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weekly events jan 23-29


this week: monday - tuesday - wednesday - thursday - friday - saturday - sunday

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1.23 8pm backroom $6

Ocularis presents
"The Year of Living Vicariously"

Galapagos's award-winning film series presents Amir Muhammad's film.

Amir Muhammad’s outraged and absurdist film-essays are at the vanguard of a new wave in Malaysian cinema." - The Believer

Following other screenings in Rotterdam, the west coast, and elsewhere, Ocularis is proud to begin its new season with the New York premiere of Amir Muhammad's The Year of Living Vicariously. Shot in 2004 by a Malaysian filmmaker in the midst of Indonesia's first direct presidential elections, this split-screen documentary chronicles the making of Riri Riza’s Gie, a landmark biopic about an Indonesian Chinese student activist during the politically turbulent 1960s. The actors, crew and extras are interviewed as a microcosm to find out more about contemporary Indonesia. Subjects are identified by name rather than job title, so an extra can get more camera-time than the top-billed actor. And against the hectic backdrop of the film set, Muhammad emerges with a complex portrait of a nation and its politics. Underscored at times with humor and popular mythology, The Year of Living Vicariously affirms his status as one of the most dynamic new figures in world cinema.

Visit www.ocularis.net for more information.

1.23 8pm frontroom free

Smut

The New York Times writes about SMUT, "It's art that should carry a Parental Advisory label, with some of New York City's best writers and performers."

This week, host Desiree Burch introduces Devin P. Quinn, Pat Candaras, and performance art star Taylor Mac (pictured).

1.23 10pm free

Monday Night Burlesque:
Darlinda's Polyester Players Present BEARLESQUE!

Awaken your inner animal from hibernation, strip your fur and join our visit with the Biggest Burlesque Animals of New York City! BEARLESQUE warms up the winter with a burlesque show inspired by our favorite animals!

Hosted by DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA
and starring
SCOTTY THE BLUE BUNNY
AMBER RAY
PAIGE STEVENSON

And a possible Surprise Appearance from
BAMBI THE MERMAID



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1.24 10pm frontroom free

Miscellaneous with Joe Praino

Comedian Joe Praino (HappyYoungPeople.com) presents a variety of stand-up, sketches and films. Just like your sleep away camp talent show only the performers are on harder drugs. Miscellaneous is to comedy shows what Arby's is to fast-food.

1.24 10pm backroom FREE

Brooklyn Comedy Company

BCCO spotlights industry renowned standup comedians plus notable up and comers every week, with no drink minimum or cover charge. It's diverse and witty stand-up, served straight-up, and we're proud to have it here at Galapagos!





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1.25 8pm FREE

Darmstadt New Music Series
presents
Robert Ashley's Classic Indeterminate Masterpiece:
"IN MEMORIAM CRAZY HORSE" (1963)

featuring Alex Waterman - cello, Zach Layton - electronics

This piece is scored for 20 (or more) wind, string or other sustaining instruments in five (or more) groups of four (or more) instruments per group. The score is notated in the form of a circle with 64 numbered radii. There is a juxtaposition throughout the piece of even and odd, regular and irregular, with the durations of sound and silence given in the notation -- especially of different "states of ensemble [e.g., as noisy/dissonant as possible, as pure/harmonious as possible]" (Ashley). An
orchestra of "organic groups" is created: "The purpose is, perhaps, not just a new 'freedom' for the individual performer" (a performer chooses the sounds he/she makes) "but a contemporary 'freedom-obligation' that can bring the performer back into the orchestra with a more imaginative role"; the sound is contributed to the overall ensemble sound-density of that performer's particular instrumental group. The resultant massed orchestral sound is one of a constantly fascinating field of extremes of sound in motion.

1.25 10pm FREE

Get Ready Party!

The best of 50s 60s rock-and-roll ska and R&B! With DJ Nuve Nueve and DJ Jukebox Jodi.

Party long into the night with this eclectic crew.






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1.26 8pm FREE

Va Va China

Va Va China straddles the line between electronica, noise, and nu jazz with its all improvised shows, breakbeats, and electronically generated ambience. The core lineup consists of bass, drums, alto sax, and electronics but often includes a wide array of guests from other musicians to video artists.

http://www.myspace.com/vavachina

1.26 10pm FREE

CelebrateBrazil:::Music

 Brazilian Summer Session in the cold Williamsburg winter.
Come dance all night to Samba and Afro-Brazilian beats
DJ Greg Caz (pictured) on the turntables for a memorable set of shaking music.
Stop by for a drink with a slice of Brazilian Summer!

