Welcome to the 2009 Brooklyn HONK! Festival
BONK! is the NYC follow-up to the fourth annual HONK! Festival, a revolutionary street spectacle of never-before-seen proportions converging in Davis Square, Somerville, MA, on October 9-11. Brooklyn-based HONK attendees Hungry March Band and Rude Mechanical Orchestra welcome NYC groups Raya Brass Band, Stumblebum Brass Band, The Circus Amok Band, and Veveritse to the BONK! stages. Visiting artists include Seattle’s Yellow Hat Band, Chicago’s Environmental Encroachment, and Rome’s Pink Puffers. Summoned to the Northeast for HONK!, these bi-coastal and trans-Atlantic brass travelers have been enticed to come to NYC for a second helping of fun at BONK!
Sponsors & Affiliates
Satellite Events
Sunday, Oct. 18th
See Circus Amok Band members Jenny Romaine and Jessica Lurie, and members of The Himalayas (HONK participants) in The Sukkes Mob's 2009 Edition: AWESOME IS OVER.
The Workmen’s Circle
45 East 33rd St., Manhattan
3pm (sharp) & 4:30pm
$5 suggested donation
Experience blow-your-mind pageantry as they lead an ethnographically surreal tour of the senses alongside an army of chandeliers. Expand your dynamic possibilities for the New Year! Reflect on the mysteries of the natural world while you are 100% delighted, as is mandated for this ancient pagan harvest holiday.
Schedule of Events
Thursday, Oct. 15th
PARADE at 6pm starting at the middle of Brooklyn Bridge
Meet up starting at 5:30 right in the middle of the pedestrian walkway on Brooklyn Bridge. We'll march to the venue for the first show
-=Canceled due to rain=-
Just meet us all at Santos for the show at 7pm!
MONK! - When BONK! Takes Manhattan!
Santos Party House
96 Lafayette Street, Manhattan
7pm – 11pm
$5 - $10 Sliding Scale
Full of HONK! fever, kick-off the Post-HONK! brass explosion in NYC with a night of brasstastics that will make you hit the dance floor hard!
7:10 Yellow Hat Band
8:00 Environmental Encroachment
8:40 Pink Puffers
9:20 Rude Mechanical Orchestra
10:10 Veveritse
Hosted by Tanya Z. Solomon, with special guests.
Brought to you by MeanRed Productions and local musicians.
Friday, Oct. 16th
CITY OF DREAMS
A traveling performance through NYC
by Anna Galtarossa & Daniel González
12pm-2pm
Over the course of a Friday lunch hour, a glittering double-decker bus with multiple brass bands playing on its upper level will drive around the city promoting the power of dreams and the unique talent New Yorkers have to make them come true.
Led by the Hungry March Band and a distinguished soprano, the musicians will play, wearing artist-designed pajamas and animal costumes while riding across the island, driving by Times Square, the Empire State Building, Union Square, Canal Street and Bowery. Come and meet us along the way! (download map)
Artists Anna Galtarossa & Daniel González started collaborating in 2007 on an ambitious public art project: Chili Moon Town Tour. Debuting in Mexico City on Chapultepec Lake, this floating, utopian city was born with the dream of undertaking a journey to New York City. Millions have made this passage throughout history, inspired by the freedom and possibility that Manhattan and its citizens give to the world.
Curated by Blanca de la Torre with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York
The Brooklyn Brassacre
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
8pm – 2am
FREE Entry!
A raucous, ecstatic jaunt between two Greenpoint Avenue venues, with performances by seven brass bands…and a silent parade led by the HMB dancers and friends.
Lulu’s Bar, 113 Franklin Ave.
8:15 Stumblebum Brass Band
9:00 Yellow Hat Band
9:45 Environmental Encroachment
Hosted by Sarah Blust and Sully Ross of Rude Mechanical Orchestra.
Coco66, 66 Greenpoint Avenue
10:30 Raya Brass Band
11:30 Pink Puffers
12:30 Hungry March Band
1:30 Circus Amok Band
Hosted by Samantha La Cymbalina of Hungry March Band.
Brought to you by Hungry March Band.
Saturday Oct. 17th
Rude Mechanical Orchestra plays for the Our Waterfront Coalition
The courtyard between 275 and 265 Cherry Street in Manhattan
Noon to 2pm
The Our Waterfront Coalition is pressuring the city to use a strip of East River waterfront for the benefit of the Chinatown/Lower East Side communities it adjoins rather than giving it to private developers as planned. They'll be releasing their People's Plan for the land, developed through an exhaustive multi-lingual and -cultural community visioning process. Also, potluck, mural making, compost workshop, chalk and games for kids, and of course, the RMO.
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn Walk-A-Thon
Walk Don't Destroy 5: The BIG WALK to Raise Funds for the Legal Full Court Press Against Atlantic Yards
Begins at 2pm at Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street & Court Street. Follow parade/march/walkathon through streets to Havana Outpost, a restaurant/bar in Fort Green, Brooklyn.
Staten Island Ferry Ride!
Join Yellow Hat Band for a musical journey across the Hudson! Take the 5:30 ferry leaving from the southern tip of Manhattan. They'll meet up in Staten Island with HMB and Pink Puffers for a quick visit to the Everything Goes Cafe (208 Bay St) before embarking to Asbury Park.
Brass & Bowl
Asbury Lanes
209 4th Avenue, Asbury Park, New Jersey
10pm – 1am
$10 Admission
Find out what happens when three renegade street bands hit the happening Victorian seaside town that Bruce Springsteen made famous! Playing at the inimitable bowling alley/punk club and gallery, Asbury Lanes.
Featuring Hungry March Band, Pink Puffers, Yellow Hat Band.
Brought to you by Hungry March Band and the VROOM Collective.
VROOM is a veggie-oil fueled school bus available to groups and organizations for their journeys in pursuit of social, economic, racial, and environmental justice. The bus is based in NYC and is owned and operatred by a non-commercial, consensus-based collective of indivduals and partner groups. We hope to assist organizations devoted to social change with specific people-moving needs. For more info contact vroomnyc@gmail.com
Sunday, Oct. 18th
Brass Band Potluck Picnic
McCarren Park
near the corner of Lorimer and Driggs
Rain Location:
Coco66 in Greenpoint Brooklyn
66 Greenpoint Avenue
G train to the Greenpoint Ave. stop, walk 1.5 blocks east
4pm-8pm
Bring a dish for our out-of-town guests!