• Samoa and Kembra Pfahler Video and Film Screening

    Samoa and curator Kembra Pfahler host an evening of films in conjunction with Candy Coated Evil, including Samoa’s shorts My Way to Hell and Until the Day I Die, as well as performance […]

  • Amy Lawless and Angela Veronica Wong

    Publication Party for Two New Poetry Collections Howl! Happening is pleased to celebrate the publication of two new poetry collections: Angela Veronica Wong’s elsa: an unauthorized autobiography, published by Black […]

  • Rene Ricard Four Years On

    With Raymond Foye, Easy Keys, Gerard Malanga, Anne Waldman, Richard Hell, Anselm Berrigan and More Howl! Happening is pleased to present Four Years On, a multimedia evening organized by Rene […]

  • The Mayhem Moon

    The Mayhem Moon
    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    A Stinkmetal and May Production In homage to Tom Murrin's Luna Macaroona Full Moon Shows Production Director: Tony Stinkmetal From the luminous minds of the MAYHEM sisters Salley May and Nancy May […]

  • Full Moon Show

    Full Moon Show
    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    Every Month on The Full Moon 4pm Sharp   About Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show Howl! Happening houses the archives of the late Tom Murrin. Murrin, aka the Alien […]

  • Tight 5

    <i>Tight 5</i>

    A Comedy Series hosted by Greer Dworman Featuring: Alex Rodabaugh Sara Gibbons Doug LeCours Rachael Warner Presented by HOWL! Happening, Tight 5 is a comedy series curated and hosted by […]

  • The Lonely Samoans

    Performance with Special Surprise Guests In conjunction with his exhibition Candy Coated Evil, Samoa brings The Lonely Samoans, his off-beat country band, to perform live at Howl! Happening. Why country […]

  • Third Eye Film Festival

    Third Eye Film Festival

    The 2nd annual Third Eye Film Festival will showcase 34 films in horror, fantasy, and spiritual genres from 9 different countries. Of these selections, 24 films were created by female […]

  • Third Eye Film Festival

    Third Eye Film Festival

    The 2nd annual Third Eye Film Festival will showcase 34 films in horror, fantasy, and spiritual genres from 9 different countries. Of these selections, 24 films were created by female […]

  • Third Eye Film Festival

    Third Eye Film Festival

    The 2nd annual Third Eye Film Festival will showcase 34 films in horror, fantasy, and spiritual genres from 9 different countries. Of these selections, 24 films were created by female […]

  • Paging Tom Murrin!

    An Evening of Readings and Performances with Friends and Colleagues Howl! Happening is pleased to present an evening celebrating the life and work of the late, great comic genius, Tom […]

  • Writers Block 2018

    Writers Block 2018

    An Annual Festival of Staged Readings and Performances to Benefit the Actors Fund Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to present the annual Writers Block 2018 Festival. Created […]

  • Melba LaRose After the Wall: A Polytheatrical Extravaganza

     Part of Howl!’s annual Writers Block staged reading and performance festival  For Tickets to Melba LaRose After the Wall, a multicultural, multidimensional, multidisciplinary, multimedia play about walls around the world […]

  • John Kelly Sideways into the Shadows

    An Exhibition in Conjunction with Kelly’s Performance Time No Line at La MaMa Opening Reception: February 28, 6–8 PM Howl! Happening is pleased to present a rare look into the […]

  • The Full Moon Show: The Worm Moon curated by Rani O’Brien

    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention The goddess Luna Macaroona is back for the Worm Moon, the first of two full moons in March. For the occasion, she’s conjured up the […]

  • Fame is a Disease: An Exhibition of Arturo Vega’s Work

    New Work by Brett De Palma and Scooter LaForge Especially Commissioned for the Show FEDERAL COURT OFFICERS STRIKE AGAINST 149 “HIPPIE” DRUG ADDICTS OF BOTH SEXES 53 Deposited at Court; Those […]

  • Robert Heide 25 Plays

    A Staged Reading and Book Signing 25 Plays from Fast Books capture his singular, existentialist ‘60s disposition. The plays often dramatize the (sometimes irreconcilable) struggle between individuality and the unbreakable […]

