Et cetera (2012) was a week of arm wrestling, robot sex, feminist critiques, drones, queer librarians, conceptual and non-conceptual art, journalism, book readings, bands and parties at Public Assembly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I’d been programming the venue as to be very centered on bands, DJs and typical nightclub stuff—this was a way to mix it up.
Asahi Beer gave us a LOT of free beer. The L Magazine was our media partner.
Time Out New York (article), Brooklyn Vegan (preview post)
These images are quite poor, sorry! But if you squint you will see Emma Straub, Stephin Merritt, Ira Glass and others on stage together. Maybe Rachel Dratch somewhere, too!
Et Cetera Events:
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Presented by Tumblr & Moleskin
Sunday Sept 16th 2012, 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Front Room, All Ages, Free
eatsleepdraw.com, tumblr.com, moleskineus.comEatSleepDraw was created on December 7th, 2007, and has become the largest user submitted blog on Tumblr. EatSleepDraw believes in quality over quantity and doesn’t think of itself as a blog, it’s more than that. It’s a finely curated art gallery. They publish art about once every hour, 24 hours a day, Everyday. So come on our and celebrate the numbers with us (200,000+ followers, 500,000+ page-views monthly), grab some paper, and get drawing.
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Sean McBride and Liz Wendelbo
Plus a DJ set from ARP
Presented by LQQK
Sunday September 16th 2012, 8:00 PM, Back Room, All Ages, Free
xenoandoaklander.com
LQQK.org
studioalexisgeorgopoulos.comSean McBride (Martial Canterel) and Liz Wendelbo are in the band Xeno & Oaklander. They are a Brooklyn based minimal electronics girl/boy duo, and began in 2004. They play analogue synthesizers exclusively. In this lecture they talk about the analogue synthesizer as the new folk instrument. The lecture is followed by a gear demo that shows that there is freedom in the minimum.
Alexis Georgopoulos is a NYC-based composer & artist. As ARP, he makes liminal, minimal music, often with analog synthesizers. He’s a member of the groups THE ALPS (Type/Mexican Summer) and Q&A (DFA), has performed internationally, and has been presented by CHANEL, The Kitchen, PS1, Goethe–Institut, Deitch Projects, MoMA (SF), New Museum, White Columns, etc.
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With Tumblr, Electric Literature, The New Inquiry, The Los Angeles Review of Books
Monday September 17th 2012, 7:00 PM, Front Room, 21+, Free
tumblr.com, electricliterature.com, thenewinquiry.com, lareviewofbooks.org, brooklynbookfestival.orgRead them everywhere, meet them in Brooklyn! Three top web-based literary publications (and Tumblr super-users) invite you to meet your internet friends in person for chatting, drinking, and dancing to kick off the most bookish week in Brooklyn. Guest DJs and free drink specials enhance the East Coast vs. West Coast faceoff, and everybody wins!
The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors. One of America’s premier book festivals, this hip, smart diverse gathering attracts thousands of book lovers of all ages to enjoy authors and the festival’s lively literary marketplace.
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Presented by PACS Gallery
Sunday Sept 16th 2012, 7:30 PM, PACS Gallery, 21+, Free
presentationpartynight.com, pacsnyc.comPresentation Party Night is a monthly lecture series combining a love of community and education with a taste for beer. Based in Bushwick, Brooklyn, they meet on the 3rd Sunday of each month to share and discuss various topics spanning history, pop culture, current events, and the utterly indescribable. Aesthetically, PPN is a bit closer to a DIY loft party than it is say, Ignite or TED talks. Presenters range from local pro’s to first-timers and there’s a healthy mix of laughing, factoids, and open-ended Q&A. Limited complimentary beers from our good friends at Asahi.
