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Red and White Party

RED AND WHITE PARTY

Downtown’s definitive holiday celebration!
Monday, December 11
7pm – 4am

The reservation page is now closed – however, if you are a member – don’t worry – we know who you are – so just come on down and you’ll still get free admission and your drink tickets at the door. And for friends who are not members, they can get $10 tickets at the door. See you all soon!

Including:

Open bar from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. sponsored by award-winning Krait Beer and General Bilimoria Wines.
All star DJ line-up:
– DJ Joro Boro spinning signature ethnomesh mixodelica: brass freakout, slum funk carioca, bangin bhangra, percussion insurgency, and cumbia from south of the wall

– The Vintage DJ spinning his sexy and eclectic mix of vinyl from the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and early 70’s

– DJ Shotnez (a.k.a. Ori Kaplan from Balkan Beat Box) spins Mediterranean beats and other illegal hybrids

– The Ballerinas doing what they do best
Live performances including:
– Stumblebum Brass Band and their old jazz gems, from Screaming Jay Hawkins to Satchmo, with the lo-fi energy of a marching band and the punk aesthetics of the Lower East Side

– The Mickey Finn Band – recently voted one of the TOP 10 bands of 2006 by U.K. music magazine, Beatzine. “Relentless riffing, insistent, hypnotic, sexy shrewd music” —David Silver
Non-stop dancing
Drink specials
And an all-out, all-night celebration with fellow culture-lovers, gypsies, and PS122 members, season artists, staff and board

You will get down and dirty – wear your drinking helmet and your dancing shoes!

Location:

The all-new Mehanata (a.k.a. Bulgaria Bar)
113 Ludlow Street
New York, NY
(between Delancey and Rivington)

Tickets:

$10 in advance
$15 at door

Free admission plus 2 complimentary drink tickets for PS122 members

Already a PS122 member? RSVP for the party here.

Not a member yet? Join now!

(If you are RSVP’ing as a member and bringing non-member guests, just add them to your reservation and we’ll extend the $10 rate at the door!)

Remember, PS122 members receive free admission and two complimentary drink tickets, plus your membership benefits keep adding up! You receive 2 complimentary tickets to any season performance (a $40 value) as well as $10 member tickets (that’s 50% off regularly priced shows). You also receive a one-year subscription to Time Out New York (a $39.95 value)—with membership starting at only $60, you can see how being a member more than pays for itself.

Check out what’s happening on New Year’s Eve at our home away from home, Mehanata:

RED AND WHITE PARTY

AGA FALL 06

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA

“Orchestrated mayhem and the excitement that ensues are the only predictable variables…Try as it may to maintain theatrical composure, this always ends up degenerating, or exploding, into an all-out party.” – flavorpill.com

Flavorpill orchestrates the exciting mayhem that is Avant-Garde-Arama! as PUPU Platter (Mike Albo, Michele Brilliant, Sandra Bauleo, John Roberts, Gina Vetro) hosts this special installment of PS122’s longest-running series. Each evening in this multidisciplinary mini-festival showcases a different lineup of bite-sized, eclectic new works from established and emerging artists. In a fun, festive and informal atmosphere, the best in breakout dance, music, theatre, performance, video and more is presented in 8 minutes or less. Anything can – and will – happen!

Featuring (in no order):
Friday October 6th:

Host PUPU Platter
The Debate Society
Martha Colburn
DD Dorvillier
Victor Morales
Leigh Evans
Dr. Schüler and Christine Holt
Plus DJ Justin Carter

Saturday, October 7th:
Host PUPU Platter
Jollyship the Whiz-Bang
Lear de Bessonet
Susan Buice and Arin Crumley
Miguel Gutierrez
Rob Niell / Neo-Futurists
Helen Stratford
Plus DJ

Photo by Pete-Y

October 6, 7
8:00 p.m.
AGA FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
Sunday October 8
4:00 and 7:00 p.m.

