OBSESSIONS ART SHOW CLOSING WEDNESDAY, JAN 11
Open Daily until Wednesday, January 12th.
LAB4: doomsday edition
FRIDAY, MAY 20 (day before Armageddon), 7 p.m. To 10:30 p.m.
MUSIC. POETRY. FICTION. PROSE. FILM. VIDEO. PERFORMANCE.
This may be your last chance to see these fantastic artists, since the world is predicted to end at midnight between May 20th and the 21st!
*BROOKLYN FIRE PROOF EAST*
119 INGRAHAM STREET. IN THE ALLEY
(BTW. KNICKERBOCKER AND PORTER)
BROOKLYN, NY 11237
AFFORDABLE LIBATIONS. COFFEE AND TEA. TEN BUCK BRUNCH.
BREAKFAST LUNCH AND LATE NIGHT MENU. GARDEN PROJECT.
ART GALLERY. THE INTERNET. LIVE MUSIC. OUTDOOR SEATING.
Featured Artists:
Jason Hammonds (EGS) premiers his new 7-minute short film Scared To Death and presents a previously released short film.
Andrew Spano (EGS) and Ivana Masic present HARDSCAPE, a 12-minute multimedia installation of poetry and visual art and music.
Dale Megan Healey (Columbia University) reads from her bold and revealing creative nonfiction work in progress.
Hannah Assadi (Columbia University) reads new prose work which struggles with the balance of love and war.
Jarrod Shannahan, editor and publisher of Death Panel, reads new work and celebrates the release of Death Panel 4.
Austin Lemieux, performance artist whose spoken word record COCKSTORM is now available from Death Panel Press.
Michael Dorr, literary agent and author of Miles on Miles, performs new poetry and prose.
Tyler Burba (EGS, Naropa), author of On Becoming-Music, performs his poetry.
Bijan Rezvani (EGS) and Daniel Ross present their recent innovative video work.
There will be an open mic period, as well as a half-hour break. Please arrive at 7 p.m. so that we can get going by 7:30.
“The purpose of THE Bed-Stuy Performance ColLABorative, a.k.a. THE LAB, is to present fiction, poetry, essays, drama, screenplays, rap lyrics and even serious musical compositions in an intimate context where personal presentation and experimentation achieve what Judith Butler describes as “a corporeal style, an act, as it were, which is both intentional and performative, where performative carries the double meaning of dramatic and non-referential.”
You can visit the work of these artists at:
http://deathpanelzine.blogspot.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1713235/
http://ivanamasic.com/Site/Welcome.html
http://blackheartmagazine.com/2011/03/04/3-poems-by-andrew-spano/
http://illogicalmuse.blogspot.com/2010/01/blindness-by-andrew-spano.html
http://www.chantarellesnotebook.com/spano.html
http://theshelteredpoet.blogspot.com/2009/04/two-pieces-by-andrew-spano.html
http://www.transdisciplinarypsych.org/Final_Spano.pdf
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/fall2006/singing-in-belgrade.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/spring2007/boroughing-bar-fight.html
http://www.myspace.com/visithome
THINK. IMAGINE. DRINK.
JAPANTHER JAPAN BENEFIT 4.30.11
APRIL 30 DOORS AT 6PM $10+ SUGGESTED
BFP EAST BAR 119 INGRAHAM ST @ PORTER
BROOKLYNFIREPROOF.COM
The Pantry Party
MAKE THE ROAD NYC: www.maketheroad.org
THE PANTRY PARTY: thepantryparty.com
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ART
*curated by AVA HASSINGER
Heidi Wenzel
Dana Michele Hemes
Ryan Russo
Andrea Burgay
Stephen Boyer
Kevin Sheneberger
Matti Havens
Jason Kachadourian
Lauren Ciarpella
Jessica Findley
Hector Madera-Gonzalez
MUSIC
*organized by SUPERCRUSH
The Front Bottoms
Thin Heir
Strange Rivals
ShadowBox
Smiler
Dj Nathan Vice
Kordan (DJS)
DJ Rii
DJ Epistaxis
DJ Amylu
BFC February Films and Your Foodshed
Brooklyn Fire Proof is proud to be the winter host of the fledgeling Bushwick Food Coop, and we are happy to be hosting the 2011 BFC February Food Film Series in our BFP East Gallery Space.
