February 19 / 7 PM / Free "Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol: Encounters in New York and Beyond" Panel Discussion with Torsten Otte, Jade Albert, George Mason, Robert Heide, and William Rothlein Salvador […]
Wednesday, February 22 / 7 PM / Free Opening reception with the artists and poets as well as a reading by contributors Bob Holman, Hettie Jones, Camille Rankine, David Henderson, Tommy […]
Thursday, February 23rd / 7 PM / Free Ms. Foundation Panel Discussion In conjunction with Beth B’s exhibition, Howl! and the Ms. Foundation present Illumination: Spotlighting the Culture of Violence […]
Film Screening and Q&A Thursday, March 2 / 7 PM / Free Join the auteur emeritus of New Queer Cinema, Todd Verow, star Philly Abe, and special guests for a […]
March 4th / 7PM / Free No Wave icon, poet and radical feminist Lydia Lunch unleashes a torrent of home truths about the patriarchy, power, delusion, and the ultimate revenge: […]
The Insurance Doctor Is In! Monday, March 6th, 2-4pm Questions about a health insurance bill? Don't understand your insurance and can't get a straight answer? Need some advice on how […]
Tuesday March 7th / 2 PM / Free Did you know that New York City is planning to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next ten years? This […]
March 12th / 2pm / Free A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention This month’s Full Moon Show will feature a personal connection to it’s origins and will be alive with crossed-wires, […]
Opening Reception: March 23, 2017 / 6 PM I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window… —Robert Rauschenberg My ideas come from the streets. —Arturo […]
A presentation by Sandra Schulman and Monte A. Melnick March 24 / 7 PM / Free It’s our birthday and to celebrate, Howl! Happening presents a retrospective by the artist […]
March 30 / 7 PM / Free As I look back at the 70s and 80s, I knew that everyone was on a high of inspiration, creativity, sex and passion. […]
Publication Party MC’d by Bob Holman April 1 / 7 PM / Free Readings by Patricia Spears Jones, Sheila Maldonado, Eileen Myles, Edwin Torres | Music by Jason Hwang Trio WORD: […]
Publication Party and Reading Please join us in celebrating the release of the fifth issue of Local Knowledge, a literary and art journal. Contributors include: Vyt Bakaitis, Ted Barron, Max […]
Film/Video Screening, Panel Discussion, T-shirt Benefit This event is cash only Some Serious Business and Howl! Happening are pleased to present a tribute to the work of Arleen Schloss, an […]
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? […]
Did you know that New York City is planning to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next ten years? This two-hour seminar for performing-arts and entertainment […]
A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Every Month on the Full Moon MC Extraordinaire Paul Alexander uses his mic as a divining rod to get to the bottom of . . […]
Dan Cameron Lower East Side curator and critic Dan Cameron, who organized the exhibition When Jackie Met Ethyl for Howl! Happening in May 2016, and wrote texts for both our […]
In 1979, filmmaker/artist Paul Tschinkel videotaped one of Suicide’s earliest performances at Max’s Kansas City in New York. The film starts with a thrilling performance of Ghost Rider and concludes […]
More to be announced as we celebrate the closing of Empire with a series of events including: Screening of Amon Focus’ Arturo Vega, the Last Interview, 2013 In a particularly […]
Visual Memoir Publication Party, Performance and Exhibition Howl! Happening is pleased to present an evening of Art by Davey, the moniker of dancer, photographer, performer, artist and designer Davey Mitchell. […]
So you should view this fleeting world — A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, […]
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? […]
Did you know that New York City is planning to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next ten years? This two-hour seminar for performing-arts and entertainment […]
and co-hosts Tony Stinkmetal and Salley May A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention GET READY TO BUMBLE! Pack your pistils and stamens and join meta-botanist Hapi Phace along the Luna Macaroona […]
THE SURREAL SATIRICAL CULT WEB SERIES IS BACK The best show you’ve never seen is back for a second season. Zhe Zhe is a hilarious satirical web series about the glamorous […]
"It's a long way to the top if you want to rock ‘n’ roll” —AC/DC Award-winning creative directors, designers, authors, and radio hosts Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz project a stunning […]
An evening at the intersection of visual art and music. Join composer/violinist Jessie Montgomery, long time cohort of Voided artist Ori G Carino for the premier of a new composition. […]
Join us for an evening of readings by Anthony Haden-Guest with live accompaniment by Keith Patchel, Walter Steding and Lorraine Leckie. Works will be selected from Haden-Guest's newly released spoken word […]
Movement Research Festival Spring 2017 Curated by Laurie Berg, Monstah Black and Amy Khoshbin FESTIVAL ARTISTS Adam Soch, Bessie McDonough-Thayer, BS Movement, Brother(hood) Dance!, Cakes Da Killa, Carlos Soto, Charles […]
(Opening Night, It's A Surprise) Celebrate the opening of the festival with the unveiling of the group video installation, Interiority Complex XVII, at the festival HUB, Howl! Happening. Join us at […]
On Friday, we revisit the question of how we perform persona using signification and symbolism as found through costume and fabric. What does our exterior say about our interior, if […]