The Red and White Party 2005

The Red and White Party

The definitive downtown holiday celebration. Featuring:

DJ Joro-Boro: Resident DJ of the Bulgarian Bar Mehanata, Joro-Boro spins ethno-mesh songs from resistance ska, Arab turbo dub, balkano gitano brass to gypsy dancehall, ninja reggaeton and sleaze bhangra. Headliner of The New York Gypsy Festival
DJ Shotnez (Ori Kaplan) of Shotnez and Balkan Beat Box, formerly of Gogol Bordello
Guignol “Guignol serves up a combination of punk, jazz, folk, tango, klezmer, cheap red wine, woolly pinstriped suits, newsboy caps and one waxed moustache.” – Times of London.
DJ Chris Walters (PS122 house DJ)
Hallucinogenic floorshow outtake from Ken Nintzel’s TWAS
Endless Dancing

Spring secrets.

…and more

Members get free admission, including 2 free drink tickets.
General Admission $10

Join PS122 today and join in the festivities. Come to “The Red &White Party” for free, get 2 free season performance tickets, half-price tickets, a free Time Out New York subscription and more…

Monday, December 19th
7PM – 2AM
$10(Members free)
Mehanata 416 B.C.
(a.k.a. The Bulgaria Bar)
416 Broadway at Canal

AGA FALL 05

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA

On October 14 and 15 Performance Space 122 will present the latest installment of its longest-running ongoing series, “Avant-Garde-Arama” (AGA). AGA is a biannual multidisciplinary mini-festival of short works. Showcasing work from new artists and new works from established artists, “Avant-Garde-Arama” features the best and brightest of downtown performance, dance, theater, music, installation and more. Additionally, P.S. 122 is launching “Avant-Garde-Arama for The Whole Family” on Sunday, October 16 at 3:00pm – PS122’s first multidisciplinary mini-festival of short works almost exclusively by kids and for kids.

This fall Avant-Garde-Arama will be hosted by the song and dance team who brought you The New Wonder Twins – Susan Blackwell, Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen and Heidi Blickenstaff – and features a fantastic array of downtown fabulousness spread over two fun-filled nights. Audiences can join in the fun every evening after intermission! Come prepared for “Forty Second Street” during which any audience member can perform anything they want for 40 seconds!!!

Friday, October 14th features the work of Award-winning composer Chris Rael, leader of veteran East Village Indo-pop band Church of Betty, performing two selections from Araby, a song cycle inspired by James Joyce’s Dubliners; dance troupe Dura Mater performing an excerpt from their new work The Bentfootes featuring a live animated short film by noted cartoonist R. Sikoryak; a performance from “the Paris Hilton of Performance Art” Neal Medlyn; Butoh-inspired dance from Leigh Evans; John Roberts (of the band Opti-Grab) performing the comic dance/skit “You’ve Got the Part!” with Gina Varla Vetro; and a musical performance from clubland’s newest sensations Da Lipstyxx!

Saturday October 15 features Nina Mankin’s madcap performance ensemble Kulture Kamp (with Taylor Mac and Rachelle Garniez), queer performance poet Otis Von Darling; conceptual performance artist Andrew Schneider creating live experiments with videotape, dance and dessert; a new dance-theater piece from Kourtney Rutherford entitled “Tiny Parts &Transitions” featuring an international cast of performers crushing Warhol’s idea of fifteen minutes of fame into ten minutes of relentless mark-hitting and nonstop vying for the spotlight; Julia May Jona’ multi-disciplinary company Nellie Tinder performing NEW TRENDS (Nellie Thinks About Motivation); and Kill Rock Stars recording artist Bonfire Madigan.

Both nights will feature an interactive digital playground installation by Jonathan Zalben in P.S. 122’s Classroom Gallery space.

Friday, October 14th

Chris Rael
Dura Mater with R. Sikoryak
Neal Medlyn
Leigh Evans
John Roberts with Gina Varla Vetro
and music by Da Lipstyxx

Saturday October 15

Kultur Kamp featuring Nina Mankin and Taylor Mac
Otis Von Darling
Andrew Schneider
Kourtney Rutherford
Nellie Tinder
and music by Bonfire Madigan

Sunday October 16

AGA isn’t just for grown-ups
anymore! Check out the brand new series:
AGA FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

October 14, 15
8:00 p.m.
AGA FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
Sunday October 16
3:00 p.m.

The GoTour Road Show

Groundbreaking artist service organization The Field celebrates the first anniversary of its GoTour.org website with The GoTour Roadshow, a weekend-long multidisciplinary mini-festival of independent artists from across the country.The evening runs from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. with seatings at 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

Erin Lee &Marci (MUSIC – New York, NY)

Erin Lee &Marci are New York’s hippest, new singing duo for kids and their grown-ups.Playing acoustic guitars and various percussion instruments and singing in genres ranging from bluegrass to klezmer to ’50s rock ‘n’ roll Erin Lee &Marci will have the whole family on their feet and dancing!

