Sunday, September 27, 2009

The oldest living things in the world: benefit party


THE OLDEST LIVING THINGS IN THE WORLD:
ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION BENEFIT PARTY

Tickets: $25
Available Here

Come out for an evening of music, trapeze, and entertainment featuring New York's indie-rock vaudevillians The LISPS, Dance performances by Jenny Rocha and her Painted Ladies, an Art Auction featuring works by the MacDowell Colony Felllows plus free Vodka Cocktails, Haircuts and free GRIMALDI'S Pizza. Hosted by Galapago's resident artist Olga of Olga and Bjorn!

Join us for this amazing evening of art and entertainment benefiting The Oldest Living Things in the World project. Internationally acclaimed artist Rachel Sussman has been researching, working with biologists, and traveling all over the world to find and photograph continuously living organisms 2,000 years old and older. Sussman, who is fiscally sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council, is endeavoring to raise funds for an expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula to photograph 5,000-year-old moss this winter.
Galapagos.

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