ALSO THIS WEEK AT GALAPAGOS:
SWISS MISS' CREATIVE MORNINGS
 CreativeMornings is a monthly speaker series and morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 15-20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. Brought to you by Swiss Miss, a NYC-based design blog and studio. CreativeMornings are free of charge!
This morning’s speaker is Ji Lee, a graphic designer and artist, founder of the Bubble Project and the author of two books. Ji’s a frequent contributor for The New York Times. His work has been featured in the ABC World News, Newsweek, Wired, The Guardian, GQ, Huffington Post, Boing Boing, Gizmodo, among others. Ji works as a creative director at Google Creative Lab.
For more information about Ji Lee’s incredible work, visit his website.
THURSDAY, MARCH 31
Doors: 8:30 am - 10:00am | FREE
CHIARA QUARTET
 “When the musicians put bows to strings, they delivered a nuanced performance that suggested that Webern’s 1909 score accommodates, and perhaps demands, conflicting points of view. They embraced the late Romanticism from which the music is mined, playing parts of the first movement with a lush, pulsing vibrato that made its turn-of-the-century Viennese origins unmistakable, and bathing the finale in an emotional, warm glow.” - The New York Times
Join us for the fourth volume in the year-long Creator/Curator series, featuring composer Daniel Ott. The Chiara Quartet will premiere Ott’s String Quartet No. 2, and perform Lutosawski’s String Quartet, chosen by the composer to accompany his new composition.
THURSDAY, MARCH 31
Doors: 7:00 pm, Show: 8:00 pm | $10 Advance / $15 At Door
SUPERFRAICHE
 Acclaimed music blogger Arjan Writes will join Gumbo NYC, one of New York City’s most popular gay party productions, to bring SUPERFRAICHE to the dramatic, multi-level Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Brooklyn.This special edition of SUPERFRAICHE will feature an exciting blend of new pop artists from across the country. Singer-songwriter Sky Ferreira will headline the show and perform from her new EP “AS IF!” – available March 22 on iTunes. Simon Curtis, Databoy, and She’s the Queen will also be giving live performances.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1
Doors: 8:00 pm, Show 9:00pm | $20
GUMBO
(Gay. Dumbo. Party.)
 GUMBO is every first and third Friday of the month at Galapagos from 10 pm - 4 am.
It's a "Critics' Choice" for gay nightlife at Time Out NY, Next Magazine writes,
"A place for grown up gays to play? Pencil us in!" and Out.com raves, "One of
the hottest new gay parties in NYC." Tickets available at door only.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1
Doors: 10:00 pm | $5 before 11 pm, $10 after 11 pm
THREE ACTS OF BETRAYAL
 “Terrorists’ whore”
“She is full with self-hatred”
“Such garbage should be executed!!!”
These words were uttered in reference to three of history's most famous female betrayors: Mata Hari, La Melincha, Rosa Luxemburg and Tali Fahima, who will be in the center of a new piece looking at women who used their body to perform national treason. Three Acts of Betrayal is presented in conjunction with Ofri Cnaani’s exhibition, The Sota Project, on view at Kunsthalle Galapagos through April 23rd. Cnaani and Cohen ask: "what happens when one stops being loyal to their country? What happens when the traitor is a woman – a traitress? How are traitors judged by the state and by the court of public opinion? What spectacle is formed through the punishment?" In Three Acts of Betrayal, artists combine live cinema various technologies of interrogation and entertainment to ask how and why we relate to political violence via technological mediation.
Hadas Cohen is a researcher and PhD candidate at the department of Politics at the New School for Social Research. She is writing her dissertation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and treason. Ofri Cnaani is an artist and educator. She works in time-based media, live-cinema performances and large-scale installations. She often uses defunct technologies to present her research that is related to visual memories of the early days of Israeli history, and political and sexual betrayal.
SATURDAY, APRIL 2
Doors: 4:00 pm, Show: 5:00 pm | FREE
FLOATING KABARETTE
 The Floating Kabarette debut of Calamity Chang!
Calamity Chang, otherwise known as "The Asian Sexsation," is an NYC-based burlesque performer and producer. Her current regular productions and appearances include "Beatles Burlesque" at Public Assembly, "Spanking the Lower East Side" at the Nurse Betty Bar, and "Drunken Dragon Nights" at Macao Trading Company.
