Date: April 24, 2024
Time: 7pm
7pm doors
full dinner menu available
seating is first-come, first-served
8pm music
performing solos, duos and as a trio:
LAO DAN is a classically trained Chinese flutist at Shenyang Conservatory of Music (SYCM), Lao Dan sticks to his own vision of and approach to the bamboo flute and its sounds. His playing continues to push the limits of artistic expression on this instrument, exploring the possibilities of free, energetic, and nonconformist ways of sound-making confined by neither Jazz nor traditional Chinese musical conventions. His improvisation often brings to the audience an overwhelming sonic experience in which the East and the West, the ancient and the modern clash dramatically on each other. Bandcamp
JOHN MCCOWEN‘s musical life has become an obsession with discovering a polyphonic language on a historically monophonic instrument – the clarinet. This has led him to a unique acoustic vocabulary that is akin to a shifting soundscape of electronic feedback. John’s multi-phonic approach is based in drones, difference tones, and beating harmonics as a means to showcase the compositional potential within a single, acoustic sound source. His work has been described by The New Yorker as “the sonic equivalent of microscopic life viewed on a slide” and by The Wire as “an astonishing demonstration of pure sound & human will.”
CHARMAINE LEE is a New York-based vocalist. Her music is predominantly improvised, and favors a uniquely personal approach to vocal expressed concerned with spontanaeity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses amplification, feedback, and microphones to augment and distort the voice.
Date: April 29, 2024
Time: 7pm
7pm doors 8pm music, full dinner menu available, seating is first come first-served
performing live in the back room
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photo by Jose M. Alconchel
photo by Lynn Morgan
is a new project led by composer and bassist, Kenneth Jiménez, and also features Ingrid Laubrock on tenor saxophone and Christopher Hoffman (cello). The trio moves between written music and improvisation, allowing them to explore a wide range of textures and sounds to create shape and form throughout their set. The band takes its name after the flower of the sugar cane plant that blooms during harvesting season. Jiménez draws inspiration from these images that inhabit his earliest memories to put together this band and create this music.
Moritz/Ali/Coast
photo by azumi oe
Jonathan Moritz, Sean Ali, and Carlo Costa have been playing together since 2013 in a variety of ensembles. Since 2017 the three have been performing as a collective trio and over time have honed a distinctive band sound. One of the primary pursuits of the band is to inhabit and explore the acoustic space they perform in. The trio generally never utilizes any amplification and more often than not performs in DIY spaces that are not meant for concerts. By establishing a fragile yet palpable atmosphere the band activates the space and gradually draws the audience into its pool of sound.
$15 at the door (cash/Venmo, no advance tickets)
Date: April 30, 2024
Time: 7pm
doors 7pm music 8pm
full dinner menu available
seating is first come-first served
ALMOG SHARVIT’S CORALITION
Almog Sharvit is an “irrepressibly mischievous and highly skilled” (The Big Takeover) bassist and composer who is never content to stay too long in one mode. His debut album Get Up or Cry has been called a “startlingly imaginative record” and “a masterpiece of syncopated sound” (Bass Magazine, Goldmine Magazine). In addition to his own project, Almog can be heard playing with his collective trio KADAWA, Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East, The NYChillharmonic, Forager, Julia Easterlin, Ashni, Ambrose Getz, Ella Mar and many more. Website
NOAH ROTT’S ELECTRIC QUARTET
Noah Rott is a Brooklyn-based pianist and electronic artist who fuses modern jazz with electronic soundscapes. Originally hailing from Germany, Noah Rott migrated to New York City in 2017, where he swiftly carved out a niche for himself as a dynamic force within the city’s jazz scene. As part of a new generation of jazz innovators, Noah’s virtuosic and versatile use of analog synthesizers and sound effects paired with his picturesque approach to the acoustic piano have garnered attention and acclaim. He is currently leading a new quartet with the vision of creating an innovative sonic blend of acoustic elements and electronic sounds. His band features some of New York’s most unique musical minds, such as
Alfredo Colon on saxophone, electric wind instrument, and effects;
Mathias Jensen on upright bass; and
Kobi Abcede on drums. After releasing his debut album
Rewind in 2021, he is projected to release his second album as a bandleader in early 2025.
