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SUMMARY:Philly Abe This Side of Heaven
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Wednesday April 4 / 6–8 PM / Free\n. . . a hybrid practice that has consistently harnessed both punk irreverence and graffiti transgression to channel demons. . . into the exquisite\, glowing collages. —Jenifer P Borum\, Raw Vision magazine \nArtist and performer Philly Abe (July 8\, 1949–January 30\, 2018) was a vortex of energy and core member of the Howl! Happening Tribe. Whether performing on the street outside the gallery in the impromptu and wacky Full Moon Show\, cheering on her friends at events and exhibitions\, or just being her own chaotic\, colorful self\, Philly/Kondor8 was a visionary who never stopped creating and reinventing herself through her performances\, collages\, and paintings. This Side of Heaven pays tribute to her work and life\, as we mourn her passing with a memorial exhibition. \nPhilly was born in 1949 and grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She attended Penn State and received a degree in educational communications. Always a rebel rouser\, she was involved with some anarchist groups in the late 60s\, and in the 70s she moved to Toronto with her then-husband who worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. There she became involved with documentary radio\, studied dance with Lindsay Kemp\, and opened a punk store before heading West to more adventures. She made her way to San Francisco\, where she met Mike and George Kuchar\, with whom she would later make several films. Eventually\, in 1983\, she moved to the Lower East Side\, which was to be her home until her untimely death. \nOnce in New York\, Philly was fully engaged in the nightlife and cultural scene. She performed at the Pyramid\, Area\, Limbo Lounge\, 8BC\, Danceteria\, and did what it took to get by in the no holds barred atmosphere of creativity and community that reigned before the era of gentrification. It’s reputed that early on she even “slept on the stage of ABC No Rio.” \nIn January of this year\, she was the recipient of an Acker Award\, a tribute to the avant-garde arts community who praised her work and life “in defiance of convention.” Her bio from their program outlines her creative trajectory: She was part of 7 Days of Creation at ABC No Rio in 1983\, and the New Leonard Beach Hotel Project of artist-decorated rooms in Miami Beach in 1989\, both exhibitions curated by Allied Productions. She was the star of many films by director Todd Verow and his muse for more than two decades. Notable Verow films starring Philly include Once and Future Queen\, The Trouble of Perpetual Deja-Vu\, and most recently This Side of Heaven (2016). She starred in Agent of Paradise by Mary Bellis and was involved in screenings at Naked Eye Cinema. Her film credits also include appearances in the films of Jack Waters\, Carl George\, and Mike Kuchar. \nIn the 90s Philly fronted the punk band Eager Meat\, which recorded the album America is a Theme Park. In 2004\, she co-founded the noize/art collective Infinity SS (Saint Stanton) with Stanton Street artist friends Carlucci ‘The Magician’ Bencivenga\, Steve Ellis\, James Curtright\, Chris Morrow\, Craig Klein\, Kosuke Aoki\, Mayuka Nobuta\, and Dave Vulcan. They collaborated on art and their noize band performed at The Knitting Factory\, Arlene’s Grocery\, and CBGBs. \nFor the Acker Awards\, she described her work as “old style thrown against the wall of now—spray paint noize markers collage—with one foot in the Stone Age and the other in string theory.” Her work was featured on the cover of Raw Vision issue #66 in 2009\, and in exhibitions with Christina Varga in Woodstock\, New York\, and Phyllis Kind Gallery in Chelsea.
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/philly-abe-this-side-of-heaven/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Gallery
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SUMMARY:Catalyst Quartet - CQ@Howl!