There are some great guest speakers lined up and every screening will have a related local food or wine tasting (including selections from our own organic wine list!) These are all wonderful films about sustainable agriculture issues and if you havent seen them yet now is the time to come on out! Show up and support your local NYC foodshed and community! You know we’ll be there.
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details about the series from the Bushwick food Coop:
The Bushwick Food Co-op will be hosting a screening series in February which will offer a different organic-food or sustainable agriculture themed film and guest speaker every Thursday evening at Brooklyn Fireproof.
All screenings will be held at:
Brooklyn Fireproof – 119 Ingraham St. at Porter Ave.
7-10pm, includes Q&A with guest speaker, free wine & food tastings, raffles and popcorn and snacks for sale
$5 suggested donation or volunteer for coop work hours
Proceeds from the screenings will go towards raising community awareness about BFC and sustainable food systems, building membership and local community partnerships, and opening a storefront.
2/3 Dirt! The Movie
One teaspoon of dirt contains a billion organisms working in remarkable balance to maintain and sustain a series of complex, thriving communities that impact our daily lives. Dirt! The Movie uncovers the surprising ways we can repair our relationship with dirt and create new possibilities for all life on earth. You may never look at the ground beneath your feet quite the same.
w/Guest speaker: Claudia Joseph, environmental educator, permaculture teacher, and active Brooklyn community gardener.
2/10 Gasland
The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination.
w/Guest speaker: Wes Gillingham, director of the Catskill Mountainkeeper and on the front lines of the struggle to stop the gas mining process called fracking to protect New York’s drinking and agricultural water resources.
http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/
2/17 What’s Organic About “Organic”?
WHAT’S ORGANIC ABOUT “ORGANIC?” delves into the debates that arise when a grassroots agricultural movement evolves into a booming international market. As the film moves from farm fields to government meetings to industry trade shows, we see the hidden costs of conventional agriculture. We also see how our health, the health of our planet, and the agricultural needs of our society are all intimately connected. The film compels us to look forward, towards a new vision for our culture and encourages us to ask, “How can we eat with an ecological consciousness?”
w/Guest speaker: Ben Flanner, head farmer of the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm.
2/24 Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers
A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose features chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a flavorful musical soundtrack.
w/Guest speaker: Anne Saxelby / Patrick Martins, founder of Slow-Food USA and Radio Host of “The Main Course,” on Bushwick’s own Heritage Radio.
Visiting Artist: Melanie Hope Greenberg
Visiting author and illustrator Melanie Hope Greenberg will be leading
a very special young student workshop on how create your own picture
book! Small matted original spot illustrations and signed printed
pages from Melanie’s book, “Mermaids on Parade” will also be available
for purchase.
The workshop will take place on Saturday, November 20th, at 2pm at
Brooklyn Fire Proof East Cafe, located at 119 Ingraham Street (at
Porter Avenue) in East Williamsburg/ Bushwick, Brooklyn. Pre-
registration is highly recommended.
Melanie Hope Greenberg is a self- taught artist who began her
professional illustration career by designing greeting cards for
UNICEF, and has been publishing children’s books since 1989.
Currently, her work can be seen in “Drawn in Brooklyn”, a Picture Book
Illustration Exhibition and Festival at Brooklyn Central Library at
Grand Army Plaza. The exhibition is on display from September 20,
2010 to January 23, 2011.
For more information about our special guest, please visit
http://www.melaniehopegreenberg.com.
For more information about registration for the event or Brooklyn Fire
Proof, please contact
Jennifer Piejko
jennifer@brooklynfireproof.com
www.brooklynfireproof.com
+1 718 456 7570
The Return of Detroit – Nov 20
SATURDAY NOV 9 – 9 PM $8
With the days getting colder and shorter, the good folks at Metropolis Vintage and Brooklyn Fireproof are practically doing a public service with their upcoming night of hot, sweaty rock n roll from Detroit to keep us out past curfew. From the Motor City come four bands and guest DJ Mick Collins (Gories/Dirtbombs) to help you shake off the chills and get in the groove with some booze drenched garage punk mayhem.