Website
$15 at the door (cash/Venmo, no advance tickets)
Date: May 1, 2024
Time: 7pm
Readings start at 8pm
Full dinner menu available, seating is first come first serve
VIDA ADAMCZEWSKI is an award-winning disabled writer. Her lyric play, AMPHIBIAN, was commissioned for the Play Mill Festival in 2021 at the King’s Head Theatre, Islington. IN 2022, Vida received the UEA New Forms Award from the National Writing Centre for AMPHIBIAN. Vida performs regularly at live poetry events across London and is the founder of Yer Bard, a monthly poetry event in South East London. Her writing appears in The London Magazine, Mslexia, Document Journal, Ambit and Vittles. Vida’s debut collection of writing, Amphibian & Other Bodies, was published by Toothgrinder Press in November 2023.
CAOILINN HUGHES is the author of The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and Orchid & the Wasp, which won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She was recently the Oscar Wilde Centre Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.
YASMINE SEALE is a writer and artist whose work includes poetry, criticism, translation and printmaking. Among her translations from Arabic are The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton, 2021), described by the New Yorker as “an electric new translation”, and Something Evergreen Called Life, a collection of poems by the Sudanese writer and activist Rania Mamoun (Action Books, 2022). She is the co-author of Agitated Air (Tenement Press, 2022), a collaboration with Robin Moger responding to the visionary poet and metaphysician Ibn Arabi. She is currently a fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She also teaches in the Writing Program at Columbia University.
Date: May 5, 2024
Time: 7pm
MORE INFO TBA
Date: May 7, 2024
Time: 7pm
7pm doors 8pm music
Full dinner menu available; seating is first come, first served
HEAVY FLORALS is a series that creates space for a community of POC musicians & their allies to exhale, curated by Shara Lunon
performing live in the back room
ALIYA & JAVEN
Aliya Ultan (she/her/hers) is a cellist, singer, and composer-improviser from Brooklyn based in New York. Growing up in a car with her mother and sister, Aliya’s music channels the energies one might associate with escape via catharsis or witchcraft. Throughout her time in NYC, Aliya has become deeply involved in the experimental music scene as both a performer and facilitator of creative happenings. The Wham Jam series in Redhook is one of her ongoing projects as well as an upcoming rooftop series starting May. With a passion for collaboration Aliya plays in three bands; GNR8RZ with Simon Hanes, Calvin Weston, and Anthony Coleman, Wicked Bush with Matt Bent and Kevin Eichenberger, and SEVEN which she co-leads with violist-singer songwriter Javen Lara. Aliya also performs on Broadway in Hadestown and with Yoshiko Chuma’s School or Hard Knocks. Come this Fall, Aliya will be releasing multiple records including a debut album with SEVEN produced by Randall Dunn, GNR8RZ produced by Marc Urselli, and a live album of her most recent solo tour across the States. For information about upcoming events and releases please follow @nocturnal_cellist on IG.
