Beacon NY.
Three fun-yet-informative visual presentations about Aliens, Activism and Agriculture! We hear from Agriculture Teacher Rebecca Cossa, Activist and Artist Steve Lambert and Author Gabriel Mckee. Friday May 16th at 7:30pm at The Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY.
With fun music, prizes, libations, a surprise guest and guaranteed good company: Doors at 7pm. Tickets: bit.ly/nnhv-may16
“Magriculture: The Everyday Magic of Agriculture. Episode 1: Plants” by Rebecca Cossa
Rebecca Cossa has been involved in agriculture for over 25 years, 13 of those as a New York state certified agriculture teacher in public schools. She has worked on farms, CSAs, with non profits, in urban and sustainable agriculture and in various educational contexts.
“Weird Wins: Unusual Activist Victories“ by Steve Lambert
Steve Lambert has worked alongside over 1400 artists and activists, in 16 countries, on 4 continents helping them use creative means to effect power. He has built a robotic chimp named “James Chimpton” that interviews artists, a browser plugin that replaces ads on the internet with art, a video game that measures your stress level and much much more.
“Saucer on a String: The UFO Hoaxes of Gray Barker” by Gabriel Mckee
The founder of one of the earliest flying saucer fanzines, Gray Barker (1925-1984) played a major role in shaping the cultural narrative of unidentified flying objects. A master storyteller, he disseminated the folklore surrounding UFOs, strange creatures, and conspiracies of silence– even making stories up when the mood struck. Drawing on his recent biography of Barker, THE SAUCERIAN, Gabriel Mckee will dig into some of Barker’s wildest hoaxes, and the lasting impact they have had on the UFO subculture.
Gabriel Mckee is a librarian at New York University. His research concerns popular culture, book history, theology, and parahistoriography. His recent work includes authoring The Saucerian: UFOs, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker (MIT Press), co-editing Theology and the DC Universe (Lexington Books), and serving as the managing editor for the Zebrapedia project, an online repository of manuscript material by science fiction author Philip K. Dick.
Get your ticket here! bit.ly/nnhv-may16