Relative Truth (excerpt)
Jessica Hirst (SOLO PERFORMANCE – Washington, DC)

In Relative Truth Jessica Hirst begins to unpack the fantastical story of her grandmother’s late-in-life affair with a dashing and mysterious Frenchmen by the name of Pierre-Franz Chapou.

Il trionfo della fedelta (An excerpt from Maria Antonia’s 1754 opera)
The Maria Antonia Project/April Lynn James (MUSIC – New York, NY)

The Maria Antonia Project is dedicated to restoring music by historical women composers, especially opera, to the living repertory through performance, lectures, publications and recordings. It takes its name from Maria Antonia, Electress of Saxony (1724-1780), a librettist and composer of two operas. Maria Antonia’s 1754 opera Il trionfo della fedelta takes place in Arcadia, that mythical paradise where love, peace and beauty reign.

The Dragons Project (excerpt)
Laura Schandelmeier and Stephen Clapp (DANCE/THEATER – Mt. Rainier, MD)

The Dragons Project asks “Who are the Dragons in the fairy tale of contemporary global culture?” Combining the ancient and mythical iconography of dragons with contemporary pop culture and counter-culture personifications of warriors, damsels and demons, The Dragons Project draws from mythologies and folk tales from across the globe.

Akosua Mireku (MUSIC – Oakland, CA)

Akosua Mireku is an Oakland, CA based Ghanaian-American singer-songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, flutist, and psychic healer. Akosua’s music is fusion of African Folk, American Folk, Jazz, and Latin rhythms.

8:30 p.m.

None of the Above (excerpt)
Jennifer Lanier (SOLO PERFORMANCE – Honokaa, HI)

None of the Above is a solo comic roller coaster about Jennifer’s struggles with identity (racial, gay-straight, gender) as a tail-end baby-boomer.

Spin
Kathy Dunn Hamrick (DANCE – Austin, TX)

Spin is an athletic quartet of perpetual motion, grace and shifting focal points, set to an original score by Austin musician Tim Kerr. Choreographed by award-winning Austin-based choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick with dancers Cherami Conley, Kathy Dunn Hamrick, Marlo Harris and Morgan Nutt.

Congregation (excerpt)
Julie Troost (MOVEMENT-THEATER – New York, NY)

Congregation tells the story of a family, God’s presence, and the beauty in death. Developed in collaboration with performers Courtney King and Camilla Maling.

The Shana and Mary Show
Mary-Elizabeth Holby &Shana David (MUSIC – Cambridge, MA and Jacksonville, FL)

Music, comedy and some lovely cake provided by Shana’s grandma.

9:30 p.m.

The Switch (MUSIC – New York, NY)

The Switch is a NYC-based band, combining electronic music with an infectious pop twist. The Switch strikes a delicate balance between computerized beats and the youthful freedom of pure rock ‘n roll energy. With Kai Altair (lead singer), Joe Pepitone (guitarist,keyboardist), Dan Onori (drummer) and Chris Loh (bassist).

Waking Down
Carrie Sargavakian (DANCE – Seattle, WA)

Waking Down is a duet moved by a restless 3am. Tangled in bed sheets hours past the chamomile tea sipping, the steamy bath taking, the sheep counting, and the soft piano music listening we find ourselves wide-eyed and heavy. Performed by Carrie Sargavakian and Katrine Behrend.

Parable
Lotta Lundgren (DANCE – Washington, DC)

Parable speaks of a man who tries to own women’s minds while letting prisoners of his war color their bodies with their own excrement. It speaks of a shape created by one, for all to fit into.

Three Greek Women (excerpt)
Thelos Theater Group (THEATER – Miami, FL)

Three Greek Women works from the classic Greek texts of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, intertwining the stories of Clytemnestra, Antigone and Medea to create a new story.

This Way That Way
Parallel Exit/Mark Lonergan (THEATER – New York, NY)

Inspired by the films of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, This Way That Way is a silent live-action road movie that follows the story of two con men who meet in a train station and choose to travel across the country together.

July 8 &9, 2005
7:30 p.m.
$10