Shannon Coffey - Mystery
Ryder Ripps - How to Design an e-Commerce Website
Erik Bergstrom - The French
Melissa J Frost - Architecture Out of Order
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Presented by PACS Gallery
Monday September 17th 2012, 7:00 PM - 12:00, PACS (Floor 2), 21+, Free
pacsnyc.com, seanmicka.comChristine is a character based in New York City. She sets up situations that invite viewers to contemplate, interrogate and/or negotiate various ways in which art and finance function within a political economy. For better or for worse, her work focuses its attention on auctions, examining artworks, antiques and precious jewels i.e., as objects of financial speculation. She also is frequently concerned with the phenomena of “the contemporary” as an ambiguously defined idea in modern art, i.e., periodization of the present. Christine is frequent collaborator with artist Sean Micka.
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Tuesday September 18th 2012, 7:30 PM, Front Room, 21+, Free
vol1brooklyn.comWe’re buying lots and lots of books in preparation for winter, like squirrels in a bloodthirsty frenzy. And just in time for our shopping trips, the Brooklyn Book Festival is here! Right around the corner, actually. The very idea fills us with glee, so we’re (Vol. 1) putting together an event of our own to join the party. Not just any event though: on September 18th, we present to you the Greatest 3-Minute Book Stories Ever. Like, ever. Stories about good books and bad ones. Love in the library and hatred of beloved classics. Selling books and buying books. Notes in the margin and overdue fees. (Also, this just happens to be the Vol. 1 Brooklyn 3rd birthday party, so we’ve invited some of our favorite people around.Our amazing readers will be:
Maris Kreizman (Slaughterhouse 90210)
Kathleen Alcott (The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets)
Alexander Chee (Edinburgh and the forthcoming The Queen of the Night)
Matt Dojny (The Festival of Earthly Delights)
Rachel Fershleiser (Tumblr, Six-Word Memoirs)
Jacob Silverman (journalist, critic, and three-day Jeopardy! champion)
Dan Wilbur (bookseller at Community bookstore, author of How Not to Read)
Christopher Beha (What Happened to Sophie Wilder)
Karolina Waclawiak (How To Get Into the Twin Palms, Deputy Editor at The Believer)
Paula Bomer (Baby and Nine Months)
Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls)
Nick Moran (social media editor for The Millions)
Founded in 2009, Volume 1 Brooklyn is a multimedia project hell-bent on bridging any and all gaps between various forms of high, middle and low culture.
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Tuesday September 18th 2012, 7:00 PM, Back Room, 21+, Free
The Bad Feminist Readings, produced by Sarah Gentile and Sarah Giovanniello, is a feminist reading of not-so-feminist material. Gentile is an archivist, feminist, and ardent believer in the democracy of culture. She works over at the Brooklyn Museum. Giovanniello is a writer, curator, and researcher. She works as Research Assistant in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU and a BA from Bryn Mawr College. Come and see readers lampooning bad advice written for women and men from the last 100 years. Bring your critical eye and your party hat. And who’s reading? These fine folks:
Sasheer Zamata
Eleanor Whitney
Bennett Madison
Emily Gould
Lisa Goldstein
Charlotte Cooper
Victoria Cho
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Tuesday September 18th 2012, 9:00 PM, Back Room, 21+, Free
adhoc.fm, thefader.com, pellytwins.blogspot.com, pitchfork.com, imposemagazine.com, stadiumsandshrines.com
The editors behind the Brooklyn-based music publication Ad Hoc bring together a panel of music journalists and self-publishers to discuss building your own music blog from the bottom up, developing a distinct curatorial identity, and growing and sustaining a loyal readership. Ad Hoc was started with a Kickstarter campaign that garnered over 1,000 unique donors, and it’s been put to good use! Crucial DIY-leaning blogs such as 20 Jazz Funk Greats, International Tapes, and No Fear of Pop are part of their community; come with questions!
