💌 2025 is here, and CGI turns 1 🥳 | CGI #26
Happy new year…and happy birthday to us! We’d love to hear what you think of our 1st year - hit reply and let us know 📧
Hello, and welcome back to CGI! We’ve a lot to catch up on from December, and plenty of shows to look forward to in January:
NYC gigs in the next month
[today] Saturday 1/4: partygirl @ Elsewhere - Zone One tix
[tomorrow] Sunday 1/5: Sweetbreads, Claire Ozmun (solo) @ Cassette tix
Wednesday 1/8: Zir Indigo in AnotherOne Drag @ Purgatory tix (free)
Monday 1/13: Bandits on the Run, Christopher and Sienna Sears @ The Bowery Electric tix
Wednesday 1/15: Sweetbreads, Beche, Bela the Writer (and…puppetry!) @ Purgatory tix, deets on insta
Thursday 1/16: Claire Ozmun @ Purgatory tix
Sunday 1/19: Raising Daughters @ Cafe Wha? tix deets on insta
Monday 1/20: Sienna Sears @ Pete’s Candy Store (9:30pm) deets on insta
Friday 1/24: Gemma Laurence, Taylor Pearlstein, Captain Tallen @ Brooklyn Made tix
Friday 1/24: Sachi @ nublu tix
Friday 1/31: Night Spins @ The Sultan Room tix
Other events
😋 Wednesday 1/8 + Thursday 1/9: HERA is cooking @ With Others deets on insta
🍍 Saturday 1/11: Miss Tutti and the Fruity Band in a family music showcase @ The Lincoln Center deets (free)
❤️🔥 now - 2/2: Cult of Love, ft. Christopher Sears @ The Hayes Theater tix
What's been happening
It’s been a busy month!
12/10: Halsey Phillip Harkins played keys with Julien Baker & Torres on the Tonight Show (and in a surprise next-day Mercury Lounge show) watch the clip
12/11: Meredith Lampe was on The Tonight Show’s “Instant Songwriter” segment watch the clip
12/12: Bandits on the Run released single “Back Home” spotify
12/12: Christopher Sears made his broadway debut in Cult of Love
Reviews are saying things like “Sears is a hoot”, “Sears plays a misfit prodigal to a T”, and “His arrival kick[s] into gear the dramatic action that drive[s] the rest of the play”
Check out the dressing room mural he’s been painting instagram
12/12: Tallen Gabriel and Beth Crane released their photopoetry book “how the light gets in”! DM one of them to buy a copy
12/17: Lovegrove studios shared a recording of Beche performing “Spiraling” watch on youtube
12/30: Prospect Musicals shared a sneak preview of Bandits on the Run’s new musical (working title: “Yukon Ho”) watch on insta
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Bulletin board
🇯🇴 Friday 1/10, 6pm: Palestinian Youth Movement community town hall in Bay Ridge deets on insta
🇯🇴 Monday 1/20, 11am: Inauguration Day protest @ Washington Square Park 11am deets on insta
Find a band for a bill, sublet your apartment, share a fundraiser, etc; let us know what you'd like to pin to the board.
That's all for now! If you’re under the weather (like us) then we hope you’re hydrating and resting up 💛
Lotus + Beth
