Daily Awesome 11/11-11/16
Naomi Huth
Today is an excellent day and I wish good luck to everyone as my day has been wonderful thus far.
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 November 11th
FILML Kings County Cinema @ Freddy's Back Room, Brooklyn
ZOO/MUSEUM: Bronx Zoo: all day: pay-what-you-wish, Bronx
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
Thursday November 12th
ART: Gague @ Artjail, Manhattan
FILM: 8 ½ @ Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
PARTY/PERFORMANCE: Porno Jim's Otherworld Revue @ The Slipper Room, Manhattan
MUSIC: Cuban music @ 153-10 Jamaica Avenue, Queens
FUN: Bunny Butterfly Kisses @ L train platform, Union Square Station, Manhattan
MUSEUM: Museum of Arts and Design: 6-9pm: pay-what-you-wish, Manhattan
FILM: Queens International Film Festival @ Various Locations, Queens
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
Friday November 13th
ART: Art Battle Presents Thriller @ M1-5, Manhattan
PARTY: Thunder Gumbo: Space is the End & The End of Space Mountain @ 255 McKibbin St, Brooklyn
PARTY: Gemini & Scorpio and Brooklyn Wonderland present Halloween Redux @ Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary, Brooklyn
MUSEUM: Museum of Modern Art: 4-8pm: free, Manhattan
FILM: Queens International Film Festival @ Various Locations, Queens
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
Saturday November 14th
FILM: Mamachas del Ring @ Natural History Museum, Manhattan
PARTY/MUSIC: Hartzveytik @ Southpaw, Brooklyn
ART: Performance: Elena Bajo @ 179 Canal St, Manhattan
ART: Saturday Sessions @ PS1, Queens
MUSIC: Slumberland Records 20thAnniversay Festival @ The Bell House, Brooklyn
MUSEUM: Guggenheim: 5:45-7:45pm: pay-what-you-wish, Manhattan
FILM: Queens International Film Festival @ Various Locations, Queens
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
Sunday November 15th
MUSEUM: Frick Collection: 11am-1pm: pay-what-you-wish, Manhattan
FILM: Queens International Film Festival @ Various Locations, Queens
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
Monday November 16th
THEATER/PERFORMANCE: The Commons @ The Roger Smith Hotel, Manhattan
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
Tuesday November 17th
THEATER/PERFORMANCE: The Commons @ The Roger Smith Hotel, Manhattan
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
******* Ongoing ******
November 1st-22nd
Performa 09 @ See Website
Performa 09, the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, will be held in New York City from November 1–22, 2009. The three-week festival will showcase new work by more than 100 of the most exciting artists working today, in an innovative program breaking down the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, graphic design, and the culinary arts. Presented in collaboration with a consortium of more than 40 arts institutions and 40 curators, as well as a network of 75 public spaces and private venues across the city, Performa 09 will ignite New York City with energy and ideas, acting as a vital “think tank” bringing audiences together for new performances, exhibitions, broadcasts, screening, installations and public education programs across all disciplines.
November 12th – November 15th
Queens International Film Festival @ Various Locations, Queens
This is one of the city’s most impressive events celebrating international indie films. In addition to the hundreds of movies, shorts, music videos, and animated features from directors across the globe (including Queens) screened at venues like the Holiday Inn Manhattan View and the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, highlights include an active QIFF Youth Workshop Program, a Women in Film Symposium, and a musical tribute to Levon Helm featuring Kris Kristofferson. The rooftop of LIC’s Ravel Hotel will be the scene for opening night festivities. www.queensfilmfestival.com
November 16th -20th 6:00pm
The Commons @ The Roger Smith Hotel, 501 Lexington Ave
Free; The Prosodic Body is beginning a new project titled The Commons with the Phoneme Choir. This event is part of a series that will take place in different locations leading to a final production in 2011. The Commons is a script/score performed by a chorus. The script/score is a narrative based on the tragic history of the Commons; it is a reparative neo-Creole that tells the story of heroic privatism as a consequence of the sonic and connotative qualities of the English language. We will develop "vocalized-movement disputes" dramatizing the dichotomy of individual vs community, the duplicity inherent in ownership in relation to the common good, and the protective interventions (or impositions) of law. The Commons is the unenclosing of human being, from top to bottom, bottom to top, inside out, outside in.
Wednesdays: Bronx Zoo: all day: pay-what-you-wish
(reg $15)
Thursdays: Museum of Arts and Design: 6-9pm:
pay-what-you-wish (reg $15)
Fridays: Museum of Modern
Art: 4-8pm: free (reg $20)
Saturdays: Guggenheim:
5:45-7:45pm: pay-what-you-wish (reg $18)
Sundays:
Frick Collection: 11am-1pm: pay-what-you-wish (reg $18)
******* Wednesday November 11th ******
November 11th
7:30pm
Kings County Cinema @ Freddy's Back Room, 485 Dean St.
at 6th Ave, Brooklyn
Free; Kings County Cinema Society is back
with an evening of J-Horror. Nippon horror from Japan's legendary
grindhouse auteur Miike, who has pounded out over seventy theatrical,
video, and TV productions since his debut in 1991. Prolific,
provocative, and probably not appropriate for anyone.
