FRIDAY, JULY 21, 8pm ::: Josh Weinstein presents the Leadership Video Screening (80 minutes) and music by The Love Loves

Originally curated for the Leadership Forum at Silver Bay, the longest running management conference (now in its 88th year) in the US, this collection of short videos provides a space for inquiry into the concept of leadership. The screening is a starting point for a dialogue between the arts and business communities. The selected works demonstrate leadership through form and content: they take action, say something, call into question basic assumptions, focusing attention and push perceived boundaries. Includes work from The Yes Men, Creative Commons, animation, straight documentaries, interventionist documentaries, youth media and internal corporate media. screening at 8.30p, The Love Loves play after, $3-10 donation http://theloveloves.com/ http://insidecinema.net

SATURDAY, JULY 22 9.30pm ::: Airport War and G. Lucas Crane vs. Non-Horse

Come for an evening of distortions in audio. Airport War (james hoff) manipulates records. G. Lucas Crane fights the Non-Horse by jockeying tapes. We all stand around, nod our heads and wonder why the kids broke in to whitewash our walls (yes, this really happened). 9.30pm, free www.myspace.com/airportwar

SUNDAY, JULY 23 1-6pm ::: Work Day

Come on down to sweat and be satisfied!

MONDAY, JULY 24 9pm ::: Haiti's Hades Harlequin's Hymns

Poets and lyricists go head to head. Also a reading from EV's log and a release of "Gowanus Uponus" a handmade commemorative book celebrating one year with the Empty Vessel Project. All accompanied by Chris Leo's and Jon Curley's etymological musings. 9-11p, free, vodka cocktails $3

FRIDAY, JULY 7, 8pm ::: LAY DOWN TRACKS (Danielle Lombardi) & a world premier of MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. (Todd Chandler), 8pm

LAY DOWN TRACKS 60 min, 16mm, 2006 by Danielle Lombardi and Brigid McCaffrey^? This 16mm experimental documentary closely follows five American workers who have based their lives around traveling. The film journeys through the shifting surroundings of a retired carnival worker, girl- trucker, railroad executive, chimney sweep/surfer, and a nun/riverboat pilot, interweaving personal narratives in an exploration of the tenuous relationship between economic necessity and human aspirations within an alternative American Dream.

MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. 21 min, video, 2006 - not yet released by Todd Chandler This is a film made during the middle of a three and a half month tour with the band, magnolia electric co. as they spent a week passing through the small towns and cities that dot the canadian great plains. The sprawling landscape of the praries and the band's haunting music tell a disjointed story of being on the road day after day. It is the quiet, elusive and lonely side of the rock n'roll dream. it's about the mundane and the beautiful, the rest stops, the phone calls home, the hotel rooms, and the in-between moments. Not a concert film.

8pm, $3-10 donation

SATURDAY, JULY 8 ::: EV'S BIRTHDAY

Come celebrate a year of rockin on the water with the EV Crew, Shellshag, DJ Dirty Fingers and G. Lucas Crane vs. Non-Horse spinning YOUR mix tapes into a dance frenzy. $5., cash bar

SUNDAY, JULY 9 ::: Russian Class

na lodke, no ranshe. 1-2pm, by donation

SUNDAY, JULY 9 ::: Work Day

Tin, tin, tin, tin; tin, tin, tin, tin. oh-tinnety tin, wonderful tin... 1-6pm, free

SUNDAY, JULY 9 ::: Music in the Magic Hour with Mouth of Leaves and the Daughters Humans

The magic hour is when EV simply glows. She blushes. We giggle. Come appreciate her to some lovely tunes. Audio preview here: http://samueldelarosa.tripod.com

BBQ 6pm, BYOdogandpony Music starts 7pm, free, cash bar---+++THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 9pm ::: Stumptown Girls (A Screening) and Birds Nest (a live radio broadcst) A note from Gretchen Hogue, Stumptown's curator: "Stumptown Girls is a 90-minute program of short films by female filmmakers from Portland, Oregon. The program highlights the DIY, collaborative spirit that this city has grown famous for, featuring an ecclectic selection of work ranging from Cat Solen’s music video for Bright Eyes to Vladimir’s handmade viewmaster movies; from Vanessa Renwick’s collaboration with Portland musician Tara Jane O’Neil to Shawna Ferreira’s psychedelic video creations. Stumptown Girls promises to be a night chock full of surprises, inspiration, and good old northwestern spunk!" screening 9pm, $3-10 donation

Simultaneously with the screening, Brooklyn's own Doomefish Theatre will be broadcasting the Bird's Nest radio program from EV. The program will include movie soundtracks from Stumptown, a radio play and who knows what else. broadcast 10-12a If you can't be there, you can listen live at http://free103point9.org For more about Doomefish/Bird's Nest or to hear past shows, go to http://doome.info/birdsnest/.

FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 9pm ::: Visual Resistance presents ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)

A gritty tale of murder, the mob, unions and longshoreman in Hoboken, New Jersey. Starring Marlon Brando. screening 9pm, $3-10 donation

SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 9PM ::: Miss Rockaway Boat Party

Come dance with us onboard a World War II wooden Navy boat. DJs Filastine (Seattle), Dirty Fingers (Black Label), and Aliqua (Chicken Hut) spin booty bass, disco, and fucked up global hip hop. The Quivering Mass (Tianna Kennedy, Zeke Healey, and Hannah Marcus) belt out rare Alan Lomax sea shanties for land lubbers, and Marygoround (New Orleans) lights up eye-popping flaming hula hoops. Finish off a day's drinking with cheap cocktails slung by the Miss Rockaway Armada crew, answering questions about the most ambitious project of the summer: piloting junk rafts down the Mississippi River. Raffle tickets available for the skeptics. Sunburns and tattered Mermaid Parade costumes encouraged. 9p; $5 http://www.missrockaway.org http://www.emptyvesselproject.org

SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 1-5pm ::: Work Day

Two great projects today: 1. We just scored a dumpster full of beautiful tin for our cieling. Come help us clean it up and start the satisfying work of installing it. Bring a drill if you have one. 2. We have a bunch of big blue barrells with watertight lids. Lets turn them into a work raft today. (And maybe plant a little garden on it.) 1-5pm, free

SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 5-6pm ::: Russian Class

Games for slavophiles. Join us. 5-6pm, by donation

SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 5pm ::: Music In the Magic Hour

with Imaginary People and Watersports BBQ at 5pm music starts at 6pm, $3-10 donation http://www.myspace.com/imaginarypeopl http://whitetapes.8m.com/watersports.html

FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 8pm ::: Visual Resistance presents SALT OF THE EARTH (1954)

Based on an actual strike against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico, the film deals with the prejudice against the Mexican-American workers, who struck to attain wage parity with Anglo workers in other mines and to be treated with dignity by the bosses. The film is an early treatment of feminism, because the wives of the miners play a pivotal role in the strike, against their husbands wishes. In the end, the greatest victory for the workers and their families is the realization that prejudice and poor treatment are conditions that are not always imposed by outside forces. This film was written, directed and produced by members of the original "Hollywood Ten," who were blacklisted for refusing to answer Congressional inquiries on First Amendment grounds. http://www.visualresistance.org/ 8p, $3-10. donation

SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 4pm ::: Knitting Class with Mike Topper

Mike writes: "Come learn how to knit! class can be for anyone beginner to intermediate that wants to learn more about knitting. no experience required. I will provide yarn and needles that you can use during the class." email mtopper@riseupREMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.net for info or to RSVP http://www.myspace.com/topper 4p, by donation

SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 8pm ::: Resisting the Green Scare

A Night of Films, Discussion, and Letter Writing to Benefit Indictees of the "Green Scare"

Films:

*pickaxe: A story of struggle to save the forests of Oregon. An eclectic mix of activists take a stand to protect an old growth forest from logging at Warner Creek in the Willamette National Forest of Oregon, blockading the logging road and repelling the state police. Over months a community builds around the illegal blockade as it develops into the Cascadia Free State and similar actions spread across the region. Years after its release, Pickaxe has become a classic document of the potential for grassroots direct action to achieve victory against the forces of both government and big business. Lovingly crafted by the participants themselves, the film expertly presents every moment, from confrontation to celebration. By filmmakers Tim Lewis and Tim Ream. [94 min.]

*Breaking the Spell: An hour-long look at the 1999 Seattle WTO protests and the anarchists who traveled there to set a new precedent for militant confrontation, this documentary picks up where Pickaxe left off. Filmed in the thick of the action, including footage that aired nationally on 60 Minutes, it captures a moment when world history was up for grabs. [63 min.]

plus food, bar, and musical interludes...

