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Blunderland
Brooklyn's crazed evening psychedelic excess, Blunderland, is doing a week of shows at the House of Yes to celebrate our forthcoming tour of Australia. Blunderland is a call to arms for a life lived at the limits of your imagination, an insistence on expression, a seduction, and a heady dose of more than the legal amount of mischief. With special guests each night.
Tonight: Mrs. Smith, Rebbecca Havemeyer, arealist S&M angels Raven, Cheeky Lane, Tigger, and adorable shock act Punch Boy and Makita Spins, along with the best of NYC burlesque, cabaret, circus, clown, and performance art. Come get weird with us.
House of Yes
2 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn
7p; $20-45
Continues through SUNDAY
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Also on FRIDAY *****
Ride or Die: Oregon Trail Live
Will you survive or die of dysentery? Grab yer favorite oxen, 14 pounds of jerky, and yer best flannel -- we’re heading to the Oregon Trail. We’ve taken your favorite educational computer game, slapped some facts on it, and turned it into a real life drinking game. Hosts Kylie Holloway and Michael Salgarolo are gonna caulk up your wagon and float it down the river of history -- and gird yer loins, ‘cos one of y’all’s gettin’ dysentery. Sign up together or be placed in a team of four-six players when you arrive -- this is an interactive game, where wagon trains will compete to see who makes it to Oregon alive to win an awesome prize.
Caveat
21 A Clinton Street, Manhattan
9p doors, 9:30p show; $20
contact]at]caveat.nyc
Also on FRIDAY *****
Mystic Cornucopia
Join us for a pre-Thanksgiving party and gathering, presented by the Brooklyn Psychedelic Society. Featuring performances by Nate and Hila, DJ KG, and Getty Rene. You can also embark on a soberdelic trip (yes, legal, sober tripping) with Altered Perceptions, get some new shade on your head with Inshadycompany, get your tarot read, and donate some socks to NYC's homeless through Knock Knock Give a Sock. Everyone who brings socks to donate will get an extra-special little show of thanks. This party will be a cornucopia full of non-corny community, dance, sober tripping (yes), revelry, and urban-shamanistic altered states induced intellectually, spiritually, and rhythmically.
Rubulad
RSVP for exact Bushwick address, Brooklyn
9p-3a; $20 advance, $25 door
rubulad]at]outlook.com
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Also on FRIDAY *****
It’s Not What You Think: Holdtight
Nancy Manocherian’s the Cell presents, Holdtight’s latest work-in-progress showing, It’s Not What You Think. Inspired by the Cell’s artist-in-residence, Mikel Glass', exhibition, It’s Not What You Think, asks the audience to question how they consume art, and in doing so, pushes the viewer to reconsider their initial impressions to not only see, but feel what lies beneath the surface. Holdtight is an experimental dance theater company founded in 2016 by Gwendolyn Gussman that uses a multi-disciplinary approach to creating, teaching, and performing experiential and dynamic contemporary art. Holdtight productions have psychologically driven processes that, in performance, blend the narrative with abstract and lean into paradox of the human condition. With Gwendolyn Gussman, Nico Gonzales, Mara Driscoll, and Emily Haughton.
The Cell
338 West 23rd Street, Manhattan
6p and 8:30p; $25
Continues SATURDAY
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 XXXXX
Blunderland
Brooklyn's crazed evening psychedelic excess Blunderland is doing a week of shows at the House of Yes to celebrate our forthcoming tour of Australia. Blunderland is a call to arms for a life lived at the limits of your imagination, an insistence on expression, a seduction, and a heady dose of more than the legal amount of mischief. With special guests each night.
Tonight: International Chanteuse Lady Rizo, Gigi Bon Bon, the Maine Attraction, and adorable Shock Act Punch Boy and Makita Spins along with the best of NYC burlesque, cabaret, circus, clown, and performance art. Come get weird with us.
House of Yes
2 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn
7p; $20-45
Continues through SUNDAY
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Also on SATURDAY *****
Bushwick Jazz Gala
Are you looking to sell your soul to the devil for a night to listen to some sweet, soothing jazz? Nestled in the heart of Bushwick, local art gallery Unruly Collective, a bedrock of underground Brooklyn culture, will host the first-ever Bushwick Jazz Gala.
Showcasing talented, local jazz and funk musicians, come dressed in your finest outfit to enjoy some wine and cheese and allow the sultry sounds of the saxophone, jazz guitar, and piano to caress your ears.
Surround yourself with the beautiful, enriching culture wholly unique to New York City. Performances by Rosdeli, Jacob Aviner's Mugs Quintet, Rose Stoller, and Owen Chen. Formal-wear dress code strongly encouraged. Drinks will be available for sale, so no BYOB please.
