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Friday, January 28
* Building Block Party: It's Not Figure Skating, Brooklyn
* Showpaper Benefit Party, Brooklyn
* Landmark Loews Movie Palace, Jersey City
* Found Footage Festival, Manhattan
* Don't Divide! Multiply, Brooklyn
* The Loose Caboose Show, Manhattan
* We Have Decided Not to Die, Brooklyn
Saturday, January 29
* Sequence of Waves, Brooklyn
* Idiotarod
* Big Rock Candy Mountain, Brooklyn
* The Tracksuit Party, Manhattan
* Dances of Vice: The Diamond Ace, Manhattan
* Soup and Song with Sara Bouchard, Brooklyn
* I/O Chip Music/Visual Art, Manhattan
* Rumble Reunion, Brooklyn
* Lost in Wyoming, Bacon x 3, and Mummering in Philly
* Get Your Dance On, Manhattan
Sunday, January 30
* The Cake Pageant, Manhattan
* Heaven No More, Brooklyn
* Church, Williamsburg
* Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, Williamsburg
* The Secret City, Manhattan
* Reverend Billy's Church of Earthalujah, Manhattan
* Hey, I'm Walkin' Here! Newark
* Nelson Loskamp's Electric Chaircut Rapunzel Performance, Manhattan
* Shocking Curiosities, Brooklyn
Monday, January 31
* I/O Chip Music NYC, Manhattan
Tuesday, February 1
* Brooklyn, Brooklyn
* Book Club Burlesque, Manhattan
* Bushwick Book Club, Brooklyn
Wednesday, February 2
* Sonik Fest and Synthetic Zero Event, Bronx
* Dorkbot, Manhattan
* Bailout Theater, Manhattan
Thursday, February 3
* Sense and Sensuality, Manhattan
Wishlist
* Overflow
All That We've Met
* Urban explorer Steve Duncan
Spectre
* Egypt Shuts Down Internet
Learning
* Guardian Project Hack Session
Help
* Crochet
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The snowy trees of Fort Greene Park.
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Building Block Party: It's Not Figure Skating
Come enjoy our life size building blocks. A night block full of physics lessons and boxy facades. Bands: Sex Robot, Bikby and Apocalypse 5 and Dime Dance With Soundman Cody and Barney Iller. Tarot reading by the Great Shalini. Dress: colorful construction worker, psychedelic architect.
Timi Fashions
59 Jefferson Street, No. 301, Brooklyn
J, M, Z trains to Myrtle Broadway station
9:30p-3a; $Roll of Dice at the Door
***** Also on FRIDAY *****
Showpaper Benefit Party
With Telenovelas, Parquet Courts, and Xray Eyeballs.
Shea Stadium, Brooklyn
20 Meadow Street, between Waterbury and Bogart streets, Brooklyn
***** Also on FRIDAY *****
Landmark Loews Movie Palace
Classic films in the volunteer-run movie palace. Tonight: Freaks, directed by Tod Browning, followed by She Done Him Wrong, starring Mae West.
Tomorrow: Morocco, starring Marlene Dietrich, and Baby Face, starring Barbara Stanwyck.
Landmark Loew's Movie Palace
54 Journal Square, Jersey City
8p; $8 for both films
Continues SATURDAY
loewsjersey.org/
***** Also on FRIDAY *****
Found Footage Festival
Just a friendly reminder that the Found Footage Festival, the acclaimed touring showcase of odd and hilarious found videos, will debut its brand-new show in New York. With Heavy Metal Parking Lot opening.
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, Manhattan
8 and 10p; $13
Continues SATURDAY
foundfootagefest.com
***** Also on FRIDAY *****
Don't Divide! Multiply
A benefit for the family of Jenna Morris. With Martin Luther King Jr. Day behind us and with recent events in mind, we feel this is a perfect time to announce a dream that we hope is shared by all. Come and join all of your friends (and I mean all of them) in remembering Jenna the way she would have wanted: by us all coming together under the same roof, for the same reason, to have a good time, peaceably. In a world and subculture polarized by what seems to be daily division, it's important to note that so many people are coming together for just this one event. It is unfortunate that we only seem to come together in the worst of times. Only in the worst of times do we realize the true potential of each other and the collaborative strength of many. We may not be able to change the world or each other, but we can certainly change ourselves. With this in mind, we ask you to start small. Deep down, we know the difference between right and wrong. Dig deep, look inward and take co
ntrol of yourself first. Choose to do right and others will follow.
DJs: Alex Baker, Animus, Atom C, Boogy Boy K, Candy Kid, Chris Creature, Crisis Kid, Daddy Noomz, Dali, Darkwolf, DJ Dragin Vs DJ Sonic, Droid, Hocus Pocus, How Hard, Integrity, Jenocide, John Bas, Junglez, Liquid Sugar, Morbid, No Too Big (aka Teddy Glow), Ritalin, Ryan Blatt, Serious Black, Smile-e, the Magick Report, Tom C, Wink-E, X-Dream, and Xero.
Sound, visuals, and support: three rooms of Sound-Lights-Lasers brought to you collectively by PowerTrip Lighting, Supreme Sounds, Aiwaz, Audiolust, Cerulean Sound. Fresh fruit by TDR. Special thanks (but not in this order) to all the people who have and continue to stand behind PowerTrip Lighting and the bigger picture.
The Electric Warehouse
1428 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
8p-5a; $15 mandatory donation. All proceeds will be donated to the family of Jenna Morris and charities of her choice.
nycravers.com
***** Also on FRIDAY *****
The Loose Caboose Show
Un Vaudeville Spectacle. Ms. Tina Cione' and Shane Webb bring you a night of bumping and grinding with comedic timing at their vaudeville themed variety show. Every last Friday of the month the Bowery Poetry Club hosts un spectacle with vintage cartoons from Tom Stathes' Cartoons on film, burlesque, comedie, musical, and sideshow acts. Hosted by Juliet Jeske as Fraulein Shtup. Performing on our first show of 2011 we present: Darlinda Just Darlinda, Dan St. Germain, the Chi-Ciones, Esther Ku, Mr. Gorgeous, Jason Mejias, Shane and Shane, and Nelson Lugo.
