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The Midnight Archive – Morbid Anatomy.
Joanna Ebenstein is the incredible brain behined Morbid Anatomy. Check out the history of Morbid Anatomy and make sure to catch her upcoming presentation at Observatory!
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THE WEEK: APRIL 30-MAY 4.
EDITOR’S PICKS:
FULL LIST OF ALL MAY DAY EVENTS HERE.
May Day 2012
http://www.maydaynyc.org/
05/01/2012-05/01/2012
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We will celebrate a holiday for the 99%. We will come together across lines of race, class, gender, and religion and challenge the systems that create these divisions among us. New Yorkers will join with millions throughout the world — workers, students, immigrants, professionals, houseworkers — We will take to the streets to unite in a General Strike against a system which does not work for us. With our collective power we will begin to build the world we want to see. Another world is possible!
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Megan Canning.
SUPPORT THIS PROJECT: Morbid Anatomy Library Fire.
The Morbid Anatomy Library is one of those unique places where connoisseurs of curiosities can feel at home. Focused on the hybrid study of art, medicine, death and culture, beyond have an array of anatomically correct (and incorrect) items, the library is also filled with a huge amount of books. With a reduction in print, it’s places like these that are sacred.
Sadly, they suffered a fire this past weekend that left a heavy amount of water damage. Far from being broken, they are quickly trying to re-coup the damage and rebuild the library. If you can donate funds, books or just an encouraging word visit them here.
Check out the list of damaged books you can replace.
And contribute fund for other object reclamation by clicking the donate button on the right hand of their website.
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THE WEEK: MARCH 19-23.
EDITOR’S PICKS:
Ben Marcus & Ryan Britt
http://greenlightbookstore.com/event/ben-marcus-ryan-britt
03/19/2012-03/19/2012
7:30pm-
Our ongoing Blogger/Author Pairings series features conversations between authors and bloggers who share territories, passions, and preoccupations. New York City-based author Ben Marcus discusses his new novel, The Flame Alphabet, with blogger Ryan Britt, a teacher at The Gotham Writers’ Workshop and staff writer for the popular science fiction and fantasy blog, Tor.com and Tor’s series “Genre in the Mainstream.” In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families. Both morally engaged and wickedly entertaining, a gripping page-turner as strange as it is moving, this intellectual horror story ensures Ben Marcus’s position in the first rank of American novelists. The event is hosted by series curator Ron Hogan, creator of the seminal literary blog Beatrice.com.
ECSTATIC MUSIC FEST: DAN DEACON WITH NOW ENSEMBLE & THE CALDER QUARTET
http://kaufman-center.org/mch/event/new-sounds-live-dan-deacon-now-ensemble-the-calder-quartet
03/20/2012-03/20/2012
7:30pm-
Dan Deacon (pictured) returns to the Ecstatic Music Festival after last year’s sold-out show, this time writing a series of new works for acclaimed chamber groups NOW Ensemble (“a deft young group gaining attention,” New Yorker) and the Calder Quartet (“outstanding,” New York Times), both for the individual ensembles and for the two together in a mini-chamber orchestra.
Crystal Fighters, Tubetops, Antoine Karl & The Woofgang (DJ Set)
http://glasslands.blogspot.com/
03/19/2012-03/19/2012
8:30pm-
Crystal Fighters, Tubetops, Antoine Karl & The Woofgang (DJ Set)
Heidi Julavits: The Vanishers
http://www.centerforfiction.org/calendar/heidi-julavits-the-vanishers/
03/20/2012-03/20/2012
7pm-
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Vincent Castiglia.
THE WEEK: Oct 24-28.
MONDAY:BROOKLYN FOLK ARTS DAY |
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“Musical Machines and Living Dolls” from Morbid Anatomy and The Morris Museum.
In what can only be called a stroke of genius Morbid Anatomy is assisting The Morris Museum in creating and distributing this new book devoted to the collection of mechanical instruments and automata in the Guinness Collection. Read more below and to get a copy you can email Morbid Anatomy directly at morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com.
From Morbid Anatomy:
The Murtogh D. Guinness Collection at the Morris Museum is an astounding collection of automata (mechanical toys popular in the 18th and 19th century) and mechanical musical instruments that can be visited in–of all surprising places–Morristown, New Jersey. The collection is mind-blowingly vast; it is, in fact, the largest such public collection in the U. S. and one of the largest in the world, with around 700 automata and mechanical musical instruments and over 5,000 programmed media, nearly all of which are were produced in the 19th Century. (READ FULL DESCRIPTION.)
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