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 9.26
8pm frontroom FREE
SMUT presents
At Least It's Pink and Michelle Newsletter
Hosted by Desiree Burch
Smut
is our weekly program of provocate readings and performance,
starring some of NYC's greatest talents. 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, we present tongue-in-cheek cabaret act At Least
It's Pink (pictured), as well as performer Michelle Newsletter.
 9.26
8pm backroom FREE
CHARACTER:
People You Wouldn't Invite to Dinner
Character-based
comedy produced and hosted by Carolyn Castiglia (pictured)
and Lianne Stokes.
Also
Featuring:
Nick Kroll (Welcome to Our Week)
Laura Mannino (Mintyfresh)
Sara Schaefer (...is Obsessed With You)
Theron Steiner (Freedumb)
Allen Warnock (UCB)
 9.26
10pm FREE
A Night of Classic Burlesque
Hosted by World Famous Bob
World
Famous Bob is a Galapagos favorite. She's sexy, funny,
and articulate. Plus, her breasts were voted Best in New
York by The Village Voice. She hosts an
evening of some of NYC's best burlesque talents.
http://www.worldfamousbob.com
9.27
8pm frontroom FREE
BECKY POOLE PRESENTS
The Unicorn Show
Come
to the enchanted forest that is Galapagos Art Space, where
you may see with your own bright eyes...A UNICORN. Perhaps
7 or 8 of them, or a bunch of sketch comedians dressed up
like the beautiful beasts, and doing their best to keep
the spirit of pure love and laughter alive. Performances
by MEAT, Elephant Larry, Madame Funnypants, Your Mom (a
reunion), Pigloo, and Poopy, Poopy, Fart, Fart (magical,
non!). Hosted by Kiddie Poole.
See
the show, don't let the Unicorn die.
 9.27
8pm backroom $5
PUNCH PUPPETRY
Our
monthly puppetry program. Curated by Gretchen Van Lente
of Drama of Works.
This
month you'll finally get to see some of the curator herself.
She and her partner-in-crime John Ardolino will perform
their famous Sid & Nancy Punch & Judy Show ("Short
but not-at-all sweet, The Sid & Nancy Punch & Judy
show is frayed, violent and hilarious in all the right places."
-Mike Wolf, TimeOut NY) and they'll show off
a new piece where a couple of naughty flowers tell really
bad jokes. Also this month will be the new-to-PUNCH burlesque
puppet fabulous Wiggliscious Sisters (Ayako Dean and Cinna
Vesterberg) performing Rendez-Vous, with John Payne and
his band PUPPETBOX entertaining in between acts. PUNCH repeat
offenders Evan Laurence and Nasty Canasta will be back as
well!
 9.27
10pm 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!
For
more information about Brooklyn Comedy Company, please visit
their website at http://www.brooklyncomedycompany.com
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 9.28
7:30pm free
The Last Car
Plus
The Doilies (with Michael Showalter & Zak Orth)
and Jed Parish
The
Last Car will entertain you with 10-12 songs or so and
generally make you feel good about things. Lots of harmony
and lots of love. It features Chris Anderson, Amy Miles,
and Robin Goldwasser.
"The Last Car delights with clever songsmithing,
rich three part harmonies and some genuine heart as they
discover the consequences of eating your roommate's leftover
Thai food." -Note Photons
 9.28
10pm FREE
Tarapith
with Bradford Reed and the Eternal Buzz Brass Band
"Tarapith
draws on such diverse influences as Miles Davis, Can and
King Crimson" - L Magazine.
Tarapith is: Dave Kannenstine, bass (Barbez, Spookarama);
Jason Kronick, drums (Greg Mcmullen); Harry Matthews,
guitar (Swift Brothers, Brooklyn Illharmonic); and Dave
Smith, trombone (Society Giants). www.tarapithny.com
Bradford
Reed and His Anazing Pencilina
is "Postmodern
Moondog" - New York Magazine
"Postapocalyptic Jazz? Hendrix in a blender? Shostakovich
meets Godzilla?" - Village Voice
www.pencilina.com
Eternal
Buzz Brass Band is a genre straddling brass band led
by Geoff Mann and featuring a large cast of luminaries
such as Tom Abbs, Jordan Mclean and Eric Biondo
www.theeternalbuzz.com
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 9.29
8pm FREE
Jezebel Music Presents
Creaky Boards
with The Waylons & Little Mountain
Jezebel
Music’s Monthly Feature Show of top local indie talent.
