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This
Week in Coney Island!
10/6/09
. Celebrate Chol Hamoed at Coney Island, Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 7 & 8!
. Lilly's World of Wax and Dream Films Screening, Thursday, Oct. 8th!
. The Squidling Bros Circus Sideshow, Saturday, Oct. 10th!
. A Trip to Coney Island with Uncle Zero Boy, Oct. 16th!
. The Rumblers Car Club Presents The Sideshow, Oct. 17th!
. Bindlestiff Family Cirkus's Cavalcade of Youth, Sunday Oct. 18th!
. Scott Baker's Coney Island Babies, Oct. 23rd!
. Coney Island USA's Halloween Benefit, Oct. 24th!
. Creepshow at the Freakshow Players Present, Dick D. Zigun's Tricky Treats!
. Sideshow School Classes Fall 2009 Sideshow Skills & Banner Painting!
. Coney Island Film Festival Award Winners!
. Coney Island Museum, Open Saturdays and Sundays 12pm - 5pm!
. Coney Island USA's Online Giftshop!
. Coney Island USA Building Available for Rental!
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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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THE SQUIDLING BROS. CIRCUS SIDESHOW - CARNIVOLUTION!
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2009, 3PM UNTIL LATE, $10
This summer's resident Cha Cha's performers from The Squidling Bros. Circus Sideshow, Jelly Boy the Clown, Betty Bloomerz and Matters Squidling.
Experience Coney Island's own Serpentina, Kryssy Kocktail, Alejandro, Remy Vicious and Celia Next Time Welcome the Madoodi Mothers Puppet Peep Show.
A live puppet sex show dedicated to disturbing the masses with poly-sexual hermaphrodites, trannies, ass-faced religious icons, menstruating monstrosities, infinite-nippled grandmas with lactating cats, and squirters galore!
Be Bedazzled by The Masked Perfesser and his entourage of weirdities.
MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT Science Fiction Rock and Roll by The Hydrogen Jukebox (Jelly Boy and Matters band) AND The Radarmen, a costumed Alien Hybrid act from a Galaxy really far away.
Double Feature screening of original works produced by Matters Squidling and Jelly Boy The Clown. "The Museum"- A look into the life and dreams of Philadelphia Artist Joseph Tiberino, co-founder of The Ellen Powell Tiberino Memorial Museum of West Philadelphia. The Museum, a place where Life is art and Art is life. Featuring Jelly Boy the Clown and Betty Bloomerz. 80 minutes.
"Unholy Sideshow"-A family of Serial Killer, Black Magician Sideshow Freaks are called upon by The Order of Mystery, a secret society of Wizards, Sideshow Masters and Vampires, to prevent the coming of the dead. Featuring The Enigma, Jelly Boy the Clown, The Masked Perfesser and The Amazing Barry Silver. 70 minutes.
Sideshows By The Seashore
corner of Surf and West 12th street
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BINDLESTIFF FAMILY CIRKUS'S CAVALCADE OF YOUTH!
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2009, 5PM
$15 ADULTS, $10 Youth (12 and UNDER)
The Performers of Tomorrow Steal the Stage Today!
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus presents a special showcase for young variety performers, ranging from amateurs to world-class professionals. Juvenile jugglers, diminutive dancers, adolescent acrobats and a host of other moppets and mummers present a full show of vernal vaudeville. Acts range from debuting amateurs to world-class champion performers—all under the age of 21.
In its sixth year, Bindlestiff’s Cavalcade continues to feature an amazing array of young talent. These are the future stars of Cirque du Soleil, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Coney Island Sideshow, and television. Where else can you see juvenile unicyclists, tap dancers, magicians, clowns, and contortionists sharing the stage with Broadway-bound singers and classically trained musicians? All the performers are under 21, but audience members of all ages love this show.
Sideshows By The Seashore
corner of Surf and West 12th street
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Photo by Laure Leber |
BURLESQUE AT THE BEACH!
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2009, 9PM, $15
Scott Baker's Coney Island Babies, The Old Time Naughty, Bawdy Laugh Riot
It's the Minsky's show gone mad at Coney Island, featuring the old-time Burlesque comedy routines we love but haven't seen in twenty years or more. Plus, those naughty hotties, doing their delicious dirty best to send you home in a state of stiffness. You'll be saying, "Slowly I turned!" along with the cast of this filthy fun festival of silliness and sensuality! Previewed at last year's Coney Island Film Festival, the reaction was that of hilarity and nostalgia! Say "Hello" to Coney Island Babies!
Sideshows By The Seashore
corner of Surf and West 12th street
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CREEPSHOW AT THE FREAKSHOW PLAYERS PRESENT:
TRICKY TREATS - A TRAMA DRAMA -
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY DICK D. ZIGUN
STARRING SCOTT BAKER, set by kate dale, $7.50
Sunday, October 25 at 4 pm, 5 pm, 6 pm
Monday - Thursday October 26-29: 8 pm, 9 pm
Friday, October 30 at 8 pm, 9 pm, 10 pm
Saturday, October 31 at 2 pm, 4 pm, 6 pm, 8 pm, 10 pm
Sunday, November 1 at 2 pm, 4 pm
Please note: TRICKY TREATS is a one act play with a seated audience. It is not the usual Creepshow guided tour of our building. Running time: 30 minutes.
Sideshows By The Seashore
corner of Surf and West 12th St.
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Photo By Laure Leber
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SIDESHOW SCHOOL FALL 2009!
SIDESHOW SKILLS FALL 2009
Section 102
Once-a-Week: Thursdays, November 5, 12, 19 and December. 3, 10
6:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Tuition: $750
This is the only place in the world where students can learn traditional sideshow acts from practicing masters of the arts. Sideshow Professa Adam Rinn teaches fire eating, the human blockhead, fundamentals of sword swallowing, glass walking, magic and other famous sideshow acts. Students leave with the ability to perform these acts including fire eating and sticking foreign objects up their noses.
BANNER PAINTING WORKSHOP WITH CONEY ISLAND USA
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE,
MARIE ROBERTS
BANNER PAINTING 101
Once-a-Week: Thursdays, November 5, 12, 19 and December. 3, 10
6:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Tuition: $600
A basic, hands on workshop demonstrating how to paint a sideshow banner, from initial concept to finished art. Each student will be furnished with one 5 x 4 inch blank, and the use of materials to execute it. Traditional banners will be discussed, sideshow banners from the collection will be on view for reference, instructor will be present at all sessions. Emphasis will be to help the student achieve his/her own large format composition, using the instructor's years of painting experience. Professor Roberts will paint along with students to demonstrate method. Limited to ten students.
For more details, please contact Coney Island USA at info@coneyisland.com.
Coney Island USA
1208 Surf Ave.
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For more information, contact us at (718) 372-5159
or info@coneyisland.com |
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