DESCRIPTION:A Performance Series by the Catalyst Quartet  \nTurbulent\, wildly colorful and exploding with life\, Strum sounded like a handful of American folk melodies tossed into a strong wind\, cascading and tumbling joyfully around one another.\n—Jessie Montgomery album review\, The Washington Post \nHowl! Happening is pleased to continue the ongoing performance series by the Catalyst Quartet—CQ@Howl! This evening CQ presents a number of meditative pieces that offer the listener an opportunity to reflect and look inward during these tumultuous times. Seeking to inspire a sense of common understanding and desire for peace\, the quartet will perform works that are contemplative and emotionally charged\, including Philip Glass 3rd String Quartet\, the Barber Adagio and Credo by Kevin Puts. The program will also include short readings by playwright\, scholar and teacher Robbie McCauley. The series brings to life the reciprocal connection and common mission between Howl! Happening and the Catalyst Quartet to explore the intersections of art\, music\, performance\, social justice\, immigrants\, equality\, and community activism. In the intimate space of the gallery\, the quartet will perform highlights from their current concert season\, special sneak peek presentations\, and collaborative works in process. The members of the quartet are Jessie Montgomery and Karla Donehew Perez\, violins; Paul Laraia\, viola; and Karlos Rodriguez\, cello. \nEach happening in the series will offer an opportunity to experience CQ and the inner workings of a string quartet through performance\, conversation\, and direct engagement with the artists. This season’s highlights include contemporary and 20th century works from their Hemispheres programs\, music of North and South America\, works in process from their spoken word project\, and much more. Future performances in the series to be announced! \nAbout The Catalyst Quartet  \nAbout Jessie Montgomery \n 
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/cqhowl-2018-04-05/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Petrarch in Love: Poetry Reading with Penny Arcade\, Anthony Haden-Guest\, Nemo Librizzi\, and Ilka Scobie Video Projections by Luigi Cazzaniga
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 6\, 2018 / 7 PM / Free \nPetrarch in Love\nPoetry Reading with Penny Arcade\, Anthony Haden-Guest\, Nemo Librizzi\, and Ilka Scobie\nVideo Projections by Luigi Cazzaniga \nJoin Penny Arcade\, Anthony Haden-Guest\, Nemo Librizzi\, and Ilka Scobie in an eclectic poetry reading of their work to celebrate Spring and honor the April 6\, 1327 meeting of Italian poet Petrarch and his beloved muse Laura.  \nPetrarch composed 366 poems based on his unrequited love for Laura\, whom he saw only once on a Good Friday\, when she was illumed by the light shining through the window of the cathedral where he served as a cleric. The poet’s free and romantic spirit remains a lyrical inspiration and informs this evening’s readings. Considered one of the fathers of humanism\, Petrarch traveled widely for pleasure and is known as “the first tourist.” Video projections by Luigi Cazzaniga begin and end the event. \nPenny Arcade aka Susana Ventura occupies a rare position in America’s avant-garde\, contributing to the creation of new art forms every decade of her 50-year career. She is an internationally-respected poet\, essayist\, performance artist\, actress\, and experimental theater maker. With her longtime collaborator of 26 years\, Steve Zehentner\, she co-helms The Lower East Side Biography Project: Stemming the Tide of Cultural Amnesia\, an oral history video documentary project that has broadcast and cybercast weekly since 1999 every Monday at 11 PM via Facebook at @LowerEastSideBiographyProject \nLuigi Cazzaniga\, born in Milan\, Italy\, has lived and worked in New York for 30 years. His recent work has been exhibited in the Bronx No Commission; Greenwich Art Center\, CT; Caravaggio Art Festival\, Italy; and Shankill Arts\, Ireland. His 2017 interview with Oliver Stone was broadcast in Italy on RAI 3. His projections have been shown at the Bronx Museum of the Arts\, the Biennale di Soncino\, and the Bowery Poetry Club. \nAnthony Haden-Guest is a British writer\, reporter\, cartoonist\, curator\, and performer. He was born in Paris\, grew up in London\, and has long lived in New York. His books include True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World; The Last Party: Studio 54\, Disco\, and the Culture of the Night; and two books of cartoons and rhymes\, The Chronicles of Now: The Way We Live Now and In The Mean Time: The Other Ends of the World. \nNemo Librizzi was born in New York City in 1970. Radio DJ\, filmmaker\, and painter\, he has recently published two books: a memoir in Facebook post format titled “book”\, and Benjamin’s Silver Cup\, a fictional novella. \nIlka Scobie is a native New Yorker\, a poet who writes about contemporary art for Artlyst (London)\, The Brooklyn Rail and Whitehot. She has co-curated international art shows in Soncino\, Italy with her husband\, photographer Luigi Cazzaniga. A teaching poet\, she has worked in city public schools for many years.