To open the evening, junk-food-fueled party jokers The Mahonies will begin tearing through a set of shambolic punk reminiscent of bands like the Vomit Pigs, Insults and perhaps a very drugged out Angry Samoans with songs that may or may not break the one-minute mark. Don’t screw around and come fashionably late and miss out or you’ll be stuck hearing all the buzz about the band that’s like the warped side of a grime covered Vom bootleg while you scratch your head and pity yourself.
Next up you have the Terrible Twos who will immediately up the dose of snotty, chaotic and brazen punk from a bump to a few lines at the very least. These rapscallions make quite the pleasing ruckus that blends manic vocals, damaged/delightful punk and a ferocious organ into a perfect storm of off-kilter craziness. Their LP on X!/Criminal IQ Records is a fine testament both to the legacy of their hometown as well as their own ability to reinvent the out of control style Detroit has honed for decades.
Timmy Vulgar is practically a household name to weirdo-punk aficionados. Since his days fronting the futuristic mutant noise that was Clone Defects, and now the equally deranged and inventive Human Eye, Vulgar has been quite busy. Not enough, however, to stop him from a solo-project under the moniker Timmy’s Organism. With the LP Rise of the Green Gorilla recently released on Brooklyn-based Sacred Bones label, Timmy’s Organism bring a bizarre batch of punk mystery that mixes elements of Chrome, Beefheart, Pere Ubu/Rocket From the Tombs along with Vulgar’s own unique blend of bleakness and twisted melodies. Truly an incomparable frontman with a sound that can only be hinted at, Timmy’s Organism promises to be a sight and sound not to be missed.
As we begin to ease towards the later part of the evening, drink in hand and mind still partially unblown, Tyvek will be taking the stage to finish the job with an onslaught of frenetic rawness that’s as demented as it is danceable. For the past six years these upstarts have consistently let their jagged guitars cut a swath across the ear canals of listeners with a style that heaps all things punk from the free-loving sixties to the me-generation eighties. Keeping the spirit of things loose and loaded, Tyvek promise to take us down a catchy road of psych-punk euphoria.
As if this wasn’t enough to make you lucky schmucks shill out the eight bucks for the evenings festivities, Guest DJ Mick Collins of Gories and Dirtbombs acclaim will be spinning the hits all night. A living legend and a true tastemaker in the garage punk underground, Collins will keep things raucous and rowdy all night long.
If you foolish enough to work Sunday mornings you’d better call out sick or quit altogether.
Saturday Nov 20th promises to be, amongst other things, an epic squall of battered punk fury, a booze drenched party of shaking and stomping and a momentous celebration of all things Detroit in our own Brooklyn backyard. Don’t miss out!
3rd Annual Zero Film Festival is coming to the Nut Roaster Studio
Movie Night: LEPRECHAUN IN THE HOOD
Wednesday Oct 6th doors 7pm, movie 8ish
Cinebeasts presents:
The official kickoff of our month-long Halloweenie series!
From director Rob Spera (SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY, THE KIDS WHO SAVED SUMMER, tv’s ARMY WIVES) and actor-as-auteur Warwick Davis (RETURN OF THE JEDI, 6 other LEPRECHAUN films) comes the fifth installment in the series, an experiment in over-the-top comedy as terror.
After getting broken off by local philanthropist-pimp Mack Daddy (Ice T), three burgeoning rap artists have …a debt to settle. When they break into Mack’s penthouse office and rip the twinkly gold medallion off an ugly-ass statue, it smells like a balm in Gilead – until the statue morphs into angry-as-shit Leprechaun! Lep goes on the expected hunt for hood blood and ends up directing his complaints to none other than Mack – also searching for his lost loot. (Coolio also appears, as himself.)
LEPRECHAUN IN THE HOOD will be introduced by local film star Ariel Rodriguez. There will be trivia, free candy/popcorn, and as pregame entertainment, a delirious assortment of the world’s scariest music videos, plus the movie begins during BFP’s happy hour.
LEPRECHAUN IN THE HOOD
Directed by Rob Spera
Written by Doug Hall and 5 other people
90 mins / color / 2000
BFP Events Week of 9/23- 9/29
THURSDAY September 23 at the BFP East Bar
A NIGHT OF COUNTRY AND ROCK AND ROLL…
10:30PM til the early morn’
The records will spin and your feet will move to the beat of the music. Old rock and roll and country all night long!
