Date: Monday, November 2nd Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: The Joyce Soho (155 Mercer St) Cost: Free with RSVP (call 646 792 8377)
This edition of The Joyce'sDance Talks series features a conversation with Bill T Jones... Serenade/The Proposition approaches the legacy of Abraham Lincoln as a rumination on the nature of history. On the eve of the Bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, some of his documented words, his contemporary's writings and speeches, and other texts are used to set up the push and pull of historical perspective. Janet Wong, Associate Artistic Director of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and videographer of Serenade leads a video-illustrated talk on the making of the work and the ideas that shape it.
Not seen at The Joyce since 1996, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company returns to The Joyce November 10–15 with Serenade/The Proposition, a work commissioned by The Joyce Theater as part of our 25th Anniversary celebration. In the work, our connection to history—or lack thereof—is evoked through video by Janet Wong, an original score blending classical and folk music in a contemporary pastiche by electric cellist Chris Lancaster, Juilliard's Jerome Begin on piano and text sung by soprano Lisa Komara.
Date: Monday, November 2nd Time: 7:00pm Location: Barbés (376 9th St., Park Slope) Cost: Free
The Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series continues their bi-weekly screening to fill your Monday night void tonight with Toots. "Toots Shor is many things to many people, said Edward R. Murrow of the legendary Manhattan saloonkeeper in 1955. A friend to the famous, a crook to the feds, father, brother, gambler, bum, but most of all Toots Shor was the owner of Americas greatest saloon. Directed by his granddaughter, TOOTS is a provocative, loving and unmistakably authentic portrait of the self-made, unapologetic and quintessentially American man who became the unlikely den-mother to the heroes of Americas golden age. Politicians and gangsters, sports heroes and movie stars -- Sinatra, Gleason, Dimaggio, Ruth, Costello, Eisenhower, Nixon, Warren -- for 30 years, they all found their way to Toots eponymous saloon on New York's West 51st Street for food and drink, served up with a heaping side of insults and put downs."
Date: Monday, November 2nd Time: 7:30pm Location: The Change You Want To See Gallery (84 Havemeyer St. W'burg) Cost: Free
At the intersection of semiotics and psychoanalysis lies advertising, most often deployed in service of selling stuff. For this installment of the Symbols, Branding and Persuasion series, author Carrie McClaren and artist Steve Lambert will present projects that engage a sense of play as they leverage principles of the persuasion industries, to both critique consumer culture and question the power structures at work in our daily lives. More on the speakers below.
ABOUT STEVE LAMBERT
Steve Lambert is currently a Senior Fellow at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York and teaches at Parsons/The New School and Hunter College. He founded the outdoor, guerilla art gallery, the Budget Gallery, in 1999 and the Anti-Advertising Agency in 2004. Steve’s projects and art works have won awards from Rhizome/The New Museum, the Creative Work Fund, Adbusters Media Foundation, the California Arts Council, the Belle Foundation, and others. He earned the “Best Public Art” award from the San Francisco Weekly in 2008. His work has been shown nationally in cities like Detroit, New York, and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as internationally in Havana, Canada, Barcelona, and Rotterdam. Writings about his work have appeared in multiple publications such as the New York Times, Punk Planet, Artweek, and Newsweek magazine and featured on National Public Radio.
ABOUT CARRIE MCLAREN
Carrie McLaren is the founder of the now defunct Stay Free! magazine, and editor of Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture, a compendium of new and previously published material on the impact of consumer culture on our lives (June, 2009). A longtime blogger, she is currently at Consumerist, a website owned by the publishers of Consumer Reports. She is the curator of Adult Education, a "useless lecture series" based in Brooklyn, New York. In a previous life, she organized the Illegal Art Exhibit, a traveling multimedia art show and website devoted to copyright reform. A former advertising columnist for the Village Voice, her writing has also appeared in Newsday, Mother Jones, Time Out NY, and SPIN magazine, among others. Carrie lives in Brooklyn with one each of husband, son and cat.
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.) Plus, tonight there are free drinks for the first six people! Check Jon Lang out in the clip below. 21+
Date: Monday, November 2nd Time: 8:00pm - 9:30pm Location: Crash Mansion (199 Bowery at Spring St.) Cost: Free
Comedy Central at Crash Mansion is s a bi-weekly variety show featuring stand-up, sketch, musical acts, digital shorts and more. Hosted by Joe DeRosa, this week features an all Philly line-up of stand-up, sketch, musical acts, digital shorts and more. Featuring Mike Pomranz, Dave Hill, Team Submarine, Jay Pharoah, Michael Palascak and Myq Kaplan.
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Date: Monday, November 2nd Time: 9:00pm Location: Larry Lawrence Bar (295 Grand St) Cost: Free
"Neighborhood Watch is a unique spectacle featuring the work of renegade visionaries, real starving artists and digital prophets. Each episode is a feature length piece comprised of many smaller pieces, seamlessly intertwined and projected in Brooklyn. In these foggy times Neighborhood Watch shines like a guiding beacon in the savage night, shedding much needed light on vital social topics like mass sleep deprivation, dark alley survival, helicopter maintenance and international silverware espionage. It would be wise of you to join us for this session because we will find you - we know where all of you live and we have your numbers."
