From: "Jeff Stark" <jstark@nonsensenyc.com>
Subject: nonsensenyc: 10.30 to 11.4
Date: October 30th 2009

Friday, October 30
* Pumpkin a Go Go, Brooklyn
* Critical Mass Halloween Bike Rides and Time's Up Halloween After-Party, Manhattan-Brooklyn * The Dwindling Party, Brooklyn
* The Hallowedgie Masquerade, Williamsburg * Twas the Night Before Halloween, Manhattan * Hellhounds in the Heights, Manhattan
* Zombie Prom Bushwick, Manhattan
* Cherylween, Manhattan
* Abaddon, Manhattan
* Annual Newsonic Halloween Costume Party, Manhattan * Steampunk Haunted House, Manhattan
* We Made a Deal With the Devil: New York, Brooklyn

Halloween
* HiChristina Makes Halloween Easy, Williamsburg * Heaven on Hell Halloween Spectacular, Brooklyn * Phantom and the Organ, Brooklyn
* The Last Masquerade, Brooklyn
* Masquerade Macabre, Brooklyn
* Halloween Monster Mash, Brooklyn
* Brahloween 5, Williamsburg
* Candy Crack Delivery Service, Williamsburg * Raev of the Dead 2 : I Spit on Your Rave, Williamsburg * Boo-ski! Manhattan
* Slaughterin' Slobbersville, Brooklyn
* Green Halloween Community Festival, Manhattan * The Greatest Halloween Party Ever 5, Williamsburg * The Superheroes Halloween Ball, Manhattan

Sunday, November 1
* Jenny Rocha and Her Painted Ladies, Brooklyn * Church of Craft, Brooklyn

Monday, November 2
* Board Game Olympics V, Brooklyn

Tuesday, November 3
* The Bushwick Book Club: Darwin, Brooklyn * Rope Trivia Presents: Presidential Trivia Night, Brooklyn * The Proper Prank, Brooklyn

Wednesday, November 4
* Lucid NYC, Manhattan
* Dorkbot, Manhattan

Ongoing
* Trivia

Wishlist
* Dutch Actors Need Homes

Spectre Priority
* Make Your Own Supercomputer

Learning
* Ayahuasca Monologues

Help
* Iron Skillet Cook-Off

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Rubulad presents:

Pumpkin a Go Go

Bands Flaming Fire(s of hell), Inner Princess (of Darkness), Mamarazzi, and MC Dr. Flummmoxed. With DJs $mall �hange, Joro Boro, Gaylord Fields, Catalyst, and Wolfman Jack.

In the cabaret room: Scary-Go-Round, Jessica Delfino, the Jared Whitham Gross Out Show, Nathan Whipple, and your DJ Soundman Swampthing. In the Starlight Lounge: G Scopitronic's Non-Stop Gore Fest and Hot Blood Tamales. Plus freshly killed food by Vicious Delicious, Norm Francoeur's Dark Circus Extraordinaire, Dallas' divinely decadent super slimy orgasmic oysters (while supplies last), and Toxic Smoothies by Lovegirl. Dress: this is a costume ball. Wear a costume.

You can help us continue to have a Rubulad in this space by being quiet coming and going, staying inside the space during the event and not pissing all over the sidewalk as soon as you get around the corner � which, incidentally, does attract the police and they will write you a summons. The less our neighbors have to complain about, the more fun we can have.

Rubulad Home Base
338 Flushing Avenue, between Classon and Taaffee, Brooklyn B61 bus to Flushing Ave or G train to Classon, walk on Classon to Flushing 10p doors, 11p show; $10 in costume, before 11p, or way late, $15 otherwise

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Critical Mass Halloween Bike Rides and Time's Up Halloween After-Party

Critical Mass: Grab a bike, and your scariest costume, and get ready to ride through the streets screaming on the Halloween Critical Mass. Become the positive and "spooky" demonstration of what our streets could look like with non-polluting sustainable transportation and community.

Time's Up Halloween After-Party: Three floors of party, two for dancing and music, radical literature, valet bike parking, and bands and DJs, with Sexy Neighbors, Magnet City Kids, Toi Toi Toi, Natural Records, and Karukata. Plus DJ Yo DJ, DJ G Rock, and Faith in the Glitch.

Critical Mass: Union Square Park
17th and Broadway, Manhattan
7p; $free
critical-mass.org

After-Party: Surreal Estate
15 Thames Street, between Bogart and Morgan avenues, Brooklyn 9p; $9.99 sliding scale
times-up.org/index.php?page=halloween-cm

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

The Dwindling Party

This Halloween, Dances of Vice presents the Dwindling Party, an ominous Edward Gorey themed Victorian Halloween fete with a murder mystery undertone that promises to be most elegantly deranged.

The Dwindling Party will feature the murder ballads of special musical guests the Scarring Party, sensational crime scenes performed by resident rapscallions Company XIV, fashions by that ruffled ruffian Purevile!, Cornelius Loy performing on the theremin, and the musical pandemonium of Ben Ickies' 24-piece chamber rock orchestra, This Ambitious Orchestra.

Artists Fyodor Pavlov and Lawrence Gullo will be offering hand-drawn Gorey portraits to our dwindling guests, photographer Steven Rosen will be offering specialty antiquated portraits, and Purevile! and Cor-Leonis will be vending handmade jewelry, candles and accoutrements. Dress code: Neglected Murderesses, Doubtful Guests, Gashlycrumb Tinies, Hapless Children, Gilded Bats, Lonesome Mourners, Dancing Cats, Restless Widows, &c. Costume is required for admission, and prizes from Gorey Details (art and gifts for the dark at heart) for all your Gorey needs and Boilerplate will be awarded for best dressed!

303 Bond Street Theater
303 Bond Street, Brooklyn
9p-4a; $20
dancesofvice.com/home.html

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

The Hallowedgie Masquerade

The Wedge Team would like to cordially invite and thank all of you to celebrate Burning Man Slide Success. The Wedge was awesome and we couldn't have done it without you.

Come celebrate the night before Halloween. Dress in costume, and we'll bring Halloween in right. Devils and witches, pimps and bitches, they will all be here but Big Fat Wedgies take the prize. DJ Mike and DJ Peter Munch will be dropping beats the bar will be cheap, the people fantastic, and special guests will be in site.

The Windmill Factory
155 North 3rd Street, number 15, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 10p-5a; $10 in costume, $15 no costume
wedgeproject.org

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Twas the Night Before Halloween

And we're all wishing it were already our favorite holiday: Christmas. Or Halloween. We can't decide, so we're celebrating both on the same night at Private Parts in Williamsburg with experimental music, dance, video projections, and material waste-inspired art installations.

Heading the monster holiday mash are your premier local purveyors of noise, carols, rock and roll -- Calves, Renminbi, Farms, and White Wave -- plus ghoulish hosts Rome, Natalie, Mario, Samantha, and Dylan. A raucous dance party courtesy of DJ TJ will follow music and dance performances and video projections.

Think of it as a dress rehearsal for Halloween; we hope you'll come in costume. Along with all the performances and your unidentifiable friends, some cheap drinks will help raise the hair on your neck, werewolf-style. Art by Ian and video art by Mothers in Favor. Costumes encouraged.

321 Broadway (at Rodney), fourth floor, Williamsburg, Brooklyn J,M,Z to Marcy Avenue station
9p; $3 suggested

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Rat vs. Snake, Wachtelhausen Brothers and Eyeball Records present:

Hellhounds in the Heights

An evening of Halloween delights. Featuring music by California's Metroid, R-Tronika, Sugar-K, Producer/Mc/DjZesto, and the pride of Washington Heights DJs Velvet and Vanity. Spoken word by Juan Mapu, Tyler Maas (Vermont), and Jason Wachtelhausen. Spooky art by Jasper Latane, Carolina Pineafiel, Rebecca Memoli (Blood Dumpster), and Doug Dacy. Stand up by G. Moe X, and a special appearance by Joan Ryan.

La Pregunta Arts Cafe
1528 Amsterdam Avenue, between 135th and 136th streets, Manhattan 9p; $8 as you are, $5 in costume, $2 nekkid 646 479 8915
wachtelhausenbrothers.blogspot.com/2009/09/some-of-halloween-line-up.html

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Zombie Prom Bushwick

Promed-up Zombies. The most endearing type of zombie, the Prom Zombie will show up at your house, meet your parents, take you to Prom in dads Hurst, all before swallowing your soul. Delectable. Get all dolled up in our powder room, pose for a take home flickbook with your prom date, dance to cheesy love songs, have some spiked punch and $1 whiskey shots before eating each others brains out. True Lovers will make it to the last dance and enjoy blood red champagne with your zombie bartender friends Hannah and Leslie. Zombie DJs and the blood pumping Tayisha Busay will make you party like the undead all night long. Groovy.

Brooklyn Fireproof East, aka the Ally
119 Ingraham, Brooklyn
8p; $free dollars

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Cheryl, the dance party that will ruin your life, presents:

Cherylween

South Brooklyn�s most insane disco bloodbath, a special Devil's Night Disco Bloodbath. Assistant suicide. Chainsaw orchestra. Guts gore and glitter. Shaken Baby Syndrome. IBS. Sexy sexy. Gogo Moyles. Deep-sea oddities. Lurking. Boners. Fleetwood Mac. Need costume inspiration? Think: toddler nightmares; british pig-cat-snake-snots; juggalo insurance actuaries; topaz man; diaperbutts; party witches; flaming hair towers; sex partners; murder jewel crocs; Bobby McFerrin; and Markie Post.

