Daily Awesome 8/2-2/8
Naomi Huth
Bouncing Bunnies to eat and the Bounce-o-Meter are two wonderful discoveries of mine this week. Enjoy all of the wonderful BBQs that will be occurring this weekend.
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 2nd
*ART: Swing Space Open House @ Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space, Manhattan
*MUSIC: Brunettes @ Mercury Lounge, Manhattan
FILM: Il Barbiere di Siviglia @ Lincoln Center, Manhattan
Thursday September 3rd
FILM: Peter Grimes @ Lincoln Center, Manhattan
*MUSIC: Andriana Santiago @ Mercury Lounge, Manhattan
MUSIC: Anti-folk Awesomeness @ The Sidewalk Cafe, Manhattan
FILM: Mondo Fandom @ Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan
Friday September 4th
FILM: La Bohème @ Lincoln Center, Manhatta
MUSIC: Tigercity & The Grates @ Mercury Lounge, Manhattan
MUSIC: Hank & Cupcakes 'Pleasure Town' EP Release Party @ Pianos, Manhattan
FILM: Mondo Fandom @ Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan
THEATER: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind @ Kraine Theater, Manhattan
Saturday September 5th
ART: Governors Island Art Fair @ Governors Island
ART/MUSIC/PERFORMANCE: Twistycat & Video Performacne @ Dutch Kills Gallery, Queens
FILM: Orfeo ed Euridice @ Lincoln Center, Manhattan
*PARTY: Stranded @ RSVP for Location, Brooklyn
FILM: Mondo Fandom @ Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan
THEATER: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind @ Kraine Theater, Manhattan
Sunday September 6th
FESTIVAL: Irie Jamboree @ York College, Queens
FILM: Il Trittico @ Lincoln Center, Manhattan
Monday September 7th
FILM: Madama Butterfly @ Lincoln Center, Manhattan
BBQ's for Labor Day, Everywhere
Tuesday September 8th
READING/LECTURE: What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall @ The Swiss Institute, Manhattan
FILM: Movie House on India Street @ West St & India St, Brooklyn
******* 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.
September 3rd-5th
Mondo Fandom @ Anthology
Film Archives, 32 Second Ave
$8; Special series showcases extreme
musical fandom. Including fan films devoted to Kiss, Dolly Parton,
Judas Priest, Elvis, Stryper, and more. And also including the
classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Including these special guests For
The Love Of Dolly Filmmaker in Person, and Bill Baker from Kiss Loves
You will also be in person. anthologyfilmarchives.org
******* Wednesday September 2nd ******
September 2nd 6:00-8:00pm
Swing Space Open House @ Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space, 77 Water Street, 10th Fl
Free w/ RSVP at http://lmcc.net/art/swingspace/77water/index.html; District skyscraper since June, developing new projects in a wide range of media. Come see the work they've created. Resident artists include: Daniel Bejar, Joy Curtis, Elaine Gan, Donna Huanca, Lisa Kellner, Claudia Michaela Kochsmeier, Kymia Nawabi, Rosemarie Padovano, Shani Peters, Armita Raafat, Edward Schexnayder, Alison Ward, Saya Woolfalk, and Stella Yoo.
September 2nd 7:30pm
Brunettes @ Mercury Lounge, 217 E Houston St.
$10; Throw Me The Statue 10:30; The Brunettes 9:30; Nurses 8:30; U.S. Royalty 7:30
September 2nd 7:45 pm
Il Barbiere di Siviglia @ Lincoln Center
Free; Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, in a production by Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher, features Joyce DiDonato as Rosina, Juan Diego Flórez as Count Almaviva, Peter Mattei as Figaro, John Del Carlo as Dr. Bartolo, John Relyea as Don Basilio, and Claudia Waite as Berta. Maurizio Benini conducts. Approximate running time: 165 minutes.
******* Thursday September 3rd ******
September 3rd 7:45pm
Peter Grimes @ Lincoln Center
Free; Anthony Dean Griffey sings the title role of Britten’s Peter Grimes, with Patricia Racette as Ellen Orford and Anthony Michaels-Moore as Balstrode. Donald Runnicles conducts. Approximate running time: 150 minutes.
September 3rd 7:30pm
Andriana Santiago @
Mercury Lounge, 217 E Houston St
$12; Eargasms. Eyegasms.Born of
Energy, Color and Sound. A Breath of Life. A Visual Explosion of
Internal Expression. A Bright Light. Love. A Feeling. A LIVE
Experience. Playing alongside Fixer. Empire City Motorcade, Unisex
Salon.
September 3rd 7:30-Midnight
Anti-folk Awesomeness @
The Sidewalk Cafe, 94 Avenue A
No cover with two drink minimum;
7:30 Dibs, 8:00 Dan Fishback, 8:30 Susie Asado, 9:30 Andrew Phillip
Tipton, 10:00 Nan Turner, 10:30 Horror Me, 11:00 Kat Burns, 11:30
Toby Goodshank, 12:00 Sibsi.
******* Friday September 4th ******
September 4th 8:00pm
La Bohème @ Lincoln Center
Free; Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s La Bohème features Angela Gheorghiu as Mimì, Ramón Vargas as Rodolfo Ainhoa Arteta as Musetta, Ludovic Tézier as Marcello, Quinn Kelsey as Schaunard, Oren Gradus as Colline, and Paul Plishka in the dual roles of Benoit and Alcindoro. Nicola Luisotti conducts. Approximate running time: 130 minutes.
