This week New Yorkers can catch the fireworks from atop the 3rd Ward building, show off their stuff at the CoSM open mic, join a discussion about Magick, and Tantra, dance till they sweat with Sub Swara and friends, play at the Figment Arts Festival, join Fractured for a Hawaiian Luau of grooved out broken beats and breaks and more…it’s summer, get out and have some fun.

‘Til next week,

Salma

Send event submissions to Salma(at)souldish.com 

=====Wednesday, July 4th=====

Fireworks & Rockets

Celebrate Independance on the massive roof of 3rd Ward.  We have an amazing view of both fireworks shows.  Drink  cheap booze, eat good food and groove to the eclectic mix  of dj Zemi17.  All free from sunset through midnight.
3rd Ward Brooklyn
195 Morgan Ave. , 718.715.4961
Take the L train to Morgan and walk four blocks north.
(evening, free)
http://www.3rdwardbrooklyn.org

=====Thursday, July 5th=====

http://www.cosm.org
 
The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors is holding an open mic benefit, following the 6:30pm opening reception for Original Face group exhibit in Microcosm Gallery.  They are inviting Musicians, Magicians, Dancers, and Poets are all invited to share 4 mionutes on the Chapel stage.
Multiple person acts are encouraged, acoustic musicians only, CD or IPod accompaniment available. Signup is at 8:30p, there will be a random number drawing for performances.  Performances begin at 9p.  Come on New York, show us what you’ve got!!!
 
Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
540 W 27th St., 4th Floor, 212-594-8841
(8:30p, $10)
http://www.cosm.org

=====Thursday, July 5th=====

Screening: “Machssomim” (80 Minutes, 2003)

Come watch and discuss “Machssomim” (or “Checkpoint”), Yoav Shamir’s documentary about everyday lives of Palestinian citizens and young soldiers at Israeli checkpoints. This screening is part of “Guns and Olive Branches: An Israel-Palestine Film Festival” presented by Peace Action New York. 

Bluestocking
172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington, 212.777.6028
(7p, $10)
http://www.panys.org
http://www.bluestockings.com

=====Friday, July 6======

Sub Swara:: 020 at Element Featuring Freq Nasty, Sharmaji and Sub Swara

Sub Swara Summer Bass Sessions in effect!  For our 20th installment we’ve got some serious heat coming through.  FreQ Nasty returns giving us a sneak peak into his new album, The missing channel, which promises to be an incredible genre-bending ride featuring the signature Nasty bass weight and some of the world’s freshest vocal talent.  Those of you who checked him out at Sub Swara 013 in November know how he does it Large!  Also on the wheels will be the man called Sharmaji.  Recently voted producer of the year by Bobby Friction and Nihal (BBC Radio) Sharmaji’s sets cover ground from ubstep to jungle to South Asian inflections.  His tracks and sets are relentlessly fresh and inventive. 

Element
225 E Houston @ Essex
(9p-4a, $15)
http://www.subswara.com

=====Also on Friday=====

Song of the Karmapa With Kunga Dawa

The Mahamudra Aspiration of True Meaning, written by the third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, expounds the essential view of both Mahamudra and Dzogchen with a profundity that has rarely been matched. Led by Kunga Dawa,together will study and immerse ourselves in this sublime text, one of the crown jewels of the Practice lineage. This weekend seminar will include talks, discussion, group practice and individual instruction. Kunga Dawa (Richard Arthure) was a close student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the first Westerner trained by him as a meditation instructor. He has received several empowerments and mind-to-mind transmission from the XVI Karmapa at Rumtek in Sikkim, along with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Richard was a co-founder Karmê Chöling in Vermont as well as the Shambhala Center in New York.

Shambhala Meditation Center of New York
118 W 22nd St - 6th flr, 212.675.6544
(Public Talk July 6 Friday 7p - 9, $15)
(Saturday & Sunday, July 7 & 8, 10a - 5p, $150 Full Program)
http://www.ny.shambhala.org/
 
=====Saturday, July 7=====

Entheologue Ultraculture Contemporary Magick & Tantra

Ultraculture Journal One collects under one cover the most volatile and direct magickal writing currently available in the English language.  It will change you at the cellular level.  You have been forwarned.
Note:  I have recently met the magician and from our brief encounter he does seem to have a magnetic personality.  Perhaps this is one presentation not to be missed.

