New Exhibit! BIRD SHOW Opens Friday!

        March 17, 2022

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**An All-New Exhibit at the City Reliquary:
BIRD SHOW

Stereopanorama Brings the 1950s Back for 3 Nights of 3D

Submit Your Wonder Woman Pieces for our Summer Exhibition Zine**

**The City Reliquary Proudly Presents:
BIRD SHOW

Flight Paths of Birds, People, and Bird People
in the City

Opening Party Friday, March 18 at 6:00 pm**

Like all New Yorkers, wild birds are jostling for space and rubbing shoulders with others as they go about their day. Sometimes those interactions are with humans, sometimes with other wildlife; often these interactions are to the detriment of birds, sometimes, to the detriment of humans, and sometimes, to the benefit of both.

Curated by our own Board Member and Designer About Town [Jacob Ford](https://jacobford.com/), [BIRD SHOW](https://birdshow.cityreliquary.org/) exhibits art and artifacts illustrating these human-bird interactions and asks how we can better adapt to our fellow creatures and create a better habitat for us all. Exhibiting artists include Gabriel Willow, Stephen Mallon, Duke Riley, and special Secret Contributors: [check out the list here](https://birdshow.cityreliquary.org/).

Join us this **Friday, March 18, from 6:00 to 10:00 pm** at the City Reliquary for an Opening Celebration in honor of BIRD SHOW. Free admission, refreshments by our friends at [Non Sequitur](https://www.nonsequiturbeer.com/) and gallery tours with the curator all night.

BIRD SHOW will be on view until approximately June 2022.

**The Triumphant Return of Stereopanorama!

3 Nights of 3-D 1950s Vernacular Photography

March 22, 23, 24 at 7:00pm**

[Limited Tickets Available!](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/3-days-of-3-d-at-the-city-reliquary-tickets-298753749507)

Experience the cutting-edge of 1950s technology and transport yourself to midcentury America through the incredible Stereo Realist 3D camera system! 

Eric Drysdale’s one-of-a-kind “Midcentury Stereopanorama” salon will reveal the secrets of this nearly forgotten technology and then take you back 70 years with incredible amateur-shot 3-D images so vivid and immersive you’ll think you’re there — not to mention *then. *Eric’s incredible collection of these slice-of-life 3-D images and passion for sharing it have been featured in the [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/14/style/nostalgic-american-photos.html) and [Atlas Obscura.](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-a-comedy-writers-treasure-trove-of-midcentury-3d-photos) 

[$20 per seat](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/3-days-of-3-d-at-the-city-reliquary-tickets-298753749507) for this especially intimate presentation of this already intimate experience, **limited to 8 guests** each night to maintain social distancing. Proof of vaccination will be required for this very small, very hands-on gathering. 

***If you are a City Reliquary Member and would like to attend this event on a complimentary basis, please email **beth@cityreliquary.org** to arrange a ticket. Very limited quantities available.

# **Calling All Wonder Woman Fans, Writers and Artists! City Reliquary & Desert Island Comics are Seeking Zine Submissions!**

The City Reliquary Museum, in collaboration with [Desert Island](https://www.desertislandbrooklyn.com/), is conducting a call for submissions of artwork and creative or academic writing related to or inspired by the popular icon, **Wonder Woman**. The deadline for submissions is **April 18, 2022**. 
Submissions will be considered for inclusion in a 32-page comic book, edition of 2000 titled **“Wonder Women: NYC’s Heroes of Heterodoxy**.” Edited by [Desert Island](https://www.desertislandbrooklyn.com/) founder, Gabe Fowler and City Reliquary founder, Dave Herman; it will serve as a companion piece to the museum exhibition of the same name on view at the City Reliquary Museum beginning in June 2022. The comic book will be distributed free to supporters of the City Reliquary and Desert Island, and to select comic book dealers throughout NYC.

The publication and exhibition will address additional themes integral to the Wonder Woman comics and their surrounding NYC history including:

- Early 20th century birth control pioneers

- Underground and Gay Comix 

- 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-generation feminists 

- BIPOC representations in comic art 

- NYC protest activities including women’s suffrage parades, pride parades, the BLM movement

- Women’s, Transgender, and Queer liberation.    

Please see this site for specifications and information on making your submission! We hope to hear from you soon!

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