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/petrarch-in-love-poetry-reading-with-penny-arcade-anthony-haden-guest-nemo-librizzi-and-ilka-scobie-video-projections-by-luigi-cazzaniga/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:The Cutouts:  Keith Patchel and The Venus Orbit with Poet Bob Holman
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 12\, 2018 / 7 PM Free \nA Performance \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present a very special evening with Keith Patchel\, The Venus Orbit\, and poet Bob Holman. The Venus Orbit is a multimedia instrumental ensemble founded by award-winning NYC-based film composer Patchel.  The performance at Howl! Happening will be the debut of Patchel’s The Cutouts (Matisse)\, a new music song cycle using the poetry of Bob Holman—who will be performing—and based on Henri Matisse’s cut paper works\, along with abbreviated versions of Modern Music with Electronica and other Patchel compositions. Featured performers include Sayaka Aiba\, musicians Clara Francesca and Cantata Fan\, with projections by Alexis Kandra.  \nThe Cutouts (Matisse) is Bob Holman’s third chapbook with PeKa Boo Press\, located in Woods Hole\, MA. The series is edited by poet Eric Edwards and features cover and frontispiece art by Rebecca Edwards. The 50 miniatures in the book are ekphrastics—art inspired by other art—in this case the eponymous work with scissors and colored paper that occupied Matisse for the last 14 years of his life.  \nBound by a wheelchair due to polio\, he created bold\, striking\, imagistic\, brilliantly-colored shapes that were first collected in a project called Jazz. “You see as I am obliged to remain often in bed because of the state of my health\, I have made a little garden all around me where I can walk…. There are leaves\, fruits\, a bird\,” he wrote. Matisse generally cut the shapes out freehand\, using a small pair of scissors and saving both the cut-out sheets and remaining scraps of paper.  \nHolman’s poems take Matisse’s freestyle handling of paper and sets it free to dance and form poems of tenderness and whimsicality—reminiscent of nursery rhymes\, love songs\, and fragments of jazz\, orchestral\, rock\, and folk stylings. Keith Patchel’s music moves from echoes of Messiaen and Satie to contemporary classical and rock. The resulting work is a wash of intricacy and color that conjures the sea\, the sky—and the paper they are made of. Like Matisse’s cut paper works\, Holman and Patchel’s songspiel is a vibrant\, playful bite of astonishment. “Time for lunch\, Henri/So eat your breakfast/Blue apple/Green coffee/Yellow fingers.” \nHowl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project \n6 East First Street (Between Bowery and 2nd Ave) \nNew York\, NY 10003 \n917 475 1294 \ncontact@howlarts.org  \nGallery Hours: Wed–Sun\, 11 AM–6 PM
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/the-cutouts-keith-patchel-and-the-venus-orbit-with-special-guest-poet-bob-holman/
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SUMMARY:Todd Verow This Side of Heaven
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening\nAs part of the tribute to Philly Abe’s life and work\, Howl! is pleased to present a screening of This Side Of Heaven\, a film by Todd Verow. Philly’s roommate\, dear friend\, and artist collaborator\, Verow describes the impetus for the movie: \nWe decided to make This Side of Heaven when our landlord was doing everything he could to try to get us evicted. Our way of coping with the harassment and absurdity of it all was to make a movie. It was cathartic and exhausting. Every day when we were shooting\, we would wake up and I would spend an hour doing Philly’s makeup and hair. We would go over the scenes while I did this\, and she would get into her character. When we were done for the day\, we would both just collapse on the floor\, exhausted physically and emotionally. It was the last movie we finished together. \nIn This Side of Heaven\, V (Philly Abe)\, an older trans woman\, is desperately trying to hold on to her rent-stabilized apartment in New York City. She has endured many tragedies involving former lovers\, friends\, \nand acquaintances over the 26 years she has lived in her rat-\, roach-\, and junkie-infested building. She has survived corrupt landlord after corrupt landlord\, but her struggles have left her agoraphobic and reclusive. As V tries to maintain her sanity\, she is visited by her friend and mentor Lili (Brandon Olson)\, who consoles her and tries to get her to work on a new cabaret show. However\, V knows those days are over; she is no longer interested in performing. \nMeanwhile\, V’s property manager\, Shawnith (Jayne Nicoletti) continues her nefarious efforts to evict her or get her to move out. In retaliation\, Alexxx (Penny Arcade)\, V’s upstairs neighbor\, tries to get her to be more active in the political fight against gentrification\, but V resigns to stay put. \nHer only connection to the outside world comes through interactions with various delivery boys who bring groceries and necessities. Most of them take advantage of V or rob her\, but one of them\, Christian (Justin Rodriguez)\, becomes her friend. He eventually agrees to move in with her\, but just as things seem to be turning around for V\, Shawnith resorts to violent means to get her out of the building once and for all. \nAlso screened will be One Last Scene\, new short film Verow made with Philly before her death.