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, Manhattan
7:30p cartoons, 8p show; $10 door
theloosecabooseshow.com/
***** Also on FRIDAY *****
We Have Decided Not to Die
Come back from the dead for a night of coldwave, punk, and dance. Sullen jubilance for an era of ecstatic misery. Bands, video projections, performances, and DJs, featuring Rosa Apatrida, Nomadic War Machine, Agnostic Pray, Shady Hawkins, and Ice Age Crew.
6 Charles Street, intersection of Mrytle and Willoughby, Brooklyn
9:30p; $10
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Rabid Hands presents:
Sequence of Waves
Rabid Hands is pleased to present Sequence of Waves, the collective’s inaugural sound, visual, and multi-media art exhibition. The exhibition is open to the public for one day only at St. Cecilia’s Gallery, and will include scheduled performances. Formerly a convent and school, St. Cecilia’s Gallery is now a hub for rotating art exhibitions and film screenings, effectively bringing life back into the three-story building.
Recognizing the potential for discovery and experimentation in the St. Cecilia building, Rabid Hands has gathered over 40 artists to transform this space during their two-week residency. Given the narrow hallways and cordoned off rooms, the architecture of the building does not inherently lend itself to one large, continuous visual space, nor does it necessarily encourage group investigation. Instead of approaching the architecture as an obstacle, artists will use sound as the organizing and uniting principle. Embracing complete freedom, Rabid Hands encourages all participating artists to look beyond the confines of their personal forms and methods and merge their dialogue with the broader group. While individual works can be seen, what will emerge, more importantly, is the story of how these artists can influence the outcome of each other’s work by way of true collaboration.
Works will vary from: a red carpet of bubble wrap weaving through the convent’s hallways; an amalgamation of the exhibition’s microphone cords ascending a three-story tall sculpture made of found materials in the central stairwell, poised for sonic and aerial performance; a robotically controlled symphony of recordings filling the convent’s chapel with sound, as well as many other collaborative projects.
Participating artists include: Adriana Atema, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Alex Drewchin, Terence Caulkins, Skye Chamberlain, Nick Chatfield-Taylor, Ryan Chin, G. Lucas Crane, Jesse Cronan, Vanessa Cronan, Alex Drewchin, Jan Drojarski, Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels, Jessica Findley, Lillian Gerson, Kendall Glover, Jesse Gold, George Graham, Doktor Greg, James Haddrill, Gaylen Hamilton, Maya Hayuk, Travis Iurato, Elijah Kast, Victoria Keddie, Jesse Kreuzer, Taylor Kuffner, Roberto Lange, Steven Ma, Lili Maya, Zelijko McMullen, Steven Milton, Rob Minervini, Caleb Mitchell, Ben Mortimer, Kelly Nicholson, Ryan O’Connor, Brian Osborne, Mike O’Toole, Brandon Perry, Zac Poff, Nandan Rao, Allen Riley, John Roach, James Rouvelle, Amanda Salane, Isabella Scott, Tod Seelie, Ben Simon, Phillip Stearns, Martyna Szcz, Heidi Tullmann, Emily Willis, Ben Wolf, Nick Yulman, Tyler Zwiep.
St. Cecelia’s Convent
21 Monitor Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
2-9p; $free
rabidhands@gmail.com
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Idiotarod
Registration is now open for the race event. All teams must complete the Corporation X Racing Division Form 2011.
Contact corpxracingdivision@gmail.com. for registration forms and further information.
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Big Rock Candy Mountain
With live performances by the Woes and Mickey Western. Come live the easy life off the fat of our good land with Swimming Cities at the Chicken Hut as we ramble all night with raucous, foot-stompin, soul-shaking, life-affirming, live tunes.
Featuring a live free-to-enter banjo pick-off with hobo-rection-o-meter, a whiskey fountain (free until 10p), cigarette trees, the biggest pot of slumgullion you ever did see, a first class box car lounge, lemonade springs, hobo awards, dirty uncle pony rides, dumpster jumping for fabulous prizes and a late-night dirty dance floor with DJ Dirtyfinger.
Swimming Cities is a volunteer-based non-profit arts collective that makes handcrafted boats and takes on new waterways each year. The Ocean of Blood in 2011 will take us to India's Ganges River, where our five motorcycle and sail-powered pontoon boats will carry 15-20 of our crew and local collaborators 400 miles to Varanasi. There we will link our boats together to form a star-shaped floating island on which we will present a performance based on our adventures. All proceeds from Swimming Cities events go towards this trip and this is one of our last fundraising chances before we set sail so please come out and support us
A Hobo's Paradise
169 Spencer Street, at Willoughby, Brooklyn
9p-late; $10
weareswimmingcities.org
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
BangOn!NYC presents:
The Tracksuit Party
BangOn!NYC will be celebrating the pinnacle of street tackiness: The Tracksuit. This will naturally be accompanied by an open bar all night. Come dressed in your worst tracksuit, or as B-Boy's, Fly Girls, or Chavs. Watch In Living Color for inspiration.
Featuring hot breakdance performances, and jams by DJs Curly, Cashbar, Mr. Nice Guy. Also feauturing DJ Rick Girljuice.
The Living Theatre
21 Clinton Street, Manhattan
10p-3a; $15 costume, $20 otherwise includes open bar
BangOn-nyc.com/
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Dances of Vice: The Diamond Ace
Dances of Vice debuts at the Ace Hotel with the Diamond Ace, a film noir inspired evening of thrilling music and performances featuring the raucous and sultry crime jazz and salsa of Gato Loco Musica, special appearances by the danger dame of burlesque Veronica Varlow, deadly vixen Medianoche, crimes of passion performed by the Strictly Tango Dance Company, with Mr J Burmeister as your MC. Disko Nouveaux continues from 2-4a with DJs Purevile and Miz Margo.
Liberty Hall at the Ace Hotel
16 West 29th Street, Manhattan
10p-4a; $10
21 and over
dancesofvice.com
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Soup and Song with Sara Bouchard
In these dark days of winter, we seek to create a little warmth and happiness, a soupçon of Paradise, through whatever means at our disposal. This coming Saturday evening, we present Sara Bouchard, singer-songwriter, a large pot, soup stock and a hot fire, all the tools needed to create our own Paradise of Soup and Song.
But something is missing. We have no vegetables for our soup. Please bring one vegetable, cleaned and prepared for sacrifice, to make (y)our happiness complete.
Perhaps you are familiar with the story of Stone Soup: the wise man (or con man?) who enters a village hungry, begs for food and is turned away. He says fine, I'll make my own - from water and a stone. The villagers gather 'round to watch. He puts the stone in the pot, tastes it and says, Very good. But it would be better with a carrot. One villager offers a carrot and so it goes until the villagers one by one have supplied all the ingredients for a huge soup that feeds them all.
