From: "Jeff Stark" <jstark@nonsensenyc.com>
Subject: nonsensenyc: 4.23 to 4.29
Date: April 23rd 2010

Friday, April 23
* The Spring Break Massacre, Brooklyn
* Deathrow Tull Release Party, Brooklyn * NewSonic Loft Party, Brooklyn
* Burlesque at the Beach, Brooklyn
* No Shame Theater, Manhattan
* Showpaper Benefit, Brooklyn
* Hot It Up, Brooklyn
* Conversations on Change, Manhattan

Saturday, April 24
* The Sweet Cheat
* Another World is Possible: A Social Forum Social, Brooklyn * Zelda Launch, Manhattan
* Celebrate Earth Day with the Spring Handmade Cavalcade, Brooklyn * Recession Art's Works Progress, Brooklyn * Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride? Manhattan * International Noise Conference, Brooklyn * Amazing Blast Costume Party, Brooklyn * Crisp Lorde, Manhattan
* Rad Pad Howlsparty, Williamsburg
* Mister Saturday Night, Brooklyn
* Thunder Gumbo episode VI: Dr. Moreau’s Holiday Island, Brooklyn * Swing House, Brooklyn
* Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit for Free Arts NYC, Brooklyn

Sunday, April 25
* Golden Sound Camp Meeting, Brooklyn
* Domes for Haiti Benefit, Brooklyn
* The Secret City, Manhattan
* Folly Day, Brooklyn

Monday, April 26
* RadioHive Live

Tuesday, April 27
* A Benefit for Patrick of the Bell House, Brooklyn * Chaos Cooking Part VI, Brooklyn

Wednesday, April 28
* Music of the Hemispheres, Brooklyn

Thursday, April 29
* Geometry of Shelter, Williamsburg
* NYC Food Crawl Presents: The April Taco Crawl, Manhattan

Wishlist
* Tiny Offerings

Spectre
* Acts of God

Learning
* Loft Tenants Meeting

Help
* Beethoven’s Ninth

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A river, a rotten dock, waiting.

XXXXX FRIDAY, APRIL 23 XXXXX

The Spring Break Massacre

A massive 12,000 square-foot warehouse, 50-foot ceilings, on the majestic Gowanus Canal. Come early for a champagne cruise to our secret floating bar. Plus open bar 9:30 to 11p. Then stay late for all-night dance party featuring two story slip 'n slide of blood, fake tan booth, limited commitment wedding photo booth, ham bowling, the Johnny2much oyster bar, indoor barbecue pit by bulgar Davo and all-night DJs on 5,000 square foot mezzanine dance floor. DJs Dirtyfinger (blacklabel), Smallchange, Matt Shadetak (duttyartz), 2melo. All proceeds go to the Swimming Cities Ganges River project and the fabrication of a modular island composed of stainless steel motorcycle-driven paddle wheel pontoon boats for use as a floating venue in New York.

Gowanus Hotel Ballroom
69 9th Street, Brooklyn
F,G train to Smith-9th station
9p-late; $15, $10 with beachwear
weareswimmingcities.org

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

Deathrow Tull Release Party

It's been awhile since you got down like this. Good people, dope sounds, live art. Two amazing DJS: MilkMoney, Complex. Four ridiculous bands: Nyle x the Naysayers, Project Jenny, Project Jan, the Nuclears, Deathrow Tull. Live painting and art exhibition curated by Marthalicia for MSquared Art. Live screen printing by the Printaholics Crew. Bring a shirt or bag, pants, whatever.

The venue is crazy: Balconies, rooftop, huge main room. It will be full of people you know and love. And your ears will thank you as your ass shakes you.

Shea Stadium
20 Meadow Street., Brooklyn
L train to Grand station
10p; $7, includes free Deathrow Tull CD 18 and over

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

NewSonic Loft Party

Live electronic dance music from Navegante, SoundWavve, symphonic pop from Sky White Tiger, and singer-songwriters Blair and Daria start off the night at 10p. DJs Selectrick, Pia, and Rebel Ship Crew spinning dance records all night. VJ Suit Machine provides a multi-screen video experience. It's an old-school music and video throwdown and peace and love party.

Live music: Navegante, SoundWavve, Sky White Tiger, Blair, and Daria. VJ Suit Machine will be providing a multi-screen projection experience. DJ Selectrick will be spinning party jams from house to funk to reggae in between bands and late into the night. Plus special guest DJ/hair stylist Pia Vivas. Good times. Love is in the air.

Newsonic Loft
76 Rutledge Street, Brooklyn
9p doors; $5, $free before 10p

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

Burlesque at the Beach

Season opener: Wasabassco Burlesque's Coney Island medicine show. Experience a night of Wasabassco’s trademark couple-friendly, risqué-fun starring the Reigning Miss Coney Island herself, GiGi La Femme - plus a cast of ecdysiasts, magicians, snake charmers and flim-flam artists unparalleled on the Eastern Seaboard. Joining GiGi are Charismatic Huckster Bastard Keith; the Cheese Queen of Coney Island, Nasty Canasta; Tease Queen Melody Sweets; and Snake Charming Goddess, Nikki Le Villain, plus Sizzle Dizzle, Jenny C’est Quoi and Doc Wasabassco.

Coney Island
1208 Surf Avenue, Brooklyn
10p; $15

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

No Shame Theater

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 Question and Answer, 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 laughs, 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 avenues, Manhattan Midnight-1:30a; $5, free if you are performing thetanknyc.org

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

Showpaper Benefit

With 9 11 Thesaurus, Betray, and Grocery Thief.

The Silent Barn
915 Wycoff Avenue, at Hancock, Queens/Brooklyn L train to Halsey station
8p; $5-25 sliding scale
All ages

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

Hot It Up

A monthly dance extravaganza presented by Brooklyn Wonderland. Expect a hot and tropical dance extravaganza with bass-quaking, ass-shaking steel-band, disco-funk, breakbeats, kuduro, cumbia, dancehall, booty-bass, Afro-beat, funk, and hip-hop, all hotted up with live drumming and dancers. Hotpants encouraged.

