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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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LYDIA LUNCH DUST & SHADOWS | Live at Meow Wolf November 6th @ 7pm | Santa Fe, NM

SSB PRESENTS No Wave icon LYDIA LUNCH at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe to perform DUST & SHADOWS, a multimedia performance of otherworldly textures, images, and sound set to themes which deal lyrically with war, violence, surveillance and survival. Click here to get your tickets now! only $15 Dust and Shadows, a live word-based performance that utilizes video-video…

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SSB AWAY | Jasmine Hirst| Artist-in-Residence

Jasmine has been a practicing and exhibiting artist since 1981, and now works and lives in New York City. Her work is polyvalent in approach, including artist-run collectives, long-running collaborations with Penny Arcade and Lydia Lunch, photography, design and filmmaking.

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LITERARY INTERLUDE |With Authors BETT WILLIAMS & ARTURO VIDICH | August 23, 7-9 pm

Join SSB for a cocktail and Literary Interlude with local author BETT WILLIAMS (The Wrestling Party and Girl Walking Backwards) and a preview of SSB Artist-in-Residence ARTURO VIDICH’S novel in progress, STAGE FALL at Santa Fe Spirits Tasting Room (308 Read t., Santa Fe). BETT WILLIAMS Author of GIRL WALKING BACKWARDS and THE WRESTLING PARTY is based in New…

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NOTES FROM SSB AWAY ARTIST IN RESIDENCE ARTURO VIDICH

With my time almost up at beautiful RANCHO MILAGROS I am happy to have made significant progress on my novel. It’s taken me three rewrites of the first draft to get it where it is now, the most fun revision of all: number four, in which I unhitch the story from narrative chronology. Productive times….

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2016: RACHEL LEVITSKY SELECTED AS THE FIRST SSB AWAY ARTIST IN TUSCANY, ITALY

Writer Rachel Levitsky is the founder of the Belladonna Series, promoting feminist avant-garde poetics. Levitsky’s hybrid poetries and prose utilize politics, humor and abstraction to map the structural reality of everyday life. She is also playing with and pushing against the constrained form of the English language sentence. In 1999, Rachel started Belladonna Series in…

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LYDIA LUNCH AT THE ROXY HOTEL | Huffington Post Article by Christopher Lee Nutter

Lydia Lunch is stirring things up at the Roxy Hotel with her underground salon: “Lydia Lunch’s Underground Salon: Sexy Stories From New York City’s Torrid Underground to the Roxy Hotel’s subterranean lounge The Django in Tribeca July 11th and 26th, with a possible encore through the summer. Lunch will be reliving her own torrid past with…

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SSB AWAY | Arturo Vidich | Artist-in-Residence

  SSB is proud to present Artist/Writer Arturo Vidich as the first SSB Away Artist in Residence at our PLAZA BLANCA location in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Vidich will be in New Mexico throughout July and August to work on his first novel, Stage Fall, as well as its screenplay and storyboard for feature animation. Stage Fall is a…

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Things Were Different Then

December 1, 2025
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A Laboratory for Experimentation, Venice was a cultural stew of innovators and risk takers.

SSB Celebrates 50 Years

September 20, 2025
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SSB Celebrates 50 Years with an Oral History of the 70s Art Scene in LA

A Sonic Architecture of Experimental Performance and Sound

January 2, 2025
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As an Igbo-American sound and video artist, kelechi’s work recalibrates, dismantles, and animates the conventions of performance spaces, culminating in amplifies it, doubles, trebles it.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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