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SSB Away artist Amy Hills at home

I Write Songs in Bubbles—They Just Come To Me Whole

Amy answers some of our #FiftyQuestions and shares her music and journey from broke, single, pregnant, east village musician to Southern, suburban wife and mother of three with a new album.

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Elae Moss answers some of SSB’s Fifty Questions.

Relational Aesthetics and Speculative Spaces

Thought-leader Elae Moss speculates on human, institutional and ecological systems through the iteration of open-source strategies for social change.

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Carey Maxon - The Recruit

But Seriously

SSB launches But Seriously—a benefit print series featuring artists that use humor to shine a light on the cultural, political, and emotional temper of our times.

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Deborah Wolk in warrior two on the mesa, Abiquiu.

Joy and the Synaptic Connection

Yoga teacher Deborah Wolk and artist Kim Reinhardt investigate the relationships between the structure of the human nervous system and the energetic systems of the natural environment in this collaborative SSB Away residency and book project.

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Allison Jae Evans 2022 exhibit - The Vessel

SSB Away Artist Allison Jae Evans’ Exhibition – The Vessel

SSB is proud to showcase a new exhibition by Evans, who was 2018’s SSB Away artist in residence in Tuscany, Italy for 3 weeks.

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SSB Away Artist Mariel Roberts on Cello

SSB Away Composer Mariel Roberts Heads to Maui

Composer, performer, and improvisor Mariel Roberts embarks upon an SSB Away artist residency in Hawaii where she’ll work on a new solo piano piece commissioned by New York based pianist Conor Hanick.

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SSB's first performance - Arrowcatcher - December 12, 1976

How Alternative Art Spaces Changed Los Angeles in the 1970s

We’re pleased to share this article in Hyperallergic about the influence of Alternative Spaces in 1970s LA. Founded at the height of the Conceptual 70s and LA Punk, in 3 short years, SSB presented close to 50 performances and events with wide-ranging creators—many at the earliest stages of their careers.

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Paul Pinto + Kameron Neal - Whiteness Part One

Paul Pinto + Kameron Neal “Whiteness: Part One”

SSB is proud to support the immersive music video cantata “Whiteness: Part One” by Paul Pinto + Kameron Neal.

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Delbert Anderson Trio and the Spirit Coalescent Performers

SSB Away Artist Delbert Anderson and Trio Premiere “The Spirit Coalescent”

SSB is delighted to support the Premiere in New Mexico of The Spirit Coalescent, a multi-dimensional performance featuring indigenous artists.

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Hilary Lorenz Moth Migration Project at Denver Botanic Garden

Hilary Lorenz’s Cross-Pollination: The Moth Migration Project

On View at the Denver Botanical Garden January 15 – April 3, 2022. Hilary Lorenz’s immersive installations highlight the capacity of artmaking to forge powerful and unexpected connections between people.

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kelechi agwuncha - photo by louie perea

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.

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Site Santa Fe photo by Brad Trone

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 festival banner

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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Ann Magnuson as Tammy Faye Bakker

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 CYNY

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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