LANDFILL Issue Two Launch Party

LANDFILL Issue Two Launch Party
Friday, December 17,  6 to 8 pm
195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY, FREE.  

Please join us for the launch of LANDFILL Issue Two: the Edible Issue; featuring: Leda Meredith, Flatbush Farms, Marlow & Sons, Brooklyn Grange, Bloominghill Farms, WQCI, Neenah Paper, Brooklyn Farmyards, Rouge Tomate, and Hawthorne Valley Farm.

LANDFILL is an annual publication created by Brian Ponto in partnership with the Greg Barber Co. Each issue creates a volume of contemporary sustainable printing, giving other design professionals access to the processes, if only through example. 

Stay for a Q&A with participants of LANDFILL 02. Copies of the magazine will be on hand. Free beer thanks to Sixpoint Brewery! To RSVP and invite your friends, click here. 

www.landfillzine.com

December 12 @ Moviehouse: Artful Play

December 12, 2010, 7pm

195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY

This week's Moviehouse brings us video and performance work of a playful devious nature. Min Oh brings her original interactive storytelling back to Moviehouse and video artists Itziar Barrio and Ann and Alexx make dances share new work bound to make you move and shake your way into the holiday season.

Come early for a live-action, choose-your-own-adventure dining experience.  Select from an array of intriguing seasonal ingredients and watch as Chef David Siegel assembles your dish in real time. A year's worth world-wandering, a knack for creating on the fly, and an interest in the unexpected will combine to make a playful meal born not just of his imagination, but also yours... 

Featuring

A Dialog, Part 3 by Min Oh 

The third part of Min Oh’s “A Dialog” featuring her innovative artistic technique that allows the audience to decide how the performance will play out. Using previously recorded clips of herself in the space, Oh interacts with an exact replica of herself on the screen based on the audiences’ collective choice. The performance consists of comical tension between the two people, and also between the artist and the audience; between inclusion and exclusion. In her other work, Min Oh plays with two contradictory qualities that conflict but also keep a weird balance — sweet but violent, naive but manipulative, rational but unreasonable. Their logic operates in a world where the sum becomes more than the individual parts.

 Bailalo by Itziar Barrio 

A one scene film featuring a young woman performing a striptease to a sensual music. She removes one t-shirt after another, a sort of never ending expectational dance.

 The Long Nighters in A Very Short Day by ann and alexx make dances

A film inspired by imagery and time as experienced in dreams, and by silent films. ann and alexx make dances’ original choreography which was created first for live performance (commissioned by Dance New Amsterdam in 2007), is manipulated in public locations which cannot ordinarily be accessed by a standard audience, creating a humorous, non-linear narrative about an unusual alliance.

November 14 @ Moviehouse: The Social Theater

Moviehouse: The Social Theater

Sunday, November 14, 7 p, 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Hello Internet! At this month's Moviehouse, performance artist Chloe Bass and filmmaker Catherine Chao use the ChatRoulette template to explore interactive relationships and layers of performance in a show that is broadcast to random strangers around the world. Plus always-inventive Holly Danger downloads her own VJ performance with the beats Kodomo to the ChatRoulette world.

The event speaks to the contradictory nature of social media and its inherent voyeuristic qualities. Through multiple and interactive performances, the event will combine a live stream of ChatRoulette with live performers and an experimental video projection.

While often Chat Roulette is used for people to expose themselves, like many other social channels it has the potential for artistic expression. The event merges technology and creativity in order to draw attention to our own motivations and practices when using such tools to connect.

Before the show enjoy snacks from two sides of the globe with Masala Loca.

Featuring

Holly Danger

Holly Danger is a designer, videographer and VJ, who has a passion for visual work integrating textures, layers, and collage, with corresponding beats, rhythms, and energy. She lives and breathes for traveling with her work to far corners of the universe and spends most of her time working on graphic design, movie trailers, documentaries, festival installations, and live synchronized audio/visual performances for bands and DJs.

Kodomo

Kodomo is the moniker for the electronic music and video art collaboration project of Chris Child. He has since released his debut album (Still Life) and has performed in New York, Montreal, and Barcelona. His music is regularly featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, This American Life and All Things Considered.  Under kodomo, he has done numerous remixes for bands including “Freezepop”, “Omar Faruk Tekbilek” and “Symbion Project”. Kodomo’s wide range of musical influences includes everything from Brian Eno and Erik Satie to DJ Shadow, Kraftwerk, J.S. Bach and Cabaret Voltaire.  Using recycled beats and his penchant for minimalism and film music, he’s managed to create a compelling form of impressionist electro that emphasizes warm sounds, melodic development and pulsing beats.