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/todd-verow-this-side-of-heaven/2018-04-13/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Eszter Balint & Stew I Hate Memory
DESCRIPTION:A musical journey through the winsome past of Eszter Balint\nThursday\, April 19\, 2018 / 7 PM / Free\nFriday\, May 18\, 2018 / 7 PM / Free\nFriday\, June 22\, 2018 / 7 PM / Free \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present an evening of songs and stories called I Hate Memory! A wistful travelogue of the winsome past of EB\, which brings together two legendary downtown creators\, Eszter Balint (The Star) and Stew (The Director). Featuring an anti-cabaret which co-stars the Streets of New York and the Late 20th Century\, and which features appearances by family\, film and fame\, immigration\, joy\, theater and shame\, dance floors\, open doors\, avant-garde life\, papaya ice cream and the Shah of Iran’s wife. A reluctant memoir served on bed of song and dirt\, with a punk aperitif and Jimmy Carter for dessert. \nEszter sings and plays guitar and violin\, while Stew does the quieter singing and plays guitar\, with Vincent Sperrazza on drums and Kato Hideki on bass. \nI hate memory\nI hate memory\nI hate memory\nMemory’s a predator \nEszter Balint is a singer-songwriter with three critically-acclaimed solo albums. She grew up as a member of the legendary avant-garde theater company Squat Theatre. She’s had featured roles in films by Jim Jarmusch\, Woody Allen\, and Steve Buscemi—including a role alongside David Bowie—and has recently starred in a six-episode arc in Season 4 of Louis CK’s TV show Louie. Jon Pareles of The New York Times has said of her work: “Miss Balint has her own film noir sensibility as a songwriter. She slips inside her characters to project their restlessness and longing.” \nSinger-songwriter Stew is a founding member of the band The Negro Problem\, and a Tony and Obie award-winning playwright and composer (Passing Strange).
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/eszter-balint-stew-i-hate-memory/2018-04-19/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Pat Irwin  Music for Electric Guitar and Piano
DESCRIPTION:Pat Irwin has been living and working in New York City since the late 70s. He was a founding member of 8-Eyed Spy (with Lydia Lunch)\, and the Raybeats. As a longtime member of The B-52s\, he performed with the band from 1989–2008. His new band is called The PI Power Trio. \nPat has written music for film and television\, including the HBO series Bored to Death and Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. He is currently composing the score for the new Netflix series The Good Cop. His composer credits include music for hundreds of cartoons\, including SpongeBob SquarePants\, Rocko’s Modern Life\, Pepper Ann\, and Class of 3000. \nMusic for Electric Guitar and Piano will feature new compositions\, as well as several pieces composed for film and television. \nAbout Pat Irwin
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/pat-irwin-music-for-electric-guitar-and-piano-2018-04-20/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Once & Future Queen A film by Todd Verow starring Philly Abe
DESCRIPTION:An entertainingly appalling\, cheerfully nihilistic portrait…comically bodacious actress Philly may remind viewers of the Divine of the early John Waters films\, but her performance here is tougher. —THE TENNESSEAN \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present Todd Verow’s award-winning film Once & Future Queen starring Philly Abe. The screening is part of the events celebrating her life and memorial exhibition This Side of Heaven. \nAnti-Matter (Philly) is the queen of nothing\, the ruler of nowhere\, the monarch of cyphers—in other words\, she’s too cool for you—but can you put her up for the night? Drifting through the