Daily Awesome 10/14-11/4
Naomi Huth
Enjoy Halloween and the tasty candies from trick-or-treating. I will be on vacation so no newsletter for a few weeks.
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 October 14th
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Thursday October 15th
MUSIC/ART/PERFORMANCE/PARTY: Royal Flush Festival @ See Website, Manhattan
MUSIC: Bonk! The 2009 Brooklyn Honk! Festival @ Check website for location, Brooklyn
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Friday October 16th
MUSIC/ART/PERFORMANCE/PARTY: Royal Flush Festival @ See Website, Manhattan
MUSIC: Bonk! The 2009 Brooklyn Honk! Festival @ Check website for location, Brooklyn
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Saturday October 17th
FESTIVAL: The Amazing Maize Maze @ Queens Country farm Museum, Queens
MUSIC/ART/PERFORMANCE/PARTY: Royal Flush Festival @ See Website, Manhattan
MUSIC: Bonk! The 2009 Brooklyn Honk! Festival @ Check website for location, Brooklyn
PERFORMANCE/ART: The Vertical Bed @ Art In Odd Places Festival, Manhattan
FESTIVAL: Halloween Harvest Fair @ Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens
ART: Kenji Hirata @ Joshua Liner Gallery, Manhattan
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Sunday October 18th
MUSIC/ART/PERFORMANCE/PARTY: Royal Flush Festival @ See Website, Manhattan
MUSIC: Bonk! The 2009 Brooklyn Honk! Festival @ Check website for location, Brooklyn
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Monday October 19th
MUSIC/ART/PERFORMANCE/PARTY: Royal Flush Festival @ See Website, Manhattan
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Tuesday October 20th
FILM/MUSIC: The Passion Project: Performance and Installation @ 3LD Art & Technology Center, Manhattan
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Wednesday October 21st
FILM/MUSIC: The Passion Project: Performance and Installation @ 3LD Art & Technology Center, Manhattan
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Thursday October 22nd
ART/FILM: Standards @ Ramis Barquet Gallery, Manhattan
FILM/MUSIC: The Passion Project: Performance and Installation @ 3LD Art & Technology Center, Manhattan
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Friday October 23rd
TOUR: Candlelight Ghost Tours of Manhattan’s Most Haunted House @ Merchant House Museum, Manhattan
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
ART: Eyebeam Open Studios @ Eyebeam, Manhattan
FILM/MUSIC: The Passion Project: Performance and Installation @ 3LD Art & Technology Center, Manhattan
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Saturday October 24th
TOUR: Candlelight Ghost Tours of Manhattan’s Most Haunted House @ Merchant House Museum, Manhattan
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
ART: Eyebeam Open Studios @ Eyebeam, Manhattan
FILM/MUSIC: The Passion Project: Performance and Installation @ 3LD Art & Technology Center, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE: Marshmallow Civil War @ DUMBO, Brooklyn
MUSIC: Au Revoir Simone @ The Bell House, Brooklyn
PERFORMANCE: ZombieCon @ See Website, Manhattan
Sunday October 25th
MUSIC: Video Games Live @ Beacon Theater, Manhattan
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Monday October 26th
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Tuesday October 27h
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Wednesday October 28h
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Thursday October 29th
TOUR: Candlelight Ghost Tours of Manhattan’s Most Haunted House @ Merchant House Museum, Manhattan
FILM: Rules of the Game @ Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Friday October 30th
TOUR: Candlelight Ghost Tours of Manhattan’s Most Haunted House @ Merchant House Museum, Manhattan
PARTY/ART: Pre-Halloween Costume Party @ Frost Gallery, Brooklyn
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Saturday October 31st
PARTY: Masquerade Macabre @ Gemini & Scorpio website
Happy Halloween
Sunday November 1st
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website, Manhattan
Monday November 2nd
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website, Manhattan
Tuesday November 3rd
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website, Manhattan
Wednesday November 4th
ART/LECTURES: Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website, Manhattan
******* Ongoing ******
October 15th-19th
Royal Flush Festival @ See Wesite
The Royal Flush Festival is a brand new force in the independent film, art and music scene. Initially founded in 2005 as the E. Vil City Film Fest in NYC's East Village, this opportunity to enjoy movies and booze with like-minded people is expanding dramatically in its fifth year with a new partner. The Royal Flush Festival will work extensively to bring you the best in art, film and music and will offer attendees better bang for their buck, while giving our filmmakers greater exposure. www.royalflushfestival.com
