From: "Jeff Stark" <jstark@nonsensenyc.com>
Subject: nonsensenyc: 6.18 to 6.22
Date: June 18th 2010

Friday, June 18
* Saturation, Brooklyn
* Punk Jews party, Manhattan
* Bicycle Film Festival Tenth Anniversary, Manhattan * First Ever Gay Gay Gay Party! Brooklyn * Dances of Vice: Tango del Diablo, Manhattan * Newsonic Loft Party, Brooklyn
* WW4 Report Benefit, Manhattan
* HiChristina Disco Re-write, Manhattan

Saturday, June 19
* Mermaid Parade, Brooklyn
* Campfire, Brooklyn
* Zero Fest, Brooklyn
* The Waltz Ball, Brooklyn
* No Homo: Queer Hip Hop Dance Party, Williamsburg * Barter Town (Trading Post V: Juneteenth), Manhattan

Sunday, June 20
* Grub, Brooklyn
* Chaos Cooking, Brooklyn
* Rumble 2, Brooklyn
* Projections: A Motion Picture Reading Series, Manhattan * Wild and Wonderful: A Celebration of West Virginia's Birthday, Williamsburg

Monday, June 21
* Third Annual Haunted Picnic, Manhattan * Make Music NY Afterparty, Manhattan

Tuesday, June 22
* 1 Image, 1 Minute, Williamsburg

Wishlist
* Maker's call

Spectre
* Like They Do in Alaska

Learning
* Free Fishing

Help
* Times Square Field Recording

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Thor's wagon over Red Hook.

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Saturation

One night only: transformed space, art, sculpture, and sound. Detroit based creative collective From the Gut presents Saturation, a Full Scale Transformed Space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Bridging sculpture, flatwork, technology, and situational ambiance, Saturation celebrates the Summer Solstice through the theme of Energy Collectors. Incorporating concepts of space, art, sound, and ideas worked heavily in Detroit for nearly a decade, From the Gut now debuts in New York City. Existing somewhere between formal and renegade space, this free event brings together Detroit artists Dave Cole, Gwen McKay, Paul Biundo and Mike Reid with New York City designer Thiago deMello Bueno and From the Gut founders Heather Campbell and Matthew Shultz, now both currently residing in the San Francisco Bay.

Creating metaphorical Energy Collectors at the onset of the year’s warmest months, Saturation links the Summer Solstice with a celebration of our region’s peak energy absorption season. We exalt, and incorporate, energy gathering structures in a full scale transformed space of sculpture, art, DIY technology, sound, and ideas.

Eaton Trading
238 Franklin, Brooklyn
6p-2a;
fromthegut.org/saturation/

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Punk Jews party

My name is Evan Kleinman. I am the producer of a documentary called Punk Jews, which you can watch the trailer and learn more about online. I am throwing a multi-media event to promote the documentary with a variety of musical acts (hip hop, indie rock, punk) as well as art installations, open bar, and all sorts of fun shenanigans. I would love to be able to get the word out through nonsensenyc. Musical performances by Y-love, Moshiach Oi, Eden, Blanket Statement, Stein. Art installations by Elke Reva Sudin, Rivka Karasik, and Ira Kaufman.

Sixth Street Community Synagogue
325 East 6th Street, between 1st and 2nd avenues, Manhattan 10p; $15 includes open bar
punkjews.com.

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Bicycle Film Festival Tenth Anniversary

Four days of film screenings, parties, and openings.

See website for complete listings.

Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, Manhattan
Continues through SUNDAY
bicyclefilmfestival.com/new-york/

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The infamous House of Yes presents:

First Ever Gay Gay Gay Party!

Kick off Pride Week by welcoming award winning queer hip-hop/dance artist Jasper James back to Brooklyn for the premier of her latest music video Love with live performances by Jasper James, Backspace, and Don PV. The night will feature aerial performances by Lady Circus and sideshow acts by Brooklyn's finest performance artists and acrobats.

Sideshow acts by: Anya Sapozhnikova, Kae Burke, Matthew Camp, Lauren Howe, Kid Akimbo, Jackie Carlson, Dan Paul Roberts, Teresa Nasty, Kyle Rostan, Nikki Borodi, Kathryne Van Asshee, Jade Curtis, Madalena Pak-Kei Mak, Brett Lord, Dilan Walpola, and Jade Curtis.

House of Yes
342 Maujer Street, between Morgan and Willoughby, Brooklyn L train to Grand station
10:30 doors; $10

NOTE: Sorry, we botched this listing last week. Supposedly we sent a few cute gay boys to the House of Yes a week early. We're sorry for the inconvenience, but not for sending cute people to the House of Yes. Please always double check our listings before going out.

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

Dances of Vice: Tango del Diablo

Dances of Vice takes you to the dance halls of 1930s Buenos Aires for an evening of hot Argentinian tango at the historic Players Club by Adriel Azure y la Orquesta Infernal, featuring tango, dance and burlesque performances by the sensational Medianoche, devilish vixen Madame Rosebud, and Andrea Beeman, the famed Enchantress of Bioluminosity. Tango diva Sarah la Rocca will be offering a beginner's tango lesson starting at 8:15 sharp!

The Players Club
16 Gramercy Park South, Manhattan
8p doors, open Sangria bar and tango lesson from 8-9p; $20 if you mention Nonsense dancesofvice.com

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

Newsonic Loft Party

We're back in action at the NewSonic loft this Friday night with another great night in store for you. Cosmic vibrations from Navegante, Dynasty Electric, SoundWavve and Turbotronics, as well as DJ Selectrick pumping dance hits and VJ Suit Machine providing the mind-altering visuals.

