Book Talk at CUNY
Panelists include John Jesurun, Kestutis Nakas, Peter Littlefield, Samoa Moriki, Julie Hair, and John Kelly. Moderated by Frank Hentschker
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“WE STARTED A NIGHTCLUB” BOOK EVENTS A VERITABLE LOVE FEST
More than 500 people came to the HA/HA opening and 350 more to the sold out Homecoming show celebrating “We Started a Nightclub.”
A PYRAMID HOMECOMING at Baker Falls
The sold out show featured performances and readings by talented pioneers from the Pyramid’s heyday.
Opening Reception at Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive
In celebration of “We Started A Nightclub,” Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive presents Pyramid Pioneers, an exhibition, reading, and book signing.
“We Started a Nightclub”: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Told by Those Who Lived It
“We Started A Nightclub,” an oral and narrative history of the early days of the club published by SSB and Damiani Books.
World Premiere of Mariel Roberts Sunder in New York
Sunder was commissioned by pianist Conor Hanick, regarded as one of his generation’s most inquisitive interpreters of new music whose “technical refinement, color, crispness and wondrous variety of articulation benefit works by any master.” (New York Times)
Fertile Collaborations
Here, Lisa Mezzacappa answers some of our signature #FiftyQuestions giving readers the opportunity to go more deeply into the artist’s creative process.
SSB Away Resident Lisa Mezzacappa
SSB Away welcomes bassist, composer, producer Lisa Mezzacappa from San Francisco to Casa Kama in Abiquiu. She’ll be taking advantage of the pristine landscape and silence to fine tune her serial audio opera The Electronic Lover.
Sola Bamis
Sola Bamis answers—well almost—all of our #FiftyQuestions, like: What is your current guiding motivation to work and/or express yourself? leaving a blueprint for my daughter’s freedom
SSB Away Welcomes Sola Bamis
SSB AWAY is pleased to welcome Los Angeles-based actor, writer, performance artist, filmmaker, and photographer, SOLA BAMIS who will be in Abiquiu for a two-week artist residency with a special salon performance on Saturday, July 22nd.
A Laboratory for Experimentation, Venice was a cultural stew of innovators and risk takers.
SSB Celebrates 50 Years with an Oral History of the 70s Art Scene in LA
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.
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
Windy City residents take a deep dive into the birth of New York’s iconic Pyramid Cocktail Lounge
SAVE THE UGLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, features music, raffles, murals, a clothing swap, games, and lots of other wacky, experimental art activities and people.
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.
July 25th Zoom Webinar: “We Started a Nightclub” with Susan Martin and Kestutis Nakas moderated by Yael Friedman and hosted by Village Preservation.
The finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s audio opera set in chatrooms at the dawn of the internet airs on June 1st.
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.