October 15th-18th
Bonk! The 2009 Brooklyn
Honk! Festival @ Check website for location
Free; A Cacophonous
Convergence of Brass Bands from the U.S. and Europe. The Bonk's in
Brooklyn. On Thursday, Oct. 15, at a soon to be disclosed location,
brass bands will coalesce on the busy streets of Brooklyn to herald
the beginning of Bonk! The 2009 Brooklyn Honk! Festival, a four-day
explosion of music from the global streets blasting through
Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Asbury Park, N.J. Planned events include a
brass band picnic, shows in a bowling alley and at a downtown party
place, a ride on the Staten Island Ferry, and the requisite parades
and pub crawls that only a marching band can lead. Curated by members
of NYC's Hungry March Band (HMB), Rude Mechanical Orchestra (RMO),
and friends, with support from MeanRed Productions, BONK! celebrates
the creative movement of politically active, socially minded, and
musically diverse community and semi-professional street bands
working in the United States and Europe today. bonknyc.info
October 20th
- 24th 8:00pm & 9:00pm/October 20th-22nd
Performance/Benefit October 22nd
The
Passion Project: Performance and Installation @ 3LD Art &
Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St., NYC
Performance: $50/Benefit:
$10;Special promo: use the promo code EYEBEAM to get $5 off the
regular ticket price; Eyebeam alum Reid Farrington's The Passion
Project is an electrifying work that compresses the entirety of Carl
Dreyer's classic silent film The Passion Of Joan Of Arc into a
30-minute concentration of movement, projection, installation and
sound collage. The audience surrounds a 10x10 foot area, flooded by
four projectors, in which Emily Watts meticulously arranges and
rearranges a number of parchment screens in a series of choreographed
movements that explode the film into three dimensions. A
transformative and dynamic sculpture takes form as the hanging
canvases grab hold of the fleeting, flickering images.
October 23rd,
24th, 29th, &
30th , 6:00-10:00pm Every half
hour
Candlelight Ghost Tours of Manhattan’s Most Haunted
House @ Merchant House Museum, 29 E 4th St
$25; Come
see the house The New York Times called “Manhattan’s Most
Haunted” by flickering candlelight – complete with eerie scenes
of mid-19th century death and mourning. You’ll find out what
paranormal investigations have uncovered and hear about strange and
inexplicable occurrences from people who actually experienced them.
Not recommended for children.
September 17th-November 7th
Toward the Sentient City @ See Website
Over the past several years, as the Architectural League has become increasingly involved in exploring the proliferation of various types of ambient, mobile, and ubiquitous computer technologies, we have often been asked, what does this have to do with architecture? www.sentientcity.net/exhibit/
September 19th – November 1st Saturdays & Sundays 11:00am-4:30pm
The Amazing Maize Maze @ Queens Country farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Queens
$8; Enjoy getting lost in our 3 acre interactive corn maze. The adventure begins with a stalk talk to prepare you for the challenge of finding clues, solving puzzles and making your way out of the maze. To add to the adventure join us for Maze By Moonlight on Saturdays October 10th and 17th when the maze will be open until 9:00 p.m Feel up to the challenge? Then join us for the fun of getting lost and loving it!
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.
******* Wednesday October 14th ******
October 14th
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Subculture Capital Opening Reception @
Anonymous Gallery, 169 Bowery
Free; Subcultural Capital is
described as the cultural knowledge and commodities acquired by
members of a subculture, raising their status and helping
differentiate them from members of other groups. Ronnie Cutrone,
Rammellzee, Kostas Seremetis, and Romon Kimin Yang aka Rostarr,
signal their membership through the distinctive use of style,
spontaneity and popular iconography derived from their subcultural
influences – and elevate as masters of their craft. Characterized
by themes drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising, comic
books and mundane cultural objects, the exhibition, Subculture
Capital integrates subculture and mass culture, pop art and post
modernism. Using techniques that include appropriation, collage,
painting, sculpture, film, and performance, these four artists
individually refine and stylize their cultural influences,
manipulating them into embodiments of personal compilations.