Javen Lara (she/her/hers), also known as Jae, is from Harlem, New York City. She attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School as an instrumental major. Jae has performed at Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall and more. Graduating from Bard College and Conservatory, Jae was one of two of the first African-American graduates of the Conservatory. Upon her return to New York City, she started “Javen’s House Concert Series: Through the Seasons”, where she hosted a fusion of classical chamber music favorites, improvisations, and original songs. Emma Kato, Christina Jones, Alyssa Yuge, Dharshan Chandrakumar. Gigi Hseuh, Alissa Mori, and Alec Manasse were collaborators playing works by Shostakovich, Tchiakovsky, Mozart. The improvisations were created by Jae and eclectic violinist, Scott Li. And original songs with her Manhattan-based band, The Slippers. Dharshan and Jae also started an improvisatory viola duet, using electronics and voice to expand the capabilities of their instruments. Lastly, Jae is the violist as well as co-lead vocalist with cellist/vocalist/one of Jae’s greatest inspirations, Aliya Ultan, in the Brooklyn based band, SEVEN. They have performed at Public Records, Chaos Computer, and look forward to collaborating with Pioneer works as well as more renowned venues around New York City. This Autumn, the band will be releasing their debut album, produced by Randall Dunn, through Applehead Studios in Woodstock and Circular Ruin Studios in Brooklyn. @sexistential_crisis and @seventimesinfinity on IG
BongoWattZ
Shamar Watt is an experimental multidisciplinary artist born in Kingston, Jamaica, raised in Miami, and based in Miami and New York City. He has worked as a multidisciplinary performer with Nora Chipaumire since 2015. He was nominated as one of the top 25 performers/choreographers to watch for 2019 Dance Magazine. Watt was the recipient of the prestigious Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance 2019. Watt collaborated and worked alongside Matthew Barney in ‘SECONDARY’ premiered in 2023. Watt challenges the way we perceive form through sound and the Body. He interrogates the forms of spiritual entertainment. Watt is currently pursuing an MFA at NYU Tisch in interdisciplinary research.
+ all night selector DJ SAGE LOVES NY
$10-20 sliding scale at the door
Date: May 8, 2024
Time: 7pm
Patchwork, a feminist literary salon, brings together writers across genres and stages in their careers to create a colorful tapestry of radical, experimental, and intersectional feminist conversation and community. Join us monthly for readings, lively discussion, drink specials, books for sale, and an opportunity to mingle and connect with fellow feminist writers and readers!
DATE: Wednesday, May 8
TIME: 7:00pm doors; 7:30 start
LOCATION: SISTERS, 900 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY 11238
Patchwork is produced by the Feminist Press, the world’s longest-running feminist publisher. Founded in 1970 to diversify the literary canon, FP is proud to publish books that ignite movements and social transformation, and works to create a world where everyone recognizes themselves in a book. With Patchwork, Feminist Press aims to bring together a wide variety of writers to create an energetic, exciting space for feminist and independent literary community in New York.
🪡 ABOUT OUR READERS 🪡
K-MING CHANG is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize winner. She is the author of Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020), Bone House (Bull City Press, 2021), Gods of Want (One World, 2022), and Organ Meats (One World, 2023). Her books have been New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selections, included on the New York Times Notable Books list, and considered for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She can be found at kmingchang.com.
MEGAN MILKS is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, named a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and Slug and Other Stories, both published by Feminist Press, as well as Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, published in Instar Books’ Remember the Internet series. With Marisa Crawford, they coedited We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers.
MAEVE BARRY is a writer living in Brooklyn. She has stories in/forthcoming from FENCE, the Sewanee Review, Post Road Magazine, Sleepingfish and other places. She is working on her first novel.
Patchwork is hosted by NADINE SANTORO. Nadine Santoro is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator. She works as the Publicity & Events Coordinator at the Feminist Press, leads retreats, and teaches on creative attention. Nadine is the co-host of the podcast Thinking Straight, a lesbian anthropological dig into the world of heterosexual romance novels, and writes The Doorway, a biweekly snail-mail newsletter. She lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend and their two senior dogs, Knives and Young Neil.
Logo and graphics by Neeti Banerji. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Hive Mind Books. This programming is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Date: May 12, 2024
Time: 7pm
Get tickets here
7pm doors 8pm music
Full dinner menu available, seating is first-come first-served
performing live in the back room
GEORGE CROTTY TRIO
George Crotty has forged his own unique vocabulary on the cello. Expanding outward from the cello’s intrinsic lyricism, his sound introduces plaintive Irish ornamentation, melismatic gestures of Indian classical music, adapted electric guitar manoeuvres, and the bold articulation of jazz bass. He writes and performs for solo cello and small ensembles, and collaborates on film scores, original recordings, and theatrical productions. A member of the Brooklyn Raga Massive, and Detroit-based National Arab Orchestra, he has also worked with Bob Ezrin, Simon Shaheen, Paquito D’Rivera, Anat Cohen, and Darol Anger.