We would never stoop to such tactics, being neither wise nor wily. But the story does disclose a reliable method for feeding the masses heavenly soup. We hope you can come and bring your own tubers, fungi, legumes, stems, bulbs and flowering heads to help us make Paradise from soup (or vice versa).
Proteus Gowanus
543 Union Street, entrance is on Nevins, Brooklyn
7p; $5 plus one vegetable, a bowl, and a spoon
myspace.com/sarabouchardmusic
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
I/O Chip Music/Visual Art
The biggest I/O dance party yet will feature five chip musicians performing dirty, lo-fi dance music from 6-10p whilst four visual artists project motion graphics on every surface of the venue (audience included). Show up early to catch Parris’ gritty D.C. booty-bass and stick around for our headliner noteNdo, who will spin a simultaneous audio/visual set.
Vaudeville Park
26 Bushwick Avenue, corner of Devoe Street, Brooklyn
6-10p; $5
vaudevillepark.com
iochipmusic.com
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Rumble Reunion
Rumble is Brooklyn's first retro rock-n-roll party for queers, freaks, and the otherwise sexual. We haven't thrown a party in a while, which is why we're throwing a Rumble Reunion. Think prom night, 1962, Rebel-era James Dean making out with Crybaby-era Johnny Depp in the parking lot while Chuck Berry makes everybody on the dancefloor feel like the prom queen. We're going to wear the rubber off your dancing shoes with some scorching tunes to chase that winter chill away.
Featuring DJs Drumpelstiltsken, Jonathan Toubin. Retro attire encouraged. Be there or be square and don't be square.
Sweet Revenge Bar
348 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn
G train to Bedford Nostrand station
9p
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Moonlighter presents:
Lost in Wyoming, Bacon x 3, and Mummering in Philly
Moonlighter Presents is a speaker series encouraging the public presentation of secret hobbies, passions, thoughts, opinions, and research. Our speakers address topics that may fall outside traditional artistic and academic canons or make extensive amateur studies of subjects for which they lack "official" qualification, credentials, and training.
Please join us for three lectures and a reception: Justin Armstrong: On Everyday Magic and Being Lost in Wyoming; Clara Chapin Hess: Bacon, Bacon, and Bacon: the philosopher, the painter and the porcine product; Daniel Denvir: Breaking and Entering into Tradition: The Vaudevillains New Years Brigade.
78 Kingsland Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
7:30p doors, 8p show; $free
moonlighterpresents.com
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Get Your Dance On
Get Your Dance On is a revolutionary event that is changing the way the planet parties. We feature the very best local DJs, musicians, yoga teachers, artists, healers, performers, and healthy indulgences to connect people through music, movement, and world-changing ideas.
Get busy with DJ Dhundee, Black Panther Drumming, Brooklyn Shekere, The Didge Project, live art, performances TBA, all the high-vibe food and drink you can consume, and the Truth: a multimedia exhibition by Haitian, Haitian American and Haitian inspired artists curated by fashion photographer Marc Baptiste. Profits benefit Hope, Help, and Relief: Haiti.
Urban Zen
711 Greenwich Street, Manhattan
All ages
9p; $20
urbanzen.com
kickstarter.com/projects/natashablank/get-your-dance-on-at-urban-zen-0
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The Cake Pageant
The Cake Pageant is a bake-off meets American Idol competition for cake bakers of all diverse abilities. Audience and Judges' Panel will taste a gallery of cakes and vote for their favorites. Refreshments are provided as well as top prizes. Kim Ima from the Treats Truck; Ruschell Boone from NY1; and Peter Rider from Teach for America are confirmed judges.
Proceeds from this event will benefit Q Up, a free, out-of-school performing arts program for South Asian and Asian American high school girls from Queens. This program was created by Rising Circle Theater Collective and takes places at Queens Theatre in the Park.
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street between 10th and 11th avenues, Manhattan
1-4p; $25 advance, $30- Day of Event
risingcircle.org
***** Also on SUNDAY *****
Heaven No More
The galley is titled Heaven No More, a sequel gallery to last year's Heaven at Last. The theme is Pain, what is your meaning of it? I've gathered 10 artists, including myself to express that through open medium (traditional, video, writing, photography) It is contest based as well. The crowd will vote for its winner, the artists who best exemplifies the show's aesthetic. The grand prize is $300. There are other sub-contests that night as well.
There is a theatrical element and back story to the show. It is based on The Chronicles of Sun, a story about a boy long ago on Earth named Sun. He used loved and compassion to heal his people through his art. He will put on a theatrical show and reveal his latest art works. His identity is a mystery and I've been promoting this event for a few months now. Also, to note the interactive part of the gallery also revolves around the fact that each guest will be able to actually take part in art pieces in a variety of ways. After the art show, the floor is open to dancing and a further great time.
160 Water Street, Brooklyn
7p-1a; $free, with free food and drinks
heavennomore.blogspot.com
youtube.com/hnmartgallery
***** Also on SUNDAY *****
Church
A live showcase of comedy, music, film, writing, and everything held the last Sunday of every month at Legion Bar in Brooklyn.
Church is a forum to show off whatever you're working on or want to try -- as polished or off the cuff as you'd like. Read a section of your Great American Novel or the nutrition facts off the back of your beer can. If you're in a band, come improvise, play a new version of your classic or that weird one that never gets performed under your normal moniker. Make a cartoon. Do stand-up. Screen a video. Narrate a photo slide show of the family trip to Orlando. This is the outlet for it all.
Church is the extra push to help you complete your work or idea each month, and a reason to inspire new ones. There's a deadline every fourth Sunday and your friends will be waiting.
Legion Bar (back room)
790 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
ChurchMonthly@gmail.com $free
cityonfilm.com
***** Also on SUNDAY *****
Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School
For the last five years, Dr. Sketchy's has produced alt. drawing salons in 120 cities, including New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Sao Paulo and Melbourne, as well as the Museum of Modern Art and The Brooklyn Museum Dr. Sketchy's is the brainchild of New York artist Molly Crabapple.
Join Dr. Sketchy's NYC for an amazing tribute to Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics. Come draw a stunning Endless trio, starring legendary model, Stoya, as Death, Johnny Blazes as Desire and Tess Aquarium as Delirium.
