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SUMMARY:Must They Also Be Gods: Flux Factory Major Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:  \nImage by Ishmil Waterman\, flyer design by Cayla Lockwood\nMust They Also Be Gods\nOctober 11 – November 3\n\nCurated by Kalon Hayward\nAssistant Curator Bri Frei\nCuratorial Advisor Haiba Hamilton\n \nOpen Hours:\nThursday – Sunday\, 1 – 6pm\nOpening Reception\, October 11\, from 7 – 11pm\n \nPlease share our event on Facebook \nFull Schedule below\n \n\n\nMust They Also Be Gods is a group show that features the work of over 15 emerging and mid-career Black artists that highlights the creative process of African diasporic peoples in connection with an insistent and inherent focus on beauty and spirituality. \nThrough a diverse range of mediums\, participating artists use their process as a form of enchantment\, linking them to a creativity used to sustain Black culture(s) throughout time – past\, future and present. \nOver the course of one month Must They Also Be Gods will house visual\, performance\, musical arts and workshops in the Flux Factory Gallery\, as an invitation and conduit for all visitors to engage their own creativity. \nPARTICIPATING ARTISTS \nAlbert Garcia\, Ariella Tai\, Dareece Walker\,  Caffetti\, Cameron Granger\, Denae Howard\, Eli Fola\, Felicia Holman\, Ishmil Waterman\, Jade Fair\, Jonathan Gonzalez\, K’La Soul\, Mellasenah Edwards\, Monica Brown\, Mr Hollis King\, Niambi Ra and The Blackstarz\, Nichole Washington\, Nicole Goodwin\, Ntangou Badila\, Ricardo Osmondo Francis\, Sasa\, Stanley Février\, Urban Mystery Skool for Radical Creatives\, Zeelie Brown \n\n\nFULL SCHEDULE\nFriday October 11 – OPENING\n> 7pm\, Ain’t I a Woman (?/!)\, Performance by Nicole Goodwin\nPerformance is a study in both physical body movement and the antithesis of movement. Using the body\, breath\, and voice to Challenge traditions. she forges a new path that shows a large Black\, Queer woman as someone who is deserving of public admiration. “I see myself as a living time capsule transporting itself through this dimension.”\n> 8pm – 11\, DJ Set by Eli Fola\, Yoruba Tech Soul with Saxaphone \nThursday October 17 – Late Hours for the LIC Gallery Nights\nSpecial Open Hours from 1pm – 9pm  \nSaturday October 19 – WORKSHOPS\n2pm\, Hip Hop Yoga workshop Urban Mystery Skool for Radical Creatives\, with MC Make Change\n4pm\, Orgonite Workshop with Sasa The Crystal Wrapper \nFriday October 25 – NIGHT OF PERFORMANCE\n7pm – 9:30pm\nPerformances by Albert Andrew Garcia\, Felicia Holman and Zeelie Brown\,  \nSaturday October 26 – WORKSHOPS\n2pm\, Transferable Skills: Writing & Creative with Felicia Holman\n4pm\, Twerk Dance Class with Bri Frei  \nThursday October 31 – CONCERT & BAZAAR\nDoors at 8pm\, Show at 8:30\nFeaturing K’La Soul and Niambi Ra and the Blackstarz 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/musttheyalsobegods/
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SUMMARY:Flux Thursday: San Francisco Supper
DESCRIPTION:Flux Thursday: San Francisco Supper\nNovember 14\, 7 – 1am \nJoin us this Flux Thursday for San Francisco Supper.\nThe doors to the Golden City open at 7pm with an esoteric dinner experience at 8pm. \n7pm Doors (kitchen)\n8pm Supper\n8:30 Screening\n9:30 Dance Party\n12am soft cut off\n1am hard out \nPlease bring something to share\, Rice-a-Roni is strongly encouraged. After supper\, curl up in a white duvet of fog and enjoy film Screenings by Sindhu Thirumalaisamy and Cameron Granger. Stay late for a dance party SF style with DJ Sponsored Lynx. \nThe San Francisco Supper is curated by Danny Crump with help from Jevijoe Vitug\, and Sarah Dahlinger. \n\n\nto share! \n\n\nThis event will take place in the Flux Factory kitchen on the second floor\, up two flights of stairs. \n\nFlux Thursdays are Flux Factory’s longest-running program\, and takes place on the second Thursday of each month. Each month\, an artist or group of artists presents work\, which Fluxers and guests share food and take time to get to know each other. \nThis event is free but please bring food or drink to share \nCheck out these examples of previous Flux Thursday events. No one is the same\, though all are delicious. \nUpcoming Flux Thursday\nDecember 12th\, 2019\nJanuary 9th\, 2020\nFebruary 13th\, 2020
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-thursday-san-francisco-supper/
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SUMMARY:Flux Factory Annual Art Auction
