1.17 7:30pm Pay-What-You-Can

Earl Dax's Art Jam

Former Hey Willpower! Backup Dancer
MOST HOLY TRINITY Makes Williamsburg Debut

ART JAM is a monthly performance salon curated and hosted by Earl Dax. Each month artists from a variety of disciplines showcase their work in a casual environment peopled with friends, fellow artists, and an attentive audience. ART JAM works to present a mix of emerging and established artists that have a queer sensibility and has emerged as a supportive environment for the presentation of works-in-progress.

The January edition of Earl Dax's monthly ART JAM presents a broad spectrum of queer female performance punctuated by the perversely delightful burlesque of the legendary Tigger. From singer/ songwriter Athena Reich to performance artist k8 Hardy to the electro-pop stylings of Most Holy Trinity, these diverse performers all create work that is informed by a progressive world-view.

k8 HARDY (top pic) is a co-editor of the annual, collectively created art journal LTTR. With her co-editors she has curated a number of LTTR events at the Kitchen and elsewhere. She frequently collaborates with Wynne Greenwood (Tracy + the Plastics), and is known for her own iconoclastic performances. k8 was one of the opening acts for the recent Fischer Spooner concert at Irving Plaza on Halloween.

ATHENA REICH - www.athenareich.com - combines a dramatic 4-octave range voice with theatrical piano and guitar arrangements. Think Aimee Mann, Diamanda Galas, and Laurie Anderson with a cabaret twist. Her sensitive treatment of social issues has attracted a cult following in queer, activist, and artistic circuits. She performs over 150 shows a year and has opened for Jim Carrey and Sarah McLaughlin. Athena has released 4 CDs to date. Her latest recording, ?Stories from the Road?, is a live intimate album featuring songs about touring, heartbreak and scary imaginary monsters breathing outside KOA tents in Midwestern states.

TIGGER (bottom pic) - Actor, go-go dancer, and performer, Tigger has performed in classic and original plays at La MaMa, PS 122, the Ohio Theatre, the Knitting Factory, Theatre for the New City, 78th Street Theatre Lab, HERE, Central Park, galleries, and elsewhere Tigger started erotic dancing in Penny Arcade's Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!, which toured through Europe and Australia, and returned to Vienna?s WienerFest Wochen with Penny Arcade as an actor, dancer, and contributing writer. A regular performer with The Va Va Voom Room, Fez and Show World, Tigger has collaborated with Tiny Mythic, performed in Coney Island?s ?Burlesque at the Beach,? at Spy, Shine, P.S. 122, KGB, The Slipper Room, and is a recurring guest performer at Bombshell! shows, The Marquee/The Slide, Galapagos, and Le Scandal. One of the original performers in Red Vixen Burlesque at Flamingo East, Tigger has also performed throughout the U.S. at the Henry Fonda Theatre, Hollywood; The Shim Sham Club, New Orleans; The Five Spot, Philadelphia; Talkhouse, the Hamptons to name a few..

MOST HOLY TRINITY - www.myspace.com/themostholytrinity - got her start in music as a backup dancer for Hey Willpower!. Recently relocated to Brooklyn, Trinity has branched out on her own recording a number of highly infectious pop songs that had the crowd dancing at her recent debut at Lit Lounge.

1.18 7pm $7

Born on the Bayou: a Hurricane Katrina Benefit for Hands on USA

Featuring:
-the leaders (www.leadersdownloadcenter.com)
-the lonesome doves (www.myspace.com/thelonesomedoves)
-the goddamn rattlesnake (www.myspace.com/thegoddamnrattlesnake)
+ special guests

Plus raffles and hand silkscreened posters!

1.18 10pm $6

Aarktica + Silent Movie

Aarktica: "Meditative, erecting dense noise superstructures around serene loops of guitar. There were hints of South Asian music with the drone of harmonium and vocal lines suggesting the modes of ragas or qawwali. These were urban, not pastoral meditations; one song, with a rhythm defined by bursts of static, was dedicated to the man who designed the lights of Times
Square, as Jon DeRosa sang, 'city planning is anatomy/ in your blood electricity.'" - Jon Pareles, New York Times
www.aarktica.net

Silent Movie: A new Brooklyn trio composing restrained, tense instrumental pieces. This is what Low, Jesus & Mary Chain and The Cure would sound like if they got together and shut up.
www.myspace.com/silentmoviemusic

DJ Brian Mc (of Dependency) between bands.

1.21 8pm $15

EAST MEETS WEST:
With John Moran and His Neighbor Soari
Plus a Live appearance from Philip Glass!

'In collaboration with The Ontological Theater' and 'The Japan Society'
Galapagos Art Space presents a new monthly series of contemporary Asian and Western music, dance and performance.

Hosted by 'JOHN MORAN...and his neighbor, SAORI
with special guests:
PHILIP GLASS (top picture)
(Performing in Person)
YOSHIKO CHUMA and ELLIOTT SHARP
(The School of Hard Knocks 2006)
BANAUE MICLAT
(Sings an Aria from 'The Manson Family')
&
BANANA, BAG AND BODICE
(a special guests of 'The Ontological Theater')

John Moran...and his neighbor, Saori (bottom picture) have been known by publications like 'TimeOut, as one of the more progressive and powerful acts on the avant garde scene the last years, and each month they present guest artists from a wide range of Asian and Western styles ...traditional to the avantgarde.

'East Meet West' also establishes an interesting new relationships for its co-presenters: Galapagos Art Space and Manhattan's 'Ontoilogical Theater' - best known for having been home to many of Richard Foreman's works. Each month, both the Ontological Theater and The Japan Society offer an act of performance to the series at Galapagos.

Composer, author, performer JOHN MORAN has often been referred to by publications like TimeOut NY as, "...one of the most important figures in the avant garde scene." The New York Times has written, "Moran is one of the leading vangards of American music and theater." He has generally been known as the protege of composer Philip Glass, having been discovered by Mr. Glass at a young age. In 2000, Glass was quoted as saying, "I am convinced that there is no more
important composer working today, than John Moran. His works have been so advanced as to be considered revolutionary."

Productions of Moran's works - a true hybrid of music, theater and dance - have featured performers such as Uma Thurman, Julia Stiles, Allen Ginsberg, Iggy Pop in their leading roles. these productions often being directed and designed by Moran himself, at venues like Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, American Repertory Theater at Harvard, as well as a host of venues across
America and Europe. Many of these works also belong to the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, in New York City.

1.21 10pm $8

Uncomun

A hit monthly party at Galapagos.

Music. Dance. Film. Hip hop. Rock. Art. Party.