Proteus Gowanus Benefit Party


Proteus Gowanus invites you to

A Benefit Party to Celebrate Five Years on the Alleyway


Saturday, May 22nd, 7 – 10 p.m.

RAIN DATE: Sunday, May 23, 7 – 10 p.m.

Tickets here

Featuring
Optiks/Alley
A multimedia installation/performance by Paul Benney and friends
inspired by Newton’s Opticks and West Side Story. Viewers will be
transported down the alleyway through a dream-like world
of theatrical lighting, video and an original sound score

And a Laboratory of Protean Workshops:

Rocketworks Countdown 3, a triptych moon launch video by David Eustace

Improvisational Mending with the Fixers Collective: bring a broken object!

Individual and Dual Stunts in the Reanimation Library with Andrew Beccone

A Secret Museum, a private viewing of Morbid Anatomy Library’s collection with Joanna Ebenstein

The Mysteries of the Gowanus Unveiled in our Hall of the Gowanus by Eymund Diegel

An Oulipian Escapade with Tom LaFarge and Wendy Walker’s Writhing Society

Music by Union Street Preservation Society

A selection of Thai hors d’oevres by JOYA restaurant
and wine will be served

Tickets $60 each
Space is limited, tickets will be sold on a first come first served basis

Hanging Workshop, 7 – 9 pm

Title: Hanging Workshop, 7 – 9 pm
Location: Fixers Collective at Proteus Gowanus
Link out: Click here
Description: Andre Van Hoek, master carpenter, will demonstrate various ways to hang your shelves, pictures, mirrors on walls of various materials and tips like how to find the studs behind your walls. $15 fee
Start Date: 2010-02-11
End Date: 7

Travelling through Brooklyn in Search of Food with Annie Hauck Lawson and the Truck Farm

Title: Travelling through Brooklyn in Search of Food with Annie Hauck Lawson and the Truck Farm
Location: Proteus Gowanus, Sunday, 3 – 5 pm
Description: Annie Hauck-Lawson, editor of “Gastropolis”, a portrait of New York life through food, will read excerpts from her chapter about a childhood journeying across the Brooklyn landscape in search of edibles. Also presenting will be Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis who will drive over in the Truck Farm, a veggie-mobile, and show a short video of the project.
Date: 2009-11-15