XXXXX FRIDAY, AUGUST 30 XXXXX

Last Resort

Featuring This _____ Summer Day, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure for your subconscious, immersive sensory experience. A (nearly) 24/7 program of food, performances, screenings, workshops, hangouts, and beer. Enjoy this "meditative, calming, intimate, grounding, sensual, magical, serene, peaceful" sensory experience, guided by your unique collection of olfactory and auditory memories.

The Storefront Project

70 Orchard Street, Manhattan

12:30p breath workshop with Caycee, 2:30 screening, 6-9 performances; $free, $5 advance

Continues through SATURDAY

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Also on FRIDAY *****

Labor of Love: The Schlep Sisters 15 Year Burlesque Anniversary Party

The Schlep Sisters have been shimmying their cute tuchuses for 15 years. Performing their unique style of Jewlesque in NYC and traveling the globe from Alaska to Australia, from Key West to California, and Finland and Germany. They are celebrating 15 years anniversary at Coney Island USA with their show Labor of Love.

They have brought together performers who have also hit the 15-year milestone in their burlesque careers. Starring: Your Femmecee Broadway Brassy, Bambi the Mermaid, Angie Pontani, Amber Ray, Lulu Lollipop, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Minnie Tonka, the Schlep Sisters, and our stage cougar, Hard Cory.

1208 Surf Avenue, Brooklyn

10p; $20

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Also on FRIDAY *****

Cartoon Carnival No. 82: Clown Town

It's time to sit back and relax for another hefty batch of 16mm (no digital) animated cartoons from the 1910s to the 1940s, straight from the Stathes Archives to our secret silver screen in Bushwick.

As summer winds to a close, we figured it might be a good time to clown around together before thatl fun in the sun subsides. Venture back in time with us to Cartoonland Circus for nearly two hours of early animation royalty like Bobby Bumps, Felix the Cat, Dinky Doodle, Betty Boop, and Koko the Clown, of course -- even including a guest appearance by an animated adaptation of Charlie Chaplin -- all showing us the trials and tribulations of ancient animated circus life. Bring all your family and friends out for this rare opportunity to enjoy these classic and now-rare cartoons the way they were meant to be seen, projected on reel film. Our program also features live ragtime accompaniment by Charlie Judkins for select silent-era shorts. Bar refreshments and light food available.

389 Melrose Street, Brooklyn

7p; $10

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tommyjose.com

Also on FRIDAY *****

Virtual Reality Underwater Spa

Enjoy a relaxing and unique spa experience, using VR to transport you to an environment you'd never expect to go in real life: underwater aquatic safari. All while getting a percussion massage, getting mist with a refreshing spray made with essential oils, and immersed in the smells of the beach with a Maui escapist candle from Brooklyn Candle Studio. Oh and there'll be CBD goodies too. This event will go on for a month.

The Tiny Cupboard

1717 Broadway, Suite 315, Brooklyn

11a-9:20p daily until October 15; $20 dollars per 20 minute session

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 XXXXX

Something to Drink to No. 4

Come say goodbye to this beautiful summer and dance/laugh/sing your way into September with talented musicians and comedians. Something to Drink To is a monthly event connecting local up-and-coming performing artists of various disciplines (music, comedy, video art, spoken word) with curious New Yorkers. This month, STDT No. 4 takes place at Talon Bar in Bushwick. Enjoy the show downstairs with comfortable seating and its own bar area and hang out upstairs, play billiards or chill at a spacious outside patio. Bring friends and make new ones.

For the artists, we promise a room full of welcoming people that are a pleasure to perform in front of, good drinks and an occasion to bring your old friends together. We are always looking for artists to collaborate with at our future events, send your recordings/videos to  and come meet us on August 31st!

Talon Bar

220 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn

7:30p doors, 8p start; $?

