THIRD THURSDAYS | PUNK NITE

6:00 PM Doors Open
6:15–7:15 PM Drinks, music, photos, & temporary tattoos
7:20 PM  Introduction by Associate Curator of New Media
7:30 PM Timed screening (85 minutes)
8:55 PM Awards for Most Punk Best Dressed

Join us at The Bass for a FREE night of anti-establishment film, fashion, and music for Third Thursday | Punk Nite, featuring Charles Atlas: Hail the New Puritan.

Enjoy complimentary cocktails, music, photo ops, temporary tattoos, a timed screening of Hail the New Puritan, and prizes for Best Dressed punk attire.

Hail the New Puritan (1985–86) by Charles Atlas is a mockumentary of a day in the life of Scottish choreographer and dancer Michael Clark. The underground subcultures explored in the film—from club scenes to experimental performance—resonate with the personal expression and social defiance of 1980s punk. Heavy guitar riffs by experimental post-punk band The Fall provide the soundtrack to Atlas’s visual language, attuning to the energies, fashions, and anti-establishment codes of the British underground movement. Fusing classical ballet with the raw vitality of punk, post-punk, and queer subcultures, Hail the New Puritan broke new ground by exploring the politics of style and capturing the spirit of the rebellious cultural shift taking place in mid-1980s London.

This event is 21+. FREE with RSVP. Limited seating, first-come first served.

Learn more about Charles Atlas: Hail the New Puritan, now on view at The Bass, HERE.