Governors Island Art Fair with FAS!

Run by artists, for artists, The Governors Island Art Fair is in its 4th year this fall. Join us THIS SUNDAY, Sept. 25, 11:00am to 6:00pm, for a day of FREE ART with 4Heads Artists Collective at the Governor’s Island Art Fair.

Featuring:
Live music by
Mamarazzi (our favorite Afro-funk band) (2:30 & 4:15)
Shameus’ New York Super Raucous All-Star Merrymakers Super Band
(3:30 & 5:15)

Live Painting – open to all
Hula Hoop Flash Mob 
Liquid latex body painting

Art Your Bike (Bring a donation or a roll of colorful tape to share)
Slow Bike Race — Prizes for the slowest and most festive bike!

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Free ferries depart every ten minutes from
the Battery Maritime Building at 10 South Street (Manhattan)
or from Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park (at the foot of Atlantic Avenue).
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Want to get involved with advance planning?
Just contact us: TheFreeArtSociety@gmail.com

BMW Guggenheim Lab

“Part urban think tank, part community center and public gathering space, the BMW Guggenheim Lab is conceived to engage public discourse in cities around the world and through the BMW Guggenheim Lab website and online social communities.”

What Is the Lab? | BMW Guggenheim Lab.

This lab has popped up in 33 East First Street (between First and Second Avenues), previously occupied by an empty lot full of trash.  It’s FREE, it’s travelling the world, and we got it first!

The concept of the museum is being reworked. It’s moving in an interactive, community-involved direction with things like this and this. We like it.

Listen!

Nicolina and Nathan discuss art, life, and the Free Art Society Wednesday, August 10, live on Progressive Radio Network.

1:00pm on Pure Imagination with Rachel Trachtenburg.

Support the New Orleans Mural Project

Free Artist Lauryn Pepe, painter of beautiful murals such as this one:

is traveling to the Lower 9th Ward in September to design and paint a mural with the children of Dr. King Charter School. It will be a powerful addition of beauty to a largely rundown and forgotten area.

The artist says, “The objective is to showcase the power of public art and to raise awareness of the struggles the lower 9th ward still undergoes to rebuild since the devastation of Katrina almost six years ago”.

Please help support this incredible project! Click here to learn more or donate on Kickstarter.

Thank You!

Thanks to everyone who came out for the Second Annual Massive Mad Hatter Tea Party. It was MAD awesome!

Click here to read what Bowery Boogie thought, and here for EV Grieve’s coverage!

Thoughts? Questions? Want to get involved? Have pictures? Leave a comment or e-mail us.

Much Love,

FAS

**Massive Mad Hatter Tea Party Tomorrow**

It’s happening! Tea! Cookies! Brass bands! Madness! We all REALLY hope you’ll be there, but if you can’t make it, here’s the next best thing:

Click <a href="” target=”_blank”>here to live stream the tea party and transform your living room into Wonderland with the magic of FAS and the internet!!

Otherwise,

See you in Tompkins Square Park at 6PM. Don’t be late!

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!

The Massive Mad Hatter Tea Party is THIS SUNDAY!

We hope you’re putting the finishing touches on your mad hat and sewing knee pads into your costume, because you’re  about to fall down the rabbit hole!!

July 31st, Tompkins Square Park from 6-8

Moon Hooch will be there —

Raya Brass Band will be there–

Fritz Donnelley of HiChristina will be there–

Dr. Adventure will be there —

Humpty Dumpty will be there —

Free food will be there —

SURPRISES will be there —

will yooouuuu??

After party to follow with the greatest of dubstep DJs, installation, performance, and more.

 

Don’t have proper habberdashing supplies at home? We’ve got you covered. Come by our workshop on Saturday from 12 on or Sunday (day of) from 1-5:30  to make a splendiferous hat  (text 917.837.5114 for address).

Star Trek in the Park with FAS

Films in Tompkins is playing the Star Trek movie tomorrow (Thursday, July 21), and that’s just the beginning! The fabulous Moon Hooch will be playing, and the Free Art Society will be providing entertainment of all sorts. Oh yeah, and there will be FREE FOOD! Gates open at 6, and the movie starts at Sundown.

More info here: http://filmsintompkins.com/

See you there!!

Keyzz

Who knew getting keys copied could be such an adventure? If you have lock business to do, this is the place to go. The owner is reputed to be one of the best locksmiths the business, and it’s awesome:

Phil Mortillaro opened Grenwich Locksmith in the West Village in 1968. It is the smallest freestanding building in Manhattan. Now, he has an incredible studio on the same block, and he lives right across the street. Nice life.

He just built this facade a few years ago and is already getting a lot of attention for it. Check out the trailer for a documentary about him called Do Not Duplicate:

 

He’s also an expert at cracking safes. Sweeeeeeet.

Sunday Fundays!

What are you doing this Sunday? And the next one? And the next one (you know, before the Tea Party)?

Make a costume! A magical, spectacular, Wonderland costume! And then make a hat! Two hats! Ten hats!

Go madhatting at the Lower East Side Girl’s Club (51 E. 1st St. btw 1st & 2nd Aves.)!

Sunday July 17th — 3-6pm
Sunday July 24th — 3-6pm
Sunday July 31st — 1-5:30pm (day of)

We have all kinds of doohickeys, thingamabobs, and the hot glue and sewing  machines you need to make them wearable.

See you there!