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schedule of events While we’re not officially open just yet - we will be in a few weeks – as a new neighbor we wanted to say hello to DUMBO and invite you over for a film. We’re launching a new film series, partnered with New Yorker Films, called CineBella (with an exclamation point; Cinebella!) and we’ll be showing films the next two weekends before the series moves to Sundays. One of the upcoming films is partnered with WNYC. Please feel free to stop by, see what we’ve built, have a look at our new venue and say hello. We’d love to meet you. We can talk about the new DUMBO Kite Flying Society (first Saturday of every month in the Brooklyn Bridge Park, and the upcoming dance on film series “Frameworks”.
July 2008
CineBella! featuring: In Williamsburg we started our programming with Ocularis, our in-house, independently curated film series that ran for a decade. We loved Ocularis, it helped us define who we were, it taight us all about film, and sitting in the space wearing jackets, scarves and hats before we had heat was fun. In a nod to Ocularis, a series that spawned programmers who now work across the city and as far away as Istanbul and Berlin, we present CineBella!, the best of everything we learned from Ocularis about presenting film. Burnt by the Sun was the Academy award winner 1995, Best Foreign Film. “With its Chekhovian sense of a brutal future encroaching on an elegant, dying world, "Burnt by the Sun" matches the enduring power of Mr. Mikhalkov's best works” - Caryn James, The New York Times Preceded by the short film “Drink Me” > Saturday July 19th, 8pm One of the most beautiful - and one of the strongest - films I’ve ever seen. Set in Albania just after the fall of the Soviet Union, two Italians set out to bilk a country of stumbling and blinking citizens dazed by the loss of a hierarchical system that dictated their every move. A raw, evocative film that explodes change and leaves its character struggling to hold onto what they mistakenly assumed was their birthright in being members of an ‘advanced’ western civilization. If you’re asking yourself what you could judge the new Galapagos Art space by, judge us by this. Come see this film and if we disappoint, you can throw rocks at our front window. "...the streets are strewn with rubble and the populace is volatile and anarchic. It is either a scene of devastation or a land or opportunity, depending on one's point of view. Mr. Lo Verso once again shows himself to be a touchingly naive everyman, a mournfully handsome actor whose face seems effortlessly revealing. His carefully shaded performance melds the arrogance of new prosperity with the broadening, unwanted emergence of a wider world view." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times As on Friday, L’america is also preceded by the short film “Drink Me” > Saturday July 26th, 8 pm Frameworks featuring films by Greg Catellier and Jeff Curtis Mira Peck Janice Lancaster and For more information visit
> Saturday August 2nd, 9am, Brooklyn Bridge Park. Galapagos~kids! founds the first ever (That's the City Park at the foot of Main Street, not the State Park, the State Park has rules and they won’t let you fly a kite. We told them to go fly a kite.) Don’t ask our members the secrets to building the world’s best kites. We think most of them will be under ten years old and might be flying their first kite, and besides, no one’s telling. If we told you, you’d miss the fun. Besides we’re not founding the grandest society to ever plaster itself across the DUMBO sky for nothing. Introducing: the DUMBO Kite Flying Society. DKFS members arise on the first Saturday morning of every month to ascend and soar between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, glide over the East River, and vie for the titles of biggest kite, smallest kite, worst kite, longest flying kite and most improved kite. DKTS members salute innovative kite engineers of all skills provided they possess the will and fortitude of kite fliers who have come before; such as Alexander Graham Bell, Benjamin Franklin, the Wright Brothers, and Submarine Spies, mariners who lofted antennas into the sky to talk to the folks back home. Second only to birds (poor Icarus!), kites were the first inspiration to explore reality of lifting man into the sky. Come fly a kite! Starter kites provided! Certificate of membership and kite flying licenses will be issued, by us.
> Friday, August 1st, 8pm, Free
My Best Fiend - Klaus Kinski In the 1890's a Peruvian rubber baron, chasing profit, tries to pull a 320 ton steamship over a mountain in search of more rubber, and basically goes insane trying to do it. In 1980's Werner Herzog wants to make a film about this, so of course he too - with unstoppable force - tries to pull a 320 ton steamship - an immoveable object - over a mountain. Off he goes, film crew in tow, but with once special actor as well, Klaus Kinski.
> Saturday, August 2nd, 8pm, Free N Run Lola Run Berlin: Berlin has lots and lots of inexpensive apartments, some of the cleanest air in Europe, a stable, affordable cultural ecosystem and a local government obsessed with cultural sustainability (they've seen how artists are being priced out of New York) that will extend your three-month visa for an additional year if you have as much as a cold.
> Monday, August 4th, 7 pm, Free with RSVP Part of WNYC's year-long film series, Political Projections. Each month, from now until Election Day 2008, WNYC's Leonard Lopate talks to film critics, historians, filmmakers, and listeners to find out how Hollywood has portrayed Washington politics over the past 70 years. Political Projections, a monthly segment on Leonard's show, focuses on corrupt candidates, virtuous do-gooders, presidents and politicians who have been popular subjects on the silver screen since the early days of film. ** We love WNYC. We think that they're far and away one of the most important cultural forces shaping our city today. And we especially love WNYC online. As newspapers across the country wilt and as their cultral pages struggle to define who they'll be, WNYC, with On The Media, The Brian Lehrer Show, The Leonard Lopate Show and The Next Big Thing is not only redefining what radio is, but redefining how we engage media itself.
> Tuesday, August 5th, 7pm, $10-35 sliding scale
** A limited number of private "lily pad" seating areas on the reflecting pool are available for $500 and seat 10 - 12 people.
> S Catch performance Series 31 Catch, everyone's favorite* multidisciplinary performance and video series, presents rough and ready short works from emerging and emerged artists, curated and hosted with reckless delicacy by Jeff Larson and Andrew Dinwiddie. On August 16, Catch reunites with its original and long-time host, Galapagos Arts Space, to help warm Galapagos' new home. BottomHeavy Productions ! ; Abby Browde ! ; Sean Donovan ! ; Levi Gonzalez ! ; Joseph Keckler ! ; Sam Kim ! ; Celia Rowlson-Hall ! ; Katie Workum !
August Cool-Off Dance Their only full-orchestra show until Governors Island in September..
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> Friday, July 18th, 8pm 
Gianni Amelio, 1995, Italy, 116 minutes
New Yorker Films and Galapagos Art Space present: CineBella!
ew Yorker Films and Galapagos Art Space present: CineBella!
A Leonard Lopate Show FREE screening of “The Candidate”
There goes the neighborhood! To celebrate the highly-anticipated opening of the new Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Downtown Impresario Earl Dax presents WELCOME WAGON!, a night of performance and music featuring an eclectic mix of performers plucked from the heights of Broadway, the depths of the Bowery and everywhere in between! Confirmed performers include Tony Award-winner Stew, Cintra Wilson, Kim Cea, Julian Fleischer, Lady Rizo, the Daisy Spurs, Jack Ferver, Nick Hallett, Ryan Tracy, Glenn Marla, and La JohnJoseph.
aturday 16 August, 8pm, $10
> Sunday