Free zombie makeovers, fake blood baptisms, and other unspeakable debacles. Cheryl is a dance party that explores the themes of mortality, mania, the feline- human connection, the limits of shoulders, the flammability of dollar-store hair extensions, and the staining power of fake blood. Through themes ranging from topical to bizarre, the Cheryls revel in the joyous power of dance-induced psychosis/ euphoria. DJs Sintalentos and Owlpuffs spin electropop, disco, new wave, and old school hip hop. FAQ: Q: Do you have to dress up and get fake bloody? A: Only if you want to. Q: Is this a gay party? A: It�s a mixed gay/straight crowd. Everyone is invited. Make out with everybody.

Bell House
149 7th Street, Brooklyn
10:30p-4a; $5
718 643 6510
cherylthedanceparty@gmail.com
thebellhouseny.com
cherylthedanceparty.tumblr.com/

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Abaddon

A Hellaciously themed Halloween eve at Art LES Studios. Come celebrate the Pagan high holiday with your hosts the Pirates of the L.E.S., for one final Art LES NYC event in a blockbuster 2009 season.

The Lower East Side's only outdoor (tarp-protected) art studio and gallery, throws open the portals to Abaddon, our annual two-level Hellish Haunted Halloween spectacular.

Gaze with horror upon the the Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling, with special guests the Gorgeous Lads of Bloodwrestling. Live wrestling warriors with ridiculous characters and bloody vendettas. Guest entertainers: Tina Cione, and the Demonic Diane O'Debra. Plus heavy metal super robots Dethrace and DJ Pond Scum.

Art LES Studios NYC
202 Rivington Street, between Pitt and Ridge streets, Manhattan 8p-midnight; please give what you can to keep independent, underground arts alive on the Lower East Side; no one turned away for lack of money; only assholes and douchebags turned away artlesnycgmail.com for mandatory RSVP
abaddonnyc.com

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Annual Newsonic Halloween Costume Party

Something about a costume brings out the wild side in people, and every year, our Halloween costume bash is the craziest, most off-the-hook party we throw all year. With live metal, electro, and jazz from Bot, Deathalizer, MFNF, and Jewel Thief, dance music DJ sets from Dynasty Electric, visual delights from VJ Baiowolf, and the Newsonic Haunted House, and cheap drinks, this year's party will not disappoint. Come celebrate Devil's Night with us.

Newsonic Loft
76 Rutledge Street, Brooklyn
9p-4a; $free with costume, $5 without

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Steampunk Haunted House

This Halloween, enter an immersive world of churning gears, mechanical monstrosities, and steam-powered cyborgs as the Abrons Arts Center�s historic Playhouse and catacombs are transformed into New York�s first Steampunk Haunted House.

Elegantly designed, and staged under the direction of Bessie award-winning artist Zach Morris, in collaboration with a team of installation and performance artists, including: Elizabeth Carena, Jesse Green, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Liz Sargent, Brigid C. Scruggs, Barry Weil, Kryssy Wright, and the Abrons� Urban Youth Theater, this terrifying promenade fashions a lush, visually stunning, and fiercely designed and choreographed experience.

Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, at Pitt Street, Manhattan 8�11:30p tours; $25, $10 students
thirdrailprojects.com

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Methinks and the Brooklyn Art Project present:

We Made a Deal With the Devil: New York

Hard on the heels of a daring journey across the wilds of Eastern Canada, agents of the Toronto-based social art arena Methinks have partnered with the Brooklyn Art Project, the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition and other local producers to host the New York City edition of this 15-city touring art show. We Made a Deal with the Devil was inspired by La Chasse-Galerie: a cautionary French-Canadian legend about a group of 19th-century loggers who make a deal with the Devil to ride a flying canoe home for an annual New Year�s Eve party.

Visitors of this show will encounter a portable drawing exhibition, a zine library, installations, performance art, live music and other work by over 100 artists who forged their creations in the deep woods of folklore, collective memory, mythmaking, adventure, and risk.

Highlights: Instructions on how to diagnose and treat the mysterious species of madness known as nympholepsy; psychogeographical research findings; the exorcism of the world�s first Satanic rapper; and an expose on the elusive Eastern Canadian Sasquatch.

Performance art by Ryan Ringer, Graham Nash, Wendy Ventricle plus walls of sound by New York's Big Pig (members of the Drayton Sawyer Gang), and mad verse by Toronto's Garbageface.

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Art Space 499 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn
7p�midnight; $pay what you can
methinkspresents.org/expedition

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HiChristina Makes Halloween Easy

Fritz and Christina Dress You Up and Take You Out. Still having trouble deciding on a costume? Is Halloween just a bit too stressful this year? Fuggedaboutit and leave the thinking to us. Join Fritz and Christina at HiChristina this eerie Halloween eve and make your own splendid costume, get your face and body painted, and then parade with us to three different insane parties in the hellish 'hood we call home. Halloween has never been so easy and so rewarding. We'll have all the items you need for any costume including, but not limited to: Pile-O-Leaves, Cross-Dressing Nanny, sexy this or that, Airplane Meal, Bird's nest, Field of Running Zebra!). And for that final touch of professionalism, bare your cheek(s) to our bodypainters. HiChristina's Spooky Special Guest Body and Face Painters will give you a total Halloween makeover with airbrushes and the works. Once we've got your costume ready, join us as we set out from HiChristina (at about 11p) to go to three pre-determined and extremely extravagant parties en masse, including a haunted house and a phat-a-tat-tat dance party.

HiChristina!
632 Grand Street, Brooklyn
9p; $20 covers everything, costumes, painting, even a goulish trick-or-treat bag 347 495 5868 mobile
rxapparelgmail.com

***** Also on HALLOWEEN *****

Surreal Estate's

Heaven on Hell Halloween Spectacular

Surreal Estate's annual Halloween soiree; this year we're putting the life back into your afterlife and inviting you to explore our collective visions of ecstasy, agony and all that lies between at our Heaven on Hell Halloween spectacular.

Bringing live music to drown out your screams, we welcome PuppetBox, Hank and Cupcakes, R-Tronika, Vanessa Boyd, Bobby the Greek, Cojoba the Drunkard's Wife, I'm Turning Into, Video Daughter, and Kissy Juices. With DJs Geko Jones, Faith in the Glitch, and TV Party keeping your afterlife thumping Heavenly with some badass beats from Hell.

Surreal Estate
15 Thames St, Brooklyn
L train to Morgan Street station
9p, $10

***** Also on HALLOWEEN *****

From Brooklyn Based:

Phantom and the Organ

Come to LAPC on Halloween Night dressed in Costume to watch the Phantom of the Opera (1925), starring Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin. The film will feature organ accompaniment by LAPC's own J. David Williams. All proceeds made will help benefit LAPC's Organ Restoration Fund.

Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn
7p; $10, all proceeds from the event will benefit the restoration of the organ lapcbrooklyn.org/event.php?p=98

***** Also on HALLOWEEN *****

The Last Masquerade

Experience our pre-apocalyptic fairy tale, featuring over three dozen artists and performers, inhabiting three spaces in Brooklyn. Your night begins in the Chapel, a 114-year old building with 26-foot ceilings; then comes the Sanctuary, with five areas, three levels, and one massive dance floor; and finally the Ever After, a warm loft and open-air terrace with music and performance continuing past dawn.

Featuring the Gamelatron, by Aaron Taylor Kuffner, the Riot Temple by Ryan O'Connor, and lighting effects by SeeJ. Fire and apocalyptic performance by the Lady Circus.

Music: Sam Sparro and Golden playing with the Love Grenades, Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin, Derek Plaslaiko, DJ Grimace, Small Change and the wildly rising live sound of the Subatomic Sound System with special guests DJ Collage aka Mr. Chatman and Jahdan Blakkamoore.

Finally is the Ever After, as the sunrises this is our final refuge. Featuring the Falling Flowers, installation by Jen Poueymirou, wall to wall video projections by Chris Jordan, the live sound hi-jinks of the Mickey Western Band and Marygoround, fire art by the Fire Mavens, and the tightly architected techno brilliance of Derek Plaslaiko, DJ Kimyon, and Zemi 17.

Starting at 260 Meserole Street, Brooklyn 7p-7a; $20, $10 before 8:59p
21 and over
thelastmasquerade.com/
thedanger.com

***** Also on HALLOWEEN *****

Gemini and Scorpio cordially invite you to:

Masquerade Macabre

A 12-hour spectacle of atmosphere, costumery, and diverse entertainments, live music, dancing, circus arts, fire, and late-night revelry in two private lofts and a steampunk bar in Prospect Heights.

With dance floor by Brooklyn Wonderland with DJ Stylus, DJ Dirtyfinger, and Reaganomics, and live percussion by Blood Drums. Also DJ Shakey, live flute over world electronica by SuKhush, and vintage soul and funk remix breakfast set by Cloud. Hand-cranked phonograph music by WFMU's DJ Michael Cumella. Balkan rhythms by Raya Brass Band. Victorian music box mix, toy piano mayhem, and circus techno by Sxip Shirey. Fire experience by Dan Glass.