“A hard headed woman is a thorn in the side of man.”
- Wanda Jackson
FRIDAY – SUNDAY September 24 – 26
4th ANNUAL BUSHWICK FILM FESTIVAL
Years after the Bushwick Breweries and the speakeasies were shut down and right around the time the gangs of Bushwick were roaming the streets shanking artist in Morgan town, the Bushwick Film Festival came to be. These ladies, Directors Kweighbaye Kotee & Laree Ross (with help from loyal friends, naturally) have been around the block making noise, and projecting ideas for quite some time. In that time they’ve picked up 64 filmmakers, 15 sponsors, curated yearly music and art shows, with sick bands and very talented artists, collaborated with a ton of creative types and organizations, and sold an average of over 1000 festival tickets! The Festival team are strong advocates of making ideas REAL, even if they have to tough it out and DO IT YOURSELF!
This year for three nights we will present numerous shorts, one feature and then end the night with live bands and DJ’s.
About the BFF:
The Bushwick Film Festival is organized by a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization, joining the efforts to artistically develop the Bushwick community by bringing independent films and filmmakers to Bushwick.
for tickets call: 347-450-3464
More info at:
bushwickfilmfestival.com
MONDAY September 27
8PM | FREE
Meat and Bone Theatre Company presents
The Paper Game
A play by Julia Holleman
Directed by Stephanie Vella
A world of paper collapses around two pairs of players locked in a game. But how do you win a game when the rules are changing with every move and your life is hanging in the balance?
About Meat and Bone
Meat and Bone Theatre Company (meatandbone.wordpress.com) is dedicated to the production of new work in North Brooklyn. By bringing new, innovative, and thought-provoking works from and to the Brooklyn community, we seek to bring theater back to its basic building blocks: text, vision, hard work, and imagination, while establishing ongoing collaborative relationships with working artists in all aspects of the theater.
WEDNESDAY September 29
7PM | FREE
Cinebeastiality Series Movie Night:
FANTASY MISSION FORCE
You know the Dirty Dozen, Kelly’s Heroes, and the Inglorious Basterds, but now take the time to meet the true heroes who won World War II for the Allies–the Fantasy Mission Force! A fearless officer, a hobo, an escape artist, a femme fatale, two Chinese Highlanders, and Jackie Chan as a mostly irrelevant side-character for some reason have banded together to defeat the fascist menace and rescue some top Allied generals. From Nunavut to Luxembourg to “Tokyo City”, follow the Fantasy Mission Force on their hunt for glory and Nazi gold. Their journey makes for an unbelievable and unforgetable experience that should not be missed!
FREE POPCORN & CANDY, Happy hour (7-9), shorts and trivia before the film!
FANTASY MISSION FORCE
Directed by Chu Yin-Ping
“Starring Jackie Chan”
1982 / color / digital projection
About Cinebeastiality
Cinebeasts first residency at Brooklyn Fireproof, showing underappreciated, heretofore unseen, or generally neglected features garnished with a slew of obscure/new/classic short films! Including work by Sam Raimi, Ted Kotcheff, the Coen Bros., Robert Downey Sr., and many others.
More about Cinebeasts: cinebeasts.com
THE LAST BEST & HUMANS: A COLLECTION
THE LAST SUNDAY BEST: A CLOSING PARTY
Sunday September 5th | 3pm-9pm | Tickets/ RSVP here.
HUMANS: A COLLECTION
Thursday September 9th | Doors 7:30pm | in the gallery
RSVP to rsvp.acollection@gmail.com
more info at: http://acollection-theplay.blogspot.com/
WEDNESDAY MOVIE NIGHT – The Loved One
The motion picture with something to offend everybody!” THE LOVED ONE (1965) is a deliciously tasteless nugget of proto-parody, written by Christopher Isherwood (CABARET) and Terry Southern (DR. STRANGELOVE). The story follows a puny British poet (Robert Morse, MAD MEN’s Bert Cooper) tasked with interning his late uncle in a Hollywood funeral home. When you watch a 13-year old wannabe astronaut blast another character’s cadaver into space, you’ll know you’re watching a caustic classic.
