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Friday, February 18
* Williamsburg Fashion Weekend, Williamsburg
* Heavy: Carnivale, Brooklyn
* Species Soiree, Brooklyn
* New Dance City, Brooklyn
* NewSonic Valentines Love Party, Brooklyn
* All-New Aerial and Variety Show, Brooklyn
Saturday, February 19
* Battle of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Bands, Manhattan
* Dances of Vice: Powerhouse Stomp, Manhattan
* Down in the Dark, Brooklyn
* Students for Free Culture Conference, Manhattan
* Nu Feelings , Brooklyn
* NYC Food Crawl Presents: The February Truffle Crawl, Manhattan
* Billy Club, Manhattan
* Electro-Warehouse Party (A Sequel), Brooklyn
* Dead Herring Comedy Show, Williamsburg
* Swimming Cities Silent Art Auction, Manhattan
* Diaristic Indulgences: A One-Night Exhibition of Live Performance Art, Long Island City
* Mona Lisa Overdrive No. 1, Brooklyn
Sunday, February 20
* Books Through Bars Scrabble Night, Brooklyn
* Moonlighter Presents Bjarke Engels, Anthony Graves, and Neil Freeman, Brooklyn
* President's Birthday Party, Brooklyn
* Edgar Allen Poe movies, Williamsburg
Monday, February 21
* The Flying Donkey Cabaret, Brooklyn
* Geek Week, Manhattan
Tuesday, February 22
* Board Game Olympics XI, Brooklyn
* Escape From New York, Williamsburg
Wednesday, February 23
* Carnivalia, Williamsburg
* Judson Arts' and Bailout Theater's New Series Magic Time, Manhattan
* How I Learned There Might Be Some Issues, Manhattan
* Basic Cable Classics: Vampire's Kiss and How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Brooklyn
Wishlist
* Homeland
All That We've Met
* Laura McMillian
Spectre
* Free the Internet
Learning
* Surprisology
Help
* Fringe
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Williamsburg Fashion Weekend
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend's 8th season. WFW provides a platform for young and emerging fashion designers who push the boundaries of design, presentation, production, ultimately re-evaluating the fashion industry as a whole. Past participants have shown us that there are many creative ways to be green, through re-couturing, upcycling, recycling, eco-friendliness, artisan techniques, and transparent business practices. This season will be a feast for the audience's eyes, ears, hearts and minds. Shows will run the gamut from fashion as conceptual art to ready-to-wear, incorporating live music, theatre and dance, always raw, experimental, and forward thinking.
Arthur Arbit, founder and curator of WFW, a designer and artist himself, has a passion for the unwavering, personal take-no-prisoners aesthetic vision, exploring new ways to present fashion design and re-evaluating fashion industry business practices.
Today: Ruffeo Hearts Lil' Snotty, Mark Tauriello, Dani Read, SDN, King Gurvy, No Name Collective, Lana Weiss. DJ Matt Mikas, Kathleen Cholewka of Discovery, Yellow Tears, Screens, Void Vision, Small Time London Thug, Fay Victor, Try Cry Try, Sensual Harassment.
Tomorrow: Alex Campaz, Juanita Cardenas, Hayden Dunham, Total Crap Uninc., Nathalie Kraynina, Accessories Both Nights, La China Loca, K. Louise Designs. DJ Katie Rosebot, Foodstamps, Jonathan Toubin's Soul Clap.
Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
8p doors, 9p show; $8 cover each night
Continues SATURDAY
williamsburgfashionweekend(at)gmail.com
williamsburgfashionweekend.com
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Heavy: Carnivale
Join Refuge NYC and RoyalPink for special edition of Heavy. With drops so low and bass heavy madness, expect the unexpected as we come together to celebrate legendary Carnivale. Enjoy the musical stylings of Poirier from Ninja Tune; DJ Rekha, Bassanovva (featuring Grahmzilla and Jubilee); WFMU's $mallchange ans Konkrete Jungle resident DJ Liondub. Costumes encouraged, live performances, interactive video wall by Funktaxi 1533, sensory reactive lightshow, free masks
319 Scholes, between Bogart and Waterbury, Brooklyn
L train to Grand Street station
11p; $15 before midnight, $20 after
facebook.com/event.php?eid=169278763118740
***** Also on FRIDAY *****
Species Soiree
We're organizing a party and night of performances at the Invisible Dog in Boerum Hill, featuring two strange and wonderful video artists, a poet, two bands (doing short, low-volume sets) and a slightly burlesquey solo performer. It's all themed towards ecology, since it benefits a theater production called the Ecocide Project. There's also a raffle, and animal masks are involved.
Featuring Kathleen Miller Reading You Poems, Nick Cregor and Nohow on playing you tunes, Sunita Prasad and Marianna Ellenberg showing you video, Laryssa Husiak blowing your mind with a late-night performance.
Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen Street, near Smith, Brooklyn
8p-midnight; $15 benefits the upcoming premiere of the Ecocide Project
ecocideproject(at)gmail.com
theecocideproject.com
***** Also on FRIDAY *****
New Dance City
Following the footsteps of Soul Train, Paris Is Burning, or Detroit's New Dance Show, VibesManagement is throwing the freaky dance party of our dreams at a huge historic loft. Classic records, live video feeds, an art installation, and a BYO-fashion show/ dance contest on the 15-foot catwalk stage going across the space, available for whoever wants to get down. Dress crazy and work it. Live sets by Innergaze and Big Gold Belt. DJs: Veronica Vasicka of Minimal Wave, Complexxion, and Jan Woo, spinning a mix of rare italo-disco, synthwave, funk, boogie, and house.
330 Ellery Street, Brooklyn
9:30p-4a; $10
facebook.com/event.php?eid=176926582346371
***** Also on FRIDAY *****
NewSonic Valentines Love Party
Hope you are having a beautiful day. Here's some info about our Love Party on friday. We love it so much when peeps from the Nonsense list come, and they love it too.