Newsonic Loft
76 Rutledge Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 9p doors; $5, or free before 10p

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WW4 Report Benefit

This Benefit was originally intended to send $1000 with the journalist Bill Weinberg, host of WBAI's late-night Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade, to the Cochabamba, Bolivia World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, so he could do some unhampered journalism on an important subject.

The event will touch on the recent insurgency in Peruvian Amazon, the aftermath and upshot, and the results of Cochabamba, Bolivia People's Climate Conference of last April. Mr. Weinberg's Report-Back and Teach-In, will be accompanied by video footage.

Featured speaker for the evening will be the legendary ontological Anarchist Bard Peter Lamborn Wilson, founder of the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade and editor (with Weinberg) of Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggle in the City and the World (Autonomedia 1999). He is author of Pirate Utopias and TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, and The Black Fez Manifesto. Wilson will give a lecture/rant/poetry reading, likely drawing from his most recent work, the limited-edition Atlantis Manifesto. Following is Amina Munoz Ali.

On the musical front, a luscious one-two: Fist of Kindness and the sexy, organic Cumbias of Brooklyn's own Cumbiagra, who regularly feature their special blend of Columbian and Mexican grooves, with a tinge of Surf-twang, at Barbes in Park Slope. A rich eclectic mix of grassroots global vision and messianic fun, designed to fund a worthy organ, and organize some worthy fun.

Come see why a group of community musicians, writers and activists see fit to stand behind Bill Weinberg, as he reps himself, his vision and that of the immanent 4th World.

638 East 6th Street, between Avenues B and C, Manhattan 6p; $15 suggested donation, no one turned away

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

HiChristina Disco Re-write

Tonight at HiChristina traumatic events from history (or memory) get a Disco Rewrite. The March of Tears, small pox blankets, and freezing cold winters, gas chambers -- becomes Glittery Rainbow Platform Shoes, super short shorts, and disco fever.

Bring attention to these disasters of human judgment and show how easy it is to turn them into a party instead. Tonight at HiChristina let us re-write history's gnarliest atrocities by transforming them into radical waves of disco dancing delight! It's one part history lesson and 14-parts dance party. Dance the night away (with made-up dance moves by the Master Blaster himself Unleaded) and learn something while you're at it.

HiChristina!
163 Eldridge Street, at Delancey, Manhattan 10p; $10 with disco inspired attire, $20 without, BYOB 347 495 5868 mobile
hichristina.com

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Mermaid Parade

A completely original creation of Coney Island USA, the Mermaid Parade is the nation's largest art parade and one of New York City's greatest summer events.

Followed by the Mermaid Parade Ball at the New York Aquarium.

Coney Island, Brooklyn
2p; $?

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

Winkel and Balktick present:

Campfire

A warehouse wilderness adventure. From 10p till sunrise, lucky scouts will explore a hinterland of revelry and imagination. Jamboree the night away with rustic beats, illuminating art installations, summer camp games, cozy tents, ghostly performances, hearty mountain provisions and the most jubilant troop this side of the East River.

Music: Stellar Chic Duo, Ezekiel Honig, Shigeto, Zemi17, D_Juice. Art, performance, and encampments: More than 40 artists (check website for complete listing).

RSVP for address, Brooklyn
10p-sunrise; $15 advance, $20 door
winkellittlestar.com/campfire/the-story/

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

Zero Fest

The Zero Fest is hosting an evening of music and fresh films with a touch of humor. With the latest film by Brooklyn Based audience choice 2009 winner Mike Rizzo, Sunset Television, projection specials by Rebecca Gaffney, plus work by Brooklyn filmmakers Miguel Drake-McLaughlin, Justin Haskell, Jenny Thomas, and so many more. Live performances by Beloved Rogue, and Shadowbox. With free cheap beer. Plus red carpet and photo wall. ps- anybody who arrives with a bp related film dvd in hand will receive a free pbr/zero fest t-shirt and an opportunity to screen it!

Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn
7:30-10:30p; $free

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

The Golden Angel Waltz Orchestra presents:

The Waltz Ball

The Golden Angel Waltz Orchestra presents waltzes all night long. Waltzes that are from all over the world, dense in sound, seemly sweet but sometimes chaotic and always in three. Yes it is a ball as well, so everyone is required to be in their most flamboyant, most dazzling, most Victorian, most risqué garments. We believe that people these days need a little encouragement for those romantic couples dances so we have also hand-made 19th century dance cards that will facilitate those budding waltz enthusiasts to share in the joys of waltzing with all on the dance floor. We also are bringing in four of the most cutting edge dance instructors, who are charming yet slightly twisted in the dance instruction. You see, they are really clowns, they are at the waltz ball to be the charmers, the instigators, the fashion consultants and yes the dance instructors as well. We have a quite a show that will engage even the most curmudgeon of a fella to experience the joys and silliness of our waltz ball. You all will have the opportunity to wear your most beloved fancy party dress that you never get to wear, you'll get the chance to share your secret waltz obsession, and most of all to share in silly night of delightful music and clowning.

The night will begin at 9p sharp with Marandi Hostetter string quartet playing beautiful classics. Waltzing will begin at 10p sharp and go till we are too dizzy to stand.

The Golden Angel Waltz Orchestra: Master of Ceremonies -- Ms. Deanna Fleysher. With Sarah Alden, Rima Fand, Marandi Hostetter, Leah Coloff, Patrick Farell, Tina Richardson, Joe Keady, Mike Savino, and Jordan Shapiro.