October 14th
7:00pm
Teen Wolf @ Pacific Standard, 82 4th Ave,
Brooklyn
Free; Join Team Fox at Pacific Standard for free
screenings of Teen Wolf and The Frighteners in October. Check out two
great flicks, drink some fabulous microbrews and get a chance to win
some awesome raffle prizes: including an iPod Nano, a $100 gift
certificate, & more! There will be cupcakes and yummy baked goods
for sale with all proceeds from going to benefit the Michael J. Fox
Foundation.
October 14th 7:00 pm
Khogzhumchu Ensemble-Throat Singers of Tuva @ Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street
$20 / $18 for RMA Members; Khogzhumchu, a musical ensemble from the Republic of Tuva in Russia, presents a concert featuring four masters of the region’s ancient throat-singing tradition. Formed in 2007, Khogzhumchu has performed across Russia and abroad, including a concert in India attended by the Dalai Lama. The group’s US debut is a part of a residency co-hosted by CEC ArtsLink and the National Council for the Traditional Arts.
October 14th 7:00-9:00pm
Ossu! Shugeibu @ Gallery Hanahou, 611 Broadway, 7th Floor
Free; Before and After: hijacking everyday stuff to craft incredible creations
October 14th 8:00-10:00pm
A Thousand Words @ The Roy Aires Theaters, 300 W 43rd St
$12.50; 18 Writers, 18 Photographs, 1000 words. What are yours? A unique theatrical experience combining Audio, Photography and The Written Word. Featuring the following writers: Jim Kudrik. Naomi McDougall Jones. Joe Kurtz, R. Patrick Alberty, Christian De Gré, Ashley Williams, Ariana Paganetti Produced by: Christian De Gré & Jesse Tendler
******* Thursday October 15th ******
October 15th 7:00pm
The RZA: The Tao of Wu @ Barnes & Noble, 33 E 17th St
Free; The RZA's latest tome of verbal chi gong, The Tao of Wu, takes the nonfiction baton from his 2005 Wu-Tang Manual and carries it to more personal and profound ends. An inlet to the luminous mind of the Ruler-Knowledge-Wisdom-and-Understanding-Allah (shortened to RZA), this memoir is both hip-hopping confessions of an omnivorous mind — taking in the wisdom of Shaolin and Islam, martial-arts flicks, and chess — and letters to a young artist. Tonight, the Wu-Tang chieftain appears to celebrate Tao's release, and to spread the gospel to those ready to receive.
******* Friday October 16th ******
October 16th 8:00pm
Naked Girls Reading Banned Books @ Madame X, 94 West Houston S
$15; The concept is simple: Girls. Reading. Naked. The East Coast Premiere will feature local burlesque celebrities - as well as a very special guest performer - reading selections from their favorite banned books. Join host Nasty Canasta, plus Gal Friday, GiGi La Femme, Jo Boobs, Legs Malone, Sapphire Jones and very special guest Naked Girls Reading creator Michelle L'Amour (America's Got Talent, Burlesque Hall of Fame's Miss Exotic World 2005), for a celebration of banned books and the naked girls who love to read them... to you. http://www.pinchbottom.com/tickets
October 16th 8:00pm
Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament @ Hammerstein Ballroom, 331 W 34th St
$20/$15; Cut&Paste presents the ultimate event from its 2009 Digital Design Tournament with its first Global Championship. From an original pool of 256 competitors from around the world, 48 city champs of 2D, 3D, and motion design square off tonight in front of you, the audience. Presenting "design as spectator sport," the championship projects contestants' designs on large-scale displays as they race against the clock to compete for the grand prize. Judges include creative directors and designers from Core77.com, Anomoly, 55DSL, and the Brand New School; and the whole thing gets a soundtrack courtesy of Cosmo Baker.