With Brooklyn Raga Association, the Flowdown, Hip Hop Legend Ski Beatz and the Senseis, and the Glorious Veins. DJs Selectrick and Don Trust keep the dance floor moving. With White Light Prism and VJ Suit Machine projecting love everywhere and an amazing line-up of music vibrations for you.
NewSonic Loft
76 Rutledge Street, Brooklyn
9p-4a; $5, free before 10p
dynastyelectric(at)gmail.com
dynastyelectric.net
***** Also on FRIDAY *****
Sky Box Presents:
All-New Aerial and Variety Show
Featuring acts of aerial majesty, comic absurdity, artistic spectacle, and fire dancing, this Sky Box Aerial and Variety Show is the best way you could possibly spend a Friday night. There will be acrobatics, dancing, some heartfelt emoting and maybe even some nudity. There will also be cheap drinks to help you forget how cold it is outside. Join us at the House of Yes and make a night of it- bring your friends, wear something fantastic and see what some of the fiercest performers in Brooklyn can do when they have some music and something to climb and an audience cheering them on.
The House of Yes
342 Maujer Street, Brooklyn
L train to Grand Street station
8p doors, 9p show; $10 door
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Battle of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Bands
The Steam Powered Hour will host our second annual Battle of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Bands. Twelve top bluegrassish bands from New York and beyond will fight it out for the chance to perform at the 2011 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco, California.
Select members of the music industry will be on hand to decide the winner. With the Defibulators, the 2nd Avenue Mountain Boys, Howard Fishman, Alex Battles and the Whiskey Rebellion, Gangstagrass, the Dive Bar Dukes, McMule, Michaela Anne Band, Do It to Julia, the Young Spokes, Frankenpine, and the Gold Top County Ramblers. In addition to the bands, a gaggle of New Yorker cartoonists will be on stage providing comic interludes.
Theatre 80
80 St. Marks Place, Manhattan
8:30p; $15
theatre80.org
facebook.com/event.php?eid=120215704714362
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Dances of Vice: Powerhouse Stomp
Dances of Vice pays tribute to classic cartoons of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s like Silly Symphonies, Felix the Cat, Betty Boop, Looney Tunes and more at Liberty Hall, featuring live big band cartoon music and hot jazz by Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra! With special guests Molly Crabapple, Michael Karas and DJ Miz Margo.
Liberty Hall at the Ace Hotel
16 West 29th Street, Manhattan
10p-4a; $12 doors, $10 if you mention Nonsense
dancesofvice.com
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
The Danger presents:
Down in the Dark
The days are getting longer, the nights are shorter, and if New York City needs a reason to celebrate it might as well be this. This Saturday night you are invited to Down in the Dark, an all-night adventure with only one rule: You must bring a source of light.
Featuring: Taylor McFerrin, Jogy, Duanne Harriot, DJ OP!, DJ Dhundee, and resident DJ Zemi 17. Plus rideable sculpture, interactive performance, cheap food. cheaper drinks. This night is a return to the basics: fantastic music, gorgeous people, and hidden performance. Guests are asked to arrive early, bring a source of light (think battery operated costumes, LED candles, or your grandmother's lamp), and more than anything respect the neighborhood and the people who keep it safe.
RSVP for address
9p-5a; $15 before 10p, $20 after
21 and over
TheDanger.com
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Students for Free Culture Conference
The annual Students for Free Culture conference brings student leaders into conversation with each other as well as creators, entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and educators contributing to a more free, open, and participatory culture.
Students for Free Culture inc. is international chapter-based not-for-profit organization founded in 2003 with over 40 chapters on campuses around the world. Consisting of a diverse set of students and young people, Students for Free Culture promotes the ability to share, access, and rework culture and knowledge within an environment of technological freedom.
Check website for complete listings.
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Science at New York University 251 Mercer Street, Manhattan
8:30a; $?
Continues SUNDAY
conf11.freeculture.org/
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Nu Feelings
A new dance party where guests are invited to experience a nu sense of awareness of mind and body. By way of dancing, guests may allow themselves to take ownership and control over their earthly experiences. Those particularly attuned to the vibe might feel the sensation of a sort of cosmic rebirth. Appendix of relevant terms: gentle, pulsating, slow-moving, softness, suspension, synaesthesia, telepathy , warmth, womblike, cosmic. Live sets by: Laurel Halo, Slava, Dariin. DJ sets by Physical Therapy, Two Dogs in a House.
House of Yes
342 Maujer Street, Brooklyn
9:30p-4a; $10
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
NYC Food Crawl Presents: The February Truffle Crawl
We're pleased to announce a crawl for both lovers of sweets and lovers of environs north of 14th Street. (We know, it's been all Village, all the time these past couple of months.) Today we'll be exploring the wonderful world of chocolate truffles.
Named after the mushrooms of the same name, original truffles were made of chocolate ganache and rolled in cocoa. As truffles developed, they came to be enrobed in chocolate, giving us a delightful profusion of varieties. Champagne truffles, a particular favorite around this time of year, feature ganache mixed with champagne for the filling. Liqueur truffles are also offer an interesting take on the classic sweet.
The NYC Food Crawl is a monthly adventure in small, portable and inexpensive treats. Come to try new foods, make new friends, or just get some exercise (but we promise, the route will involve short walks between hosting locations this month). Whether you have team members in mind or no, we can help you out. Route map and team assignments provided. Pay as you go, go at your own pace, and make new friends.
Meet at 2 pm near the Rockefeller Center Skating Rink, northeast corner.
2p; $free(ish)
bit.ly/Hj6K8
nycfoodcrawl.blogspot.com
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Billy Club
A new weekly house party. A Message from our Dealer: For a long time I have been missing a very simple recipe for fun in New York City: A great space coupled with great music and having that exist every week. No pop. No hip hop. No riff raff. Unless your name is Riff Raff in which case you get in free.
