos: Visionary Culture thru Art, Form & Sound @ Refuge, Queens
PARTY: Dances of Vice Third Year Anniversary Party @ 303 Bond Street Theater, Brooklyn
PARTY: Overboard: A fundraiser for Figment @ Battery Maritime Building ferry slip, Manhattan
MUSIC: Antifolk Festival @ Sidewalk Café, Manhattan
Sunday August 16th
PARADE: India Day Parade @ 41st St to 28th St on Madison Ave, Manhattan
MUSIC: Jelly presents The Pool Parties 2009 @ East River State Park, Brooklyn
MUSIC: Antifolk Festival @ Sidewalk Café, Manhattan
Monday August 17th
MUSIC: La Menta Collective’s Inaugural Junta @ La Pregunta Arts, Manhattan
GAMES: Beer and Board Games @ Glasslands Gallery
FILM: Close Encounters @ Bryant Park, Manhattan
******* Ongoing ******
August 12th-16th
Antifolk Festival @ Sidewalk Café, 94 Ave A
The Summer Antifolk Festival is taking place August 7th through 16th at Sidewalk Cafe in NYC (94 Ave A). Some highlights over the two-plus-week festival include Jason & Rachel Trachtenburg, Jaymay, Soft Black, Dufus and Larkin Grimm. Celebrating 25 years of semi-annual Antifolk performances (a winter event mirrors the summer one), the festival is a showcase for a diverse cast of talented musicians and spoken-word performers, newcomers and veterans alike. New York City's Antifolk community has been a welcoming launching pad for well-known artists such as Beck, The Moldy Peaches, Jeffrey Lewis, Regina Spektor, Hamell on Trial, and Nellie McKay. The Sidewalk Café has been the scene's proud stomping ground since 1992. http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/07/sidewalk_cafes.html
******* Wednesday August 12th ******
August 12th 6:30PM
Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight @ South Cove Plaza in Battery Park City, Mary Miss Staircase
Free; Gabrielle Lansner and Company’s Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight is an exuberant dance inspired by “Dresses of Transformation,” a series of colorful and fanciful dresses by artist Caterina Bertolotto. Part dance and part dancing parade, Turning Heads will be a celebration of freedom and personal transformation performed by women of many cultural backgrounds to reflect the diversity of New York City. Created in collaboration with the company, the dance will reflect elements of each woman’s personal experience and will feature new music by composer Nancy Magarill. South Cove is an environmental landscape recess along the Hudson River waterfront.
August 12th 6:30pm music/movie starts at dusk
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind @ Ballfields at McCarren Park, N. 12th & Bedford, Brooklyn
Free; The L Magazine’s outdoor film series, Summerscreen, returns this year to North Brooklyn but in a new home. http://summerscreen.org
August 12th 8:00-9:30pm
Wau Wau Sisters' Last Suppper @ Performance Space 122, 150 1st Ave
$20 or $15 in advance; New York City's bravest and bawdiest duo, The Wau Wau Sisters invite one and all in to their garden of unearthly delights and debauchery and deliver an hour of profanity and divinity. Straddling (literally) the hilarious gap between religious and related, performance art and party, busking and burlesque, this show is sure to make you want to convert to their cunning cult. Let the Wau Wau Sisters show you the way! With a defiant mix of hell-raising humour and mesmerizing mayhem, watch catholic school girls turned born-again Country Western stars gather dandy's, derelicts and disciples along the way, and build to a bacchanalian finale.
August 12th 8:00pm
NYC's 1st Music Video Film Festival + Band Battle @ at Public Assembly, 76 N 6th St, Brooklyn
$TBA; Belikos , Dinosaur Feathers , Hank & Cupcakes , Holler Wild Rose! , No Lindsay , Sami Akbari, The Basements , The Courtesy Tier , The Dead River Company , and The Glorious Veins. Hosted by Dan Hopper (VH1 Best Week Ever). 38 music videos from 5 different countries ranging from Cannes Award-winning to homemade. Performances by: Lowry, H.Wood, Ivan and the Terribles. Held together by Jimmy-Fallon-crushing, Webby Award Winner Bobby Miller. http://www.silversound.us
August 12th Dusk
Sex & the City @ 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 Carrie comes to the big screen in the Sex and The City movie.
