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 8.22
8pm FREE
Smut presents
Mangina and Valmonte Sprout
with Elise Miller, Rachel Shukert, Christine Ham
hosted by Desiree Burch
The
New York Times writes
about SMUT, "It's art that should carry a
Parental Advisory label, with some of New York City's
best writers and performers."
 8.22
10pm FREE
Burlesque with
Darlinda's Polyester Players
in I LOVE DR NINA SIMONE
It's
a loving burlesque tribute to Nina Simone, presenting
new pieces directed by Darlinda Just Darlinda (pictured),
co-choreographed by and starring Julie Atlas Muz as well
as a host of other burlesque stars: The World Famous *BOB*,
Peaches n Cream, Mama Lou, Scooter Pie, Peekaboo Pointe,
and Howling Vic.
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 8.23
8pm FREE backroom
This
Is Not The New Minstrel Show
A
new reading series that celebrates and showcases up-and-coming
queer writers under the age of thirty whose work highlights
transgressive, subversive, and marginalized voices within
the mainstream gay community. Featured readers present
new work that aims to react against the normative perceptions
of Gay amd Lesbian.
This
week, it features novelists BLAIR MASTBAUM and TENNESSEE
JONES
with BETHANY SPIERS, MECCA JAMILAH SULLIVAN, GARRISON
TAYLOR, JEFFERY BERG, and LISSY KILMAN.
Praise
for Blair Mastbaum's Clay's Way:
"Blair Mastbaum's debut novel is thrilling, sexy,
terrifying, full of the angst and paranoia of adolesence,
and impossibly truthful."
--Susanna Moore, author of In The Cut
Praise
for Tennessee Jones' Deliver Me From Nowhere:
"Tennessee Jones' interpretive fictions are as big,
bleak and beautiful as the American landscape, all full
of lonely smells, whiskey, class desperation, and the
dusty, archetypal dirt road to nowhere."
--Michelle Tea, author of Valencia and
The Chelsea Whistle
 8.23
10pm FREE
Brooklyn
Comedy Company
BCCO
spotlights industry renowned standup comedians plus notable
up and comers every week, with no drink minimum or cover
charge. It's diverse and witty stand-up, served straight-up,
and we're proud to have it here at Galapagos!
For
more information about Brooklyn Comedy Company, please
visit their website at http://www.brooklyncomedycompany.com
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 8.24
8pm
$10 suggested donation
Creative Collective
Creative
Collective is a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting
and supporting the arts. Creative Collective will hold
its first event Baby in the Corner—The First Trimester,
an Evening of Music, Dance, Film and Mixed Media To Raise
Cash For Children’s Arts Programs. All proceeds will
be donated to I.D.E.A.S., a Williamsburg-based organization
which provides direct theater arts experiences for youth
with disadvantages and disabilities. For an extended list
of the night’s scheduled bands, films, dancers, and
more, visit www.gobitc.org
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 8.25
7pm $25 suggested donation
Operation
Dreamland:
Film Screening
Occupation:
Dreamland is an unflinchingly candid portrait of
a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed
Iraqi city of Falluja during the winter of 2004. A tense
and grimly humorous study of the soldiers unfolds as
they patrol an environment of low-intensity conflict
creeping steadily towards catastrophe. Through the squad's
activities, Occupation: Dreamland provides a
vital glimpse into the last days of Falluja. The film
documents the city's waning stability before a final
series of military assaults began in the spring of 2004
that effectively destroyed it.
"...the
invaluable Occupation: Dreamland ... an eerie portrait
of a city quietly about to explode and an unnervingly
intimate look at eight young soldiers that accords their
individuality due scrutiny."
-- Dennis Lim, Village Voice
"...a
sympathetic look at the average Joe doing duty in hell."
-- Jay Weisberg, Variety
http://www.occupationdreamland.com
 8.25
10pm FREE
MK
Groove Orchestra
"Comprised
of a rotating ensemble of approximately 13 members,
they encompass a massive entirety of sound. Possessing
8 horns, MK Groove can become full-blown chaotic polyphony
one moment and straight funk the next. Flexibility and
resourcefulness characterize this young band with a
tremendous knack for song writing and structure and
the often difficult task of improvising in a large band
setting." -The Spectrum, University of Buffalo
http://www.mkgrooveorchestra.com
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 8.26
8pm $7
Steve
Shiffman & The Land of No
The Teenage Prayers
and Hula
"Imagine
if Woody Guthrie had been a liberal born into a post-Beatles
world, chained to a wall where he was forced to write
songs on a pump-organ, and only then transfer the arrangements
to guitar." - Logo Magazine, UK,
on Steve Shiffman
Plus
appearances by New York indie rockers Hula and The Teenage
Prayers, plusthree films by Miguel Drake-Mclaughlin,Sam
Stephens and Jesse Gelaznik.
www.steveshiffman.com
www.hulatheband.com
www.teenageprayers.com
8.26
Midnite FREE
 VJ/DJ
DANCE PARTY
It's a weekly
dance party event featuring multi-screen video projection
and resident DJ BOYRACER spinning the best DISCO
PUNK BRIT POP 80's 90's & 00's -- guaranteed to
make you move!
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8.27
8pm $7
CATCH XII
Featuring work by Cynthia Hopkins, Myles Kane, Karinne
Keithley, Sybil Kempson, Jeff Larson, David Neumann, Jenny
Seastone Stern, and John Wyszniewski
"Short
acts and all of them memorable -- you really can't go
wrong. Like an excellent compilation CD, or a really good
salad
bar -- lots of little tastes of stuff you might want more
of when you're in the  mood."
