BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Howl! Arts - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Howl! Arts X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.howlarts.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Howl! Arts REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20220505T163812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T163930Z UID:10000637-1652468400-1652475600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:LiVE MAG! No. 18 A Journal of Art and PoetryThe EDGY ISSUE DESCRIPTION:HOWL! HAPPENING PRESENTS Another in the long line of fabulous celebrations of LIVE MAG! and its contributors Join us for a night of Howling Fun as we celebrate the 18th issue of the edgiest magazine East of the Pecos. With Legends and Downtown royalty: Andrei Codrescu of NPR notoriety\, Bowery Poetry Club’s Bob Holman\, and radical deconstructionist photographer and Howl! artist Gail Thacker. Plus award-winning translator and poet brilliante\, Mr. Smoothie\, Vincent Katz! Paragon of Gen Noo; Elizabeth Guthrie; and the poetic pile-driver\, Ama Birch. Photo kaliedoplosions by photographer and filmmaker Luigi Cazzaniga. With Live Mag! Deputy Editor\, Ilka Scobie\, LIVE’s token socialite. Hosted by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright\, aka Uncle Fun\, joined by Contributing Editor and Designer Lori Ortiz. \nWith \nAma Birch\nLuigi Cazzaniga\nAndrei Codrescu\nElizabeth Guthrie\nVincent Katz\nBob Holman\nGail Thacker \n\nHosted by \nJeffrey Cyphers Wright\, \nEditor and Publisher\nIlka Scobie\, Deputy Editor\nLori Ortiz\, Designer and Contributing Editor \nwww.livemag.org URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/live-mag-no-18-a-journal-of-art-and-poetrythe-edgy-issue/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Performance,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Clowning-Around.jpeg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T190000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20220505T023233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220617T181756Z UID:10000622-1652464800-1652468400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Margaret RandallReading and Book Signing DESCRIPTION:Howl! Happening is pleased to present Margaret Randall\, a longtime friend of the gallery and revered feminist poet\, essayist\, translator\, photographer\, and social activist. Coming from her home in Albuquerque to New York\, we are excited to host her in celebration of her two new books–Artists in My Life and Risking a Somersault in the Air\, both published by New Village Press. \nArtists in My Life is a collection of intimate and conversational accounts of the visual artists that have impacted the renowned poet activist Margaret Randall on her own journey as an artist. Randall writes of each relationship through multiple lenses: as makers of art\, social commentators\, women in a world dominated by male values\, and in solitude or collaboration with communities and the larger artistic arena. Each story offers insight into the artist’s life and work and analyses the impact it had on Randall’s own work and its impact on the larger art community. The work strives to answer bigger questions about visual art as a whole and its lasting political influence on the world stage. \nAmong those playing major roles in the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution were many of the nation’s leading poets and writers. First published in 1983\, Risking a Somersault in the Air is a collection of interviews with fourteen of Nicaragua’s most important writers/revolutionaries. Filling in the gaps with new photographs and updates on the writers in the time since the original edition\, the book looks at the sacrifices\, conflicts\, and solutions of the creative artists of Nicaragua’s revolution. \nAbout Margaret Randall \nMargaret Randall is a feminist poet\, essayist\, translator\, photographer\, and social activist. A New York native\, she lived among the city’s abstract expressionists in the 1950s\, Mexico in the ‘60s\, Cuba in the ‘70s\, and Nicaragua in the ‘80s. She returned to the US in 1984 only to fight deportation due to the controversial content of her books. She is the founder and former editor of the bilingual literary journal El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn\, which started an iconic bridge between cultures in the 1960s. She has more than 150 published books in several genres. \n  URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/margaret-randallreading-and-book-signing/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Happening Soon,Performance,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/margaret-Randall-by-Magdalena-Lily-McCarson.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220430T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220430T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20220423T190838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220617T182338Z UID:10000620-1651345200-1651352400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Kerouac Festival DESCRIPTION:6th New York Edition\nPoetry | Music | Performance \nPoetry mixes with music in this meeting of poetic voices from both sides of the Atlantic. A cultural synergy that works as a communicating vessel between cities and that takes musicians and poets from one continent to another\, with artistic collaborations that enrich the poetic language and its expansion towards the stage\, either as a play\, classical reading or in concert. of pop and hip-hop. \nPOETS FROM SPAIN MEET POETS FROM NEW YORK\nAnne Waldman\nFátima Delgado\nMalvares\nLupita Hard\nMarcos de la Fuente \n\nMore info: \nwww.festivalkerouac.com \nhttps://www.instagram.com/kerouacfestival/ \nhttps://www.facebook.com/festivalkerouac URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/kerouac-festival/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Performance,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/KEROUACNY-2022HOWLPOSTER-14-scaled.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T190000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20220405T175044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220428T212559Z UID:10000624-1651258800-1651258800@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:A Wolf Inside:Natives\, Nuyoricans\, and the Beats DESCRIPTION:A film by Sandra Hale Schulman and Damian Rojo \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present the world premiere screening of A Wolf Inside: Natives\, Nuyoricans\, and the Beats\, a documentary film by Sandra Hale Schulman and Damian Rojo featuring the Native American poet Diane Burns\, Joy Harjo\, Allen Ginsberg\, Bob Holman\, Pedro Pietri. A panel discussion with poets Bob Holman of Bowery Poetry and Chavisa Woods\, executive director of A Gathering of the Tribes follows the screening. \nIn the mid-1980s\, Native poet Diane Burns\, whose searing words cut through the noise of the Santa Fe reservations and New York City’s Lower East Side\, took a once in a lifetime trip to Nicaragua with the Father of the Beats\, Allen Ginsberg. \nOrganized by Bob Holman of the Bowery Poetry\, a group of indigenous poets joined them\, including future Poet Laureate of the U.S. Joy Harjo\, and Nuyorican Poets Café member Pedro Pietri. \nDeep in the heart of the jungle\, it was a rollicking event filled with love\, poetry\, revolution\, and the search for identity in a time of radical changes in the Americas. \nWith narration by award-winning musician and Navajo activist Jeneda Benally\, interviews and performances from Diane Burns\, Allen Ginsberg\, Bob Holman\, and Joy Harjo; and never before seen archival photos from Joy Harjo\, Ilka Hartmann and Patrick Warner. \nBurns (Chemehuevi and Anishinabe) is currently featured in Greater New York at MoMA PS1. “A 1989 video of poet Diane Burns reciting a punk poem on the Lower East Side crackles with humor around Indigenous politics\, gentrification and displacement” says Marth Schwendener in her New York Times review of the show. Stills from the film debuted in the exhibit. \nA Gathering of the Tribes\, the poetry salon Burns was an original member of\, is currently featured in the Whitney Biennial “Quiet as its Kept.”  \nAs understanding of Native Americans in the arts deepens\, and the legacy of the Beat Poets is celebrated\, this archival documentary tells the story of what happened when those cultures clashed and sparked a revolution with poetry at its center. \n\nAbout Sandra Hale Schulman and Damian Rojo \nSandra Hale Schulman is an author of four books\, has contributed to shows at the Museum of Modern Art\, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian\, The Grammy Museum\, The Queens Museum\, and has produced four films on Native musicians. Her work has appeared in Billboard\, Variety\, Rolling Stone\, The New York Daily News\, and Entertainment Weekly. She appears regularly on PBS Indian Country Today Newscast. \nDamian Rojo is an art director\, set designer\, production designer\, filmmaker\, artist and sound designer. He debuted a film on Tomata du Plenty at Howl in 2017. He was art director for MTV U.S. and Latino\, stage sets and ad campaigns for personalities Grace Jones\, David Byrne\, and Calvin Klein. He has created videos for Coca Cola\, US / Brazil\, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts\, The de la Cruz Collection\, the Lowe Art Museum\, Miami\, Digital Images Visual Arts\, Experimental Works\, Taipei\, Taiwan. \n  \nKey Image: Pedro Pietri\, Bob Holman\, Allen Ginsberg\, Diane Burns\, Joy Harjo\, Carlos Rigby. Photo by Ilka Hartmann URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/a-wolf-insidenatives-nuyoricans-and-the-beats/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Pedro-Pietri-Bob-Holman-Allen-Ginsberg-Diane-Burns-Joy-Harjo-Carlos-Rigby-photo-Ilka-Hartmann_web.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T150000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20220327T155020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220412T182305Z UID:10000625-1650726000-1650726000@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:HA/HA PRESENTS Female Genius Live DESCRIPTION:Howl Arts/Howl Archive is delighted to present a live performance by Female Genius\, the trio of multi-instrumentalists Julie Hair\, Marnie Jaffe\, and Nikki D’Agostino in concert. The performance will include pieces from their recent vinyl released on Howl! Records\, as well as new material. They will be joined by surprise guests in their orbit.  \nThe band’s collective\, intuitive spirit is expressed in this artistic statement: \nWe\, as Female Genius\, work outside of the typical\, striving to create connections through chance\, habit\, and the subconscious. Our work is structured yet amorphous\, flippant yet potent\, disquieting but nourishing. \nOur “musicality” is not the connective tissue that keeps us together as a music making collective. Rather\, we draw on friendship\, respect\, and shared history to express and understand our place in this world. \nPerformance art and indeterminacy find a place here. The chance element of this event will affect us as well as the audience.  We will become an audience to ourselves. \nAbout Julie Hair  \n \nIn an artistic practice spanning decades\, Julie Hair explores personal and political issues such mental illness\, addiction and the military industrial complex through varied materials and mediums ranging from screen printed wallpaper to metal work and video. In her first year in New York she created an installation for the pivotal Times Square Show\, followed by a guerrilla installation with David Wojnarowicz that included bloody cow bones in the stairwell of the Leo Castelli gallery. She also worked with Lucy Lippard and others to create P.A.D.D – the pre-digital Political Art Documentation and Distribution archive for political art. \nJulie began experimenting with music in the 1980s with the art rock band 3 TEENS KILL 4 and decided that this form of expression would work for her\, having the added benefit of not filling up her tiny East Village apartment. She continued to create and play music with diverse outfits like anarcho-post-punk marching band\, The Hungry March Band and Glen Branca. She currently plays with and writes for Isolation Society and Female Genius and others and makes art for art’s sake\, as well as videos\, props and merch for her projects.  \nAbout Marnie Jaffe \n \nMarnie Jaffe (nee Greenholz) has been involved in the New York City and Brooklyn art community since 1978\, when she moved to attend graduate film school at NYU. She collaborated with dancers and musicians designing multi-projector slide installations at clubs and art venues including the Kitchen\, The Collective for Living Cinema\, Danceteria\, The Pyramid Club and Limelight. From 1980 until 1988 she played bass and sang with the alternative (noise) band Live Skull. She co-wrote songs for the band and released albums on the labels Homestead and Caroline Records. \nIn 1993 she moved to Cincinnati and had her daughter Noa. She also became the founding member/bass player of The Fairmount Girls and put out the record Seven seconds from anywhere\, as well as winning best local band for 2 years in a row from the Cincinnati Enquirer. \nShe received her MFA in Performance and Interdisciplinary Media in the Arts (PIMA) from Brooklyn College in 2017 and along with artist/musician Julie Hair\, she started the art rock band Female Genius. She currently continues to work as a teaching artist and is recognized as a creative force. \nAbout Nikki D’Agostino \n \nNikki D’Agostino is an award-winning “wildly creative” composer\, musician\, conductor\, educator\, and multi-disciplinary artist\, Nikki D’Agostino has both performed and had her works performed nationally and internationally. She received her B.A. from The University of North Texas in 2004 after studying with Joseph Klein\, Phil Winsor\, and Joseph “Butch” Rovan\, before pursuing her M.M. in Music Composition (2008) at CUNY Brooklyn College to study with Amnon Wolman and George Brunner. \nAs an educator\, Ms. D’Agostino has given lectures on topics ranging from musicology to performance practice as well as holding a position as an Adjunct Professor at CUNY New York City College of Technology in the Emerging Media program. Compositionally\, Nikki is currently focused on publishing a book of scores and recording an album of works using a notation system she developed to allow both performer and composer/conductor creative control. As a “beautifully brash” saxophonist\, synthesizer enthusiast\, and sound artist\, Nikki performs actively in the NYC music scene in several groups ranging in style from indie pop to harsh noise. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/ha-ha-presents-female-genius-live/ LOCATION:HA/HA\, 250 Bowery\, 2nd Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States CATEGORIES:HAHA,Happening Soon,Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Event-Key-Image.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220416 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220417 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20220414T180445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T181650Z UID:10000623-1650067200-1650153599@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:The Full Moon Show with John PizzaYou Can't Grow Down DESCRIPTION:Visit Howlarts.org on Saturday\, April 16\, 2022\, from 12 AM to 11:59 PM to watch the Full Moon Show! \nThe Full Moon Show: A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Presents John Pizza’s You Can’t Grow Down \n  I recently had a big birthday. One of those nice round number ones\, the kind that officially takes you squarely from one decade and tosses you up a bracket to the next age tier. You’ve experienced it. If not you will. Sure as the full moon and the bones in your body\, you will. \nJoin John Pizza for You Cant Grow Down\, a reflection on the universal experience of growing up\, inwards\, diagonalwise\, and all around. \nJohn 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. \n\nAbout Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show \nPerformance is anything done with purpose and style—Tom Murrin \nHowl! 