Lower East Side like the death rattle echoes of rock and roll\, she’s on a desperate\, desolate mission to get her band together and finally conquer something…anything. Her manic manipulations and chaotic philosophies never seem to gel in the present—she’s either a step behind or two steps ahead. Her therapist (Brenda Velez) can’t help her. Anti-Matter just wants to get drunk with her A.A. buddy (Eric Sapp). \nOld friends (Jennifer Blowdryer\, Kid Congo Powers) don’t want anything to do with her. New “friends” (Lee Whittier\, Tia Sprocket) simply don’t know what to do with her. Bored with the dangling fly striptease of fame that has eluded her whole life\, she’s nevertheless only alive onstage—dreaming of a place where no one will unplug that amp\, threaten her life\, or shove her out the door in the morning. Of course\, her rampant drug and alcohol use and frequent homelessness don’t help—plus she isn’t getting any younger and has been married more times than Liz Taylor. As her connections to reality slip away in the haze of her traveling sideshow lifestyle\, the inferno of celebrity and self-destruction seductively beckon. \nYou may leave this latest Todd Verow feature feeling vaguely unclean\, but if you haven’t been entertained\, it won’t be for the lack of effort of Verow and New York scene queen Philly. If you’re not glued to your seat as Anti-Matter drinks\, f**** and pill-pops her way across the Lower East Side\, you’ll be running for the door. —LA WEEKLY \nTodd Verow’s Once & Future Queen is a woman destined to be at the wrong place at the wrong time\, somehow turning that into a fashion statement. If you’ve ever felt used and abused\, underappreciated\, scraped off the sidewalk\, or simply horny\, Anti-Matter has some advice for you. She’s been there\, done that\, and doesn’t give a shit. Or so she says. \nWhat the press is saying: \n…DV filmmaking icon Todd Verow’s Once & Future Queen stars Philly as a down-and-out rocker seeking fame and friendship. The film’s episodic structure and dense sound design\, as well as Verow’s visual acumen\, make this one of his strongest films to date. —RES MAGAZINE \nWhether she’s draining the booze from an alcoholic friend’s pad (“to remove all temptation for you”) or sullenly raiding the refrigerator of one of her three ex-husbands (“he’s just pissed because I pulled a knife on him”)\, Anti-Matter is the pitch-perfect intersection of where narcissism crosses arrested ability. —THE DALLAS OBSERVER \n…Vivid and unpredictable…a fascinating bundle of contradictions. —THE CHICAGO READER \nAbout PHILLY ABE\nPhilly Abe (1949-2018) was a multifaceted artist living in NYC. Her acting credits include many films with the Kuchar Brothers (George and Mike Kuchar) and Todd Verow. She was an intuitive performer. While working on a CBC radio documentary on Lindsay Kemp\, she was offered a scholarship with the troop and never looked back. Ritual and trance are an important part of her work\, in an unending chain from political street theater in the 60s to underground film. Her mercurial androgynous performances have gained her a cult following around the world. \nAbout TODD VEROW \nTodd Verow was born in Bangor\, Maine\, on November 11\, 1966. He started acting and directing plays as a child\, and making movies while attending Rhode Island School of Design. He made short experimental films and worked as a cinematographer before making his feature film debut with Frisk\, which had its European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in the Forum 20 years ago. Starting his own production company Bangor Films\, Todd has directed over 20 features and numerous shorts\, establishing himself as the most prolific auteur emeritus of the New Queer Cinema. He is fiercely independent\, and chooses to finance\, write\, produce\, direct\, photograph\, and edit his own movies.
