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We strive to give reason to emotion and understanding to our impulses. This is not a place for the expected: we are a kunsthalle, a cabinet of curiosities, a collection of the rare, repulsive, delicious, old, new, high, low, good and bad that serves as a barometer of contemporary culture. We encourage the simultaneous occupation of the city, the marketplace and the mind by presenting work that mines the fringes of society and exposes our unique behaviors through the lens of the most fundamental human activity: sex. This is more than a museum: We are an institution that believes in embracing society and existing beyond its walls. We promote organic growth and foster an entrepreneurial spirit that values original ideas. To do this, we seek the engagement and collaboration of fearless visionaries from all industries who challenge, stimulate and disrupt the status quo. Together we develop innovative events, exhibits, products and experiences that bring the best of current scholarship on sex and sexuality to the widest possible audiences.
The Tenement Museum tells the true stories of American immigrant families through recreated apartments in a historic tenement building constructed in New York's historic Lower East Side. We also offer neighborhood walking tours, evening programs, free English language classes and programs for school groups. If you're interested in promoting your project via our social media network, please email [email protected]. Our community agreement: Be respectful of the memories the Museum preserves.
www.merchantshouse.org Built in 1832, the Merchant's House Museum is New York City's only 19th century home preserved intact, with original family furnishings and personal belongings. A unique survivor of Old New York, the House offers a rare and intimate glimpse of how a prosperous merchant family and their four Irish servants lived from 1835 to 1865, when New York grew from seaport to thriving metropolis. "The distinction of the Merchant's House -- and it is a powerful one -- is that it is the real thing. One simply walks through the beautiful doorway into another time and place in New York." The New York Times
The Museum of the American Gangster is a two-room museum located at 80 St. Mark's Place in the East Village, Manhattan New York City. Opened in 2010, it is located upstairs from a former speakeasy in a neighborhood once frequented by Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and John Gotti. Its Exhibition of the American Gangster was "founded to preserve newspapers, photographs and other original documents from the Prohibition Era". The museum's collection of memorabilia of organized crime in America includes John Dillinger's death masks, bullets from the Saint Valentine's Day massacre investigation, and a bullet from the shooting of Pretty Boy Floyd. The former speakeasy has a history of its own; the building is the former residence of Walter Scheib. The exhibit is currently open. It is also possible to tour the old speakeasy.July 24, 2010 marked the twentieth anniversary of the release of Goodfellas. This milestone was celebrated with a private screening hosted by Henry Hill for a select group of invitees at the Museum of the American Gangster.
Open 7 days a week to groups of 15 or more by appointment.
The Eldridge Street Synagogue, built in 1887, is a National Historic Landmark synagogue in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood.HistoryThe Eldridge Street Synagogue is one of the first synagogues erected in the United States by Eastern European Jews (Ashkenazis). One of the founders was Rabbi Eliahu the Blessed (Borok), formerly the Head Rabbi of St. Petersburg, Russia. It opened at 12 Eldridge Street in New York's Lower East Side in 1887 serving Congregation Kahal Adath Jeshurun. The building was designed by the architects Peter and Francis William Herter, (but unrelated to the Herter Brothers cabinet-makers). The brothers subsequently received many commissions in the Lower East Side and incorporated elements from the synagogue, such as the stars of David, in their buildings, mainly tenements. When completed, the synagogue was reviewed in the local press. Writers marveled at the imposing Moorish Revival building, with its 70-foot-high vaulted ceiling, magnificent stained-glass rose windows, elaborate brass fixtures and hand-stenciled walls.Thousands participated in religious services in the building's heyday, from its opening through the 1920s. On High Holidays, police were stationed in the street to control the crowds. Rabbis of the congregation included the famed Rabbi Abraham Aharon Yudelovich, author of many works of Torah scholarship. Throughout these decades the Synagogue functioned not only as a house of worship but as an agency for acculturation, a place to welcome new Americans. Before the settlement houses were established and long afterward, poor people could come to be fed, secure a loan, learn about job and housing opportunities, and make arrangements to care for the sick and the dying. The Synagogue was, in this sense, a mutual aid society.
WHAT IS TALKING STICK?? Talkingstick at RMA is a FREE monthly event, which features writers, actors, comedians, and performers sharing true stories inspired by works of art from the Rubin Museum of Art collection alongside museum guides who share stories from within the rich oral traditions of the Himalayas. Funny, sad, poignant, and cutting, Talkingstick at RMA provides opportunities to explore various perspectives on Himalayan art while experiencing the spontaneous and dynamic world of storytelling. Talkingstick at RMA is held at 8:30pm on the second Friday of each month in the galleries of the museum with founders, Master Lee and Mr. Patrick. Meet at the bottom of the lobby stairs at 8:30pm. Free and open to the public! http://www.rmanyc.org/pages/load/34
We use the acronym SoPA, the Spanish word for soup, as a metaphor to illustrate the harmonious result of combining a hearty blend of ingredients: various minds, cultures, artistic mediums and social elements. Every culture has that soup that makes us feel better. Together we create a healthful, satisfying stew to sate the needs we have identified in our communities. As a good sopa is to the body, good art is to the spirit.
