From: "Jeff Stark" <jstark@nonsensenyc.com>
Subject: nonsensenyc: 4.16 to 4.22
Date: April 16th 2010

Friday, April 16
* The Burning Bus Benefit, Brooklyn
* The Giddy Multitude Vaudeville, Co. Manhattan * The Living Installation: Tent City, Manhattan * Congress of Curious Peoples, Brooklyn * The Wooster Group's Booty Call Avant-Garde-Arama, Manhattan * Rubulad Presents: Loose Mother Goose, Brooklyn * Green Bus Party, Brooklyn
* The Fourth Annual NYC Anarchist Film Festival in Honor of Brad Will, Manhattan * Bike Porn 3: A Collection of Short Erotic Films and Bikes, Brooklyn * No Shame Theatre, Manhattan

Saturday, April 17
* NYC Anarchist Book Fair, Manhattan
* Dances of Vice: The Dada Revue, Manhattan * Xango 2012, Brooklyn
* The Tequila Time Machine Party, Brooklyn * The Return of Rococo Party: A Baroque Bash, Manhattan * It's an Egg Drop, Williamsburg
* Anarchist Bookfair After Party, Brooklyn

Sunday, April 18
* Reverend Billy and the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir MountainTop Revival, Manhattan * Wild Foods Foraging Walk, Brooklyn
* Bruncha Libre, Brooklyn
HiChristina Scholarship: Night of a Shtload of Stars! Manhattan

Monday, April 19
* Moby Dick Illustrated, Williamsburg

Tuesday, April 20
* Big Quiz Thing, Manhattan

Wednesday, April 21
* Kiss and Tell: What's New Pussycat? Brooklyn * Bailout Theater, Manhattan

Thursday, April 22
* Fast Trash: Roosevelt Island's Pneumatic Tubes and the Future of Cities, Roosevelt Island * A Slice of the Tenderloin, Brooklyn

Wishlist
* Figment

Spectre
* Dark Clouds (For Rent?)

Learning
* Bar Camp

Help
* Raised Beds

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Dimly lit art-deco lobby.

XXXXX FRIDAY, APRIL 16 XXXXX

The Burning Bus Benefit

A boisterous fete, that we might corral scraps and skeins of silks and satins, miscellaneous muslins, and tattered tatterdemalion bits of taffeta and tarlatan. Join our a spring patchwork parade outfitted in gay gallimaufry, harlequin and motley, ragdoll and miscellany.

Dashing diversions for this vernal calico carnival include the carnal cabaret croonings of Lady Rizo, the rabble-rousing Romani riot of the Raya Brass Band, the calithumpian quartet of choral curiosities Not Waving But Drowning, the sensuous sybaritic songs of Kai Altair, the silken sideshow stylings of Lady Circus, the dangerously debauched dancing of Darlinda just Darlinda, plus Ahnika Delirium, Darrell Thorne, Donia Love, and special guests -- an effervescent evening of dazzling delectations and boundless beguilements.

The Red Lotus Room
893 Bergen St, between Classon and Franklin, Brooklyn C, S trains to Franklin Avenue station
9:30p-late; $10
wavingdrowning.com

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

The Giddy Multitude Vaudeville, Co.

A monthly cabaret traversing the east river to offer feasts of entertainment in Brooklyn and the East Village. We are reinventing vaudeville through storytelling and social commentary in the form of circus arts, burlesque, comedy, and music. Each show is inspired by a different theme, and you can count on seeing many quirky and unexpected takes on such.

April's theme is Break Free. We're busting out all over. Break Free from the grip of winter. Break free from the ties that bind you to normality, boredom, and a daily sense of doom. Break Free from the bonds of slavish devotion to your desk, your keyboard, and your office coffee pot. Break Free from the quotitian existance of a world without glitter. Break Free from your clothes, cause we sure will be. This April, we'll be celebrating freedom with performances by: Honi Harlow: Burlesque Goddess; Azumi Oe: Butoh Destructress; Kira Kupcake: spicy devil of sweetness; JZ Bich: border denying, order defying gender queer diva; Evangeline Reilly: Hostess extraodinaire and musical muse; Lady Scoutington: as funny as she is pretty, and pretty as she is funny; Jill, the International Hula Hoopist: a legend in the most prestigious circles; R.J. the Magician: wizard of mentalism. As well as raffle prizes, baked goods, crafts, and drink specials.

Wow Cafe Theatre
59-61 East 4th Street, Manhattan
8p; $10, $8 in costume
giddymultitude.com

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

The Living Installation: Tent City

The animation of a hidden world opperated by the jittery movemnt of mechanical flesh. ABC No Rio’s gallery has been taken over and turned into Tent City. From the ceiling to the stages. Climb, draw, and paint you way through the living installation. Bring all supplies. This is a happening. Let’s be heard. Come at 6p for the screening of artattack.

ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street, Manhattan
7p-midnight; $17 online, $20 door
all ages
abcnorio.org
michaelalanart.com

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

Congress of Curious Peoples

Sam Dunlap on pioneer museologist, Charles Wilson Peale. Showdevils, featuring The Enigma. An evening of freaks and music with real chainsaws, cheerleaders and electrocution.

Coney Island USA
1208 Surf Avenue, Brooklyn
7; $5-10
Continues SATURDAY

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

The Wooster Group's Booty Call Avant-Garde-Arama

Sources confirm that the Wooster Group is excited to guest curate Performance Space 122’s longest-running multi-disciplinary mini-festival and that this spring’s Avant-Garde-Arama will feature artists who the Group calls upon, in their own words, "sometimes late at night, sometimes when we haven’t seen them in a while, sometimes lonely, sometimes drunk, and sometimes when we’ve just got nothing better to do."

MCs: Radiohole’s Eric Dyer (Friday), Jibz Cameron/Dynasty Handbag (Saturday). Featured performers include: Cynthia Hopkins, Daniel Pettrow, Yvan Greenberg, Andrew Schneider, Kaneza Schaal, and Jamie Poskin and Daniel Jackson’s Haptic Response Team and an installation by Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty.