A place where you know you can take friends or just yourself and dance and laugh and meet and greet. Take the edge off a hard NYC week and blush home with the remembrance of getting a little too drunk, kissing that one person in public and maybe falling off your chair after dancing on the ceiling. Featuring residents DJs Nita Brion Vytlacil, Tyler Moeller.
Favela Cubana
543 Laguardia Place, Manhattan
11:30p; $5
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Electro-Warehouse Party (A Sequel)
Dance with Alex English, Distroy Allorchs, Spanky, Eeko, HSY. Hosted by Distroy Allorchs, Ali+Lacie.com
Semi-Legit
6 Charles Place, Brooklyn
J, M, Z trains to Myrtle/Broadway station
10p-4a; $12 doors, $8 with RSVP
passionfaction(at)gmail.com
facebook.com/event.php?eid=137129329684129
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Dead Herring Comedy Show
Dead Herring continues its monthly comedy show with some of Brooklyn's funniest standups. Hosted by Jim VanBlaricum, with Jeff Seal, Nat Townsen, Annie Lederman, Mark Normand, and Matt Wayne.
Dead Herring
141 South 5th Street, 1E, Williamsburg
9p; $3
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Swimming Cities Silent Art Auction
Featuring 100 selected works by artists, including Swoon, Duke Riley, Tom Beale, Imminent Disaster, Dickchicken, Ben Wolf, Monica Canilao, Polina Soloveichik, Orien McNeill, Ben Mortimer, Zack Tucker, Angie Kang, Marin Tockman, Mayra Cimet, Tod Seelie, Doyle S Huge, Nick Normal, Martina Mrongovius, Lopi Laroe, Robin Frohardt, Greg Henderson, Alex Dyke, Isaac Aden, Andrew Poneros Pork, Sarah Beetson, Ray Cross, Zev David Deans, Iris Stvn Lasn, Catherine Yaeger, Elizabeth Bentley, Hannah Mishin, Malcolm McNeill, Giacomo Fortunato, Leslie Stem, Charlie Pratt, Kate Foisy, Clair Huntington, Kate Foisy, Conrad Carlson, Bob Masse, Tony Bones, Noah Sparks, and more. With DJ Stache.
Swimming Cities is a not-for-profit art collective that makes handmade boats. This year's project will take us to the Ganges in India.
Gallery 151
350 Bowery Street, between Great Jones and East 4th Street, Brooklyn
7p-1a; $10 suggested
theoceanofblood.blogspot.com
weareswimmingcities.org
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Diaristic Indulgences: A One-Night Exhibition of Live Performance Art
Forty years after Valie Export’s infamous gun-wielding, crotchless pants-wearing performance in an erotic film cinema in Munich, can the public accept the female body beyond private erotic fantasy? The exhibition title, Diaristic Indulgences refers to the exploration of the discomfort in the physical reality of the body that permeates everyday life.
The artists participating in Diaristic Indulgences find inspiration in the works of Valie Export, Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, Martha Rosler, Lynda Bengalis, Ana Mendieta, Karen Finley, and Marina Abramovic, and explore notions of femininity, voyeurism, sexuality, and gender. Come ready for men being thrown around by little ladies, coin operated lectures, free implants, cake, scandal, and light water play.
Participating Artists: Hannah Heilmann, Ann Hirsch, Georges Negri, Sunita Prasad, Nathaniel Sullivan, Alison Ward, Angela Washko, Chester Zecca. Dance party with We Are Architects, Vinyl Richie, and Wash Clothes follows performances.
Flux Factory
39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, Queens
7p; $free, donations welcome
angela.washko (at) gmail.com
fluxfactory.org
***** Also on SATURDAY *****
Mona Lisa Overdrive No. 1
A celebration of hard science fiction featuring performances upstairs and downstairs of electro and sci-fi inspired music. Featuring La Big Vic, Mala Strana, Forma, AnimaAnonima, Tiberius, Winks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Future Shuttle, and Dimensions.
Plus Science Shelf, debuting the new Silent Barn science experiments shelf with this month's scientist-in-residence Tricia Mackenzie (Neural Science). And a Global Game Jam Arcade. This month's Babycastles exhibit is games about extinction, all made in 48-hours around the world at the end of last month. With Elaborate Lighting, Cosplay, and chaotic sci-fi action.
Silent Barn
915 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn
8p-2a;
facebook.com/event.php?eid=173405909347475
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Books Through Bars Scrabble Night
Play Scrabble and send books to people in prison. Beginners board and expert board. Beverages and snacks on hand. One out of every four letters sent to Books Through Bars asks for a dictionary. We send out hundreds every year -- we need yours. (Not Scrabble dictionaries: regular English dictionaries.) Play Scrabble, cheer on your friends, eat, drink, see the BTB space and read some letters.
Freebird Books
123 Columbia Street, between Kane and DeGraw. Brooklyn
4-8p; $cover charge: 1 paperback dictionary
tinyurl.com/4k4te7q
booksthroughbarsnyc.org/
***** Also on SUNDAY *****
Moonlighter Presents Bjarke Engels, Anthony Graves, and Neil Freeman
Join Moonlighter Presents and our guest speakers this Sunday at the Old School on Mott Street. Danish architect Bjarke Ingels will discuss his firm's practice of proactive (and perhaps unsolicited) architecture. Brooklyn artist Anthony Graves with dive into a history of the hoodie, and artist/math major Neil Freeman will tell you things you never knew about graphs.
Moonlighter Presents speakers series encourages presentations of secret hobbies, passions, and original research. Our speakers address topics that may fall outside of their professional expertise or make extensive amateur studies of subjects for which that lack 'official' credentials.
