| Ask The Experts: Corinna Mantlo - Live on Zoom! This Wednesday, February 17, 7pm, ET
 The Wall of Death is a vintage live action thrill show featuring a silo-shaped wooden cylinder 30 feet in diameter. Inside this “drome”, motorcycle daredevils travel along the vertical wall performing trick, fancy, and acrobatic riding. MotorDromes started in the carnivals and fairs of America (including Coney Island) - when entertainment was live and in person. Today, the American Motor Drome Company strives to keep this bit of history alive by traveling the United States, performing the show as it would have been 100 years ago. In this talk, Corinna will discuss the myth and mystery of the origins of the first true Wall Of Death. As with much carnival history, the truth is somewhere entwined within a hundred tall tales, and the hunt to unravel these tales—including one placing it in Coney Island—is really the best part! Corinna Mantlo is the founder and lead designer at Via Meccanica, creating unique motorcycle seat restorations for some the most well known custom motorcycles in the world. Corinna has appeared on BBC, CNN, Talking Motorcycles with Barry Boone, and has been featured in the New York Times, New York Post, Time Out New York, Nativen, Rolling Stone Italia, Cafe Racer Magazine, and countless other publications. She also curates, produces, and advises on the production of media, art, and film events around the world and has been hailed as one of the “leading female experts of the custom and vintage motorcycle community.” Tickets are only $5 and support the Museum and Arts programming at Coney Island USA! Click here to purchase! Ticket sales end on Wednesday, February 17th at 5pm, ET. A Zoom link to join us online, will be emailed day of the event. | Ask The Experts: David Godlis - Live on Zoom! Wednesday, February 24, 7pm, ET
 When he is on the street armed with his camera, photographer David Godlis describes himself as ‘a gunslinger and a guitar picker all in one.’ Ever since he bought his first 35mm camera in 1970, Godlis has made it his mission to capture the world on film just as it appears to him in reality. Godlis is most famous for his images of the city’s punk scene and serving as the unofficial official photographer for the Film Society of Lincoln Center. For 40 years, his practice has also consisted of walking around the streets of New York City and shooting whatever catches his eye: midnight diner patrons, stoop loiterers, commuters en route to the nearest subway station. With an acute sense of both humor and pathos, Godlis frames everyday events in a truly arresting manner. His current book, GODLIS STREETS, presents Godlis best street photography from the 1970s, in a succinct celebration of New York’s past. The book is introduced by an essay written by cultural critic Luc Sante and closes with an afterword written by Blondie cofounder and guitarist Chris Stein. IG: @GODLIS Tickets are only $5 and support the Museum and Arts programming at Coney Island USA! Click here to purchase! Ticket sales end on Wednesday, February 24th at 5pm, ET. A Zoom link to join us online, will be emailed day of the event. | Ask The Experts: Reid Mitenbuler - Live on Zoom! Wednesday, March 3, 7pm, ET
 Reid Mitenbuler is the author of Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries that Inspired the Golden Age of Animation and Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America's Whiskey. His other writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Air Mail, Slate, and The Daily Beast, among other publications. Tickets are only $5 and support the Museum and Arts programming at Coney Island USA! Click here to purchase! Ticket sales end on Wednesday, March 3rd at 5pm, ET. A Zoom link to join us online, will be emailed day of the event. | | |