With a nice August week ahead of us the art world relaxes.

Destination Moon Music and Arts Festival invites us to this year's "Destination Moon Music and Arts Festival" and "Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance" at Indo-American Arts Council promises to be interesting.

Wednesday:
+ Michael Kamber "Radical Resurrection & Portraits Of Survival" at BronxArtSpace

Saturday:
+ Carlo McCormick, Eric Firestone "Seventh-Inning Stretch" at Eric Firestone Gallery

Monday:
+ Workshop: "Japanese Art from Calligraphy to Manga" at Japan Society

Tuesday, August 13

Performance: "Women on the Fringe" at Bluestockings
Chinatown/LES: 172 Allen street, 7pm

Paula Hunter "CRAWL" curated by chashama at chashama (Anita's Way)
42 street: 4 Times Square, 6-8pm

Panel Discussion: Shigeyuki Kihara "Curating Pacific Spaces: recent developments in contemporary art from the South Pacific" at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 1040 Metropolitan avenue, 6:30pm

Lecture: David Melrose "Good Vibrations" at Java Street Studios
Brooklyn, Misc.: 252 Java street, 7-9pm

Koji Sasaki "The Plastic Art Exhibiton" curated by Arisa Itami at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, suite 507, 7-10pm

Performance: Andrew Beccone "Unbinding the Library" curated by Elastic City at Elastic City
Brooklyn, Misc.: 543 Union street, $20, 7-9pm

Wednesday, August 14

Ben Taylor, John Sandroni, Kelsea Kosko, Matthew Holmes, Sam Clarke, Sharon Gong, Zachary T. Merritt "Coterie: Collective Pop-Up Exhibition" at Munch Gallery
Soho: 245 Broome street, 6-9pm

Screening: "Soundings" A Contemporary Score, the Film Program at MoMA
53 street: 11 W 53 street, 6-8pm

Michael Kamber "Radical Resurrection & Portraits Of Survival" at BRONXARTSPACE
140 street: 305 E 140 street, 1B, 5:30-8:30pm

+ Michael Kamber "Radical Resurrection & Portraits Of Survival" at BronxArtSpace
140 street: 305 E 140 street, suite 1A, 5:30-8:30pm

Thursday, August 15

Art Fair: GURUKUL DANCE COMPANY Kuchipudi, RAHUL ACHARYA Odissi, RAMA VAIDYANATHAN (Bharatanatyam), RANI KHANAM Kathak, VIJAYALAKSHMI Mohiniattam "Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance" Outdoor Performances at Indo-American Arts Council, inc (IAAC) (Battery Park)
Downtown: Lower Manhattan, noon-2pm

Closing reception: Shaun Krupa "The Flooded Room" at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 54 Ludlow st, 6-8pm

Screening: Cara Elizabeth, Gu Tao, Zhou Xin "Banned in China - LIVENESS: The Performing Archive | Chinese Experimental Film and Performance. "On the Way to the Sea" (Gu Tao, 2010) Talks by Zhou Xin, open project for Wooster group & Cara Elizabeth, performance artist" curated by Jane V Hsu at SVA 21 street: 136 W 21 street, Free, $10 suggested donation, 7-9pm

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Hye Yeon Nam ""Bold Movement"" curated by Liz Kwon at Gallery Ho 27 street: 547 W 27th St, #208, 6-8pm

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Screening: "An Evening with Penny Arcade and Quentin Crisp" at Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)
58 street: 2 Columbus circle, 7pm

Friday, August 16

Reading: Barbara Jensen "Examining Classism and the Lives of Working Class Crossovers" at Bluestockings
Chinatown/LES: 172 Allen street, 7pm

Performance: Essex Olivares "Office Riddim" at Lisa Cooley
Chinatown/LES: 107 Norfolk Street, between Delancey and Rivington, 12-6pm

Performance: Jacob Kirkegaard "Labyrinthitis" at Eyebeam
21 street: 540 W 21 street, $11, 7-8pm

Sungyeon Park "The Hidden Space" curated by chashama at chashama (window space)
37 street: 266 W 37 street, 5-7pm

Artist Talk: Steve Johnson "Steve Johnson Artist Talk" at EFA (The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts) (Blackburn 20|20)
39 street: 323 W 39th street, 5, 6:30-7:30 pm

Yoko Takeuchi "Power of the Earth" at AG Gallery - About Glamour
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 107A N 3 street, b/w berry & wythe ave, 6-8pm

Anastasya Koshkin, Ashli Sisk, Casey Shaw, Erik Hougen, Hermann Mejia, Ian Schwartz, Ina Archer, Julia Sinelnikova, Kristen Haskell, Lois, Myra Kooy, Natalie Lomeli, Pony Ma, Rachel Rickert, Richard Kessler, Simon Pocock, Steven Nedboy, Veronique Gambier "Summer Member Salon" at Brooklyn Art Space (Trestle Gallery)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 168 7th street, floor 3, 7-9pm

Saturday, August 17

Art Fair: "Destination Moon Music and Arts Festival" at Destination Moon Music and Arts Festival
104 street: 104 street and Amsterdam Avenue, $10 presale $15 Door, 3pm-11pm

+ Carlo McCormick, Eric Firestone "Seventh-Inning Stretch" at Eric Firestone Gallery
East Hampton, NY: 4 Newtown Lane, 6-9pm

Cara De Angelis, Chris Riggs For Mayor, Elyse Hradecky, Hilary Schmidt, Ian Healy, Joseph Cavalieri, Karen KK Clardy, Mark Paulda, Natan Pernick, Peter Walker, Sarah Hahn, Suzanne Scott, Zoe Sue Kay "The Art Sprinter Opening Reception and Exhibition" curated by Nicollette Ramirez at The Art Sprinter (Water Mill Square Gallery)
Water Mill, NY: 670 Montauk Highway, 6-9pm

Christina Tenaglia, Douglas Wirls "WOOD" at Imogen Holloway Gallery
Saugerties, NY: 81 Partition St, 6-9pm

Sunday, August 18

Workshop: "Dyke Knitting Circle" at Bluestockings
Chinatown/LES: 172 Allen street, 4pm

Performance: xodus dance collective "TRIGGER: anatomy of a riot" at HERE Soho: 145 Avenue of the Americas, $15, Thurs-Sun, 7-8pm

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Monday, August 19

+ Workshop: "Japanese Art from Calligraphy to Manga" at Japan Society
47 street: 333 E 47 street, $230-$250, 6-8pm

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