Featuring: DJ Stylus, Geko Jones, Reaganomics, Peter Barr, and Mackie Burnette's Panorama Steel Band.

Littlefield
622 Degraw between 3rd and 4th avenues, Brooklyn 11p-4a; $5 with RSVP to brooklynwonderland@gmail.com or before midnight, $8 afterward
21 and over
littlefieldnyc.com/event-detail/?id=7799

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

Conversations on Change

For Conversations on Change, scholars and practitioners from the fields of art, science and religion discuss commonalities and differences amongst their views of political change. The discussion series is part of Melanie Crean’s The Shape of Change, a series of projects that examine our nation’s evolving concept of change, seeking to countermand the empty political brand the term was reduced to in recent elections. Ms. Crean is a full time faculty member in Parson’s School of Art Media and Technology. The three participants include: A A Bronson, Sean Gourley, and Sensei Jules Shuzen Harris.

Parsons New School for Design
25 East 13th Street, second floor, Manhattan 6:30-8:30p; $free
shapeofchange.com/blog
ustream.tv/channel/parsons-the-new-school-for-design

XXXXX SATURDAY, APRIL 24 XXXXX

The Sweet Cheat

The Sweet Cheat is site-specific theater. Based on Rick Moody's science-fiction novella the Albertine Notes, the play incorporates music, video, and installation, all staged inside a massive abandoned building -- a relic of New York's industrial past.

With much of Manhattan decimated after a suitcase bomb explodes in Union Square, 20 percent of the population is addicted to a drug that allows perfect memory recall. Reporter Kevin Lee's assignment: Is it true you can get to the future on Albertine?

Featuring actors Helen Buyniski, Ben Cerf, Hannah Corrigan, E. James Ford, Dylan Gauthier, Monica Hunken, M. Scrivo, Lizzie Steelheart, and Trevor Zhou as Kevin Lee. Costumes by Sarah McMillan. Sets by Robyn Hasty. And a new score by George Graham. Directed by Jeff Stark.

Stark's last play, IRT, took place without permission in the New York City subway system. The Sweet Cheat continues this series of art in the real world, far from black box theaters and white-walled galleries. This is not guerrilla theater; it's trespass theater, where the risks are serious and the art questions the division between life and representations of it -- just like the story itself. The space has not been curated for safety. All audience members must approach the performance with extreme caution.

RSVP for location, Manhattan
3-7p; $25 includes roundtrip transportation, very limited rush tickets available 9a the day of the show Continues SATURDAY and SUNDAY through May 2 infosweetcheat.org
sweetcheat.org

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

Another World Is Possible: A Social Forum Social

The RMO is throwing another one of our notoriously, ridiculously fun parties to raise funds to bring the band (and our allies) to the US Social Forum in Detroit. This party is a little different, though. In addition to bringing you great bands, brass, and booze, we're also bringing a taste of the Social Forum to Brooklyn.

At our party you'll have the chance to connect with a lot of our favorite activist groups in the city: learn more about their work, what they've accomplished, and what you can do to help create a better world. Come cavort and connect, dance and drink, learn and get a little loving.

Featuring performances by: Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Spanglish Fly, Apocalypse Five and Dime, My Gay Banjo, Swamp Cat, and Rebecca Heinegg performing on the aerial silks. Plus a secret surprise brass band from Montreal. Plus: wild wines and beers, liberated eats, dancing dissidents, agitating aerialists, militant merch, seditious silent auction, marching band fantasy photobooth.

Brooklyn Lyceum
227 Fourth Avenue, at President Street, Brooklyn 8p-2a; $8-20 sliding scale
rudemechanicalorchestra.org

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

Zelda Launch

Wit's End and the Dorothy Parker Society are proud to present you with this special fete to celebrate the launch of the second issue of Zelda: The Magazine of the Vintage Nouveau. Zelda's cover feature is an interview with the incomparable Doris Eaton Travis, the last living Ziegfeld girl, and in her honor, we offer you the Moonlit Frolic, a soiree in Ziegfeld style. Music will be provided by favorites Gelber and Manning, featuring songs from the Ziegfeld Follies.

Fashion special: Our friends at the Ziegfeld Club will be providing a very special showcase: a showing of authentic Ziegfeld costumes and headpieces. See a real piece of New York history in person. Free hors d'oeuvres, dance lesson, giveaways.

Dress code: Come in your finest 1920s/30s/40s evening attire, fit for a night out at the Follies. No casual attire. For this Ziegfeld special event- bring out your sequins, your headpieces, your 20s showgirl best. The best dressed vintage-style showgirl will receive a wonderful prize!

Flute Bar
205 West 54th Street, Manhattan
7p-midnight; $17 includes a copy of the magazine 21 and over
zeldamag.com
clubwitsend.com

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

Celebrate Earth Day with the Spring Handmade Cavalcade

Spring is in the air, and plans are already under way for the second-annual Spring Handmade Cavalcade. This handmade shopping event will set up for the day in the beautiful new Williamsburg bar, Berry Park.

The Spring Handmade Cavalcade is hosted by the NewNew, a collaborative group of independent designers in the New York metro area. With its Handmade Cavalcade series, the NewNew seeks to present shoppers with a carefully curated selection of goods made by local artists

Free, limited-edition goody bags will be available to the first 100 visitors who arrive at the Spring Handmade Cavalcade. Shoppers will also be eligible to enter to win one of six custom-embellished goody bags filled with handmade products from featured Cavalcade vendors.

