House of Non-Sequitor
Ice Cream. Hip-Hop. Mime. Sex-ed. Air-Conditioners. Inflatable Balls.
Ice Cream:
Eat some.
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Hip-Hop:
August 22nd
Aja Monet’s Birthday/Going Away BASH!!!
Aja Monet, word-sorceress and every-day rock-star, is leaving us for Chicago- but she’s leaving us with a hip-hop/spoken word/mash-up party that we will never forget. We still remember her original throw-down at the original House of Yes, back in August 2007, and people are still talking about it. Dont just hear about it. Be here.
10pm
$7 before 11, $10 after
Hosted by BLACK CRACKER & KSWIFT
performances by:
Miz Metro
Miss Angelina
Shyvonne
FM Supreme
NYLE
Oveous Maximus
AMANDA DIVA
and countless SPECIAL GUEST appearances!!!
MUSIC BY: DJ JASMINE SOLANO & DJ TARA
The House of Yes
342 Maujer st
(btwn waterbury and morgan ave)
Take the L train to Grand st.
B.Y.O.B.
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Mime:
Night School: Beginning Pantomime with Jeff Seal!
August 25th
$5-15 sliding scale donation.
9pm-11pm
@ House of Yes
This class will give you the basics of “pantomime blanche” or white-faced illusion-based mime. Students will learn exercises involving fixed-point, isolation, resistance and the other building blocks of pantomime and physical acting in general. These skills can help a performer more effectively communicate his/her ideas and emotions with an audience through clear and precise physical articulation. They are useful for any performer from an improviser to an aerialist.
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Sex-Ed:
Night School: “This Ain’t Your High School Sex Ed Class”
August 26th
9-11:30pm
Four sexy New York City women will answer the questions that weren’t in your textbooks like:
1) To bite or not to bite
2) How to get in the back door
3) Why oral is a must and why you are not doing it right (even if you think you are…)
4) The fine art of flirtation
5) … and lots more to come
In addition, there will be informative videos, exercises, and information about not just sex but dating. At the end of the class, we will answer any and all of your questions. Don’t be shy, we won’t be! 
You should expect there to be an open cooler of beer, a special guest who’s not just full of hot air, and plenty of homework.
21+ only and geared toward men*. $5-25 sliding scale donation. Max 40 people.
(*Women are welcome to join us, but should know the info and perspective of the class will be for men.)
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Air-Conditioners:
Why not?
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Inflatable balls:
House of Yes Helps the Yes Men!
(and You can Too!)
Our friends the Yes Men (http://www.theyesmen.org/) need your help NOW to pull off some large-scale shenanigans in September. It’ll be fun and stupid, and it’ll probably create a splash in the media. They are professionals at playing pranks on corporations.
Be a part of something big!
Right now in Make Fun we are constructing 20 large-scale, ridiculous costumes to be worn at events, actions and appearances.
If you have sewing or building skills, please help this super-secret-project come to life! We are working from 12pm-11pm every day except Saturday/Sunday.
Email Kaeburke@gmail.com if you would like to sew and change the world! Let us know when you can come by.
We also need people who can wear the costumes, document, edit or just help in anyway they possibly can. Want to be involved? contact Larken at larken@artevolve.org.
We will be working from Make Fun at the House of Yes
342 Maujer, Bushwick (L train to Grand Street)
makefunstudio.com
Thanks!
The Yes Men & House of Yes.
Yes!
If you can’t get away to Burlington, VT, this week, you should spend
most of your evenings here in the lovely Bushwick, U.S.A.
TUESDAY, August 11th
Night School: Circustentialism: An Exploration of Circus Choreography
This Night School class is essentially an excercise in play, a chance
to work through our creative process organically through exploring
concepts of space, shape, story, time, emotion, and movement. Our
professor, Seanna Sharpe, will emphasize finding presence in
transitions as well as in “moves”, creating sequences that flow. She
will also teach methods of developing stylization (opportunities for
embellishment, movement, and creative interpretation within form).
