Title: Archivists Round Table Annual Holiday Party
Date & Time: Monday, December 8th, 2025
Duration: 3 hours, from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Admission:
A.R.T. Members – $20.00
Location: Parkside Lounge, (Backroom) 317 E Houston St, New York, NY 10002
The Archivists Round Table cordially invites you to the annual holiday party!
Please join your A.R.T. colleagues and friends on Monday, December 8th from 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm at Parkside Lounge, to celebrate the holidays with delicious food, drinks, and fun giveaways.
Online Registration Required. Please note that advance registration and payment are required no later than midnight on Sunday, December 7th to attend.
Parkside Lounge is a strict 21+ age venue. You must be 21 and have an ID in order to enter the venue.
The party will be hosted in Parkside Lounge's backroom!
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Kitchen Calendar, January & February 1984. Courtesy of The Kitchen.
Title: Tour of The Kitchen Archives
Date & Time: Thursday, December 11th, 3:20 PM (Tour begins promptly at 3:35 PM)
Capacity: 15
Cost: Free! (ART members only)
Location: Off-site Archive located at Uovo Brooklyn (105 Evergreen Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206)
Founded in 1971 as an artist-driven collective, The Kitchen today reaffirms and expands upon its originating vision as a dynamic cultural institution that centers artists, prioritizes people, and puts process first. During this in-person tour, Archivist Julia Amsterdam will present ephemera that spans the institution’s rich history of performance, exhibition-making and public programming.
This is an in-person event limited to 15 people. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.
ABOUT
Programming in a kunsthalle model that brings together live performances, exhibition-making, and public programming under one roof, The Kitchen empowers its audiences and communities to think creatively and radically about what it means to shape a multivalent and sustainable future in art. The Kitchen seeks to cultivate and hold space for wild thought, risky play, and innovative and experimental making, encouraging artists and cultural workers alike to defy boundaries and sending them into the world to remake art history and catalyze creative change. For more information visit the Kitchen’s website.
Arrival information: The archive is located at Uovo Brooklyn (105 Evergreen Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206). J, M, and L trains are the best mass transit options. Uovo is about a 10 minute walk from the Myrtle J, M station and the Morgan L station. When you arrive, please check in at the front desk with an ID. Please arrive promptly as Julia will bring everyone to the archive at 3:35pm.
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Image credit: Franklin Furnace
Title: Tour of the Franklin Furnace Archive
Date & Time: December 15, 2025, 5:00 PM
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Free! (ART Members and Non-Members)
Location: 30-30 47th Ave suite 470, Long Island City, NY 11101
Franklin Furnace presents, preserves, interprets, educates, and advocates on behalf of avant-garde art, focusing on objects that are vulnerable to institutional neglect, cultural bias, ephemerality, or politically unpopular content. This in-person tour will survey highlights from their collection of time-based art, such as artists’ books, periodicals, and documentation of performance and installation art.
Franklin Furnace provides physical and virtual venues for the presentation of time-based art, including artists’ books and periodicals, performance art, installation art, and unforeseen contemporary avant-garde artforms; and undertakes other activities related to these purposes. The institution is dedicated to serving early-career artists, cultivating appreciation of avant-garde art for all, and fostering artists’ zeal to circulate ideas.
Image courtesy of ABC No Rio
Title: ABC No Rio Zine Library Tour
Date & Time: December 17, 2025, 5:45 PM (Tour begins promptly at 6:00 PM)
Capacity: 12
Cost: Free! (ART Members only)
Location: The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, 107 Suffolk St #305, New York, NY 10002
Join us for a tour of the ABC No Rio Zine Library. The Zine Library Collective will welcome ART members and provide a behind-the-scenes look at the collection. The historic collection includes independent, underground and alternative publications on subjects such as music, culture, politics, personal experience, gender, health and self-education. The collective has a special interest in zines addressing neighborhood, political and social issues.
This is an in-person event limited to 12 people. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.
In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.
The ABC No Rio Zine Library began in the spring of 1998 when we rescued the Blackout Zine Library from a squat in the South Bronx that was facing eviction. Since then our library has grown from approximately 3,000 to over 13,000 publications.
The ABC No Rio Zine Library focuses on the following: Zines that emerge from, or cover, NYC’s Lower East Side and downtown Manhattan. Zines that are embedded in countercultures, subcultures, political scenes, DIY communities, and/or social movements. Zines that directly address social relations. Zines that engage in DIY practical advice-giving, covering such areas as parenting, education, health, dating, and peer support.
Arrival information
ABC No Rio Zine Library is located at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, 107 Suffolk St #305, New York, NY 10002 (Between Delancy and Rivington. The closest subway lines are the J, F, M, and Z trains at Delancy/Essex. Upon arrival, please navigate to the 3rd floor corridor to meet with other attendees and A.R.T. volunteers before the tour begins.
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