(In reverse chronological order. Everything takes place in the Baltimore, Maryland area unless otherwise noted)
2024:
Sat Nov 2 - ZOCKO! with Apollo 66 and The Rhinestone Hecklers at American Legion Post 41. (Silver Spring, MD) (Facebook event page) CANCELLED
Sat Oct 12 - ZOCKO! at 1919. (Facebook event page)
Sun Oct 6 - ZOCKO! and Insect Surfers at Holy Frijoles. (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 7 - ZOCKO! and Faded Roses at Metropolis Collective. (Mechanicsburg, PA) (Facebook event page)
Fri Sept 6 - ZOCKO! celebrates the release of Dial 'Z' For "ZOCKO!" vinyl EP release at Rotunda Rocks Concert Series. (Facebook event page)
Sat Aug 31 - ZOCKO! and Go Pills perform at Cheap Beer Fest, plus Skizz fills in on drums for Monsters From The Surf. (Accokeek, MD).
Tue Aug 13 - The Fabulous Courettes, Cinema Hearts, and DJ Skizz Cyzyk at Metro Baltimore. (Facebook event page)
Sat Aug 10 - Skizz drums for Monsters From The Surf at Crawl Street Tavern. Also playing: The Goons, FVCT ERTH and Babies With Rabies. tickets (Ocean City, MD)(Facebook event page)
Fri Aug 2 - August First Friday at Atomic Books' Eightbar presents a listening party to celebrate the release of the SOUND MECHANIC soundtrack LP and DVD. (Facebook event page)
Sat July 27 - REELS FROM THE STACKS: "Skizz Cyzyk's Favorites From Pratt's16mm Collection" film screening at Enoch Pratt Free Library. 2 pm.
Fri July 26 - ZOCKO! at 1919. (Facebook event page)
Fri & Sat, July 19 & 20 - ZOCKO! performs, and Skizz drums for Half Japanese, at the ShakeMore-Au-Go-Go festival. (Westminster, MD).
Sat July 6 - Bump and Skizz DJ-ing, plus Skizz fills in on drums for Monsters From The Surf, at the Atomic BBQ.
Sun June 23 - ZOCKO! at Roland Park Community Center's Summer Series Outdoor Concerts. 6-7:30pm.
Fri June 21 - Monsters From The Surf, Aaron & The Beaux Ties, and DJ Skizz Cyzyk at Old Bowie Town Grille. (Bowie, MD) (Facebook event page)
Sat June 15 - ZOCKO!, Go Dog Go, The Things, and DJ Skizz Cyzyk at Peabody Heights Brewery. (Facebook event page)
Sat June 1 - ZOCKO! and Killers From Space at Holy Frijoles. (Facebook event page)
Sun May 26 - Skizz will be selling vinyl at Baltimore Record Bazaar (Peabody Heights Brewery). (Facebook event page)
Sat May 18 - ZOCKO! and Party Nerves, plus DJ Bump and DJ CCOW, at Ottobar's Shrunken Head. (Facebook event page)
Fri May 17 - Garage Sale and Go Dog Go at Rotunda Rocks Concert Series. (Facebook event page)
Fri May 10 - ZOCKO! at Jemicy School's Jemicy-palooza, along with Infraction, Larceny, Riley & The Hooligans, The Trojans, Whiskey Creek Revival, and Aluminum Tucan.
May 2-5 - Maryland Film Festival. Skizz hosts a screening of DIVINE TRASH and Q&A with director Steve Yeager (Sun May 5, 10:30am).
Sun April 28 - ZOCKO! at Sudbrook Art In The Park.
Sat April 27 - Windows 66 (AKA The Jennifers) performing the music of The Dukes Of Stratosphear at the Spring ATP event at Current Gallery.
Sat March 30 - ZOCKO! with 7 Door Sedan and Bali Lamas at Slash Run. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Sun March 24 - ZOCKO! at Blue Pit BBQ. 3-6pm. (Facebook event page)
Fri March 22 - Skizz is a guest co-host on the Projection Booth podcast's Special Report discussing Mike Millard's 35,000 WATTS: THE STORY OF COLLEGE RADIO.
Sun March 17 - Garage Sale with The Pepperpot Bats and Bobcat at Zissimo's.
Sat March 16 - ZOCKO! with Kelli Lynn and the Skillet Lickers at VFW Post 350 "Hells Bottom" (Takoma Park, MD). (Facebook event page)
Fri March 8 - ZOCKO! with Kelli Lynn and the Skillet Lickers at 1919. (Facebook event page)
Fri Feb 23 - ZOCKO! with The Silverites and Weather Ames at Morsbergers Tavern. (Facebook event page) [ZOCKO! cancelled due to COVID]
Thur Feb 22 - ZOCKO! at El Golfo (Silver Spring, MD)
Sat Feb 17 - ZOCKO! with Monsters From The Surf and Marshall Keith at Hank Dietle's Tavern. (Rockville, MD) (Facebook event page)
Thur Feb 1 - ZOCKO! at Reckless Shepherd Brewery. (Columbia, MD) (Facebook event page)
Wed Jan 31 - Skizz drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher at Hank Dietle's Tavern. (Rockville, MD) (Facebook event page)
Jan 19-25 - Skizz serves on the Documentary jury, projects, and DJs happy hours & parties at The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)
Fri Jan 12 - Skizz drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher at 1919. (Facebook event page)
2023:
Fri Dec 22 - ZOCKO! and Killers From Space at Holy Frijoles. (Facebook event page)
Sun Dec 17 (afternoon) - ZOCKO! and Flying Faders at Island Green, 1-3pm. (Westminster, MD) (Facebook event page)
Sat Dec 16 - ZOCKO!, The Bah Humbugs and Caching Behavior at JB Lovedrafts. (Harrisburg, PA) (Facebook event page)
Sat Dec 9 - ZOCKO! caroling at Santarchy (noon). (WDC)
Fri Dec 8 - ZOCKO!, Killers From Space and Flying Faders at Slash Run. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Sat Dec 2 - ZOCKO! at 1919. (Facebook event page)
Fri Dec 1 - ZOCKO! and Airport 77s at Palisades Hub Cap Centre. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Sun Nov 26 - DJ Skizz Cyzyk spins vinyl, 11am to noon, at the Baltimore Record Bazaar Holiday Show. Peabody Heights Brewery, 11am-5pm. (Facebook event page)
Sun Nov 19 - ZOCKO! at Hub City Vinyl. (Hagerstown, MD) (Facebook event page) cancelled due to COVID
Sat Nov 18 - ZOCKO! at Clatter. (Frostburg, MD)
Thur Nov 9 - ZOCKO! and The Silverites at Aliceanna Social Club. cancelled
Sun Nov 5 - ZOCKO!, UFOBIA, The Comedie of Robert Kennedy, The Cremains, Spidercake, and The Tinklers perform as part of a Shakemore-Au-Go-Go benefit show at Galactic Panther. (Alexandria, VA) (Facebook event page)
Sat Nov 4 - ZOCKO! and Airport 77s at Hank Dietle's Tavern. (Rockville, MD) (Facebook event page)
Thur Oct 26 - ZOCKO!, Go Dog Go, and Successful Failures at Slash Run. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Sat Oct 21 - Skizz drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher at MoonShadow. (McHenry, MD) cancelled
Fri Oct 20 - Skizz drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher at 1812 Brewing. (Cumberland, MD) cancelled
Thur Oct 19 - The Jennifers perform as part of Jam For Bread, a benefit for Maryland Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts, along with The Little Prince, Storage Unit Collective and DJ Eddible. Peabody Heights Brewery. (Facebook event page)
Sun Oct 15 - SOUND MECHANIC screens at the Sidewalk Film Center & Cinema (Birmingham, Alabama). (details) (Facebook event page)
Oct 13 &14 - Skizz serves on the jury at the 72 Film Festival. (Frederick, MD)
Sat Oct 7 - Skizz drums for Monsters From The Surf at the Downer 45 Lansdowne Skatepark Anniversary Party. (Facebook event page)
Sun Oct 1 - ZOCKO! (formerly Coastguard) at PinBaltimore at Holy Frijoles. (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 30 evening - ZOCKO! (formerly Coastguard) with Muck and the Mires, Tav Falco Panther Burns (!!!), and Apollo 66, at The Runaway DC. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 30 afternoon - ZOCKO! (formerly Coastguard) with Old Eastern, New Roses, AlliCat Trio, and Beer & Ballet at Mobtown Brewing Company's Mobtoberfest.
Fri Sept 29 - ZOCKO! (formerly Coastguard) with Muck and the Mires, Creem Circus, Kiss Boom Bah and The Falling Out at The Fire. (Philadelphia, PA) (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 16 - Skizz drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher at 1919. (Facebook event page)
Fri Sept 15 - ZOCKO! (formerly Coastguard) at 1919. (Facebook event page)
Tue Sept 12 - Garage Sale and Devoids at Hamilton-Lauraville Main Street's Tuesday Market at The Lot (4500 Harford Road) (Facebook event page)
Fri Sept 8 - ZOCKO! (formerly Coastguard) and Go Dog Go at Peabody Heights Brewery, 6:00pm. (Facebook event page)
Fri Sept 8 - ZOCKO! (formerly Coastguard) at the Roland Park Farmers Market, 5-6:30pm. (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 3 - ZOCKO! (formerly Coastguard), Bali Lamas, and the legendary Surfer Joe (from Italy) at Ottobar's Shrunken Head. Early show (6PM doors). (Facebook event page)
Wed Aug 30 - ZOCKO! (formerly Coastguard) and American Touristor at VFW Post 350 "Hells Bottom" (Takoma Park, MD). (Facebook event page)
Aug 24-27 - Skizz serves on the jury at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama)
Wed Aug 9 - Skizz drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher on the Grotto Stage at Dangerously Delicious Pies.
Sat July 29 - SOUND MECHANIC screens at the Len Lye Centre, followed by a performance by Neil Feather. (New Plymouth, New Zealand) (Facebook event page)
Fri & Sat, July 28 &29 - Go Pills perform at the ShakeMore-Au-Go-Go festival, plus Skizz plays drums with Half Japanese. (Westminster, MD).
Sat July 8 - Skizz drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher and Texas rockabilly legend Shaun Young at Old Bowie Town Grill. (Bowie, MD) (Facebook event page)
Fri July 7 - Skizz drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher and Texas rockabilly legend Shaun Young at 1919.
Sat July 1 - Coastguard, Monsters From The Surf (with Skizz filling in on drums), plus Bump and Skizz DJ-ing at the Atomic BBQ.
Thur June 29 - Coastguard plays with The Yachtsmen at VFW Post 350 "Hells Bottom" (Takoma Park, MD).
Fri June 23 - Skizz drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher at 1919. (Facebook event page)
Sun June 11 - Coastguard plays at Sudbrook Arts In The Park. (rescheduled from April 22)
Sat May 27 - LATER 8:30pm: Coastguard, Airport 77s and The Delarcos at The Runaway. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Sat May 27 - EARLY 6pm: Coastguard and Garage Sale perform at Ottobar's Shrunken Head happy hour. (Facebook event page)
Sat May 27 - EARLIER 2pm: Coastguard plays a Memorial Day cookout. (word-of-mouth event)
Fri May 26 - The Stents, Monsters From The Surf (with Skizz filling in on drums), Babies With Rabies, and A.D.D. Ramone at The Pie Shop. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Fri May 19 - Go Pills perform with Landis Expandis and Batworth Stone at Current Space. EVENT POSTPONED
Fri May 12 - Skizz drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher at Union Craft Brewing Beer Garden. 5-8pm. (Facebook event page)
Fri May 5 - SOUND MECHANIC screens at Zo Gallery, followed by a Q&A with Neil Feather and Skizz, and a performance by Wondofeather. (Facebook event page)
Tue April 25 - Coastguard performs 5:30-7:30pm as part of Food Truck Tuesdays - West Friendship at the Howard County Living Farm Heritage Museum.
Sat April 22 - Coastguard plays 4-5pm at Sudbrook Arts In The Park. (postponed to June 11)
Fri April 21 - Skizz drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher at Dangerously Delicious Pies in Hampden. 5pm. Last minute show added after the show below got postponed.
Fri April 21 - Skizz drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher at OCA Mocha Cafe in Arbutus. 3-6pm. This show has been postponed.
Tue April 11 - Beatsville presents Coastguard and The Dead Ringers at 1919. (Facebook event page)
Sat April 8 - Skizz drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher as part of Honky Tonk The Casbah, a Clash tribute night. Also playing: Fair Dinkum, Charm City Rockers, and Troutmouth. At 1919. (Facebook event page)
Wed April 5 - SOUND MECHANIC screens at Rhizome DC, followed by a Q&A with Neil Feather and Skizz, and a performance by Wondofeather. (WDC) (details) (Facebook event page)
Fri March 17 - Garage Sale performs along with Monsters From The Surf (with Skizz sitting in on drums), Apollo 66, and DJ Link, at The Runaway. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Fri March 3 - Micky Elliot College of Fine Arts, School of Art and Friends of the Visual Arts present ICEPICK TO THE MOON screening at Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, Stephen F. Austin State University. (Nacogdoches, TX)
Sat Feb 25 - The Stents, Atomic Mosquitos and Coastguard perform, and Skizz DJs, at The Runaway. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Fri Feb 24 - Skizz plays drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher at 1919. (Facebook event page)
Sun Feb 19 - The Stents perform as part of Live Music For Laughs: A Benefit For Andrew's Laughing Gas. Also performing: Captain Hustle, HighNTight and The Village Idiots. At The Recher. (Facebook event page)
Jan 20-26 - Skizz projects and DJs happy hours and parties at The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)
Thur Jan 5 - Coastguard performs along with Hand Apple and The Starlings at The Crown. (Facebook event page)
2022:
Thur Dec 29 - Skizz plays drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher, at Hank Dietle's Tavern. (Rockville, MD) (Facebook event page)
Fri Dec 16 - The Flying Faders and Bali Lamas perform, and Skizz DJs, as part of Ottobar's Shrunken Head Holiday Party. (Facebook event page)
Sat Dec 10 - Coastguard performs along with Brand Bland and Pull Out Kings at JB Lovedraft's Micropub. (Harrisburg, PA) (Facebook event page)
Sat Dec 3 - Coastguard and The Stents perform along with Apollo 66 and Waking Lily at American Legion Post 41. (Silver Spring, MD) (Facebook event page)
Fri Nov 18 - Skizz fills in on drums for Monsters From The Surf at Hells Bottom VFW. The Yachtsmen are also playing. (Takoma Park, MD) (Facebook event page) Skizz had to cancel due to COVID.
Sat Nov 12 - Skizz plays drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher at The Horse You Came In On, 12:30 to 4:30 PM. Skizz had to cancel due to COVID.
Fri Nov 11 - Go Dog Go and The Dive Bombs perform, and Skizz DJs, as part of Peabody Heights Brewery's 10th anniversary celebration. (Facebook event page) Skizz had to cancel to due COVID.
Mon Nov 7 - The Stents perform with The Schizophonics and The Dead Ringers at Ottobar - show has been moved to Holy Frijoles. (Facebook event page)
Sat Nov 5 - Revisiting Hit & Stay. Directors Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzyk show excerpts from Hit & Stay nearly 10 years after its release, and lead a discussion afterward. 2 to 3:30pm. Historical Society of Baltimore County.
Tues Oct 25 and Mon Oct 31 - POINT ME AT THE SKY's special 2022 Halloween edition.
Fri & Sat Oct 21 & 22 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens as part of OTHER-RAMA, with special guests John Waters and Rev. Fred Lane, at the Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment Center. (Huntsville, AL) (Facebook event page)
Sat Oct 22 -Skizz drums for the allstar "50 Foot Woman presents Doin' It Doin' It Duets," with Outcalls. At Metro Gallery. (Facebook event page)
Sat Oct 15 - Coastguard performs with Apollo 66 at Public Option (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Fri Oct 14 - Coastguard performs at the Roland Park Farmers Market, 5-6:30pm.
Oct 6-8 - SOUND MECHANIC screens at Queen City Film Festival (Cumberland, MD)
Sat Oct 8 - Skizz DJs and Garage Sale performs along with Monsters From The Surf at Old Bowie Town Grill. (Bowie, MD) (Facebook event page)
Oct 7 &8 - Skizz serves on the jury at the 72 Film Festival. (Frederick, MD)
Thur Oct 6 - Skizz has video work featured on the Supe O Weird O show, seen on the Landis Expandis YouTube channel.
Sun Oct 2 -Skizz moderates the New Filmmakers/New Films Panel as part of Nashville Film Festival's 2022 Creators Conference. (Nashville, TN)
Sun Sept 25 - Coastguard performs, and Skizz fills in on drums for Monsters From The Surf, at Backyard Kicker 2, a private event. (Silver Spring, MD)
Thur Sept 22 - Coastguard performs with The Flying Faders at Monument City Brewing's Endless Summer party. 5-10pm.
Sat Sept 10 - Garage Sale performs at Hampdenfest. (Facebook event page)
Tue Aug 30 - The Stents perform with The Woggles, at Hill Country BBQ (WDC). (Facebook event page)
Aug 22-28 - Skizz serves on the shorts juries at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama)
Sar Aug 13 - The Stents perform with The Plimsouls, at Metropolis Collective (Mechanicsburg, PA). (Facebook event page)
Fri & Sat, July 29 & 30 - Go Pills perform at the ShakeMore-Au-Go-Go music festival, plus Skizz plays drums with Half Japanese. (Westminster, MD).
Sat July 23 - Skizz plays drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher, at Cat's Eye Pub.