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Also on SATURDAY *****

Original Intent

Did you know Cher's song Turn Back Time was literally about time travel? Or that Bon Jovi's Wanted: Dead Or Alive was about his failed experiences as a bounty hunter in New Jersey? Welcome to Original Intent where performers play songs with lyrics as they were originally intended by your favorite artists. Lineup: Sophie Elizabeth Santos, Hannah Solow, Tommy McNamara, and Alex Orthwein.

Secret address in Hells Kitchen

RSVP for location, Manhattan

7p; $7

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Also on SATURDAY *****

The Glove Closing Party

With Cameron Clown Stuart, U+1F631, RL, Straw Pipes, Dog, Gun Tit, Sapphogeist, Sibling, Red Sea, Space Meow Doll, Dean Cercone, and DJ Bazooka Mane. Part of the Exponential Festival.

The Glove

DM for address, Brooklyn

9p-dawn; $?

Also on SATURDAY *****

The Vanguard NYC, Smooth Villain Records, and D3xperience present:

Game Theory

Two sound areas including outdoor space. Featuring local and international talent including Dave Owen, D3xperience, Eli Costello, and Sweet Dru among many others performing electronic and live bass music, breakbeat, drum and bass, RnB, nuero, hard tech, and hip hop. Wonderville is an independent arcade game bar and event space run by artists who are interested in cultivating the indie game scene in connection with other types of media. This is a multigenre electronic music event and all of the games are custom made and free to enjoy.

Wonderville

1186 Broadway, Brooklyn

7p-4a; $5 before 9p, $10 after, includes free arcade games

21 and over

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Also on SATURDAY *****

The Museum of Interesting Things

The fight to give women the vote lasted over 100 years and spanned the world. This was not just a movement for voting rights, though. The Museum of Interesting Things, through its vast collection that includes actual artifacts from that era, will show you what a bicycle has to do with this. Learn why some men were afraid of women with hats and someone might even get to try on a bustle dress. See how other issues of the times like the civil rights and temperance movements influenced each other and view some of the humorous affirmations and counterpoints to allowing women to vote. By the end, let's see if society as we know it will collapse if the fairer sex enters a voting booth. The Museum has an extensive suffragette/women's rights show with actual historic items on voting/occupations/rights for women over the ages. Including a voting machine with Harding still on it, suffragette dresses, Poll station books from the 1920 election with names still in it, historic postcards, w

omen's rights books spanning from over 100 years ago until today and many more items.

Coney Island Museum

1208 Surf Avenue, second floor Sideshow Museum, Brooklyn

5p; $?

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Also on SATURDAY *****

Holographic Embodiment

You are invited into miniature holographic scenes, invited to follow the contours of bodies captured in light and to explore what it means to embody the virtual. With Micheal Bleyenberg, Lana Blum, Melissa Crenshaw and Sydney Dinsmore, Eva Davidova, Juergen Eichler, Gullliermo Federico Heinze, Juyong Lee, Sam Moree, Ikuo Nakamura, Ana Maria Nicholson, Travis Paquin, Ioana Pioaru, Paul Roustan, Dan Schweitzer, Fred Unterseher, and one of the L’enfer holograms produced by Richard Castelli from the unfinished movie by Henri-Georges Clouzot curated by Martina Mrongovius. Make your own hologram workshops and student groups by appointment. Our Colonels Row neighbors Portal (The Governors Island Art Fair) and Exquisite Corpse Company will also be hosting openings on August 31 with live music on the lawn.

HoloCenter on Governors Island

403 Comfort Road, Colonels Row, Governors Island

11a-5p weekends, 5p artist floor talks, 6-8p reception; $free

Also on SATURDAY *****

Spectacle Theater presents:

Mod Fuck Explosion

We have a four rare 16mm screenings of Mod Fuck Explosion coming up. A lurid fever-dream riffing on arthouse pretense collided head-on with shock cinema, Mod Fuck Explosion is coming-of-age story packaged in a sleazy exploitation wrapper, resonating with a strange yet wholly original existentialism.