******* Thursday November 12th *****
November 12th 7:00-9:00pm
Gague
@ Artjail, 50 Eldridge Street, sixth floor
Free w/ RSVP to
gra...@artjail.com ;Gauge is
a group exhibition curated by Joyce Manalo that includes sculptures,
site-specific installations, paintings, and performances. Artjail
functions as an incubator for creatives who prompt the jailbreak from
the commercial world to an exploration in fine art sensibilities. The
chosen artists who are remarkable at their craft and are not known in
the fine art world because they are buried in the commercial world
with full-time jobs or semi-permanent freelance positions is a
curatorial consideration for Artjail. Some of the companies and
organizations that the artists work for are Discovery Channel, Pace
Prints, Patiolantern Productions, Sarah Laird, Teen Vogue, and
X-Initiative.
November 12th 7:30 pm
8
½ @ Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
1963, 138 mins. Directed
by Federico Fellini. With Marcello Mastroianni. A carnivalesque
self-portrait of a movie director, 8 ½ moves freely between the
frenzy of real life on a movie set, and the director's dream and
fantasy life. Marcello Mastroianni perfectly captures the bemused
wonder of the film director, creating an indelible portrait of the
artist as ringleader. A lavish fantasia rooted in personal
experience, this is the fullest expression of Fellini's desire to
fuse realism and poetry. 8 ½has inspired numerous movies about
movies including this year's eagerly awaited new film 9.
http://movingimage.us/site/calendar/pages/2009/index_queens_theatre_in_the_park.html
November 12th Doors at 8:00pm/Show at 8:30pm
Porno
Jim's Otherworld Revue @ The Slipper Room, 167 Orchard St. at
Stanton
$10; An Evening of Obscene Artistes and Scandalous
Pornography. Join Porno Jim as he takes you down to the scenic
underbelly of New York City! Featuring the Sexy Burlesque Stylings
of: Dee Dee Luxe, Arden Leigh, Rosabelle Selavy, Rose Wood, Plus
Porno Jim?s Otherworld Porntage with Go-Go by Carin! Ambiance by DJ
Kenball. Experience Outrageous Performances of Subversive Acts!
www.pornojim.com
November 12th 7:30pm
Cuban music @ 153-10 Jamaica Avenue, Queens
Along with jazz, funk, and Brazilian – is the
inspiration for Latin band Son de Madre. The very international group
of musicians, known for the album Rumberos, features members from
Cuba, Argentina, Israel, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. If you haven’t
caught them on stage at locales like S.O.B’s then check out their
free show at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center tonight.
www.sondemadre.com;
www.jcal.org
November 12th 8:00-9:00pm
Bunny Butterfly Kisses @ L
train platform, Union Square Station, Manhattan
Free; Please join
me, Blizzard the Bunny, for an intimate but innocent form of
childhood affection that I'm hoping to reintroduce to the working
masses. I am disabled in that my faux eyelashes don't blink on their
own, but that doesn't stop me from coyly attracting people and giving
them a tickling kiss to remember. With the right camera flash and
angle, underneath my bunny head you can often catch a glimpse of a
single human eye, a smiling cheek, or maybe even the smell of liquor;
the oversize eyes make for good visibility, which goes both ways.
Initially aghast by this awkward glitch, I now embrace it by giving
people a reason to lean in close and notice my eyes. In the absence
of a full bunny suit or the use of cottontail-like gestures, the head
is all that creates the illusion of an animal, and yet it's not even
an opaque front. Fortunately, you can put your imagination to use and
play along with the game. All while you wait for your slow ass train.
clubanimalsnyc.blogspot.com
******* Friday November 13th *****
November 13th 8:00pm
Mamachas del Ring @ Natural History Museum, Central Park West at 79th St
$11; Set in the heights of the Bolivian Andes, Mamachas del Ring is the story of Carmen Rosa the Champion, a cholita and wrestler who struggles to make it on her own in the male-dominated world of Bolivian professional wrestling.
November 13th 7:30pm
Art Battle Presents Thriller @ M1-5, 52 Walker St
$5/$7; Art Battles continues as opposing teams of two are given three hours to paint while DJ Anton Glamb spins. The artists competing are Ben Angotti and Leif McIlwaine, who pair up against Andre Trenier and Marthalicia Matarrita. The prize is a week-long, expenses-paid getaway in the Catskills at the Solo Foundation's New Artist Residence Studios. First time attendees should expect a personal connection to the artwork as you watch the competition unfold. The music lends the work an air of jazz-like improvisation, as these already heralded artists invent beautiful images right in front of you.
