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SUPPORT THESE ARTISTS |Dignidad Rebelde | Jesus Barraza & Melanie Cervantes

Please support this incredible duo so they can continue making the essential work they produce. CLILCK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION About Dignidad Rebelde Dignidad Rebelde is a graphic arts collaboration between Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes.  We believe that art can be an empowering reflection of community struggles, dreams and visions.  Following the principles…

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COMRADE TRUEBRIDGE | SANTA FE |February 21st, 2017

Hey Santa Fe Comrades, SSB will be hosting another Comrade Truebridge on February 21st.Our upcoming presenters are Marya Errin Jones and Warren Montoya. Please let us know if you are interested and we will add you to our mailing list, contact Matthew Contos at matthew@someseriousbusiness.org if you would like to join us. For our NYC comrades, stay…

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NO WAVE OUT | Jordan N. Mamone

At first blush, Lydia Lunch and Umar Bin Hassan make for strange bedfellows. She’s the matriarch of the short-lived no wave scene, having scandalized and negated punk-era Manhattan with the jarring dissonance and minimalist caterwaul of her late-’70s band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. In a few eventful years, she evolved from an adolescent malcontent…

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SSB AWAY New Mexico | Jasmine Hirst Reflects on her time in Abiquiu

Some Serious Business generously afforded me the opportunity to escape the city and to ponder life in the desert for two weeks. I am so grateful to Susan Martin, Quintan Ana Wikswo and Matthew Contos for choosing me to participate in SSB Away and their gracious welcome. I also thank Alex for allowing me to…

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SSB AWAY ITALY| Rachel Levitsky Reflects on her time in Podere Mallabiccia

  Hello from Rachel Levitsky at Podere Mallabiccia, Petroio, Italy, SSB’s first Tuscany Residency I choose this one above of the many photos I’ve take to begin to tell about the wonders of the casina at Malabiccia. I don’t like describing what is better being seen or as I wanted to write on a post on Instagram (I’m at…

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  THE ARTIST ALWAYS COMES FIRST Your gift supports audacious, intrepid, and visionary artists’ works DONATE NOW Some Serious Business has a 40-year legacy as a unique and vital force that incubates emergent expressions in the arts, germinates new works and ideas, and presents diverse projects that traverse performance, literature, theater, dance, visual art, moving…

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Quintan Wikswo & Arthur Kell | NONAGONE FOR THE DEAD WHO ARE RISING

NONAGON FOR THE DEAD WHO ARE RISING Quintan Ana Wikswo and Arthur Kell premiere their new work October 22nd, 9pm | Radical Abacus, 1226 Calle de Comercio, Santa Fe NM Free and open to the public Quintan Ana Wikswo (writer, visual artist, performer) and Arthur Kell (composer, upright bassist) premiere their new work “Nonagon for the Dead who are…

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HARVEST DINNER | Northern Youth Project

An Annual Benefit | Supporting the Dreams of Northern New Mexico Teens Saturday, November 5th, 2016 At the Joe Ferran Gym in the Pueblo de Abiquiu Doors open at 5:30 / Dinner served at 6:00pm Adults $15.00 / Kids $5.00 Celebrate the bounty with a delicious dinner made with ingredients from our heritage garden, as…

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Lydia Lunch and Umar

LYDIA LUNCH and UMAR BIN HASSAN | NO WAVE OUT | With Don Babatunde, Tim Dahl, Shaun Kelly, and Weasel Walter

SSB PRESENTS Lydia Lunch and Umar Bin Hassan |  NO WAVE OUT Joe’s Pub | November 2 and 3, 2016 | 9:30 PM |  Tickets $20 Here is a sneak peak of whats to come in November. Don’t miss it! Click here to get your tickets now! Lydia Lunch has defined the underground music and art scene for…

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SSB AWAY | ARTHUR KELL | Artist-in-Residence

New York based Composer and Bassist ARTUR KELL is SSB’s next Artist-in-Residence in New Mexico. Kell will be performing with artist Quintan Ana Wikswo in Madrid, NM and in Santa Fe, NM during his stay. Stay tuned for more details about the performances. ABOUT ARTHUR KELL Arthur Kell (bassist, composer) is one of the most…

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Some Serious Business and Site Santa Fe Present: amplifies it, doubles, trebles it

December 10, 2024
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kelechi agwuncha envisions and constructs a new framework for restaging sound artists through public activations—drawing on experimental spatial approaches found in genres like experimental music, disco, punk, and Jamaican dub

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Presentation at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago - We Started a Nightclub

SSB and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Present “We Started a Nightclub”

October 10, 2024
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Windy City residents take a deep dive into the birth of New York’s iconic Pyramid Cocktail Lounge

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Save the Ugly Music Festival

August 8, 2024
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SAVE THE UGLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, features music, raffles, murals, a clothing swap, games, and lots of other wacky, experimental art activities and people.

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Incentivizing Humans to Think More Critically About Our Relationship With the Environment

August 7, 2024
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Whether transforming textile waste into beautiful handmade paper and journals or walking across the US collecting litter and connecting with people and communities, Chauncey Foster, co-founder of We Grow Eco, is a visionary—facilitating interactive science, art, and community programs built upon small, unified actions that lead to habitual, social, and systemic change.

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BOOK TALK: Village Preservation

July 11, 2024
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July 25th Zoom Webinar: “We Started a Nightclub” with Susan Martin and Kestutis Nakas moderated by Yael Friedman and hosted by Village Preservation.

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The Electronic Lover

Finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s “The Electronic Lover” Premieres

May 25, 2024
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The finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s audio opera set in chatrooms at the dawn of the internet airs on June 1st.

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Pyramid People - a podcast by Kestutis Nakas about the Pyramid Cocktail Loung

Pyramid People Podcasts

May 25, 2024
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In honor of the publication of “We Started a Nightclub”: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Told by Those Who Lived It, co-author Kestutis Nakas talks with key players in the book who tell their stories recalling their friends and collaborators and the culture of the East Village in the early 80s.

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Book Talk at CUNY

May 9, 2024
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Panelists include John Jesurun, Kestutis Nakas, Peter Littlefield, Samoa Moriki, Julie Hair, and John Kelly. Moderated by Frank Hentschker

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The Look Book - photos of Pyramid Club book release party attendees

“WE STARTED A NIGHTCLUB” BOOK EVENTS A VERITABLE LOVE FEST

May 8, 2024
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More than 500 people came to the HA/HA opening and 350 more to the sold out Homecoming show celebrating “We Started a Nightclub.”

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A PYRAMID HOMECOMING at Baker Falls

March 31, 2024
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The sold out show featured performances and readings by talented pioneers from the Pyramid’s heyday.

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