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From: "Jeff Stark" <jstark@nonsensenyc.com>
Subject: nonsensenyc: 12.4 to 12.10
Date: December 4th 2009

Friday, December 4
* Reenactment of a Party, Brooklyn
* Eternal Christmas: A Yuletide Dreamland, 2009, Brooklyn * Spy vs. Spy, Brooklyn
* Escape to Brooklyn, Brooklyn
* Avant Garden, Brooklyn
* Terrible Things, Manhattan
* The Art Mob Cleans Up, Manhattan
* Draw-a-thon, Manhattan
* SK Orchestra, Manhattan
* The House of Yes Christmas Spectacular, Brooklyn * The Gratuitous Art Film Event, Brooklyn * Sex Crimes Cabaret, Manhattan

Saturday, December 5
* Vinylistic, Brooklyn
* La Superette, Manhattan
* Makossa International Party, Williamsburg * The Vietcong Disco 1 Year Anniversary, Brooklyn * Landmark Loew's Movie Palace, Jersey City * Debutante Hour Variety Show Telethon Bash, Manhattan * Hey, I'm Walkin' Here! Brooklyn
* Synthetic Zero, Bronx
* The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, Brooklyn * Candy Crack Delivery Service, Brooklyn * Mister Saturday Night, Brooklyn
* Precious Cargo: The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, Brooklyn

Sunday, December 6
* Punk Rock Flea Market and Show, Williamsburg * Brooklyn's Bizarre Bazaar, Brooklyn
* NYC Mixtape Exchange, Manhattan
* An Evening of Mental Unity, Williamsburg

Tuesday, December 8
* Red and White Party, Manhattan
* Battlestar Gallactica Panel, Brooklyn

Wednesday, December 9
* BK Holiday Meatup, Brooklyn
* Skits 'N' Tits Comedy Burlesque Rock 'N' Roll Variety Show, Manhattan

Thursday, December 10
* Box Set Fundraiser, Long Island City
* Shipwreck, Williamsburg
* The Clothesline Benefit Art Sale, Manhattan

Wishlist
* Ephemera

Spectre
* Dubai Skips

Learning
* Giftmaking Classes Galore

Help
* Eyeballs

NOTE: For some navigation help, or an explanation for what this is all about, scroll all the way down to NONSENSE. You'll find snarky editorial comments and little bits of praise littered throughout this list. These nuggets are marked with all caps, like this: NOTE. Also, we make a lot of mistakes, especially with dates; you should always double check our work. And you can donate to this project at nonsensenyc.com/special.

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DIY turkey taxidermy hanging from the ceiling

NOTE: Please take a look at the new online gallery documenting the Nonsense 10-year anniversary poster show. We know that not everyone could make it to the party, and looking at the work on the internet certainly isn't the same thing as being there, but we're still really excited about the show and we wanted to share it with those of you who didn't make it. Here:

nonsensenyc.com/features/postershow/pages/gallerynav.html

XXXXX FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 XXXXX

Reenactment of a Party

Eternal recurrence of the best party that never happened in Dumbo. Maybe one night only? Perhaps for the rest of our lives?

Dance under an enormous piano string sculpture and projected video. Descend to the biggest basement you've ever seen for noise bands, sound installation and more video art. Witness and participate in the first installment of a new play, Your Eyes Are Foaming at the Mouth. Trade your art, CDs, zines, films and creations for others' or just exhibit them at the Media Potluck. All this and more in an ancient building in Dumbo just waiting for some weird, organic happenings. Come make them happen. Play by Mark Blackman Sound installation by Robert Pepper Interactive sculptural installation by Ian Trask.

Music by Farms, Prout Prout Tralala, Tim Pickerill, WhiteWave, Calves. Plus video projection and dance party by DJTJ, Kyle Warren, Big Brother, and others.

BlackWave / John Ryan Theater
25 Jay Street (entrance on John Street), Brooklyn F train to York Station
9p; $suggested donation for artist, cheep beer and byob

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Eternal Christmas: A Yuletide Dreamland, 2009

Three mixed media installations and curated art gallery. For her first major New York City exhibition, controversial Chicago visual and sound artist Camilla Ha has collaborated with NYC arts collective Flaming Fire for a large-scale interactive arts installation encompassing three hand-sculpted interior room environments. Each room explores the Jungian and metaphysical roots of the holiday season: The Grandmother Room, Dark Night Room, and White Glitter Room -� Into Light, with original handcrafted interiors made of recycled/sustainable material containing new paintings, sculpture by Ha, and sound art by Flaming Fire.

The opening party will include musical performances by Cntrl Pop (These Are Powers); and Camilla Ha and NYC avant-garde ensemble Lydsod (Flaming Fire, Smack Dab). This performance will begin a month of live collaborative recordings with Lydsod, members of Flaming Fire, and local Flatbush/Brooklyn residents that will be engineered and mixed by music producer JZ Barrell and released in 2010 as a document of the art-gallery space. Performances will be visually recorded and played at the space throughout the day, and selected performances will be available for viewing on the official event website. DJ Liz Armstrong (To Live and Shave in L.A.; Self Help) will play music throughout the opening-night party.

In the curated art room, original works by Lauren R. Weinstein, Dame Darcy, the Dewanatron, and Flaming Fire will be featured, including the interactive Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible Project, currently holding more than 3,000 original works of art by professional artists, children, prisoners, and people from all walks of life. Visitors will be provided art supplies and encouraged to create original compositions, which will eventually be uploaded to the Illustrated Bible Project's official website.

525 Atlantic, Atlantic Gardens, Brooklyn 7-10p; $free
phookyness.net/FFIB/library.php.
eternalchristmas.org

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Spy vs. Spy

Your friends at Refuge are at it again. Celebrating Sam Black's birthday, the only way we know how: partying like its 2012.

Join your favorite spies for mischievous night in the wilds of Bushwick,. Sidestep deadly-laid booby traps as you dance to the musical stylings of Udachi, Lauren Flax, Cobra Krames, Team Facelift (DJ set), and Kimyon. Lights, lazers, and horns by Power Trip. Visuals by Funktaxi. Dress code: Dress as your favorite spy. All Black or White with Triby hats, overcoats, and long pointed noses. Please do not congregate outside of the location or call cabs directly to the space.