Plus: face and body painting by Painteresse Elyzabeth, fortunes, Tsirkus Fotografika, delectable treats served all night and breakfast at 7a, and absinthe and other mind-altering potions by the House of St Eve.

Costume inspiration: Dark Victoriana, macabre carnival, the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Georges Melies and Brothers Quay films, Edward Gorey, cabinet of curiosities. Costumes required.

RSVP for full location details, Brooklyn 9p-9a; $15 before midnight, $20 after
21 and over
geminiandscorpio.com/events.html
brownpapertickets.com/event/87127

***** Also on HALLOWEEN *****

Fort presents:

Halloween Monster Mash

With Saything (Oakland), Little Teeth (Absolutely Kosher Records, fun noisy pop), Phil and the Osophers (Factual Fabrications), and Tastyville (x-No Doctors). New underground venue, good bands that you won't see on this side of the country for at least another year, and alcoholic prizes.

Fort is an interdisciplinary contemporary art space in the process of re-locating to Brooklyn, NY. We are dedicated to showing the work of emerging, international artists. Monthly solo and group exhibitions will be accompanied by multi-media events and performances.

409 Troutman, Brooklyn
L train to Jefferson station
time?; $5
myspace.com/fortgallery
fortgallery.com

***** Also on HALLOWEEN *****

Brahloween 5

Sightings , Dawn 2, White Deer (neptune), Big Bear, and Dirty Faces. And the Brahloween 5 after party: Dronks (Monks cover band), Knyfe Hyts, TryCryTRy, and insane secret surprise band from barbecue of hell.

Secret Project Robot
210 Kent, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
secretrojectrobot.com

***** Also on HALLOWEEN *****

Candy Crack Delivery Service

Candy Crack is a real make believe drug. It's like children in a tree house (not crack house) pretending to sell drugs. It's peddled in a neighborhood where you don't have to grow up, so it makes sense that we are pretending to be kids doing the bad things that adults do. No one wants to get old, but no one wants to be just a kid. With Candy Crack you can have it both ways.

Call for the delivery of a 100 percent sugar crack rock (multicolored and multi-flavored with snow cone syrup) to your Brooklyn house. Expect a 7-foot tall man in a plush, blue fish mascot head, white gloves and a tuxedo to come knocking soon after. You can purchase a few rocks for $1 a pop in a dime bag. Can't say too much here because y'know it's drugs.

Call or text 347 742 2293 for delivery at the appropriate time Serving Williamsburg and Greenpoint only 10p-2a; $1
clubanimalsnyc.blogspot.com

***** Also on HALLOWEEN *****

Raev of the Dead 2 : I Spit on Your Rave

The Milk of Paradise and Knifeshow Music present a full service Halloween at Glasslands. The Full Service crew has returned to Williamsburg's Glasslands for another frightnight Halloween.

Featuring Knifeshow's Wrecktech and Jack Inslee, Serious Buisness's Mike McGill and Tackleberry, and the hideous two-headed Mo/Rdan on the turntables.

Visuals by filmmaker Tommy Button, Pitchfork TV's Will Colby, and the Milk of Paradise's Dan Breindel.

Expect a night of heavy bass, catchy tunes, sweaty dancing and cheap drinks. Prepare to feel the power of the Knifeshow Confetti Cannon, to be blinded by the Milk of Paradise Lusterfuck, and to party an extra hour late for daylight savings. Wear a costume! Bring a condom! O the Horror.

The Glasslands
289 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn
10p-until we all die; $5
glasslands.com
milkofparadise.com

***** Also on HALLOWEEN *****

Boo-ski!

The party room of the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant transformed into a Halloween playhouse. Hosted by Linda Simpson. With co-hosts Sylvia London and Violet Temper. DJ Tommy Hottpants. With Julie Atlas Muz and Flloyd and a costume contest. Dancing, amazing d�cor, full bar!.

Ukrainian East Village Restaurant
140 Second Avenue, between St. Mark�s Place and 9th Street, Manhattan 9p-2a; $10

***** Also on HALLOWEEN *****

Slaughterin' Slobbersville

Mutant party slimy show gross musical chaos fun. Too many artists and not enough space/time. With Ching Chong Song, Blevin Blectum, Frog, Nate Hill, Irene Moon, Nan Turner, Dany, Myrobotfriend, Wowz, Barnwave, Egg, Nathan Smithe�s Funeral, Steffko, Kevin Blechdom, Robert Pinnock, Phoebe Kruetz, Dan Costello, Preston Spurlock, Tara White, Jason�s And Digestive Trachtenburg. Video by and Bryan Lewis Saunders.

Goodbye Blue Mondays
1087 Broadway, Brooklyn
9p; $free
all ages

***** Also on HALLOWEEN *****

Green Halloween Community Festival

For kids of all ages, featuring interactive art and performances, a spooky sculpture garden made from recycled materials and healthy treat giveaways. Also featuring a large and growing Green Clown posse, a Michael Jackson thriller-off (4p), drink and food specials at nearby establishments (halloween parade pre-party!) and an inspired selection of creativity and absurdity.

Hosted by non-for-profit associations Action Arts League with Dr. Mehmet Oz's HealthCorps and many other groups contributing.

DeSalvio Park
Spring and Mulberry Streets, Manhattan
Noon-5p; $free
greenhalloweennyc.org/festival.htm

***** Also on HALLOWEEN *****

The Greatest Halloween Party Ever 5

When Dorothy Gale clicked her heels, she had no idea what she was leaving behind. Before her now legendary arrival in Oz, a delicate balance of power existed between the Four Witches, keeping order throughout the land. But with Dorothy's destruction of the Witches East and West, this balance was lost, and a great war erupted between North and South. After seventy savage years, it was the North to emerge victorious in battle, ruling over a now scarred and darkened land.

Armed with knowledge, understanding and strength, the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion formed an alliance with The Flying Monkeys. Together, they waged a desperate and valiant uprising to take back Oz from the despotic Glinda.

Welcome to the Annihilation of Oz. With Dorothy's demolished bedroom, a giant fighting tree see saw (hopefully he will be nicer to us than he was to Toto), a life size tornado, and the one and only ball pit.

Bands: Dragons of Zynth, Toys in Trouble, and the Vandelles. DJs: Smut Villian, Queso Stacks, and Hooray. With free beer from 8-9 and free perogies from 8-10. Best and worst costume prizes.

Warsaw
261 Driggs Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 8p; $20
21 and over
718 344 4423
thegreatesthalloweenpartyever.com

***** Also on HALLOWEEN *****

The Superheroes Halloween Ball

An evening of music, drinks, and dancing to raise funds for the History of the Universe as Told by Wonder Woman, a documentary feature. Costumes encouraged but not required, and yes you can wear the non-superhero costume you already have.

Studio 385
385 Broadway, third floor, Manhattan
8p; $25
shanclareitygmail.com
vaquerafilms.com/wonderwoman

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Jenny Rocha and Her Painted Ladies

Come spend Halloween weekend with Jenny Rocha and her Painted Ladies. The fierce quintet will perform sexy vignettes that fuse dance with physical comedy and theater. Also on the bill is a Thriller tribute with special guests, cigarette girls, and music spun by DJ Sumo Joe.

The quintet includes: Jillian Hollis, Shevaun Smythe Hiler, Molly Merkler, Jessy Smith, and Jenny Rocha.

Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street, Brooklyn
$10, or discount Code Rocha for $5 tickets galapagosartspace.com

NOTE: If you were wondering what was going to happen in burlesque, well, this is it. Jenny Rocha and Her Painted Ladies are whatever comes next. Not as surreal as New York queen Julie Atlas Muz, but very, very clever and eye-poppingly tight. A lot of burlesque in New York is performance art disguised by nudity. The Painted Ladies don't bother with the disguise. These are fly girls for thinking people.

***** Also on SUNDAY *****

Church of Craft

Yes! The new labs are ready for us to make merry and craft! And they are awesome!! I know you are all going to be a little fuzzy (in one way or another) the day after halloween, but this will be the perfect time to celebrate the second best thing about halloween: it's proximity to the day of the dead! Come make sugar skulls or tissue paper flowers, shrines, or stories about your ancestors. Or just come, no matter what you are making, we'd love to make with you.

It is true, the sewing machines have been fixed. The labs come equipped with your basics: scissors, tape, pens, thread, but I encourage you to bring supplies that you want to work with in addition to what is there.

Etsy is all about encouraging people to make stuff, just like us, so we get to have this special event craft-on every month, where access to all of their goodies is totally free. If you like it there you can go back and craft Monday evenings.

Our meeting will be the usual casual drop in affair, come any time, bring anyone, bring anything you are working on or come & just check out what everyone else is up to. Snacks are welcome.

Etsy Labs
55 Washington Street, Suite 512, Brooklyn 2-6p; $free
etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/all-about-etsy-faq-series-welcome-to-the-e tsy-labs-936/

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Board Game Olympics V

Leaves turn, rain falls. Cold creeps in. Gone are the temperate days of having dinner outside or walking comfortably hand-in-hand (with somebody) through the park, the warm breeze gently caressing your bare upper arms. What are you to do -- stay in your dank apartment and mope? No way! Stay in your dank apartment and mope? No how! Get out and have some fun.

