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17Jan

Launch Party for Strange Matters – Issue Four – Queens, NY

Don’t miss this upcoming event in Queens, NY. Happening on Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 585 Woodward Ave. Doors open at 7:00 PM.

The most ambitious & exciting little magazine in NYC drops its latest number. Come celebrate with drinks, food, and conversation!

It’s that time of year again: Issue Four of Strange Matters has landed, and it may just be our best one yet! From the definitive account of how Wall Street works to the occult spiritual practice of Oscar Wilde, from the geopolitics of West African coups to the vagaries of bored women in modernist novels, from an ecosocialist critique of Bidenomics to prophetic visions at the Top of the Rock, from smoking blunts with Fred Jameson to cruising NYC’s steamrooms throughout history, from dystopian South African art galleries to Black artists trainhopping the Great Depression, from TikTok vulnerable chic to the truth that dwells in things alone (including flan!) — our worker cooperative magazine continues to put out the most wide-ranging and interdisciplinary work by the most exciting new writers from around the world, aiming at the liberation of the human spirit across economics, politics, and culture. We marry a committed but freethinking libertarian-socialist perspective to an insatiable curiosity for culture, philosophy, technology, science, history, and art.

To celebrate the launch of our fourth issue — and raise some cash for the next one — we want to invite you to an evening of celebration and delight at Woodbine, a volunteer-run experimental hub and radical community center who are longtime friends of the magazine. There’ll be plenty of booze and other refreshing drinks, homemade snacks to munch on, hand-picked music to create the necessary cocktail party vibes, and an assortment of brilliant and interesting people to chat with from the worlds of culture, art, philosophy, politics, and science who make up the emerging Strange Matters extended community.

If you care about thinking new thoughts and undertaking new projects that break the stagnation of today’s status quo, it’ll be a great evening!

As this is a fundraiser, there will be extra copies of the issue for sale and other opportunities to donate with cash or Venmo at the event. Please consider being extra generous; we’re a small team doing this as volunteer work alongside our wage-labor, and it takes a lot of cash to pay writers fairly and distribute a beautiful and professionally produced magazine!

About the party

Here’s what you need to know.

The place

Woodbine

Ridgewood, NY 11385

(In Ridgewood, Queens, near the Brooklyn/Queens border — just next to Bushwick!)

The time

It’ll be an indoor party with warm drinks and alcohol – perfect way to warm up and start your weekend on a high note

Doors open at 7:00 PM

Party wraps up at around 12:00 AM

Getting in

$20 door fee gets you entry and a print copy of Issue Four (only $15 if you pre-pay through Eventbrite)

Subscribers get in free (we’ll check your name in our records at the door)

Let us know if you had any trouble getting your copy in the mail

Not a subscriber? We’ll sign you up — or, you can do it yourself on our website beforehand!

Directions

The closest subway stops are:

M: at Seneca Av

L: at Myrtle-Wykoff

Buses: the B13 or B38

Other information

There will be alcohol, other refreshments, snacks, and baked goods at the party. It will take place in a large indoor space with some seating. There is a bathroom near the back of the venue. Private areas will be off-limits to party-goers. The space is wheelchair-accessible.

Purchase Launch Party for Strange Matters – Issue Four Tickets Below:

Tickets/RSVP Link

Additional Details

Event ID - 1143005924489

Event Venue - 585 Woodward Ave

See Tickets

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Event City - Queens

Event State - NY

Date And Time

Saturday, January 18th, 2025 @ 07:00 PM (EST)

Venue

585 Woodward Ave

Location

585 Woodward Avenue, Queens, NY 11385

Event Types

Event Category

New York New York City