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Join us for our second show on the Brooklyn Waterfront. This installment includes myself, Nick Hallett, Zach Layton and Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

ISSUE Project Room celebrates The Brooklyn Heights Association’s 100th Anniversary with an event that will program channel the psychedelic spirit of poet, journalist, humanist and Brooklynite, Walt Whitman, set against the stunning waterfront backdrop on the Pier 1 Harbor View Lawn of the new Brooklyn Bridge Park on July 1st at 5 pm until midnight.

Musicians and bands including the Wingdale Community Singers, Christy and Emily, Prince Rama, and others will perform original work along with new pieces set to a marathon reading of “Leaves of Grass,” recited by some of the nation’s most intriguing poets.

The outdoor concert, closing with a late night program of acoustic music after 10 pm, is part of Celebrating a Century, an exciting year-long series of events highlighting Brooklyn Heights history, famous residents, and the BHA’s past and future.

Featuring:
CSC Funk Band
Rick Moody and Hannah Marcus of the Wingdale Community Singers
Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille
Jonathan Kane’s February
Prince Rama of Ayodhya
Henry Grimes
Christy and Emily
Shannon Fields
Sexual Energies School: Quebec City
Steve Dalashinsky
Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers
Lilah Freedland
Holly Anderson
Alyssa Taylor Wendt
Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre Joris, Brendan Lorber, Yuko Otomo,Tsaurah Litsky, Linda Lerner, and more..

Nick Hallett (vocals, piano, electronics) Zach Layton (guitar) Mike Skinner (drums) Ray Sweeten (electronics)

Hallett convenes a structured melodic improvisation over interlocking layers of electronic arpeggios.

La Superette 2009 will transform a space at 210 Front Street for three days, creating a temporary store that will present a huge selection of artist-made multiples from around the country. Now in it’s 11th year, La Superette is one of the few crafty events with a non-commercial goal: to support and distribute the works of independent artists and designers. The variety of items include hacked clothes, assemblage accessories, housewares, artists books and CDs. Emerging once a year, just in time for holiday shopping, La Superette offers the most unique and affordable shopping experience for hundreds of shoppers year after year. This year, more than ever, is a time to celebrate the craftiest and be a part of an event that represents the true spirit of New York City.

La Superette 2009 includes live performances by Arp�ge (Nick Hallett and Ray Sweeten), Anwar Pruitt, Maria Chavez, Carrie Dashow, Pixel Form, Todd Bailey, NAUM f/ Antoine Catala, David Linton, and David Galbraith. La Superette 2009 will also feature Rainbow Cloud City (an art installation created by the collaboration HappyFun, Erik Z., and Rachel Nelson), Edible Winter Snowballs, Coal, Icicles, Pine Cones, and Warm Drinks by Rachael Morrison, and a free ScrapCycle gift-wrapping station by Analogous Projects.

This year’s participating artists include: Ann LePore, Amanda Mayoff, Ben Fino-Radin, Carrie Dashow, Secret School and the K.I.D.S., Cindy Yoon, Daphne Bernard, A Rarer Borealis, Daina Platais Ortiz, unxyloid, Hadas Hinkis, deChow, Jennifer Sullivan, kaboom!press, Kimm Alfonso, Katherine Tali Hinkis, Chiu, RingMan, Canine Orthodontia, Lilah Freedland, LoVid, Loren Siems, Melissa Barrett, Michelle Rosenberg, Molly Dilworth, Madeleine Fix, Miss Chief, Neg-Fi, Mustache Sisters, Nathaniel Kassel, Peter Jacobson, Raquel Hecker, Steven Anglin, Samantha Merritt, sallykismet, Sanjay, Susie Reiss, teamtichenor, heartfast

I will be sharing the bill with Nate Boyce.. Boyce is a video artist and musician who lives and works in San Francisco. His audio/visual works investigate the liminal regions of human perception through kinetically charged, visceral abstractions. His work exploits inherent plasticity of electronic sound and image through the use of customized analog and digital tools with which he has developed a formal language informed the history of structural and psychedelic filmmaking. He has performed and exhibited at galleries and film festivals such as the Scope Art Fair, New York (2009) The Luggage Store, San Francisco (2009), New York Underground Film Festival, New York (2008), Deitch Projects New York (2008), The Stone, New York (2008), Center For Contemporary Art Glasgow, Glasgow (2007), Galerie Alt Neu Brukte, Frankfurt, Germany (2007), the Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2006), the Aurora Picture Show, Houston (2006), Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany (2006), Monkeytown, New York, (2006) Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco (2005), Yerba Buena Center For the Arts (2004)