  • East-West: Celebrating 50 Years of Beyond Baroque

    WINTER WEATER: THE GALLERY IS CLOSED TODAY DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER AND TONIGHT'S EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED FOR LATER THIS SPRING. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.  Hosted by Puma Perl Happy […]

  • John Kelly The Dying Game

    Film sequences by Anthony Chase for live performance works by John Kelly 1984–1993 Video works by John Kelly 2000–2014 The heightened realities of life and death have consistently informed John […]

  • Tight 5

    A Comedy Series hosted by Greer Dworman Featuring Amelia Bande xtian w Liz Charky José Rivera Jr. Presented by HOWL! Happening, Tight 5 is a comedy series curated and hosted […]

  • Writers Block 2018

    Writers Block 2018

    An Annual Festival of Staged Readings and Performances to Benefit the Actors Fund Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to present the annual Writers Block 2018 Festival. Created […]

  • The PABST BLUE Full Moon Show with Aru Hanger

    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    Every Month on The Full Moon 4pm Sharp   We all know we live in a world that values branding. Individuals, corporations, the social networks are abuzz with commodification. Aru […]

  • Philly Abe This Side of Heaven

    Opening Reception: Wednesday April 4 / 6–8 PM / Free . . . a hybrid practice that has consistently harnessed both punk irreverence and graffiti transgression to channel demons. . […]

  • Catalyst Quartet – CQ@Howl!

    A Performance Series by the Catalyst Quartet  Turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life, Strum sounded like a handful of American folk melodies tossed into a strong wind, cascading and […]

  • Pat Irwin Music for Electric Guitar and Piano

    Pat Irwin has been living and working in New York City since the late 70s. He was a founding member of 8-Eyed Spy (with Lydia Lunch), and the Raybeats. As […]

  • Once & Future Queen A film by Todd Verow starring Philly Abe

    An entertainingly appalling, cheerfully nihilistic portrait…comically bodacious actress Philly may remind viewers of the Divine of the early John Waters films, but her performance here is tougher. —THE TENNESSEAN Howl! […]

  • Michael Lally’s Another Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017

    Book Launch Howl! Happening is pleased to celebrate the publication of Michael Lally’s "Another Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017, the definitive collection of verse from a poet who bridges the […]

  • We Remember Philly

    In our own madcap way, Howl! Happening salutes Philly Abe in a series of candid film clips, remembrances, and performances. In the clips by Elizabeth Nichols, Philly expounds on lipstick, […]

  • Disconnected Touch A Full Moon Show

    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    A Full Moon Show Hosted by Rani O’Brien The Full Moon Show: A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Missed Connections I was sitting on the BDFM train heading down to the […]

  • Cream-Pie-In-The-Phace Full Moon

    Hosted by Hapi Phace in Praise of Philly When the moon hits your eye like a banana cream pie it’s… The Full Moon Show: A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Starting […]

  • Full Moon Show

    Full Moon Show
    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    Every Month on The Full Moon 4pm Sharp   About Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show Howl! Happening houses the archives of the late Tom Murrin. Murrin, aka the Alien […]

  • The Poetry Project: The Inaugural Allen Ginsberg Symposium

    Poetry Project 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY, United States

    The Poetry Project, Howl! Arts, and the Allen Ginsberg Estate are proud to announce the inaugural Allen Ginsberg Symposium. From the mid-80s to the mid-90s, The Poetry Project held an annual symposium […]

  • Verbolia Historika Phylissima Eternia

    A Public Potlatch of Philly Memories As Philly Abe’s memorial exhibition This Side of Heaven draws to a close at Howl! Happening, the public is invited to bring and share […]

  • Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat

    An Exhibition and Special Events Curated by Sara Driver, Carlo McCormick, Mary-Ann Monforton and Howl! Happening Opening Sunday, May 13, 2018 / 6–8 PM / Free Howl! Happening: An Arturo […]

