Date: December 11th 2009

An excellent line-up of events this weekend, including:

-New Wave Theatre/Peter Ivers party
-Art show and book release party for Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking, by Josh McPhee, of justseeds.org
-Hookers at the KGB Bar

Details below.

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New Wave Theatre Party
Friday, December 18
92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street
8:00pm Doors, 9:00pm Show
Price: $12.00

Join Josh Frank, author of the forthcoming Soft Skull paperback IN HEAVEN EVERYTHING IS FINE: THE UNSOLVED LIFE OF PETER IVERS AND THE LOST HISTORY OF NEW WAVE THEATRE The New Wave Theatre/Peter Ivers Party in the Mainstage for an evening of outré retro '80s ephemera that includes:

SCREENING of an hour-long program of highlights from David Jove's visionary and uncompromising early 1980s cable TV series New Wave Theatre featuring exciting
and outrageous punk rock performances / interviews from the likes of Black Flag, Suburban Lawns, Angry Samoans, Fear, Geza X, Nervous Gender, Peter Ivers' Vitamin Pink Revue and many more! Featuring unseen rare footage never before shown on the big screen! And...

A Q&A following the screening with Night Flight-creator Stuart Shapiro and filmmakers Ian Marshall & Josh Frank, who will discuss the upcoming documentary Terminal Love about the life and mysterious murder of New Wave Theatre host Peter Ivers. And...

A LIVE PERFORMANCE featuring the Pink Gherkins, an all-star "super group" tribute band with SURPRISE SPECIAL GUESTS (to be announced), performing a set of songs made "famous" by Peter Ivers and/or artists who appeared on New Wave Theatre! And...

DJs throughout the night: Brian Turner (WFMU) and his krazy co-horts (TBA) will spin deranged art-wave and yoga-core classics from the 1970s and 80s!


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Art Show and book launch: Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking
Friday Dec 18
8-11pm
Where: Book Thug Nation
100 N.3rd St. (between Berry St. & Wythe Ave.)
Brooklyn, NY
Justseeds.org
bookthugnation.com

Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is having an art show and book release party for Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today - featuring political prints by over 200 international artists, edited by artist/activist Josh MacPhee—author of Soft Skull Press' Reproduce and Revolt, and Stencil Pirates.

There will be new work by the Justseeds artists on display and for sale, free snacks and drinks.



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Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex
A reading/signing featuring the book's editor David Henry Sterry, along with other writers who contributed to the book
Sunday, Dec 20
7-9 pm
Where: KGB Bar
85 East 4th St / New York, NY 10003
212-505-3360
KGBbar.com

Hos, Hookers, Call-Girls and Rent Boys - Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex was born in a writing workshop of the basement of a San Francisco nonprofit dedicated to helping people who have worked in the sex business. Inspired by the wealth of talent and strength they witnessed in the workshop, David Henry Sterry initiated an
even broader search for writing by sex workers and work streamed in (according to Sterry) "from street hustlers to Ph.D.'s. From some people who wanted to be anonymous. From some people who wanted their names to be public for all to see." Hos, Hookers, Call-Girls and Rent Boys is compiled from this overwhelming response and work produced at the writers' workshop.

"The collection is a wonderful reminder that good writing is not about knowing words, grammar or Faulkner, but having that rare ability to tell the truth, an ability that education and sophistication often serve to conceal." —New York Times Book Review, Page 1


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Soft Skull Press




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