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Update #18: SILENT BARN NEWSLETTER #16: ART CRAWLING
Hello! Please take a look at our newsletter featuring commentary on the Ridgewood & Silent Barn Public Meeting II and art crawl by Nat Roe, a discussion about distance by Joseph Ahearn with images of a maybe possible location. Logo designed by our zine chef, Robin Enrico.
>>>>>>> https://sites.google.com/site/paestheticsllc/is-it-a-thing/newsletter/all_issues/art_crawling <<<<<<<
ABOUT THE LOGO ARTIST
ROBIN ENRICO - SILENT BARN ZINE CHEF
To make the next Silent Barn newsletter logo, please email alisonrsirico@gmail.com!
Also, take a look at Silent Barn Newsletter #15: Party Cakes, discussing similar community integration work, and the beginning of a thank you rewards schedule (in gear!)
To be part of the ongoing Silent Barn discussion, please join us at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/shhhbarn, as always!
Update #17: SILENT BARN NEWSLETTER #14: SPILT MILK
Ok here are the big questions
1. Its almost been a year. Why isn't there a new silent barn yet?
2. What are you guys doing?
3. Where is my shirt?
http://sites.google.com/site/paestheticsllc/is-it-a-thing/newsletter/issues/spiltmilk
Includes a sweet real estate ballad by G Lucas Crane, relationships with the Queens Museum / Gottscheer Hall / Outpost, A maze-like game about avoiding taxes, archival photos from Gang Font feat. Interloper at the Silent Barn, Kickstarter rewards news, and an introduction to the new chefs in the Silent Barn Kitchen!
ABOUT THE LOGO ARTIST
Reg Bloor is a member of the Glenn Branca Ensemble and of THE PARANOID CRITICAL REVOLUTION, the latter of which performed at The Silent Barn in 2007, 2010 and 2011.
Update #16: We are holding a Public Meeting
We are excited to announce that we are going to hold a Public Meeting on March 2nd. The purpose of this meeting is to answer any questions you may have about our progress while we are still looking for a permanent space to call home. This is the first of a series of Silent Barn public meetings, which we think of as an experiment in group participation!
SHOW DETAILS:
★ $7 - $20 Sliding Scale Donation
★ 8pm - 2am @ The Gottscheer Hall
★ 657 Fairview Avenue ( M to Forest Avenue, L to Myrtle/Wyckoff )
★ http://gottscheerhall.com/
★ http://g.co/maps/4dqqs
This is an opportunity for us to share all of our progress with you in person, and hear your thoughts. This is an opportunity to think about, talk about, and collaborate to imagine the future of DIY art culture in New York, including the some-day real new Silent Barn. This is an opportunity for you to get directly involved in many new Silent Barn projects and put your hands in with us. This is an opportunity for all to be a host again to an incredible music moment in New York, such as Ava Luna's release party for their new record on Infinite Best. This is an opportunity get down to business with the finest krainerwurst in all of Queens, at the Gottscheer Hall.
Get ready to schuhplattle.
AVA LUNA - ICE LEVEL - ALBUM RELEASE PARTY w/ TWIN SISTER & ACLU BENEFIT
http://www.midheaven.com/item/ice-level-by-ava-luna-cd
http://aclubenefit.bandcamp.com/
We finished a new album, "Ice Level," and now it's time to show it to everyone we know. Every time we've finished a record, we've held a release show at the Silent Barn... so for Ice Level, we're proud to celebrate at the first Public Meeting. I'm imagining everyone I know and love and respect gathered together, just like on Wyckoff -- this isn't a permanent space but it's a beautiful step in that direction. and I wouldn't dream of showing our album to our friends for the first time in any other setting.
We just finished a month of touring with Twin Sister and are extremely excited that they're playing with us... and believe it or not, ACLU Benefit played with us at our very first record release show, in the basement of Silent Barn in 2009. This all makes so much sense! - Ava Luna
https://sites.google.com/site/paestheticsllc/is-it-a-thing
As part of this public meeting, we'd like to bring together the insight and experience of other arts & music organizations in New York City. The practice of being a space for cultural acitivity is always in evolution. Every year, we try to understand art as it it emerges, and how to be a home for new kinds of art; how to maintain cultural meaning in a new space; the evolving forms of support for DIY art; how to handle financial and legal relationships; how our city goverment will choose to relate to us; how being a venue will improve the city and for whom; what makes us stable in our vision and what makes us vulnerable; the kinds of communities that can be a part of our space; our direct relationship to our neighborhood; the value of our real estate; the value of our history; and the general cultural path of our city.
As we envision the next Silent Barn, and as we envision the next New York City, it will valuable to share our stories, speak our opinions, learn from everybody here, and take a look together at the larger cultural patterns in New York.
If you’d like to participate in this discussion, please email djkgamc@gmail.com!
BARN EXAM SCIENCE FAIR
http://silentbarn.org/barnexam
Over 100 people have submitted incredible and absurd project ideas to our BARN EXAM and this is our first chance to take this 3D! We're soliciting project proposals for the evening — from art installations to social experiment parties — to create a larger discussion about projects that might live in the future Silent Barn space, and in any of the performance and art spaces throughout Brooklyn.
We're currently developing even more opportunities for feedback throughout the night, from help wanted tear-outs in the bathroom to a quick door poll about what is important to you all in the new Silent Barn, so feel free to jump in and be part of the process at: shhhbarn@googlegroups.com
PARTY LAB PLANTS POTS
https://sites.google.com/site/paestheticsllc/projects/party-lab
G Lucas Crane and James Clark will be manning a mobile Party Lab setup to help take minutes for this meeting experiment, by hiding mics in flower pots throughout Gotscheer Hall. They will also have a LISTENING STATION set up for new techs, as well as having past data analysis available for review. Posters of our new Party Lab plans for the future Silent Barn space will also be on view!
KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL
https://sites.google.com/site/paestheticsllc/in-the-soup/newsletter
https://sites.google.com/site/paestheticsllc/is-it-a-thing/soup-recipe
We've been publishing our meetings' minutes and progress newsletters for some time now, but the internet really just doesn't cut it. We'll have all our chefs (volunteers that handle different projects) on hand to help answer questions and talk about issues we're dealing with.
GROVE of DICTIONARY TREES
https://sites.google.com/site/paestheticsllc/home/dictionary
Nick Chatfield-Taylor and G. Lucas Crane team up to help share some of our vocabulary with the general public, cassette-style. Check out a sneak peek of Nick's trees at the final Parts and Labor show this weekend!
FOR MORE INFO READ OUR NEWSLETTER
Update #14: Silent Barn Update
The new Silent Barn Newsletter is out. This week featuring news and pictures from our most recent real estate ventures in Queens, news on the Bed Stuy Community Board Meeting, and an open call to host and be apart of our weekly monday meetings.
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The Silent Barn is an immersion into the art of New York City as it lives. It's a double-floor music venue inside of a kitchen, an independent video games arcade, an art theater & performance space, a party surveillance system, a zine library, a museum of gigantic murals, and a home for Castle Oscar.
