Date: Friday, October 3rd Time: 6:00pm Location: The Bronx Museum of the Arts South Wing – Lower Gallery 1040 Grand Concourse @ 165th Street Cost: Free
"Join The Bronx Museum of the Arts for its free First Friday program. This special First Fridays! program, High Water in the Bronx: A Squeeze Radio Show Case, will feature the entire roster of talent plus special guests from High Water – an independent Hip Hop record label run by Sucio Smash. Be there as they record a live radio show for later broadcast."
Date: Friday, October 3rd Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: International Center for Photography (1114 Ave of the Americas, btw. 42nd and 43rd St.) Cost: Free
Join photographer Bob Guen to celebrate his new book commemorating the New York Dolls... Prosecco and TrimWater for the thirsty.
Celebrate the release of 55DSL x Complete Technique’s exclusive limited edition speaker pendant tonight with music by “Future Shock” which includes the stars from the upcoming MTV move, “Made in Queens” and an open bar provided by Red Bull (with vodka).
Date: Friday, October 3rd Time: 6:30pm Location: Museum of the City of New York (1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street) Cost: Free
"The 2008 presidential election promises to be an electrifying race for young people, whose vote is expected to have a major impact. Join leading hip-hop activists, scholars, and artists in a town hall style discussion of the impact of the hip-hop generation on the election and how hip-hop has morphed into a potent political force. Moderated by Bakari Kitwana, the executive director of Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues on Hip-Hop and featuring Chuck D; co-founder of Public Enemy, the political hip-hop group that redefined hip-hop as message music; Angela Woodson, Director of Outreach for the Ohio Governor’s Office of Faith-based Initiatives; Keli Goff author of the book Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence (Basic Books, March 2008); Adam Mansbach, author of the critically-acclaimed Angry Black White Boy, or The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay; and Dr. Ron Daniels, an independent candidate for President of the United States, former Executive Director of the National Rainbow Coalition, Southern Regional Coordinator and Deputy Campaign Manager for the Jesse Jackson for President Campaign, and more recently Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights."
Date: Friday, October 3rd - 4th Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm Location:Secret Project Robot (210 Kent Ave at Metropolitan, W'Burg) Cost: Free
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend continues to show the work of designers that have their fingers on the hip and now, with a nod to the past and wide-open eyes on the future. In this, our third season, we’ve assembled a group of eight Brooklyn-based designers who make one-of-a-kind or small-run collections, with an emphasis on fair-trade, eco-friendliness, and artisan techniques that celebrate the handmade and the visionary.
Date: Friday, October 3rd Time: 7:00pm Location: Apple Store Soho (103 Prince St) Cost: Free
"Join filmmaker Lance Hammer at the Apple Store SoHo as he discusses his feature film, 'Ballast,' which took prizes for best director and cinematography at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Hammer produced, edited, and will self-distribute this dramatic, quietly beautiful film set in the Mississippi delta, where one man's suicide affects three people's lives. indieWIRE contributor Anthony Kaufman will moderate the discussion. 'Ballast' opens in NYC at Film Forum on October 1."
Date: Friday, October 3rd Time: 7:00pm - 12:00am Location: Alpha Beta (70 Greenpoint Ave at the corner of Franklin, G'point) Cost: Free before 9:00pm; $7 after
The Brooklyn Art Collective in Collaboration with Art Space NYC, NY @ War & Show Paper present "Perfect Strangers" a group exhibition featuring 30 of New York's finest up and coming artists. Work includes painting, photography, sculpture, and projections. "In this age of fear, change, and uncertainty, it has become paramount to examine how we as individuals perceive the world around us especially here, in a city of 8 million. Our lives are often defined by those we hold close to or work with; those that support us and form our personal communities, fostering what it is we conceive to be our identities. What is often forgotten, however, is how we are affected by our greater community: a network of strangers closer to us than we care to admit. We brush against them in the subway and exchange brief glances with them in restaurants or on the street. They breathe and feel and love and hate like anyone everywhere and nowhere at once, veiled behind a simple handshake or kind word, we know them well, yet not at all. What, then, is the role of a 'stranger,' and how do we, as artists, view them? 'Perfect Strangers' is an exhibition that examines the spectrum of responses to this enduring question." After party featuring Tadt and Teenwolf.
Date: Friday, October 3rd Time: 10:00pm Location: Savalas (285 Bedford Ave. bet S 1st St & Grand) Cost: Free
This month's Panty Raid features San Francisco's DJ BCause and Ballantino from Soul Imperial. Think 80's, hip hop, re-edits, classic disco, and whatever else moves the crowd. It's great stop off if you're wondering Bedford Ave tonight. 21+