Jalopy
315 Columbia Street, Broooklyn
9p; $10

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

No Homo: Queer Hip Hop Dance Party

June is Pride Month. Remembering Prides past conjures visions of public daytime drunkenness, waxed chests, and rainbow feather boas. It's not always a pretty sight. No Homo is here to cast a little shame on all this gratuitous queerness. So come get shameful with us.

No Homo is an inclusive dance party in Brooklyn featuring Hip Hop/Pop/Electronic music that you can groove to. But we're more than that. We're here to bring art, music, booze, and sexy dancing together in proportions rarely seen before. Come chill upstairs, dance downstairs, and smoke and drink in our backyard. Featuring music by DJs Make Believe and Nordic Traxx, with visuals by Erin Ikeler and Ethan Weinstock to get you in the mood. BYOB or take advantage of our cheap beer/Jello shot special all night long.

The Treehaus
94 Monroe Street, between Bedford and Franklin, Brooklyn G train to Bedford/Nostrand or Classon Avenue stations 10p-4a; $free

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

The Heather Hart Experience presents:

Barter Town (Trading Post V: Juneteenth)

To encourage art to take an active roll in leading the shift of cultural value, and to create a critical space that is neither one place, or another yet both places, the Heather Hart Experience presents the fifth installment of Hart’s Trading Post projects, Barter Town (Trading Post V: Juneteenth). At the Trading Posts participants are invited to bring their ideas, services, songs, stories, unwanted goods, canned goods, handmade art, appliances, anything they think may hold value and haggle for something that they want.

Barter Town will have the appearance of a carnival or block party, but run on bartering only- no money allowed. Barter town “vendors” include: Diane Vreeland Massage Therapy, Devorado vintage clothing, Emily North Tattoos, Jeff Sims, Lisa Sikorski, Anne Percoco, Joseph Redwood-Martinez, Jazz-Minh Moore, Carrie Hawks, Irvin Morazan, Mike Lash, Kambui Olujimi, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Tilton Wildro, Eric Clausen, Melissa Calderon, Greg Clodfelter, Elizabeth Sporleder and participating teens from the Harlem Children’s Zone and others. Bring something to trade.

Duarte Square
6th Avenue and Canal Street, Manhattan
4-7p; $free

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Grub

Grub is a free and open community dinner held on the first and third Sundays of every month.

We are a continuously growing group of people who have worked individually and collectively on projects such as the Really Really Free Markets, the Brooklyn Free Store, the NYC Free Events Calendar and dozens of DIY shows and events. We work with several collectives and art groups, such as ReclaimNYC, Picture the Homeless, Time's Up!, and Visual Resistance. At Grub we're just offering dinner. Whether you are active in other groups, your neighborhood, your backyard garden, or just new to town, we invite you to our table.

We will only be able to serve approximately 50 people, so it's first come first serve. There will be plates for vegans and vegetarians alike. About 99 percent of the food we serve is freegan, which means it is excess, ripe, nearly ripe or slightly damaged food that has been recovered from the waste of grocery stores, or grown locally and donated.

Rubulad
338 Flushing, at Classon, Brooklyn
G Classon station, B61 bus to Flushing
4p cooking, 7p dinner: $donations requested but not required

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

Chaos Cooking

A continuing social experiment where up to 55 people cook 55 recipes in 1 kitchen, 4 burners, 1 oven. All recipes must be finished in a three hours while everyone is drinking wine, socializing, and putting delectable dishes in their mouths.

How it works. Post the name of your recipe on this events wall. Bring the ingredients necessary for everyone to try a little bit of your dish, extra knives and cutting boards (if you have them) and two or three bottles of wine per person. Throw in $3-5 into a donation jar toward clean up, common ingredients like butter, olive oil, skewers, broken glasses and dishes and to the hosting space.

When you arrive pour yourself some wine, sign the book, start making your dish, help someone else, pour yourself some wine, eat some of the dish that was just finished, ask for help, try not to start yourself on fire, try some more dishes, sit down and talk for a while, pour your new friend some more wine, have some dessert, make plans for this weekend.

This has been an incredible success, cultivating some of the best vibes we've felt in a while. We started at 18 people and pushed the chaos to 55, which somehow still works. Some dishes ideas of what was made in the past; portobello mushroom burgers, curried squash soup, chocolate mousse with marinated strawberries, gourmet salads, banana fosters, Raw vegan wraps, baked pear and chocolate, mushroom mint pasta, baked brie wrapped in bacon, carrot jalepeno soup. etc.

Page Not Found is a 2000 square foot, members-run apartment, with a garden, used as constantly transforming space to encourage strong social interaction by experimenting with collaboration, art, food, film and music." Bring two bottles of wine per person. Extra knives, cutting boards, tupperware if possible.

RSVP for exact location, Brooklyn
6-11p; $3-5
infochaoscooking.com

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Rumble 2

Rumble is Brooklyn's retro rock-n-roll throw down for the queers, dykes, transfolk, and otherwise sexual. We’re swinging back into town with the cheap drinks, homemade cookies, go-go dancers and contortionist pin-up girls you know and love. Come for a night of 50s-60s-rockabilly-soul-blues-protopunk-garage tunes to burn right through your dancing shoes.

On the ones and twos: Most Likely to Succeed, DJ Drumpelstiltsken, the Comeback Kid, DJ Ari, and the one and only sounds of New York Night Train's Mr. Jonathan Toubin.

Dress code: (not mandatory, but encouraged) Your finest 50s/60s kitch. Leather-Rocking Greasers. Prom Queens. Retro Nerds. Sassy Housewives. Outsiders. Rebels without a Cause.