The Old School
233 Mott Street, Manhattan
6p sharp; $donations welcome
moonlighterpresents.com
***** Also on SUNDAY *****
President's Birthday Party
This Sunday evening come out to the old Loading Dock for a special live performance by Senegalese Mbalax sensation Teranga. With DJs Friends with Benefits and WFMU's Bennett4Senate. Guaranteed love connections. Confetti cannons. Seven minutes in heaven with C-list celebrities and undiscovered rappers.
170 Tillary Street Loading Dock, between Flatbush and Gold, Brooklyn
10p party, 11p bands; $free with cheap drinks
***** Also on SUNDAY *****
Egg & Dart Social Poker
Poker Night returns. $25 buy-in. The Egg & Dart Club is a private social club.
15 Vanderbilt Avenue, near Flushing, Brooklyn
6p; $25
RSVP to angienkaylor(at)gmail.com
groups.google.com/group/egg--dart-club
***** Also on SUNDAY *****
Edgar Allen Poe movies
In the early years of the 20th century, D.W. Griffith made some strange and hallucinatory silent films based on Poe stories. Tonight C. Spencer Yeh provides them with an appropriately strange and hallucinating live score.
Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street and Bedford, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
9p; $5
spectacletheater.com
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The Flying Donkey Cabaret
A lifesize dancing donkey, a lasagna-loving dummy, a junk trombone-drum-and-fiddle ensemble, plus lo-fi picture and puppet shows are the ingredients to the Flying Donkey Cabaret, a puppetry powerhouse made up of sometime members of the Insurrection Landscapers, the Dolly Wagglers, RPM Puppet Conspiracy, In the Heart of the Beast, and Bread and Puppet.
Tip Top Bar and Grill
432 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn
8p; $7-10 sliding scale
***** Also on MONDAY *****
Geek Week
A Housing Workds Bookstore sale of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, comics, porn, lps, math, and science -- 30 percent off. Tonight: A big screen screening of Jim Ford's series Pioneer One, an innovative genre series produced and distributed exclusively for the web. A Soviet cosmonaut falls to Earth, claiming to have been born on Mars. He brings with him a dose of Cold War intrigue into the paranoid atmosphere of the War of Terror. With a dash of Bradbury. Episodes 1 and 2 to screen, followed by a Q&A with writer Josh Bernhard and director Bracey Smith.
Geek events continue nightly through the week.
Housing Works
126 Crosby Street, Manhattan
7p;
shophousingworks.com/
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Board Game Olympics XI
Just a heads up that we still have a few slots left for the Board Game Olympics on Tuesday. What better way to make up for your lousy Valentine’s gift than taking your loved one to a board game competition? Or what better way to meet a loved one to celebrate future Valentine’s Days with? Or, you know, just come have some fun.
Union Hall
Union Street and 5th Avenue, Brooklyn
7â€"11p; $20 for teams of two
metrometroland.com/events.htm
***** Also on TUESDAY *****
Escape From New York
Hubble scores Escape From New York by John Carpenter. Patrick Swayze escapes from the prison island known as Manhattan while Hubble provides a facemelting live accompaniment on guitar.
Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street and Bedford, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
8p; $5
spectacletheater.com
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Carnivalia
Experience a fantastic combination of comedy, sideshow, and burlesque. Your host, Sparky Drakonis, is just your run of the mill vampire that makes funny for the money. Having performed all over the greater New York area, Sparky's humor has just the right bite. Middle to Nowhere's willingness to break records and to defy the senses has lead them to quick recognition as one of New York's newest, youngest, and most amazing sideshow troupes. With their mind bending illusions, feats that defy the limitations of the human body and magic tricks that border on being supernatural, Middle to Nowhere is a show that you cannot miss.
The last touch to Carnivalia's combination of magic and comedy is the esteemed burlesque performance of Geek Girl Productions. Each month, a new girl will take her place as the stage hand for comedic laughs and sideshow tricks. Be sure that you will see the same outstanding caliber of burlesque performance that you have come to love and expect from Geek Girl Productions at this circus for the senses.
February's burlesque performers include the talented and lovely Miss Em, Emmaline, and Lo Hung.
Public Assembly
70 North 6 Street, Williamburg, Brooklyn
9:30p doors; $10 door
geekgirlpro(at)gmail.com.
***** Also on WEDNESDAY *****
Judson Arts' and Bailout Theater's New Series Magic Time
Harkening back to the old days when this historic space was one of the first three off-off-Broadway theater venues, there will be a casual party with free wine and some light food. And then, at some undetermined point shortly thereafter -- as if, say, magically -- a brand new original play, on its feet, will take over (though you can keep drinking while supplies last).
To ring in the new series, we have the unfailingly hilarious and moving Isaac Oliver, whose plays include Eddie Goshen Is Dead, Long Dirty Jokes, and Electra in a One-Piece. His poetry has been published in the Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities, a Knopf anthology. His blog, He Who Laughs, or the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Intimacy.
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
7p; $free
judson.org/magictime/
hewholaughs.com.
***** Also on WEDNESDAY *****
The How I Learned Series Presents:
How I Learned There Might Be Some Issues
Stories about therapy. Join us for stories of insane psycotherapists and life or death battles with new age life coaches. We're coming to terms with various things. Together. It will be like a mental health support group but with copious amounts of alcohol. Which is always a good sign. Featuring: Eliot Glazer, Tracy Rowland, Amy Sohn. Hosted by Blaise Allysen Kearsley.
Happy Ending
302 Broome Street, between Forsyth and Eldridge, Manhattan
8p; $free
howilearnedathappyending.blogspot.com
***** Also on WEDNESDAY *****
Basic Cable Classics: Vampire's Kiss and How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Basic Cable Classics is a new monthly series that pays tribute to the art of lowbrow flicks from the past 25 years, with each double feature curated by a special guest. This month, stand-up comedian Christian Finnegan will be on hand to present two of his favorites, Vampire's Kiss and How to Get Ahead in Advertising.