Thur July 21 - SOUND MECHANIC screens at Pyramid Club in Wellington, New Zealand. Details here.
Thur July 21 - Skizz plays drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher, at Waverly Brewing Company. (Facebook event page)
Sat July 16 - Skizz plays drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher, at Loft 129. (Cumberland, MD) (Facebook event page)
Fri July 15 - Skizz plays drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher, at Sipside Lounge. (Oakland, MD)
Fri July 8 - Skizz DJs and Garage Sale performs along with The Starlings and Atomic Mosquitos, at The Runaway. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Sat July 2 - Skizz drums for the allstar "50 Foot Woman presents Doin' It Doin' It Duets," with Outcalls. At Metro Gallery. (Facebook event page)
SHOW POSTPONED
Thur June 30 - The Baltimore premiere of SOUND MECHANIC at The Charles Theater. (Facebook event page)
Tue June 28 - Skizz is interviewed about SOUND MECHANIC on See Hear Music Film Podcast episode 98.
Sat June 25 - Skizz plays drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher, at The Bullpen. 5-7PM (WDC)
Fri June 24 - Skizz plays drums for Lonesome Dave Fisher, at Vintage Revival Market. 5-8PM (Carlisle, PA) (Facebook event page)
Sat June 4 - Te Uru and The Audio Foundation present the NEW ZEALAND PREMIERE of SOUND MECHANIC at Lopdell House Theater, to mark the closing of Wormholes, Vortices and Loops, a new exhibition by Neil Feather. (Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand). (Facebook event page)
Fri June 3 - The Stents perform with Idolizers and Apollo 66, at Ottobar. (Facebook event page)
Sun May 22 - Skizz DJs as part of the Baltimore Record Bazaar, at Peabody Heights Brewery.
Sat May 21 - The Stents perform with The Highballers, at Hill Country. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Thur May 19 - eMentor Career Skills Webinar Series presents a Filmmaking Workshop with Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzyk discussing HIT & STAY. Details here.
Sun May 15 - EAST COAST PREMIERE of SOUND MECHANIC, the Closing Night Feature at the 23rd Annual Moviate Underground Film Festival. (Harrisburg, PA) (Facebook event page).
Sat May 14 - The Stents perform with Atomic Mosquitos, Monsters From The Surf, and DJ BuMp, at Sky Stage. Details/tickets. (Frederick, MD) (Facebook event page)
Tue May 10 - The debut of POINT ME AT THE SKY on Radio Plastique.
Sat May 7 - The Stents perform with St. James & The Apostles, Apollo 66, and Combat, at American Legion Post 41. (Silver Spring, MD) (Facebook event page)
Fri May 6 - The Stents perform with St. James & The Apostles and The Bo Deadlys, at Metropolis Collective. (Mechanicsburg, PA) (Facebook event page)
April 27 - May 1 - Maryland Film Festival.
April 25-28 - WORLD PREMIERE of SOUND MECHANIC at Kansas City FilmFest International. Details here. (Kansas City, MO)
Mon April 18 - Skizz is a guest on See Hear Podcast episode 96, talking about URGH! A MUSIC WAR.
Fri April 15 - Bowerbird presents a sneak preview screening of SOUND MECHANIC at the Rotunda. Details here. (Philadelphia, PA)
Sat March 19 - The Jennifers perform with The Airport 77s and After Times, at American Legion Post 41. (Silver Spring. MD) (Facebook event page)
Fri March 4 - The Stents perform with Kat Jagger, The Tone Bandits and The Falling Out, at The Khyber (Philadelphia, PA)
Sat Feb 26 - Atomic Mosquitos, Coast Guard and DJ Skizz Cyzyk, at Slash Run (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Sat Feb 19 - The Stents perform with The Airport 77s and Nayan, at American Legion Post 41. (Silver Spring. MD) (Facebook event page)
Sat Feb 12 - The Jennifers at A David Bowie Valentine tribute show, along with Sister Ex, Apollo 66, The Wild Mutations, Capital Offender, The Airport 77s and 7 Door Sedan. At the Pie Shop (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Sat Jan 29 - The Stents perform at Apollo Civic Theater (Martinsburg, WV) CANCELED
Jan 27 - Feb 6 - Skizz moderates Q&As as part of The Slamdance Film Festival. (virtual event)
2021:
Sat Dec 4 - The Stents perform along with Apollo 66, Sister Ex, and The Dead Ringers, at American Legion Post 41. (Silver Spring. MD) (Facebook event page)
Nov 4 - 15, 18 - 29 - Skizz serves on the jury at the Lake County Film Festival. (Lake County, IL)
Sat Oct 30 - Monsters From The Surf, The Taildraggers, and DJ Skizz Cyzyk at Old Bowie Town Grill. (Bowie. MD) (Facebook event page)
Oct 26 - 30 - SOUND MECHANIC takes part in Ji.hlava New Visions Forurm: U.S. DOCS at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. (Prague, Czech Republic)
Oct 22 & 23 - Skizz serves on the jury at the SLOP Film Festival. (Haverford, PA)
Oct 8 & 9 - Skizz serves on the jury at the 72 Film Festival. (Frederick, MD)
Fri & Sat Sept 17 & 18 - Go Pills perform at the ShakeMore-Au-Go-Go music festival, plus Skizz plays drums with Half Japanese and others. (Westminster, MD). IN PERSON EVENT CANCELED, REPLACED WITH A VIRTUAL EVENT
Sun Sept 12 - The Stents perform outside at VINYL SWAP MEET at Rock Bottom Brewery. (Bethesda. MD) (Facebook event page) CANCELED
Fri Sept 10 - Skizz drums for Sardine Family Band, opening for Eugene Chadbourne & Dave Menestres, at Rhizome (WDC) (Facebook event page)
CANCELED
Sat Sept 4 - World Premiere of The Transformations of the Transformations of the Drs. Jenkins at GenreBlast Film Festival. (Winchester, VA). ( Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 4 - The Stents and Go PillX perform at Cheap Beer Fest. (Accokeek, MD).
Aug 23-29 - Skizz serves on the shorts jury at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama)
Fri Aug 20 - The Stents and
The Highballers perform at Hill Country BBQ. (WDC). (Facebook event page)
CANCELED
Sat Aug 14 - Skizz and BuMp DJ all vinyl new wave circa 1977-83 at Peabody Heights Brewery. 4-8pm. (Facebook event page)
Sat July 24 - Skizz joins DJ Mackie to celebrate the music and madness of Reverend Fred Lane. 9AM EST on WOWD, 94.3 FM (WDC/Takoma Park, MD), and streaming worldwide at takomaradio.org .
Sat June 27 - Skizz DJs (3:30-5pm) as part of Day 2 of the Baltimore Record Bazaar Summer Bonanza, at Peabody Heights Brewery. (Facebook event page)
Fri June 18 - Skizz and Mike White take over See Hear podcast's Episode 86 discussing Edgar Wright's THE SPARKS BROTHERS.
Sun March 28 - Moviate presents SKIZZ CYZYK: Program of short films and live Q&A/Interview. 7PM at Moviate.org. (Facebook event page)
Feb 12-25 - Skizz DJs online happy hours as part of The Slamdance Film Festival.
Wed Feb 10 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast's Episode 506 discussing Alan and Jeanne Abel's IS THERE SEX AFTER DEATH?
2020:
Wed Dec 30 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast's Episode 500 discussing Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL.
Tue Dec 29 - Skizz is a guest on the Playing Records With John podcast discussing The Music of Neil Innes.
Mon Dec 28 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast's Special Episode discussing THE VENTURES - STARS ON GUITARS.
Sat Dec 19 - Skizz discusses Matthew Rankin's THE TWENTIETH CENTURY as part of the SNF PARKWAY LIVE series on Facebook. (Facebook event page)
Mon Nov 23 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast's Special Episode discussing Alex Winter's ZAPPA.
Fri Oct 9 - Skizz is a juror for 72 Film Festival. (Frederick, MD)
Aug 24-30 - Skizz serves on the Documentary jury at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama)
Sat Aug 1 -Shakemore 2020 will be an online event, featuring 50+ acts from all over the world. The 8 hour program will broadcast via YouTube Live. The program will include EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS from 50 Foot Woman, Amy Annelle w/John Kennedy, Bang Bang Lulu, C.J. Benoit, BMX Bandits, Caching Behavior, Canopy, Crown Cobra, Skizz Cyzyk, Deletions, The Dirty Coal Train, Edgar Allan & The Poe Boys, David Fair, Jad Fair, Tav Falco's Panther Burns, Don Fleming, The Furr, The Jangled, Rev. Fred Lane, The Lemons, Jeffrey Lewis, The Libre Quartet, The Lovely Eggs, Cory McAbee, Kathy McCarty, Mole Suit Choir, R. Stevie Moore, John Moremen, Ken Moss, Old Songs, Craig Philip, Rakehell, ROLRGOSTR, Johnny Spampinato and the Value Leaders, The Tinklers, The Zambonis; plus SHAKEMORE FLASHBACKS from Blister Freak Circus, The Chumps, Go Pills, The Lefties, The Scott Fry Experience, Spidercake, The Weird Paul Rock Band, and many more; including FULL SHAKEMORE SETS by CooCooRockinTime, Danielson, Lumberob, Velvet Monkeys, and of course, HALF JAPANESE!!! With your MC, Barbara DeCesare. Watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O3Rsk2WRLA
Tue Jul 28 - HIT & STAY screens as part of The 2020 Best of Chicago Underground Film Festival Virtual Fest.
Thur June 4 - Skizz participates in Entertainment Law Partners' webinar, Online Film Festivals and COVID-19.
Sun May 17 - Skizz premieres a new music video as part of the Shave Dave for COVID 19 Relief fundraiser for THE BALTIMORE RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND and HAMILTON-LAURAVILLE MAIN STREET. (Facebook event page).
Sat April 25 - The Jennifers perform with Thee Lexington Arrows and Apollo 66, at Slash Run (WDC). (Facebook event page) POSTPONED
April 13 - 19 - Skizz is the Documentary Shorts juror for the Kansas City FilmFest International. (Kansas City, MO)
Tue April 14 - Silverlake Film Society presents the Los Angeles premiere of ICEPICK TO THE MOON at Silverlake Independent Jewish Community Center. (Los Angeles, CA) (Facebook event page). POSTPONED
Sat April 11 - The Stents perform with St. James & The Apostles at Stoneleigh Bowling Lanes. 9PM. (Facebook event page). POSTPONED
Sat April 11 - Skizz presents a screening of some of his favorite short films from Enoch Pratt Free Library's 16mm collection. (afternoon event) POSTPONED
Sun April 5 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at The Empty Bottle. (Chicago, IL) 2pm (Facebook event page).POSTPONED
Sat April 4 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at The Venue on Winnebago St. (Madison, WI) 1pm (Facebook event page). POSTPONED
Fri March 27 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens, and Fred Lane performs!, as part of Big Ears Festival. (Knoxville, TN). CANCELED
Thur March 19 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast's Special Episode discussing Ken Russell's TOMMY.
Sun March 8 - Skizz performs a short set of classic punk songs on ukulele as part of Joe Stone's Punk & New Wave Night! at Hon Bar. (Facebook event page).
Sat March 7 EVENING - Go PIllX performs along with Ditch Mimes and Lunar Ark, at Strong Style Coffee. (Fitchburg, MA) (Facebook event page).
Sat March 7 AFTERNOON - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens as part of XFest. (Lowell, MA) (Facebook event page).
Fri March 6 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at Kingston Artists Collective. (Kingston, NY). (Facebook event page).
Thur March 5 - Go PillX performs along with Caching Behavior and The Blandinas as part of a Shakemore benefit. Live Upstairs at Molly Pitcher Brewing Company. (Carlisle, PA) (Facebook event page)
Sat Feb 29 - Go Pills perform along with Joe Jack Talcum (Dead Milkmen) and Coolzey at Ottobar. (Facebook event page)
Sat Feb15 - The Jennifers perform as part of A David Bowie Valentine, at Pie Shop DC (WDC). (Facebook event page)
Sat Feb 1 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at if ART Gallery (Columbia, SC). (Facebook event page)
Fri Jan 31 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON DVD release and album release party, with Rev. Fred Lane's first publicized live performance since 1976! At Saturn (Birmingham, AL).(Facebook event page)
Jan 24-30 - Skizz projects and DJs happy hours and parties at The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)
Fri Jan 17 - The Jennifers perform with the legendary Paul Collins (solo), Teen Cobra, and DJ Daisy, at Slash Run (WDC). (Facebook event page)
Fri Jan 17 - THE FRENCH TOAST MAN screens as part of the Courts Mais Trash International Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium) (Facebook event page).
Jan 11-19 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at MONA FOMA (Museum of Old and New Art - Festival of Art and Music), (Launceston, Tasmania). details
Sat Jan 11 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens as part of The Music and Legacy of The Rev. Fred Lane and Charlie McAlister, with performances by Team Sardine, at Rhizome DC. (WDC) (Facebook event page).
2019:
Sun Dec 22 - Go PillX performs along with The Cousin Eddies and Brand Bland, as part of Not Yr Mama's Benefit Show-The Weird-os Give Back For Jerome!. At Metropolis Collective. (Mechanicsburg, PA) (Facebook event page)
Sat Dec 21 - DJ Skizz Cyzyk spins vinyl along with Sea Cow, Rob Macy, and Flying Faders, at Ottobar's Shrunken Head Night. (Facebook event page)
Sat Dec 15 - The Jennifers Holiday Show with Disappearing Ink and The Silverites at Joe Squared. Afternoon show! 2-5pm. Free. (Facebook event page).
Wed Dec 4 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast Episode 444, discussing THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH. (Facebook event page).
Sat Nov 30 - Go Pills perform along with Caching Behavior, Spidercake, Crown Cobra, The Cremains, and BangBang Lulu Super Session as part of a Shakemore Benefit Rock & Bowl at Stoneleigh Duckpin Bowling Lanes. (Facebook event page).
Fri Nov 29 - DJ Skizz Cyzyk spins vinyl along with DJs Bump and El Suprimo at Baby's On Fire - Fells Point . 7pm-midnight. 1616 Thames Street.
Sat Nov 9 - Monsters From The Surf and The Yachtsmen perform, and DJ Skizz Cyzyk spins vinyl, at Old Bowie Town Grill (Bowie, MD). (Facebook event page).
Sat Nov 2 - The Stents perform with the legendary Flamin' Groovies at Creative Alliance. (Facebook event page).
Sat Oct 26 - Garage Sale performs with Go Dog Go at Hon Bar. (Facebook event page).
Sat Oct 19 - Skizz plays drums in the all-star 50 Foot Woman Birthday Band as part of "Rahne turns 50!" at Metro Gallery. (Facebook event page).
Oct 10 - 13 - Skizz serves on the Documentary jury at the Bend Film Festival. (Bend, OR)
Oct 11 - 12 - Skizz is a juror for 72 Film Festival. (Frederick, MD)
Oct 4-12 - THE FRENCH TOAST MAN screens as part of the Drunken Film Fest Oakland (Oakland, CA) (Facebook event page).
Sun Sept 29 - Skizz fills in on drums for Monsters From The Surf, at 3rd Annual Rock n Roll Skate Jam! (Colesville, MD) (Facebook event page).
Sat Sept 28 - THE FRENCH TOAST MAN screens as part of the Made In Baltimore Short Film Festival at Creative Alliance (Facebook event page).
Sat Sept 21 (evening) - Garage Sale performs at Sky Stage, along with Killers From Space and The Skeptics, as part of Exploring Frederick Underground. (Frederick, MD) (Facebook event page).
Sat Sept 21 (daytime) - The Jennifers perform at Hampdenfest.
Sat Sept 14 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens as part of Other Cinema's X~peri~MENTAL ANIMATION program, along with works by Jeremy Rourke, Bruce Bickford, Larry Jordan, John Davis, Martha Colburn, Lewis Klahr, Kelly Sears, Salise Hughes, Ellie Vanderlip, and Eric Leiser. Free toast and nutella!! (San Francisco, CA) (Facebook event page).
Sat Sept 14 - THE FRENCH TOAST MAN screens as part of "Midnight Movie" at The Lyric Hyperion (Los Angeles, CA) (Facebook event page).
Sat Sept 7 - Skizz DJ's at Record Show at Rock Bottom. (Bethesda, MD) (Facebook event page).
Sun Sept 1 - Skizz performs a Monkees song as part of Joe Stone's "Live Dinner Music - hey hey it's the Monkees (and more)!" at Hon Bar. (Facebook event page).
Sat Aug 31 - Garage Sale and Go Pills perform, and Skizz fills in on drums for Monsters From The Surf, at Cheap Beer Fest. (Accokeek, MD) (Facebook event page).
Aug 19-25 - Skizz serves on the Shorts jury at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama) (Facebook event page)
Aug 9-11 -THE FRENCH TOAST MAN screens as part of the Sick 'n' Wrong Film Festival (Orlando, FL) (Facebook event page).
Thur Aug 15 - Garage Sale performs as part of the 2nd Annual Baltimore International Surf Music Showcase, along with Los Freneticos (Arg), Jason Lee and The R.I.P.Tides (Cali), and Bali Lamas. (Facebook event page).
Thur Aug 8 - Skizz fills in on drums for The Taildraggers at Hells Bottom (VFW Post 350). Monsters From The Surf are also playing! (Takoma Park, MD) (Facebook event page).
Sat Aug 3 - Skizz's photos from Eighties punk shows are included in an exhibit, and Skizz DJ's underground Baltimore music from 1977-1989, as part of Killed By Charm: A Celebrated Summer Anniversary Show. Dark Thoughts, Glue Traps, and Ammo perform. (Facebook event page).
