Visit Howlarts.org on Thursday, January 28, 2021 from 12 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. to watch the Full Moon Show!

The holidays are over, with their joy and tinsel and string lights. A new year dawns and the streets are littered with the skeletons of 7-year-olds. Some five-feet, six-feet, seven-feet tall, dried and discarded, with a few silvery wisps, uprooted and present-less. Once majestically decorated and well-lit, now nobody cares about January’s Skeletons…

  …until John Pizza comes along and scoops them up.

Join John Pizza for his newest full-moon performance documentary, January’s Skeletons. Watch as he collects, processes, and hangs up the delicate trunks of our joyful past. With installation help from fellow artist Everett Brown, he will create a fleeting sculpture. A jangling set of bones to face the winter.

John Pizza is a performer, builder, and drawer. He uses trash and thrift-store detritus scrounged in his Brooklyn neighborhood to tell stories and make his shows. He loves the macabre and the mushy sweet. His sculptures are performative, and his performances involve sculptures—an object theatre of weird surprises. 

About Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show

Performance is anything done with purpose and style. —Tom Murrin

Howl! Happening is home to the archive of Tom Murrin, aka the Alien Comic and the Godfather of Performance Art. Every full moon—without fail, paid booking or not, in all seasons and whatever the weather—he performed his Luna Macaroona Full Moon Show. When he had a club date that fell on the full moon, he’d wrangle his friends to perform as guests—pushing the careers of such groundbreaking performers as David Cale, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Blue Man Group, Ethyl Eichelberger, Lisa Kron, and many others. When he didn’t have a club date, he performed on the street for passersby, transforming the pedestrian atmosphere with his madness and magic.