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< back							Sept 21-27, 2009 Monday, September 21st Doors: 6:30 / Show: 7:00pm Tickets $15 presale / $20 at the door Delicious and Dancing: A Benefit for KRISTI SPESSARD DANCE PROJECTS BUY TICKETS HERE! This Southern Style Cabaret dishes up a delightful lineup of sultry dance, music à la mode and seasoned food to fulfill your appetite for fun and delight your libido too! Our ingredients for enjoyment: 2 cups of heightened moments and luscious dance by Patrick Shaw, Maya Seidel, Lutin Tanner, Kendra Ross and Kristi Spessard A pinch of Chef Jonathan Forgash 2 ounces of live music by Astrograss A hand full of exceptional spinning by DJ $mall ¢hange 1 plate full of some of New York Cities finest Southern bites Mix a group of friends and loved ones and fill Galapagos Art Space. Pour on some refreshments. Preheat your mood and feet to bluegrass inspired music by Astrograss. Bring the fun to a rapid boil with Gone Eatin’ – a dance tale about a young man’s sexual awakening over the course of a Southern meal. Simmer and dance to the sounds of DJ $mall ¢hange. And pour on the fun while you help raise funds for KRISTI SPESSARD DANCE PROJECT’S 2009 /10 Season. For more information, visit www.KristiSpessard.com Tuesday, September 22nd Doors - 6PM \| Start - 7PM $5 Session 3: SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE CAREERS Presented by Galapagos Art Space + BUY TICKETS HERE! Career Camp brings together industry-leading thinkers and next wave ideas in order to stimulate discussion, sharpen skills, and illuminate what comes next. Speakers are Jerri Chou of All Day buffet and Jessi Arrington & Creighton Merson of WORKSHOP. Special 2-for-1 "Happy Camper" cocktails form 6 - 7PM & Free haircuts by a Galapagos resident hairstylist throughout the evening! Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8 PM $10.00 Ben Neill – Night Science CD release party BUY TICKETS HERE! Featuring performances by: Ben Neill (Thirsty Ear) with video by Bill Jones Peter Gordon (Love of Life Orchestra) with video by Kit Fitzgerald DJ Dave Q (Dub War) In celebration of his new CD Night Science on Thirsty Ear Recordings, Ben Neill will perform music from the recording on his mutantrumpet with live interactive video by his visual collaborator Bill Jones. Joining Neill on the bill will be saxophonist/composer Peter Gordon with video by Kit Fitzgerald, and DJ Dave Q, the founder of New York City’s acclaimed dubstep event Dub War. The evening will be a compelling mix of live music, electronica and live video. Neill has been described as a “creative composer, genius performer and inventor of the mutantrumpet” (Time Out NY) whose music “masterfully blurs the lines between electronic dance music and jazz sounds” (Billboard). His new CD combines dubstep beats and basslines with the trippy, otherworldly sonic explorations of the mutantrumpet, which was redesigned in 2008 during a residency at the STEIM studios in Amsterdam. Bill Jones has created a body of interactive video to accompany the music which uses luminous black and white images of film noir as its inspiration. In Neill and Jones’ performance the dynamics and notes of Neill’s playing animate the moving images, creating an improvised narrative that is directly tied to the music. Peter Gordon is a seminal figure in the New York music community. He first gained attention with his Love of Life Orchestra, which helped define the fusion of experimental composition with punk and jazz infused dance music. Gordon has worked with some of the most influential artists and musicians of the past decades, including Laurie Anderson, Arthur Russell, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Foreman, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, and David Van Tieghem. His collaborations with video-artist Kit Fitzgerald at venues such as DTW, La Mama and BAM/Next Wave Festival have pioneered live video performance. Gordon is currently working on a new LOLO album for DFA Records. Dave Q is the founder and resident of the US's original dubstep party, Dub War NYC. He has played at London's seminal DMZ night, at Smog and Pure Filth in LA, and many of the leading dubstep events around the US. Along with fellow Dub War residents Joe Nice and MC Juakali, DQ has been at the forefront of breaking the dubstep sound in the US and plays a selection of the most sought after