MoveOpolis!: Hostile Takeover

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Date: Monday, August 18th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: North Atrium Balcony, 3rd Floor of Seaport Pier 17 Mall
Cost:Free

"Richard Move and MoveOpolis! present Hostile Takeover six elaborate live performance installations that occur at different downtown locations. A glamorous collision of sexual desire and violence, masculinity and femininity and real and imagined worlds, Hostile Takeover places feminine beauty upon a pedestal (literally) in the midst of the male-dominated world of high finance, with stunningly costumed, Butoh-inspired female dancers. Costumes are made by Teatro del Odio and Gia Grosso, music is by DJ Savage. A final performance event, Dances at a Gathering, featuring the entire MoveOpolis! cast and an assortment of professional artists and DJs, will be presented on August 25." Tonight performance is Hesperornis Regalis (Seabird). See below for full schedule.

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Brooklyn Independent Cinema: Running Stumbled

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Date: Monday, August 18th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Barbés (376 9th St. at 6th Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn)
Cost: Free

The Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series continues this evening with an evening guest currated by Michael Tully. The short 1983, "takes a simple concept—filming teenagers in close-up staring into the camera—and turns it into an unexpectedly resonant experience." Then, in feature length Running Stumbled, director John Maringouin's documents "his estranged, drugged up father and his equally obliterated girlfriend is one of the most harrowing pill binges ever committed to videotape." Trailer below.

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Boy You're Crazy, nah, I'm Shwayze

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Date: Monday, August 18th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Steven (100 Rivington St & Ludlow)
Cost:Free with RSVP

Once again, Giant Step and Steve Madden bring you intimate performances by some up and commers with big PR machines spinning them into the limelight. This time around its Shwayze, who's feel-good "buzzin'" has been on constant summmer rotation. "A melting-pot of laid-back melodies, hip-hop rhythms and acoustic guitars, Shwayze's self-titled debut pays homage to an all-day-and-into-the-night party lifestyle colored by the rolling tides of his hometown Malibu beaches, and the rolling papers that flavor the proceedings." DJ Lindsay opens thing up. RSVP is limited so get on that right quick. 21+

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MLK Jr. Concert Series - Caribbean Night

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Date: Monday, August 18th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Wingate Field (directions)
Cost: Free

26 years ago, Brooklyn Borough president Marty Markowitz began the Martin Luther King, Jr. Concert Series to bring outdoor entertainment to the BK Masses. Tonight, the heritage continues with a Caribbean line-up featuring Beres Hammond, The Kings of Calypso, The Mighty Sparrow, and Bunji Garlin & Asylum (of the pure fire Brrt).

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Superman in Bryant Park

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Date: Monday, August 18th
Time: Films begin at Dusk (about 8ish)
Location: Bryant Park (40th and 42nd Sts & Fifth and Sixth Aves)
Cost: Free

Bring your picnic baskets and pull up some lawn for an evening under the stars with the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival. Every Monday throughout the summer HBO dusts off some old classic movies and plays them on a big screen in Bryant Park. Tonight Superman flies into the park! "Christopher Reeve stars as the Man of Steel, Marlon Brando is Jor-El, and Gene Hackman is Lex Luthor in the first of the big-screen superhero epics. Richard Donner directs, and Manhattan delivers an outstanding performance as Metropolis."

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