Berry Park
4 Berry Street, Brooklyn
10a-5p; $free
handmadecavalcade gmail.com
handmadecavalcade.com

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

Recession Art's Works Progress

Twelve artists' work, including Emily François' dollar store commemorative plates, Cubby West's paintings on salvaged car parts, and Zach Chupa's chicken tractor. Angela Jann will work with a realtor at the opening reception to sell homes being sold in Detroit for under $500, as well as paintings of those homes, to see whether the art or housing market is suffering the most.

Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn
6p-midnight;
recessionartshows.com/current

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

Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride?

New York City's CouchSurfing Ambassadors are at it again. It's Spring and the Wedding Season has begun. Time to pull those bridesmaid dresses out from the back of your closet and celebrate the hideousness in the best way we know how -- a bar crawl. Never been a bridesmaid? Neither have I, but my mother has (and in the 70s). Call up your girlfriends and borrow one of the dozens in the back of their closet or just put on the ugliest dress you can find. What wedding is complete without a flower girl, a priest, a rabbi, photographers, the band, and of course, the bride? Men (and dykes) in tasteless formal ware will be welcomed, but those in hideous dresses will be rewarded. What better excuse could you need to get to know that cranky old lady in a mu-mu who lives downstairs?

Revival
129 East 15th Street, between 3rd Avenue and Irving Place, Manhattan 4:30-9p; $free
carlc065@gmail.com

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

International Noise Conference

Twenty bands, 15 minute performances (or less), no droning, no laptops, no mixer boards.

With Laundryroom Squelchers, Diablo, Clang Quartet, Loud Objects, Leslie Keffer, Chaos*Majik, Radio Shock, Slasher Risk, C. Lavender, Dead Line Connector, LCDD, Spicoli, Rape Scene, Gray Market, Crudbox, Explosive Improvised Device, Family Treasures, Casper Electronics, Rust Worship, and John Mannion.

Silent Barn
915 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn
L train to Halsey station
7p; $8 door
radioshock.org
squelchers.net/inc2010tour.htm

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

Amazing Blast Costume Party

Dress as your favorite character, wear sexy clothes, exotic, crazy. Dress the best and win a special prize for the best costume. This costume party is a fundraiser to help our beloved vegan friend Jonah to stay in the country with us, so he can still keep blasting black metal music and cooking for us.

Music on two floors and rooftop by run dmt, Guardian Alien, 01, Bangladeafy, the Shy Violet, Prom Concussion, Spermwhales, Bobby the Greek playing the greek bouzouki also Maharaj, and Nathan Carperter with accordionist Matt Dallow. Plus amazing performances by Leather Conrad and Mistress Ivy and kinky friends doing sweet bdsm performances and mini dominatrix sessions, Maya papaya tap dancing queen, Beatrice vs fire dancing, and Francis doin up a hula-hoop. DJ Tony Trashhh. Come enjoy, dance, mingle, have fun, and get crunked.

Surreal Estate
15 Thames Street, Brooklyn
10p-4:30a; $7 dollars with costume, $10 dollars without a costume

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

HiChristina presents:

Crisp Lorde

Has your Saturday routine been missing that spark of intellectualism? Do you have a vague feeling of bewilderment? Or are you in the mood to see someone covered in iceberg lettuce? We thought so! That's why we've invited, Crisp Lorde, the Lettuce Magnate of the West to make a special appearance at HiChristina tonight. Just like a bed of flowering lettuce HiChristina will be organized into four rows of fresh crispy fun.

Row 1 Listen to and give 3 minute spiels of two kinds: Get-rich-quick/Stay-poor-slow and I'm-gonna-kick-his/her-ass-because.

Row 2 Shake out your legs and loosen your necks for the 'abstract movement and technicolor groove' workshop led by Christina, Fritz, and Seth Ludman.

Row 3 Midnight Haircut and Toenail Polishing: get a haircut or trim for no charge from an aesthetically certified snipper and manicurist Sweet Alison.

Row 4 Plant yourself in the bed and experience the full life cycle of lettuce complete with sun, weeding, pollination, and light rain.

Dancing ensues. Dress up as an object or fruit or vegetable and automatically win a prize. RSVP if you would like your name in gold on the wall of wonder before you arrive.

Hi Christina
163 Eldridge Street, and Delancey, Manhattan 10p; $10 BYOB
rxapparel-at-gmail.com
hichristina.com

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

Rad Pad Howlsparty

Attention all wild ones. Lovers and nightprowlers. Librarians and Superheros. Hear ye hear ye. C'mon out this Saturday night for the rad rad pad party. With bands and such. Strange company and strong drink. With Lycaon Pictus, Source of Yellow, and McDonalds. I invite you all! Cmon down! into my basement. Woo.

248 Driggs Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 10p; $4

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

Mister Saturday Night

We’ve got something special up our sleeves. Every Mister Saturday Night is planned with the utmost care, of course, but this one is especially so. We’re moving the sound system into an intimate, homey loft in Brooklyn, a neighborhoody place where there are bouncy wood floors made for dancing, quiet nooks where you can hide and nice couches and chairs where you can hang. You can bring your own drinks if you’d like, or if you’d rather not think about that, we’ll have a full bar stocked -- whatever your pleasure.

Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter will be playing together the entire night, stretching out for at least six hours. The place where it's happening is a secret, and you'll have to RSVP to find out the details. Feel free to email this to friends, but please be discreet. This place is special, and we want to keep it that way. We can't wait to spend the night with you.

RSVP for loft address, Brooklyn
10p-late; $10 advance, $12 before midnight, $15 otherwise mistermistersaturdaynight.com
mistersaturdaynight.com

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

Thunder Gumbo episode VI: Dr. Moreau’s Holiday Island

The story: Thunder Gumbo needs a vacation. After reviving Zombie Warhol, we were exhausted. He was so grateful for his re-animation that he booked us a vacation on a remote, exclusive holiday island. It’s run by a kindly old man named Dr. Moreau, who used to have some sort of laboratory on the island.