Unruly Collective
200 Cooper Street, Brooklyn
8p; $10 advance, $12 door
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Also on SATURDAY *****
Open Studio at the Cell
Featuring the artwork of Mikel Glass, Nancy Manocherian’s the Cell will expose Glass’ explosive body of work to the public in tandem with interactive performance artists, theatremakers, and choreographers. An interactive and relational piece created in response to the art of Mikel Glass. The piece facilitates engagement with Glass’ work and investigates themes of home, collections, and childlike wonder and curiosity. This experimental work was created by Allie Marotta and Fernando Moya Delgado with performances by Charlie Akre, Allie Marotta, Jackie Meissner, Fernando Moya Delgado, and Sydney Tucker.
The Cell Theatre
338 West 23rd Street, Manhattan
1-6p; $free
Continues through November 30
Also on SATURDAY *****
Female Joker
Female Joker. A four-hour emotional journey into a theatrical production as Jadda the Clown transforms into multiple characters. She transforms her face and costume as part of the act, altering states between human and a living sculpture. She uses simple tools such as paint, glitter, silly string, makeup, plastic wrap, balloons, paper, and collaged imagery, and turns herself into intense sculptural creations that live breathe as art. She makes puppets and toys as her backup villains. There is nothing like what Jadda is doing in NY as she takes performance art into a deep trance like level as if you’re watching a very vivid dream.
The Joker has always been a male role, but it’s time for a female to take the part. This is the Joker in 4D staring at you and changing your perspective on theater, performance, and live art. Don’t worry, Jadda’s Joker isn’t about mental health or the crisis of America. Or is it? This is fun night in a chair staring at wonderful transformative art.
Jadda works side by side with her partner Michael Alan. They bring you back to a time period in NY when art was raw, mom and pop, and down a side street. Art in America has changed. This is a refreshing non-snobby view into grassroots do-it-yourself creative freedom. Watch at home from your tele, share it with your children, or come over to their wacky studio and make a new friend. Wake up the next day with a tarantula in your pocket.
If you’re tired of fancy art ass kissing this would be for you. If you’re looking for a posh experience then this is not for you. This is an authentic experience. Help keep NYC punk going. Feel free to donate as we are not sponsored, represented, and we run only by ourselves and Pirate the Cat but she requires special treats. Meow.
Michael Alan’s Private Bushwick Studio
RSVP for address, Brooklyn
8p-midnight; $20-40
michaelalanart.com/thelivinginstallation
Also on SATURDAY *****
The Last Waltz
Hartstop presents a performance of the Band's legendary farewell concert, The Last Waltz, to benefit okayso.co, a new app developing to provide advice from mental health professionals. Music by house band JR Atkins, Katie Battistoni, Jamie Frey, Lily Gist, Jesse Katz, Lauren Levy, Ethan Meyer, Sean Spada, and John Weingarten. With special guests Paige Johnson-Brown, Amanda Jun, Chadbourne Oliver, Holly Overton Music, Brook Pridemore, Lily Reszi Rothman, Jed Smith, Joanna Sternberg, Michael Sternberg, and Joe Wakeman. With special opener and DJ Corey Landis and the Finer Things and NYK.
Hart and Broadway, direct message for exact address, Brooklyn
7p-2a; $10 cash or venmo
]at]hartstopbk
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Also on SATURDAY *****
Fale University
Fale University has been shitting upon academia ever since 2016, when two overly educated comedians Brittany Carney and Naomi Karavani decided to put their degrees and their comedic powers together to create one stupid show. It's a mock university lecture series or a comedy show with academic pretensions, whatever makes sense to you. After becoming a hit with the nerds in Washington, DC, we decided to bring the show to New York City for the first time.
Halyard's Bar
406 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn
8:30-10:30p; $10
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Also on SATURDAY *****
Ravens and Crows
Pay tribute to true gods of the sky as you bird watch transformational performance art that will trick you with a flurry to soar off your seats and stay for the after party to shake your tail feathers.
Talon bar is a unique space with a separate basement bar and dance floor ideal for performances. Goth vibes with food and drinks to delight the senses. Come dressed to impress with your darkest black attire (feathers encouraged). Fly sounds by DJ E- Mood. Raven and Crow performers Lina Azalea Dahbour, Ilona Bito, Mariya Dimov, Goddess of Georgia, Le Na, Corvette, Viruscella, Alexi Transparent, Chelsea Karpeh, Jaclyn Atkinson, Alan ZB, and Amazing Amy. Door goddess Yuting Jin.
Cult 23 brings together artists, goddesses, gods, aliens, queens, kings together to realize potential, experiment, connect with area community. We are a collective of radical creators. Follow us on our Facebook page for more info, event photos, future events.
