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< back							February 16-22 > Monday Feb 16, 8pm, $10 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fundraiser For over half a century, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has funded research into a cure, raised awareness and provided vital patients services for victims of blood cancers. Last winter, Rebecca Lopez-Howes and friends took on the challenge of training for the NYC Triathlon with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's ‘Team in Training’. Now they’re gearing up for 2009! Please join us to help raise money for these super-duper folks! http://pages.teamintraining.org/nyc/anttry09/rlopezhowes Buy tickets here! Tuesday, Feb 17 Closed for Private Party -- The Happy Corp! www.thehappycorp.com > Wednesday, Feb 18, 8pm, $7 Punch Puppets! ~A Galapagos Art Space Resident Artist!~ PUNCH puppet slam is back in 2009 with a spectacular line-up of weird, bizarre and potentially scary acts! DRAMA OF WORKS / EXPLODING PUPPET PRODUCTIONS present the world premiere of "Cluckapella" - witness a farmer's unorthodox egg-producing tactics involving fifties doo-wop and his most talented chickens... CAROLE SIMMS D'AGOSTINO whips out a peacock marionette that can really strut its stuff... SERRA HIRSCH brings out a piece she created at Charleville called "Grandpa Jack" - a hilarious old cod with a few tricks up his sleeve... MOOKY CORNISH and XSTINE COOK have sent along their amazingly hilarious and gorey puppet video "Dead Boyfriends" - that damn Pandora, when will she ever learn... NOAH APPLE presents an amazing cranky shadow piece he traveled around Spain and Holland with. Don't let the Europeans have all the fun! PLUS much, much more!!! Buy tickets here! > Thursday, February 19, 8pm, $5 Panda Transport & Edison Woods plus Br00t Rosé French-American duet, Panda Transport (top image) uses toys, theremins and sibling rivalry to create ameri-pean style songs. Come, and find out what exactly that means. We’re already in love. Pandatransport.com Edison Woods (bottom image) A brilliant mélange of eerie tones mixed with upbeat percussion and whimsical strings. The ensemble - which includes cello, reeds, guitar, piano, bass, drums and honey sweet, haunting vocals - has been traveling the stages from New York to Spain since 2000. We love Edison Woods. You should see them. http://www.edisonwoods.net http://www.myspace.com/edisonwoods Opening Act: Br00t Rosé What do you get when you combine a heavy metal drummer and a classical percussionist? Br00t Rosé. They're as charming as a bottle of champagne with just a hint of brootal. Their performance is bubbly… it's sparkling… it's brootal. It's Br00t Rosé. Buy tickets here! > Friday, February 20, 7-9pm Opening reception Katja Loher's Videotellurium Motion II The exhibition runs February 21-March 21. Galapagos Art Space resident Artist Katja Loher has created “Videotellurium" - a grand, human scale sculptural representation of a solar system, to be installed in March, in Beijing, China. "Videotellerium" is made from weather balloon "Videoplanets" and their orbiting video projectors that suggest satellites or moons The "Videoplanets" and their moons orbit a sun located in the centre of the room, at different speeds and in different directions. http://www.katjaloher.com/videotellurium.htm Exhibition viewings by appointment: 347-283-2073. > Friday, February 20, 10pm, $10 JigSaw Soul & Miss Angelina Part of a 4 day international Couch Crash festival This event brings together NYC's creatives, freaks, fashionistas, absurdist's and world traveling people of intrigue. Live Performances by: Jigsaw Soul "Aural Cinematography is Dancing In Your Head." Jigsaw Soul is a uniquely soulful multimedia indie band that incorporates live, original, synchronized video and 4 creative modern dancers. This is their anticipated 2nd album's US release and will have copies available. The first 50 people through the door get a first run copy! Miss Angelina A group of lovelies with catchy, harmonized melodies and sassy raps that you'll find yourself singing along to. With their New School style and flare, the lead has been called the Gwen Stefani of Hip Hop. http://www.missangelina.com/ Buy tickets here! > Sunday, Feb 22, 12pm, FREE Natural Selection: Play reading series John Patrick Bray is a PhD in Theatre student at Louisiana State University, having earned an MFA in Playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., an Actors' Equity Membership Candidate, and a published playwright. A number of his works have been produced Off-Off Broadway. He lives in the Deep South with his wife, Danielle, and their son, Daniel Patrick.