Costume Suggestions: fangs, whiskers, claws, tails, antlers. Ears on the top of your head. Tropical attire, Hawaii 5-0, coconut bra’s, 6-cup bikini tops, spots. special gifts throughout the night to those in the most untamed ensembles.

Your entertainment for the evening: Cumba Mela with 2melo, Thornato and Atropolis, Vox Illuminati, Vic Valentino of the Outside Eye, and DJ Morphous. And your beastly host Jungle Guncle Aaron. Also: anthropomorphic art, video, and performance by Jason Martin, performance art by Kendalle Fiasco, bad animal training, Quantity -vs- Quality wet T-shirt contest, heavy petting zoo, feral face painting, feeding time by Davo, jungle juice luge, undomesticated art and projections, satellite feed from Dr. Adventures POW cage, and free beads for any animals gone wild.

319 Scholes Street, Brooklyn
L train to Montrose station
10p-6a; $10, free Jungle Juice before 11p ThunderGumbo.com

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

Gemini and Scorpio present:

Swing House

Two-year anniversary. A dazzling vintage dance monthly. A costumed dance ball with live swingin' sounds by authentic vintage jazz bands, re-bopin' DJs remixing and reinventing vintage grooves, awesome aerial artistry, dazzling dance numbers, blazing burlesque and performance art to make you swoon. Featuring...Authentic swing cats Nick Palumbo and the Flipped Fedora Orchestra; special guests from Berlin swing/ska/gypsy punk rockers Budzillus. Drinks by The House of St Eve, handcrafted beer by Bushwick Brews, and other delectable potions. FREE dance class before the event by Akemi Kinukawa of Sandra Cameron Dance Center. The Jazz Age never ended, it just got funky. Dress accordingly.

Green Building
450 Union at Bond, Brooklyn
8p doors, 8:30p dance class, 9p party; $15 with RSVP and themed dress, $20 door, $10 after midnight 21 and over
geminiandscorpio.com/events.html

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

Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit for Free Arts NYC

We will be showing some new work along side some of the most inspiring and recognized street artists in New York City in a silent auction to benefit Free Arts NYC and to celebrate the release of the new book Street Art New York.

Factory Fresh Gallery
1053 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn
L train to Morgan station
7-11p; $free

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Golden Sound Camp Meeting

We could really use your support at this benefit for our Jimmy Swaggart show, Get Mad at Sin.

But more pertinently to you; we think you could really use what these artists are giving: The Defibulators, the Glory Whole Revival Quartet (featuring Christopher Williams), Cynthia Hopkins, Karinne Keithley, Sibyl Kempson and Ken Russ Schmoll, Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord, Neal Medlyn, Chris Peck, and Dr. Schüler.

Cameo Gallery
Secret entrance in the way back of the Lovin' Cup bar, 93 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 7-10p; $20 benefits upcoming production Get Mad at Sin

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

Domes for Haiti Benefit

Screening of Poto Mitan and music by Makandal. Join us for an enjoyable evening of film, music, and dance.

Music provided by Makandal drummers, get ready to shake your booty. Band of Bicycles will be mixing up some delicious Haitian Rum smoothies. Domes for Haiti T-shirts, designed and printed by Lopi LaRoe. Film screening of Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy, made by Renée Renata Bergan just last year.

House of Yes
342 Maujer, Brooklyn
7p doors, 7:30-11p show; $5-200 sliding scale donation, no one turned away for lack of funds or shelter domesforhaiti.org/

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

The Secret City

The Secret City is a community of artists and other conscious, creative people. We gather to celebrate, cogitate, ruminate and meditate on the nature of art-making and the creative spirit.

Part cabaret, part art-church, part salon, each service has a different theme and features live performance, presentation and original work. Our theme will be Worth.

Theatrelab
137 West 14th Street, between 6th and 7th avenues, Manhattan 11:30a; $10 suggested donation, no one turned away

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

Folly Day

A vision has come, a vision of a big green field next to the water, with hundreds of brass bands (give or take 95) playing beautiful waltzes together for thousands of waltzing couples. A vision then of bands playing for other bands, with the other bands inter-waltzing to brass bliss. A vision of the heavens opening up and bringing world peace and fresh yummy peaches to all.

Not in a band but want to view the spectacle? Here's how:

1. Show up 2pm Sunday April 25th at Valentino Park in your fancy waltz school (as in school of fish, people, school of fish) attire.
2. Receive a map of the staging grounds, then go hunt down brass bands, who will be hunting down each other and competing for glory in the streets of Red Hook.
3. Attach provided fish (or bring your own paper fish) to your favorite waltz school band.
4. Meet back at Valentino Park for the waltz extravaganza, dance to waltzes from the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, the Hungry March Band, the Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Himalayas,and god knows who else, then dance to a waltz by all the bands at once.
5. Go to the after party, most likely at Bait and Tackle.

Valentino Park
Red Hook, Brooklyln
2p; $free
libkuman gmail.com
yelp.com/map/louis-valentino-jr-park-and-pier-brooklyn

XXXXX MONDAY, APRIL 26 XXXXX

RadioHive Live

Months in the making, radiohive.org is an ongoing aesthetic and political experiment in collaborative, community-based cultural production. In other words it's a funky, fierce, fabulous internet radio station, and it's going live tonight and tomorrow.

The Hive is comprised of the curious and the cantankerous, the jubilant and the jaded, the artist and the provocateur. Poke around. If you get stung, its only because we want to wake you up.

Radiohive.org
7p-midnight; $free

XXXXX TUESDAY, APRIL 27 XXXXX

A Benefit for Patrick of the Bell House

Kimberley and Renata of the Bell House are throwing a benefit for one of their own who got into a pretty nasty bike accident this winter. He's pretty much recovered, but he's missing a bunch of his teeth. So what can you do to help? Come to this kick-ass party. Performances by Goes Cube, Pistola, and Toys in Trouble. With games, prizes, cupcakes.

