Rock-it Docket: It's raining art

Friday, June 6, 2008

It's raining art

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Here we go with the big show for today. I can't list it all, but the link for JC Fridays is off to the right with some other featured events. Also, I couldn't find a couple of flyers, and now since my scanner went down, I'll tell ya about some other stuff; A Fish with Braids has a toilet art exhibit 6 to 9 pm . Yes art has really gone to shit in this town. Haha. But really My bathroom could use a new thrown.

At Toyeaters, Melissa Surach Is putting together a Glamorous Night of Hilarity at Toyeaters, she's working with some other comedians plus the Swigs end the night. Afterwards, there is a Dance Party Benefit for Christina's Cat Pinky, who unfortunately found out that he could not fly.

58 will be open from 10 to 11pm tonight. Our Closing Party for Dylan Egon's A Modern American Tomb is on Saturday starting at 8pm. We'll have DJ's to ROCK your disco. Dylan's going to give away a HERMES bracelet to a someone sporting a Dylan Egon shirt.

On Sunday. I will be at the art opening at LITM for by Lin. The Opening runs from 7 to 10 pm. I'll be dj-ing , but beforehand, I'll be working up a sweat on a 94 degree day at Volleyball. Just a note for Volleyball people, even though there may be isolated t-storms. for f-sake it's going to be ninety degrees. so expect action.

Here are the details I received from people about their events.

Hello,
Thank you so much for coming out to my show at LITM (Crass Menagerie) during the month of May.....
If you're out this Friday for the JC Fridays events & fun times, feel free to stop by Fish with Braids @ 521 Jersey Ave from 6-9 pm. She's a wonderfully creative woman with a wry sense of humor about her work...and, oh, yes, I'll have a little painting there as well!
The show is called Toilet Humor. It'll be up for a week, so catch it while you can.
Cheers (and thanks again),
Megan Gulick
http://www.blogger.com/www.megangulick.com

JC Fridays has rolled around again and this time at Balance with the help of Kathleen of World of Style Vintage, we want to welcome you "to the funhouse"!

Join us for the fun with our krazy kaleidescope of characters and art by Colleen Gutwein, in her collection called "Gossamer" featuring her colorful abstract self portraits, curated by the one and only Tara Thurber.
Also featured, we have ceiling installions by Mindy Gluek.
And as always, we are featuring our resident artist, Norm Francoeur's, fabulous light sculptures.
The booze will flow and so will the fun at Balance tomorrow, June 6th from 7pm-9pm.

Hope to see you carousing with us,

Love,
Balance.

STEP RIGHT UP, DARLINGS!

There's another JC Friday festival this Friday, June 6th, so naturally World of Style and Balance Salon will be putting on a fashion show! "Welcome to the Funhouse" will be a splendid carnival of fashion with psychedelic clowns, exotic dancers, jugglers and acrobats. The show will run continuously from 7-9pm. Guaranteed fun! And of course Henry the Horse dances the waltz!

AND...it wouldn't be JC Friday at 18 Erie without an art opening! We'll celebrate Colleen Gutwein's “Gossamer,” a colorful series of abstract self-portraits, curated by Tara Thurber. And as always, there'll be fab light sculptures by Norm Francoeur!

Last but not least, World of Style is having a 20% off sale for JC Friday!

Do come and join the fun...

Friday, June 6th
7pm - 9pm
World of Style Vintage and Balance Salon
18 Erie Street
Jersey City, NJ

Caio darlings,

--Your hostess, Kathleen
(201) 324-2992http://www.worldofstylevintage.com/Tues.-Fri. 12-8; Sat. 10-5; Sun. by appt

Tonight, Friday, June 6th8-10: Reception for J2Kool's Pantha Poster Art Series10-12: "A Glamorous Night of Hilarity" (Free)Leibya Rogers hosts this night of hilarious ladies and rock and roll. Spiraling are opening the show, The Swigs are closing the show, and there's an hour of glamorous, hilarious lady comics in between, such as Melissa Surach, Rachel Parenta and Brooke Van Poppelen. 12-???: "The Cat's Meow" (donate $ to help Pinky the cat)A dance party to help raise money for Christina Cruz's cat Pinky who needs medical help. Featuring DJ Leonard Smalls and others.Beer & wine available for $ donations, or BYO is ok.-Toy Eaters Studio-143 C. Columbus Drive, in the GRAF, half a stairwell upJersey City, NJ 07302www.myspace.com/toyeaters

New Location - Just Behind City Hall : 6th Borough Market

FIRST THURSDAY TIKI PARTY AT DC"s TAVERN

03-06 8 pm Put some Class in your Grass Skirts 8pm DC's Tavern Hoboken : So the crew behind D.C.’s Taverns First Thursdays has decided to go to Hawaii. We’re having a Tiki Party! With a very special guest, the one and only Rum Queen, Natalie Jacob of Papa's Pilar Rum! John Ernst and Joe Donohue are donning Grass Skirts while shaking their coconuts behind the bar. Zoey Ramone will be back in her little tattoo shack and of course I’ll be spinning all things Hawaii, Surf, Skate, Lounge and anything else that reminds you of Summer. So catch a wave, walk don’t run or ski or use the Light Railbut get to D.C.’s Tavern this First Thursday because it is TIKI TIME!

