Title: Brooklyn Skillshare
Location: Gowanus Ballroom
Link out: Click here
Description: The Brooklyn Skillshare is a community-based, community-led, & community-building learning events organized and taught by Brooklyn residents.
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2013-04-27
End Time: 22:00

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Title: PS 32 PTA Silent Auction
Location: Gowanus Ballroom
Link out: Click here
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2013-05-04
End Time: 21:00

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May 10-12 2013

http://form-substance.com/

Featuring work by:

Bryan Dodson & Michelle Dodson // Integrated Visions
Joanie Lemercier // AntiVJ
Davy & Kristin McGuire
Domingo Zapata
Robert Seidel
Claudio Sinatti
Red Paper Heart
Sougwen Chung
Christina Graf
Jessica Angel

We are also seeking sponsors and partners in media, transportation/accommodations, and logistics/equipment.  We’re working with Mister Artsee, a registered 501 (c)(3) organization based in Brooklyn, so that donations of any kind will be tax-deductible.

If you’d like to be a sponsor, more info is available here.

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Come dance and party with us!

Airplanes, art installations, virtual story projections, fake fashion shoot photo booth, dancing, bands and cheap drinks in a 12,000sf warehouse… to celebrate the relaunch of a new whacky wild literary travel magazine, Nowhere!

• San Fran guitar hero Freddi Price opens at 10pm

• Jersey indie motown badasses, The One and Nines, take it through midnight (with a full horn section).

• Barney Iller (Rubulad) DJs until dawn

• OPEN BAR (OMG!!) 10-11, then $3 PBR and $4 cocktails.

$5 at the door before 11pm; $10 after

and each admission gets a free subscription

to Nowhere Magazine!

 Facebook RSVP

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GOWANUS BALLROOM IS HIRING!

Position Title: Administrative Assistant
Effective Date: November, 2012
Pay Rate: $8 / hour
Hours: 21 hours per week (normal) to 35+ hours per week (event specific)

General Description:
Gowanus Ballroom is seeking a part-time office coordinator to handle day-to-day administrative tasks, assist the owner and curatorial board of directors, manage scheduling and calendar, and assist with communication between curators, artists and performers.

Primary Responsibilities and Duties:
• Monitor and respond to all communication including email, telephone and other correspondence. Field inquiries regarding events and space rentals. Relay pertinent communication to the curatorial board.
• Monitor and update website, Facebook, Youtube and other social media under the direction of the curatorial board.
• Update archives with information pertaining to past events, artists, performers, etc.
• Track external press, media, photography, video, reviews, etc. regarding Gowanus Ballroom, present summaries of relevant information to curatorial board.
• Track revenues and expenses pertaining to events, coordinate reimbursement when applicable, and present budget summaries to curatorial board.
• Assist with distribution and return of artist and performer contracts and waivers.
• Assist with shipping, transportation, delivery, and storage of works of art and equipment.
• Coordinate procurement of office and event supplies and materials.
• Assist with execution of events (additional working hours expected).
• Other related duties.

Qualifications:
• Administrative experience strongly desired, within an arts organization a plus.
• Excellent computer and other office equipment skills required.
• Proficiency with managing web presence (WordPress, Facebook, Youtube, etc.) required, HTML / Java / Flash proficiency a plus.
• Proficiency with graphic design software (Adobe CS) a plus.
• Strong communication skills, especially writing, required.
• Ability to multitask, comfort working under stress, extended hours during events required.
• B.A. or some college education preferred.

Please send resume and cover letter to gowanusballroom@gmail.com

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SAVE GOWANUS BALLROOM FUNDRAISER & FLUTUARTE NY! – Saturday, November 24, 6pm

Donations of $15 per-person admission will support the Gowanus Ballroom and FlutuArteNY! We will also be accepting donations of canned foods, clothing or other necessities for those suffering in the wake of hurricane Sandy.

The Gowanus Ballroom is recovering from severe damage after extensive flooding from hurricane Sandy. Due to ongoing clean-up, we are combining the Save Gowanus Ballroom Fundraiser with the FlutuArte NY! event. Both will now take place on Saturday, November 24th at 6pm.

