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ROUND ROBIN FUNDRAISER party

Round Robin Art Collective is throwing an early summer rock-out dance party with bands beer & more! The event will be FREE and it's a FUNDRAISER. The proceeds of your beer donations (or any other donations you care to make) will go towards supporting the upcoming free events that Round Robin is working on including an exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery in DUMBO in August and a show at Camel Art Space in September. We ask that you kindly do NOT byob and bring yourself & your friends.

Saturday June 11, 2011
8 pm - 1 am

Gowanus

657 Fifth Ave @ 19th St (entrance is on 19th St)

Brooklyn, NY

Entertainment will include the fabulous fresh sounds of:
(tentative schedule)
Doom Trumpet - 8:30 pm
Lightouts - 9:15 pm
Lycaon Pictus - 10:00 pm
Donny Hue and the Colors - 10:45 pm
DJ Mony Pony
+ more


We thank the talented performers and BROOKLYN BREWERY for their generous support and we hope to see ALL of you there! If you cannot make it to the party and would like to make a contribution a tax-deductible donation can be made to A.I.R. on our behalf (contact us at roundrobinbrooklyn@gmail.com for details).

All-Day Outdoor Experimental Documentary Film Screenings curated by Mary Billyou

All-Day Outdoor Experimental Documentary Film Screenings
at Northside Townhall Cultural & Community Center (aka The People's Firehouse)

134 Wythe St. between N. 8th & N. 9th Sts. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

Curated by Mary Billyou

Inspired by local filmmaker Jem Cohen's film of the same name, This Is A History Of New York, this screening will present work in the tradition of NYC street photography. Focusing a lens on the ephemeral experiences of street life, a broader analysis of commercial forces and "urban renewal" programs will be put in context. Held in the engine bay of the Former Williamsburg Firehouse.

Including films by:
Mary Blllyou, Elle Burchill, Jem Cohen, Koken Ergun, Brian Frye, Paul Garrin, Ken Jacobs, Jonas Mekas, Martha Rosler, Shelly Silver, and Caspar Stracke.

Screenings start at 2pm, 5pm, and 8pm. FREE

Audra Wolowiec participating in:

Bushwick Open Studios: Meet Me at The Market

Moore Street Market

110 Moore Street
Brooklyn, NY
Saturday June 4 from 10am - 8pm

Sunday June 5 from 11am - 5pm

Using the Moore Street Market as muse, 7 artists: Liz Atzberger, Sharon Butler, Brece Honeycutt, Lars Kremer, Austin Thomas, Julie Torres and Audra Wolowiec, with music by the Push Pops and food by FARMCART, combine art and food for a series of weekend events during Bushwick Open Studios.

(Please stop by to pick up a free take-away print!)

Full schedule of events HERE

Janos Stone: Ubiquitous at Slag Gallery

Ubiquitous an exhibition of new art at the Slag Gallery, opens Thursday, April 14th from 6-8pm. The show features Janos' recent hand-carved and inkjet printed wall sculptures.

The gallery is located at 531 West 25th St, in Chelsea, NY

Through May 7th.

Audra Wolowiec participating in:

JASON ANDREW + NORTE MAAR present:

IN THE USE OF OTHERS FOR THE CHANGE
a new ballet in three movements by Julia K. Gleich

http://www.nortemaar.org/newgleichballet.html

featuring collaborations with:
Audra Wolowiec (sound)
Austin Thomas (set)
Kevin Regan (text)
Andrew Hurst (sound / performance)

BROOKLYN, NY - Jason Andrew and the creative team of Norte Maar unite
the visual, literary, and performing arts in a new ballet by Julia K.
Gleich. With a slew of Bushwick artists ranging from visual to
sculptural, textual to musical, Norte Maar presents a new ballet
choreographed by Julia K. Gleich. The ballet titled, In the Use of
Others for the Change, will premiere with a benefit performance for
Norte Maar at the Center for Performance Research, (361 Manhattan
Avenue, Brooklyn) on April 14 at 7:30PM. Performances will continue
April 15 and 16 at 7:30PM. For tickets and more information call
646-361-8512 or visit www.nortemaar.org.

