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May 18-24
 Sunday, May 17th,
Door - 7pm, Suggested Donation - $25
Dance for a Cause -
Cocktail Reception/Dance Party
Benefit to Benefit Bone Marrow Transplants
Please join us in raising awareness of the need for bone marrow transplants for blood cancer patients. Come out for an evening of dancing with live performances, DJs and other special guests. Co-sponsors Icla Da Silva Foundation will be hosting a bone marrow registry drive to encourage people to be listed on a national registry.
Proceeds from this event will benefit Staten Island resident Melissa Delgado who is sponsored by the National Foundation for Transplants.
Sponsored by:
The Bone Marrow Foundation
The National Foundation for Transplants
The Icla Da Silva Foundation
 Monday, May 18th,
Door - 7pm, Film - 8pm, FREE
Driftless: Stories from Iowa
A documentary by Danny Wilcox Frazier, produced by MediaStorm
Followed by Q&A from Danny Wilcox Frazier and the team from MediaStorm
The tensions of contemporary rural life play out in this film by documentary photographer Danny Wilcox Frazier. Numerous challenges and a shift in our nation’s economy have pushed the youth of rural communities to migrate to the metropolises of America. Those left in the wake of this out-migration continue their lives, seemingly unchanged from the generations that preceded them, and entombed in obscurity. Issues such as he struggle of a family farm to continue, disenfranchised youth, slaughterhouse, migrant labor, and the aged fading from Iowa’s mythical landscape are explored. Through their stories we gain insight to a way of life that is disappearing, a culture that could be lost forever.
For guaranteed seating until 7:30, RSVP to rsvp@mediastorm.org.
 Tuesday, May 19th,
VIP Reception - 6:30pm
Show - 8pm
Issue Project Room's 6th Anniversary Birthday Party and Benefit
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Loosely inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 masterpiece of psychedelic cinema The Holy Mountain, ISSUE Project Room and Galapagos Art Space will collaborate to host a sumptuous event for the senses. Marking ISSUE’s sixth anniversary, the event will be part costume party and part benefit, with raffles, prizes, photobooths, auctions and some wild performances.
The evenings Delights and Highlights:
JG Thirlwell (FOETUS) with Ed Pastorini and Owen Bloedow
Ray Sweeten – live video and performance
Brock Monroe – live visuals (member of Joshua Light Show)
"Straight and Narrow" (1970), Film screening by Tony Conrad with soundtrack by John Cale and Terry Riley
Films by Martha Colburn & Marie Losier
Elysian Fields
MV Carbon
members of Excepter
DJ Fabio from WFMU's "Strength through Failure"
And others TBA
 Wednesday, May 20th,
Door - 7pm, Show - 8pm, $50
East River Commedia Celebration Gala
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After eleven years in the Independent Theater community East River Commedia will host it's first ever Celebration Gala. Come and celebrate a decade of great theater and the artists and patrons who made it possible. Proceeds go to support East River's 2009 season including the undergroundzero festival at PS 122 July 7 - 27. There will be guest performances. music, visual presentations, and an award ceremony honoring the many people whose vision and generosity has paved the way for our success.
Performers include:
Daniel Irizarri
Pinchbottom Burlesque
Ishah Janssen-Faith
Melody Bates
The Jamal Girls
 A Friday Night residency ~
May 22nd,
Door - 7pm, Show - 8pm, $12
New Amsterdam Records
presents
UNDISCOVERED ISLANDS
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The third installation in a series of headliner musical events from some of the brightest stars in the city's blossoming indie classical
community.
8pm: So Percussion
9pm: World Premiere of Sarah Kirkland Snider's Penelope featuring Signal
New York "supergroup" Signal, under the direction of acclaimed conductor Brad Lubman and with Rachel Calloway on vocals and Steven Mackey on electric guitar, gives the world premiere of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s 50-minute song cycle PENELOPE.
So Percussion will open the evening, previewing new pieces by electronic provocateur Dan Deacon, plus original works.
PENELOPE was commissioned by the J. Paul Getty Center and will be released as an album by New Amsterdam Records in late Fall 2009.
http://www.undiscoveredislands.com
https://www.newamsterdamrecords.com/
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