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: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;VALUE=DATE:20220102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220321 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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;VALUE=DATE:20220122 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220221 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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;TZID=America/New_York:20220201T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220201T200000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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;TZID=America/New_York:20220204T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220204T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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:20220208T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220208T200000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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:20220215T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220215T200000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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:20220217T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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:20220222T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T200000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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:20220225T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220225T170000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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;VALUE=DATE:20220226 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220411 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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;VALUE=DATE:20220318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220319 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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:20220416 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220417 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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:20220416 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220530 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 CREATED:20220310T180311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220418T204619Z UID:10000638-1650067200-1653868799@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Bobby Grossman: Low Fidelity DESCRIPTION:►\n Explore 3D Space \n \n \n \n Bobby Grossman: Low Fidelity\n \n \n \n\nBobby Grossman had the foresight to bring his camera to CBGB and to start shooting photos that chronicle those intense and important early days. —Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth \nHowl! Arts/Howl! Archive (HA/HA) is pleased to present Low Fidelity\, a selection of photographs by Bobby Grossman that documents and sheds new light on icons of New York’s punk-rock scene and the culture that bred other trailblazing artists and musicians of the 70s\, 80s\, and 90s. \nGrossman arrived in New York in 1976 after receiving a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)\, where he studied alongside friends Chris Frantz and David Byrne of Talking Heads. His first job was assisting Richard Bernstein\, the artist responsible for the covers of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. At Bernstein’s studio in the legendary Chelsea Hotel\, Grossman found himself at ground zero in the early days of punk and the downtown scene. \nTaking photographs of friends and newfound acquaintances—including Jean-Michel Basquiat\, Debbie Harry\, the Ramones\, David Bowie\, Iggy Pop\, and the milieu around Andy Warhol’s Factory—Grossman became a regular fixture at CBGB\, the Mudd Club\, and other downtown haunts. \nGrossman also served as the official photographer for Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party\, the seminal weekly public-access television show that David Letterman once described as “…the greatest TV show anywhere\, ever!” TV Party ran from 1978–1982 and captured the countless artists and innovators on the scene including Blondie\, George Clinton\, Basquiat\, “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite\, and Klaus Nomi. \nBobby was one of the first serious photographers to capture me in action back then\, and each image brings back valuable memories of a time when we did successfully change and subvert the direction of pop culture. —“Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite \nGrossman’s work was included in the groundbreaking 1981 exhibition\, New York/New Wave\, at P.S.1 alongside more than a hundred artists including Kenny Scharf\, Robert Mapplethorpe\, Keith Haring\, Brian Eno\, and Nan Goldin. Grossman’s work has appeared in numerous publications and documentaries\, though the majority of his archive has remained unseen until now. \nThe exhibition includes photos of Andy Warhol\, Talking Heads\, Blondie\, the Ramones\, Lou Reed\, David Bowie\, The B-52’s\, Iggy Pop\, Jean-Michel Basquiat\, Diego Cortez\, Cookie Mueller\, John Waters\, Jackie Curtis\, Anya Phillips\, Lester Bangs\, Nile Rogers\, Robert Fripp\, Anya Phillips\, Richard Hell\, Grace Jones\, Glenn O’Brien\, William Burroughs\, and countless