Sat July 20 -THE FRENCH TOAST MAN screens as part of Maryland Film Festival's Film At Artscape (Facebook event page).
Fri & Sat July 19 & 20 - Go Pills perform at the ShakeMore-Au-Go-Go music festival, plus Skizz plays drums with Half Japanese, Rakehell, John Moremen, and the Zambonis. (Westminster, MD).
Sat July 6 - Skizz DJ's along with DJ Bump, and fills in on drums with Monsters From The Surf, at the Atomic BBQ.
Sat June 29 - Go Pills and Killers From Space at Bowl-A-Rama at Stoneleigh Duckpin Bowling Lanes.
(Facebook event page).
Tue June 25 - The Stents perform with The Woggles at City Winery. (WDC) . (Facebook event page).
Thur May 30 - The Jennifers perform with Distant Creatures and The Hell Yeah Babies, at Reverb. (Facebook event page).
Wed May 22 - HIT & STAY screens AFI Silver Theatre & Cultural Center, including a Q&A with directors Joe Tropea & Skizz Cyzyk, plus Les Bayless from the Silver Spring 3. (Silver Spring, MD). (Facebook event page).
Sun May 19 - Skizz DJ's at Baltimore Record Bazaar, at Wind Up Space. (Facebook event page).
Sat May 18 - Garage Sale and Monsters From The Surf, at Old Bowie Town Grill (Bowie, MD). (Facebook event page).
May 8-12 - THE FRENCH TOAST MAN screens as part of Maryland Film Festival (Baltimore, MD) (Facebook event page).
Sat May 4 and Tue May 7 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, as part of Indy Film Fest (Indianapolis, IN). (Facebook event page).
April 26-28 - THE FRENCH TOAST MAN screens as part of Bad Film Fest VII (Brooklyn, NY) (Facebook event page).
Sat April 20 - Skizz plays drums with Half Japanese at (le) poisson rouge, 6:30pm doors, 7:30pm show. (NYC) (Facebook event page).
Fri April 19 - Skizz plays drums with Half Japanese at The Black Cat (WDC) (Facebook event page).
Sat April 6 - SICKIES MAKING FILMS screens at the 16th CineKink NYC: The Kinky Film Festival. 3pm at Anthology Film Archives (NYC) (Facebook event page)
Fri March 29 - Florida Premiere of ICEPICK TO THE MOON at University of Tampa, Cass Building (Tampa, FL) (Facebook event page).
Mon March 25 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at Alabama Contemporary Art Center (Mobile, AL) (Facebook event page).
Sat March 23 - Louisiana Premiere of ICEPICK TO THE MOON at Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 9:00pm (New Orleans, LA) (Facebook event page).
Sat March 23 - HIT & STAY screens at Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC). Noon. more info
March 22 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at University of Alabama, Russell Hall 159 (Tuscaloosa, AL) (Facebook event page).
March 14-15-16 - multiple short films by Skizz, and many other filmmakers, screen as part of the Locally Grown Baltimore Films Showcase at Theater Project. (Facebook event page).
Tue March 5 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS and live video of Go PillX screen as part of Underappreciated Moviemakers Fest Pittsburgh@KVAKA 22 (Belgrade, Serbia) (Facebook event page).
Fri March 1 - The Jennifers perform with Curtis Eller's American Circus at Reverb. (Facebook event page).
Sun Feb 24 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON ENCORE SCREENING! at Randy Now’s Man Cave, 6pm, FREE! (Bordentown NJ). (Facebook event page).
Sat Feb 23 - Garage Sale performs with the Bali Lamas at Surf Nite Bowl-A-Rama at Stoneleigh Duckpin Bowling Lanes. (Facebook event page).
Mon Feb 18 - HIT & STAY screening and discussion at Towson University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. 1pm.
Sun Feb 17 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at Randy Now’s Man Cave, 6pm (Bordentown NJ). (Facebook event page).
Sat Feb 16 - Metropolis Collective presents a very special screening of ICEPICK TO THE MOON. The film will screen at 7pm, followed by a Projection Booth Podcast and DVD commentary track being recorded live in front of an audience. (Mechanicsburg, PA) (Facebook event page)
Fri Feb 15 - The Jennifers perform as part of A David Bowie Valentine, along with Sister Ex, Marshall Keith, Capital Offender, Taildraggers and Life on Mars. At Villian & Saint (WDC). (Facebook event page).
Sat Feb 9 - the Mississippi Premiere of ICEPICK TO THE MOON at the Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, MS). (Facebook event page).
Fri Jan 25 - SICKIES MAKING FILMS screens at WFMU's Monty Hall, 8pm (Jersey City, NJ) (Facebook event page)
Jan 25-31 - Skizz serves on the Animation/Experimental jury at The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)
Wed Jan 23 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast Episode 400, discussing THE RUTLES: ALL YOU NEED IS CASH. (Facebook event page).
Mon Jan 21 - Skizz is a guest on the See Hear podcast Episode 60, discussing ICEPICK TO THE MOON.
2018:
Sat Dec 15 - Afternoon show (3-6PM) with Marshal Keith (from the Slickee Boys), The Jennifers, and Umami. All ages. Joe Squared. (Facebook event page)
Sun Dec 2 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at PhilaMOCA, 7:30pm (Philadelphia, PA) (Facebook event page)
Sat Dec 1 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at Quinn's, 7PM (Beacon, NY) (Facebook event page)
Fri Nov 30 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at WFMU's Monty Hall, 7:30pm (Jersey City, NJ) (Facebook event page)
Sun Nov 18 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at Sound Unseen, 8:00pm (Minneapolis, MN) (Facebook event page)
Thur Nov 15 - HIT & STAY screens at the Baltimore County Public Library Arbutus Branch. 2PM (Arbutus, MD) (details)
Wed Nov 15 - Skizz is a juror for The Buried Alive Sinema Challenge. (Atlanta, GA).
Thur Nov 8 - The Stents perform with The Schizophonics, Thee Lexington Arrows, and The Bali Lamas at Ottobar. (Facebook event page)
Sat Oct 27 (postponed from Sept 15) - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens and Go PillX performs along with The Xiles, The Hellgrammites, Killers From Space, Marshall Keith, and dRIVNbEATS at FreakFEST 2018. (Myersville, MD) postponed until further notice
Oct 18 - 21 - 3 short films by Skizz (BERG, DAVID FAIR IS THE KING, and ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS) screen at TRASHXPLOITATION Festival (Paris, France). (Facebook event page)
Sat Oct 13 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at TUSK Festival. (Newcastle, UK) (Facebook event page)
Oct 12 - 13 - Skizz is a juror for 72 Film Festival. (Frederick, MD)
Fri Oct 12 - The Stents perform with The GTVs and OAF at Metropolis Collective. (Mechanicsburg, PA) (Facebook event page)
Sun Oct 7 - HIT & STAY screens at the Old Greenbelt Theater. 8PM (Greenbelt, MD) (details)
Sat Oct 6 - Skizz plays drums with Half Japanese at Cropped Out '18 music festival. (Louisville, Kentucky) (Facebook event page)
Sat Oct 6 - DAVID FAIR IS THE KING and BERG screen at the Maryland Historical Society's Maryland On Film V. (details)
Fri Oct 5 - HIT & STAY screens at the Parkway Theater. (Facebook event page)
Mon Oct 1 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at Starland Dairy, presented by Graveface Records & Curiosities (Savannah, GA). (Facebook event page)
Sun Sept 30 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at Tin Roof. (Charleston, SC). (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 29 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at Shadowbox Studio. (Durham, NC). (Facebook event page)
Fri Sept 28 - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens at The Sound of Music Studios, presented by the Bijou Film Center. (Richmond, VA). (Facebook event page)
Sun Sept 23 - HIT & STAY screens at the Central United Methodist Church. (Milwaukee, WI) (Facebook event page)
Sun, Sept 16 (postponed) - Skizz fills in on drums for Monsters From The Surf, performing along with The Yachtsmen and The Taildraggers at the 2nd Annual Rock n Roll Skate Jam Charity Event. (Silver Spring, MD) (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 15 (postponed) - ICEPICK TO THE MOON screens and Go PillX performs along with The Xiles, The Hellgrammites, Killers From Space, Marshall Keith, and dRIVNbEATS at FreakFEST 2018. (Myersville, MD)
Fri Sept 14 - Skizz is a guest on a special episode of the Projection Booth podcast, discussing THE PUBLIC IMAGE IS ROTTEN. (Facebook event page).
Sat Sept 9 - The Jennifers perform at Hampdenfest, 5PM on the Chestnut Stage (36th & Chestnut).
Sat Sept 1 - Garage Sale performs at Cheap Beer Fest. (Accokeek, MD)
Wed Aug 29 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast Episode 379, discussing GATTACA. (Facebook event page).
Aug 23 - 26 -ICEPICK TO THE MOON and SICKIES MAKING FILMS screen at Sidewalk Film Festival. (Birmingham, AL) (ICEPICK Facebook event page) (SICKIES Facebook event page)
Sun Aug 5 - a special screening of ICEPICK TO THE MOON at Area 31 with special guests Killers From Space (Frederick, MD) (Facebook event page)
Aug 1-4 - Skizz screens ICEPICK TO THE MOON plus 3 short films (BERG, DAVID FAIR IS THE KING, and ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS), and Go PillX performs at the Underappreciated Moviemakers Festival. (Pittsburgh, PA) (Facebook event page)
Fri & Sat July 20 & 21 - Go Pills perform at the ShakeMore-Au-Go-Go music festival, plus Skizz plays drums with Half Japanese, Rakehell, and God Is My Co-Pilot. (Westminster, MD).
Sat July 7 - DJ's Bump and Skizz provide music at Atomic BBQ.
Fri July 6 - cast/crew screening of ICEPICK TO THE MOON at the Red Room.
Sat, June 30 - Skizz fills in on drums for Monsters From The Surf, performing along with The Yachtsmen at the Prince George's Swimming Pool. (Mt. Rainier, MD)
Sun June 17 - Brian Lamb interviews Joe Tropea and Skizz about HIT & STAY on C-SPAN's Q&A program.
Thur June 7 - Garage Sale performs with The Flying Faders as part of Rip Curl Rendezvous at Monument City Brewing Company. (Facebook event page)
May 31 - June 14 - The West Coast Premiere of ICEPICK TO THE MOON, and SICKIES MAKING FILMS at the SF DocFest. (San Francisco, CA) (Facebook event page)
May 25-27 - The East Coast Premiere of ICEPICK TO THE MOON at the 20th Annual Moviate Underground Film Festival. (Harrisburg, PA) (Facebook event page)
Thur May 17 - HIT & STAY screens on Maryland Public Television, in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Catonsville Nine. 9PM.
Thur May 10 - HIT & STAY screens at the Takoma Park Community Center Auditorium, presented by Docs In Progress (Takoma Park, MD) (Facebook event page)
May 2-6 - SICKIES MAKING FILMS screens at the Maryland Film Festival. (Facebook event page)
Sun April 22 - Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band perform as part of A John Waters Birthday. 8pm. At El Club (4114 W Vernor Hwy, Detroit, Michigan 48209). (Facebook event page)
Sat April 21 (Record Store Day) - A Special Detroit screening of ICEPICK TO THE MOON at Cinema Detroit. (Detroit, Michigan) (Facebook event page)
Sat April 21 - SICKIES MAKING FILMS screens at the Thin Line Film Festival. (Denton, TX)(Facebook event page)
April 5-9 - The World Premiere of ICEPICK TO THE MOON at the Chattanooga Film Festival. (Chattanooga, Tennessee) (Facebook event page)
Sun March 25 - SICKIES MAKING FILMS screens at the Garden State Film Festival. (Asbury Park, NJ)
Sat March 17 - The Jennifers perform with the Kurt Deemer Band, Divining Rod, and Cancelled Stamps at Ottobar. (Facebook event page)
Sun Feb 25 - The Jennifers perform with Go Dog Go at Joe Squared. Afternoon show. (Facebook event page)
Thur Feb 22 - The World Premiere of SICKIES MAKING FILMS at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. (Missoula, Montana)
Feb 7-11 - Skizz serves on the jury at The Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, Mississippi)
Tue Feb 6 - Go PillX along with the Silverites and Sister Ex at The Sidebar. Happy Hour show, 5:30-8:30PM (Facebook event page)
Jan 18-25 - The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)
Fri Jan 12 - The Jennifers perform with the Kurt Deemer Band and Penny Pistolero at The Crown. (Facebook event page)
2017: Fri Dec 15 - Half Japanese performs on Night 4 of Yo La Tengo's 8 Nights of Hanukkah benefit shows at Bowery Ballroom. (NYC) (Facebook event page)
Sat Dec 2 - The Stents perform as part of the 5th Annuaul JAM Session: John & Amy Mewhiney Cancer Foundation Benefit Show, along with Subtastics, SEA LILIES, Thee Lexington Arrows, Ninety Six Ghosts, 3rd Grade Friends, Cowabunga Pizza Time and The Moms. At the Sidebar. (Facebook event page)
Thur Nov 30 - The Jennifers, Michael Holt, and Kurt Deemer perform a Musical Wheel round robin event at 2640 Space. (Facebook event page)
Sat Nov 18 - Garage Sale performs as part of Ottobar's Shrunken Head night, along with Atomic Mosquitos, DJ CCow, and more. FREE. Ottobar. (Facebook event page)
Fri Nov 17 - Go PillX along with Rosemary Stretch and Overlake, at Joe Squared (Facebook event page)
Nov 1-6 - Skizz serves on the jury at the Indie Memphis Film Festival (Memphis, Tennessee).
Thur Oct 12 - The Stents perform at Slash Run. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 30 - DAVID FAIR IS THE KING screens as part of the Made In Baltimore Short Film Festival, 7:30 p.m. at Creative Alliance. (Facebook event page)
Fri Sept 29 - The Stents perform with Atomic Mosquitos. Sky Stage. (Frederick, MD) (Facebook event page)
Thur Sept 14 - The Stents perform with The Fadeaways and The MELLViNS. NEW VENUE: the Sidebar (no longer at Joe Squared). (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 9 - The Stents and The Jennifers perform at Hampdenfest. (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 2 - Garage Sale and Go Pills perform at Cheap Beer Fest. (Accokeek, MD)
Fri Sept 1 - The Stents perform with The Schizophonics, Improbables, The Rebel Set at PhilaMOCA (Philadelphia, PA) (Facebook event page)
Thur Aug 31 - The Stents perform with The Rebel Set. Joe Squared (Facebook event page)
Aug 24-27 - Skizz serves on the jury at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama) (Facebook event page)
Sat Aug 26 - The Stents perform with The Flamin' Groovies. Hill Country (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Sat Aug 19 - Go PillX performs at a private house party. (York, PA)
Sat July 29 - The Stents perform with The Zambonis and Dust Hat. Cafe Nine (New Haven, CT) (Facebook event page)
Fri July 28 - The Stents perform with The Zambonis and the Insomniacs. Hank's Saloon (Brooklyn, NY) (Facebook event page)
Fri & Sat July 21 & 22 - Go Pills perform at the ShakeMore-Au-Go-Go music festival, plus Skizz plays drums with Half Japanese. (Westminster, MD).
Sun July 2 - The Jennifers perform with Rosemary Stretch and Umami. Afternoon show at Windup Space. (Facebook event page)
Sat July 1 - Garage Sale perform at Atomic BBQ.
Sat June 24 - "What's Happening on WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban" presents The Stents with w/ Quitty & The Don'ts and Cheap Sneakers. Diviera Drive. (Brooklyn, NY) (Facebook event page)
Thur June 15 - Skizz is a guest on Filmwax Radio Podcast Ep. 411.
Thur June 8 - Skizz participates in FOE Gallery’s Aesthetic Event Series at Atomic Books. (Facebook event page)
Mon June 5 - The Jennifers open for Richard Lloyd (Television), along with 3rd Grade Friends, at Metro Gallery. (Facebook event page)
Fri May 26 - The Stents perform with Tiger! Tiger! and The Electric Mess. Joe Squared. (Facebook event page)
Thur May 25 - The Stents perform with Tiger! Tiger! and The Electric Mess. Slash Run. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Sat May 20 - The Stents perform with The Zambonis. Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center's Stage On Herr (Harrisburg, PA) (Facebook event page)
May 4-8 - Maryland Film Festival (Baltimore, MD).
