*REPOST because Instagram DOES NOT want you to go see @aesopssoundfables STRANGE ANIMATIONS!*
Our last post was removed without warning, we assume because Instagram didn’t want you to see the live-scoring event of the summer where Aesop’s Sound Fables will preform new original soundtracks to films by local and classical animators. This show’s selection of work features brushes with strangers that turn absurdist, and calls attention to the odd intimacy we encounter in public places. They also don’t want you to see the lovely short films of:
Mira Seeba - @mira.seeba
Ryan Castrillo - @rye.toasty
Vincent Viñas - @vinkneewise
Alexander Greenblatt - @greenblattalex
Curated by Mostafa Ebrahim (@mostalanious )
See the (apparently) controversial show on Saturday, June 6th at Cloud City @thecloudcity Williamsburg, ticket link in @aesopssoundfables bio!
Coming next: Dog Funeral! A clown show!
Take the “fun” out of “funeral” and throw the rest away! Zoe W is holding a funeral for her childhood dog, and you’re invited! Yay! Dressed in Victorian mourning garb and ready to cry on command, she’ll teach you how to properly perform your grief. All she wants is your sympathy, your tears and a goddamn glass of wine (please!). Sadness is Zoe’s passion and this dog was Zoe’s best friend. It’s gonna be a rough one, so join the solemn ceremony and pay your respects with the good boys (may they rest in peace).
Friday and Saturday, May 22nd-23rd. 8 pm. Tickets on WithFriends!
Tonight: a reading of a brand new play!
Mara and Georgiana are best friends. Mara organizes a surprise birthday party for Georgiana, complete with a surprise four thousand dollar minimum spend at the bar. They work together to entertain an endless parade of guests, all while the bartender of Georgiana’s dreams looks on. Can their friendship (and bank accounts) survive the evening?
Tickets on WithFriends!!
In honor of the upcoming launch of Artemis II for a trip around the moon, we’re bringing back @no.cheese.moniz ’s MOON SHOW this Friday night. Tickets available now!
Coming to Cloud City Friday 1/23 and Saturday 1/24 THE GHOSTWRITER. Tickets at the link in our bio!
A washed-up writer needs cash fast, so she takes an unlikely job: ghostwriting her fan’s suicide note.
Olive Temple was the talk of the town in 2012. A member of the once-hip alt-lit community, she wrote fiction that acted as a veiled memoir of her life partying with celebrities and taking copious amounts of drugs. Now, she’s divorced, broke, and hasn’t written a word since. Her agent quits. Her famous friends are nowhere to be found, and she spends most of her time doom scrolling and getting drunk in her tiny New York apartment, living off her dwindling royalties. Desperate for money, she responds to a cryptic email offering to pay her an exorbitant amount for very little work. The job? Writing Walton Hanes’ suicide note. Walton is an Olive Temple superfan and feels that only her voice can capture his final message to the world. But as they begin to work together, Olive learns there’s much more to Walton’s story than he’s letting on. Soon, she finds herself ensnared in a web of lies and mystery where one false move could cost her what little she has left.
THE GHOSTWRITER is a play in three acts, approximately 80 minutes long, featuring three actors and six characters. It zigzags between comedy and drama, and it tells a story of our dysfunctional relationship between the personas we project and the ones we keep hidden.
*Equity members appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this off-off Broadway production.
It’s Literary January at Cloud City! It was sort of an accident but we’re all in. This weekend we have God Is In Your Typewriter, a new play about Anne Sexton and the confessional writers of the 1960s. Next weekend, a free book swap- come take some books, trade some books, and hang out among books. And the weekend after that, The Ghostwriter, a new play about a washed-up writer who takes an unusual ghostwriting gig. Tickets are on withfriends. Reading glasses optional, but they will make you look smart!
Coming next at Cloud City: GOD IS IN YOUR TYPEWRITER, January 9th and 10tb!
GOD IS IN YOUR TYPEWRITER is a meta-theatrical exploration of the life, work, and psyches of the American comfessional poets: a world of words, sex, booze, and thousands of cigarettes.
Created by Lyndsey Anderson and BREAD Arts Collective.
Directed by Nick Ryan
Featuring Lyndsey Anderson*, Katie Melby, Ben Lewis, Andrew Lynch, and Glittery Jane.
Tickets available now on withfriends!
*appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
This Saturday! It's time for CATS. An Art Show Inspired by Cats brings together 35 artists exploring the many forms, moods and mysteries of our feline muses. Featuring photography, painting, collage, sculpture and more. The exhibition showcases over 45 works ranging from $25 to $2,000. There is something for both first time collectors and longtime art lovers.
The in-person exhibition will take place at Cloud City (85 N 1st Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211) on Saturday, December 13th, with a preview from 4–6 PM and an official opening from 6–9 PM.
An accompanying online store will launch at TeamNicki.com on December 13th at 6 PM EST and remain open through December 22nd at 6 PM.
A portion of the proceeds support @whiskers_agogo an amazing cat rescue group in Brooklyn.
This Saturday, December 6th! For the ninth year in a row, join a cast of true rascals in an immersive and weird journey through the entire text of Christmas Carol by C. Dickens from within a Christmas tree. Haircuts, prizes, music, etc. Starts at 1, goes for hours, come and go as you please. Tickets on withfriends!
You inquired and we heard you! So, due to popular asking the deadline for CATS has been extended through Thanksgiving! You can now submit your work until November 30th!
We have such an amazing collection of work so far, proving what Team Nicki has always said “There is no wrong way to make a cat art!”
Put down your phone and make a cat art… not now, RIGHT NOW!
All the info is at teamnicki.com
Link in bio.