PATHS THAT CROSS : Photography Show at 313 Gallery

03/01 & JCF 5 to 9 pm : Paths That Cross is a visual art experience comprised of works both in photography and video. The work reflects the artists finding their own space in this song to create and reflect. Faet artists : Allana Clarke, Cristine Posner, Gabriella Chavez, Cathleen Marie Thérèse Parra, Kelly Schirmer, Fredrick Macaraeg, Amanda Unger, Rita Jimenez, Roxana Zavala Marroquin, Melissa Büsing, Dakota Santiago, Albamaria Escalante, Kathleen Odenthal, Grace Morchel, and Leona Strassberg Steiner.

17 Year Cicada - New Works by Kayt Hester

SAT 08/24 @ 9pm Port-o- Lounge he 17 Year Cicada – New Art Work by Kayt Hester – opens August 24th at Port- O Lounge, one of the handful of downtown Jersey City restaurants/art galleries that, by presenting to new audiences, up & coming and established local artists, are transforming the New York Metropolitan area Art World. As the title of the exhibition suggests, this edition of the yearly Hester Summer Showcase coalesces around the theme of Magicada Cicadas – the species of cicadas that only appear every 17 years. Her more recent work also expands her use of texture and color. Augmenting her black masking tape are new, extraordinary details made of brightly colored, metallic tape. She also has incorporated embroidery to canvases, essentially embedding 21st century needlepoint within her tape illustrations.

21st Annual Pagan Thanksgiving Dinner

MONDAY Nov 21st 7 pm @ Halcyon [Montclair, NJ] Bring you best side dish, cash bar, donations accepteed for the Human Needs Food Pantry. The 21st Annual Pagan Thanksgiving Feast Where: Halcyon, 114 Walnut Street, Montclair (Next door to Egan's. Parking in back or at the train station) When: The Monday Before Thanksgiving - November 21, 2011 Why: Libations - 7 PM, Dinner - 8:30 (we promise multiple food stations this year!) Who: Everyone, and anyone you want to bring, all are welcome. How: Remember to bring a side dish or homemade dessert Bonus!: Get your muscles primed for the Annual Wishbone Grudge Match! The 21st Pagan Thanksgiving Feast is upon us and from every nook and cranny the weird and wonderful will gather for an evening of full throated frivolity! We will gorge and devour! We will cackle and hoot! Glasses will empty, plates will be licked clean! In the end we will be emerge with bursting bellies, fizzy heads and murky memories. This year we are back at HALCYON in Montclair (next door to Egan's). Feel free to invite any demons you desire: friends and neighbors, families and co-workers, the more the merrier. We'll cook up the turkeys, the ham, the potatoes and the stuffing. All you need to bring is your momma's best side dish or a homemade dessert. No need to bring booze - the bar will be open all night. Every year, we pass the hat to benefit the Human Needs Food Pantry, which has enriched the lives of Montclair residents since 1982.

We Come in Peace | Annual House Party

click for pictures || Four different music rooms with Two different dance floors If you aren't familiar with our house parties: This is an all inclusive deal[ there plenty of cheep free beer and wine [but we also have a premium cash bar] Come in costume [alien, indian, UN peacekeeper, hippie] make an effort. People like to tlak to people in costume, and you want to talk with them. Come in mixed company [if we wanted to have a sausage party I'd go to the Italian Deli] Have fun be safe and be respectful of people [you are in my apartment] +++++If you think that you are that special that you don't need to pay or don't want to pay at least $5 to come, then take your $5 and see how far it gets somewhere else ++++++

3rd annual dj leonard smalls birthday bash

Sat. Dec 4th at Lucky Sevens | Live music by TFTHC, In Musth, Aminial | DJ's Leonard Smalls, Dancing TOny , Caligula | please note, the annual dj leonard smalls drive for the York St. project will also kick-off on december 4th. like last year, please try and bring something to help the single mother's of jersey city this holiday season and each donation gets you a 1/2 priced draft or well drink (one per visit). plenty of items are needed, such as diapers, wipes, bottles, cleaning supplies, bathing supplies, unopened toys, school supplies, non-perishable food, etc. please help make this holiday season a little brighter for those less fortunate

58 Gallery Reunion Show

Opening F 6 to 9 pm Mary Benson Galleryey everybody, there once was this place called 58 gallery in dtjc showed some of the best art around by some of the best emerging artist around, it coupled the shows with sounds and visuals "that would create an atmosphere unlike any in nyc" holland cotter ny times...and it did a bunch of other things to strengthen the artist community between 2002-2012. it closed in 2012. some of the pioneers and trendsetters of that time are gathering for the start of this amazing series of shows. stay tuned for more info. www.fifty8.com

The Attic Ensemble Presents

Nov 7 to 18h @ Barrow Mansion | August, 1949. A fascinatingly realistic picture of routine cases brought into a bustling metropolitan police station in the course of an evening. Out of the welter of human misery, vice and foolishness there emerges the moving case of a decent young man who has stolen money from his employer; a hardened criminal dragging his young friend down with him; a lawless NJ "gardener" with a corrupt lawyer; and others. In the throes of the tumult is Detective McLeod -- a man whose black & white vision of justice will be challenged by the woman he loves most: his wife. A cast of 22 men and women will bring this drama of truth and consequences to life on the stage.

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Friday, June 6, 2008

It's raining art