CoSM
542 W27st, 4th flr, 212.564.4253
(8p, $20)
http://www.cosm.org

=====Also on Saturday=====

Tonight Danger takes Manhattan…Party

For your illicit pleasure we’ve taken over a massive new venue within the city of dreams.  Prepare yourself for an all night explosion of fallen angels, public scandal, instant fame and performance perfected.  The Righteous is Hedonism:  This party will raise funds for our July 14th renegade  parade, One Night of Fire. You are the angels that keep  this city alive.  Come costumed as seditious saviors,  cherubs or your best manifestation of fallen angel for discounted admission and other secret gifts.  The Wicked is Virtue:  We have strayed to Manhattan but only to make the party  louder.  Rebel Club has recently been rebuilt into a maze-like complex of beautiful rooms, smooth dance-floors
and cozy lounges all with one of the city’s best sound installations.  This time we offer a full bar with free vodka from 10pm to 11pm and sound through sunrise (plus a private loft party afterward for the truly wicked).  The Delirious Spectacle:  At the climax of the party The Lady Circus viscerally displays the true meaning of miracle.  Expect a full sensory spectacle dosed with a spectacular sense of Danger.  You might get teased - you will be touched.
Fame is your Destiny:  In the center of it all, Jeremy Nelson and Devin Elijah will make you famous with pro portrait sessions of angels and demons to be broadcast throughout the venue and online into perpetuity.  The Music is Endless:  Sujinho : bleeds broken beats. He was brought up and tortured in catholic school where children were “angels that should be silent”.  Now he retaliates with the most ambitiously intoxicating mixes that might just resurrect the soul of this city.  Justin Carter : A master of low frequencies and hard drums.  He’s a dabbler in the silver age of hip-hop, the golden age of funk, and the modern age of techno.  Justin is one of the most heralded underground spin-masters of the moment.  Chairman Mao : When not plotting world domination Mao moves the dance floor with the vintage funk/soul soiree “Bumpshop,” and the true school hip-hop/& everything-but-the-kitchen-sink affair, “Grand Groove”.  DJ Haj  : In the late night Haj will be erupting the floor with thick layers of break-beats and deep progressions of glitch-hop to middle eastern ethnic dub.  Haj will raise the sun as the night wakes into morning in this extended after-hours set.  Steven Lee (Lee Cabrera) : Brings ‘in your face, jaw dropping’ style of DJing.  Lee is comfortable at the forefront of some of the biggest clubs in the world with his infectious technical and stand-out style.  Julian Prince : Former resident at Stereo in Montreal, now at Circus, Julian has been rocking dancefloors in North America for the last couple of years with his funky, upbeat mashup of tech house and electro.  Vivie-Ann : Along with the taste-making mixes she drops nightly on dance floors across the world, the 23-year-old Montreal DJ carries a reputation for orchestrating a spectacular fusion of mischief, music and mayhem. When asked to describe her sound, Vivie-Ann rattles off the description “bump in the night with a little dynamite.”  Mike Khoury, Thomas Pategas, Terminal Optic; In the lounge of Angels:  Accept a massage and a blissful mix of ambient, downtempo, dub and glith hop from Ezekiel Honig, Leisure Muffin, Autophage + Prototype and DJ Borne. Plus visuals from The Housewives’ Guide To Anatomy, Animatron and SuperDraw.  On this night you deserve nothing but the livest of live music:  Sankofa:  There are some bands that play with such blood and energy that you experience an internal revolution with the beat and sweat of just one performance.  This is that band. With soulful lyrics, dance-inducing beats and sharp-edged orchestration Sankofa sounds as if Muddy Waters, U2, Bad Brains and Sam Cooke had a musical love child. The infamous Church of Stop Shopping Choir: A ten piece live gospel revival with piercing rock/activist edge.  The Choir tours the world with Reverend Billy, invading Starbucks and Wal-Marts with their inescapable guerilla message: consumerism is overwhelming our lives. The choir sparks the night at 10pm.  Rev. Vince Anderson and his Love Choir: The originator of the Dirty Gospel movement.  Each performance carries you into the sweaty, boozy dance-infused holy-orgy of the Deep South gospel tradition.  It’s impossible not to groove when this band swarms the stage.  We are The Righteous & The Wicked and Rev. Vince Anderson tells us like it is.  The party above is sweat-fueled foreplay to the climax of our season. Saturday, July 14th: the return of One Night of Fire.  Details of the street party will be posted to this list one day before the event.