Panelists
Emilie Friedlander (Ad Hoc, The Fader)
Jenn Pelly (pellytwins blog, Pitchfork)
Jeremy Krinsley (Impose)
Dave Sutton (Stadiums & Shrines)
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Presented by PACS Gallery
Tuesday September 18th 2012, 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM, PACS (Floor 2), 21+, Free
http://eeikeler.comDrawing on the history of abstraction within Western Modernism, Brooklyn-based artist E.E. Ikeler’s work, as exemplified with KISS/KIZZ, inserts feminist and queer content through nontraditional materials while maintaining a level abstraction. It’s a task that the artist feels has often been assumed to lack legibility in mainstream art criticism. In response, various experimental strategies assert that form and content are not discrete characteristics of art works, but rather, like our minds and bodies, are one in the same.
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Wednesday September 19th 2012, Front Room, 7:00 PM, 21+, Free
facebook.com/hergirlfridayIn an evening dedicated to hard-hitting investigations, Her Girl Friday brings you a behind-the-scenes look at several award-winning pieces from some of today’s leading investigative reporters. We’re thrilled to present very special guests ProPublica senior reporter Dafna Linzer, former MTV True Life producer Roopa Vasudevan, Habiba Nosheen, (Frontline, NPR), andPamela Yates (filmmaker and Guggenheim fellow). And, in typical Her Girl Friday fashion, stick around after the panel for a boozy mixer, with DJ Raichous on the ones and twos. People of all genders welcome and encouraged to attend.
Her Girl Friday is a Brooklyn-based group of female journalists and non fiction storytellers that produces fun and engaging events with concrete takeaways for women in journalism across mediums. And a heads up, HGF is popular with a capital P - 1st come / serve.
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Presented by The Desk Set
Wednesday September 19th 2012, Back Room, 7:00 PM, 21+, Free
thedeskset.org, thegloc.netGlennis McCarthy, of the Gorgeous Ladies of Comedy (G.L.O.C), will moderate a panel discussion with women navigating the worlds of both comedy and literature. Panelists include
Rachel Dratch (SNL)
Elna Baker (The Moth, This American Life, Studio 360, Radiolab)
Kambri Crews (Ochi’s Lounge / Comix)
Karen Bergreen, a self described comedian, author, and stressed-out mom.
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Presented by I Love Bad Movies & The Flop House
Wednesday September 19th 2012, Back Room, 9:00 PM, 21+, Free
ilovebadmovies.com, flophousepodcast.com“Experts” from I Love Bad Movies and The Flop House discuss the strange appeal of enjoyably bad films. What can we learn from facepalm-worthy gems like The Room, Cool as Ice, Gigli, Return to Oz, and Old Dogs? What do these junky turds say about us? Also featuring movie clips, interactive bits, & irrelevant tangents.
Panel MembersMatt Carman
Kseniya Yarosh
Dan McCoy
Stuart Wellington
and Elliott Kalan
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Presented by PACS Gallery
Curated by Ben Sisto (PACS) and Denise Kupferschmidt
Wednesday September 19th 2012, 7:00 PM - 12:00, PACS (Floor 2), 21+, Free
pacsnyc.com, papermountains.netArtists come to own work by other artists in a myriad of ways. Sometimes it’s bought, often it’s in trade, as payment for general labor, and here and there it’s rescued from a trash can. Tonight, we’re exhibiting works from our friends’ homes that they have bought and found, saved and loved.