other cultural icons from the period. \nBobby\, above all an empathetic person\, has the ability to contribute to his subject’s freedom in front of the lens. —Debbie Harry \nThe exhibition also marks the start of a Kickstarter campaign to publish Low Fidelity\, a book that captures personal\, firsthand accounts by personalities including Debbie Harry\, Chris Stein\, Clem Burke\, “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite\, Richard Boch\, Walter Steding\, Sylvia Reed\, Godlis\, Vincent Fremont\, Duncan Hannah\, Victor Bockris\, Tina Weymouth\, Chris Frantz\, Lisa Jane Persky\, Robert Fripp\, Lenny Kaye\, Amos Poe\, Suzanne Mallouk\, Meg Griffin\, Jamie Nares\, Max Blagg\, Kate Simon\, Ed Stasium\, Robyn Geddes\, Guy Furrow\, Julia Gorton\, Hal and Randy Ludacer\, Claudia Summers\, Chocomoo\, and Punk magazine publisher John Holmstrom. With a preface by Lisa Jane Persky\, introduction by Glenn O’Brien\, and afterword by Richard Boch. \n\nABOUT BOBBY GROSSMAN \nBobby Grossman is an artist and photographer. He was born in Manhattan\, grew up in Westchester\, New York\, and earned his BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. Grossman moved to New York City in 1976\, taking up residency at the Hotel Chelsea. Working as a freelancer by day\, he found his way to Warhol’s Factory on Union Square\, where he was regarded as an insider. During that same period\, he became a regular presence while documenting the scene at CBGB and eventually the Mudd Club. Grossman’s reputation as a contributing photographer to both major publications and underground journals was soon well established. His work has appeared in numerous exhibitions\, catalogs\, and films. His first photo credit was the cover shot for Talking Heads’ 1977 single “Psycho Killer”. \nGroup exhibitions include the legendary 1980 Times Square Show and the 1981 New York/New Wave at P.S.1. Bande a part\, The Cool and the Crazy\, and the 2013 show Just Chaos! Images of Early Punk Style at Bookmarc continued to place his work in the public eye. Grossman’s photographs have been shown in museums and galleries worldwide\, including solo exhibitions in New York\, Boca Raton\, Sarasota\, and the 2016 Low Fidelity show in Providence\, Rhode Island. His earliest contributions to film include The Radiant Child\, about Jean-Michel Basquiat; the William Burroughs documentary A Man Within; and the No-Wave documentary Blank City. Grossman was the official photographer for Glenn O’Brien’s public-access TV Party and made a cameo in the film Downtown 81. His work is included in the documentary Fifteen Minutes Eternal\, celebrating the Andy Warhol Museum’s 20th anniversary; the 2017 award-winning documentary Basquiat: Rage to Riches; and filmmaker Sara Driver’s 2018 release\, Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Grossman collaborated with Richard Prince on the book Cowboy\, Shepard Fairey on the documentary Obey Giant\, Debbie Harry on her fashion collection with Obey\, and Junya Watanabe for Comme des Garçons. The iconic portrait of Harry shown at Deitch Projects in 2010\, along with the 2017 Blondie wall mural at Bleecker Street and Bowery\, are additional Fairey collaborations. Other photographic contributions include multiple images for Glenn O’Brien’s 2017 book Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Writings\, a 2018 episode of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown\, and Debbie Harry’s 2019 memoir Face It. \n  URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/bobby-grossmanlow-fidelity/ 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/2022/03/Bobby-Grossman-Portrait_crop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220421 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220530 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 CREATED:20220218T182416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230916T212246Z UID:10000630-1650499200-1653868799@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Christy Rupp Othered DESCRIPTION:An Installation of Sculpture and Works on Paper \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n ►\n Explore 3D Space \n \n \n \n Christy Rupp: Othered\n \n \n \n\nWe live as part of an amazing organism that has the capacity to regenerate\, given a chance. We also live in the waste stream. Garbage is a combat zone where our desire for comfort and function meets the limits of our nest. —Christy Rupp \nPlastic—as both form and content—has figured prominently in her art… It serves as a perfect signifier for the conceptual underpinnings of her work\, its pointed critique\, and subversive humor. —Nina Felshin\, Noisy Autumn: Sculpture and Works on Paper\, 2021 \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present Othered\, a new installation integrating images and objects by artist\, activist\, and thought-leader Christy Rupp. The conceptual underpinnings of her long career have consistently called attention to our interconnectedness with non-humans and habitat—transmuting urban detritus through collage\, sculpture\, public art\, and activism to reveal what is hidden away from common view and understanding. A monograph on Rupp’s work\, Noisy Autumn: Sculpture and Works on Paper\, with essays by Lucy Lippard\, Nina Felshin\, Amy Lipton\, and Carlo McCormick\, and poetry by Bob Holman\, was published in 2021 by Insight Editions. \nAs artists rummaged through the remnants of a crumbling city in the mid 1970s\, Rupp developed an interest in urban ecology\, noting that the city is an ecosystem with a delicate balance. Transforming that discovery\, she created work at the intersection of performance and site\, joining a stream of artists breaching the boundaries of the gallery system’s white box.  \nSubversive and prescient\, her early intervention into the landscape during New York City’s garbage strike of 1979—when swarms of rats became the symbol of urban decay—“was a seminal episode in the emergence of street art and a paradigm of what urban art can tell us\,” says writer Carlo McCormick. “But as much as the deluge of rubbish and rat attack may have constituted the kind of sensationalist scandal this town has always trafficked in\, this was very much Rupp’s point—that rats\, like the humans whose filth they have long thrived in\, are denizens of the city\, neither good nor evil\, they simply are.” Her work is less concerned with representation of animals than with the framing of our attitudes toward habitat\, and how we construct our opinions of nature. \nIn Othered\, Rupp investigates topics including climate chaos\, the industrialization of our food supply\, and water pollution through the lens of Discard Studies\, a discipline that examines the wider role of society and culture\, social norms\, and power on the waste stream. Her sculptures of birds\, fish\, mammals\, and microorganisms made from plastic\, commercial packaging\, credit cards\, and bits of industrial debris manifest the voices of invisible microbes and species long displaced. Using wall-scale collage\, “she juxtaposes scenes of nature and industrial development with biological specimens and nature-based patterns that are stylized\, tamed\, and made decorative for human consumption\,” says art critic Eleanor Heartney in a recent catalog.  \nLong before the climate crisis confronting us all was headline news\, her work was “galvanized by climate chaos and other ecological nightmares\,” says critic Lucy Lippard\, “and she pioneered a down-to-earth urban eco art at a time when ecology was understood as politically peripheral and nostalgically wilderness-oriented.”  \nFor Rupp\, the materiality of the work—plastic debris and other recycled examples of our rampant consumerism—is “both the medium and the message\,” and the subject of her practice points to issues that are current here and now. It is through the artist’s imagination that these timely topics come to life. As independent curator Amy Lipton says in Noisy Autumn\, “Few can match the wit\, irreverence and impeccable skills of Christy Rupp. Play between the poetic and the real requires a hard-sought balance that Rupp strives for and understands as necessary for taking on some of the most challenging issues of our time.” \nAbout Christy Rupp \nChristy Rupp is an American eco-artist and citizen scientist. Born in the Rust Belt of Upstate New York\, she was too young for Elvis and too old for Barbie. For the past five decades Rupp has continued the search for clues that might explain how we have arrived at the edge of the Extractocene\, a world permanently altered by the presence of Homo sapiens.  \nRupp was part of the artist collective Collaborative Projects (Colab)—organizer of the historic Times Square Show—as well as ABC No Rio and other East Village-era artist groups.  \nShe has received grants from Anonymous was a Woman Foundation\, Joan Mitchell Foundation CALL Award\, National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts\, and Art Matters Inc. Her work has been recently shown at the Schunck Museum in Heerlen\, Netherlands; Museum of Arts and Design\, New York; Zimmerli Art Museum; and ABC No Rio in Exile.She has just launched a career survey\, Noisy Autumn: Sculpture and Works on Paper\, published by Insight Editions. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/christy-rupp-othered/ 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/2022/02/backcover-twitter-HR_HALF.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:20220423T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T150000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T190000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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:20220430T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220430T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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:20220513T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T190000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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:20220513T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 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;VALUE=DATE:20220517 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220518 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 CREATED:20220516T160838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T163241Z UID:10000643-1652745600-1652831999@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:The Full Moon Show with John Pizza:John Pimplepopper DESCRIPTION:Visit Howlarts.org on Tuesday\, May 17\, 2022 from 12 AM to 11:59 PM. to watch the Full Moon Show! \n“I try to remain zen\, keep it smooth\, go with the flow\, but under my skin festers an agent of chaos. I wanna be chill but there’s a fidgety ingrown hair that calls me to act out. I gotta pick it. It’s the polite thing to do.”