Performance Space 122
150 First Avenue, at East 9th Street, Manhattan 8p door; $20, $15 students/seniors
Continues SATURDAY
212 477 5829
ps122.org/performances/aga_spring_2010.html

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

Rubulad Presents: Loose Mother Goose

Live bands Nouvellas, Budzillus, Ikebe Shakedown with DJ Cody. DJs Pork Chop, Mike Simonetti Trifecta: Peter Gunn, Count Zyro, DJ Four Eyes. Cabaret Room: The Fairy Tale Experiment, Ambergris, Goose Gone Wild by Tanya Solomon, and DJ Greything. In the Starlight Lounge: G. Scopitronic's Non-Stop Film Fest.

Plus: Free bouncy rides Airbrush Body Painting by Malcolm Stuart, Modern Dance Awareness Society, Hot F###ing Tamales. Dreams and Aspirations Vending Machine by Yung. Curds and whey by Vicious Delicious. Dress from your favorite old-time rhyme.

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 B62 bus to Flushing Avenue, G train to Classon 10p doors, 11p show; $10 in costume, before 11, or way late, $15 otherwise

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

Green Bus Party

The Green Bus Tour is a traveling party of visionary musicians, artists, yogis, healers, and sustainability experts in a fleet of veggie oil powered buses and green vehicles. We will set off on a tour across America to inspire a culture of creativity, collaboration, and conscious living making stops along the East Coast this summer as we prepare the buses for our nationwide tour this fall. Help us get the green buses rolling. Come to our fundraising party in Brooklyn. We have an excellent evening of live music, DJs, VJs, and dancing in store for you. Being Green is fun. Live music from Dynasty Electric, Disco Monkeys, the Flowdown, and Modern Visionaries. DJs Selectrick, Alokah, and Sri Kala will be lighting up the dance floor. VJ Suit Machine will be providing visuals. Vegan snacks by Organic Bliss.

Newsonic
76 Rutledge Street, Brooklyn
8p-late; $7 donation
greenbustour.com

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

The Fourth Annual NYC Anarchist Film Festival in Honor of Brad Will

Come as you are. Bring your friends. The NYC Anarchist Film Festival brings together examples of resistance and insurrection from around the world. It was started to honor the life and work of Brad Will. The NYC Anarchist Film Festival strives to represent the spirit of truth and gives voice and visibility to the undying discontent and volatile unrest in a climate of state terror and capitalist destruction. Anarchy is a hunger for justice and dignity. Join a global community forum and celebrate the uncensored natural born instinct for life, liberty and the pursuit of insurrection. Happiness indeed.

Judson Church
55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
5p-midnight; $free?
646 266 0163
Priya.rebelalliance gmail.com
nyanarchistfilmfest.org

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

Bike Porn 3: A Collection of Short Erotic Films and Bikes

Bike Porn, a Portland based project initiated in 2007, has developed into a touring film festival of shorts exploring the eroticism and sexuality of human-powered transportation. Though Bike Porn they aim to break taboo, provide a forum for emerging artists to screen their work, and facilitate cultural acknowledgement of fringe communities. The show is an exhilarating experience, but the real magic happens afterwards when people who otherwise would feel uncomfortable discussing sex, gender, or other topics are able to speak freely. The films as hetero and queer oriented, but above all sex positive and full of bikesexuality. For adult audiences. Feeling bike-curious? Check out one of the trailers.

House of Yes
342 Maujer Street, Brooklyn
L train to Grand Street station
8p, 10p, and midnight; $8
bikesmut.com

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

No Shame Theatre

Dare to be brilliant, dare to fail. Audience, arm yourself. A performance evening unlike any open mike in New York, No Shame grants performers five minutes to blast beyond the normal duties of pleasing, amusing, and entertaining - in fact, performers are encouraged to risk their audience's displeasure, alienation, boredom, confusion, and rage. You, No Shame participant, are invited to read somber fiction onstage, to take a nap, to take off your clothes, to make a sandwich, to describe graphic sexual acts. You can do Q&A, play a game with the audience, stage a fight so realistic that it leaves everyone horrified (real No Shame occurrence). You can even claim five minutes to force us to watch an empty stage. No Shame both includes and reaches beyond the meat and potatoes of sketch and standup to re-electrify audience attention, create a night that is rude, weird, surreal, and transcendent, and bring back the urgency of wondering "what happens next?"

We welcome comedy and laffs, but are in especial need of performers willing to take emotional risks onstage and help our audience experience the fullest range of emotions. We'd like to them to nod, sigh, tremble, clutch each other in fear, point and laugh, remember past traumas, lose control of their bowels, and (on a very good night) be inspired to riot.

There are only three rules:

1. Pieces must be no longer than 5 minutes. At the end of your five minutes, you will be blacked out.
2. Pieces must be original. We are open to disputing the definition of "original."
3. You cannot break anything -- the audience, the theater, the law. The only things you are allowed to break are hearts and spirits.

The Tank
354 West 45th Street, between 8th and 9th, Manhattan midnight-1:30a; $5, free if you are performing thetanknyc.org

XXXXX SATURDAY, APRIL 17 XXXXX

NYC Anarchist Book Fair

Three days of books, art, ideas. Two days of speakers, panels, workshops. An evening of films and an interactive and participatory Anarchist Art Laboratory. Art, music, performance, dance, video art,

All devoted to building a free society without the state and without capitalism. New York's anarchist community will host a weekend festival of community, cooperation, and insurrection. Come Join us.

Workshops on Gabriel Kuhn; Anarchism and Intersectionality; Community-based Exchange: Mutual Aid Models with Rock Dove Collective; Radical Parenting, Sex, Sobriety, and More; Greece 2008; Hacking Your Library; the ABCs of Squatting; Defending Our Land, Air, and Water; the Politics of Disaster; Anarchist People of Color; Another Year of the Economic Crisis; and more.

