Dumbo NYC

Save the date for benefits at St. Ann’s Warehouse on 5/2 and Smack Mellon on 5/5

1) Arts at St. Ann’s Gala Benefit

What: Arts at St. Ann’s Gala Benefit, Rogue’s Gallery Live
When: Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Come celebrate another successful year at St. Ann’s Warehouse with the world premiere of Hal Willner’s Rogue’s Gallery Live, a concert of selected pirate ballads, sea songs, & chanteys. As a Benefit for Arts at St. Ann’s, music producer Hal Willner will bring his signature gift for matching maverick musicians with extraordinary material. These ancient tales of hardship, fate, lost love and lust scour the depths for the crystal allure that led men to the sea for hundreds of years. Rogue’s Gallery Live promises to be an ocean-rolling good time spent with a world class group of salty dogs, sea inspired cuisine, and a lot of fun.

For Benefit and ticket information, please call Inga Glodowski at 718.834.8794 x 11 or e mail her: inga@artsatstanns.org

2) Smack Mellon Kentucky Derby and Art Auction Benefit

What: Smack Mellon Kentucky Derby and Art Auction Benefit
When: Saturday May 5th, 2007, 4pm

Bidding and Betting-Come and Win!
At The Kentucky Derby Party enjoy live music, mint juleps, Bubby’s home-style cooking and the famous race.
The Art Auction will include a drawing/raffle and silent auction.

$250 ticket admits one plus a guest to the party. You will take home a work of art determined by a random drawing. Increase your odds of getting the artwork you want by betting on the winning horse. Those who bet on the winning horse will be the first to choose from the selection of artwork.

Betting Window Opens: 4PM
Betting Window Closes: 5.30PM
Race Post Time: 5.58PM – Don’t be Late!
Auction Begins: 6.30PM

www.smackmellon.org

What: DUMBOLIO, A monthly variety show created, curated, and hosted by Ed Schmidt
When: Saturday, April 21, 2007, starting at 8:00 p.m.
Where: powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at www.powerhousearena.com or www.dumbolio.com or by calling 718-666-3049 ext. 5

Food and drinks courtesy of RICE

Video clips of the first two shows can be seen below:

Ed Schmidt’s Dumbolio is a monthly variety show featuring a headline musical act and four supporting acts created, curated, and hosted by Ed Schmidt—the mad genius behind The Last Supper, his one-man show that ran for nearly two years in his Brooklyn kitchen and dining room. The third edition of Dumbolio will launch on Saturday, April 21, 2007, at the powerHouse Arena.

April’s musical headliner will be Howard Fishman. After recent sold-out performances at the Lincoln Center American Songbook Series and at Joe’s Pub, Mr. Fishman brings his unique blend of jazz, country, folk, and blues to the Arena. He and his quartet will play new songs, inspired by Mr. Fishman’s recent trip to Romania.

1) ARDEN: The Lamentable Tragedie of a DUMBO Real Estate Mogul

When: Opens Thursday, April 19 and runs Thursday to Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. until May 12, 2007
Where: Spring’s DUMBO Performance Loft, 25 Jay Street, #203 in DUMBO, Brooklyn

Admission is FREE – Reservations are strongly encouraged.

Email name, performance date & number of seats to arden@springtheatreworks.com for reservations.

Performance running time is approx. 75 minutes with no intermission.

An article about ARDEN in The Brooklyn Paper says:

“Originally written in 1592 — some say by William Shakespeare — “Arden” is the story of an extremely wealthy English landowner who was murdered in 1551 by hit men hired by his wife and her lover. In 1793, another version of the Thomas Arden story was written by playwright George Lillo and titled “Arden of Feversham.”
Naomi Village: In the heart of the Poconos

Horne and director Michelle Salerno collaborated on a new adaptation, cobbling together pieces of the old plays and giving the whole thing a modern flair. In their version, Thomas Arden is the owner of Arden Properties, a big DUMBO real-estate firm.”

More information at www.springtheatreworks.com.

