Date: Thursday, April 17th Time: 6:00pm- 8:00pm Location: BAM Natman Room (30 Lafayette Ave, Ft. Greene) Cost: Free with RSVP
"Connected Unconscious is a collaborative exhibition produced by Brooklyn Art Project and BAM celebrating the creative possibilities of our web 2.0 connected world. Featured work includes 15 original pieces from members of the BrooklynArtProject.com community of 1100+ members from over 22 countries. In addition to all the great art, there will be playing Connected Unconscious theme based video and music remixes created for the exhibtion by rising star Brooklyn DJ's, curated by Halcyonline.com. Enjoy free cocktails courtesy of BAM and meet all the artists flying in from around the world to participate."
Featured Brooklyn Art Project Members:
Foon Foono — Singapore
Josh Heilaman — Oklahoma city, OK
Derek Lerner — Brooklyn, NY
Maya Bloch — Tel Aviv, Israel
Helene Mukhtar — Brooklyn, NY
James Cospito — Brooklyn, NY
Sarah Nicole Phillips— Brooklyn, NY
Stephan Fowlkes — Brooklyn, NY
Kim McCarthy — Seattle, WA
Jun-Jun Sta.Ana —Chicago, IL
JURIED WINNERS
+ Maria Sochaniewicz
+ BriAnna Olson
+ Louis Caldarola
+ Erica Falke (Drexel)
+ Jax Chachitz
HALCYON AUDIO/VIDEO REMIXES
+ Crybaby — Romeo Alaeff
+ The Pimps of Joytime/Bonita — Remix by Dj OBaH
+ Displaced Construction #1 — Ezekiel Honig and Joshua Ott
+ Bedroomz — Levon Vincent and Brian Crumley
Date: Thursday, April 17th Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Ukrainian East Village Restaurant (140 2nd Ave. btw 8th & 9th St.) Cost: Free with mention of FreeNYC
Want something different for your Thursday night? How about a tango lesson? Eat, drink and tango at the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant. Ordinarily this lesson would run 10 big ones, if you mention FreeNYC at the door though the teach lets you in for free!
Date: Thursday, April 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: KGB Bar (85 East 4th Street) Cost: Free
Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a monthly reading series dedicated to the proposition that readings should be: excellent, well-read pieces that have at least one thing in them that makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts), and don't run more than 15 minutes each. This months its all males all night with Andrew W. M. Beierle, Tim W. Brown, Paul McComas, & Adam Szymkowicz. Writer bios after the break. 21+
Andrew W. M. Beierle will read from his novel, First Person Plural, which examines the personal lives of a pair of extremely rare conjoined twins of the type dicephalus (two-headed), one of whom is gay and one straight. First Person Plural has been short-listed for the Lambda Literary Award for best men’s fiction of 2007. His debut novel, The Winter of Our Discothèque, received a 2002 Lambda Literary Award in the romance category. His work has appeared in the Harrington Gay Men’s Literary Quarterly and Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Tim W. Brown is the author of two novels, Deconstruction Acres and Left of the Loop. A third novel, Walking Man, is forthcoming from Bronx River Press. His latest literary effort is American Renaissance, a comic historical novel set in 1830s America, to be published by Gival Press. Brown’s fiction, poetry and nonfiction have appeared in over two hundred publications, including Another Chicago Magazine, Chelsea, Slipstream, Colorado Review, Pleiades, The Ledge, Storyhead, Rockford Review, Bridge, Oyez Review, The Bloomsbury Review, Rain Taxi, Small Press Review, Main Street Rag, Chiron Review and New Observations. A long-time resident of Chicago, where he was a fixture in that city’s literary scene as a writer, performer and publisher of Tomorrow Magazine (1982-1999), Brown moved to New York in 2003.
Paul McComas’s fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines, and he is the author of a novel, Unplugged, and a short story collection, Twenty Questions. Paul’s comedic coming-of-age novel, Planet of the Dates, was just published by Permanent Press. He has presented his performance art and monologues at more than 70 theaters and other venues nationwide, including the Bowery Poetry Club, Chicago’s Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival and N.A.M.E. www.paulmccomas.com
Adam Szymkowicz is a playwright whose work has been called “fabulously weird and weirdly fabulous” and “sweet, sexy, neurotic friendly” by the New York Times. He graduated from The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. His work has been produced throughout the U.S.; and in Canada; England; The Netherlands; and Lithuania. Plays include Deflowering Waldo; Open Minds; Anne; The Art Machine; Pretty Theft; Food For Fish; Herbie; Incendiary; Old Fashioned Cold Fusion; Bee Eater; Temporary Everything; Susan Gets Some Play and Nerve. Several of his plays have been published by Dramatists Play Service. For more; go to www.adamszymkowicz.com.
Date: Thursday, April 17th Time: 10:00pm Location: APT (419 West 13th St at 9th Ave.) Cost: Free
A Weekly Night of Esoteric Urban Noise. DJs Criterion, Peter Gunn and Reaganomics Spin grime, breakcore, reggaeton, rap, crunk, dancehall, punk and everything in between. "For over a year, Pure Fire was known as the Tonic’s premiere night for new beats and cutting-edge sounds. Now, with the revered venue closing, Pure Fire has found a new home at APT, bringing the hottest, off-kilter beats from around the globe together and apart." Tonight they welcome special guest Mochipet (BPitch Control so you know) dropping glitched-up booty breakcore) 21+
Date: Thursday, April 17th Time: 10:00pm Location: Gallery Bar (120 Orchard btw Rivington & Delancey) Cost: Free with RSVP
Takeover Theory is no stranger on FreeNYC. They've been dropping hip-hop inspired parties throughout the boroughs for years now and always come correct. Well, tonight their head hype-man, Maestro, turns the big 30 (making you older then me, ha!) and they are taking over gallery bar to celebrate. The whole crew will be in the house - Iron Lyon, Complex, King Cut, Yamez, Rev McFly, Demize, Dary, Polarity, & Chad Dubz - plus a huge 30' sub from Pine Tavern in the Bronx, + open Soit bar at 10 until its gone, plus stella 2 for 1's, giveaways, and more. Happy birthday sir! 21+