Eris

From itinerant parties to Graham Avenue

For years, under the Eris Revolution label, the name traveled through New York as a trance production company: nights at Santos Party House, Pacha, or The Paper Box, without a venue of its own. In September 2018, that trajectory settled at 167 Graham Avenue, in Williamsburg. Jon Corbett—the DJ and producer Affection—and Galatea Stone converted a building that had been an art deco theater and, later, The Love Chapel church, into an exposed-brick venue. Today, it is also managed by Polina Buckley, co-owner and creative director, who has shaped the walls, lights, and atmosphere with the skill of a set designer: the room feels staged like a set and inhabited like a backstage.

Funktion-One and the legacy of Output

the space totals over 5,000 square feet across two floors, each with a licensed bar. Upstairs, you enter through a rotating art gallery toward a wooden dance floor and a 23 by 15-foot stage with a sprung floor. The main system is a four-point Funktion-One: Resolution 1.5, F215 and F218 subwoofers, F1201 monitors, and F81/F55 fill in the gallery and bar. Downstairs, Buckley's Champagne Lounge leads into the Techno Lounge, designed with a Berlin club vibe. There, another four-point Funktion-One plays—Resolution 1.5TT, F88, BR121, and Infrabass—with speakers salvaged from the Output mezzanine. Between both floors, the venue boasts 24 Funktion-One speakers, with Pioneer CDJ-3000 and Technics SL-1200.

Comedy at dusk, electronic music at dawn

Eris does not open on a fixed commercial schedule: it operates according to programming. Six nights a week, it hosts comedy from the Brooklyn Comedy Collective before 10:00 PM; afterward, external promoters and the venue itself fill the dance floors. Wednesdays feature Open Decks, a session open to all genres and one of the longest-running in Brooklyn. The musical menu ranges from the original trance to analog techno, house, and live bands, with burlesque and exhibitions in the same house. The venue presents itself as a platform for local artists, with biannual art grants and daily use that mixes stage, dance floor, and gallery without pretending to be an open-door nightclub every day.