Performances by: Judith Malina, the Living Theater, and Anarcho Art Lab, with installations, art panels, video art, dance, sculpture, drawing, experimentation. A Blessing of the Books: By the Rev. Billy and the Stop Shop Choir.

And, of course: books, pamphlets, magazines, broadsides, posters, buttons, t-shirts, a Silent Auction, and vegan delights you won't get anywhere else.

Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
11a-7p; $free
anarchistbookfair.net

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Dances of Vice: The Dada Revue

Dances of Vice invites you to put logic to sleep and dream with your eyes open at the Dada Revue, where we celebrate the triumph of surrealism, expression and madness over societal restraints. With the one and only ISENGART leading this theater of the absurd as your Master of Ceremonies, The Dada Revue presents a cacophony of surreal performances that will shock and elate, featuring: Banzai co-producer Muffinhead the Exclamationist with the lovely Trina Rose, Medianoche in a stunning tribute to Man Ray, the incendiary Ms Tickle, the Flying Fox (aka Lady Dada), and swing-punk phemonenon from Berlin BudZillus, in concert in New York for the first time.

Don Hills
511 Greenwich Street, Manhattan
10:30p doors; $15

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Xango 2012

One part fashion show, one part dance party. Featuring: More of an experience than your traditional fashion show, at 9:30p, Xango shows her latest works of fierce art infused clothing devoted to our most precious life feeding element: water. Plus arts by Satya, Zev Deans, Mark McNamara, Unitribe, and the Green Bus Tour.

Experience your classic all night dance throw-down with music evolving from Balkan brass to Indian dubstep to throw-down dirty bass by DJs Geko Jones, Uproot Andy and the Cumba Mela trio including DJs 2melo, Thornato, and Atropolis.

3rd Ward
195 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn
8:30p; $15 a percentage of the bar proceeds benefits grassroots disaster relief project Domes for Haiti, which addresses the immediate need for hurricane and earthquake resistant transitional shelter in Haiti 21 and over
xango2012.com/

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

The Tequila Time Machine Party

A birthday benefit for Showpaper. Music by the Brooklyn What, J'aime and I, Blastoids, Advaita Vera, and Highway Gimps.

Shea Stadium
20 Meadow Street, at Waterbury Street, Brooklyn L train to Grand street or Montrose station 8p; $6-25 sliding scale
all ages
myspace.com/sheastadiumbk

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

The Return of Rococo Party: A Baroque Bash

The extravagance of 1770 rococo Paris meets the eclecticism of 2010 underground New York nightlife. Think Amadeus, Marie Antoinette, and the Marquis de Sade with a modern twist.

This seventh installment of the party will feature burlesque, fire-dancing, sword play, feats of endurance, magic, juggling, spectacles, vocal cartooning, live art, and live techno baroque rock music. Powdered wigs, powdered faces, candelabras, masques, and big hair will all abound at the most baroque ball since the guillotine came down.

Featured Performances by Katy Antoinette, Miss Em, Honor Amongst Thieves, Anna Jacobson, Kat Mandu, Pandora, Paula Kohatsu, R. J. Williams, Zero Boy, Snazz Mammoth, and Colorform.

Teneleven
171 Avenue C, between 10th and 11th streets, Manhattan 8p doors, 9p performances
$10 cover, $5 with costume, masks will be available aardvark2000 gmail.com
returnofrococo.com

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

It's an Egg Drop

Chairmen of the Bored does one event a month and we're really excited about this one. This event is called It's An Egg Drop. Basically playing off the grade-school egg drop competition but with a quasi-adult COTB-twist of nonsense, booze, and friendship.

Chairmen of the Bored is a Brooklyn-based collective dedicated to putting on free events, bringing together folks who dig fun, new friendships, and high-fiving life. The four founding Chairmen met while participating in the WORD Bookstore basketball league; literary basketball led to nerdy games nights which led to the subway-racing, scavenger-hunting, story-telling and nonsense-mongering that COTB is known for today.

Union Pool
Corner of Union and Meeker, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 3p; $free?
thechairmen chairmenofthebored.com
chairmenofthebored.com

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Anarchist Bookfair After Party

A night to celebrate New York City's vibrant activist music scene -- and more -- at Surreal Estate's second annual Anarchist Bookfair Afterparty featuring Rebel Diaz and Ryan Harvey. Music with a message -- both homegrown and from all across the continent -- featuring Canada, Texas, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and upstate New York. This event is dear to our hearts. Members of our 35-person collective house have helped organize many radical projects and this is our present to NYC radicals and people who believe in social change. We especially invite you to come if you're new to the anarchist and activist happenings in New York. Come get inspired by these legendary musicians. With Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned, the Last Internationale, Rebel Diaz, Ryan Harvey, Mark Gunnery, the Wild Moccasins, Da Comrade!, Geko Jones, Majesty, Testament, Bean, and TV Party.

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

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Reverend Billy and the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir MountainTop Revival

This rousing Earth Day event focuses on MountainTop Removal in Appalachia, with special guests from affected areas in Coal River Valley, West Virginia and astounding images of Mountaintop Removal with a set of Hot Gospel Music and an inspiring call to action by Reverend Billy.

The Highline Ballroom
431 West 16th Street, between 9th and 10th avenues, Manhattan 1p, doors at noon; $12
all ages
highlineballroom.com
revbilly.com/events

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

Wild Foods Foraging Walk

Join freegan forager Zaac on a walk to learn to identify common wild edibles. Bring a garden trowel if you have one, and bags for collecting wild edibles.

Meet at the stone benches at the Grand Army Plaza entrance of Prospect Park, Brooklyn 4p; $free
203 571 8866

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

Gemini and Scorpio present:

Bruncha Libre

Brunch freedom is here. Freedom from long lines, harried waiters, and the feeling that they really wish you'd hurry up already. How about a catered brunch by our favorite chef in a sprawling sunlit private loft instead, served up with hot jazz and chilled cocktails? Enjoy a leisurely meal, relax on a couch or get up and dance on our sprung wood dance floor. This month, the JC Hopkins Quartet will play originals and standards in a swinging manner.

Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary
RSVP for address
1-5p; $10 door, $10 food, tips for entertainers geminiandscorpio.com/events.html

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

HiChristina Scholarship: Night of a Sh*tload of Stars!

HiChristina is offering a new scholarship each month to an artist who'd like to do an interactive performance. Send us your proposals or apply in person at tonight's Lower East Side talent round up.

If all the stars, blue, charmed, and supernovaed descended on HiChristina for one night we'd have this show, a raucous mix of faux cover bands, nude comedians, balloons, flame-shooting-saxophones, and open slots for spontaneous three-minute entrants from the audience. Hosted by the underground speech writer and underwear-on-the-outside-rocking secret art agent Hristophe Rodeu. Coming back to the Lower East Side has never felt so sublime. Acts include: Chink Floyd and Red Zepperin, Dr. Steamwhipple, John Murdock, the Gentleman Scumbag, Scout Durwood, the Flame-o-phone, Kill the Band / Killy, Thank You for Not Screaming, Eric Kirchberger as John Stodge, Mormon Surprise Is Mormon Delicious, aka Mike Amato, Joey Gay, the Megalomaniac, plus jail Q and A and much more .

HiChristina!
163 Eldridge Street, Manhattan
7p-10:30p; $5 suggested donation
rxapparel gmail.com

XXXXX MONDAY, APRIL 19 XXXXX

Moby Dick Illustrated

An epic slideshow with Matt Kish. Melville's great novel seems to have a magnetic pull on Obessives. Not surprising, given it's OCD hero. But self-trained artist Matt Kish has set out to up the ante on Moby Dick mania once more with his super insanely ambitious project to illustrate every page of the Signet classic edition (522 pages) of this great book. He's a couple hundred pages in, and friend: his stuff is lovely. Come see a slideshow of his sure-to-be legendary work and find out what it takes to match creative wits with the greatest literary obsessive of all time.

Matt Kish is a self-trained artist who does what he wants on paper. Moby Dick is his favorite book ever. He was encouraged to undertake this project by a combination of boredom and in inspiration, the former being the unavoidable lull of the summer doldrums in his home-state of Ohio, the latter being a diverse array of sources including Zak Smith's great project illustrating every page of Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Matt enjoys oppressively hot weather and is slightly nearsighted.

Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 7:30p; $free

XXXXX TUESDAY, APRIL 20 XXXXX

Big Quiz Thing

I keep meaning to start submitting info to you again for the Big Quiz Thing. Five rounds of the world's greatest live trivia, with the Mega-Ultimate Word Game, an audio round titled Spring Is in Bloom!, Smart-Ass Points for amusingly incorrect answers, the Lightning Round, the big Three-Way Finale, and lots more. Plus, $250 in cash prizes, and tickets to the Off Broadway comedy 666.

Crash Mansion
199 Bowery, at Spring, Manhattan
7:30p; $7
bigquizthing.com

XXXXX WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 XXXXX

Kiss and Tell: What's New Pussycat?

With Guest DJ: Secrets aka Matt Abbott, Bethany Benzur. Party photos by Seze. Kiss and Tell, a monthly party at Rose Live Music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has been producing unique theme based events for over four years. Each month Kiss and Tell invites well known electronic music DJs eager to play a different kind of set, filled with music outside of the genres they are known for. Our DJs play italo, disco (classics and edits), party jams, electro, house, girl groups, gothypants, new wave, and post punk.

This month the ladies of Kiss & Tell will be hosting a party in honor of the fabulous world of felines. Come dressed in your PURRrrrfect party outfit: animal prints, curious cat ears and eyes, crazy unkempt cat lady looks, 50s sex kittens, bobcat boys, cheeky cheetahs, middle aged cougars on the prowl, jaded jaguars, lazy leopards, royal lions and lionesses, luscious lynx, pantyless panthers, handsome housecats, pumas, puss n' boots, tigresses, timeless tomcats.

Rose Bar
345 Grand Street, Brooklyn
8p-2a; $free, but we will be collecting kitten money for our favorite local no-kill shelter BARC, $5 rum and coke, $5 vegetarian pasta dinners sdphotography.net/kisstell/flyers/april2010.html

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

Bailout Theater

Come by Bailout Theater. We will have free dinner and desserts provided as always by friendly Village restaurants (John's Pizza, NoHo Juice Bar, Hummus Place, etc.) and potluck enthusiasts. At 8p., the homegrown NYC comedy group Alone Together will put on a solo series of character-based comedy performances. They are, accurately self-described, a bunch of cute kids who just wanna blow your mind.

All of our events are completely free, require no RSVP and are open to everyone. If you would like to bring a small dish or dessert to add to a potluck, we love that, but it is by no means required.

Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
7:30p; $free
212 477 0351 x 28
info bailout-theater.org
bailout-theater.org

XXXXX THURSDAY, APRIL 22 XXXXX

Fast Trash: Roosevelt Island's Pneumatic Tubes and the Future of Cities

What if we radically changed the way we move garbage through the city? Fast Trash explores this question through the lens of a novel approach to garbage collection that has served Roosevelt Island since 1975. Part infrastructure portrait, part urban history, the exhibition draws on archival materials, original maps, photographs, drawings, diagrams, video interviews and a pneumatic tube demonstration to bring an invisible system to the surface, and asks what a community built around progressive policies and technologies can teach us about how we choose our infrastructure.

Organized by Juliette Spertus with Project Projects, With the support of the Center for Urban Pedagogy, the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, the Roosevelt Island Historical Society, the Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association, and Envac AB. Photographs by Kate Milford.

Gallery RIVAA
527 Main Street, Roosevelt Island
F train to Roosevelt Island station
6-9p; $free
fasttrash.org

***** Also on THURSDAY *****

The Levys' Unique New York NYCentric Events and the Giddy Mutltitude present:

A Slice of the Tenderloin

A night of comedy, music, vaudeville, and burlesque that celebrates the sordid and sexy tales of lavish old New York from the Gilded Eighties to the Roaring Twenties. Some of Gotham's greatest citizens have come out to share the stories, songs, and the tassles of a city soaked in glamor and drowning in sin.

Starring Steve Brodie, the only man to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge and live to tell the tale; William "Boss" Tweed, the Most Corrupt Political Boss in American History; Stanford White, lascivious and lecherous but brilliant architect, Evelyn Nesbit, the girl on the red velvet swing; Emma Goldman, fiery feminist, anarchist, and rabble rouser; and Clubber Williams, the crooked cop who gave the Tenderloin its name. Burlesque performances by Busty Kitten, Sweet Lorraine, JZ Bich N Lady Scoutington, the Flying Fox, Lovely Rae, and more.

The House of Yes
342 Maujer Street, Brooklyn
8:30-11:30p; $17 advance, $20 door
brownpapertickets.com/event/105579**

XXXXX UPCOMING XXXXX

• The Spring Break Massacre at the Gowanus Hotel, April 23
• Gemini and Scorpio's Swing House Two-Year Anniversary, April 24
• The Sweet Cheat, April 24-25, May 1-2
• Opt-In presents Zero Day Exploits, May 15
• Underground Rebel Bingo Club, May 21
• 2009 Folly Day Alert, April 25
• RE/Mixed Media Festival 2010, May 30

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Also, a note about 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.

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

• Art in Odd Places invites artists working across disciplines to propose projects for the festival's sixth installment, October 1-10. Taking place along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River in New York City, we encourage proposals that explore this location's rich history, configuration, and heterogeneous communities. The forthcoming edition of AiOP is informed by various interpretations of the term chance, including proposition, luck, randomness, risk, and opportunity. Within this context, artists are given the opportunity to apply their practice to an unconventional structure -- playing off the idiosyncrasies inherent to the urban plane. With emerging formats of communication, our culture has become a fertile ground for broad intersections between individuals, ideas and situations. This has resulted in unpredictable exchanges, relinquishment of control, surprise collaborations, and instances of spatial revelation. AiOP 2010: CHANCE intends to provide passersby wit h a new perspective of an otherwise familiar environment through site-specific installations, social and spatial interventions, video and audio projects, performance, new media, and other inventive practices. In addressing the distinct manifestations of chance, the festival aims to broaden the public’s outlook on art, city dwelling, and social conventions. 2010 guest curators: Yaelle Amir and Petrushka Bazin. AiOP Application deadline: May 14, midnight. See: artinoddplaces.org for artist application and guidelines.
• Submissions are now open for 2010 Figment events in New York City (June 11-13) and Boston (June 5). Art projects in every imaginable medium are welcome, including sculpture, installation, performance, music, workshops, activities, games, visual art, and electronic art. All submissions must be received by May 1 to be considered. What are you bringing? See: figmentproject.org/2010/opportunities/submit-a-project.
• My name is Ari Kalinowski. I am a visual-poet. I run a weblog on the intersection between poetry and contemporary art. I've done a lot of things (poems in stained glass, calligraphy-poems, etc.), but I am currently working on a visual-mathematical poem-book about the golden ratio. I'm interested in developing a forum for feedback on this type of work; basically, I want to create a workshop with poets that incorporate the traditions of visual-poetry, text-art, concrete-poetry, calligraphy, book-art, diagram-poetry, poem/image-juxtaposition, etc. Do you want to participate? Do you know any poet-artists that might be interested in participating? Also: The Invisible City Writer's Group is currently seeking two new members. We're a writer's workshop that meets in the East Village every two weeks. Our focus is formally attentive and inventive speculative fiction, e.g.: Dune, the Disspossessed, the Glass Bead Game, Left Hand of Darkness, Solaris, Invisible Cities, Hyperion, Kafka, A Clockwork Orange, Henri Michaux, etc. Contact arikalinowski(atgmail.com.
• The Shape of Change interactive art project is looking for an enthusiastic student group or group of students to engage in a internet conference and conversation with ten enthusiastic English-speaking Iraq-based students. It won't be a huge time commitment, it may change your life. Together we will try to define the meaning and process of creating an educational utopia. If it exists. Or can be made possible. Contact Larken(at)artevolve.org
• Now through May 2, help Tanya O'Debra win the Miss Fag Hag Pageant. It's easy. All you have to do is watch this video (nsfw): mintyfreshcomedy.com/missfaghag/sgm_bowery.html. The Fag Hag with the most views wins this section of the pageant. For more information go to tanyaodebra.com.

***** SPACES *****

• Co-operative Radical Queer Art Nerd Living Space. We are just in the process of securing a 10-bedroom plus building in prime Clinton Hill and need more people to join us. Radicals, Queers, Hippies, Nerds, Artists, Teachers -- any combination thereof or whatever you are -- so long as you are committed to fully participating in a co-operative living arrangement. All are welcome -- come into the light. The building is four stories and has both a yard and basement. There will be various living spaces and a great eat-in kitchen. The basement will be converted to a performance space. The yard will be used for gardening, social gatherings, movie screenings. There are bathrooms on each floor as well as an additional half bath on the ground level. Bedrooms range in size but all have windows and are priced appropriately from $525-925 (the largest room for $925 can be a self-contained bedroom/studio space and would be awesome for a couple or two friends who want to share). Required is first, last and security or the equivalent of three months rent. What is our co-operative about? We believe in affordable housing, sustainable food practices, community outreach, and a space where you can be free to explore what excites you, supported by your fellow co-opers. We will act as a group to make house decisions. We will cook and eat together (as much as possible), we will plan and host parties, events and do DIY projects. Perhaps make beer, kombucha. We will have scheduled meetings so all are represented and so we stay true to our mission. We will be free to create a living space as we see fit. On board? Wanna know more? April 15- May 1 move-in. Small bedrooms: $525-$550, medium bedrooms: $625-$650, large/L-shaped: $725-$925 (suitable for a couple or for two friends! Really big; private entrances). Electric/Gas/Internet extra but very minimal. We will require approximately $75-$100/month for food. We will buy all food under a budget from our local food co-op, CSA (and grow stuff in yard). For this amount, your food is covered for the month. This is our launch! We are open to all types of arrangements; if you need a place for May-August or if you are two friends who would like to share a room and live on the cheap this summer, let us know. Tell us who you are and why this type of living arrangement suits you. And what can you bring to the co-operative? Reply to FlyTheSilverSeed(at)gmail.com.
• Five- bedroom duplex with two bathrooms, large kitchen, wooden floors throughout, plenty of sunlight and private roof access with a view of Manhattan's skyline. We have two rooms opening up for May 1. We are looking for someone who is ok with having a vegetarian kitchen and a smoke-free house. Wireless internet. Three adorable cats. Three adorable and busy humans, an artist/activist, an accordion player and a graduate student in Art History (two women and one dude) We compost our kitchen scraps in worm bins on the roof and have a raised bed for veggies too. The rooms are $525 and $575 a month plus utilities. The apartment is located in Bedwick Bushstuyburg and is right across the street from the subway. 25 min to Union Square, 35 - 40 to Midtown. Bike household. Please contact me at caspiansea(at)hotmail.com and be sure to describe yourself.

