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WELL-LIKED: AN EVENING OF COMEDY WITH AFFABLE PEOPLE

10/18/2019

WELL-LIKED: AN EVENING OF COMEDY WITH AFFABLE PEOPLE
Join host Joe Schiappa (IFC, MTV) as he invites a gaggle of NYC stand-ups and comic performers in an evening of laughter and good cheer. You have already decided to come and check out. You’ve done it. Now, get yourself there. You have to. It’s what you really want. Featuring Adira Amram, Ethan Berlin, Jeff and Buttons, Marcus Levar, Natasha Vaynblat, Richie Moriarty and Maria Wojciechoswki.

Friday, October 18th. 8pm

UNDISCOVERED COUNTRIES: 7th BIRTHDAY!

9/28/2019

UNDISCOVERED COUNTRIES: 7th BIRTHDAY!
Join us for a variety show/birthday party featuring new and developing work from artists of all disciplines, centering artists lacking traditional support (artists of color, women, and queer and trans artists). The evening will feature a mix of live theater, stand up, music, solo performance, drag, and maybe a short film. And cake! And a dance party!

With Adin Lenahan, Baby Chemist, Barbara Begley, Emily McNally, Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, Magenta, Rebecca Vineyard, Sammie James, Sheree Campbell, and Yilong Liu.

Saturday, September 28th. Doors at 7, Show at 8.

HIGH NOTES WITH TESSA SKARA

9/27/2019

HIGH NOTES WITH TESSA SKARA
Pack your vibrators and roll your joints because Tessa's moving to LA for 3 and a half months starting October 1st!

High Notes is a monthly high-energy, queer AF, and rock-n-roll-as-hell live musical comedy show hosted by the self proclaimed Rock Goddess of Comedy: Tessa Skara. Featuring a backing band of basement rockstars, High Notes is a show that brings together a revolving roster of stand up comedians, cabaret performers and musicians to belt out numbers on the meaning of life, love, and how kombucha tastes like salad dressing (which is why it's perfect!). If you’re looking for a night of live music, jokes jokes jokes, and moody acoustic ruminations on how selfish it is of your therapist to go on maternity leave then High Notes is the show for you.

This will be the last High Notes in NYC until February 2020, so please, so come party with us because the next time you see Tessa, she could either be famous, broke, or some combination of all of the above!

Hosted by Tessa Skara & the High Notes Band
Featuring Maya Deshmukh, Derek Smith, Jessica Henderson, Alex Song, & more TBA!

Friday, September 27. 8pm. $10.

THE COMMEDIA COMPANY: ONE NIGHT ONLY!

9/13/2019

THE COMMEDIA COMPANY: ONE NIGHT ONLY

The Commedia Company is back in action for an extremely limited engagement! It's an ALL NEW show of devised work AND improvisation in a seat-of-the-pants explosion of comedy, politics, and 17th century English Country Dancing*. Watch as the most dangerously talented, bravest and funniest actors working today use the masks and archetypes of the Commedia dell 'Arte to take on the world we live in now.

There will be moments of ecstatic hilarity and moments of deep collective soul-searching. We’ve got old members, new members, and erstwhile globetrotting members emeritus sitting in for the evening, so you don't want to miss it! Get your tickets ASAP, kiddies, cuz seating is extremely limited and we don’t fuck around with fire codes! Friday the 13th! Put it in your Google Calendar or Trapper Keeper or whatever! Do it right now!

*Could be - anything is possible.

**Not so appropriate for children, by which we mean, not at all...

featuring
Brandt Adams • Jarrod Bates • Will Clark • Nick Mayfield • Ralf Jean-Pierre • Jeff Seal
with music by John Coyne

Come at 7pm to hang out with the cast before the show. There will be music and the meeting of old friends and the making of new ones!

Friday, September 13th. Doors at 7, show at 8.

