BROTHER HAN
 Brother Han sounds like the music child of Dylan, Jack Johnson and some imaginative rogue MC. Blending the sounds of folk, rock, pop, and a unique style of singing and spoken word storytelling, the talented New York native’s music caters to people from all walks of life. His songs are driven by the good the bad and the ugly and his lyrics are thought-provoking, visual and full of color. With a voice as honest and true as his songwriting, Brother Han is a breath of fresh air and an artist worth discovering.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20
Doors: 7:00 pm, Show: 8:00 pm | $10 Advance, $12 Door
FULLY FASHIONED: SHAME & ECSTASY
Shame & Ecstasy is a monthly show every 3rd Thursday of the month. Each show is an evening of Fetish Fascination and Sophisticated Sex and features an education on a specific fetish. Tonight: “Shoe Fetish.” WARNING: ADULT CONTENT!
PRODUCED BY the creators of Fully Fashioned Productions: Madame Rosebud and Marlo Marquise
PERFORMANCES BY: Darenzia (Fetish/Burlesque), Lisa Natoli (Aerial), Madame Rosebud (Fetish/Burlesque/Performance Art), and Marlo Marquise (Fetish/Burlesque/Performance Art).
HOSTED BY: Bastard Keith our Filthy Songbird
THURSDAY, APRIL 21
Doors: 9:00 pm, Show: 10:00 pm | $15 Advance, $20 Door
THE MACHINES PROJECT: GUIDONIAN HAND, ONI BUCHANAN, DUO ORFEO, AND ARTHUR GANSON
 Ariel Artists presents three of its brightest young stars in the contemporary classical world – Guidonian Hand, Oni Buchanan, and Duo Orfeo – together for an evening of slow-burning wonder and painstaking music construction, held together by the delicate workings of Arthur Ganson’s renowned mechanized kinetic sculptures.
As Ganson’s sculptures and films ratchet along through the night on stage, screen and ghostly shadows, a full program of mysterious works from the recent past and brand new compositions of the uncertain present will be performed by this incredible and diverse lineup of musicians.
The New York City trombone quartet Guidonian Hand has made a name for themselves with an inspired attack on all things trombone, from post-modern jungle of Galen Brown to the midnight moods of Thelonious Monk and choral works from Mozart and Debussy. The group has recently commissioned and premiered exciting works that head in all different directions from composers like Galen Brown and Conrad Winslow, with several more new pieces in the works.
FRIDAY, APRIL 22
Doors: 7:00 pm, Show: 8:00 pm | $10 Advance, $12 Door
FLOATING KABARETTE
Galapagos Art Space presents its flagship series Floating Kabarette. Part cabaret, part burlesque and part variety, each show features some of the best performers from New York City and beyond! Floating Kabarette happens every Saturday night.
This evening’s infamous FK features Madame Rosebud, Maine Attraction, Harvest Moon, and your host, the incomparable World Famous *Bob*.
SATURDAY, APRIL 23
Doors: 10:00 pm, Show: 10:30 pm | $20 General Admission ($25 Reserved Island Seating Available for Parties of 8 or More)
POUM TCHACK CINE-CONCERT: DARK SWING
Dark Swing: Three animated films by Ladislas Starewitch with live music by POUM TCHACK
Galapagos Art Space is pleased to present “Dark Swing,” a self-described “cine-concert” by French music band Poum Tchack. The cult-favorite, best known for its blend of rock, gypsy, and traditional roots music, will play original, re-invented scores alongside three classic films by Franco-Russian Ladislas Starewitch. The films were produced between 1921 and 1933 and represent Starewitch’s pioneering work in animated cinema, which inspired subsequent notable filmmakers including Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam.
Born near Aix-Marseille almost ten years ago, Poum Tchack offers a fiendish and unclassifiable music. A subtle combination of jazzy-swing with a hint of rock and gypsy. Explosive compositions, omnipresent humour, but above all an infectious enthusiasm and a great quality of interpretation give this band its dimension.
Poum Tchack have more than 500 shows and three album releases under their belt and have been seen on stage with artists including Emir Kusturica, Sergent Garcia, Sanseverino Mickey 3D, Les Ogres de Barback, Manitas de Plata, and Jacques Higelin.
SUNDAY, APRIL 24
Doors: 7:00 pm, Show: 8:00 pm | $15 General Admission, $10 with valid Student ID
THE QUEEN OF THE MAY AND HER HARVEST QUEENS: AN EVENING OF COMPETITION
 The Queen of the May & Her Harvest Kings: An Evening of Competition is a night of theater, music, dancing and drinking in one tight and beautifully wrapped package. 1929′s newly crowned May Queen cordially invites you to an Evening of Competition, the likes of which this decade has never seen! It’s sure to be a roaring night of rigorous sportsmanship, delicious musical ditties and enough coleslaw to keep your stomachs happy and your belts tight! Don’t miss out as Ohio’s own Golden Gladhart Twins compete for her creamy white hand in marriage. You can dress like a ragamuffin if you like, but you’ll sure look like a dope!