Students will learn intermediate movements and then be given an
opportunity to create their own piece, finding a sequence that
highlights their own personal artistic voice.
Like any good education, the goal if this class is not to teach the
students what to think but rather how to think. Instead of simply
stringing together moves or teaching sequences of ideas, it is an
opportunity to play, explore, and find your own personal experience of
expression as a choreographer, a dancer, and an artist.
9-11pm
10-25$ sliding scale.
Thursday, August 13th
A Lovely Evening with Cuddle Magic
Cuddle Magic is a large ensemble from West Philly/Brooklyn that
performs lush, whimsical songs with wide-ranging instrumentation
including strings, percussion, vibraphone, trumpet, clarinet,
keyboards, guitars, and sweet vocal harmonies. Their unique stage
set-up includes half a dozen small lamps and a 3-foot plastic penguin
set amidst the players and their many instruments. The ensemble, which
sometimes swells to 12 or more, plays deftly crafted arrangements of
their complex and varied set of original music. They are as friendly
and inclusive as their name might suggest — after forming as a
quintet over a year ago, they have gradually come to incorporate more
and more of their musical friends into the band.
Some pieces will be accompanied by choreographers/dancers Emily
Vetsch and Fayth Caruso
Artist Laura Steele will be using multiple sources including live
feeds, and remixed video compositions creating a fertile visual
landscape.
9pm doors, 9:30 show
$10-15 strongly encouraged donation
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FRIDAY, August 14th
Intergalactic Planetary
A space-age house party with international musical inspiration,
featuring afro-beat, hip-hop, dance-funk and high-flying performance.
Featuring the new hip-hop sensation Baja and the Dry Eye Crew! After
packing the national stadium for performances in their home country of
Sierra Leone and contributing music to the Academy Award–nominated
film Blood Diamond, African superstars Bajah + the Dry Eye Crew are
poised to conquer the global airwaves with their international debut
album (due out in fall 2009) and their unique sound, which blends the
swagger and funk of hip-hop, the passion and energy of dancehall, and
the socially conscious vibe of reggae. The group has generated so much
buzz in the hip-hop world that major stars including ?uestlove and
Black Thought of the Roots, Talib Kweli, K’Naan, Res, and El-P have
contributed their vocal and/or production talents to the upcoming
release.
Akim Funk Buddha, dj $mall Change, dj Sirak and a half dozen other
performers fill out the night with music and dancing through the late
night. Kae Burke, Queen of Make Fun will be leading Burning Man
costume making sessions most of the night.
Doors at 9
$10 strongly strongly encouraged donation, if you arrive in
intergalactic formal wear, $15 otherwise
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SATURDAY the 15th………from dusk untill dawn……
………ON THE EDGE OF WATER AND DARKNESS…
….A NIGHT OF VOLATILITY AWAITS YOU…….
House of Yes recently aquired some very special neghbors. Our
neighbors are pirates. They have a gigantic 3 tier boat, enough to fit
650 people. These strapping fellows walk around shirtless digging
ditches and pulling heavy ropes, and they really know how to have a
good time. We like them A LOT. But these hard working hunks of muscle
need some cash to keep afloat.
Lady Circus and House of Yes will be helping them raise some booty
this Saturday. And you can help too by showing up and attempting to
party as hard as they do. Good luck!
Here’s the very intense and epic promo they wrote for their party, we
edited it to make it a little less dense to read. Also excuse all the
caps, they are just very excited, as they should be because this is
going to be the best thing ever.
The infamous and cavernous BUSHWICK BOAT, hidden in the boggy canals
of Brooklyn will play host to a wild array of visceral forces.
COMPELLED to inspire, ignite and emblazon your five senses… BEATS,
FIRE, ART, DANCE, AND SPIRITS will combine for an unforgettable
one-time event, culminating with the rise of the sun. We offer
ourselves to you, in SACRIFICE and in the spirit of FUNDRAISING for
the ESTABLISHMENT of what has become one of the most evocative and
extraordinary party experiences in our city. Please join us as we
descend into the depths.
