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Jul 29

Satanic Panic (Horror Sundays)

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Knockdown Center is proud to present a screening residency by the Druid Underground Film Festival (DUFF) every Sunday in August and September: Sunday Horror series! Hosted by festival founder Billy Burgess, the Weirdo Cinema A-Go-Go series represents an array of colorful new programming as well as the best of the last ten years of DUFF. Find out why Flavorpill says DUFF doesn’t so much “defy convention as mow it down, douse it in kerosene, and flick a Zippo at it.”

Satanic Panic Propaganda Video Show

From the mid 1980’s to early 90’s American media proliferated stories emphasizing the rise of Satanism, ritual murder, teenagers brainwashed by heavy metal music. At the Los Angeles screening of the Druid Underground Film Festival, Blanche Barton, Former High Priestess of the Church of Satan, spoke about her experiences during the “Satanic Panic,” and introduced this lively program of frightening and humorous Christian propaganda and occult law enforcement procedure videos compiled by DUFF founder Billy Burgess. 
An extended cut of this compilation will be presented as well as Ms. Barton’s videotaped speech in its entirety. Plus “Beware of 666,” an extended collection of ”Christian Scare Films” compiled and hosted by Billy Burgess.

During and after the show, DJ Drew Redmond spins a raucous 60’s 45 gospel set in Knockdown’s Ready Room Bar.

Click here for upcoming SUNDAY HORROR screenings

 

 

Jul 22

Seed Bombs with non/studio

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Topsoil forms at the rate of about 1 inch every 100 years, the speed of decay and rock fracture. Learn how to find (and fix) phosphorous, potassium and nitrogen in soil, use soil-as-dye and make worm poop seed bombs with non/studio.

We will use red clay, fabric, brushes, soil from different Brooklyn locations, seeds, and worm compost for a free workshop for all ages. Folks will walk away with seed bombs, fabric dyed with soil and a zine about how to test soil for nutrients & pH.

Organized in connection with So much dirt but not enough soil, an exhibition by Loney Abrams and Johnny Stanish.
Jul 05

MAMI Market

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The MAMI MARKET is an all-day marketplace featuring goods for sale by local womxn-identified//qtpoc artists and entrepreneurs, a lineup of DJ sets, discussions, and workshops. Organized with love by BALTI GURLS, Browntourage, Ladin Awad, Top Rank Magazine, POWRPLNT, and the MAMI Curatorial Team. For*Us*By*Us* This event is presented as part of MAMI, on view at Knockdown Center from August 6 – September 4, 2016.

ALL DAY:
**LEVEL UP YOUR 2-STEP: Aural blessings by DJ Trillnatured, DJ Selam and Jaqi Sparro
**BE THE STAR OF YOUR OWN LIFE: Green Screen photo opp, courtesy of POWRPLNT

1:15-2:15PM:
BALTI GURLS in Conversation- An open discussion facilitated by Baltimore-based WOC arts collective Balti Gurls, in collaboration with Mami Market vendors, collectives, and guests about the politics of “safe space.” Does it exist?//How can it function?//Can it be achieved?

2:30-5:30PM:
SMART GIRL CLUB presents: “A Miidnight Summer’s Dream: Goddess, Siren, Nymph”, a healing workshop. Smart Girl Club is an urban feminist collective based in the arts and community outreach. Founded by Destiny Frasqueri and Milah Libin, Smart Girl Club aims to empower women of all shapes, sizes, colors, sexualities, and orientations by focusing on creative collaboration and celebration between women. For it’s third time, SGC will host a healing workshop led by Destiny and Milah. This workshop will be a light, sweet & intoxicating afternoon of activities such as elemental magic healing, Fairy Magick, Goddess Worship, Self Love, Color & Sound Therapy. Ethereal, Goddess, Witchy Attire is encouraged.
**$5 suggested donation. RSVP AT witchesofhealingrsvp@gmail.com with your name, age, and why you want to participate in the workshop.**

3:45-4:45PM:
TOP RANK MAGAZINE Live Podcast Episode: A conversation with writer Doreen St. Felix, Arianna Gil (brujas) + Ryann Holmes (bklyn boihood), hosted by Isabel Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas.

5-6PM:
Soul line dance workshop taught by the one and only Empire City Line Dancers. You will learn the latest line dances from around the US, danced to current and classic R&B music. Great introductory workshop for first timers!

7PM:
Performance by Shea Boogie Mizrahi

Apr 29

1916 Ceiliúradh: Celebration

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This Saturday, April 30, come and celebrate Irish culture and history. This free event will feature several artists showcasing Irish song, dance, theatrical performances and more. Enjoy the musical stylings of Grammy-winner Susan McKeown, the Murphy Beds, the Solas an Lae dancers and many others. An exhibition, Labor & Dignity: James Connolly in America, will also take place.

Hosted by CualaNYC and funded by the Cultural Immigrant Initiative Fund of the City Council, this is the first of dozens of cultural events across New York City now through June 2, commemorating the Easter Rising in Dublin – the turning point which led to Ireland’s independence from Britain. As a proud Irish-American, Council Member Elizabeth Crowley is humbled to recognize this anniversary and hopes you will join her.