Outpost Lounge
1014 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
C train to Clinton-Washington station
9p-3a; $5

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

Projections: A Motion Picture Reading Series

The Bowery Poetry Club presents the second installment of Projections: A Motion Picture Reading Series, the only event showcase in NYC spotlighting practices specifically at the intersection of performance, poetics, and the moving image. Join us at 6p for an evening of reading, film, and performance that nods in part at early 20th-century practices of live film narration like Benshi in Japan and Gavrilov Translation in the USSR, while also incorporating contemporary post-production video editing techniques as well as electronic strategies of appropriation and misuse like data sculpting, browser poetry, and computational aesthetics.

A multidisciplinary ensemble of poets, filmmakers, musicians, performance artists, scholars, critics, and editors who reposition the reading series as a multi-genre platform. Featuring multidisciplinary poets, artists, and scholars James Copeland, Kate Eichhorn, and Danny Snelson.

Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, between Houston and Bleecker, Manhattan 6-7:30p; $6
autotypograph.com/projectionspressrelease.html

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Wild and Wonderful: A Celebration of West Virginia's Birthday

June 20 is West Virginia's birthday. And we'd like to invite all you mountaineers and friends to join us at Williamsburg's Glasslands for a night of celebration to benefit the families of the victims of the recent Upper Big Branch mining disaster in Montcoal, WV.

Raffles and contests. Photo opportunities. Appalachian delicacies. Stick 'n poke tattoos. Come meet Brooklyn based film maker David Novack, director of the award winning documentary Burning the Future: Coal in America. Dance Party hosted by Brian Blackout (NRG DJs). Brooklyn by way of West-by-God Virginia.

Live performances by Librarians from Morgantown, WV, Heliotropes from Brooklyn (with West Virginian members). Please come help us celebrate our home state with fun, food and music -- and help us support a good cause.

Glasslands
289 Kent Avenue, between South 1st and 2nd streets, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 7p doors; $7 admission
bit.ly/WILDandWONDERFUL

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Third Annual Haunted Picnic

Every year, in celebration of the Make Music New York festival -- a city wide day of live music on the streets of all five boroughs -- and in honor of the deceased, musician Jessica Delfino presents an afternoon of picnic-snacks and performances on the lush green acre tucked down a hidden alley in the NY Marble Cemetery. Oft sealed with a foreboding wrought iron gate, the cemetery is generally closed to the public, so the Haunted Picnic is a great chance to visit this beautiful square of land, untouched by the hands of time (albeit surrounded by signs of it) and located right in the heart of the East Village. This event takes place rain or shine.

With a variety of musical guests playing guitar, ukulele and more -- acoustic only, to protect the fragile stones from loud vibrations -- home-made snacks, beverages and even flowering and berry bearing trees – all must haves for any haunted picnic. Attendees often wear white, bring blankets, books, their own snacks or simply a curious mind, lie back and listen to the music.

With Tibbie X and Kenny Young of X-Possibles sing rockin-Zombie-blues, Kyle Thompson sings wily-emo indie songs, the Pride of the Lower East Side recants spooky spoken historical stories, accompanied by Sam from Wombat in Combat/Team Spider, lady charmer Isaac Gut plays and sings like a young Jackson Browne, Dr. Steamwhipple will amaze you with his classical guitar stylings and his fire fingers, and Jessica Delfino presents a rare all-ages set of folk music "gone wrong", including songs about unicorns and what not, played on guitar, ukulele and electronic autoharp (Q-chord).

NY Marble Cemetery
41 1/2 2nd Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Streets, Manhattan 3-6p; $free
jessicadelfino.com
makemusicny.com

***** Also on MONDAY *****

Make Music NY Afterparty

Over the past three years, thousands of New Yorkers have stepped into the streets on June 21st to bring music back into public spaces on the first day of summer. Next Monday on June 21st, a record number will again do just that, marking the fourth - and biggest - year of Make Music New York to date.

Our first, official -- and long-overdue -- MMNY AfterParty. Expect more good music, tasty drinks, and plenty of dancing to proper welcome a long overdue summer. With live music by: the winning band of Play Hard: The MMNY Corporate Challenge, battle of the corporate bands.

Arena Event Space
135 West 41st Street, between 6th Avenue and Broadway, Manhattan 6p; $free
21 and over
RSVP required to mmny.2010.afterpartygmail.com

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1 Image, 1 Minute

Significant people present significant images. An event to raise money for Camp Pocket U(topia). A collaborative summer arts camp presented by Norte Maar and Austin Thomas.

Participating people include Laura Braslow, Deborah Brown, Jen Dalton, Kianga Ellis, Louise Fishman, Rico Gatson, Veken Gueyikian, Rachel Gugelberger, Chris Harding, Valerie Hegarty, Lars Kremer, Ellen Letcher, Brooke Moyse, Cathy Nan Quinlan, James Panero, Jonathan Stevenson, Adam Simon, and James Wagner among others.

Hyperallergic
181 North 11th Street, Suite 302, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 7p; $25, reservations required

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• Lumen, June 26

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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.

Also, a note about better rock shows. Nonsense does not straight list rock shows in New York unless they occur in tandem with puppet shows or jump rope tournaments or in subway tunnels or in graveyards. For listings of good shows, especially shows that feature independent bands at quality venues like Death by Audio and those booked by hard-working promoters like Todd P or Sleep When Dead, consult resources like ohmyrockness.com, brooklynvegan.com/, sleepwhendeadnyc.com/calendar/, or the lively New York Happenings listserve on Yahoo groups launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/nyhappenings/. For the most exhaustive list of underground shows at unusual venues, track down a copy of the extremely useful -- and handsome -- Showpaper.