  • The Downtown Luminaries and Universal Interaction #3

    A Book Release by Robert Carrithers and Happening by Ammo with DJ Dany Johnson Join Howl! Happening for a happening with Ammo (aka Shawn McQuate) featuring Berlin artist Magdalena Wysocka, […]

  • Burroughs: The Movie

    A screening of Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary from The Criterion Collection Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet—filmed over the course of five years—Howard Brookner’s 1983 […]

  • Felice Rosser and Faith, with Luc Sante

    Concert and Reading Singer, songwriter, bass player, actor, and writer Felice Rosser is joined by Luc Sante for an evening of music and spoken word With sweet and powerful guitars […]

  • Full Moon Show with Rani O’Brien

    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAMMACHINE by Rani O'Brien Broken to pieces from the classic comic tale by Shakespeare, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAMMACHINE is the story of life in the dystopian 2019 […]

  • Al Diaz and Brett De Palma: A Conversation

    Highlighting the work of an early street art pioneer—whose adventures with Jean Michel Basquiat gave birth to graffiti's iconic symbol SAMO©—Howl! Happening is pleased to present Al Diaz in conversation […]

  • Allen Ginsberg Birthday Celebration

    Performances and a Group Reading of Howl! Sunday, June 3, 2018 / 2-6 PM Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel! —Allen […]

  • Catalyst Quartet – CQ@Howl!

    Catalyst Quartet – CQ@Howl!

    Turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life, Strum sounded like a handful of American folk melodies tossed into a strong wind, cascading and tumbling joyfully around one another. —Jessie Montgomery album […]

  • Zeitgeist Panel Discussion

    Featuring Alexis Adler, Felice Rosser, Lee Quiñones, Al Diaz, Sara Driver and David Hershkovits Zeitgeist's key event is a lively discussion about the times and artists in the exhibition. First-hand, […]

  • Kestutis Nakas When Lithuania Ruled the World

    Part of the annual Writers Block Festival of Staged Readings and Performances to Benefit the Actors Fund Howl! Happening is pleased to present When Lithuania Ruled the World—a play cycle […]

  • Kestutis Nakas When Lithuania Ruled the World

    Part of the annual Writers Block Festival of Staged Readings and Performances to Benefit the Actors Fund Howl! Happening is pleased to present When Lithuania Ruled the World—a play cycle […]

  • Full Moon Show

    Full Moon Show
    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    Every Month on The Full Moon 4pm Sharp   About Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show Howl! Happening houses the archives of the late Tom Murrin. Murrin, aka the Alien […]

  • W.O.(e).R.D: Woman of Experience Read Downtown

    Howl! Happening is delighted to present Heather Litteer’s reading series W.O.(e).R.D Women of Experience Read Downtown featuring Ada Calhoun, Pamela Sneed, Chi Chi Valenti, and Jo Weldon. Litteer started the […]

  • Zhe Zhe Season 2 Episode 4: Semper Fidelity

    THE SURREAL SATIRICAL CULT WEB SERIES IS BACK Join Howl! Happening: an Arturo Vega Project as we screen Zhe Zhe Season 2, Episode 4 starting 7pm. A hilarious satirical web series about the glamorous […]

  • Tight 5

    A Comedy Series hosted by Greer Dworman A come-as-you-are comedy show billed with performers willing to try stand-up for the first time ever, Tight 5 is a comedy series curated and hosted […]

  • Tough Girls and Lucid Dreamers

    Katrina del Mar Curates Reading, Music and Performance Series Katrina del Mar’s new Tough Girls and Lucid Deamers, a time-based female-driven, women-centered series; feminist, inclusive and radical. Inviting some of her favorite writers, […]

  • Janie Heath, Tom Cole & Maggie Dubris

    Three outstanding New York writers, Janie Heath, Maggie Dubris and Tom Cole, will convene to share recent works including fiction, drama and much more. Join us for a literary extravaganza […]

  • Full Moon Show Featuring Hapi Phace!