The Nipponese bikers have leather jackets and London, a broken-family blonde, wants a leather jacket more than anything. All London has to do is party with the bikers and tell Kazumi that he has a great bod, but instead she’s in love with death-obsessed M-16. Cleopatra, the supernatural succubus and queen of feces, tries to give London some T-R-U-T-H but she won’t hear it/ Everything is leading in a fucked-up, not-knowing-how-to-fuck direction not to mention the ultimate showdown between the pale mods and a powerful biker gang. Winner of the 1995 New York Underground Film Festival. Tonight at 7:30p: Q&A with Desi del Valle (M16); 10p: phone Q&A with Jon Moritsugu and Amy Davis.

Spectacle Theater

124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn

7:30p and 10p; $10

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 XXXXX

Seven Films by Greta Snider

Writing about her 90s zine Mudflap, Greta Snider characterized its makeup as “equal parts comic book, scrapbook, reviews, interviews and accounts of my personal adventures as a punk-rock bicyclist.” Her publication, she recalled, “was one of many fanzines that emerged in a weird spike, during the death throes of the Xerox era. This kind of thing happens in waves -- an economy of ‘arte povera’ provides a fertile wrack line of outdated technology, and magic can happen.”

Such a sentiment could also describe her remarkable 16mm works, made between the late 80s and the turn of the millennium, which now stand as some of the most essential efforts to have emerged from the Bay Area’s fertile alternative cinema culture. At once assertive and ambivalent, down-beat and agitational, Snider’s films offer Gen-X updates to a history that includes the experimental ethnographies of Chick Strand and the creative compilation tactics of Bruce Conner. Craig Baldwin has praised her work for its formal ingenuity, citing her deployment of “optical printing (and hand-processing and ‘photo-gramming’ and superimposition and subtitles and direct address, and a dozen other methods)” in his definitive analysis of the San Francisco avant-garde, “From Junk to Funk to Punk to Link.”

Snider circles around the concerns of documentary, but always approaches her subjects with an unabashedly subjective lens, deftly combining appropriated sequences, audio interviews, portraiture, and autobiography. Hard Core Home Movie, for instance, distills the riotous energy of a punk show via harsh cut-and-paste montage, while the episodic No-Zone spends time with urban foragers, freight hoppers, and BMX thrashers. Snider captures the wild philosophies of an outsider vagrant in Urine Man, then tunes in to a mellower wavelength for The Magic of Radio, a paean to pirate broadcasting and do-it-yourself media.

For Our Gay Brothers, Snider recorded a candid conversation between gay men about their baffled perspectives on women's bodies, counterposing the audio with stock footage from science films and commercials; Futility adds visual accompaniment to two female-narrated stories, one about the frustrations faced trying to get an abortion, the other a plangent love letter. In a note on Futility, Snider explains that “the images are never an illustration of the voice-over, nor do they constitute a narrative of their own, but blow in and out randomly, constituting a kind of peripheral vision.”

Perhaps her most personal film in the program, Flight forgoes the traditional strategies of nonfiction cinema altogether, locating a poetics within the physical objects at hand: she made the film without a camera, contact-printing negatives of her late father’s photographs and other elements directly onto 16mm. “I wanted to materialize what spirit ephemera I have remaining from him. His family photographs, his hobbyist pictures of trains and roses, his airplanes and his obsession with birds circling...this material is shot through his eyes,” Snider says. “Flight is my father’s photographic legacy, compiled and transformed into light.”

Light Industry

155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn

7p; $8

information]at]lightindustry.org

Also on TUESDAY *****

Revery Rebirth

I'm a NYC based video game developer making an indie game called Revery Rebirth. Revery Rebirth is a music-themed Role Playing Game in the vein of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. However, I'm working on giving what can be an overly cliche, toxic fantasy narrative, into a more modern one. This means diverse characters, LGBTQ story lines, relatable human themes and so on. (read: I'm sick of straight white men saving the day and getting the woman with heaving breasts as a reward). I'm launching a Kickstarter for the game at an arcade bar in Bushwick. I will be there with a demo of the game as well as iPads to get donations, and I would love to invite as many people to come join us at launch, or at least help us from home.