Tue May 2 - The Stents perform with Dany Laj and The Looks. Joe Squared. (Facebook event page) CANCELLED
Sun April 23 - The Stents perform with Dany Laj and The Looks. Slash Run. (WDC) CANCELLED
Wed April 5 - The Stents perform with Kurt Baker Combo & Soraia. Joe Squared. (Facebook event page)
Tue April 4 - The Stents perform with Kurt Baker Combo & Soraia. Slash Run. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Sun March 26 - Go PillX performs, and Skizz sits in on drums with No Wall! as part of Screw This Crap: A Benefit For Troy Randle, along with Deb Guy, Hold Fast, Obituary Birthday-A Tribute to Nirvana, Colonel Don Egan, The Dirty Place, Caching Behavior, Moshfits, Keyhole Peepshow, AFourLetterWord, El Flyin & the Heathen Troubadours, Off the Wagon, The Robert Kennedy Assassination, The Blandinas, plus surprise performances!!! Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center's Stage On Herr (Harrisburg, PA) (Facebook event page)
Thur March 2 - The Stents perform with w/ The Figgs & The Split Squad. Joe Squared. This show has been moved to Slash Run (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Feb 24 & 25 - The Stents perform as part of Hidden Volume Records' FIELD TRIP SOUTH, along with The Little Richards (San Diego, feat Robert Lopez aka El Vez/The Zeros), The Hate Bombs (Orlando), Subsonics (Atlanta), The Woolly Bushmen (Orlando), The Wildtones (Orlando), Little Sheba & The Shamans (Tampa), Southern Culture on the Skids (Chapel Hill), The Woggles (Atlanta), The Ar-Kaics (Richmond), The Schizophonics (San Diego), Midnight Larks (Atlanta) and The BellTowers (Orlando) at Will's Pub (Orlando, Florida). (Facebook event page)
Feb 15-19 - Skizz serves on the jury at The Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, Mississippi) (Facebook event page)
Sat Feb 11 - The Stents perform with The Things and Red Sammy. Metro Gallery. (Facebook event page)
Jan 20-26 - The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)
Sun Jan 8 - The Jennifers perform as part of The 3rd Annual Night Of Stardust David Bowie tribute for charity, along with Life On Mars, Sister Ex, The Signifiers, 50 Foot Woman, The Silverites, Black Rose, Mountain Peaks, Claudia Neuman, Melissa Sharlat, John Walker, and DJ Eddie Chabot, at Windup Space. (Facebook event page)
Fri Jan 6 - The Stents perform along with The GTVs and Jake Starr & The Delicious Fullness, at Joe Squared. (Facebook event page)
2016:
Sat Dec 17 - Garage Sale performs as part of Ottobar's Shrunken Head holiday edition, along with Flying Faders, DJ CCow, and more. FREE. Ottobar. (Facebook event page)
Thur Dec 15 - Go Pills perform along with The Delarcos and The Yachtsmen at IOTA (Arlington, VA). (Facebook event page)
Sun Dec 11 - DAVID FAIR IS THE KING screens as part of "Experimental Short Films From Fields Festival 2016" at Rhizome (WDC). (Facebook event page)
Sat Dec 10 - "Mink Stole: It's Merry Christmas, Dammit!" starring Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band. Doors at 6pm, show at 7pm. At The Cutting Room (44 E 32nd St., NYC). (Facebook event page)
Fri Dec 9 - The Stents perform along with The Bo Deadlys and Duffy's Cut, at Windup Space. (Facebook event page)
Thur Nov 17 - The Stents perform along with PLRLS at McGuire Hall on the campus of Loyola University. 8pm (Facebook event page)
Nov 9-13 - Skizz serves on the programming board at the Cucalorus Film Festival (Wilmington, North Carolina).
Sat Nov 12 - The Stents perform as part of the 4th Annuaul JAM Session: John & Amy Mewhiney Cancer Foundation Benefit Show, along with PLRLS, Cowabunga Pizza Time, Canker Blossom, Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb, Cash Registers, and Manners Manners. At the Sidebar. (Facebook event page)
Fri Nov 11 - Skizz is a guest on a Projection Booth podcast Special Edition, discussing THE GREASY STRANGLER. (details).
Wed Nov 2 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast Episode 297, discussing EXISTO (THE FORBIDDEN MOVIE). (Facebook event page).
Nov 1-7 - Skizz serves on the jury at the Indie Memphis Film Festival (Memphis, Tennessee).
Sat Oct 29 - The Stents perform along with Jumping Jupiter and Marshall Keith at The Great Room @ Ivy City Smokehouse. (WDC) (tickets)
Sat Oct 22 - LITTLE CASTLES screens as part of Doors Open Baltimore & Maryland On Film III at the Maryland Historical Society. (more info) (Facebook event page)
Tue Oct 18 - Skizz and Joe Tropea are guests on 88.1 FM WYPR's On The Record with Sheilah Kast, talking about Maryland On Film III. (listen to it)
Mon Oct 17 - HIT & STAY screens at the Halifax Central Library (Nova Scotia, Canada) (Facebook event page)
Sat Oct 8 - The Stents with The Jay Vons, The Hall Monitors, and The Insomniacs at Joe Squared.
Thur Oct 6 - The Stents perform with GO MOD GO, at Villain & Saint (Bethesda, MD) EVENT CANCELLED
Fri Sept 23 - The Stents perform along with Gorilla (from Japan!),The Jeanies (NYC) and The Get Smart, at Joe Squared. (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 17 - The Stents at Hampdenfest. (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 3 - Go Pills perform at Cheap Beer Fest, along with El Quatro, Delarcos, Death Wish, Flea Bops, The Taildraggers, Monsters From The Surf, Sister Ex, Pedro Lancaster, Bold Deceivers, and The Nuclears. (Accokeek, MD) (Facebook event page)
Aug 26-28 - Skizz serves on the documentary features jury at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama) (Facebook event page)
Aug 19-21 - DAVID FAIR IS THE KING screens as part of Fields Fest (Darlington, MD). (Facebook event page)
Tue Aug 16 - The Stents perform along with The Wooly Bushman at Joe Squared. (Facebook event page)
Sat Aug 6 - Garage Sale perform along with Monsters From The Surf at Hank Dietle's Tavern. (Rockville, MD) (Facebook event page)
July 22-24 - Go Pills and Blister Freak Circus perform at the ShakeMore-Au-Go-Go music festival, plus Skizz plays drums with Half Japanese, CooCooRockingTime and Bang Bang Lulu. At The Thought Lot (Shippensburg, PA). (Facebook event page)
Fri July 15 - The Jennifers, The Stents, and The Fuss perform at Comet Ping Pong (Washington, DC) (Facebook event page)
Fri July 8 - The Stents perform along with Kitty Rotten, Decontrol, The Prisoners, and Blessed Muthas at Oddity Bar (Wilmington DE) (Facebook event page)
Sun July 2 - The Stents, Garage Sale, and St. James & The Apostles perform at Atomic BBQ.
Sun June 26 - The Stents perform with The Combs, The Nuclears, and Spirit Plots, at Villain & Saint (Bethesda, MD) (Facebook event page)
Sat June 25 - The Stents perform with Killers From Space, at Cafe Nola. (Frederick, MD) (Facebook event page)
Sat June 18 - Go PillX performs at a private party. (York, PA)
Thur June 16 - HIT & STAY screens Traditions Café, Olympia, WA (details)
Thur June 9 - HIT & STAY screens at the Br. David Darst Center, Chicago IL (Facebook event page)
Sat June 4 - Skizz is an honorary filmmaker at the inaugural Overlea Arts Fest.
June 2-16 - DAVID FAIR IS THE KING screens at SF Doc Fest (San Francisco, CA).
Wed June 1 - The Jennifers perform with Michael Holt (The Mommyheads) and Batworth Stone, at 2640 Space. (Facebook event page)
Wed June 1 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast Episode 275, discussing the Weird Al movie, UHF. (Facebook event page).
Sun May 28 - DAVID FAIR IS THE KING screens as part of Moviate Underground Film Festival. (Harrisburg, PA) (Facebook event page)
Wed May 18 - 2640docs and MicroCineFest present Jeff Krulik Documentary Night, at 2640 Space. (Facebook event page)
Thur May 12 - Go PillX performs along with The Blandinas and Keyhole Peepshow, at HMAC Stage On Herr. (Harrisburg, PA) (Facebook event page)
May 4-8 - Maryland Film Festival (Baltimore, MD).
Sun, May 1 - The Jennifers perform with Frogbelly & Symphony, Xiphoid Process (Justin Miller & Ryan Smith), and Charles River (Cameron Pollock of Bmore) at Holy Underground. (Facebook event page)
Fri April 29 - The Stents perform with the Mondellos at a Backyard BBQ Tiki Party.
Sat April 23 - Garage Sale performs as part of Ottobar's Shrunken Head, along with The Primitive Finks, DJ CCow, and more. FREE. Ottobar (Facebook event page)
Thur April 21 - MANAGERS CORNER screens as part of B'More Shorts: the Baltimore Filmmaker Showcase at Creative Alliance. (Facebook event page)
April 16-17 - DAVID FAIR IS THE KING screens with HALF-COCKED as part of the Inaugural Jacksonville Documentary Film Festival. (Jacksonville, FL)
April 14-17 - DAVID FAIR IS THE KING screens with HALF-COCKED as part of CIMMfest (Chicago International Movies & Music Festival) in conjunction with Chicago Underground Film Festival. (Chicago, IL)
Sat April 9 - Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band perform as part of Art For Life AIDS Benefit Arts Show, at Gallery 788. (Facebook event page)
Fri April 8 - TITLE 17 screens as part of Sight Unseen's "Baltimore-based" program. Open City Cinema (Winnipeg, MB, Canada)
Thur April 7 - The Stents perform with Low Cut Connie, Brooks Long &The Mad Dog No Good, and DJ Robert Fearless. Metro Gallery. (Facebook event page)
Fri April 1 - The Johns Hopkins Film Festival presents PowerPoint Presentations From Baltimore Artists, including Skizz giving a PowerPoint presentation on Movie Soundtrack Albums of the Late-70s/Early-80s That Became Influential Punk/New Wave Compilation Albums. 6:30PM, JHU-MICA Film Centre. (Facebook event page).
Sat March 19 - Garage Night at Joe Squared: Skizz's first official show as drummer for The Stents. Also playing are The Idol Gossip and The Things. At Joe Squared. (Facebook event page)
Sat, March 12 - JOHN STABB BENEFIT SHOW!!! Skizz fills in on drums for Monsters From The Surf, performing along with The Yachtsmen at Jackie's Sidebar. (Silver Spring, MD) (Facebook event page)
Sat March 5 - Skizz fills in on drums for The Stents at Sixteen Tons.
Fri Feb 26 - Go PillX (the solo version of Go Pills) performs with Cory McAbee's Small Star Seminar. At The Ideal. (Facebook event page)
Thur Feb 25 - Skizz performs as part of The Augie & Snackie Show's ASStacular Variety Show, along with The Swedish Fish (Kerra Holtgren), James Von Lenz, The Little Prince, The Tool Shed, Comedian Jim Meyer, your hosts Augie & Snackie and much more. Proceeds go to The Baltimore Child Abuse Center. Joe Squared. (Facebook event page)
Feb 18-21 - Skizz serves on the Animation/Experimental/Music Video jury at The Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, Mississippi)
Feb 16-23 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens at the GEORAMA Animation Festival. (Tokyo, Japan)
Sat Feb 6 - The Jennifers perform as part of Another Night Of Stardust, a David Bowie tribute show. Also playing: Life On Mars, The Signifiers, Sister Ex, Claudia Neuman & Tobias Horwitz, and DJ Eddie Chabot. A benefit to raise money for St. Jude's Childrens Research Hospital. Gallery 788 (Facebook event page)
Jan 22-28 - the World Premiere of Skizz's latest short film, DAVID FAIR IS THE KING, plus Skizz serves on the Documentary jury at The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)
Sun, Jan 17 - The Jennifers perform as part of B'More Bowie, a David Bowie tribute show. Also playing: Home, Guided By Wire, and more. Creative Alliance.
(Facebook event page)
2015:
Thur, Dec 31 / New Years Eve - Skizz fills in on drums for Monsters From The Surf, performing along with The Ubangis at Hank Dietle's Tavern. (Rockville, MD) (Facebook event page)
Sat, Dec 12 - The Jennifers perform as part of A Night Of Stardust, a David Bowie tribute show. Also playing: Life On Mars, The Signifiers, Sister Ex and Kara Cole. 1919. (Facebook event page)
Sat, Nov 28 - Go PillX (the solo version of Go Pills) performs with The Dirty Devils Trio and The Blandinas, as part of Isaiah Owens' Toys for Tots Shindig. Metropolis Collective (Mechanicsburg, PA). (Facebook event page)
Nov 11-15 - Skizz serves on the programming board at the Cucalorus Film Festival (Wilmington, North Carolina).
Nov 5-8 - Skizz serves on the jury at the Indie Memphis Film Festival (Memphis, Tennessee).
Sat Oct 16 - Skizz performs along with Caleb Stine, Jim Hickey and others, as part of the Remington Village Green Fundraiser Hootenanny. 7pm at R. House. (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 19 - Skizz participates at Revolve 3, along with Morpho, Marshall Keith, Artie Harrison, and many others. 9pm. Hyattstown Mill Arts Project (Hyattstown, Maryland). (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 19 - Go Pills perform at Hampdenfest. 2pm on the Atomic Books stage (36th & Falls). (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 12 - Skizz plays a role in Jiyoung Lee's feature film, FEMALE PERVERT. Baltimore Premiere. 7pm. 2640 Space. (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 5 - Garage Sale and Go Pills perform at Cheap Beer Fest with History Repeated, Monsters From The Surf, Tail Draggers, El Quatro, Sister Ex, Flea Bops, Stack O'Beans, Bold Deceivers, 7 Door Sedan, Delarcos and Electric Temple. (Accokeek, MD). (Facebook event page)
Fri Sept 4 - The Jennifers perform with The Space Merchants, Mountain Peaks, and guests TBA, at REVERB.
Aug 28-30 - Skizz serves on the jury at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama) (Facebook event page)
Thur Aug 13 - Skizz is a guest on the For Your Infotazement podcast, talking about his Star Wars problem.
Sat & Sun, Aug 8 & 9 - Go Pills perform at the ShakeMore-Au-Go-Go music festival, plus Skizz plays drums with Half Japanese. Also playing: Atomic Mosquitos, Bang Bang Lulu, The Blandinas, Bloodless Cooties, Bob Carol Ted, Caching Behavior, Celestial Pincushion, Danielson Famile, The Degenerettes, Deletions, Ezra Lbs, Flotation Device, The Garbologists, Jad Fair, Jumbo Jet, Le Libre' Duo, Ortolan, Spidercake, Tinklers, Weird Paul Rock Band, Baggypantsrich, Basement Flower, canopy, Darla Jean & The Somethin' Or Others, Friender Man K., Jam Messengers, Ken Moss Experience, 7 Door Sedan, and The Signifiers. At The Thought Lot (Shippensburg, PA). (Facebook event page)
Wed, July 29 - Go PillX (the solo version of Go Pills) performs with The Augie & Snackie Show and The Twanger Sisters, at Myth & Moonshine. (Facebook event page)
Sat July 18 - Skizz fills in on drums for Monsters From The Surf, performing along with Jumping Jupiter at Hank Dietle's Tavern. (Rockville, MD) (Facebook event page)
Fri July 10 - The Jennifers perform at a benefit for Project Aim in Nepal, along with The Honest Mistakes, The Little Prince, Umami, Baltimore Improv Group, Umar Khan, and Emcee Chaz Kedesla, at Gallery 788. (Facebook event page)
Tue July 7 - Skizz is a guest on the For Your Infotazement podcast, talking about two of his favorite earworm songs.
Sat July 4 - Garage Sale performs with Rosemary Stretch at Atomic BBQ.
Fri June 26 - Go Pills perform with The Godz and Tony Nickolas & The Nicotines at REVERB. (Facebook event page)
Sat June 13 - MANAGERS CORNER screens as part of Contraband Cinema's Short, Strange, & Southern Fried! screening at Eyedrum. (Atlanta, GA) (Facebook event page)
Sat May 30 - Garage Sale performs with The Planes, Oil Pan Boy, and Asa Kurland & Piper Greenbaum at REVERB. (Facebook event page)
Thur May 26 - Skizz's "artist-in-residence" project for ridge&clark's Centerpiece exhibition goes live. (NYC, NY)
Thur May 21 - 2640docs presents a rare screening of Lee Lockwood’s 1970 documentary HOLY OUTLAW, plus a performance by the Charm City Labor Chorus, and a Q&A and discussion with Joe Tropea & Skizz Cyzyk (directors of Hit and Stay). At 2640 Space (2640 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD). (Facebook event pag)
Wed May 13 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast Episode 217, discussing NOTHING LASTS FOREVER. (Facebook event page).
May 6-10 - Maryland Film Festival (Baltimore, MD).
May 4-10 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens at the Northwest Animation Festival (Portland, Oregon).
Sun May 3 - Skizz and Chris Lamartina are guests on the debut episode of Second Course Media's new podcast, B-More Just Like That.
Thur April 23 - Maryland Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts benefit at Windup Space.
April 15-19 - Skizz serves on the jury at The Kansas City FilmFest (Kansas City, MO)
Tue April 7 - "The Music of Skizz Cyzyk" part two of two, on the Playing Records With John podcast.
Fri March 27 -The Jennifers perform at a house concert with Michael Holt (The Mommyheads).
Thur March 26 - Garage Sale performs with Ratboiler, Old Indian and Colora at Windup Space. (Facebook event page)
Thur March 19 - The Jennifers perform as part of the Magical Realism Variety Show, along with Batworth Stone, Bennet & Griffin, Death, Judge Mental, Maria Bella, Mourna Handful, Nona Narcisse, Trampus and Magical Realism Tarot art by Cheryl Fair Photography. At Windup Space. (Facebook event page)
March 19-22 -ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens at VTXIFF (Victoria TX Independent Film Festival). (Victoria, TX)
March 13-21 - FUNNY BUNNY premieres in competition at SXSW. Skizz was D.I.T. and 2nd Unit Director on this film, and appears as "lonely drunk at the end of the bar." (Austin TX).
March 11-15 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens at RxSM (The Self Medicated Film Expo). (Austin, TX).
Sun March 8 - Go Pillx (the one-man act version of Go Pills) performs with Martin Bisi and Alone Time, plus a screening of Ryan C. Douglass & Sara Leavitt's documentary feature, "Sound & Chaos: The Story Of BC Studio". 8:30pm at Windup Space.
Feb 26 - Mar 1 - Skizz serves on the jury at The Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, Mississippi)
Fri Feb 13 - The Jennifers perform with Pop Death, Nick Hope, and The Beard, as part of Maryland Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts' Friday the 13th Valentines Happy Hour, 5-8pm at Windup Space. (Facebook event page)
Thur Jan 29 - "The Music of Skizz Cyzyk" part one of two, on the Playing Records With John podcast.