Above the Auto Parts Shop
600 Bushwick Avenue, between Jefferson and Melrose, Brooklyn J,M,Z trains to Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn 9p, open vodka bar between 10-11p; $10 before midnight, $15 after tinyurl.com/blackspy
tinyurl.com/whitespy

NOTE: When we looked at this URL it seemed like the party might be cancelled. We couldn't confirm one way or the other. Make sure you double check before getting bundled up.

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Surreal Estate presents:

Escape to Brooklyn

Because the Bronx is full of cops, Manhattan is full of con artists, Queens is full of pollution, and Staten Island is full of garbage, well, it's time to Escape to Brooklyn. Join us for a diverse lineup of spoken word poets, live bands, and multiple DJs, delighting us on two stages and the radical roof deck.

Featuring: Abdoulaye Alhassane, Amy Colbin, Last Internationale, Dave Clive's Howling Funk Band, Spirit Child, Eartheater, King Dane, Kendra, Advaita Vera, and Big Tasty's Funk Party.

Surreal Estate
15 Thames Street, Brooklyn
9p-4a; $10, proceeds in part benefit the People's Institute

NOTE: Sorry, we printed this incorrectly last week. We actually made a ton of mistakes last week. We always hate it, and we apologize. Remember to always check our work.

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Avant Garden

Hi. Hope things are well over at Nonsense. I haven't been sending a lot of stuff over since nothing has been a proper, but I do have a really fun event coming up that I thought would be of interest.

This is a reinvention of a party we started a few years back called Avant Garden which looked to explore sort of the accessible fringe(for lack of a better term) of dance music in New York City. We've rehashed the concept in collaboration with Crooked Disco and the Vitamin B crew into a mixed up audio-visual extravaganza featuring DJs, live MCs, fire twirlers, silk dancers, live projections on a 200-inch screen and more.

We're hoping to turn this into a quarterly party so any support would always be a great help. Featuring performances and DJ sets by Clair Hux (live), $mall �hange (Rubulad), DJ Kester (Crooked Disco/Savage Ballet) and DJ Tektite (Vitamin B) plus live visuals by C-TRL labs and a bevy of silk dancers, fire twirlers, hoopers, and other dancefloor luminaries throughout the night.

Galapagos
16 Main Street, Brooklyn
10p-late; $5, no list, no hassle
21 and over
crooked-disco.com/avantgarden

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Terrible Things

Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks, and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Emily Johnson, Morgan Thorson, and Karen Sherman, two Brazilian Jiu Jitsu wrestlers, and 1000 marshmallows. Featuring the choreography of Emily Johnson.

PS 122
150 First Avenue, Manhattan
8p; $20, $15 students/seniors
212 352 3101
ps122.org/performances/terrible_things.html

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

The Art Mob presents:

The Art Mob Cleans Up

The Art Mob, an uncommon a cappella singing group, has never figured out how to clean out large bank accounts, scam its favorite fans, or even make any money. Now we set our sights to complex questions concerning the nature of dirty and clean, and the pleasure and pain to be gained from either or both.

The Art Mob digs deep into the fertile loam of our musty song books and long-term memories to excavate a selection from our collection of temperance, seafaring, Victoriana, Shape Note, Irish ballad, radio gospel, hymns, jazz, and vaudeville songs. Don't miss your chance to clean up with the Art Mob, now in its 30th year of off-kilter, down and dirty entertaining. Winter concerts are followed by a holiday sing-along.

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
31 Mercer Street, New York
8p; $donation
Continues SATURDAY and SUNDAY
artmob.org

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Draw-a-thon

With Michael Alan and Matthew Brennan. Six hours of non-stop art-making. The room will be filled with energy; get together, make good stuff, live now, and draw time, with a model crew of close to 20. Many, many performers, working with time, music and each other. Grouped in 2s, 3s, 4s, and 5s, performers will do short, long, fast, superpower poses simultaneously. This is an old school, high-energy Draw-a-thon.

ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street, between Clinton and Suffolk, Manhattan 7p-1a; $20 door, $17 online
michaelalanart.com/drawathon/

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

SK Orchestra

If you see over a dozen people carrying tiny keyboards into Times Square, you might think it's the beginning of some sort of cult. You're right. The SK Orchestra will be putting on a massive show on Friday December 4. Over a dozen circuit-eating lunatics will join hands to deliver a lo-fi set of interactive experimental music that you won't soon forget.

The SK Orchestra creates experimental soundscapes and performs other ambient compositions using vintage Casio SK series keyboards. These keyboards are simple, yet versatile. They continue to be widely used in the experimental music community. We will not merely use the keyboards for their tones, which are desirable in their own right, but rather to utilize the full capabilities of the SK series keyboards. Such capabilities include: real-time sampling, 4-note polyphony, a looping function, and more. The project is about transcending limitations and recycling old technology. By exploiting the simple functions available on the SK keyboards, we breathe new life into old equipment, and show that newer does not necessarily mean better.

The Tank
354 West 45th Street, Manhattan
7:30p; $5 suggested
212 563 6269‎
myspace.com/skorchestra
myspace.com/trinitronsound

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

The House of Yes Christmas Spectacular (Rated R for Adult Content)

Starring Lady Circus and friends. Join the House of Yes family as we celebrate the Holiday Season with our very own Christmas Spectacular, a festive, in-your-face performance extravaganza. Featuring more talent than that other Christmas Spectacular, this show is overflowing with glitter, glamour, sex, comedy, matching costumes, synchronized dancing, and outrageous theatrics.

With guest appearances by Desert Sin Dance Company, the Love Show, Jenny Rocha and the Painted Ladies, Mike Richter, Graham Skipper of FUCT, Kayti Bunny, Pearl Pistol, Band of Bicycles and more. Come early to enjoy festive treats, mistletoe kisses, and a photo-op with Santa himself.

House of Yes
342 Maujer Street, Brooklyn
L train to Grand station
9p; $20 door, $15 pre-sale
Continues through December 12
youtube.com/watch?v=6deggcIR98Q
brownpapertickets.com/event/91263

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Gratuitous Art Films Gratuitously presents:

The Gratuitous Art Film Event

Gratuitous Art Productions presents a fiscally responsible evening filled with gratuity, films and popcorn. Featuring works by Max Evry, Jim Sebor, and Gratuitous Art Productions. Bring your chopsticks.