August 12th 9:30pm
Roots and Ruckus @ Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia St, Brooklyn
Free; Roots & Ruckus is a weekly Roots music variety show Wednesday nights at The Jalopy Red Hook. Hosted by Feral Foster, the show has been running strong for over 4 years and is a place to see some of New York City's best and exciting local roots music. Tonight features music by Jack Lynch, Stephanie Nilles, Orb Mellon, So Brown, Cal Folger Day and Frank Hoier.
******* Thursday August 13th ******
August 13th 12:30pm
Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight @ South Cove Plaza in Battery Park City, Mary Miss Staircase
Free; Gabrielle Lansner and Company’s Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight is an exuberant dance inspired by “Dresses of Transformation,” a series of colorful and fanciful dresses by artist Caterina Bertolotto. Part dance and part dancing parade, Turning Heads will be a celebration of freedom and personal transformation performed by women of many cultural backgrounds to reflect the diversity of New York City. Created in collaboration with the company, the dance will reflect elements of each woman’s personal experience and will feature new music by composer Nancy Magarill. South Cove is an environmental landscape recess along the Hudson River waterfront.
August 13th 6:00-9:30pm
Duke Riley’s Those Who Are About to Die Salute You @ Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Free; Naumachia - Live Roman Naval Battle; mandatory toga dress code. A battle on water wielded with baguette swords and watermelon cannon balls by New York’s art dignitaries. http://www.queensmuseum.org/2009/08/13
August 13th 7:00-10:00pm
A Night of Works by What We Know So Far @ 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn
Free; The folks from WWKSF are back to wow us again with their brilliant renderings of memes, pop culture and the internet. They will present an evening of works including The Hannah Complex (Yes. Hannah as is in Montana), a shorter, updated, but still awesome MemeFactory and the premiere of two brand spanking new video pieces. This is one event capable of bringing belly laughs and increased brain capacity.
August 13th 7:30pm
Blondie, Pat Benatar & The Donnas @ Asser Levy/Seaside Park, West 5th St & Surf Ave Coney Island, Brooklyn
Free; The 31st Annual Seaside Summer Concert Series. The public is encouraged to bring their own chairs. A limited amount of $5 rental chairs in a specially designated area are available on a first-come first-served basis.
August 13th 8:00pm
Flux Factory 15th Birthday @ Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St, Queens
Brandstifter, Ik-Song Jin, Pak-Kei Mak, Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, Julius Schmiedel, and Lázaro Valiente will be presenting recent work, and Dome Theater will perform Future Rickshaw, a play by Forrest Gillespie. Bring some food or drinks to share!
August 13th dusk
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid@ 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 14th ******
August 14th 6:30-10:00pm
Passport Fridays: Iran @ Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Free; 5th International Outdoor Film, Dance & Music Series. Dance in Queens Awardee Richard Rivera will collaborate with Composer/Musician Julio Montero to present two scenes of a Spanish Rock Opera that blends contemporary modern dance with the libretto of original Spanish Rock music, which touch on the hardships of undocumented workers and the energy of defiance. Film: Persepolis.
August 14th 7:00-10:00pm
Brooklyn Bailout Burlesque @ Factory Fresh, 1053 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn
Jim Avignon, Brooklyn-Berlin based artist, musician and hopeless bohemian, curated a show with seven young artists from Brooklyn and Europe. They throw their skills together and create a panorama, where strange and funny characters inhabit a peculiar zone somewhere between realist figuration, cartoons, messageboard-doodling and pure fantasy. Expect everything from unsentimental portraits, vibrant colors, playful items, and contemporary weirdness with a good old anti-establishment vibe.
August 14th 7:00-11:00pm
Globesonic Summer on the Hudson @ Riverside Park South, The Pier on 68th St. & the Hudson River
This year marks the our 5th year of free outdoor parties on the Hudson River. Join over 1000 of our friends for one of our best party series of the year. DJs Fabian Alsultany, Derek Beres and Bill Bragin and guest drummers Duke Mushroom & Amon. This Series is presented by the Summer on the Hudson program of the NYC Dept of Parks & Recreation.