April 14 (Benefit Premiere) at 7:30PM
Tickets $60 BUY TICKETS www.nortemaar.org

April 15 + 16 at 7:30PM
Tickets $20 BUY TICKETS www.nortemaar.org

Center for Performance Research (CPR)
361 Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

$ SUPPORT THIS COLLABORATIVE BALLET $

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Saturday, April 3 - Film Night with Jem Cohen

Celluloid, springtime, and surprises with filmmaker and long-time local Cohen, whose works and musical collaborations chronicle both fleeting urban moments and the dark march of history. The evening will include films by Jem and others.

Cohen's films include Chain, Fugazi: Instrument, Benjamin Smoke, and Lost Book Found.

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Ecstatic Events: Saturday March 20th

4-6 pm: “THE ALTERNATIVE ART SPACE MOVEMENT IN NEW YORK CITY,” a panel discussion with Erin Sickler, Herb Tam, Rob de Oude, and Emcee C.M., Master of None moderated by Mary Billyou. Among related issues, topics will include: Bypassing the Gallery System; Capitalist Economies in the Downswing; Sharing vs. Competition; Options & Models; and The Figure of the Artist Today.

Herb Tam is Associate Curator at Exit Art, NY, NY. In fall 2010, Exit Art will launch an exhibit on Alternative Art Histories.

Erin Sickler is the spring 2010 recipient of the Lori Ledis Emerging Curatorial Fellowship, a program to foster curatorial talent in contemporary art.

Rob de Oude is an artist and a founding member of Camel Art Space.

EmCee C.M., Master of None is an artist who often combines large-scale public, social and collaborative event-based projects with a more internal process of self-reflection through fiction, storytelling, and filmmaking.

6-7 pm: TOYS N TINY INSTRUMENTS bring their kazoos, calliopes, and castanets to the convent chapel, making head-bop pop-rock fun times.

7-10 pm: "’DIAMONDS IN THE SKY,” film and video screening curated by John Passmore

Using Tom Gunning's concept of a "cinema of attractions" as a leitmotif, John Passmore presents “Diamonds in the Sky” a one time, never-before-never-again, collage-y , whirl-wind partial tour of the history of cinema. The program spans the early formal experiments of Classic Hollywood Cinema to rare archival materials representing the conceptual programs of the avant-garde, as well as a mix of video by single channel artists working today. “Diamonds in the Sky” explores how each work - separately and together - investigates life's various pattern-systems.

Low-Resolution Stories and Chatter Blip

"Low-Resolution Stories," live cinema with Jenny Vogel and Ofri Cnaani

followed by music from Chatter Blip

Friday, March 19, 7-9 pm
$8
(wine will be served starting at 6 pm)

The former convent of St. Cecilia’s Parish
21 Monitor Street, Brooklyn, NY

Low-Resolution Stories

THE VANISHING WOMAN by Ofri Cnaani

Ofri Cnaani will use one of her DIY moviemakers to create a series of real-time movies. ‘Vanishing Woman’ deals with magic, trickery, the dawn of cinema and the archives of the Israeli Kibbutz movement.

THE CRUELTY OF PIRATES by Jenny Vogel

“The Cruelty of Pirates” is a story of low-resolution encounter that offers an intimate reading of contemporary loneliness. Live-streaming video projections in the stutter-step language of webcameras result in a display of light signals that suggest an unknown code, some unknown message. The story is old: a man and a woman and the innate desire for love.

INVITATION TO A DUEL by Jenny Vogel

Drawing from the archive of her grandfather’s tape recordings Jenny Vogel creates a DIY opera that weaves together her family’s history and fiction to tell a story of tragedy and loss.

TURN TABLE by Ofri Cnaani

Turn Table is a live image and sound improvisation session. Using two and three dimensional objects, music boxes and other tiny toys Cnaani will assemble real time movies.

Chatter Blip
CHATTER BLIP is a duo performance piece by Chuck Bettis (electronics/voice and Dafna Naphtali (electronics/processing/voice) -- an interstellar multi-character audio operetta involving a multitude of human, alien, and machine voices, in a mash-up of primal and classic sci-fi and electro-acoustics...
www.myspace.com/chatterblip

Directions:
Subway: L to Graham Ave stop - walk down Graham towards BQE, turn right on Richardson St., turn left on Monitor St., convent is located on left after school

Bus: B43 to Graham Ave and Richardson St.

