Conflux

Conflux @ Night Sunday 9.16 Closing Party

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Luna Lounge hosts the final night of Conflux featuring The Tall Firs, The Hatch and Sophelia Kinder. Doors at 7pm. Tickets $5

The Tall Firs

After releasing a debut album in fall 2006 which drew accolades from Rolling Stone, Vice, NME, Q, and Harp amongst others, Tall Firs criss-crossed North America twice in the past year, winning audiences from San Diego to Saskatoon with album cuts and new rockers alike. A March appearance in Austin during South by Southwest drew notice from Rolling Stone’s David Fricke, who described their live set in his Fricke’s Picks column: “A gently uplifting highlight of my…weekend…a psychedelic-folk tangle of spider-leg-guitar arpeggios and hazy, bong-room singalong harmonies.” In May they performed at All Tomorrow’s Parties in the UK, opened dates in Europe for Shellac, and did a short headlining tour of England.

Beyond sporadic apparations amongst the warehouses and backrooms of Brooklyn, Tall Firs will also strike out on a brief tour with labelmates and fellow-travelers Magik Markers this fall. Coming from alternate dimensions of the Ecstatic universe, recent live shows prove the two units are warping the continuum until their trajectories can suddenly be plotted on the same grid. Without warning the Markers are singing and the Firs are rocking. Dude, WTF?

The Hatch

“Channeling Michael Jackson, Elton John and John Brion into a neo-indie pop-rock experience dressed up in a slick RnB style.”

Sunday 9.16 BLOCK PARTY

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Conflux continues on Sunday with another day packed full of projects and our first block party.

Join us as we shut down Havemeyer Street between Hope and Metropolitan from noon- 5pm for the last party of the summer. We’ll be presenting over 10 installations and interactive projects, with Djs Gringo Scarr and SportCasual and a BBQ with farm fresh food. Special thanks to the Lucky Cat, Dogfish Head Brewery and Crop Circle Beer for their generous support!

See you tomorrow!

Conflux @ Night Saturday 9.15

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Join us tonight at the Luna Lounge for live music from some of the newest, brightest and most exciting young bands in NYC, featuring:

Naked Highway (who’s newest single “Pop it Drop it” is tearing up the internet airwaves)

The Wildbirds(described by their label as “energetic, exciting, heartfelt rock n’ roll”),

The Brought Low (a mix of blues, rock and country, with roots in classic rock)

Revival

The Mercy Bends (according to the band, they’re “dirty, low down rock n’ roll”)

Doors at 7pm

Admission $8

Conflux Festival @ Night Friday 9.14

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Conflux continues tonight with a variety of events around the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

7-10pm @ Gitana Rosa Gallery located at 19 Hope Street.

Glowlab Group Exhibition for Conflux as part of the Williamsburg Every Second: Art After Hours presented by the Williamsburg Gallery Association.

6-8pm @ McCaig-Welles Gallery located at 129 Roebling Street.

Conflux presents The Next American City Magazine Party: An interactive installation and cocktail party.

7:30pm @ Luna Lounge located at 361 Metropolitan Avenue.

Live Music by Discrete Encounter, The Exeter Popes, Reni Laine and Bryan Baker and the Voluntary Villains.

Doors @ 7pm Tix $5.00

Call for Participants “Post Industrial Folk Wear” by Mau Schoettle

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10-20 Participants needed for Post Industrial Folk Wear Project

Itineraries of flux and drift are charted in notes scrawled on the sleeve of a jacket, the intersection of people, thought, and geography. Participants will be provided jackets made of durable house wrap: upon which they will imprint their time based experience of being in Brooklyn. The material is durable and recyclable, has the appearance of being fragile and takes a pen really well. While jackets are protective outerwear, these jackets will become testimonies to a blurring of the internal and external experience, private public, inside outside, yours or mine. Participants are asked to set some initial perimeters – to wear the jacket for an extended period of time, to wander the streets, to map a journey, to sit on a bench and record thoughts, involve others, to draw, to give and receive directions, to re-use material, etc…. To do whatever comes to mind, to record, directly onto the jacket as they pass through the public landscape.

MEET at THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE, 84 Havemeyer Street
+Saturday Sept. 15, 12:30 - 1:30 discussion and jacket pick up
+Sunday Sept. 16, 2;00 – 3:00 discussion and return of jackets
+Exhibition Jackets will be exhibited all together at a later date, with participants’ names and bios included.

CONTACT MAU AT mau@conceptualclothing.com to participate

“Intersection Play” by Joshua Bisset/Shua Group

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Joshua Bisset / Shua Group invites you to observe / join in the movement installation work Intersection Play, at the corner of Metropolitan and Union Ave this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Intersection Play observes transforms and draws focus to the movement and flux of the intersection.