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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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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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Kenny Fries - In the Province of the Gods

KENNY FRIES AWARDED #SSBAWAY 2020 TUSCANY RESIDENCY

July 21, 2020
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Some Serious Business has selected author Kenny Fries for a month-long residency in the fall of 2020 at Podere Malabiccia, a 40-acre working olive-oil farm just outside the tiny hamlet of Petroio, Tuscany.

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Dead Cat Bounce - new album from Isolation Society

ISOLATION SOCIETY ANSWERS A FEW OF OUR #FIFTYQUESTIONS

July 16, 2020
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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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Kestutis Nakas - photo by John W. Sisson Jr.

Kestutis Nakas Answers A Lot of our #FiftyQuestions

July 14, 2020
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#SSBAWAY is pleased to welcome artists-in-residence Kestutis and Peanuts to Plaza Blanca.

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Steve Jansen answers SSB Fifty Questions

Steve Jansen Answers a Few of our #FiftyQuestions

June 5, 2020
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Steve Jansen SSB AWAY Artist in Residence answers a few of SSB’s #FiftyQuestions.

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recording artist Steve Jansen comes to SSB Away

SSB Presents Steve Jansen: A Square Peg in a Round Hole

May 13, 2020
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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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musician Lisa Kori

LISA KORI RELEASES “UNSEEN”

April 21, 2020
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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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Izhar Patkin show postponed until further notice

IZHAR PATKIN THE MAKING OF THE BLACK PAINTINGS POSTPONED

March 13, 2020
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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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SSB Presents - Linda Mary Montano & Kestutis Nakas

SSB AWAY ANNOUNCES ABIQUIU ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE LINDA MARY MONTANO AND KESTUTIS NAKAS

March 7, 2020
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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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Michie Gleason: A Small Boat on a Becalmed Sea

February 7, 2020
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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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Izhak Patkin's Black Paintings

IZHAR PATKIN: The Making of The Black Paintings

February 2, 2020
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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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