ENTOMO-CUISINE: an insect and mezcal pairing dinner

Sept 18 7-9 PM

Brooklyn Kitchen 100 Frost Street, Brooklyn

Brooklyn Kitchen, in partnership with EyeLevel Gallery and Factoría de Santos, is proud to present Entomo-Cuisine: Insect and Mezal Tasting Menu

Philip Ross, creator of the San Francisco based CRITTER Salon, will lead this four course pairing of edible insects and fine alcohols. The dinner will include pairings such as: Wax Moth Larvae ceviche and Brooklyn Lager, and Grass Hoppers with San Honesto Mezcal. Join the intimate group of 40 at Brooklyn Kitchen for this delicious and daring foray into sustainable fine dining. Please RSVP to reserve your place: www.brooklynkitchen.com

BIOS

MONICA MARTINEZ is an artist, educator and designer who constructs and fabricates sculptures and installations assembled from commercial materials such as cardboard and recycle wood. Monica reflects on the successes and failures of the urban economic and physical systems internationally to selectively build simple sculptural objects. These minimal, yet complex sculptural constructions reflect on urban architectural landscapes, industrial buildings, containers, and urban surplus. Martinez received her MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and The Sculpture Space. Her work has been exhibited in various international venues and recently at the Cologne Art Fair. She is the 2010 recipient of the FONCA’s Young Creator’s Grant, and currently resides in San Francisco, California. www.monicamartinez.com

PHILIP ROSS is an artist, educator and curator working in the Bay Area of California. For the past decade Philip has been making research based artworks that place natural systems within a frame of social and historic contexts. Many of these artworks are literally grown into being over the course of several years. Developed in conjunction with institutions that work with biological entities. Philip’s living artworks integrate traditional manufacturing techniques with technologies from different cultural fields, making sculptures that are at once highly crafted and naturally formed, skillfully manipulated and sloppily organic. www.crittersalon.blogspot.com

MEZCAL SAN HONESTO is made from Sierra Negra agave from the mountains of San Juan del Río, Tlacolula, Oaxaca. It was covered in an underground conic stone-oven on Monday September 29, 2008 (new moon’s day) in Los Danzantes Distillery in Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca. It was ground with a millstone by José and el Zabache (the mule) and was organically fermented with the help of classical music. It was distilled and refined in a cooper still and was finished in October 30, 2008 with a total of 215 liters 49% alc.vol.

This project is trying to help families of Mexico who have been producing traditional organic Mezcal for over 300 years; and are in danger of disappearing because of industrialized mezcal. This project’s aim is to save this honest tradition from getting lost and show it to the world. http://www.factoriadesantos.com/

THIS EVENT IS PART OF CELEBRATE MEXICO NOW, for more info go to http://www.mexiconowfestival.org

Designers like Karl Lagerfeld are making short avant-garde fashion films to show off their new collections. Renata Espinosa on the line between art and infomercial.

Last week, Karl Lagerfeld premiered “Paris-Moscou,” a silent film about the early life of Coco Chanel, coinciding with his annual pre-fall “Metiers d’Art” collection—an unapologetic showcase of luxury that highlights the craftsmanship of the house’s ateliers. The ten-minute film, which stars model Edita Vilkeviciute as Coco, is a day-and-night-in-the-life of the designer. The film is set in 1913 at Chanel’s atelier, and then skips ahead to 1925, where we find Coco at a cabaret. Lagerfeld says the film was meant to draw a link between Chanel’s romantic relationship with Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich at the time and the 2008 Russian-inspired collection he debuted.

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“Magos manages to create a new style of Latin scat. It is innovative but clearly jazz and when she does her improvisations off the composed melodies it is a mind-blowing experience.Rudy Garcia. The Miami herald. November 19.2005

Lo que hay que saber de Magos Herrera es que nacio en la Ciudad de Mexico en los setentas, hija de padres artistas que la introdujeron a varias expresiones desde temprana edad, que es considerada como una de las voces mas bellas de la escena mexicana contemporánea y que es uno de los musicos mas representativos del jazz de su país.

Interprete, compositora con un estilo propio de improvisar, Magos es reconocida por su sonido unico que elegantemente integra al jazz con ritmos brasileños y latinos con una fuerte atencion al contenido lirico.

Cuenta con 4 producciones discograficas, 2 compilaciones internacionales de su discografia en Brasil y Japon y participaciones en los discos de Mexican Divas. Inicia su carrera musical durante un viaje a Italia en 1988, donde decide involucrarse profesionalmente en la música y se gradua de “Musicians Institute” en Los Angeles, Cal. para continuar sus estudios en Jazz en Nueva York y Boston.

Durante 10 años se ha presentado en inumerables foros nacionales e internacionales desde el “Teatro de la Ciudad de México” hasta “Lincoln Center” en Nueva York y la “Sala Galileo Galilei” en Madrid.

Su amor por la musica y activa presencia llevaron a magos en los ultimos 4 años a navegar en la television como productora y conductora de dos programas en canal 22 de difusion musical, Acustico y Jazz desde el bajo centro donde defilaron artistas como Diego el Cigala, Jerry Gonzales, Arturo Ofarril, Francisco Cespedes, Ute lemper, entre otros.

Destino..mas musica!!!!!!

Actualmente Magos trabaja en su proxima produccion en la Ciudad de Nueva York. 2008.

Fine art describes any art form developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than utility. This type of art is often expressed in the production of art objects using visual and performing art forms, including painting, sculpture, dance, theatre, architecture, photography and printmaking.