for those in NYC area
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ABC No Rio Announces
Lower East Side Biography Project
Creative Response and Resistance
COMA
Saul Newman - "The Politics of Postanarchism"
Autonomadic Bookmobile Medicine Show
Our Unorganicized Reading
HC/Punk Matinee
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Lower East Side Biography Project
As part of the Howl Festival the Lower East Side
Biography Project will
have two screenings of their works at DV Dojo (310
Bowery–across from
CBGBs).
For more info about the Lower East Side Biography
Project:
http://www.abcnorio.org/affiliated/les_bios.html
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 20 at 8:00pm $5
Taylor Mead Biography 25 min
Disinherited from his wealthy and powerful Michigan
banking family
before moving to New York and becoming an actor, this
Lower East Side
icon was sought out by Andy Warhol and became part of
the inner circle
at the Factory and a regular cast member in Warhol's
films. Unabashedly
frank and forever engaging with his "who cares if they
sue me?"
attitude, Taylor Mead has seen and done it alland
isn't afraid to talk
about it and name names.
Edgar Oliver - Performance Monologue 8 min
"Mother was a Hit-Run Driver"
Goodie Magazine Benefit at TRUE, New York, NY
Judith Malina Biography work in progress 20 min
Poet, actress, director, leader of the anarchist
non-violent revolution
and advocate against the death penalty, Judith founded
The Living
Theater with Julian Beck in 1947 as an imaginative
alternative to the
commercial theater. The Living Theaters performances
include rituals of
love, affirmation, nonviolence, and communality drawn
from various
mystical and contemporary sources. This biography
includes excerpts
from
her and partner/director Hanon Reznikovs most recent
play, Resistance.
Penny Arcade - Theater Performance 8 min
excerpt from "New York Values"
PS122 New York, NY
Jonas Mekas Biography 25 min
Curator, writer and filmmaker Jonas Mekas is the
godfather of American
avant-garde filmmaking, or the New American Cinema, as
he dubbed it in
the late 1950s. The founder of Anthology Film
Archives, the Filmmakers'
Cooperative and Film Culture magazine, Mekas helped
shape the public
image of avant-garde filmmaking in America.
Church of Betty - Music Video 5 min
"I Smoke You Jack" (Smith)
Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY
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MONDAY AUGUST 25 at 8:00pm $5
Marty Matz - Poetry Performance 3 min
"I Know Where Rainbows Go to Die"
CD Recording Session, New York, NY
Carmen Pabon Biography 25 min
Dubbed by her neighbors, "The Mother Theresa of
Loisaida," Carmen came
to the Lower East Side from Puerto Rico over 50 years
ago to raise her
family. She is a poet, a political activist, and
one-woman Red Cross
who
single-handedly cares for the indigent, forlorn,
unwanted and
forgotten.
"No matter the race or the color, I help everybody."
She fought the
real
estate interests who tried to take away the community
garden she
created
from an abandoned empty lot, was involved with the
people's community
center Charas el Bohio from its inception, and at
81-years old is as
feisty as ever.
Jack Waters Biography work in progress 20 min
Born in Philadelphia, Jack came to Julliard on a dance
scholarship (in
what he calls their version of affirmative action) and
ended up on the
Lower East Side. Along with his partner and
collaborator, Peter Cramer,
he has created a "body" of internationally recognized
work in film,
video and often incorporating erotic imagery and
choreography as
political and social commentary. They ran (and lived
in the basement
of)
the renegade art space ABC No Rio in the mid-80's. He
is a journalist,
activist, and, as a participant in the Estate Project
for Artists with
AIDS, he talks about the importance for him of
disclosing his HIV
status.
If You Were Mayor of New York? 5 min
featuring Sarah Schulman, Jonas Mekas, Steve Cannon,
Jeannie Chan and
others
Sarah Schulman Biography 25 min
Born in the heart of Greenwich Village,
author/playwright Sarah
Schulman
has been involved in a number of strategic social
movements, including
abortion rights, as an early AIDS activist before the
inception and her
subsequent involvement with ACT UP (she has written
four books about
AIDS), and the Lesbian Avengers. She is the co-founder
of the Lesbian
and Gay Experimental Film (now MIX) Festival and is a
prodigious
contributor to the mainstream and progressive press. A
Lower East
Sider,
the neighborhood forms a backdrop to her writing.
Jayne County - Music Video 5 min
FUCK OFF
(If You Don't Want to Fuck Me Baby, Fuck Off).
Joes Pub, New York, NY
THESE SCREENINGS ARE AT DV DOJO (310 BOWERY–ACROSS
FROM CBGBS).