Works by:
Roberta Allen
Patrick Brennan
CHERYL
Bridget Donahue & Jory Rabinovitz
Joanne Greenbaum
Kenya Hanley
Kimberly Hennessy
E.E. Ikeler
Chris Martin
Sam Moyer
Nick Parker
Michael Pellew
Joshua Smith
Unknown
Joshua Caleb Weibley
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Dogfish Head Craft Brewery presents: How Beer Changed Everything
with Sam Calagione (Dogfish Head), Patrick McGovern, and Greg Boustead
Thursday September 20th, 7:00 PM, Front Room, 21+, Free
dogfish.com, penn.museum/sites/biomoleculararchaeology/Brewing is humankind’s earliest example of biotechnology, representing our first attempt to harness the power of living organisms. The craft dates back to 9000 BC, inspiring the cultivation of barley and wheat. Beer changed hunter-gatherers into farmers, and fueled the building of monumental structures, like the pyramids, whose workers received five liters of beer per day as compensation. In a one-of-kind interactive session, we’ll explore this colorful history and the modern craft of what is perhaps humanity’s most celebrated beverage. Guided by the madcap brewer Sam Calagione and molecular archeologist Patrick McGovern, you’ll get to drink as the ancients did—including a bright, honeyed facsimile of the brew buried with King Midas; a rice-based beer made after the first known fermented beverage (unearthed from 9,000-year-old Chinese tombs and dwellings); and a sneak-taste of a yet-unrelased experimental pre-Roman Etruscan beverage from around 800 BC, spiked with ground hazelnuts, pomegranate, and myrrh, and made brewed from wild-harvested, native Egyptian yeast deposited by the legs of fruit flies on sweet traps made from crushed dates. Seriously.
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with Special Guests Dr. Peter Asaro, Jace Clayton, Tim Nilson, and Brian Anderson
Thursday September 20th, 9:00 PM, Front Room, 21+, Free
motherboard.vice.comThe drones are overhead, and far away, buzzing in the distance like a coming swarm. And now they’re coming closer. Bzzz. Motherboard takes a dive into the strange, uncanny and exciting world of the robotic vehicle to understand how it’s transforming our world, from how we kill to how we waste an afternoon. A little chat about our robot past, present and future, with detours into Peruvian archeology, Marilyn Monroe, taco delivery and more. With live demos of a video drone and an innovative drone machine – all set to luscious drone music. With more music, dancing, and human-to-human interaction to follow.
Dr. Asaro is a media theorist whose work examines the interfaces between social relations, human minds and bodies, and digital media. His research is also informed by his involvement in digital media design projects with the Virtual Environments Group at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA), the Advanced and Interactive Displays Lab at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and the natural language interface design team for the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine (winner of the 2010 SXSW Web Interactive Award for Technical Achievement).
Jace Clayton (dj / rupture) is an interdisciplinary artist living in Brooklyn. Clayton’s practice has evolved out of his work as a DJ, built around core concerns for how sound, technology use in low-income communities, and public space interact, with an emphasis on Latin America, Africa, and the Arab world. Clayton is currently writing a nonfiction book on music at the dawn of the digital century to be published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Tim Nilson is an unmanned systems hobbyist and the manufacturer of the QAV500, a purpose-built “first person view” quadcopter that can carry three cameras at a time. He also runs FPVmanuals.com, a top source of information for the FPV drone video community, and the drone marketplace getFPV.com. During the day, he is a chief technology officer at Sony Music.
Brian Anderson –Brian Anderson is a writer, editor and producer at Motherboard. He spends a lot of time thinking about very large and very small unmanned systems, and is currently producing a short film aiming in some small way to clear the air on domestic drone use. He also does research for a joint NASA-Nike start-up incubator. A graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, he now lives in Brooklyn, but is from Chicago. Not to be confused with the skateboarder. Thinks he can play drums
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Thursday September 20th 2012, 7:00 PM, Back Room, 21+, Free
themoonshow.com, @themoonshow, thechrisgethardshow.comJonathan Ames (Bored to Death)
Chris Gethard (Chris Gethard Show)
Todd Hanson (The Onion)
The Moon, which has for years produced one of the most original ongoing comedy events in NYC, presents a special literary-themed edition of their popular variety show. Two dapper hosts and a cast of characters will ride the rainbow of reading with appearances by New York’s best acts. The Onion AV Club says, “The Moon is one of New York City’s finest comedy nights… a variety show that rarely fails to please.”
Tonight, our special guest Jonathan Ames, an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs. He was a columnist for the New York Press for several years, and became known for self-deprecating tales of his sexual misadventures. In 2009, he created the HBO television series Bored to Death. Chris Gethard (that guy who booked Diddy via Twitter a little while back) reads from his book A Bad Idea I’m About to Do. Todd Hanson is a writer & voice actor who’s worked on The Onion, Space Ghost, Squidbillies, and appeared as himself in the The Aristocrats (2005).