Each double feature of the series will include two films united by their respect for the craftsmanship of genre entertainment, their propensity for indifference by the critics, and the unavoidable fact that they're fun to watch slightly intoxicated.
This is not to be confused with your run-of-the mill kitschy '80s movies in a bar experience. Our intention is to reappraise lowbrow fare of recent years as a sincere artform, something that is a virtual anomaly in NYC film programming. And almost as importantly, we're offering a place where people who can come together and revel in their collective adoration for this kind of filmmaking, something which is a lost art in itself.
Coco 66
66 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn
7:30-11p with trivia and prizes; $free
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* The 5th Annual Alt.Oscars Awards Event and Dance Party, February 27
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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.
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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.
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* Index Art Center, a non-profit gallery space in Newark, New Jersey is hosting a group exhibition on April 2 entitled "Video Village: New Media Expeditions." The show is a fundraiser for a project based in rural West Africa which will make art and video resources available within village libraries. The project is sponsored by the non-profit Friends of African Village Libraries (FAVL) and was developed by one of the curators of the show. The show will present work from a variety of established and emerging video and performance artists over the course of a week long duration. We are thrilled about the show but are in need of donations to pull the whole thing off! In particular, we are looking for TV screens, DVD players and projectors. We would be eternally grateful for any equipment or monetary donations. If you have any of this equipment that could be rented at a low cost or borrowed, that would be great. You would be supporting a good cause, plus you should come to the sho
w! Contact Noah Collier & Stephanie Szerlip, vvideovillage(at)gmail.com. See: indexartcenter.org.
* A Scientific Quandary got you down? Need to work out the details of an often-pondered hypothesis? Dream of WOWing your peers with your wanton acts of intellectual inquiry? All problems are solved at the 248th mad scientist exhibition explosion Science Fair! Tri-boards aplenty! Ribbons for many! Somebody wins! Use all of your most creative intellectual prowess, or borrow some, to construct a verifiable scientific experiment which includes one experimental variable following the scientific method or just make a diorama full of dinosaurs (not everybody has to win)! Plan for MAY. Need a project? We'll give you one! Need a partner? We'll get you somebody! Groups up to four people may be a good idea. Declare your intent, fellow fun-ists. If you do not do it you are not fun. Contact shannonkerner(at)gmail.com (soon!).
* Call for submissions. I've recently started a Brooklyn blog project, brooklyn-spaces.com. I'm building a compendium of Brooklyn creativity and culture, space by space, using photos, essays, and interviews. It's a new project, and I'm looking for suggestions for spaces to include, so if you know of a space, run a space, have friends who are putting a space together, or in any way can recommend a space for me to cover, please contact Oriana, at brooklynspacesproject(at)gmail.com. Yay Brooklyn!!
* Woodhull Recycle-a-Bicycle Bike Donation Event: Recycle-a-Bicycle, a Brooklyn based organization, is an innovative, fun youth training and environmental education initiative that has taken root in New York City public schools and respected after-school youth programs. Woodhull is conducting a bike donation event on Wednesday March 2. RAB will be at Woodhull at noon to pick up bike donations. Recycle-A-Bicycle is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and all donations are fully tax deductible. Contact Amy Duquette, Art Therapist and Artist Access Program Coordinator, Woodhull Medical Center, 760 Broadway Rm 6B-209, Brooklyn, NY 11206, 718 630 3069.
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* Homeland, a Wet-Plate Collodion photo essay focusing on grassroots efforts to rebuild and re-envision life after the collapse of the American economy. Cities such as New Orleans, Detroit, Pittsburgh and NYC will be documented, as well as many smaller towns and rural areas in between. The range of projects documented will include urban farms, bicycle collectives, off-the grid homes, alternative fuel producers, art and theatre collectives, community dinners, free schools and after-school programs, squats, itinerants, tent cities and many other grassroots social practices. See: kickstarter.com/projects/1222154967/homeland-a-wet-plate-collodion-photo-essay.
***** SPACES *****
* Room available at Rubulad Home Base. Female preferred at this time (so we can keep some balance). Room has two windows and loft bed. Rubulad is a 6,000 square foot shared community arts and event space near the Navy Yard in Brooklyn. Amenities include large common areas, roof garden, eat-in kitchen, four bathrooms, washer and dryer, high-speed Internet and more. Two blocks from Myrtle Avenue's cafes etc. Great for artist/musician type. Opportunities to participate in large and small events. We currently have one cat upstairs and one dog downstairs and so prefer no more pets at this time, though this could change one day. $700 per month covers all bills. One month deposit required. Must have steady income and references and play nicely with others. Contact chris(at)spill.net.
* Interesting two-room suite with private bathroom on West 100th Street off the park. Long or short-term availability. I am an artist/sculptor looking for one person to occupy this space. The two rooms and bathroom all connect, that's why I'm calling it a suite. It is located in my large apartment where I live in the other half. The space includes three windows, internet, cable tv, interesting furniture and art, kitchenette area with fridge, microwave, marble counter, plates, cups, utensils, a sleeping loft with double futon, closets, a large single futon couch, clean sheets, pillows and blankets. For stays under a month, two people will be considered. Looking for the quiet type who can appreciate a quiet, creative autonomous environment with total privacy. Located on quiet and very safe tree-lined block of Riverside Park. For one person staying over a month, it's $1300 per month. For stays under a month it's $90 a night for one person or $150 for two persons a night, somewha
t negotiable depending on amount of nights. Pictures available on request. Contact Kliphoto(at)aol.com.