Jan 23 - 29 - Skizz is lead projectionist, and acts in FEMALE PREVERT, premiering at The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)
Sat Jan 17 - Garage Sale performs at Chicks-A-Palooza II, with The Yachtsmen, The Stents and Chelsea Graveyard & The Screams At Midnight. Ottobar.
2014:
Mon Dec 22 - THE AFTER WORK HOLIDAY OFFICE PARTY, featuring The Jennifers, Mink Stole, Arty Hill, Andy Bopp and Rosemary Stretch. A benefit for Viva House. 5-9pm at Windup Space. (Facebook event page)
Dec 11-14 - Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band performs 4 nights in a row at West Bank Cafe's Laurie Beechman Theatre (Theatre Row, NYC).
Sun Nov 23 - Go Pillx (the one-man act version of Go Pills) performs at Victoria's Big Damn Cancer-Free Party, AKA Victoriafest V, an all-day benefit for Grove Cancer Center patients, at Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center's Stage On Herr (Harrisburg, PA). (Facebook event page)
Tue Nov 18 - HIT & STAY screens at Rutgers University - Camden (Camden, NJ).
Fri Nov 14 -
TITLE 17 screens as part of Sight Unseen's "Baltimore-based" program, at the 3 Rivers Film Fest (Pittsburgh, PA).
Nov 13-16 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens at CutOut Fest International Animated Short Film Festival (Querétaro, Mexico).
Nov 12-16 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens at the Cucalorus Film Festival (Wilmington, NC).
Tue Nov 11 - HIT & STAY screens at Loyola University (Chicago, IL).
Fri Nov 7 - HIT & STAY screens at the Park Slope Food Co-op (Brooklyn, NY).
Thur Nov 6 - HIT & STAY: the Lost Footage, screening and discussion with filmmakers Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzyk at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse (Facebook event page).
Oct 31-Nov 3 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens, and Skizz serves on the jury, at the Indie Memphis Film Festival (Memphis, Tennessee).
Oct 30-Nov 2 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens at The 16th Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation (Wiesbaden, Germany).
Wed Oct 29 - HIT & STAY screens at University of Detroit - Mercy (Detroit, MI).
Oct 24-Nov 2 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens at The London International Animation Festival (London, England).
Fri Oct 24 - HIT & STAY screens at Bellarmine University/Thomas Merton Center (Louisville, KY).
Wed Oct 22 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast Episode 189, discussing LIQUID SKY. (Facebook event page).
Wed Oct 22 - HIT & STAY screens at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (Washington, DC).
Thur Oct 9 - The Jennifers perform with
Rosemary Stretch and Rattlewood at the Sidebar. (Facebook event page).
Sept 25-28 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens at The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film's Animated BAFICI (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Sept 22-Oct 4 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens at The 1st OLHO Animation Film Festival (Porto, Portugal).
Mon Sept 22 - The Jennifers perform with Natural Velvet, Martin Bisi, Husky bundles, and Frogbelly & Symphony, at Club K. (Facebook event page)
Sept 17-20 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (Ottawa, Southern Ontario, Canada).
Sept 4-14 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens at Focus of Animation, 19th edition of Milano Film Festival (Milan, Italy).
Wed Sept 3 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast Episode 182, discussing STRANGE BREW. (Facebook event page).
Tue Sept 2 - The Jennifers perform with Western Star at The Fire (Philadelphia, PA) (Facebook event page).
Sun Aug 31 - Garage Sale performs at Chicks-A-Palooza, with The Stents and Chelsea Graveyard & The Screams At Midnight. Ottobar.. Sat Aug 30 - Garage Sale performs at Cheap Beer Fest with The Delarcos, Pedro Lancaster, Marshall Keith, Sister Ex, The Taildraggers, Monsters From The Surf and History Repeated (Accokeek, MD).(Facebook event page) Aug 22-24 - Skizz serves on the jury at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama) (Facebook event page)
Tue Aug 5 -ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens at the 11th Annual Squeaky Wheel Animation Fest (Buffalo, NY).
Sat Aug 2 - Go Pills perform at the Windup Space, along with Mongoloidian Glow, Science Kid, Cigarbox Planetarium and the Mole Suit Choir. (Facebook event page).
Sat July 19 - Go Pills perform at the ShakeMore-Au-Go-Go music festival, plus Skizz plays drums with Half Japanese and CooCooRockinTime.
Also playing: Weird Paul Rock Band, Angry Shapes, Flotation Device, Bloodless Cooties, Twelve Tone Elevator, Bonnie Montgomery, Ezra Lbs., Drunkard's Wife, Velvet Monkeys, Danielson, Norman Blake and Jad Fair, Dot Wiggin Band, Spidercake, The Tinklers, Baggypantsrich, Bald Mountain Band and Old Songs. Pleasant Valley Firehall (Carroll County, Maryland)
July 18-20 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens as part of Artscape (Amerca's largest free arts festival).
Sat July 5 - Skizz sits in with Monsters From The Surf at the Atomic BBQ.
June 20-22 - Celebrate Summer Records presents UNITED FORCES, a combination of Skizz Cyzyk's "This is Baltimore Not D.C" photo show and Jim Powell & David Wright's "Baltimore Metal Massacre" photo show. The first Celebrate Summer event outside of the United States. Atmosphare (Osaka, Japan) (Facebook event page)
June 9-14 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival (Annecy, France).
Fri June 6 - Go Pills perform as part of Normals Books & Records' 24th Anniversary Party, along with WUME and OLD SONGS, plus readings & performances by Tim Paggi and Megan McShea. At Metro Gallery. (Facebook event page)
Thur June 5 - The Jennifers perform as part of the Mouth Party Caramels Flood Relief Concert and Raffle, along with Letitia Van Sant and Rosemary Stretch.8PM at Holy Frijoles. (Facebook event page)
Sat May 25 - TITLE 17 screens as part of Sight Unseen's "Baltimore-based" program. Moviate's 16th Annual Artsfest Film Festival (Harrisburg, PA). (Facebook event page)
Sun May 18 - The Baltimore Phil Berrigan Memorial Chapter of Veterans For Peace celebrates the 46th anniversary of the Catonsville Nine, with a free screening of HIT & STAY at Friends Meeting House (5116 North Charles Street, 1pm) (Facebook event page)
Sat May 17 - The Jennifers perform at ShakeMore 2014 show #1 of 4, plus Skizz sits in with BANG BANG LULU, at The Thought Lot, along with ZOMES, CACHING BEHAVIOR, kFRIENDr, TINKLERS, OGLAKA, BATWORTH STONE, THE YELLOWDAY, THOUSANDZZ OF BEEZ, BASEMENT FLOWER, THE SIGNIFIERS, and BARE CREEK JUNCTION. (37 E. Garfield St., Shippensburg, Pennsylvania)(Facebook event page)
May 7-11 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens in the Shorts: Animation program at the Maryland Film Festival (Baltimore, MD).
Wed May 7 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast Episode 165, discussing Martin Scorsese's THE KING OF COMEDY. (Facebook event page).
Fri April 25 -
HIT & STAY screens at the Buffalo Niagra International Film Festival. (Buffalo, NY) (Facebook event page).
Sun April 20 - "This Is Baltimore, Not DC" photo show closing reception at Celebrated Summer Records, featuring additional photos, plus recordings of Baltimore punk bands that have not been heard in 30 years. (Facebook event page)
Wed April 15 - Playing Records with John podcast: "Skizz Cyzyk, the most eerily calm man in show business, shares his thoughts about the Flaming Lips album that he loves best of all." Download it on iTunes.
April 5 - 14 -Skizz serves on juries, and screens ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS at The Kansas City FilmFest (Kansas City, MO)
Sat April 5 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens as part of the
Chicago Underground Film Festival. (Chicago, IL). (Facebook event page)
April 3-6 - HIT & STAY screens at VTXIFF (Victoria TX Independent Film Festival). (Victoria, TX). (Facebook event page)
March 28 - April 6 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens as part of the Atlanta Film Festival (Atlanta, GA). (Facebook event page)
Sun March 23 - HIT & STAY screens at 8th Day Center for Justice, 2pm. This screening will be hosted by Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn! (Chicago, IL). (Facebook event page)
Tue March 18 - TITLE 17 screens as part of Sight Unseen's "Baltimore-based" program, at Videofag, co-presented by LIFT (Toronto, ON).
Wed March 12 - RESCHEDULED DATE: HIT & STAY screens at UMBC. 8pm in the Chemistry Building, FREE. (Facebook event page)
Fri & Sat March 7 & 8 - HIT & STAY screens at RxSM (The Self Medicated Film Expo) as part of the Crossroads Nominee Showcase. (Austin, TX). (Facebook event page)
Fri March 7 - "This Is Baltimore, Not DC" opening reception and grand opening of the new Celebrated Summer Records, featuring "photographs by Skizz Cyzyk and fliers, shirts and other ephemera from the permanent collection of Celebrated Summer Records documenting bands and shows from 1982-86, Baltimore Maryland." (Facebook event page)
Thur March 6 - HIT & STAY screens at University of Notre Dame. 7pm at Browning Cinema (link) (Notre Dame, IN 46556).
Mon Feb 17 - TITLE 17 screens as part of Sight Unseen's "Baltimore-based" program. Microscope Gallery (4 Charles Place, Brooklyn NY 11221). (Facebook event page)
Mon Feb 10 - TITLE 17 screens as part of Sight Unseen's "Baltimore-based" premiere. 7pm, The Crown (1910 N Charles Street). (Facebook event page)
Feb 6-9 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens as part of The Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, Mississippi)
Sat Feb 1 - LITTLE CASTLES screens as part of the exhibit, "The Painted Screens of Baltimore and Beyond", at MICA, showing with the film, THE SCREEN PAINTERS, plus a Q&A with Skizz, Elaine Eff, Richard Chisolm and Steve Yeager. 5:30-7:30pm, Brown Center, Falvey Hall, (1301 W Mt Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD 21217)
Jan 17 - 23 - Skizz serves on the Anarchy and Experimental shorts juries at The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)
2013:
Dec 7, 9 and 12 - HIT & STAY screens as part of The Charles Theater's Revival Series. Sat Dec 7 at 11:30am; Mon Dec 9 at 7pm; Thur Dec 12 at 9pm. (Facebook event page)
Nov 7 - 10 - HIT & STAY screens at the Driftless Film Festival (Driftless, Wisconsin). (Facebook event page)
Nov 6 - 10 - HIT & STAY screens at the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival (Rehoboth, Delaware).
(Facebook event page)
Oct 31 - Nov 3 - HIT & STAY screens, and Skizz serves on the shorts jury, at the
Indie Memphis Film Festival (Memphis, Tennessee) (Facebook event page)
Sun Oct 13 - The Jennifers perform at a house concert with Michael Holt (The Mommyheads). (Facebook event page)
Oct 3-6 - HIT & STAY is screening as part of the Minneapolis Underground Film Festival. (Minneapolis, Minnesota). (Facebook event page)
Aug 31 - Sept 16 - The Analog Resurgence Tour, featuring Go Pills and Rakehell, plus films by Russ Forster and Skizz. (West Coast) Thur Aug 29 - The Jennifers perform at The Ottobar, along with Pure Bathing Culture, The Great American Canyon Band, and Feathers. All ages. 8pm. (Facebook event page)
Aug 22-25 - HIT & STAY screens at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama)
Sat Aug 10 - Go Pills perform at the ShakeMore-Au-Go-Go music festival, plus Skizz sits in on drums with Half Japanese and CooCooRockinTime. Also playing are Danielson, Weird Paul Band, The Tinklers, Rubella, Restaurant & Sons, BaggyPantsRick, Lurch and Holler, Bald Mountain, KfriendR, Old Songs, Train Wreck, Caching Behavior, Riding Tigers, Bang Bang Lulu, Celestial Pincusion, Spidercake, The Blandinas, New Tarab Project, Flotation Device, Ezra Lbs, and Bloodless Cooties.
Fri July 12 - Garage Sale performs at the Maryland Science Center. (Facebook event page).
Sat July 6 - Garage Sale performs at Atomic BBQ.
Fri July 5 -
The Lefties (Don Peyton and Skizz Cyzyk) perform
at Wind Up Space, as part of ShakeMore Indoor, along with The Tinklers, Old Songs, Bang Bang Lulu, The Blandinas, Caching Behavior and The Signifiers. (Facebook event page).
Wed June 26 - The Projection Booth podcast discusses HIT & STAY. (Facebook event page).
Thur June 20 - LITTLE CASTLES screens at Creative Alliance.
June 13-16 - HIT & STAY screens at theWaterfront Film Festival (South Haven, Michigan)
Fri May 31 - Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band CD release celebration at Creative Alliance. (Facebook event page)
Mon May 27 - HIT & STAY is screening as part of the 15th ANNUAL ARTSFEST FILM FESTIVAL, FREE!!, 1 pm at the Civic Club of Harrisburg (612 N. Front Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania). (Facebook event page)
Mon May 20 - Skizz is a guest on the Movie (Sch)movie podcast, episode 71, talking about HIT & STAY and the Maryland Film Festival.
Sat May 18 - GO PILLS perform at the Shakemore Indoor Rock & Bowl, along with Cigarbox Planetarium, Bald Mountain and Tear Stained Bibles. (Facebook event page)
Fri May `7 - The Jennifers open for Bad Veins at Golden West, along with Sal Bando (Facebook event page)
May 8-12 -Maryland Film Festival hosts the Baltimore Premiere of HIT & STAY , screening twice: Thur May 9, 7:30pm at the Charles Theater, and Sat May 11, 1:30pm at MICA's Brown Center. (Facebook event page)
Sat May 4 - GO PILLS perform at Pasta Bash, along with The Bloodsuckers, South Mountain Groove, Caching Behavior, Bare Creek Junction, Ernest Garcia, Vincent Yarnell, The Blandinas, The Gin Spins, Lennon Free, Jimbo Sage, Ray Cressler, and Noir. Noon to midnight at The Thought Lot (37 E. Garfield St., Shippensburg, Pennsylvania) (Facebook event page)
Tue April 30 - Joe & Skizz screen scenes from HIT & STAY and talk to students on the campus of UMBC as part of the Catonsville Nine 45th Anniversary.
April 18 - 25 - Skizz serves on the documentary jury at The Nashville Film Festival (Nashville, TN)
April 10 - 14 - HIT & STAY screens and Skizz serves on juries and panels at The Kansas City FilmFest (Kansas City, MO)
Thur March 21 - The Jennifers perform at The Ottobar, along with Lisa Doll & The Rock n Roll Romance, Widows Watch, and Waverly Giant. (Facebook event page)
March 6-10 - The 20th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival. On Sat March 9, CUFF hosts the World Premiere of HIT & STAY, a feature-length documentary by Joe Tropea & Skizz Cyzyk. (Chicago, IL). (Facebook event page)
Sat Feb 16 - Skizz serves on the jury at the Stevenson MAP Film Festival, Stevenson University.
Sat Feb 2 - Skizz screens portions of the work-in-progress, ICEPICK TO THE MOON, as part of the closing reception & concert for RAUDELUNAS EXPOSITION 2013: ZURICH 1916 or TUSCALOOSA 1975? (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) (Facebook event page)
Jan 18 - 24 - Skizz serves on the jury at The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)
Mon Jan 14 - The ten-minute trailer for the work-in-progress, ICEPICK TO THE MOON, screens to promote the RAUDELUNAS EXPOSITION 2013. 7:30pm at Bottletree (Birmingham, Alabama) (Facebook event page)
2012: Wed Dec 5 - The Jennifers open for Mark Eitzel at Golden West. (Facebook event page)
Fri Nov 30 & Sat Dec 1 - Garage Sale performs at The 19th Night of 100 ELVISes, at Lithuanian Hall.
Thur Nov 15 - Go Pills perform with S.L.F.M.
, The Tinklers and The Degenerettes, at Charm City Art Space. All ages, $5, show starts at 7pm sharp. (Facebook event page)
Nov 1-4 - Skizz serves on the jury at the Indie Memphis Film Festival (Memphis, Tennessee)
Sat Oct 27 - Go Pills perform with The Tritons and Andy Bopp (w/Ken Schopf) as part of Tunes @ The Tower. FREE! Noon to 3pm at the Roland Water Tower (Roland Avenue and University Parkway). (Facebook event page)
Fri Oct 26 - The Jennifers perform with The Successful Failures and St. James & The Apostles at Mums (1132 S. Hanover St.). (Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 1 - Garage Sale performs at Cheap Beer Fest along with Beatnik Flies, Monsters From The Surf, El Quatro, The Taildraggers, Spidercake, Sister Ex, and Six Quick Beans. (Accokeek, MD).
Aug 23-26 - Skizz serves on the jury at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama) (Facebook event page)
Sat Aug 11 - Go Pills perform at the ShakeMore-Au-Go-Go music festival, along with Jad Fair & Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Half Japanese, Zomes, The Tinklers, CooCooRockinTime, Spidercake, Lurch and Holler, Flotation Device, Oella, Cathedral Spires, Bobwhites, Happy Houlihans, Dearhearts, Bald Mountain, Bang Bang LuLu, Old Songs, Best Nauticals, KfriendR, Keith Restaurant and Son, Animal Eyez, and The Jaunties. Wed July 25 -
The Jennifers with The Mommyheads (legendary indie pop band's first Baltimore show in 15 years!) and Gary B & The Notions, at Wind Up Space.