XXXXX SPECTRE PRIORITY XXXXX

Before we had a name, the Spectre Event Horizon Group used to meet at a bar to commiserate and trade what our business friends like to call best practices. The group has expanded since then, but it remains focused on smartening the crowd mind. There are no subject limits; our favorite is the incredible sci-fi present, or anything that goes toward a better understanding of human behavior and our universe's ecology. Our simple intent is to connect good minds with as much quality mind-blowing information as we can freely locate 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. The list is compiled for Nonsense by J. Sinopoli. Contact us at spectre.event.horizon.group gmail com or spectregroup.org. Here's some of what came in this week:

***** Dark Clouds (For Rent?) *****

http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/dark-clouds-for-rent/

Available Now
networkworld.com/community/node/58829
"Who's got the biggest cloud in the tech universe? Google? Amazon? Lots and lots of servers, but not even close. Their capacity pales to that of the biggest cloud on the planet, the network of computers controlled by the Conficker computer worm. Conficker controls 6.4 million computer systems in 230 countries at 230 top level domains globally, more than 18 million CPUs and 28 terabits per second of bandwidth. Like legitimate cloud vendors, Conficker is available for rent and is just about anywhere in the world a user would want their cloud to be based. Users can choose the amount of bandwidth they want, the kind of operating system they want to use and more. Customers have a variety of options for what services to put in the Conficker cloud, be it a denial-of-service attack, spam distribution or data exfiltration. Conficker is much more competitive than those legit vendors in many ways, Joffe continued. It has much more experience, dating back to 1998, has a larger footprint and unlimited new resources as it spreads malware far and wide to take over more computers. "And there are no costs. And there are no moral, ethical, or legal constraints," Joffe said, to chuckles from the audience. After all, the criminals stole their computing capacity from someone else."

New Business Models
threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/future-botnets-031510 "This solution to the hacker's problem provides a glimpse into a business model we might see in the not-too-distant future. It's an evolutionary version of the botnet-for-hire or malware-as-a-service model that's taken off in recent years. In Hansen's model, an attacker looking to infiltrate a specific network would not spend weeks throwing resources against machines in that network, looking for a weak spot and potentially raising the suspicion of the company's security team. Instead, he would contact a botmaster and give him a laundry list of the machines or IP addresses he's interested in compromising. If the botmaster already has his hooks into the network, the customer could then buy access directly into the network rather than spending his own time and resources trying to get in. Kind of an interesting/scary thought, but it could easily be used to avoid the cost and danger of individual exploitation against a company for a hacker interested in target attacks. Rather, a b rokerage for commodities (bots that come from interesting IPs/domains) could be created and used to sell off the individual nodes. This model makes sense on a number of levels and may well have been implemented already."

Zeus Found in Amazon Cloud
securityfocus.com/brief/1046
"The cybercriminals behind the Zeus botnet used Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) to host the central server used to control a portion of the compromised machines. A number of security experts have predicted that cybercriminals will increasingly find uses for legitimate cloud services, such as Amazon EC2 and Google's App Engine. This week, hacker Moxie Marlinspike kicked off a wireless password cracking service hosted in the cloud. The service, WPA Cracker, can compare the hash from a WiFi Protected Access network against 135 million possibilities in 40 minutes."

Botnet Wars
computerworld.com/s/article/9154618/New_Russian_botnet_tries_to_kill_rival "An upstart Trojan horse program has decided to take on its much-larger rival by stealing data and then removing the malicious program from infected computers. Security researchers say that the relatively unknown Spy Eye toolkit added this functionality just a few days ago in a bid to displace its larger rival, known as Zeus. The feature, called "Kill Zeus," apparently removes the Zeus software from the victim's PC, giving Spy Eye exclusive access to usernames and passwords. Turf wars are nothing new to cybercriminals. Two years ago a malicious program called Storm Worm began attacking servers controlled by a rival known as Srizbi. And a few years before that, the authors of the Netsky worm programmed their software to remove rival programs Bagle and MyDoom. Spy Eye sells for about $500 on the black market, about one-fifth the price of premium versions of Zeus."

Meanwhile: Africa Gets Broadband
intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2009/10/africa-home-of-worlds-largest-cyber.html "Africa is home to about 100 million PCs, 80% of which are estimated to be infected with some kind of malware. This has occurred because the intense poverty throughout the continent has resulted in a pervasive distribution of pirated software and the inability to pay for Anti-Virus protection. Currently, most Internet access is via dial-up, but once broadband comes to Africa, all of those infected PCs will become an easy target for bot herders looking to build the next mega-botnet. What could a bad operator do with a botnet of that size? Pretty much anything he wants, including paralyzing an entire nation’s networked infrastructure. That’s all systems connected to the Internet, including power, water, communications, commerce, etc. Since Microsoft Windows is the OS that we are talking about, it falls on Microsoft to do something about this problem. One good first step would be what Microsoft’s Paul Cooke discusses -- support pirated versions of Windows 7 with patches."