COMPASS TRIO
Compass is a trio that brings an original compositional voice to the three musicians’ collective experience and expertise – Indian raga and tala, the art of flamenco, jazz harmony, and deep groove. The rhythmic form of North Indian music known as theka is a uniquely sophisticated container for exploring time and polyrhythm. Separated by hundreds of years and countless migrations of the Gitano diaspora throughout present day Middle East and Europe we find the same concepts in new forms through the Spanish compas. This musical connection through history and culture is referenced in the name Compass; both a tool to find one’s way home as well as that which structures time in music, another form of finding “home”. Compass Trio is comprised of guitar and effects (James Labrosse), tabla (Tripp Dudley), and sitar (Galen Passen)
Brooklyn Raga Massive is an adventurous nonprofit musicians’ collective that creates cross-cultural understanding through the lens of South Asian classical music by providing direct support to artists, fostering collaboration through our iconic concerts and jam sessions, facilitating cultural exchange through educational initiatives, and producing transcendent, and often massive, performances, festivals, and one-of-a-kind albums. BRM’s original ensembles have performed across the country at venues such as Lincoln Center, Fotografiska NY, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Pioneer Works, The Rubin Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Kennedy Center, and more. Through the curation of our signature series, festivals, and educational programs, we have brought raga into conversation with musical traditions coming from Iraq, Cuba, Morocco, Japan and more.This practice of cross-cultural collaboration both reflects the current global landscape and enables BRM to serve as an incubator of expansive, innovative, new genres of music indigenous to Brooklyn.
Date: May 13, 2024
Time: 7pm
7pm doors 8pm music
full dinner menu availabl, seating is first-come first-served
performing live in the back room
VINES
…is the solo project of composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Cassie Wieland. Praised by The New York Times as “sweetly shimmering,” Vines masterfully experiments with intimate ambient and experimental pop sound worlds to achieve the massive and hand-made vibe she is often searching for. Across her practice, Vines’s music shines a light on knotty feelings that are hidden just under the surface
KAMRA
…is a singer-songwriter raised in the dry desert of Arizona now living between their farm in the Western Catskill Mountains and Toronto. Their music fuses string instruments, experimental sensibilities, field recordings, and band jams. Kamra’s practice centers collaboration, painterly storytelling, and transfigurations that emerge after a spiritual experience. Their popular single “Hear My No” is a socio-cultural cry for more honest communication in relationships. They are also the author of Care Manual, a practical workbook which challenges fixed notions of care, consent, pleasure, and harm. Kamra’s songwriting derives wisdom from lived experience and surfs the waves of traditional African-American music with ethereal charm. Channeling the legacy of Black femme folk singers, Kamra puts their twist on the genre by blending the sentimental deep rich tones with soaring falsettos floating listeners off their feet.
YAZ LANCASTER
…is a transdisciplinary artist residing in Lenapehoking (NYC). Their work as a performer, composer, poet/writer, and collaborator is grounded in queer, DIY, and liberatory frameworks. Their debut record AmethYst, comprising music for violin, voice, and electronics was released in April 2023 (ppr). Recent and upcoming collaborators include Black Mountain College/Hub New Music, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Dorothy Carlos, Eliza Bagg, Massa Nera, Mingjia, Minnesota Philharmonic, Miss Grit, and Sean Pecknold. Yaz additionally works as the co-manager of people places records, a co-organizer of abolitionist music collective Sound Off, and a freelance (music) writer. They love powerlifting, horror manga, and summers down South.
Date: May 26, 2024
Time: 7pm
7pm doors 8pm music
Full dinner menu available, seating is first come first serve
performing live in the back room
JAMES ARENAS BAND
JAMES ARENAS & LOS SUCIOS
James Arenas – Guitar, Lead Vocal
John Anderson – Upright Bass
Mike Chambers – Electric Guitar
Amy de Arenas – Piano, Synths
Mike Glanzer – Cajon, Percussion
Claudia Mogel – Violin
+special guest
HARVEY VALDES
performing Erik Satie Improvisations for solo guitar
$15 at the door (cash/Venmo, no presale)