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Creative Response and Resistance
FRIDAY AUGUST 22 from 2:00 to 5:00pm
$3 - $5
Won't Be Their Cannon Fodder:
A workshop on youth resistence to
military recruitment by Not In Our Name
The session will explore how and why the military has
stepped up their
recruitment of youth for their war on the world since
9/11 and how and
why
youth are saying no to joining the military, are
getting recruiters out
of
their schools, and are resisting the war on the world!
Ending the war
on the
world starts with a resistance throughout the US and
by youth resisting
the
military, by stopping war where it begins!
Creative Response and Resistance events at ABC No Rio
conclude this
week,
however events will continue at Bluestockings and
other venues. For
more
information: http://www.creativeresistance.us .
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COMA
SUNDAY AUGUST 24 at 8:00pm - $3
DONKEY (from San Diego)
Hans Fjellestad - keyboards/electronics
Damon Holzborn - guitar/electronics
Followed by solos/duets/ensemble
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Saul Newman - "The Politics of Postanarchism"
TUESDAY AUGUST 26 at 7:00pm - $3-$5 (sliding scale)
Political theorist Saul Newman will speak on the
theoretical background
and
political philosophy of postanarchism. This will be
the first
presentation
in a new anarchist theory lecture series which will be
held this year.
Postanarchism is a newly emerging combination of the
philosophical
concerns
of poststructuralist theories with the politics of
left-wing anarchism.
Poststructuralism, which Newman associates with
Foucault, Lacan,
Deleuze &
Guattari and Derrida, emphasizes the elements of flow
and change in
many
categories which we assume to be stable, such as
gender and identity.
It
also questions belief systems which claim to have the
true and complete
account of how the world works, such as Marxism.
Anarchism has received increasing attention because of
its influence on
the
anti-globalization movement and in progressive
politics in general.
However, it also has a long history of influence here
in New York City
on
the counter-cultural and squatting movement, on labor
organizing, and
most
recently on the demonstrations against the World
Economic Forum in
February
2002.
Newman is the author of 'From Bakunin to Lacan:
Anti-Authoritarianism
and
the Dislocation of Power' (Lexington Books, 2001) and
will appear in
the
upcoming
Autonomedia Press anthology 'I Am Not a Man - I Am
Dynamite: Nietzsche
and
Anarchism.'
Sponsored by the freeCUNY collective, and the Center
for Culture, Work
and
Technology (at the CUNY Graduate Center).
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Autonomadic Bookmobile Medicine Show
FRIDAY AUGUST 29 at 8:00pm - $5
THE SHOW
Drs. Henceforth Flummox and Okra P. Dingle frequently
perform a full
sideshow. They have performed at clubs, colleges,
collective spaces,
and
festivals, sometimes with the Bookmobile open to all
the world, and
sometimes far away from its good holdings.
The show includes classic sideshow feats including
glass walking, knife
throwing, fire eating, the human pincushion, and the
bed of nails, with
the
musical accompaniment of the accordian and the musical
saw.
THE BOOKS
Although the Autonomadic Bookmobile certainly features
Autonomedia
books,
we also carry a wide variety of other independent
publications. Our
2001
best-sellers included squatter comics, situationist
classics, books on
sideshow history, and DIY bike-repair zines.
It is an infoshop on wheels, modeled on the storefront
infoshops which
a
handful of American cities have been able to sustain.
THE VEHICLE
"Twenty-foot box truck" hardly does the Bookmobile
justice. It's
designed
to be impossible to overlook: carnival colors explode
in painter David
Gassaway's intricate sideshow murals; accordian music
spills out; a man
and
a woman in sideshow finery stand beside it pounding
nails into their
noses.
Passersby are invited to "step right up" into the back
of the vehicle
and
browse the built-in shelves, or peruse contact
listings of groups
working
on independent political and cultural projects, or
simply gawk at some
curiosities picked up along the road.
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EVERY SUNDAY at 3:00pm
Our Unorganicized Reading
an open poetry reading
No sign-up. No time limit. No b.s.
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HC/Punk Matinee - $6
SATURDAY AUGUST 23 at 3:00pm
-robot has werewolf hand (thrashy dual vocals- a must
see!, from
upstate)
-they live (members of rhwh, hc that will grip your
insides)
-give up (heavy crust, reminiscent of dystopia, only
faster, from
upstate)
+1 tba
SATURDAY AUGUST 30 at 3:00pm
-john brown's army (fast thrashy hc with members of
the oath,
monster x,
and devoid of faith)
-anodyne (nyc noise-core)
-HORSE the band (up-beat moshy nintendo-core from the
southwest)
+The Scarlet Letter (feminist/political hc from nj)
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(212) 254-3697
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