[dorkbotnyc-blabber] Fwd: [artstar] Meeting for street event(s) this Saturday, April 18th

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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> From: Hackett <me at madagascarinstitute.com>
> Date: April 16, 2009 5:22:42 PM EDT
> Subject: [artstar] Meeting for street event(s) this Saturday, April  
> 18th
>
> (Feel free to forward this to interested parties.)
>
> Finally it seems like the teasing is done, the hippie glass can be  
> taken
> down, scarves stowed, and one can feel free to expose their pasty,
> jiggly flesh to the elements and the gaze of attractive,
> less-disgusted-then-they-will-be-at-any-other-time-of-the-year  
> strangers
> without fear of sudden, brutal climatic retribution. Spring is here,
> (yes, I know: by the writing of this I have basically sent a formal
> invite to a late-April snowstorm, but I am excited and so are you) and
> with the promise of warm weather comes the chance to be a part of a  
> big,
> grandiose, sprawling event that will allow many opportunities for  
> you to
> work hard, tone atrophied muscle (both the physical and mental kinds),
> earn new scars (ibid), meet interesting and attractive people that do
> not know and despise you yet, be the center of attention, devoted  
> worker
> monkey, creative force, or the person that always has a light; most  
> and
> best of all, a chance to be a part of something great:
>
> The Madagascar Institute Tenth Anniversary Event(s)
> Everything was better before. Lets fix that.
> Being: A celebration and commiseration of when New York City was so
> much cooler back in the Good Old Days, before everything went to shit,
> before hipsters, before gentrification, before Giuliani, before
> Bloomburg, before Investment bankers, before the Recession, before the
> Internet, before I met you, before men stopped wearing hats, before  
> men
> started wearing hats ironically, before irony, before Bushwick, before
> commodification of dissent,before we sold out, before we cashed in,
> before before before, which by an amazing coincidence was when I was
> young and goodlooking and unjaded.
> Or:
> Time Machine
> Saturday, May 30th
> There will be two events: one I am not going to trumpet in the initial
> e-mail blast,(in the late morning), and a block party near the Gowanus
> (afternoon until the night, but not late, as block parties have to be
> done by like 10pm. )
>
> Information on the first event will come at the meeting.
>
> The block party is more open ended (and by "block party", I mean  
> "block
> party"-we are getting an actual permit, and will have permission): the
> specific, Madagascar Institute portion of it (besides the running of  
> the
> thing) will be a time machine, a big complicated construction that  
> will
> require moving parts and neon. The rest of the block party (booths,
> informational tables, stage, games, performers, funnel cake) needs  
> to be
> filled, and you are invited to propose your brilliant idea (or just  
> show
> up ready to work) as long as it kinda fits within the theme. Do that
> thing that you do: the film showing, silkscreening, informational  
> table
> annoying performance thing. Madagascar can contribute zero dollars
> towards your bit, but tools, workspace, expertise and snarky comments
> are there for the persuading, and we guarantee that being a part of  
> this
> will get you so, so laid. (Or screwed.)
>
> So.
> Come to this:
> General meeting
> Saturday, April 18th, 3pm
> Madagascar Institute, 217 Butler Street, Brooklyn NY
> Closest trains are the F and G at Bergen, a few blocks further to the
> N/R/B/D/Q/2/3/4/5 at Atlantic/Pacific. Ask the Internet for  
> directions.
>
> Eat Glass,
>
> Hackett
>



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