We�ll be accepting up to 12 teams, four people per team. Cozy on up to the competition with a steaming, spicy glass of beer and a piping hot game of Jenga. Spend some time with us. And yes, if you wish, you can show up getting one last use out of your Halloween costumes (until you bust it out for Turnip Lantern Festival on November 11).

Union Hall
702 Union Street, just off 5th Avenue, Brooklyn 7-11p; $30 per team
metrometroland.com/events.htm
tartanplace.com/hcustom/turnip.html

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The Bushwick Book Club: Darwin

The Book Club presents songs about Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. It's the sesquicentennial of this seminal work, and this book club is celebrating the only way we know how -- with evolution inspired songs and natural selection birthday cake. Sexual selection drink specials will also be had.

Songwriters for this night are: Anna Leuchtenberger, Ben Krieger, Dave Novak, Dibson T. Hoffweiler , Franz Nicolay , Isaac Gillespie, Maria Sonevytsky, Susan Hwang, Sweet Soubrette, Teresa Amram and Victor Varnado .

Goodbye Blue Monday,
1087 Broadway, Brooklyn
8p; $free
goodbye-blue-monday.com/

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Rope Trivia Presents: Presidential Trivia Night

Do you know which U.S. president shot a man in cold blood? How about which one liked to skinny-dip in the Potomac? History buffs of all political affiliations can bring their presidential trivia acumen and 2-4 potential future cabinet members to Rope for a chance to win cash, drinks, bragging rights, and chances to spin our bonus prize wheel.

Rope
415 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn
C or G trains to Clinton-Washington station 9p; $2

***** Also on TUESDAY *****

Adult Education presents:

The Proper Prank

With The Yes Men, Doing It Outside In: Breaking the Bank with the Yes Men; Tim Harrod, You Are Dumb: How the Media are Pranking You Even as You Read This Events Listing; Patrick DiJusto, The Day I Gave My Brother Appendicitis; and Stephen Bruckert's Don't Feed the Trolls: Life Lessons From the Internet's Most Popular Blood Sport. Hosted, as always, by the inimitable Charles Star

Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union Street, at 5th Avenue, Brooklyn 8p; $5 cover
347 715 2013
adult-ed.net

NOTE: Always fun and interesting.

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Lucid NYC

Lucid NYC is an event series that brings together the city's best thinkers and doers. Sort of like TED if it were held in a bar and cost $15. Here are our presenters this month:

Jordan Seiler of Public Ad Campaign, keeping the streets safe from the retinal-fracturing scourge of our increasingly ad-infested urban landscape.

Comedian, speaker, interactive solo performer and social artist Heather Gold. Called �the turkey baster love child of Sarah Silverman and Rachel Maddow.�

MIT Media and AI Lab alum Dan Paluska talking about robots and public information appliances. Live performance by the Genie.

Bowery Electric
127 Bowery, at 2nd Street, Manhatttan
7p doors, 8:30p presentations; $15 advance, $20 door lucidnyc.com

***** Also on WEDNESDAY *****

Dorkbot

People doing strange things with electricity. Please bring snacks to share. Featuring the waxy and light-bearing: Julia Burns: Privacy Online; Yuliya Lanina: Mechanical Dolls Lanina; Britta Riley: Window Farms The Windowfarms.

Location One
Greene Street, between Canal and Grand, Manhattan 7-9p; $free

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• Mr. Lower East Side Pageant, November 12

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• Better Rock Shows. Nonsense does not straight list rock shows in New York unless they occur in tandem with puppet shows or jump rope tournaments or in subway tunnels or in graveyards. For listings of good shows, especially shows that feature independent bands at quality venues like Death by Audio and those booked by hard-working promoters like Todd P or Sleep When Dead, consult resources like ohmyrockness.com, brooklynvegan.com/, sleepwhendeadnyc.com/calendar/, or the lively New York Happenings listserve on Yahoo groups launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/nyhappenings/. For the most exhaustive list of underground shows at unusual venues, track down a copy of the extremely useful -- and handsome -- Showpaper.

***** ONGOING: FRIDAYS *****

• Neo Futurists present Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. Thirty original plays in 60 minutes. Also on SATURDAYS. The Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street, Manhattan. 10:30p; $11 plus the roll of a six-sided die, $15 presale. nynf.org
• Manhattan Critical Mass. Union Square, 17th Street and Broadway, Manhattan. Last FRIDAY of the month. 7p; $free.
• Brooklyn Critical Mass. Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Second FRIDAY of the month. 7p; $free.

***** ONGOING: SATURDAYS *****

• Floating Cabaret. Trapeze, burlesque, song, dance. Hosted by Olga and Bjorn. Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn. 10p doors, $10. 718 222 8500. galapagosartspace.com.
• Barefoot Boogie: No shooze no booze. The Boogie is a not-for-profit alcohol-free event that happens every second and fourth Saturday of the month. Insight Meditation Center, 28 West 27th Street, 10th floor, buzzer No. 27. 8:30p-12:30a. barefootboogie.org

***** ONGOING: SUNDAYS *****

• Grub. A cheap, simple dinner for strangers and co-conspirators. Rubulad home base, 338 Flushing, at Classon, Brooklyn. G train to Flushing or Classon stations, J,M,Z to Marcy, B61 bus to Flushing. First and third SUNDAYS, 6:30p doors, 7p dinner; $pay what you want, and bring your own booze. suckapants.com/grub.html
• Church of Craft, group crafting. Etsy Labs, 325 Gold Street, third floor, Brooklyn. 2-6p; $free. churchofcraft.org/
• NYC Bike Polo. No experience needed. We'll show you how to play. We have mallets and balls; bring your bicycle. 1:30-5p-ish (or later if it's really nice out); $free. Sara D. Roosevelt Park, Broome between Chrystie and Forsyth, Manhattan. groups.myspace.com/NYCBIKEPOLO

***** ONGOING: MONDAYS *****

• The Big Quiz Thing. NYC's live trivia spectacular. Crash Mansion, 199 Bowery, at Spring, Manhattan. Two Mondays a month. 7p doors; $7, $200 grand prize.
• Demonstration of the Great Organ, there are five organs in the beautiful St. John the Divine church up on Amsterdam Avenue, but the most impressive is the Great Organ. The head organist is giving a demonstration on how the organ functions. 1p; $free. Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan.
• Glasslands Gallery Variety and Game Night. All ages, free sangria 8-8:30p, live music, video, and bingo. The Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent Avenue, between South 1st and 2nd streets, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 8p; $free. glasslands.blogspot.com/ and myspace.com/theglasslands
• Aerial Open Work Out. Come play in 29 feet of vertical fun. Use our silks, lyras, and trapezes, or rig your own. 8-10p; $15, Sky Box, 342 Maujer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, L train to Grand Street. 585 507 1770. RSVP to skybox.info@gmail.com
• Show and Tell. Each performer gets seven minutes. Writing contest and Beer Walk for free beer. Hosted by the O'Debra Twins. Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, Manhattan.

***** ONGOING: TUESDAYS *****

• Jugglers Anonymous: The Pratt Chapter. All ages and abilities welcome to practice juggling and related arts. Student Union, Pratt Institute (200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn) 7:30-11p $free jugglenyc.com/clubs.html

***** ONGOING: WEDNESDAYS *****

• Drink N Draw. Art. Nudity. Beer. We provide the beer and the model, you bring your drawing tools of choice. 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan, Brooklyn. Second and fourth WEDNESDAYS 8-10.30p; $15, or $20 for two. afenton3rdward.com, 3rdward.com/.

***** ONGOING: THURSDAYS *****

• Carmine Street Jugglers. All levels welcome to practice juggling and related arts. 7:30-9:30p. Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, corner Varick and Clarkson, Manhattan. Club is free, but building requires NYC Parks and Recreation membership ($free-$75 per year). jugglenyc.com/clubs.html
• The Lower East Side Community Choir, a non-auditioned choir that believes that everyone can sing and that singing together in harmony with others is essential for personal and community health and vitality. Our repertoire is eclectic. If you love a cappella music and want to be able to join a drop-in gathering of like minded people, then this is for you. Lower East Side Girls Club, 56 East 1st Street, Manhattan. 7-9p; $donations. ubuntuchoirs.net/locator_United_States.php
• $mall �hange and House of Yes present: No Parking on the Dancefloor. Next party: July 30. A party bringing it back to dancing. Basically we do not have any kind of dogma or judgment. Do what feels comfortable to you and be respectful to those around ya, that's basically all we ask. Different DJs every time. House of Yes, 342 Maujer, near Morgan, Brooklyn. Every third THURSDAY, 9ish-midnightish (starts/ends early); $5-10 suggested donation. NOTE: This event is every third Thursday, not every Thursday. Also, sometimes they cancel the event for some reason or another. You should check first: smallchange666@gmail.com

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What have you been wishing for? Collaborators, grant monies, a new home? Please send brief listings to Alita at alitanonsensenyc.com. We only list available apartments, lofts, studios, and one-off rentals -- not spaces wanted.