The Poetry Society of New York first emerged under the guise of The Poetry Brothel at The Living Theater in 2007. The Poetry Brothel was conceived as a performance art event aimed at fostering intimacy, urgency and exaltation within the New York poetry community, and at expanding that community to include a more diverse population of artists. At that time New York City, the place perceived by thousands of young writers to be the epicenter of the contemporary poetry world, felt boring. Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara and Edna St. Vincent Millay had quit running amok decades earlier, and a clear vitalizing alternative was required. The Brothel provided one cure: a pastiche of back-alley history and literary revelry, The Poetry Brothel remedied the monotony of the slam poetry reading’s endless bravado, and charmed patrons of the one-note, one-format academic poetry readings out of their fold-up chairs into back rooms for private readings. But it wasn’t enough. The Poetry Brothel bridged difficult social and sociological gaps between individuals, but soon, The Poetry Brothel’s founders, Stephanie Berger and Nicholas Adamski, felt the need to cross literal borders. They created The Translation Project in the hopes of opening the lines of communication between New York poets and poets living abroad, but in order to get funding for such a project, it was time to get legal and form a business entity. When the state of New York rejected the business name “The Poetry Brothel,” citing it as “lewd and illegal,” Berger and Adamski requested “The Poetry Society of New York,” and much to their surprise, they got it. Since forming The Poetry Society of New York in 2010, they have produced The New York City Poetry Festival, The Typewriter Project, The Ear Inn Series, Quartier Rouge, and Brothel Books, and they have brought The Poetry Brothel to dozens of cities around the world.
CollaborationTown is a 501c3, non-profit theatre organization that steps outside individual, traditional roles in order to unify different styles, opinions, emotions, backgrounds and philosophies into cohesive ensemble-driven pieces of theatre. New work is developed by our unique four-tier play development process, CTown's Play Nursery. All artistic and operating decisions are made by a team called the Artistic Core, alumni of Boston University's School of Theatre Arts. Past productions include The Momentum (FringeNYC 2010 Overall Excellence award winner, extended), Children at Play (Living Theater), Let's Go, Townville (at La MaMa E.T.C.), 6969 (at 59E59 Theaters; winner of three Innovative Theatre Awards: Best Ensemble, Best Featured Actress, and Best Actor), The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos (FringeNYC 2006 Award Winner), They're Just Like Us (nominated for four 2006 Innovative Theatre Awards including Best Original Full-Length Script and Best Production), The Astronomer's Triangle (nominated for four 2005 Innovative Theatre Awards including Best Original Full-Length Script and Best Production), The Trading Floor, This is a Newspaper (FringeNYC 2003 Award Winner), and Dante's Inferno. CollaborationTown has had the honor of being selected for three residencies at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center in Watermill, NY, and two with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Shenanigans Comedy Collective, CollaborationTown's rebellious middle child, performs biting sketch comedy throughout NYC.
LESPI is a not-for-profit corporation in New York State dedicated to preserving the historic areas of Manhattan's East Village / Lower East Side. LESPI's strategy includes documenting and mapping the EV/LES historic streetscapes, and rallying community residents, city officials and the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission to effect landmark designation. Without landmark designation the last remaining historic areas of the EV/LES will be lost to demolition and insensitive development. The East Village / Lower East Side has tremendous architectural, historic and cultural importance to both the city and the country. During the 17th century it was the location of Peter Stuyvesant's farm, in the 19th century the East River waterfront was the center for NYC's shipping and trade, and from the 19th century through the present the area has served as a community for immigrants. The area has also been a prime source for avant garde art, literature and music, as well as progressive political thought. The neighborhood's national importance was recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation when in 2008 it listed the Lower East Side as one of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places - see: http://www.preservationnation.org/travel-and-sites/sites/northeast-region/lower-east-side.html. We must act quickly to preserve the East Village / Lower East Side or the physical evidence of its rich history will disappear - a huge loss for us and for future generations. LESPI is under the fiscal sponsorship of Fund for the City of New York.
Trinity Lower East Side Lutheran Parish is a vibrant, inclusive church with an emphasis on social justice and outreach. We know you will find a warm welcome here and a a chance to serve your community, either through our soup kitchen and food pantry, or other ministries.
Located in a lovingly restored former synagogue in the heart of the Lower East Side, also known as Loisaida. the Sixth Street Community Center has been working to empower the community through grassroots organizing since 1978. We offer a variety of programs and events including free arts, writing and gardening after school and summer programs for local youth; affordable adult workshops, donation-based yoga, zumba, and dance classes; a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA); poetry and open mic nights; and much, much more. Whether you're interested in learning more about what we have to offer, hoping to join the CSA, or hungering for a fresh, organic juice on-site at our Organic Soul Café, our doors are always open. We are located at 638 E Sixth Street. Just stop by!
Using classroom presentations, teacher assisted curriculum and journaling we provide students with a specific communication skill set to help them express confidence, leadership, compassion and empathy in all of their relationships. Using the theories of “Collaborative Communication”and "Nonviolent Communication" as the basis of all lessons, students can take these tools and utilize them in any interpersonal relationship in which they are engaged.
Current Program Offerings Self-Government Program The most unique element of BGR is its self-government model, which enables young people to take an active role in shaping their "society." All BGR participants become "citizens" of the "Republic," running for office, voting for elected officials and keeping order in their community. The program has 14 elected officials, including a Mayor, City Clerk, Judge, Prosecuting Attorney, Comptroller and eight Council Members. BGR legislation is voted on at council meetings and "citizens" who break the rules are prosecuted at court trials. After School BGR offers after-school activities for young people in kindergarten through eigth grade, Monday through Friday from 3:00pm to 6:15pm. BGR staff picks up students from P.S. 15, Girls Prep, P.S. 64, P.S. 111, Earth School and and P.S. 34. On most school holidays, BGR programming is in session from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Evening Program The evening program offers many activities to young people ages 12-19 and runs Monday through Wednesday, from 6 to 9 p.m. BGR offers game room featuring pool, ping pong, fuzzball, cable, air hockey, and PlayStation 3, Computer Mac Lab, Art Room, and Open Gym. G.E.D Classes BGR is now hosting GED classes, in conjunction with Literacy Partners and the Settlement's Workforce Development Center. Classes are held from noon to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Interested students should call Literacy Partners at 212.725.9200. Tutoring Services BGR offers tutoring to high school or college students in need of assistance on Tuesday and Thursday evenings through a partnership with NYU.
The Curious Case of the Midnite Monster Hop Once upon a time in the mid 1990's, there was a teenage caveman named Mike Decay. Mike didn't like people or see the need of having friends, so he got into psychobilly. After assisting in bringing the Klingonz to NYC in 1997, he decided he needed to create his own reality by running Phantom Creep Fridays, a monthly live psychobilly/rockabilly/garage/wild r'n'r band event in Philadelphia from about 1997 through 2002 booking bands like the Kings of Nuthin, Brimstones, Pits, and Hillbilly Werewolf. Mike was also one of the co-producers of the 1st NY Big Psychobilly Rumble Weekender at the turn of the last century, and the director of the feature-length 2002 documentary, Psychobilly: A Cancer on Rock'n'Roll. In 2003, he turned his sights back home to NYC to co-run the monthly live band event, the Midnite Monster Hop, bringing international bands to Otto's Shrunken Head, such as Nigel Lewis from the Meteors & Tall Boys, Reverend Beat-Man, Girard from Deja Voodoo, the Kings of Nuthin', the Gutter Demons, Zombie Ghost Train, Sasquatch & the Sick-a-billys, Nikki Hill, and many, many more over the years. It was in October of 2013 that tragedy struck. Whilst parachuting from an autogyro, Mike Decay was fatally killed, his pureed remains being splatted across the Hollywood hills. Although on a positive note: Prior to his death, and as a result of a preexisting medical condition, he had had his hands removed and alligator heads sewn on in their place.Those alligator heads-for-hands have since gone on to manage to great success, Furious, an Edwardian band from Liverpool. Be it kismet, or coincidence, it was at the time of Mike Decay's passing that a signal was first received from outer space. It was a radio signal and it was broadcasting rock'n'roll originating from a gigantic Bucket o'Blood emerging through a wormhole from before... time... began! The Bucket o'Blood landed outside Otto's Shunken Head, bathing the entire block in gloopy goo and released upon Madmanhattan: the Phantom Creeps! The Mighty Moloch, Greg-Gory, Isadora Spivey, Ek the Ghoul, Farmer Smith, Ginger Frightus, and a casket of thousands, decided to claim the Midnite Monster Hop as their own, and broadcast Phantom Creep Radio live from within the Lower East Side tiki bar... and to this day nobody has managed to stop them! Between Monster Hops, the Phantom Creeps go on adventures traversing all space and time in their Bucket o'Blood, or amuse themselves in NYC by putting on old time, real deal spook shows with 16mm films at the Coney Island Museum, Nitehawk Cinema, Morbid Anatomy Museum, and most recently the Bowery Electric. All in all, things could be worse.