THE NOW MOMENT
...Right Now!
Meet, make, talk, listen, play, dance! It’s what we’re made for!
A gathering of interpersonal circumstances inside and outside of our control.
A salon for in-the-moment adjacent folks, loovers, and honkstremists!
This day-long event is free and all are welcome.
Join MOMENT NYC, Loove Lab, and House of Honk New York City as we celebrate our collective creative work, community, family, and friends on this winter solstice. The shortest day of the year or the longest night? You decide.
Sat Dec 21st at Loove Annex 238 N12th Street Williamsburg
Schedule:
- 1-5pm The Honk NYC’s Master Makers’ Table – crafting for children of all ages
- 1:30 100 Years of Lower East Side Music History- live exhibit by MOMENT NYC 1st show
- 2-4pm Kikirki Biquey Afro-Cuban rumba session
- 4:30pm House of Honk NYC Radiant Revelry Parade
- 5:45 100 Years of Lower East Side Music History- live exhibit by MOMENT NYC 2nd show
- 6:30pm Clara Joy
- 7pm The Honk Family Band
- 7:30 Giant Step Retrospective 1990-95 – NYC music history live exhibit by MOMENT NYC
- 8:00pm Loove Space Ensemble
- 9pm The Winter Solstice Ensemble (that’s all of you!)
- 10pm The Ghost band plays ghost venues – Williamsburg march of remembrance tour
100 Years of Lower East Side Music is a fast-paced exhibition through 100 years of Lower East Side music history between the years 1889 and 1989. As the entry point for most new immigrants arriving in America over the past century, the Lower East Side of New York City has mixed and mingled cultures from around the world. It’s where the terms “dives” and “hookers” originate, and where some impoverished Jewish immigrant children grew up, later to become music superstars and some of Hollywood’s biggest moguls who forged the stories of the American dream on the silver screen. It’s also the place where unsanctioned underground clubs illegally served mixed races and people of varying gender identification as far back as the 1800s. These illegal clubs are where undocumented pre-jazz music was being created and improvised for the kind of rowdy dancing scenes that, for over a century, the Lower East Side was notorious for, and that (kind of) continues to this day! And of course, it’s the home of Punk Rock and so much more.
Giant Step Retrospective 1990-95, covers the early years of the underground dance party, Giant Step, during its heyday of the 1990s in downtown Manhattan. Featuring the photos of Alice Arnold, this exhibition uses archival audio recorded from Giant Step along with quotes describing the scene. The party was one of the first successful examples of live musicians playing with DJs. Mixing hip-hop, jazz Latin, house, funk, and soul, Giant Step quickly became the place to be for those in-the-know and the NYC underground nightlife. OG rappers and old school Jazzers came to connect with their younger counterparts, curious clubbers, and slumming sophisticates. It also spawned the Grammy-nominated New York City band, Groove Collective.
Fun NYC music history connection fact: Groove Collective is one of the few live bands to have played at David Mancuso‘s famous Loft parties in the early 90s. Mancuso’s earliest parties in the 70’s are considered ground zero for much of today’s DJ culture spawning DJs, Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, Nicky Siano and others who were seminal in building the disco and house music scenes. The Loft parties continue to this day, as a members-only, golden piece of New York music history.
These MOMENT NYC exhibitions were created for earlier events with discussions covering these subjects and live performances. These exhibition pieces have only been viewed once before at those events and are otherwise not available for viewing.