Date: October 20th 2009

This Week in Coney Island!
10/20/09

. Coney Island USA Halloween Benefit This Saturday! Sideshow, Burlesque, Live Music, Silent Auction, Buy $20 advance tickets now!
. Scott Baker's Coney Island Babies, This Friday Night!
. Creepshow at the Freakshow Players Present, Dick D. Zigun's Tricky Treats, Begins Sunday and runs through November 1st!
. Sideshow School Classes Fall 2009 Sideshow Skills & Banner Painting, Register online now!
. 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!
. Coney Island Film Festival Award Winners!





CONEY ISLAND USA HALLOWEEn SPOOKTACULAR BENEFIT
THIS 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. There is no extra service charge to buy tickets in advance!

Coney Island USA
1208 Surf Avenue between Stillwell and West 12th street



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

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.

 




Photo By Laure Leber

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.

CONEY ISLAND MUSEUM
The Coney Island Museum is the world's only museum dedicated to the history of this extraordinary place. Come see artifacts and images from 1829 to the present, artworks and one-of-a-kind exhibitions, and an ever-changing approach to the history of American Popular Culture.

Saturday and Sunday, 12pm-5pm
Museum Admission 99 cents!
1208 Surf Ave.

Our Ground Floor Coney Island USA Giftshop is open Saturdays and Sundays, 12pm-5pm!

NEW EXHIBITION
ZOE BELOFF - DREAMLAND: THE CONEY ISLAND AMATEUR PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY AND ITS CIRCLE, 1926 - 1972
JULY 11, 2009 - MARCH 21, 2010

Saturday and Sunday 12pm - 5pm
Click here for further info (pdf document)

AS SEEN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES! CLICK HERE FOR THE ARTICLE

CONEY ISLAND USA'S ONLINE GIFTSHOP!
ALL PRICES INCLUDE SHIPPING, HANDLING & TAX

2009 Coney Island Film Festival Poster

2009 Mermaid Parade t-shirt
Click here for mens. Click here for ladies.

2009 Mermaid Parade Poster

Coney Island Films DVD

Lone Print by Philomena Marano

Coney Island Circus Sideshow Banner Magnet

L'il Sideshow Tall and Small Man Playset

PLEASE SUPPORT OUR PROGRAMS

Become A Member Of Coney Island USA! Or Make a Tax Deductible Donation!


Photo Copyright Paul Warchol

CONEY ISLAND USA BUILDING AVAILABLE FOR RENTAL!

Rent the new and improved Freak Bar for your wedding, bar mitzvah, bris,
other gathering! The Freak Bar seats 30 comfortably and stands 80 or more.

Combine the Freak Bar space with a rental of the Museum or Theater for a
full Coney Island USA experience!


Please email us or call 718-372-5159 for queries, rate and availability!





CONEY ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL 2009!
THAT'S A WRAP! THANKS TO ALL WHO CAME OUT AND SUPPORTED THE FESTIVAL!
PHOTO GALLERY COMING SOON!

2009 Award Winners

Best Feature - Sea Legs - Craig Butta
Best Short - Basket Bronx - Martin Rosete
Best Documentary Feature - The Prince Of Mermaid Avenue - Charles Denson
Best Documentary Short - Young at Heart - Brian Paccione
Best Experimental - Who Shot Coney Island? - Howie Alex
Best Silent Film - The Institute of Séance - Kevin Corcoran
Best Animation - The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! - Jake Armstrong
Best Music Video - "Blue Sky" KaiserCartel - Grizlet
Best "Made in Coney Island" - The Poor Man's Follies - Micropunta


For more information, contact us at (718) 372-5159 or info@coneyisland.com

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