Monday, May 23, 2011

Photo's from Sunday's Trash Pony Science: Boobs!

If Saturday night wasn't wonderful enough, then surely Sunday's event made this weekend the best one ever! Mermaid Hawley stopped back by to give a talk on BOOBS! Wondrous, Magical and Everywhere! Painter Angela depicted expressive pictures as Mermaid Hawley told of personal events relating to her chest. And with the assistance of anthropologist Cricket, Mermaid Hawley literally revealed various brassiere she owned. Check out the photos below...

Recap of Saturday's Cowboy Burlesque


Saturday night was fantastic! Mermaid Hawley hosted a rootin'-tootin Cowboy Burlesque. There was twanging cowboy style music played all night and the most unique and amazing performances ever! Check out the photo slideshow below!



*photographs by: Jozef Koppelman

Monday, May 16, 2011

scandalous weekend

Not really scandalous, but definitely not something conservative. We have two events this weekend dealing with, well, the body. 
First up, this Saturday we get down with spurs, chaps, lassos, and skin for Cowboy Burlesque. Hosted by Coney Island’s Mermaid Hawley.

here's the details:

Cowboy Burlesque Sat. May 21st at 9pm
Cowboy Burly Q: 
A night of down & dirty burlesque (yee-ha!) 
hosted by Coney Island’s Mermaid Hawley
Starring:  
Sizzle Dizzle! Clams Casino! & Lefty Lucy!
These ladies will whoop it up and lasso your hearts!!  
Cowboy musical accompaniment by:
Bill Brovold and Strange Farm featuring:
Ernie Brooks of The Modern Lovers and Billy Ficca of Television and The Waitresses .
 ...wait there's more... 
The always tantalizing Stage Kittens:
Minerva! Lina Moon! Gypsy Meredith! (ka-BOOM!)
 Get there early for yummy food and drink and a birds eye view!
 $5 at the door


Then on Sunday we get all sciency, but that's just so we can talk about Boobs! *tee hee...

trash pony’s science + the underlying order of things presents:

BOOBS! on Sunday May 22nd at 7p 
Wondrous, Magical and Everywhere!
(why do we see them for the first time every time??)
Coney Island's own: Miss Mermaid Hawley brings us her expertise (and she has a lot of it!)! Be prepared for projections, sound,  hands on crafting and audience participation!
Special guests:
Bill Brovold and his Larval Live Sound Effects
Expert Eye Witnesses! Scientific Know How!
Glittler, Glam and the underlying reason for underwires vs. natural!!

We have the AC all ready to go for this hot weekend. Come join us for these jaw dropping performances and wide eyed discussions. 

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Go Ape one last time!

Join root hill’s trash pony bar this Friday night at 8:30 PM to celebrate the last night of :

Bonobos in the Mist
prints by Shelly Mars

Better known as a performance artist for twenty five years, her latest performance piece, Homo Bonobo Project, led Shelly to print making. These prints reveal a freeness that is consistent with the irreverence and punch of her performance style.  Her layering of images is reminiscent of the dense jungle foliage of the Democratic Republic of Congo where Mars spent many research hours observing the bonobo populations.

Native to only one small area of the DRC, bonobos are being wiped out by civil war, poachers and deforestation.

Mars has been Artist in Residence at New York City’s Museum of Sex and has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Arcus Foundation, the Gill Foundation and the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art.  She is currently hosting the monthly performance series Bulldyke Chronicles at Dixon Place theater.

Twenty percent of all print sales and trash pony’s bar will be donated to Lola Ya Bonobo (www.friendsofbonobos.org ), whose mission is to rescue orphaned bonobos and eventually reintroduce them back into the wild.

To catch a glimpse of some of Shelly’s work visit:  ShellyMarsGallery

root hill’s trash pony bar
262 4 avenue @ carroll street
Gowanus, Brooklyn

Monday, April 18, 2011

Story Time Again - May 1st Canceled

Alas, we have Canceled this event. But it will return soon!
Sunday Stories Returns...Squael!!!
MAY 1st, 2010

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Trash Pony Science: On the Edge of Science - Astrology and our Relationship to the Cosmos


Trash Pony Science + the Underlying Order of Things presents: 
On the Edge of Science 
Astrology and our Relationship to the Cosmos
A presentation by Cathy Towle

Our fascination with the heavenly bodies goes back to the beginning of time when ancient man noticed the correlations between the movements of the stars and events on earth. Closely related to Astronomy, and considered one in the same, in the 17th Century Astronomy and Astrology split apart. Why did Astrology become associated with idea of superstition and divination, while Astronomy became science? What was it about the human mind that sought reason over divine guidance? How is our own cosmology evolving as we explore the dichotomy of increasing technology in our lives and an inner longing to connect to divinity and create community.

Cathy Towle is an Astrologer, Shaman, Author, and Speaker in Brooklyn, NY. She hosts Salon Fastastique and The Radio Show - Paranormal Highway, teaches intuition and the esoteric arts, and has an intuitive consulting practice in Brooklyn NY.
www.cathytowle.com

When: 
7:00pm April 17th, 2011
Where: 
Root Hill's Trash Pony 
262 4th Avenue (at Carroll St.)
Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Get It Out: Trash Pony Comedy - Now required by Doctors.

Someone once said: "laughter is the key to life" and now scientist have actually proven it. Resent research done by Dr. I. M. Funny shows that one must do more than eat healthy and exercise to live a long life. Dr. Funny tested people to see if laughter was actually keeping them alive by measuring their heart rates and telling them jokes. Turns out that humans require at least a minimum of four hours a week of solid laughs and chuckles to remain functional. This is way less than what needed to sustain the existence of the four legged creature, the Hyena. The Hyena has to use 90% of its' day to laugh. Laughing has something to do with regulating the build up of air within the human body. Laughing causes air to be release from deep parts of your diaphragm that just can't be done through normal breathing, talking, athletic workouts, or even singing. But what's the big deal about getting this air out of deep parts of your body? Well, Dr. Funny explains: "not releasing the air with a good belly laugh can be very dangerous. If you don't release this air your body will be force to use all it's energy to try and suppress the growing pressure. That means that you will begin to feel very tired all the time and not be able to function. If this pressure is never release than the energy will build up and you will explode."  That's right if we don't expel the air within through laughing them we all would explode. Some ironic cruelty left over from evolutions Dr. Funny assumes.

Dr. I. M. Funny suggest that you attend the Get It Out: Trash Pony Comedy on April 13, 2011 to help with the regulation of air in your body. He says to make sure that you laugh hardly at the people providing jokes for your, literal, well being.  It may save your life. 

Get It Out: Trash Pony Comedy

Hosted by Daisy Rosario

8:00pm on April 13, 2011
At Root Hill's Trash Pony Bar
262 4th Avenue
Gowanus, Brooklyn 11215