In the wake of hurricane Sandy, we walked out of the Gowanus Ballroom exhausted from a long night fighting what had become a losing battle in a state of complete defeat. As we crossed the bridge to get a cup of coffee, we saw a gang box full of our tools floating under the bridge out into the bay. The canal was littered with Serett and Gowanus Ballroom’s internal working parts. Exhausted from the fight, we were too beat to try to throw a rope on the box to save a few thousand dollars worth of tools. We had to let it go and look for a cup of coffee instead. It was such a small aspect of the whole situation. With no insurance and no power, we rely on the helping hands of friends and people who love this place to make clean-up a reality.

We’re starting to make progress, but it’s going to be a long, hard fight. There’s still a lot of work to do, but it’s looking like we’re going to pull through, thanks to tons of help from friends, family, and staff. One way we’ll be softening the blow of the storm is by hosting a fundraiser on Saturday, November 24th. Join us for drinks, live music and performances MC’d by the extraordinary and vivacious Kae Burke featuring:

Please come out to help us get back on our feet. Thanks in advance for all the help and solidarity!

FlutuArte – (floo-too-arch-e)
N., 1) Floating art 2) Transforming communities through free public art.

The artists of FlutuArte bring you a recreation of the harbor in Rio de Janeiro that they transformed from a quiet fishing community to a floating gallery of art.

For one night only, come and experience Rio de Janeiro right here in Brooklyn! Bring your bikinis and swim trunks and take a dip in the HEATED SWIMMING POOL! Allow your mind to slow to a tropical pace, enjoy FREE Jerk turkey BBQ from 7-10pm, sip on special FlutuTinis in paradise, and dance until the wee hours of the morning at FlutuFESTA NY!!

Since early this year, artists from all over the world have been converging on a small fishing harbor in Rio de Janeiro to adorn the tops of fishing boats with spectacular designs. Under the visionary guidance of Maxine Nienowand Nicolina, fishermen and artists have conspired to turn this sleepy harbor into a vibrant cultural center for the city. Party like a pirate while helping to raise funds to continue the artistic transformation of this small community in Rio de Janeiro.

Come and see photos and videos of the almost 60 boats painted along with sketches by the artists. Walk through a visual re-creation of the floating gallery of FlutuArte!  Climb aboard and feel what it’s like to paint on top of a boat with an open paint jam just like we had in Rio! Enter the raffle to win original art work by FlutuArtists or limited edition FlutuArte screen prints! Check out the premier screening of Brazilian filmmaker Breno Moreira’sdocumentary on the making of FlutuArte! Join in the participatory live paint jam open to everyone!

Additional art and performance will include:
- Sexy and dangerous aerialists Dana Abrasssart, Juanita Cardenas, Francis Stalling, Preeya Bhajandas, Kae Burke, Rachel Hsiung, Sara Jordan, and Lisa Natoli
- Smokin’ fire performances by Flambeaux Fire, Christine Geiger, and Ali Luminescent
- Stilting performances by Justin Aubuchon, Christine Geiger, Dana Abrassart, and Maxine Nienow
- Life size boat installations by Benoit Verbeke
- Aquatic paintings by Browning Kay
- Live painting by FlutuArtists Nicolina and Maxine
- Collaborative live art by the Free Art Society, with Walker Fee, Pérola M. Bonfanti, and Zorrilla Monsoon. Join in the participatory live paint jam open to everyone!
- Visuals by Adam Weinberg
- Video by Pérola M. Bonfanti, and Maxine Nienow
- Face painting by Piyali Banerjie

It’s sure to be a great night! Hope you can join us, and thank you in advance for your generous support!

Sound & UV Lighting provided by Daniel Panzer of Artist Response Team (A.R.T.)
http://www.artistresponseteam.net/av-services/
info@artistresponseteam.net

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TO THE STARS ON THE WINGS OF AN EEL - June 29–July 7, 2012

Throughout its history the Gowanus has inspired both utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares. The past four-hundred years have witnessed the site’s transformation from a fertile series of tidal wetlands to one of the busiest industrial waterways in the United States. The canal, once a source for sustenance and hope, is today tainted by a notorious legacy of pollution and decay. Yet recent activity in the area suggests rejuvenation is at hand.

TO THE STARS ON THE WINGS OF AN EEL offers a chance to explore the urban unconscious of the Gowanus, to reimagine the past, decipher the present, and envision possible futures. Artists working in the neighborhood––some long-time fixtures, others recent arrivals––are breathing new life into a once stagnant and decaying quarter.