    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    July 27, 2018 / TWO SHOWS: 4 PM AND 7 PM / FREE Hapi Phace FULL MOON SHOW Total Lunar Eclipse Edition CELEBRATE TWO TIMES (!) With this eclipse-season Full […]

  • Chris Tanner: Here’s Looking at You

    Thursday, September 6 – Sunday, September 30, 2018 Opening Reception: Thursday, September 6, 6–9 PM We need Tanner’s work now. At this moment—now more than ever—we need to collectively embrace […]

  • Happy Birthday Elizabeth Murray!

      Featuring her premiere on PBS American Masters series Join Howl! Happening and the Estate of Elizabeth Murray for a birthday celebration and the official American Masters PBS livestream event […]

  • Tight 5

    A Comedy Series hosted by Greer Dworman A come-as-you-are comedy show billed with performers willing to try stand-up for the first time ever, Tight 5 is a comedy series curated and hosted […]

  • Stooge: A film by Madeleine Farley

    Screening and Discussion Howl! Happening is pleased to present Stooge, a feature-length documentary film about Iggy Pop's number one fan. Stooge is not your typical rock ‘n’ roll documentary film. […]

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  • KINK HAÜS: Sneak Preview

    Howl! Happening is excited to present a sneak preview of the opening of the spectacular new offering by Tony Award-winning theater LaMama launching their new season for 2018. This provocative […]

  • Just Added: A Tribute to Gregory Corso

    Raymond Foye interviews Gregory's lifelong friend, editor and translator, George Scrivani. With a selection of short films by Laki Vazakas, and poetry with Anne Waldman and friends. At the time […]

  • THRU OCT. 14th
    KINK HAÜS

    KINK HAÜS   KINK HAÜS by Gunnar Montana in association with Howl! Arts. Gunnar Montana creates KINK HAÜS, a brutal underground nightclub predicting the wild powerful and sometimes hilarious sexual […]

  • Local Knowledge Magazine Issue #6

    Launch Party   Howl! Happening invites you to celebrate the release of Local Knowledge #6. A journal of art and literature, the magazine brings together poets, prose writers (fiction and […]

  • George Harris III, aka Hibiscus “Flower Power Man”

    Reading and Performances   Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to present Flower Power Man, an event celebrating theater artist George Harris III, aka Hibiscus (1949-1982). This evening […]

  • Full Moon Show: The Harvest Moon with Mad Jenny

    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    Every Month on The Full Moon at 4pm Sharp In this Harvest Moon edition of the Full Moon Show, curated by Rani O’Brien and starring Jenny Lee Mitchell, Maria Dessena, and […]

  • Eryc Taylor Dance Celebrates Chris Tanner

    Performance   Chris Tanner is joined by Eryc Taylor Dance for an evening that honors Tanner’s multi-talented collaborations as a performing artist. Song for Cello and Piano (2016) is a […]

  • Catalyst Quartet Presents Angels

    A Performance Series by the Catalyst Quartet  Turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life, Strum sounded like a handful of American folk melodies tossed into a strong wind, cascading and tumbling […]

  • An Evening With Original Cockette Rumi Missabu

    Howl! Happening is excited to present a colorful, compelling performance and screening featuring special guests Chris Tanner, Agosto Machado, Hayley Nystrom, Diego Gomez, Jarvis Earnshaw and Vic Sin, with shorts […]

  • A McPhoto Family: Photography from the Village Voice

    A Group Exhibition ARTIST'S RECEPTION: Sunday, October 7 / 4 PM / Free Howl! Happening is pleased to present a special three-day exhibition spotlighting the contributions of the legendary Village […]

  • THRU OCT 14TH
    KINK HAÜS

    LaMama, The Downstairs 66 East 4th Street, New York, United States

    Due to popular demand LaMama Experimental Theatre Company and Howl! Arts, Inc. extend KINK HAÜS through to October 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th! Tickets available here from Monday Oct 1st at […]

  • Poet’s Country No. 4 Launch

    Storming into the fall of 2018, Poet’s Country proudly presents the launch of their fourth issue, a variating-format journal featuring work by Carlie Hoffman, Bridget Lowe and Erika Meitner, as […]