\n\nJoin John Pizza for his newest Full Moon show called John Pimplepopper\, a poetic personification of the impacted side of the soul\, and our nagging desire to squeeze it out.\n\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-pizzajohn-pimplepopper/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Off-site ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/full-moon5_2022-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T170000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 CREATED:20220516T153154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220520T153856Z UID:10000642-1653145200-1653152400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Christy Rupp in Conversation with Carlo McCormick DESCRIPTION:Artist Talk and Book Signing \nAn informal conversation with cultural critic and curator Carlo McCormick and artist Christy Rupp growing from the exhibition Othered\, currently at Howl! Happening through May 29\, and also celebrating the recent publication of Rupp’s monograph\, Noisy Autumn\, published by Insight Editions. The book’s title pays homage to Rachael Carson’s groundbreaking book Silent Spring upon its 60th anniversary. Six decades after the publication of Silent Spring\, chemical companies still maintain a website venting their anger at the journalist who would point out that 90% of all insects are beneficial. Special guest Bob Holman will join Rupp and McCormick\, reading new poems inspired by the events in Ukraine and Buffalo\, New York. \nIn the exhibition Othered\, Rupp investigates topics including resource extraction and water pollution through the lens of Discard Studies\, a discipline that examines the wider role of society and culture\, social norms\, and power on the waste stream. Embodying irony and resilience\, her sculpture of fish\, mammals\, and micro-organisms made from single use plastic and bits of industrial debris expresses the voices of invisible microbes and species caught in the crosshairs. Rupp has long explored how we form our opinions of nature and the role of art in helping us understand climate chaos. \n Using wall-scale collage\, “she juxtaposes scenes of nature and industrial development with biological specimens and nature-based patterns that are stylized\, tamed and made decorative for human consumption\,” says art critic Eleanor Heartney in a recent catalog. \n\nAbout Christy Rupp \nChristy Rupp is an American eco-artist and citizen scientist. Born in the Rust Belt of Upstate New York\, she was too young for Elvis and too old for Barbie. For the past five decades\, Rupp has continued the search for clues that might explain how we have arrived at the edge of the Extractocene\, a world permanently altered by the presence of Homo sapiens. \nRupp was part of the artist collective Collaborative Projects (Colab)—organizer of the historic Times Square Show—as well as ABC No Rio and other East Village-era artist groups. \nShe has received grants from Anonymous was a Woman Foundation\, Joan Mitchell Foundation CALL Award\, National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts\, and Art Matters Inc. Her work has been recently shown at the Schunck Museum in Heerlen\, Netherlands; Museum of Arts and Design\, New York; Zimmerli Art Museum; and ABC No Rio in Exile.She has just launched a career survey\, Noisy Autumn: Sculpture and Works on Paper\, published by Insight Editions. \nAbout Carlo McCormick \nCarlo McCormick is an American culture critic and curator living in New York City. He is the author of numerous books\, monographs\, and catalogs on contemporary art and artists. \n  URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/christy-rupp-in-conversation-with-carlo-mccormick/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/033A2022_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:20220528T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220528T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 CREATED:20220519T172624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220611T172346Z UID:10000644-1653764400-1653771600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Alan Moore: A World in Which DESCRIPTION:Book Signing and Panel Discussion \nA World in Which—an allusion to the Zapatista slogan\, “A world in which many worlds fit.” (Un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos.) \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present an evening celebrating the release of Alan Moore’s Art Worker: Doing Time in the NY Artworld\, a memoir that casts a raking light on a classic period in cultural history—the 70s and 80s in downtown Manhattan. Confirmed participants in the panel discussion: Marc H. Miller\, Yasmin Ramirez\, Leonard Abrams\, Alan W. Moore\, Stephen Zacks. Published this year by Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press\, books will be on sale at the event. \nThe New York City artworld of the late 20th century seems far more fluid and changeable\, with many more positions for its different actors to inhabit than the artworld of today. The market rules in all spheres of image-making\, enforced by super-high valuations of traditional artwork\, and global social media and streaming platforms. \nFrom art critic and video artist to radical organizer and academic\, Moore played multiple roles