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Jul 26

KDC Friday Night Movie – Witches of Eastwick (1987)

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The KDC Friday Night Movie is a series of FREE screenings in the Ruins, Knockdown Center’s backyard. Every Friday from August 11th – September 8th, join us at 8pm for live music followed by a feature film, frozen drinks, and our very own house-made popcorn! Make sure to bring your own blankets, as seating is limited!

Witches of Eastwick (1987)
The Witches of Eastwick is a 1987 American comedy-fantasy film based on John Updike’s novel of the same name. Directed by George Miller, the film stars Jack Nicholson as Daryl Van Horne, alongside Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon as the eponymous witches.

Upcoming:
8.25 Natural Born Killers (1994)
9.1 Big Lebowski (1998)
9.8 Goodfellas (1990)

Jul 26

KDC Friday Night Movie – Get Out (2017)

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The KDC Friday Night Movie is a series of FREE screenings in the Ruins, Knockdown Center’s backyard. Every Friday from August 11th – September 8th, join us at 8pm for live music followed by a feature film, frozen drinks, and our very own house-made popcorn! Make sure to bring your own blankets or lawn chairs, as seating is limited!

Get Out (2017)
Get Out is a 2017 American horror film written, co-produced and directed by Jordan Peele, in his directorial debut. The film stars Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, LaKeith Stanfield and Catherine Keener, and follows a young interracial couple who visit the mysterious estate of the woman’s parents.

Upcoming:
8.18 Witches of Eastwick (1987)
8.25 Natural Born Killers (1994)
9.1 Big Lebowski (1998)
9.8 Goodfellas (1990)

Jul 26

KDC Friday Night Movie

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The KDC Friday Night Movie is a series of FREE screenings in the Ruins, Knockdown Center’s backyard. Every Friday from August 11th – September 8th, join us at 8pm for live music followed by a feature film, frozen drinks, and our very own house-made popcorn! Make sure to bring your own blankets or lawn chairs, as seating is limited!

Friday, August 11 – Get Out (2017)
Friday, August 18 – Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Friday, August 25 – Natural Born Killers (1994)
Friday, September 1 – Big Lebowski (1998)
Friday, September 8 – Goodfellas (1990)

Free with RSVP.

Get Out (2017)

Witches of Eastwick (1987)

Natural Born Killers (1994)

Big Lebowski (1998)

Goodfellas (1990)

Jul 26

For Us Fest: Queer Abstract//BUFU//OLU

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FOR US FEST CLOSING WEEKEND
Queer Abstract x BUFU x Olu Alege

Join us in the backyard with BUFU, Queer Abstract, and Olu Alege in the culminating event of “US,” a month of daily programming across all five boroughs that focuses on gathering, sharing strategies, resources, skills between collectives and how to build through organizing, healing, nightlife, and art.

Queer Abstract: What’s Yours?
Performances hosted by Shannon Matesky and Lo Jackson
ARTISTS:
Josiah Forde
Cynthia Bukilwa
Hameer Zawawi
Nia and Ness
Nic Kayyy
Bringing Beautiful Back to Black
Cor Ece
Veronica Garza
Roya Marsh
Nappy Nina
Myles
Dejaye
Nandi Kay
Dante Lennon
Alicia Goldsmith
The Alliyance
DJ Rzze Royze
DJ Boston Cherry
AND MORE!!!!!!!

Queer Abstract is a curated Monthly Performance Series highlighting QTPOC performers hosted and curated by Shannon Matesky. (QA) is place to showcase new work and celebrate each other, an attempt to blend party and performance communities to uplift and affirm fellowship, creativity and collaboration among the culture leaders of NYC. QA is a curated variety of singers, dancers, comedians, writers and any creative interested in getting down. Allies are welcomed and encouraged to affirm our magic, QTPOC are welcome and encouraged to fellowship, build and create!

BUFU (By Us For Us) is a collective of queer, femme, and nonbinary black and East Asian artists and organizers working to create a living archive centered around global conversations between black and Asian diasporas, with an emphasis on solidarity, de-centering whiteness, and resurfacing our deeply interconnected and complicated histories.

Jul 14

OVERTIME: Field Day

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Join us for a special *FREE* and family-friendly edition of OVERTIME! We’ll have activities, food, and music for all ages in our sunny backyard. We’re serving FREE hot dogs from 3-4pm and bringing out the ping-pong table, corn hole, and sidewalk chalk for a good time.

