Battery Dance Company Presents Downtown Dance Festival

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Date: Monday, August 17th - Saturday, August 23rd
Time: Mon - Fri 12:00pm - 2:00pm; Sat & Sun 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Mon - Fri Chase Plaza; Sat & Sun The Lawn at Battery Park
Cost: Free

"Battery Dance Company presents the 28th Annual Downtown Dance Festival, a free seven day celebration of ethnic, classical, and contemporary dance performances from around the world. The festival will take place from August 17th - 22nd at two sites in Lower Manhattan: Chase Plaza and Battery Park. This year we are welcoming the return of the popular audience participation program, Everybody Dance Now!, now in its third year. At the end of each festival day, audiences will be invited to get up on stage with a company to learn and perform choreography. Battery Dance is also proud to announce our second year partnering with the Indo-American Arts Council, who will be curating a full day of Indian Dance at Chase Plaza as part of their Erasing Borders festival." More info here.

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Pay No Mind Mondays

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Date: Mondays
Time: 6:00pm - close
Location: Ding Dong Lounge (929 Columbus Ave at 106th St.)
Cost: Free

"DJ Mayonnaise Hands and Johnny Xacto spin vinyl every Monday. Dropping punk, new wave, dubstep, funk and house and making it work. We also improvise comedy over the PA with the customers and people who make requests." More info.

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Jay Reatard Listening Party and Film Screening

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Date: Monday, August 17th
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker St.)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Open Bar: Vodka 6:30pm - 7:30pm

"Jay Reatard's ascent to music blog fame has been spurred on by his Matador deal, hilarious stream of tweet insults, and occasional on-stage punches. This listening party for Jay's latest release, "Watch Me Fall," also features a screening of 'Waiting For Something,' a documentary about Reatardness. Other Music will be there selling pre-release CDs and LPs. RSVP or die." (From My Open Bar)

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Recess

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Date: Mondays
Time: 8:00pm
Location: B Bar (40 E. 4th St off Bowery)
Cost: Free

Funnymen Rich Mercier and Jon Lang present a fun, laid-back comedy show at the LES' legendary B Bar. There's no cover and some of the the best comics in NY to perform for your amusement (and drink tickets.) Check Jon Lang out in the clip below. 21+

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Close Encounters at Bryant Park

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Date: Monday, August 17th
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 classic movies and plays them on a big screen in Bryant Park. Tonight is the film of the season at they will showing Close Encounters of the Third Kind. "Steven Spielberg’s scifi blockbuster stars Richard Dreyfuss as a regular guy whose strange obsessions and journey turn fantastically clear at Devil’s Tower. Co-stars Teri Garr as his frustrated wife, and Francois Truffaut, the legendary French director, as a scientist seeking communication with extraterrestrials."

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Moviehouse on India Street

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Date: Monday, August 17th
Time: 8:30pm
Location: India Street Mural (West Street and India Street, Greenpoint)
Cost: Free

Join the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition as they present Moviehouse on India Street beginning on Monday, August 17 and continuing Mondays through September 21st. ver four nights the India Street mural will feature projections by filmmakers, animators, and documentarians. Over four nights the India Street mural will feature projections by filmmakers, animators, and documentarians. The new-painted mural will literally come alive on September 8 when six local filmmakers present the movies they created to capture the artists as they spent the month of June turning a common white wall into a master work of public art. Today, NYC’s funniest and finest animators will make animals talk, dolls love, and buildings walk. It’s all projected on the mural at the end of India Street in a free interactive environment with a spectacular view of the Manhattan skyline.

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Neighborhood Watch

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Date: Monday, August 17th
Time: 9:30pm
Location: Kenny's Trattoria, back garden (7 Withers St and Union St, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free with RSVP

"Neighborhood Watch is a monthly outdoor screening series featuring the works of talented individuals in film/video and comedy. The show primarily focuses on shorter works and local Brooklyn artists culture - It's smart, subtle, not so subtle, and at times dangerously insane!"

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