2) THE MALE GAZE Opens April 20 at The powerHouse Arena

When: Opens Friday, April 20 and runs through May 27, 2007; M–F: 10am–7pm; Weekends: 11am–7pm
Where: The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street at Water Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Sullen burger boys meet the effete cognoscenti in The Male Gaze: a group show including over 20 artists whose cultural explosions have rocked foundations across the world. With work spanning 100 years of bloodless revolution, The Male Gaze features contemporary artists and their classic antecedents reinventing themselves, their world, and their media in savvy, bawdy, dreamy, and terrifyingly new ways.

www.powerhousearena.com/male_gaze/themalegaze_home.html

3) Group Exhibition: “Haiti Through Its Art”, a reflection of the Haitian Culture

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When: Opening reception Thursday, April 19, 2007 @ 5:00-8:30 PM; Runs through May 27, 2007
Where: Flavors of Haiti Gallery, 111 Front Street, Gallery 228, Dumbo Brooklyn, NY 11201

A Group exhibition with selected works by the contemporary master painters and ceramists of Haiti.
www.flavorsofhaiti.com

4) This week at Rebar/Retreat

Five Events For tomorrow, Thursday in Dumbo 4/12/07

1. Exhibition: Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision @ powerHouse Arena
2. SEED collective shopping event @ Retreat
3. Opening Reception for Hilary Lorenz’s “Tracing Nature” @ Safe-T-Gallery
4. Dumbo Neighborhood Spring Party @ Smack Mellon
5. Opening Reception for David Sokosh: Cabinet of Curiosities @ Underbridge Pictures

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1) An exhibition of work from Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision By Jeremiah Goodman

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When: April 12–May 26, 2007
Where: The BoConcept Skylounge at The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street at Water Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Jeremiah’s expressive watercolors not only act as an archive of interior design for the second half of the 20th Century, but also provide a glimpse into the artist’s unique ability to infuse a depiction of domestic space with sense of drama and emotion second only to being there. In addition to making art based on the interiors, Jeremiah also painted commissioned studies for rooms-to-be, creating the beautiful plans on which the rooms themselves would be based. Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision is a sumptuous retrospective of Jeremiah’s career.

Over the span of his over 50 year long career, Jeremiah has painted renderings of the interiors and homes of such influential icons as President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan; legendary theatre personas Mary Martin, Sir John Gielgud, and Richard Rodgers; Baron and Baroness Philippe de Rothschild; jewelry designer Elsa Peretti; Greta Garbo; Cecil Beaton; Betsy Bloomingdale; the Duchess of Windsor; fashion designers Elsa Schiaparelli and Bill Blass; Diana Vreeland, interior designers Billy Baldwin and Mario Buatta; and famed photographer Bruce Weber; in addition to illustrating rooms for House and Garden, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar,and Interior Design, a publication for which Jeremiah illustrated each month’s cover for 15 years. Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision offers a rare look at a true life of grandeur.

2) SEED collective shopping event @ Retreat

When: Thursday, April 12, 5-9pm
Where: Retreat lounge, 147 Front Street, Dumbo Brooklyn

SEED is a collective of 10 independent designers, including clothes, jewelry, hats and handbags.
myspace.com/seed_designers

3) Opening Reception for “Tracing Nature” by Hilary Lorenz

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When: Thursday April 12, from 6 to 8 PM
Where: Safe-T-Gallery, 111 Front Street #214, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY

The show features Hilary’s latest water-medium drawings and prints reflecting on her endurance experiences in the rugged mountains of New Mexico and upstate New York.

Hilary Lorenz “Tracing Nature” is a drawing project that visually translates the physical and visceral experience of hiking remote landscapes.

Opening Reception Thursday April 12
Exhibition runs April 12 – May 12, 2007
www.safetgallery.com

4) Smack Mellon Neighborhood Spring Party

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When: Thursday, April 12, 5-8pm
Where: Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn

To Thank you for supporting the local businesses, we invite you to our neighborhood party! Come meet your neighbors and enjoy food, drinks, and art in Smack Mellon’s beautiful waterfront space.
www.smackmellon.org

5) Opening Reception for David Sokosh: Cabinet of Curiosities
When: Thursday, April 12, from 6 – 8 PM.
Where: Underbridge Pictures, 111 Front Street Gallery 202 DUMBO Brooklyn

David Sokosh: Cabinet of Curiosities. Contemporary Tintypes and Ambrotypes.

Cabinet of Curiosities is the debut of a new body of work by David Sokosh. These one-of-a-kind photographs are created using the Wet-Plate Collodion method, popular during the middle of the 19th century. It is the process used by the famous Civil War photographer Matthew Brady.