Drop In Activities (3-9pm):
Plaster Ice Cream Sculpture Workshop
Fabric Painting Station
Ping Pong
Sidewalk Chalk
Cornhole Toss

Scheduled Workshops:
4-5pm – Freestyle zine-making Workshop with Lacey Antonia Carter
5-7pm – IRL Meme and Zine-Making Workshop with Cayla Lockwood
6-7pm – Reading with local author Lori J. Fitzgerald from her new book, “Through the Oak Door”

Full Details:

3-9pm
*Plaster Ice Cream Sculpture Workshop*
Join us for Good Humor, a plaster ice cream sculpture workshop produced by Collective Springboard. Create your own plaster ice cream sculpture to take home to last the ages. Scoop, squeeze and dip plaster mixed with dye, paint, glitter, marbles and other ‘toppings’ on a cone of your choice at our sculpture station this Saturday!

Good Humor at Knockdown Center is produced by Danny Crump and Sarah Dahlinger, co-directors of Springboard Collective and current artists-in-residence at Flux Factory in LIC. Recent projects include Trivial Pursuits, a performative dinner party with a food fight finale, and Limo Cult, a 70 ft. handmade limousine with two deep fry stations for experimental deep fried objects and food. They are co-curating Humorgous Smorgasbord, an exhibition celebrating artists as humorists opening on September 8th, 2017 at Flux Factory.

3-9pm
*Tee Shirt Painting Station*
BYO-TEE… Bring your own white t-shirt or fabric and come ready to get your hands dirty with fabric paint and stamps!

4-5pm
*Collaborative Zine-making with Lacey Antonia Carter*
Have a story to tell? Want to unleash your inner comic? Come learn how to make your very own zine with our own Lacey Carter! Each participant will design a page, which will be combined and photocopied for everyone to take home!

5-7pm
*IRL Meme and Zine Workshop*
Cayla Lockwood, Artist-in-Residence at Flux Factory leads this hands-on meme and zine workshop where Dadaist poetry meets lolcats. Using randomly generated text and google images with good old-fashioned scissors and glue, participants will cut out words and paste them onto photos to make their very own meme—IRL! After a short demonstration on making simple saddle-stitched zines, participants will bind the Memes into book form. Collaboration encouraged!

6-7pm
*Lori Fitzgerald Reading*
Local author Lori Jean Fitzgerald will be reading an excerpt from her book “Through the Oak Door,” a series of connected novelettes in the mythic fantasy genre, featuring Celtic mythological figures and medieval characters in stories of transformation. Q&A and discussion to follow.

Jul 04

Intended Trajectories Conversation

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Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Intended Trajectories at Knockdown Center, join artists Lourdes Correa-Carlo and Alan Ruiz for a public conversation moderated by curator Christian Camacho-Light. In their work, both Correa-Carlo and Ruiz investigate how the formal and spatial organization of architectural environments in turn structure social relations. In this event, each artist will introduce their recent projects, followed by a discussion that will draw out themes present in the exhibition, including: the visual politics of city space; systems of alienation and enclosure; and issues of access.

Lourdes Correa-Carlo is an artist who works across drawing, photography, collage, video, sculpture, and installation. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University and a BFA in Sculpture from Escuela de Artes Plásticas, San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY (2015-2017) and has previously held residencies at Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (2013); Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX (2010-2012); and Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY (2011). Her work has been exhibited with institutions that include the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; the International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY; School of Visual Arts, New York, NY; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX; Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL; Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY; and Art Center South Florida, Miami, FL.

Alan Ruiz is a visual artist whose work explores the way space is produced as both material and ideology. His architectural interventions have been shown in exhibitions at the Queens Museum, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Wave Hill, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Ruiz has contributed writing to Archinect, TDR, BOMB Magazine, InVisible Culture, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. He has presented work at the Storefront for Art & Architecture, MoMA PS1, and PSi Hamburg. Ruiz received an MFA from Yale University and was a 2015 – 2016 fellow in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He is a current artist-in-residence at Abrons Arts Center.

Christian Camacho-Light is a curator and writer based in New York. Recent exhibitions include Stage 6: Lourdes Correa-Carlo, Down-Below, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY (2016) and Standard Forms, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2016). They are currently at work on an exhibition to be shown at the Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ (November 2017). They hold an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and a BA in Art History from Vassar College.

