Antwan Duncan presents!
Also in the Ready Room: Fresh Daily & Friends’ Sweat Haus Halloween turn-up!
Free shuttle to and from the L train, check knockdown.info for updates
Come make sun-prints on fabric with the artist Liz Nielsen. This workshop will include hands-on experimentation with the archaic photographic mark-making process called the Photogram. It is easy and non-toxic.
Liz is a photographer whose own works are printed in the analog color darkroom with handmade negatives and found light sources. Meeting together at high noon, Liz will guide you through a process of making colorful works using the sun as a natural superpower!
Bring your ideas and an open mind. Come with a plan, or don’t, and we will make one.
Space for 15 people
All Ages. (Kids under 8 must be accompanied by a non-participating adult)
$20 per person (includes all materials)
Join Carolina Wheat for an intuitive and experimental workshop exploring historical Tie-dye techniques. You will explore the ancient manual resist–bind, fold and pleat technique of Japanese Shibori with classic indigo dyes.
Carolina studied textile surface design at the University of Michigan and got her MFA in Writing from SAIC. Having traveled extensively in Japan and Indonesia, Carolina brings to this workshop a broad history of textiles, including the narratives, symbolism and processes used in the Pan-Asiatic islands.
This workshop will guide you through a hands-on process from start to finish and you’ll walk away with a functional article of patterned surface design.
$35 per person (price includes TWO! scarves to dye)
All Ages (Kids under 8 must be accompanied by a non-participating adult)
Space limited to 15 people
Qween Beat in collaboration with Loveless Records Presents:
QWEENDOM BALL
“INTERNATIONAL ROYALTY”Categories:
Face:
Africa ($$)
“My crown too heavy like the Qween Nefertiti!”
Sell it up close and personal with a natural beat inspired by an African Qween.Runway:
Europe ($$$)
“Qween of London, Qween of France, Qween of Spain, You’ll go insane!”
Bring it to the runway with the poise and presence of a Qween. Represent your country of choice with a European effect.Hands:
Asia ($$)
To be Asian Royalty it takes deep concentration, and mental penetration like hand performance. Show us how royal you are through your hand performance!Performance:
America ($$$)
The America’s have never had a true monarchy. Our royalty reigns over music & pop culture.
Give the judges a performance they’ll never forget and collect your crown.
Female Figures bring it like one of the Qweens of Rap, Pop, or Soul.
Males figure choose to bring it like the Kings of Rap, Pop, or Rock.
QWEENDOM BALL
“INTERNATIONAL ROYALTY”Categories:
Face:
Africa ($$)
“My crown too heavy like the Qween Nefertiti!”
Sell it up close and personal with a natural beat inspired by an African Qween.Runway:
Europe ($$$)
“Qween of London, Qween of France, Qween of Spain, You’ll go insane!”
Bring it to the runway with the poise and presence of a Qween. Represent your country of choice with a European effect.Hands:
Asia ($$)
To be Asian Royalty it takes deep concentration, and mental penetration like hand performance. Show us how royal you are through your hand performance!Performance:
America ($$$)
The America’s have never had a true monarchy. Our royalty reigns over music & pop culture.
Give the judges a performance they’ll never forget and collect your crown.
Female Figures bring it like one of the Qweens of Rap, Pop, or Soul.
Males figure choose to bring it like the Kings of Rap, Pop, or Rock.
OTA Realness:
OPEN TO ALL ($$)
Bring it as you like!
The Ready Room pops off every Thursday thru Sunday night with live DJs! Free!
We’ll be accepting donations for Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) efforts in Haiti recovering from Hurricane Matthew, both tax-deductible online in advance, or cash/check the night of. The link will active until 10/26/16: http://events.
TWO OF THE BEST HALLOWEEN PARTIES COMBINE TO HEED A HOLY NIGHT OF HORROR! Jonathan Toubin / New York Night Trains HAUNTED HOP vs Alana A Amram‘s MONSTER MASH
HAUNTED HOUSE with Phantom Creep Theatre LIVE, Max Roseglass & Adam Fithers’s KISSING BOOTH, Gregory Stovetop’s LAND OF 1000 SCARECROWS, Stephanie García’s SCREAMING HORSES, Gary Balaban’s CINEMA OF SIN, Joseph Jagos’s DUNKING BOOTH OF BLOOD, Andy NotAnimal’s CANDY APPLES, Kara Kinsey’s TAROT, Alana Amram’s WITCH HUT & SPIDER DEN, Jenn Warren’s BALES OF HAUNTED HAY
7pm to 11pm
MONSTER MASH: live bands perform in costume as their favorite musicians
with Rocky Horror Picture Show Time Warp Dance Contest!!