August 14th 8:00pm-3:00am
PopGun Booking Presents A night of great electro-pop and dancing debauchery @ Littlefield, 622 Degraw, Brooklyn
$8; Woodhands (http://www.myspace.com/woodhands), Project jenny, Project Jan (http://www.myspace.com/projectjennyprojectjan), Mixel Pixel (www.myspace.com/mixelpixel), and Class Actress (http://www.myspace.com/elizabethharper)
******* Saturday August 15th ******
August 15th Noon-4:00pm
Mom & Popism @ 210 Elizabeth St, 4th Floor
Free; Exhibition curated by Billi Kid reinterpreting James and Karla Murray's latest book, Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York, in unique collaboration with many of today's hottest graffiti and street artists. The Disappearing Face of New York is a breathtaking visual guide to New York City's cultural heritage, with special emphasis on the historic streets and ethnic shops that have defined its many neighborhoods. For more information or to request a viewing appointment please contact art...@gawker.com. http://artists.gawker.com/5304600/mom--popism
August 15th Noon-6:00pm
Burmese Festival @ Myanmar Baptist Church, 143-55 84th Drive, Briarwood, Queens
Free; Varieties of Burmese traditional foods ($1 per food ticket), Games, Live Music Plus Karaoke and Raffle Tickets (Only $3 per ticket). http://www.emallbay.com/funfair2009
August 15th 1:30-7:00pm
Boom Boat Compressor on the Water @ Queen of Hearts, Pier 40 at West Houston and the West side
$20 Advance Tickets at http://www.disorient.com/$25 at the door in Glam Tech attire or Bathing suits,/$30 without; Prepare thy self to join Disorient on the High Seas! We've got the 3 story, paddlewheel boat, "The Queen of Hearts," again!! This is the same boat of Bioluminescence fame. This time we are taking it out in the middle of the day in the heat of August Summer. We will have a top floor open and a wading pool on the top deck. Bring your Playa day-wear, bathing suits, and loudest sunglasses!! Luscious beats and delicious drinks and all your favorite freaks! Featuring: The Amelianaires, Bikini Fashion Show by Wheylan and models, and Tentacles & The Merburners of Ancient Playa by Archer.
August 15th 4:00-10:00pm
Third Ear Training 3.0 @ Newton Barge Terminal Park, Commercial St, Brooklyn
Come out to the Newton Barge Terminal Park in Brooklyn for some great Music with and Indutrial vibe! Bring your frisbee, water guns, chairs, blankets or anything else you think will be needed to enjoy of the festivities on a lovely Summer Day! The best in Minimal Techno, Electro, Dub Step, Psy Trance and more.
August 15th 8:00pm-6:00am
Eidos: Visionary Culture thru Art, Form & Sound @ Refuge, Rigewood, Queens
$10; The Archaic Revival team manage to attract some of the most spiritually aware and magically beautiful people in this area. Celebrate visionary culture thru Art, form & Sound. Paint/Draw from live “Tripadelic” Models so be sure to bring your own art supplies. Plus live music and video mixing. Featured Artists: Kaliptus, Gizem Bacaz, Pablo Cordero, Parker Wolf, Scribles, Teofilo Olivery, Jonny Berlingeri. Live Art Models: Caridad Rivera, Pax Arcanum, Mr.Domino, Heather Pillis, Nicole Syriani & Other members from "The Living Painting Group"; Holistic Manipulations by P and Visuals & Projections by Archaic Revival. http://kaliptus.blogspot.com
August 15th 9:00pm/10:00pm show
Dances of Vice Third Year Anniversary Party @ 303 Bond Street Theater, 303 Bond St, Brooklyn
$10; Come, celebrate with us another year of jubilance, decadence and depravity amongst the finest of femmes and fellows at Dances of Vice. Entering our third year, a new saga of forgotten eras unfolds, as Dances of Vice joins forces with the sensual sophisticates of Company XIV to continue our nocturnal phenomena at the "Dance Eden" that is their theater in Carroll Gardens. Our Third Year Anniversary Party will feature a musical performance by Miss Shien Lee with the scintillating syncopations of Grandpa Musselman and His Syncopators, and the exhilarating dramatics of Company XIV. Also: dov Neo-Victorian Sunday Brunch, August 9th @ The Montauk Club, featuring Voltaire, Kristin Costa, and Erin Williams. Dress Code: 1920-40s, Victorian, Rococo, Shanghai Vice, Visions of Weimar, La Vie Parisienne, Golden Age of Hollywood, Voodoo Rhythms, Scenes of Dynasty, Funeral for Catbone, Blue Moon Masquerade, Murder Mystery, Les Secrets du Boudoir, flapper, vamp, dandy. http://www.dancesofvice.com
August 15th 10:00pm-4:00am
Overboard: A fundraiser for Figment @ Battery Maritime Building ferry slip, 10 South St, Slip #7
$15 advance tickets/$20 at the door/special $10 Disorient Boom Boat after party discount; Drop anchor and walk the plank at Overboard, an all-night dance party to benefit Figment. Join us as we transform a haggard ferry dock into a merry port of call, featuring the siren songs of the city's finest Djs. Our vessel is the Battery Maritime Building, a 100-year-old structure of classic exterior elegance, and a raw indoor dock full of old woods and ironwork from the days of yore. Maritime, mermaid, sailor, pirate, deep sea creature or other nautical attire is encouraged. All proceeds go towards production expenses for Figment.