  • Tony Whitfield RUMINATIONS: Notes on New Love

    Opening reception Wednesday 17th October, 6-8pm, Free   Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to present a major new body of work by artist Tony Whitfield. At the […]

  • East-West: Celebrating 50 Years of Beyond Baroque

    Happy Birthday, Beyond Baroque! Join Howl! Happening in celebrating a half-century of art and poetry with a gathering of East-West performers paying tribute to the rich mix of literary tradition, […]

  • The Séance Moon: Improvised by Matt Dennie

    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    The Séance Moon: Improvised by Matt Dennie The Full Moon Show: A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Curated by Rani O’Brien   séance noun sé·ance | \ ˈsā-ˌän(t)s ,  -ˌäⁿs , sā-ˈ […]

  • Crosstalk on Ruminations: Notes on New Love

    Panel Discussion with Tony Whitfield, Carlo McCormick and Sur Rodney (Sur)   Howl! Happening is pleased to present a panel discussion on Tony Whitfield’s exhibition: Ruminations: Notes on New Love. […]

  • “Paris, 1938” and Water Improv/Tree of Life

    Featuring Andrew Alden and Pat Irwin   Howl! Happening is pleased to present a screening and performance featuring work by composer Andrew Alden and musician Pat Irwin. Andrew will play […]

  • The Full Moon Show: Do I Live Inside a Miracle?

    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    Every Month on The Full Moon 4pm Sharp   With 2018 approaching her 12th house of endings and another full moon descending, Amelia Bande offers us a brand-new show, brand […]

  • HURRAH! NYC: Night One

    Two Evenings Salute the Seminal Nightclub Hurrah Hosted by John Phillips A flashpoint of the “downtown” music scene—though located on 62nd Street—Hurrah was the first large dance club to feature […]

  • HURRAH! NYC: Night Two

    HURRAH! NYC Two Evenings Salute the Seminal Nightclub Hurrah Hosted by John Phillips A flashpoint of the “downtown” music scene—though located on 62nd Street—Hurrah was the first large dance club […]

  • Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt Catalogue Launch and Panel Discussion

    Howl! Happening invites you to join culture critics, art historians and curators for the publication of the catalogue for Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt’s Tenemental (With Sighs Too Deep for Words). A compendium […]

  • Howl! Arts Presents: Jackie Factory’s Low Life 8

    Pyramid 101 Avenue A, New York, NY, United States

    Low Life 8: Fairytale of New York at the Pyramid   The much-missed Jackie Factory spectacular Low Life returns this holiday season for its eighth edition, newly at the iconic […]

  • Nora Burns David’s Friend

    A feisty and funny one-woman show…her odyssey will bring alive the period and its pleasures (and poisons) with pungent animation. —Charles Isherwood, New York Times David’s Friend is the story […]

  • Queer Butoh 2018

    Featuring Hector Canonge, Tina Zoccoli Mayers, and Will Atkins Howl! Happening is pleased to present Queer Butoh 2018, curated by Mee Ae Caughey, Davey Mitchell, and Vangeline for the New York […]

  • William Rand: Four Decades

    Panel Discussion and Publication Party   With Rand and panelists Anthony Gaskin, Maynard Monrow, and Sur Rodney (Sur). In William Rand’s paintings, for example, one must look to the shadows […]

  • Pixie Aventura and Catalyst Quartet: To DRAG & BACH

    Pixie Aventura and Catalyst Quartet Howl! Happening is pleased to present the Catalyst Quartet and famed drag queen spitfire Pixie Aventura for a transformative evening and experience the music of […]

  • Full Moon Show: Revenge of The Cherimoya Sisters

    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    THE FULL MOON SHOW A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Revenge of The Cherimoya Sisters A Performance by Alexandra Tatarsky curated by Greer Dworman They say that to eat a cherimoya […]

  • Gail Thacker: Fugitive Moments

    Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 9, 2018, 6pm Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to present Fugitive Moments*, an exhibition that draws from four decades of artist Gail Thacker’s […]