11pm – LATE
THE HAUNTED HOP!!!
Dance to the Haunted 45’s of DJ’s Jonathan Toubin / New York Night Train & Josh Styles with DEMON GOGO DANCERS!
MIDNIGHT COSTUME CONTEST!
Prizes very generously provided by:
Littleneck, REBEL ROUSER, Metropolis Vintage & MAIN DRAG MUSIC
Come enjoy a handmade meal, sit down with friends and strangers alike gathered around community tables, and even get a peek into the fresh pasta making process. This supper will feature two handmade pasta dishes served family style as well as a salad of lush greens and edible flowers.
The Da Prato Test Kitchen is a monthly supper club series presenting food and examining sensation. The dinners test various recipes, present odd and beautiful ingredients, and bring together an interesting calico of people to celebrate food, conviviality, merriment, and perception. Join us for a special installment at Knockdown Center.
Menu is as follows:
Handmade pappardelle with wild boar ragu; rich gamey wild boar, stewed for hours in a sauce of chianti and juniper berries, fresh herbs and tomato. Served over delicate ribbons of handmade pappardelle.
Handmade maccheroni with porcinis and pine nuts; these are not the little elbow pastas you are thinking of but rather a very rustic, traditional Tuscan pasta shape of elegant hand torn sheets folded beautifully atop the dish and topped in layers with wild porcini mushrooms in a light cream sauce with toasted pine nuts and fresh herbs.
Salad of greens and roses; torn bitter greens tosses with buttery leaf lettuces, pickled shallots, a medley of fragrant and herbal edible flowers, fine herbs, and toasted pistachios tossed in a champagne vinaigrette.
These dishes draw upon the verdant mountains of northern Italy, bringing together wild mountain mushrooms, wild game, the unbelievable pine nut as well as the flora of the woods themselves. We’ll be in the tops of trees, rummaging through the brush, and rolling about the forest floor in this delightful and homestyle feast to warmly escort you into fall. We hope you can join us.
The cost of this meal is $35. Wine available for purchase. We kindly ask you to purchase your seats in advance.
Guests are invited to arrive at 4pm to see the rolling of the dough and learn about making pasta, dinner will be served at 6pm
COMRADE TRUEBRIDGE is an artist-driven, rhizomatic workgroup, braintrust, salon, kitchen table, laboratory, and hive mind where artists share and exchange needs and resources – offering an opportunity to engage deeply with their own and others’ work and needs during various phases of development. The mission of the group is intended to collaboratively find intersections and assistance between diverse, multidisciplinary, and difficult-to-define artists.
At our gatherings, artists come together to (a) share works in progress, (b) discuss their project’s preoccupying puzzles, experiments, failures, mysteries, messiness, challenges, and vision, and (c) collaboratively identify strategies, insights, resources, and possible avenues for exploration and invention. The gatherings yield a wealth of collective knowledge and expertise as expressed by eagerness to both give and receive assistance from our colleagues and peers. Rather than a place to present polished, formal, completed works with pressures of perfection or prestige, Comrade Truebridge is an incubator and sanctuary for artists to step outside the realm of marketplace and to share the more intimate aspects of art making, both absurd and sublime.
To attend this workshop on October 29:
1. Seating is limited, so please RSVP to comradetruebridgenyc@somese
2. In your RSVP email, please give a list of what you have to offer your fellow comrades, and what you need in regards to your work.
ABOUT COMRADE TRUEBRIDGE:
Comrade Truebridge was founded in 2013 by multidisciplinary artists Quintan Ana Wikswo and Cat Tyc, and directed by Wikswo. With the partnership of Creative Capital, NYFA, LMCC, and other organizations, artists came from an eclectic range of disciplines and communities, with a special focus on those whose practices venture beyond the traditional boundaries of form and discipline. The first participants were NYC-based interdisciplinary alumni of Creative Capital, NYFA, LMCC, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Millay Colony. Since that initial gathering, Comrade Truebridge has expanded in a rhizomatic manner, as comrades bring other comrades. Read more: someseriousbusiness.org
Free Halloween party with Fresh Daily & friends! Costume Contest with prizes! Photo Booth!