Jul 01

“US” by BUFU

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Every Friday in the month of July, Knockdown Center hosts BUFU as a part of “US,” a month of daily programming that focuses on gathering, sharing strategies, resources, skills between collectives and how to build through organizing, healing, nightlife, and art. The evenings will kick off with a youth and teen summit and a reading group that will deconstruct Adrienne Marie Brown’s recent book Emergent Strategy followed by a community salon and potluck with guest NYC collectives who will bring different offerings each week.

~ Full Knockdown Center Schedule ~

Friday, July 7
5 – 6:30PM
Youth and teen kickback hosted by House of Diablos and Museum Teen Summit

5 – 6:30PM
“Emergent Strategy” reading group

7 – 10PM
Nightlight Collectives Community Salon and Potluck with Ragga NYC // Digi & Zine Making

Friday, July 14
5 – 6:30PM
Youth and teen kickback hosted by House of Diablos and Museum Teen Summit

5 – 6:30PM
“Emergent Strategy” reading group

7 – 10PM
Healing Community Salon and Potluck with Sister Circle Collective // Heal With Us Commons

Friday, July 21
5 – 6:30PM
Youth and teen kickback hosted by House of Diablos and Museum Teen Summit

5 – 6:30PM
“Emergent Strategy” reading group

7 – 10PM
Art Collectives Community Potluck // Art Hoe Collective Pop Up

Friday, July 28
5 – 6:30PM
Youth and teen kickback hosted by House of Diablos and Museum Teen Summit

5 – 6:30PM
“Emergent Strategy” reading group

7 – 10PM
Organizing Collectives Community Potluck // Yellow Jackets Collective Archive Booth

 

About BUFU
BUFU works to highlight the lived experiences of those who have been impacted politically and socially by white supremacy, while de-centering whiteness and resurfacing our deeply interconnected and complicated histories. “US” brings that mission into action, and addresses the many ways in which we can organize and support each other across artistic and activist communities. “US” is four weeks of programming building focusing on how we build together through organizing, healing, nightlife, art, and more. The schedule includes workshops, skill shares, conversations, healing cyphers, performances, parties, potlucks, film screenings, dance classes and more!

You can find the full schedule of events here.

Jun 29

“Wall < Enter" Interactive Art Installation

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Join us for the closing reception of “Wall < Enter,” an interactive immersive art installation produced by diverse New York City youth and families in collaboration with the Coalition for Hispanic Family Services Arts and Literacy Program, artist/AED Laura Paris, and teaching artist/art therapist planning team Tomas Manon, Frank Mena, Jenn Perez, and Rocko Seymour. Featuring music provided by 8 Ball Radio DJs and refreshments!

“Wall < Enter” offers an important opportunity to reflect upon the current climate of fear and intimidation faced by immigrant populations in our communities through an interactive collaborative art project made by those most affected by this climate and their allies.

For “Wall < Enter”, the 1,300 young people who attend the Arts and Literacy Program and their families were invited to reflect upon President Donald Trump’s proposed wall between the US and Mexico and then reimagine what borders between countries should look like. The result is a projected montage of images , writing, dance, music and monologues about borders, personal stories, inter-culturation and the impact of immigration policy. The project offers visitors an opportunity to hear from those most affected by the anti-immigrant sentiment fostered by the Trump administration, and, simultaneously, provides participants with an opportunity to imagine alternatives to the anti-immigration plans and policies laid out by our president.

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On the Fourth of July, we unveiled an interactive station in the form of a voting booth that visitors can use to contribute their own stories through writing, drawing, audio and video content. These contributions will be added to the final installation. The opening of the voting booth coincided with “The Real Fireworks,” a benefit concert for Make the Road NY featuring Marc Ribot and M.A.K.U. Soundsystem.

 These contributions will be on view along with the work by Coalition for Hispanic Family Services Arts and Literacy Program participants.

May 04

Book Launch of Through the Oak Door

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Join Knockdown Center and local Maspeth author Lori J. Fitzgerald for the launch of her story collection Through the Oak Door on June 25th at 5:00 P.M. in our Ready Room Bar. The author will read excerpts from the collection, invite discussion, and sign copies of the book that will be available for purchase.

Through the Oak Door is an independently published paperback collection of related novelettes in the mythic fiction genre, featuring Celtic mythological figures and medieval characters in stories of self-discovery and transformation. The novelettes were originally published as separate e-books, Love Lies Bleeding and Songs Within Stone, and have been collected in an exclusive paperback edition.

