[G&S]: Your NYC & online events 8.14-20

 
From: "Gemini & Scorpio" <gs@PROTECTED>
Subject: [G&S]: Your NYC & online events 8.14-20
Date: August 14th 2020

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/// NYC & ONLINE EVENTS: 8.14-8.20 ///
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WEEKEND + WEEK
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DANCE: 39th Annual Battery Dance Festival
https://batterydance.org/battery-dance-festival
New York’s longest running free public dance festival is going virtual this year. Enjoy 52 performances, 28 premieres, and workshops presented by performers from 19 countries. (Fri-Thu, this week and next, Battery Dance You Tube, see site for details, FREE)


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FRIDAY
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VARIETY: Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner: Art, Justice, and Pasta
https://www.facebook.com/pg/GreatSmallWorks/videos
A Benefit for Building Stories. This exciting array of over a dozen new activist performances, puppet shows, films, and music (as well as a live cooking show revealing the secrets of Great Small Works' beloved spaghetti recipe) will feature performers including: Great Small Works, BoxCutter Collective, The People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street, Chinese Theatre Works, the Inanimate Intimists, Nathan Leigh, Raphael Mishler, Marina Tsaplina, Jacqueline Wade, and chef Roberto Rossi. (Great Small Works facebook page, 7:30pm, FREE-$sugg don)


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SATURDAY
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FEST: Flame Con: Open Flame
https://www.flamecon.org
Flame Con is the world’s largest queer comic con. Featuring a two-day comics, arts and entertainment expo, showcasing creators and special guests from all corners of the LGBTQ fandom. The event kicks off with remarks from President and Vice President of Geeks OUT, Nic Gitau & Teri Yoshiuchi followed by stand up from Kweendom Comedy. Afterparty to follow. (Online, see site for details, 12pm-8pm EST, FREE)

FILM: 16mm Cartoon Carnival featuring Betty Boop
http://www.cartoonsonfilm.info/online-carnival.html
Venture deep into our archival offerings for over two hours of fun-filled classics and rarities. We're covering all periods of classic 1930s Betty: her salacious early adventures with sidekicks Bimbo and Koko the Clown; appearances with famous 1930s musicians in live action and rotoscoped form; and fun times with Betty's later cast: the inventive Grampy, her nephew Junior, and Betty's beloved little dog Pudgy. (online, link with purchase, 3pm-7pm, $10)

FILM/WORD: The Found Footage Festival
http://www.foundfootagefest.com
The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event that showcases footage from videos that were found at garage sales and thrift stores and in warehouses and dumpsters across the country. Curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher take audiences on a guided tour of their latest and greatest VHS finds, providing live commentary and where-are-they-now updates on the people in these videotaped obscurities. Plus the Computer Beach Party Live Rockin Webinar. (Found Footage website, see site for details, 7pm, FREE/$10 webinar)

PARTICIPATORY: Buffy: Fan Trivia Streamed (round 2)
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/buffy-fan-trivia-streamed-round-2-usa-canada-tickets-116536753567?aff=efbevent
Text questions, video questions, and audio questions in a killer ninety minute extravaganza in the comfort of your own home. 40 all new, killer questions that run the gamut of the series. You’ll need two devices - one for the stream, one for the answers. or one computer with two browser windows. There is no setup or apps to install, and easy to play. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and Second Last. (online, link sent 2 hours prior, 9pm, $5.50-$10)


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SUNDAY
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PARTICIPATORY: Homeburn: Playa Beach
https://www.facebook.com/events/314389849609564
Beach trip with "accessories", and photos that make it look like you're at That Thing In The Desert. 1 episode of several throughout the summer echoing the 2020 BM theme: "The Multiverse". (Fort Tilden, Breezy Point, 1pm-6pm, FREE)

MUSIC: Bang on a Can Marathon
https://marathon2020.bangonacan.org
Bang on a Can returns with 6 hours of nonconformist, noncommercial, boundary-smashing music. They’ll kick things off with the singular and extraordinary Wu Man, one of the world’s foremost Pipa players and close off with György Ligeti’s diabolical etude The Devil’s Staircase, performed by piano superstar Jeremy Denk. Don’t miss a rare solo performance by jazz legend Oliver Lake, 11 world premieres commissioned especially for the day, and a bunch more new music superheroes. (Bang on a Can website, 3pm-9pm, FREE/$10 sugg don)


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MONDAY
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WORD: Reclaiming the Imagination: Creativity as a Form of Knowledge
https://www.morbidanatomy.org/morbid-anatomy-products/reclaiming-the-imagination-creativity-as-a-form-of-knowledge-a-live-online-zoom-lecture-with-dr-stephen-asma-author-of-on-monsters
In this lecture Professor Stephen Asma will reclaim the imagination as a mental faculty and embodied source of knowledge. Creativity and imagination are forms of investigation that yield knowledge about our external physical world, our social world, and our internal psychological world. This illustrated lecture will argue for the primacy of a mytho-poetic way of knowing. Professor Asma is author of ten books, including The Evolution of Imagination (Chicago), and On Monsters (Oxford). (Zoom, see site for details, 7pm, $8)


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ONGOING
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THEATER: Ice Factory Festival 2020
http://newohiotheatre.org/icefactory2020.htm
The 27th annual edition of the Obie Award-winning summer festival of new work. Ice Factory is a place where artists can take risks, try out new ideas, and bring their projects to a new level. This summer festival will be live-streamed online for the first time, featuring four new works over four weeks. (thru 8/15, Ohio Theater website, see site for details, Pay-What-You-Will $1-$50)