******* Sunday August 16th ******
August 16th Noon to 5:30
India Day Parade @ 41st St to 28th St on Madison Ave
Free; Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty is slated to be the Grand Marshall at this year’s India Day Parade here in NYC. This will be the 29th year of this parade. 6 hours of non-stop excitement, 60+ food varieties, 250+ amazing performers and global participants. http://wadias.in/site/arzan/blog/india-independence-day-parade-nyc-2009/
August 16th 6:00pm
Jelly presents The Pool Parties 2009 @ East River State Park, 90 Kent Ave, Brooklyn
Free; Del tha Funky Homosapien, Prince Paul, Gravytrain!!!!, DD/MM/YYYY, and Kenan Bell. www.thepoolparties.com
******* Monday August 17th ******
August 17th 6:30-8:30pm
La Menta Collective’s Inaugural Junta @ La Pregunta Arts, 1528 Amsterdam Ave
Free; La Menta Collective presents an evening of art, dance, music, literature and poetry. Come and be entertained and inspired by performances by: Majestik Originality (http://www.majestikoriginality.com), StarPower (http://www.ithinkiluvmylife.blogspot.com), Mercury the Maroon (http://mercury.bandcamp.com), Jerry Oulds (www.soulrocklove.com), and Bonafide Rojas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkRAVsWhnFE)
August 17th 8:00pm
Beer and Board Games @ Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent, Brooklyn
Free; What’s more wholesome than family game night? Probably not Glasslands’ Variety and Game Night, where the sangria is free from 8-9 and the chance to win even more free booze runs all night. Bingo for just a buck a card starts out the evening, followed by Seth Ludman’s “The Craigslist Event,” featuring local acts found on that most democratic of forums. To complete the suburban living room feel, they’ll have free macaroni and cheese as well.
August 17th Films begin at Dusk
Close Encounters @ Bryant Park, 40th and 42nd Sts & Fifth and Sixth Aves
Free; Bring your picnic baskets and pull up some lawn for an evening under the stars with the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival. Every Monday throughout the summer HBO dusts off some classic movies and plays them on a big screen in Bryant Park. Tonight is the film of the season at they will showing Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Steven Spielberg’s scifi blockbuster stars Richard Dreyfuss as a regular guy whose strange obsessions and journey turn fantastically clear at Devil’s Tower. Co-stars Teri Garr as his frustrated wife, and Francois Truffaut, the legendary French director, as a scientist seeking communication with extraterrestrials.