TUESDAYS, APRIL 25, AND MAY 3
Doors: 7:00 pm, Show: 8:00 pm | $15 General Admission, $12 Students
AIGA: DESIGNING ACTIVISM
Graphic art has always played a role in social movements. But will a movement today look the same as movements of the past? Perhaps the biggest challenge facing this generation is our looming ecological crisis: climate change, waste, depleted resources and growing energy needs. Yet the green movement has a real problem on its hands: How to make a substantive emotional connection and break down ideological divides? Propaganda got a bad rap in the 20th century, but the term was originally neutral. It may be that propaganda is precisely what is needed if we are to mobilize to save the environment as we know it. Can we create a propaganda that is honest, impactive and potentially viral all at once? Using the recent publication of Green Patriot Posters as a starting point, this panel brings together leading voices from both the design world and the green movement to dig into these questions, looking for real answers. Audience input and questions will be solicited.
TUESDAY, APRIL 26
Doors: 6:00 pm, Show: 6:30 pm | $13 AIGA Members, $26 Public
ALSO COMING UP AT GALAPAGOS:
DOLLSHOT & PLAZ CAMEL
DOLLSHOT reinvents the works of Schoenberg, Poulenc, Ives and others with radical arrangements and plays adventurous, avant-pop originals. The Brooklyn-based band features: Rosalie Kaplan (voice), Noah Kaplan (saxophone), Wes Matthews (piano), and Giacomo Merega (electric bass).
PLAZ CAMEL is the invention of writer Hampton Fancher (screenwriter, Blade Runner) and composer Noah Kaplan. Fancher performs original prose in a series of musical settings varying from schismatic cantata to unbridled improvisation. Featuring: Dov Manski (keyboards), Giacomo Merega (electric bass), Jason Nazary (drums), Rosalie Kaplan (voice), and Noah Kaplan (saxophone).
THURSDAY, APRIL 28
Doors: 7:00 pm, Show: 8:00 pm | $10 in Advance, $12 Door
AMERICAN MODERN ENSEMBLE: XXX
The critically acclaimed American Modern Ensemble presents XXX, an evening of highly sexual works, featuring Glenn Crytzer’s Horizontal Cameos, David Del Tredici’s Wondrous The Merge (the unsensored version), Jacob Druckman’s Valentine, Robert Paterson’s Clarinatrix and Tongue and Groove and John Cage’s Theater Piece, using spatially placed musicians playing erotic instruments.
Of one of AME’s recent concerts at Galapagos, the New York Times wrote, “Devoting a program to Minimalist and microtonal compositions could easily amount to an egghead agenda; leave it to the American Modern Ensemble to make it a party instead.”
Join AME for an evening of erotic music, and sample the signature American Moderntini and sexually-themed cocktails at the performance.
SUNDAY, MAY 1
Doors: 6:30 pm, Show: 7:30 pm | $15 Advance, $25 Door
THE BASTARD KEITH MOVIE CLUB
 There are few things in life as enjoyable as nudity. alcohol and talking through terrible, terrible movies. Now Galapagos Art Space and Bastard Keith ("A variety favorite" - Time Out NY) have brought these elements together for a new event that's guaranteed to entertain: The Bastard Keith Movie Club. With the help of burlesque beauty Madame Rosebud and some special guests, Keith will be your guide for an evening of pricelessly bad cinema. It's the only movie night in town that comes with live commentary, drinking games and a bit of burlesque. This month, Keith and company will be tearing down the greatest disco musical ever shot in West Berlin: The Apple. Don't miss it.
Guests include singing siren Shelly Watson and writer, actor and musical theater expert Brian Silliman.
TUESDAY, MAY 4
Doors: 7:00 pm, Show: 8:00 pm | $10
Special Event: Calling all Royal-Watchers and Wedding Lovers!
ROYAL WEDDING VIEWING PARTY
UNDER THE ARCHWAY
FREE and Open to the Public with Media Partner BBC America
 BROOKLYN, NY — On Friday, April 29, 2011, the Dumbo Improvement District, with media partner BBC America, will celebrate the wedding of HRH Prince William of Wales and Miss Catherine Middleton with a live viewing and British-style street party under The Archway in DUMBO. The event will be FREE and open to the public.
BBC America’s commercial free coverage of the wedding will be shown from 5:30AM EST and festivities will continue throughout the day including contests and prizes for the best fancy hat and costumes for both children and adults. Dress as your favorite royal (real or imagined), don a fancy hat and commemorate it all with a snapshot from the photobooth on site. For late-risers, BBC America’s coverage will be replayed in its entirety immediately following the live coverage.
“The Archway, with its soaring barrel vaulted ceiling has a cathedral-like feeling and will be the perfect place to watch this historic event with friends, families and neighbors – and have some cheeky fun,” said Alexandria Sica, Executive Director of the Dumbo Improvement District. “Brooklyn is home to thousands of Brits, and we want to help them celebrate in style. We know that New York City has Royal Wedding fever and look forward to seeing all of our local princes and princesses, young and old, dressed up or just stopping by to check out the spectacle.”
For more up to the minute information about the Royal Wedding Viewing, visit the Dumbo Improvement District’s Facebook page –www.facebook.com/dumbo.bid.
The free public viewing is made possible by BBC America, with support from the local DUMBO business community – Bubby’s, the DUMBO Loft,Ito En, Water Street Restaurant & Lounge and The White Gown, and in partnership with Big Apple Brits and We Love Photobooths.
ABOUT GALAPAGOS ART SPACE
Galapagos Art Space is a 9,000 sq ft, 250 person capacity Obie Award winning cultural venue located in DUMBO, Brooklyn. It 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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