Lori J. Fitzgerald writes fantasy fiction. She lives in Maspeth with her fellow English major husband, their two bookworms, and a small black rescue dog. Medieval literature and the mythic arts are her passions, and she loves attending the NY Renaissance Faire. Lori has a B.A. in English from St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, and an M.A. from Queens College. She was a middle school English teacher for over a decade and was well-known for her dramatic readings. Her first novelette, The Dragon’s Message, can be found on Amazon Kindle, and her non-fiction comparative literature essays can be found on www.onceuponafans.com in the Origins section. She is currently working on a mythic fiction novel.

May 01

The Truth About Pangaea II Release Party

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Social Malpractice Publishing invites you to celebrate the release of Ana Fabrega’s second book, The Truth About Pangaea II, at the Knockdown Center!
Performances by:
Ana Fabrega
Erin Schwartz
Max Wittert
Lorelei Ramirez
Sean J Patrick Carney
Elizaveta Shneyderman
Steve Girard 
 
We’ll have both of Ana’s books for sale at the event, plus some special, one-night-only giveaways. And for the first time in the history of the world, Ana presents an original Mix Your Own Chex Micks station. Yes, you read that correctly. Make sure to bring your Instagram account with you. 
 
To be guaranteed a copy of Ana’s book, please visit the Social Malpractice website for preorder: 
 
The Truth About Pangaea II is Social Malpractice’s 35th artist book publication and features contributions from Erin Schwartz, Elizaveta Shneyderman, Brandon Reese, Charlie Hankin, Emily Harrington, Lauren Molina, Lorelei Ramirez, Margalit Cutler, Mikey Heller, Max Wittert, Sean J Patrick Carney, Steve Girard, and Thomas John Gamble.
The Truth About Pangaea II continues comedian Ana Fabrega’s brutal quest to expose and articulate the hard truths about this damnable planet that we call home. No presumptive certainty is safe from her scathing critiques as she boldly shreds apart what we think we know about our oceans, the shrouded history of the Girl Scouts, the advent of the automobile, “Big Denim,” carbohydrates, and social media. Featuring intros, forwards, prefaces, and intros to the prefaces by notorious dissenters Erin Schwartz and Elizaveta Shneyderman, plus paradigm-shattering illustrations by a who’s-who of today’s most divisive political satirists, The Truth About Pangaea II will rattle your bones until you beg to have your Woke Card revoked permanently.
Illustrations by: Brandon Reese, Charlie Hankin, Emily Harrington, Lauren Molina, Lorelei Ramirez, Margalit Cutler, Mikey Heller, Max Wittert, Sean J Patrick Carney, Steve Girard, and Thomas John Gamble
SMP No. 35 | 60 pages, staple-bound | Original edition of 100, numbered and signed
Ana Fabrega is a comedian in New York City. She produces, hosts, and performs at comedy venues and art spaces around the city.  She hosts a monthly show on the first Sunday of every month at Starr Bar in Brooklyn at 8pm called Sundays with Ana. She was selected as a Comedy Central “Comics to Watch” for the 2016 New York Comedy Festival. The New York Times describes Ana as “an inventive performer with a knack for off-kilter characters.”
Ana has appeared on IFC’s Portlandia, Fusion’s The Chris Gethard Show, TV Land’s The Jim Gaffigan Show, Comedy Central’s “Sunset Peak” and “Alternatino,” Chestnut Walnut’s “Little Banks on Wall Street,” MNN’s The Special Without Brett Davis, IFC’s “Boy Band,” and various videos for Mas Mejor. She writes and stars in the web series “Jana & Shasta” (New York Television Festival), and wrote “The Truth About Pangaea,” and “The Truth About Pangaea II,” comedy zines published by Social Malpractice Publishing. She was a finalist in the 2015 Andy Kaufman Awards.  In January 2016, she was part of Ars Nova’s Showgasm Spotlight series with her show “Go, Baby, Go!” which featured a variety of her characters, stand-up, videos, and pictures.
Social Malpractice Publishing is an independent label in Brooklyn, NY curated and produced by Sean J Patrick Carney and Claire Mirocha. Since 2009, SMP has produced over 50 original books and editions for a variety of artist and comedians including Jayson Musson, Ana Fabrega, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Heather Guertin, Deanna Havas, Al Bedell, Bob Nickas, and MK Guth, amongst others. Learn more at socialmalpractice.com.
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