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BROOKLYN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FESTIVAL!

w/ Talibam! — Brian Chase, Seth Misterka, & Matthew Welch — Mike Pride Bass Trio — Foxglove — Jackson Moore — Long Distance Poison — Silver Ash — Instant Conductors — Kevin Uehlinger’s Alchemusic — Philip Gayle — Che Chen and Robbie Lee — Brandon Evans — Brooklyn Raga Association — Jenny Electrik — The Electronic Border Patrol.

After a decade of hosting shows and events, the News…onic Loft is coming to a close this spring. It all started back in 2001 with a series of rooftop bbqs and experimental music shows, so to celebrate the end of the space, I’ve put together a day-long celebration of experimental and improvised musics beginning with a free rooftop bbq followed by 14 acts of some of Brooklyn’s finest experimental musicians, a lighting installation by White Light Prism, and a late night after party.

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The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents: The Creative Music Studio: A Symposium with Karl Berger, moderator

During the 1970s and 1980s, the Woodstock-based Creative Music Studio was widely considered as the premier center for the study of contemporary creative music.

This full-day colloquium will capture many oral histories concerning the Creative Music Studio years and the variegated impact of those experiences on the musical outlook of its participants and the larger world of music and culture.

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Stephanie Keith’s adventure in the world of Brooklyn Voodou

Text by Anika Lani

Video interviews by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

In Vodou Brooklyn, Five Ceremonies with Marie Carmel, photographer Stephanie Keith captures the frenetic and sometimes severe essence of what Haitians practicing Vodou call the lwa or spirits.  Each lwa represents a tunnel of darkness alight with an internal divine/human adventure of the unknown.  Stephanie Keith earned a Master’s degree in photography from New York University and a certificate in Photojournalism from the International Center of Photography.  While embossing her professional career with photos and articles published in the New York Times, Rolling Stone and the Christian Science Monitor, she was called to explore local themes of religious adherence and popular culture.Three years ago she was invited to a party in a Brooklyn basement. Ms. Keith’s first attendance to a Haitian ceremony was no ordinary jam, but one replete with and women and men proffering themselves, beaming hubris peacock-style, as potential mates.  Ms. Keith entered an uncharted dimension and became a puzzle piece to a larger specific ritual of drumming from an ethereal reservoir of elements that descend into experienced human forms. The spirits are sought for their cosmic powers as political and social stars of improvement and placation in Haitian life.

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Japan Benefit Event in NY: WA-GO – Global unity

和合~ Unity ~ Vol.1 
 
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011
Time: 6:30pm til midnight (performances: 7:30-11pm)
Venue: 239 W. 14th St. 2F (btwn 7th & 8th Avenues)
Ticket: $10 (All donations will be sent to the Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate Prefectural governments) 
Genre: Classical music, Japanese traditional music, martial arts demonstration,
oriental Dance, Salsa Dance and African music

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Les Halle’s Japan Relief: a special dessert and cocktail!

Text by Jim Hoey

Small things really do add up, so if you have a chance and want to mix charity with a good meal, eat at this local Frech restaurant, Les Halles, and see 100% of select purchases go directly to the Japan Relief Effort (through the Japan Society).

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Les Halle’s message: “Lift a spoon or glass for a great cause.  For the next two weeks, Les Halles would like to offer a special dessert and cocktail to our guests.  Our chocolate crème brulee and “Tranquil Sea” cocktail are not only divine, but 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Japan Society and their ongoing efforts to help Japan during this great tragedy.  We toast to you and thank you.” Continue reading