THE MUSIC
MIHO HATORI with her band, NEW OPTIMISM, SISTINE CRIMINALS,
BELLRINGERZZZZ.
DJs: KIMYON, UPROOT ANDY, FELIZ CUMBE’, ZACK SHADETEK, BLACKY II,
SWEDISH MEATBALLS,
THE PARTY
FIRE RITUALS by DONIA, Circus by LADY CIRCUS,
BODY ART by WHEYLAN, and VOLATILE EXPERIMENT by the ship’s own BEN
DEVOE, along with many more special guests, surprises and perhaps a
ritual sacrifice, or two, along the way.
THE COSTUME
Being our guest means offering yourself up to these powerful forces-
come dressed in all that is primitive, volatile, and godlike. Colors
and costumes emulating the sun, fire and power (red, yellow, black,
white, orange) are expected – otherwise one will be provided you. BE
PREPARED to undergo THE COSTUME GAUNTLET – painted, written upon,
adorned, and bejeweled without mercy.
YOUR PRIVATE PASSWORD IS: YES
(Please note that this event is by PRIVATE invitation ONLY. You can
invite your friends but you must give them the password. Space is
extremely limited and we expect to reach list capacity quickly. The
only way to get there is to enter yourself at www.bushwickboat.com.)
House of P.S.
Friday August 7th
9pm-3am
You are invited to a laid back house party with dj’s, live brass bands, fire arts, body paint, projections and all the beer/liquor you can hold in your hands (BYOB for you recessionized cheapsters…)
Donate what you can at the door. Funds raised benefit More Gardens, a group of community people, gardeners, and environmental and social justice activists who promote the development and preservation of community gardens.
Featuring:
The Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Ray Corona, DJ Arrow Chrome, DJ Stylus, DJ and Poet from ReadNex Poetry Squad, Fire performers Phoenix Feeley and Victor, Dancer Laetiçia Emmanuel, Trashworship maestro Rolando, Face and Body paints, Projections and Art and much much more…..
House of Yes
342 Maujer Street, between Morgan and Waterbury, Brooklyn
L train to Grand Street station
8:30 doors, 9p show;
$10-15 sliding scale
http://www.moregardens.org/
House of Learn Stuff/Do Stuff
Tuesday, August 4th
Make Fun Open Studio
Make Fun open studio is back and better than ever! The first Tuesday of every month, we open up our costume and clothing studio and invite you to come create. Make Fun is a fabric workshop and sewing studio that exists for anyone who wants to sew, glue, experiment and build with fabric. We provide sewing machines, thread, fabric, scissors and a variety of material to help you create customized costumes, clothes, curtains, puppets, pants, parasols, stuffed animals, capes, or anything else you can imagine. Please bring Food, Drink, any materials you wish to use or donate, half-finished projects and inspiration. 10-20$ covers supplies and assistance. If you cant make it Tuesday, but want to come make something, we also offer space rental. Email kaeburke at-gmail-dot-com for more information.
www.makefunstudio.com
10-20$ sliding scale.
7pm-11pm
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Night School: Movement Improv Workshop
This week at Night School, we will explore new ways to move your body through space using various exercises designed to encourage participants to get out of their mind and into their bodies.
We will be warming up with blindfolded solo work, finding the place in us that is beyond mind and logical thinking. We will move into partner work, exploring ways to stay connected with ourselves while authentically engaging with another human. To close out we will experiment with a massive group improvisation culminating into a free form unpredictable dance explosion.
Be brave, be creative, dare to look ridiculous. A fun and supportive place to go insane for a couple hours.
Facilitated by Lopi LaRoe who is a bona fide genius of mental experimentation.
$5 – 15 sliding scale
No one turned away for lack of funds
9pm-11pm