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 12th
MUSIC: Antifolk Festival @ Sidewalk Café, Manhattan
DANCE: Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight @ South Cove Plaza in Battery Park City, Manhattan
FILM: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind @ Ballfields at McCarren Park, Brooklyn
PERFORMANCE: Wau Wau Sisters' Last Suppper @ Performance Space, Manhattan
MUSIC: NYC's 1st Music Video Film Festival + Band Battle @ Public Assembly, Brooklyn
FILM: Sex & the City @ Pier 54, Manhattan
MUSIC: Roots and Ruckus @ Jalopy Theatre, Manhattan
Thursday August 13th
DANCE: Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight @ South Cove Plaza in Battery Park City, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE: Duke Riley’s Those Who Are About to Die Salute You @ Queens Museum of Art, Queens
MUSIC: Blondie, Pat Benatar & The Donnas @ Asser Levy/Seaside Park, Brooklyn
FILM/ART: A Night of Works by What We Know So Far @ 3rd Ward, Brooklyn
PARTY: Flux Factory 15th Birthday @ Flux Factory, Queens
FILM: Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid@ Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn
MUSIC: Antifolk Festival @ Sidewalk Café, Manhattan
Friday August 14th
DANCE/MUSIC/FILM: Passport Fridays: Iran @ Queens Museum of Art, Queens
ART: Brooklyn Bailout Burlesque @ Factory Fresh, Brooklyn
MUSIC/PARTY: Globesonic Summer on the Hudson @ Riverside Park South, Manhattan
MUSIC: PopGun presents PJPJ & Mixel Pixel @ Littlefield, Brooklyn
MUSIC: Antifolk Festival @ Sidewalk Café, Manhattan
Saturday August 15th
ART: Mom & Popism @ 210 Elizabeth St, Manhattan
FESTIVAL: Burmese Festival @ Myanmar Baptist Church, Queens
PRTY: Boom Boat Compressor on the Water @ Queen of Hearts, Manhattan
MUSIC: Third Ear Training 3.0 @ Newton Barge Terminal Park, Brooklyn
PARTY/ART: Eidos: Visionary Culture thru Art, Form & Sound @ Refuge, Queens
PARTY: Dances of Vice Third Year Anniversary Party @ 303 Bond Street Theater, Brooklyn
PARTY: Overboard: A fundraiser for Figment @ Battery Maritime Building ferry slip, Manhattan
MUSIC: Antifolk Festival @ Sidewalk Café, Manhattan
Sunday August 16th
PARADE: India Day Parade @ 41st St to 28th St on Madison Ave, Manhattan
MUSIC: Jelly presents The Pool Parties 2009 @ East River State Park, Brooklyn
MUSIC: Antifolk Festival @ Sidewalk Café, Manhattan
Monday August 17th
MUSIC: La Menta Collective’s Inaugural Junta @ La Pregunta Arts, Manhattan
GAMES: Beer and Board Games @ Glasslands Gallery
FILM: Close Encounters @ Bryant Park, Manhattan
******* Ongoing ******
August 12th-16th
Antifolk Festival @ Sidewalk Café, 94 Ave A
The Summer Antifolk Festival is taking place August 7th through 16th at Sidewalk Cafe in NYC (94 Ave A). Some highlights over the two-plus-week festival include Jason & Rachel Trachtenburg, Jaymay, Soft Black, Dufus and Larkin Grimm. Celebrating 25 years of semi-annual Antifolk performances (a winter event mirrors the summer one), the festival is a showcase for a diverse cast of talented musicians and spoken-word performers, newcomers and veterans alike. New York City's Antifolk community has been a welcoming launching pad for well-known artists such as Beck, The Moldy Peaches, Jeffrey Lewis, Regina Spektor, Hamell on Trial, and Nellie McKay. The Sidewalk Café has been the scene's proud stomping ground since 1992. http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/07/sidewalk_cafes.html
******* Wednesday August 12th ******
August 12th 6:30PM
Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight @ South Cove Plaza in Battery Park City, Mary Miss Staircase
Free; Gabrielle Lansner and Company’s Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight is an exuberant dance inspired by “Dresses of Transformation,” a series of colorful and fanciful dresses by artist Caterina Bertolotto. Part dance and part dancing parade, Turning Heads will be a celebration of freedom and personal transformation performed by women of many cultural backgrounds to reflect the diversity of New York City. Created in collaboration with the company, the dance will reflect elements of each woman’s personal experience and will feature new music by composer Nancy Magarill. South Cove is an environmental landscape recess along the Hudson River waterfront.
August 12th 6:30pm music/movie starts at dusk
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind @ Ballfields at McCarren Park, N. 12th & Bedford, Brooklyn
Free; The L Magazine’s outdoor film series, Summerscreen, returns this year to North Brooklyn but in a new home. http://summerscreen.org
August 12th 8:00-9:30pm
Wau Wau Sisters' Last Suppper @ Performance Space 122, 150 1st Ave
$20 or $15 in advance; New York City's bravest and bawdiest duo, The Wau Wau Sisters invite one and all in to their garden of unearthly delights and debauchery and deliver an hour of profanity and divinity. Straddling (literally) the hilarious gap between religious and related, performance art and party, busking and burlesque, this show is sure to make you want to convert to their cunning cult. Let the Wau Wau Sisters show you the way! With a defiant mix of hell-raising humour and mesmerizing mayhem, watch catholic school girls turned born-again Country Western stars gather dandy's, derelicts and disciples along the way, and build to a bacchanalian finale.