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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 *****

• The World's Largest DIY Festival is coming to NYC. Calling all makers, artists, mad scientists, circus freaks, puppeteers, music makers, steampunks, gamers, composters, arduino hackers, bike welders, solar power fiends and crafty-folk. Maker Faire is taking place this Fall at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (Queens), the site of the '39 and '64 Worlds Fairs. Do you DIY? There's an open call for projects: bit.ly/mfny2010 Need inspiration? Check out these images: bit.ly/95vqwL. Have questions? Not sure your project fits? Have a thing that might blow up? Contact Nick Normal: nick(at)geekathon.net, 917 225 7032 (mobile).
• We're excited to announce the launch of the NURTREart Registry of Artists and Curators online. Begun as a traditional artists' slide registry, this program has been at the core of NURTUREart's mission since its founding in 1998. Emerging artists and emerging and independent curators are invited to participate by uploading images, statements, essays and resumes into profiles that they will have complete control over. Yes, registries aren't just for artists anymore, curators can now document their own careers as well as search for new art and plan future projects! We have also included two other important features to encourage networking in our online community. Both artists and curators can promote their upcoming exhibitions and events on their pages, these listings will also appear on the main calendar. Everyone is also encouraged to take advantage of our recommendation feature and promote one another. Artists, curators and viewers can create a list of links to their favori te registry artists by browsing the registry and clicking on the Save this Artist to My Favorites button. The more everyone uses this tool the easier it will be for viewers to discover interesting new artists! Create your profile now by visiting www.nurtureart.org.
• I have a bright green school bus that is converted to run on veggie oil. It's a really exciting project that's building a lot of steam quickly: greenbustour.com/. We are participating in the Mermaid parade as a motorized float with a sound system. Please pass this on to anyone who might want to be on the bus. It's this Saturday, June 19. The parade starts at 2p, so we will be meeting at House of Yes (342 Maujer Street, Brooklyn) at 11a (leaving by noon) to drive to Coney Island. Contact jennyElectrik, 917 334 4801.
• Chick With a Truck: I can do pretty much anything that requires a truck. Drop Off/ Pick Up -- trips to Home Depot or MFTA. Delivery, rides anywhere in the tri-state area. Long-distance hauls, trash/junk removal, live plants, animals, art handling. My truck has a covering over the back. Contact Elizabeth, ebentley9(at)gmail.com.
• Know Anyone in Kiev? Small international artist group looking for contacts in the Ukraine for August 2010 art project. Do you have any leads? Please mail jstark(at)nonsensenyc.com with any contacts.

***** SPACES *****

*Room Available in a loft building on Tillary Street in Brooklyn. We are close to all trains, B,Q,F,1,2,4,5,G. Your room is approximately 13 feet by 15 feet with floor to ceiling windows, 13 feet high. Rent is $800. The main space is 700-800 square feet. There is a storage space that I built for all tools and instruments and an extra bed for guests on a loft. Bike room and washer and dryers in the basement. There is compost and a garden on the roof with enough vegetables for us to eat all summer. Nice folks -- all believing in community through work. Contact Mia: 347 589 9711.

• One room for sublet in an awesome carriage house three-bedroom in Bushwick. Rent is $617 per month plus utilities/wifi/cable ($50 per person per month). Available June 15 through August 31 with the possibility of extension if desired. The apartment is located on Locust and Broadway in Bushwick, between the Myrtle/Broadway and Flushing JMZ train. The Montrose L is about a 15-minute walk. Your roommates are both females in their late 20s: Rachel is finishing up her MA in art history at NYU this summer and is also a photographer, Lucy is a copy writer and editor. Both work from home some days and go to work other days and balance having fun with working hard, love to host potlucks, craft nights and movie nights. The room is about eight feet square with nine foot ceilings and one large window, and comes with a super comfy double bed and ample closet and shares a wall with only one other bedroom. One friendly cat, Halsey, is also in the apartment. When the J is running express w e are two stops from lower Manhattan. Contact photo.rachel(at)gmail.com for more info and to set up a time to see the apartment.
• Large private bedroom available in 1,100 square foot loft in northern Greenpoint, Freeman Street near Manhattan Avenue: Room is approximately nine feet by twelve feet, seven feet tall ceiling, comfortable, with large closet, built-in shelves. Bedroom has a beautiful desk and chair which can be removed. Bedroom has an interior, operable window and glass tiles which face two large exterior windows and the common space; lots of sunlight, lots of fresh air in loft and bedroom. This place has to be experienced in person. The architecture is inspiring, a tremendous sense of space, very relaxing. The kitchen is fully equipped and inviting for cooking or dinner parties. The common area has a large living room and two reading nooks, lots of plants. Sixteen foot ceiling. Indoor bicycle parking! Move-in July 1st. Monthly rent is $900 which includes utilities. One month security deposit due before move-in. Perfect for a mature individual looking for an inspiring and friendly home envir onment. No cigarettes, no cigars. We are four adults (two guys, two gals) in our early thirties to early forties. We are quiet at night, friendly and respectful. We keep the house tidy.Yes, four people (plus you!) sounds like a lot but we're not crowded, even with guests, this loft is spacious and we get along very well. We have three entertaining cats (sorry, no more pets needed). We are looking to share our welcoming house with a nice person. Contact Heather, hktroygmail.com. 917 981 4333.