He’s our mascot, our poet, our inspiration! We can never stop celebrating the gifts he gave us and the neighborhood. An outspoken genius at the service of love and social […]
6pm Film Screening 7:30pm Q&A with members of Reza Abdoh's company Location: HOWL! Happening FREE Come to Howl! Happening for a screening of Reza Abdoh: Theatre Visionary, directed by Adam […]
HOWL! Happening becomes Chuck E. Cheese! Greer Dworman hosts a stand-up comedy night for artists. Leave your ego at the door. "Skee-ball" and refreshments provided. What role does humor play […]
Join us for a special performance by Narcissister that blends video, dance and sound! Before that, at 7pm Lucy Sexton will perform a closing ceremony for the festival this evening: […]
Unconscious bias can be deadly, and contributes to one of the biggest violence issues in America. We have to do something about it. Howl! Happening is pleased to introduce No […]
With co-hosts Tony Stinkmetal and Salley May A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Are you tired of every omnipotent cry-baby claiming to be the focus of a witch hunt? So are […]
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? […]
Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno Opening Reception: June 21, 5pm Howl! Happening is pleased to present Pierre Huyghe’s Sleeptalking (d'après Sleep), in the heart of the neighborhood that spawned […]
Documentary Screening Iris Rose was a familiar figure of the East Village performance scene in the 80s and early 90s, primarily as a member of the group Watchface. She performed […]
Documentary Screening and Shorts The poet and writer Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an iconic presence in the world of arts and letters. For well over half a century, he has helped […]
Book Launch “Pay Attention: The Streets Are Talking” New York Said: Volume Three provides an elucidating and timely portrait of the pervasive challenges faced in the United States and the world, […]
The Full Moon Show: A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Every Month on the Full Moon At 4pm sharp The monthly full moon crew, Salley May and Tony Stinkmetal, are flying […]
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? […]
Butoh Film Series in Association With Vangeline Theater and New York Butoh Institute The unique art of Butoh originated in post-World War II Japan as a reaction to the loss […]
Documentary Screening Cecil Taylor is the grand master of free jazz piano. All the Notes captures, in breezy fashion, the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern musical genius, who is […]
Celebrate the re-release of 3TK4’s No Motive album, after 34 years! The new pressing includes the underground hit “Hold Up,” mixed by Ivan Ivan; three previously unreleased bonus tracks; and […]
Film Screening Howl! presents portraits of two influential artists by Paul Tschinkel from his series ART/new york. NAN GOLDIN: IN MY LIFE : ART/new york No. 47 The program features […]
ART/new york No. 54 - Film Screening Laurie Anderson is best known as a performance artist who uses music, technology, handmade instruments, words, film, actors and props to tell her tales. […]
Documentary Film Screening Don Judd’s Marfa Texas An artist and critic, there was a considerable duality to Donald Judd (1928-1994). He was at once a man of intellectual rigor and […]
A Documentary by Glenn Andreiev Wendy Wild was a force majeure on the EV/LES and downtown art, performance, and music scene, from the 70s through the 90s—until her untimely death […]
To close out our 2016-2017 season, and make ready for our stellar 2017-2018 season starting this September, Join Howl! Happening for an evening of celebration and music. Featuring Bear 54 […]
A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Every Month on the Full Moon At 4pm sharp La Moon D’Anger Or, A Moon For Kenneth Anger. The dog days of summer got us […]
A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Every Month on the Full Moon At 4pm sharp Crazy world, right? You have to keep one eye on all the fire and fury, one […]
56 Bleecker Gallery and Late 80s New York Presented by Some Serious Business and Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project September 10–October 7, 2017 Opening Reception: Sunday, September 10 / […]
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? […]
Did you know that New York City is planning to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next ten years? This two-hour seminar for performing-arts and entertainment […]
Book Publication Party Join us for an evening celebrating The Mudd Club, with stories told by Richard Boch as well as never-before-seen images from collections of artists both famous and […]
With Bill Stelling, Kimball Higgs, Mary-Ann Monforton, Adam Rolston, Barbara Braathen, and David Pace It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. In conjunction with the […]
A Staged Reading Directed by Brian Butterick AKA Hattie Hathaway Starring Joyce Miller, Eileen Dover, Flloyd, Poison Eve, Tina Benéz, David Ilku, Tennessee and featuring Mr. Joe Preston as Flo […]
A Staged Reading Directed by Brian Butterick AKA Hattie Hathaway Starring Joyce Miller, Eileen Dover, Flloyd, Poison Eve, Tina Benéz, David Ilku, Tennessee and featuring Mr. Joe Preston as Flo […]
Book Launch Featuring A.J. Lees and Ira Silverberg Howl! Happening in collaboration with New York Review Books and Notting Hill Editions is pleased to present an evening celebrating the U.S. publication […]
Documentary Screening Kevin Duffy’s groundbreaking documentary John Fleck Is Who You Want Him to Be focuses on the legendary performance artist who was the target of government-sanctioned homophobia. In 1990, at the […]
