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.
After presenting at our most recent Comrade Truebridge Santa Fe, SSB asked Marya a few questions. SSB: How do you describe your field and what you do, and how does it interconnect? MEJ: I am a performing artist. I create works of theatre that come from my dreams and curiosities. I work in politics for a living but even…
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Above: Stephen Sprouse, photo by Mark Sink Love Among the Ruins A Short History of 56 Bleecker Gallery and Late 80s NY Presented by Some Serious Business and Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project September 9–October 6, 2017 Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame Struck them tame; And that glory and…
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HOWL! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project Gallery | Performance Space | Archive “Paying homage to both the old and new, the gallery can sometimes feel like a heady party…the shows also prove that the East Village isn’t dead.” —Michael Musto, The New York Times, March 9, 2016 Since its inception in March 2015, Some Serious Business…
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Please support this incredible duo so they can continue making the essential work they produce. CLILCK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION About Dignidad Rebelde Dignidad Rebelde is a graphic arts collaboration between Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes. We believe that art can be an empowering reflection of community struggles, dreams and visions. Following the principles…
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Hey Santa Fe Comrades, SSB will be hosting another Comrade Truebridge on February 21st.Our upcoming presenters are Marya Errin Jones and Warren Montoya. Please let us know if you are interested and we will add you to our mailing list, contact Matthew Contos at matthew@someseriousbusiness.org if you would like to join us. For our NYC comrades, stay…
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At first blush, Lydia Lunch and Umar Bin Hassan make for strange bedfellows. She’s the matriarch of the short-lived no wave scene, having scandalized and negated punk-era Manhattan with the jarring dissonance and minimalist caterwaul of her late-’70s band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. In a few eventful years, she evolved from an adolescent malcontent…
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Some Serious Business generously afforded me the opportunity to escape the city and to ponder life in the desert for two weeks. I am so grateful to Susan Martin, Quintan Ana Wikswo and Matthew Contos for choosing me to participate in SSB Away and their gracious welcome. I also thank Alex for allowing me to…
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Hello from Rachel Levitsky at Podere Mallabiccia, Petroio, Italy, SSB’s first Tuscany Residency I choose this one above of the many photos I’ve take to begin to tell about the wonders of the casina at Malabiccia. I don’t like describing what is better being seen or as I wanted to write on a post on Instagram (I’m at…
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THE ARTIST ALWAYS COMES FIRST Your gift supports audacious, intrepid, and visionary artists’ works DONATE NOW Some Serious Business has a 40-year legacy as a unique and vital force that incubates emergent expressions in the arts, germinates new works and ideas, and presents diverse projects that traverse performance, literature, theater, dance, visual art, moving…
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NONAGON FOR THE DEAD WHO ARE RISING Quintan Ana Wikswo and Arthur Kell premiere their new work October 22nd, 9pm | Radical Abacus, 1226 Calle de Comercio, Santa Fe NM Free and open to the public Quintan Ana Wikswo (writer, visual artist, performer) and Arthur Kell (composer, upright bassist) premiere their new work “Nonagon for the Dead who are…
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