in a seething scene of art galleries\, nightclubs\, and small publications. Written in an accessible style\, Art Worker is in three parts\, with characters\, anecdotes\, footnotes\, and an extensive bibliography. It’s a book by a scholar written for a general audience. \nAbout the Participants \nAlan W. Moore worked as a critic\, artist\, and organizer in NYC for 30 years. He worked with the artists’ group Colab\, and co-directed ABC No Rio and the MWF Video Club. He took a PhD in Art History from CUNY in 2000\, and published Art Gangs in 2011. He has recently studied squatting in Europe; he published the zine House Magic (2009-16)\, co-edited Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces and wrote Occupation Culture (both 2015). He lives in Madrid\, and blogs at “Occupations & Properties” and “Art Gangs”. His book Art Worker launches this month. \nMarc H Miller arrived in New York from California in 1968 and lived at 98 Bowery\, NYC from 1969 to 1989 with extended stays in Washington DC and Amsterdam\, Holland.  Miller is an artist\, curator\, writer\, publisher\, and educator.  His multi-faceted career is unified by an interest in pictorial images and their inherent ability to tell stories. He holds a Ph.D. in art history from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts (1979). He runs the website 98bowery.com. \nYasmin Ramirez is an art worker\, curator\, and writer. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center\, CUNY.  Born in Brooklyn\, Ramirez was active in the downtown art scene of the early 1980s as a club kid and art critic for the East Village Eye. She has curated exhibitions on the Young Lords\, Martin Wong\, Jean-Michel Basquiat\, and the Nuyorican art movement\, and collaborated on curatorial projects with the Bronx Museum\, El Museo Del Barrio\, the Loisaida Center\, the New Museum\, the Studio Museum in Harlem\, Franklin Furnace\, and Taller Boricua. \nLeonard Abrams is a writer\, editor\, and filmmaker. He was editor and publisher of the East Village Eye monthly newsmagazine\, in circulation from May 1979 until January 1987. From 1987-89 he co-produced the underground clubs Milky Way and Hotel Amazon\, venues that mixed early hip hop with reggae\, funk\, soul and house music. In 2007 he made the documentary film “Quilombo Country\,” about contemporary Brazilian communities founded by escaped slaves. He presented the East Village Eye Show at Howl Happening in 2016.  \nStephen Zacks is an advocacy journalist\, architecture writer\, urbanist\, and project organizer based in New York City. He publishes regularly in Abitare\, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui\, Architect’s Newspaper\, Architectural Record\, Art in America\, Dwell\, Landscape Architecture\, Oculus\, and Metropolis. He was director of the Flint Public Art Project\, co-founder of the Bring to Light–Nuit Blanche festival\, and past co-director of Collective Unconscious performance space. He wrote Situationist Funhouse on the work of artist G.H. Hovagimyan which launches this month. \nPhoto: Alan Moore in 1975 by Marc Miller. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/alan-moore-a-world-in-which/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Marc-Miller-photo-1975.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:20220604 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220718 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 CREATED:20220502T171454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230916T212230Z UID:10000621-1654300800-1658102399@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Linda SimpsonMy Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary DESCRIPTION:►\n Explore 3D Space \n \n \n \n Linda Simpson: My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary\n \n \n \n\nHowl Happening presents a special exhibition celebrating Linda Simpson’s photographs and her groundbreaking magazine\, My Comrade. Included are never-before-seen images and artifacts documenting a revolutionary and seminal period in gay history. In conjunction with the exhibit\, a brand-new issue of My Comrade will be published\, the first in 16 years. \nMy Comrade magazine was founded by drag queen Linda Simpson in 1987 during the dark era of the AIDS crisis and served as a symbol of hope and frivolity to the East Village gay scene and beyond. Armed with a tongue-in-cheek “revolutionary” agenda\, the magazine glorified heroic drag queens and sexy guys in a cut-and-paste mishmash of articles and photo spreads. Lesbians got their due when the flip side became Sister! The sporadic publishing schedule produced a total of eleven issues until 1994. It was revived in 2004 for two more. \nThe exhibit features reproductions and enlargements of My Comrade’s black-and-white pages. Notable contributors to the magazine included photographers Jack Pierson and David Armstrong\, painter Stephen Tashjian a.k.a. Tabboo!\, and drag stars RuPaul and Lady Bunny. The exhibit also features Simpson’s color photos of the era from her acclaimed 2021 photo book\, The Drag Explosion\, published by Domain.  \nThe Drag Explosion by drag artist Linda Simpson is a first-hand account of a very creative and vital moment in queer life from the 1980s to the early ’90s\, in which activism\, nightlife\, a D.Y.I. approach to drag\, and pre-Giuliani New York culture crash into each other\, creating a vibrant chapter in queer history. Mining her collection of snapshots from adventures with fellow drag queens\, Club Kids\, models\, performance artists\, and aspiring celebutantes\, Simpson creates a wonderful and vivid chronicle of a bright time that has since passed.  —Peter Piatkowski\, popmatters.com\, March 2021 \nSince the 1980s\, Linda has worked as a nightlife personality\, writer and game-show host. Her photos of NYC’s drag scene of the 1980s and ‘90s have been featured in books\, magazines\, exhibits and documentaries\, as well as her own touring slideshow. \nMy Comrade’s importance as a piece of gay history was made apparent in 2021 when it was acquired by Harvard for its Houghton Library\, which specializes in literary and performing arts archives. \nRead My Comrade: the revolutionary zine that transformed the New York drag scene In DAZED \nImage: Linda Simpson\, Hapi Phace with George and Adam\, Color Photograph\, 1988. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/linda-simpsonmy-comrade-magazine-happy-35th-gay-anniversary/ 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/2022/05/MC-photo-1-1.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:20220609T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220609T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 CREATED:20220512T205002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220608T200906Z UID:10000619-1654797600-1654808400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Nora Burns:David's Friend DESCRIPTION:NYC Premiere of David’s Friend by Nora Burns. Directed by Adrienne Truscott\, featuring Billy Hough\, and Filmed by David Ebersole and Todd Hughes. \nPerformance by Kevin Aviance to follow the screening. \nA 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 \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present the hometown premiere screening of Nora Burns’ David’s Friend\, The story of a crazy friendship in 1980s New York City—a restless city during a reckless time\, the film began as a solo show by Burns that opened at La MaMa in 2017 and toured for the next 3 years. It is a comic odyssey about cruising\, disco\, drag queens\, strippers\, sex\, love\, loss\, and AIDS\, told with music\, videos\, costumes\, characters\, tall tales and torrid truths.  \nFilmed In March 2020 at Casita del Campo in Los Angeles\, it played at a few film festivals\, which were mostly virtual\, and due to the pandemic\, it never got to have its hometown premier.  \nBurns is a founding member of the comedy groups Unitard and the Nellie Olesons. She has performed across the country in various venues including PS122\, La MaMa\, and Joe’s Pub in New York City\, Highways\, Cavern Club and The HBO Workspace in Los Angeles and appeared in the comedy festivals Just for Laughs in Montreal and We’re Funny That Way in Toronto\, and at the Aspen Comedy Festival (now HBO Comedy Festival). Her first solo show\, “Honey\, I’m Home\,” premiered at Dixon Place in NYC\, and toured to Los Angeles\, Provincetown and Hudson\, NY. \nSince 2014 Nora has curated and hosted a series called New York Stories at the historic Stonewall Inn where celebrated New Yorkers like Michael Musto\, Anthony Haden-Guest and Brenda Bergman tell entertaining and sordid stories about their lives in the city of yore.  \nHer show “David’s Friend\,” opened at La MaMa in January 2017 after premiering at Dixon Place and the Provincetown Afterglow festival and touring Los Angeles\, Toronto and Seattle. \nIn addition to stage work\, Nora has appeared in the films “Broken Hearts\,” “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist\,” “Club\,” “Boys Life 3” and the documentary “Florent: Queen of the Meat Market.” Her TV appearances include Logo’s “Wisecrack” comedy show and “The Sandra Bernhard Experience.” noraburns.net \nPhoto by Christopher Makos URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/nora-burnsdavids-friend/ 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/2022/05/Makos.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:20220616T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220616T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 CREATED:20220601T184751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220617T173100Z UID:10000408-1655406000-1655413200@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Linda Simpson's Indie Gay Magazine Panel DESCRIPTION:Howl! Happening presents a panel discussion in connection with the exhibition\, Linda Simpson My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary.  My Comrade editor Linda Simpson moderates a discussion about the joys and travails of publishing an alternative queer publication with staff members from Buds Digest\, Butt\, Frock\, Gayletter and Straight to Hell.\n\n\n\n\n Buds Digest is an online magazine for queer stoners. Frock is a showcase for photographer Eli Schmidt’s erotic images. BUTT reigned from 2001 to 2011 with its chic\, sexy and conversational format. A new issue was printed earlier this year. Gayletter focuses on queer art\, fashion and culture. Straight to Hell was founded in 1971 and features real life sex adventures submitted by anonymous contributors. \n\n\n\n\n\n \nSince the 1980s\, Linda Simpson has worked as a nightlife personality\, writer and game-show host. Her photos of NYC’s drag scene of the 1980s and ‘90s have been featured in books\, magazines\, exhibits and documentaries\, as well as her own touring slideshow. \nMy Comrade’s importance as a piece of gay history was made apparent in 2021 when it was acquired by Harvard for its Houghton Library\, which specializes in literary and performing arts archives. \nRead My Comrade: the revolutionary zine that transformed the New York drag scene In DAZED URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/indie-gay-magazine-panel/ 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/2022/06/aaa-panel-invite-635-1.