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, Manhatan
4-6:45p; $10 advanced, $15 door, bring your own art supplies
drsketchy.com/branch/newyork
***** Also on SUNDAY *****
The Secret City
What a beautiful service we've got lined up. Featuring these amazing artists: Sxip Shirey making strange and fabulous sounds out of instruments and objects Anne Peabody, a sculptor making large-scale installations with found objects Anna Hayman, local food freak, will present the food offering Leah Coloff will play her cello for us Matt Maher will read the Cultural Calendar And we're going to watch a film clip, participate in the Mingling Ritual and listen to a story about Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Oh, and we'll listen to at least on Stevie Wonder song. It promises to be a great gathering -- perfect for the cold, bright days of late January, with a blanket of snow on the ground. And remember, free childcare.
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, between Houston and Delancey, Manhattan
11:30a; $10
***** Also on SUNDAY *****
Reverend Billy's Church of Earthalujah
Take an urban study of indigenous wisdom, wrap it with a distortion of Jimmy Swaggart and a radical gospel choir from around the world that's the Church of Earthalujah. Come to Church even from afar. Bring your digital spirit over to our growing online congregations on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. What is happening to us is not natural disasters, these blackbirds and fish, droughts and floods and tsunamis and quakes...These are cries and laughter, these are YouTubes and tabloid scandals from our Supreme Being. Earthalujah.
Theatre 80
80 St. Marks Place, Manhattan
7:30p; $10, no-one turned away
Join us every Sunday starting January 30 at 7:30 PM at Theatre 80 in NYC's East Village, and online at Revbilly.com.
Advanced tickets available for all 20 Sundays.
***** Also on SUNDAY *****
Hey, I'm Walkin' Here!
Urban exploration, gustatory experimentation, and long walks. For many people, the weekends the time to stay inside and take it easy. You couldn't pay them to hop on a train to Newark and trek through streets, marsh trails, unshoveled sidewalks, bridges and abandoned railtracks. Fortunately, there is a club for those who'd gladly do that trek for free. Join Hey, I'm Walkin' Here this Sunday as we hike from Newark to Jersey City. The route will include downtown Newark, Harrison, and the Kearny Marshland. We'll be meeting in Manhattan to take the train out together and ending by the Newport PATH station in Jersey City. For lunch, we'll be stopping for Portuguese food in Newark's Ironbound neighborhood.
Further info: All walks (including some that are not on Nonsense list) are posted at the Hey, I'm Walkin' Here" facebook group. It's an open group -- feel free to join.
Meeting point: World Trade Center PATH station (Vesey and West Broadway in Manhattan) underneath the huge PATH sign.
Newark is a 22-minute train ride from Manhattan. You can board with $1.75 on a pay per use (but not unlimited) metrocard. If meeting at Newark's Penn Station is easier for you, contact me (email below) by midday Saturday and we'll work out a time/place.
9:45a; $free
nedwalkgmail.com
***** Also on SUNDAY *****
Nelson Loskamp's Electric Chaircut Rapunzel Performance
Open call for people willing to donate 8-10 inches of hair followed by a fabulous style cut by professional salon hairdresser Nelson Loskamp. The braids will then be tied together and displayed as a Rapunzel installation and donated to make wigs for cancer patients when the show closes on February 20. In the interactive, electro sonic, haircut performance, volunteers are taped to the chair; their eyes and mouth are also taped to symbolize the fetishism of appearance. Scissors and clippers are amplified so the sounds of the cut reverberate through the room. By blindfolding the volunteer, the performance combines the fear of the unknown with the excitement of adventure and fantasy (a free haircut!) two ideas that drive fables.
Hendershot Gallery
195 Chrystie Street, Manhattan
2-5p; $free
212 239 1210
Infohendershotgallery.com
hendershotgallery.com
chaircut.com/
***** Also on SUNDAY *****
Shocking Curiosities
We will use cunning! and perhaps extra space heaters while expanding and unraveling guttural performance; and we will exfoliate something or other in order to eek out artistic brilliance. But fear not allusions to skin cells and intestines. We promise to provide hilarity, lovely music, selected words, flailing bodies, and chocolate.
With Rima Fand and friends (poetry-inspired songs with piano and strings), Jenny Smith (smithing various words to ears), Butt Kapinski (a private eye, a mystery, a comedy, a speech impediment), Billy Schultz (dances from outer space), and Lulu Bizou (chocolate). With monthly musical host the Curious Shape of Hens
The Egg and Dart Club
15 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn
8p; $10
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I/O Chip Music NYC
Chip music is made using computer chips in vintage computers, keyboards, and video games. Chip musicians craft songs out of beeps, bloops, and static noise by programming these sounds into meaningful compositions, with all the inherent limitations and charm of the primitive computers and game systems this music is created on: Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo NES, Commodore64, etc.
To complement the music, a visual artist (visualist) projects moving graphics generated from modified computers and game consoles on a screen, in time to the music, effectively creating a visual representation of the music and completing the 8-bit, lo-fi effect.
Now in its first year, I/O is a monthly chip music and visuals show in New York City's Lower East Side. I/O is free to play and free or low cost to attend, with the aim of providing exposure for new and established chip musicians and visualists. Featuring music by Rockman, Zen Albatross, Note. Visual art: No Carrier.
Niagara Bar
112 Avenue A, corner of A and 7th Street, Manhattan
7:30-10p; $free
21 and over
iochipmusic.com
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Adult Education presents:
Brooklyn
According to Brian Williams, the biggest media story of 2010 was the New York Times' discovery of Brooklyn. But what do we really know about this so-called borough? On February 1, Adult Education -- a Brooklyn-based monthly lecture series devoted to making useless knowledge somewhat less useless -- welcomes a panel of presenters to speak on the theme of Brooklyn. Presentations will include:
Betsy Bradley, Dreamland is Burning: A Coney Island Centennial; Heather Quinlan, The Brooklyn Accent: Freakin' A; Howard Eisman, The Garden Spot of the Universe: Greenpoint, Civic Virtue, and The McGuinness; Mike Miscione, Up With the Flag of Brooklyn. Hosted, as always, by the inimitable Charles Star.
Union Hall
702 Union Street, at 5th Avenue, Brooklyn
8p; $5
***** Also on TUESDAY *****
Book Club Burlesque
The book will be Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. With artists, musicians, dancers, circus, variety, burlesque performers, film makers, puppeteers, piano players, drag queens, installation artists, photographers, actors, freaks, the bizarre, strange, and subversive. We highly recommended that you read the book because this is a Book Club.
