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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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The Look Book - photos of Pyramid Club book release party attendees

“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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We Started a Nightclub - front cover

“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.

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Mariel Roberts Sunder Premiere

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)

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SSB Away artist Lisa Mezzacappa

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.

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SSB Away - Lisa Mezzacappa - photo by Tim Rowe

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.

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Sola Bamis - Dream

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

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Sola Bamis, summer 2023 SSB Away resident

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.

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HARVEST DINNER | Northern Youth Project

October 11, 2016
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An Annual Benefit | Supporting the Dreams of Northern New Mexico Teens Saturday, November 5th, 2016 At the Joe Ferran Gym in the Pueblo de Abiquiu Doors open at 5:30 / Dinner served at 6:00pm Adults $15.00 / Kids $5.00 Celebrate the bounty with a delicious dinner made with ingredients from our heritage garden, as…

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Lydia Lunch and Umar

LYDIA LUNCH and UMAR BIN HASSAN | NO WAVE OUT | With Don Babatunde, Tim Dahl, Shaun Kelly, and Weasel Walter

October 11, 2016
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SSB PRESENTS Lydia Lunch and Umar Bin Hassan |  NO WAVE OUT Joe’s Pub | November 2 and 3, 2016 | 9:30 PM |  Tickets $20 Here is a sneak peak of whats to come in November. Don’t miss it! Click here to get your tickets now! Lydia Lunch has defined the underground music and art scene for…

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SSB AWAY | ARTHUR KELL | Artist-in-Residence

October 11, 2016
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New York based Composer and Bassist ARTUR KELL is SSB’s next Artist-in-Residence in New Mexico. Kell will be performing with artist Quintan Ana Wikswo in Madrid, NM and in Santa Fe, NM during his stay. Stay tuned for more details about the performances. ABOUT ARTHUR KELL Arthur Kell (bassist, composer) is one of the most…

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LYDIA LUNCH DUST & SHADOWS | Live at Meow Wolf November 6th @ 7pm | Santa Fe, NM

October 11, 2016
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SSB PRESENTS No Wave icon LYDIA LUNCH at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe to perform DUST & SHADOWS, a multimedia performance of otherworldly textures, images, and sound set to themes which deal lyrically with war, violence, surveillance and survival. Click here to get your tickets now! only $15 Dust and Shadows, a live word-based performance that utilizes video-video…

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SSB AWAY | Jasmine Hirst| Artist-in-Residence

September 5, 2016
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Jasmine has been a practicing and exhibiting artist since 1981, and now works and lives in New York City. Her work is polyvalent in approach, including artist-run collectives, long-running collaborations with Penny Arcade and Lydia Lunch, photography, design and filmmaking.

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LITERARY INTERLUDE |With Authors BETT WILLIAMS & ARTURO VIDICH | August 23, 7-9 pm

August 15, 2016
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Join SSB for a cocktail and Literary Interlude with local author BETT WILLIAMS (The Wrestling Party and Girl Walking Backwards) and a preview of SSB Artist-in-Residence ARTURO VIDICH’S novel in progress, STAGE FALL at Santa Fe Spirits Tasting Room (308 Read t., Santa Fe). BETT WILLIAMS Author of GIRL WALKING BACKWARDS and THE WRESTLING PARTY is based in New…

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NOTES FROM SSB AWAY ARTIST IN RESIDENCE ARTURO VIDICH

August 1, 2016
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With my time almost up at beautiful RANCHO MILAGROS I am happy to have made significant progress on my novel. It’s taken me three rewrites of the first draft to get it where it is now, the most fun revision of all: number four, in which I unhitch the story from narrative chronology. Productive times….

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2016: RACHEL LEVITSKY SELECTED AS THE FIRST SSB AWAY ARTIST IN TUSCANY, ITALY

August 1, 2016
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Writer Rachel Levitsky is the founder of the Belladonna Series, promoting feminist avant-garde poetics. Levitsky’s hybrid poetries and prose utilize politics, humor and abstraction to map the structural reality of everyday life. She is also playing with and pushing against the constrained form of the English language sentence. In 1999, Rachel started Belladonna Series in…

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LYDIA LUNCH AT THE ROXY HOTEL | Huffington Post Article by Christopher Lee Nutter

July 5, 2016
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Lydia Lunch is stirring things up at the Roxy Hotel with her underground salon: “Lydia Lunch’s Underground Salon: Sexy Stories From New York City’s Torrid Underground to the Roxy Hotel’s subterranean lounge The Django in Tribeca July 11th and 26th, with a possible encore through the summer. Lunch will be reliving her own torrid past with…

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SSB AWAY | Arturo Vidich | Artist-in-Residence

June 8, 2016
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  SSB is proud to present Artist/Writer Arturo Vidich as the first SSB Away Artist in Residence at our PLAZA BLANCA location in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Vidich will be in New Mexico throughout July and August to work on his first novel, Stage Fall, as well as its screenplay and storyboard for feature animation. Stage Fall is a…

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