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:20220622T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220622T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 CREATED:20220619T181622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220623T182155Z UID:10000412-1655924400-1655931600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:My Comrade LIVE DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Live Talk Show on Wednesday\, June 22 at 7pm. In conjunction with the My Comrade magazine at Howl! Happening\, editor Linda Simpson hosts a live talk show with special guests: \nInternational DJ Honey Dijon (@honeydijon)\, photographer Andrew Whyland (@andewhyland)\, performer Macy Rodman (@macyrodman)\, cover girl for the new issue of My Comrade\, and performer Jonah Almost (@jonahalmost)\, the centerfold model. \nHoney Dijon is an internationally-known DJ who moved to NYC in the late 1990s and now lives in Berlin. Her recent projects include collaborating on a fashion label with Comma des Garcons.\n\nAnde Whyland is a photographer who has shot many images for My Comrade’s lesbian flip side\, Sister! Tonight she shows slides from her photo book Shots\, which spotlights the creative scene going on in the early 1980s at such venues as Club 57 and the Pyramid.\n\nMacy Rodman is the covergirl of the new issue of My Comrade\, which is the first in 16 years and was published to coincide with the exhibit. Over the past several years\, she has developed a cult following as a rock and pop performer in Brooklyn and beyond.\n\nJonah Almost is the centerfold model of the new issue of My Comrade. He is en electric music performer\, nightlife enthusiast and part-time model and skateboarder.\n\nSince the 1980s\, Linda has worked as a nightlife personality\, writer and game-show host. Her photos of NYC’s drag scene of the 1980s and ‘90s have been featured in books\, magazines\, exhibits and documentaries\, as well as her own touring slideshow. \nMy Comrade’s importance as a piece of gay history was made apparent in 2021 when it was acquired by Harvard for its Houghton Library\, which specializes in literary and performing arts archives. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/my-comrade-live/ 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/2022/06/MC_LIVE_v3.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:20220705T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220705T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 CREATED:20220527T154447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220628T175823Z UID:10000641-1657051200-1657054800@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Female Genius &Friends DESCRIPTION:Every Tuesday in July @ 8 PM on Howl! TV \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present another in its &Friends residencies curated by Female Genius every Tuesday night in July on Howl TV. Howl’s monthly &Friends series features programs curated by notable artists—with the voices\, commentary\, music\, and writing of friends they admire and collaborate with. Watch Female Genius &Friends July 5\, 12\, 19\, and 26. \nFemale Genius is a collaborative musical group comprised of multidisciplinary artists: Julie Hair\, Marnie Jaffe\, and Nikki D’Agostino. Their debut record was released by Howl! Arts in 2021 and is available on the Howl website. In this iteration of the program\, Hair has curated and compiled a series of videos representing a diverse group of artists and musicians in the band’s orbit—many at the very beginning of their careers. \n \n  \nIncluded\, are early videos from Jaffe’s band Live Skull and Hair’s influences from 1980’s Lower East Side. Videos from this era feature the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge\, 3 Teens Kill 4\, Brian Butterick\, and more. “These videos show a part of the thread that has brought us to where we are now and honor my experience working at the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge and the exposure it gave me to a steady stream of radically divergent artists coming together and being intrigued by each other\,” says Hair. \nIn more recent years D’Agostino and Hair have intersected musically with Eric Hoegemeyer\, Christian Lee\, and Grace Bergere. Videos from these artists as well as D’Agostino’s collaborations with Hair on Isolation Society and one-off recording project Century Waste will be included. This polyamorous approach has evolved organically through relationships and is not limited by genre. \nFemale Genius &Friends will also include videos from D’Agostino’s bands Vestments\, And The Wiremen\, The Art Gray Noizz Quintet and her fellow collaborator Bradford Reed and Sugarlife Orchestra. Other more recent content will include The Creepy Julie Project\, Rob Mayson\, and other collaborators past and present: Lin Culbertson\, Janice Sloane\, Grace Bergere\, Anni Rossi\, and of course\, Female Genius! The Death Of Art and other videos by Matt Reekie that capture the spirit of the underground will also be introduced.  \nImage: Douglas Landau \, “I Feel Better Now”\, Video Still. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/female-genius-friends-2/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Off-site ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/I-Feel-Better-Now-Douglas-Landau_crop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220706T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220706T190000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 CREATED:20220701T012051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220709T194841Z UID:10000414-1657134000-1657134000@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:MY COMRADE READS DESCRIPTION:“The exhibit emphasizes the magazine’s graphic design\, but each issue featured plenty to read\, too.” — Linda Simpson \nHowl! Happening presents  “My Comrade Reads\,” a reading of articles from past issues of the magazine in connection with the exhibition\, Linda Simpson My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary. An illustrious cast of performers and others share funny\, provocative\, and sexy articles chosen for them by editor Linda Simpson. Classic and hilarious articles from the gay zine are read by: Mike Albo\, Nora Burns\, Glace Chase\, and Eileen Dover. \n\n \nSince the 1980s\, Linda Simpson has worked as a nightlife personality\, writer and game-show host. Her photos of NYC’s drag scene of the 1980s and ‘90s have been featured in books\, magazines\, exhibits and documentaries\, as well as her own touring slideshow. \nMy Comrade’s importance as a piece of gay history was made apparent in 2021 when it was acquired by Harvard for its Houghton Library\, which specializes in literary and performing arts archives. \nRead My Comrade: the revolutionary zine that transformed the New York drag scene In DAZED \n\n\n\nMike Albo\nWriter\, playwright and performer\, whose upcoming sci-fi novel is Another Dimension of Us.\n\nNora Burns\nOne-third of the comedy trio Unitard and creator of the one-woman show David’s Friend.\n\nGlace Chase\nRecently returned from Australia where she starred in her play Triple X\, a trans love story.\n\nEileen Dover\nNightlife veteran and social butterfly. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/my-comrade-reads/ 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/2022/06/MY_COMRADE_PROPAGANDA2.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;VALUE=DATE:20220713 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220715 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 CREATED:20220711T204634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220713T183802Z UID:10000418-1657670400-1657843199@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:The Full Moon Show with John Pizza: Paralysis DESCRIPTION:The Full Moon Show: A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Presents \nJohn Pizza: Paralysis \nVisit Howlarts.org on Wednesday\, Jul 13\, 2022 from 12 AM to 11:59 PM to watch the Full Moon Show! \nEvery week\, every day\, every minute\, if you don’t respond to the times up to the second – you’re paralyzed. We have mucho responsibility to our community\, and our own bodies are the greatest metaphor for that responsibility. — John Pizza \nJoin John Pizza for Paralysis\, a Full Moon performance that hopefully taps in to the feeling that we need to act\, want to act\, and that sometimes we are frozen stiff. \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-pizza-paralysis/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Off-site,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/July-Full-Moon-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220713T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220713T200000 DTSTAMP:20260618T054649 CREATED:20220711T195516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220713T170404Z UID:10000416-1657735200-1657742400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:MY COMRADE: Final Gathering DESCRIPTION:Join Linda Simpson for the final special event in connection with her exhibition My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary. Celebrate the release of The My Comrade Anthology\, a collection of pages from past issues of My Comrade selected by Linda Simpson\, printed in a substantial 256-page volume on newsprint. Linda will be signing books at the event. \nCome mix and mingle\, see a fashion show of the newest My Comrade T-Shirts\, and listen to DJ Michael Magnan — Designer of the latest issue of My Comrade. \nIf you can’t make it to the event Click Here to purchase The My Comrade Anthology published by Boo-Hooray. \n\nLinda Simpson’s My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary is a special exhibition celebrating Linda Simpson’s photographs and her groundbreaking magazine\, My Comrade. Included are never-before-seen images and artifacts documenting a revolutionary and seminal period in gay history. In conjunction with the exhibit\, a brand-new issue of My Comrade will be published\, the first in 16 years. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/my-comrade-final-gathering/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Final-Happening.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 END:VCALENDAR