October
16th 8:00pm
Sea Wolf @ Union Hall,
702 Union St, Brooklyn
$12; Plus Port O'Brien and Sara Lov
******* Saturday October 17th ******
October
17th 10:00am
The Vertical Bed @ Art
In Odd Places Festival, Along 14th St., NYC
Free; The Vertical Bed
allows its user to fall asleep in a standing position. Eyebeam
honorary resident Jamie O'Shea will be demonstrating this device
along 14th St., NYC, slumbering upright every four hours throughout
the weekend of October 17. Look-out for a man in a black suit
standing very still over subway ventilation grates, with a metal
briefcase attached to his side. The assembly and disassembly of the
bed apparatus, which fits in the accompanying briefcase, can be
viewed at the beginning and end of each nap. For more precise
information on where to find The Vertical Sleeper, go the AIOP site
listed and click on the calendar.
October 17th 11:00am-2:00pm
Halloween Harvest Fair @ Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Queens
If you’re already jonesin’ to slip into your Halloween costume, then head over to Free; Socrates Sculpture Park for the 9th annual Halloween Harvest Festival. This prelude to the big event includes a live concert from kids rock band - with adult appeal - AudraRox; glam rock costume-making with park artists; a Canine Costume Contest (1 p.m.); and food from Sage General Store. At 2 p.m. Grab a patch of grass for The Red Door Theatre Company’s modern twist on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. www.thereddoortheatre.com; www.socratessculpturepark.org,
October 17th 6:00-9:00pm
Kenji Hirata @ Joshua Liner Gallery, 548 W 28 street, 3rd Floor
Free; The Way Out is the
Way In curated by Joshua Liner
******* Tuesday October 20th ******
October 20th 6:30pm
Collect Dumbo @ 111 Front St & 55 Washington, Brooklyn
$15; Artlog.com & Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) present a special one night Halloween themed art crawl, Collect Dumbo, in partnership with Two Trees Management & the Dumbo Improvement District. Following the success of DUMBO’s monthly 1st Thursday Gallery Walks, Artlog has partnered with BAC, Two Trees & the Dumbo Improvement District to produce a special Halloween themed Collect art crawl, the sixth event in Artlog’s “Collect” series. A portion of all the proceeds from the ticketed event go to supporting the nonprofit Brooklyn Arts Council based in DUMBO. Collect Dumbo encourages attendees to wear art inspired Halloween costumes. The event includes numerous participating galleries, Halloween themed special events and a dance party at the UnderWater Lounge. 6:30pm – 9:00pm Gallery Crawl (Check-in at 111 Front St & 55 Washington ) 10:00pm till late: After Party with dancing, video projections and one hour open bar at the Underwater Lounge (@66 Water St.)
******* Wednesday October 21st ******
October 21st 7:00pm
The
Frighteners @ Pacific Standard, 82 4th Ave, Brooklyn
Free; Join
Team Fox at Pacific Standard for free screenings of Teen Wolf and The
Frighteners in October. Check out two great flicks, drink some
fabulous microbrews and get a chance to win some awesome raffle
prizes: including an iPod Nano, a $100 gift certificate, & more!
There will be cupcakes and yummy baked goods for sale with all
proceeds from going to benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
******* Thursday October 22nd ******
October 22nd
6:00pm
Standards @ Ramis Barquet Gallery, 532 W. 24th
St.
Free; Eyebeam resident Rashaad Newsome will be showing the
first and second installment of his ongoing video project The
Conductor, where a digital video loop is produced of footage from
various Hip-Hop videos. All footage is digitally enhanced and
re-edited to track the motion of the hands of the artists. He
conducted a survey with local New York radio stations-Hot 97 and
105.1-to create the audio component; a composite of sounds
consistently heard in artist-deemed Hip-Hop music greats. These
sounds weave in and out of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. In addition to
video, Rashaad will be showing his new collage work and sculpture.
http://www.ramisbarquet.com
******* Friday October 23rd ******
October 23rd 3:00-6:00pm
Eyebeam Open Studios @ Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St.