DESCRIPTION:Embroidered flyer made by Maria Lulu Varona\nFlux Factory Annual Art Auction\nThursday\, November 21st\, 6-9PM \nEFA Project Space\n323 W 39th St\, Manhattan \nPurchase Ticket Now \n  \n  \nFlux Factory’s annual gala and silent auction returns for its 13th year. Come party at our biggest event of the year with an open bar\, delicious catered food by Muse Dodd\, game by Walker Tufts\, and much more! \nOver 50 artworks donated by Flux artists and community members will be available for silent auction. Proceeds from the auction support Flux Factory’s prolific exhibitions -thanks to you\, we can keep all our public events free and compensate artists for their work. \nBID ON ARTWORKS ONLINE\nTo get a jump on your bid\, or to support Flux Factory from afar\, you can go to our Paddle8 Auction. Online bidding will close at 5pm on November 20th. \n  \nThank you to our Auction Chair\, and Flux Factory’s newest Board Member\, Rodrigo Sanchez. \n2019 Annual Art Auction Honorees \nSheila Lewandowski\, founding Executive Director of Chocolate Factory Theater\, has not only nurtured this beloved performance space since 2004\, but also has emerged as a key civic leader in Long Island City. Sheila engages deeply with controversial local subjects\, with sensitivity to those in need and a wonkish genius to see into the heart of an issue and catalyze solutions that address Queens’ broad and diverse needs. Sheila serves on LIC’s Community Board 2\, organizes the Taste of LIC\, formerly served as Managing Director of the Queens Council on the Arts\, and was recently honored as a visionary leader by Bennington College. Beyond the bonafides\, Sheila advocates in unseen ways for many in need and has been an irreplaceable influence on Flux Factory’s sustainability efforts. \n\nChloë Bass is a multiform conceptual artist\, educator and writer whose output is as prolific as it is varied. Her solo exhibition\, Wayfinding\, commissioned by the Studio Museum of Harlem\, is now on view at St. Nicholas Park. Chloë is chair of the Queens College MFA program\, where she is a professor of art and social practice and where she co-directs Social Practice Queens\, a current Rubin Foundation awardee. As a key social practice artist and thinker of the last decade\, Chloë has long been an influence and co-conspirator in Flux Factory’s participatory leanings. The first collaboration was “Traffic Disruption Village”\, in which Chloë staged a traffic jam so long that travelers stuck there created their own bivouacs and design strategies in an imagined itinerant society. Honoring Chloe at this moment in Flux’s evolution acts as a reminder of our foundational mission and priorities\, to lift up challenging\, socially engaged work in defiance of market forces. \n  \nThank you to our Wine Sponsor \n \n  \n  \nProduced with hand-harvested grapes from select high-altitude vineyards located in the Andes provinces of Argentina\, we are thrilled to be serving Terrazas de los Andes wines at this year’s auction. \n\n\n\nThank you to our Beer Sponsor\n\n  \nThank you to our generous Beer Sponsor\, Lagunitas. Their beers are available in 20-ish countries and growing. They regularly support local communities by turning beer into money for the cause (like for Flux Factory)\, and are in the business of brewing IPA and other fine ales. As they like to say: wherever you go: beer speaks\, people mumble. Flux Factory is proud to serve their delicious brew at the 2019 Annual Art Auction.\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nPurchase Ticket Now
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/art-auction-2019/
LOCATION:The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts\, 323 W 39th St\, Manhattan\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:RUB - Now Wave and Graphic Activism
DESCRIPTION:Flyer by Cayla Lockwood\nRUB – Now Wave and Graphic Activism\nFlux Factory Major Exhibition\nNovember 23 – December 15\n\nOpening Reception: November 23\, from 7:30 – 12am\nOpen Hours: Thursday – Sunday\, 1 – 6pm\nCLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING WEEKEND \nFULL SCHEDULE BELOW \nRUB is an independent publication\nan exhibition at Flux Factory\nan invitation to collaborate\, learn and build community \n\nRUB moves between two axes: the DIY strategies of the NOW-WAVE\, and GRAPHIC ACTIVISM. The NOW-WAVE houses artists who produce counterculture that challenges the boundaries of Nationhood\, and address issues that cross cultural boundaries. This movement wrestles with the notion of collective vs individual identities\, and uses a praxis of art and activism that moves beyond the white box context. The second axis is experimentation and reinvention through GRAPHIC