Headlining this month's
feature
Show at Galapagos is Bushwick's own piano-pop superstars,
Creaky Boards, who are set to release their debut
studio album "Where's the Sunshine?". The foursomes'
majestic pop rattles like a 1920's player piano and shakes
like a sixties garage rock band. For the past year, Creaky
Boards has made a name for themselves in the East Village
Anti-Folk Scene which has spawned the likes of Regina
Spektor, Beck, and the Moldy Peaches. Country janglers
The Waylons & Little Mountain will open the evening.
http://www.creakyboards.com
Jezebel Music finds and promotes the best
local talent and features them at Galapagos once a month.
For more information go to www.jezebelmusic.com.
 9.29
8:30pm backroom FREE
Hop,
Skip, and a Jump
Multimedia Installation/ Performance
Award winning Swiss video artist Katja Loher debuts
her New York show "Hop, Skip and a Jump," A
multi media piece installed and performed in the Galapagos
theatre. "Hop, skip and a jump" is a three dimensional
live film that tells a tale three times with three different
ends. We can dream that we can fly, we can jump in the
air to try to, but sadly it seems that our dreams offer
us the best opportunity to fly, until tonight. Performed
by Swiss artists Katja Loher and Sanja Ristic and Japanese
artist Asako Fujimoto.
This
performance is presented with the support of the Swiss
and Japanese governments and a sustaining grant form the
Canadian arts fellowship. This performance begins a tour
that takes the work to Russia and France and Switzerland
in November.
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 9.30
7-11pm
$10 ($6 students)
Dagmar, New York Percussion
Quartet, Johnny Divine, and LouderARTS
Come
at 7 and stay 'til 11, or come and go as you like. We're
loose, it's cheap, and for at least one evening, we're
free at last. The new progressive/gothic/emo six-piece
band DAGMAR and some of her far-ranging friends present
a frollicking and eclectic evening of collaboration
and hard-core entertainment featuring:
7
pm sharp: JOHNNY DIVINE -- post-alt rock straight from
Philly, hold the demure
8-ish:
THE NEW YORK PERCUSSION QUARTET -- powerful, spectacularly
intricate tuned and untuned percussion like you've never
heard before by four of this planet's greatest percussionists
9-ish:
louderARTS (http://www.louderarts.com) a dozen+ performance
poets slammin' away with film, art, humor, music, DJ
and fire.
10:00-ish
(maybe earlier, but not a minute later): DAGMAR -- A
new theatricalized music experiment by composer Jim
Bauer. A surreal story cycles through the mountain-to-valley
music arrangements about a guy who can't get out of
bed
in the morning and an insect goddess who plunges through
the ether to save him. Lucky for our hero in hiding,
Dagmar is up for just about anything, as long as it
has more than four legs.
DAGMAR
is: guitar & vocals JIM BAUER / flute & vocals
MEGHAN McGEARY / drums DAVID ROZENBLATT / percussion
PABLO RIEPPI / bass MAT FIELDES / violin VESSKO GELLEV
http://www.nypq.com
http://www.louderarts.com
http://www.dagmartheband.com
 9.30
11pm
$10
The Williamsburg Concert
for Katrina Relief
Featuring:
Gaigin á Go-Go, The Fumes, Tom Warnick and the
World's Fair, and Animal 57.
Some
of Brooklyn's best and brightest bands come together
to aid the victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
Your $10 donation at the door goes directly to two charities:
The Red Cross and The New Orleans' Musicians Clinic.
Please
come down for a great night of music and to support
a very worthy cause, to help our neighbors to the South
recover from this horrific tragedy
http://www.redcross.org/
http://www.wwoz.org/clinic/
http://www.doctoredrecords.com/
http://www.gaijin55.com/
http://www.tomwarnick.com/
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 10.1
8pm $8
Catch
"Short
acts and all of them memorable-you really can't go wrong.
Like an excellent compilation CD, or a really good salad
bar-lots of little tastes of stuff you might want more
of when you're in the mood."
-Rachel Shukert, Culturebot.org
Featuring
work by Abby Browde, Evan Cabnet, Young Jean Lee, Zoe
Lister-Jones, Red Metal Mailbox, Maggie McBrien, Peter
Schmitz, Nellie Tinder, and Chris Wild.
ABBY
BROWDE has performed her original solo show Graylike at
the Tricklock Performance Space, the Red Humor Salon and,
most recently, as part of the Single File Festival in
Chicago.