Bell House
149 7th Street, Brooklyn
8p; $10 admission, all proceeds going to Patrick and his teeth

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

Chaos Cooking Part VI

A continuing social experiment where up to 40 people cook 40 recipes in one kitchen, four burners, one oven. All recipes must be finished in three hours while everyone is drinking wine, socializing, and putting delectable dishes in their mouths.

How it works: Post the name of your recipe on this events wall. Bring the ingredients necessary for everyone to try a little bit of your dish, extra knives and cutting boards (if you have them) and two or three bottles of wine per person. Throw in $5 into a donation jar toward clean up, common ingredients and to the hosting space.

When you arrive pour yourself some wine, sign the book, start making your dish, help someone else, pour yourself some wine, eat some of the dish that was just finished, ask for help, try not to start yourself on fire, try some more dishes, sit down and talk for a while, pour your new friend some more wine, have some dessert, make plans for this weekend.

This has been an incredible success, cultivating some of the best vibes we've felt in a while. We started at 18 people and pushed the chaos to 40, which somehow still works. Page Not Found is a 2000 square foot members-run apartment, with a garden, used as constantly transforming space to encourage strong social interaction by experimenting with collaboration, art, food, film, and music.

Page Not Found
RSVP for address, Brooklyn
J,M,Z trains to Myrtle/Broadway station, L train to Morgan Avenue station 7p; $5, bring bottles of wine, extra knives, cutting boards, and tupperware pagenotfoundspacegmail.com

XXXXX WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 XXXXX

Music of the Hemispheres

A live music, film, and science event. The idea for Music of the Hemispheres originates in the work of neuro-philosopher Dan Lloyd, whose research focuses on taking patterns found in brain activity and converting them into musical score. These scores are not biofeedback or music cognition experiments, but rather extracting the architecture of consciousness, as it occurs in the brain, and assigning its varying components musical tones. The result is musical scores meant to reflect brain activity itself. Through this, Lloyd found that recognizable musical structures emerge, and he thus formulated a theory that consciousness operates within a musical structure -- or rather, that music is an expressive interpretation of how our brains work.

The music generated through Lloyd’s project seems oddly familiar, and is surprisingly harmonious and musical. Now, should this theory be proven, the philosophical implications are both joyous and endless. The idea that we are, in fact, music -- or that music is, in fact, truly human: a reflection or interpretation of the human mind.

The event will serve as both an exhibition and an experiment. Elisa Da Prato, a Brooklyn-based filmmaker who had initiated the event and is currently working on a film concerning this theme, will be pairing Dan Lloyd with San Francisco based ensemble the Lickets, who will be assigned with the task of interpreting the scores that are the result of his studies. The evening will feature:

1. Short film, by Elisa Da Prato explaining the players, Dan Lloyd’s theory and the experiment.
2. Dan Lloyd’s presentation of subject Jeff Sable’s brain activity converted into musical score.
3. The Lickets live arrangement of Lloyd’s Jeff Sable Brain Score and a short piece inspired by the stimulus Sable viewed in the F-MRI Scan while generating the data.
4. Panel discussion/response comprised of Dan Lloyd, Zoran Josipovic, Doug Johnson, the Lickets (Mitch Greer and Rachel Smith), Jeff Sable (the subject). Moderated by Elisa Da Prato.

Issue Project Room
232 3rd Street, third floor, Brooklyn
8p; $8-9
issueprojectroom.org/2010/02/26/littoral-music-of-the-hemispheres/

XXXXX THURSDAY, APRIL 29 XXXXX

Geometry of Shelter

A Benefit for Domes for Haiti. Domes for Haiti is a grassroots project based out of Brooklyn building portable pre-fabricated geodesic domes to send to Haiti as an immediate solution to provide transitional hurricane and earthquake resistant shelters. Domes for Haiti will be delivering the dome kits personally and hiring Haitian Workers to prep the sites and assemble the domes. Each dome is large enough to house 10 kids and comes with a basic set of tools.

Come see the official unveiling of the Prototype that we will be sending. Screening of recent footage from Haiti by filmmaker Courtney Sheetz. A silent art auction featuring many fine artist's work including: Lopi LaRoe, Ben Mortimer, Immanent Disaster, Ryan O'Connor, Tianna Kennedy, Tony Bones, Tod Seelie, Angie Kaylor, A'yen Tran, and many more to be announced.

Performances by piano-wielding singer/songwriters: Dan Paul and Brett Lord. Special guest OUTMusic Award Winner and Rachael Sage.

Sugarland
221 North 9th Street, between Driggs and Roebling, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 8-10p; $5 all proceeds go toward this groundbreaking project. DomesForHaiti.org

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

NYC Food Crawl Presents: The April Taco Crawl

Some like it soft, some like it crunchy, and some like it hot (and spicy!).

At its most basic, a taco consists of a corn or flour tortilla folded around shredded meat and beans, and is often supplemented with garnishes such as salsa, cilantro, tomatoes, limes, peppers, rice, cheese, hot sauce, onions and lettuce. From traditional Mexican tacos stuffed with chicken, fish, beef, or pork, to tacos sudados (literally "sweaty tacos") steamed in a basket, Indian tacos served on frybread, and skinny deep-fried taquitos, the art of the taco offers a broad palette of cheap, portable, and delicious options to enjoy.

Please join NYC Food Crawl for the April Taco Crawl on Thursday, April 29. We will meet at 7pm sharp by the Cube at Astor Place and spend two hours sampling different types of tacos across the Union Square/Gramercy area.

Taco route, map, and team assignments will be provided at starting point, so don't be late! Go at your own pace, pay as you go. Come hungry, leave happy, and may the best taco win!

Meet at the Cube at Astor Place (Astor Place at 4th Avenue) 7:00p; $free
No RSVP necessary
bit.ly/Hj6K8
nycfoodcrawl.blogspot.com

XXXXX UPCOMING XXXXX

• 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

XXXXX ONGOING XXXXX

Nonsense is too long. The great thing about the internet is that it doesn't really cost much to run long listings and exhaustive descriptions. It turns out that's ... exhausting. After several complaints and a little deliberation, we're trying a new format: On the first Friday of the month we will run updated ongoing listings in each section: events, learning, and help. Other weeks we're going for leaner, meaner sections. If you're desperate for something to do on an off-Tuesday night we suggest you either look back a few issues ago in your inbox, or poke through our online archives, which you can find under the subscribe page.

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.

XXXXX WISHLIST XXXXX

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 *****

• Open Call No. 1 for Tiny Offerings, April 30 at Harvestworks, 6-8p. Tiny Offerings is a performance event where each person who attends is invited to make an offering to everyone else. An offering can be anything people like to do (tell jokes, stories, sing, draw, things we often think of as talents, etc.) or something they know how to do (a weird trick or genetic tic for instance) or want to show and tell (a drawing, photo, video, sculpture, found object of interesting or sentimental value, etc.) Make it something that you care about or that's revealing in some way- (serious or goofy). Artists are encouraged to bring or do something other than what they usually do- i.e. some other medium or type of performance. Collaborations are also good. Only restriction: three minutes or less! Just show up or RSVP: TOfferings(at)gmail.com. Performance will then be 8:30p at Roulette on Thursday, June 3.
• Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival is an all-volunteer, self-organized art festival held in Bushwick. This year's festival will take place on the weekend of June 4-6. Anyone in the community is welcome to participate by presenting art work, organizing activities and events, or by helping to produce the Festival. Registration for Bushwick Open Studios 2010 is now open. The registration period will run through Sunday, May 2. Registration happens entirely online. Please visit artsinbushwick.org to learn more and register.
• Do you know of any actresses (they don't necessarily have to be queer) who would want to try out for a queer part for a short film? The character is a somewhat masculine or even androgynous woman named Frances whose in a relationship with a more femme woman named Rosita. The two of them are trying to reconcile differences in their relationship and it all comes to a head at Rosita's birthday party. Frances in the short film is white but if you know any women that might fit the role (doesn't matter their sexuality or race) please let me know. jenniobidike (at)g mail.com.
• An uptown zine and small press fair -- May Day at the Ding Dong -- will be held on May 1, 2010, from 1 to 7p at Ding Dong Lounge, 929 Columbus Avenue (between 105th and 106th Street). It's being organized by a loose coalition of zinesters, small press folk, musicians, artists, and oral history enthusiasts, and will most benefit from the participation of you.
• Vendors Wanted: May Day at the Ding Dong: A Celebration of Labors of Love is a zine and small press fair with readings, music performances, and more taking place on Saturday, May 1, 1–7p at the Ding Dong Lounge, 929 Columbus Avenue, between 105 and 106 Streets. Tables are $15. Check our website to pay by PayPal, or email dingdongtables(at)gmail.com for alternate payment options. See: maydaydingdong.blogspot.com/

***** SPACES *****

• Sublet April 26 - May 16. I am offering my bedroom in a nice loft shared with four other people and one doggy. My room is fully furnished, cozy with thirteen-foot ceilings, insane amount of light. The house is a legitimate beauty with full kitchen, tub, projector/DVD, WiFi. Short walk to Lorimer L/Broadway G and Lorimer J trains. Will need rent upfront by April 24. You will not be responsible for utilities but please be clean and considerate. Contact Heidi, tullmantor(at)gmail.com.
• $675 huge, studio-sized room in huge apartment, ten minutes to Brooklyn College, thirty to Manhattan, for a quiet, calm, peaceful female roommate. Very safe area (walk-around-at- four am-with-no-issue, backed up by statistics)! Available now, or perhaps if you want to move-in by May 1 or so, that would be ok too). I prefer as soon as possible. Five month minimum stay or longer. The room is 200 square feet in itself, a large rectangle, with five windows. Ceiling fan and light, air conditioner. Furnished if wanted with a queen bed and modern, tasteful computer desk. There is also an extra studio/office/sewing room you can use. Plus-sized living room/dining room/kitchen. I have one cat, and cannot take in any more cats. I am a (rare) occasional smoker. I'm an introverted, stable, kind, artsy/bohemian thirty-year-old woman employed in a creative field and have a similar twenty-nine-year-old roommate (have lived with many younger people too). Apartment is a five bedroom, but the re are only three people total at all times, including myself and maybe you. Transportation: four blocks to train. Kings Highway station stop on Q/B express train. Around the corner from shops/restaurants/gyms of every kind. Full kitchen, free laundry in building basement, utilities only about $35 per month. Email me back with a note about yourself- your lifestyle/work/job/school/interests/past living situations/personality/expectations/guest habits/daily schedule of work/school/sleep, etc. Contact thevolutionoflove@live.com.
• Bronx Summer Sublet Bonanza. We are a two-apartment, six bedroom household in the Bronx, and many of us are planning on vacating -- for housebuilding, vacationing, fieldwork, and adventure -- for much of the summer. Both apartments are sunny, floor-through, three bedrooms with lovely bathtubs, big kitchens, ceiling fans, comfy sofas, and lots of beautiful plants. Queer friendly. The rentals come with a CSA share, and possible access to a garden plot around the corner. We live in Mott Haven, right by the 3rd Avenue 138th Street stop on the 6 train, and also walking distance to the 4/5 and 2. We're about 25 minutes from Union Sq. There is wireless access, free laundry in the building, and lots of big grocery stores really close by. If you’re interested, write anna.starecheski@gmail.com.