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Thursday September 20th 2012, 9:00 PM, Back Room, 21+, Free
bikeshortfilms.com
Bike Shorts is a competitive short film screening. All of the films have something to do with a bike, and the audience gets to choose the winner. Over a dozen professional and amateur short films from New York City & beyond will be shown, and the winner takes home a $100 cash prize! The best film of the night wins $100! (submit here) -
Presented by PACS Gallery
Thursday September 20th 2012, 7:00 PM - 12:00, PACS (Floor 2), 21+, Free
artypes.org.uk, pacsnyc.comArtypes is a series of Art Salons. For each Salon, a variety of contemporary artists are asked to make work prompted by a type of art. Salon No. 3 will include “Portraits” by well over 60 artists, which will be Artypes’ largest Art Salon to date. Art Salons are free to the public. Art can be purchased from the Artists, and Drinks from the Bar.
Participating Artists: Aiden Koch, Alex Mctigue, Ana Benaroya, Anders Nilsen, Andrew Kenney, Andy C. Jenkins, Anni Altshuler, Ashitha Nagesh, Barry Bruner, Ben Sisto, Benny Merris, Chris Bernsten, Chris Thompson, Corbin Keech, Damien Correll, Dave Franzese, David Giordano, Drew Heffron, Eric Losh, Erica Jacobson, Garrett Morin, Greg Broerman, Greg Rubin, Haik Avanian, Howard Fonda, J Bell, Jack Hogan, Jacob Jones, James Moore, Jan Wilker, Jason Sapan, Jenny Mortsell, John Amelchenko, Jon Burgerman, Jordan Bruner, Josh Cochran, Justin Whiteford, Kevin Kunstadt, Lanya Snyder, Madeline Donahue, Mark Miller, Mathias Vestergaard, Matt Huynh, Matt Leines, Matthew J. Giordano, Melissa Cullens, Nabiha Khan, Nicholas Fortier, Otto Milo, Paul Hanger, Peter Larson, Racecar, Sam Weber, Sarah Maltais, Sean Yeaton, Shane Neufeld, Simon Massey di Vallazza, Suzy Coady, Tom Stanley, Wyeth Hansen & You Jung Byun
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Presented by Bandshell
Friday September 21st 2012, 9:00 PM, Front Room, 21+, $20 adv / $22 dosGang Gang Dance, a group of individuals with strong ties to the local art community and almost boundless creative energy, come together for this musical collaboration whose direction is as unpredictable as it is focused, as relatable as it is experimental, and as fun as it is challenging. They are one of the best bands to come out of NYC in the past decade. (says us). Jon Pareles, writing for The New York Times, described Sun Araw’s music as “a happy jungle of electronic repetition and live playing. Loops and echoes reconfigured reggae, funk and Afrobeat in dizzying ways; the music cackled and hopped, ready to trip up dancers or just get trippy in decidedly 21st-century grooves.”
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DJs MNDR, Ghostdad
Friday September 21st 2012, Midnight-4:00* Front Room, 21+, FreeParty will start right when Gang Gang Dance wraps up
10% of after-party bar sales will be donated to Housing Works
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Friday September 21st in the Back Room, 8:00, 21+, $8, Free after 12:00 AM
One of our favorite promoters, Kristina Alaniesse, has teamed up My Social List to present this killer lineup:
Live:Total Slacker
Indian Jewelry
Black Marble
Plastic Flowers
DJ Heavenly Beat
DJ Sets:
Pictureplane
Creep
The Death Set
Le Sphinxx
blackmarble.bandcamp.com, totalslackertyhme.bandcamp.com, facebook.com/heavenlybeat, swarmofangels.com, plasticflowers.bandcamp.com, thedeathset.com, officialcreep.com, soundcloud.com/lesphinxx, soundcloud.com/pictureplane, mysocialist.com
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Saturday September 22nd 2012, 4:00 PM, Front Room, All Ages!