EVAN
CABNET Recent: The Mistakes Madeline Made (NY Stage and
Film), Masterpiece Theater, My Renaissance Faire Lady
(Ontological), Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of
Stories, Ubu Roi (Williamstown).
YOUNG
JEAN LEE has directed her plays at P.S. 122 (Pullman,
WA), Soho Rep (The Appeal), and the Ontological-Hysteric
Theater (Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals).
ZOE
LISTER-JONES toured the city with the glam rock performance
group Maxi Geil & Playcolt. Her one woman show Codependence
is a Four-Letter Word, premiered at P.S. 122 last November.
RED METAL MAILBOX , whose work has been presented at Dixon
Place and Performance Space 122 is dedicated to creating
visceral works of theater by linking original text with
a highly physical aesthetic that explores movement as
language.
MAGGIE MCBRIEN's work has been seen at various venues
in New York City and Philadelphia. She is a member of
Elevator Repair Service Theatre Co., and recently attended
the summer institute at The Kitchen.
PETER B. SCHMITZ Recent choreographic works are now a
part of the Conversations series at the Flea Theatre.
NELLIE TINDER is the multi-disciplinary company of Julia
May Jonas. Guided by the statement, "Oh what a bore
it is to be Nellie Tinder, when all one can do is sit
and think about things," NT attempts appropriate
and instructive theatrical explorations of overarching
human issues.
CHRIS
WILD is a member of Great Jones Repertory Company since
2001, with which he has performed throughout Europe and
Japan. In New York, he has worked with Fly-By-Night, Stone
Soup Theater Arts and Ellen Stewart.
 10.1
10pm $8
The
Batterie with the Vanity Set
Led
by Jim Sclavunos (the tallest man in Rock and famed drummer
with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds), NYC's The Vanity
Set blend low art, high sass and raw bluster. No other
band leaps from the sublime to depraved, filth to elegance,
camp to heartfelt urgency like these black-fisted dandy-lions.
Renowned in the UK for their wickedly exuberant live performances,
The Vanity Set sally forth with psycho-billy guitar, creepy
keys, raucous tuba, and the coolest rhythm section in
all 5 boroughs.
"The
Vanity Set are a demented noir cabaret, a pantomime of
love gone sour and life measured out in hangovers... Tragedy
that laughs at its own haggard reflection, comedy with
the blackest of hearts - gallows humour has rarely swung
as hard as this." -THE LONDON GUARDIAN
 "Many
have attempted to epitomise New York, but the efforts
of locals The Vanity Set, where a suited loon rants poetry
in a dumpster behind Broadway, is up with the best."
-NME
"Unapologetically
wordy, laudably ridiculous and deliciously low-rent. Tall
tales indeed" -MOJO
The
Batterie serves up punk-soul: deep down-tempo compositions,
blowing freakout guitar riffs and a stable of hook-laden
soundscapes.
"Sorry
You Missed It, this edgy rock band's debut, crashes
into the music scene brimming with passion and power.
Lead singer Aubrey Smith has the pipes of a gritty angel:
Backed by vibrant beats and lush, melodic layerings, she
turns songs of lost love into bittersweet, ferocious anthems."
www.thevanityset.com
www.thebatterie.com
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 10.2
7pm $6
OCULARIS presents
23 REASONS TO SAVE NEW YORK:
Music Videos from the Art Rock Scene
Galapagos'
award-winning film series.
Nick
Hallett (of Plantains and Mason du Chic) brings together
an exciting survey of recent NYC art rock videos, including
but certainly not limited to: Black Dice by Danny Perez,
Devin Flynn, Disbelief Street, Foetus by Karen O, Jason
Forrest by Waverly Films, Japanther by Punkcast, Ted Leo
by Pancake Mountain, Liars by Cody Critcheloe, Ex-Models
by Mighty Robot, scenes from Up With People: A Film About
Oneida, Antony and the Johnsons by Glen Fogel, Big Noise
Films, My Robot Friend, Regina Spektor by Adria Petty,
Vaz by Starter Set, and Mixel Pixel by Retard Riot. The
re-identification of psychedelic themes by both the art
and music scenes is the evening's focus, along with an
exploration of countercultural media, including documentary,
video mash-up, computer animation, and "commercial"
music video.
More
info at
www.ocularis.net.
 10.2
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.
http://www.sidandbuddy.com
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