Jimmy�s Diner
577 Union Avenue, Brooklyn
8:25p-midnight; $free
gratuitousartproductions.com
youtube.com/gratuitousartfilms

NOTE: Same as above note. Sorry.

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Collective Unconscious presents:

Sex Crimes Cabaret

Sex laws through history and the inevitable human reaction. Directed by Katherine Valentine.

Cinematic music theater. Written and performed by L. Gabrielle Penabaz. Directed by Katherine Valentine. Dancers: Kai Altair and Sarah Sparkles. Special Guest: Deity Delgado. Musicians: Lindsey and Mike from the Kowalskis, Michael Carrasquillo and DJ M!lk. Video performances by: Big Bruce, Bridget Umbarger, Flambeaux, Christine Ammo O'Day, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Deity Delgado, Egan Edwards, Gary Lippman, Gia Mele, Heather Rabbit Litteer, Julie Atlas Muz, Machine Dazzle, Nick Bixby, Nicole Blackman, Patrick Mangina Bucklew, Porno Jim Graham, Mateo Raven Solano, Nick Teal Brown, Robert Prichard, Sky & Vlad, Steve Barbeer, Terry and Tony Coleman, Tigger!, Vanessa Walters, and ZeroBoy.

Walkerspace Theatre
46 Walker Street, between Church and Broadway, Manhattan 8p; $20
Continues THURSDAY-SATURDAY through December 12 sexcrimescabaret.com

XXXXX SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 XXXXX

Vinylistic

Underground dance party. Soul to electronic. David Powers of the verbal graffiti crew presents Vinylistic night of some of his favorite DJ�s: V Black, Chad Dubz, AAJ Sintion Draca. spinning Soul to Electronic, Drinks and Dancing, Oh Ya and a lot of good down to earth people never killed anyone! In the flesh dance studio at the Old Red School House.

Old Red School House
330 Ellery Street, Brooklyn
10p-4a; $10
verbalgraffiticulture.com

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

La Superette

La Superette is an art, music, and shopping event held each holiday season. We install a temporary store in which artists sell functional and affordable art in multiples. In addition to the sale, musical performances and video screenings run throughout the day, adding to the festive atmosphere. Free entertainment while you shop:

Today
4p: Carrie Dashow
5p: Pixel Form
6p: Todd Bailey
7p: The Brothers FP: Anwar Pruitt and MC (mikal)

Tomorrow
1p: NAUM f/ Antoine Catala
2p: Arpege (Nick Hallett and Ray Sweeten) 3p: David Galbraith
4p: Maria Chavez
5p: David Linton: bicameral research sound and projection system

210 Front Street in South Street Seaport, Manhattan noon-8p; $free
Continue SUNDAY
lasuperette.org/home.php

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Makossa International Party

BPM, home to Akoya and others, is an underground space with a big sound system where you can get down however you want to get down (ladies that means you can taze the gropers). Parties here are fun and full but not full of assheads.

This night my band King Expressers (a project I've been working on with Dirty Rich Levinson, Sticky Nik Daker, and others) is hosting a party for those of you with the warm weather dream.

King Expressers: a mixture of West African style jams with whatever happens in our heads when we drink a lot of coffee. Big horns and the booty clap.

Mandingo Ambassadors: a band led by the legendary Guinean guitarist Mamady Kouyate of Bembeya Jazz National playing Manding style grooves that really make you (me ...) wanna move.

Awesome Tapes from Africa: an obsessive cassette tape buyer with a love for the shit they sell on the street over in the cradle of civilization. Spinning jams you didn't yet know were classics and others he shines the rosy lights on (ata kak?!).

BPM
237 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 10p-3a; $10

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Vietcong Disco presents:

The Vietcong Disco 1 Year Anniversary

Bushwick boy-men celebrate a year of unassuming dance antics with NYC godfathers Rub-N-Tug (dfa, rong), and, of course, ourselves. We're also premiering the abandoned science-fiction mansion project of Pink Stallone Live. With releases from home and Late of the Pier's Zarcorp Inc, we're psyched to see them in action with the vocals of Joey Washington and VCD's own Eddie Mars. Anticipate garden parties, two for $5s, and compulsory theme songs.

Vietcong Biker Club
35 Ingraham Street, Brooklyn
L train to Morgan station
10p-6a; $10 before 1a
unofficialparty.com

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Landmark Loew's Movie Palace

Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times. And please consider sharing the spirit of the Holiday Season by bringing an unwrapped toy or article of clothing for the needy.

Friends of the Loew's, Inc.
54 Journal Square, Jersey City
7:30p; $5
loewsjersey@gmail.com
loewsjersey.org/alt/

NOTE: Every person we've ever taken to this place has melted. You owe it to yourself to go. Twenty-five minutes on the PATH train from the West Village. Again, our favorite project in New York is actually in New Jersey. Two weeks ago the organist closed his pre-movie set with a Van Halen cover.

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Debutante Hour Variety Show Telethon Bash

America's favorite accordion/drum/cello power trio presents a Variety Show Telethon Bash with 20, old, Soviet, rotary phones, and a silent auction (bid on great stuff like the Debutante Hour makes you cupcakes or plays a personal show in your living room or takes you canoeing in the Gowanus Canal) to raise funds for their new record. Piano virtuoso and songwriter, Jonathan Wood Vincent is the anti-Welk MC for this night of obscenely varied variety. This night brings together the rock-accordion genius of Corn Mo, the harmonizing, witty, folk-rock of the Wowz, the emmy-winning songwriting of Phoebe Kreutz, and new cult phenomenon, Old Hat. All this and magic too.

Ukrainian National Home
140 2nd Avenue, Manhattan
7p-12:30a; $10 door
212 529 6287
myspace.com/debutantehour
thedebutantehour.com

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Hey, I'm Walkin' Here!

A series of exploratory perambulations through the five boroughs. Or, less pretentiously: Get off your butt and come walk around the city with us.