August 12th 8:00pm
NYC's 1st Music Video Film Festival + Band Battle @ at Public Assembly, 76 N 6th St, Brooklyn
$TBA; Belikos , Dinosaur Feathers , Hank & Cupcakes , Holler Wild Rose! , No Lindsay , Sami Akbari, The Basements , The Courtesy Tier , The Dead River Company , and The Glorious Veins. Hosted by Dan Hopper (VH1 Best Week Ever). 38 music videos from 5 different countries ranging from Cannes Award-winning to homemade. Performances by: Lowry, H.Wood, Ivan and the Terribles. Held together by Jimmy-Fallon-crushing, Webby Award Winner Bobby Miller. http://www.silversound.us
August 12th Dusk
Sex & the City @ 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 Carrie comes to the big screen in the Sex and The City movie.
August 12th 9:30pm
Roots and Ruckus @ Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia St, Brooklyn
Free; Roots & Ruckus is a weekly Roots music variety show Wednesday nights at The Jalopy Red Hook. Hosted by Feral Foster, the show has been running strong for over 4 years and is a place to see some of New York City's best and exciting local roots music. Tonight features music by Jack Lynch, Stephanie Nilles, Orb Mellon, So Brown, Cal Folger Day and Frank Hoier.
******* Thursday August 13th ******
August 13th 12:30pm
Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight @ South Cove Plaza in Battery Park City, Mary Miss Staircase
Free; Gabrielle Lansner and Company’s Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight is an exuberant dance inspired by “Dresses of Transformation,” a series of colorful and fanciful dresses by artist Caterina Bertolotto. Part dance and part dancing parade, Turning Heads will be a celebration of freedom and personal transformation performed by women of many cultural backgrounds to reflect the diversity of New York City. Created in collaboration with the company, the dance will reflect elements of each woman’s personal experience and will feature new music by composer Nancy Magarill. South Cove is an environmental landscape recess along the Hudson River waterfront.
August 13th 6:00-9:30pm
Duke Riley’s Those Who Are About to Die Salute You @ Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Free; Naumachia - Live Roman Naval Battle; mandatory toga dress code. A battle on water wielded with baguette swords and watermelon cannon balls by New York’s art dignitaries. http://www.queensmuseum.org/2009/08/13
August 13th 7:00-10:00pm
A Night of Works by What We Know So Far @ 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn
Free; The folks from WWKSF are back to wow us again with their brilliant renderings of memes, pop culture and the internet. They will present an evening of works including The Hannah Complex (Yes. Hannah as is in Montana), a shorter, updated, but still awesome MemeFactory and the premiere of two brand spanking new video pieces. This is one event capable of bringing belly laughs and increased brain capacity.
August 13th 7:30pm
Blondie, Pat Benatar & The Donnas @ Asser Levy/Seaside Park, West 5th St & Surf Ave Coney Island, Brooklyn
Free; The 31st Annual Seaside Summer Concert Series. The public is encouraged to bring their own chairs. A limited amount of $5 rental chairs in a specially designated area are available on a first-come first-served basis.
August 13th 8:00pm
Flux Factory 15th Birthday @ Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St, Queens
Brandstifter, Ik-Song Jin, Pak-Kei Mak, Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, Julius Schmiedel, and Lázaro Valiente will be presenting recent work, and Dome Theater will perform Future Rickshaw, a play by Forrest Gillespie. Bring some food or drinks to share!
August 13th dusk
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid@ 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 14th ******
August 14th 6:30-10:00pm
Passport Fridays: Iran @ Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Free; 5th International Outdoor Film, Dance & Music Series. Dance in Queens Awardee Richard Rivera will collaborate with Composer/Musician Julio Montero to present two scenes of a Spanish Rock Opera that blends contemporary modern dance with the libretto of original Spanish Rock music, which touch on the hardships of undocumented workers and the energy of defiance. Film: Persepolis.
August 14th 7:00-10:00pm
Brooklyn Bailout Burlesque @ Factory Fresh, 1053 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn
Jim Avignon, Brooklyn-Berlin based artist, musician and hopeless bohemian, curated a show with seven young artists from Brooklyn and Europe. They throw their skills together and create a panorama, where strange and funny characters inhabit a peculiar zone somewhere between realist figuration, cartoons, messageboard-doodling and pure fantasy. Expect everything from unsentimental portraits, vibrant colors, playful items, and contemporary weirdness with a good old anti-establishment vibe.
