Independent Promotions,
Event Coordination:
Rock Concerts, Dance Parties, Art Exhibitions,
Film Festivals, Presentations,
& Performances
Film Festivals, Presentations,
& Performances
Andy P. Smith, event coordinator
For 10 years I have worked as an independent event coordinator and promotional force for hire.
I have always strived to create unique events and cultural happenings to showcase talented artists and partners in the best possible environments.
Clients and Partners:
Colt 45
The L Magazine
The Brooklyn Salsa Company
MyOpenBar
Capcom
Heineken
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Brooklyn Underground Film Festival
Newtown Radio
The Yard
Pratt Institute
Northside Festival
Bowery Presents
Promotion Monikers:
Chief Magazine / Records
Bodega
KnifeFight
AP Smith NYC
NYC Venues:
The Music Hall of Williamsburg
Piano’s
Santo’s Party House
Glasslands
Coco 66
Death By Audio
Shea Stadium
Silent Barn
Public Assembly
171 Lombardy
Pete’s Candy Store
The Arm
Legion
IndieScreen
3rd Ward
Quit Your Day Job: Young,
Brooklyn Entrepreneurs in Discussion
Andy P. Smith,
event coordinator, videographer
(You Are All You Need production)
This event and documentary video, commissioned by the Williamsburg coworking space, The Yard, featured four successful business owners (start-Âups, impresarios, movers and shakers) presenting their companies and concepts before a seated audience. These four entrepreneurs told the story of their businesses and quite candidly explained how they were able to… quit their day jobs.
Featured business owners:
Firat Parlak
F&T Creative – Boutique Design Agency
Katie Klencheski
SM&KK Studios – Creative Services Group
Jen Dunlap
Art Director
Rob Behnke
CEO of The Brooklyn Salsa Company
Q&A and wine reception followed the presentations.
Hosted and filmed in The Yard’s relaxed open-Âspace lobby, this event was free to the public aiming to inspire and encourage our entrepreneurial community to meet, mingle and exchange ideas.
Open Air Modern
Design Events Series:
Lectures, Discussions,
Film Screenings
(2010)
Andy P. Smith, Event Coordinator
I worked as event coordinator and curator at Open Air Modern, a rare monograph and Danish modern furniture shop in Williamsburg. Collaborating with the owner, I organized discussions and film screenings relevant to the shop’s large inventory. Each week I coordinated and hosted a unique, free event for seated audiences in the 2,000sq.ft. showroom. I secured press listings for the events, designed and distributed both digital and print promotions, and moderated event discussions and Q&As.
“To Inform And Delight”, Milton Glaser documentary with post-screening discussions lead by archivist Beth Kleber and coordinator Zachary Sachs of The Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives.
“Public Discourse”, street art documentary followed by a Q&A with cinematographer Quenell Jones, artist Leon Reid IV, and author Ed Zipco.
“By Its Cover: Modern American book Cover Design” slideshow presentation and discussion with authors and Rutgers Professors Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger.
“Is Digital Enough?” A panel discussion on the changing nature of how we read, process and share ideas. Moderated by Andy P. Smith, panelists include Jon Beacham (The Brother in Elysium), Catherine Krudy (Printed Matter), Grant Lyons (GreenerMags) and Peter Costanzo (F+W Media).
New York Magazine: “The Williamsburg antiquary Open Air Modern continues its weekly Spring Design Events Series tonight with a screening of the Milton Glaser–dedicated documentary To Inform and Delight. Join fellow Glaser fans for drinks as you peruse the store’s midcentury-modern stock and toast the designer behind the iconic I ♥ NY campaign.”
Flavorpill: “Open Air Modern presents a free screening of Public Discourse, a film that explores the practice of producing illegal installation art. Painting street signs, manipulating advertising, postering, and guerrilla art, are some of the subversive tactics of the passionate artists profiled in this film who oppose the systemic structures imposed by galleries and museums for the viewing, appreciation, and contextualization of art. This experimental film, shot in Brooklyn, captures the artists’ personal and public moments on compact mini-dv and video 8 cameras in the creation of an art form that has become a way of life for many artists.”
KnifeFight
Events, Video, Tattoos (2010-2011)
Andy P. Smith, Creative Director
Through 2010, I worked as Creative Director and Events Manager under the brand KnifeFight producing events and films both as a one-man promoter as well as collaborator with companies like the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Colt 45, IVANAHelsinki, GreenOwl Records, Newtown Radio, and Project Fathom.
I focused on creating art happenings with live music and DJs in unconventional venues throughout NYC: free tattoo parties in SoHo storefronts, punk rock BBQs on Brooklyn warehouse rooftops, weekend music festivals with free beers for guests who rode their bicycles to the venue…
I chose to close KnifeFight with the screening and free distribution of the short documentary KnifeFight: No Rules. Developing KnifeFight as a brand lead to a fully fledged business plan for my M.S. in Publishing capstone at New York University (2010).
Rules? In a KnifeFight? No Rules.
KnifeFight: No Rules (2010)
As reviewed by The Village Voice: “KnifeFight: No Rules is a short film about a crazy-ass show that went on in a Greenpoint warehouse this past February. Put on by the eponymous KnifeFight — the party-throwing moniker of Andy P. Smith, ex-Chief Magazine engine who also ran the dearly departed, DIY space Bodega — the two-night affair at 171 Lombardy starred the usual crust-crunk suspects: Japanther, The Death Set, Cerebral Ballsy, Boogie Boarder and Murdertronics. Creative debauchery aside, KnifeFight: No Rules works as a testament of another determined set of people taking matters into their own hands.”
“These bands define the Brooklyn scene. And this party defines DIY craziness in all its glory.”
SoHo Gold Button Launch and Tattoo Party (2010)
“Everything you expect from a good party: vodka, cheap tattoos, fancy buttons, and bands with names evoking dirt and death.” -FlavorpillÂ