ART: “And Then…” MFA Visual Narrative 2020 Thesis Exhibition
https://sva.edu/events/and-then-mfa-visual-narrative-2020-thesis-exhibition
MFA Visual Narrative presents its annual thesis exhibition from the MFA Visual Narrative class of 2020. Curated by program faculty members Anelisa Garfunkel and Christina Roussos. (thru 8/31, SVA online, see site for details, FREE)

DJ: Virtually Mister Sunday
https://mistersaturdaynight.com/2020/05/virtually-mister-sunday
stream: https://nowadays.nyc
Clear some space on your roof, find a socially distant spot in the park to set up a speaker, or at least open your window, and get down with the Mister Sunday team. AceMoMa, Aurora Halal, Four Tet, Lakuti, Peach, Powder, Russell E. L. Butler, Shaun J. Wright, Soul Summit and Theo Parrish will join resident DJs Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin. Participate by emailing footage (taken horizontally) of yourself dancing to hello@PROTECTED, so it can be dincorporate into the stream. (thru 9/7, Sun, Nowaday’s website, 5pm-9pm, FREE

THEATER: The 7th Voyageof Egon Tich
https://www.sinkingshipproductions.com/the-7th-voyage-of-egon-tichy
A live-streamed digital theater performance based on The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem. The team behind A Hunger Artist, in collaboration with Theater in Quarantine, returns with an adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s story—set in outer space, performed in a closet in the East Village, and beamed straight to you in whichever room you’re finding yourself stuck in. (Sinking Ship website, FREE/$10)

FILM: Outdoor Cinema at Parklife
http://parklifebk.com
Each Wednesday Parklike will present a different film with trivia. (thru 9/30, Parklife, BK, 7:30pm, FREE)

THEATER: Liars and Believers’ “Macbeth” in serialized form.
https://www.liarsandbelievers.com/show/pandemicplay
LAB presents Shakespeare’s Macbeth in serialized form. Each episode is 5-10 minutes long. New episode posted each week. (LAB website, FREE)

FILM: Rooftop Films’ Brooklyn Drive-in
https://rooftopfilms.com/drivein/brooklyn
Enjoy a diverse collection of films from the comfort of your car, with stereo sound tuned directly through your car’s FM stereo. (thru summer, Brooklyn Army Terminal, 80 58th St, see site for details, $35)

FILM: Rooftop Films’ Queens Drive-in
https://www.queensdrivein.com
Enjoy a diverse collection of films from the comfort of your car, with stereo sound tuned directly through your car’s FM stereo. (thru summer, NYSCI in Flushing Meadows Park, see site for details, $35)

THEATER: Performance for One
http://www.untitledtheater.com/previous-productions/performance-for-one.html
A one-on-one theater performance, now presented live over Skype. The performance is about memory, but even more so, it is about relationship between performer, audience member, and author. What is the responsibility of the audience member, and how is it felt differently when there is only one audience member? Who is the story teller, the author or the performer? What happens to a memory that two people share after one of those people is gone? With a rotating cast of actors, including Elizabeth Chappel, Joshua Coleman, Andrea Gallo, Jan Leslie Harding, Allison Hiroto, Yvonne Roen, and Melissa Rakiro. (Skype, see site for details, FREE)

VARIETY: Cabaret Virale
Show One: https://youtu.be/DICAGh31e4o
Show Two: https://youtu.be/jzb9w_FulWY
Show Three: https://youtu.be/QgEhdse3jUM
Some of the world's finest cabaret artistes come to you from their respective places of isolation, in their night attire, doing their best to self-isolate and to help you through this challenging time, all from the privacy of their respective homes. There is song, there is dance, there is comedy and tragedy aplenty. You can tip the artists by going to www.paypal.me/dustylimits and making your donation there. Every little does in fact help, and all donations will be split equally among the cast. (Youtube, $sugg don)

THEATER: 24 Hr Plays’ Viral Monologues
https://24hourplays.com/viral-monologues
New monologues written, rehearsed, recorded and released on IGTV in 24 hours. (24hoursplays online, see site for details, FREE/sugg don)

MUSIC: Beth Morrison Projects Opera of the Week
https://www.bethmorrisonprojects.org
BMP is keeping the work of their artists out in the world as theaters are shuttered by offering an “Opera of the Week" which will stream on their homepage.

DJ: Bootie Mashup
twitch.com/BOOTIEMASHPUP
Spinning the best mashups in the world ever, Bootie Mashup was launched in San Francisco in 2003, shamelessly mixing and matching pop songs both throwback and current. With its creative theme parties and clever mashup formula, Bootie Mashup has been winning numerous nightlife awards in multiple cities for over 15 years. Its fun, danceable song combinations are the soundtrack for the A.D.D. generation. (twitch, see site for details, FREE)

VIRTUAL TOUR: The Louvre
https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne#tabs
The Louvre offers 3 virtual tours on its site: The Advent of the Artist, Egyptian Antiquities, and Remains of the Louvre’s Moat. (see site for details, FREE)

VIRTUAL TOUR: The Met 360 Project
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/met-360-project
This award-winning series of six short videos invites viewers around the world to virtually visit The Met's art and architecture in a fresh, immersive way. Created using spherical 360° technology, it allows viewers to explore some of the Museum's iconic spaces as never before. (see site for details, FREE)

 


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