The goals for our Book Club Burlesque events are to :
1. promote literacy;
2. showcase unique talent; and
3. Have sexy fun!
Parkside Lounge
317 East Houston Street, Manhattan
8p doors, 8:30p show; $7
21 and over
212 674 9308
inbredhybrid(at)gmail.com
parksidelounge.com
***** Also on TUESDAY *****
Bushwick Book Club
Come hear songs inspired by Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary while you partake of the Madame Bovary-inspired snacks and drink specials.
Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway, Brooklyn
J,M,Z trains to Myrtle or J to Kosciusco
718 453 6343
8p; $free
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Sonik Fest and Synthetic Zero Event
Video installations, experimental video/film, dance, multimedia performance, noise, poetry, art, and music.
BronxArtSpace
305 E. 140th Street, No. 1A, Bronx
6-9p; $free
718 772 4961
bronxartspace.com/
syntheticzero.com/events/
***** Also on WEDNESDAY *****
Dorkbot
People doing strange things with electricity.
Featuring the thumpetty thump thump of Jeremy Slater: Inside/Outside 10; Toydeath; Brad Garton and Damon Holzborn, mobile audio apps. We're always looking for (and playing) more dorkbot theme songs. Bring or email one and we'll play it at the meeting. And snacks. Bring snacks.
Location One
Greene, between Canal and Grand, Manhattan
7p; $free-donations
dorkbot.org
***** Also on WEDNESDAY *****
Bailout Theater
Free dinner and desserts provided as always by friendly Village restaurants, plus homemade meals using farm-fresh produce and a potluck for potluck enthusiasts. We are honored as part of Black History Month to be hosting a concert by the legendary gospel singer Evelyn Harris - a founding member of Sweet Honey in the Rock.
All of our events are completely free, require no RSVP, virtually no understanding of etiquette and are open to everyone. In the spirit of winter, if you'd like to bring something small, hot & seasonal (or otherwise) to add to our potluck, we would love that.
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
7p doors, 7:30p dinner, 8p show; $free
info(at)bailout-theater.org
bailout-theater.org/
XXXXX THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3 XXXXX
The Giddy Multitude Vaudeville Co. Presents:
Sense and Sensuality
Is it about Jane Austen or is it about sex? It's a little of both. Revel in the Regency and romance. Get warm in the winter from nose to toes by tickling your fancy with a special sensuality that engages every sense.
Burlesque, butoh, music, video, puppets and performance art for your pleasure. With performances by: Tansy, Rebecca Nagle, Marina Tsaplina, Dizzy Swank, Azumi Oe, Lady Scoutington, and Charlie Demos. Come early for great seats, cheap drinks, and homemade treats.
WOW Cafe Theatre
59-61 East 4th Street, Manhattan
8p; $10, only $7 if you come in themed costume
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* Freeze Tag on Wall Street, February 6
* Williamsburg Fashion Weekend, February 18-19
XXXXX ONGOING XXXXX
Nonsense is too long. The great thing about the internet is that it doesn't really cost much to run long listings and exhaustive descriptions. It turns out that's ... exhausting. After several complaints and a little deliberation, we're trying a new format: On the first Friday of the month we will run updated ongoing listings in each section: events, learning, and help. Other weeks we're going for leaner, meaner sections. If you're desperate for something to do on an off-Tuesday night we suggest you either look back a few issues ago in your inbox, or poke through our online archives, which you can find under the subscribe page.
Also, a note about better rock shows. Nonsense does not straight list rock shows in New York unless they occur in tandem with puppet shows or jump rope tournaments or in subway tunnels or in graveyards. For listings of good shows, especially shows that feature independent bands at quality venues like Death by Audio and those booked by hard-working promoters like Todd P or Sleep When Dead, consult resources like ohmyrockness.com, brooklynvegan.com/, sleepwhendeadnyc.com/calendar/, garagepunknyc.com, and eardrumnyc.com. For the most exhaustive list of underground shows at unusual venues, track down a copy of the extremely useful -- and handsome -- Showpaper.
XXXXX WISHLIST XXXXX
What have you been wishing for? Collaborators, grant monies, a new home? Please send brief listings to Alita at alitanonsensenyc.com. We only list available apartments, lofts, studios, and one-off rentals -- not spaces wanted.
***** ARTY STUFF *****
* Call for Writers, Presenters, Performers, and Filmmakers: Objects of War (Working Title). Flux Factory's April 2011 exhibition, Objects of War, needs writers for its accompanying reader as well as contributors to the exhibition's related events and programs. We're looking for writing submissions 300-500 words in length responding specifically to one of the five artifacts of war on which the War Show is based: (1) Transcript of the Milosevic war crimes trial at The Hague, (2) Balaclava face mask, adopted as a symbol of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, (3) US Army recruitment video game, (4) Save Darfur Coalition full-page ad in New York Times, and (5) North Korean Hell March video and the ensuing discussion posted on YouTube. Additionally, we're looking for complementary presentations, performances, or films to accompany the show throughout the month of April. Please send a short biography and a relevant and dynamic proposal to elizabeth (at) fluxfactory.org by 11:
59 pm EST on February 12, 2011 (subject heading: Programming Submission). Accepted submissions will receive a stipend.
* Overflow Magazine is seeking contact information for South Brooklyners in their 20s with an interesting story to tell. We're looking for a diverse set of experiences. Did you or someone you know: start your own business with success or failure? get a professional degree (JD, MD, MBA, MPA) and find yourself drowning in debt or rising to the top of your field? take the plunge and work as an visual artist and musician? find succor in your trust fund or parents' checking account? build a lifestyle out of long-term unemployment? opt out altogether from the mainstream economy? It's hard out there, and we want to know how you do it -- drop us a line and share your story. Lane Arthur, elizabethlanearthur(at)gmail.com, 941 323 3309.
***** MONEY *****
* We're having a Friendraiser to rally support for the final 10 day stretch of the Hip-Hop Word Count Kickstarter campaign: http://bit.ly/kickstarthhwc. The evening's program includes a selection of music curated from a Hip-Hop Word Count search, a presentation of the project, a terminal set up to take Kickstarter donations and a giant microphone piñata. Thursday, February 3, 6pm, at Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, 540 West 21st Street (between 10 and 11 Avenues). twitpic.com/3tf1gb.