HOLM FAMILY SINGERS

7/10/2019

RADICAL USED BOOK FAIR

6/15/2019

RADICAL USED BOOK FAIR
Listen up radical bargain hunters! Come to shop or spend the afternoon hanging out at Cloud City surrounded by book lovers and radicals. Thousands of new and used books at rock bottom prices! $3 for 1 book; $5 for 2; $10 for 5; $20 for 20!! Hundreds of new books donated by Haymarket Books, The Nation, Dissent and other left publishers.

Proceeds will go to support the Socialism 2019 Conference, The National Network of Abortion Providers, and People of Color Caucus Fundraiser.

Build your radical library on these and other topics!

* Art, Literature and Culture
* Black History and Politics
* Ecology
* Education and Students
* Gender, Sexuality, and Liberation
* History and Politics of the US Left
* Immigration, Refugees, and Borders
* Imperialism
* Indigenous History and Politics
* Marxism
* Anarchism
* History and Politics of the Labor Movement
* International Politics
* and so much more.

Saturday, June 15th. 3-7pm. Free!

GASLAND

6/14/2019

GASLAND: A FILM BY JOSH FOX
In honor of Think Global Act Local Month, please join Miss New York Earth and the United Nations Association Brooklyn Chapter Young Professionals for a special FREE screening of Gasland, a film by Josh Fox. Gasland is a documentary that brings to light the harsh reality of oil & gas fracking across America and around the world. As New York State is threatened by the prospect of the Williams Pipeline, we strive to educate the masses about what we stand to lose if the pipeline is approved.

ABOUT THE FILM:
The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verité travelogue, part exposé, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown.

Friday, June 14th. Doors at 7pm; screening at 8pm.

KATE & ILYSSA PRESENT: THE BEST RITUAL

5/10/2019

KATE & ILYSSA PRESENT: THE BEST RITUAL
"Kate & Ilyssa Present: The Best Ritual" is a raucous, two-woman comedy of idiots! This entirely absurd, theatrical clown show turns modern-day spirituality on its head. Two privileged, yet flat-out-broke, girls host a benefit to raise money for a made-up charity by way of ritualistic theatre. Little does the audience know that the donations are going in the girls' pockets and that the benefit is just a vanity project to show off their acting, singing, and dancing skills. When shit hits the fan, will these girls stay calm, cool, and collected, or will their world turn upside down?

Following sold-out shows in New York, Kate & Ilyssa will be making their international premiere at Brighton and Prague Fringe Festivals in May! Cloud City is the perfect place to share their show before they head abroad!

created by: Kate Owens & Ilyssa Joy Baine
directed by: Lucy Shelby
tech by: Matt Prigge

Friday, May 10th. 8pm.

ART IS FUNNY IS ART...

5/4/2019

ART IS FUNNY IS ART...
Art is Funny is Art... is a comedy show where all the performers are also visual artists. Not only will their work be on the walls of Cloud City - but also projected behind while they perform.

Its an art show. It's a comedy storytelling show. Is an art comedy show.

Featuring:
Harmon Leon (This American Life)
Dan Ahrens
Jeff Seal (Bankrukt)
Becca Beberaggi (Brooklyn Comedy Festival)
Meg Pickarski (The PIT)
Walter Michael DeForest (Edinburgh Festival)
Thomas McKean

Saturday, May 4th. Doors/Art Viewing: 7pm, Show: 8pm.

BAD FILM FEST

4/26/2019

BAD FILM FEST
Come celebrate our 8th year of screening weird, eclectic & outlandish short films from NYC and around the globe.

A collection of no-budget, low-budget and even slickly produced short films.
HORROR, COMEDY, DRAMA, ANIMATION, DOCUMENTARY, EXPERIMENTAL, WHATEVER!

Some are horrible, some might force you to ask, "WTF?!?"
But there's also a slim chance you might actually love something.

Friday April 26th @ 7pm and 9pm
Saturday April 27th @ 7pm and 9pm
Sunday April 28th @ 7pm

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