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. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/the-full-moon-show-with-john-pizzahead-dread-2/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Off-site ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Full-Moon-Show_Apr-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220319 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20220315T202234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220315T205222Z UID:10000626-1647561600-1647647999@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:The Full Moon Show with John PizzaHead Dread DESCRIPTION:Visit Howlarts.org on Friday\, March 18\, 2022\, from 12 AM to 11:59 PM to watch the Full Moon Show! \nThe Full Moon Show: A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Presents John Pizza’s Head Dread \nI haven’t cut my hair for the whole pandemic. Well\, I’ve shaved my beard and trimmed my ear hair. But my head hair\, I just let it grow out. Down my back\, all long and crispy\, swirling it up like a big nest in a bun. Every day like a shield. Tonight though\, I’m getting it cut\, whether it’s a good idea or not… \nJohn 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. \n\nAbout Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show \nPerformance is anything done with purpose and style—Tom Murrin \nHowl! 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. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/the-full-moon-show-with-john-pizzahead-dread/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Off-site ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Full-Moon-Show-March_web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220226 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220411 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20220106T201510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220611T172918Z UID:10000632-1645833600-1649635199@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Mark Cooper Unbounded: Angels in the Nursery DESCRIPTION:►\n Explore 3D Space \n \n \n \n Mark Cooper Unbounded: Angels in the Nursery\n \n \n \n\nHowl! Happening is pleased to present Mark Cooper’s fantastical and ornate mixed-media installation Unbounded: Angels in the Nursery. The installation uses visual signifiers to suggest multiple subtexts—from the importance of experiencing boundless joy to addressing the many issues that challenge our present and our future.  \nThe wildly diverse elements of this immersive experiential artwork are composed of an equally colorful array of materials that create the gestalt of the installation. The component parts reference the beauty and unpredictability of nature and reflect Cooper’s diverse influences\, from art and cultural history to biology\, architecture\, and cross-cultural exchange. \nThe biomorphic wooden sculptural forms suggest curio cabinets gone wild. The same shapes and images reappear in the quirky ceramic vessels and figures\, and in the paintings and rice-paper relief forms on the wall that incorporate photographic and printed imagery tucked into their many layers. Considering this riot of shapes and colors and materials in relationship to each other\, the notion of a singular genius moment is called into question\, and the viewer experiences a series of moments and events that form the foundation for bringing new ideas to the conversation and questioning the hierarchy of value. \n“I am interested in the conversation between the parts serving as triggers for individual viewer associations rather than presenting a linear narrative\,” says Cooper. “My work is based on collaboration and the idea that ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’—using collage\, assemblage\, and installation as a metaphor for working together in a complex world.” \nIn creating the individual components in collaboration with others and in collaboration with the materials themselves—responding to how they bend and fold—unexpected outcomes arise in the same way that bringing individuals from different disciplines together can lead to solutions beyond one specific approach. \n“It is like an improvisational jazz piece\,” says Cate McQuaid\, writing in the Boston Globe. The conceptual framework brings individual voices together and references cultures and philosophies that allude to unbounded possibilities\, joy\, and love. A place of wonder and humanity\, the installation is a reminder for all of us to be our best selves and to work together to heal our planet.   \nCooper is an internationally recognized artist known for large-scale and site-specific installations and public commissions. His commissions include works for the Boston Children’s Hospital\, Boston Medical Center\, and Massachusetts Cultural Council; he has received a Gund Grant\, Daynard Grant\, and an Open Society Fellowship. In July 2020\, Cooper completed three permanent large-scale marble sculptures for the Da Nang Fine Arts Museum in Vietnam. In 2006\, he authored Making Art Together through Beacon Press. \nCooper’s major exhibitions include shows at the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum; Vietnam University of Fine Arts; Da Nang Fine Arts Museum; Rough Point Museum—Doris Duke Mansion; Yuandian Art Museum; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art\, Kansas City; Lesley University\, Cambridge\, MA; Street Museum\, Seoul\, Korea; Whitney Museum at Philip Morris; Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston; ICA Boston; Corcoran Gallery of Art; The Butler Institute of American Art; Peabody Essex Museum; DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum; City Museum of Paris; and WestLicht Museum\, Vienna. The artist has had more than 100 solo and group shows combined. \nVisitation Guidelines \n  URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/mark-cooper-unbounded-angels-in-the-nursery/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery,Happening Soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IMG_2164-scaled.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220225T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220225T170000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20210304T152928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210427T171528Z UID:10000569-1645776000-1645808400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Making Personal Mandalas With Ed Woodham DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/howlathome-making-personal-mandalas/ LOCATION:NY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Ed-Woodham_Mandala-2.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T200000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20220105T212520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T174759Z UID:10000629-1645560000-1645560000@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Janie Heath &Friends DESCRIPTION:Every Tuesday in February on Howlarts.org! \nFebruary 1\, 8\, 15\, and 22\, 2022 at 8 PM \nExpect the spontaneity of a party when Howl Arts gives Janie Heath an open channel to introduce her work and that of some of her fascinating friends. Heath hosts the &Friends series every Tuesday in February. Howl’s signature &Friends programs feature weekly shows curated by one notable creator—with the voices\, commentary\, music\, art\, films\, and writing of friends they work with and admire. \nI wish I could give out refreshments through the screen! Seriously\, I think of this event like a party. I know Howl viewers are interesting\, unconventional\, talented people. It is as if I am saying\, ‘You remember this person\, and you have wanted to meet this person\, and you will just love this person\, and wait—look who just flew in from out of town!’\n —Janie Heath \nLike an old-fashioned TV variety show\, Heath will showcase writers\, musicians\, and others who express their own unique qualities through a diverse but contemporary range of work. “The emphasis is on literature\, but anything might happen with this crowd\,” she says.  \nJoining her on the program are friends Rhona Bitner\, Tom Cole\, Maggie Dubris\, Leah Hennessey\, Wanda Phipps\, Kid Congo Powers\, Gregg Shapiro\, Philip Shelley\, and Dana Wachs.  \nWe ask our &Friends resident artists to respond to the question\, “What does collaboration mean to you?” Heath said:   \nCollaboration to me is a bit of shock at this time in my life. It requires me to gingerly crawl out of my cave—my isolated working life as a writer\, which has been all the more isolated due to the pandemic. It’s a beautiful shock\, and a gift from the very special team at Howl!\, which for years has been like a home away from home to me. I get the precious and exciting chance to receive energy and inspiration from some of my many talented friends\, and to have the privilege of sharing them with a new and wider audience. I am so grateful for the people I know. I have always thought myself lucky—I love people\, but I also love solitude. I want it all! And I want to share it with my friends in Howl TV land. \nPhoto by Dorothy Shi.\nJanie Heath’s writing has been published in Big Bridge\, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood\, Boog City\, Brink\, and Whiskey Tit Journal. An essay she wrote appears in the liner notes for the box-set G Stands for Go-Betweens Volume 2. She worked as a reporter for her hometown daily newspaper before moving to New York in the mid 1970s to get her BFA in film production at New York University. She worked on movies—a rock ’n’ roll-themed feature and a now-cult slasher—before her love of music led her to live in a London squat until she landed a job with an indie record label. She now lives back in New York\, writing fiction and giving public readings. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nRhona Bitner \nRhona Bitner is a native New Yorker. Her work has been widely shown in the United States and internationally. In the U.S.\, her work is included in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; The American Society of Composers\, Authors and Publishers; Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; University Art Museum\, California State University\, Long Beach; Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College; and Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum\, Beaux Arts\, The Brooklyn Rail\, The New Yorker\, The Nation\, and Rolling Stone. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2020. She is on the faculty of the School of the International Center of Photography in New York.  \nTom Cole \nTom Cole is a writer and artist living in the Lower East Side. His work has been presented at Participant Inc\, Le Petit Versailles\, Thread Waxing Space\, Art on Air\, Clocktower Gallery\, ICA Boston\, Performa\, Oni Gallery\, and the Boston Center for the Arts. He is a three-time MacDowell Playwriting fellow\, and a 2015 Albee Foundation Playwriting fellow. Cole heads the New Play Commissioning Program at True Love Productions\, where he has commissioned new work by Heidi Schreck\, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas\, Craig Lucas\, Nathan Alan Davis\, and Sheila Callaghan\, among others. He co-curates Experiments and Disorders\, a literary series at Dixon Place. He has collaborated extensively with Anohni\, most recently appearing in She Who Saw Beautiful Things at The Kitchen. \nMaggie Dubris \nMaggie Dubris’s latest book\, BrokeDown Palace (Subpress)\, is drawn from her work during the 1980s\, 90s\, and early 2000s as a 911 paramedic in New York City and the hospital—now closed—she worked for. It is currently being adapted into an opera with the creative team of Dubris\, composer Andy Teirstein\, and choreographer Donald Byrd. She is also the author of Skels (Soft Skull) and Weep Not\, My Wanton (Black Sparrow Press)\, and is a musician (Homer Erotic\, Lulu Revue) and sound artist.  \nJon Hammer \nJon Hammer is a painter and writer living in New York City. He also plays rhythm guitar in Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co.\, arguably East 14th Street’s favorite purveyors of hillbilly boogie. \n  \n  \nLeah Hennessey \nLeah Hennessey is performer\, writer\, and filmmaker from the Upper West Side. Most recently\, she debuted her film Byron & Shelley: Illuminati Detectives at the Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement in Geneva\, a pilot episode for a show which imagines the romantic poets as undercover agents of the Enlightenment in a science-fiction-weird world. The film is a collaboration with her artistic partner Emily Allan\, with whom she has performed the critically acclaimed play Slash at MX Gallery and Joe’s Pub\, and Star Odyssey at MoMA PS1. Leah is currently working on her debut solo album\, a collection of songs written under the influence of possession by Lord Byron. \nRobert Leslie \nRobert Leslie is an indie-folk artist known for performing on streets across Europe\, North Africa\, and New York City. His alluring voice\, soaring melodies\, dense poetic imagery\, and freewheeling approach to life have garnered him a large and loyal following. Born in New York City\, raised in London and Amsterdam\, Robert left home at a young age and spent two years supporting himself as a traveling street performer\, ping-ponging with the seasons between northern Europe and Morocco\, finally winding up in Brooklyn. Since arriving stateside he’s made himself a well-known figure in both the venues and streets of New York\, and has been featured in the New York Daily News\, Time Out\, Deli Magazine (voted upcoming artist of the month)\, and various other blogs and publications. He’s toured across three continents and yodeled his heart out to crowds large and small. Robert’s fourth LP\, Halfway Home\, is due for release in the spring of 2022\, and is his first collaboration with industry heavyweights. Until his ship comes in\, you’ll find Robert enjoying a desperate\, hand-to-mouth existence in Brooklyn. \nWanda Phipps  \nWanda Phipps is a writer\, translator\, and editor. She is the author of seven books\, including the full-length collections Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems\, and the recently released Mind Honey. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian\, Hungarian\, Arabic\, Galician\, and Bangla. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the National Theater Translation Fund\, and others. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine\, Kyrgyzstan\, Siberia\, and at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York City. She has curated reading series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and written about the arts for Boog City\, Time Out New York\, Paper Magazine\, and others. \nKid “Congo” Powers \nPhoto by Luz Gallardo\nThe legendary Kid Congo Powers\, the premier voodoo guitarist for seminal sexy swampy bands like Gun Club\, Nick Cave and The Cramps\, is a restless aesthete. He used his early solo efforts to explore vocals and mix genres. With DRACULA BOOTS\, Kid came back to his roots as a crackerjack guitarist playing the primitive music that inspired him; the raw sounds of garage and early Chicano rock. He has written a soon-to-be-published memoir. \nGregg Shapiro \nGregg Shapiro is the author of eight books\, including the forthcoming poetry collection Fear of Muses (Souvenir Spoon Books\, 2022). Recent and forthcoming lit-mag publications include Exquisite Pandemic\, RFD\, Gargoyle\, Limp Wrist\, Mollyhouse\, Impossible Archetype\, Red Fern Review\, Instant Noodles\, Dissonance Magazine\, and POETiCA REViEW\, as well as the anthologies Moving Images: Poems Inspired by the Movies (Before Your Quiet Eyes Publishing\, 2021)\, This Is What America Looks Like (Washington Writers’ Publishing House\, 2021)\, and Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America (Belt Publishing\, 2021). An entertainment journalist whose interviews and reviews run in a variety of regional LGBTQ+ and mainstream publications and websites\, Shapiro lives in South Florida with his husband Rick and their dog Coco.  \nPhilip Shelley  \nPhoto by Meagan Maguire.\nPhilip Shelley is co-editor of Whiskey Tit Journal\, an offshoot of the Vermont-based independent press\, and his writing has been featured in publications including Pitchfork\, Sad Girls Club\, and Words & Images\, and in the Word Portland anthology Ungatherable Things. He came of age as the guitarist and principal songwriter for influential New York City all-teenage art-pop band Student Teachers (recently the subject of KCRW’s Lost Notes podcast). The first chapter of his upcoming novel\, Willett\, received the Andre Dubus Award for short fiction.  \nDana Wachs  \nDana Wachs is a Brooklyn-based composer and audio engineer who performs under the name Vorhees. She studied cello and electric bass from an early age\, and joined the D.C. hardcore group Holy Rollers (Dischord Records) when she was 19. Audio engineering would define the following 20 years of her life while working at Greene St. Recording studio in New York\, and then touring the world with St. Vincent\, Grizzly Bear\, and MGMT among many others. Vorhees’ debut EP\, Black Horse Pike\, was released in 2016 via Styles Upon Styles (Brooklyn). The EP was written\, recorded\, and produced by Dana Wachs in her Brooklyn home between tours. February 2019 saw the release of her latest work\, Tracks for Movement\, a compilation of scores for dance and film. Currently\, Dana is in pre-production of her first score for a feature film\, Confession\, directed by Dayna Hanson (whose directorial credits include HBO’s Room 104 season 1\, episode 6\, “Voyeurs”). \nTitle Image by Barbara Lewis-Marco URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/janie-heath-friends-2022-02-22/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Off-site,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/bm-binoculars-Janie-Heath-Howl.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20220214T181906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220218T185432Z UID:10000628-1645124400-1645131600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Impromptu Reading by Edgar Oliver DESCRIPTION:Howl Arts is pleased to present a reading of various works selected by renowned poet and playwright Edgar Oliver.  \n“Edgar is\, without doubt\, the greatest raconteur in the world\,” says George Dawes Green\, founder of The Moth. \nEdgar Oliver (b. October 31\, 1956) is a legend of the Lower East Side and has lived there since 1977. Oliver made his debut in New York City’s Pyramid Club in the mid 1980s and is a mainstay at La MaMa. He has written at least a dozen plays\, including The Poetry Killer\, The Ghost of Brooklyn\, When She Had Blood Lust\, The Master of Monstrosity\, I Am a Coffin\, My Green Hades\, and Chop Off Your Ear. Oliver has published two poetry collections\, A Portrait of New York by a Wanderer There\, Summer\, and the novel The Man Who Loved Plants. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/impromptu-reading-by-edgar-oliver/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Exhibition,Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/edgar-oliver-2_web.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220215T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220215T200000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20220105T212520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T175126Z UID:10000634-1644955200-1644955200@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Janie Heath &Friends DESCRIPTION:Every Tuesday in February on Howlarts.org! \nFebruary 1\, 8\, 15\, and 22\, 2022 at 8 PM \nExpect the spontaneity of a party when Howl Arts gives Janie Heath an open channel to introduce her work and that of some of her fascinating friends. Heath hosts the &Friends series every Tuesday in February. Howl’s signature &Friends programs feature weekly shows curated by one notable creator—with the voices\, commentary\, music\, art\, films\, and writing of friends they work with and admire. \nI wish I could give out refreshments through the screen! Seriously\, I think of this event like a party. I know Howl viewers are interesting\, unconventional\, talented people. It is as if I am saying\, ‘You remember this person\, and you have wanted to meet this person\, and you will just love this person\, and wait—look who just flew in from out of town!’\n —Janie Heath \nLike an old-fashioned TV variety show\, Heath will showcase writers\, musicians\, and others who express their own unique qualities through a diverse but contemporary range of work. “The emphasis is on literature\, but anything might happen with this crowd\,” she says.  \nJoining her on the program are friends Rhona Bitner\, Tom Cole\, Maggie Dubris\, Leah Hennessey\, Wanda Phipps\, Kid Congo Powers\, Gregg Shapiro\, Philip Shelley\, and Dana Wachs.  \nWe ask our &Friends resident artists to respond to the question\, “What does collaboration mean to you?” Heath said:   \nCollaboration to me is a bit of shock at this time in my life. It requires me to gingerly crawl out of my cave—my isolated working life as a writer\, which has been all the more isolated due to the pandemic. It’s a beautiful shock\, and a gift from the very special team at Howl!\, which for years has been like a home away from home to me. I get the precious and exciting chance to receive energy and inspiration from some of my many talented friends\, and to have the privilege of sharing them with a new and wider audience. I am so grateful for the people I know. I have always thought myself lucky—I love people\, but I also love solitude. I want it all! And I want to share it with my friends in Howl TV land. \nPhoto by Dorothy Shi.\nJanie Heath’s writing has been published in Big Bridge\, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood\, Boog City\, Brink\, and Whiskey Tit Journal. An essay she wrote appears in the liner notes for the box-set G Stands for Go-Betweens Volume 2. She worked as a reporter for her hometown daily newspaper before moving to New York in the mid 1970s to get her BFA in film production at New York University. She worked on movies—a rock ’n’ roll-themed feature and a now-cult slasher—before her love of music led her to live in a London squat until she landed a job with an indie record label. She now lives back in New York\, writing fiction and giving public readings. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nRhona Bitner \nRhona Bitner is a native New Yorker. Her work has been widely shown in the United States and internationally. In the U.S.\, her work is included in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; The American Society of Composers\, Authors and Publishers; Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; University Art Museum\, California State University\, Long Beach; Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College; and Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum\, Beaux Arts\, The Brooklyn Rail\, The New Yorker\, The Nation\, and Rolling Stone. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2020. She is on the faculty of the School of the International Center of Photography in New York.  \nTom Cole \nTom Cole is a writer and artist living in the Lower East Side. His work has been presented at Participant Inc\, Le Petit Versailles\, Thread Waxing Space\, Art on Air\, Clocktower Gallery\, ICA Boston\, Performa\, Oni Gallery\, and the Boston Center for the Arts. He is a three-time MacDowell Playwriting fellow\, and a 2015 Albee Foundation Playwriting fellow. Cole heads the New Play Commissioning Program at True Love Productions\, where he has commissioned new work by Heidi Schreck\, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas\, Craig Lucas\, Nathan Alan Davis\, and Sheila Callaghan\, among others. He co-curates Experiments and Disorders\, a literary series at Dixon Place. He has collaborated extensively with Anohni\, most recently appearing in She Who Saw Beautiful Things at The Kitchen. \nMaggie Dubris \nMaggie Dubris’s latest book\, BrokeDown Palace (Subpress)\, is drawn from her work during the 1980s\, 90s\, and early 2000s as a 911 paramedic in New York City and the hospital—now closed—she worked for. It is currently being adapted into an opera with the creative team of Dubris\, composer Andy Teirstein\, and choreographer Donald Byrd. She is also the author of Skels (Soft Skull) and Weep Not\, My Wanton (Black Sparrow Press)\, and is a musician (Homer Erotic\, Lulu Revue) and sound artist.  \nJon Hammer \nJon Hammer is a painter and writer living in New York City. He also plays rhythm guitar in Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co.\, arguably East 14th Street’s favorite purveyors of hillbilly boogie. \n  \n  \nLeah Hennessey \nLeah Hennessey is performer\, writer\, and filmmaker from the Upper West Side. Most recently\, she debuted her film Byron & Shelley: Illuminati Detectives at the Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement in Geneva\, a pilot episode for a show which imagines the romantic poets as undercover agents of the Enlightenment in a science-fiction-weird world. The film is a collaboration with her artistic partner Emily Allan\, with whom she has performed the critically acclaimed play Slash at MX Gallery and Joe’s Pub\, and Star Odyssey at MoMA PS1. Leah is currently working on her debut solo album\, a collection of songs written under the influence of possession by Lord Byron. \nRobert Leslie \nRobert Leslie is an indie-folk artist known for performing on streets across Europe\, North Africa\, and New York City. His alluring voice\, soaring melodies\, dense poetic imagery\, and freewheeling approach to life have garnered him a large and loyal following. Born in New York City\, raised in London and Amsterdam\, Robert left home at a young age and spent two years supporting himself as a traveling street performer\, ping-ponging with the seasons between northern Europe and Morocco\, finally winding up in Brooklyn. Since arriving stateside he’s made himself a well-known figure in both the venues and streets of New York\, and has been featured in the New York Daily News\, Time Out\, Deli Magazine (voted upcoming artist of the month)\, and various other blogs and publications. He’s toured across three continents and yodeled his heart out to crowds large and small. Robert’s fourth LP\, Halfway Home\, is due for release in the spring of 2022\, and is his first collaboration with industry heavyweights. Until his ship comes in\, you’ll find Robert enjoying a desperate\, hand-to-mouth existence in Brooklyn. \nWanda Phipps  \nWanda Phipps is a writer\, translator\, and editor. She is the author of seven books\, including the full-length collections Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems\, and the recently released Mind Honey. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian\, Hungarian\, Arabic\, Galician\, and Bangla. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the National Theater Translation Fund\, and others. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine\, Kyrgyzstan\, Siberia\, and at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York City. She has curated reading series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and written about the arts for Boog City\, Time Out New York\, Paper Magazine\, and others. \nKid “Congo” Powers \nPhoto by Luz Gallardo\nThe legendary Kid Congo Powers\, the premier voodoo guitarist for seminal sexy swampy bands like Gun Club\, Nick Cave and The Cramps\, is a restless aesthete. He used his early solo efforts to explore vocals and mix genres. With DRACULA BOOTS\, Kid came back to his roots as a crackerjack guitarist playing the primitive music that inspired him; the raw sounds of garage and early Chicano rock. He has written a soon-to-be-published memoir. \nGregg Shapiro \nGregg Shapiro is the author of eight books\, including the forthcoming poetry collection Fear of Muses (Souvenir Spoon Books\, 2022). Recent and forthcoming lit-mag publications include Exquisite Pandemic\, RFD\, Gargoyle\, Limp Wrist\, Mollyhouse\, Impossible Archetype\, Red Fern Review\, Instant Noodles\, Dissonance Magazine\, and POETiCA REViEW\, as well as the anthologies Moving Images: Poems Inspired by the Movies (Before Your Quiet Eyes Publishing\, 2021)\, This Is What America Looks Like (Washington Writers’ Publishing House\, 2021)\, and Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America (Belt Publishing\, 2021). An entertainment journalist whose interviews and reviews run in a variety of regional LGBTQ+ and mainstream publications and websites\, Shapiro lives in South Florida with his husband Rick and their dog Coco.  \nPhilip Shelley  \nPhoto by Meagan Maguire.\nPhilip Shelley is co-editor of Whiskey Tit Journal\, an offshoot of the Vermont-based independent press\, and his writing has been featured in publications including Pitchfork\, Sad Girls Club\, and Words & Images\, and in the Word Portland anthology Ungatherable Things. He came of age as the guitarist and principal songwriter for influential New York City all-teenage art-pop band Student Teachers (recently the subject of KCRW’s Lost Notes podcast). The first chapter of his upcoming novel\, Willett\, received the Andre Dubus Award for short fiction.  \nDana Wachs  \nDana Wachs is a Brooklyn-based composer and audio engineer who performs under the name Vorhees. She studied cello and electric bass from an early age\, and joined the D.C. hardcore group Holy Rollers (Dischord Records) when she was 19. Audio engineering would define the following 20 years of her life while working at Greene St. Recording studio in New York\, and then touring the world with St. Vincent\, Grizzly Bear\, and MGMT among many others. Vorhees’ debut EP\, Black Horse Pike\, was released in 2016 via Styles Upon Styles (Brooklyn). The EP was written\, recorded\, and produced by Dana Wachs in her Brooklyn home between tours. February 2019 saw the release of her latest work\, Tracks for Movement\, a compilation of scores for dance and film. Currently\, Dana is in pre-production of her first score for a feature film\, Confession\, directed by Dayna Hanson (whose directorial credits include HBO’s Room 104 season 1\, episode 6\, “Voyeurs”). \nTitle Image by Barbara Lewis-Marco. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/janie-heath-friends-2022-02-15/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Off-site,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/bm-binoculars-Janie-Heath-Howl.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220208T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220208T200000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20220105T212520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220110T193329Z UID:10000633-1644350400-1644350400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Janie Heath &Friends DESCRIPTION:Every Tuesday in February! \nFebruary 1\, 8\, 15\, and 22\, 2022 at 8 PM \nExpect the spontaneity of a party when Howl Arts gives Janie Heath an open channel to introduce her work and that of some of her fascinating friends. Heath hosts the &Friends series every Tuesday in February. Howl’s signature &Friends programs feature weekly shows curated by one notable creator—with the voices\, commentary\, music\, art\, films\, and writing of friends they work with and admire. \nI wish I could give out refreshments through the screen! Seriously\, I think of this event like a party. I know Howl viewers are interesting\, unconventional\, talented people. It is as if I am saying\, ‘You remember this person\, and you have wanted to meet this person\, and you will just love this person\, and wait—look who just flew in from out of town!’