***** SPACES *****
* Funded Residencies for Culturally Underserved Artists: Flux Factory is excited to expand its artists-in-residence program by offering two fully-funded six-month residencies to culturally underserved emerging artists who demonstrate financial need. We're looking for artists, community members, and friends who enjoy being part of a wonderful and prolific social milieu. The residency is perfect for artists who have a focused practice, but revel in sharing it with others in a vibrant environment. In addition to providing a venue for personal production, Flux Factory also functions as a collective taking on a number of exhibitions and projects all in which its artists-in-residence are encouraged to participate. The residencies will run from July 1, 2011 until December 31, 2011. While our program has many international artists, artists living in the New York area will take priority for this opportunity. All residents have the chance to have a show in our gallery space, organize t
heir own programming, and have a voice in planning future programming that will help sustain the organization as a whole. These two six-month residencies are made possible by the Edward & Sally Van Lier Fund from the New York Community Trust. For more information or to apply, please visit our Wooloo page by February 15. wooloo.org/open-call/entry/181032
* Artist Residency at Wassaic Project: May - October, 2011, Application Deadline: February 1st. The Wassaic Project Residency Program has been created to cultivate and support community for emerging and professional contemporary artists. Housed in a historic re-purposed livestock auction barn, the Residency Program offers nine artists the opportunity to live and work in the heart of a rural community and offers two local artists studio space. The Wassaic Project seeks a group of artists working in a diverse range of media who want to produce, explore, challenge, and expand on their current art making practices, while participating in a grass roots, community-based arts organization. See: wassaicproject.org/residency/application-cycle/
* Seeking one vegan/vegetarian roommate for cozy two-bedroom/two-bathroom apartment in Bushwick near the Central M stop and within walking distance of the Myrtle/Wycoff L. There are laundromats, coffee shops and restaurants nearby. Rent is $750 a month and includes heat and hot water. The apartment is newly renovated. It is mostly furnished; however, the available bedroom is unfurnished. You'll be sharing with a female in her mid-20s who is laid-back and friendly. Must like cats as there is also a cat who lives in the apartment. Room is available immediately, looking for someone interested in a longer term commitment but am open to shorter terms as well, need first month's rent and one month's rent security deposit to move in. If you're interested email Megan at megankobyrne(at)gmail.com.
* We have one room available in our lovely, quiet, spacious four bedroom duplex apartment. The room is very big, lots of storage, four small windows, two big skylights, top floor and is $900. We have a large kitchen, living room, abd share lots of meals, vegetable share and backyard access with our downstairs neighbors. We have a very sweet cat and very friendly neighbors. We are in Clinton Hill, a skip away from the Bedford-Nostrand G stop. Room for bike(s). Email to visit. Room is available February 1. Contact us at sunniestdays(at)gmail.com
XXXXX ALL THAT WE'VE MET XXXXX
All That We've Met is Pauline Pechin's series of interviews with artists, underground influencers, and people with interesting stories. You can email her here: pauline.pechin(at)gmail.com
This week: Urban explorer Steve Duncan
*What was your childhood like?*
"Boring. I read a lot of science fiction. I wasn’t allowed to watch TV. My mom’s kind of a health food nut. I went to a Catholic, monastery school that was run by Benedictine monks, up until the 6th grade. And there were no girls."
Read the complete interview at allthatwevemet.com/2011/01/steve-duncan-is-after-buried-treasure.html
XXXXX SPECTRE PRIORITY XXXXX
Before we had a name, the Spectre Event Horizon Group used to meet at a bar to commiserate and trade what our business friends like to call best practices. The group has expanded since then, but it remains focused on smartening the crowd mind. There are no subject limits; our favorite is the incredible sci-fi present, or anything that goes toward a better understanding of human behavior and our universe's ecology. Our simple intent is to connect good minds with as much quality mind-blowing information as we can freely locate and create a space for the informal trade of specialized investigative research, presented for the non-specialist.
The Spectre email list, which is a separate group from this column, is a moderated open forum. People are encouraged to join and to post. The list is compiled for Nonsense by J. Sinopoli. Contact us at spectre.event.horizon.group gmail com or spectregroup.org / spectrevision.org. Here's some of what came in this week:
***** Egypt Shuts Down Internet *****
spectregroup.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/egypt-shuts-down-internet/
In an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world. At 00:34am local time, Renesys observed the virtually simultaneous withdrawal of all routes to Egyptian networks in the Internet's global routing table. Approximately 3,500 individual BGP routes were withdrawn, leaving no valid paths by which the rest of the world could continue to exchange Internet traffic with Egypt's service providers. Virtually all of Egypt's Internet addresses are now unreachable, worldwide.
The Egyptian government's action is unprecedented in the history of the internet. Countries such as China, Iran, Thailand and Tunisia have cut off access to news websites and social networking services during periods of unrest, as Egypt did when it cut off Facebook and Twitter earlier this week. The ongoing attempt by the Egyptian government to shut down all online communication is, however, a new phenomenon. It not only prevents ordinary Egyptian internet users from accessing any websites, it cripples Tor, an anti-censorship tool that technical experts and activists were using to circumvent the Facebook and Twitter blocks. The action puts Egypt, temporarily at least, in the company of North Korea, which has never allowed its citizens access to the internet. This is a completely different situation from the modest Internet manipulation that took place in Tunisia, where specific routes were blocked, or Iran, where the Internet stayed up in a rate-limited form designed to make
Internet connectivity painfully slow. The Egyptian government's actions tonight have essentially wiped their country from the global map.
One of the very few exceptions to this block has been Noor Group (AS20928), which still has 83 out of 83 live routes to its Egyptian customers, with inbound transit from Telecom Italia as usual. Why was Noor Group apparently unaffected by the countrywide takedown order? Unknown at this point, but we observe that the Egyptian Stock Exchange
egyptse.com is still alive at a Noor address.
XXXXX LEARNING XXXXX
We look for the sort of classes you circled in college course catalogs but never managed to fit into your schedule. And we also look for the kind of things that no college could teach. Cheap and eclectic is the rule, though all rules get broken occasionally, and we especially love workshops, round-tables, and teachers who won't take your work out of your hands and show you how to do it right. One-time listings are categorized weekly, with general recurring classes listed at the end on the first Friday of each month We thrive on your suggestions, so make sure to tell us about upcoming classes that you think are nifty- keen.
