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Some Serious Business and Site Santa Fe Present: amplifies it, doubles, trebles it

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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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 CYNY

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

March 30, 2024
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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”: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Told by Those Who Lived It

March 22, 2024
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“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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Edgar Oliver as the archbishop of Riga

Edgar Arthur as the Archbishop of Riga

February 12, 2024
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February 12, 2024
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Three Teens Kill Four performing at the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge

Three Teens Kill Four

February 12, 2024
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the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge felt like One Big Yes

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February 12, 2024
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Pyramid Pioneers at HA/HA

February 12, 2024
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Ethyl’s Tattoo

February 12, 2024
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Philly Abe on the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge

Philly Abe quote

February 12, 2024
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Bobby Bradley

February 11, 2024
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