***** ARTY STUFF *****

• Call for helpers, collaborators and guest artists for Moral Aquarium on 37th Street: a storefront diorama where real life dramas proposed by regular everyday people will be used to create a presentation of NYC pedestrian life transposed onto a cast of undersea characters. The project unfolds in two phases, taking place November 4-17. In the construction performance, worker polyp and zooplankton volunteers help build the coral reef, assemble undersea costumes, and collect street stories from passersby. As the reef nears completion and stories are compiled, a program of presentations will begin. The schedule of narratives, scenes, dances etc. will be posted in the window each day. The Moral Aquarium will keep regular hours with a morality tale highlight each evening. The space will also serve as a venue for aquarium themed performances by guest artists. Made possible in part by chashama. chashama.org If you or your group would like to be involved, contact Dillon, implausibot( at)yahoo.com or see implausibot.com.
• Two Actors Needed. I'm casting two actors for a large multimedia production that will be staged in an abandoned building in April 2010. Both actors should be in their early to mid 20s. Kevin Lee is an Asian-American newspaper reporter who develops an unusual drug problem. Serena is a flirtatious college girl who breaks his heart. This is a cold, dirty production that will take you far away from the black box theater and even further from Broadway. No prima donnas. Really. We are casting now in order to produce a photo shoot with a late autumn backdrop in Boston. Full rehearsals in mid March. Production in April. Very, very little money. Send a picture (doesn't have to be a headshot) and something about a recent production you were in to jstark@nonsensenyc.com.
• Index is seeking art and music for an exhibit/performance entitled Rock Dreams: Artist-Made Songs. Participants should create an original song with vocals on any subject, in any musical genre. You will have the option of performing your song live, or making a music video to be screened at the opening reception. Art of any medium on the theme of music experiences, fantasies, and popular lore will be displayed in the gallery. Additionally, live artists will draw the backgrounds of historic album covers for visitors to pose with as his or her favorite rock star. Non-musicians and non-artists are encouraged to participate. Deadline: November 7. Please include your full name, description, dimensions, price and phone number. All mediums welcome. Work not yet realized will be considered. Submit your proposals, jpeg images, mp3 audio, or video links to Steven Dressler, index.gallery(at)gmail.com. Please write Rock Dreams in the subject line.
• Our annual Handmade Holiday Craft Fair has been a huge success drawing over 1,500 people with great locally made gifts, live music, delicious foods and exciting workshops. And we're making the magic happen all over again this year! But we need you! This year it takes place December 12, noon to 6p. Share your goods with hundreds of creative gift-givers at our classic, marketplace-style craft fair. The 2009 Handmade Holiday Craft Fair showcases the wares of local artisans and craft mavens amidst live performances, winter treats, delicious drinks and free workshops. The vendor submission deadline is November 11 and the space is limited. All applicants will be notified of participation by November 16. Signing up is easier than ever and can all be done online. 3rdward.com/craftfairabout/
• Have you ever had the urge to drunkenly roam the streets of beautiful downtown New York City in search of fresh brains? Hungry for an adventure of necrophilic proportions? Then join the Alternative Arts Association as they enter their premier year in the Village Halloween Parade! We have assembled a Zombie Death Cart in order to wreak havoc amongst the unknowing revelers of New York City this All Hallows Eve and we want you to join us. We need dancers and drinkers, zombie slaves to drive the deathmobile, partiers and mischief-makers. We will be meeting at the corner of 6th Avenue and Canal Street between 5:30-6:30p. Arrive no later than 6:30. We will need to get ourselves organized with as much time as possible. Dress to your zombie best. There will be a good number of us, and we want death to impress! There will be blood and such, but not enough to go around, so please come in costume! If you are interested, please accept this invitation and e-mail alternativeartsassociati on(at)gmail.com, and keep an eye out for the exact time and location of our cart launch (the parade itself launches at 7p).
• Hello, I am an artist from Germany living in London, who is looking for Germans living in NYC who would be interested to participate in a film project that will be realized in NYC from early February to April next year. I intend to critically investigate how cultural productions have been used to deal with German history. I plan to have separate conversations with seven different Germans living in NYC and use different notions as a starting point for each participant. These are memory, silence (in opposition to language), trauma, the body, architecture, cultural productions, and the witness. From there a conversation shall develop. I just wanted to note that this is not about conveying specific knowledge and I don't expect the participants to have expert knowledge in this area at all, just an interest to discuss such issues. This is more about personal opinions and experiences. I plan to transcribe the interview and record the participant and me reading the transcript, whic h will take place in a theatre space without audience. I am aware that this is quite general and I am happy to go through this in more detail with those who are interested. Please contact me at info(at)graceschwindt.net, and you can see some other works at graceschwindt.net.
• I'm looking for digital camera donations. I work for an organization called Voces de Cambio, based in Guatemala. VdC works hands-on with young Guatemalan women on gender equity issues using photography and writing as the primary tools for empowerment. While we'll take any donated digital camera, we would especially love cameras that are six megapixels or above and/or have a traditional viewfinder and/or take rechargeable AA batteries. Anyone with a camera to donate can contact me directly at nicolecordier(at)gmail.com.

***** SPACES *****

• One-Bedroom Sublet in a Three-Bedroom Carroll Gardens Apartment. $725 per month includes utilities and wireless. One-month deposit. Available November 15. Sublet ends May 31, 2010. Share a bright, colorful Carroll Gardens apartment with three graduate students in our 30s. Wood floors and lots of windows. Good cooking kitchen. Great heat. Solid pre-war building a block from the Carroll stop on the F and G trains. We are bike riders and food eaters-- one boy-girl couple and another guy. We're neat without being overbearing, and we all get out a lot; in fact one of us only lives here part time. We are busy people who work hard; you should be busy too. Your room is smallish but not ridiculous and comes with a bed if you want it and built in shelves and a clothes rack. Not much storage, so you'll be more comfortable if you don't have too much stuff. No pets unfortunately -- we're allergic. Cigarette smoking outside only. Women preferred for gender balance. Interested? Tell us a bit about yourself: jstark@nonsensenyc.com.
• Beautiful Birdhouse Seeking Final Member of the Flock: Do you have house aspirations? We have a house. Gorgeous room in a Bed-Stuy brownstone, the rest of the house to share with a girl and a guy, both in our early 30s. Not a couple. We are looking for someone who wants to cook the occasional meal and share it, is not averse to dinner parties, composting, doing-it-yourself instead of hiring-someone-to-do-it-for-you; bike riders and world-savers preferred. There will be a piano in the living room but no TV. One of us is a musician/designer. The other is a law student/gardener/organizer. We belong to the Bed-Stuy CSA and the Park Slope Food Coop. We are looking for someone who pays attention to the impact they make on the world and is a good communicator. An easy laugh and a mean vegan pancake recipe are a bonus. No smoking indoors, no furry pets (we have birds, two parakeets and a canary). The house is the top two floors of a duplex with a lot of original details. It has two full bathrooms (one with a clawfoot tub), a washer/dryer, living room with a coat closet, a decent alcove kitchen, storage and attic workspace for your messy (but small) projects. Room to bring your bike inside in the winter, roof access, a front stoop and small outdoor front yard area for raised bed garden dreams in the springtime and a place to drink a coffee on the street year-round. The downstairs neighbors are a couple with a child (mayhem limited). It's on Lexington Ave between Bedford and Nostrand, three short blocks from the Bedford-Nostrand G station and a 10-minute walk from the A/C. Great coffee shop, newly renovated YMCA (with pool), lots of trees, murals, community gardens nearby. Your room would be on the second floor with two big windows facing the street (window boxes for flowers!) It's gigantic and has the original fireplace, floors etc. It also has a little nook with built-in closet and drawers. It's 12 feet by 15 feet. The other rooms on this floor are the kitchen, living room, a housemate's office and bathroom. It's a steal. Available November 1. $800 per month. First month & deposit to move in. We are just moving into this house - you would get the joy of making it a home with us. Rent and move-in are negotiable a little bit, depending on your situation. Includes heat and hot water. We split electric and internet. Email paulaznyc(at)gmail.com.
• More Love to Share -- downstairs bedroom available November 15. $850, all utilities included, furnished (or not). Large private bedroom available in our architecturally gorgeous loft space. Lots of light, air, casual -- comfortable -- friendly environment. The room is nine foot by twelve foot, seven foot ceiling, with large closet, built-in shelves. Bedroom has an interior, operable window and glass tiles which face an exterior window and the main interior space. This place has to be experienced in person. The architecture is inspiring, a tremendous sense of space, very relaxing. The kitchen is fully equipped and inviting for cooking or dinner parties. The common area has a large living room. Everyone who has ever lived here has loved being here and moved on for good reasons. One month security deposit due before move in. The loft is 1,100 square feet live/work loft space in northern Greenpoint, Brooklyn at Freeman and Manhattan Avenues. Hardwood floor, 16 foot ceiling, ful l bathroom, two factory windows, skylight, bicycle storage. Common area is available for project based work space. No cigarettes, no cigars. We are four people (three guys, one gal) working in various creative industries - late twenties to early forties. We are quiet at night, friendly and respectful. We keep the house tidy. Yes, four people sounds like a lot but we're not crowded, even with guests this house is spacious. We have three entertaining cats (sorry, no more pets). We are looking to share our welcoming house with a nice person. Contact Heather, beasthouseever(at)gmail.com.
• Available for sublet, starting November 7-January 15. Wonderful spacious bedroom with four windows overlooking Maria Hernandez Park on the corner of Knickerbocker and Suydam. 10 blocks from 3rd Ward, 12 blocks from the House of Yes. Share two-bedroom apartment with lovely 26-year-old roommate who works as an assistant to a literary agent, fat kitty, and 10,000 books. Closest subway stop is Jefferson or DeKalb on the L train. Wireless, utilities, hot water included in $800 per month rent. Contact Larken asap to view 917 548 4551.
• We are a group of 20 art students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (gerritrietveldacademie.nl/). We are in the Writing and Performance department and we will do a film project, Rietveld UnCut, in NY that will be playing in a theater in Amsterdam the end of November. We want to visit NY's Performa Festival, the performance art festival in November and try to get enough money together to be able to stay for 10 days to do some filming. We will arrive November 16 and we will leave November 26. Because of our limited budgets we are looking for a place, house, wherever, we could stay at night. It doesn't have to be fancy -- if we could only sleep there it would be great! Contact Alexandra Duvekot, mariegeronimo@gmail.com.

