Title: BFC Presents TEDMED Live
Location: Gowanus Ballroom
Description: The Brooklyn Free Clinic is sponsoring a free, day-long TEDMED Live conference at the Gowanus Ballroom. The conference is an official satellite of the TEDMED event hosted in Washington, DC. Live speakers will present unique solutions to the challenges we face in healthcare, and talks will be streamed from the main TEDMED conference.
Start Time: 10:00:00
Date: 2013-04-20
End Time: 18:30:00

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

Title: Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival
Link out: Click here
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2013-07-14
End Time: 22:00

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

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.

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

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

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

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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Young places emphasis on the craft of creation, making objects that are a hybridization of art and architecture. His works are a bastion of turn-of-the-century craftsmanship and are an eloquent protest of the inert, alienating qualities inherent in mass production. Prizing the ability to translate ideas into physical form, Young continually strives to articulate the qualities and capabilities of his materials. More than anything else, these aspects lead him to the appearance, functionality—and indeed, the life—of each work.

Dustin Yellin artworks are based on an accumulative process of painting on multiple layers of resin or glass, creating three-dimensional forms. Utilizing discarded found objects he has explored how we move within a mental environment of shifting depths–redolent of Deleuze’s A Thousand Plateaus.

Common subjects in his artworks are biological imagery. While historic artists like Leopold Blaschka and Ernst Haeckel have used their techniques to represent real biological forms, Dustin Yellin’s artworks exist as permutations of natural life and form.  His paintings use a method of representing three-dimensional forms that is reminiscent of both lenticular images and rapid prototyping. The technique approximates a static volumetric display and is autostereoscopic, as his artworks appear three dimensional without the use of special glasses or viewing equipment.

Yellin is currently researching and developing three-dimensional photography and photo-collage portraiture. He has invented a pixel based rapid prototyping machine (as opposed to a voxel based machine) in order to introduce a digital trajectory into his mark making practice.

I am fascinated in monolithic icons of antiquity, such as the enormous heads erected by the Olmec, who lived in what is now San Lorenzo. These icons make me question what it means that our contemporary culture has so few. By placing the cast toys within the contemporary American landscape as ruins and monoliths, they become archeological evidence of a society with questionably little substance to leave behind.

The most recent works involve imagery of inhabited ruins. These post apocalyptic scenes depict a patching together of and making the most of what is left, finding solace and perhaps even joy within the aftermath.

Inspired by the evolving interpretation of ideas, my work investigates how information is translated, transformed and conveyed across time and space. The complex process of interpretation through which civilizations and individuals alike make sense of information, is deeply rooted in a contextual belief structure. The changing of such structures greatly impacts the resulting understanding of ideas and information. My work presents the viewer with information that has been translated through an unfamiliar lens of visual display. The disconnect that arises between different presentations of identical information highlights the need for a historical and contextual investigation in order to make sense of the world we live in.

Two main interests have occupied my thinking as an artist: space and narrative. In looking to Cezanne, Cubism, and traditional Chinese landscape painting, I sought to break from a single point-of-view and began using a grid in which subtle shifts occurred from one scene to another. I drew upon personal memories and events to create fictionalized scenarios situated in domestic architecture and the suburban landscape. Over time, these images lost their linear, geometric structure, and what emerged was a synthesis of various landscapes, architecture, objects, interiors, and weather.

Bending and folding the plane of the paper allows me to investigate the ways in which the virtual images locate themselves within these real spaces. Just as buildings are positioned within the landscape, I allow images to find their way into the folded and bended terrain of the paper. My drawings create a purposefully disjointed narrative, fusing historical catastrophes with domestic interiors, postmodern architecture, and other-worldly landscapes. Moreover, with the juxtaposition of tiny forms to expansive spaces, they can only be experienced in a temporal manner. Like an unfolding in time, the result is an almost cinematic experience wherein one image or sequence yields to another.

My aim in drawing is to depict a psychological topography—one in which views proliferate and multiply, stretching and unfolding onto the surface of carefully constructed paper, or, in counterpoint, folding back in on themselves. Through the careful blending of charcoal with delicate erasure, vignettes of diverse images and spaces are interwoven with each other, and the drawing seemingly emerges out of the paper. With this, voids of untouched paper are established and act as a presence that weaves in and around the image.