- TIME: 9pm (This event happens EVERY FIRST WEDNESDAY)
PLACE:Freddy’s, 485 Dean Street at 6th Ave, Brooklyn
COST:FREE
- SUMMARY:”On the first Wednesday of each month, brave souls come forward and read aloud from their teenage diaries, journals, notes, letters, poems, abandoned rock operas, and other general representations of the crushing misery of their humiliating adolescence. It’s better and cheaper than therapy.”
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- TIME: 8pm (This event happens EVERY FIRST WEDNESDAY)
PLACE: Union Hall, 702 Union St. at Fifth Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn
COST:FREE
- SUMMARY:”Underground …Shrouded in mist and mystery …And teeming with cocktails previously unknown to science. Union Hall’s “Secret Science Club” is back with more radioactive lectures, volatile experiments, chemical libations, and star-gazing sounds!!”
THIS WEEK:”GERRY MOORE LECTURES ON “THE SECRET BOTANICAL LIFE OF NYC: Ready to photosynthesize? Explore the weird and wonderful world of plants—especially those that thrive in our overbuilt, human-dominated landscape.”
- RELATED:
- Shannon’s Review: “This was not your average science lecture…”
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- TIME: 8pm
PLACE: Trash Bar, 256 Grand St between Driggs and Roebling
COST: $5
- SUMMARY:”A great mulit-bill w/ our friends Kinetic and Wynn Walent. PLUS: rumors are flying about abundant TATER-TOTS at the show.” Open bar from 8-9pm
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- TIME: 7pm (This event happens EVERY FIRST WEDNESDAY)
PLACE:Location One, 26 Greene St. between Canal & Grand
COST:FREE, but bring snacks to share, RSVP recommended (send email to dorkbotnyc@dorkbot.org)
- SUMMARY:”People doing strange things with electricity.” ie “dorkbot-nyc is a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students, scientists, and other interested parties from the new york area who are involved in the creative use of electricity.”
THIS WEEK:
- Gabe McNatt: “Wind-Composition” is a software program created in MAX-MSP that allows the user to adjust the volume and pan of nine different sound-layers.
- Caitlin Berrigan: Viral Confections: “Viral Confections” are edible chocolates shaped into the molecular structure of the hepatitis C virus. Desire to eat the enticing chocolates is mixed with a repulsion for the infectious virus. This unnerving dialectic has proved to be an exciting and approachable way to ignite discussion and create awareness about an extremely prevalent and underrepresented disease. Dorkbots will have the opportunity to consume the chocolates at the meeting.
- Zach Smith: RepRap: RepRap is an open source 3D printing technology that a Maker can truly appreciate. It uses a thermoplastic extruder to melt and lay down a fine stream of plastic. Feed it an object file, and it will hum to life.
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- TIME: 7pm
PLACE:Bluestockings, 172 Allen St between Stanton and Rivington
COST:FREE
- SUMMARY: “Join award-winning author and activist Alix Kates Shulman in celebrating the new, 35th Anniversary edition of “Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen.” A million-copy bestseller and called “the first important novel to emerge from the women’s liberation movement, the book sardonically looks at the double-binds of growing up female and sexy in middle-class America.”
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