Slope Weekday Events Spotlight: October 10-13
Could it possibly be almost the middle of ROCKtober? Check out Ed Sullivan on Acid, Drunk Science, The Undead, and more.
Daniel Arthur Trio
When: Monday, October 10, 7:00pm
Where: ShapeShifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place (between 1st and Carroll Streets)
What: The Daniel Arthur Trio represents a new generation of creative music which adventurously combines aspects of contemporary classical music and improvised music.
How much: $18, purchase tickets at the door.
Ed Sullivan On Acid
When: Monday, October 10, 9:00pm-10:30pm
Where: Freddy’s, 627 5th Avenue, between 17th and 18th Streets
What: Brooklyn’s longest running comedy standup.
How much: Free.
Our Bodies, Our Stories: A Feminist Storytelling Fundraiser
When: Tuesday, October 11. Doors at 7:00pm; show at 8pm.
Where: The Bell House, 149 7th Street (at 2nd Avenue)
What: Join NYC-based domestic violence + sexual assault advocacy org Sakhi for South Asian Women for “Our Bodies, Our Stories: A Feminist Storytelling Fundraiser” to honor this DV Awareness Month! This event, hosted by + featuring a performance from activist and musician Kiran Gandhi, will feature powerhouse poetry, comedy, music, and stories from some of New York’s most badass feminist performers, all sharing on topics of sexuality, identity, feminism, and more. Support an important cause and join us for this incredible night of feminist community building! To learn more about Sakhi, visit www.sakhi.org
How much: $25, purchase tickets online
The Penguin Book of The Undead: An Illustrated Lecture with Medieval Historian Scott G. Bruce
When: Wednesday, October 12, 7pm
Where: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 3rd Avenue (at 7th Street)
What: Ghost stories, as we commonly conceive of them, did not come into being until the late 19th century, when the Victorians popularized the idea of the haunting: a soul reaching from the beyond to expose secrets, avenge an untimely death, or otherwise meddle in the realm of the living to mysterious or malevolent ends. But ghosts have been fixtures of our collective imagination as potent cultural forces since premodern times. Scott G. Bruce is an expert on medieval monasticism, a professor of medieval history, and the director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He put himself through college working as a gravedigger. His expertise and his enthusiasm for connections between his work and popular culture make him an ideal interview for any Halloween pieces you may be planning.
How much: $5, tickets available online.
Drunk Science: Population Genetics
When: Wednesday, October 12, 7:00pm (door), 8:00pm (show)
Where: Littlefield, 622 Degraw Street (between 3rd and 4th Avenues)
What: Drunk Science is an event hosted by comedians Joanna Rothkopf (staff writer at Jezebel), Shannon Odell (neuroscience PhD candidate at Weill Cornell) and Jordan Mendoza (once was pre-med). In each show, three intoxicated comedians compete to present the best scientific dissertation to a panel of real scientists. With Lorelei Ramirez, Ziwe Fumudoh, Brian Faas, and Guest Scientist Dr. Brenna Henn.
How much: $5-$8, available at the door. Tickets available online.
Vol. 1 Brooklyn presents Tobias Carroll in conversation with Jason Diamond
When: Thursday, October 13, 7pm
Where: Community Bookstore, 143 7th Avenue (between Garfield Place and Carroll Street)
What: Reel, the new novel by Vol. 1 Brooklyn’s Tobias Carroll, follows two lives that collide with strange consequences at a Seattle punk show. Hyper-observant Timone spends his time verifying artifacts and losing himself in deafening music and isolation. Marianne, a born traveler, fears stagnation and is looking for her next escape. Set against a backdrop of DIY music, road trips, bad tattoos, and strange art, Reel explores questions of family, history, and identity, as Timone and Marianne’s meeting pushes them to deconstruct the fragile lives they’ve created. Co-hosted by Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
How much: Free
unSeen Green Art Installation
When: Through October 20, 8am-6pm
Where: Chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street (enter at 5th Avenue)
What: For two weeks only (October 5-20), Green-Wood’s Chapel will be transformed into a spectacular venue for unSeen Green – a one-of-a kind, site specific art installation by Brooklyn artist Aaron Asis. Hundreds of crisscrossing fuchsia paracords will traverse and slice through the interior exterior space of this historic structure accentuating the geometry of the Chapel as well as features like door frames, window sills, arched ceilings and the spectacular oculus that crowns the space. Asis will create a completely unexpected juxtaposition of the “seen” and the “unseen” in this National Historic Landmark cemetery.
How much: Free
Gail Flannery: Tumbled Sky
When: Through October 16. Thursdays and Fridays, 4:00-7:00pm; Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00am-7:00pm.
Where: 440 Gallery, 440 6th Avenue, between 9th and 10th Streets
What: 440 Gallery presents Tumbled Sky by Gail Flanery, an exhibition of mixed-media prints. Flanery’s signature imagery draws from nature; much of it is suggestive of landscape but the geography is rarely specific. The landscapes are invented, inverted or re-imagined and animated by lush color and an expansive sense of space. In this exhibition, Flanery channels nature’s turbulence as her gaze shifts upward, to the sky. Flanery is a graduate of Cooper Union where she was influenced by the painter and colorist Wolf Kahn. She has worked with a number of master printers and presently works at the shop of Master Printer Kathy Caraccio. Flanery’s work is in dozens of private and corporate collections and in the permanent collection of the Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. Flanery has exhibited extensively with several published reviews to her credit, including in The New York Times.
How much: Free.
i Collective: Once Upon Unfolding Times
When: Through October 22, Thursdays-Saturdays, 2:00pm-6:00pm.
Where: Open Source Gallery, (306 17th Street at 6th Avenue)
What: The steady writing on the sand produced by time is the starting point for a hypnotic tour through a fictional city, in which the individual and the collective merge in order to imagine the possible, enjoy the unpredictable, and write history. With the help of a hypnotist, on weekends throughout Once Upon Unfolding Times i Collective will invite visitors to submerge into parallel universes and take pleasure in envision a city that is constantly being re-shaped by the forces of each community member. Casualties, causalities, futures and pasts compound a history that is not based on the fear of the Other but on the joy of sharing with the others. Hypnotic Tours: October 15 (6pm), October 22 (6pm). Please arrive on time. Visitors will not be able to join after the tour has begun.
How Much: Free
Taxidermy: Art, Science & Immortality featuring Walter Potter’s Kittens’ Wedding
When: Through Sunday, November 6, 12pm-6pm everyday. Closed Tuesdays,
Where: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 3rd Avenue at 7th Street
What: This exhibition seeks to illuminate the strange and profound human connection to preserved animals through the exhibition of seldom-seen taxidermied treasures from private collections. The centerpiece of the exhibition will be The Kittens’ Wedding, the final and perhaps most unforgettable of all of the works of Walter Potter, completed in the 1890s. Equal parts perverse and adorable, and utterly spellbinding, The Kittens’ Wedding transcends kitsch through its tenderness and sensitive attention to detail. The Kittens’ Wedding was created by Walter Potter, a self-trained British Victorian country taxidermist best remembered for a series of anthropomorphic tableaux in which he posed stuffed animals such as kittens, rabbits and squirrels as if engaging in human activities. These works were exhibited for nearly 150 years until the museum he founded was divided at auction in 2003. The pieces then moved the homes of private collectors around the world, most of them never shown since.
How much: Admission to the exhibition & library is $12. Seniors and students are $8, and children 12 and under are free.