Eyebeam is pleased to host Open Studios for its 2009 Senior Fellows, Resident Artists, and Student Residents at Eyebeam's state-of-the-art design, research, and fabrication studio; showcasing video performance, wearable technologies, code and humor, party technology, and sustainablity design. This two-day presentation at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center will allow a rare, inside look at current research. Guided tours of artists' work will be given every hour from 3-6PM.
******* Saturday October 24th ******
October 24th 3:00-6:00pm
Eyebeam Open Studios @ Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St.
Eyebeam is pleased to host Open Studios for its 2009 Senior Fellows, Resident Artists, and Student Residents at Eyebeam's state-of-the-art design, research, and fabrication studio; showcasing video performance, wearable technologies, code and humor, party technology, and sustainablity design. This two-day presentation at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center will allow a rare, inside look at current research. Guided tours of artists' work will be given every hour from 3-6PM.
October 24th 4:00pm
Marshmallow
Civil War @ DUMBO
Free; Newmindspace presents: A historical
reenactment in Brooklyn of questionable accuracy. With marshmallows.
Many years ago, widespread unrest in the region and a perplexing
overabundance of marshmallows led to a soft armed conflict between
opposing sides. More moderate citizens flew the flag of Caution,
while the more radical aligned themselves with Danger. Marshmallow
pistols, jet-puffed assault rifles, bow-and-mallows and Peep grenades
decimated each army until no soldier was left alive. This is a
reenactment of that epic battle. For complete participant guide,
including DIY weapon plans, check out
http://newmindspace.com/marshmallow and try out our new comment
system :). http://newmindspace.com/marshmallow
October 24th 7:0pm
Au Revoir Simone @ The Bell House, 149 7th St, Brooklyn
$12; Plus Still Flyin' and The Postmarks
October 24th
ZombieCon @ See Website
The zombies will rise again in their disgusting annual search of bloody marys, brains and braaaands. The glorious undead of New York City will join this, our fifth annual ghoulish spree of shopping, bar-hopping and horrifying Manhattan street theatrics. Locations and details will only be released via email the day before Zombiecon. You will receive only Zombiecon-related info from this announcement list. May we suggest you also sign up for our text-message service before the event to better keep up with the zombie madness. RSVP at zombiecon.com
******* Sunday October 25th ******
October 25th 8:00pm
Video Games Live @ Beacon Theater, 2124 Broadway
$35; Video Games Live bridges a gap for entertainment by exposing new generations of music lovers and fans to the symphonic orchestral experience while also providing a completely new and unique experience for families and/or non-gamers. The power and emotion of a symphony orchestra is mixed with the excitement and energy of a rock concert and the technology and interactivity of a video game all completely synchronized to amazing cutting edge video screen visuals, state-of-the-art lighting and special on-stage interactive segments with the audience.
******* Thursday October 29th ******
October 29th
7:30pm
Rules of the Game @ Flushing Meadows Corona Park,
Queens
1939, 105 mins. Directed by Jean Renoir. With Marcel Dalio,
Nora Gregor. Filmed by Jean Renoir as the storm clouds of war were
hovering over Europe, this romantic rondelay set during a weekend
hunting party is unparalleled in its emotionally and cinematically
rich portrayal of romance and intrigue among a fading aristocracy.
Filled with comedy and tragedy, the film is masterfully
choreographed, yet it spills over with the vitality of life. Jean
Renoir, the greatest of French directors, was the son of
impressionist painter Auguste Renoir.
http://movingimage.us/site/calendar/pages/2009/index_queens_theatre_in_the_park.html
******* Friday October 30th ******
October 30th
Pre-Halloween Costume Party @ Frost Gallery, 17 Frost St, Brooklyn
Free or $5 for all you
drink beer; A couple of other bands
******* Saturday October 31st ******
October 31st
Masquerade Macabre @
Gemini & Scorpio website
A marvellous and mysterious event...a
Halloween celebration of the extravagant and the grotesque...a
12-hour spectacle of atmosphere, costumery and diverse
entertainments...an explosion of live music, dancing, circus arts,
fire, and late-night revelry, snake-charmed into an absinthe-fueled
early-morning speakeasy. And for the daring few: A loft lounge with
absinthe and other mind-altering potions by The House of St Eve