Learning is compiled and edited weekly by Libby Sentz. Send listing
suggestions to libby(at)nonsensenyc.com.
***** LEARNING: FRIDAY *****
International Justice in Central Africa
Peter Erlinder leads the presentation "International Justice in Central Africa: U.S. Policy and the Politics of the U.N. Tribunal for Rwanda." With experience as a UN-ICTR defense lawyer and Rwandan prisoner Erlinder will critically analyze the role of U.S. influence over international judical bodies and the effects on the people of Central Africa, in particular. He'll discuss how the ICTR has become a victor's tribunal serving U.S. policy interests and argue that the manipulations of international criminal tribunals, including the International Criminal Court, have actually become an impediment to reconciliation between African peoples, international justice, and the long-term interests of the American people.
The Brecht Forum
451 West Street, Manhattan
7:30p; members $free; nonmembers sliding scale: $6/$10/$15
brechtforum.org
***** LEARNING: FRIDAY THRU SUNDAY *****
Kongolese Dance
Titos Sompa leads this three-day dance workshop accompanied by Teber on drums.
Boys Harbor
1 East 104th street, sixth floor, Manhattan
Friday and Saturday 6:30-8:30p, Sunday 2-4p; $20 single class, two classes $35, three classes $50 (friend discount available)
eugidemay(at)gmail.com; titossompa(at)hotmail.com
***** LEARNING: SATURDAY *****
Free Guardian Project Hack Session
Come learn about mobile privacy, test our software and hack your Android-powered phones, players, readers and tablets. The Guardian Project (guardianproject.info) aims to create easy to use apps, open-source firmware MODs, and customized, commercial mobile phones that can be used and deployed around the world, by any person looking to protect their communications from unjust intrusion. We will be working on and testing apps from Guardian and other developers that provide features for increased privacy, anonymity and security on mobile networks.
The workshop will cover: How to browse the web anonymously and circumvent filtering and firewalls using Orbot (Tor for Android) and Firefox Mobile; tweeting over Orbot using transparent proxying (iptables magic); secure your SMS and mobile IM conversations using "Off the Record" messaging; make end-to-end encrypted voice calls using CSipSimple and Freeswitch; learn about the state of and "how to" on rooting Android devices, and building and booting your own firmware. This event is being hosted by Hans-Christoph Steiner as part of his X-Lab Residency.
Eyebeam
540 W. 21st Street, Manhattan
12:30-6:30p; $free
RSVP stephanie(at)eyebeam.org
eyebeam.org/events/guardian-project-hack-session
***** LEARNING: Also on SATURDAY *****
Tambo Workshop
Areytos Performance Works invites you to a study of different tratados (epic songs) and cultural significance of the Orisha of the month: Elegba, January 29. (Upcoming: Oshun, February 26; Oshosi, March 26.) Led by Yesenia F. Selier.
Harlem Dance Foundation
144 West 121 Street, Manhattan
2-4p; $20 ($15 if preregister)
sitamoves(at)gmail.com; oriselier(at)gmail.com
***** LEARNING: Also on SATURDAY *****
Hooping
Beka, who just got nominated for a Hoopie Award for Female Hooper of the Year, leads a onetime hoop workshop in NYC. BTW she also just got nominated for a Hoopie Award for Female Hooper of the Year.
Lotus School on West 27th Street, Manhattan
12:30-2p; $30
ihoopu.com/events.html
*Thanks for the tip, Ted.
***** LEARNING: SUNDAY *****
Of Mystics and Race Car Drivers
This Sunday evening, join the conversation between championship car racer Chris Rado and yogi, mystic, and humanitarian Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Chris met Sadhguru almost four years ago in LA and it marked the turning point in his life. "I'm in a completely different place now. I've never been healthier. I've never been happier. I've had the most successful year of my career ever."
Learn about Chris' transformation and momentous success as he converses with Sadhguru, about life, velocity and kicking it into high gear where it matters most. Participation in this live webstream event is free, and once registered you can submit questions and vote for the ones you want to be asked. Read more and register here, or watch the video invitation here.
Attendees of the web event receive a $25 discount coupon for the Inner Engineering Online program. This program, which consists of 7 online sessions led by Sadhguru, led to an incredible shift in my own life (and that of many friends and family) that continues to unfold in exciting new ways.
8p; $free
Info youtube.com/watch?v=Fgd6VoUesL8&feature=related
***** LEARNING: Also on SUNDAY *****
Drawing for Absolute Beginners
Starting off with simple contour exercises, with each drawing you'll build skill and confidence to make finished works or foundation drawings for painting. Subjects include art reproductions, still life, basic perspective, and of course, BBG's beautiful landscape. A supply list will be sent upon registration. Led by Nan Carey.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn
Six Sundays: January 30 through March 6, 10:30a-1:30p;
$173 member, $193 nonmember (includes $5 materials fee)
718 623 7220
compost(at)bbg.org
bbg.org
***** LEARNING: Also on SUNDAY *****
Goal-Setting
This four-hour workshop offers practical steps to get that project off the ground, transform procrastination and inertia into action, and help you put more focus on your goals, and the people and activities that give you joy. In this supportive relaxed environment we will do individual and group exercises to identify personal goals, blocks you might encounter, and some strategies to help you get more done. We will work in the realm most relevant to you; personal, logistic or artistic. Led by Audrey Crabtree.
Force and Flow Studios
1102 Dean Street, no. 4, Brooklyn
1-5p; $45
RSVP Required: info(at)forceandflow.com
646 644 9743
forceandflow.com
***** LEARNING: Also on SUNDAY *****
Chair Dance Basics/The Art of Peeling
Learn how to do a sassy, stylish chair dance, burlesque-style. Wear shorts or leggings. Also learn to make peeling a stocking mischeivous and seductive. You will need bare legs to learn the stocking peels.
School of Burlesque at 440 Studios
440 Lafayette Street, Manhattan
3:30-5p; $25
Preregister schoolofburlesque.com
***** LEARNING: MONDAY *****
Coolness Lab
What are coolness, charisma, and allure made of? What makes some people or things linger in our memory, long after we've encountered them? This is a playful exploration of enigmatic awesomeness. We'll talk about urban ethology, track coolness over time, and try out some miniature charisma experiments .