XXXXX LEARNING XXXXX

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 listing suggestions, announcements, and corrections to her at libby(at)nonsensenyc.com.

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

Fun With Touch Sensors

Want to build an awesome touch-controlled super gadget? Come join Joel Murphy of rachelselectronics.com in a workshop on interfacing with capacitive touch sensors. You'll build an interface to the QT-1106 sensor chip, hook it up to an Arduino, and use it to read finger positions on foil sensors. This sensor allows for up to seven touch keys, plus a continuous sensor strip, and allows for making interfaces like the original iPod.

Joel will provide the interface boards and hardware. You bring laptop and Arduino board. You'll also learn about the SPI interface used to talk to this chip (as well as many others) and get hands-on instruction on how to pull this all together.

NYC Resistor (new space)
87 3rd Avenue, 4th Floor
Brooklyn
1-3p; $100
nycresistor.com

***** LEARNING: Also on SATURDAY *****

Puppet Time: Create and Play

Make puppets at Family Day at BRIC Rotunda Gallery, the contemporary art space of BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn. Participants will create puppets of themselves and imaginary characters. Our puppet design is inspired by the South Asian tradition of "Wayang Kulit," decorative rod puppets that have magical silhouettes. Inspired by artwork in BRIC’s exhibition, A Wild Gander: Artists from the South Asian Women's Creative Collective. Led by Angela Earley, this free, drop-in event is appropriate for all ages.

BRIC Rotunda Gallery
33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn
Noon-3p, $free
718-875-4047
bricartsmedia.org

***** LEARNING: Also on SATURDAY *****

Forage and Feast

Join this foraging adventure deep inside an NYC public park, where you'll be hunting Fiddleheads, ramps, nettles, dandelions and other treasures, with the guidance of Marc Matsumoto, Lab 24/7's resident chef. After foraging, the group will head back to Lab 24/7 and use the spoils as the centerpiece of a collaboratively cooked feast.

Bronx Location (RSVP for details)
Noon-10p; $35
lab247.ning.com/events/forage-feast-1

***** LEARNING: SATURDAY and SUNDAY *****

BarCampNYC5

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. The event doesn't cost any money, but there is a price: all attendees must give a demo, a session, or help with one. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn are welcome and invited to join. When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers. When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world. Registration is free, but security will be tight; you must register in advance.

Microsoft Office
1290 Sixth Avenue, 6th Floor
Manhattan
10a-10p Saturday (plus after-event); 10-6p Sunday Twitter: @barcampnyc
barcamp.org/BarCampNYC5
barcampnyc5.eventbrite.com/

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

Luminous Flowers in Watercolor

Learn to accurately depict the clear, luminous colors of flowers in a variety of containers and with fruit and other still-life objects. In this hands-on class, you'll learn to render the most difficult florals with a few simple tips and techniques. Demonstrations are given throughout the day, with an emphasis on expressive brushstrokes and bold application of color. Led by Mary Jo Anzel.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden
1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn
10a–3:30p;$59 members; $66 nonmembers
bbg.org

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

Beer Brewing

An intro to and explanation of all-grain brewing at home; what it means and how it works. Participants will take part in fermenting and bottling a standard five-gallon batch of beer on the cheap without extract or malts. A percentage of the result will be taken home by all legal participants for conditioning and consumption. Led by Joseph O'Sullivan, the former head distiller at Clear Creek Distillery in Portland, Oregon. Mention Nonsense NYC when you register (deadline April 16) for a 10% discount.

3rd Ward
573 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn
Two Mondays, April 19 (7-10p) and May 10 (7-8p) $80 members, $100 nonmembers; plus $10 materials fee 3rdward.com

***** LEARNING: TUESDAY *****

Garden Planning 101

Get more from your garden by planting seasonally. Succession planting is the most important tool for maximizing a garden’s yield. Come to this workshop with a rough map of your growing space and leave with a garden plan for spring, summer, and fall and seeds for early season crops. Take home a trowel, gloves, and seeds. This is part of NYRP's new series of Neighborhood Gardening Institute workshops throughout the city. Contact the center for other times, locations, and workshops.

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson Community Garden 117-09 165th Street, Queens
6:30p; $10
Preregistration required: creynoso(at)nyrp.org or 212-333-2552

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

Intro to Bookmaking

Learn how to make accordion and envelope books (a signature MFTA project). Attention will be paid to the relationship of form to function, as well invention of novel forms based on the unique materials found at MFTA. Led by Joy Suarez.

Materials for the Arts
33-00 Northern Boulevard, 3rd Floor
Long Island City
5-7:30p, $10
mfta.org

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

MIG Welding with Hans

The class that made Madagascar Institute famous. Impress your friends, your older brother, and that cute bartender with your tough new skill. This 3-hour introductory welding class will teach you the very basics of MIG welding and familiarize you with the tools you’ll need to finish a project–the grinder, the chop saw, etc.

Bring leather gloves and eye protection, and wear heavy-duty all natural fibers–in other words, jeans and a long sleeve shirt. And no open toed shoes–boots are ideal. Polyester and nylon will melt onto your skin if hot molten metal drops onto them and ouch that hurts. You will get dirty.

Madagascar Institute
217 Butler Street, Brooklyn
7-10p; $35 members, $60 nonmembers
Register: madagascarinstitute.com

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: FRIDAY through MONDAY *****

Wet’s Love Benefit

Non-profit production company Wet Productions is looking for volunteers for our annual Love Benefit on April 19. The evening includes a one-night-only performance of the best short plays on Love by some of the hottest women writers performed by celebrated actors; an awards presentation to honorees; and Wet's notorious and wildly gorgeous fete, with dancing, open bar, hors d'oeuvres, and super stuffed gift bags.

We’re seeking volunteers to assist in all aspects of pre-production and production including: event design, event preparation, box office, coat check, bartending, cocktail serving, and more. Wet is looking for volunteers for the benefit in two shifts; daytime (8:30a-5:30p) and evening (3:30p-12:00a). We are also looking for volunteers to assist the weekend before, April 16-18. If interested, please email a cover letter and resume to Ashley and specify any previous experience related to special events; including catering, serving, bartending, check-in, etc. Include what shift you prefer and your availability for Monday, April 19 as well as for the weekend of April 16-18.

441 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan
Ashley, assistant(at)wetproductions.org bit.ly/bqaijh

***** HELP: SATURDAY *****

Raised Beds

Have a truck? Help us bring planks to this local Williamsburg high school to build raised beds. bit.ly/a1caRQ Or just come out Saturday to help us build the beds in the high school’s garden. bit.ly/a53Z4U

***** HELP: SUNDAY *****

Flea Market Volunteers

The Hudson Guild Fulton Center will be hosting its annual flea market this Sunday to help our senior center. Volunteers are needed to work vendor tables, including the pizza table, for a minimum of 2 hours.

119 Ninth Avenue, Manhattan
10a-6p
bit.ly/bVmB3T

***** HELP: WEDNESDAY *****

Event for Children with Autism

The Hamilton-Madison House is hosting a workshop for families who have children with Autism, and we need 3 volunteers to help set up, clean up, and possibly assist in facilitating discussion groups. This is a great opportunity for somone interested in Autism or mental health to help out at a community event while getting real experience. Anyone studying psychology, clinical social work, and/or child education is encouraged to volunteer; you don't have to have experience facilitating small group discussions, but some understanding of psychological terminology is helpful. If you speak Spanish, Mandarin, or Cantonese, that’s even better.

50 Madison Street, Manhattan
5:45-8p
bit.ly/cYJpts

***** HELP: SOON *****

Domes for Haiti Tool Drive

We are doing a tool drive, we are looking for the following tools to bring with us to Haiti along with the domes: metal shovels, posthole diggers, metal rakes, pick axes, sledgehammers and adjustable wrenches. If you want to donate tools, please drop them off or ship them to the address below. Also, please keep your eye out for upcoming events at the House of Yes on the 25th and Sugarland on the 29th, and visit our website to donate money to our efforts.

Domes for Haiti c/o 3rd Ward
195 Morgan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 12237
www.domesforhaiti.org

***** HELP-FULL SPRING CLEANING *****

---Donate Your Old Band Instruments!

We know you have an old trumpet or clarinet or ocarina or crumhorn or tromboon or shakalute sitting in your closet that you never play any more. Well, there are kids in the Bronx who would love to have the chance to learn music, and you can give them that opportunity by donating instruments you no longer need. The Mount Hope Housing Company, a non-profit that rehabilitates and manages affordable housing, is opening a community center, and they’re planning to start a music and dance program for youths in their community. Kids will learn music history, how to read and write music, and more. One big hitch remains – they have no funds for instruments. You can be assured that your instruments will be well-used and going to a very worthy cause, so please do give them a call.

mounthopehousing.org
Ms. Cornell, 718-299-7177 ext 610
Mr. Khalid, 718-299-7177 ext 611

---Donate Your Old Cameras!

I am trying to secure some cameras for a workshop that I will be teaching at a homeless shelter in Manhattan next month. If you have a camera (digital or film) that you are not using please consider donating it to this project. That way the small budget for the workshop will not all be spent on getting cameras. I am happy to arrange to pick up the cameras from you. Many thanks for your help.

bit.ly/9hOdXv

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

• April 23-24. Puppetry Arts’ 5th Avenue Family Festival. We’re seeking over 100 volunteers for prep, all activities, set-up, and breakdown of this awesome family event in Park Slope. Lunch will be provided. Old Stone House Park, Brooklyn. 7-9p Friday and 7a-7p Saturday. puppetryarts.com, bit.ly/aM5qVZ
• April 26-27. Domes For Haiti needs volunteers on Monday April 26th and Tuesday April 27th to help pack dome kits to be sent to Haiti. We will be doing the work party in Bushwick. Please contact us if you want to help out; we have 700 dome struts to color code and pack into bundles of 70. The time of the work party will be dependent on when the bulk of the volunteers are available. Email Lopi at info(at)domesforhaiti.org with your availability.
• April 28. Networking event for women in theatre, Bluestockings Bookstore. Guerrilla Girls On Tour is pleased to announce our third annual networking event for women in theatre in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut area. The third annual GUERRILLA GALa invites women directors, producers, playwrights, stage managers, designers, actresses and woman involved in any aspect of theater or production to the GALa. An open discussion will be followed by networking time. Admission is free; bring a resume, your business card, and some sass. Seating is limited, so reserve a space by sending your name and phone number to Anne at anne(at)guerrillagirlsontour.com, one reservation per e-mail please. Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen Street, Manhattan. 7-10p
• April 29. Immigration Attorney for Citizenship Drive. Crown Heights Community Mediation Center is seeking attorneys with immigration law experience to volunteer a few hours of their time to help with our "Citizenship Drive" when we will assist eligible individuals with their N-400 forms. We anticipate serving approximately 15 applicants between the hours of 4-8p. The volunteer attorney will not be working with the applicants directly, but rather serve as a resource for our volunteers when questions which are unique to a particular applicant's circumstances arise. bit.ly/9fdGyh
• First week of May. Domes for Haiti is still looking for a Kreyol speaking translator to accompany me on the second phase of the project in Haiti. Leaving the first week of May. Airfare will be covered and a small stipend paid. Email me if you know someone who might be interested! Especially if they live in Haiti already.
• May 5-8. Housing Works Thrift Shops’ sixth annual Design on a Dime fundraiser. The event kicks off with the Opening Night Reception on Thursday, May 6th at the Metropolitan Pavilion. Join us for New York City’s most popular interior design benefit event, where customers will enjoy exclusive preview shopping, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and live entertainment. All sorts of volunteers are needed - for more information, please visit bit.ly/dvOxiT.

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