Kenny Fries Reads “Disability Can Save Your Life”
SSB is proud to present a reading by Kenny Fries—“Disability Can Save Your Life”—a timely poetic expression of the wisdom and experience of living a “disabled” life.
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KENNY FRIES AWARDED #SSBAWAY 2020 TUSCANY RESIDENCY
Some Serious Business has selected author Kenny Fries for a month-long residency in the fall of 2020 at Podere Malabiccia, a 40-acre working olive-oil farm just outside the tiny hamlet of Petroio, Tuscany.
ISOLATION SOCIETY ANSWERS A FEW OF OUR #FIFTYQUESTIONS
A “modern-day gothic New York City noise band that foreshadowed our current reality of social distancing and isolation,” Isolation Society answers some of the #FiftyQuestions.
Kestutis Nakas Answers A Lot of our #FiftyQuestions
#SSBAWAY is pleased to welcome artists-in-residence Kestutis and Peanuts to Plaza Blanca.
Steve Jansen Answers a Few of our #FiftyQuestions
Steve Jansen SSB AWAY Artist in Residence answers a few of SSB’s #FiftyQuestions.
SSB Presents Steve Jansen: A Square Peg in a Round Hole
Steve Jansen, coming soon to SSB AWAY, is a sound maker who worked exclusively as a writer and visual artist for more than a decade.
LISA KORI RELEASES “UNSEEN”
Having exhibited internationally as a media artist, Lisa Kori restarts her career after a long illness with Unseen, a new 3-track single.
IZHAR PATKIN THE MAKING OF THE BLACK PAINTINGS POSTPONED
Howl! Happening is closed until further notice and Izhar’s exhibition will be postponed. Be good to yourself, those you love, and all of us. Practice generosity and love.
SSB AWAY ANNOUNCES ABIQUIU ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE LINDA MARY MONTANO AND KESTUTIS NAKAS
We’re pleased to host two unique artists on Plaza Blanca this Summer. Both offer an opportunity for Some Serious Business to reconnect and collaborate with artists we worked with in the past who continue to comment on the human condition.
Michie Gleason: A Small Boat on a Becalmed Sea
Interruption is stress; it hinders creativity. For a writer in the midst of deep thought, it’s a shock to the system. You have to go back and start over. Ideas get lost.
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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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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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, features music, raffles, murals, a clothing swap, games, and lots of other wacky, experimental art activities and people.
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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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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 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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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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Panelists include John Jesurun, Kestutis Nakas, Peter Littlefield, Samoa Moriki, Julie Hair, and John Kelly. Moderated by Frank Hentschker
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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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