If you are in the NY area, you will not want to miss tomorrow night’s Mermaids of NY event. In fact, it’s a critic’s pick in Time Out New York, this week!

Bambi The Mermaid looks across the hudson to the shores of Jersey city.

If you are in NYC, next week, come join the Mermaids of New York for a screening and happy hour!

Mermaids of New York Happy Hour Screening
Thursday, July 7th 6:30pm
R-Bar 218 Bowery St. New York, NY

We’ll be showing some of our documentary film and toasting to all the mermaids of new york and beyond.
Plus we’ll be raffling off some fabulous prizes with from our amazing friends Bambi The Mermaid, Carolyn Turgeon, La Sirena (Mexican Arts & Crafts), Sourpuss Clothing, A.V….

What a week for Mermaids of New York! We had our first non-Coney Island screening, last week. Thanks to the lovely folks at Northside Fest and Union Docs for making that happen, it was truly an awesome night! Photos to come.

And Mermaids ruled the city at Coney Island Mermaid fest on Saturday, we even got a shout out from Gothamist!

But wait.. there’s more, the opportunities to get in on the Mermania continue….

We invite you join us for a special siren happy hour/screening/fundraiser…

Wanted to share with you an incredible performance that Dame Darcy gave for us on a rooftop in Chinatown, NYC. In this clip she sings the traditional sea chanty, Greenland Whale Fisheries and plays the saw, accompanied by her sailor/rocker friend Peter Mavrogeorgis.

Darcy is a historian of many fantastic things and she brings this knowledge to her work in comics and music. She recorded an entire album of traditional sea shanties and murder ballads Cabin Fever, with…

Being a Mermaid is not just fun and games, many we have encountered use their mermaid powers to raise awareness about the crucial environmental issue of protecting the earth’s water and its lifeforms. Makes sense, right?!

In this clip from Mermaids of New York, Mara Haseltine, environmental activist and sculptor talks passionately about why she does what she does.

Hard not to care, when you put it that way!

Mermaid Hannah, another professional mermaid, even started a…

Mermaids convene all the time, often in small groups, sometimes to conspire, but mostly to make merry!

We recently had the pleasure of spending time with writer and fellow mermaid documenter, Carolyn Turgeon. A real, Mermaid of New York, she recently published a brand new re-telling of the classic Hans Christian Anderson story The Little Mermaid, and has been traveling all over, interviewing, everyone about mermaids on her blog, I Am A Mermaid.

As the photo below demonstrates, we had a…

The Brooklyn Babydoll and Bambi The Mermaid pose with Mermaids of New York filmmaker, The Lady Aye at this years Coney Island Film Fest.

Can you hear the mermaids, screening? We were thrilled to premiere Mermaids of New York at one of the mermaid meccas, Coney
Island!

Stay tuned for more screening events…