The Tank Holds Multi-Disciplinary Fundraising Bash 7/17, Announces More Events

In order to raise money for The Tank's sound proofing costs, we're throwing Silent Night a big, multi-disciplinary bash on July 17th at 8:00pm. Featuring acoustic sets from some of The Tank's favorite bands (SHAPES, Sister Helen, and Old Table, to name a few), story telling from the weird and wonderful Fiction Circus, silent but deadly burlesque performances, The Traveling Sound Museum, scathingly quiet comedy from improv darlings City Hall, and more we're showing that we can still raise a ruckus without raising our voices. Suggested donation of $10.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival and The Tank Team Up! We'll be playing host to some of the New York Musical Theatre Festival's shows from September 28th - October 18th. Join us for full productions, concerts, and even week day matinees for three weeks of musical theater excitement. Stay tuned for a full schedule of events that will take place here at The Tank.

Wednesday, July 8 @ 6:00 Reading and Laughing Presents 'A Joint Event on Drugs in America' FREE - Join author Ryan Grim as he hits the stage for a discussion of the highlights of his new book, This is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret of Getting High in America. Grim will be joined by two Laughing Liberally regulars, Harry Terjanian and Costaki Economopoulos.

Wednesday, July 8 @ 8:00 Screening Presents "Excuse Me Mr. Speaker" $8 - Come and watch this documentary about Paul Newell's 2008 run against New York assembly speaker Sheldon Silver. Film viewing followed by discussion about challenges facing insurgent primary candidates.

July 9 and 10 @ 7:00 and July 11 @ 2:00 The Block $15 -Bestselling author Adam Lux has only seven hours left to turn in his much anticipated second Great American Novel and has precisely four (god awful) sentences written. Unable to delay his deadline any further, Adam must complete his masterpiece tonight... a night where he is plagued by little things like break ups, pregnancies, cancer and the mob. The Block is a compelling and comedic look at a writer trying to do what's right. Presale tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/69361.

July 11 @ 9:00 Tableau á Go Go $7 - A wild variety show of new, multimedia performances featuring live music, video, animation, interactive performance technology and even a mixed media puppet shadow! Such topics as life, death and pornography will be presented and dissected in new performance works for instruments and robots, and premieres by Kirsten Volness, Mark Snyder, Jacob Richman, Peter Bussigel, Tim Szetela and others. The party will continue at The Tank after the performance with DJ Eric Hachikian on the 1's and 2's.

July 12 @ 7:00 Above the Belt $15 -Above the Belt is an aerial showcase of International Artists displaying the diversity of aerial art in an intimate setting free of special effects. Presale tickets can be found at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/72061.

July 12 @ 7:00 SLAM $5 - SLAM Theater invites artists and audiences to get involved in the process of making theater. Playwrights bring fresh scripts, and actors are called out of a hat to perform timed segments, completely unrehearsed. After each round, the judges score the plays, moving the top-scoring plays to the next round. Winning writers get to unveil more of their work, acting as director or bringing one in to give timed notes. SLAM is an evening of theater with impromptu performance, spontaneous collaboration, and friendly competition.

Wednesday, July 15 @ 7:30 A Supreme Night of Comedy $10 -In honor of the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings in DC, Laughing Liberally goes to the mat to take on the courts in a night that does justice to political comedy.

Thursday, July 16 @ 7:30 NEON RA(H)! $5 - Now is the time to invade the senses. To lose yourself in the vast sands of electric light... Join PRIMA PRIMO, MISTY ROSES, and the SIMPLE PLEASURE for two hours of electronic musical madness. Your feet will dance, your eyes will feast, come on over, and release the beast.

Friday, July 17 @ 7:30 Silent Night $10 - In order to raise money for our sound proofing costs, we're throwing Silent Night a big, multi-disciplinary bash on July 17th at 8:00pm. Featuring acoustic sets from some of The Tank's favorite bands (SHAPES, Sister Helen, and Old Table, to name a few), story telling from the weird and wonderful Fiction Circus, silent but deadly burlesque performances, The Traveling Sound Museum, scathingly quiet comedy from improv darlings City Hall, and more we're showing that we can still raise a ruckus without raising our voices. Suggested donation of $10.

Sunday, July 19 @ 9:30 Start Trekkin' $5 - Start Trekkin'- New York is the premier long-form improv comedy troupe in New York City, performing improvised shows based on the original Series of Star Trek. Many say that what we do is magic...we call it science. But be you primitive minded subspecies, or super-intelligent beings with no moral fibre and an Oedipus complex, we'll still warp your mind to the far reaches of funny. Visit www.start-trekkin.com

At The Tank, 354 W. 45th Street (btw 8th and 9th Aves). For as little as $12 become a FRIEND OF THE TANK, and receive 2 FREE tickets, good for any Tank show, and a complimentary subscription to Time Out NY! All donations are tax-deductible. www.thetanknyc.org/membership

Founded in 2003, The Tank is a non-profit arts presenter whose mission is to provide a welcoming, creative, collaborative, and affordable environment for artists and activists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas. Through a wide range of low-cost, high-concept arts and public affairs programming, The Tank seeks to cultivate a new generation of audience for live performance, civic discourse, and the work of emerging artists. See something different - every time.