Halloween Weekend: Within the Land of Ash

Within the Land of Ash
Saturday, October 30, 7pm to 7am
260 Meserole St, Brooklyn, NY
$15 before 9:45pm, $25 after, Strictly 21+
Come in costume for free champagne at the bliss bar.

There is a reason we live in this city.

For New York City, Halloween isn't just a holiday, it's a full-throated aria to the city's cacophonous core. Anywhere else in the world our lifestyles are considered a calamity.  On Halloween weekend we celebrate without apology.  Below are brief details on our contribution to a weekend of masquerade, gender-bending, endless music, clamor, beauty and revelation.

There is a reason we live in this city.  It's because of nights like this...

It starts at the Brewery...
117 years ago this hulking structure was erected to feed the city's taste for intoxication.  The cavernous interior of this historic structure is the introduction to your night with performances by the Lady Circus hidden in the rafters, in the shadows and all around you.  Here, the Madagascar Institute will be premiering its newest indelicate sculpture, The Emperor Satan's Roco-Coach by built by Gaylen Hamilton and made live by the infamous Zeroboy.  The building is breathtaking, the performances are precarious and this is just the beginning...

It continues at the Furniture Factory...
We've converted three floors of this building into a labyrinth of music and performance including the international hip-hop all-stars from Okay Africa featuring: Baja + The Dry Eye Crew, Meta and the Cornerstones, Ishmael Kayoute and dancers from the cast of Fela! on Broadway, dj Dhundee and OP!, plus early sets from Das Racist and the unmissable Reggie Watts. Also, explore after-life themed interactive art installations alongside jump-up dance music in the antique lounge by the Vintage DJ and Peter Principle.

In the Knit Factory...
The entire Wolf + Lamb label takes over the second floor of this warm and cozy factory space with immaculately composed dance tracks featuring: Soul Clap, Slow Hands, Nicolas Jaar Live, Nick (No Regular Play), and back from around the world travel: Wolf + Lamb playing the sunrise set.  On the ground floor, Image Node Crew keeps it comfortable with music and projections in the Blink Dome.  Outside in the hidden yard, get hot/wet in the return of the hot-tub and all night delicious things provided by Bushwick's favorite Roberta's Brick Oven Pizza.

In Omega Plastics...
This unexplored warehouse is 10,000sqft. of recently abandoned space. We've left everything intact, from the dilapidated office space to the worker's lockers to the piles of disco-balls they formerly manufactured (seriously). When we stepped inside, the  antiquity of the building spoke for itself.  It has stories to tell. It's history will be brought to life with the The Xango Tribe building intimate experiences within domes and hidden spaces featuring live music, food and small moments of magic.  The Cumba Mela Collective takes over the other half of the space with crowd pleasing global bass pulling influences from tribal house, Balkan brass, dubstep and electro.  Featuring dj's: Atropiolis, Thor and 2melo with live mc's Polo and Shanti and an orchestra of live percussion and other instrumentation.

On the street...
Halloween weekend is more than just a holiday, it's an escape, an excuse and a celebration for a city of lost children. One party can't contain your energy - you deserve more than a masquerade ball.  Beyond the indoor bacchanal listed above are dozens of spontaneous performances happening throughout the streets in this neighborhood wide carnival.  On this night, your brilliance is the bullet, this party is your trigger, aim yourself at the impossible and... explode.

RSVP: http://www.WithinTheLandofAsh.com/

2010 Handmade Holiday Craft Fair

 

Meet the perfect gift at
Handmade Holiday Craft Fair
Saturday, December 4, 12 to 6 pm

195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY, FREE admission

Machine-made just isn’t your thing. You’re all about smart design, careful craft, gorgeous details and a little bit of love in the pieces you own and give.  

On December 4th, 3rd Ward and Brooklyn Based bring you the 4th annual installment of one of New York’s most unique holiday shopping events. Bring your holiday shopping lists -- this fair will have something for everyone you cherish. Hailing from all over the country, this year’s craft vendors are gathering the best of their collections in clothing, accessories, jewelry, housewares, prints, winter essentials and culinary treats.

Enjoy live music from Zoz Beat, Respect Two, DJ Nonformat, beats by DJ Clay Franklin and cheap Intelligentsia coffee and specialty cocktails from Red Jacket Orchards.

Plus, we'll have 3rd Ward workshops in DIY printmaking, flocking and sewing. Even make your own electronic holiday card!

Stay tuned to this page for more details and surprises as the Handmade Holiday Craft Fair approaches. To see pictures from the 2009 Fair, click here.

RSVP: www.3rdward.com/rsvp