$3 - 10 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds

SUNDAY, JUNE 11 ::: Work Day

Work Day Let's finish those walls once and for all!!! Come get dusty! 1-6p, free

SUNDAY, JUNE 11 ::: Russian Class

Slavic tongue twisters for beginners. 5-6p, by donation RSVP: pz@emptyvesselprojectREMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.org

SUNDAY, JUNE 11 ::: French Class

RSVP: dylan@enuffREMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.de

SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 8pm ::: Floating Rock Show and BBQ

violet raid, flitter mice of yore, moth 7p BBQ, 8p show, by donation

Sunday March 19th, 3pm

Matana Roberts: Solo Saxaphone In Radical Space Concert 3! Empty Vessel Free or by donation--totally up to you...

This is the third in a series of concerts that brings Matana's solo music into unusual spaces that she feels nurtures and provides some type of artistic comfort, community,refuge and/or camraderie to all artists and non artists alike. Matana is trying to hit all of the burroughs, as she has favorite spots in every one! This is the first one in Brooklyn!!!

The solo pieces that Matana will be focusing on for this date are improvisations that are based on music by some of her favorite classical baroque composers. Matana makes part of her living playing in the subway tunnels and street corners of NYC and uses this time to focus on this genre. ( This music is currently being documented and will be released in the fall of 2006. )

http://www.myspace.com/matanaroberts

http://www.soundsofmysoul.blogspot.com

http://www.soundsofmysoul.blogspot.com---+++MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27

Empty Vessel Project is proud to host an Incident Report w/ Sam Gould and Anthony Marcellini

Sam Gould is a friend and co-conspirator working as part of a Portland-based collective called Red76. We met Sam in a makeshift bar constructed entirely out of discarded shipping palettes in Zagreb, Croatia where he told great tales of tiny cities. He is in New York unveiling an exhibition of The Museum on the Heart on Your Sleeve. The exhibition is part of the book/exhibition, Reshuffle: Notions of an Itinerant Museum. It includes several Incident Reports - stories told where they happened by the people they happened to.

Here is what Sam has to say about the evening:

"What events must unfold wherein you might find yourself floating down the Gowanus Canal in an inflatable dingy drinking 40oz’s of beer? Join us for a tale of Puerto Rican butcher shops, getting caught in one of the most torrential rain storms in recent memory, and living on ships on one of the worlds most polluted waterways in one of the worlds most populated cities. contact info: www.red76.com, ask@red76REMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.com, 1.888.212.5652."

7pm, free, bring your own food for the (chilly) BarB^? **at the boat, West side of 1st Street at the Gowanus Canal

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, HIGH NOON ::: A great elephant moves

We will need all hands on deck to move EV from one side of the Carroll Street bridge to her new home on the other (much greener!) side. We have no engines and no tiller. We will get the lovely bridge opened for us and pull her through with ropes. We will certainly need your help and plenty of moral support. We might even need musical accompaniment.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, day ::: Proteus Gowanus Chamber of Culture Open House

Stop by the fabulous Proteus Gowanus interdisciplinary gallery and reading room for a cup of hot chocolate, learn about seven fantastic organizations in our neighborhood, appreciated the old bridges and take a Pedicab ride down to visit EV.

FREE, 12-6pm ***Proteus Gowanus, 345 Nevins @ Union & at the boat

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, evening ::: Dinner and a Movie

A film collaboration and culinary sensation on the Gowanus Canal

Dinner and desserts prepared by chef Hannah Marcus and served in a silo on the Gowanus waterfront. During the meal, guests will be invited to join our staff cinematographer at EV, a salvaged World War II rescue boat docked adjacent to the silo, to create their own 5 minute movies. Pirates, mermaids, midshipmen, and landlubbers will all have a part to play. This is your chance to forge a new watery myth.

All films will be screened during dessert and guest will go home with a copy of their own film on DVD.

The meal will be followed by a special musical performance by Cameron Hull.

Drinks at 7p; Dinner and Movies at 8p

400 Carroll Street, Brooklyn

West Side of the Carroll Street Bridge

2 blocks from the Carroll Street F/G stop

$25. includes wine, dinner, dessert and DVD. Flexible pricing for groups and EVP volunteers. Contact pz@emptyvesselprojectREMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.org for more info/to reserve. There are only 40 seats at dinner.

This is a fundraiser. All proceeds will fund installation of a waste-oil fueled heating system on the Empty Vessel Project Boat. We are a not-for profit organization and will happily provide IRS-friendly receipts for your donation.

-- PaulaZ - 19 Dec 2005
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