These images explore the photographer’s collecting obsessions. From plaster casts of Renaissance sculpture through animal skulls and other natural history materials to antique electric light bulbs and early scientific equipment, the photographs provide a rare glimpse into this photographer’s unique world.

Wet-Plate Collodion was the second major photo technique, the first being Daguerreotype. From the 1850’s through the 1870’s most of the photographs made in America were created using this method. Contemporary photography uses gelatin as the vehicle for photosensitive silver. Wet-Plate uses Collodion, which is gun-cotton dissolved in ether and alcohol, as the vehicle. The process requires that a plate of metal or glass be coated with Collodion, then photosensitized, exposed and developed while still wet, all within a narrow window of opportunity (approx. 5 minutes) before the Collodion has irreversibly dried. These images are unique originals, each created separately in the camera, not printed from negatives.

The exhibition runs through Sunday May 20th.

www.underbridgepictures.com

 New York Alumni Club Art Exhibition, 4/14/2007 (Click for larger version)

What: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
New York Alumni Club Art Exhibition
When: Saturday, April 14, 2007, 5-8pm
Where: 50 Washington Street at Front Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY

Join us for the inaugural event of the New York Alumni Club – a one-night-only exhibition fo alumni artwork. View and purchase original works by Academy alumni living and working in the Manhattan area. Half of all proceeds will benefit the Alumni Annual Fund of the Academy, which supports scholarships for students.

RSVP (today) to 215-972-7630 or alumni@pafa.org.
For more information and directions, visit www.pafa.org/alumniNewsletter.jsp.

What: Opening reception at Sankaranka Gallery Contemporary African Art for “Images of Women in Contemporary African Art”
When: Thursday, April 5th, 6 – 9 p.m. Showing through April 29.
Where: 111 Front St. suites 206, 230, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY 11201

The exhibition, “Images of Women in Contemporary African Art”, is a selection of works which show/depict the condition of women in Africa. The works show images of beauty, joy, pleasure, and sadness. They also show images of women as victims of rape, torture and other forms of sexual exploitation.
The works leave the inescapable conclusion that African women live difficult lives. They are the strong workforce of the continent—at home, in the fields, and at the marketplace. Although there is an emerging image of the modern, educated woman, who has begun to make a significant impact in politics and other professions, she is in the minority. For the vast majority everyday is filled with hard work under very hard conditions.

We hope that you will join us as we pay this tribute to Africa’s pillar of strength

{www.sankarankagallery.com}

1) Gleason’s Club Show

When: Saturday, March 31st, First bout is at 7:00pm
Where: 83 Front Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, 718-797-2872
Info: New York’s up and coming amateur boxers will showcase their talent at our monthly club show. All tickets are $15.

2) Naadu Performance

When: Saturday, March 31st at 8pm
Where: Underwater Lounge (66 Water St. (718.625.9352 in DUMBO Brooklyn).
Info: The enchanting vocalist and composer, Lola Danza debuts her project Naadu, with visual artists: painter Jacqueline Chachitz and installation artist Meaghan Bates

“Naadu is a project that transforms time and space through music and visual art. By bringing the two mediums together we bring the audience into an alter reality.”

www.loladanza.com

3) Meet the Artist Ella Yang: New York Shines

When: Saturday March 31st, from 3 – 5 PM.
Where: Underbridge Pictures, 111 Front Street Gallery 202, Dumbo Brooklyn
Info: Please join us at a closing reception for Ella Yang: New York Shines. Light-Filled Cityscapes of Brooklyn and Manhattan.

“Underbridge Pictures is pleased to announce that New York Shines, an exhibition of oil paintings by Brooklyn based artist, Ella Yang has been extended through April 1st. Her urban landscapes depict beloved locations and capture vibrant street scenes in both Brooklyn and Manhattan. Ms. Yang is included in the new book “100 New York Painters,” by Cynthia Maris Dantzic, Schiffer Publishing Company, Fall 2006.”

