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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”

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

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

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 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

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

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

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.”

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Karload of Klowns

A PYRAMID HOMECOMING at Baker Falls

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

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Group shot from the book release party for "We Started a Nightclub"

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.

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Epilogue for Our Future Ends: Justin Ebrahemi Interviews Clement Hil Goldberg

February 16, 2018
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Clement Hil Goldberg’s, Our Future Ends is a multidisciplinary satire about near-extinct lemurs and the long-lost continent of Lemuria. Our Future Ends connects the threat of wildlife extinction to the “wild life.” Visually stunning—with animation, music, and electrifying performances—this imagined queer prehistory links species loss with contemporary cultural shifts in a metaphoric and poetic live…

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SOME PEOPLE EVEN SAID “PAINTING WAS DEAD”: A Bob & Bob Testimonial

January 11, 2018
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All I remember is Elizabeth repeating over and over again: “they’re so funny, they’re so funny.” Not all of us were into “funny.” But, as the name implies SSB was always at little irreverent, so respecting each other and trusting the artist, if one of us—SSB founders, Nancy Drew, Elizabeth Freeman or me—was excited, then…

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#FiftyQuestions: Linda Alterwitz

December 21, 2017
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33- What do you suspect is your most powerful artistic blessing? Or blessing in general? I have no fear when it comes to creating art. Not even a fear of failure, because I don’t believe that failure exists in art. If something doesn’t work the way I had envisioned, I see it as an opportunity…

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NOT THE SAME OLD SHIT: #SSB HOSTS A REUNION IN L.A.

December 19, 2017
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DARRYL LORENZO WELLINGTON’S LIFE’S PRISONERS

October 26, 2017
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Artists are always in the forefront of social and political innovation. In a world gone mad with commodification and greed, they are generous and unafraid—inspiring and goading us to have agency in the world. One such artist is Darryl Lorenzo Wellington. SSB is proud to highlight a poem from Darryl’s new book of poetry, Life’s Prisoners.

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Love Among the Ruins Closing Party: Performances by John Kelly & Joseph Keckler

September 27, 2017
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Some Serious Business and Howl! Happening are pleased to celebrate Love Among the Ruins with a culminating performance by two masterful performers: John Kelly and Joseph Keckler. Kelly performs excerpts from Time No Line, a solo performance work presented as a live memoir. Keckler will perform three of his original arias and songs, invoking themes of…

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author Kenny Fries

#FiftyQuestions with Kenny Fries

September 19, 2017
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Kenny Fries received the Creative Capital literature grant for his new book, In the Province of the Gods.  He is the author of Body, Remember:  A Memoir, and The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.

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PILGRIMS’ PROGRESS by Ariana Reines from Love Among the Ruins Catalog

September 17, 2017
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In SAFEWAY I heard a whining | Song.  Dill fills the air with longing | What was the Twentieth Century | Appetite.  I grew up wondering would I | Ever fuck like them, the dead.  They left | Behind the lingering sense of an ethos:

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FLOATING AMONG THE BETTER SORT OF MODERN ANGELS, An Introduction to Love Among the Ruins Exhibition and Catalog

September 5, 2017
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  I hate to begin with the big D—death—but there it is. My co-curator Bill Stelling’s brilliant title for the exhibition, taken from Robert Browning’s poem “Love Among the Ruins”, aptly describes the main themes—love and mortality—that were the impetus for this show.   As I lost so many friends so suddenly and unexpectedly in…

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PENNY ARCADE’S PERFORMANCE OF THE ERUDITE, MADDENING, EXTRAORDINARY DAME MARGO HOWARD-HOWARD

September 5, 2017
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SSB and Howl! Happening are delighted to present a snippet from Penny’s performance of Margo Howard-Howard below. The full performance, as well as a video of the infamous performance of Jackie Curtis’ Glamor, Glory, and Gold at 56 Bleecker Gallery will be featured in Love Among the Ruins.   Performance artist Penny Arcade’s work has…

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