August 14th 7:00-11:00pm
Globesonic Summer on the Hudson @ Riverside Park South, The Pier on 68th St. & the Hudson River
This year marks the our 5th year of free outdoor parties on the Hudson River. Join over 1000 of our friends for one of our best party series of the year. DJs Fabian Alsultany, Derek Beres and Bill Bragin and guest drummers Duke Mushroom & Amon. This Series is presented by the Summer on the Hudson program of the NYC Dept of Parks & Recreation.
August 14th 8:00pm-3:00am
PopGun Booking Presents A night of great electro-pop and dancing debauchery @ Littlefield, 622 Degraw, Brooklyn
$8; Woodhands (http://www.myspace.com/woodhands), Project jenny, Project Jan (http://www.myspace.com/projectjennyprojectjan), Mixel Pixel (www.myspace.com/mixelpixel), and Class Actress (http://www.myspace.com/elizabethharper)
******* Saturday August 15th ******
August 15th Noon-4:00pm
Mom & Popism @ 210 Elizabeth St, 4th Floor
Free; Exhibition curated by Billi Kid reinterpreting James and Karla Murray's latest book, Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York, in unique collaboration with many of today's hottest graffiti and street artists. The Disappearing Face of New York is a breathtaking visual guide to New York City's cultural heritage, with special emphasis on the historic streets and ethnic shops that have defined its many neighborhoods. For more information or to request a viewing appointment please contact art...@gawker.com. http://artists.gawker.com/5304600/mom--popism
August 15th Noon-6:00pm
Burmese Festival @ Myanmar Baptist Church, 143-55 84th Drive, Briarwood, Queens
Free; Varieties of Burmese traditional foods ($1 per food ticket), Games, Live Music Plus Karaoke and Raffle Tickets (Only $3 per ticket). http://www.emallbay.com/funfair2009
August 15th 1:30-7:00pm
Boom Boat Compressor on the Water @ Queen of Hearts, Pier 40 at West Houston and the West side
$20 Advance Tickets at http://www.disorient.com/$25 at the door in Glam Tech attire or Bathing suits,/$30 without; Prepare thy self to join Disorient on the High Seas! We've got the 3 story, paddlewheel boat, "The Queen of Hearts," again!! This is the same boat of Bioluminescence fame. This time we are taking it out in the middle of the day in the heat of August Summer. We will have a top floor open and a wading pool on the top deck. Bring your Playa day-wear, bathing suits, and loudest sunglasses!! Luscious beats and delicious drinks and all your favorite freaks! Featuring: The Amelianaires, Bikini Fashion Show by Wheylan and models, and Tentacles & The Merburners of Ancient Playa by Archer.
August 15th 4:00-10:00pm
Third Ear Training 3.0 @ Newton Barge Terminal Park, Commercial St, Brooklyn
Come out to the Newton Barge Terminal Park in Brooklyn for some great Music with and Indutrial vibe! Bring your frisbee, water guns, chairs, blankets or anything else you think will be needed to enjoy of the festivities on a lovely Summer Day! The best in Minimal Techno, Electro, Dub Step, Psy Trance and more.