  • Insurance Doctor Is In

    Insurance Doctor Is In
    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    The Insurance Doctor Is In!  Questions about a health insurance bill? Don't understand your insurance and can't get a straight answer? Need some advice on how to negotiate medical debt? […]

  • Klown Portrait Polaroid Workshop

    Do you want to be the model, makeup artist, photographer—or why not all three? In this interactive workshop by acclaimed visual artist Gail Thacker, participants will play with makeup, wigs, […]

  • Gail Thacker Fugitive Moments Catalogue Launch

    Howl! Happening invites you to celebrate the publication of the catalogue for Fugitive Moments with contributions by arts writer Jane Ursula Harris, Whitney Museum assistant curator Kelly Long, performance artist Rafael […]

  • Scooter LaForge: Homo Eruptus

    Howl! Happening is pleased to present Homo Eruptus, a new body of work by Scooter LaForge including large, mural-size paintings that mine the artist’s fertile inner emotional realm.  Whether it’s […]

  • Insurance Doctor Is In

    Insurance Doctor Is In
    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    The Insurance Doctor Is In!  Questions about a health insurance bill? Don't understand your insurance and can't get a straight answer? Need some advice on how to negotiate medical debt? […]

  • Scooter LaForge: Scooterwear Workshop

    In this workshop, multifaceted artist Scooter LaForge leads participants into a world of fantasy and imagination, helping them to fashion a “statement” piece from a basic white t-shirt. Whether it’s […]

  • SPRING/BREAK: Scooter LaForge Mount Vesuvius Fire Sale

    Spring/Break Art Show NYC Scooter LaForge Mount Vesuvius Fire Sale Curated by Carlo McCormick Booth #W14 For Spring/Break, Howl! is also pleased to offer the Mount Vesuvius Fire Sale, curated by […]

  • NEW DATE: Drew Hubner Podcast from Howl!

    A Reading from the Old Neighborhood PLEASE NOTE that this event is now taking place on Saturday March 9th, not 2nd.  Howl! Happening invites you to join us for a […]

  • Scooter LaForge: Homo Eruptus Catalog Launch

    Howl Happening is pleased to announce the launch of the exhibition catalog for "Scooter LaForge: Homo Eruptus". Featuring a full poster of Federico Will You Be My Girlfriend? and essays […]

  • Cary Abrams: The East Village in the 60s

    Panel Discussion with Penny Arcade, Agosto Machado, Ben Morea, and Robert Watlington Many fondly look back on the 60s as the heyday of the East Village when throngs of youth […]

  • Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen: Cut Work

    A Survey 2008–2018   Opening Reception: Thursday, March 21 / 6–8 PM / Free   Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to present Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen’s Cut Work, a […]

  • Happy 100th Birthday Lawrence Ferlinghetti!

    Sunday March 24th 2019 is Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 100th birthday. Poet, painter, socialist activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, Ferlinghetti has dedicated his life to poetry and […]

  • CELEBRATING HATTIE

    • 6:30 PM SECOND LINE / DRAG MARCH LEAVES TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK • 7:00 PM  MEMORIAL BEGINS ON ARRIVAL AT LA MAMA Walk with friends, fellow artists, families, and others touched […]

  • Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen: Vega Arts Workshop Series

    When does imperfection become perfection? As part of Howl’s continuing Vega Arts Workshop Series, artist Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen engages participants in her Cut Work process, a freehand cutting technique developed by […]

  • Conversations With Gay Elders: Gene Fedorko

    Film and Discussion with Director David Weissman and Gene Fedorko Howl! Happening is pleased to present a screening of a segment of Conversations with Gay Elders about the life of […]

  • Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen Exhibition Catalog Launch

    Howl! Happening is pleased to announce the launch of the exhibition catalog for Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen: Cut Work. Featuring essays by Michelle Grabner and Carlo McCormick, the catalog for Howl!'s third […]

  • Insurance Doctor Is In

    Insurance Doctor Is In
    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    The Insurance Doctor Is In!  Questions about a health insurance bill? Don't understand your insurance and can't get a straight answer? Need some advice on how to negotiate medical debt? […]