* Room Available, Woodside, Queens. The house is large, two-story, beautiful, and has been fully renovated (a.k.a. new hardwood floors, cabinets, and appliances.) The room available: a large basement room with two small windows. Very private. Good for an artist or someone who can use the space. $500. Move-in date is March 1. Move-in cost would be first month's rent and security deposit. Due to allergies, we cannot have pets. The shared spaces include: an enormous kitchen, living room, dining room, and the largest garden/backyard we've seen in New York. We are looking for someone cool, clean, and responsible. We have a house and are creating a home. You can take advantage and enjoy a nice, relaxed environment, with great train access, and no real commitments to the house other doing your part to keep the house tidy and being respectful. Or you can choose to jump in on anything that grabs your interest. We are four 20-somethings all in the creative realm, whether it's writing,
acting, art, music, or other random endeavors. In our free time around the house we are into gardening, composting, art projects, house improvements, and cooking lots of vegetarian and vegan food (although none of us is a vegetarian). We are conscious of our impact on the environment and try to make choices for the house accordingly (using green cleaners, rags instead of paper towels, etc.) Movie nights (we have a projector!), communal dinners and dinner parties, drinks by the fire out back, and random fun and festivities are a part of the space we are creating. Many of us have lived collectively before and, while wanting a warm and loving environment, we are also determined to live in an adult environment where people wash their dishes and are conscious of mess. Queer-friendly. Contact Cassanda, cassandra.ferland(at)gmail.com.
* 750 square foot gorgeous artist studio/commercial loft available in Dumbo, $1500. We have a very unique commercial space for rent. It is located on the top floor of a landmarked industrial building. Great views of Manhattan, lots of windows and natural light , facing North and East (great sunrises), skylight, commercial elevator is available. No living allowed, bathrooms in the hallway, wired for phone and high speed internet service, available immediately. Ideal for small businesses, artists, film makers, architects, designers, etc. Contact Sebastian, 718 813 8404.
* March 1 Sublet. $525/mo plus utilities. Loft Space for Live-Work Artists. We want the best of both worlds -- a serious and productive work environment and a comfortable home with lots of common living space. We are one 25 year-old ex-boat-captain, sculptor, printmaker, beam wrassler; one 35-year-old puppeteer and poof-magic maker; one 26-year-old milliner and breadmaker with a heart of gold. The apartment is a duplex in an small warehouse building: the upstairs is the "living" floor with an open plan kitchen-living-room, the bottom floor is the studio floor. The bedrooms are all lofted with 3.5" ceilings. We use the studio as a building space and a rehearsal space and you will have access to the studio and a desk to work while you are here. We love having pancake brunches, dancing in the kitchen, talking about shows and life over morning coffee, keeping bottomless pots of soup on the stove. Everyone who stays or visits here feels like this is one of a few NYC apartments th
at really feels like a home. Looking for a subletter with big ideas, a warm heart and interest in taking part in what we have built. One-half block from JMZ @ Myrtle, supermarket and laundry across the street. Contact Robyn: robyn.renee.hasty(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: Costume designer Laura McMillian
*Given that your style is over the top, have you ever spotted something that was both over the top and unflattering?*
"Someone will come up to me in the store and say, 'Oh, do you think is too much?' Or, a friend will ask me. I don’t know why people ask me that. It happens to me a lot. There’s a way to judge. If I think of something, I’ll tell you. But off the top of my head, no, absolutely not. I love excess!"
Read the complete interview at allthatwevemet.com/2011/02/laura-mcmillian-makes-perfect.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:
***** Free the Internet *****
spectregroup.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/freedom-box/
"Concerned about companies that make billions brokering sensitive information, free-software champion Eben Moglen has unveiled a plan to populate the internet with tiny, low-cost boxes that are designed to preserve individuals' personal privacy. The Freedom Box, as the chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center has christened it, would be no bigger than power adapters for electronic appliances. The inexpensive devices would be deployed in a peer-to-peer fashion in homes and offices to process email, voice-over-IP communications, among other things. The decentralized structure of the devices is in stark contrast to today's biggest internet providers, which offer the same services in exchange for users turning over some of their most trusted secrets. As Moglen envisions them, Freedom Boxes would be used to perform a wealth of services that most of the world has been brainwashed into believing are better performed in the cloud. Secure backups that automatically store data in en
crypted form would be performed on the Freedom Boxes of our friends, just as their encrypted data would be stored on ours. The boxes would also be used to send and receive encrypted email, VoIP calls, and to act as a safer alternative to social-networking sites. The guts of the boxes would be the Debian distribution of Linux, along with countless free applications that would presumably be developed under the same model as most of today's open source software. The Freedom Box website gives no timeline for delivery, but Moglen told The New York Times that he could build version 1.0 in one year if he could raise "slightly north of $500,000." The cost of plug-in devices is about $99 right now, but Moglen said they'll eventually sell for about $29."
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: SATURDAY *****
Noisy Fun With Sensors
Learn to use sensors to pick up vibrations, electromagnetism, and light and turn it into sound. Find the hidden music in everyday objects and the environment, or listen to musical instruments and musical electronics in a new way.
Please bring with you some of the following objects to play with: things with battery-powered electric motors (toy cars, electric toothbrushes, pocket fans), simple electronics (pocket calculators, remote controls, smartphones, toy electronic keyboards, or other instruments), small musical instruments of any kind, anything that makes a cool sound that you want to hear more closely.
NYC Resistor
87 Third Avenue, fourth floor, Brooklyn
1-3p; $50, plus $10 materials fee
RSVP: eventbrite.com/event/1235664907/eorg
***** LEARNING: Also on SATURDAY *****
The Responsible Carnivore: Hands-On Cooking with Sustainable Meat
In this class chef Emily Peterson will teach you how to make sustainable choices in the meat department and teach you some techniques for preserving the farm-based flavor. Taste grass-finished steak hot off the grill, rare breed pork from happy pigs, and roasted chicken raised the way nature intended. We will discuss special cooking concerns and why it initially seems that “good†meat is so much more expensive. (It isn’t.) You’ll return to the meat department an educated buyer and even better cook.
