Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Friday, October 29, 2021

This Halloween, a celebration of Jack Terricloth's DIY art at C-Squat

On Halloween this Sunday, C-Squat hosts a daylong event titled "Cut, Paste, Tape & Terricloth."

The show will present "a modest selection" of the late Jack Terricloth's original cut-and-paste artwork. Terricloth, a former East Village resident and lead singer of the World/Inferno Friendship Society, died in May at age 50

Here's more background via the EVG inbox... 
Without fail for 23 years, Brooklyn circus cabaret punx The World/Inferno Friendship Society have faithfully raised The Great Pumpkin at their annual HALLOWMAS celebration. Sadly, due to the recent tragic passing of their lead singer, their version of Hallowmas will not take place this year, or ever again.

We cannot try to begin to replace that event, but we can do our part to help make sure that Jack is remembered on this sacred holiday. So, in honor of Terricloth, we are setting up a small pop-up exhibit as a tribute to our fallen Halloween-obsessed friend. 

Starting in the late 1990s, Jack used to make postcards for his band's cultish following. The cards would advertise the Inferno's latest shows, capers and misadventures. At a time when the internet was replacing how punk rockers mainly heard about gigs, Cloth refused to give up the art of the physical mailing list. He wanted some things to remain tangible. 
We will display the original cut-and-paste postcard collages in all of their wonderful disintegrating DIY scrap art glory. We will also have some original handmade punk show flyers and pages to a lyric zine that he made back in the late 1980s. 
A visual cut-and-paste elegy hoping to pay respect and send a message back to him about the work that he did. Because it mattered.
You can check out the show Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at C-Squat. You can enter through the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, 155 Avenue C between Ninth Street and 10th Street. Find more info here.

Also, on Sunday ... back to the EVG inbox...
After the art show, a number of World Inferno fans will gather in Tompkins Square Park to play cover songs of their music. The band was booked to play a show in the park this Halloween. Obviously, the band will not be appearing but dedicated Infernites are still gathering around 5 p.m. to make sure the songs do not go unplayed this Halloween.

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Thursday's parting shot

As seen on Fourth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue... photo by Stacie Joy!

Monday, October 25, 2021

Skeleton crew spotted on 1st Street

SECURE YOUR AC UNITS!

As seen on First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

Sunday, October 24, 2021

Sunday's parting shot

A reader shares this scene from Avenue A and Seventh Street this evening...

Friday, October 22, 2021

Carve your enthusiasm

Some photos from a recent pumpkin-carving extravaganza at the Parkside Lounge on Houston at Attorney ... pics by Stacie Joy...

Thursday, October 21, 2021

Thursday, October 14, 2021

Thursday's parting shot

A ghost story on Third Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... pic by Stacie Joy. Looks great at night too!

Saturday, October 9, 2021

Friday, October 8, 2021

Friday's parting shot

Photo by Stacie Joy 

Exit9 owner Charles Branstool has (a very limited supply of) upstate-grown pumpkins to give away to participants in the shop's pumpkin carving contest this month. It's all taking place on Instagram... and you can read all about how to take part right here

Exit9 is at 51 Avenue A between Third Street and Fourth Street if you want to stop by for any other reason.

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Like a bat out of hell, a Halloween shop pops up on Avenue A

A pop-up shop for the Halloween season is now open at 70 Avenue A between Fourth Street and Fifth Street (in the vacant storefront between Cafe Social 68 and Mast). 

We're told that two locals, Angel and C.J., are behind this temporary venture. 

EVG contributor Stacie Joy shared these photos from opening day back on Sunday...
This storefront was most recently Appolodine, a nail salon.

Sunday, November 1, 2020

A very East Village Halloween

EVG contributor Stacie Joy was out and about on Halloween ... capturing the variety of costumes, from the store bought to the more elaborate creations... 

As always, movie characters remain popular, as you'll see with the Joker, Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers.

We start at the Loisaida Open Streets Community Coalition photoBOOth on Avenue B at Seventh Street ... and end in Tompkins Square Park where the meetup of the Deep Playa Nighttime Bike ride, Kostume Kult and the Renegade Halloween Parade came together (all under the watchful eye of Parks Enforcement division).
... and as always, it was the night he came home...

Halloween 2020

A few Halloween scenes from around the neighborhood courtesy of Derek Berg ...