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Before we had a name, the Spectre Event Horizon Group used to meet at a bar to commiserate about the news and trade what our business friends call best practices. The group has expanded since then, but it remains premised on smartening the crowd mind. There are no subject limits; our favorite is our sci-fi present, and we like anything that goes toward a better understanding of human behavior and ecology. Our basic idea is to connect minds with mind-blowing information and create a space for the informal trade of specialized investigative research, presented for the non-specialist.

The Spectre email list, which is a separate group from this column, is a moderated open forum. People are encouraged to join and to post. This section is compiled for Nonsense by J. Sinopoli. Contact us at spectre.event.horizon.groupgmail.com or spectregroup.org. Some of what came in this week:

***** Make Your Own Supercomputer *****

http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/make-your-own-supercompute/

PlayStation 3 Tutorial
http://www.ps3cluster.umassd.edu/
http://www.xbox360forum.com/forum/chit-chat/87640-scientists-use-ps3s-create-supercomputer.html "Computer hobbyists and researchers take note: two U.S. scientists have created a step-by-step guide on how to build a supercomputer using multiple PlayStation 3 video-game consoles. The instructional guide allows users with some programming knowledge to install a version of the open-source operating system Linux on the video consoles and connect a number of consoles into a computing cluster or grid. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth physics professor Gaurav Khanna first built the cluster a year ago to run his simulations estimating the gravitational waves produced when two black holes merged. Frustrated with the cost of renting time on supercomputers, which he said can cost as much as $5,000 to run a 5,000-hour simulation, Khanna decided to set up his own computer cluster using PS3s, which had both a powerful processor developed by Sony, IBM and Toshiba, but also an open platform that allows different system software to run on it. On the how-to-guide Khanna says the eigh t-console cluster is roughly comparable in speed to a 200 node IBM Blue Gene supercomputer. Khanna says his research now runs using a cluster of 16 PS3s. Khanna's not the first researcher to use PS3s to simulate the effects of a supercomputer. The University of Stanford's Folding at Home project allows people to help with research into how proteins self-assemble -- or fold -- by downloading software onto their home PS3s, creating a virtual supercomputer. Their research is currently targeting proteins relevant to diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease. But the guide posted by Khanna and Poulin is the first that might allow someone to set up a supercomputer in their own home."

See Also
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3325757/Why-scientists-love-games-consoles.html "Todd Mart�nez has persuaded the supercomputing centre at the University of Illinois to buy eight computers each driven by two of the specialised chips that are at the heart of Sony's PlayStation 3 console. Together with his student Benjamin Levine he is using them to simulate the interactions between the electrons in atoms, as part of work to see how proteins in the body dovetail with drug molecules. He was inspired while browsing through his son's games console's technical specification "I noticed that the architecture looked a lot like high performance supercomputers I had seen before," he says. "That's when I thought about getting one for myself." The Wii, made by Nintendo, has a motion tracking remote control unit that is cheaper than a comparable device built from scratch. The device recently emerged as a tool to help surgeons to improve their technique. Meanwhile, neurologist Thomas Davis at the Vanderbilt Medical Centre in Nashville, Tennessee, is using it to measure movement deficiencies in Parkinson's patients to assess how well a patient can move when they take part in drug trials.

Folding@home
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-PS3 http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/02/foldinghome-rea/ Folding@home Reaches Million PS3-User Milestone "Sony recently announced that more than one million PlayStation 3 owners are taking part in Folding@home, the distributed computing project run by Stanford University. The participation of PS3 owners in Folding@home allows the project "to address questions previously considered impossible to tackle computationally." Folding@home's mission is to try and better understand how proteins fold, and how misfolds are related to various diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. PS3s currently comprise about 74 percent of the entire computing power of Folding@home. When the project achieved a petaflop in September, it officially became the most powerful distributed computing network in the world."

XBox
http://hackingthexbox.com/
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8254159.stm "The Warwick team harnessed a single Xbox 360 Graphical Processing Unit (GPU). "Instead of pumping out stunning graphics, it's reworked; in the case of my research, rather than calculating the position of a structure and texture it's now working out the different chemical levels in a cell."

Salvaged PCs
http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/
http://extremelinux.esd.ornl.gov/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-do-it-yourself-superc The Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer
"Our solution was to construct a computing cluster using obsolete PCs that ORNL would have otherwise discarded. Dubbed the Stone SouperComputer because it was built essentially at no cost, our cluster of PCs was powerful enough to produce ecoregion maps of unprecedented detail. Other research groups have devised even more capable clusters that rival the performance of the world's best supercomputers at a mere fraction of their cost. We knew that obsolete PCs at the U.S. Department of Energy complex at Oak Ridge were frequently replaced with newer models. The old PCs were advertised on an internal Web site and auctioned off as surplus equipment. A quick check revealed hundreds of outdated computers waiting to be discarded this way. Perhaps we could build our Beowulf cluster from machines that we could collect and recycle free of charge. We commandeered a room at ORNL that had previously housed an ancient mainframe computer. Then we began collecting surplus PCs to create the St one SouperComputer. Our room at Oak Ridge turned into a morgue filled with the picked-over carcasses of dead PCs. Once we opened a machine, we recorded its contents on a "toe tag" to facilitate the extraction of its parts later on. We developed favorite and least favorite brands, models and cases and became adept at thwarting passwords left by previous owners. On average, we had to collect and process about five PCs to make one good node."

Previously on Spectre: Gravity Waves
http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/gravity-waves/

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We look for the sort of classes you circled in college course catalogs but never managed to fit into your schedule. And we also look for the kind of things that no college could teach. Cheap and eclectic is the rule, though all rules get broken occasionally, and we especially love workshops, round-tables, and teachers who won't take your work out of your hands and show you how to do it right. One-time listings are categorized, with general recurring classes at the end. We thrive on your suggestions, so make sure to tell us about upcoming classes that you think are nifty-keen.

Learning is compiled and edited weekly by Libby Sentz. Send listings, announcements, and corrections to her at libbysentz(at)me.com.

***** LEARNING: SATURDAY *****

Crocheting Floral Designs

Learn the creative and colorful craft of crochet, with a botanical touch. This four-session workshop will introduce the basic stitches, techniques, and materials of crochet. Turning to the garden for inspiration, we will use our repertoire of stitches and a variety of fibers and beads to create crocheted flowers. Floral shapes may be used individually as pins or hair ornaments or be combined into scarves, shawls, afghans, and more! A supply list will be sent upon registration. Led by Pamela Miller Ness.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden
1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn
2�4:30p, October 31; November 7, 14, 21 $115 (members), $125 (nonmembers)
718-623-7220
bbg.org/edu/adult/

***** LEARNING: SUNDAY *****

Bookmaking for the Day of the Dead

Celebrate the Day of the Dead with a bookmaking and bookburning ritual. Esther Smith, author, bookmaker and co-proprietor of Purgatory Pie Press, will instruct on how to make Books for the Dead. Loosely combining diverse cultural rituals, participants will use Chinese funerary papers and hinge/mend with torn found papers. We will embellish these books using collage, stamp, drawing, and writing and then burn our Books For the Dead (or not, if you prefer), in order to transport their messages to our friends in the Great Beyond. Next door, partners-in-residence Observatory and Morbid Anatomy Library are throwing a Dia De Muertes party with Mexican food, traditional crafts, and a communally-prepared altar to the dead. You may bring an object that reminds you of a loved one to place on the altar.

Proteus Gowanus
543 Union Street, Brooklyn
down the alley off Nevins
5-7p; $10
RSVP to info(at)proteusgowanus.com
proteusgowanus.com

***** LEARNING: Also on SUNDAY *****

Free Children's Book Writing Class

Gotham Writers' workshop is offering it's last free workshop of the year: Writing children's books, led by Michael Leviton.

McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince Street, Manhattan
6-7p; $free
writingclasses.com/communityevents/index.php

***** LEARNING: MONDAY *****

The Comedy of Life, Death, and Art: A Workshop to Develop Comedic and Creative Work

The purpose of this interdisciplinary (but mostly writing/performing) workshop is to develop creative work with an emphasis on discovering and emphasizing the comedic elements; to identify and explore comedic concepts/principles; to integrate comedy into writing and performing; and to develop skills in terms of both writing and publicly presenting your work. The workshop will introduce participants to a variety of comedic work, including creative nonfiction essays, film, music, standup comedy, sketch comedy, and other genres. Participants will develop a new piece in their chosen genre over eight sessions, and much of the workshop time will be devoted toward workshopping individual pieces while introducing and exploring relevant concepts. The emphasis is not on forcing a particular style on anyone, nor on trying to be funny, but on encouraging workshop participants to find/develop her/his own voice, and on revealing existing comedy in a natural way. The workshop will culminate in a public presentation of work. Led by Samantha Chanse, a writer & performer, teacher, and arts organizer.

Asian American Writers' Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A, Manhattan Mondays, November 2 to December 21
7-9p; $290 (nonmembers), $265 (members) aaww.org/events_workshops.html

***** LEARNING: Also on MONDAY *****

Getting Back to Why: A Workshop to Awaken Your Artist

This six-session dance workshop with Leanne Schmidt is geared toward intermediate and advanced dancers looking to reignite their passion and reconnect with their artist-self. Remember what it feels like to move, fly, indulge, question, and make artistic choices. Each class will include a technique warm up, phrase work, improvisational games, performance play, and plenty of discussion.

Triskelion Arts
118 North 11th Street, Williamsburg
3rd floor, Studio A
November 2, 9, 16, 30; December 7, 14
6-8p; $10 per class, or register for all six for $54 leanneschmidt.com
triskelionarts.org/events.htm#classesoffered

***** LEARNING: WEDNESDAY *****

Mask-Making

This session will introduce mask-making and demonstrate the use of historical and cultural references for inspiration, for research, and for learning about the functions and forms of masks in other cultures. Led by Joy Suarez.

Materials for the Arts
33-00 Northern Boulevard, 3rd Floor, Long Island City 4:30-7p; $10
mfta.org/education_workshop_schedule.html

***** LEARNING: THURSDAY *****

Ayahuasca Monologues

Reality Sandwich presents the Third Annual Ayahuasca Monologues, Tales from the Spirit Vine, which includes five new visionary stories about ayahuasca, the renowned sacred brew of the Amazon. For centuries, shamans have drunk this powerful concoction to heal illness, obtain mystical insights, contact spirit guides, and explore magical worlds. Hear of experiences both miraculous and terrifying when Westerners access ayahuasca's incredible gifts. Opening Icaros (medicine songs) by Manuel Rufino, an ayahuasquero and healer from Native American traditions. Introduction by Daniel Pinchbeck, author of �2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. Storytellers: Alex Grey: visionary artist; Margaret De Wys: composer and faculty member at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts; Steve Beyer, retired professor at Graduate Theological Union; and Adam Pollina, a comic book artist/penciller. Hosted and created by Jonathan Phillips, founding member of Evolver.net/Reality Sandwich. Directed by Adam E lenbaas. Music and mingling to follow.

Webster Hall, Grand Ballroom
125 E. 11th Street, Manhattan
6:30p-?; $20
realitysandwich.com

***** LEARNING: UPCOMING *****

Textile Hand-Printing Methods at Third Ward (Metropolitan Avenue campus), Williamsburg. Saturday, November 7, 3:30-6:30p. Mention Nonsense NYC when you register (deadline November 3) for a 10% discount. 3rdward.com/3rdwardclasses/intro-to-studio-recording.html

***** LEARNING: ONGOING *****

BODY

• Free self-defense at St. Mark's Church. Manhattan. Wednesdays 7:30-8:30p; $free. mkdkarate.com/classes.html
• Free Cuban salsa and Afro-Cuban dance at Nola Studios, 250 West 54th Street. Manhattan. First Tuesday of each month 7-9p, $free. salsonera(at)gmail.com
• Power vinyasa with Hosh Yoga at Otom GYM. Greenpoint. Daily; $donation. hoshyoga.org/schedule.html
• Afro-Haitian dance with Mikerline Pierre at Ripley-Grier Studios, 520 Eighth Avenue, 16th floor. Manhattan. Saturdays 4-5:30p; $12. NOTE: Mikerline is also searching among students to add new dancers to her folkloric troupe. libbysentz(at)me.com
• Congolese dance with Funmilayo at Resurgent Fitness, Brooklyn, Wednesdays 6-7:30p; at Black River Dance, Harlem, Thursdays 7:30-9p; Alvin Ailey Extension, Manhattan, Sundays 3-4:30p. $varies. fushadance(at)aol.com
• Balkan folk dance at the Hungarian House. Manhattan. Wednesdays 6:30-8p; $12. nycfolkdance.org
• Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu at Triskelion Arts. Brooklyn. Training is centered on jissen gata combat fighting. Membership is selective, but you may attend the first class free. Saturdays 5-7p, Sundays 2�4p. triskelionarts.org/events.htm#classesoffered
• The Art of the Samurai Sword with Raab Rashi at The Workman�s Circle/NYR Studios. Manhattan. Thursdays 6-7p, $free intro lesson, $15 beyond. swordclass.blogspot.com
• Jazzercise-Your-A$$-Off Dance Workouts with Suspicious Package at Traif Bike Geschaft. Williamsburg. Pop star dance workout Saturdays 4-5:30p and coed bikini beach party Thursdays 7-8:30p (all through November 30). $15 if you say the word "buns," all classes include a cocktail. suspiciouspackage.info
• Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art and dance, with Capoeira Angola Quintal. Manhattan. Various days; $15. afrobrazilarts.org/newyorkcapoeira/index.htm
• Parkour workshops. Manhattan. Sundays 4p; $15+. nyparkour.com
• Aerial yoga. Manhattan and Williamsburg. Various days; $20. aerialyoga.com
• Group tightwire walking and foot juggling workshop at Trapeze Loft. Williamsburg. Sundays 5-6p; $25. thetrapezeloft.com
• Trampoline at Streb Lab for Action Mechanics. Brooklyn. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays 7-8:30p; $25. streb.org/V2/school/adults.html
• Co-ed nonsexual naked yoga. Manhattan. Various days; $?. groups.yahoo.com/group/coyoga/

BRAIN

• Free open craft/hack nights at NYC Resistor. Brooklyn. Thursdays 6-9p; $free. nycresistor.com/2008/11/22/open-craft-hack-nights-on-thursdays/
• Free math studies at the School of Mathematics, which cultivates a natural, stress-free environment where everyone can explore, study, and discover mathematics. Prior knowledge is not assumed. Brooklyn. Various days; $free. thewe.net/math
• Writing with constraints at the Writhings Society. Practice writing with arbitrary, sometimes mathematical, rules invented by the French group Oulipo and others; no experience necessary. Brooklyn. Wednesdays 6:30-8:30p; $5+. proteusgowanus.com

HANDS

• Females-only African drum class at Oduduwa Cultural Arts Center. Jamaica, Queens. Sundays 11a-noon. $10. balletintlafricans.com
• Free knitting for beginners by Gotta Knit! in Bryant Park, Upper Terrace. Manhattan. Tuesdays 1:30-3p. $free. Pre-register: 212-989-3030.
• Free Craft-On (fun with yarn, thread, and more) with Church of Craft. Brooklyn. Various days; $free. churchofcraft.org/2008/10/01/welcome-nyc-crafters/
• Freegan Bike Workshop: Learn how to turn found bike parts into working bicycles and build your own bike. Brooklyn. Wednesdays and Saturdays; $free. 123communityspace.org/event
• Free Project Film School's film-theory freeschool with a weekly screening series and online resources. Brooklyn. Sunday nights; $free. projectfilmschool.org
• Free bicycle repair classes at Time's Up! Manhattan and Brooklyn. Various days. $free. times-up.org/index.php?page=bike-co-op
• Free home-improvement classes, from tiling to drywall repair, at Home Depot stores. Saturdays and Sundays; $free. homeimproverclub.com/workshops.aspx?Type=3
• The Fixers Collective is a social experiment in improvisational fixing and mending. Participants bring their broken objects and put them on a large, common fixing table and share ideas and techniques for repairing, mending, enhancing, or repurposing the objects. Brooklyn. Thursdays 6-9p; $5. proteusgowanus.com/main/fixers-collective
• Beading classes at Brooklyn Bead Box. Various days; $varies. brooklynbeadbox.com/classes.html
• Classes in the needle arts at Brooklyn General Store. Various days; $varies. brooklyngeneral.com/classes.htm
• Knitting and spinning classes at the Yarn Tree. Various days; $varies. theyarntree.com/studio/classes/
• Screenprinting at 123 Printshop. Brooklyn. Fridays 5-8p and Saturdays 3-5p; $3+. 123communityspace.org/program/screenprinting-workshop-50
• Figure drawing at Brooklyn Artists Gym. Mondays 6:30-9p and Saturdays 12-3p; $8+. brooklynartistsgym.com/events.html#workshops
• Mosaic workshops. Manhattan. Wednesdays 1-4p and 6-9p; $100 for four-class workshop. newyorkartworld.com/things/things-mosaic.html
• Wheel and handbuilding classes at La Mano Pottery. Manhattan. Various days; $300 for eight-week class. lamanopottery.com
• Fire the Lazzzor!, rapid prototype using the 35 Watt Epilog Laser. Brooklyn. Second Sunday of each month 2-5p; $75. nycresistor.com