ACTIVISM. The RUB Exhibition centers pieces with a special sensitivity for printed matter and publishing as practice\, that makes visible under-represented and under-appreciated identities. Themes that are included are: the experience of POC and QPOC; therapeutic art practices that deal with abuse\, depression\, and trauma; using graphic languages in the processes of resistance; and always returning to the personal as political. RUB features a selection of multidisciplinary practitioners and artists who use these two axes as raw materials. \nRUB originated as an independent publication\, zine and channel. RUB has traveled around the world\, into different exhibitions spaces such as the “Freedom School” at SPRING/BREAK Art Show— during Armory arts week in NYC\, Singapore art bookfair\, AKI Gallery in Taipei\, Taipei Contemporary Art Center\, Queer zine Fest\, LA Printed Matter\, and more recently AKTA community center in Tokyo and Kyoto Art Center. RUB’s mission is creative engagement with local experimental communities of color in an era where the United States is ruled by a paranoiac\, and a dehumanizing nexus has come in his wake. We witness a culture infected with commodification\, consumerism\, violence and the rupture of identity. A culture of manufactured fear and legally institutionalized discriminations. RUB is a free space\, an incubator in a society shaped by brutality where uncensored voices can express nonconformity\, opposition and provocation to the socio-political panorama. Within the space of RUB\, we can escape the imposed boundaries through a de-colonial\, DIY and activist practice. \nNOW WAVE and GRAPHIC ACTIVISM Movement Members List\nAarati Akkapeddi\, Amelia Bande\, Mitsuko Brooks\, Eun Hyea Choi\, Jevijoe Vitug\, Kaitlin Chan (Queer Reads Library)\, Pei Ling Ho\, Toby Millman\, Martha Naranjo Sandoval\, Maureen Catbagan\, Yin Ming Wong\, Andre Ramos-Woodard\, Yanbo Li\, XVK\, Eleni Theodora Zaharopoulos + more artist contributors coming \n\nFULL PROGRAM \nNOVEMBER 23\nOPENING RECEPTION with performances\n7:30pm to 12am\, Performances by Pei Ling Ho\, Amelia Bande and Echo the Golden Ghost \nIn this participatory performance Pei Ling Ho explores themes of “East/West” and “self/other” within the contemporary context of global feminism. Often use her own body as a vehicle to activate social issues on the impact of exotic and local culture\, gender identity awareness\, the legitimacy of parents under the social system\, and the emotional blackmail in a family. \nAmelia Bande is a writer working in performance\, theater and film. Her plays Chueca and Partir y Renunciar were staged in Santiago\, Chile. She is part of the Gel Film Series (2012- present) and she co-founded Publishing Puppies\, a press for visual work\, poetry and fiction (2011-present). She has recently shown work\, solo and collaborative\, at Artists Space\, The Poetry Project\, Pratt Manhattan Gallery\, Dixon Place\, BAM\, The Shandaken Project\, and many more. \n\nEcho the Golden Ghost  will be enacting a physical haunting out of grief for genocidal displacement of not only humans but its own embodiment as a golden figure. Gold\, just like our labor and our bodies is commodified and extracted in the name of white western cisheteronormative imperialism and american exceptionalism. \n\nCLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING WEEKEND \n\nDECEMBER 1\n10am – 6pm\, ADULT MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TRAINING \n(must attend all 8 hours)\n\nRSVP Required\, please enroll here \nThis course teaches participants a five-step action plan to help someone 18 years or older who is displaying signs of a mental illness or emotional crisis. Participants will receive a city certificate of participation.\n \n\nDECEMBER 7\nWORKSHOP AND GARAPARTY\n4 – 7pm\, WORSHOP: FAMILY ALBUM PHOTOS IN ART by Martha Naranjo Sandoval \n\nFamily pictures are interesting because their amateur quality makes them as intentional as they are accidental. In this workshop we will revise works of art that use family pictures in different ways and experiment with family pictures. Found family pictures will be provided but we encourage to bring your own as well. \n10pm – 1am GARAPARTY created by DEX FERNANDEZ with DJ Dekdestroy from Manila\nSuggested Donation $5\nThe GaraParty was born out of that desire with the notion of parasitic infestation expanded in the form of a fantasy: Guests assume the role of Garapata\, set free and welcomed by a willing host – the party venue. GaraParty is a commentary: An escape from the dire circumstances of reality\, such as dirty politics\, poverty\, loneliness\, discrimination\, etc. It is also an idyllic moment where\, in contrast to reality\, parasites – or metaphorically\, humans on the margins of society.