This week's adventure: our first all-Brooklyn walk in six months. 21 miles: Sunset Park, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Marine Park, Flatlands, East Flatbush, Crown Heights.

Meeting point: Northeast corner of 4th Avenue and 36th Street, Brooklyn 9:30a; $free
matt.burnsomedustgmail.com
burnsomedust.com

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Synthetic Zero

The next Synthetic Zero event will be in the BronxArtSpace. We will have performance art, dance, experimental film, music, and visual art.

Synthetic Zero Art Space
305 E. 140th Street, No. 1A, Bronx
6 train to 3rd Avenue, 138th Street station 7-10p; $donations accepted
718 772 4961
syntheticzero.com/events/

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

PictureBox and Desert Island present:

The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival

The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival consists of three components in three nearby locations in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

With over 50 exhibitors selling their zines, comics, books, prints, and posters in a bustling market-style environment; panel discussions and lectures by prominent artists, as well as an exhibition of vintage comic book artwork; and an evening of musical performances.

Huge line-up. Check website for complete listings.

Multiple venues
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
11a-late; $free admission
comicsandgraphicsfest.com/

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Candy Crack Delivery Service

Candy Crack is a real make believe drug. It's like children in a tree house (not crack house) pretending to sell drugs. It's peddled in a neighborhood where you don't have to grow up, so it makes sense that we are pretending to be kids doing the bad things that adults do. No one wants to get old, but no one wants to be just a kid. With Candy Crack you can have it both ways.

Call for the delivery of a 100 percent sugar crack rock (multi-colored and multi-flavored with snow cone syrup) to your Brooklyn house. Expect a 7-foot tall man in a plush, blue fish mascot head, white gloves and a tuxedo to come knocking soon after. You can purchase a few rocks for $1 a pop in a dime bag. Can't say too much here because y'know it's drugs.

Call or text 347 742 2293 for delivery at the appropriate time Serving Williamsburg and Greenpoint only 10p-2a; $1
clubanimalsnyc.blogspot.com

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Mister Saturday Night

Things have been going really well with the recent incarnation of Mister Saturday Night. The loft feels great, the sound is amazing, the guests have been top drawer and vibe has been just right.

This weekend we have an old friend playing with Eamon and Justin. Ewan Pearson is a jock who is up there with the best. He's banged out techno via his Soma and Kompakt releases, produced sounds of a more lush varietal in his work with Junior Boys and Tracey Thorn, and he's even thrown a little dance rock down the pipe with the Rapture. To boot he's written a book, and he's got a Master's degree in philosophy.

As always the open bar will be in operation from 10 to 11 and the usual friendly gang will be in the house manning the pumps.

1142 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn
10p-late; $8 advance, $10 before midnight with RSVP, $15 otherwise mistermistersaturdaynight.com
mistersaturdaynight.com
residentadvisor.net/mistersaturdaynight

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Precious Cargo: The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River

A presentation by Paul Lloyd Sargent

As part of our yearlong exploration of the meaning and means of Transport, Proteus Gowanus presents an interactive workshop presenting recent research and artwork by multidisciplinary artist Paul Lloyd Sargent.

Mixing academic research, activism, and art practice with multimedia elements and hands-on mapping activities, this workshop will draw from Sargent's personal collection of nautical navigational charts, games, videos, photographs, news clippings, books, pamphlets, and other ephemera to examine the impact of the shipping industry on the ecologies, economies, and communities along the St. Lawrence Seaway and around the Great Lakes region of North America.

You are encouraged to bring your own maps, nautical charts, and lake/seaway shipping-related ephemera.

The Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River form a single hydrologic system containing 20 percent of the world�s surface fresh water. As a means of transport, the environmentally challenged system has served as an economic engine for the Great Lakes states (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), and for Ontario and Quebec.

Paul Lloyd Sargent is a multidisciplinary artist, freelance video editor, and writer living between Brooklyn, Syracuse, and Wellesley Island, NY. Sargent�s current work investigates the history and impact of the international shipping industry on the ecologies, economies, and communities along the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes through a contemporary amalgam of new media art, geography, cartography, sustainable culture, and grass roots activism as art practice.

Proteus Gowanus
543 Union Street, Brooklyn
4-6p;$5
info@proteusgowanus.com
proteusgowanus.com

XXXXX SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6 XXXXX

456 Productions present the first:

Punk Rock Flea Market and Show

Be ready to get your shop on just in time for the holiday season. We have a variety of vendors selling items such as jewelry, clothing, records, vintage items, and art. Maybe some sweets too.

Some vendors include Sean Douglas, Mark Bloomanthal, Kayla Cohen, Wendy Chan, Ivey Elizabeth Jewelry Company, Lauren Guida, Anna Gonick, Nicole Salas, Liz Medina, Rockliffe Douglas, and Showpaper. Featuring music by Graffiti Monsters (Brooklyn), Mincemeat or Tenspeed (Philadelphia), the Monte Vista (Brooklyn), and Insouciant (Philadelphia). Come early for the best stuff, stick around for the bands.

Death By Audio
49 South 2nd Street, between Kent and Wythe, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 1-7p, bands at 3ish; $1
456productionsgmail.com
456productions.tumblr.com/

***** Also on SUNDAY *****

Brooklyn's Bizarre Bazaar

Artists, musicians, performers, fantastic cooks, pack rats, children, moles, and crafty peeps showing off and selling their wares for you to gift to friends and family. Swing by for a tasty beverage, some good tunes, and perhaps a holiday purchase. Bound to be live painting, book reading, music playing, munching, and all around merriment.

The Who's Who: Your Boyfriends Band Sux!, KidRainbowShines, Rachel Trachtenburg and Supercute, T-time, DaliGlam, and over 40 independent vendors. Come out and support the little man. He supports you!

Brooklyn Fireproof
119 Ingraham Street, Brooklyn
Noon-8p; $free

***** Also on SUNDAY *****

NYC Mixtape Exchange

This month's theme is the Four Elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water). Please make a mixtape or CD and come down to swap with other fans of music at the Double Down Saloon (located in downtown Manhattan, on the L.E.S.). Make extra copies to switch with everybody. The more you make, the more you bring home. Please get as ridiculously creative as you want. We want to hear it. Everybody's welcome.

