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This
Week in Coney Island!
10/13/09
. Coney Island USA Halloween Benefit Oct. 24th! Sideshow, Burlesque, Live Music, Silent Auction, Buy $20 advance tickets now!
. 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!
. 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, 2009 Film Fest poster now available!
. Coney Island USA Building Available for Rental!
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CONEY ISLAND USA HALLOWEEn SPOOKTACULAR BENEFIT
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 8PM-MIDNIGHT
$20 ADVANCE TICKETS $25 DAY OF THE EVENT
Coney Island USA is throwing open its doors for a horrifying evening of Halloween hijinx and fiendish fundraising, and you’re invited. The ghoulishly gifted Adam Rinn and that terrifying temptress Legs Malone will preside over the festivities including all your favorite Burlesque Beauoooties, Sideshow spooks and Variety vampires!
Twitching it, twatching it while you’re watching it will be: Dirty Martini, Clams Casino, Gal Friday, RunAround Sue, Bird of Paradise, Sizzle Dizzle, Mary Cyn and Veruca Honeyscotch.
Not to be outdone, Adam Rinn, Scott Baker, Ravi the Scorpion Mystic & ComaClub, David "The Kid" Jaison and Princess Sunshine will be bringing you thrills, chills and all sorts of stuff your mother wouldn’t want you to try at home in a whirling dervish of Sideshow and Variety madness!
Live (or undead as the case may be) music provided in the Freak bar by The Gas House Gorillas.
You can also take home your very own piece of Coney Island from Miss Linda Jean Meier’s sensational silent auction in the Sideshow lobby.
All proceeds go towards Coney Island USA’s innovative arts programming and the fight to save the historic amusement district of Coney Island. Costumes are strongly encouraged! Click here to buy advance tickets.
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
Imagine an old horror movie tv show host, like Zacherly using props and wigs and a sound effects table to go "on the air" around Halloween and share a traumatic tale with his audience. A simple story of "Ding-dong. I opened the door" trick or treaters goes very wrong and very very off course. Of course!
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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