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 10.17
8pm $10 backroom
kARMA OPEN MIC
Katrina Benefit
kARMA
Open Mic Series features poets, singers, MC's and musicians
in the area. A live band plays a fusion of reggae dub,
funk, rock and hip hop while backing up anyone with a
voice willing to be heard. The show is hosted at various
venues throughout the New York City area, but on this
night Galapagos opens its doors to these local voices.
Special guest performers include:
Brooklyn based David Pilgrim is a bass player/vocalist
with "Island Soul" -visit www.davidpilgrim.com
Los Angeles based Kwanzaa Jones is a guitar player/vocalist
- Visit www.kwanzajones.com
(pictured)
Plus Manhattan based MC's
R-Sun & Crisis will be dropping their lyrics backed
by the kARMA Band.
Proceeds from this event will go to victims of the Mississippi
Gulf Coast Hurricane Katrina disaster.
 10.17
8pm FREE
SMUT
Featuring
writer/performer Justin Swain, Comedian, musician, and
author of "I, An Actress," Jeffrey Dinsmore,
and writer Bob Powers, co-host of "How To Kick People."
Hosted by Desiree Burch (pictured).
It's our weekly program of provocate readings and performance,
starring some of NYC's greatest talents. 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."
 10.17
10pm FREE
BURLESQUE with SWIS X
The
Swis X-Travaganza presents a Full Moon Burlesque Supershow!
Featuring
the toothsome ish of Jules de la Familia, the glittering
power of Lady Ace, the brilliant quake of Miss Saturn,
the singular call of MsTickle, the lupine heat of Penny
Dreadful, the frenetic oo la la of Swis X and the towering
wax of DJ Reaganomics!
www.djsims.com
 10.18
7:30pm FREE backroom
This
Is Not The New Minstrel Show
A
new reading series that celebrates and showcases 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 and Lesbian.
This
week, featuring: WHIT GRIFFIN & WILL FABRO
Whit
Griffin was born in Memphis and attended Bennington
College. He is currently an MFA student at Brooklyn College
and is working on his first full-length collection of poems.
Whit has had work appear in small journals including River
City and Margie. He also edited a journal entitled 'tight'
which featured the work of a diverse array of writers from
all genres.
Will
Fabro was the recipient of the Milton H. Saier Memorial
Prize for Fiction in 2002 and was published in the anthology
Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction . He is at work on
a novel and will be reading from a collection of interrelated
poetry and prose entitled Drowning.
 10.18
8pm
pay-what-you-can frontroom
Earl Dax presents...
ART
JAM: a monthly performance salon
with Sxip Shirey, Carry Curran, Discoteca Flaming Star,
Layard Thompson and video by Joshua Thorson
"Promo-trixie
Earl Dax’s third Tuesdays at the Galapagos Art Space
in Williamsburg are quickly turning into fab confabs of
gender-fucking music-oriented performance art; messy nights
where caburlesque meets staunch politik-ing.." - New
York Press
Earl
Dax kicks off a new season of his acclaimed monthly performance
salon with an all-star ART JAM tonight.
ART
JAM features a mix of innovative artists sure to appeal
to the adventurous palate! Illuminescent Orchestri's SXIP
SHIREY plays his unique music on a variety of traditional
and re-imagined instruments, such as Mutant Harmonicas,
the Industrial Flute, and the Obnoxiophon. Taking things
one step further, Berlin-based DISCOTECA FLAMING STAR parlays
idolatry and obsession with fame into a conceptual music
project that "plays at" being a rock band (much
as the Dazzle Dancers play at being a dance troupe). CARY
CURRAN (aka Cherry Dazzle) returns to New York after touring
Europe with Big Art Group's "House of No More."
Curran debuts a sneak peak of her new solo work-in-progress.
Modern dancer and choreographer LAYARD THOMPSON and a new
work by video artist JOSHUA THORSON round out the evening.
 10.18
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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 10.19
8pm $5
Little Gray Book Lecture Series
This
Galapagos favorite returns! The Little Gray Book Lecture
Series is featured on WNYC and has gained a cult following
for its irreverent, thought-provoking discourse. Curated
by John Hodgman.
This
time, it's the book release party for Mr. Hodgman's book
The
Areas of My Expertise. The evening will feature
Jonathan Coulton, Cynthia Hopkins, Robert Farris Thompson,
and Mr. Hodgman himself!
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 10.20
7pm FREE
CHATTER
Reckless
& energetic SCI-FI antics with four players caught
up in an addictive game designed to strip them of their
humanity. HANS TAMMEN performs music violently squished
through sonic operations that create an alien world of
hard-to-believe sounds. "...clearly one of the best
experimental guitarists to come forward in the 1990s."
