THE TANK SPACE FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS

Two NASA castoffs, Dr. Rich Gergen and Lt. Norman James Kilroy have been selected by the mysterious Daedalus Group for a scientific space rendezvous with Halley's Comet in the not so distant future of 1985.

Working in alternating 20 day shifts of isolation, both Gergen and Kilroy find themselves slowly slipping into what can only be identified as an acute case of "space madness". What happens when these two men suddenly find themselves face to face thousands of miles from Earth with no voice of reason to anchor them?

Can our heroes save themselves from themselves? Tune in to find out the answers to these questions and many more aboard SPACESTATION 1985.

Produced by: flashflood productions

http://www.spacestation1985.com

Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/90755

Compassionate, open-harmonied songs with a persistent improvisational element take Harry Partch's advice: folk songs sung in a futuristic gymnasium.

Guitar + percussion + sax + organ + voice + floral speakers + projections.

www.myspace.com/koningsblauw

Doors @ 9 pm
Show @ 9:30pm

EPIC WIN Burlesque is back, kids!

Following up on the success of the "VIDEO GAME VIXENS" shows, co-hosts/producers/nerds NELSON LUGO and SCHAFFER THE DARKLORD return with a fresh installment of EPIC WIN! This time around, the boys and girls celebrate cartoons and the brightly-colored foxes that star in them. Pour a bowl of Cap’N Crunch and gather 'round the boob tube, because this month, EPIC WIN is gonna party like it’s Saturday morning!

Starring:
Miss Mary Cyn as Bugs Bunny!
Lefty Lucy as Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls!
Victoria Privates does Schoolhouse Rock!
Bonnie Voy’age as She-Ra: Princess of Power!
BB Heart as Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop!
Magdalena Fox as April O'Neil from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

Plus raps from Schaffer, magic from Lugo and another round of the geekiest raffle in town.

www.schafferthedarklord.com
www.nelsonlugo.com

Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/89571

SLAM Theater invites artists and audiences to get involved in the process of making theater. Playwrights bring fresh scripts, and actors are called out of a hat to perform timed segments, completely unrehearsed. After each round, the judges score the plays, moving the top-scoring plays to the next round. Winning writers get to unveil more of their work, acting as director or bringing one in to give timed notes. SLAM is an evening of theater with impromptu performance, spontaneous collaboration, and friendly competition.

Now in it's third year, SLAM Theater continues to encourage new voices, opening up a stage for diverse writers to develop work. SLAM is open to everyone. Anyone can come in, throw down a script, put their name in the actor pool, and get involved. A community has grown around SLAM -- a group of artists who come regularly to support each other, and give each other honest feedback in a raw, immediate setting. Each month, our SLAM Champion is given The Tank's space to put on a staged reading of their work. Many artists come and end up making strong connections and creative relationships that continue to develop outside of SLAM. SLAM is always growing and expanding. Actors, bring your talent. Playwrights, bring your scripts. Audience, bring your voice. Come SLAM!

$5 suggested donation

An Eating / Reading / Laughing / Screening / Giving Liberally Event

Prepare for Thanksgiving & kick-off the holidays
with good people, good food & good causes
as we share ways to Celebrate Liberally --
a season of goodwill over greed
& celebration over consumerism.

With comedy, speakers, presenters
& an Eating Liberally pre-Thanksgiving cornucopia.

Featuring:

Laughing Liberally comedians:
Katie Halper, Baratunde Thurston, Lee Camp, Negin Farsad

Presenters from Global Goods on shopping liberally,

The Food Bank of New York on giving liberally,
& how to ensure you're eating liberally

Plus Jonathan Tasini, author "The Audacity of Greed,"
and presenters on a sustainable yuletide season!

Plus we'll be collecting canned food for Food Bank of NY
& coats for Partnership for the Homeless.

http://livingliberally.org/

("Would you like a little Mirza with your Stockhausen?")

The Tank and AMP spice up contemporary classical music with an ear-twittering series of delectable (sonic) combinations. On each Tuesday in November, a different NYC-based new music ensemble will serve up an intellectual degustation pairing (pitting?) one old-vintage composer with (against?) an up-and-coming New World contender. What will the mélange reveal? Following the performance, there will be a panel discussion with the featured young composer to savor over any lingering flavors. Yum.

AMP will present two pieces on the November 24th, final concert: a new work by AMP director ADAM MIRZA, for tenor saxophone, electric guitar and accordion, and KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN'S other-worldly Mikrophonie I , for large tam-tam, microphones, filters and controllers. Both works address sound as the reverberation of a physical action, the human (musical) gesture amplified, filtered and projected by an instrumental embodiment.

PAIRINGS is a four-concert series of contemporary classical music produced by the Tank and curator Adam Mirza. Concerts will take place at the Tank on each Tuesday night in November at 7PM. Each concert will feature a young composer "paired" with an established composer, both chosen and presented by a NYC-based new music ensemble. Following each performance, there will be a short panel discussion with the featured young composer to consider the various musical interactions in play.

Contextualizing the apparent focal point of 'composer' (or 'composers') is the organic collaboration between composer and independent new music ensemble as a living cultural ecosystem, within which the individual composer(s) may articulate distinctly personal aesthetic ideals, but without which such ideals would lack real substance.

The series invokes several of the musical-cultural sub-plots which twist through incarnations of "new music", here with an emphasis on the avant-garde and experimental traditions of the US and Europe. Three of the ensembles pair young American composers with two seminal figures of post-war European modernism and one recent European artist. Electronic elements--especially the interaction of electronic and "live" music--are developed in several works. More broadly, the compositions and composers in this series exhibit adaptations to artistic, scientific and social patterns from outside of the realm of traditional classical music.

Presale tickets are available at:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/85165

Photo by Lisa Abbott-Canfield.

See the group that Cityscoops.com calls; " . . . a mellifluous blend of singing, dancing, puppetry and genuine camaraderie." And; "This group of handsome and classy men always scores big laughs . . . "!
The Sarasota Herald Tribune says; " . . . hilarious!"
Seen our show before? No problem, because; " Repeat viewings are encouraged as no two shows are quite the same!" - Andrew Singer, The Apiary.

$10 bucks gets you in the door!
$20 bucks gets you in the door and gets you a t-shirt!

As always, no drink minimums . . . but drink up, it makes us funnier and makes the Tank happy!

www.cityhallcomedy.com

Open Call for Works: For Black History Month, The Tank will be hosting a festival celebrating the African-American influence on the musical landscape of the United States and the influence of African-American music on American history. All types of performers are welcome to apply, as long as their work fulfills one or more of these thematic requirements:

• Presents the African-American experience in an historical context as told through music
• Addresses the African-American impact on the musical history of the United States
• Features the work of musicians that are of historical importance to both black history and music history in America

Special consideration will be given to works that are especially relevant to New York City. Submissions are due by December 1st; accepted artists will be notified by December 15th. Dates are throughout the month of February and will be negotiated with The Tank and accepted artists. To apply, please send an email application with one page application describing your project and links to any supporting materials (.mp3s, video, images) to blackhistorymonth@thetanknyc.org. Please do not include attachments larger than 1MB.