BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT LOCATION:Monkeytown\n58 North 3rd St.\n\nBrooklyn\, NY 11211 SEQUENCE:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTEND:20091125T230000 URL:http://culturemob.com/events/6061220-inspiring-music-and-film-multimedi a-experience-x-the-human-condition-previews-for-thanksgiving-ny-brooklyn-11 211-monkeytown?s=ical DTSTART:20091125T220000 UID:November 24\, 2009 13:26:07_71738732@diamond.culturemob.com DTSTAMP:20091124T132607 DESCRIPTION:Featuring an immersive\, multi-sensory environment\, the live\, dynamic concert performance by the music group X: THC\, enhanced by the em otionally charged film\, X: The Human Condition\, previews its uplifting an d stimulating shock to the senses for Thanksgiving at the Brooklyn multimed ia space\, Monkeytown (58 North 3rd St.\, Brooklyn\, NY)\, on Wednesday\, N ovember 25th at 10:00 pm. Cover is $5\, $10 minimum. Full Late Night Dinner Menu Available. \n \nThanksgiving is traditionally a time to share with fa mily and friends\, but it is also a time when some people feel most disconn ected\, alienated and alone. X: THC has partnered with the Jed Foundation a nd AFSP to donate a portion of the profits from X: The Human Condition to h elp these non-profit organizations in their work\, dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression\, self-injury a nd suicide. They exist to encourage\, educate\, inspire and invest into pre vention\, treatment and recovery. \n \nThe inspiring music of X: THC combi nes the multi-layered hypnotica of smoothly grooving electronic beats\, war m emotive alternative indie rock\, coldly induced new wave post-modernism\, lush\, heartfelt\, romantic blue-eyed soul & classic songwriting\, with an otherworldly experimental soundscape. X: THC breaks down the walls between musical genres\, challenging categorization\, while communicating performa nce through multiple sensory applications\, known as "synesthesia". \n \nT he live music and film multimedia experience examines the human condition\, pulling you in to an alternate reality...UnratedNYC Magazine wrote\, “X: The Human Condition is an emotionally cataclysmic event that will resonate in your subconscious for weeks…” \n \nHypnotically delicious\, it is a trance-inducing trip inside the human subconscious\, combining hypnotic\, surreal soundscapes with phantasmagorical\, emotionally charged visual sto rytelling to create a unique and inspiring music and film multimedia experi ence. \n \nX: The Human Condition alchemically fuses together influences o f luminaries such as Tim Burton\, Michael Gondry\, Antoine St. Exupery\, Da rren Aronofsky\, Guillermo Del Toro\, Jean Cocteau\, Rod Serling\, The Brot hers Grimm\, and Joseph (John) Merrick\, to create an imaginative\, terribl e beauty\, both real and unreal\, where the mind can make a hell of heaven\ , and a heaven of hell... X: The Human Condition. \n \n http://www.x-thc.co m/live.html SUMMARY:Inspiring Music And Film Multimedia Experience\, X: The Human Cond ition Previews For Thanksgiving END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT LOCATION:Scandinavia House\n58 Park Avenue @ 38th Street\n\nNew York\, NY 1 0016 SEQUENCE:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTEND:20091202T203000 URL:http://culturemob.com/events/6021252-icelandic-film-retrospective-honor -of-the-house-ungfr-in-g-a-og-h-si-ny-new-york-manhattan-murray-hill-10016- scandinavia-house?s=ical DTSTART:20091202T183000 UID:November 24\, 2009 13:26:07_989062544@diamond.culturemob.com DTSTAMP:20091124T132607 DESCRIPTION:Honor of the House/Ungfrúin góða og húsið \nWednesday\, De cember 2\, 6:30 pm & Saturday\, December 5\, 3 pm \n \nDirected by Guðný Halldórsdóttir (1999). Adapted from a 1933 story by Iceland’s Nobel La ureate\, Halldór Laxness\, Honor of the House is directed by his daughter. A sumptuously photographed period film featuring many of Scandinavia’s f inest actors and set in a spectacular landscape\, the film reveals a family ’s darkest secrets. Þuríður\, who is married with children\, is consum ed with frustration and unhappiness\, while her younger sister Rannveig rec klessly cavorts around Copenhagen. Endlessly chiding her sister about the f amily’s honor\, Þuríður goes to extraordinary lengths to destroy Rannv eig’s happiness. The story is evocatively recounted by their mother who e xpresses her deep sorrow for not initially intervening. 