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This
Week in Coney Island!
9/29/09
. 9th Annual Coney Island Film Festival, This weekend! Oct. 2-4, Tickets onsale NOW!
. Celebrate Chol Hamoed at Coney Island, Oct. 7 & 8!
. Lilly's World of Wax and Dream Films Screening, Oct. 8th!
. A Trip to Coney Island with Uncle Zero Boy, Oct. 16th!
. The Rumbler Car Club Presents The Sideshow, Oct. 17th!
. Coney Island Museum, New Exhibition Zoe Beloff, As Seen in the NY Times, Museum Closed Oct. 3 & 4!
. Fundraising Challenge!
. Coney Island USA's online giftshop!
. Book the Sideshow!
. Coney Island USA Building available for rental, October 30th & 31st Still Available!
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CELEBRATE CHOL HAMOED AT CONEY ISLAND!
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7 & THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8
Come celebrate the holiday of Sukkot at Coney Island USA's Sideshows by the Seashore with two great nights of “Jewish-Centric” sideshow, magic and variety entertainment. ’Meshuggena Magic for the Whole Mishpacha’ is the brainchild of Dick Zigun, Founder of Coney Island USA, and a nice Jewish Boy; as well as Adam Rinn, a Bar Mitzvahed magician, entertainer and Dean of Coney Island USA’s Sideshow School.
Wednesday, October 7, 4:30pm Show with Adam Rinn and Scott Baker
Wednesday October 7, 7:00pm Show with Adam Rinn and Benjilini
Jeremy the Magician and David ‘the Kid’ Jaison will perform close up magic in the bar area during intermission
Thursday October 8, 4:30pm and 7:00pm. Both shows will feature Adam Rinn and Chris McDaniel, Jeremy the Magician and David ‘the Kid’ Jaison will perform close up magic in the bar area during intermission.
Ticket prices are as follows:
$9.00 Adults
$5.00 Children under 12
Sideshows By The Seashore
corner of Surf and West 12th street
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LILLY'S WORLD OF WAX AND THE DREAM FILMS!
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 7:00PM, $5
A SPECIAL SCREENING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION “THE CONEY ISLAND AMATEUR PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY AND ITS CIRCLE”
Coney Island, 1926, Lillie Beatrice Santangelo opens her legendary World in Wax Musée. For fifty years she exhibits a parade of celebrities and heads of state as well as dioramas of serial killers caught in the act and the participants in famous freak births.
Coney Island's last Wax Museum was a contemporary institution that no doubt influenced the nearby members of the Amateur Psychoanalytic Society. The relationship between the two groups is well documented.
Filmed just before the museum closed Tom Palazzo’s “Lillie’s Word in Wax" is a unique behind the scenes glimpse of the legendary institution. Lillie leads the camera on a tour of the museum with the lights and wires being dragged along before the eyes of the audience. She insists on looking into the camera as she delivers her absurd and touching stories about the figures. As Lillie's helpers toast her and say how much they will miss her, she admits to us that her wax figures 'made mistakes.' But, she says, 'I don't believe there is a hell. I believe we pay for our sins here on earth.'
When the Museum was finally shuttered in the mid 1980’s, no waxwork of Freud was found, however there are tantalizing clues that a figure of “The Father of Psychoanalysis” may have existed along side the waxwork of Albert Einstein “Father of the Atomic Age”.
Artist Zoe Beloff will discuss this question and be on hand to screen nine of the Coney Island Amateur psychoanalytic Society’s “Dream Films” in their original 16mm format.
Coney Island Museum 1208 Surf Ave.
between Stillwell 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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