On April 28th Open Source will have a HUGE STOOP SALE (garage sale) as a fundraising event. We will sell second hand items as well as objects made as art.
Please help us mobilize friends and neighbors to join us for a stoop sale and bring any donation of items and art to Open Source.

THE MORE THE BETTER:
Please join us in stoop saling. Let’s make this a block wide event.

Ethan Crenson, Open Source Collaborator and Artist, will be playing 78 rpm records at the [Der Kommissar](http://derkommissar.net), a small joint around the corner from Open Source and run by the same people who founded Open Source.

Der Kommissar is at 559 5th Avenue between 15th and 16th Street.

WEDNESDAY 28TH at Open Source Gallery,
NEXT LIFE AND LENE AARESKJOLD PERFORMING LIVE
8 PM
Free

29th & 30th
Site specific works and performances located in apartments in Manhattan.

THURSDAY 29th, 7-9 PM, Manhattan
Apartment 5:
WORKS by Ole Martin Lund Bø
PERFORMANCE by Lene Aareskjold
RSVP to martejolbo@gmail.com

FRIDAY 30th, 8 PM, Manhattan
Apartment 6:
WORKS by Margrethe Aanestad, Andrea Ray
RSVP to martejolbo@gmail.com

SATURDAY 31ST, 8 PM, Brooklyn
CLOSING PARTY
Open Source Gallery
8 PM till late

During the last week of March, seven private residences in Brooklyn and Manhattan will unveil artworks and performances made specifically for their site by Norweigan artists Margrethe Aanestad, Ole Martin Lund Bø, and Else Leirvik.

In addition Open Source Gallery, Park Slope, Brooklyn, will feature an exhibition of their work.

Musician Hai Nguyen Dinh (Next Life) and dancer Lene Aareskjold will perform at selected venues.

Performance
March 2nd, 8PM

Brooklyn-based artist, composer and musician Sara Bouchard returns to Open Source for a special combined performance and exhibition of her recently completed song cycle and series of works on paper “The News: Monday-Friday.”

The two parts of “The News” each consist of five songs that Sara wrote in five consecutive days. Each day, from Monday through Friday, Sara collaged lyrics from words and phrases cut out of that day’s newspaper and used her background in American roots music to interpret the corresponding melody and instrumental accompaniment. Sara carried out this rigorous exercise during a week in 2010 to create Part 1 and again in 2011 for Part 2.

Through this process, a modern American folk tale emerged. A community, uprooted from their homeland by a natural disaster, is forced to migrate into the unknown and adapt to their new surroundings. A kaleidescope of characters parade by: a mysterious religious leader, a haughty politician, a mourning mother, a stranger with bright ideas… It remains up to the listener/viewer to weave the pieces together, but an underlying concern emerges: how can we maintain a permanent home when the waters keep rising?

Sara will perform the songs on guitar, mandolin and autoharp amidst an exhibition of mixed media works on paper. The visual works are transcriptions of the songs in which collages of the lyrics are presented alongside Sara’s alternative system of musical notation, which she devised to emphasize visual patterns in the melodic line.

In addition to the debut of Part 1 of “The News” in 2010, Sara has exhibited and performed several times at Open Source, including her recent work “Songs of Lewis & Clark,” the group show “Associated” and the two-person show “Urban Plant Research.” “The News: Monday-Friday” was largely realized at the residency program chashama North in 2010 and 2011. Sara earned a B.A. in studio art from Yale University in 2003 and performs regularly in the Americana string band Union Street Preservation Society.

http://sarabouchard.bandcamp.com

It’s time for the 4th annual OPEN SOURCE SOUP KITCHEN. So if you want to participate, please reserve a date. We are looking for artists, cooks, friends and neighbors to join us for SOUP KITCHEN, where for as many days as we have volunteers, we will be offering a “one-pot meal” to all on a first-come, first-served basis. The cook is responsible for the night. Unique dishes from any ethnic tradition are more than welcome. We will provide cookware, utensils and help with logistics. We ask that you supply the love. LET’S EAT!!!

view December calendar

Each night in December, a different person signs up to cook a meal for approximately 15 -20 people to be served between 7 and 9pm every night. Kind of like an advent calendar for food. Most of the dishes are a one-pot meal–either a soup or stew which can be served in bowls with bread on the side.
Mostly, people from the neighborhood or artist or musician friends sign up to cook, but occasionally there is the new person who sees the sign up sheet and is up for a challenge. The people who come vary from working class people to self-employed artists and occasionally a neighborhood person who is down on their luck or simply hungry.
2009 was the second year of soup kitchen. Some nights up to 50 people were standing in line for the delicious food, other nights the conversation, wine and beer kept us up until 3am in the morning. Sometimes, the chef did incorporate an artistic element to the evening, either displaying photographs on the stark, white gallery walls or reading a monologue from a play he or she has written.
Sometimes the conversation flows easily and sometimes not, but the food is nearly always tasty (it’s new York after all–we have standards!)-Lily White

In the summer of 2005 I walked into a garden in Harlem. The people within informed me that it was a community garden for the neighborhood, and that anyone could visit there whenever the gate was open. I was struck by the discovery of a whole diverse world within the city, diverse not only in plants, but in amazing people and objects too.

For the next three years it became my habit to visit community gardens all over New York City with my camera and audio recorder.

Miho Suzuki visited Miyako City, Iwate, Japan this summer, where she photographed ruins and transitions at the fisherman’s towns and the city. 100 days after the cataclysmic earthquake and the massive tsunami hit northern Japan much of debris had been removed or organized into big piles. Over thousands of damaged houses were still left standing and waiting to be dismantled. People just started moving to temporary shelters or school class rooms instead of living in school gyms.

Dance artist Anna Azrieli creates a landscape of scattered, subtly vibrating bodies in the space. Unceasing movement transforms both performers and viewers alike. A lone figure emerges from the simple yet overwhelming rhythm. How long will resistance last to the pull of surrounding energy?

Saturday 17th: 8:45pm

Colin Adams-Toomey, Sky Bennett and Anna Paratore will perform an excerpt from the Tempest.

Remember when you were the coolest kid on the block? Miss those carefree summers of your childhood? Reclaim the former glory of your younger years and join Open Source Gallery for our annual soapbox competition and derby. We will be hosting an open workshop with tools and adult beverages Thursday and Friday nights from 7pm-9pm, July 25th to August 12th. We hope to have more grown-ups join our 3rd annual soap box derby, so bring your brilliant soap box designs and your competitive spirit! The winner will receive a special trophy and bragging rights until next summers derby!

Needing some inspiration? Look at Monika’s brilliant creation for Makeprojects.com.  Doesn’t that look more fun than discussing politics/world economy/rent increases/your boring job over overpriced cocktails?! Yes, it does!

($40.00 material costs. and donations very welcome!!)

Also, we are now looking for any donations and contributions of useable materials!!! wheels (jogging stroller wheels are best!), wood, fabric, paint,… anything that you find or want to get rid of and could be used for a soap box is very much appreciated!!