1)Two Day Monster Art/Music Festival

When: Friday March 23, 7pm – 3am; Saturday March 24, 3pm – 12am
Where: 147 Front Street, 2nd Floor, DUMBO Brooklyn
Info: $20 for a One Day Pass and $25 for a Two Day Pass.
Buy your ticket online to guarantee admission.
www.michaelalanart.com

• 20 hours of theatrical figure drawing with 25 nude and costumed art models holding dynamic gesture, short and long poses (4hour) throughout the whole event. 5-8 models in each pose.
• 5-8 models a pose, 4 hour pose at all times, gestures, and 15’s. There will always be something to draw and you will be able to change seats and drawings
• Collaborative projects and activities by Brooklyn Art Collective and Artworld Digest Magazine.
• Disfiguration Art Show featuring work by Michael Alan, Matt Brennan, Tim Maxwell, Barnaby Ruhe, Jenn DeWald and Will Suarez.
• Live music from 8 unbelievable bands including: the Hungry Marching Band, the Krays, Rocket Surgery, the Bones of Davey Jones, Naked Boys Making Noise, BonBomb, Biz and the Rolling Stallones and DJ Junglez.
• Full bar and food available by Retreat with an after party to follow at Retreat Saturday night 12am – 3am.
• Live silk screening by Ad Hoc Gallery.
• Amazing giveaways from our sponsors: Blick Art Supply, Crumpler Bags, MetroInk and P.S. Bookshop.

2)Coercive Atmospherics at d.u.m.b.o. arts center

What: Opening weekend for Coercive Atmospherics
When: Saturday March 24, 2007, 6 – 9 pm; Exhibition through May 13, 2007
Where: d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac), 30 Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Curator: David Hunt
Artists: Sam Clagnaz, Devon Costello, David Kennedy Cutler, Taylor Davis, Regina Jose Galindo, Gareth Long, MaryKate Maher, Samantha Moyer, Luke Painter, Ted O’Sullivan, Stephen G. Rhodes, Tim Roda, Pawel Wojtasik, and Balint Zsako.
www.dumboartscenter.org

3)Youth Venture New York Media Network Gathering

When: Friday, March 23rd from 5-7pm
Where: 25 Washington St., 4th Floor, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Info: You MUST RSVP (with first and last name) for admission
RSVP to: ny@youthventure.org or call 212 278 8930
Youth Venture New York Media Network Gathering
Youth Venture

“Come enjoy an evening of workshops, a films screening, refreshments, and hang-out time with other fun young media people!”

• Watch a screening of Still Standing, a youth-made YO-TV documentary portraying the challenges faced by Hurricane Katrina survivors. Followed by a discussion with one of the film’s producers, Ines Morales
• Learn how to use media to raise awareness and inspire action around important social issues with Irene Villaseñor, Youth Views Manager at American Documentary | P.O.V.
• Find out how to make money and manage it in order to make your dreams become reality from Wallace Jabbaar and Yamira Siu-Jabbaar of Primerica Financial Services
• Get info about how to take advantage of the grant and support opportunities with Youth Venture

The Youth Venture New York Media Network is an initiative to link young people involved or interested in socially conscious media with each other, media organizations, and experienced individuals in the media field.

What: Seasonal fashion event for emerging designers hosted by the
non-profit Brooklyn Style Foundation
When: March 16-18, 2007 from 6pm.
Where: 201 Water Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn

The upcoming runway shows will feature 19 designers, 9 tents and 40 models all packed into three days of excitement and fashion innovation.

The shows will be held at 201 Water Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn and while those attendance will have this event packed to capacity, we’ve managed to arrange for a number of seats to be made available strictly on a donation-only basis. Your donation includes an all-access glimpse into this event, so head over to the THIS SEASON area of the site for detailed breakdowns and a donation form.

BK Fashion Week[end}’s Fall/Winter collections will be held March 16, 17 & 18 and for those who have already received invitations, please RSVP with the BUZZ International Group. Click the image below for more information and be sure to make your donation if you are interested in attending

What: That 70s Show: New York City in the 1970s
When: Exhibition Dates: March 9-April 15, 2007
Where: The powerHouse Arena * 37 Main Street * Brooklyn, New York 11201

That 70s Show is an ode to a city long forgotten, a city on the brink of bankruptcy, rife with anarchy, brimming with uninhibited flavor and fearless adventure: New York City in the 70s. The exhibition pays tribute to the people of New York-from the pimps and the pushers to the police and the politicians, the musicians and the artists to everyday citizens-whose perseverance during these years reveals the true spirit of our city. That 70s Show takes us back to a time of crisis and creativity, anxiety and artistry, madness and majesty-when genius burned up the sky like the Bronx on fire.

For more information, please call 212-604-9074 x101
Gallery Hours:
Mon-Fri: 10am-7pm
Weekends: 11am-7pm

To preview the show please visit:
www.powerhousearena.com/70s_home/home.html