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This
Week in Coney Island!
8/25/09
. Special Event, Sean Kershaw and the New Jack Ramblers CD Release Party!
. Burlesque at the Beach Thursday Night, Dr. Lukki Presents: Phantasmagoria!
. Burlesque at the Beach, Friday Night, This or That!
. Special Event Free Admission, Saturday at the Coney Island Museum, Discussion Featuring Zoe Beloff!
. The Warriors 30th Year Reunion and Screening, SOLD OUT!
. Coney Island Film Society, No Screening This Week!
. Ask the Experts, Sunday Afternoon, Elizabeth Bradley!
. Coney Island Sideshow Open Wednesday - Sunday!
. Coney Island Museum, New Exhibition Zoe Beloff, As Seen in the NY Times!
. Coming Soon 24th Annual Tattoo and Motorcycle Show September 20th!
. Summer Fun Fundraising Challenge!
. Coney Island USA's online giftshop!
. Book the Sideshow!
. Coney Island USA Building available for rental!
. Coney Island alive and well in 2009, see what's open!
. Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey $10 Ticket Offer!
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BURLESQUE AT THE BEACH!
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 10PM (PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME), $10
Dr. Lukki presents: PHANTASMAGORIA: A Land Where all the Beauties are Monsters and all the Monsters are Beauties
Once upon a time an unsuspecting academic researching a vital 21st century cultural phenomenon on gets swept away by her studies and literally lands in a fantasy land called Phantasmagoria. In Phantasmagoria, all of the beauties are monsters and all of the monsters are beauties. Though monster/beauty produces conceptual richness, it also creates curatorial nightmares as Dr. Lucky and Darlinda Just Darlinda attempt, in vain, to cast the show. A show within in a show, monster/beauty shows the limitations of a binary structure when dealing with a post-modern cultural concept. Along the way, they meet some of the most compelling beautiful monsters and monstrous beauties in the new burlesque scene including Bambi the Bambi the Mermaid, Devilicia, Little Brooklyn and Rose Wood. These monster/beauties teach our unsuspecting academic a few things about theory as they bring to life her essay entitled, "'It is the Ugly t
hat is so Beautiful': Performing the Monster/Beauty Continuum in Neo Burlesque."
Starring: Bambi the Mermaid, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Devilicia, Dr. Lucky, Little Brooklyn, Rose Wood
"Ideal beauty attracts, whereas monster/beauty likely attracts and repulses simultaneously."-- Joanna Frueh
Sideshows By The Seashore
corner of Surf and West 12th street
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| SPECIAL EVENT AT THE CONEY ISLAND MUSEUM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 4:30PM, FREE!
A Special Discussion about The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle with: Zoe Beloff, artist and archivist, Aaron Beebe, Director of The Coney Island Museum and Dr. Amy Herzog.
The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society was a unique organization which flourished from 1926 through the early 1970s. Members, most of them working people from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, were filled with the desire to participate in one of the great intellectual movements of the 20th century. The exhibition currently on view at the Coney Island Museum presents a range of their activities, which reveal an incredibly brave, unapologetic exploration of their inner lives.
Beebe will introduce the Coney Island Museum’s new curatorial strategy, which allows artists full reign over the permanent collection, and encourages them to explore Coney Island’s history in innovative ways. Beloff will contextualize the work of the Society in relation to contemporary movements in art, architecture and popular culture of New York during this period, including Surrealism, the Amateur Cine League and the 1939 World’s Fair. She will also present her most recent discoveries of previously unpublished work by the Society’s Founder Albert Grass in the late 1930’s. Professor Herzog will discuss how Freud’s theories can give us a deeper understanding of the public’s fascination with some of Coney Island's unique attractions from the period, which include Lilliputia, Baby Incubators and the World In Wax Musée.
The book and accompanying DVD, The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and their Circle, published by Christine Burgin, will be available for purchase at the museum. This volume is lavishly illustrated with 75 full color pictures of never-before-seen photographs, drawings and documents that shed new light on Coney Island's legendary history, and includes a DVD compilation of nine of the Society’s "Dream Films".
Coney Island Museum
1208 Surf Ave.
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THE WARRIORS 30TH YEAR REUNION AND SCREENING!
A BENEFIT/FUNDRAISER FOR CONEY ISLAND USA
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 7:30PM & 11:15pm
BOTH SHOWS SOLD OUT! THANK YOU! THE ONLY NON TICKET EVENT IS THE AUTOGRAPH SIGNING (FEE SET BY CAST MEMBER) FROM 7:30PM-8:30PM ON WEST 12ST.
Warriors Come Out To Plaaaaay! Can You Dig It!!!!??? Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity on the films 30th Anniversary!! Be a part of history where the film was shot in the heart of the Coney Island Amusement District, and all for a good cause!
7:30pm
With Festivities Including:
• Cast Appearances by Michael Beck (Swan), Dorsey Wright (Cleon), Brian Tyler (Snow), Thomas G. Waites (Fox), Terry Michos (Vermin)
• 7:30 - 8:30pm - Autograph Signing outside Sideshows By The Seashore on West 12th street (Additional Fee set by cast member). Please Note: This is the only time autographs will be signed. No autographs will be signed in the building.
Exclusive Events for 7:30pm Ticket Holders Only:
• 8:30pm - 9pm - Meet and Greet inside with the cast!
• 9:00pm - 10:35pm - Special Screening of The Warriors at Sideshows By The Seashore!
• 10:35pm - 11:05pm - A Question + Answer discussion with the cast right after the film!
11:15pm Festivities Include:
• Cast Appearances by Michael Beck (Swan), Dorsey Wright (Cleon), Brian Tyler (Snow), Thomas G. Waites (Fox), Terry Michos (Vermin), Apache Ramos (Orphan)
• 11:15pm - 11:45pm - A Discussion and Q+A with the cast prior to the screening
• 11:45pm - 1:20am - Special Screening of The Warriors at Sideshows By The Seashore!
Please Note: There is No Private Meet and Greet with the cast at the 11:15pm Show. Autograph Signing will only occur from 7:30pm - 8:30pm outside the Sideshow on West 12th Street (fee set by cast member). No autographs will be signed in the building.
All festivities take place at Coney Island USA, 1208 Surf Ave. Videotaping/Filming is strictly prohibited inside the building.
Click here for further info
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Photo by Laure Leber
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CONEY ISLAND CIRCUS SIDESHOW!
AT SIDESHOWS BY THE SEASHORE
OPEN WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY 2PM - 8PM, SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 1PM - 8PM (WEATHER PERMITTING), CONTINUOUS ADMISSION - $7.50 ADULTS, $5 KIDS
Wednesdays and Thursday Special: Show your NYPD, FDNY, EMS, DOS or Military ID and get in on a kid's ticket price!
See Donny Vomit, Heather Holliday, Serpentina, Scott Baker, Black Scorpion, Kryssy Kocktail and Guest Freaks all summer long! They're here, they're real and they're alive! Freaks, wonders and human curiosities.
Special Events Coming Soon:
The Freakshow Deluxe - September 2nd at 9pm!
Captain Howdy's Flying Circus- September 26, 27
Sideshows By The Seashore
corner of Surf Ave. and West 12th street
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For more information, contact us at (718) 372-5159
or info@coneyisland.com |
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