Talon Bar
220 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn
8p tarot, 9p performances; $10
facebook.com/cult23nyc
Also on SATURDAY *****
Rub
Now wave and graphic activism. Rub moves between two axes: the DIY strategies of the now-wave and graphic activism. The now-wave houses artists who produce counterculture that challenges the boundaries of Nationhood, and address issues that cross-cultural boundaries. This movement wrestles with the notion of collective vs individual identities, and uses a praxis of art and activism that moves beyond the white box. The second axis is experimentation and reinvention through graphic activism. The Rub exhibition centers pieces with a special sensitivity for printed matter and publishing as practice, that makes visible under-represented and under-appreciated identities. Themes that are included are: the experience of POC and QPOC; therapeutic art practices that deal with abuse, depression, and trauma; using graphic languages in the processes of resistance; and always returning to the personal as political. RUB features a selection of multidisciplinary practitioners and artists who
use these two axes as raw materials.
Flux Factory
39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, Queens
Continues through December 15
7:30p-midnight; $free
RUB]at]fluxfactory.org
fluxfactory.org
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 XXXXX
Blunderland
Brooklyn's crazed evening psychedelic excess Blunderland is doing a week of shows at the House of Yes to celebrate our forthcoming tour of Australia. Blunderland is a call to arms for a life lived at the limits of your imagination, an insistence on expression, a seduction, and a heady dose of more than the legal amount of mischief. With special guests each night.
Tonight: Craige the Wolf (Rob Roth), and Lord of Beef, along with the best of NYC burlesque, cabaret, circus, clown, and performance art. Come get weird with us.
House of Yes
2 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn
7p; $20-45
Continues through SUNDAY
blunderlandfabulosa.eventbrite.com
Also on SUNDAY *****
The Space Between Us
The space between us is not an empty one, but a place of transmission, airwaves constantly reverberating.
In this exhibition, the immense potential of airwaves will be explored, particularly in their capacity to convey a boundless range of messages and meanings. Love and care move the same as hate and violence, expressed in motions of the eyes, lips or tongue.
Communication can be a vehicle for connection or isolation, community or hostility. This range of messages is infinitely affecting and determined entirely by the choices of individual actors; ultimately, we make the space between us.
Greenehouse Arts
347 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn
6-8p, with poetry and music to follow; $?
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Also on SUNDAY *****
Cartoon Carnival No. 85: Felix at 100
It's time to sit back and relax for another batch of archival 16mm (no digital) animated cartoons from the 1920s to the 1930s, straight from the Stathes Archives to that secret silver screen in Bushwick.
Come on out for a once-in-a-lifetime special event: Felix the Cat's 100th birthday. Almost immediately following the funny feline's November 1919 debut, Felix would soon become arguably the first animated cartoon to achieve worldwide superstardom. Whether it was Felix's cute, sleek, design, or his well-developed and emotive personality, or the variety of relatable (and fantastic!) adventures within which he often found himself, some or all of these qualities have made him one of the most beloved and respected characters in animation history. Our 85th Cartoon Carnival pays homage to Felix with a variety of his rare original 1920s animated adventures, aided by a couple of sound and color 1930s appearances. To help balance out the program and to demonstrate the character's influence on his contemporaries, a few selections from other series -- such as Krazy Kat and Julius the Cat -- will be included in the lineup. Whether you're an animation history enthusiast or simply a cat lov
er, we urge you to join us for this special occasion with plenty of friends and family in tow.
389 Melrose Street, Brooklyn
3p and 6p programs; $10
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tommyjose.com
Also on SUNDAY *****
Chelsea Music Hall presents the world premiere of:
A Cocktail Party Social Experiment
Wil Petre, a NYC-based cocktail guru and a performer best known for his off-Broadway work (including Third Rail Projects’ The Grand Paradise) invites the audience to join A Cocktail Party Social Experiment, an unconventional hybrid of immersive theater, story slam, and an evening of boozy voyeurism.
Chelsea Music Hall
407 West 15th Street, Manhattan
5p doors, 6p show; $15
acocktailpartygame.com
wilpetre.com
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 XXXXX
Queers N Peers
Queers N Peers showcases LGBTQ artists and allies in different performance disciplines, from music to drag and beyond, and raises money for two organizations per month centered on queer and trans rights and socioeconomic justice. Hosted by Cassidy Dawn Graves and Comrade Barbie.
This month's show features comedy by Charlie Bardey and Julia Shiplett, music by Gabby Borges and José Rivera Jr., and burlesque by Daisy Desnuda and Juno Stardust.
Pine Box Rock Shop
12 Grattan Street, Brooklyn
9p show; $5-10
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 XXXXX
Glamdammit
Glamdammit celebrates 15 years of fist-pumping rock 'n' roll, punk anthems, and glittery glam rock along with live performances and a cavalcade of stars. With Michael T and the Vanities, the Rats of New York, and Tight Lipped. DJ set by Twig the Wonderkid. Hosted by nightlife icon Astro Erle.
The Bowery Electric
327 Bowery, Manhattan
8p doors; $10
21 and over
glamdammit.com
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