Double Down Saloon
14 Avenue A, at Houston, Manhattan
8-9p;
nycmixtape@gmail.com
myspace.com/nycmixtapeexchange

***** Also on SUNDAY *****

Fat Free presents:

An Evening of Mental Unity

Sean and Chris of Fat Free have created a celebratory smorgasbord of art, music, spoken word, poetry and otherwise hard-to-describe oddball entertainment. For music lovers who want to explore something different, an evening of Mental Unity can provide a good time for all involved.

Mental Unity musical performers include: Beatbox Guitar, Jay and Elysa, Rumba Flamenco, Soho Violet, and of course, Fat Free.

The Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Avenue, between South 1st and 2nd streets, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 8p; $5
glasslands.blogspot.com/
myspace.com/theglasslands

XXXXX TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8 XXXXX

Red and White Party

Downtown's definitive holiday bash. Featuring DJs Joro Boro and Andrew Andrew and Lost Acts of Crime or Emergency.

Let your hair down and get your spirits up alongside season artists, performance-lovers, dance-freaks, gypsies, supporters, friends with benefits, and passport holders, the PS122 board and staff, etc, etc.

Mehanata, aka Bulgaria Bar
113 Ludlow, between Rivington and Delancey, Manhattan 8p-late; $10 advance, $15 door
ovationtix.com/trs/pe/7697575
ps122.org/

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Battlestar Gallactica Panel

As a follow-up to August's successful event at Hi Christina! this panel will be lead by John Brooks, and features Ajay Chaudhary (Professor of religion at Columbia), Patrick Di Justo ( author of the forthcoming the Science of Battlestar Galactica), and Shane Froebel (admin for the absurdly thorough Battlestar Wiki) to discuss all aspects of the series.

And our charming hostess Laura Lee Gulledge will be leading the audience in Sacred Scrolls Trivia over the course of the evening. Discussion. Trivia. Prizes. Lots of BSG fanatics. It'll be a fraking good time.

Galapagos
16 Main Street, Brooklyn
7p, 8p; $10
galapagosartspace.com

XXXXX WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9 XXXXX

BK Holiday Meatup

There�s nothing like a weekend filled with loved ones and turkey to remind you that the holidays are much more fun when you�re hooking up with someone.

So Brooklyn Based and Fucked in Park Slope are throwing a holiday office that will make it much easier to meet that special person. You don�t have to work for Home Base Supply Co. to be invited, but you do have to abide by our company policies, which include hitting on your colleagues, free massages, getting Shootbooth portraits with hot Santas (hot farmers Michael Grady Robertson of Queens County Farm, Annie Novak and Ben Flanner of Rooftop Farms, plus hot Meat Hook butcher, Ben Turley), eating delicious Asiadogs, and getting down with a DJ who only goes by his porn name, Jonny Con Carne.

We�re not guaranteeing everyone will find true love, but based on what happened at the last 600-strong Meatup, we can predict many of you will meet your match.

Now, some of you may just hook up the Bell House, but a few of you will continue to date long after you go home together. Still others may leave feeling it was awkward to go up to a stranger (even though that stranger is at a singles party and dying to meet someone too), but we will have some special incentives this time to ease the introductions. Of course, we�re big fans of steeling your nerves with strong drinks.

The hilarious Sara Schaefer, who hosted the last Meatup�s Wet T-shirt contest (it�s true, men lined up to bare their chests), will also be awarding employees who�ve been naughty and nice. You can vie for the Hottest Employee of the Year honor now, by faxing in a racy photocopy to 646-964-6540. (If you don�t have a fax, we�ll accept a scan via email.)

The Bell House
149 7th Street, Brooklyn
7-11p; $10 in advance, $15 door
718 643 6510

NOTE: This event is being thrown by Brooklyn Based, a tri-weekly email newsletter that covers culture and events in Brooklyn. We're relatively new to it, but we find it useful, and we're fans of the format. We like Brooklyn Based because the publication goes beyond a lot of the event listing collections that we read, even if they cover a lot of the same stuff (including some stuff that's on Nonsense). To really break it down, they rewrite event copy. This might not seem like a big deal, but it's actually pretty tough. It means you have to learn a lot more about your subjects, and you have to have a lot to say. Of course we read Brooklyn Based for the events, but what we like most are the little featurettes, often about food. Last month they put together a tour of pumpkin dishes, and another entry collected Britishisms across Brooklyn (fish and chips, bands with haircuts, etc.). This isn't the Economist, but it's solid stuff about the place where we live, and they avoid the bi tchy traps set out by the sub-Gawker blogs of the world. You can sign up for yourself here: http://brooklynbased.net/

***** Also on WEDNESDAY *****

Skits 'N' Tits Comedy Burlesque Rock 'N' Roll Variety Show

Skits 'N' Tits is a monthly comedy and burlesque and rock 'n' roll variety show featuring local stars and big names in comedy, burlesque, and rock 'n' roll. You'll find prizes, drink specials, amazing acts, and beautiful people. Produced by Diane O'Debra, Steph Sabelli, and Jessica Delfino.

This month: burlesque by Julie Atlas Muz and the Chichiones, comedy Des Bishop, and many more. Rock music by Juggernut followed by a dance party until late.

Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, at East 1st Street, Manhattan 10p; $5

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Box Set Fundraiser

Join Flux Factory for a stellar night of performances, music, and excellent people.

We�ll have specially commissioned box sets with limited-edition work by: Brandstifter, Bread and Butter Collective, Andrea Dezso, Kerry Downey, Heather Jones, Aya Kakeda, Miwa Koizumi, Simone Meltesen, Nick Normal, Ward Shelley, and Swoon. $1500 per box set

Plus goody bags with limited-edition work by: Parfyme, Paula Castro, and Georgia Muenster, and other surprises for only $50.

Performances and screenings by: April March, Adira Amram and Nick Jones, Marie Losier, Nick Yulman, and Sxip Shirey.

Flux Factory
39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, Queens 7:30p open bar, 8:30p performances; $20

***** Also on THURSDAY *****

Shipwreck

A dance-theater/shadow puppet spectacle. Inspired by the legend of Tristan and Iseult, Shipwreck stars Lucien Lewin, Lauren Ford, the Manhattan skyline, puppet tears, shadow ships, and a very heavy ring. Come discover this beautiful Brooklyn venue in a way you've never seen it before.