The Righteous & The Wicked
@ Rebel - 251 West 30th Street (bet. 7th & 8th Ave.)
(10p - 6a, $15 for Angels [in costume],  $20 otherwise)
http://www.thedanger.com

=====Also on Saturday=====

7.7.7 Triple Spirit, Triple Luck, Triple Healing

Evening of music, dance, and meditation with Joseph A. Young Jr.   Seven is a powerful number of transformation, healing and spirituality. On this day of harmonic shift, by gathering, we raise our awareness to deepen our connection with the flow of the universe.
East West Books
78 5th Avenue, 212-243-5994
(7:00p, $19)
 http://www.eastwestnyc.com
 
=====Sunday, July 8th=====

Figment Arts Festival- Imagination Island, NYC

Imagine a new type of Arts Festival for New York City.  Imagine an event where the participants are the artists, performers, set designers, costumers and directors.  Imagine this event growing every year in full view of Lady Liberty andLower Manhattan.  Imagine an island devoted to interactive art, awe-inspiring beauty andcommunity participation.  In 2007, the FIGMENT Arts Festival comes alive.  Planning for a bigger, multi-day event in 2008, this year we call out to visionaries who dream and create beautiful, humorous and wonderful things.  On Sunday, July 8th, all are invited to Governors Island for a creative exploration of the island and what can be created there. Currently five architectural and landscape design teams are competing to create New York’s newest great public space on Governors Island. With plans that may take years to implement, we’d prefer not to wait.  At FIGMENT, we imagine the future beginning July 8th.

(11a -5p, $?)
Governors Island
just off the southern tip of Manhattan.  VIA: Take the free ferry every hour from the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan, or water taxis from other locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
http://www.figmentnyc.org

=====Also on Sunday=====

F r a c t u r e d Hawaiian Luau Birthday Jam - A Summer Evening of Grooved Out Broken Beats & Breaks…

Dance till you trance to breaks, electro-funk, jazz and more featuring wavewhore, Bionic of Sunz of Mecha, Paul Digs, Arcee, Hi-Fi.  Come dressed in your best island wear for a special Luau birthday celebration for Wavewhore, Bionic of Sunz of Mecha and Hi-Fi!!! =)  Who’s birthday is it? Go and find out.

Reboot Bar
37 Ave. A (btwn 2nd & 3rd Ave.)
(Doors 10p, $3 suggested donation)   21+ w/ ID
http://www.wavewhore.com

=====Also on Sunday=====

The Interdependent Arts Theater Group/ Awareness Workshop

A new gathering of the Interdependent Arts

Lila Center
302 Bowery, 2nd Flr (Btwn Houston & Bleecker)
(2:30p - 6, $10 requested donation to cover expenses)
http://theidproject.com/arts/theatergroup.htm

=====Tuesday, July 10th=====

Bhagavad Gita Yoga of the Heart a Critical Course for Yoga Practitioners and Teachers

Jivamukti Yoga School is delighted to offer this exciting and memorable excursion into the hidden dimensions of yoga philosophy. Based on the recently published, acclaimed edition of the Bhagavad Gita by Graham Schweig (Harper, 2007), this course is the definitive tool for unlocking the secret meaning of India’s preeminent wisdom text.   Also on July 17,24,31 and August 7 and 14.
 
Jivamukti Yoga School
841 Broadway, (212) 353-0214
(8p-9:30, $17)
http://www.jivamuktiyoga.com
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=====Friday, July 13th=====
 
CoSM Fire at Center for Symbolic Studies

Mz. Imani presents Workshops, Fire Circle, Contact Improv, Djembe and Dounoun, Sacred Dance, Bodhran Class, energy Connections, Elemental Explorations of all night fire circle, Phantomime, Pyrtecnic Ritual theatre and a fire lighting ceremony all in a beautiful, natural setting.  Light breakfast served at Dawn Circle.  CoSM Fire explores community art through a neo-shamanic all night ritual of drumming, dancing, visual arts, melodic improvisation, fire dancing, story telling and poetry. These collaborative artistic expressions are like harmonic chords played for the cosmos.   The rhythms of our drums, sounds of our voices and the movement of our bodies, are like the strokes of shaman’s brush on the canvas of the night sky. Share in the inspiration and vision that resides within the personal and collective consciousness of this sacred fire ceremony while you dance with the muse that inspires your art. Enjoy the ambient sounds and imagery of the chill zone and connect with other PLU’s (people like us).   CoSM Fire is an all night Art Fire sponsored by The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors and co-produced by Mz. imani (Conscious Collaborations, CoSM Full Moons, SoulFire) and Brian James (Phantomime, Entheocentric Salons).

Center for Symbolic Studies
Stone Mountain Farm - 475 River Road Extension - New Paltz NY 12561
(3p -all night, expect no sleep, $50)
http://www.cosm.org/fire.html