Spreading from TV screens to laptops, smart phones and facebook feeds; spilling into classrooms, diy music venues, and major museum exhibitions- we are currently witnessing the rise of the digital game. Yet as the number of contemporary women gamers grows nearly equal to that of male gamers, gender bias in games and in the industry and culture that surround them, seem slow to die. Hey Girl (Gamer) presents a panel of distinguished developers, artists, researchers, and students from the field to share their work and offer insights as to what gives and what’s at stake for ladies in this continually evolving media form.
Moderated by Sarah Schoemann, Graduate Research Assistant in the Game Innovation Lab at NYU’s Polytechnic Institute; and featuring Ida Benedetto, co-founder of Antidote Games and member the indie arcade collective, Babycastles. Jessy Jo Gomez, Design and Technology student at Parsons The New School of Design and former youth game designer with Global Kids. Kaho Abe, Former Eyebeam fellow and current artist in residence at NYU Poly’s Game Innovation Lab. Julia Deter, Award winning game artist and developer at Arkadium games.
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Presented by WORD Bookstore
Saturday September 22nd 2012, 7:00 PM, Front Room, 21+, $26.95 (includes book)
wordbrooklyn.com, emmastraub.netConversations, live music, and more with Emma Straub, plus
Andrew McCarthy
Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields)
Maris Kreizman
Ira Glass(This American Life)
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Saturday September 22nd 2012, Back Room, 7:00 PM, 21+, Free
lauragduncan.tumblr.com, kellybourdet.comAn inspired look at connection and attraction in the digital era. Sex researcher Laura Duncan and Future Sex columnist Kelly Bourdet explore the world of sexual robotics, teledildonics, pornography, sex in sci-fi, and carnal technology.
Kelly Bourdet writes about the philosophy of technology as it applies to sex, relationships, and living online, and is author of the Future Sex column on Motherboard/VICE. She lives in Brooklyn. Laura G. Duncan is a sexual health researcher currently studying issues of stigma within healthcare as well as the intersections of technology, sexuality and the body. She has taught sexual health education in a variety of academic, non-profit and community venues and currently serves as a full-spectrum doula. She is, disappointingly, not a robot.
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Saturday September 22nd 2012, Back Room, 10:30 PM, 21+
$5 Suggested Donation benefits Brooklyn Community Pride
5blaw.orgTheir Mission: Empower women and strengthen local communities through theater, arm wrestling, and philanthropy. The 5 Borough Ladies Arm Wrestling walks the line between pro wrestling antics, theatrics, and pure strength competitive sport. Women wrestlers, each with their own character theme and wrestling moniker, compete - flanked by entourage, cheered by audience, judged by celebrities, introduced by emcee and flagged by referees. Tournament style. It is crazy. People go F'ing nuts. Do not miss it.
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Saturday September 22nd 2012, Front Room, 11:00 PM, 21+
queeryparty.org
DJs Average Jo, Patrick Robbins, and Larry Sparkman
Special live performance from People at Parties!
Raffle prizes, gogos, drinks, and nerdy queers dancing until the wee hoursSuggested donation. All proceeds benefit the Lesbian Herstory Archives
Via all sorts of parties and events, Que(e)ry brings attention and support to hidden queer collections, and provides a fun social space for queer nerds and those who love them. Librarians, archivists, metadata specialists, students, museum professionals, educators, scholars, artists, illustrators, comics fans, technophiles, historians, writers, publicists, documentarians, and bibliophiles of all genders and orientations have made their way out, dancing all-night long to great guest DJs. Tonight, QUE(E)RY’s providing the after party; file under awesome.
People At Parties is a synth driven, darkwave, bicoastal collaboration based in both Brooklyn and SF. Their first release was a melodic synth-pop Flexi-Disc EP on Project Infinity Records and combines an early goth undertone with heavy hitting hip-pop quality.