Triskelion Arts
118 North 11th Street, between Berry and Wythe, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 8p; $15
Continues through December 13
brownpapertickets.com/event/86923
infinitecoast.org

***** Also on THURSDAY *****

The Clothesline Benefit Art Sale

Affordable works on paper for $25-50. Past Clothesline Shows were lots of fun, with many surprising things hanging on the line. Proceeds benefit the ABC No Rio Building Fund.

ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street, Manhattan
7-10p; $free
212 254 3697
abcnorio.org

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Rubulad's Holiday Review and Festival of Light, December 11
Unsilent Night, December 12
Santacon, December 12
Transmutation, December 31

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Nonsense is too long. The great thing about the internet is that it doesn't really cost much to run long listings and exhaustive descriptions. It turns out that's ... exhausting. After several complaints and a little deliberation, we're trying a new format: On the first Friday of the month we will run updated ongoing listings in each section: events, learning, and help. Other weeks we're going for leaner, meaner sections. If you're desperate for something to do on an off-Tuesday night we suggest you either look back a few issues ago in your inbox, or poke through our online archives, which you can find under the subscribe page.

XXXXX WISHLIST XXXXX

What have you been wishing for? Collaborators, grant monies, a new home? Please send brief listings to Alita at alitanonsensenyc.com. We only list available apartments, lofts, studios, and one-off rentals -- not spaces wanted.

***** ARTY STUFF *****

DIY Quick and Dirty Ephemera Swap. Friday, December 11, 6-9:30p at EFA Project Space. The event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project. We invite you to bring your prints, posters, photocopy art, zines, comix, buttons, T-shirts, stickers, chapbook, mail art, and any other form of multiple that is ripe for distribution. The Swap is intended for creators to trade the stuff they've made (no sales, only trades) and embrace the gift economy made possible through mass production. The items you bring must be a product of your own creation. For more information, and if you wish to participate, please rsvp to michelle(at)efa1.org ASAP.
A ConceptPlus Call for Works, due January 29: Happiness/ Sadness will open in Exit Art's main gallery in Spring / Summer 2010. We are looking for works in any media that express, metaphorically or concretely, the notions of happiness and sadness. There has been a recent surge of media attention on the topic of happiness. For instance, the country of Bhutan has declared happiness as its index of growth. Instead of a Gross Domestic Product, Bhutan has a Gross National Happiness Index, which is measured by the four pillars of a happy society: the economy, culture, the environment, and good governance. Even the Declaration of Independence names happiness as one of our unalienable rights. We want to know what, aesthetically and artistically, these two concepts mean to the creative mind. Please send submissions to: Exit Art, c/o Happiness/Sadness, 475 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY 10018. Or email your submission to Assistant Curator Lauren Rosati at lauren(at)exitart.org. Please put "Happiness/Sadness" in the subject heading. See exitart.org for submission guidelines.
We're looking for authors, writers, zine makers, and children's book illustrators to create fictional based narratives and much more to be added to the library. Upon signing up, you'll receive a 5.5 by 8.5 inch notebook and a randomly selected theme. Create your narrative using words and images and send it back to be a part of the permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library. For more information and to sign up to participate in the Fiction Project, see: arthousecoop.com/projects/fictionproject.
Winkel and Baltick are seeking art projects, performers, activities, production crew and volunteers of all kinds for the Alchemy event on December 31st. Sculpture, installation, activities, games, theme camps, performances, decorators, carpenters, riggers and general volunteers are all welcome. Contact alchemy(at)wandbnyc.com.
The Open Planning Project and the OpenNY Forum invite you to The OpenNY Summit, a two-day event (December 11 and 12) to improve civic engagement and advance open governance through the development of participatory processes and technology. To further unpack the future, on Saturday, December 12, we will host the Summit's unconference answering questions like: Do you have a problem that a GovGeek can help solve? Got a project and looking for collaborators? Toiling away in your Agency and need a breather with like-minded geeks? Wanna give a short talk on your vision for an Open NY? Want to help run a workshop? Eager to learn more? Register: OpenNYForum.org. Questions: summit(at)opennyforum.org.