110 min. SUMMARY:Icelandic Film Retrospective: Honor of the House/Ungfrúin góða o g húsið END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT LOCATION:Scandinavia House\n58 Park Avenue @ 38th Street\n\nNew York\, NY 1 0016 SEQUENCE:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTEND:20091205T170000 URL:http://culturemob.com/events/6021252-icelandic-film-retrospective-honor -of-the-house-ungfr-in-g-a-og-h-si-ny-new-york-manhattan-murray-hill-10016- scandinavia-house?s=ical DTSTART:20091205T150000 UID:November 24\, 2009 13:26:07_584566940@diamond.culturemob.com DTSTAMP:20091124T132607 DESCRIPTION:Honor of the House/Ungfrúin góða og húsið \nWednesday\, De cember 2\, 6:30 pm & Saturday\, December 5\, 3 pm \n \nDirected by Guðný Halldórsdóttir (1999). Adapted from a 1933 story by Iceland’s Nobel La ureate\, Halldór Laxness\, Honor of the House is directed by his daughter. A sumptuously photographed period film featuring many of Scandinavia’s f inest actors and set in a spectacular landscape\, the film reveals a family ’s darkest secrets. Þuríður\, who is married with children\, is consum ed with frustration and unhappiness\, while her younger sister Rannveig rec klessly cavorts around Copenhagen. Endlessly chiding her sister about the f amily’s honor\, Þuríður goes to extraordinary lengths to destroy Rannv eig’s happiness. The story is evocatively recounted by their mother who e xpresses her deep sorrow for not initially intervening. 110 min. SUMMARY:Icelandic Film Retrospective: Honor of the House/Ungfrúin góða o g húsið END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT LOCATION:Scandinavia House\n58 Park Avenue @ 38th Street\n\nNew York\, NY 1 0016 SEQUENCE:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTEND:20091209T203000 URL:http://culturemob.com/events/6021253-icelandic-film-retrospective-small -mountain-hei-in-screened-with-the-last-farm-s-asti-b-rinn-ny-new-york-manh attan-murray-hill-10016-scandinavia-house?s=ical DTSTART:20091209T183000 UID:November 24\, 2009 13:26:07_808124152@diamond.culturemob.com DTSTAMP:20091124T132607 DESCRIPTION:Small Mountain/Heiðin \nWednesday\, December 9\, 6:30 pm & Sat urday\, December 12\, 3 pm \n \nDirected by Einar Þór Gunnlaugsson (2008 ). Set against a rugged landscape in a small community\, Small Mountain tel ls the story of Emil\, a local handyman\, who is entrusted to take a sealed ballot box to the airport to be flown to the city for counting. As he star ts his journey\, Emil finds himself resolving a dispute between two young b oys over a bicycle. Unbeknownst to him\, his son Albert\, a brooding young man\, has returned to the village to confront his father over their fractur ed relationship. 95 min. \n \nPreceded by The Last Farm/Síðasti bærinn \ n \nDirected by Rúnar Rúnarsson (2004). Situated in a remote valley where all the farms except one are abandoned\, a farmer and his wife await the a rrival of their daughter\, who is to take them to a retirement home. The wi fe dies a few days before the two are scheduled to leave the farm. The farm er keeps the death a secret from his daughter and concocts a plan that is r evealed in the last scene. 16 min. SUMMARY:Icelandic Film Retrospective: Small Mountain/Heiðin\, screened wit h The Last Farm/Síðasti bærinn END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT LOCATION:Scandinavia House\n58 Park Avenue @ 38th Street\n\nNew York\, NY 1 0016 SEQUENCE:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTEND:20091212T170000 URL:http://culturemob.com/events/6021253-icelandic-film-retrospective-small -mountain-hei-in-screened-with-the-last-farm-s-asti-b-rinn-ny-new-york-manh attan-murray-hill-10016-scandinavia-house?s=ical DTSTART:20091212T150000 UID:November 24\, 2009 13:26:07_809232980@diamond.culturemob.com DTSTAMP:20091124T132607 DESCRIPTION:Small Mountain/Heiðin \nWednesday\, December 9\, 6:30 pm & Sat urday\, December 12\, 3 pm \n \nDirected by Einar Þór Gunnlaugsson (2008 ). Set against a rugged landscape in a small community\, Small Mountain tel ls the story of Emil\, a local handyman\, who is entrusted to take a sealed ballot box to the airport to be flown to the city for counting. As he star ts his journey\, Emil finds himself resolving a dispute between two young b oys over a bicycle. Unbeknownst to him\, his son Albert\, a brooding young man\, has returned to the village to confront his father over their fractur ed relationship. 95 min. \n \nPreceded by The Last Farm/Síðasti bærinn \ n \nDirected by Rúnar Rúnarsson (2004). Situated in a remote valley where all the farms except one are abandoned\, a farmer and his wife await the a rrival of their daughter\, who is to take them to a retirement home. The wi fe dies a few days before the two are scheduled to leave the farm. The farm er keeps the death a secret from his daughter and concocts a plan that is r evealed in the last scene. 16 min. SUMMARY:Icelandic Film Retrospective: Small Mountain/Heiðin\, screened wit h The Last Farm/Síðasti bærinn END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR