1| July in Heat
2| Kiss Kiss Bang Bang : Brooklyn : Saturday
3| EMERGENCY : Manhattan : July 7th
4| One Night of Fire : On The Streets : July 15th

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This has been a long time coming. This July we bring you three events to ignite your nights with fireworks, rockets and eyes open wide. First is a loft party of massive dimension (July 1st), second is a Manhattan gallery infused with site-specific sculpture & immaculate performance (July 7th), third is One Night of Fire.

This is July in heat.

[ Note: Last weekends Billyburg Short Film Festival was postponed due to rain. It is now happening this Friday at the beautiful ruin of McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg. ]

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You are invited to:
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Saturday, July 1st
9pm to 8am (or later)
East Williamsburg

Details:
http://www.complacent.org/kisskissbangbang

It’s been too long since New York City brought it like this. Two floors, 15,000sqft. and a labyrinth of secret corners and massive delights. Be among the first to explore this outsized playground for the giddy and delirious. Featuring a free bar-b-que, live bands, fresh art, voyeur-video projections, stilt walkers, fireworks and two of the tightest sound-systems this side of the East River.

Featuring selectors that will make you feel the pulse of old and new NYC at it’s finest:

In the room of Kiss: David Hollands [Minimal Wage] : Bends genres, time, and textures with classic dance floor gems and then smoothes you out again with the sweetest new cuts you haven’t yet heard.

Nicodemus [Wonderwheel Recordings / Turntables on the Hudson] : Makes you praise the dance floor with that infamous world funk flavor. You’ve never felt so exotic and so at home.

Swingsett [ISM Records] : Waxes deep and melodic from nujazz and broken beat to deep house and drum n bass as he reminds us what it means to be a true NYC originator.

Scottie B [Dankfunk / Blunted Funk Records] : Drops a classic set of throwback breaks to new school tech house with soul-stirring live vocals by Rhiannon [The Shift / Subatomic Sound System / Sister NYC]

[ Note: All DJ’s in the room of Kiss have been encouraged to dig deep and dust off cuts they rarely play for this very special night of reminiscence. Be prepared for surprises. ]

In the room of Bang:

Wolf + Lamb and DJ Spinoza [BunkerNYC / Beyond Events] present the best in intelligent techno, dark and sultry music makers that will move the crowd far past sunrise.

Featuring: Mark Verbos [Simple Answer] : With a live hardware acid set Plaslaiko [Ghostly / Bunker NYC] : brings the extended sunrise set. and the NYC debut of Accidentally Gay Andrew [Foundsound Philly]

Plus live voyeur photos and video projections by Berlin’s top vj artist Benno Klandt, cupcake and tea lounge by Shawn Nuetrino and free early bar-b-que from the folks at 3rd Ward.

Only $10 and strictly 21+

@ 3rd Ward Brooklyn
195 Morgan Ave.
on the corner of Stagg St.
East Williamsburg.

To get there take the L train to the Morgan Stop.

Exit at the front of the train on to Morgan Ave. ,
walk North on Morgan Ave., past Johnson Ave. four
blocks to 195 Morgan Ave.

9pm to 11pm free bar-b-que and bands
Dj’s, drinks and mischief go until 8am.

Full details are at:
http://www.complacent.org/kisskissbangbang

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Friday, July Seventh
You are invited to:

EMERGENCY

EMERGENCY is a group of multi-disciplinary artists and media creators who recognize and are responding to the manifold environmental, social and political crises facing society today. This will be our second public event. EMERGENCY’s members are developing a 40,000 square foot home base in Chelsea, New York, as a laboratory for our projects and ideas. The building will house a biodeisel conversion station, studios, and various projects aimed at instigating dialogue about the challenges we face on a global scale in these times. The build-out of the space will rely heavily upon re-used materials and sustainable technologies, in keeping with the ethos of the project. This event will help to fund that build-out.

Friday, 7/7, we bring to you a fully-fused art and performance landscape of large-scale sculpture, dance, aerial feats, dj’s and deep music from traditions across the globe. Featuring an operatic drum, dance and aerialist spectacle by Akim Funk Buddha and his tribe of body-balancers and aerial performance artists. Bodies and movement will be interwoven with a massive new structural sculpture by Thomas Beale. Also, explore dual village lounges, hidden performances and video projections by TheDanger.

Directly between Independence and Revolution lies Emergency.

@ Holasek Weir Projects
547 W 21 street @ 11th avenue
7pm - 4am Performances begin at 9pm

$10 donation

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The streets, the night, the trains, the massive surprise.

Saturday, July 15th at sunset.

The location will be revealed the night before.
Be ready for One Night of Fire.

1| Fire + Summer + Liberation
2| Mermaid Parade : Saturday
3| Yogja Gamelan Music School Benefit : Saturday
4| The Williamsburg Film Festival : Saturday
5| Mad Scientist Ball : Saturday

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Summer is here. Finally we are in the season of ice-cream and cherry bombs, bar-b-ques and street parties and New York City nights of endless possibility. This July we are hosting three events as a hint of hope against the rockets red glare. This is how we excite ourselves in the home of the brave.

Saturday, July 1st
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
A retro-loft party in a massive new space. Explore 15,000sqft across two floors and an outside area featuring video art, free bar-b-que, stilt walkers, fireworks, live bands and dj’s including David Hollands, Nicodemus, Swingsett, Scottie B, Wolf + Lamb, Spinoza, Rhiannon, Mark Verbos, Derek Plaslaiko, Accidentally Gay Andrew, and more. This night will ignite your July - don’t miss it. Full details will be released next week.

Friday, July 7th
EMERGENCY
Directly in between Independence and Revolution lies Emergency. Friday, 7/7, we bring to you a fully-fused art and performance landscape of large-scale sculpture, dance, aerial feats, dj’s and deep music from traditions across the globe. This event will be a fundraiser for Emergency, a Chelsea-based collective of artists and media makers who are responding to both local and global social and environmental crises, and who are seeking to reintroduce the concept of community and shared values into an art world rife with egoism. Presented by Thomas Beale, Complacent Nation, TheDanger.com and Emergency. This is just a hint, full details will be released soon.

Saturday, July 15th
The long awaited follow-up to last years First Warm Night. This time we offer you one part street parade, one part train party and one part stunning-surprise.

One Night of Fire - A Midsummer’s Night Dream.

This event will be built on your participation, the full details and artist call is coming soon. To see images and video from last years street event look to:

http://www.firstwarmnight.com

In the meantime this weekend is full of life, below are four
events to help maintain your cool as summer heats the city.

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The 2006 Mermaid Parade
2:00pm, June 24th

The Mermaid Parade is a completely original creation that is that nation’s largest art parade and one of New York City’s greatest summer events.

The Mermaid Parade celebrates the sand, the sea, the salt air and the beginning of summer, as well as the history and mythology of Coney Island, Coney Island pride, and artistic self-expression. The Parade is characterized by participants dressed in hand-made costumes as Mermaids, Neptunes, various sea creatures, the occasional wandering lighthouse, Coney Island post card or amusement ride, as well as antique cars, marching bands, drill teams, and the odd yacht pulled on flatbed.

This is a participatory event, for all the details on how
to be a part of it look to:
http://www.coneyisland.com/mermaid.shtml

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The 23 Windows Art Collective + friends presents a benefit evening for the Yogja Gamelan Music School

The recent earthquake in Yogja, Indonesia has caused catastrophic damage. Our dear friend and a founder of 23 Windows, Taylor [Zemi17] has been studying gamelan in Yogja, which is the cultural center of Indonesia. All proceeds of this event will go directly to earthquake survivors + communities of the region.

The need in Yogja is desperate. If you can’t make it to the benefit but would like to support, send a PayPal donation to: kimen@klever.org

To read more about the issues there look to:
http://www.resonant-wave.net/ayo.htm

Saturday June 24th, 2006 — 6pm to 1am — $7
23 Windows, 41 Belvidere - Bushwick, Brooklyn

live music and dj sets:
kleverVice [the Bunker]; Lloop [share]; SpazecraftOne
[sohnup]

live audiovisual sets:
Amoeba Technology w/ Lu(x)z + Lady Firefly / Zemi 17’s
-”cycle2×1″; Shige Moriya [video live mixing]; Grundik
Kasyansky [sound]; Eva Barnett [body]

video screenings:
Amoeba Technology; 2012 [SPB]

art from the 23 Windows crew:
Sohnup Industries; Waste06 Trash Worship; NYC sewers;
Third Person Project.

directions:

WJMZ train from Manhattan
get off at Myrtle Broadway stop.
turn left upon exiting stairs.
walk down Broadway 3 blks to Belvidere, turn left.
walk to the end of the block,
last building on the left is 23 Windows, top floor.

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Williamsburg Film Festival
Saturday, June 24th 6:30pm until late

@ McCarren Park Pool
The ancient graffiti strewn hulk in McCarren Park. This
is one chanced to legally explore this historic gallery of
street art.
(Lorimer Street between Driggs and Bayaard in
Williamsburg).
Only $10.00 at the door for all the below:

Line Up:
6:30pm Doors Open - come explore the installations and booths from local community artists including Open Ground, 3rd Ward, Antimart, Peripheral Media, Interrupcion, Indamine Ochre Architecture, Harry Rosenblum, Action Direction, Fnerd, Jennifer Jaser, Brooklyn Parents for Peace with DJ James F*cking Friedman spinning and music by Japanther at 7:30pm.

At sundown see short films by Michael Showalter and from Brooklyn International, Coney Island, and our very own Billyburg Short Film Festival

After party at Supreme Trading (North 8th between Roebling and Driggs) with DJ’s, drinks and video projection by Complacent Nation.

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Camp Image Node presents
The MAD SCIENTIST’S BALL:

An intimate night of beauty and wonder in a private loft in the West Village, filled with blinkies, live mixed video, and lovely people.

June 24, 2006
10 PM - 6 AM
$10 presale, $15 door
You MUST RSVP to twina@imagenode.org to get the location.
We are capping our turnout, so RSVP or buy tickets soon!

More information:
http://www.imagenode.org/msb2006.html

Space Station Prog:
http://www.akairways.com/prog.shtml

WITH

Skillcrane (Image Node) Live PA — Special Ambient Set!
Ezekiel Honig (Microcosm, Anticipate) Live PA
Sean K (Image Node)
antfactor Live PA
Borne
DJ Rhizome
…and special guests

VISUALS

Seej (Image Node)
The Housewives’ Guide To Anatomy (Image Node)
Animatron (Image Node)
Jon Lippincott (Image Node)

AND
Inflatable Installation by AKAirways.com
The Southstar by Spec and JG
The NLBA by Spec and Twin A
The Mini-Digital Fireplace 2.0 by Twin A
Eensy Weensy Blinkytronics by Image Node

Costume ideas: Highly portable DNA sequencer, biohazard biorhythm, Nikola Tesla homonculus, tiny glowing bunny, army of very small clones, single nugget of alien chow salesman, the Z-Machine, 1/1000 scale. Also seeking tiny mermaids for an important study of aquatic ambient bliss on amphibious sea vixens…