***** SPACES *****

Flux Factory has five available spots in our residency program. We offer space, workspace, studio visits by curators, and exhibition opportunities, and most importantly an incredible network of creatives. Residencies begin on January 1, deadline for applications is December 11. Flux Factory is an artist-run not-for-profit organization which provides housing and work spaces for artists, and organizes group exhibits in-house and citywide as an arts collective. We have recently re-located to a new building (two blocks north of Queens Plaza) and have been working hard to get Flux Factory better than ever. The new buidling has a gallery/exhibition space, a communal office, a screen printing operation, and a wood shop; it also has a kitchen, kitchenette, library, and lots of great people. If you're interested, please take a look at fluxfactory.org. Studios range from $560-$740. Prices don't include utilities, which run $90-150, and include lots of delicious food. Residency terms run from 1-12 months, we can figure it out when you get here. Apply at fluxfactory.org/residency/application/. Please write to residency(at)fluxfactory.org for more information.
Two Sublets Available: Small room December 10-31, or large room for February, Bedford Avenue/Williamsburg. Located right around the corner from bustling Grand Street, on South 1st and Bedford Avenue -- super convenient and fun place to live. Ten-minute walk from the L train or JMZ, or take the bus or bike over the bridge. The apartment is decrepit but charming, with eat-in kitchen, gas stove, comfy living room with full cable, and Tivo. Wifi throughout, good heat. We have two cats who are very loving; it's not a great place for the allergic. A quiet, house-trained dog would be welcome, no more cats though. Small, quiet back bedroom available for sublet December 10-31, unfurnished, $550 including utilities. Also, the large furnished front bedroom will be available for sublet for all of February while I am traveling: full-sized bed, freshly painted. The large bedroom is $950 including utilities. Both rooms have two windows and wood floors. It's a small, friendly and safe buil ding. December sublet, share with me, a late-20s accessories designer. February sublet, share with my roommate, a sweet mid-20s guy who works in book publishing. Contact Alita, alita(at)nonsensenyc.com.
Room Available December 15 or January 1: $450 per month plus utilities. Real Old School Live-Work Artist Loft. We are one 23-year-old ex boat-captain, sculptor, printmaker, beam wrassler; one 28-year-old seamstress, amateur rope swing and bicycle mechanic; one 25-year-old milliner/barista/teacher. We want the best of both worlds -- a serious and productive work environment and a comfortable home with lots of common living space. The apartment is a duplex in a small warehouse building. Each floor is about 800 square feet with 11 foot ceilings. Upstairs is the living floor with an open plan kitchen-living-room. The bottom floor is the studio floor. The bedrooms are all lofted with 3.5-foot ceilings. We are keeping the floor space as open as possible to make sure there's enough room for big projects and to spread out as needed. This space is still evolving with space and ideas for things like ... parlour/salon peformances, tandem rope swings, a rooftop garden next spring. Our ideal new mate has plenty of creative energy, is low-key and laid back, is out in the world doing things. Be comfortable with loft living, some noise, and dance parties in the kitchen. Half block from J,M,Z at Myrtle station, supermarket and laundry across the street. Contact Robyn hastr683(at)newschool.edu
December 15: Room available in gorgeous three-bedroom apartment in Carroll Gardens, Court and Sackett. Two female roommates seeking guy or girl, financially stable, responsible, considerate, clean, easygoing. $1050 per month. Heat and hot water included. Additional utilities are electric and wireless internet. $1000 security deposit. Bright, spacious 14.5 by 11 bedroom. Ample natural light, hardwood floors, closet. Private fire escape, all yours. Share amazing sea-green tiled bathroom with one other person. Spacious, light-filled, newly remodeled kitchen. Marble countertops, new appliances. Huge, sunny living room, hardwood floors. We have one cat, one more cat would be ok but no dogs. Open House: Saturday, December 5, 1-4p. Contact kaiawong(at)yahoo.com.
Room for rent in large, beautiful apartment near the Brooklyn Museum/Botanic Gardens (Crown Heights / Prospect Heights border). $810. Looking for a vegan, or at least someone who is happy to keep vegan at home. No smoking. Share with two friendly cats and an artist/musician/web guy who lives like a responsible grownup and likes to keep a clean house, recycle, compost etc. Available bedroom is about 150 square feet, plus another 10 square feet of closet. Not great light in bedroom, but ridiculous awesome light in common areas. Apartment has two bedrooms, large living/dining room, decent-sized galley kitchen, nice bathroom with a window, enough hall space for shelves/bikes, and three large common closets. There is also another big room, which I use as an office and art studio. Depending what you do, we could discuss sharing this. The common areas are furnished and I have a bunch of books and records, and decorations up. There's some room for yours, too, but if you have a whol e houseful of stuff it probably won't work. Elevator and laundry in the basement. The Franklin stop on the 2/3/4/5/Shuttle is a half block away. Rapidly growing bunch of decent restaurants, bars, and coffeeshops in the neighborhood. Contact jason(at)jasondas.com.
I'm looking for roommates to rent two rooms in my house. It's actually across the river in Jersey, but you can walk to the corner and hop on a bus or train, and you'll be in the city in 30 minutes (which is less than it would take you on the subway from many parts of Brooklyn). Plus, you can enjoy sleeping without car alarms going off at 3a and you'll actually have a small yard with grass, trees, a hammock and a vegetable garden. Check out photos and info here: //snipr.com/t8loh. Briefly, there's a gigantic, 13 by 15 room with a pretty large closet for $800 per month and a 10 by 10 room for $650. The rooms are partially furnished, and utilities are included. You'd have shared use of the kitchen, living room and dining room, as well as a washer and dryer in the basement. The house has hardwood floors and a fireplace and is on a quiet, tree-lined street with really friendly neighbors. You'd be living with me, a 30-year-old gay male. I enjoy cooking (mostly vegetarian), film, travel and music, and I have generally eclectic tastes in all things. I work in public radio. I'm looking for roommates who are relatively neat/mature/responsible, friendly and social. I'd prefer young professionals (late 20s-30s). No pets and no smoking, please. I'll ask for a security deposit equal to one month's rent to be paid when you move in and refunded when you leave. Contact me at jimson8(at)yahoo.com.
Apartment for rent: $2800/month, three-bedroom in Manhattan. This apartment is pretty great. It's a floor through three-bedroom on the eighth floor in an elevator building with a private patio/Zen garden. One bedroom has a huge closet/ storage room and a view up Ludlow Street. One bedroom has a huge closet/ built in dresser and a view up Ludlow Street. The third smaller bedroom has a private sliding glass door that opens out to the patio. There is also an entrance to the patio through the kitchen so that people don't have to go through the bedroom. Patio is smallish but large enough for a small table and chairs. The kitchen is small but efficient. Same with the bathroom, which has a full tub/ shower and great water pressure. There's also a small storage room in the apartment and roof access on the super down-low. It's very close to the F train stop (one block away), the post office, library, 24-hour grocery store and more. Available January 1. If I were to break it up, I'd say it's best for either a couple, or three people - one pays $1100, one pays $950, one pays $750, depending on the room they get. We're asking for first, last and security, but are willing to compromise. No realtor's fee. 700 square feet. Great Lower East Side location in downtown Manhattan. Email jcrosenblum(at)gmail.com.
We are looking for a roommate to move in January 1. They could probably move in earlier if they needed to. Rent is $650 per month plus one-third of all utilities. The current roommates are one very nice FIT student and Touch, who is nice too. They are both working constantly and not around much. I am pretty much never there as I am going to school upstate. The place is big enough for some artistic endeavors and they are more than welcome. Room is part of a 1150 square foot loft space in Bushwick on the Halsey Street stop of the L train. There is an outdoor space big enough for gardening, barbecues etc. Contact Cheryl, cheryl@torqueproduction.com.

XXXXX SPECTRE PRIORITY XXXXX

Before we had a name, the Spectre Event Horizon Group used to meet at a bar to commiserate and trade what our business friends like to call best practices. The group has expanded since then, but it remains focused on smartening the crowd mind. There are no subject limits; our favorite is the incredible sci-fi present, or anything that goes toward a better understanding of human behavior and our universe's ecology. Our simple intent is to connect good minds with as much quality mind-blowing information as we can freely locate and create a space for the informal trade of specialized investigative research, presented for the non-specialist.