Life Labs
LifeLabs New York, Corporate office
84 Engert Avenue, 4A, Brooklyn
7-9:30p; $35
renninger(at)lifelabsnewyork.com
***** LEARNING: TUESDAY *****
Intro to Machining
Machining is one of the most powerful and precise material removing and shaping toolsets available. The expert machinist will command a handful of tools to take an unshaped material, and transform it.
In this two-session class the student will learn techniques for turning, boring, milling, and tapping, while transforming some aluminium and brass into knuckle rings with a big shiny spike. Machines covered will be the lathe and mill primarily, the bandsaw, drill press, table grinder for finishing materials, and an array of hand tools, such as files, hand taps. Everyone will go home with what they've designed and built.
Madagascar Institute
217 Butler Street, Brooklyn
Tuesdays, February 1 and 8; 6:30-10p; $100, $10 materials
machining-rss.eventbrite.com
madagascarinstitute.com
***** LEARNING: TEACHING *****
Brooklyn Brainery Seeks Teachers
We're looking for some teachers to lead classes on the intentionally vague subjects below, for a series of classes that can best be described as back-to-high-school-but-way- cooler.
* Math and Science: whether it's straight up geometry, something more pop-sci, an intro to physics, food chemistry, or how to make a home lab, we're pretty much interested in it all. *History
* Literature and Art
* Foreign Languages
Brooklyn Brainery
515 Court Street, Brooklyn
brooklynbrainery.com
***** LEARNING: UPCOMING *****
Intro to Herbal Medicine at Third Root, 12-week class beginning March 5. Registration deadline: January 30. stephen(at)thirdroot.org
Historical Cloth-Making: Spinning and Felting at Brooklyn Brainery. Brooklyn. Wednesday, February 16, 7-10p. BB classes sell out fast: brooklynbrainery.com/courses
XXXXX HELP XXXXX
It is a wonderful thing, to help. Helping strengthens communities and allows you to meet new friends. With that in mind, we look for one-day volunteer opportunities with no long-term commitment required. We want to be open to fresh ideas and think of help in a broad way. These listings could include anything from a large-scale day-long service project to a local theatre company that needs volunteers for load-in; from an artist looking for film extras to a community garden that needs a few extra hands. Our goal is simply to help groups or individuals that serve the greater good in small but significant ways. Unique and interesting job opportunities are acceptable fare for this section as well. Looking for ways to help out? Need volunteers to get your own community project off the ground? Know of any existing opportunities? Send your requests to MeeO at meeo(at)nonsensenyc.com.
*****HELP: NOW*****
Artist Assistant
My name is Olek, I am a NYC based artist. You probably saw pictures of my most recent installation entitled Crocheting the Charging Bull. I am currently looking for assistants, interns, students. Specifically, I need help with upcoming projects and other day to day activities such as responding to press requests, applying for grants, scheduling meetings and interviews, updating my blog and twitter account, etc. Serious candidates who are willing to commit fully once they are on board. My studio is situated in the Financial District but I am very open as far as work arrangements are concerned.
Email: olekinfo(at)gmail.com
agataolek.co
*****HELP: NOW*****
Assist Learning for Social Impact
Harlem Educational Activities Fund is seeking a volunteer to assist with its Learning for Social Impact (LSI) class. LSI is a 30-plus student, semester-long service learning project for high school students that meets weekly on Thursdays, from 4-7. The 2011 class focuses on Botswana and it will culminate in a 10 day trip to in Botswana for a select number of students from the class.
Volunteers needed to help assist student groups with their research projects and answer student questions. The volunteer will also be a resource for organizing the class syllabus and for elaborating on the weekly lesson content by discussing their experiences and contributing personal stories. Must have significant work or living experience in Botswana or southern Africa, or in any region of Africa and have previous experience working in a classroom or as a tutor
2090 Seventh Avenue, 10th floor, Manhattan
Email: volunteer(at)heaf.org and specify your interest in volunteering.
*****HELP: NOW*****
Graphic Designer for a Breast Cancer Program
Women at Risk is the Breast Cancer Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, whose mission is to enhance the lives of women who are at high risk for the development of breast cancer and women with breast cancer through research, education and support.
We are seeking a volunteer to do some graphic design work for us. We need help creating fliers, making logos and creating graphic banner ads.
Eric: edubinsky(at)womenatrisknyc.org
*****HELP: SOON*****
Web Design for Art in Odd Places
Art in Odd Places, a grass roots arts festival that places visual and performance art in unexpected places along 14th Street Manhattan each October is seeking a highly creative NYC based web designer to continue the work of our newly departed designer. Currently there is a homepage and mid September the festival page goes live (see past) until the end of October. This is a high profile NYC arts project that has received a great deal of press attention and a great opportunity to showcase innovative design.
Send an email stating your interest, design history with links to recent projects, and contact information to artinoddplaces(at)gmail.com
Please write AiOP Website Designer in the subject line.
artinoddplaces.org
***** HELP: SOON *****
Get Medical Supplies to Countries in Need
Doc to Dock is an organization that is committed to sending unused surplus medical supplies from the United States to the people that need these supplies most in the developing world. We need volunteers to help us identify, sort, and package these supplies. No medical background needed. Email for more information.
300 Douglass Street, Brooklyn
D,N,R to Union
volunteer(at)doctodock.org
*****HELP: UPCOMING*****
Seeds of Peace Annual Peace Market
Seeds of Peace, a non-profit, non-political organization dedicated to empowering teenagers from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence, is looking for young professionals interested in spreading awareness about and planning our sixth annual Peace Market benefit on April 7.
SOP’s Junior Board is hosting a launch party on February 9 from 7:30-9p at Veranda Lounge. Please join us to learn more about the 2011 Peace Market and what it means to be a Host Committee member.
Please sign up on line: bit.ly/fe03MI
dettinger(at)seedsofpeace.org
cpratt(at)seedsofpeace.org
*****HELP: ONGOING*****
Share Your Talents and Knowledge With Middle Schoolers
Citizen Schools is a national education nonprofit that partners with high-needs middle schools to extend the learning day and provide students with more time, guidance, and motivation to succeed in middle school and beyond. We use apprenticeships to mobilize adult volunteers to participate in the educational process. We are now beginning to recruit volunteers to teach apprenticeships in the spring (late January through mid May).
Volunteers commit to teaching one night a week, for 10 weeks, from 4:30-6p
Heather Day: heatherday(at)citizenschools.org
citizenschools.org/volunteer
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