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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:

***** Like They Do in Alaska *****

spectregroup.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/like-they-do-in-alaska/

How to Calculate Your Resource Wealth
apfc.org/home/Content/dividend/dividend.cfm pfd.alaska.gov/faqs/index.aspx
iraqdividend.com/alaska_dividend/
"The Alaska dividend, which Hammond helped create while governor, is "an existing basic income guarantee in the world today. Without a permanent fund dividend program," Hammond said. "Alaska will face the same fate as Nigeria." There, the World Bank estimates that $296 billion flowed in and out of the government's treasury during its oil boom, "leaving them worse off than they were before," Hammond said. The pattern has been repeated around the globe where countries have come into an oil windfall, he said. "Iraq is but the latest example. What better way to induce a capitalistic, democratic mindset among Iraqis? Far better than a few privileged kleptocrats living in opulent splendor while others grovel in squalor," Hammond said. In Iraq, the economist Smith recommended following Alaska's precedent but avoiding Alaska's mistakes, Hammond noted. Those mistakes were two-fold: Not putting all public resource wealth into the fund, and not reserving the income solely for dividends unless approved by a vote of the people. "Public resources should belong directly to the public through mechanisms such as Alaska's permanent fund ... It is a model governments all over the world would be well-advised to copy."

or Brazil
widerquist.com/karl/Suplicy-Interview.htm adn.com/2008/08/09/488420/pfd-rebate-pack-a-punch.html "The Brazilian National Congress approved Law 10.835 that institutes an unconditional Citizen’s Basic Income, sanctioned by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in January 8, 2004. The law says that it will be established step-by-step, starting with those most in need, until the day when everyone in Brazil will have that right. Everyone in Brazil, including the foreigners living here for more than five years, regardless his/her social or economic condition, will receive R$ 40 per month. In a family with six members, the total will be R$ 240. With the progress of the country, this amount will be raised, we shall say to R$ 100, someday to R$ 500, R$ 1,000 and so on. It will not be denied to anybody. It will be unconditional."

Step One : Locate Resources
afghanistan.cr.usgs.gov/airborne.php
independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/afghanistans-resources-could-make-it-the-richest-mining-region-on-earth-2000507.html "The sheer size of the deposits – including copper, gold, iron and cobalt as well as vast amounts of lithium, a key component in batteries of Western lifestyle staples such as laptops and BlackBerrys – holds out the possibility that Afghanistan, ravaged by decades of conflict, might become one of the most important and lucrative centres of mining in the world. According to a Pentagon memo, Afghanistan could become the "Saudi Arabia of lithium", with one location in Ghazni province showing the potential to compete with Bolivia, which, until now, held half the known world reserves."

Determine True Costs
seattlepi.com/specials/mining/26875_mine11.shtml "Gold, silver, platinum and other precious metals for free. Land for $5 an acre or less. It's pretty much the same deal miners have had for 129 years, ever since Congress approved the General Mining Law in 1872. Modern mining methods have left the West pockmarked by huge craters, some so large that they are visible from space. Under terms of the antiquated law, miners cart away everything from gold to kitty litter from public lands -- minerals worth about $11 billion in the last eight years alone. Not only does the U.S. Treasury get nothing, Congress has granted miners a tax break worth an estimated $823 million in the coming decade. Over the years, public lands the size of Connecticut have been made private under terms of the 1872 law, all for $2.50 to $5 an acre, though not all of it has been used for mining. Like the better-known Homestead Act, which offered free land to anyone willing to farm it, the mining law was intended as an incentive to those willing to push West an d settle the frontier. That frontier was closed long ago, but the mining law remains on the books and very much in use. Not all critics of the 1872 law call for reform because of environmental damage. Some are galled by the fact that the law, breaking with tradition, allows miners to dig a fortune from public land without giving a share to the American citizens who own it. In 1920, Congress removed oil, natural gas and other minerals that could be used for fuel from the 1872 Mining Law. Instead, the government would lease the rights. And in 1977, Congress decreed that miners of coal on federal land would have to pay a royalty of 8 to 12.5 percent, and clean up after themselves. The government in the past decade has collected $11.08 billion from companies taking coal, oil, and natural gas, plus $35.8 billion in rents, bonuses, royalties and escrow payments for offshore oil and gas reserves. Still, hard-rock miners pay nothing for the gold, silver, platinum, copper and other minerals they get. Walish, the manager of Cambior's Top of the World project, joins many in the mining industry in warning, "If massive royalties are put on federal land, you're going to see a lot less mining."

Distribute Equally
nytimes.com/2003/09/10/world/struggle-for-iraq-iraq-s-wealth-popular-idea-give-oil-money-people-rather-than.html "The notion of diverting oil wealth directly to citizens, perhaps through annual payments like Alaska's, has become that political rarity: a wonky idea with mass appeal, from the laborers in Tayeran Square to Iraq's leaders. American officials have projected that a properly functioning oil industry in Iraq will generate $15 billion to $20 billion a year, enough to give every Iraqi adult roughly $1,000, which is half the annual salary of a middle-class worker. ''A fund like Alaska's is the best way to prevent one kleptocracy from succeeding another in Iraq,'' Mr. Clemons said. ''It would go a long way to curbing the cynical belief that Americans want Iraqi oil for themselves, and it would give more Iraqis a stake in the success of their new country. It would be the equivalent of redistributing land to Japanese farmers after World War II, which was the single most important democratizing reform during the American occupation.'' Thomas I. Palley, an economist at the Open Society Institute, proposed dividing a quarter of the oil revenue each year among all adults in Iraq. Oil companies would not be directly affected by an oil fund, since they would be paying the same taxes and fees no matter what the government did with the money. But they could benefit indirectly if citizens eager for higher payments pressed the government to increase production and open the books to outside auditors. ''The oil industry likes working in countries with dedicated oil funds and transparent accounting, because there's less loose money to corrupt the government. Corruption is bad for business,'' Mr. West said, ''because it creates instability. In places like Alaska and Norway, people support the oil industry because they see the benefits. In places like Nigeria, they see all this wealth that doesn't benefit them, and they start seizing oil terminals.''