August 15th 8:00pm-6:00am
Eidos: Visionary Culture thru Art, Form & Sound @ Refuge, Rigewood, Queens
$10; The Archaic Revival team manage to attract some of the most spiritually aware and magically beautiful people in this area. Celebrate visionary culture thru Art, form & Sound. Paint/Draw from live “Tripadelic” Models so be sure to bring your own art supplies. Plus live music and video mixing. Featured Artists: Kaliptus, Gizem Bacaz, Pablo Cordero, Parker Wolf, Scribles, Teofilo Olivery, Jonny Berlingeri. Live Art Models: Caridad Rivera, Pax Arcanum, Mr.Domino, Heather Pillis, Nicole Syriani & Other members from "The Living Painting Group"; Holistic Manipulations by P and Visuals & Projections by Archaic Revival. http://kaliptus.blogspot.com
August 15th 9:00pm/10:00pm show
Dances of Vice Third Year Anniversary Party @ 303 Bond Street Theater, 303 Bond St, Brooklyn
$10; Come, celebrate with us another year of jubilance, decadence and depravity amongst the finest of femmes and fellows at Dances of Vice. Entering our third year, a new saga of forgotten eras unfolds, as Dances of Vice joins forces with the sensual sophisticates of Company XIV to continue our nocturnal phenomena at the "Dance Eden" that is their theater in Carroll Gardens. Our Third Year Anniversary Party will feature a musical performance by Miss Shien Lee with the scintillating syncopations of Grandpa Musselman and His Syncopators, and the exhilarating dramatics of Company XIV. Also: dov Neo-Victorian Sunday Brunch, August 9th @ The Montauk Club, featuring Voltaire, Kristin Costa, and Erin Williams. Dress Code: 1920-40s, Victorian, Rococo, Shanghai Vice, Visions of Weimar, La Vie Parisienne, Golden Age of Hollywood, Voodoo Rhythms, Scenes of Dynasty, Funeral for Catbone, Blue Moon Masquerade, Murder Mystery, Les Secrets du Boudoir, flapper, vamp, dandy. http://www.dancesofvice.com
August 15th 10:00pm-4:00am
Overboard: A fundraiser for Figment @ Battery Maritime Building ferry slip, 10 South St, Slip #7
$15 advance tickets/$20 at the door/special $10 Disorient Boom Boat after party discount; Drop anchor and walk the plank at Overboard, an all-night dance party to benefit Figment. Join us as we transform a haggard ferry dock into a merry port of call, featuring the siren songs of the city's finest Djs. Our vessel is the Battery Maritime Building, a 100-year-old structure of classic exterior elegance, and a raw indoor dock full of old woods and ironwork from the days of yore. Maritime, mermaid, sailor, pirate, deep sea creature or other nautical attire is encouraged. All proceeds go towards production expenses for Figment.
******* Sunday August 16th ******
August 16th Noon to 5:30
India Day Parade @ 41st St to 28th St on Madison Ave
Free; Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty is slated to be the Grand Marshall at this year’s India Day Parade here in NYC. This will be the 29th year of this parade. 6 hours of non-stop excitement, 60+ food varieties, 250+ amazing performers and global participants. http://wadias.in/site/arzan/blog/india-independence-day-parade-nyc-2009/
August 16th 6:00pm
Jelly presents The Pool Parties 2009 @ East River State Park, 90 Kent Ave, Brooklyn
Free; Del tha Funky Homosapien, Prince Paul, Gravytrain!!!!, DD/MM/YYYY, and Kenan Bell. www.thepoolparties.com
******* Monday August 17th ******
August 17th 6:30-8:30pm
La Menta Collective’s Inaugural Junta @ La Pregunta Arts, 1528 Amsterdam Ave
Free; La Menta Collective presents an evening of art, dance, music, literature and poetry. Come and be entertained and inspired by performances by: Majestik Originality (http://www.majestikoriginality.com), StarPower (http://www.ithinkiluvmylife.blogspot.com), Mercury the Maroon (http://mercury.bandcamp.com), Jerry Oulds (www.soulrocklove.com), and Bonafide Rojas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkRAVsWhnFE)
August 17th 8:00pm
Beer and Board Games @ Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent, Brooklyn
Free; What’s more wholesome than family game night? Probably not Glasslands’ Variety and Game Night, where the sangria is free from 8-9 and the chance to win even more free booze runs all night. Bingo for just a buck a card starts out the evening, followed by Seth Ludman’s “The Craigslist Event,” featuring local acts found on that most democratic of forums. To complete the suburban living room feel, they’ll have free macaroni and cheese as well.
August 17th Films begin at Dusk
Close Encounters @ Bryant Park, 40th and 42nd Sts & Fifth and Sixth Aves
Free; Bring your picnic baskets and pull up some lawn for an evening under the stars with the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival. Every Monday throughout the summer HBO dusts off some classic movies and plays them on a big screen in Bryant Park. Tonight is the film of the season at they will showing Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Steven Spielberg’s scifi blockbuster stars Richard Dreyfuss as a regular guy whose strange obsessions and journey turn fantastically clear at Devil’s Tower. Co-stars Teri Garr as his frustrated wife, and Francois Truffaut, the legendary French director, as a scientist seeking communication with extraterrestrials.
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