November
13th, 8:00pm-Late
Thunder Gumbo: Space is the End & The
End of Space Mountain @ 255 McKibbin St. apt. #406 btwn. Bushwick &
White St, Brooklyn
$5 before 10p, $10 afterwards (come early and
don't be disappointed there are only 100 tickets); Password required;
DJ's: Shakey, Barney Iller (12-2a), Morphous (2a), Tinseltown (3a);
Thunder Gumbo is a monthly event haphazardly mishmoshing while
carefully combining several elements into a stew contrasting and
corresponding flavors at an underground location on the second Friday
of every month. New live bands, DJ's, special performances, and guest
lecturers every month, a wrong religious hookah lounge, delicious
food, a nice beer on tap, antiques and special surprises. Futuristic
Face Painting, Ass-Shaking Flight Attendants, Doctor Adventure, Bone
shattering dubstep, and mysteriously sonorific gypsies, of course
lots of other last minute obscenities as well
November 13th 11:00pm
Gemini
& Scorpio and Brooklyn Wonderland present Halloween Redux @
Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary - RSVP for location
$10 before 1am, $15
after; This Friday the 13th, relive Halloween the way we meant for
you to experience it two weeks ago. Brooklyn Wonderland was the
all-out dance party component to our over-the-top two-loft Halloween
extravaganza Masquerade Macabre...until it got shut down just as the
party got going. With handpicked DJs (alphabetical order): Dhundee,
Dirty-Finger, Moldover, Reaganomics, Shakey, Stone, and Stylus
(Brooklyn Wonderland founder). Expect eclectic, irresistible beats
and grooves 'till the sun comes up. Live Percussion by Blood Drums &
Percussion Pete. Visuals by the Glassbead Collective. MC Nachy Bless.
Delicious Dub Pies served all night; breakfast to follow if we ask
nicely. Same amazing loft we partied in till morning on Halloween,
with lots of cozy nooks + crannies to chill in, as well as a 2,000sq
ft sprung wood dance floor and a 6,000sq ft roof. Yes, wear your
Halloween costume. You know we will. Details & RSVP:
http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html
******* Saturday November 14th *****
November 14th 4:00pm
Saturday Sessions @ PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens
Free; We may have to wait until summer to enjoy P.S. 1’s Warm Up parties again, but in the meantime seek comfort in the new Saturday Sessions. On the second Saturday of each month, P.S. 1 will showcase the works of up-and-coming performance artists. First up: Sahra Motalebi’s musical Such is the Game of Authenticity, an exploration of expressionism, and J. Patrick Walsh 3 “tuning” his Volkswagen in Arab Drift, Tuned Endo. www.ps1.org
November 14th 6:00pm
Slumberland Records 20thAnniversay Festival @ The Bell House, Brooklyn
$15; The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Crystal Stilts, Frankie Rose, Pants Yell!, and The Ropers.
November 14th 7:30-10:30pm
Performance: Elena Bajo @ 179 Canal St, floor 2
Free; "Nothing more than a theatre of fluctuating ideas and echoes of future moments (A New Refutation of Time)"
November 14th 8:00pm-12:00am
Hartzveytik!
A Heartbreak Survival Society Social @ Southpaw, 525 5th
Ave, Brooklyn
$10; Join the Heartbreak Survival Society for an
extraordinary evening of music and mayhem! You'll laugh; you'll cry;
you'll wonder; you'll revel and dance with the lovelorn of New York
City. If you've ever had your heart broken, this is the fall ball you
can't miss. The breathtaking music of Soft Power
(http://www.myspace.com/softpowerband
w/ Mary Timony), The Shondes (http://www.myspace.com/theshondes),
Royal Pink (http://www.myspace.com/royalpinkrocks),
The Low & The
Lonesome(http://www.myspace.com//thelowandthelonesome)!
Plus Special Guests: Franz Nicolay (The Hold Steady), Ariel Schrag
(cartoonist, L Word writer), Your illustrious MC, Ronica! And more!
Sponsored by: Bust Magazine! Free issues of Bust at the event! Dance
party featuring DJ Tikka Masala and DJ Shomi Noise of That's My Jam.
Buy tickets here and now!
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2541004
******* Sunday November 15th *****
November 15th 4:00pm
DJ Spooky & the Science of Terra Nova @ The Museum of natural history, Central Park West at 79th St
Join us for a behind-the-scenes peek of the latest multimedia creation by Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, whose Rebirth of a Nation redefined D.W. Griffith’s racist 1915 film about the American Civil War. With Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctic, he turns his attention to global climate change, specifically its effects on the world’s only uninhabited landmass, Antarctica. Using sounds recorded during a visit to the frozen continent and images culled from AMNH archives, DJ Spooky demonstrates how he created Terra Nova, discussing his project with Heidi Cullen, director of communications and senior research scientist at Climate Central, a nonprofit foundation created to provide science-based assessments of climate change and options for addressing it. Andrew C. Revkin, an environmental reporter for The New York Times, whose Dot Earth blog examines efforts to balance human affairs with the planet’s limits, will moderate the event. http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/films/dj-spooky-and-the-science-of-terra-nova