Namibia Pilot Program
usbig.net/links.html
globalpolicy.org/home/211-development/48036-a-basic-income-program-in-otjivero.html "Haarmann is talking about Namibia the way a doctor discusses a patient's symptoms. "Here," he says, scrolling through his statistics, "more than two-thirds of the population live on less than $1 a day. The basic income scheme," says Haarmann, "doesn't work like charity, but like a constitutional right." Under the plan, every citizen, rich or poor, would be entitled to it starting at birth. There would be no poverty test, no conditions and, therefore no social bureaucracy. And no one would be told what he or she is permitted to do with the money. The concept is being discussed in many countries of the world. In Germany, it has gained the support of politicians across the political spectrum, including Dieter Althaus, the conservative governor of the eastern state of Thuringia, and businessmen like drugstore chain owner Götz Werner. More than 50,000 German citizens have signed a petition to the German parliament. The pilot project is taking place in Otjivero, a settlement of 1 ,000 inhabitants in a hot and dusty region 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of Windhoek. A few weeks ago, Dirk Haarmann published his annual report: economic activity in the village has grown by 10 percent, more people are paying tuition and doctors' fees, health is improving and the crime rate is down. Only 3 percent of the gross domestic product, or €115 million, would be enough to provide a basic income for all Namibians."

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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 listing suggestions, announcements, and corrections to her at libby(at)nonsensenyc.com.

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

Free Fishing

Catch-and-release fishing clinics begin. Bait and tackle will be provided (or bring your own), plus basic fishing instruction and other activities to explore the estuary. Fishing Clinics are free and open to the public. Kids under 15 must be accompanied by an adult. Materials are limited, registration recommended.

Lower East Side Ecology Center
East River Park, Manhattan
East 10th Street and the East River
5-7p; $free
Register: lesecologycenter.org

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

Free African Dance

Sandella’s last free African dance class till September. The class is televised and airs Wednesday at 2p on Time Warner Channel 56.

Booker T. Washington Middle School (in the gym) 103 West 108th Street, Manhattan
6:30-8p; $free
212-942-3566
harambeedancecompany.com

***** LEARNING: SATURDAY and SUNDAY *****

Kriye Bode: 5th Annual Haitian Drum and Dance Colloquium

This two-day workshop includes a panel discussion on Haitian folklore with Max Beauvoir, two dance classes with Chuck Davis, African Caribbean dance Richard Gonzalez, Haitian dance class with Peniel Guerrier, and a drum circle with Daniel Brevil. Free tickets to an incredible dance performance choreographed by Guerrier included.

Alvin Ailey Extension
405 West 55th Street, Manhattan
Saturday and Sunday; $180
kriyebode(at)gmail.com
alvinailey.org/page.php?p=arti&v=711

***** LEARNING: SUNDAY *****

Free Urban Foraging

This intro session, facilitated by Ava Chin, will include a foraging walk through Fort Greene Park and neighboring Clinton Hill. Participants will learn about collecting and identifying wild edible weeds and fruits in the city. Bring plastic ziploc bags (or regular grocery bags), bottled water, a cutter/small paring knife, bug spray, sunscreen, and comfy shoes. To prepare for this class, please read this note: nyc.thepublicschool.org/note/2558

The Public School New York
177 Livingston Street, Manhattan
1p; $free
RSVP nyc.thepublicschool.org/class/2098

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Music, Movement, and Burlesque: Chair Dancing

Learn sexy chair dancing moves, plus how to remove glamorous opera-length gloves and stockings in an unforgettable manner.

School of Burlesque
440 Lafayette, Manhattan
1-3p; $25
schoolofburlesque(at)gmail.com

***** LEARNING: MONDAY *****

Pie Crust Workshop

Brooklyn Brainery's teaming up with with Lauren Cucinotta from Pie in the Park to help you conquer all your pie-crust-making fears. Four pro crust makers will show you how it's done, with plenty of pie tasting along the way.

The Gowanus Studio Space
166 7th Street, Brooklyn
7:30p; $15
Jen Messier
jen(at)brooklynbrainery.com

***** LEARNING: SUNDAY *****

The Complete Rose Garden: Companion Planting

Join BBG rosarian Sarah Owens for a series of rose gardening courses throughout the coming year. Sarah will lead the class through the renowned Cranford Rose Garden collection, highlighting efforts to extend the season of interest and create habitat for beneficial insects through companion planting. The course will address cultural and maintenance requirements as well as targeting bloom time for companion plantings. Dress for the weather; class includes a two-hour walking tour, rain or shine.

Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn
10:30a-1p; $35 member, $40 nonmember
bbg.org/learn/classes/

***** LEARNING: THURSDAY *****

Butoh

Learn from Butoh masters. Hiroko and her husband Koichi Tamano had been disciples of Tatsumi Hijikata. The Tamanos studied for more than 10 years with Hijikata who eventually sent them to the United States to bring Butoh to the West. In the late 1970s, they settled in the San Francisco/Bay Area where they founded their dance company Harupin Ha, a name that Hijikata chose for them. Today they are living legends: Japan’s emperor declared Koichi a national treasure, and in 2005 Hiroko and Koichi received the Isadora Duncan Award.

