Tonight, we host this month’s @communityskillshare, with a very special guest, Justin Carter, resident DJ and mind behind Nowadays, for an intimate talk on How To Run An Intentional Nightlife Space. Justin Carter is a DJ and musician with almost thirty years of experience in underground nightlife. In his early teens, Justin attended punk shows at makeshift venues in his small town, graduating to playing in bands in high school. Arriving in NYC in the late 90s, he started performing at and putting on shows and parties in the early Brooklyn DIY scene, starting to DJ in 2003. He soon became a resident DJ, booking person and the label manager at Nublu and the Music Director and a resident DJ at APT, two of the last bastions of underground dance music in the wake of 9/11 and the 90s culture wars and Giuliani crackdowns. Between 2009 and 2011, he and fellow DJ Eamon Harkin co-founded Mister Saturday Night and Mister Sunday, parties that happened mostly in friends’ loft spaces and back yards. In 2015, spurred by a need for more permanent space for their own parties as well as a desire to create space for the larger nightlife community, they opened Nowadays. Justin continues to DJ regularly at and co-run the operations of Nowadays to this day. For this iteration of Community Skillshare, Justin will share practical and esoteric knowledge around intentional space making in nightlife, whether those spaces are one-off events, event series, DIY venues or “legal” venues. He’ll cover some basics around safety, finances, sound, licensing and communication, and he’ll stick around to answer questions at the end, followed by an open decks to close the night. The event is free and open to all ages. We’re open now for food and drinks, program starts at 8pm.