The Spectre email list, which is a separate group from this column, is a moderated open forum. People are encouraged to join and to post. The list is compiled for Nonsense by J. Sinopoli. Contact us at spectre.event.horizon.group gmail com or spectregroup.org. Here's some of what came in this week:

***** Dubai Skips (cont.) *****

http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/dubai-skips/

Dubai Requests Jubilee
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703499404574557453620655942.html Dubai World Seeks Debt Standstill

"This debt-laden city-state said Wednesday it would restructure its largest corporate entity, Dubai World, a conglomerate spanning real estate and ports, and announced a six-month standstill on the group's debt. The government said its Financial Support Fund, a fund set up to manage Dubai's debt earlier this year, would start to assess and evaluate the extent of the restructuring required. As part of that assessment, it said officials intend to ask lenders for a debt 'standstill'."

Debt Insurance Prices Soar
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703499404574561850829787002.html

Dubai Skyscraper Repeatedly Hit by Lightning http://gizmodo.com/5413109/the-burj-dubai-just-cant-stop-getting-struck-by-lightning

A Bad Omen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/03/AR2009120303607.html "No other country built a ski resort in a desert. No other country constructed an archipelago of 300 artificial islands, complete with a man-made reef colonized by parrot fish. But even if Dubai is a gaudy outlier -- a sort of Donald Trump of a nation -- the bankruptcy of its flagship investment company, Dubai World, holds a warning for others. The nonchalance with which global financial markets have reacted is not reassuring in the least. The lack of alarm is alarming.

Start with the size of the Dubai bankruptcy. Most analysts reckon the emirate will end up defaulting on more than $30 billion. That's up from the $26 billion advertised at Dubai World but perhaps less than half of the city-state's accumulated $80 billion debt. Dubai's bust will be larger than South Korea's 1998 debt restructuring, which involved $22 billion worth of loans, and not much smaller than Russia's default that year (which affected loans worth $40 billion). The South Korean and Russian traumas spread panic around the world. Nowadays, investors yawn at losses that don't run into the hundreds of billions. This is a touch complacent.

The threat of sovereign defaults, disowned state-company debts and continuing commercial real estate troubles comes amid a recovery that is extraordinarily precarious. It is based on fiscal stimulus from governments, but government debt ensures that this game has to stop at some point. It is based on the printing of money by central banks, but a combination of political backlash and inflation fears will eventually close down this game also. To rescue the global economy, governments have exacerbated the flaws responsible for making the system weak. China has too much export capacity; it is building more. China has an undervalued currency; it is weakening further. Meanwhile, the United States has a low national savings rate and is home to financial behemoths that are "too big to fail." But the U.S. government has been forced to add to the public debt and broker consolidation in the banking business.

Given these troubles, Dubai should have been a wake-up call. Instead, global stock markets have risen since last weekend. We are witnessing the sort of rally that chart-watching traders know well: the kind where investors shrug off most bad news, so you might as well jump on the bandwagon. When this mentality sets in, prices inevitably rise too far. At the end of the trend there is usually a bubble."

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We look for the sort of classes you circled in college course catalogs but never managed to fit into your schedule. And we also look for the kind of things that no college could teach. Cheap and eclectic is the rule, though all rules get broken occasionally, and we especially love workshops, round-tables, and teachers who won't take your work out of your hands and show you how to do it right. One-time listings are categorized, with general recurring classes at the end. We thrive on your suggestions, so make sure to tell us about upcoming classes that you think are nifty-keen.

Learning is compiled and edited weekly by Libby Sentz. Send listings, announcements, and corrections to her at libbysentz(at)me.com.

***** LEARNING: FRIDAY *****

Bauhaus Lab: Walking Tables and Wrestling Foals, A Hands-on Workshop and Musical Performance

Join Machine Project for a day of woodworking, mechanical mayhem, and cute baby horses. Participants collaborate with artist Douglas Repetto in manufacturing a herd of �foals��simple walking tables�small tables that actually "walk" across the floor�handmade from scrap wood and basic mechanical parts. The foal-building workshop is a humorous take on issues central to the Bauhaus movement, including the relationships between form and function and between craft and mass production. At the end of the afternoon the foals are let loose in MoMA's Education and Research Building. Musicians from the experimental chamber ensemble WetInk provide musical accompaniment with improvisations informed by the movements and intersections of the foals. Poet Joshua Beckman reads traditional ceremonial foal poems of his own devising. Workshop participants and audience members may adopt a foal. Take-home foal-building plans are available.

In conjunction with the exhibition "Bauhaus 1919�1933: Workshops for Modernity" at MoMA, Bauhaus Lab is a new interactive space that reimagines the historic Bauhaus classrooms in which students and teachers of many forms of art experimented with innovative pedagogical approaches. Led by artists, educators, and art historians, an ongoing series of hands-on art-making workshops offers participants of all ages the opportunity to engage in techniques and processes integral to the Bauhaus, such as drawing, collage, graphic design, color theory, and mechanical construction.

Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan
2�6p workshop, 7�8p performance; $free
212-708-9400
moma.org/visit/calendar/events/7642

***** LEARNING: Also on FRIDAY *****

KowTeff School of African Dance Special Master Class

In a limited 2009 appearance, master drummer, dancer, and teacher Kissima Diabate of Senegal leads a special dance class.

Chelsea Studios
151 West 26th Street, Room 507, Manhattan 8-9:30p; $12
info(at)kowteffafricandancecompany.com

***** LEARNING: SATURDAY *****

DIY Paper Engineering

NYC Resistor member Shelby Arnold, a professional paper engineer who designs pop-up books and cards, will lead a class on making your own pop-up creations. You'll create a number of paper decorations and cards for the holidays and learn how to do designs yourself. Shelby will also cover how paper engineering can be applied to 3D objects. You'll leave with a few creations you get to make yourself and plenty of ideas on how to make more.

NYC Resistor Hackspace
397 Bridge Street, Floor 5, Brooklyn
3-5p; $40
nycresistor.com