Wonderville

1186 Broadway, Brooklyn

6p; $?

Also on TUESDAY *****

Song Squad of New York

Song Squad helps New Yorkers sing better at the Well. So, what is this all about? Song Squad is an informal chorus with a live backup band. At each unique event, Song Squad’s vocal director helps participants make two previously-announced songs performance-ready. After an hour of arranging harmonies, correcting vocal phrasings, and making other improvements to the first song, Song Squad’s video crew shoots a live performance for a future online release. The process is repeated for the second song.

There are no auditions for Song Squad and anyone who enjoys singing is encouraged to participate. All skill levels are welcomed and prior choir experience or preparation for each event are not requirements. For this show, we will be working on Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" and the Cranberries "Dreams" (they are, of course, different songs). Guest vocal director: Amy Rivard. Theme: Dreams. Bonus: Come and star in a music video.

The Well

272 Meserole Street, Brooklyn

7-10p; $15

Also on TUESDAY *****

Take Two Storytelling

Cher could only sing about it, but we make it happen. Turn back time at Take Two Storytelling where storytellers tell one true story but with two endings: one the way it actually happened, the other where they rewind time to make it all turn out differently. Find out where the other fork in the road leads with this month's storytellers: Gastor Almonte, Mark Pagan, Nina Lesiga, and Sandi Marx.

C'mon Everybody

325 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn

7:15p doors, 7:30-9p show; $5 to $15 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds

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Also on TUESDAY *****

Am I Write, Ladies?: Fifth Birthday Bash

An evening of work from women and gender non-conforming artists celebrating the show's fifth anniversary about birthday cake, getting old, coming out and coming of age, and more. Hosted by Cassidy Dawn Graves and Sammi Miller. Featuring comedy, burlesque, music, and other performance from Gwynn Ballard, Neo Cihi, Venatrix, Tess Elena, Polina Feldbein, Melissa Rocha, Lorena Russi, and Queue Magister.

The Footlight Bar

465 Seneca Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens

8p doors, 8:30p show; $10

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 XXXXX

Stravinsky and the Eternal Space Cowboy

A surreal happening, mixing live music, performance art, and modern dance. Jesse and Forever brings an 11-piece band with saxophone choir. Street provocateur Matthew Silver changes your life. And the dance ensemble of Dolly Sfeir. Plus, human statues, Todd is re-born, DJ Ganesha and more surprises. Presented by itsforever.xyz.

Kinfolk 94

94 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

8p; $10

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Also on WEDNESDAY *****

Joke-e-oke: The Standup Comedy Karaoke Gameshow

Joke-e-oke returns to NYC. Joke-e-oke is like karaoke but with classic stand up comedy material, where you – the audience get to be the stars in a three-round game show. Pick a classic comedy routine and then the mic is yours! All the material is right there on the monitor. Join host Harmon Leon along with sidekick Chris O'Neil for the NYC edition with special celebrity guest comedy judges.

Planet Rose

219 Avenue A, Manhattan

8p; $free

youtube.com/watch?v=hy2_bnLrdXU

Also on WEDNESDAY *****

Bingo Sing-O

Australian Showgirl Anna Copa Cabanna hosts bingo with the amazing Leslie Goshko on piano. Join the fun and games with Bonus Rounds including Name That Tune, Miming the Movies, and a spectacular karaoke competition, prizes! prizes! prizes!, cocktails, shenanigans, and singalongs.

Sid Gold's Request Room

165 West 26th Street, Manhattan

7:30-9p; $free

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 XXXXX

The Brooklyn Silent Film Festival

BrooklynSilent (as part of the Brooklyn Wildlife Summer Festival) pairs new short films with up-and-coming musical artists who compose original scores to the films and perform them live alongside the films at the Festival.