Join us as war machines are deployed against a staid art world, thought submarines plumb the murky depths of New York history, eels are charmed by the Siren of the Gowanus, and Sleeping Beauty is awakened by the sound of a thousand falling pianos.

Featuring:
Kiki Smith
Tom Otterness
Swoon
Duke Riley
Miru Kim
Dustin Yellin
Ray Smith
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Office of Recuperative Strategies (Elliott Malby, Elizabeth Zuba, Rachel Levitsky)
Eric Fertman
Jeanne Liotta
Ron Gorchov
Leonidas Chalepas
Gerri Davis
Jonah Emerson-Bell & Rainger Pinney
Serban Ionescu
Vahakn Arslanian
Integrated Visions Productions
Cecelia Rembert
Brooke Grant
Josh Young
Danielle Willems & Ezio Blasetti
Curtis Hamilton
Ethan Spigland
Adriana Atema
Jeff Wasson
Francisca Benitez
Colin Kilian
Simonetta Moro
Max Miller
Lou Wright
Robyn Hasty
Matthew Pisacano
J McDonald
Carlos Little
Kim Reinhardt
Anthony Titus
Andrew Beccone
The Reanimation Library
Sayler / Morris with Evan Paschke
Narek Gevorgian
Matthew William Robinson
David Sena
George Sferra
Luke Schumacher
Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels
The Objectionists
Danny Mallon
Tj Volonis

SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY, JUNE 29th – Opening
7pm–3am, $10 after 9pm

9pm – Will McEvoy
10pm – Amour Obscur
11pm – The Piano is the Champagne
11:15pm – Matthew Silver: the Great Performer
11:30pm – Moon Hooch
1:00am – Sour Mash Hug Band
DJ tba

SATURDAY, JUNE 30th
3pm–3am, $10 after 9pm

8pm – Mike Haar the Barber
9pm – Miru Kim
9:30pm – Viva Le Vox
10:30pm – Hungry March Band
Midnight – Coxcombs
DJ Mikey IQ Jones

SUNDAY, JULY 1st – Celebration of Independence
BBQ, cocktails and outdoor entertainment
Noon–6pm

Pendulum Swings
Matthew Silver: the Great Performer
Consumata

FRIDAY, JULY 6th
7pm–3am, $10 after 9pm

DJ Dirty Finger
Office of Recuperative Strategies (Elliott Malby, Elizabeth Zuba, Rachel Levitsky)
9:30pm – The Big Ship
Matthew Silver: the Great Performer
10:30pm – Hungry March Band
11:15pm – Pendulum Swings
Midnight – La Big Vic

SATURDAY, JULY 7th
3pm–3am, $10 after 9pm

DJ James Mulry
Panoply Performance Laboratory
Miru Kim
Matthew Silver: the Great Performer
8:00pm – Mike Haar the Barber
9:00pm – Clydesdale Erotic
10:00pm – Amour Obscur
11:00pm – Apocalypse Five and Dime
Midnight – Consumata
1:00am – Sun Ladders
2:00am – The Piano is the Champagne (part 2)

To the Stars on the Wings of an Eel is curated by Serban Ionescu, Ethan Spigland, George Sferra, and Josh Young, and is made possible in part by Gowanus Ballroom, Serett Metal Works, The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design, The Canary Project, Proteus Gowanus, The Reanimation Library, Magnan Metz Gallery, Dustin Yellin Studio, Ray Smith Studio, Michael Belcher Cinematography, and Rainger Pinney.

Shore Leave Benefit Concert for Morgan O’Kane & Co. —May 12, 2012

They’ve traveled far and toured wide, but now Morgan O’Kane with Ferd Moyse, Zeke Healy, and Liam Crill are ready to ring in their return to Brooklyn. Join us Saturday, May 12, forShore Leave, the Morgan O’Kane homecoming benefit concert at Gowanus Ballroom for a night of musical celebration that will surely make up for lost time.

Tunes will be played long into the night, and bands include Top Soil, O My Fate, Morgan O’Kane, and more. All the proceeds raised will go to fund the musicians, so they can keep doing what they do so well.

Come out, tap your feet, move those hips, and remind these fine young men why there just ain’t no place like home.

