UPDATE if anyone stumbles across this: as of late 2022, it looks like i won’t be able to continue booking or coordinating bookings at the church. i’ll eventually give a more detailed explanation to those who put time & energy into the place (or, knowing me, to everyone lolol), but tl;dr: i recommend caution for those choosing to work with “stone circle theatre” at the ridgewood presbyterian church.
*what’s there*
money-soliciting entities @ 59-14 70th Avenue, Ridgewood / Queens, NY:
Cross Street Community Church of NYC
• Church; Dan is “Founder/Community Leader” & “Senior Clergy”
• $14.2k grant for “serving those who are houseless in NYC” (2021)
• “Sanctuary (Under Development): Providing hospitality to the youth and young persons who are currently facing houselessness” (2022)
Stone Circle Theatre
• Nonprofit; Dan’s husband Brian is “President“; Dan is “Co-Director of Operations,” “Treasurer,” & filer; the other business on his filing page, Searchlight Abstract, is the company the two ran during their brief window of business success: helping “banks, lending companies, and lawyers” kick people out of their homes during the housing crisis. 🙃
The Presbyterian Network to End Homelessness
• Nonprofit (?); Dan is “National Organizer“; c/o Cross Street Community of NYC (2023)
• GuideStar Profile | pdf
The Ridgewood Presbyterian Church
• Church; Dan is “Parish Associate for Community Engagement“
• “Ridgewood church aims to open ‘emergency bed’ program for local homeless seniors” (2017)
*PAST*
lookin for VOLUNTEERS (especially in RIDGEWOOD) to do door & sound [backline] & cleanup / setup / general ~helpins~ at some beautiful shows––& also to LITERALLY SHOW UP TO CHURCH (59-14 70th ave, sundays at 10:30am) so they can’t kick us out!!! most of us will never be able to afford property in nyc––but if we show up to church on sundays, become members, & vote on leadership, we could transform a multi-million-dollar space into a center for activism & community––as kwami winfield put it, “practice what THEY preach.” if you don’t know about CHURCH, sign up for the mailing list:
july 16
• 6pm: Black Science Fiction presents: Organic Sounds of the Black Mind (led by Matthew Jamal), keiyaA, Boomscat, Aquiles Navarro, Davia Spain, Sounds by Bryce @ ridgewood presbyterian church, 59-14 70th ave, ridgewood, queens // curator: imani n. dennison (aka the heart o’ black science fiction) // sound: mike nowotarski
july 17
• 7pm: NYC NOISE & FRIENDS PRESENT: Julia Santoli (w/ Tamio Shiraishi), azumi O E & Tim Dahl, C. Spencer Yeh, M. Lamar @ ridgewood presbyterian church (all ages), 59-14 70th ave, ridgewood, queens // $15 via paypal or venmo w/ note “7/17 ticket for [your name]” // curator: me! :D idk why i said “& friends,” sometimes i just feel weird about my self i guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ // sound: mike nowotarski
aug 13
• 7pm-11pm: NYC Noise x Tripticks Tapes present: Matteo Liberatore (Record Release), Nat Baldwin / Stella Silbert / Webb Crawford, Johann Diedrick & Temar France, Nava Dunkelman & Chuck Bettis, Kirin McElwain (fb) @ ridgewood presbyterian church (all ages), 59-14 70th ave, ridgewood, queens // $15 via paypal or venmo w/ note “8/13 ticket for [your name]” // curators: nat baldwin (aka the heart o’ tripticks tapes) & me! :D // sound: s¡an (aka how i quit ketamine)
sept 18
• 7pm: PTP presents: Among the Rocks and Roots, HARDCOREBAE, Protect the Peace Quartet (Dis Fig, Dreamcrusher, King Vision Ultra, Tcheser Holmes), Swaya, LOKA (DJ) @ ridgewood presbyterian church (all ages), 59-14 70th ave, ridgewood, queens // curator: GENG (aka the heart o’ PTP) // sound: jefferson (aka BSTFRND)
sept 29
• 7pm: Mesma & Legitime present: More Eaze, Ohyung, Omar Ahmad, The Poet Engineer (Visuals) @ ridgewood presbyterian church (all ages), 59-14 70th ave, ridgewood, queens // curators: gabriel mester (aka the heart o’ mesma records) & matthieu astruc (aka the heart o’ legitime) // live projections: the poet engineer // art installation: sarah philouze // sound: izzi stevenson
oct 8
• 7pm: Mercury Symbol x NYC Noise present A Night of Ecstatic Sound: Evicshen, Centennial Gardens, Jadelain, Mercury Symbol, Nullobite, Polly Urethane (fb) @ ridgewood presbyterian church (all ages), 59-14 70th ave, ridgewood, queens // curators: adonis (aka mercury symbol) (with… me! :D) // sound: s¡an (aka how i quit ketamine)
oct 27
• 7pm: Center For Psychic Technology presents: Sweater On Polo, Haitlin, Skinkitten, DOGHATESNOISE @ [stone circle theatre at the] ridgewood presby church (all ages), 59-14 70th ave, ridgewood, queens // curation *&* sound!: john pugh (aka center for psychic technology)
nov 3
• 7pm: Relative Pitch Records x NYC Noise present: Sakina Abdou, Nava Dunkelman, Michael Foster / Joe Moffett / Eli Wallace, Tamio Shiraishi & Marie Carroll (fb) @ [stone circle theatre at the] ridgewood presby church (all ages), 59-14 70th ave, ridgewood, queens // TICKETS // curators: kevin reilly (aka the heart o’ relative pitch records!) & me! :D //
nov 4
[POSTPONED] • 7pm: Chris Cochrane / John Thayer (Album Release; w/ Nick Jozwiak, Anthony Coleman), God Is My Co-Pilot (ft. Sandy Ewen), Aliya Ultan & Drew Wesely@ [stone circle theatre at the] ridgewood presby church (all ages), 59-14 70th ave, ridgewood, queens // godco = Normandy Sherwood, Craig Flanagin, Jason Blackkat, Kevin Shea // TICKETS // “unforeseeable circumstances” = the decade’s big lol; ALWAYS COVID, FAM // feel better, chris!!
nov 6
• 7pm-10pm: Henry Fraser, Lester St. Louis (fb) @ [stone circle theatre at the] ridgewood presby church (all ages), 59-14 70th ave, ridgewood, queens // TICKETS // sound: gavilán rayna russom, aka the heart of voluminous arts!
nov 10
• 7pm-10pm: Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson & the USA Clangers (w/ Jonathan Pfeffer, Liz Meredith, Shayna Dunkelman), Madison Greenstone, Kwami Winfield @ [stone circle theatre at the] ridgewood presby church (all ages), 59-14 70th ave, ridgewood, queens // TICKETS