September 4th 8:00pm
Tigercity & The Grates @ Mercury Lounge, 217 E Houston St
$10; Tigercity 11:00; The Grates 10:00; Pearl & The Beard 9:00; Psychic 8:00
September 4th 11:00pm
Hank & Cupcakes 'Pleasure Town' EP Release Party @ Pianos, 158 Ludlow St
Come Wearing Lipstick and get $1 off ticket + $1 off the EP for everyone who comes to the show wearing lipstick. Boys, that includes you! We're allowing kiss marks.www.myspace.com/hankandcupcakes
******* Saturday September 5th ******
September 5th 3:00-6:00pm
Governors Island Art Fair @ Governors Island
Free; The Second Annual Governors Island Art Fair, curated by the 4heads Collective, launches September 5, presenting a selection of work by more than 150 artists to the public for free. The site of a former military compound, Governors Island is a five-minute ferry ride (also free) from lower Manhattan, and comprises 22 acres of 18th-century fortifications, pre-Civil War arsenal buildings, Victorian and Romanesque Revival housing, early 20th-century neo-classical architecture, and a killer viewpoint of Lady Liberty. An abandoned army barracks houses the art fair's paintings, photographs, sculpture, video, and sound and object installation pieces, all of which paint a varied picture of the New York contemporary art scene.
September 5th Reception 6:00-8:00pm/Performance 9:00pm
Twistycat & Video Performacne @ Dutch Kills Gallery, 37-24 24th Street, Suite 402, LIC, Queens
There’s plenty of noise in today’s cluttered world, and Dutch Kills Gallery is devoting an exhibition to this chaos called Unsound Practice. The work of six artists, Matthew Callinan, Jools Johnson, Tom McCloskey, Joey Tang, Mikel Telleria, and Marjorie Van Cura, explores the contemporary concept of noise excess and how and what we truly see as a result. After tonight’s reception, check out Brooklyn-based electro-acoustic duo, Twistycat, and a video performance from Gaia Persico and Kirt Markle. Through September 14. www.dutchkillsgallery.com,
September 5th 8:00pm
Orfeo ed Euridice @ Lincoln Center
Free; Mark Morris’s production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice stars Stephanie Blythe as Orfeo, with Danielle de Niese as Euridice. Heidi Grant Murphy is Amor. James Levine conducts. Approximate running time: 100 minutes.
September 5th 9:00pm-Morning
Stranded @ RSVP for Location, Brooklyn
$15 advance/ $20; You Must RSVP to Attend. Eleven months ago to this very day, Winkel & Balktick led a motley crew on a journey to a magical desert island, full of merrymaking and enchantment. From sunset to sunrise, they were heartily entertained by the natives' gifts of art, performance, dancing and sumptuous desserts. Join Winkel & Balktick on another epic voyage to a pristine equatorial archipelago. For on this night, armed with a slew of beakers, bunsen burners, polymerase chain reactions, artists, tinkerers and charlatans, we will climb aboard the HMS Beagle. Our destination? The Galapagos Islands! RSVP to Galapag...@wandbnyc.com
******* Sunday September 6th ******
September 6th 1:00pm
Irie Jamboree @ York College, 94-45 Liberty Avenue, Queens
Free; Brooklynites have their massive West Indian Carnival Festival & Parade to look forward to each Labor Day, while at the same time, Queens dwellers anticipate the country’s premier reggae and dancehall music festival taking place in their backyard. For the seventh annual Irie Jamboree, reggae fans will take over the grounds of York College, grooving to music from performers like Sean Paul, Queen Ifrica, and Freddy McGregor.
September 6th 7:30pm
Il Trittico @ Lincoln Center
Free; James Levine conducts Tony Award-winning director Jack O’Brien’s production of Puccini’s Il Trittico, which consists of three one-act operas: Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi. In Il Tabarro, the three principal characters caught in a deadly love triangle are portrayed by Maria Guleghina, Salvatore Licitra and Juan Pons. Barbara Frittoli is the young nun Angelica, with Stephanie Blythe as the Princess in Suor Angelica, and the comedy Gianni Schicchi features Alessandro Corbelli in the title role. Approximate running time: 170 minutes.
******* Monday September 7th ******
September 7th 8:00 pm
Madama Butterfly @ Lincoln Center
Free; Academy Award-winning film director Anthony Minghella’s production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly stars Patricia Racette as Cio-Cio-San, Marcello Giordani as Pinkerton, Dwayne Croft as Sharpless, and Maria Zifchak as Suzuki. Patrick Summers conducts. Approximate running time: 145 minutes
******* Tuesday September 8th ******
September 8th 6:00-8:00pm
What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall @ The Swiss Institute, 495 Broadway, 3rd Fl
A new perspective on one of the most important works of twentieth century art. 7:00pm: Introduction by Michael Taylor, The Muriel and Philip Berman Curator for Modern Art des Philadelphia Museums of Art. In 1946 Marcel Duchamp photographed the Swiss landscape and included these images in his enigmatic work Étant donnés , which has been permanently installed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1969. The artist-duo Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz set out to recreate Duchamp’s experience. They discovered exactly where Duchamp stood with his camera, and over several years they took countless pictures of the breathtaking views. Their work What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall consists of 100 color photographs of one of Switzerland’s most extraordinary landscapes. www.swissinstitute.net
September 8th 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 new-painted mural will literally come alive on September 8 when six local filmmakers Lam Thuy Vo, Joshua Carrero, Sarah Pirozek, Vanara Taing, Nathan Punwar, Hiram Becker, and Chris King present the movies they created to capture the artists– Ali Aschman, Eve Biddle & Josh Frankel, Chris Soria, Joshua Abram Howard, Robert Seng, and Skewville– as they spent the month of June turning a common white wall into a master work of public art. 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/