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Sail Away Benefit Concert–March 10, 2012

The quartet will travel ever northward and drop anchor along the way to play shows in Key West; St. Augustine; Charleston, South Carolina; Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina; Norfolk, Virginia; and Brooklyn, where the band will sail right up the Gowanus Canal for a homecoming concert to cap off this once-in-a-lifetime odyssey at sea on Saturday, May 12, at the Gowanus Ballroom.

But before they go, friends, family, and a raucous, shreddin’ bunch of bands that include Spirit Family Reunion, Dog That Bites Everyone, Veveritse Brass Band, Black Cat Rock, Moon Hooch, and Vic Thrill will give Morgan O’Kane and company a bon voyage to set their course by, stars be damned.

Music will be made all evening and long into the night, movie documentarians will be on hand to record the event for an upcoming film, and every bit of the proceeds raised at the Sail Away Benefit Concert & Fundraiser will go toward funding the tour and keeping these fine gentlemen afloat, seaworthy, and homeward bound.

Saturday, March 10 – Sail Away Benefit Concert & Fundraiser

Bands include:

Spirit Family Reunion
Dog That Bites Everyone
Veveritse Brass Band
Black Cat Rock
Moon Hooch
Vic Thrill
Morgan O’Kane
……With aerialist performances by T-Pow
…………And mammoth sand paintings created on-site by installation artist Joe Mangrum

Doors open at 5pm
$10 admission

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January 2012… For seven years the Krewe of Eris has rolled out on the Sunday before Mardi Gras. Musicians, artists, and puppeteers from all over the country travel down there every year to join creative forces with the amazing community of artists and musicians who live there. It is an unpermitted community parade with an open band that has been growing every year.

This past Mardi Gras, the NOPD stopped the parade and proceeded to wreak havoc by using tasers and pepper spray, manhandling attendees, and then arresting 12 people with charges that ranged from disturbing peace to resisting arrest to battery.

This show is a fundraiser for the legal defense of the 12 people arrested at the Eris Parade in New Orleans this past March. It is being thrown by a group of musicians who were participating in the parade when the police shut it down.

If you can’t come yet are just yearning to support, then visit http://www.eris12.org/

The show features:
Tanya Solomon–magic acts
Morgan O’Kane and Friends–shreddin’ banjo and ferocious foot stomping
Veveritse Brass Band–brass tapestry inspired by Romany style
DJ Dusty Walker–booty shaking beats straight from the living room
GltrPnch–Riot Grrl inspired Trans-core Punk!
Billy and Casbur–frolicking malformations
Raya Brass Band–exuberant Balkan music from the village of Brooklyn

Show starts at 9pm, Friday January 20, $10

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The Longest Night–A multimedia art exhibition of darkness and light

The Longest Night is a group exhibition that is all about paying a bit of Brooklyn-style homage to the winter solstice. Drawing inspiration from the longest night of the year, the show explores darkness and light through artworks that mesmerize and sometimes deceive the eye.

Sounds a little bit like the art world gone pagan, right? Because it is, as artists contemporize ancient ritual and totemic celebration through modern artistic expression. Featured objects all but defy their materiality and toy with the peculiarities and sensualities that come with the absence of light. Labyrinthine interactive pieces play on ideas of negative and positive space. They alter the atmosphere and leave a potent experiential mark on viewers. Artworks range across media, from painting, drawing, and sculpture to photography, installation, and 3D light mapping projections and performances.

Artists include Jordan Eagles, Leandro Flaherty, Shani Frymer, Robin Hill, Jeremy Holmes, Serban Ionescu, Integrated Visions, Margaret Krug, Kate Raudenbush, Cecelia Rembert, Matthew William Robinson, Charlotte Schulz, R. Justin Stewart, Melanie Vote, Dustin Yellin, and Joshua Young.

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PAINT WORKS

Opening reception, September 16, 2011

Stroke by Alyssa Monks

The premise of Paint Works is pretty straightforward: there are a host of bad-ass painters out in our nearby environs, doing what they do and doing it really well. We are bringing that energy, those skills, and that vibe together in an art show focused solely on innovative contemporary painting.

The works featured in Paint Works are ones that you’re not likely to see anywhere else. The artists have taken the traditional building blocks of painting and evolved it in varied and relevant directions. Essentially, taking the tradition and pushing it in places it hasn’t gone before.