Tue July 24 - STREET DATE for the DVD release of FREAKS IN LOVE, a documentary about Alice Donut. Released by MVD and available online through Amazon.
Mon July 16 -
The Jennifers with Nightmare Boyzzz, Foul Swoops and Big Christ at Golden West. (Facebook event page)
Fri July 13 - Garage Sale performs
at Gilded Lily Burlesque's Pasties of Perversion: A Burlesque Tribute to John Waters at Wind Up Space.
(Facebook event page)
Fri July 6 -The Jennifers with Sky Drops and The Dialogue at Golden West. (Facebook event page)
Sat June 30 - Garage Sale performs at Atomic BBQ.
Fri June 29 - Go Pills perform at the Shakemore Rock & Bowl-a-thon, along with CooCooRockinTime, Spidercake, Cigarbox Planetarium, Happy Houlihans, and Bang Bang LuLu. Stoneleigh Duckpin Bowling Lanes. $10 @ door (additional $15 for bowling/shoes), 8pm - 1 am. (Facebook event page)
Sat May 26 - Go Pills perform with The 91s, Caching Behavior, and Saddle of Centaur at Johnny Joes (Mechanicsburg, PA). (Facebook event page)
May 3-6 - Maryland Film Festival . (Facebook event page)
Wed April 25 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast Episode 60, discussing Allison Anders's GRACE OF MY HEART. (Facebook event page).
Sat April 21 - The Jennifers perform with Slow Jets and Balkan Falcon at Wind Up Space. (Facebook event page).
Tues April 17 -
STREET DATE for Alternative Tentacles' Virus 439 release, Alice Donut's Freaks In Love 25th Anniversary box set. 2 CDs plus a DVD of the FREAKS IN LOVE documentary, limited edition of 500, for Record Store Day.
Thur March 22 -
Freaks In Love screens as part of VTXIFF (Victoria TX Independent Film Festival), 4pm. (Victoria, Texas).
Sat March 17 - Garage Sale performs with The Taildraggers at Stoneleigh Duckpin Bowling Lanes. 9:30pm. (Facebook event page).
Sat March 10 - Freaks In Love screens as part of RxSM (Rx: Self Medicated Film Expo), 1:30am Saturday night / Sunday morning. (Austin, Texas).
Sat Feb 25 - Garage Sale performs with Monsters From The Surf at Stoneleigh Duckpin Bowling Lanes. 9:30pm. (Facebook event page).
Sat Feb 18 -
The Jennifers perform with The Stents at Mums (1132 S. Hanover St.). (Facebook event page).
Feb 9-12 - Skizz serves on the jury at The Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, Mississippi)
Jan 20 - 26 - The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)
2011:
Wed Dec 28 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast Episode 43, discussing Cory McAbee's THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT. (Facebook event page).
Fri & Sat Dec 2 & 3 - 3/4's of Garage Sale are joined by Mike Miller (Taildraggers, Bobwhites) and John Whitney (Bobwhites) at The 18th Night of 100 ELVISes, at Lithuanian Hall.
Sat Nov 19 - Garage Sale performs with The Stents at Stoneleigh Duckpin Bowling Lanes. 9:30pm.
Sun Nov 13 - Garage Sale performs on WMUC's Third Rail Radio, along with Thee Lolitas and Foul Swoops (6-9pm, 88.1 FM, College Park, MD).
Thur Nov 10 - MicroCineFest presents FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS: multi-projector experiments by Roger Beebe at Cyclops. 8pm, FREE.
(Facebook event page).
Nov 3-6 - Skizz serves on the short films jury at the Indie Memphis Film Festival (Memphis, Tennessee)
Sat Oct 22 - Joe Tropea & Skizz Cyzyk show scenes from their feature-length documentary work-in-progress , HIT & STAY, during Fusion Partnerships' Fusion Filmfest at 2640 Space. (Facebook event page).
Oct 20 - 22 - Skizz's music video for The Jennifers' "Well Intentioned World" will be screening as part of the SoDak Animation Festival (Brookings, South Dakota).
(Facebook event page).
Fri Oct 21 - Freaks In Love is screening as part of the CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival, 7pm at Soho House (29-35 Ninth Avenue, NYC). (Facebook event page).
Sat Oct 15 - Garage Sale performs at Surf Club Live as part of Rob & Theresa's 20th Anniversary Bash. Also playing: The Taildraggers, El Quatro, and Monsters From The Surf. (Hyattsville, MD)
Fri Oct 14 - Skizz performs solo uke at the Seismic Sideshow Fun-Raiser for the Sideshow Gathering at The Red Palace. Two shows: 9pm and 11:30pm. (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Thur Oct 13 - The Jennifers perform at Velvet Lounge, along with The Treading Lemmings, Aloud and Milkmachine. Early show - doors 7:30 / show 8:00 (WDC) (Facebook event page)
Wed Oct 12 - Garage Sale performs at Golden West along with Acid Baby Jesus (from Greece, on Slovenly Records) and Black Mamba Beat (from South Africa, ex Black Time). Plus deejaying by The Thing With Two Heads.
(Facebook event page) .
Sat Sept 24 - Freaks In Love is screening as part of the Philadelphia Film & Music Festival, followed by Alice Donut performing live! (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (Facebook event page)
Fri Sept 23 - Freaks In Love is screening as part of the Woodstock Film Festival (Woodstock, New York)
(Facebook event page)
Thur Sept 22 - Freaks In Love is screening as part of the POP Montreal International Music Festival (Montreal, Canada)
(Facebook event page)
Mon Sept 19 - A previously unreleleased version of Garage Sale's song, "Ain't So Groovy" appears on The Best of the GaragePunk Hideout, Vol. 6: Noises From The Hideout! compilation.
Sat Sept 17 - Freaks In Love is screening as part of the Portobello Film Festival (London, England)
(Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 17 -The Jennifers perform at Wind Up Space, along with Sal Bando and Other Colors.
(Facebook event page)
Sat Sept 4 - Garage Sale performs at Cheap Beer Fest (Accokeek, MD).
(Facebook event page)
Aug 26-28 - Skizz serves on the shorts jury, and speaks on the "Programming Explosion" panel (2pm Sunday) at Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama)
Wed Aug 17 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast Episode 24, discussing Richard Elfman's FORBIDDEN ZONE. (Facebook event page).
Sat Aug 13 - The Go Pills perform at the Shake More Au Go Go music festival, along with Half Japanese, Bobwhites, Cigarbox Planetarium, SpiderCake, Bag5, The Tinklers, Zomes, Happy Houlihans, Naybros, Bald Mountain, Frum The Hills, Degenerettes, The I Don’t Cares, Animal Eyes, She Bites, CooCooRockinTime, Jad Fair, C...Monsters, Caching Behavior, Who’s Ready For The Cave?, Kristin Grace Erickson and RuBella, with Barbara DeCesare, Poets, and Belly Dancers.
Wed Aug 3 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast Episode 22, discussing TAPEHEADS. (Facebook event page).
Wed July 20 - Skizz is a guest on the Projection Booth podcast Episode 20, discussing John Paizs' CRIME WAVE. (Facebook event page).
Sat July 16 - Skizz is sitting in on drums for Monsters From The Surf. Also playing: The Yachtsmen (featuring Mark Noone of The Slickee Boys) and El Quatro. (Facebook event page) $5, 9pm, at Chick Hall's legendary Surf Club, 4711 Kenilworth Ave, Hyattsville, MD.
Thur July 7 - CD release party for The Jennifers' "Well Intentioned World" (on the Beechfields Record Label) at Golden West , along with Landspeedrecord! and Squaaks.
Sat July 2 - Garage Sale, The Go Pills (w/special guests Mink Stole & John Irvine), Monsters From The Surf (w/guest drummers Steve Blickenstaff and Skizz), Happy Houlihans and Frankenbillies at the Atomic BBQ.
Fri June 24 - The Go Pills perform as part of a Shakemore fundraiser at Wind Up Space, with host Barbara DeCesare, and Old Songs, El Guano, Lurch and Holler, Happy Houlihans, Tinklers, SpiderCake, and CooCooRockinTime.
Sat June 4 - Garage Sale performs as part of Tunes @ The Tower, along with Howard Markman. FREE! Noon to 3pm at the Roland Water Tower (Roland Avenue and University Parkway).
Sun May 29 - Freaks In Love is screening as part of the 13th ANNUAL ARTSFEST FILM FESTIVAL, FREE!!, 2pm at OPEN STAGE of Harrisburg (Court St. and Walnut St. Garage, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania).
May 5-8 - Maryland Film Festival . Skizz will be introducing films and conducting Q&A sessions throughout the festival, PLUS Freaks In Love is screening Saturday, May 7, 10pm , at the Charles Theater.
Wed April 20 - LITTLE CASTLES screens as part of "FREE HOUR FILMS by Maryland Traditions" at UMBC's Center for Art Design & Visual Cultural, noon.
Fri April 15 - The world premiere of Freaks In Love at the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, 10pm at The Society For Arts, 1112 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL.
Wed March 9 - Garage Sale performs at Joe Squared, with Beware The Dangers Of A Ghost Scorpion! (from Somerville, MA)
Sun Feb 27 - The Go Pills perform at 8x10 opening for Jonathan Richman!!!
Fri Feb 25 -
The Go Pills perform as part of Shattered Wig Night at the 14 Karat Cabaret.
Feb 10-13 - Skizz serves on the documentary features jury at The Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, Mississippi)
Jan 21 - 27 - Skizz serves on the short films jury at The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah)
2010:
Fri Dec 17 - Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band perform at the Midtown Arts Center in Harrisburg, PA. Thur & Fri, Dec 9 & 10 - Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band perform at Creative Alliance, with special guests Arty Hill and John Irvine. Sun Dec 5 - The Jennifers perform at Metro Gallery, along with Fort Wilson Riot (from Minneapolis, MN), Silent Whys and Harwood. Sun Nov 21 - Chop Suey Books and James River Film Society present Hot Words, Hot Music, Hot Movie, Hot Dogs: a book reading/signing of Impossibly Funky by Mike White; music by BearKat and Skizz; a screening of Monte Hellman's Cockfighter; and delicious hot dogs. 6pm at Gallery 5, Richmond, VA. Sat Nov 20 - MicroCineFest presents a screening of short films and a rare screening of John Paizs' CRIME WAVE, at Wind Up Space, followed by performances from The Jennifers, Michael Holt (from The Mommyheads), and Mr. Moccasin. Mon Nov 15 - Skizz presents John Paizs' CRIME WAVE to students at Stevenson University. Sat Nov 13 - Moviate presents The Go Pills and The I Don't Cares at Midtown Scholar Bookstore (1302 N. 3rd St. Harrisburg, PA). Sun Oct 31 - The Lefties (Don Peyton and Skizz Cyzyk) perform along with Chris Toll, the Tinklers, Rupert Wondolowski, Batworth and more, as part of an All Hallows Eve Parlor Performance Party in the Peyton Parlor. Sat Oct 30 - The Jennifers perform as part of Gutter Magazine's Second Annual Dead Celebrity Ball, along with Sal Bando, Sick Sick Birds, and Squaaks. At the Metro Gallery. Fri Oct 29 - Joe Tropea & Skizz Cyzyk will make a presentation about HIT & STAY as part of Stew Baltimore, at 2640. Wed Oct 27 - Skizz serves on the video competition jury at Maryland Lawyers for the Arts' 25th Anniversary celebration. At Clark Priftis Art (Harbor East Legg Mason Building, 100 International Drive, Baltimore, MD 21202). 6:00 pm reception, 7:00 pm video contest finalists screened, 8:00 pm winners announced. Oct 21-24 - Skizz serves on the jury at the IndieMemphis Film Festival (Memphis, Tennessee) Tue Oct 19 - Skizz's video, TAIL, will screen as part of Meowpolis, at the Metro Gallery. Fri Oct 15 - Garage Sale plays with Evan Dando (Lemonheads) and 4Footer at The Whiskey, Annapolis, MD. Sat Oct 9 - The Jennifers perform at Golden West , with Sal Bando and Gag School. Fri Oct 8 - The Go Pills help celebrate the release of The Dirty Marmaduke Flute Squad's Boneslinky!, along with The Rock n' Roll Freakshow and Bobby E. Lee & The Sympathizers. At Wind Up Space. Wed Sept 29 - Skizz will be the guest WYPR's Maryland Morning Screen Test. Film screening & interview taping open to the public, 7pm at Wind Up Space. Hear the interview and see photos here. Sept 24-26 - Skizz serves on the jury at Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama) Sun Sept 19 - HIT & STAY (a documentary by Joe Tropea & Skizz Cyzyk) benefit at Wind Up Space, with Lower Dens, Small Sur, Carnivores, and Bean, plus a raffle. 8pm, $8. Sat Sept 18 - Garage Sale performs at Joe Squared, with The Transporters. Sat Sept 11 - Garage Sale (2pm), The Go Pills (3pm), and The Jennifers (3:30pm) perform on "The Party Stage" (36th & Elm) at Hampdenfest. Sun Sept 5 - Joe Tropea & Skizz Cyzyk will be guests on WYPR's The Signal talking about HIT & STAY. Hear it here. Sun Sept 5 - Joe Tropea & Skizz Cyzyk will be guests on WCBM's 21st Century Radio talking about HIT & STAY. Hear it here. Sat Sept 4 - Garage Sale performs at Cheap Beer Fest. Fri Aug 27 - HIT & STAY (a documentary by Joe Tropea & Skizz Cyzyk) benefit at Viva House. Sat Aug 21 - The Lefties (Don Peyton & Skizz Cyzyk) perform as part of the CooCooRockinTime CD re-release party at Creative Alliance. Sat July 24 - The Lefties (Don Peyton & Skizz Cyzyk) and The Go Pills (Skizz, Batworth, Tom Balog, Randy Austin) play at Shake More Au Go Go, along with Who’s Ready For The Cave?, Pam & Barbara Rubella, Weeping Mews, Don Zientara, Bag5, CooCooRockinTime, Frown Pow’r, Leprechaun Catering, Aliens, Animal Eyes, Old Songs, Bald Mountain, Liz Downing, Molly Andrews, Cigarbox Planetarium, Tinklers, Zomes, SpiderCake, Bad Girls, Degenerettes, I Don’t Cares, and Half Japanese. Fri July 23 - The Go Pills (Skizz, Batworth, Tom Balog, Randy Austin) open for HALF JAPANESE!!! at The Ottobar, along with Oriole. All ages. Tue July 13 - "The Journeymen and Split Rock Tour: Resistable Object and Moveable Force Together at Last" comes to Wind Up Space. James Jay and Mike Faloon read from their new books, plus performances from Barbara DeCesare and Skizz. 7 pm. Sat July 5 - The Go Pills (Skizz, Batworth, Tom Balog, Randy Austin) and Mink Stole perform at the Atomic BBQ, along with The Millbillies. May 6-9 - Maryland Film Festival . Skizz will be introducing films and conducting Q&A sessions throughout the festival, AND screening scenes from Icepick To The Moon, Hit & Stay, Freaks In Love, and Well Intentioned World during MFF's Works In Progress Showcase (3pm Saturday at Windup Space). Tue April 13 - Luna Blu Vintage Fashion Show, MC'd by comedian Reed Walton of The Sweet Tarts, vintage fashion modeled by Gilded Lily Burlesque and live surf music by John Irvine and Skizz of Garage Sale. 7-9pm, Mt. Vernon Stable (909 North Charles Street). $15 Sat Feb 27 - Sun Feb 28 - Skizz's music videos for Tippy Canoe ("Mass Transmissions") and Mad Tea Party ("Every Way") will be screened during Ukelear Meltdown III (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England). Wed Feb 24 - Fri Feb 26 - Skizz will be a Visiting Artist guest of Minnesota State University Moorhead's Film Studies Department. (Moorhead, Minnesota). Sun Feb 21 - Moviate presents Fredrik from Sweden, Tara Toms, and Michael Robinson's film, Locking Gazes, with live sound & light performance by Lisa Bennett, Alyx Bowen, Skizz Cyzyk, Caleb Smith, Adrien Barlup, James Hollenbaugh and Michael Robinson. door opens @ 7, film @ 7:30pm. ALL AGES. At the Midtown Scholar Bookstore (1302 N. 3rd St. Harrisburg, PA). Sun Feb 21 - The Lefties (Don Peyton & Skizz Cyzyk) perform as part of Upward Spiral, along with sound poet Marty Esworthy, at YorkArts, 3 pm (10 N. Beaver Street, York, PA) . Sat Feb 20 - The Jennifers perform at Golden West along with Slow Jets and Bean. Jan 22 - 28 - Skizz serves on the narrative features jury at The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah) , and then performs solo-uke at the Closing Night Party. 2009:
Sat Dec 12 - Mink Stole’s Christmas: Unwrapped & Unplugged at the Creative Alliance. Actress and story teller extrordinaire Mink sings cabaret with her fab band—Skizz Cyzyk, Walker Teret, Scott Wallace Brown. Tall but true tales of a big family childhood, adventures with John Waters and other surprises! 8pm show, 7pm Members Happy Hour. $15, $13 mbrs.
Sun Nov 1 - The Lefties (Don Peyton & Skizz Cyzyk) perform a house concert at All Souls Day Performance Party along with poets Chris Toll, Rupert Wondolowski and Cliff Lynn and musicians Liz Downing and Michael Willis. 5-8pm. 4214 Harford Terrace.
Wed Oct 14 - Moviate presents THE SHORT FILMS & VIDEOS OF SKIZZ CYZYK: A retrospective spanning 1983 to present. Oct 8-15 - Skizz serves on the jury at the IndieMemphis Film Festival (Memphis, Tennessee)
Wed Oct 7 - The Jennifers perform at The Hexagon, along with Michael Holt (from The Mommyheads).