DJ Greg Caz has spent 10 years spinning around New York venues for DJ Greg Caz, but he goes way back, doing a radio show in Haiti when he was 12 years old. You can spot him now Wednesdays at Nublu and Sundays at Black Betty, religiously! He's been at BB for three years, and going on two at Nublu. "Both are strictly dedicated to Brazilian music, real Brazilian music, not house with a percussion sample pretending to be Brazilian like you hear in a lot of places. It's a labor of love, Brazilian music has enlightened and stimulated me since childhood when my dad would buy all these records, some of which I still play out every week!" Greg Casseus isn't tone deaf to anything other than Brazilian genres. He listens and collects music from all genres. You should be on the lookout for this man, cause he is bound to make your evening an enjoyable one. Whether you look to sit and have a drink, or shake your coconuts on the dance floor. For more information, visit www.brazilianbeatbrooklyn.com


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1.27 8pm $10 in advance/ $12 at the door

Clay McLeod Chapman:
BAR FLIES

The inaugural show of Galapagos's new theater series: EVOLVE! Click here for more info!

written by Clay McLeod Chapman
performances by Karl Allen, Clay McLeod Chapman, Hanna Cheek, Dave Gueriera, and Sean Twomey

Welcome to the bar of your nightmares. If their was a dive in purgatory, this would be it. Every sad sack in this place has a story to tell, and each and every one of them is one sip away from spilling their guts. Or cutting their feet off. Or picking up chicks to join the Marines. Or toasting to ghosts. Or burying their next-door neighbor in the backyard. Or exposing their incestuous lesbian love affair with their little sister. Or hand-picking which drunkard to get in a car accident with on the road back home.

Welcome to BAR FLIES. Five new gothic tales written by Clay McLeod Chapman, creator of the Pumpkin Pie Show. “Bar Flies” will be presented in Galapagos’s back room among its patrons, our band, noise, smoke, drink, sweat, pickup lines, etc. It will consist of five stories spoken by five actors mixing with music from the band. You will not know the players until they speak, possibly from the bar stool next to you. You can always order another drink. The more alcohol you put down, the better the show is going to get... You could possibly even go home with one of the performers.

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1.27 10pm $7

TubaJoe's Birthday Set with Tuba Love

Imagine Miles Davis and Lita Ford having a tuba-wielding love child. Raised on jazz, trained in classical and branded by rock, TubaJoe (aka Joe Exley) is not your typical oom-pah "tubist," Bent on dubby improvisation but rooted in the "family business of rock" (his sister is the bass player with Nashville Pussy) Joe plugs in his tuba and leads his large band TUBA LOVE through grooves that make "riffing" feel cool again.

www.tubajoe.com


1.27 Latenite FREE

VJ/DJ DANCE PARTY

It's a weekly dance party event featuring multi-screen video projection and resident DJ BOYRACER spinning the best DISCO PUNK BRIT POP 80's 90's & 00's -- guaranteed to make you move!




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1.28 11pm FREE

The Looseness

Straight from the depths of ALPHABET CITY, the famous L.E.S. LOOSENESS party will be crossing the East River via the Williamsburg Bridge and unleashing its wild times on Brooklyn.

With DJ Sergio Varga, Eddie Bernard, and the Ruckus Crew. Get down all night!

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1.29 8pm

Kitchen Sink Music
The Second Movement @ Galapagos

www.kitchensinkmusic.com

QNG-Quartet New Generation (www.quartetnewgeneration.com) - pictured -Hailed by the New York Times as "four recorder virtuosos..." this young quartet from Germany is unlike anything you've ever heard. Performing on upwards of fifty recorders and focusing on contemporary music, their theatrical performances have been seen across Europe and North America.

Dave Deporis- (www.myspace.com/davedeporis)
-Dave Deporis writes beautiful and vivid songs and sings them with passion and conviction. Dave's music is "a treasure, buried away from deserving ears, from unknowing ears, but it merits, if not desires, an audience. A voice that demands attention with its presence."

The Undisputed Heavyweights (www.betterthanelvis.com)
-The Boston Inquirer describes the Heavyweights as "Frank Sinatra meets the Doors in a way only Stevie Wonder can dream of." They dominate. Come see for yourself.


1.29 10pm FREE

SID & BUDDY KARAOKE
Take life a little less seriously. Sing a song. Be a rock star.

It's ridiculous over the top sloppy rock n roll Karaoke that nobody has any business doing late on a Sunday night. And yet, we do it here.