And the works are BIG. The Gowanus Ballroom—a vast alternative art space that gives the impression of a gritty cathedral with 50-foot ceilings and more than 16,000 square feet of room—is in a unique position to offer artists the opportunity to show large-scale works that conventional galleries can’t accommodate.

The previous shows at Gowanus Ballroom have been extravaganzas with performance art, installations, live bands, and tons of artwork adorning the walls. Paint Works is continuing the tradition with over 100 paintings, daily entertainment including local indie bands, keyed-up acrobatic performances, pin-up girl art demos, and more.

Featuring paintings by: daniel Baltzer, Ben Fenske, Robyn Frank, Michael Gormley, Peter Halasz, Jane Hamill, James Herbert, Caitlin Hurd, Michael Kagan, Kristin Künc, Oh Joon Kwon, Allison Maletz, Hyeseung Marriage-Song, Alyssa Monks, Alexandra Pacula, David Pettibone, Jennifer Presant, Matthew William Robinson, Bennett Vadnais, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Melanie Vote, Patricia Watwood, Aaron Yamada-Hanff, and Rob Zeller. Read more about our artists on the Featured Artists Page.

Opening Reception
Friday, September 16, 2011
Doors open at 6pm.

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What it was: A diverse and multidisciplinary exhibition of emerging artists, comprised of works that examine, question, or outright challenge everyday interpersonal and contextual relationships.

Through the integration of a variety of media including painting, sculpture, video, performance and works on paper, this installation weaved a wide ranging fabric of form and style, which enveloped the immense Gowanus Ballroom and transformed the space into a thoroughly interactive experience.
See highlights from the show.

Featuring work by: Adriana Atema, Aimee Bonamie, Amy Consolo, Ben Wolf, Ben Mortimer, Brian Whiteley, Christina Kelly, Domestic Construction, Douglas Draper, Emma Stern, Felix Morelo, Georgie Flores, Gerri Davis, Heidi Tullman, Jay McDonald, Jason Gandy, Kristin Künc, Lopi LaRoe, Manonce Celestine, Matt Allison, Matthew Silver aka Heartpocalypse, Matt Stolle, Matthew William Robinson, Nathan Maxwell Cann, Nicholas Chatfield-Taylor, Patricia Watwood, Rob Zeller, The Objectionists, Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels, Shannon Gillen & Guests, Tod Seelie, Ursula Viglietta, Vanessa Cronan and others.

Performances by: Shannon Gillen & Guests, Chunklundt, Yula & The Extended Family, Apocalypse Five and Dime, Joe Keady and The Royal Garden Jass Band, Crooks and Perverts, Melody Allegra Berger, Morgan O’Kane, Sweet Soubrette, Abby Hertz aka Lady C, Union Street Preservation Society, and Wyatt.

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What it was: Throughout 2010 the Gowanus Ballroom worked with Swimming Cities to prepare the boats for their current project “The Ocean of Blood,” in which the Swimming Cities crew and their boats travel to India for a trip down the Ganges River from Hardiwar to the holy city of Varanasi. This was one of several fundraising events hosted by the Gowanus Ballroom.

About Swimming Cities: Originally founded by visual artist Swoon, Swimming Cities is currently made up of a crew of about 30 collaborators: a diverse and evolving group of artists, mechanics, carpenters, performers, engineers, and organizers. The group has each year come together to explore historical and societal connections to the rivers and waterways, traveling with handmade rafts, gleaning inspiration, friendship and knowledge. Read more about Swimming Cities on their website www.weareswimmingcities.org

see photos from this event…

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What it was: Throughout 2010 the Gowanus Ballroom worked with Swimming Cities to prepare the boats for their current project “The Ocean of Blood,” in which the Swimming Cities crew and their boats travel to India for a trip down the Ganges River from Hardiwar to the holy city of Varanasi. This was one of several fundraising events hosted by the Gowanus Ballroom.

About Swimming Cities: Originally founded by visual artist Swoon, Swimming Cities is currently made up of a crew of about 30 collaborators: a diverse and evolving group of artists, mechanics, carpenters, performers, engineers, and organizers. The group has each year come together to explore historical and societal connections to the rivers and waterways, traveling with handmade rafts, gleaning inspiration, friendship and knowledge. Read more about Swimming Cities on their website www.weareswimmingcities.org

see photos from this event…

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