Sept 25-27 - Skizz serves on the jury at Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama)
Sun Sept 13 - Joe Tropea & Skizz Cyzyk premiere a scene from their upcoming documentary, HIT & STAY: THE ONGOING STORY OF THE CATONSVILLE NINE, screening with Lynn Sachs' INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME. 8-11 PM, Busboys & Poets Restaurant, 2021 14th Street NW, WDC.
Sat Sept 12 - The Jennifers perform at Hampdenfest. 5 PM on the Atomic Stage.
Sat July 25 - The Lefties (Don Peyton & Skizz Cyzyk) play at Shake More Au Go Go, along with Half Japanese, The Tinklers, Old Songs, Coo Coo Rockin Time, Boister, Daniel Higgs, Zomes, Pleasant Livers, Naybros, R. Stevie Moore, Spidercake, Aliens, Steve Johnson, Eyeball Skeleton, Liz Downing, Cigarbox Planetarium, Bald Mountain, Rubella, Indulgence, and Barbara Decesare.
Fri July 24 - The Lefties (Don Peyton & Skizz Cyzyk) play Ukulele Nouveau, along with The Fleastompers, Jared Denhard, and Victoria Vox. At the Creative Alliance. 8pm. $12, $10 mbrs.
Sun July 19 - LITTLE CASTLES screens as part of Artscape, 3 PM in the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Free.
Sat June 13 - Garage Sale at Honfest. 6:30-8:00pm on the stage at Falls Road & 36th Street/The Avenue.
May 7-10 - Maryland Film Festival
Fri May 1 - Garage Sale performs at Joe Squared, with The Transporters.
Sun April 19 - Ukulele shindig with The Whiteouts (Joel Eckhaus & Ralph Shaw) and The Lefties (Don Peyton & Skizz Cyzyk) at El Rancho Grande. 4 PM.
Fri March 27 - The Jennifers perform at Metro Gallery, along with e.joseph and the phantom heart,
FFHH, and The Jaguar Club.
Sat March 14 - Maryland Lawyers for the Arts and Creative Alliance present “Legal and Business Issues for Filmmakers” at the Creative Alliance. Panel includes Scott Johnson, veteran entertainment attorney, Maryland Film Office Project Manager Kathi Ash, and Skizz Cyzyk, filmmaker and Maryland Film Fest Programming Manager. 2-4 pm. Adv reg $15, $10 mbrs. Walk-in $20, $15 mbrs.
Fri March 6 - DO RE MINK: a cabaret performance starring Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band (Scott Wallace Brown, Walker Teret, Skizz Cyzyk). Creative Alliance. 8pm. $15.
Jan 15 - 23 - The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City,
Utah)
2008:
Sun Dec 21 - The Jennifers open for Evan Dando (from The Lemonheads) at The Ottobar, along with Gary B. & The Notions.
Thur Dec 18 - Skizz performs solo uke at the Palace Of Wonders' Weirdo Show. (WDC)
Sat Dec 6 - The Jennifers perform at Metro Gallery, as part of Secret Crush Society's Into the Dolphin CD Release Party, along with Dirty Marmaduke Flute Squad.
Sat Nov 15 -
The Go Pills (Skizz, Tom Balog, Randy Austin, Batworth) play Gypsy Cab, at
Falafel House (more info at http://hamiltonart.org/dhome/).
Sat Oct 25 - Garage Sale performs at Joe Squared, with Atomic Mosquitos.
Fri Oct 24 - The Jennifers perform at Joe Squared, with The Stalking Horses.
Oct 9-16 - Skizz serves on the jury at the IndieMemphis Film Festival (Memphis, Tennessee)
Wed Oct 8 - The Jennifers perform at Wind Up Space, along with Michael Holt (from The Mommyheads), Person Parcel, and David Celia (from Toronto).
Sept 25-28 - Skizz serves on the jury at Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama)
Tue Sept 23 - The Jennifers perform at The Talking Head, with Soft Targets (from Chicago) and Abby Mott.
Sept 19-21 - Skizz is a programming & technical consultant for the
Chesapeake Film Festival, Easton, MD
Sat Sept 13 - The Jennifers perform at Hampdenfest. 11 AM on the Atomic Stage.
Fri Sept 12 - Garage Sale performs at Joe Squared, with The Transporters and The Tritons.
Thur July 31 - "A Best of MicroCineFest" at Wind Up Space.
Sun July 20 - The Jennifers perform at Artscape. 1 PM on the Metro Gallery stage.
Sat July 5 - Garage Sale perform at the Atomic
BBQ.
Sun June 29 - The Go Pills (Skizz, Tom Balog, Marc Berrong, Randy Austin) perform at Atomic Pop’s Uke-Pop Party!, along with Tippy Canoe, Victoria Vox and Uni & her Ukelele. 2-5pm
Wed June 18 - The Jennifers at The Sidebar
with
The Points (WDC), The Dig (NY) and The Swet (VA) .
Sat June 14 - Garage Sale at Honfest. 3:30 PM on the stage at Falls Road & 36th Street/The Avenue
Sat June 7 - Garage Sale at the Great Strides Walkathon benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Sun May 25 - The Jennifers at The 2008 Sowebo Arts & Music Festival
May 1-4 - Maryland Film Festival
Wed April 9 - Indie Memphis and Delta Axis present "A Best of MicroCineFest" at Power House Memphis (45 G.E. Patterson). 7:30 pm, Free and open to the public! (Memphis, TN)
April 2-8 - 4 FILMS IN 5 MINUTES screens as part of the NYUFF Is Enough 15th anniversary retrospective at the 15th & final New York Underground Film Festival. (NYC)
Wed March 19 - Garage Sale performs at Joe Squared with The Bobwhites.
March 12 - 16 - Skizz's music video for The Moaners' "Brainwash" screens at the Backseat Film Festival. (Philly, PA)
Wed March 12 - The Jennifers perform at The Talking Head with The Moaners and Impossible Hair.
Sat March 8 - The Jennifers perform at The Khyber, with Alright, Junior , Mean Streets, and The Donuts. (Philly, PA)
Sat March 1 - The Jennifers play the Pulaski CD Release Party at The Ottobar, along with Abby Mott.
Sat Feb 2 (night) - Garage Sale performs at the Hon Bar, 9 PM, FREE
Sat Feb 2 (day) - Maryland Lawyers for the Arts'
Legal FAQs for Filmmakers Workshop, at the Creative Alliance, 2-5pm.
Jan 17 - 25 - Skizz serves on the Shorts Jury at The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City,
Utah)
Sun Jan 6 - The Jennifers perform at The Talking Head with The Jons, The Flukes, and Dead Mechanical
2007:
Thur Dec 20 - Skizz performs solo uke at the Palace Of Wonders' Weirdo Show. (WDC)
Sat Dec 8 - A Best Of MicroCineFest screening at The Laughing Skull Lounge at The Vortex Midtown Fri Nov 30 - The Jennifers perform at Lo-Fi Social Club along with Impossible Hair, House of Fire, and Sonic Cheetas of Death.
Sat Nov 17 -
BALTIMORE EXPOSED: Short Films by Local Filmmakers, Enoch Pratt Central Library (400 Cathedral Street), 2 pm, Free! You don't have to go to the Sundance or Telluride festivals to see the Next Big Thing in cinema. Some of the best films are being made right here in our own backyard. This program presents the cream of the crop by both established Baltimore-based filmmakers (Skizz Cyzyk, John Standiford, Bump Stadelman, Laurence Arcadias and Sondheim Prize finalists Eric Dyer and Karen Yasinsky), as well as works by up-and-comers like Hsuan-Yu Pan and visual art students from the Maryland Institute, College of Art. (approximately 80 minutes) For more info, call (410) 396-4616
Sun Nov 11 - The Jennifers perform at The Cave along with Saints Will Do and Dead To Society (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
Sat Nov 10 - The Jennifers perform at Preservation Pub along with Charlotte, NC's GoGo Pilot (Knoxville, Tennessee)
Fri Nov 9 - The Jennifers perform at Wonderland along with The Rulers (Richmond, VA)
Sat Nov 3 - The Jennifers perform at 8x10 along with The Oranges Band, Artanker Convoy & Paper Route
Oct 11-14 - Skizz serves on the jury and presents a "Best of MicroCineFest" program at the BendFilm Festival (Bend, Oregon)
Thur Oct 4 - The Jennifers perform at Metro Gallery along with Private Eleanor and more.
Sept 28-30 - Skizz serves on the jury at Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Birmingham, Alabama)
Sat Sept 22 (night) - Daft Punk’s Electroma & LYNCH, presented by Music Monitor Network, at the Creative Alliance. Daft Punk’s Electroma, the debut film by Parisian house music stars Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christos, is a sheer, wordless odyssey of robotic semi-men crossing a mythic American landscape. LYNCH is a 30 min preview of an award winning doc following iconic indie filmmaker David Lynch over 2 years as he makes Inland Empire. Also, DC’s Eric Cheevers’ short Las Historias Mas Sexy Del Mundo! No. 2 recreates “God-awful early-’70s Mexican sexploitation flicks,” and sets an unorthodox stage for Danish rock duo the Raveonettes. Plus Skizz Cyzyk’s music video for The Moaners’ “Brainwash”! 8pm, $7, $5 mbrs & stus
Sat Sept 22 (day) - Garage Sale performs at The Karb Kings' 10th Annual MobTown Greaseball Car Show Extravaganza!
Sat Sept 15 - The Jennifers perform at HampdendFest with tons of other bands
Fri Sept 14 -
Trailer Trash: A Film Journal (Ramirez, 2007) at the Creative Alliance.
An extraordinary personal statement about poverty, prejudice and the harsh reality of drug addiction in rural America. Don Ramirez’s film, part home movie, part hard-hitting documentary captures his family bravely facing a complicated mass of intersecting crises. Ramirez balances distance and intimacy in a disturbing but compelling document. Made with Super 8 Film, digital video, TV news footage and photos. Intro by Skizz Cyzyk (Maryland Film Festival, Maryland Lawyers for the Arts). Panel discussion w/ Ramirez and family follows.
8pm, $8, $6 mbrs
Tue Sept 11 - The Jennifers perform at IOTA, along with Michael Holt (ex-Mommyheads) and Impossible Hair (Arlington, Virginia)
Sat Sept 8 - MicroCineFest presents
The Short Films of Roger Beebe at the Creative Alliance.
Roger Beebe, formerly of Flicker (Chapel Hill), and multi-award-winning MicroCineFest filmmaker, shares his experimental shorts. With a documentary sensibility and a photographic eye he brings humor and soul to subjects from women in the Air Force during WWII, to where Shaquille O’Neal got his last name. Beebe inaugurates our new screening venue-the CAmm Media Lab! Less prestigious venues at which he’s appeared include Antarctica’s McMurdo Station, the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square, and MoMA (NYC). Upstairs in the CAmm Media Lab! 8pm, $8, $6 mbrs. Free Popcorn! ALSO: Check out Roger’s No Camera Required Wkshp, Sun Sep 9!
Sun Sept 2 - The Jennifers perform at The Camel with Captain 1, Seamonster, and The Norman Rockwells (Richmond, Virginia)
Fri Aug 31 - The Jennifers perform at Cousin Larry's with Sarianna & The Swell (Danbury, Connecticut)
Thur Aug 30 - The Jennifers perform at The Lit Lounge with The Campbell Apartment (NYC)
Tue July 17 - The Jennifers perform at The Ottobar along with Voxtrot, Two If By Sea, and The Heavycoats.
Sun July 15 - The Jennifers perform a quiet set at Rojo, as part of the Sidewalk Scramble turn-in. Skizz is a Sidewalk Scramble juror this year (Birmingham, Alabama)
Sat July 14 - The Jennifers perform at The New French Bar with The Stalking Horses (Asheville, North Carolina)
Fri July 13 - The Jennifers perform at The Earl, along with The Features & The Hot Pipes (Atlanta, Georgia)
Thur July 12 - The Jennifers perform at Bull City Headquarters, along with The Future Kings of Nowhere and Tennis & the Mennonites (Durham, North Carolina)
Wed July 11 - The Jennifers perform at The Cave, along with Velvet & The Red Hot Poker Dots (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
Sat June 30 - Skizz performs solo uke at the Palace Of Wonders' 1-Year Anniversary Blow Out!. (WDC)
Thur June 28 - The Jennifers perform at Sonar along with Radiation Puppy, Pale Stars, and The John Hardy Boys.
Sat June 16 - Skizz performs at Sangha, along with Tippy Canoe & The Paddlemen and The Fleastompers. Takoma Park, MD
Sat June 9 - The Jennifers perform at The Ottobar with J Roddy Walston & The Business, Soft, and Impossible Hair.
Sat June 9 - Garage Sale performs at Hon Fest, 2 PM on the City Paper/Merritt Athletic Club Music Stage at Falls Road and W. 36th St.
Sat June 2 - The Jennifers perform at The Lo-Fi Social Club, with House of Fire, and Harlot.
Fri June 1 -
CAmm Cage and Media Lab GRAND OPENING TO-DO! Join CAmm founders Scott Kecken, George Figgs, Skizz Cyzyk, Julia Nicholl, Lee Boot and Steve Frantz to celebrate Baltimore’s newest, fabulous film resource! The Cage and Media Lab offer below-market rates on rental equipment and expanded workshop and filmmaker support. Rub elbows with industry movers and shakers–Jack Gerbes, MD Film Office, Jed Dietz, MD Film Fest, and Skizz Cyzyk, MDFF & MicroCineFest—and get a first peek at our gear! Ribbon cutting and champagne toast! Video installations by “Cage Czar” Phil Davis, Jimmy Joe Roche (Wham City), and Mark Brown (Are We Not Men). DJ Amanda Otto (Reaction, Palace of Wonders, Charm City Soul Club) spins 60’s psychedelia, northern soul stompers, and foreign garage greats! VJ Jon Corun (AV CLUB, Fletchers) mixes video on-the-fly. CAmm coupons for future rentals/wkshps for all! Hors d’oeuvres & champagne toast. Cash bar. 7-9pm
Sat May 19 - The Jennifers perform at Rex's Bar, 344 W. Gay Street, West Chester, PA 19382, with House of Fire, France on Fire, The Black Canary and Even Further. Thur May 17 - Skizz performs solo uke at the Palace Of Wonders' Weirdo Show. (WDC)
Mon May 14 - The Jennifers are interviewed and perform on WTMD's Baltimore Unsigned program. 8 PM, 89.7 FM.
May 3-6 - Maryland Film Festival
Sun April 29 - The Jennifers perform at The Ottobar opening for The Wrens, along with
Squaaks
Sat April 28 - Garage Sale performs at the Hon Bar, 10 PM, FREE
Thur April 26 - The Jennifers perform at The Red and The Black along with DC's The Plastic Containers and Baltimore's The Degenerettes. (WDC)
April 20 - Skizz plays solo uke with Sassparilla The Singing Gorilla at Lenny's (Atlanta, Georgia).
April 19 - 28 - Skizz serves on the Features Docs jury at The Atlanta Film Festival (Atlanta, Georgia)
Wed April 18 - Skizz performs solo at the Charm City Art Space, opening for the Mike Faloon & Friends book tour.
Wed April 11 - LITTLE CASTLES screens as part of Loyola
College's 2007 Humanities Symposium. 9 PM, Free! Reading Room.
Wed March 28 - The Awkward Sounds of Scott & Skizz perform on Maryland Public Television's Artworks This Week.
7:30 PM, shows again Thursday morning at 6:00am, and Saturday morning at 9:00am!
Sat March 24 - Pirana Pictures presents the World Premiere of FIFTH CITY (a new feature film from Eric Thornett. Skizz has a special appearance in it). 7pm. Free! Rosborough Center (Gaitherburg, MD)
Fri Feb 23 - The Jennifers CD release party!!! at Roots Cafe @ Seidels Bowling Lanes with special guests PALE STARS. 9 PM
Thur Feb 8 - Creative Alliance MovieMakers (CAmm) presents the SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION. No distributor, no PR firm, no prob! Skizz Cyzyk, filmmaker and Prog Mgr, MD Film Fest, offers dos and don’ts of entering film fests: entry forms, synopsis writing, worthwhile press kits, and selecting festivals. Filmmaker Matthew Porterfield (HAMILTON) gives tips on finding venues, networking, leveraging your successes, plus extending your film’s life beyond the festival world. 7-9:30pm. Early reg (by Feb 5) $15, $10 mbrs. Late reg $25, $20 mbrs.
Jan 18 - 27 - The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City,
Utah)
2006:
Fri Dec 29 - The Jennifers perform at The Talking Head with Squaaks, DJ Pat Martin, Romania, Chris Myers and possible mad surprises TBA. FREE!!!
Fri Dec 8 - Skizz performs solo at the Hamilton Arts Collective, along with Tippy Canoe, Lurch and Holler, and Curtis Eller, and hosted by Citizen Rahne Alexander. 9pm. $8. 5440 Harford Road.
Thurs Nov 16 - Mad Tea Party w/Liz Downing & The Awkward Sounds of Scott & Skizz. At the Creative Alliance. 8pm. $12, $10 mbrs.
Nov 9 - 12 - the tenth annual MicroCineFest
Sat Nov 4 - Atomic Books Presents I HATE THE 80S NIGHT: THE METAL YEARS - celebrating the 20th Anniversary of HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT! Featuring: Vollmer (made up of people from the HMPL movie), Chester Stacey, Secret Crush Society, The Awkward Sounds of Scott & Skizz, Keyboard Man, and more!! 9 PM @ The Ottobar
Sat Oct 28 - Garage Sale performs at the Atomic Halloween
BBQ
Sat Oct 14 - Garage Sale perfroms at Mums along with The Beltways. 10 PM. 1132 S. Hanover St. (near the corner of Hanover and West) Federal Hill in Baltimore, MD • (410) 547-7415
Mon Oct 2 - Creative Alliance MovieMakers (CAmm) presents the CAmm Salon. Skizz will talk about the Maryland Film Festival and MicroCineFest, and give advice on entering film festivals.
7 PM. $5.
Sun Oct 1 - The Baltimore Museum of Art's "Free For All" kickoff event 16mm film screening, including Suzan Pitt's ASPARAGUS (1979, 20 minutes), Les Blank's WERNER HERZOG EATS HIS SHOE (1980, 20 minutes), and Skizz Cyzyk's FOUR FILMS IN FIVE MINUTES: A TRILOGY (1992, 7 minutes). 12:30 PM. Free!!!
Sept 22 - 24 - Skizz serves on the documentary jury at Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Sat September 16 - The Jennifers perform at HampdendFest with tons of other bands
Sun Aug 20 - Once again, The Awkward Sounds of Scott & Skizz open for The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. At the Ottobar, along with Corn Mo and Trixie Little & The Tap-Dancing Hate-Monkey!!! Doors at 8pm/ Show at 9pm- ALL AGES
Fri & Sat Aug 18 & 19 - MANAGER'S CORNER, MY LITTLE PICKLE LOVE SONG, and BAD ALIENS FROM ANOTHER PLANET screen at the Bearded Child Film Festival. (Grand Rapids, Minnesota)
Thur Aug 17 - Atomic Books' presents WHOLPHIN 2 VIEWING & PONKUTSU DVD RELEASE PARTY. Come watch selections of McSweeney's Wholphin 2 and Josh Slates' Ponkutsu Park, celebrating it's release on DVD! Some of Skizz's short films will also be shown. Atomic Pop. 3620 Falls Rd., 8PM. Free. Pizza & refreshments.
Fri July 7 - Garage Sale performs upstairs at the Ottobar, with The Comedy of Neil Hamburger!!! 7-10 PM
Sat July 1 - INDEPENDENTS DAY: LOCAL LEGENDS. Pratt Library celebrates July 4th by saluting revolutionary shorts by local independent filmmakers. Several of Skizz's short films will screen along with works by John Heyn, Todd Rohal, Bump Stadelman, Josh Slates, Eric Dyer, and others. Wheeler Auditorium, 3rd Floor, Enoch Pratt Central Library, 400 Cathedral Street, 2-4 p.m.
Tue June 27 - The Washington Psychotronic Film Society presents "Selections From MicroCineFest" at Dr. Dremo's Taphouse, Arlington, VA. 8 PM. $2 suggested donation.
Sat June 24 - Garage Sale performs at the Hon Bar, 10 PM, FREE
June 9-17 - The Atlanta Film Festival
(Atlanta, Georgia)
Sat May 20 - The Jennifers perform at The Talking Head with Kahoots, Sharky, and Park Police.
May 11-14 - The
Maryland Film Festival
Sat May 6 - The Jennifers perform at the Charm City Scooter Rally @ Lithuanian Hall along with The Ambitions. 9 PM, $5
Wed April 26 - The Awkward Sounds of Scott & Skizz perform at The Library of Progress (1401 S. Light St., 410-234-0714) along with Mad Tea Party and Liz Downing
Fri April 7 - The Jennifers perform at Roots Cafe @ Seidels Bowling Lanes along with The Anomoanon. 9 PM
Fri April 7 - Garage Sale performs at Dangerously Delicious Pies along with Monsters From The Surf. Show starts at 7:30 PM sharp!
Sat April 1 - Garage Sale performs at the Hon Bar, 10 PM, FREE
Fri March 31 - The Jennifers perform at The Ottobar along with Water School, Jaws and My German Lover (only 5 bucks!)
Feb 28 - March 5 - GUMDROPS, MANAGER'S CORNER and One Ring Zero's M.C. screen as part of the Fourth Annual Backseat Film Festival (Philadelphia, PA)
Jan 20 - 29 - MANAGER'S CORNER screens as part of
the Seventh Annual Tromadance Film Festival (Salt Lake City & Park City, Utah)
Jan 19 - 27 - Skizz serves on the Narrative Shorts Jury at The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City,
Utah)
Sun Jan 15 - Skizz programs films & videos as part of the Ottobar's Newlywed Game! Also showing: parody commercials from Sike-Trike and more! $3, 9 PM.
2005: Nov 11 - 13 - MicroCineFest
Fri Nov 11, noon - Skizz will be on 88.1 FM WYPR's The Signal program, talking about MicroCineFest. The show will be repeated at 7 PM
Sat Nov 5 - Atomic Books presents CASHED OUT! A JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE & HURRICANE RELIEF BENEFIT, featuring The Awkward Sounds of Scott & Skizz, Keyboard Man, Arboreteum, J. Roddy Walston & The Business, and more TBA. Ottobar 9 PM
Fri October 28 - Garage Sale performs at Roots Cafe @ Seidels Bowling Lanes along with The Soul Gamblers
Oct 25 - 30 - Skizz serves on the Animation Jury at The Bethel Film Festival
(Bethel, CT)
Sat October 22 - Garage Sale performs at the Hon Bar
Fri October 14 - The Jennifers perform at The Talking Head with the Frauds, The Fyuss, and The Bedtimes.
Sept 22 - 25 - Skizz serves on the Documentary Jury at Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Sat September 17 - Garage Sale performs at HampdendFest with tons of other bands
August 23 - One Ring Zero's "MC" screens as part
of an ADDENDUM DVD screening at
Anthology Film Archives,
NYC, New York
August 18-25 - MANAGER'S CORNER screens as part of
the Twelth Annual Chicago Underground Film
Festival (Chicago, IL)
Sat August 6 - GUMDROPS and HAIR DRYER CHAIRS: VERSION 2004 will screen as part of the Hondance Film Festival's "re-do" after January's "snow-in".
Tue August 2 - Skizz screens some of his films & videos at Forum 405.
July 21 - One Ring Zero's "MC" screens as part of
the World Premiere ADDENDUM DVD
screening at Barbes, Brooklyn, New
York
July 16-17 - MANAGER'S CORNER screens as part of
Extremely Shorts 8: Works 3 Minutes and Under at The Aurora Picture Show, Houston,
Texas
Sat July 16 - Skizz performs solo at the Kelly Shed & Bonfire, along with Frankentractor.
July 14-24 - MANAGER'S CORNER screens as part of
the 2005 Eat My Shorts series at Comedia's Just For Laughs
festival, Montreal, Canada
Sat July 2 - Garage Sale and The Jennifers perform at the Atomic
BBQ
Sat June 25 - The Jennifers and The Awkward Sounds
of Scott & Skizz perform at Rock-n-Romp with Secret Crush Society
June 24 - MANAGER'S CORNER and GUMDROPS screen as
part of the Backseat FIlm
Festival Kick-Off at The Patterson
June 10-18 - The Atlanta Film Festival
(Atlanta, Georgia)
June 10-18 - MANAGER'S CORNER screens in the Area
52 program at CineVegas (Palms
Casino/Brenden Theatres, Las Vegas, Nevada)
Sat June 4 - Garage Sale performs at DC-Nine (WDC) with Monsters From The Surf. UPDATE:
Garage Sale has cancelled.
May 5-8 - The
Maryland Film Festival
Sun May 1 - Garage Sale performs at the Pow
Wow
Tue April 5, 9 PM - MANAGER'S CORNER screens as
part of "the Best of CAmm: Film/Video Favorites From Five Years of Creative
Alliance Moviemakers" at the American Film Institute's Silver Theater in Silver Spring,
Maryland.
Tue March 29, 6:30 PM - LITTLE CASTLES screens at
The Neighborhood Design Center (1401 Hollins St.) with THE SCREEN PAINTERS. Free
admission.
Sat March 26 - Garage Sale performs at the Hon Bar
Fri March 18 - The Jennifers open for Baby
Macaroni (3/4 of NRBQ) at Ramshead Live
Sat March 12 - Skizz performs solo and then sits
in with The Jeffrey Lewis
Band at the Knitting Factory
(NYC). Also playing: La Mi Vida
Violenta, Sentai, and The Clicks
Fri March 11 - GUMDROPS screens as part of the CAmm Ides of March Animation
Invitational at The Patterson
March 9-15 - MANAGER'S CORNER screens as part of
the Twelth Annual New York Underground Film
Festival (NYC)
Sun Feb 27 - Berserk (Brent Malkus, David Cawley,
Skizz Cyzyk) reunite at the Ottobar
with special guests Gamma Rays and
Frankentractor
Thur Feb 3 - The Jennifers perform at Talking Head along with special
guests One Ring Zero and Glaz Almaz
Sat & Sun Jan 22 & 23 - Skizz's films
GUMDROPS, TAIL, and HAIR DRYER CHAIRS: VERSION 2004 will screen as part of the
inaugural Hondance Film Festival
Jan 21 - 28 - The Slamdance Film Festival (Park City,
Utah)
Tue Jan 4 - THE SHORT FILMS & VIDEOS OF SKIZZ
CYZYK:
2004: Mon Dec 20 - The Bowlermen and The Jennifers
perform at DC-Nine (WDC) along with special
guests Chester Stacey
Sat Dec 18 - The Bowlermen perform at The Mojo as part of Bopptopia, along
with Dark Water Transit, .....soihadto....., Myracle Brah, The Things!, and The
Beltways. This is a benefit for The Maryland Food Bank. Admission is FREE! with
a can of food ($5 W/O). www.themojobalto.com
Sat Dec 11 - The Jennifers perform at Talking Head
with Cementhead, Hockey Island, and Slot Racer
Fri Nov 19 through Sun Nov 21 -
MicroCineFest
Fri Nov 19, noon - Skizz will be on 88.1 FM WYPR's
"The Signal" program, talking about MicroCineFest. The show will be repeated at
7 PM
Wed Nov 17, 7:30 PM - Skizz will be on Maryland
Public Television's ARTWORKS THIS WEEK program, talking about MicroCineFest. The
show will be repeated Fri Nov 19 at 11:30 PM, and Sat Nov 20 at 9:00am
Sat Nov 13 - Marty's Card & Party Mart
(featuring David Cawley, Scott Wallace Brown, and Skizz) perform at Fraziers On
The Avenue, as part of Atomic Books' "I Hate The 80's" Night
Wed Nov 10 - Skizz performs solo at The Mojo,
along with Tippy Canoe, Jeff Lewis, The Blood Group (as Aircraft Totem), and
Langhorne Slim.
Wat Nov 6, noon, free - The Jennifers perform at
the Clean Air Festival (a benefit for the Clean Energy Partnership at Austin
Grill @ The Can Company, 2400 Boston Street, Baltimore, MD), along with Ellen
Cherry, Mike Holden, Rob Thorworth, The Barnburners, and June Star.
Sat Nov 6 - Skizz's films/videos show as part of
the CAmm Experimental Media Fest at The Patterson
Sat Oct 16 - The Awkward Sounds of Scott &
Skizz accompany Nora Lockshin in the Pigtown Pageant at The Third Annual Pigtown
Festival
Tue Oct 12 - The Awkward Sounds of Scott &
Skizz perform at The Mojo, opening for NEAL INNES!
Sept 23 - 26 - Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival
(Birmingham, Alabama)
Sat Sept 18 - The Jennifers perform at the Hampden
Fest, noon
Fri Aug 27 - Skizz performs solo (with Scott
Wallace Brown accompanying) at The Fez Under Time Café (NYC), as part of Dubya's
Ukulele Farewell Party thrown by Ukuleles For Sanity.
Sun July 25 - The Awkward Sounds of Scott &
Skizz perform and "Little Castles" screens as part of Family Fun Day at The
Patterson
Sat Jul 17 - "Damn You Mr. Bush" screens at The
Patterson
Sat July 10 - "Four Films In Five Minutes" screens
at the Wyman Park Outdoor Film Screening & BBQ
Fri July 9 - The Awkward Sounds of Scott &
Skizz perform at The Mojo, with Secret Crush Society, No More, and The
Vanishing
Sat July 3 - Garage Sale and The Jennifers perform
at the Atomic BBQ
Sat June 26 - The Awkward Sounds of Scott &
Skizz perform at the Mid-Atlantic Ukulele Invitational, along with The
Fleastompers, and Oh-Aloha.
June 11 - 20 - Atlanta Film Festival (Atlanta,
Georgia)
May 6 - 9 - Maryland Film Festival
May 6 - 9 - "Damn You Mr. Bush" screens at the
Boston Underground Film Festival (Boston, MA)
May 7 - "Damn You Mr. Bush" screens at The Stray
Show (Chicago, IL)
Sun May 2 - The Jennifers at the Pow Wow
Sat May 1 - The Awkward Sounds of Scott &
Skizz perform at Fraziers, as part of Atomic Books' Anniversary Party.
Sat April 24 - The Jennifers play The Mojo, with
E. Joseph and Gilmore
Thur April 8 - The Awkward Sounds of Scott &
Skizz perform at the Ottobar, as part of the Trixie Little & Friends Variety
Show.
Tue April 6 - "Four Films In Five Minutes" screens
at Visions (WDC)
Thur April 1 - The Vita-Men perform at The
Sidebar
Sat March 28 - The Awkward Sounds of Scott &
Skizz perform at an Animal Rescue benefit and flea market at Howard &
28th
Sat March 13 - The Jennifers perform at a
fundraiser party for the next film by Andy Bely (WDC)
Sat March 6 - The Jennifers perform at the Talking
Head as part of the Slow Jets' CD release party
Fri March 5 - The Awkward Sounds of Scott &
Skizz perfrom at the Patterson as part of the Comix Cabaret
Fri Feb 27 - The Vita-Men perform at
Fraziers
Tue Feb 24 - "Four Films In Five Minutes" screens
at the Blue Room (Adam's Morgan, WDC), as part of a fundraiser for Todd Rohal's
next film, The Guatelmalen Handshake.
Feb 19 - 22 - The Annapolis Reel Cinema Film
Festival (Annapolis, Maryland)
Thur Feb 5 - The Awkward Sounds of Scott &
Skizz open for The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players at The Recher
Theater
Fri Jan 30 - The Vita-Men perform at the Talking
Head
Jan 17 - 24 - The Slamdance Film Festival (Park
City, Utah)
Fri Jan 16 - "Little Castles" screens at The
Patterson
Sat July 19 - ALFRED JARRY & 'PATAPHYSICS screens as part of Secret Weave + the Shaking Ray Levi Society's DILATING NEXUS: BREATHING ARTIFACTS (Chattanooga, TN)
Thur Feb 13 - HIT & STAY screens at UMBC. 8pm in the Public Policy Building, FREE. (Facebook event page) POSTPONED DUE TO SNOW
- Mon Sept 2 - Big Labor Day shindig at Chez Forster/Feldman (San Francisco CA) 2-6PM
-Tue Sept 3 - Luigi's Fun Garden (Sacramento, CA) 9PM
-Wed Sept 4 - Radio performances on Radio Valencia (SF) 4-6PM and KFJC (Los Altos Hills) 10PM-3AM
-Thur Sept 5 - Luckey's Club Cigar Store (Eugene, OR) 10PM
-Fri Sept 6 - The Northern (Olympia, WA) 8PM
-Sat Sept 7 - The Charleston (Bremerton, WA) with The WHYWOLVES. 9PM
-Sun Sept 8 - The Church Of Rock And Roll at Slabtownl (Portland, OR) with Grand Style Orchestra 8PM
-Wed Sept 11 - Bruce Bowell's Wild Desert Hacienda (29 Palms, CA) 6PM-∞
-Thur Sept 12 - Radio performance on KCSB (Santa Barbara, CA) 10PM-12AM
-Fri Sept 13 - Record store performance at Grady's Record Refuge (Ventura, CA) 7-9PM; then live on KALX from 12-3AM.
-Sat Sept 14 - Starry Plough (Berkeley, CA) with The Chuckleberries 9PM
-Sun Sept 15 - The Three Rivers Bardic Arts Collective, Sacramento, CA
Fri & Sat Nov 16 & 17 - The Jennifers perform along with a whole bunch of great bands at Paul Collins' 2nd Power Pop-A-Licious music festival. (Asbury Park, NJ) POSTPONED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY
Fri Aug 3 -
The Jennifers with
Goodbye New Plans and Widows Watch (ex Pee-Tanks, Gamma Rays) at Metro Gallery.
Thur Nov 4 - Films by Skizz, plus The Go Pills perform as part of a multi-media variety show at Singers. event cancelled
8pm, Abbey Gallery, Harrisburg, PA .
(878 Peachtree Street - between 7th & 8th Streets), Atlanta, GA 30309, 404-875-1667, 8 PM, $5.
A retrospective spanning 1983 to present
At the American Film
Institute's Silver Theater in Silver
Spring, Maryland.
Included in the program:
- brand new works (MANAGERS
CORNER, GUMDROPS, and HAIR DRYER CHAIRS VERSION 2004);
- recent favorites
(DAMN YOU MR. BUSH!, STAR SPANGLED BABYDOLL, SHORT FICTION IN 99 WORDS OR
LESS);
- classics (FOUR FILMS IN FIVE MINUTES, a newly restored BAD ALIENS
FROM ANOTHER PLANET);
- no-budget music videos from Berserk, Meatjack, Young
Fresh Fellows, Blister Freak Circus, and Gneebnazix;
- plus more rarely seen
student films and general works of cinematic oddness!!!
For more info or to
purchase advance tickets, click
here