Ofri Cnaani
Jenny Vogel
Chatter Blip

Images: ECSTATIC

For Immediate Release:

The Round Robin Collective presents:
ECSTATIC

March 13 – April 4, 2010

Opening reception: Friday, March 12, 7-9 pm

The former convent of St. Cecilia’s Parish

21 Monitor Street, Brooklyn, NY

Hours: Sat 12-10 pm, Sun-Mon 12-6 pm (or by appointment)
with additional hours for special events
(details at: roundrobinbrooklyn.blogspot.com)

The Round Robin Collective is pleased to announce ECSTATIC, an exhibition and series of events to be held in the former convent of St. Cecilia’s Parish in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

For four weeks, The Round Robin Collective - along with a group of invited artists - will populate the four-story maze of private rooms, living spaces, stairwells, and alcoves previously occupied by nuns. Taking varied approaches to the installation of their separate rooms, individual artists and collaborative teams will present recent works or will respond directly to the building, imbued with its unique history and sacrosanct aura. While some of the participating artists’ work deals directly with notions of ecstasy, the title of the show does not allude to an overt theme in the work presented; rather, it refers to the process of making and encountering art and the results produced from inspired relationships. Like the mental transport or rapture that can exist in the contemplation of the divine, the experience of creating and considering art can trigger moments of ecstasy.

Exhibiting artists will include: Lisa Boumstein-Smalley, Mary Billyou, Amanda Browder & Stuart Keeler, Caroline Burghardt, Lisa Caccioppoli, Ofri Cnaani, Chris Cobb, David Coyle, Jeff DeGollier, Martin Esteves, Gisela Insuaste, Jamie Kim, Stephanie Liner, Deirdre McConnell, Katherin McInnis, Emcee C.M., Master of None, Huong Ngo, Christopher Rose, Stephanie Rothenberg, Dorothy Royle, David B. Smith + Brina Thurston, Matthew Spiegelman, Janos Stone, Cassie Thorton + Action Club, Jenny Vogel & David McBride, and Audra Wolowiec.

Curated screenings, workshops, and performances will be held weekly in the former chapel of the convent. Events include: opening party music by Donny Hue and the Colors as well as Irvin Morazan’s “Musical Chair Performance,” an homage to Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians (3/12); an evening of sound performances with Lary 7, Flying Teeth, and Doom Trumpet (3/13); “Low-Resolution Stories,” live cinema with Jenny Vogel and Ofri Cnaani followed by music with Chatter Blip (3/19); “The Alternative Art Space Movement in NYC,” a panel discussion with Erin Sickler, Herb Tam, Rob de Oude, and EmCee C.M., Master of None moderated by Mary Billyou (3/20); music by Toys n Tiny Instruments followed by “Diamonds in the Sky,” a evening of film/video curated by John Passmore (3/20); “Escape from the Orgone Box: Houdini & Reich on Film,” an evening of film with live soundtracks by Séance presented by Bradley Eros and Marianne Shaneen (3/26); a collective sewing day with Amanda Browder for the construction of the public artwork, “Future Phenomena” (3/27); an empanada and tamale demonstration/potluck event hosted by Gisela Insuaste and Irvin Morazan (3/28); closing the exhibition, a film/video screening curated by Jem Cohen (4/3); additional events to be announced. Details and updates regarding all the events are available on our web site.

The Round Robin Collective is a Brooklyn-based group of artists established in 2008 to forge connections and create a space for dialogue in and out of the studio. Meeting for monthly studio visits, members of the collective work in all media, fostering a dynamic exchange across disciplines and outside the commercial sphere.

For more information or press inquiries, please contact roundrobinbrooklyn@gmail.com or visit: roundrobinbrooklyn.blogspot.com. Opening night sponsored by Great Bar Harry, Brooklyn, (www.bargreatharry.com) and Powder Blue Design and partial sponsorship for events by Dandelion Wine, Brooklyn, (www.dandelionwinenyc.com).

Directions

Subway: L to Graham Ave stop - walk down Graham towards BQE, turn right on Richardson St., turn left on Monitor St., convent is located on left after school

Bus: B43 to Graham Ave and Richardson St.

click 'Directions' above for link to google map