***** Acts of God *****

http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/acts-of-god/

No Fly Zone
nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/15/world/europe/airport-closings-graphic.html washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/21/AR2010042102100.html "The year of the earthquake has suddenly become the year of the volcano. It raises the question of what governments can do to prepare for -- and adapt to -- wild-card geological events that not only affect airliners but can also alter the planet's climate for years at a stretch. Now airports are beginning to open again in Britain and the Netherlands, but no one can be entirely sure what will happen next in Iceland. Eyjafjallajokull could incite an eruption of its larger neighbor, Katla, which hasn't erupted since 1918 and might be ready to rumble. In all three historically recorded eruptions of Eyjafjallajokull -- in 920, 1612 and 1821 -- Katla erupted soon thereafter."

Opening Act?
independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/second-more-powerful-icelandic-volcano-likely-to-explode-soon-1949600.html "Each time Eyjafjallajokull has erupted in the past 2,000 years, Katla has exploded within six months. Professor McGuire pointed out that Katla was 10 times bigger than Eyjafjallajokull. It also has a much bigger ice cap, and it is the mixture of melting cold water and lava that causes explosions and for ash to shoot to high altitudes. Iceland's President, Olafur Grimsson, indicated that Europe, and the world, would have to wake up to the risk posed by Katla. "Because the history of these volcanoes in my country shows that they will erupt regularly, and the time for Katla to erupt is coming close. I don't say if, but when Katla will erupt, because it usually erupts every century and the last one was in 1918." The President said Iceland had been "waiting for that eruption" for some years, and had made preparations for rescue and emergency services. So I think it is high time for European governments and airline authorities to start planning for it."

Volcanic Explosivity Index
volcanoes.usgs.gov/activity/index.php
guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/21/iceland-volcano-ash-extinction-human-race "The map is almost uncannily similar to today's: a spray of black dots showing the recorded sightings of a foul grey haze spreading across Europe – and all of it caused by clouds of ash from an immense volcano erupting far across the sea in Iceland. But this was a map made from data collected in 1783. The volcano was called Laki, it erupted for eight dismal months without cease, ruined crops, lowered temperatures and drastically altered the weather. It killed 9,000 people, drenched the European forests in acid rain, caused skin lesions in children and the deaths of millions of cattle. And, by one account, it was a contributing factor (because of the hunger-inducing famines) to the outbreak six years later of the French revolution.

It is worth remembering that ours is a world essentially made from and by volcanoes. There is perhaps no better recent example of the havoc that a big eruption can cause than that which followed the explosive destruction of Mt Toba, in northern Sumatra, some 72,000 years ago (which, in geological time, is very recent). The relics of this mountain today are no more than a very large and beautiful lake, 60 miles long and half a mile deep – the caldera that was left behind by what is by most reckonings the largest volcanic explosion known to have occurred on the planet in the last 25 million years. On the widely used volcanic explosivity index (VEI), Toba is thought to have been an eight (Eyjafjallajökull is by contrast listed as having a probable VEI rating of just two). About 680 cubic miles of rock were instantly vaporised, all of which was hurled scores of thousands of feet into the air. This this is what did the lasting damage, just as Iceland's high-altitude rock-dust i s doing today. But while we today are merely suffering a large number of inconvenienced people and a weakening of the balance sheets of some airlines, the effect on the post-Toban world was catastrophic: as a result of the thick ash clouds the world's ambient temperature plummeted, perhaps by as much as 5C – and the cooling and the howling wave of deforestation and deaths of billions of animals and plants caused a sudden culling of the human population of the time, reducing it to maybe as few as 5,000 people, perhaps 1,000 breeding pairs.

Others of the 47 known VEI-8 volcanoes are more alarmingly recent. The newer of the great eruptions that helped form the mountains of today's Yellowstone national park in Wyoming took place just 640,000 years ago, and all the current signs -- such phenomena as the rhythmic slow rising and falling of the bed of the Yellowstone river, as if some giant creature is breathing far below -- suggest another eruption is coming soon. When it does, it will be an American Armageddon: all of the north and west of the continent, from Vancouver to Oklahoma City, will be rendered uninhabitable, buried under scores of feet of ash. (I mentioned this once in a talk to a group of lunching ladies in Kansas City, soothing their apparent disquiet by adding that by "soon" I was speaking in geologic time, and that meant about 250,000 years, by which time all humankind would be extinct. A woman in the front row exploded with incredulous rage: "What? Even Americans will be extinct?") Krakatoa's immedia te aftermath was dominated initially by dramatic physical effects -- a series of tsunamis, a bang of detonation that was clearly heard (like naval gunfire, said the local police officer) 3,000 miles away, and a year's worth of awe-inspiring evening beauty -- astonishing sunsets of purple and passionfruit and salmon that had artists all around the world trying desperately to capture what they managed to see in the fleeting moments before dark ..."

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 *****

JourneyDance Your Ass Off

JourneyDance is a dance through the chakra system (chakras are seven energy centers located through your body) that will help you to unleash your inner 5-year-old. Dance barefoot with no mirrors, judgment, or attachment to negativity. In this Saturday class we will reinforce the Root Chakra (grounding, stability, home) and focus on the Solar Plexus Chakra (leadership, setting boundaries, and clarity). Wear clothing suitable for a wild barefoot indoor rumpus!

Atmananda Yoga
324 Lafayette, 7th Floor, Manhattan
6-8p; $20
atmananda.com

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

Rumba

Get the fundamentals of Rumba in this special eight-week course. Rumba combines elements of Afro-Cuban and Spanish traditions.

Park Performing Arts Center
560 32nd Street, Union City, New Jersey $100 for eight weeks
Register: 201-865 6980
parkpac. org/NewHTM/ newdirections. htm

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

Preserving Fresh Flowers

Learn to preserve flowers, leaves, and grasses via air, oven, and microwave drying; pressing; skeletonizing; and the use of glycerine and desiccants. Create a small dried wreath and pressed-flower notepaper. Take home fresh plant material and a container of silica gel to conduct the drying process yourself. All materials provided; bring scissors and your lunch. (Students registering for Dried and Silk Arrangements will receive $10 off this course.)

