Open Daily until Wednesday, January 12th.

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://vimeo.com/jwh

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.

APRIL 30 DOORS AT 6PM $10+ SUGGESTED

BFP EAST BAR 119 INGRAHAM ST @ PORTER
BROOKLYNFIREPROOF.COM

MAKE THE ROAD NYC: www.maketheroad.org

THE PANTRY PARTY: thepantryparty.com

:::::FEATURING:::::

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

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.

http://www.dirtthemovie.org/

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.

http://whatsorganicmovie.com/

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.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080776/

Details on Facebook

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

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!