plain and simple, Flux Factory – the non-profit doing innovations in things I’ve long been associated with during my NYC tenure – is coming to an end. The building we’ve occupied for the past six years and the space I’ve lived in for over three is being claimed by the city’s transportation network, the MTA, via eminent domain, to make way for the East Side Access Project.

That’s the major reason I haven’t been posting as proficiently as I used to, as I’ve been busy packing up and preparing to depart the city for two months while I re-align my life and my priorities.

But the most-pressing priority really is this Thursday, two days from now. Flux Factory will be hosting our last-ever party at the current 38-38 43rd Street space in Long Island City. The party will be a performance-blowout, featuring more than five-dozen acts, performers, bands, DJs, happenings, stages, presentations, screenings, talks, poetry slams, etc. It’s chock frickin’ full. The night will breakdown something like so:

Potluck begins at 6pm.
DJs and party begins at 8pm.
Performers begin at 10pm and run until 2-3am.
Party keeps going until 4-6am.
Then we sweep and clean up and the following morning hand the keys over to the Man. seriously.

The evening will include the following performers:

Abigail Ohlheiser presents “Come Get Washed in the Blood”
A drag king and a puppet show
Andy Gilliss
Bright Mares
Brooke McGowen’s “Action for Iraq”
Campfire Stories
Carlos Rigau
Cathy
Cave Bears
Caylie Staples
Children of Terminator X
D.A. Meeks
David Felix Sutcliffe presents “There’s a Gerbil in my Asshole”
The Danger presents “In the Wake of the Serpent’s Tattoo”
Ducktails
Flux Factory Fashion Show
F/M presents “Drone to Dance”
The Genderless Siblings from Yellow Bizarre
Greg and Ted’s Satisfaction Factory
Golden Times / Giggle Town
The Hemlock Society
The Heuristic MC
Igor and Tony Have a Spat
Jeremy Chance
Jeremy Williss
Kate Ferencz
Kitlace/The Stink
Konnichiwa
Lady Firefly feat Wolfgang von Stuermer
Lily Maase
Manburger Surgical Presents “The Final Incompetancy”
Mary Ivy Martin’s “Communidate”
Miss Scarlett
No Sound
The NYC Minutes Confessional Booth
The Oracle of Random Quotes
Peter Bonos
Poetix on Da Rox
The Play Party
Rosa Rugosa
The Spirit of a Century (Junk or chains pressure neglects Rogers-in-cranks) GET LOST
SURPRISE!!!
Soul 45’s from Jonathan Toubin of New York Night Train productions
Taliesin
Tarot
Ted Lee
The Mob
Tiger Mouth, Timothy Hospodar and 0H10M1KE present “Omnium-Gathera”
Unicornholio featuring Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria + Marie Losier
Bernard Losier (dad) and Coco (his wife)
Vardi plays Skyboxx feat. Anne Herzog
The Venn Diagrams
White Limo
The Wonderland Collective
Zebu
Zenith Foundation
and Zuvuya Collective presents “Twilight” and “Ladies Room”

HOLY SHIT that’s a lot of entertainment for one night! It’s $10 to get in, oh, and it’s a HALLOWEEN DANCE PARTY! the Hunter College MFA program are helping us decorate. This is the party you don’t want to miss!

get directions from the Flux Factory website.

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