GRAB BAG

• 3rd Ward offers multi- and interdisciplinary courses in visual art, technology, and fabrication. Various days; $varies. 3rdward.com/classes
• Didgeridoo classes in Prospect Park for music, meditation, and healing. Saturdays; $10. didgeproject.com
• Gearilla!, a street theater workshop (on bikes). Various locations. Tuesdays 2p; $10+. monicahunken.com/classes.html
• Aerial classes (silks, trapeze, lyra, pole dance, ballet) at the Sky Box at House of Yes. Brooklyn. Monday through Saturday; $15. theskybox.org/classes
• Creative arts classes at Spoke the Hub. Brooklyn. Various days; $varies. spokethehub.org
• First aid for cats and dogs. Manhattan. Saturdays 10-2p; $65 (if purchased online). nyredcross.org/viewclass.php/prmCID/32/month/08/year/2009

XXXXX HELP XXXXX

It is a wonderful thing, to help. Helping strengthens communities and allows you to meet new friends. With that in mind, we look for one-day volunteer opportunities with no long-term commitment required. We want to be open to fresh ideas and think of help in a broad way. These listings could include anything from a large-scale day-long service project to a local theatre company that needs volunteers for load-in; from an artist looking for film extras to a community garden that needs a few extra hands. Our goal is simply to help groups or individuals that serve the greater good in small but significant ways. Unique and interesting job opportunities are acceptable fare for this section as well. Looking for ways to help out? Need volunteers to get your own community project off the ground? Know of any existing opportunities? Send your requests to Rob Voigt at robpastyvoigt(at)gmail.com.

***** HELP: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 *****

Haunted Halloween!

Help the Puppetry Arts Theatre at the Haunted Halloween Carnival for a day filled with games, puppetry making, and creepy crawly fun. Assisting the efforts of TPAT is important as we strive to maintain our leadership in bringing together puppeteers, teachers, actors, artists, and community volunteers dedicated to the arts, education, and the city we live in. Families are invited to take part in cookie decorating, crafts involving paper bag puppets, masks, silk screen t-shirts, bat puppets, face painting, spin art as well as games like ski ball, basket ball, ring toss. There will be raffles, giveaways, a bounce house, fire safety booth, environment booth, and a haunted house. Volunteers needed for various shifts throughout the day, before, during, and after, and are encouraged to dress up in costumes. Boowahahahahhh.

Recreation Center at 1st Street, Brooklyn 7a-6p (various shifts)
bit.ly/2uPHh or puppetryarts.org

***** HELP: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 *****

The Iron Skillet Cook-Off

World Cares Center is looking for enthusiastic individuals to volunteer for its eighth annual Iron Skillet Cook-Off. Starting as a "Thank you" to all the rescue workers and volunteers that give selflessly during the 9-11 relief effort, the Iron Skillet Cook-Off is a reminder of what communities can achieve when they pull together.

Held every fall since 2002, the Iron Skillet Cook Off has become New York City's most sought after culinary competition, where five New York City firefighters and five of New York City's top celebrity chefs match their talents in a fiery contest for top honors. We need greeters, vip/celebrity assistants, live auction assistants, registration, and set up and breakdown volunteers.

Strata, 915 Broadway, Manhattan
4-10:30p
bit.ly/1NGpyV

***** HELP: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 *****

CUE Art Foundation Benefit Auction

CUE Art Foundation is a non-profit forum for contemporary art that provides extraordinary opportunities for under-recognized artists and compelling encounters for audiences. This event is the Foundation's 2009 Benefit Auction honoring Charles C. Bergman of The Pollock Krasner Foundation and New York City artist Petah Coyne. The evening will consist of a cocktail party with a silent and live auction.

Volunteer duties will consist of coat check, set-up, passing hor d'euvres, some catering, and clean-up. Dress code is all black. Pizza dinner will be provided to volunteers before the event!

511 West 25th Street, Manhattan
5:30-9:15p
bit.ly/3aZXfL

***** HELP: UPCOMING *****

• November 7. El Museo del Barrio needs volunteers to construct 2500 ribbon sticks for the Three Kings Parade to be held on January 6, 2010. The workshop will be held on November 7, 2009 from 9:30am to 1:30pm and lunch will be provided by El Museo staff. bit.ly/5neJ1
• November 12. Help is needed for the NephCure Foundation's 2009 New York Countdown to a Cure!! 20 volunteers are needed to help with selling raffle tickets and programs during the event. Volunteers should arrive at 5:30pm. If volunteers would like to eat, they should arrive at 5pm. Countdown to a Cure will be held at the Citi Field Ceasars Club in Flushing, New York. Over 800 guests are expected. The reception-style dinner will begin at 6:30pm. We are expected to raise over $550,000 and the Mets Great Dwight Gooden is scheduled to attend!!! All proceeds benefit the NephCure Foundation, the only organization committed to finding a cause and cure for two devastating kidney diseases, Nephrotic Syndrome and Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). Please contact Miriam Long at mlong@nephcure.org for more information. bit.ly/3XsOG1
• November 14. Divabetic - Makeover Your Diabetes combines diabetes education with complimentary salon and spa services for women and men affected by diabetes. The event is free and open to the public. This will be our third year in New York City and a particularly exciting event, as it coincides with World Diabetes Day, when people and organizations across the globe raise awareness of diabetes. We are looking for 30-40 volunteers to assist with event flow and support needs throughout the day, including guest registration and event guides. The event is being held at Riverside Church (90 Claremont Drive, New York, NY 10027) on Saturday, November 14th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM. Volunteers will receive a free lunch, training and a T-shirt! Volunteers are expected to be available to participate at the event from 11:30 AM - 4:00 PM, in order to receive training and assist with set-up. bit.ly/1SR1tD

***** HELP: ONGOING (posted the first week of each month) *****

SOCIAL

• Street Project: Serve at the University Soup Kitchen, Saturdays from 11:45a - 3:30p. streetproject.org/eventarchive.php
• St. John's Bread and Life: Help with the Soup Kitchen, Mobile Soup Kitchen, or Food Pantry. breadandlife.org/volunteer.htm
• GiveGoodGet Project: Recognize people doing good for their community. facebook.com/givegoodget
• GALLOP: Therapeutic riding program for individuals with diabilities. gallopnyc.org
• RightRides and SafeWalk: Late night rides - help to increase safety in our communities. rightrides.org
• The Fortune Society: Volunteer to teach reading, writing and math to former prisoners and young people facing prison time. 212 691 7554 x250 or fortunesociety.org
• Samitarians: Volunteer for a suicide-prevention hotline. samaritansnyc.org/volunt.html
• The Rock Dove Project: Connects health care practitioners who offer cheap/free services with seekers of those services. rockdovecollective.org/project
• New York Cares: Attend an orientation to learn about volunteer opportunities. www.newyorkcares.org/volunteer
• Books Through Bars: Sends books to prisoners all over the country. Mondays and Thursdays 7:30-9:30p and Sundays 5-8p. abcnorio.org/affiliated/btb.html
• Food not Bombs: Serves vegan food in Tompkins Sq Park. Sundays 1p on. abcnorio.org/affiliated/fnb.html
• City Harvest: Help feed the homeless by volunteering at a special event. cityharvest.org *Housing Works: Provides housing for individuals affected by HIV and AIDS. Volunteers of all types needed. housingworks.org
• New York Road Runners: Work with kids, help out at a race, and more. volunteers.nyrr.org
• Computers for Youth: Help this organization increase the educational resources available to low-income youth. cfy.org

CREATIVE

• NY Street Opera: Non-profit musical theatre. Light administrative duties. cheron.g.cowan(at)gmail.com or nystreetopera.com
• NY Artists Unlimited: Brings theatre and art to under-served audiences. nyartists.org
• Stoked Mentoring: Mentor kids through skateboarding, surfing and snowboarding. infostoked.org
• 826NYC: Volunteer as a writing tutor for. 826NYC.org
• Lit Drift: Storytelling blog. Creative people needed to blog, market, organize events. julia(at)litdrift.com or litdrift.com

POLITICAL

• Transportation Alternatives: Biking, walking, and public transit advocacy. Office volunteers needed. elena(at)transalt.org or transalt.org
• lowercased democrats: Design a citywide public meeting house, support a petition drive. lowercased.org
• Reverend Billy Talen, Green Party candidate for Mayor of NYC, seeks campaign volunteers. voterevbilly.org

ENVIRONMENTAL

• Project Safe Flight: Rescue disoriented and injured birds and help migratory birds. volunteernycaudubon.org
• Brooklyn Animal Rescue Coalition: Help with dog walking and cat petting. barcshelter.org
• Time's Up!: Direct-action environmental advocacy. times-up.org
• The New Jersey Tree Foundation: Help plant trees in Newark, events most Saturdays. newjerseytreefoundation.org

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