Saturday and Sunday July 27-28, 2013 1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.   118 West 18th Street, Room 505 New York, NY 10011   The Bartitsu Club of NYC presents the Third Annual Antagonistics Weekend       additional details about the curriculum will be posted on June 1 Learn about 19th century fighting arts in North America in both the cities and the frontier. Topics include the early 19th-century Bowie knife and how it got its name, and the fierce Irish faction fighting of the mid-19th century - the infamous "Gangs of New York." No martial arts experience required. A study in self-defense and in history!