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December 2022
The Virgin Lovelace: Kate Zibluk’s Thesis Show
Brick Aux is proud to present Kate Zibluk's Senior Thesis: The Virgin Lovelace December 11 at 8pm @ Brick Aux 628 Metropolitan Avenue **the performance is 30 minutes, starting at 8pm and casual hang out is from 9-11pm** Religion, miracles, and magic are all biological processes humanity doesn’t understand. *** The Virgin Lovelace is a performance seeking to explore the idea that religion, science, magic, and technology are all terms for the same thing—each their own language explaining the same…
Find out more »Winter Festival 2022 – 3 Short Film Premieres w/ Live Comedy, Puppets, Art
The Winter Festival December 13, 7pm-10pm @ Brick Aux - 628 Metropolitan Avenue Hosted at The Brick's Aux space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (easily accessible from the Metropolitan-Lorimer stop on the L train and the G train), The Florist Friars present 'The Winter Festival!' An artistic social gathering to premiere three independent short films; Long Beach Island (dir. Mike Macera), The Shit Show (dir. Collin Linnville), and No Cure 4 Fools (dir. Tommy Lynch). In addition to these short films, the…
Find out more »Birthday Fundraiser Bash for Sarah, Tristan & Joey’s Exponential Festival Premieres & Sarah & Joey’s Birthdays & Tristan’s Not Quite but Kind of Half Birthday
Brick Aux presents Birthday Fundraiser Bash for Sarah, Tristan & Joey's Exponential Festival Premieres & Sarah & Joey's Birthdays & Tristan's Not Quite but Kind of Half Birthday by Sarah Finn, Joey Merlo, Tristan Allen December 15, 2022 at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave No BYOB 7pm Live music! DJ & dancing! Themed Refreshments! Birthday Cake! Raffle Prizes & more! Come support Sarah, Joey and Tristan's shows AND celebrate the dance party dreamfest that is the quarter life crisis.…
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The Exponential Festival Presents: The Complaint Society
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present THE COMPLAINT SOCIETY by Barnett Cohen January 4-7 2023 Contextualized by our era of infinite emergency, The Complaint Society documents and synthesizes a pixelated present of ruined meaning, anxious forces, neurotic tendencies, and looping violence. A range of urgencies–climate grief, state-sanctioned force, reparative justice, reproductive rights, systems of surveillance, the growing fascist theocracy in the US, and the memeification of political mood–appear and reappear in the performance as sirens, propositions for time travel,…
Find out more »混沌: CHAOS AND DELIGHT: Opening Party at Brick Aux
Brick Aux Presents 混沌: Chaos and Delight by Shawna Tang at Brick Aux Gallery – 628 Metropolitan Ave Opening reception, sponsored by Lunar Hard Seltzer and Win Son Bakery January 7, 2023 from 5-8 FREE admission Brick Aux proudly presents 混沌: Chaos and Delight, a new solo gallery exhibition by visual artist Shawna Tang. Join us Saturday, January 7 from 5-8 for the opening party! Check out the art, have some drinks and snacks and meet the artist! *** 混沌: Chaos…
Find out more »Arrow of Time Screening at Brick Aux
Arrow of Time Screening January 9 - 7pm doors, 8pm screening @ Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Avenue FREE Arrow of Time, a new audio play by Allyson Dwyer, to premiere as part of Exponential Festival’s 2023 digital programming. Arrow of Time is a brand new 90-minute audio play that will premiere January 9, 2023, at 8PM Eastern on Exponential Festival’s YouTube channel as part of their slate of digital programming. Accompanying the audio performance will be a video component…
Find out more »The Exponential Festival Presents: Tin Iso and the Dawn
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Tin Iso and the Dawn by Tristan Allen January 10-14, 2022 Tin Iso and the Dawn is shadow puppet symphony performed alongside an original, full length album. The project shares the origins of an imaginary world created to give age-old magic life through puppetry and music. Tristan Allen : Creator, Composer, Puppeteer Jim Freeman : Technical Director Tin Iso and the Dawn is operated by a solo puppeteer, composed and performed to explore the hidden…
Find out more »The Exponential Festival Presents: God and All Her Children
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present God and All Her Children by Anike Sonuga January 15, 2022 The summer before their senior year of high school, two boys come to God's porch to process life and the impending future. God played by Floria Foote, Gigi played by Gabriel Generally, D played by Jonathan Lorenzo Price, writer director & producer Anike Sonuga, associate producer Kyla Jeanne It's August. The summer before senior year. It's too hot to do anything and…
Find out more »The Exponential Festival Presents: The Ben Shapiro Project and Our bodies like dams
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present The Ben Shapiro Project by Ella Davidson and Our bodies like dams Sarah Finn January 16-21, 2022 The Ben Shapiro Project Ella wants to save America and herself, so Ella becomes Ben Shapiro. Then Ella confronts Ben Shapiro. America can't be saved, but can Ella be saved? Ella Lee Davidson: writer/director/performer Paul Levine: Co-Director Anuka Sethi: Producer Chris De Santis: Playing the Role of Ben Shapiro Tiana Richards: Dramaturg and Social Media Manager …
Find out more »The Exponential Festival Presents: (untitled human composting play)
Let's Talk About Death.
Let's Sing the Song of Decomposition and Dance the Dance of Shuffling Bones.
Let's Parley With A Fungal Network.
Let's Turn Into A Flower.
Two Films by Title:Point – Mandatory Hypnosis and Blood Polaroid
A night of blood, ghouls, and hypnotists on the silver screen.
Find out more »The Exponential Festival Presents: Circus Trick & Presentation on colonialism
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Circus Trick by Addie Ulrey and Presentation on colonialism by Joey Weiss January 26-29, 2022 at Brick Aux - 628 Metropolitan Ave Circus Trick Clown is a professional. They have always taken pride in giving the audience what they came for: a good, old fashioned trick. But in our digital world of ready-made delights, what counts as a trick? What does the circus have to offer that you can’t get fasterbrightercheaper somewhere else?…
Find out more »The Exponential Festival Presents: ADMIN REVEAL
Join memestress and hyper-niche internet microcelebrity Miss Lady Salad (Shawn Escarciga) for ADMIN REVEAL, a celebration of internet culture and the artists and thinkers who keep it alive
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The Exponential Festival Presents: On Set with Theda Bara
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present On Set with Theda Bara by Joey Merlo February 1-8, 2023 In this hallucination of a one-person show, a genderqueer teen who goes missing and their gay detective father come face-to-face with the supernatural and consciousness-devouring Theda Bara, the vamp and silent film star of the 1920’s. Starring David Greenspan Written by Joey Merlo Directed by Jack Serio On Set with Theda Bara is a gothic coming-of-age story, a campy melodrama about identity-consumption and…
Find out more »Hi, Nice People
Brick Aux presents Hi, Nice People A feel-good show about adult problems with Hunter Gardner February 1, 2023 at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave DOORS: 7:30 SHOW: 8:00 Hi, Nice People! is a comedy variety show that's like a PG-13 episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Every show, Hunter Gardner invites you into his living room where he and co-host Meg Pierson tackle adult problems with the help of performers and a subject matter expert. This month's theme is SEX STUFF Tickets…
Find out more »LIL SWEETUMS – An Andy Boyd Book Release Party
LIL SWEETUMS An Andy Boyd Book Release Party February 4th - 4:30 doors, 5pm reading @ Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Avenue FREE Join Andy Boyd for the book release party of his new chapbook Lil' Sweetums: Three Short Plays, out now from Bottlecap Press. Actor Danny Erickson will perform the first Sweetum I Sing the Tale, and Andy will perform some songs and show some cartoons from his zine Suitable for Framing: The Collected Cartoons of Andy Boyd, Vol. 1. Copies of Lil' Sweetums and Suitable for…
Find out more »Winter Elemental Sound Bath & Reiki at Brick Aux
Fortify your kidneys with East Asian Medicine Your body, cells, and everything around you resonates. As the world turns and seasons change, your energy may not be in harmony with the frequencies that surround you. This can lead to seasonal imbalances that manifest as fatigue, anxiety and lethargy. Winter is associated with the water element, which sweeps in a cold and slow energy. This creates a great opportunity to slow down and reflect internally to figure out how to replenish…
Find out more »Brick Aux presents Market of Dreams – February 5, 2023
Brick Aux is proud to present MARKET OF DREAMS + BOURBON AND FRIENDS *** On offer? -An excellent array of vendors, serving you tarot, fashion, fake green cards and gems. -Bourbon and Conversation. When and How? 3pm-6pm – Incredible vendors will be on hand, ready to send you walking with unexpected treats. Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Avenue MARKET OF DREAMS featuring: -Shawna Tang's 混沌: Chaos and Delight (gallery show) -@cookiesmut store (jewelry and more) -Tessa Creates (stones, note pads…
Find out more »Karaoke means Joy
The Brick presents Karaoke means Joy by Allie Pinel Feb 10 & 11, 2023 8pm Karaoke means Joy is an immersive karaoke performance. This ego show looks into our performance dreams of ourselves versus reality and the unlikely friendships that form around the local gay karaoke bar. Writer, Director, Choreographer: Alexandra Pinel Video Production: Maksim Akselrod Dramaturgy: Janine Cunningham Collaborators: Sophie Bromberg, Mistah Coles, Susana Cook, Janine Cunningham, Lindsey Weaving and Kegan Zema. Karaoke means Joy takes place in a…
Find out more »BrickFlix Presents Phantasmagorical Film Fantasies: A Valentine’s Day Screening
In celebration of—or, equally, in reaction against—Valentine’s Day, BrickFlix and The Film-Makers’ Cooperative co-present this lush selection of erotic films.
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