dubplates from the scene's top producers, as well has his own productions. He has shared the bill with artists including Skream, Digital Mystikz, Loefah, Kode 9, N-Type, and most of the leading DJ's in the scene in London -- and he continues to push the boundaries of the music by constantly experimenting and challenging audiences with new sounds. Thursday, September 24th Doors: 7:30pm/Show: 8:00pm $15.00 General Admission $25.00 VIP reserved seats $150.00 Producer's Circle The Mermaids of New York Benefit Ball BUY TICKETS HERE! Dance on water as the cast and crew of the documentary Mermaids of New York surround you with fantastical sights and sounds of these urban undersea beauties in order to raise finishing funds for their ongoing project. Featuring performances by Lavalier, Shelly "The Singing Siren" Watson, Legs Malone, The Lady Aye, and more! Plus, a mermaid picture booth & many more surprises Friday, September 25th Doors: 7:00pm/Show: 8:00pm Tix: $15.00 New Amsterdam Records & Galapagos present: Archipelago BUY TICKETS HERE! For the opening event of Archipelago, violist Nadia Sirota returns to Galapagos Art Space for the first time since her triumphant album release concert this past May. Nadia will reprise highlights from her recent album, first things first and will premiere a number of new works, including Future Shock for solo viola and electronics by New Amsterdam co-director William Brittelle. Percussion quartet Line C3 (Haruka Fujii, John Ostrowski, Eric Poland, and Chris Thompson) will join Nadia for the world premiere of a new work for viola and percussion quartet by Marcos Balter, whose works Ut and Live Water were included on first things first. Line C3 will also perform some of the quartet's established standards, including Nico Muhly's Ta & Clap, David T. Little's Speak Softly, and Carl Schimmel's Serving Size 4 Bunnies. Nadia will be premiering a new piece by acclaimed composer/singer Our Lady J. www.ourladyj.com Nadia Sirota has been hailed by Time Out New York as one of New York's "brightest, busiest players," and for having "enery, fluidity and an ear for electronic coloration" by the New York Times. She is best known for her unique interpretations of new scores and for commissioning and premiering works by some of the most talented composers of her generation. Her debut solo album first things first, which was released on New Amsterdam Records in May of 2009, has received glowing praise from critics all around. Richard Scheinin of the San Jose Mercury New compared listening to the album to "a stroll through an exotic garden, with new species grabbing the eye with each go-around." Mia Clarke at Time Out Chicago called the album "excellent," and praised Sirota's ability to "create a connection that's imaginative and often thrilling" between the "many distinctive composers' voices." Nadia received her bachelor's and master's degrees in viola performance from The Juilliard School, and regularly plays with groups such as yMusic, the Wordless Music Orchestra and ACME as well as bands such as Grizzly Bear, Ratatat, Stars of the Lid and My Brightest Diamond. She also co-hosts Overnight Music on WNYC. Formed in 2003, Line C3 is a collection of percussionists committed to sharing the best of percussion repertoire in the most entertaining way possible. The group convenes in many different settings for a diverse array of projects, and is known for combining an uncompromising standard of performance with an easygoing emphasis on fun. For this performance, Line C3 is Haruka Fujii, John Ostrowski, Eric Poland, and Chris Thompson. Please visit www.linec3.com for more. Friday, September 25 @ 10:30PM (also October 16 and November 20) Doors: 10pm Tickets: $10.00 in advance/$15.00 at the door Cabaret Magyar BUY TICKETS HERE!* A three-part series of fin-de-siècle cabarets with 21st-century spirit. New York and Hungarian artists, writers, and musicians take on a variety of Hungarian subjects you never knew were Hungarian: from Harry Houdini and Zsa Zsa Gabor to Cicciolina, Transylvania, and Ex-Lax. Foot juggling, mustache animations, Communist-era Hungarian commercials— everything you crave in a cabaret! September 25 performance features: Mike Albo * Todd Almond * The Drunkard's Wife * Nina Frenkel/Stefany Anne Golberg * Tanya Gagné * Hungarian commercials * Nick Jones * Neal Medlyn * Metrofolk * Tigger http://extremelyhungary.org/cabaret.php