Coney Island USA has been closely monitoring the status of the current coronavirus outbreak and considers the safety of our supporters, patrons, employees and cast members of the utmost importance...read more
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 7:00pm
Author, "Circus Jerks"
Saturday, December 5, 2020 - 8:00pm
We miss your Funny Faces!
Thursday, December 17, 2020 - 8:00pm
An evening of virtual performances from some of our favorite Latinx performers from around the country.Hosted by Nelson Lugo
Friday, December 18, 2020 - 8:00pm
A night of burlesque and variety performances featuring a combination of digital performances and acts live-streamed from Coney Island Sideshows By The Seashore Theater
Saturday, December 19, 2020 - 8:00pm
A night of burlesque performances featuring a combination of digital performances and acts live-streamed from Coney Island Sideshows By The Seashore Theater
Sunday, December 20, 2020 - 4:00pm
A series of dance and costuming workshops presented by some of the weekend’s performers. Stay tuned for a full workshop listing!
We miss your Funny Faces! Please join the Coney Island Museum — on Zoom — for Once Upon a Time in Coney Island, a salon-like evening of readings, stories, performances, and memories that capture the heart and soul of the People’s Playground. Hosted by the inimitable Adam Realman, our Museum benefit will feature luminaries including Neil Gaiman, Alice Hoffman, Kevin Baker, Bill Griffith, Todd Robbins, Richard Eagan, Trav SD, and others to be announced. Amid the chaos and strife that defined 2020, this special event is an easy escape into the wonders of Coney Island. Apart but together, we’ll focus on what makes this place so magical … and with your generous support, begin the next chapter in its spectacular story.
With Special Guests:
Get tickets here! A Zoom link to join us online, will be emailed within 24 hours of purchase.
Thank you for tuning in today and visiting our site for further information. The Mermaid Parade is an entirely original creation of Coney Island USA (the not for profit arts organization at 1208 Surf Avenue). It is the nation's largest art parade and one of New York City's most remarkable summer events.
A celebration of ancient mythology and honky-tonk rituals of the seaside, The Mermaid Parade showcases over 3,000 creative individuals from all over the five boroughs and beyond, opening the summer with incredible art, entrepreneurial spirit, and community pride. The parade highlights Coney Island Pageantry based on a century of many Coney parades, celebrates the artistic vision of the masses, and ensures that the summer season is a success by bringing hundreds of thousands of people to the amusement area in a single day.
Beyond the Mermaid Parade our organization, Coney Island USA, exists to preserve the honor of American Popular and Amusement Culture. In the historic Childs Restaurant Building at 1208 Surf Ave, we operate the Coney Island Museum, providing insight into the history of our community from the Indigenous people who lived on these shores through to today's vibrant and dynamic neighborhood. The Coney Island Circus Sideshow, housed in the Sideshow by the Seashore Theater, is the last traditional "Ten-in-One" Circus Sideshow in the world, preserving the past of Sideshow and Variety entertainment while helping today's performers innovate within this tradition.
How can I support the organization?
Make a tax-deductible donation here!
Purchase one of a kind items from our online Gift Shop!
Join us on Zoom for our Coney Island Museum fundraiser "Once Upon a Time in Coney Island" featuring 2018 Mermaid Parade King Neptune, Neil Gaiman!
Become a member of Coney Island USA!
For further info on the Mermaid Parade, click here.
You’ve heard the stories about mermaids and their mirrors! Now you can get your very own mirror, complete with an iconic image from the Coney Island USA archive!
Check out all of our new items!!
including a Glass cutting board and a wood and cork Coaster set by the amazing Marie Roberts.
Brooklyn-based artist Martin Mazorra has produced (is releasing) a NEW series of six limited edition prints inspired by Coney Island USA's own Sideshows by the Seashore, and is donating 50% of the proceeds of the sales to Coney Island USA, and their invaluable arts programming. Each Print in the series pays tribute to a particular act or archetype associated with amazing physical feats of showmanship commonly associated with the Sideshow.
These 18 x 24 inch beauties are executed using the same process as poster work from the carnival and circus Heyday. Each of the images are hand-hewn wood carvings printed in combination with antique wooden display type on a 1930's Letterpress operated and maintained by the artist himself. Every impression, all of the color ink combinations, and each detail, are carefully planned and executed in the time-honored dark arts with all but one difference; The matrix used to apply the color were Legos - a feat that demands a lengthier explanation, we know, one that you'll have to see to believe!
www.martinmazorra.net/category/sideshow
The debut of this Coney Island Sideshows by the Seashore inspired series will happen at Noon this Saturday, November 14th in a LIVE stream of this years iteration of Small Press Fair Fort Lauderdale: SPF '20.
Event Links and Schedule can be found at www.spf-ftl.com.
Tune In! Martin will drop a PROMO code during his presentation that will get you 20% OFF your print order!
Coney Island USA has been closely monitoring the status of the current coronavirus outbreak and considers the safety of our supporters, patrons, employees and cast members of the utmost importance...read more
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 7:00pm
Author, "Circus Jerks"
Saturday, December 5, 2020 - 8:00pm
We miss your Funny Faces!
Thursday, December 17, 2020 - 8:00pm
An evening of virtual performances from some of our favorite Latinx performers from around the country.Hosted by Nelson Lugo
Friday, December 18, 2020 - 8:00pm
A night of burlesque and variety performances featuring a combination of digital performances and acts live-streamed from Coney Island Sideshows By The Seashore Theater
Saturday, December 19, 2020 - 8:00pm
A night of burlesque performances featuring a combination of digital performances and acts live-streamed from Coney Island Sideshows By The Seashore Theater
Sunday, December 20, 2020 - 4:00pm
A series of dance and costuming workshops presented by some of the weekend’s performers. Stay tuned for a full workshop listing!
