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Skybetter & Associates: Dance, Talk, and Grapple

Date: Monday, November 16th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: The Joyce Soho (155 Mercer St)
Cost: Free with RSVP (call 646 792 8377)

"Skybetter and associates perform repertory material developed during their Joyce SoHo residency, followed by an open conversation focusing on the relationship between choreographic form and meaning. They hope to provoke a discussion that grapples with the effect of movement and structure on feeling and perception." Find out what this means and more at Tonight's Joyce chat.

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Case of the Mondays Stand Up Show

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Date: Mondays
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Manchester Pub (920 2nd Ave bet 48th & 49th St)
Cost: Free

"It's that time again for the Case of the Mondays Comedy Show. This recession-proof weekly show (no cover, no drink minimum) features comics who have performed at Comix, Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, Laugh Lounge, etc. As you take advantage of the Monday night special of 20% off your bill, you can enjoy this week's lineup, which includes Danny Solomon, Beth MacGregor, George Gordon, John Moses and Jessie Richardson. Be sure to arrive early as seating is limited."

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Lost Boys, Recovered Memories: Lorenzo Carcaterra’s Sleepers

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Date: Monday, November 16th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: John D Calandra Italian American Institute (25 W 43rd St, 17th)
Cost: Free with RSVP (call 212-642-2094)

In 1995, New York writer Lorenzo Carcaterra stunned audiences with a memoir entitled Sleepers, which told the story of the author and three friends, all from Hell’s Kitchen, who had been sentenced to a juvenile prison as boys. There, the memoir claims, they had been abused by a ruthless gang of guards. Even more sensationally, Sleepers described an elaborate conspiracy (including a local priest) to subvert the criminal trial that ensued years later when two of those boys murdered one of the guards. Christopher Wilson’s presentation will discuss the uses of ethnic, literary, and political memory in this memoir—patterns suggested especially by Carcaterra’s recent editorship of Alexandre Dumas’s Count of Monte Cristo—in order to decipher its claims about contemporary justice, victim’s rights, and neighborhood authority.

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Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange

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Date: Monday, November 16th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Union Hall (702 Union Street @ 5th Ave, Brooklyn)
Cost: Free

Brooklyn native and songwriter Rebecca Pronsky founded the Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange in the fall of 2005 to encourage community and support among songwriters in the borough of Brooklyn and around New York City."The show features great local songwriter and alt-country champion Matt Keating with his band, as well as Misra recording artist and ambient/mazzy-star oriented songwriter Emily Rodgers from Pittsburgh and host Rebecca Pronsky will open the evening with her trio." Artist bios below. 21+

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OCD Lecture Series: Caveh Zahedi

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Date: Monday, November 16th
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: Pete's Candy Store (709 Lorimer St, Brooklyn)
Cost: Free

Open City Dialogue (OCD) is a bi-monthly short lecture series woven together from the common thread of people’s obsessions, with guests coming from all over Greater New York. Tonight's lecture features Caveh Zahedi who has "crafted one of the most unique bodies of work in the American independent cinema. His largely confessional work has seen him re-enact a failed relationship (A Little Stiff), persuade his father to take Ecstasy on Christmas (I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore) and divulge in detail his decade-long sex addiction (I Am A Sex Addict)." Join him for a first-hand account of his own experiences in the psychedelic realm as he discusses attempt to capture the hallucinogenic experience on film.

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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.) Plus, tonight there are free drinks for the first six people! Check Jon Lang out in the clip below. 21+

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