Our sustainable menu will include Crostini di Fegatini (Chicken Paté on Toast), Spicy Asian-style Pork in Butter Lettuce Purses, Chef Emily’s Secret Family Recipe Lemon Chicken, and Grilled Marinated Hangar Steaks with Fresh Herb Chimmichurri. And, as no meal at Astor Center is complete without wine, a resident wine expert will lead you on a tasting tour of some organic, biodynamic, and natural wine pairings for your culinary creations.
Astor Center
399 Lafayette Street, Manhattan
Noon-4p; $125
astorcenternyc.com
***** LEARNING: Also on SATURDAY *****
Build-a-World Workshop with Twig Terrariums
Create a moss terrarium with a romantic scene inside and give a little world to your favorite guy or girl. In this class, which focuses on Twig Terrariums’ Romantik DIY Kit, and get hands on guidance on mini-scaping your creation. Romantik is our newest terrarium kit, featuring your choice of a pair of smoochers, a young couple in a lasting embrace, or a sweet old couple on a bench. The glass doubles as a candleholder and stands 10 inches tall. Romantik comes beautifully packaged and ready to be gifted.
The New York Open Center
22 30th Street, Room 3A, Manhattan
12:30-1:30p or 2:30-3:30p; $65 for kit, class is $free
info(at)twigterrariums.com
twigterrariums.com
***** LEARNING: SUNDAY *****
Brewshop 101: Home-Brewing Essentials
City Brewshop, NYC’s first brewing workshop space will its monthly entry-level beer-brewing workshop. We’ll teach participants all the basics to get them up and running while brewing a batch of beer. The course will cover extract brewing, hops, malts, grains, yeasts and how to avoid or troubleshoot the most common problems. All reference materials will be provided as well as a home brew sample for tasting. We’ll have starter kits available for purchase. Everyone leaves with the equipment and knowledge they need to brew on their own. Led by John LaPolla.
NYC Resistor
87 Third Avenue, fourth floor, Brooklyn
2-4p; $55
citybrewshop.com
***** LEARNING: MONDAY *****
Hacking the iTrip
Modern low-power FM radio transmitters are ubiquitous in the consumer market and ripe with creative applications. One example is the iPod accessory branded the iTrip. Every generation of this device is specifically designed for each version of the iPod, leaving previous iterations of the iTrip obsolete and very cheap.
The act of reprogramming and modifying the iTrip to work without an iPod is a unique and simple intro to FM transmission and digital electronics with practical and creative motivations. No previous knowledge of programming, electronics, electromagnetism, etc., needed. We will go through the reprogramming process, from breaking into the casing to reprogramming the chip. Every participant will leave with one hacked iTrip transmitter. We will demo various uses of the device, including generating feedback, using the transmitter as a wireless microphone, and altering the range though antenna manipulation. We will also emphasize the ease and importance of repurposing obsolete electronics for creative/subversive actions.
Dumbo Arts Center (DAC)
111 Front Street, Suite 212, Manhattan
6:30-9p; $20 for DAC members, $30 nonmembers
iTrip and other materials included
dumboartscenter.org/education.html
***** LEARNING: TUESDAY *****
Surprisology: The Art and Science of Living Surprisingly
Are you someone who appreciates unexpected moments, creativity and curiosity, big laughs, and a love of creating little surprises (dinner parties, hidden notes, etc.)? This course is an exploration of the joy of surprise, to lighten up and reboot your feeling of awe and wonder. Through a combination of experiments and story, we’ll learn about surprise as an emotion, a life philosophy, and an unexpected tool that you can use for productivity, bonding, and memory-building at work and home. Every circle of friends needs a great surprise-ologist. In this silly (and yet serious) class you’ll leave with a small surprise that you created for a friend, and an arsenal of mischievous little ideas for living surprisingly in the future. Led by Dr. LeeAnn Renninger, Surprise Researcher, and Tania Luna, co-founder of SurpriseIndustries.com.
LifeLabs Classroom
32 Prince Street, Manhattan
7-9:30p; $35
info(at)lifelabsnewyork.com
***** LEARNING: Also on TUESDAY *****
Meditation: Emotional Awareness
Through discussion, meditation, and simple movement, we will explore the function of emotions, people’s reactive tendencies, and how to channel your emotions for your benefit and personal growth. Socialize after with others over delicious, healthy snacks and chai tea. Led by Anthony Whitehurst.
Randy Warshaw Studio
115 Wooster Street
7-8:30p; $free with RSVP by email, $10 suggested donation
anthonylwhitehurst(at)gmail.com
***** LEARNING: WEDNESDAY *****
Lockpicking
We'll make shims and practice using them on padlocks and we'll make
lock picks and practice using them on door locks.
All shims and lock picks will be disposed after the class (possession
of them is illegal in New York). Class may be on the rooftop if it's warm enough.
Address upon registration
7:30-9p; $30 internet payment, $37cash
bit.ly/lockclass
***** LEARNING: Also on WEDNESDAY *****
Arduino/Soldering 101: Make Your Own Arduino and Learn to Program It
In this three-hour intro to soldering and micro-controllers you will solder together a Freeduino board (an Arduino Duemilanove-compatible board), learn to program it using the Arduino environment, and wire up several circuits and load up code to read sensors and light LEDs. Class will cover variables, functions, and basic Arduino functionality, and show you how to get more help in the future for all your projects. You’ll leave with a micro-controller, a mini-USB cable, a power supply, and a few programs to play with. Please bring a laptop with the Arduino environment on it, available at arduino.cc/en/Main/Software. Led by Mimi Hui and Max W.
NYC Resistor
87 Third Ave , fourth floor, Brooklyn
7-10p; $100
eventbrite.com/event/1235757183/rss
***** LEARNING: THURSDAY *****
Patching Circle
We spend enough time alone staring at our computers; we are proposing to work together. So often issues that arise when working can be solved with a quick two-minute discussion that would take hours to solve alone. This is a meeting where we all can come to work.