WEDNESDAY SEPT 1
7PM DOORS / HAPPY HOUR / FREE POPCORN / TRIVIA / SHORTS
Presented by CINEBEASTS
the Beasts and the Best, Out in the Streets
FRIDAY AUGUST 27
BLAM BLAM & SO SO SANTO | DOORS 7PM
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SATURDAY AUGUST 28
DOORS 2PM | http://outinthestreetsfest.wordpress.com | $10
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SUNDAY AUGUST 29
3PM to 9PM | sundaybestnyc.com
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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1
7PM | cinebeasts.com
“The motion picture with something to offend everybody!” THE LOVED ONE (1965) is a deliciously tasteless nugget of proto-parody, written by Christopher Isherwood (CABARET) and Terry Southern (DR. STRANGELOVE). The story follows a puny British poet (Robert Morse, MAD MEN’s Bert Cooper) tasked with interning his late uncle in a Hollywood funeral home. When you watch a 13-year old wannabe astronaut blast another character’s cadaver into space, you’ll know you’re watching a caustic classic.
7PM DOORS / HAPPY HOUR / FREE POPCORN / TRIVIA / SHORTS
Presented by CINEBEASTS (with link to http://www.cinebeasts.com)
Jet Lag Sat and Sunday Best
Saturday: Jet-Lag
Jet-Lag is back this Saturday, August 7 and this week we’re celebrating JOSH DOUBLES’ BIRTHDAY with special guests JEFFREY SCOTT and JEN LUSKER. Come eat, drink and dance the sunset away with us. For more info visit:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?175779
Kids Canvas Recital
Kids’ Canvas is a space for kids in Bushwick Brooklyn, created by Silvia Tripoli. It is designed to indulge children’s need to play, foster creativity and to give a green light to fun for kids while allowing parents respite during the day. Silvia and her husband, the artist Tyrome Tripoli, converted his former studio into a colorful, welcoming, thought-provoking space. Many of Tyrome’s plastic constructions remain hanging from the ceiling or bursting forth from the walls. The space also has a slide and tunnel to encourage movement, and a reading nook under a canopy for quieter moments.
CINEBESTIALITY SUMMER SERIES KICKOFF
Presenting a hot 25th anniversary summer screening of CRIMEWAVE, Sam Raimi’s 1985 followup to EVIL DEAD. Written by his former roommates the Coen Brothers (cameo-ing in the event photo), CRIMEWAVE is an antic blood pudding of Three Stooges gags, pitch-black comedy, film noir and vaudevillian slapstick.
CRIMEWAVE is both Raimi and the Coens’ first trip into the world of big-time boffo filmmaking, and when the film was fiddled with by its backers, both halves shunned the end product. Hence CRIMEWAVE is not available on US DVD. Irregardless, it’s a must-see for fans of either ouvre; there’s not a frame of daylight between the overlapping visions, and several set pieces – especially revolving around Bruce Campbell’s character of Reynaldo “The Heel” – are delicious, juicy cinema carne. The movie screens with a classic short by Rene Laloux (FANTASTIC PLANET) and a brand-spanking new one: Mallory Lance’s action-packed SECRET OPS. Come sit in BFP’s cozy air-conditioned theatre and drink beer with us on a hot Wednesday night.
CRIMEWAVE
Directed by Sam Raimi
Written by The Coen Brothers
83 mins / color / 1985
119 Ingraham St / L to Morgan
9PM DOORS / FREE ADMISSION
SMUT II and MR SATURDAY NIGHT
FRIDAY JUNE 25 7 to LATE
The Lowbrow Society for The Arts 2nd Annual SMUT Show
A public celebration of private affairs
SATURDAY JUNE 26
MR SATURDAY NIGHT
Whiskey, Cheesus Christ, Sweet Tooth, Tyrombus Rex Sonic Medicine Summer Solstice week
Its the Summer Solstice and you all know what that means.
Tuesday
Wednesday is Cheesus Christ Metal Night ($2 Grilled Cheese)
Thursday
Friday
Saturday is Tyrombus Rex Show
Sunday