A Reading and Book Publishing Celebration Howl! Happening and The Operating System are honored to present Jerome Rothenberg, reading in commemoration of the OS’s release of Flower World Variations in […]
Publication Party Howl! presents an evening with author John Tytell, who examines the importance of Mexico to the Beat Generation in his new book, Beat Transnationalism. Allen Ginsberg once told […]
A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Every Month on the Full Moon At 4pm sharp You know that dream? The one where you’re on a prison planet and the inmates only […]
Some Serious Business and Howl! Happening are pleased to celebrate Love Among the Ruins with a culminating performance by two masterful performers: John Kelly and Joseph Keckler. Kelly performs excerpts […]
Opening Party: Friday, October 13th, 6pm Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to present Time Frame, a selection of sculptures and photographs by artist Masao Gozu. Born in […]
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? […]
Curious about affordable housing in NYC? Did you know that New York City is planning to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next ten years? This […]
Howl! Happening in association with The New York Butoh Institute and Vangeline Theater presents Queer Butoh 2017, a free three-hour evening of site-specific Butoh performances with three LGBT/Q Butoh artists […]
with Jordan Sullivan, Kate Stone, Elizabeth Schmuhl, Rosebud Ben-Oni and Andreas Laszlo Konrath Photographers Aaron Stern, Jordan Sullivan, Andreas Laszlo Konrath, and poets Elizabeth Schmuhl and Rosebud Ben-Oni will discuss and read work from the second […]
A Comedy Series with performances by: Laurel Atwell Kate Brandt Toni Carlson Bessie McDonough-Thayer Presented by HOWL! Happening, Tight 5 is a comedy series curated and hosted by comedian and […]
A Reading and Publication Celebration Ping-Pong Free Press' presents the 4th Annual Speech Is Not Free gathering: Writers Against Fascism and for Freedom of the Press. Ping-Pong Free Press and […]
Cabaret Performance and Reading Howl! Happening is thrilled to present a true original—Rick Berlin—reading and playing from his first book, The Paragraphs, published by Cutlass Press. Created from fragments used […]
A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Every Month on the Full Moon At 4pm sharp On the sidewalk outside Howl! a crowd gathers. It’s 4 o’clock Saturday. Time to tune into […]
A Tribute and Benefit Concert Featuring Stars of the Downtown Music and Alt Cabaret Scene Joni Mitchell—arguably one of the greatest songwriters of her generation—will be honored on her birthday […]
Book Signing, Performances and Projections This book perfectly captures the unique personalities of the many artists, musicians, writers, performers, and just plain kooks who made the 80s zeitgeist rock! —Ann Magnuson Howl! […]
Performance and Video Screening featuring Animal X Comedienne and performance luminary Tessie Chua brings her hilarious take on living in the East Village during the late 70s—its grungiest heyday, when […]
World Premiere Screening Howl! Happening is pleased to present the premiere of Merrill Aldighieri’s new film, "V.J. Diaries", tracing the birth of the video jockey or “VJ.” The film is […]
Featuring Cristina Elias, Tetsuro Fukuhara and Vangeline Howl! Happening and New York Butoh Institute are pleased to present a symposium and panel discussion focused on International Butoh in the 21st […]
Reading and Book Signing Joseph Keckler is a magician, a vagabond of the outer boroughs with an eye for the unorthodox, irregular, anomalous, and uncanny. By turns mordant and melancholy, decadent and […]
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? […]
Did you know that New York City is planning to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next ten years? This two-hour seminar for performing-arts and entertainment […]
Finding Affordable Coverage in a Changing Insurance Landscape Can’t make heads or tails of the news about health care changes and want to know how they affect New Yorkers? Need […]
A Documentary Film by David Shulman Howl! Happening and Brett De Palma are pleased to present a preview screening of the BBC production Basquiat: Rage to Riches, by award-winning director David […]
NYC Premiere of Robert Frank’s Harry Smith Breslin Hotel NYC (1984) And the music of High Water Raymond Foye and Howl! Happening are pleased to present an evening celebrating the […]
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 […]
Finding Affordable Coverage in a Changing Insurance Landscape Can’t make heads or tails of the news about health care changes and want to know how they affect New Yorkers? Need […]
Exhibition, Panel Discussion, and Screenings Actor, performer, painter, raconteur. Howl! Happening is pleased to present an evening celebrating the colorful coast-to-coast life of Tomata du Plenty. The show will include […]
A Musical Performance Robbie O. Leaver and Jim Coleman return to Howl! Happening as This Wilderness. Originally performing as Birdthrower, they played a memorable show alongside Lydia Lunch in conjunction […]
A Comedy Series hosted by Greer Dworman Featuring: Jess Pretty, the divine goddess of the universe Lindsay Head with Penelope Penelopinski Mariam Dingilian And more... Presented by HOWL! Happening, Tight […]
The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 Discussion in conjunction with Brett De Palma exhibition He is a deliberately seditious artist who refuses to make his subject […]