On the night of the event, we will screen eight films with the musicians playing along. In the main room two great DJs will keep the dance party popping. Awards will be presented midway through the band performances.

Eight new short films from around the world with live scores. Films and bands: La Pescadora by Somer Bingham, Stamenigma by Centvry, Into Modern Times by Eliza and the Organix, Mrs. Mokemoke by the Grasping Straws, Fade to Black by OJ and the Yams, Tetregrammaton by Brent Butler, Black Light by the Nervous, and The Secret to Eternal Love by Cedric Wilson. Judges Corey Deckler, Jesse Alick, Tracy Sayre, Chris Carr, and Jamal. Three amazing musical showcases with No Surrender, OJ in the Yams, and Centvry. DJs: Diego Del Sol and DJ Lokash. Most Film Festivals charge you per screening or for a huge weekend pass: We throw the party in one night so everyone gets to party together on one glorious night.

The Well

272 Meserole Street, between Bushwick and Waterbury, Brooklyn

7p doors, 8p music and film, $10-20

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Brooklynsilent.com

Also on THURSDAY *****

Hartstop

Music by Pecas, Mary Vision, Cupid Youth, Marcos Rene, What Cheer? Brigade , and Turqouiz Noiz. Food by Brooklyn Kitchen, stick n pokes by Grace, visuals by Rita Jiménez, tarot readings by Crystal, ceramics by Helen Anstis, and creations by Lily Colette.

Rubulad

DM for exact address, Brooklyn

L train to Jefferson station

8p-1a; $8-10

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hartstopbk.com

Also on THURSDAY *****

Rule of 7x7: September Edition

Seven writers, seven rules, seven new plays. Each round of Rule of 7x7, seven playwrights are selected. Each writer makes up a rule. Each writer pens a new 10-minute play following all seven rules. These new plays are produced and presented for two evenings only. September's writers: Charlotte Ahlin, Kev Berry, Shara Feit, Megan Chan Meinero, Natalie Rich and Max Reinhardsen, Colin Waitt, and Joshua Young.

The Tank

312 West 36th Street, first floor, Manhattan

$15 includes one free beer

thetanknyc.org/calendar-1/ruleof7x7sept5

Also on THURSDAY *****

Empathy Machine Interactivity Lab

In this discussion-based workshop, participants are prompted to imagine a more empathetic human-computer relationship. Pittsburgh-based dance duo slowdanger will begin by sharing theory and selected readings that informed the conception of empathy machine, their latest performance work: Sharmi Basu’s Decolonizing Sound, Jaron Lanier’s You are Not a Gadget, and Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto. ProjectileObjects and Char Stiles will then walk participants through their processes of utilizing artificial intelligence and video editing software to build applications for light and responsive technology systems. The lab will conclude with participants being invited to play with the interactive variables of the LED light ring that is is both character and landscape within empathy machine’s world. This workshop is for anyone interested in how the human-digital relationship will evolve.

Segal Theatre

365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan

3-4:30p; $free with RSVP

corytamler]at]gmail.com

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 *****

Altered Perceptions

Altered Perceptions is a soberdelic event. It's a low-cost event featuring a hypnogogic light (Pandora star), Miracle berry tablets (with assorted foods and fruits), and chance connections where you can socialize and meet other into the same experience based events that you are. Take a chance to step closer to your friends or complete strangers in this series of intimate relationship games.

This event is held at an alcohol alternative venue. There will be coffee, tea, kava, CBD, cafe food, and snacks available to buy. Several side stations will be set up around the venue to challenge and excite the senses. Come by yourself or with a group. This will be a great opportunity to have fun and connect with people.

Caffeine Underground

447 Central Avenue, Brooklyn

6-9p, please arrive by 8p to ensure time to complete all activities; $15

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