A Celebration of The Battle for Mau Mau Island

Saturday, July 30

9:30 pm – late

SWIMMING CITIES in collaboration with SEA WORTHY present: A Celebration of The Battle for Mau Mau Island with Rusty Lazer (New Orleans, Bounce.), Dirtyfinger (Black Label), Geko Jones (Que Bajo?.) and Barney Iller (Rubulad).

Last weekend the naval gangs of New York assembled to Battle for Mau Mau Island (see photos here).  Come see the fallen soldiers, harvested booty, and glorious victors at a new two-story space in Bed-Stuy. Mau Mau gangs, gladiator raft jousting, cocktail catacombs, clothing optional watergun fight, underground casino & film screenings of eerily beautiful movies set on the water, slide show and videos of the battle, and an awards presentation for the victors.  Wet & wild all night long.

$5 for gangs in matching costumes, Mau Mau vets, or before 11pm, $10 otherwise; 21+.

All proceeds go directly to the Swimming Cities India project.

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WATER LANDSCAPES/SUSPENDED ENERGY
PAUL BOBKO @ KLOTZ GALLERY.
July 7th-August 19th.

In his magnum opus, Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon introduces us to the German concept of Brenschluss in the telemetry of the flight of the V2 rocket. The rocket is propelled by its engines and travels along its parabolic arc.  At a certain point the engines turn off, this flameout is called brenschluss. At brenschluss the rocket’s ascendancy is checked by gravity, and before it begins to fall to its target on earth, it hesitates for just a moment.  After this moment gravity and momentum alone, not a rocket engine, define the inexorable trajectory of descent to its inevitable, calamitous  end. (READ MORE.)

CONEY ISLAND: 40 YEARS, HARVEY STEIN
KLOTZ GALLERY

July 7th-August 19th.

Harvey Stein has been a fixture on the New York photo scene for many years.  He has photographed the city from every angle with every kind of camera, at every time of day and night.  Beyond these shores he has led photographic seminars and workshops all over the world…He’s gone everywhere, and for the last 40 years he’s been going to Coney Island…where New York City flows into the Atlantic Ocean at the end of Ocean Avenue, in Brooklyn.

Miroslav Tichý : Sun Screen : Jul 28 – Sep 10, 2011

Matching the alluring physical qualities of the photographic print with the classically seductive imagery of bathers, this series presents an exploration of desire by the photographer. Doyle elaborates:

Indeed, as much as they offer the delights of the flesh, the bather prints make us feel an even more primal drive: our need for delineated shape. It is our love of resolution, our eye’s hunger for contour and clarity – for form itself – that Tichý teases into a state of exquisite titillation.” 

FIRST ANNUAL NY POETRY FESTIVAL:

This July 30th and 31st, The Poetry Society of New York will gather the city’s finest troops of poets for the First Annual New York Poetry Festival on Governor’s Island, a weekend celebration of the poetry world of New York City, free and open to the public.

http://www.tpsny.org

The New York Poetry Festival will unite New York City’s various poetry scenes for the first time ever. Curators from the City’s top reading series, slams, and open mics have been invited to bring their unique formats, aesthetics and personalities to the festival’s stages. The festival will also welcome local artists and merchants who will be selling their wares. In addition, ERB Foods will offer locally-sourced, organic, home-cooked food, City Winery will provide a selection of wines with poems on the labels, and Sixpoint Brewery will serve up their finest summer brews.

NYPF will run from noon to 5:00pm Saturday, July 30th and Sunday, July 31st. Free ferries to Governors Island depart from the Battery Maritime Building located at 10 South Street, adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry in Lower Manhattan, and from Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, located at the foot of Atlantic Avenue (corner of Columbia Street). The festival will be held on Colonel’s Row, and directional signage will be posted along the path from the ferries to the festival. For a Governors Island ferry schedule, please visit http://www.govisland.com/. For more information about The Poetry Society of New York and updates about the festival, please visit http://www.tpsny.org.

Bob Holman will serve as our Grand Marshal and help us lead the following confirmed poets and poetry tribes into battle: (FULL SCHEDULE.)

Sasha Maslov: Forgotten Village

June 30 – September 3, 2011
Forgotten Village is a series of large-scale photographs showing the life and everyday reality of a coal miner in rural Ukraine. Seemingly everyday scenes intertwine life in a post-Soviet world, the fortunes and misfortunes of its residents, and thoughts about work as a way of life.

HAZMAT MODINE FREE OUT DOOR SHOW .
This Saturday, July 30th, 3:00 Sharp.
@LOWDOWN HUDSON
BLUES FESTIVAL
at the World Financial Center Plaza
220 Vesey Street (btw. West St. & N. End Ave.)
New York, NY www.artsworldfinancialcenter.c​om.
The ten piece band with special guest:
Rachelle Garniez.
Also with the astonishing:
Steven Bernstein & The Millennial Territory Orchestra
with special guest HENRY BUTLER.

Dr. John & The Lower 911 with Chuck Brown and Red Baraat
CELEBRATE BROOKLYN. @ Prospect Park Bandshell
July 30, 2011 6:30 PM