Open Source Democracy

FreeNYC Event Flyer

Date: Wednesday, November 5th
Time: 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Location: NYU, Warren Weaver Hall Room 109 (251 Mercer St)
Cost: Free

"The 'open source' movement in computer software is self-organizing and decentralized; it also values participation over power. Douglas Rushkoff, the leading US commentator on digital culture, argues that democratic politics should work in the same way. If this is indeed the first Internet election... will it be followed by the first Internet administration?" Douglas Rushkoff, author of ten best-selling books on new media and popular culture, discusses the future of a wired political system tonight.

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House of Campari : Art of Cocktailing

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Date: Wednesday, November 5th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Employees Only (510 Hudson St.)
Cost: Free

"Founded by Campari and inspired by Campari’s century long commitment to the arts, House of Campari aspires to create experiences, inspire dialogue about contemporary visual arts and provide a platform for cutting- edge artists to share their passion. The “Art of Cocktailing” features a selection of four David Weidman prints that will be silk screened on canvas tote bags. Each silk screen is a unique and limited edition artwork that celebrates the spirit and art of printmaking. 21+

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Andrea Wittgens CD Release Party

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Date: Wednesday, November 5th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Living Room (154 Ludlow St)
Cost: Free

Rising songstress Andrea Wittgens celebrates her new CD release tonight with a free show a tonight. "Wittgens' was known as a cross between Fiona Apple x Norah
Jones x Ricki Lee Jones, but her new CD, "In the Skyline," is more pop influenced and delves deeper into her theatrical side. Leah Siegel co-headlines. 21+

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Secret Science Club on CO₂

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Date: Wednesday, November 5th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: The Bell House (149 7th St., btw 2nd and 3rd Aves)
Cost: Free

Union Hall brings you Secret Science Club, one of my favorite monthly events. Come nerd it up with mind-blowing lectures, volatile cocktails, and chemically-altered sounds. Tonight's focus is on good old Carbon. "Biologist Tyler Volk is science director of the environmental studies program at New York University, the author of the just-released book CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge, and the guitarist for the all-scientist rock band, the Amygdaloids. For more than 20 years, his research has focused on the global carbon cycle, the dynamics of the biosphere, and closed ecological systems for life support. Dr. Volk asks: How is CO2 changing the natural world? Can new technologies and new energy sources—carbon sequestration, biomass, solar, wind, and nuclear—hold back the carbon tide? Why are the exhaled breaths of the growing human population not net additions to atmospheric CO2? How much carbon can the world’s oceans and forests hold? What facts should every Earth citizen know about the carbon cycle?" 21+

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Copycat

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Date: Wednesday, November 5th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Ottos Shrunken Head (538 East 14 Street)
Cost: Free

You've got mixes, remixes, covers, samples, everyone is stealing and borrowing and reinterpreting from one another, so why shouldn't there be a night dedicated to such unoriginal creativity. Copycat is a night of cover songs, remixes and all the hits with DJ Xerox. Tonight features live sets early from Tom Ward (Folk Rock, Falsetto and fun!), and The Shaydes (the world's premier lampshade band). 21+

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Theater of Fools

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Date: Wednesday, November 5th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, bet. Bleecker & Houston)
Cost: Free

Theatre of Fools is a ive music showcase on the first Wednesday of each month. "It’s a night of non-stop fun featuring live music from Gato Loco, Debe Dalton, The Fools, Sean T. Hanratty, Very old Flyer. 21+

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