  • An Evening with Daniel Efram’s Curiosities

    Book Launch with Jim Coleman, Sarah Register, Nicole Blackman, Tony Drazan and Nossos Tambores Dive into an immersive evening of spectacle celebrating the publication of Dan Efram’s photography book, Curiosities, inspired by […]

  • Curt Hoppe Downtown Portraits

    Opening Reception: April 24, 2019 / 6–9 PM / Free   Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to showcase the work of Curt Hoppe, an artist whose work […]

  • Curt Hoppe: The Hyperrealist Experience Workshop

    The Vega Arts Workshop Series Curt Hoppe hosts a master class in Hyperrealism. This three-part experience starts at Howl! Happening with a 45 minute tour of the Bowery then transitions […]

  • Local Knowledge Issue #7

    Magazine Launch Party Howl! Happening invites you to celebrate the release of Local Knowledge #7. A journal of art and literature, the magazine brings together poets, prose writers (fiction and […]

  • Fence 35 Launch Party

    With Readings by Tess Brown-Lavoie, Rachel Levitsky, and Serena Solin Howl! Happening is pleased to host a launch party for Fence 35. Editor Rebecca Wolff is joined by Fence contributors, […]

  • Walter Robinson: Artist Provocateur

    A Paul Tschinkel Film Discussion with Paul Tschinkel, Carlo McCormick, Jane Dickson, and Marc H Miller. Walter Robinson has been on the New York art scene since the early 70s. […]

  • Insurance Doctor Is In

    Insurance Doctor Is In
    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    The Insurance Doctor Is In!  Questions about a health insurance bill? Don't understand your insurance and can't get a straight answer? Need some advice on how to negotiate medical debt? […]

  • Phyllis Galembo: Mexico, Masks & Rituals

    Book Launch and Slide Show Howl! Happening is pleased to host a book signing and party to celebrate the launch of Phyllis Galembo: Mexico, Masks & Rituals. For this project, […]

  • Happy Birthday Allen Ginsberg!

    Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman’s an angel! —Allen Ginsberg Howl! Happening is delighted to present a 2019 birthday celebration for Allen Ginsberg, the […]

  • Conversations with Gay Elders: Gene Fedorko

    Film and Discussion with Paul C. Bellman, MD, Jack Water, Peter Cramer and Gene Fedorko Back by popular demand, Howl! Happening is pleased to present a screening of a segment […]

  • Guy Woodard: We the People

    Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 19, 6–8 PM   I’ve done so much with so little for so long that now I believe I can do anything with nothing at all. […]

  • Gay Sex in the 70s: A Film by Joseph Lovett

    Screening and Q&A Sex had become the great equalizer. Young men of all financial strata and backgrounds met in New York to experience a freedom of sexual expression that hadn’t […]

  • Beautiful Darling Screening and Panel Discussion

    Howl! Happening is delighted to present a screening of the 2010 feature length documentary Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar. Part of our celebrations […]

  • Ladies & Gentlemen

    A Kindbud Music Video World Premiere and Performance Howl! Happening is pleased to host the premiere of Kindbud’s official music video for his track Ladies & Gentlemen, with special performances […]

  • The Fortune Society @ Howl! Happening

    David Rothenberg, founder of The Fortune Society, moderates a conversation with Guy Woodard, Ervin Hunt and others who have benefited from the organization’s prison reentry and alternatives to incarceration programs […]

  • Guy Woodard Self-Portrait Drawing Workshop

    “If you can write, you can draw,” says Guy Woodard, an artist who elevates the humble ballpoint pen to produce compelling works of art. Guy brings his talent and charm […]

  • Guy Woodard: Catalog Launch and Conversation 

    Join us for an intimate conversation with artist and master forger Guy Woodard, about his work featured in the current exhibition We the People. Woodard describes the stories and inspiration […]

  • Insurance Doctor Is In

    Insurance Doctor Is In
    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    The Insurance Doctor Is In!  Questions about a health insurance bill? Don't understand your insurance and can't get a straight answer? Need some advice on how to negotiate medical debt? […]