Shelly Mars Bonobos art of Silkscreen Mixed Media Exhibit

root hill cafe presents: 

Shelly Mars' bonobos project

A Mixed Media Exhibition 

March 25 - April 30th

Shelly Mars has studied and interacted with the Bonobo ape since 2006. Through this unique experience she has been able to artistically capture this species like no one else. Shelly uses a type of screen printing to illustrate the beauty of the human-like ape. With splashes of color and the process of layering she recreates her emotional involvement with the Bonobos. 

Her Mixed Media Exhibit begins March 25th followed by her multimedia Homo Bonobo Project at Trash Pony's Science + the underlining order of things Sunday March 27th at 7 pm.

Root Hill Cafe / Trash Pony

262 4th Avenue at Carroll street

Brooklyn, NY 11215

Coming this week/weekend

Thursday, March 24 at 7:30pm - South Brooklyn Tales with Rick Kadlub

Friday, March 25 at 8:30pm - Stan Mitchell Trio

Saturday, March 26 at 7:30pm - Trash Pony Poker with Bill

Sunday, March 27 at 7:00pm - Trash Pony's Science...The Homo Bonobo Project & Shelly Mars art exhibit opening

And next weekend something so special that it will blow your mind!

Joining us on Friday: The Stan Mitchell Trio

The boys are back...

‘Stanley John Mitchell and His Band of Buddies’ plays mostly original music drawn from the Roots Americana style they love so much. Stan feels though, that they give the music a contemporary twist that makes it all their own.

The band is unusual in that Stan works it like a one-man-band with friends. While he has a bass player and guitarist as bandmates, Stan himself plays guitar, sings and plays percussion/drums all at the same time.


More info check out stanleyjohnmitchell.com

Rewind Music: Kjersti Kveli

In case you missed it here's Norwegian singer and songwriter performing "The Coin" at Root Hill's Trash Pony last month.




Check out more of Kjerst Kveli at www.kjerstikveli.com

Trash Pony's Science + the underlining order of things...Goes Ape!...Homo Bonobo Project

Dr. Ghislaine Pussait, a French primatologist & ethologist, focuses on wild bonobos (Pan paniscus) in Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Homo Bonobo Project is a multimedia presentation by the globe-trotting Belgian primatologist Dr. Ghislaine Pussait, as played by her creator Shelly Mars.

Starting in 2006, Mars began an intensive study of the bonobo apes, the most endangered and least known of the Great Apes. The bonobos have been recently featured in pop culture and the press as “the make-love-not-war apes,” or “the hippie chimps,” because of their nonviolent nature, pansexuality, and matriarchal social structure. Graceful, charming, intelligent-and-tragic-bonobos bear a striking resemblance to humans, and are our closest relatives, sharing 99.5% of our DNA.

Native to only one small area in the Congo, their numbers are being radically reduced by pressures from civil war, poachers, and deforestation. With a grant from the Arcus Foundation, Mars visited bonobo environments and study centers in the US and the Congo. She videotaped and connected with many important primatologists and field workers, and became increasingly fascinated with them and their urgently important work.

more info: homobonoboproject.com

Sunday March 27, 2011 at 7pm

*this addition of  Trash Pony's Science is for Mature Audiences Only

Team of Rivals ((Acoustic Show)) March 19, 2011

Two Israelis. One Blond guy. Brooding alt. rock.

Guitar driven acoustic alt rock.

Omer Wald - Vocals, Guitar

Jino Arielly - Bass

Brian McFadden - Drums

Shortly after moving to the U.S. from Israel to begin his music career, singer-songwriter Omer Wald met Jino Arielly, a bass player and producer also from Israel. The pair began refining a number of songs that Omer had been working on for years. After many months of polishing the brooding, guitar-driven tracks, they realized the music was finally ready. Jino then recruited Brian McFadden, a drummer and former bandmate. A Team of Rivals was born.

Moments with an Artist: Percy Aguayo / Closing Party March 11th at 8:30p

It's hard to explain all the emotions that are transmitted through Percy Aquayo layered photography. The content combined with what has been done to the texture of the actual film creates something unique and extraordinary. The select works featured at Root Hill Cafe represents only a fraction of what Percy Aquayo has done as an artist. On a busy afternoon in Root Hill, Percy takes a moment to talk about the exhibit, life as an artist, his two books: Blur & Apartment Twenty Five, and new projects he's working on...

Moments with an Artist: Percy Aguayo from RootHillCafe on Vimeo.

See Percy Aguayo works one last time at "closing" party on: 

Friday March 11th, 2011 @8:30p at Root Hill's Trash Pony.

South Brooklyn tales with Ricky "Big Rick" Kadlub

You think you know about Brooklyn?
Hah! You don't know nutthin'!

Come find out about South Brooklyn from someone who's seen it, heard it, lived it, and represents it. . .

Rick Kadlub, "Big Rick", is a member of the Brooklyn Heights Association, Brooklyn Chamber Of Commerce and Brooklyn Tourism. After working in the corporate world for 25 yrs he decided he wanted to be his own boss. He started a tour business doing tours of Brooklyn. He is a self taught Brooklyn historian and has lived in Brooklyn his whole life. He is an avid reader, golfer, bird watcher, and a real people person. He is also a fan of all the diverse cuisines that Brooklyn has to offer. Living in and studying about Park Slope has made Rick very familiar with the history and urban folklore of the area.

South Brooklyn tales 

with Ricky "Big Rick" Kadlub

at Root Hill's Trash Pony

Thursday March 24, 2011

7:30p – 9:00p

Check out the tours that Rick gives at: www.ATourGrowsInBrooklyn.com

*Rick really represents Brooklyn, he is featured in one of the photographs by Joe Delano now in the exhibit Brooklyn Portraits by Brooklyn Photographers at Central Brooklyn Public Library.

Aww...look at that bear...sure is silly. Bear In A Hammock Returns

Bear In A Hammock 

Thursday March 3rd @8p

Marc Barnhill and the Sorely Missed

Marc Barnhill and the Sorely Missed have a American folk style with insightful and soulful lyrics. We are please that they will be playing Root Hill's Trash Pony on March 12, 2011 at 8:30pm. 

"Marc Barnhill's music is like a freshly squeezed orange....You wake up and pour yourself a fresh glass of O.J. and look out the window and it's a beautiful sunny day." –IndieShows

Check out more music here: www.MarcBarnhill.com