Monthly Archives: June 2008

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Have You No Shame?

Former Culturebot contributor Rachel Shukert reading from her debut short story collection Have You No Shame? At the Frequency Reading Series at The Four Faced Liar! 165 W 4th St. NYC Sunday, June 8 at 3:00pm (A good excuse to start drinking early!!!) I just finished

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Three Films by Yvonne Rainer

Chez Bushwick Presents Three Films By Yvonne Rainer   The Lives of Performers (1972) Wednesday, June 4th 7:30pm $5   Murder and Murder (1996) Wednesday, June 11th 7:30pm $5   Privilege (1990) Wednesday, June 18th 7:30pm $5   Three films by acclaimed choreographer, filmmaker, and

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Thank You Boredom

Here’s something local! Chase Granoff at DTW: Dance Theater Workshop presents… Thank you boredom. June 5 and 6 @ 7:30pm FREE Reservations are encouraged! 212.924.0077. Dance Theater Workshop presents Chase Granoff in the Studio Series with his newest  choreographic work, Thank you boredom. With interests

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Soundscaper

My friend Maia Marinelli sent me this update on some work she has opening in Genoa. She has done some pretty interesting interactive collaborative stuff. I actually can’t tell if this is going to only be happening in Genoa or if it will be happening

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Grafenegg Music Festival 2008

So for all you classical music fans planning to kick EU-style this summer, maybe you want to get on over to Grafenegg where artistic director Rudolph Buchbinder is really stirring things up! Do I sound like I know what I’m talking about? I don’t. I

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Watermill Residencies

I can’t quite tell what this is about. It sounds interesting but I can’t tell if this is a call for proposals or just an announcement. If its a call for proposals it could be a great opportunity. THE WATERMILL CENTER PARTNERS WITH CATALAN CENTER

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The Apostle Project

Don’t know much about this but it looks like it could be interesting… The Apostle Project A Mitu Collaboration Can faith be questioned? Can memory be contradicted? Can fear be suppressed? At the birth of any political or spiritual movement, a leader arises to guide,

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Auto-Tune

Sasha Frere-Jones’ has an interesting piece on Auto-Tune, the pitch-correction software used in music recordings, in this week’s New Yorker. And he also demonstrates the software (with his own voice, covering Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone”) on NewYorker.com.

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Promise of New York

I think I mentioned this before, but if not, my friend Raul’s documentary on the 2005 NYC Mayoral Campaign is done and starting to play at festivals and stuff. I’m in it, because I ran for mayor that year. It also covers Christopher X Brodeur

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St. Ann’s Warehouse: “Toy Theater Festival”.

Last night the Eighth International Toy Theater Festival came to a close after more than a week of programming. For the last evening’s program, the line up consisted of Peter Schumann (creator of the Vermont based Bread and Puppet Theater), Great Small Works, work by