Tonight’s jaw-dropping lineup also includes Lady Scoutington, Madame Rosebud, Jan Manke, Harvest Moon, and your sweetly naughty hosts, Olga & Bjorn.
SATURDAY, APRIL 2
Doors: 10:00 pm, Show: 10:30 pm | $15 General Admission, $20 Reserved VIP
GET SMART: RYE BARCOTT
 “GET SMART” is Galapagos' regular lecture series, in which experts in an array of subjects (including food, environmental studies and new technologies) will impart their knowledge and insight in a fun, laidback cocktail setting. Attendees can expect to become up to 95% smarter over the course of each night.
Join Rye Barcott and special guests for a multi-media evening filled with stirring people, social entrepreneurship, tales of intrigue, humanitarian consciousness, diverse libations, and an all around good time. In between talks at Facebook Headquarters, Nike’s main offices, Google NY, Harvard Business School and the Pentagon on his 26-city tour, Rye lands on the Galapagos stage to bring his intense story of Kibera, Kenya to New York City.
Rye Barcott’s signature presentation on social entrepreneurship will take the Galapagos crowd on a trek through the joy and heartbreak, the friendships and betrayals, and the failures and triumphs of creating a movement to spark change from within one of the world’s largest and most volatile slums. As inspiring as it is informative, Rye’s story will spur you on your own quest to make a difference in the world, no matter your age or avocation.
SUNDAY, APRIL 3
Doors: 7:00 pm, Show: 8:00 pm | FREE!
BINDLESTIFF OPEN STAGE
 An Intimate Experience with Circus Stars from Around the World and NYC’s Finest Emerging Variety Talents
Circus * Sideshow * Vaudeville * Burlesque * Dance * Music
Come to Galapagos for a spectacular night of variety entertainment that will include much more than a simple song and dance. Hosted by Bindlestiff Family Cirkus co-founder Keith Nelson, Bindlestiffs Open Stage Variety Show is a non stop variety show experience that may include The Heavy Metal Magician, Kung Fu juggling, trained rats, clown bands, aerial artists, wire walkers, sword swallowers, stripping clowns, living cartoons, physical comedy, a cougar contortionist and a cowboy from the Bronx. Every show offers amazing sights, quirky surprises, and some of the best variety artists working New York and the world. Always entertaining.
Galapagos Art Space has dedicating the first Monday of every month to New York City’s variety, vaudeville, aerial, and circus artists. Celebrating works in progress, emerging artists, and professionals trying something new, this night promises many surprises.
MONDAY, APRIL 4
Doors: 7:00 pm, Show: 8:00 pm | $5
Galapagos Art Space is also pleased to share a show presented by our friends at The Kitchen:
THE KITCHEN PRESENTS 21C LIEDERABEND OP. 2
 Thursday-Saturday, April 7-9, 8pm
Tickets: $15
The Kitchen, 512 W 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
212-255-5793 x11
An ambitious multi-media festival of boundary-pushing, post-classical song featuring the brightest rising young stars as well as beloved, well-known composers of New York City’s contemporary music scene.
Composers featured (with premieres in italics):
Thursday, April 7:Paola Prestini, Theo Bleckmann, Julia Wolfe, Phil Kline, Matt Marks, Gregory Spears, Russell Platt, andGabriel Kahane
Friday, April 8:Paola Prestini, Douglas J. Cuomo, Kamala Sankaram, Missy Mazzoli, Du Yun (Festival Commission), Peter Golub, Ted Hearne, andMilica Paranosic
Saturday, April 9:Sarah Kirkland Snider, John Zorn, David T. Little, Paola Prestini,
Du Yun, Lev Zhurbin and Daniel Felsenfeld
For more information and tickets, go here:
http://www.thekitchen.org/event/253/0/1/
Photo: Jill Steinberg
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ABOUT GALAPAGOS ART SPACE
Galapagos Art Space strives to cultivate and develop arts and culture while enabling audiences to engage in intellectual and social dialogue. It presents a range of unique and regular flagship productions that embrace the wonderful diversity of dance, music, design, science, technology, and thought. All of Galapagos' performances impart artists and audience members alike to meaningfully participate within New York City’s cultural ecosystem while also being entertained. Most of its activities take place within the Galapagos headquarters based in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
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