\n\nDECEMBER 12\nFLUX THURSDAY\n6pm\, RELEASE OF RUB CATALOG BOOK WITH ALL THE CONTRIBUTORS\n \nFlux Thursday is Flux Factory’s longest running program. It is a potluck\, so please bring something to eat or drink to share.  \n7:30\, DIY PUBLISHING PANEL With the release of the artists books “A Landscape of Ghosts” by J\nTriangular in collaboration with Kyoto Art Center\, “365 songs of sex” by Chen An An\, Kaitlin Chan (Queer Reads Library) will be part of this conversation in Hong Kong and will talk about her new project in Taipei. \n \n9pm – 12am\, KARAOKE NIGHT  \n\nDECEMBER 13\n7 – 9pm\, SCREENING \nTwo Women” by Juanita Imran and Pharah Diaz. \n“Their contribution is an intergenerational project between grandmother and granddaughter that features images of powerful women and poems authored by Mohammed and Diaz about empowerment\, pain\, and aging” – Alexandra Juhasz \nPlus a viewing of a series of short films made by Latin American\, trans and cis Women\, and gender non-confirming filmmakers\, who utilize punk and other experimental contemporary aesthetics. \n\nRUB Curatorial team\nCayla Lockwood:  artist\, curator and graphic designer based in NYC. She is currently an artist in residence at Flux Factory and a curatorial member of Little Berlin (Gallery) in Philadelphia. Teaches workshops internationally in printmaking and bookbinding. \nChen An-An:  Sculptor\, installation artist and curator based in Taiwan. Her works revolve around queer feelings of love\, desire\, and loss within the complex relationship between self-identity and social system. \nJ Triangular:  Colombia Born-Taiwan based. Founder of RUB zine. Independent curator\, queer poet\, DIY video artist and photographer. Making art projects that addresses themes as counterculture and music\, queer community identity\, self- empowerment and camcorder activism. \nLulu Meng: New York-based artist born in Taipei\, Taiwan. Her multidisciplinary practice\, including installation\, sculpture\, photography\, drawing\, video\, and curatorial projects investigates the formation and fluctuation of individual identity in a society. \nTerrill Warrenburg:  Artist and independent curator living in Brooklyn\, NY. Her work is non-representational and rooted in self-discovery and meditative practice. Interested in art’s ability to foster empathy between individuals\, Terrill’s curatorial interests include collaborative partnerships\, cross-cultural dialog\, and alternative media. \nRUB is thanks to the support of grants from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs\, The Andy Warhol Foundation\, the New York State Council on the Arts\, the international circulation grant from the Colombia Ministry of Culture\, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York (TECO) and from individual donors.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/rub-exhibition/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk by  Anna Sorokovaya
DESCRIPTION:Artist Talk by Anna Sorokovaya  \nNovember 26th\n7:30pm \n  \nPlease let us know you’re coming on Facebook \n  \n\nAnna Sorokovaya is a visual artist and curator\, interested in interdisciplinary projects connected with topics of museology\, education\, reflecting on the changes of the political and cultural scenes. She focuses on issues of public and private\, construction of identities\, self organization. As an artist works with installation\, objects and photography. \nAnna studied theory and history of art at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Kyiv\, did Master research about social aspects of museum practices. She participated in documenta 14\, Kassel (2017) as part of the Soshenko 33 collective and co-curated Common Frontier project in the frame Kyiv Biennial (2015). Her works was exhibited within the frame of exhibitions Neighbours (Warsaw)\, Women’s texts: feminist art from the East (Kyiv\, Madryd)\, UK/Raine: Emerging artists from the UK and Ukraine (London). \nSince 2012 she has been engaged in activity around the preservation and actualization of Soshenko 33\, an artists’ studio facility historically embedded within the postgraduate system of the National Academy of Fine Arts in Kyiv. \nAnna’s residency is sponsored by the Ukrainian Institute.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/artist-talk-by-anna-sorokovaya/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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