 For more information please check the CualaNYC website: http://cualagroup.com/

Apr 22

Maspeth Craft Beer Festival

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Come join us for the first ever Maspeth Craft Beer Festival presented by The Kiwanis Club of Maspeth.  This festival will feature some of the finest beers from some of the best breweries from NYC as well as several from across the US and abroad.  In addition to the great beers available, we will be featuring cider and wine tasting as well.  Live music will be performed by Hat Trick Acoustic Trio.  Several food vendors will be available offering tasty choices for an additional cost.  All of the proceeds will go towards charities supported by the Kiwanis Club of Maspeth.

 Tickets:

 $50.00 in advance will receive a tasting glass
$60.00 at the door will receive a tasting glass

$10.00 Designated Driver Ticket – A DD ticket holder will receive free water and soda. Designated drivers do NOT receive a tasting glass and are NOT permitted to sample any beer. Any designated driver seen drinking will be removed from the festival immediately. Designated drivers must be 21+ and present valid photo ID for entry.

 21+ ONLY permitted inside event
Proper I.D. required (License or Passport)
** NO I.D. = NO ENTRY **

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Feb 15

Pysanka Egg Decorating

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Our annual all ages workshop!

The word pysanka is derived from the Ukrainian verb pysaty ‘to write’; we ‘write’ designs on the eggs. Nearly all Slavic peoples and those in the eastern Mediterranean area practiced this art in ancient times using beeswax and dyes to create tiny masterpieces of art but Ukrainian Easter Eggs from the more modern Christian era seem to be the ones best known. The symbols used in pysanka design are a blend of ancient pagan motifs with Christian elements.

A special tool called a kistka is used to melt the beeswax and write on the eggs. The kistka is the pen and the beeswax is the ink. Each successive color is waxed and dyed until the entire design is created on the surface of the egg. The wax is then removed, and your masterpiece is revealed!

Nov 10

With and For

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With and For features three dual- or multi-vocal, call-and-response-like performances. Based on a dialogic framework, the program foregrounds various formations of intimacy – partnership, family, and friendship—setting the stage for polyphonic interplay in the form of song (recorded, performed, improvised), script, and theatre in translation.

Featuring Charity Coleman, Malik Gaines and Alex Segade, and Jordan Lord and Arias Abbruzzi Davis
Curated by Rachel Valinsky
Presented in collaboration with NYPAC

Arias Abbruzzi Davis and Jordan Lord: Ideas of Reference
Arias Abbruzzi Davis and Jordan Lord met six years ago in an intermediate French class. They became friends after collaborating on the final class project—an assignment to demonstrate mastery of the imperfect past tense, the future, and the future anterior. Their project was a short piece of absurdist theater about a jellyfish and rabbit. Returning to the script for the first time since their friendship began, they will perform a live translation of the script from French to English, remembering and speculating on the coded intimacies once exchanged.

Charity Coleman: Forever My Heart and Rebirth
Charity Coleman performs communion with the living voice of her mother, channeled through recordings from childhood and present-day conversation.

Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade: Choir Practice
Gaines, Segade and friends form an amateur choir singing from the repertoire of anti-racist, feminist activist, vocal ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock. The audience joins in to sing protest songs, folk songs, spirituals, and blues. Choir Practice was first performed in 2013, during Gaines and Segade’s Courtesy the Artists residency at Recess Art, New York.

Above Image: Charity Coleman, 2015

Nov 04

Days the World Went Mad

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A free 16mm screening brought to you by 3TON Cinema

A 1965 British documentary on natural disasters, projected on glorious 16MM!  “Compiled of film gathered from all over the world, including unique footage of an Alaskan earthquake taken by a sailor who was filming people on a jetty only a few seconds before the disaster occurred. The camera ran on during the first onslaught of the earthquake.” (TRT 51 mins.) …To be accompanied by archive shorts, cartoons, and other ephemera from the California-based 3TON archive.

3TON Cinema is a roving DIY microcinema with a collection of roughly 1,000 ephemeral films from the 20th century, all on 16MM. Founded in Oakland in 2009 by Laskfar Vortok and Montgomery Cantsin, 3TON has exhibited in a variety of venues across the United States. This screening concludes their cross-country fall tour.

 

Oct 21

Kids’ Halloween party

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Free and open to the public! Come in costume.
Photo portrait booth!

Trick or Treating!!

Fun sensory games:

TOUCH: guts, brain, eyeballs, and more!
HEAR: Play our spooky Theremin!
TASTE: Bob for an apple, and have it candied… in blood!
SEE: Hand-print spider craft project

3:30-4:30pm Free shuttle to Mt. Olivet Cemetary gates: the starting point of the Maspeth Lions Club Halloween Ragamuffin Parade
Exhibitions also on view 2-6pm:
Maybe I’m Amazed
Things with Claws

 

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