\n —Janie Heath \nLike an old-fashioned TV variety show\, Heath will showcase writers\, musicians\, and others who express their own unique qualities through a diverse but contemporary range of work. “The emphasis is on literature\, but anything might happen with this crowd\,” she says.  \nJoining her on the program are friends Rhona Bitner\, Tom Cole\, Maggie Dubris\, Leah Hennessey\, Wanda Phipps\, Kid Congo Powers\, Gregg Shapiro\, Philip Shelley\, and Dana Wachs.  \nWe ask our &Friends resident artists to respond to the question\, “What does collaboration mean to you?” Heath said:   \nCollaboration to me is a bit of shock at this time in my life. It requires me to gingerly crawl out of my cave—my isolated working life as a writer\, which has been all the more isolated due to the pandemic. It’s a beautiful shock\, and a gift from the very special team at Howl!\, which for years has been like a home away from home to me. I get the precious and exciting chance to receive energy and inspiration from some of my many talented friends\, and to have the privilege of sharing them with a new and wider audience. I am so grateful for the people I know. I have always thought myself lucky—I love people\, but I also love solitude. I want it all! And I want to share it with my friends in Howl TV land. \nPhoto by Dorothy Shi.\nJanie Heath’s writing has been published in Big Bridge\, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood\, Boog City\, Brink\, and Whiskey Tit Journal. An essay she wrote appears in the liner notes for the box-set G Stands for Go-Betweens Volume 2. She worked as a reporter for her hometown daily newspaper before moving to New York in the mid 1970s to get her BFA in film production at New York University. She worked on movies—a rock ’n’ roll-themed feature and a now-cult slasher—before her love of music led her to live in a London squat until she landed a job with an indie record label. She now lives back in New York\, writing fiction and giving public readings. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nRhona Bitner \nRhona Bitner is a native New Yorker. Her work has been widely shown in the United States and internationally. In the U.S.\, her work is included in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; The American Society of Composers\, Authors and Publishers; Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; University Art Museum\, California State University\, Long Beach; Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College; and Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum\, Beaux Arts\, The Brooklyn Rail\, The New Yorker\, The Nation\, and Rolling Stone. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2020. She is on the faculty of the School of the International Center of Photography in New York.  \nTom Cole \nTom Cole is a writer and artist living in the Lower East Side. His work has been presented at Participant Inc\, Le Petit Versailles\, Thread Waxing Space\, Art on Air\, Clocktower Gallery\, ICA Boston\, Performa\, Oni Gallery\, and the Boston Center for the Arts. He is a three-time MacDowell Playwriting fellow\, and a 2015 Albee Foundation Playwriting fellow. Cole heads the New Play Commissioning Program at True Love Productions\, where he has commissioned new work by Heidi Schreck\, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas\, Craig Lucas\, Nathan Alan Davis\, and Sheila Callaghan\, among others. He co-curates Experiments and Disorders\, a literary series at Dixon Place. He has collaborated extensively with Anohni\, most recently appearing in She Who Saw Beautiful Things at The Kitchen. \nMaggie Dubris \nMaggie Dubris’s latest book\, BrokeDown Palace (Subpress)\, is drawn from her work during the 1980s\, 90s\, and early 2000s as a 911 paramedic in New York City and the hospital—now closed—she worked for. It is currently being adapted into an opera with the creative team of Dubris\, composer Andy Teirstein\, and choreographer Donald Byrd. She is also the author of Skels (Soft Skull) and Weep Not\, My Wanton (Black Sparrow Press)\, and is a musician (Homer Erotic\, Lulu Revue) and sound artist.  \nJon Hammer \nJon Hammer is a painter and writer living in New York City. He also plays rhythm guitar in Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co.\, arguably East 14th Street’s favorite purveyors of hillbilly boogie. \n  \n  \nLeah Hennessey \nLeah Hennessey is performer\, writer\, and filmmaker from the Upper West Side. Most recently\, she debuted her film Byron & Shelley: Illuminati Detectives at the Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement in Geneva\, a pilot episode for a show which imagines the romantic poets as undercover agents of the Enlightenment in a science-fiction-weird world. The film is a collaboration with her artistic partner Emily Allan\, with whom she has performed the critically acclaimed play Slash at MX Gallery and Joe’s Pub\, and Star Odyssey at MoMA PS1. Leah is currently working on her debut solo album\, a collection of songs written under the influence of possession by Lord Byron. \nRobert Leslie \nRobert Leslie is an indie-folk artist known for performing on streets across Europe\, North Africa\, and New York City. His alluring voice\, soaring melodies\, dense poetic imagery\, and freewheeling approach to life have garnered him a large and loyal following. Born in New York City\, raised in London and Amsterdam\, Robert left home at a young age and spent two years supporting himself as a traveling street performer\, ping-ponging with the seasons between northern Europe and Morocco\, finally winding up in Brooklyn. Since arriving stateside he’s made himself a well-known figure in both the venues and streets of New York\, and has been featured in the New York Daily News\, Time Out\, Deli Magazine (voted upcoming artist of the month)\, and various other blogs and publications. He’s toured across three continents and yodeled his heart out to crowds large and small. Robert’s fourth LP\, Halfway Home\, is due for release in the spring of 2022\, and is his first collaboration with industry heavyweights. Until his ship comes in\, you’ll find Robert enjoying a desperate\, hand-to-mouth existence in Brooklyn. \nWanda Phipps  \nWanda Phipps is a writer\, translator\, and editor. She is the author of seven books\, including the full-length collections Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems\, and the recently released Mind Honey. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian\, Hungarian\, Arabic\, Galician\, and Bangla. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the National Theater Translation Fund\, and others. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine\, Kyrgyzstan\, Siberia\, and at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York City. She has curated reading series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and written about the arts for Boog City\, Time Out New York\, Paper Magazine\, and others. \nKid “Congo” Powers \nThe legendary Kid Congo Powers\, the premier voodoo guitarist for seminal sexy swampy bands like Gun Club\, Nick Cave and The Cramps\, is a restless aesthete. He used his early solo efforts to explore vocals and mix genres. With DRACULA BOOTS\, Kid came back to his roots as a crackerjack guitarist playing the primitive music that inspired him; the raw sounds of garage and early Chicano rock. He has written a soon-to-be-published memoir. \nGregg Shapiro \nGregg Shapiro is the author of eight books\, including the forthcoming poetry collection Fear of Muses (Souvenir Spoon Books\, 2022). Recent and forthcoming lit-mag publications include Exquisite Pandemic\, RFD\, Gargoyle\, Limp Wrist\, Mollyhouse\, Impossible Archetype\, Red Fern Review\, Instant Noodles\, Dissonance Magazine\, and POETiCA REViEW\, as well as the anthologies Moving Images: Poems Inspired by the Movies (Before Your Quiet Eyes Publishing\, 2021)\, This Is What America Looks Like (Washington Writers’ Publishing House\, 2021)\, and Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America (Belt Publishing\, 2021). An entertainment journalist whose interviews and reviews run in a variety of regional LGBTQ+ and mainstream publications and websites\, Shapiro lives in South Florida with his husband Rick and their dog Coco.  \nPhilip Shelley  \nPhoto by Meagan Maguire.\nPhilip Shelley is co-editor of Whiskey Tit Journal\, an offshoot of the Vermont-based independent press\, and his writing has been featured in publications including Pitchfork\, Sad Girls Club\, and Words & Images\, and in the Word Portland anthology Ungatherable Things. He came of age as the guitarist and principal songwriter for influential New York City all-teenage art-pop band Student Teachers (recently the subject of KCRW’s Lost Notes podcast). The first chapter of his upcoming novel\, Willett\, received the Andre Dubus Award for short fiction.  \nDana Wachs  \nDana Wachs is a Brooklyn-based composer and audio engineer who performs under the name Vorhees. She studied cello and electric bass from an early age\, and joined the D.C. hardcore group Holy Rollers (Dischord Records) when she was 19. Audio engineering would define the following 20 years of her life while working at Greene St. Recording studio in New York\, and then touring the world with St. Vincent\, Grizzly Bear\, and MGMT among many others. Vorhees’ debut EP\, Black Horse Pike\, was released in 2016 via Styles Upon Styles (Brooklyn). The EP was written\, recorded\, and produced by Dana Wachs in her Brooklyn home between tours. February 2019 saw the release of her latest work\, Tracks for Movement\, a compilation of scores for dance and film. Currently\, Dana is in pre-production of her first score for a feature film\, Confession\, directed by Dayna Hanson (whose directorial credits include HBO’s Room 104 season 1\, episode 6\, “Voyeurs”). \nTitle Image by Barbara Lewis-Marco. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/janie-heath-friends-2022-02-08/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Off-site,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/bm-binoculars-Janie-Heath-Howl.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220204T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220204T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20220201T190233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220206T191811Z UID:10000627-1644001200-1644008400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:The Seven Year VacationBy Edgar Oliver DESCRIPTION:A reading of a play by Edgar Oliver with sets by Helen Oliver \n“Edgar is\, without doubt\, the greatest raconteur in the world\,” says George Dawes Green\, founder of The Moth. \nHowl Arts is pleased to present a reading of The Seven Year Vacation\, by renowned poet and playwright Edgar Oliver\, starring Carine Montbertrand\, Angela Rogers\, Michael Laurence\, Alexandra Wolkowicz\, and Edgar Oliver. \nEdgar Oliver (b. October 31\, 1956) is a legend of the Lower East Side and has lived there since 1977. Oliver made his debut in New York City’s Pyramid Club in the mid 1980s and is a mainstay at La MaMa. He has written at least a dozen plays\, including The Poetry Killer\, The Ghost of Brooklyn\, When She Had Blood Lust\, The Master of Monstrosity\, I Am a Coffin\, My Green Hades\, and Chop Off Your Ear. Oliver has published two poetry collections\, A Portrait of New York by a Wanderer There\, Summer\, and the novel The Man Who Loved Plants. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/the-seven-year-vacationby-edgar-oliver/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Happening Soon,Performance,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Edgar-Oliver-Poster_crop.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220201T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220201T200000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20220105T212520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T175020Z UID:10000635-1643745600-1643745600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Janie Heath &Friends DESCRIPTION:Every Tuesday in February on Howlarts.org! \nFebruary 1\, 8\, 15\, and 22\, 2022 at 8 PM \nExpect the spontaneity of a party when Howl Arts gives Janie Heath an open channel to introduce her work and that of some of her fascinating friends. Heath hosts the &Friends series every Tuesday in February. Howl’s signature &Friends programs feature weekly shows curated by one notable creator—with the voices\, commentary\, music\, art\, films\, and writing of friends they work with and admire. \nI wish I could give out refreshments through the screen! Seriously\, I think of this event like a party. I know Howl viewers are interesting\, unconventional\, talented people. It is as if I am saying\, ‘You remember this person\, and you have wanted to meet this person\, and you will just love this person\, and wait—look who just flew in from out of town!’\n —Janie Heath \nLike an old-fashioned TV variety show\, Heath will showcase writers\, musicians\, and others who express their own unique qualities through a diverse but contemporary range of work. “The emphasis is on literature\, but anything might happen with this crowd\,” she says.  \nJoining her on the program are friends Rhona Bitner\, Tom Cole\, Maggie Dubris\, Leah Hennessey\, Wanda Phipps\, Kid Congo Powers\, Gregg Shapiro\, Philip Shelley\, and Dana Wachs.  \nWe ask our &Friends resident artists to respond to the question\, “What does collaboration mean to you?” Heath said:   \nCollaboration to me is a bit of shock at this time in my life. It requires me to gingerly crawl out of my cave—my isolated working life as a writer\, which has been all the more isolated due to the pandemic. It’s a beautiful shock\, and a gift from the very special team at Howl!\, which for years has been like a home away from home to me. I get the precious and exciting chance to receive energy and inspiration from some of my many talented friends\, and to have the privilege of sharing them with a new and wider audience. I am so grateful for the people I know. I have always thought myself lucky—I love people\, but I also love solitude. I want it all! And I want to share it with my friends in Howl TV land. \nPhoto by Dorothy Shi.\nJanie Heath’s writing has been published in Big Bridge\, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood\, Boog City\, Brink\, and Whiskey Tit Journal. An essay she wrote appears in the liner notes for the box-set G Stands for Go-Betweens Volume 2. She worked as a reporter for her hometown daily newspaper before moving to New York in the mid 1970s to get her BFA in film production at New York University. She worked on movies—a rock ’n’ roll-themed feature and a now-cult slasher—before her love of music led her to live in a London squat until she landed a job with an indie record label. She now lives back in New York\, writing fiction and giving public readings. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nRhona Bitner \nRhona Bitner is a native New Yorker. Her work has been widely shown in the United States and internationally. In the U.S.\, her work is included in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; The American Society of Composers\, Authors and Publishers; Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; University Art Museum\, California State University\, Long Beach; Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College; and Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum\, Beaux Arts\, The Brooklyn Rail\, The New Yorker\, The Nation\, and Rolling Stone. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2020. She is on the faculty of the School of the International Center of Photography in New York.  \nTom Cole \nTom Cole is a writer and artist living in the Lower East Side. His work has been presented at Participant Inc\, Le Petit Versailles\, Thread Waxing Space\, Art on Air\, Clocktower Gallery\, ICA Boston\, Performa\, Oni Gallery\, and the Boston Center for the Arts. He is a three-time MacDowell Playwriting fellow\, and a 2015 Albee Foundation Playwriting fellow. Cole heads the New Play Commissioning Program at True Love Productions\, where he has commissioned new work by Heidi Schreck\, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas\, Craig Lucas\, Nathan Alan Davis\, and Sheila Callaghan\, among others. He co-curates Experiments and Disorders\, a literary series at Dixon Place. He has collaborated extensively with Anohni\, most recently appearing in She Who Saw Beautiful Things at The Kitchen. \nMaggie Dubris \nMaggie Dubris’s latest book\, BrokeDown Palace (Subpress)\, is drawn from her work during the 1980s\, 90s\, and early 2000s as a 911 paramedic in New York City and the hospital—now closed—she worked for. It is currently being adapted into an opera with the creative team of Dubris\, composer Andy Teirstein\, and choreographer Donald Byrd. She is also the author of Skels (Soft Skull) and Weep Not\, My Wanton (Black Sparrow Press)\, and is a musician (Homer Erotic\, Lulu Revue) and sound artist.  \nJon Hammer \nJon Hammer is a painter and writer living in New York City. He also plays rhythm guitar in Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co.\, arguably East 14th Street’s favorite purveyors of hillbilly boogie. \n  \n  \nLeah Hennessey \nLeah Hennessey is performer\, writer\, and filmmaker from the Upper West Side. Most recently\, she debuted her film Byron & Shelley: Illuminati Detectives at the Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement in Geneva\, a pilot episode for a show which imagines the romantic poets as undercover agents of the Enlightenment in a science-fiction-weird world. The film is a collaboration with her artistic partner Emily Allan\, with whom she has performed the critically acclaimed play Slash at MX Gallery and Joe’s Pub\, and Star Odyssey at MoMA PS1. Leah is currently working on her debut solo album\, a collection of songs written under the influence of possession by Lord Byron. \nRobert Leslie \nRobert Leslie is an indie-folk artist known for performing on streets across Europe\, North Africa\, and New York City. His alluring voice\, soaring melodies\, dense poetic imagery\, and freewheeling approach to life have garnered him a large and loyal following. Born in New York City\, raised in London and Amsterdam\, Robert left home at a young age and spent two years supporting himself as a traveling street performer\, ping-ponging with the seasons between northern Europe and Morocco\, finally winding up in Brooklyn. Since arriving stateside he’s made himself a well-known figure in both the venues and streets of New York\, and has been featured in the New York Daily News\, Time Out\, Deli Magazine (voted upcoming artist of the month)\, and various other blogs and publications. He’s toured across three continents and yodeled his heart out to crowds large and small. Robert’s fourth LP\, Halfway Home\, is due for release in the spring of 2022\, and is his first collaboration with industry heavyweights. Until his ship comes in\, you’ll find Robert enjoying a desperate\, hand-to-mouth existence in Brooklyn. \nWanda Phipps  \nWanda Phipps is a writer\, translator\, and editor. She is the author of seven books\, including the full-length collections Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems\, and the recently released Mind Honey. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian\, Hungarian\, Arabic\, Galician\, and Bangla. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the National Theater Translation Fund\, and others. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine\, Kyrgyzstan\, Siberia\, and at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York City. She has curated reading series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and written about the arts for Boog City\, Time Out New York\, Paper Magazine\, and others. \nKid “Congo” Powers \nPhoto by Luz Gallardo\nThe legendary Kid Congo Powers\, the premier voodoo guitarist for seminal sexy swampy bands like Gun Club\, Nick Cave and The Cramps\, is a restless aesthete. He used his early solo efforts to explore vocals and mix genres. With DRACULA BOOTS\, Kid came back to his roots as a crackerjack guitarist playing the primitive music that inspired him; the raw sounds of garage and early Chicano rock. He has written a soon-to-be-published memoir. \nGregg Shapiro \nGregg Shapiro is the author of eight books\, including the forthcoming poetry collection Fear of Muses (Souvenir Spoon Books\, 2022). Recent and forthcoming lit-mag publications include Exquisite Pandemic\, RFD\, Gargoyle\, Limp Wrist\, Mollyhouse\, Impossible Archetype\, Red Fern Review\, Instant Noodles\, Dissonance Magazine\, and POETiCA REViEW\, as well as the anthologies Moving Images: Poems Inspired by the Movies (Before Your Quiet Eyes Publishing\, 2021)\, This Is What America Looks Like (Washington Writers’ Publishing House\, 2021)\, and Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America (Belt Publishing\, 2021). An entertainment journalist whose interviews and reviews run in a variety of regional LGBTQ+ and mainstream publications and websites\, Shapiro lives in South Florida with his husband Rick and their dog Coco.  \nPhilip Shelley  \nPhoto by Meagan Maguire.\nPhilip Shelley is co-editor of Whiskey Tit Journal\, an offshoot of the Vermont-based independent press\, and his writing has been featured in publications including Pitchfork\, Sad Girls Club\, and Words & Images\, and in the Word Portland anthology Ungatherable Things. He came of age as the guitarist and principal songwriter for influential New York City all-teenage art-pop band Student Teachers (recently the subject of KCRW’s Lost Notes podcast). The first chapter of his upcoming novel\, Willett\, received the Andre Dubus Award for short fiction.  \nDana Wachs  \nDana Wachs is a Brooklyn-based composer and audio engineer who performs under the name Vorhees. She studied cello and electric bass from an early age\, and joined the D.C. hardcore group Holy Rollers (Dischord Records) when she was 19. Audio engineering would define the following 20 years of her life while working at Greene St. Recording studio in New York\, and then touring the world with St. Vincent\, Grizzly Bear\, and MGMT among many others. Vorhees’ debut EP\, Black Horse Pike\, was released in 2016 via Styles Upon Styles (Brooklyn). The EP was written\, recorded\, and produced by Dana Wachs in her Brooklyn home between tours. February 2019 saw the release of her latest work\, Tracks for Movement\, a compilation of scores for dance and film. Currently\, Dana is in pre-production of her first score for a feature film\, Confession\, directed by Dayna Hanson (whose directorial credits include HBO’s Room 104 season 1\, episode 6\, “Voyeurs”). \nTitle Image by  Barbara Lewis-Marco URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/janie-heath-friends/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Off-site,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/bm-binoculars-Janie-Heath-Howl.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220122 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220221 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20211216T212435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220123T174519Z UID:10000636-1642809600-1645401599@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Helen Oliver The Open Road DESCRIPTION:There is a theatrical quality to Helen Oliver’s paintings\, their scale and earthy palette recalling\, in one glance\, those eerily charmed circus or movie marquee posters of yesteryear. This feels especially true of her portraits\, which loom large enough to engulf the viewer in the formal contortions of their often-nude subjects. —Tom Breidenbach \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n ►\n Explore 3D Space \n \n \n \n Helen Oliver: The Open Road\n \n \n \n\nHowl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to present The Open Road\, a newly curated exhibition of paintings by Helen Oliver that takes off from her show which was cut short in 2019 by the pandemic. Known for her large-scale\, vivid portraits and nudes\, she delves below the surface of her subjects to uncover inner mysteries\, emotions\, and tensions.  \nThe expressivity of Oliver’s paintings might appear to be part of a long tradition of psychological portraiture—from that of Otto Dix to Alice Neel. There is a humanistic quality to Oliver’s endeavor that she shares with those artists. There is\, however\, a consistent ambiguity in her work. . . This singularity might best be observed in Oliver’s nude portraits. —David Ebony \nOn view will be a selection of portraits and intimate nudes that combine her eccentric\, gestural line with the deeply felt presence of the sitter to create “images [that] vacillate between the hallucinatory\, bordering on Surrealism\, and a raw pragmatic quality that makes them appear utterly truthful\,” says Ebony. Oliver’s blithe\, bohemian character imbues her paintings with an imaginative inner narrative\, and style that goes beyond any affiliations to contemporary art trends\, schools\, or movements. An air of whimsy permeates the portrait of her brother Edgar as harlequin\, while languid nudes stare frankly at the viewer.  \nSince the late 70s\, Helen Oliver has been an integral part of the artistic and performance-art scene of the Lower East Side\, tapping into the personalities of the vanguard and rendering oil paintings of artists\, musicians\, filmmakers\, and writers including Penny Arcade\, Lenny Kaye\, Mary Lou Wittmer\, Louie Cartwright\, Kembra Pfahler\, Samoa\, and Brian Damage. She is also well known for her stage-set design\, especially for her brother Edgar Oliver’s plays\, many of which premiered at La MaMa. \nShe was a founder of Pompeii Gallery on 10th Street (and later Forsyth Street) in New York City in the mid 80s. She has exhibited in New York\, Paris\, and Lucerne\, and has painted three rooms at the Carlton Arms Hotel. Originally from Savannah\, Georgia\, she moved to New York City in the late 70s after studying in Paris and receiving a B.A. from The George Washington University in Washington\, D.C. She now divides her time between New York and Tarquinia\, Italy\, where she makes her home. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/helen-oliver-the-open-road/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery,Happening Soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Key-Image-Helen-Oliver_web_crop.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220321 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20210919T194040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220307T191410Z UID:10000609-1641081600-1647820799@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Icons\, Iconoclasts\, and Outsiders DESCRIPTION:September 19\, 2021 – March 20\, 2022\nInaugural Exhibition at Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive (HA/HA)\nGrand Opening: Sunday\, September 19 / 11 AM–6 PM \nHowl Arts is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition at its new space\, Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive (HA/HA). Icons\, Iconoclasts\, and Outsiders presents works by artists\, writers\, musicians\, scenesters\, performers\, icons\, iconoclasts\, outsiders and other creators from the 1960s to the present whose life and work energized the underground and are now entering mainstream cultural discourse. HA/HA is located at 250 Bowery\, just down the block from Howl! Happening. The exhibition continues through December 23\, 2021 and is co-curated by Howl executive director Jane Friedman with Sean Mellyn and Maynard Monrow. \nIcons\, Iconoclasts\, and Outsiders unveils previously undocumented aspects of downtown life and culture—the atmosphere of a wildly diverse neighborhood that has influenced successive generations. A refined collection of works of art\, cultural history\, and ephemera\, the exhibition presents the early Ramones banner Gabba Gabba Hey (1977) and the paintings by artist and founding spirit of the gallery Arturo Vega; Candy Darling’s the worst years of my life: a five year diary\, from the collection of her longtime friend Jeremiah Newton; David Wojnarowicz’s Saint Sebastian (1981)\, a portrait of Brian Butterick from his personal collection; costumes\, props\, and videos from The Alien Comic Tom Murrin’s archive; an exquisite photographic portrait by George Dureau and explosive paintings by Richard Hambleton from the Arturo Vega estate; a signature portrait by Helen Oliver Adelson; graphite portraits by John Kelly of gifted individuals who were part of his life and creative circles; cultural chronicler and photographer Marcia Resnick’s color portrait of William Burroughs (1980); and Scooter LaForge paintings that explore contemporary social issues through humor\, lavish decoration\, and exaggerated cartoon-like figures. \nAlso from the collection are works of art and archival materials from the 60s to the present including Philly Abe; Richard Bernstein; Don Herron; Mark Morrisroe; Dustin Pittman; Jamie Reid; Walter Stedding; Patti Smith; Tabboo!; Gail Thacker; Toyo Tsuchiya; Guy Woodard; as well as Mudd Club doorman extraordinaire Richard Boch’s personal papers; and materials from the estate of Clark Render\, known for his collaboration with David Ilku in The Dueling Bankheads. \nIn the new screening room\, Howl draws from its video archive of work by Merrill Aldighieri as the first VJ and early documentarian of the legendary 80s nightclub Hurrah; the archives of Efrom Allen\, host of the early public-access television show Underground TV\, featuring a range of unconventional guests including Sid Vicious\, the Ramones\, Marilyn Chambers\, Blondie\, Steve Allen\, Buddy Rich\, Stiv Bators\, Brooke Shields\, and William Shatner; and selections from the vaults of Howl TV including live performances\, readings\, panel discussions\, and happenings with artists\, writers\, musicians\, and thought-leaders who have enlivened the gallery since its inception in 2015. \nHowl’s Permanent Collection comprises over 3\,000 objects\, including art\, rare digital and analog media\, performance-art ephemera\, and personal archives from the 1960s onward. The Collection documents the origins and growth of local cultural and social movements that have had far-reaching impact—offering a myriad of opportunities for new interpretations of the punk\, new-wave\, and no-wave movements; performance art; drag; street art; public-access television; nightlife; LGBTQ activism; the AIDS epidemic; and urban gentrification. \nImage: Richard Hambleton\, Untitled (Leaping Shadowman)\, ca 2000 \nVisitation Guidelines URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/icons-iconoclasts-and-outsiders-exhibition/ LOCATION:HA/HA\, 250 Bowery\, 2nd Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery,HAHA,Happening Soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Howl9-13-217466_WEB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211216T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211216T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20211207T175354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T161541Z UID:10000603-1639681200-1639688400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Create the Gift Worth Giving: Holiday Collage Making Workshop DESCRIPTION:Join us for this fun\, holiday themed collage making in-person workshop with Amon Focus! Some of us might be gathering with loved ones after time apart so this is the perfect place to make that one of a kind gift only you can make. \nHoliday Collage Making Workshop workshop registration is available. \nClick Here To Register \nCreate the Gift Worth Giving: Holiday Collage Making Workshop with Amon Focus encourages participants to make a thoughtful and creative collage for family and friends during the holiday season. Amon Focus will facilitate this workshop sharing some of his own techniques and strategies for engaging collage based art. Collages will be made using old magazines and can be decorated with an assortment of materials such as paint\, buttons\, paper and fabric. All materials will be provided and no previous experience in collage making is required. Proof of vaccination and masks are required to attend this workshop. This workshop is offered at no cost to participants. Seating is limited!  \nNo previous experience in drawing is required and all skill levels in art are welcome! The workshop is free and all materials are provided. Prior registration is required to attend. All participants must be vaccinated to attend the workshop\, and masks are required. Seating is limited and spots fill quickly! \nFeel free to contact Howl Education Director\, katherine@howlarts.org\, with any questions about the workshop. \nVisitation Guidelines URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/create-the-gift-worth-giving-holiday-collage-making-workshop/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Education,Happening Soon,Vega Arts Workshops Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/amon-holiday-workshop-scaled.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211215T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211215T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20211115T213659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T195423Z UID:10000596-1639594800-1639602000@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:David MramorGay Green DESCRIPTION:Enid Ellen Performance \nHowl! Happening and White Columns are pleased to co-host Gay Green\, a performance by David Mramor. The event is organized in conjunction with Mramor’s new illustrated memoir Rainbow Lilies Gangrene Blues and his solo exhibition curated by Jeanette Mundt\, on view at White Columns from October 30 through December 18\, 2021. \nGay Green is the latest performance featuring Enid Ellen\, artist David Mramor’s ongoing persona and musical project. Enid was born out of private performances from the artist’s childhood\, which first took place in their mother’s closet\, eventually with her as their audience. \nFollowing his mother’s death\, Mramor continued performing in drag\, often with the makeup and clothing she left behind—discovering a way to recreate the freeing\, compassionate space she provided in his youth. For Gay Green\, Mramor steps into Enid\, performing covers and original songs that bring together different time periods and people within queer history. With green makeup evocative of a wicked witch\, and references to Hibiscus—the legendary founder of early-70s San Francisco drag-queen troupe The Cockettes—the performance pays homage to cinema\, fashion\, nature\, and gay icons\, with nostalgic nods to Mramor’s personal history and the history of drag. \nCollaborating with Greg Potter on keyboards\, Mramor writes original songs under the Enid Ellen guise—a post-gender feminist singer-songwriter. With a background in theater\, the artist’s performances include singing\, movement\, improvisation\, and Kundalini yoga elements. \nSupport for this program is kindly provided by Sotheby’s. \n\nPhoto by Shann Treadwell\nAbout David Mramor\nDavid Mramor lives and works in New York City. He received a BFA from Ohio University in 2006 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2008\, and was a Studio Immersion Project Fellow at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in 2019. Mramor has exhibited and performed extensively throughout New York City\, including presentations at Fierman\, 47 Canal\, Canada gallery\, P·P·O·W\, the Whitney Museum of American Art\, and The Kitchen. He has also performed at the Serpentine Gallery (London)\, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf)\, and Museum Ludwig (Cologne). The artist is a member of the two-person band Enid Ellen\, with singer-songwriter Greg Potter. Album releases include Cannibal Disease (2010) and Beyond Reality (FemmeKraft\, 2018). \nEvent Photo credit: David Mramor\, Gay Green (Sound Factory invitation\, 1994\, Gregory Homs). Inkjet\, oil\, and grommets on linen\, 2021. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/david-mramor-gay-green/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/David-Mramor_-Gay-Green_-Sound-Factory-invitation_1994_Gregory-Homs_Inkjet_oil_-and-grommets-on-linen_2021.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211205T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211205T170000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20211129T171128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211129T205224Z UID:10000604-1638712800-1638723600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:NYisOK: Bullet Space 1985–2021 DESCRIPTION:Howl Happening is pleased to present NYisOK: Bullet Space 1985–2021\, a special event to mark the closing of the exhibition Andrew Castrucci: 36 Years at Bullet Space. Join Andrew Castrucci and a group of artists\, musicians\, writers\, and performers for an afternoon of readings from books\, newspapers\, and actions commemorating Bullet Space.  \nParticipating guests include Lee Quiñones\, street-art originator\, downtown legend\, musician\, writer\, and star of Charlie Ahearn’s influential film Wild Style; Rivington School artist\, and writer; Rachelle Garniez\, singer\, songwriter\, and accordionist; and Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer Sarah Ferguson. Other guests include Renzo Castrucci\, Pito Concepción\, Carla Cubitt\, A.O. Dolabi\, Richard Dye\, John Fekner\, Frank Morales\, Cheryl Pyle\, Felice Rosser\, and Stephan Said. \n\nAndrew Castrucci: 36 Years at Bullet Space is an exhibition that pays tribute to Bullet Space and Andrew Castrucci—framed around the artist’s 36-year tenure leading the unique community space\, and two mammoth artist books he produced with a myriad of collaborators: Your House is Mine (1988–1992) and Fracktured Lives (2010–2020). Threaded throughout are other artifacts including his paintings on steel as well as silk screens from the two books; newspapers; and ephemera produced between 1985 to the present. The exhibition is curated by Carlo McCormick and Alexandra Rojas and accompanied by a catalog with essays by McCormick and Tom McGlynn. \nAbout Bullet Space \nLocated at East Third Street in Loisaida\, Bullet Space is an act of resistance\, a community-access center for images\, words\, and sounds of the neighborhood. Founded in the winter of 1985\, it was part of the squatter movement and reconstructed with or without the formal sanction of the city—invisible officialdom. The ground floor of the building is open—like a bulletin. “Bullet” first originated from the name-brand of heroin sold on the block—which was known as the “bullet block”—encompassing the accepted American ethic of violence. “Bullet Americana” is art form as weaponry. . \nAbout Andrew Castrucci  \nAndrew Castrucci was born in 1961 and raised in the proximity of West Hoboken and Cliffside Park\, spanning New Jersey’s industrial expanses of the lower Hudson River. From 1984–86\, he ran the A&P Gallery with his brother Paul. In 1986\, Castrucci co-founded Bullet Space\, an urban artist collaborative. Creating a print shop there\, he was instrumental in producing over 10\,000 silk screen posters by a wide range of artists\, writers\, and thinkers. Castrucci curates shows and publishes artist books—most recently the Bulletin newspaper edition #10\, and the exhibition Shoot the Pump\, co-curated with Lee Quiñones and Alexandra Rojas. \nImage: NYisOK Castrucci/Fekner collab. 2021\, enamel and spray paint on metal\, 22″ x 17” \n  URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/nyisok-bullet-space-1985-2021/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Happening Soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NYisOK_edit-scaled.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20211111T212752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211206T191957Z UID:10000595-1638558000-1638565200@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Collective Space/Embodied Resistance: 40 Years and Beyond of AIDS\, Art and Activism DESCRIPTION:WORLD AIDS DAY COMMEMORATION \n“We have lost heroes in this multi-passing-the passage of brilliant minds who we have lost. We cannot access them through anything except digging far in and finding them living loud through our heart and psyche. I needed them then and need them now.” – Julie Tolentino from Debra Levine’s Essay – Another Kind of Love: A Performance of Prosthetic Politics \nIn her book The Gentrification of the Mind\, Sarah Schulman struggles to understand and express the loss to AIDS and how “a certain urban ecology of queer subculture existence has been wiped out\, through both AIDS and gentrification” and that this “ecoside” has resulted in less diversity. Almost without realizing it—one person at a time—we lost pioneering artists who challenged the status quo in performance\, installation\, improvisational live music\, dance\, drag\, and the intersection of new technologies. Schulman says\, “When they died\, their practice of creating new paradigms outside of institutional structures was removed from sight.” \nHowl is pleased to present Collective Space/Embodied Resistance: 40 Years and Beyond of AIDS\, Art and Activism\, a panel discussion in honor of WORLD AIDS DAY featuring; photographer Lola Flash\, performer Rafael Sanchez\, writer Pamela Sneed\, performance artist John Kelly and historian\, Aldo Hernandez. Each panelist will present and contextualize specific bodies of work made during and speaking to the height of the AIDS epidemic followed by a moderated discussion with the audience.  \nIt is particularly fitting that Howl focuses on the continuum of AIDS history in our community as we struggle to counter the gentrified mindset that pretends that AIDS never happened or is not happening right now. The artists on the panel have firsthand\, lived experience of those early days and all have made work dealing with its impact on their lives personally and the fabric of our city.  \nThe artists on this panel defy the gentrified mindset discussed in Schulman’s book by reminding us that art as resistance can channel our collective rage into moments of remembrance for what we’ve lost and celebrate our survival.  We honor our friends\, family members and loved ones whom we’ve lost to HIV & AIDS while we grapple with the immense losses from COVID-19. As painful as it can be to unlock memories from our not too distant past\, healing and wisdom can be derived from this looking back. Flash\, Sanchez\, Sneed\, Kelly and Hernandez share with us their own ways of looking in hopes that we might see ourselves not separate but as a continuum of the ongoing history of HIV & AIDS irrespective of the identities we individually hold.  \n\nPanelists: \nPhoto by: Ajamu X\nLola Flash uses photography to challenge stereotypes and offer new ways of seeing that transcend and interrogate gender\, sexual\, and racial norms. She received her bachelor’s degree from Maryland Institute and her Masters from London College of Printing\, in the UK. Flash works primarily in portraiture with a 4×5 film camera\, engaging those who are often deemed invisible. In 2008\, she was a resident at Lightwork and in 2015\, she participated at Alice Yard\, in Trinidad. Flash was awarded an Art Matters grant\, which allowed her to further two projects\, in Brazil and London. Flash has work included in important public collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.  Her work is also featured in the publication Posing Beauty\, edited by Deb Willis\, currently on exhibit across the US. Most recently\, she co-led a talk at the Bronx Museum with Sur Rodney Sur. They spoke to the glaring lack of women artists and POC\, with respect to the Art AIDS America exhibition. Flash’s work welcomes audiences who are willing to not only look but see. \n  \nAldo Hernandez; librarian\, archivist\, curator\, music mixer and photographer was born in Cuba\, raised in California and has lived in NYC since 1985. As a member the ART+POSITIVE collective within ACT UP\, he curated the “Army of Lovers” exhibition at the PS 122 Art Gallery in November 1990 which included many artists that have since gained widespread recognition (among them Lola Flash\, Nan Goldin\, Hunter Reynolds\, James Siena\, Fred Tomaselli\, David Wojnarowicz).  After moving to NYC Aldo worked in Development at MoMA\, and in 1987 became the Development Officer and a music/poetry curator at Creative Time. During this time Aldo began working with performer Julie Tolentino and Diamanda Galás – an urgent vital time in their lives as they and their friends became committed to AIDS activism through ACT UP. Recently\, Aldo returned to archival projects\, and is currently organizing the Brian Butterick collection at Howl. Aldo is also Howl’s first librarian and steward of the unique collection\, which emphasizes New York City’s East Village neighborhood.  \n  \nPhoto by: Steven Menendez\nJohn Kelly is a performance and visual artist. His performance works dramatize the lives of characters – whether actual or fictional – revealing their challenges\, foibles\, and humanity. Some of these works are directly autobiographical – others are inspired by the realities and hurdles of cultural outsiders\, and political realities they navigate.  His visual art is based in self-portraiture\, and frequently relates to the subjects of his performance works\, including drawing\, painting\, photography\, and video.  He recently completed his first graphic narrative ‘A Friend Gave Me A Book’\, based his weathering a catastrophic trapeze accident. Kelly’s latest dance theatre work ‘Underneath The Skin’ (based on the life of the 20th century gay novelist and tattoo artist Samuel Steward) will have a multi-week run at New York’s La MaMa\, in 2022. \n  \nPolaroid by: Mark Morrisroe\, 1988 c. Estate of Mark Morrisroe\, Collection Ringier; Fotomuseum Winterthur\, CH\nRafael Sánchez is a Cuban-born visual artist and performer based in New York City. Sánchez’ work combines traditional fine-art practice with personal methods and associate ‘conductive’ materials which include makeup\, barn paint\, asphalt sealer\, honey\, dust\, and sugar. His drawings\, installations\, and performances embrace site and context\, often utilizing elements from a mixture of intuitive and universal cosmologies with themes of transformation and transcendence. He was a companion and caregiver to friends in New York and Paris during the AIDS crisis of the ’80s and ’90s. Sánchez became HIV+ in the fall of 2002. In the artist’s words\, “seroconversion was devastating\, but in time that journey strengthened my belief in the interconnectedness of all things and the transformative power of art.” \nRecent solo and group presentations include A Gathering (HOUSING\, New York\, 2021)\, Life of a Flower / Rafael Sánchez with Ellen Cantor\, Jim Fletcher\, Mark Morrisroe\, and Gail Thacker (Galerie Max Mayer\, Düsseldorf\, 2019)\, and Tree of Heaven (Viewing Room—Marlborough Contemporary\, New York\, 2018). Two exhibitions pairing the work of Rafael Sánchez and Kathleen White are forthcoming; at Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art in Massachusetts from November through April of 2022\, and Rafael Sánchez\, Kathleen White: Earth Works will open at Martos Gallery in New York on January 13\, 2022. \n  \nPhoto by: Rafael German\nPamela Sneed is a New York-based poet\, writer\, performer and visual artist\, author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery\, KONG and Other Works\, Sweet Dreams and two chaplets\, Gift by Belladonna and Black Panther. She has been featured in the New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, Hyperallergic and on the cover of New York Magazine. Sneed also teaches new genres in Columbia Universities’ School of the Arts. She has performed at the Whitney Museum\, Brooklyn Museum\, Poetry Project\, MCA\, The High Line\, New Museum\, MOMA\, Broad Museum and the Toronto Biennale. Pamela appears in Nikki Giovanni’s “The 100 Best African American Poems.” In 2018\, she was nominated for two Pushcart Prizes in poetry and is widely published in journals including\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Art Forum Magazine\, The Paris Review\, and Frieze Magazine. She recently published an article for Harpers Bazaar U.S. and has upcoming work in The New York Times. She is the author of a poetry and prose manuscript Funeral Diva published by City Lights in Oct 2020 featured in the New York Times and Publishers Weekly. Funeral Diva won the 2021 Lambda Lesbian Poetry Award. In 2021\, Sneed was a panelist for The David Zwirner Gallery’s More Life exhibit\, and has spoken at Bard Center for Humanities\, The Ford Foundation\, The Gordon Parks Foundation\, Columbia University\, The New School and NYU’s Center For Humanities. She currently has work on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. \n  \nEvent Image: Rafael Sánchez\, 1993-94\, “Bedtime Story”; Courtesy of the artist and Martos Gallery\, New York. Performance still photograph by Rainer Behrens. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/collective-space-embodied-resistance-40-years-and-beyond-of-aids-art-and-activism/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/highres-scaled.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211130T190000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20211028T191614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211117T210810Z UID:10000613-1638298800-1638298800@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Amon Focus &Friends DESCRIPTION:Every Tuesday in November at 7 PM\nNovember 9\, 16\, 23\, and 30\, 2021 \nContinuing Howl’s &Friends series\, we welcome AMON FOCUS\, the founder and creative force behind New York Said\, a multidisciplinary project with a mission to document and preserve the “writing on the wall” hidden in plain sight throughout the five boroughs. For over a decade\, Amon has photographed over 2\,500 statements written on every imaginable surface. His New York Said podcast boasts more than 200 long-form conversations with native and notable New Yorkers. \nHowl’s &Friends series features weekly programs curated by one notable creator\, featuring voices\, commentary\, music\, art\, films\, and writing of friends they admire and work with. \nAmon’s guests will include (among others):\nNov 9\, 2021: Author and curator Lori Zimmer\nNov 16\, 2021: Performance artist\, lyricist\, and experimental music producer Helixx C. Armageddon \nNov 23\, 2021: Photographer Anthony Artis\nNov 30\, 2021: Photographer and Filmmaker Destiny Mata \nCollaboration to me is a meeting of the minds. It isn’t forced or even planned most times. It is when one or more people come together to make magic happen. Many of the collaborations I’ve participated in over the years are like a beautiful potluck. The food at a potluck is rarely the focus\, but the stories that are attached to these dishes enhance the overall experience. If everyone is eating well and enjoying each other’s company\, that to me is an indication that the creative collaboration was a success.\n—Amon Focus \nAmon’s photography and film projects have been featured in venues throughout New York City. Project highlights include an archival screening of his film Arturo Vega\, The Last Interview at Howl! Happening; shooting for New York Fashion Week; and a New York Said fifth-anniversary photography exhibit. Amon is also a consultant for destination-marketing organizations throughout the country and has worked as creative producer and camera operator on hundreds of tourism-related productions. \nAbout Lori Zimmer\nLori Zimmer is a New York-based author represented by the Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency. Her books include the forthcoming Art Hiding in Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the City of Light (Running Press\, 2022)\, Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City’s Secret Masterpieces (Running Press\, 2020)\, The Art of Spray Paint: Inspirations and Techniques from Masters of Aerosol (Rockport Publishers\, 2017)\, and The Art of Cardboard: Big Ideas for Creativity\, Collaboration\, Storytelling\, and Reuse (Rockport Publishers\, 2015). She has written text featured in the books Own Your Awkward: How to Have Better and Braver Conversations About Your Mental Health\, by Michelle Morgan (Welbeck Publishing Group\, 2021)\, and Still New York: A Forced Slumber in the City That Never Sleeps\, by Logan Hicks (Logan Hicks Studio\, 2021). Zimmer consults as an artist liaison in copyright infringement cases for Kushnirsky Gerber PLLC\, and spent 12 years as an independent art curator—curating over 50 exhibitions and projects before retiring to focus on writing. \nAbout Helixx C. Armageddon\nHelixx C. Armageddon is a storyteller intrigued with the human condition. She is a performance artist who weaves together poetry\, music\, and fashion to shift her audiences from observation to participation. \nKnown for impassioned performances\, Helixx channels a space for community\, connection\, and dialogue. For her\, words are powerful and create more than narrative: words create action and momentum towards a more just world. \nHelixx has performed in New York City venues including Nuyorican Poets Cafe\, Bowery Poetry Club\, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre\, Hammerstein Ballroom\, Gene Frankel Theatre\, Howl! Happening\, Blue Note Jazz Club\, and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. \nAbout Anthony Artis\nNew Yorker Anthony Artis is a catalyst who empowers cultural and community-based collaborations that tell stories of excellence. \nHe’s an in-demand storyteller with clients including Disney+\, The New York Times\, Essence\, Complex\, Cultured Magazine\, Pattern\, the Apollo Theatre\, and the Blue Note Jazz Club. \nAnthony holds a BFA in photography from Parsons School of Design and is based in New York City. \nAbout Destiny Mata\nDestiny Mata is a Mexican American photographer and filmmaker based in her native New York City as she focuses on issues of subculture and community. After studying photojournalism at LaGuardia Community College and San Antonio College\, she spent 2 years as Director of Photography Programs at the Lower East Side Girls Club Mata and has had work published and featured in Teen Vogue\, Vice’s Noisey\, Vibe\, The Source\, and Mass Appeal. Mata has recently exhibited La Vida En Loisaida: Life on the Lower East Side at Photoville Festival 2020. She has taken part in a group exhibition at ICP Concerned Global Images for Global Crisis at the International Center of Photography 2020\, Mexic-Arte Museum\, Young Latino Artists 21: Amexican@ 2016 and in 2014 she exhibited photographs of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy at the Museum of New York City’s\, Rising Waters: Photographs of Sandy exhibition. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/amon-focus-friends-2021-11-30/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Off-site,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/01-7.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211124 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211201 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20211111T182829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211111T183147Z UID:10000598-1637712000-1638316799@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Closed For The Thanksgiving Holiday DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/closed-for-the-thanksgiving-holiday/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211123T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211123T190000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20211028T191614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211117T210713Z UID:10000617-1637694000-1637694000@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Amon Focus &Friends DESCRIPTION:Every Tuesday in November at 7 PM\nNovember 9\, 16\, 23\, and 30\, 2021 \nContinuing Howl’s &Friends series\, we welcome AMON FOCUS\, the founder and creative force behind New York Said\, a multidisciplinary project with a mission to document and preserve the “writing on the wall” hidden in plain sight throughout the five boroughs. For over a decade\, Amon has photographed over 2\,500 statements written on every imaginable surface. His New York Said podcast boasts more than 200 long-form conversations with native and notable New Yorkers. \nHowl’s &Friends series features weekly programs curated by one notable creator\, featuring voices\, commentary\, music\, art\, films\, and writing of friends they admire and work with. \nAmon’s guests will include (among others):\nNov 9\, 2021: Author and curator Lori Zimmer\nNov 16\, 2021: Performance artist\, lyricist\, and experimental music producer Helixx C. Armageddon \nNov 23\, 2021: Photographer Anthony Artis\nNov 30\, 2021: Photographer and Filmmaker Destiny Mata \nCollaboration to me is a meeting of the minds. It isn’t forced or even planned most times. It is when one or more people come together to make magic happen. Many of the collaborations I’ve participated in over the years are like a beautiful potluck. The food at a potluck is rarely the focus\, but the stories that are attached to these dishes enhance the overall experience. If everyone is eating well and enjoying each other’s company\, that to me is an indication that the creative collaboration was a success.\n—Amon Focus \nAmon’s photography and film projects have been featured in venues throughout New York City. Project highlights include an archival screening of his film Arturo Vega\, The Last Interview at Howl! Happening; shooting for New York Fashion Week; and a New York Said fifth-anniversary photography exhibit. Amon is also a consultant for destination-marketing organizations throughout the country and has worked as creative producer and camera operator on hundreds of tourism-related productions. \nAbout Lori Zimmer\nLori Zimmer is a New York-based author represented by the Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency. Her books include the forthcoming Art Hiding in Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the City of Light (Running Press\, 2022)\, Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City’s Secret Masterpieces (Running Press\, 2020)\, The Art of Spray Paint: Inspirations and Techniques from Masters of Aerosol (Rockport Publishers\, 2017)\, and The Art of Cardboard: Big Ideas for Creativity\, Collaboration\, Storytelling\, and Reuse (Rockport Publishers\, 2015). She has written text featured in the books Own Your Awkward: How to Have Better and Braver Conversations About Your Mental Health\, by Michelle Morgan (Welbeck Publishing Group\, 2021)\, and Still New York: A Forced Slumber in the City That Never Sleeps\, by Logan Hicks (Logan Hicks Studio\, 2021). Zimmer consults as an artist liaison in copyright infringement cases for Kushnirsky Gerber PLLC\, and spent 12 years as an independent art curator—curating over 50 exhibitions and projects before retiring to focus on writing. \nAbout Helixx C. Armageddon\nHelixx C. Armageddon is a storyteller intrigued with the human condition. She is a performance artist who weaves together poetry\, music\, and fashion to shift her audiences from observation to participation. \nKnown for impassioned performances\, Helixx channels a space for community\, connection\, and dialogue. For her\, words are powerful and create more than narrative: words create action and momentum towards a more just world. \nHelixx has performed in New York City venues including Nuyorican Poets Cafe\, Bowery Poetry Club\, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre\, Hammerstein Ballroom\, Gene Frankel Theatre\, Howl! Happening\, Blue Note Jazz Club\, and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. \nAbout Anthony Artis\nNew Yorker Anthony Artis is a catalyst who empowers cultural and community-based collaborations that tell stories of excellence. \nHe’s an in-demand storyteller with clients including Disney+\, The New York Times\, Essence\, Complex\, Cultured Magazine\, Pattern\, the Apollo Theatre\, and the Blue Note Jazz Club. \nAnthony holds a BFA in photography from Parsons School of Design and is based in New York City. \nAbout Destiny Mata\nDestiny Mata is a Mexican American photographer and filmmaker based in her native New York City as she focuses on issues of subculture and community. After studying photojournalism at LaGuardia Community College and San Antonio College\, she spent 2 years as Director of Photography Programs at the Lower East Side Girls Club Mata and has had work published and featured in Teen Vogue\, Vice’s Noisey\, Vibe\, The Source\, and Mass Appeal. Mata has recently exhibited La Vida En Loisaida: Life on the Lower East Side at Photoville Festival 2020. She has taken part in a group exhibition at ICP Concerned Global Images for Global Crisis at the International Center of Photography 2020\, Mexic-Arte Museum\, Young Latino Artists 21: Amexican@ 2016 and in 2014 she exhibited photographs of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy at the Museum of New York City’s\, Rising Waters: Photographs of Sandy exhibition. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/amon-focus-friends/2021-11-23/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Off-site ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/01-7.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211119 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211120 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20211117T202332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211118T204857Z UID:10000605-1637280000-1637366399@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:The Full Moon Show With John Pizza: Being Board DESCRIPTION:12:00 AM–11:59 PM\nWatch on www.howlarts.org \n\nIn the days before I had a phone and I was board\, I would make up stories. Imagining stuff\, like what it was like to have three wishes.\nExcept from the point of view of the genie. \nA genie’s secret agenda is to punish you for your hubris. To spank you with a board for making a wish that is only about selfishness. \n“I wish for a million bucks.” \n“Your wish is my command.” \nJoin John Pizza for another Full Moon Show called Being Board. A poetic examination of the endless chain of memories – like railroad ties\, like floorboards\, like a tree trunk. \nJohn 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. \nAbout Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show \nPerformance is anything done with purpose and style—Tom Murrin \nHowl! 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. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/the-full-moon-show-with-john-pizza-being-board/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Off-site ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot_20211116-194938-e1637180533409.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20211103T174947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211118T224138Z UID:10000608-1637262000-1637269200@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Short Films Curated by Andrew Castrucci DESCRIPTION:Howl! Happening is pleased to present an evening of films in conjunction with the exhibition Andrew Castrucci: 36 Years at Bullet Space. The event will present a selection of films created over the last 20 years by Castrucci\, his collaborators Dave Fasano and Kevin R. Frech\, and Italo Zamboni—an alias of Castrucci’s.  \nThe evening’s program will include 82nd Street Steps Manifesto by Italo Zamboni (2000)\, Cliffs / Rivers / Skyscrapers by Castrucci and Frech (2002)\, $4 a Pound (2003) and America Berserk (2008) by Castrucci\, and Ninety Degrees North (2018) and Gone (2021) by Castrucci and Fasano. \nAbout Andrew Castrucci \nThe artist was born in 1961 and raised in the proximity of West Hoboken and Cliffside Park\, spanning New Jersey’s industrial expanses of the lower Hudson River. From 1984–86\, he ran the A&P Gallery with his brother Paul. In 1986\, Castrucci co-founded Bullet Space\, an urban artist collaborative. Creating a print shop there\, he was instrumental in producing over 10\,000 silk-screen posters by a wide range of artists\, writers\, and thinkers.  \nCastrucci curates shows and publishes artist books—most recently the Bulletin newspaper edition #10\, and Shoot the Pump\, co-curated with Lee Quiñones and Alexandra Rojas. \nHe has been working on a film\, The River Speaks: Urban Angling in the East River\, where life becomes art. His other films include Struck by the Hand (2000) and The Resistance of Memory (2005). URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/short-films-curated-by-andrew-castrucci/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Happening Soon,Off-site ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screening-Image-_CROP_WEB.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T190000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20211028T191614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211117T210713Z UID:10000616-1637089200-1637089200@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Amon Focus &Friends DESCRIPTION:Every Tuesday in November at 7 PM\nNovember 9\, 16\, 23\, and 30\, 2021 \nContinuing Howl’s &Friends series\, we welcome AMON FOCUS\, the founder and creative force behind New York Said\, a multidisciplinary project with a mission to document and preserve the “writing on the wall” hidden in plain sight throughout the five boroughs. For over a decade\, Amon has photographed over 2\,500 statements written on every imaginable surface. His New York Said podcast boasts more than 200 long-form conversations with native and notable New Yorkers. \nHowl’s &Friends series features weekly programs curated by one notable creator\, featuring voices\, commentary\, music\, art\, films\, and writing of friends they admire and work with. \nAmon’s guests will include (among others):\nNov 9\, 2021: Author and curator Lori Zimmer\nNov 16\, 2021: Performance artist\, lyricist\, and experimental music producer Helixx C. Armageddon \nNov 23\, 2021: Photographer Anthony Artis\nNov 30\, 2021: Photographer and Filmmaker Destiny Mata \nCollaboration to me is a meeting of the minds. It isn’t forced or even planned most times. It is when one or more people come together to make magic happen. Many of the collaborations I’ve participated in over the years are like a beautiful potluck. The food at a potluck is rarely the focus\, but the stories that are attached to these dishes enhance the overall experience. If everyone is eating well and enjoying each other’s company\, that to me is an indication that the creative collaboration was a success.\n—Amon Focus \nAmon’s photography and film projects have been featured in venues throughout New York City. Project highlights include an archival screening of his film Arturo Vega\, The Last Interview at Howl! Happening; shooting for New York Fashion Week; and a New York Said fifth-anniversary photography exhibit. Amon is also a consultant for destination-marketing organizations throughout the country and has worked as creative producer and camera operator on hundreds of tourism-related productions. \nAbout Lori Zimmer\nLori Zimmer is a New York-based author represented by the Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency. Her books include the forthcoming Art Hiding in Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the City of Light (Running Press\, 2022)\, Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City’s Secret Masterpieces (Running Press\, 2020)\, The Art of Spray Paint: Inspirations and Techniques from Masters of Aerosol (Rockport Publishers\, 2017)\, and The Art of Cardboard: Big Ideas for Creativity\, Collaboration\, Storytelling\, and Reuse (Rockport Publishers\, 2015). She has written text featured in the books Own Your Awkward: How to Have Better and Braver Conversations About Your Mental Health\, by Michelle Morgan (Welbeck Publishing Group\, 2021)\, and Still New York: A Forced Slumber in the City That Never Sleeps\, by Logan Hicks (Logan Hicks Studio\, 2021). Zimmer consults as an artist liaison in copyright infringement cases for Kushnirsky Gerber PLLC\, and spent 12 years as an independent art curator—curating over 50 exhibitions and projects before retiring to focus on writing. \nAbout Helixx C. Armageddon\nHelixx C. Armageddon is a storyteller intrigued with the human condition. She is a performance artist who weaves together poetry\, music\, and fashion to shift her audiences from observation to participation. \nKnown for impassioned performances\, Helixx channels a space for community\, connection\, and dialogue. For her\, words are powerful and create more than narrative: words create action and momentum towards a more just world. \nHelixx has performed in New York City venues including Nuyorican Poets Cafe\, Bowery Poetry Club\, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre\, Hammerstein Ballroom\, Gene Frankel Theatre\, Howl! Happening\, Blue Note Jazz Club\, and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. \nAbout Anthony Artis\nNew Yorker Anthony Artis is a catalyst who empowers cultural and community-based collaborations that tell stories of excellence. \nHe’s an in-demand storyteller with clients including Disney+\, The New York Times\, Essence\, Complex\, Cultured Magazine\, Pattern\, the Apollo Theatre\, and the Blue Note Jazz Club. \nAnthony holds a BFA in photography from Parsons School of Design and is based in New York City. \nAbout Destiny Mata\nDestiny Mata is a Mexican American photographer and filmmaker based in her native New York City as she focuses on issues of subculture and community. After studying photojournalism at LaGuardia Community College and San Antonio College\, she spent 2 years as Director of Photography Programs at the Lower East Side Girls Club Mata and has had work published and featured in Teen Vogue\, Vice’s Noisey\, Vibe\, The Source\, and Mass Appeal. Mata has recently exhibited La Vida En Loisaida: Life on the Lower East Side at Photoville Festival 2020. She has taken part in a group exhibition at ICP Concerned Global Images for Global Crisis at the International Center of Photography 2020\, Mexic-Arte Museum\, Young Latino Artists 21: Amexican@ 2016 and in 2014 she exhibited photographs of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy at the Museum of New York City’s\, Rising Waters: Photographs of Sandy exhibition. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/amon-focus-friends/2021-11-16/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Off-site ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/01-7.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211114T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211114T160000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20211111T190211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211111T210809Z UID:10000597-1636898400-1636905600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Local Knowledge Reading Series DESCRIPTION:With Ron Kolm and Annabel Lee \nHowl! Happening is pleased to announce a monthly Local Knowledge reading series—live and In person at Howl. Each monthly event features the work of poets\, prose writers (fiction and non-fiction) and visual artists. The series is curated by Local Knowledge Magazine\, a literary and art journal published by Sanjay Agnihotri and will be hosted by Agnihotri and Jeff Wright\, publisher of LiveMag! This week features writer\, editor\, and artist Ron Kolm and publisher\, editor\, writer\, educator\, and musician Annabel Lee. \nRon Kolm is a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin magazine. Ron is the author of Divine Comedy\, Duke & Jill\, Suburban Ambush\, Night Shift\, A Change in the Weather\, Welcome to the Barbecue and Swimming in the Shallow End. He’s had work in Abwarts\, And Then\, Feuerstuhl\, Great Weather for Media\, the Resist Much / Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance anthology\, Maintenant\, Live Mag!\, Local Knowledge\,  NYSAI\, The Opiate\, the Poets of Queens anthology\, the Riverside Poets Anthology\, Stadtgelichter\, Var Ucca Muhely #63\, the Brownstone Poets anthologies and The Red Wheelbarrow. \nAnnabel Lee is the author of Basket\, At the Heart of the World (translations of Blaise Cendrars\, portions of which have been set to music by composer Garrett List) and Continental 34s. Her poetry\, prose and essays have appeared in Dodgems\, Saturday Morning\, Little Caesar\, Exquisite Corpse\, DianeRavitch.net and in other journals and anthologies\, including Corona Transmissions: Alternatives for Engaging with COVID-19—from the Physical to the Metaphysical edited by Sherri Mitchell\, Richard Grossinger and Kathy Glass (2020). \n  \nAbout Ron Kolm \nAbout Annabel Lee \nAbout Jeffrey Cyphers Wright \nAbout Local Knowledge \n  URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/local-knowledge-reading-series/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/LK-Reading-Series-Nov-2021_IG-1.jpeg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211113T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211113T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20211022T151523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220304T190023Z UID:10000612-1636830000-1636837200@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:FeMaLe GEniUs Performance and Record Release Party DESCRIPTION:Howl Arts is pleased to announce the release of a limited-edition vinyl LP by FeMaLe GEniUs. The self-titled album captures the raw intensity of this Brooklyn estrogen band\, the trio of multi-instrumentalists Julie Hair\, Marnie Jaffe\, and Nikki D’Agostino. With their unique arrangements; minimal\, vocal-driven music; and bass loops layered with harmonies\, keyboards\, percussion and sax; they seem to have found the sonic equivalent of “outsider art.” \nCLICK HERE TO PURCHASE \nThe lyrics speak to personal politics and authentic experiences. Musical virtuosity is not the endgame. If one were to try to assign FeMaLe GEniUs a genre\, music-writer Kyle Gann’s view of what he describes as “post-minimalism (a pulsing\, droning\, hypnotic non-traditional tonality)” might be most analogous. \n\n  \n \nThe cover art\, red vinyl\, minimal label\, and graphic score included in the package indicate that this album is both a recording project and an art object. The hand-numbered limited-edition of 300 begins on the front cover with a collage of a fractured face by New York artist Douglas Landau. The back cover and record labels are photographs by artist and band-member Julie Hair. The back cover imagery\, a collection of objects ranging from a vintage ceramic dog and religious icon from Hair’s childhood to a sculpture by Philadelphia artist Paul Bearer\, represents the three band members. \nThe 11 x 22” graphic score by band member Nikki D’Agostino uses visual symbols outside of the realm of traditional notation to represent music. Modern graphic notation relies heavily on the imagination of each performer. “Removing traditional performance practice leaves the performer with a kind of exclusive power to act as an improvising interpreter as well as an inspired spontaneous composer\,” says D’Agostino. “These concepts are inherent in FeMaLe GEniUs\, as elements of the work are indeterminate in nature—leading to performances which are highly nuanced.” \nFeMaLe GEniUs is the groovin’est band without a drummer you’ve ever seen. Based on genius bass lines\, the trio plays a tangent to different styles that arose from the early NYC punk/experimental scene. Their songs will stick with you stealthily. The vocals are honest with in(genius) harmonies that are spot-on primal\, yet fresh. Top that with a techno-genius sax player and psychedelic moods\, and you’ve got FeMaLe GEniUs.\n—Michael Jung (Alice Donut\, Um) \nJulie Hair and Marnie Jaffe blasted out of the Lower East Side underground rock scene of the 1980s and are still creating. Julie’s experience in the legendary art-rock band 3 Teens Kill 4 and Marnie’s Live Skull footprint inform their musicality. (The video for “Madeline” features deep-fake versions of the two when they were in their twenties lip-synching to the song.) Nikki D’Agostino\, an avant-garde composer who teaches music technology at CUNY City Tech\, moved from being a fan to an integral member of the group. Her free improv\, skronk\, and lyrical sax lines add gravitas to the electric and effected instrumentation. Experienced performers\, they are at home playing in an art gallery\, nightclub\, or someone’s home. FeMaLe GEniUs was included in the December 2020 edition of Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice. \nThe record is produced in association with Some Serious Business\, who hosted the group for an SSB Away artist residency in 2019 and presented performances by the trio in Albuquerque\, Santa Fe\, and Abiquiu. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/female-genius-performance-and-record-release-party/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/FG_Front-Cover_crop-scaled.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T135150 CREATED:20211102T164338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220125T193024Z UID:10000607-1636657200-1636664400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Aesthetic Archaeology: Urban Arts Drawing Workshop with Andrew Castrucci DESCRIPTION:Aesthetic Archaeology: Urban Arts Drawing Workshop with Andrew Castrucci marks the return of the beloved Vega Arts Workshop Series. We are back to our in-person workshops and grateful that we can have Andrew Castrucci lead this hands-on experience. Castrucci utilizes artistic mediums including automatic drawing and writing\, graffiti\, infographics\, silhouettes\, and figure drawing to build his unique pieces. In this workshop\, Castrucci will facilitate an interactive workshop where participants complete a drawing using paper\, charcoal\, pencil\, and pen to produce an original work incorporating these techniques. Castrucci will also share his extensive knowledge about urban-arts practices and highlight some pieces from the show currently on exhibition at Howl that reflect the artistic mediums explored during the workshop. \nNo previous experience in drawing is required and all skill levels in art are welcome! The workshop is free and all materials are provided. Prior registration is required to attend. All participants must be vaccinated to attend the workshop\, and masks are required. Seating is limited and spots fill quickly! \nAesthetic Archaeology workshop registration is no longer available \nFeel free to contact Howl Education Director\, katherine@howlarts.org\, with any questions about the workshop. \nAndrew Castrucci: 36 Years at Bullet Space is currently on view at Howl! Happening gallery on 6 East First Street\, New York\, NY\, from October 23–December 4\, 2021. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/aesthetic-archaeology-urban-arts-drawing-workshop-with-andrew-castrucci/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Education,Happening Soon,Vega Arts Workshops Series,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Castrucci-Workshop-Image_crop_WEB.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR