so you see, the stage has been set for fun in the sun, queer art style. please forward this information to anyone and everyone who might be interested. i’d like to get as many people out as possible to this impromptu temporary art experiment and experience. so, invite your friends and make the treck. you’ll be glad you did.
Adventures in Boyhood and Tramp_O_line bring you:
71 TROUTMAN
a temporary art experience
OPENING AUGUST 20
Join us Saturday, August 20th from 6pm to 11pm for an evening of song, drink, and art. Works on paper by Eli VandenBerg will be shown. There will be free food, a cash bar with amazing drink specials, and a front and back patio for smoking, drinking and general socializing. Join us for a great queer art party in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Directions:
by train: take the JMZ line to Myrtle Ave. Walk west on Myrtle across Broadway. Make a left on Troutman Street. 71 Troutman is on the second block of Troutman Street. It is the last house on the left.
by bus: take the B54 towards Ridgewood. Exit at Evergreen Street. Cross Evergreen (going south) and continue to Troutman Street. Turn Right and 71 Troutman is the first house on the left.
Call for submissions:
Queer artists in craft, video, text, and 2D.
East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Temporary gallery/event space seeks submissions from Queer artists of varying genres and mediums to show work. No space rental fee. Every weekend will see a new, creative social event. Saturdays will host a series of curated public, pay what you can events; including:
Queer Craft Fair
Writer’s Ho-down
Video screening (with popcorn!)
Generating creative social scenarios thru art.
Queer printmakers, painters and illustrators, videomakers and writers, will all be showcased in this temporary social experiment located at 71 Troutman, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.
Please send your submissions immediately! Send resume, 10jpgs via email, or on CD, and/or maximum 10 min. of video on DVD or VHS. In order that we can return your work to you, please include SASE with sufficient postage.
Email: eli@adventuresinboyhood.com
Or snailmail: Tramp_O_line c/o Praxis
610 Dean St. #1
Brooklyn, NY 11213
DEADLINE: AUGUST 20
i’m waiting at the bus stop in china town and this group of five teenage boys comes up to me. my teenage years were pretty traumatic so i fear teenage boys way more than i do adult men. so they walk up and ask where canal street is, “ma’am.” while i’m giving the one directions the other one is yelling in the background, “that’s a man, yo.” i give my directions and the kid turns to me and says, “i’m sorry, really i am. you are a guy right?” i just say it’s ok and not to worry about it. happens sometimes. he runs off yelling at his friends, “you guys, i told you it was a guy. you guys are such dorks.” it made me smile. when i looked like a girl i got mistaken for a guy and now i get mistaken for a woman. i still enjoy watching people argue about it after they walk away.
i’m down in philly right now where i will soon be moving in with my lady. no job yet, but if i’m going to be unemployed i may as well do it in a less expensive city. i’m hoping to transfer the fun and exciting art events that i bring to troutman street down to philly. so, philly pholks, (that was lame, i know) put your thinking caps on we we can get some stuff started here.
oh, and if anyone knows where i can get a real job let me know…