Triskelion Arts
118 North 11th Street, Third Floor, Brooklyn 6-9p; $55
(Workshops also on Friday 6-9p, $55; Saturday, 6/26, 1-6p, $85; Sunday, 6/27, 2:15-7:30p $85) 917-749-9062
triskelionarts.org
Register: vangelinetheater(at)yahoo.com vangeline.com/content/templates/t_main_vangeline.asp?articleid=168&zoneid=1

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• ARRL Field Day, at NYC Resistor, 87 3rd Avenue, Fourth Floor. Brooklyn. Saturday June 26, 8p-1a, $free. Demos include. Transmitting on the HF Bands,Talking to Satellites, Old School Radio Goes Digital, Scanning, Powering a Lightbulb with Radio Waves, Ham Radio Dance Party
• Start a New Religion, at 3rd Ward, 573 Metropolitan Avenue. Brooklyn. 4 Mondays. June 28, 7-10p. (Mention Nonsense NYC when you register, deadline Wednesday, June 23, for a 10% discount.)
• Travel to Cuba: Dance and Music Research Trip with Marazul Charters/MetaMovements. July 17-25. Contact Yesenia Selier, 201-952-5508, oriselier(at)gmail.com. Inquire ASAP.

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It is a wonderful thing, to help. Helping strengthens communities and allows you to meet new friends. With that in mind, we look for one-day volunteer opportunities with no long-term commitment required. We want to be open to fresh ideas and think of help in a broad way. These listings could include anything from a large-scale day-long service project to a local theatre company that needs volunteers for load-in; from an artist looking for film extras to a community garden that needs a few extra hands. Our goal is simply to help groups or individuals that serve the greater good in small but significant ways. Unique and interesting job opportunities are acceptable fare for this section as well. Looking for ways to help out? Need volunteers to get your own community project off the ground? Know of any existing opportunities? Send your requests to Rob Voigt at robpastyvoigt(at)gmail.com.

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BoCoCa Arts Festival

Volunteers needed for the box office, postering, venue managing, and more. There will be a mandatory training session prior to the festival, and you get free access to all festival shows and our lifetime gratitude.

bococaartsfestival.com/InKindSupport.php

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InterActive Music New York

IAMNY! is a unique program of interactive music performances and outdoor installations to be held on June 21st as part of the fourth annual Make Music New York. IAMNY! will unfold as a walking tour of public sites in the Meatpacking district on 9th Avenue between Gansevoort and 14th Street. On two stage areas, artists and their instruments will present original compositions that interact with the audience, the immediate environment, or with various forms of technology to deliver a dynamic and spontaneous musical experience. We are currently seeking a small number of volunteers to help put on during the day of the program. If you are interested please contact Ken Umezaki.

kumezaki(at)nyc.rr.com, or 646-509-6861 bit.ly/92jLWS

***** HELP: TUESDAY *****

Yoga at the Great Lawn

Flavorpill is hosting the world’s largest yoga event ever as 10,000 people of all backgrounds, sizes, and skill levels will simultaneously practice on the Great Lawn in Central Park, NYC. We are seeking over 100 volunteers to support the event on June 22nd. Volunteers will arrange mats on a massive grid, check in participants at the entrance, and usher individuals and groups to their practice location. All volunteers will have the opportunity to participate in class from 7-8:15p. To get involved as a volunteer and earn a guaranteed ticket, a free week of classes at YogaWorks, and a whole lot of good karma please e-mail.

3-7p, class from 7-8:15p
volunteer(at)flavorpill.com

***** HELP: TUESDAY and/or WEDNESDAY *****

Times Square Field Recording

Hello, I am making a film collage using the sounds of light radiation in times square, and am looking to assemble a small crew for a night's expedition. The technique is using homemade "light pickups" to amplify the sounds of light, using Times Square as source material. I am a musician and sound artist, and have been working with electronics for about 5 years now. I am looking to amass a group of five people who are enthusiastic about the avant garde but can still stay open-minded to all approaches.

We have one cameraperson, and I would like to add two more. Come work with us and listen to the unheard symphony of light waves. If you have your own gear, this is a great plus, because i have nothing besides my light pickups. Unfortunately I can't afford to pay you anything. I have no funding. This is a project for someone who is enthusiastic about art, experimental things, meeting new people and developing new skills. I would love to buy you a slice of pizza.

daniel.fiction(at)yabla.com

***** HELP: UPCOMING *****

• June 26. American Diabetes Association’s NYC Tour de Cure. The Tour is a ride, not a race, with routes designed for everyone from the occasional rider to the experienced cyclist. Whether participants ride the 15 miles or 100 miles, they will travel a route supported from start to finish with rest stops, food to fuel the journey and fans to cheer them on. Help the American Diabetes Association make this experience the best it can possibly be by volunteering - volunteers needed for route marking, set up, breakdown, working the rest stops and more. If interested, please fill out a volunteer form: bit.ly/8CNKZe
• June 27. Gay Pride March -- Anti-circumcision. Are you against infant circumcision? If so, we need your help: Volunteers are needed to join Intact America in marching in the 41st Annual Gay Pride March, which will take place on Sunday, June 27th, 2010 in New York City. The parade route runs down 5th Avenue, through Greenwich Village and into the West Village. We’ll be carrying banners and posters, and handing out literature to spectators that dispels the myths of circumcision and explains the sensory and protective functions of the foreskin. It will be a great opportunity to communicate a pro-foreskin, anti-circumcision message to New Yorkers. Anyone is welcome to join us for all or part of the march. No experience is necessary. Please email Julia at genitalintegrity(at)gmail.com if interested. intactamerica.org

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