Brooklyn Botanic Garden
1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn
10:30a–3p; $86 member, $92 nonmember (includes materials) bbg.org

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

Healing West African Dance Class

Amina Heckstall leads this healing West African dance class. Children can join in for free!

Chelsea Studios
151 West 26th, Fifth Floor, Manhattan
6:30-8p; $10
balletintlafricans(at)yahoo.com
balletintlafricans.com

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

Loft Tenants Meeting

Join in to discuss tenants’ rights, organizing tenants’ associations, and loft law legislation, and hear from loft tenants who have successfully overcome loft challenges through organizing.

The Bodega
24 Saint Nicholas Avenue, Brooklyn
7:30p; $free
srobinson(at)rbscc.org

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

Fitness for the Left

Training teaches harmony necessary for personal and community development. A fitness lifestyle will make you feel better while increasing your ability to perform at a higher level, helping yourself and helping others. This eight-session course will focus on kettleball training, mobiility, strengthening, endurance, nutrition, and figuring out a program that works for you.

The Brecht Forum
451 West Street, Manhattan
5:30-7:15p
$75-$100 sliding scale; $free for Brecht Forum subscribers 212-242-4201, ext.11
Register: brechtforum.org/civicrm/event/info?id=11623&reset=1

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

Beginning Spanish for Activists

An eight-session course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and Latin American culture. The course introduces basic grammar and pronunciation while developing fundamental communication skills. Students learn to express opinions, physical sensations, feelings, and needs in a simple way. Students will be able to comprehend brief letters and texts related to daily life. (NOTE: Intermediate Spanish Class for Activists begins Tuesday at 5:30p.)

The Brecht Forum
451 West Street, Manhattan
5:30-7:30p; $275
212-242-4201, ext.11
Register: brechtforum.org/civicrm/event/info?id=11616&reset=1

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

Make Your Own Absinthe

Up there with vibrators and bicycles, here’s another 19th-century fad too good to fade back into history. Build your fin de siecle street cred by learning to brew the infamous green spirit at home with almost no special equipment. We’ll talk about how to source or grow your own ingredients, flavoring, purifying your finished product, and tasting. You will emerge from the second session with a bottle of finished absinthe made by you.

Madagascar Institute
217 Butler Street, Brooklyn
Two Tuesdays, 7-8:30p; $35 members, $55 nonmembers Register: madagascarinstitute.com

***** LEARNING: Also on TUESDAY *****

Pop up, Flag, and Tunnel Books

Enliven journals, book reports, notebooks, and autobiographies by hand-crafting not just the words on the page, but the pages themselves. High-quality donations from print shops, paperies, wallpaper suppliers, mills, and manufacturers can be made into unusually beautiful projects to solidify literacy. Building off the basics of our introductory class, this session will add sculptural delights to the bookmaking process: flag books, three-dimensional advanced accordion structures, and pop-ups of many varieties. No previous experience necessary. Led by Joy Suarez.

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

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

Citizen Journalism: The Rise of Internet Reporting

Join this class to explore how the Internet has democratized news and truly created a free press.

BCAT Media Center
647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
6-8p; $Free
RSVP: 718-935-1122 x 237

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

Intro to Makeup Techniques

Learn to apply make-up like a pro. In this three-hour class, students receive intimate, paint-by-number make-up instruction for all areas of the face from an experienced NYC make-up artist. All supplies will be provided by the instructor, and students will come away with detailed list of application and product basics necessary to make a photo shoot a success. Led by Roberto Casey, a two-time New York Emmy Award–winner and one of the top make-up artists in the industry today. Mention Nonsense NYC when you register (deadline April 23) for a 10% discount.

3rd Ward
195 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn
7-10p; $80 members, $100 nonmembers
3rdward.com

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

• Brooklyn Brainery will host a mixed bag of collaborative classes at the Gowanus Studio Space, starting May 17. Brooklyn. Various days; $varies. brooklynbrainery.com/courses

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 and SATURDAY *****

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

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

Beethoven’s Ninth

We at the American Classical Orchestra are looking for volunteers that would be willing to help us with our biggest event of the year, a 25th Anniversary celebration concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Anyone able to help with the post-show reception receives a free ticket to the concert.

Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan
5-11:30p
bit.ly/9MkTKG

***** HELP: MONDAY and TUESDAY *****

Packin’ Dome Kits

Domes For Haiti needs volunteers on April 26 and 27 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. E-mail Lopi with your availability.

Lopi, info(at)domesforhaiti.org

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

Guerrilla GALa

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 - one reservation per e-mail please.

Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen Street, Manhattan
7-10p
anne(at)guerrillagirlsontour.com

***** HELP: THURSDAY or FRIDAY *****

Rooftop Roundup

Housing Works is dedicated to eradicating the twin crises of AIDS and homelessness, and the Keith D. Cylar House Health Center is a prime example of the housing and health services we provide. Just in time for spring, K-Mart has recently made a generous donation of patio furniture for the facility's rooftop. We need volunteers to help assemble the furniture and create a welcoming outdoor area. Contact for more details.

bit.ly/8XTzLM

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

Donate your Trash for an Eco-Art Project

We’re making a large-scale eco-art project to be displayed on Governor’s Island in June, but we are no where near our goal for plastic take out containers. Save the container you are eating at lunch today - we need your containers, and we’ll come pick them up. Check out our website or send us an e-mail if you’d like to volunteer to collect.

mslk.com/take-less
demetra(at)mslk.com

***** 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 care of 3rd Ward
195 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn
www.domesforhaiti.org

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

• 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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