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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Book Talk at CUNY
Panelists include John Jesurun, Kestutis Nakas, Peter Littlefield, Samoa Moriki, Julie Hair, and John Kelly. Moderated by Frank Hentschker
“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.
A “modern-day gothic New York City noise band that foreshadowed our current reality of social distancing and isolation,” Isolation Society answers some of the #FiftyQuestions.
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#SSBAWAY is pleased to welcome artists-in-residence Kestutis and Peanuts to Plaza Blanca.
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Steve Jansen SSB AWAY Artist in Residence answers a few of SSB’s #FiftyQuestions.
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Steve Jansen, coming soon to SSB AWAY, is a sound maker who worked exclusively as a writer and visual artist for more than a decade.
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Having exhibited internationally as a media artist, Lisa Kori restarts her career after a long illness with Unseen, a new 3-track single.
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Howl! Happening is closed until further notice and Izhar’s exhibition will be postponed. Be good to yourself, those you love, and all of us. Practice generosity and love.
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We’re pleased to host two unique artists on Plaza Blanca this Summer. Both offer an opportunity for Some Serious Business to reconnect and collaborate with artists we worked with in the past who continue to comment on the human condition.
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Interruption is stress; it hinders creativity. For a writer in the midst of deep thought, it’s a shock to the system. You have to go back and start over. Ideas get lost.
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Some Serious Business and Howl! Happening are pleased to present “Izhar Patkin: The Making of The Black Paintings.”
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On a 40-acre working olive oil farm just outside the tiny hamlet of Petroio, SSB and artist Carey Maxon offer artists a tranquil sanctuary.
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