This is an informal gathering of patching and patchers (Pd, Max/MSP/
Jitter, and even vvvv, Eyesweb, Labview, etc.). Beginners and experienced welcome. Work on personal projects, professional projects, school projects, ask for help, help others, or just patch quietly to yourself, in a room full of other people patching patches and helping other people patch.
General Assembly
902 Broadway, fourth floor, Manhattan
6-9p; $free
puredata.info/community/NYCPatchingCircle
347-850-4872
***** LEARNING: Also on THURSDAY *****
Intro to MIG Welding
Impress your friends, your older brother, and that cute bartender with your tough new skill. This intro welding class will teach you the very basics of MIG welding and familiarize you with the tools you’ll need to finish a project: the grinder, the chop saw, etc. MIG welding is the handy hot glue do-all kind of welding, the primary kind of welding used in making train cars, art, cranes, etc. All sorts of people have come thru Madagascar Institute knowing nothing about a shop and have become capable metal workers; get your start here. This class focuses on the hands-on experience of welding. You will learn a little of the theory and tech behind it, but mostly you will get a feel for the manual skill of welding. If you come with an idea for a small, simple project, chances are you can finish it by the end of the class
Bring leather gloves and eye protection, and wear heavy-duty all natural fibers (like jeans and a long-sleeve shirt). And no open-toed shoesâ€"boots are ideal. Polyester and nylon will melt onto your skin if hot molten metal drops onto them and ouch that hurts. You will get very dirty.
Madagascar Institute
217 Butler Street, Brooklyn
7-10p; $50, $10 materials
introtomigwelding-rss.eventbrite.com
***** LEARNING: THURSDAY *****
Self-Producing 101 for Theater and Dance Artists
Get your project organized. This workshop will provide an overview of what you need to think about as you self-produce your theater or dance project. Even if you’re being presented by a venue, you’ll still have many production responsibilities. This workshop will help prepare you. We’ll go over the whole process, from planning to production, including helpful template documents for budgets, production timelines and press releases. As the teacher addresses individual's needs, other students are encouraged to talk to each other about ways they can barter support for each other’s productions. Led by Jen Abrams. No charge for class, but barter is encouraged: Bring a set of four to six easy healthy vegetarian recipies that you really like a loaf of fresh-baked bread, offer a dinner in a tupperware ready to be frozen (veg, nothing spicy), read her artist statement and give feedback on whether it’s communicating what she wants it to communicate, spend an hour helping her c
lean up her website, bring an mp3 of a 30-minute yoga workout, or give a CD of music you think might be a good match to her work.
Trade School
32 Prince Street, Manhattan
6-9:30p; $barter (see above)
tradeschool.ourgoods.org
***** LEARNING: Also on THURSDAY *****
Energy Medicine Workshop: The Basics of Bioenergetics
Join Reiki master Jonathan Talat Phillips on an evening journey through the ancient art of energy healing. In this workshop, you will learn the physical characteristics, psychological defenses, life tasks, and many gifts of each of the five personality types of bioenergetic therapy. Participants will discover their primary defense structures and learn energy healing modalities to release these old patterns and constrictive forces. We will also explore techniques for working with other people’s personality defenses, which can prove helpful in any social situation.
This workshop will provide a safe container for participants to go deeper into their own healing journey. All levels are welcome.
TRS
44 East 32nd Street, 11th floor, Manhattan
7:30-9:30p; $15
realitysandwich.com/basics_bioenergetics
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: FRIDAY *****
Get Ready for AIDS Walk New York
AIDS Walk New York needs volunteers to help us prepare Walker Kits and to help spread the word about our event that's happening on May 15. We will be preparing more than 2,000 fundraising kits, which are essential to get our walkers sponsored and raise funds for the fight against HIV/AIDS.
119 West 24th Street, second floor, Manhattan
212 807 9255
Nakeshiab(at)aidswalk.net
***** HELP: NOW *****
HollabackNYC
HollabackNYC has decided it is time to pass the torch and give 10 youth (ages 18-22) the opportunity to become the leaders of HollabackNYC. We seek a diverse group of youth from different neighborhoods of NYC, who are committed to making social change. Youth who are eager to learn and are able to invest at least 10 hours a week to this process. The new leadership will receive training in social media, community organizing, policy/advocacy, and marketing.
Help us create this pool of youth leaders and spread the news. Our recruitment flyer and application are available for download online.
claudia(at)ihollaback.org
bit.ly/fmokuE
*****HELP: NOW*****
More Website Help
NYLaughs strives to strengthen the human connection via laughter by producing free shows in NYC public venues. Our signature event is a summer series of free comedy called Laughter in the Park. Help is needed for our website. We need a site that can be quickly updated by us without the need for a webmaster.
nylaughs(at)gmail.com
nylaughs.org
laughterinthepark.org
*****HELP: SOON*****
Fringe Theater Festival
Frigid New York is a fringe festival located in the Lower East Side offering 30 production slots no longer than 60 minutes in length. Ten shows each in the Kraine Theater, the Red Room, and Under St. Marks. Volunteers are needed for the festival from February 23-March 6. Volunteer duties range from box office and on-site ticket sales, party prep, take down, to promotions and marketing.
85 East 4th Street, Manhattan
office(at)frigidnewyork.info
frigidnewyork.info
*****HELP: UPCOMING*****
Become a Docent for the New York Botanical Garden
Currently seeking friendly and energetic volunteers for the Spring Docent training sessions. Guides are trained in basic botany, horticulture, and how to communicate information to visitors. A plant background is not required, but great communication skills are a must. Positions are available on weekdays and weekends. The Spring training session will be held over the course of two Saturdays. Apply online.
The New York Botanical Garden
200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx
bit.ly/i3Y2QC
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