-Culturebot.org
Cynthia
Hopkins
(accordion, saw, vocals) - BOTTOM PIC - is a creator
and performer of unique music/theater projects featuring
her band, Gloria Deluxe. These include 'Accidental Nostalgia
(an operetta about the pros and cons of amnesia)' which
is currently touring nationwide; 'Must Don't Whip 'Um',
a prequel to 'Accidental Nostalgia' which is currently
being created with a premiere planned for 2006-07; and
'Helping My Father Move', a piece commissioned by Dance
Theater Workshop which will premiere in April 2006.
Myles
Kane has been making films and videos since he was
a teenager. He grew up in Massachusetts and has been in
Brooklyn for six years. He's a co-founder of the Brooklyn
Underground Film Festival, which started in 2002. He also
really enjoys juggling and playing frisbee.
Karinne
Keithley sympathizes with rabbit revolutionaries and
makes things tending toward low-cost joy with philosophical
bents and in performative mediums. Her latest forays into
recordable realms will see their first light of day at
Catch.
:Jeff
Larson is a director, performer, designer and
technician. Work and collaborators: Endgame with Zach
Steel, Maggie McBrien & Hector Fernandez (director);
"Agit Props" with Yoshiko Chuma, Chris Yon,
Karinne Keithley & Taryn Griggs (performer & lighting
designer); "The Legend of Cowboy Loves His Mom"
with Yon, Steel & Justin Jones (co-creator & performer);
Cabaret with Fernandez (director & lighting designer);
Little Kids Big Money with Fernandez (co-creator &
director); No! with McBrien, Steel & Katy Pyle (set
designer, performer & lighing designer); "Tenderenda"
with  Keithley,
Yon & Pyle (performer); ". . . Leprechauns .
. ." & "Consider the Raven" with Andrew
Dinwidde (co-creator & performer). Jeff is Associate
Technical Director for Theatrical Production at New York
University.
David
Neumann has performed and collaborated with artists:
Laurie Anderson, Hal Hartley, Doug Elkins, Doug Varone,
Big Dance Theater, Stacy Dawson, Jane Comfort, Chris Bayes,
The Public Theater, and Mabou Mines. He is the artistic
director of 'advanced beginner group' whose original work
has been presented at PS 122, Dance Theater Workshop,
Central Park Summerstage, Symphony Space, Brooklyn Academy
of Music, the Whitney Museum and Mass MoCA. He has received
many grants and awards including a Colbert Foundation
Award for choreography and two New York Dance and Performance
"Bessie" awards: as a performer in 1991, and
as a choreographer in 1998.
Jenny
Seastone Stern has shown work at places such as PS122,
the BRIC Studio, La Mama, Tonic, and the Ontological Theatre.
She's performed for and with a bunch of wonderfully amazing
people including David Neumann and Stacy Dawson, DJ Mendel,
Hal Hartley, Aaron Landsman, Katie Workum, Linas Phillips,
Julia Jonas and Normandy Sherwood as well as others nationally
and internationally.
John
Wyszniewski
was born in Poland, raised in Los Angeles, and currently
resides in Brooklyn. Since 1998, his work has presented
work at Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, Galapagos,
PS 122, Tonic and University Settlement. From 2000-2002,
he was the Artistic Director of Galapagos and during his
tenure, it was named "Best Performance Space"
by Time Out New York and later went on to win an OBIE.
Currently, he works for Big Dance Theater, David Neumann
and serves as the Director of Marketing for Dance Theater
Workshop.
 8.27
10pm $8
UNCOMUN
Music.
Dance. Film. Party. A monthly Galapagos extravaganza.
Uncomun
curator Nevaris drops brand new funk rock tracks. Glitch,
the spoken word electro-jazz collective, presents new
work with visiting artists. Nouveau soul songstress Imany
lays down her signature grooves. Dancehall-rock vocalist
Hawkman brings his unique Jamaican stylings. Mangu Dance
Collaborative debuts a provocative new piece DJ Speedrail
spins, along with guest DJ Jeff Donenfeld. VJ Full Stealth
mixes live video throughout the night .
Visit
www.nolej.net
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8.28
6pm
$15
Feed
the Baby!
A Benefit for the New York Neo-Futurists
The NY Neo-Futurists bring a slew of talented people
together one night only at Galapagos, in support of
their efforts to become a stand-alone not-for-profit.
The
evening will feature:
- An Improvised musical from I Eat Pandas (Glennis McMurray
and Eliza Skinner),
- The Storytelling of Clay McLeod Chapman,
- Hilarious Spoken words from Shappy,
- Salacious Songs by Bridget Everett, accompanied by
Jim Andrelis,
- The Droll Stand-up of Chelsea Peretti,
- A Pyrotechnic Performance by p-CULT,
plus
- Stuckey and Murray sing some funny nasty songs,
and
- The Entire Ensemble of the NY Neo-Futurists present
a sampling of short plays from their show Too Much
Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
For
more information visit:
www.nyneofuturists.org
New
NY Neo-Hotline 212.561.9569
 8.28
10pm
FREE
SID
& BUDDY KARAOKE
Take
life a little less seriously. Sing a song. Be a rock star.
It's
ridiculous over the top sloppy rock n roll Karaoke that
nobody has any business doing late on a Sunday night.
And yet, we do it here.
http://www.sidandbuddy.com
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