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
Windy City residents take a deep dive into the birth of New York’s iconic Pyramid Cocktail Lounge
SAVE THE UGLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, features music, raffles, murals, a clothing swap, games, and lots of other wacky, experimental art activities and people.
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.
July 25th Zoom Webinar: “We Started a Nightclub” with Susan Martin and Kestutis Nakas moderated by Yael Friedman and hosted by Village Preservation.
The finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s audio opera set in chatrooms at the dawn of the internet airs on June 1st.
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.
Panelists include John Jesurun, Kestutis Nakas, Peter Littlefield, Samoa Moriki, Julie Hair, and John Kelly. Moderated by Frank Hentschker
More than 500 people came to the HA/HA opening and 350 more to the sold out Homecoming show celebrating “We Started a Nightclub.”
The sold out show featured performances and readings by talented pioneers from the Pyramid’s heyday.
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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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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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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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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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 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 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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Share seeds and stories with Seed Broadcast (www.seadbroadcast.org). Plant and Frito Pie sale to benefit the Northern Youth Project Garden located behind the Rising Moon Gallery, Highway 84, in Abiquiu. more info available on facebook
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Filmmaker Alexandra Henry talks to Nicole Disser of BEDFORD+BOWERY about her documentary STREET HEROINES. Tonight: A Pop-Up Show for Street Heroines, a New History of Women Street Artists
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