A Fin-tastic Night!

Thanks to everyone who joined us at R Bar for a very fun evening!
We screened 10 minutes of our Mermaids of New York documentary, raffled off fabulous mermaid prizes (generously donated by our friends Carolyn Turgeon, La Sirena (Mexican Arts & Crafts) and Sourpuss Clothing) and of course, drinking Coney Island Memaid Lager!
But the best part of all was meeting new new mermaid friends and catching up with some that have been riding the waves with us since we first embarked on this journey.

Thankfully, Jason Falchook was on hand to capture some of the highlights…

What can I say, we get excited about raffles!

Mermaid Kai Altair lent a hand

The Brooklyn Babydoll fancy in fins!

The Lady Aye, about to take a stab at it

If you are curious about that last photo, well, you’ll just have to come to one of our screenings to find out what happens next!

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Mexican Mermaids and More Fabulous Prizes

If you are in NYC, next week, come join the Mermaids of New York for a screening and happy hour!

Mermaids of New York Happy Hour Screening
Thursday, July 7th 6:30pm
R-Bar 218 Bowery St. New York, NY

We’ll be showing some of our documentary film and toasting to all the mermaids of new york and beyond.
Plus we’ll be raffling off some fabulous prizes with from our amazing friends Bambi The Mermaid, Carolyn Turgeon, La Sirena (Mexican Arts & Crafts), Sourpuss Clothing, A.V. Phibes and more!

Mexican mermaids from La Sirena in NYC

Mermaid by Carolyn Turgeon

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Can you feel the undercurrent?

What a week for Mermaids of New York! We had our first non-Coney Island screening, last week. Thanks to the lovely folks at Northside Fest and Union Docs for making that happen, it was truly an awesome night! Photos to come.

And Mermaids ruled the city at Coney Island Mermaid fest on Saturday, we even got a shout out from Gothamist!

But wait.. there’s more, the opportunities to get in on the Mermania continue….

We invite you join us for a special siren happy hour/screening/fundraiser to help us continue our documentary project, Mermaids of New York.

Thursday, July 7 · 6:30pm – 9:30pm @ R Bar 218 Bowery, NYC

It’s free (but donations are appreciated) and there will be drink specials, mermaid appearances, performances and raffles for fabulous prizes throughout the evening and all proceeds will help us bring Mermaids of NY to MerCon in Las Vegas!

If you’re interested in volunteering, performing or donating raffle items, please contact The Lady Aye at theladyaye@gmail.com for more information.

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Mermaids Above The Surface

Carol Memmott at USAToday calls Mermaids The Next Big Thing in this mornings edition and lists a number of new books coming out this year on the subject. Even the queen of supernatural trashy novels, herself Stephanie Meyer, is said to have caught the Mermania! None of this comes as any surprise to Mermaids of New York, we know that Mermaids have been here all along, most folks just didn’t notice before.

Take for example, the very fabulous Bambi The Mermaid, in this clip from Mermaids of New York she shows that she is a woman of many tales and tails!

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Ever Heard a Mermaid Singing Before? Live Music Video Exclusive.

Wanted to share with you an incredible performance that Dame Darcy gave for us on a rooftop in Chinatown, NYC. In this clip she sings the traditional sea chanty, Greenland Whale Fisheries and plays the saw, accompanied by her sailor/rocker friend Peter Mavrogeorgis.

Darcy is a historian of many fantastic things and she brings this knowledge to her work in comics and music. She recorded an entire album of traditional sea shanties and murder ballads Cabin Fever, with her band Death By Doll.

We LOVE love love the mermaid-y illustration on the cover!

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Mermaids Go Blue

Being a Mermaid is not just fun and games, many we have encountered use their mermaid powers to raise awareness about the crucial environmental issue of protecting the earth’s water and its lifeforms. Makes sense, right?!

In this clip from Mermaids of New York, Mara Haseltine, environmental activist and sculptor talks passionately about why she does what she does.

Hard not to care, when you put it that way!

Mermaid Hannah, another professional mermaid, even started a non-profit which engages surfers to help protect marine life through direct action!

Not a mermaid but still interested in going blue? check out this out!

 

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Dame Darcy Shoot

Each of the Mermaids of New York has her own very unique personal style, some of them, I would even say are fashion icons. This is certainly true for Dame Darcy who always manages to look like a living doll (no coincidence that she actually makes dolls, as well). When we met up wit her last month, I was completely enchanted by this extraordinary chapeau :

One If By Sea

We had lovely dinner together,  at a diner in Brooklyn, where she showed us the re-issue of her Meat Cake graphic novels, now available for purchase online and we talked about art, life and lemon meringue. Then we went to a gallery to see Eternal Christmas, where she had painted a wintry mural and performed some traditional sea shanties.

Dining with Dame Darcy in Brooklyn

Dame Darcy Mural at Eternal Christmas in Brooklyn

She Sings Sea Shanties

Darcy is really an inspired and passionate work of art, herself. It was great getting to know her better – can’t wait to show you what we filmed! In the meantime, for anyone who has never seen Dame Darcy’s infamous appearance on the corny 90’s dating show, Blind Date, it is some kind of wonderful.

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Bambi Photo Shoot

As you can imagine, mermaids are hard to pin down but all of the subjects of our film Mermaids of New York have been extremely awesome at making time for us in their busy schedules. We recently caught up with, Bambi The Mermaid and had a beautiful evening on the west side piers in Manhattan. Jason Falchook took these great photos.

Bambi The Laughing Queen

Bambi The Mermaid at Sunset

Bambi The Mermaid posing on the pier

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Coney Island Film Fest Fun

Film makers at CIFF 09 - Photo Copyright Norman Blake and Coney Island Film Festival

Congrats to all the awesome filmmakers at the Coney Island Film Fest 2009. It was really fun to screen another of our short films at New York’s mermaid mecca! This year, we premiered a short film about Bambi The Mermaid one of the subjects in our feature film, Mermaids of New York.

Bambi and Willow on the big screen - Photo Copyright Norman Blake and Coney Island Film Festival

 

 

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Swimming with fishes

Last night was the Mermaids of New York Benefit Ball at Galapagos in Brooklyn, and what a night it was!

In a word, it was nothing short of totally AWESOME! So many friends helped out to make the event happen and even more came out to support.

MC Kate Tellers kept the night rolling, there were fishy performances by Legs Malone, Bambi The Mermaid and The Brooklyn Babydoll and The Lady Aye showed off a talent that few, if any, fellow filmmakers share. Lavlier played two sets of their unique otherworldly rock stylings and they even treated us to an end of the night, ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ sing-a-long with Steve Milton on keys! Can’t really ask for more… but then there was Ted D’Ottavio hosting a non-stop photo booth, all night. AND we got some great responses from our friends at:

PopCandy “The highlight of the night was a sword-swallowing performance by Ilise Carter (“The Lady Aye”)”

The NYPress:

Thanks, again to everyone who attended The Mermaids of New York Benefit Ball and made it an amazing and fun night.

Stay tuned… MORE photos coming soon!

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