(Francois Couture). For audiences with a
strong tolerance for dislocation & vertigo... and
reality disintegrating underfoot.
Featuring:
MIKEAH JENNINGS, JENNIFER DUDEK, KRISTEN ANDERSSON, LARS
PREECE
www.tammen.org
for audio and MPEG-movies, go to "solo works"
page
 10.20
8pm FREE
Amnesty International Williamsburg: First Meeting
The
introductory meeting for a new chapter of Amnesty International.
With guest speaker Sowore Omoyele, a former prisoner of
conscience from Nigeria (imprisoned 8 times for leading
student demonstrations). Plus words from Josh Rubenstein,
director of Amnesty International USA for the Northeast
Region. Also, a screening of the video Incite Hope,
a short informational video about Amnesty International.
Food will be provided.
10.20
9pm $6
 FALL
BACK...
with Just About To Burn, Dina Dean, and
Jaymay
Jaymay
- Destined to join the ranks of remembered singer/songwriters,
JAYMAY's exquisite music is an amalgam of modern folk,
acoustic pop and jazz. Her tunes are emotional and intelligent;
her voice flesh-raising. JAYMAY's live shows are engaging
and memorable; no song performed the same way twice. www.jaymaymusic.com
Dina
Dean - Singer songwriter whose style is rooted in
the Americana musical idioms that she uses as a point
of departure. Her enchanting and distinct 'old soul' voice
and poetic narrative style evoke the spirit of the early
blues, country, jazz and gospel traditions, yet she unites
and transforms these 'forces' into something elusive and
fresh. She is often called a cross between Bob Dylan and
Billie Holliday - but one listen will convince you that
she is truly one of a kind.
Just
About to Burn - They
make
the kind of music that feeds-off of a pure desire to just
enjoy hooky catchy, acoustic tunes. It's a sound that
owes as much to old school country-pop, rhythm and blues,
and pop music as it does to the band's front-man, PALEFACE's
punk-rock caustic New York City roots. www.justabouttoburn.com
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 10.21
7pm
FREE
Jezebel Music Presents
Black Bunny CD RELEASE Party
With
opening acts: Jeff Brodnax and The Bowman
This
monthly music program once again graces the Galapagos
stage. Williamsburg based music promoters Jezebel Music
present the CD release for the band Black BUnny, with
special guests Jeff Brodnax and The Bowman.
http://www.jezebelmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/blackbunnymusic
 10.21
10pm $6
JESSE HARTMAN + DEVA
Backed
by members of Freestyle Love Supreme (www.freestylelovesupreme.com),
Jesse Hartman (a.k.a. LAPTOP, www.laptopic.com)
, East Village Synth-Pop ironicist and co-owner of new
club Mo Pitkin¹s House of Satisfaction (www.mopitkins.com),
brings his twisted, hilarious songs to Gallapagos on
Oct. 21st. He also appears monthly Upstairs at Mo¹s
(34 Avenue A).
"Hartman is up there with the very best lyrical
craftsman. Like Leonard Cohen remixed by Devo."
- The London Times
Plus
female-fronted Devo cover band DEVA! Expect choreography,
special effects, and a special appearance from Booji
Boy.
www.devallure.com (pictured with Mark Motherbaugh
from Devo)
10.21
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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 10.22
2:30pm $5
Go
Codon Theater Company presents
The Art By Scientists Show
A benefit for the Go Codon Theater Company
Go
Codon Theater Company presents a silent auction of photos,
paintings, prints, and clothing, handmade by scientists
with much love and ingenuity!
Kite
Operations and Inoculist provide live music.
www.gocodon.org
 10.22
6pm FREE
Monatomic and Roboto
"Furiously
rhythmic electric jazz" -The Rex on
Monatomic
http://www.monatomicmusic.com
http://www.robotomusic.com
 10.22
10pm FREE
Policy
Wonks Record Release
Phantasmatrash presents the POLICY WONKS
record release show with additional music by the organic
drum and bass duo Jeff Brown Duplex and special guests
to be announced. Visuals for the evening will be provided
by award-winning filmmaker Fernando Villegas and interstellar
artist Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca.
Gustavo
Alberto Garcia Vaca (pictured) -
http://www.chamanvision.com
Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca is a visual artist from Colombia.
He works in various mediums including digital imaging,
writing, drawing and photography. His artwork has been
exhibited in art galleries in New York City, Tokyo, Kobe,
Los Angeles and Mexico City. His artwork is currently
touring in the "Yo! What Happened to Peace?"
poster art group exhibition. His photography is also included
in the recently published "Graffiti World" art
book.
www.Phantasmatrash.com
- www.chamanvision.com
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 10.23
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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