Spend New Year's Day at a Glowing Monolith Party and Other Quirky Celebrations

Start 2016 on a quirky note by diving headlong into one of Brooklyn’s DIY community’s offbeat New Year’s Day activities.

As tipped off by Jeff Stark’s “Nonsense NYC” event mailing list, which you can sign up for here, you can join some of Kings County’s most creative to fight off your hungover stupor at either of these low-key parties.

Movie Night and Possible Slumber Party or Perhaps Another Dance Party will be held at the House of Yes in Bushwick as a follow-up to the sold-out, 17-hour grand-opening party they’ll be holding from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on New Year’s Eve.

This zen New Year’s Day celebration will feature a monolith-like illuminated rectangle, around which guests are invited to nap, party or meditate. The glowing centerpiece “may allude to an epic space opera franchise and comes in three two-hour long acts,” the event description reads in the mailing list.

The Possible Slumber Party will run from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. at 2 Wyckoff Avenue, and will cost $5. Ages 21 and up are welcome.

If that’s a bit too strange for you on January 1, then have a laugh at Picture This, a standup comedy performance by jokesters Brandie Posey and Sam Varela. While the women perform, they will be drawn by Hollywood animators and cartoonists. Part of the show will include Posey and Varela’s responses to the artist’s takes on their appearance. “It may be weird,” the listing warns.

The show will take place at 8:30 p.m. at Union Hall, 702 Union Street. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 day of.

[Photos via the House of Yes]

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