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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 license’s will be issued, by us.
> Friday, August 22nd, 8pm, Free Party! 8p All Night haircuts (free + tip) by Kenny Makes You Beautiful! Kenny will make you dazzle!!! change your looks & your life with a precision Japanese Puma Mimi (pictured) is in Tokyo, waking up on Saturday morning. Swiss Tim is in New York, live on our stage. Mimi gets transmitted via skype direct from Saturday morning to a Friday night at Galapagos Art Space in NYC. Cool. Swiss Tim and Japanese Mimi met in the Netherlands 5 years ago. Since, they've recorded songs in trains, airports, via skype and around the globe. 'one two three Tim and Puma Mimi' is their third release. Asakomusic plays analog synthesizer, glockenspiel computer & little tribal instruments. The result, AsakoMusic, is dreamy and spacey, and sung in different languages. Asako is an ambient part of different bands and project collaborations such asTiger Fingers, Dead Radar, [a u d i b l e], doroasako, Katja Loher and Das Videoorchester. Asako's songs are about abstract feelings towards random things - like clouds, airplane, sheep, moons, sun-shines and friends. Chris Jordan (seeJ) Katja Loher
> PUNCH puppet slam presents PUNCH, New York’s only consistent puppetry slam, is back and will present its first monthly showcase for the 2008-2009 season in the all new Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO. Curated by Gretchen Van Lente of Drama of Works, this month is The Best of PUNCH! In honor of Galapagos’ beautiful new space, this month’s showcase brings you only the best and brightest performers that have hit the PUNCH stage. The Best of PUNCH will feature some of the best performers and acts of the past three years:
Free with RSVP to projections@wnyc.org.
**photo by pete deevakul
> Saturday, September 13, 8pm, $5 I hope you’re either wearing a helmet or are within close proximity of a neurosurgeon, because what you’re about to read will blow your mind. Iím proud to announce the first ever Nerd Nite Nerdtacular! The Nerdtacular will not only feature presentations by the Nerd Nite Boston host (did you see his last presentation about zombies?), a writer from The Daily Show, and a super triple-extra-secret special guest, but it’ll even boast the musical stylings of Overlord (not a metal band) so you can rock out while simultaneously viewing some of the best mental hygiene movie footage around. Even photos of abandoned building and insane asylums by former Nerd Nite presenter Matthew King. Plus, the new Galapagos features an 1,800 sq ft indoor lake which makes its old reflecting pool in Williamsburg look as big as an ascaris lumbricoides (yes, human parasite analogies never go out of style). *Presentation #2: The faithful getting a skybox to watch the ultimate Jesus-Satan grudge match. A “massive transformation” to take place in 2012. The Earth covered in a giant spiderweb and slammed with a great blue star. For every belief system in our world, thereís a belief how it will end. Can only one be right and more importantly, have you subscribed to it? Rob Kutner, author of Apocalypse How, tells you everything you need to prepare for the ultimate “Told ya so.” Rob Kutner is an Emmy-award-winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and a contributor to America: The Book. He has written humor and feature pieces for the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Esquire, and Maxim, and has a “go bag” at the ready in his New York apartment.
> Tuesday, September 16th, 7:30pm, reception to follow Why do artists often think that you are a sell out if you make money from your art? Why do we seem to believe that you must suffer to make great art, yet we pine away for the seemingly Utopian state sponsored art cultures of Berlin and Brussels? Is there something inherently hierarchical and damaging in the “gift economy” that the arts and philanthropy work in? The non-profit model that most artists use may not be the best model for your work, yet we gravitate to it like lemmings? What about being for-profit or for-benefit? What does that even mean really? What about LLCs and L3Cs and what about a blend model? https://www.thefield.org/t-special_topics.aspx
Thursday, September 18, 8pm, $7 Slutty Puppets, the raucous puppet evening of illegitimate chaos, is BACK! After a long hiatus, your favorite evening of bizarre and kooky puppetry with a dash of clowning returns. Hosted by dancing queen, Kate Brehm (photo at left), the evening features 8-10 short performance acts interspersed with nonessential nonsense like audience presents or spontaneous Truth or Dare. Featuring: Freud and the Plastic Baby by yours truly, imnotlost; some hot oddness with a cigarette by the fabulous Emily Decola; the puppet ringmaster, Jonny Clockworks, with Lefty and Gumshoe presents The Sex Machine; the bastard son of Pee Wee Herman, John Leo (clown!!!); the like totally awesome, Die Hard the Puppet Musical; disturbing dental HORROR by ‘Z’; and more!
Fractured Atlas hosts a 10th Anniversary Party on Friday September 19th 2008. This free event will feature the musical of The Vintage DJ, a live raffle and a cash bar. No RSVP required. Raffle includes items donated by Levitate Yoga, The Brooklyn Kitchen, Threadless.com, Powerhouse Books and Broadway show tickets. Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations. By nurturing today's talented but underrepresented voices, we hope to foster a dynamic and diverse cultural landscape of tomorrow. Liberate the Artist!
Darmstadt music series, a Galapagos Resident Artist, presents Ray Sweeten. Audio origins begin with antiquated tape experiments based on recorded correspondences between his late father and brother. Sweeten's work as a video artist is also rooted in a notion of the historic and the psychosomatic, as he deals primarily with an oscilloscope (used as early as 1950 by animator Ben Laposky, and evoking early abstractions by early computer art pioneer John Whitney). As a visual artist working with analog and digital techniques, his work presents a stunning intersection between the early roots of the medium and offers mesmerizing glimpses of its future.
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> Friday, July 18th, 8pm 
Gianni Amelio, 1995, Italy, 116 minutes
m Galapagos opens the doors!
Wednesday, August 27th, 8pm, $7
> Friday & Saturday, September 5th & 6th, 8pm, $10
> Monday, September 8th, 7pm
> Friday, September 12th, 8pm, $10
First Annual Nerd Nite Nerdtacular
> Wednesday, September 17th, 7:30pm, Free
Slutty Puppets
> Friday, September 19th, 8pm, FREE
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> Wednesday, September 24th, 8pm, $10