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/once-future-queen-a-film-by-todd-verow-starring-philly-abe/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Actors Fund Affordable Housing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that New York City is planning to build or preserve 300\,000 units of affordable housing by 2026? This two-hour seminar for performing-arts and entertainment professionals provides an overview of government-subsidized housing in New York City\, which is available for both low- and middle-income households. Complex information is broken down into simple\, straightforward steps. While the applicant pool for these affordable units is highly competitive\, this seminar will help you avoid common mistakes and get organized and prepared to apply. The following questions will be addressed: \nHow do you find and apply for affordable housing? \nWhat are the eligibility requirements? (Income\, household size\, credit\, housing history\, etc.) \nHow does a housing lottery work? \nCan you get on a waiting list? \nHow do you document your income if it fluctuates year to year? \nHow can you best prepare yourself for an interview? \nWhat are your options if you are denied? \n 
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/2565-2016-12-20-2017-06-06-2017-12-12-2018-02-20/2018-04-24/
LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Actors Fund Insurance Drop In Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Insurance Doctor Is In! \nQuestions about a health insurance bill? \nDon’t understand your insurance and can’t get a straight answer? \nNeed some advice on how to negotiate medical debt? \nOur insurance expert will answer your questions during a one-on-one consultation. Vincent Musolino\, Health Benefits Specialist at the Artists Health Insurance Resource Center\, is an unbiased Navigator with the NY State of Health Marketplace and has over 12 years of medical billing and insurance experience. \nConsultations are about 20 minutes and by appointment only. \nPlease RSVP to vmusolino@actorsfund.org with Subject: Insurance Doctor Is In \nAlso\, bring any documents in question (bills\, explanations of benefits\, your insurance policy)! \n 
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/actors-fund-insurance-drop-in-workshop-3-2016-12-19-2017-07-05-2017-12-11/2018-04-24/
LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Michael Lally's Another Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch\nHowl! Happening is pleased to celebrate the publication of Michael Lally’s “Another Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017\, the definitive collection of verse from a poet who bridges the rhythms and message of the Beats\, the disarming frankness of the New York School\, and the fierce temerity of activist authors throughout the ages. \nThe event will feature a short reading by Michael Lally and a few words from Eileen Myles\, who wrote the introduction to the book. Published by Seven Stories Press. \nA former jazz musician\, Hollywood actor\, and radical organizer\, New Jersey-born Michael Lally has worn many hats over the course of his life. But throughout it all\, he has written accessible\, deeply-felt poetry. Themes of identity\, love\, success\, and failure pervade through his body of work\, but always with wry humor and the simple grace that is the mark of deep thought. Lally is the recipient of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, among others. He is the author of 30 books of poetry and prose\, including Stupid Rabbits (1971)\, White Life (1980)\, It’s Not Nostalgia (1999)\, and Swing Theory (2015). \nEileen Myles is a poet\, novelist\, performer\, and art journalist. Their 20 books include Afterglow (a dog memoir)\, a 2017 reissue of Cool for You and I Must Be Living Twice/new and selected poems\, and Chelsea Girls. Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant\, four Lambda Literary Awards\, and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. In 2016\, Myles received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for Excellence in Art Writing. Currently\, they teach at NYU and Naropa University and live in Marfa\, TX and New York. \nPhoto: Gus Van Sant\, edited by Stewart Cauley.
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/michael-lallys-another-way-to-play-poems-1960-2017/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Book Signing
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SUMMARY:We Remember Philly
DESCRIPTION:In our own madcap way\, Howl! Happening salutes Philly Abe in a series of candid film clips\, remembrances\, and performances. In the clips by Elizabeth Nichols\, Philly expounds on lipstick\, landlords\, laughter and more while close friends like Hapi Phace\, Miss Joan Marie Moossy\, Hattie Hathaway\, Salley May\, Todd Verow\, Steve Ellis and others take off from these moving images to spotlight an aspect of her over the top personality and big heart. The evening begins with a ritual by Gail Thacker invoking her irrepressible spirit. \nimage: Todd Verow
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/we-remember-philly/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Performances
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SUMMARY:Disconnected Touch A Full Moon Show
DESCRIPTION:A Full Moon Show Hosted by Rani O’Brien\nThe Full Moon Show: A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention\nMissed Connections\nI was sitting on the BDFM train heading down to the East Village toward my favorite coffee spot\, Blue Bottle\, when I saw you delicately bolstering your chiffon scarf (which matched the natural rouge of your cheeks). You sat next to me\, crossing your legs\, sporting the hip displacement of Fosse himself. You wore a velvet blazer with a button that read “East Village Evictee: I Made Noise!” with a City Lore book bag featuring a painting of the Can Man. We caught eyes\, awkwardly over our shoulders. You glanced down at my Patagonia vest—your eyes rocketed to my REI backpack\, then to my Lulus—as if to tell me I was emblematic of everything you stood against. I was the problem. Only then did you give me the deepest look I have ever been graced with. Our thighs touched. For a moment I thought our entire beings would too. An alert popped up on my phone—it was a live pic of my friend’s baby dancing naked at Coachella. I laughed. When I looked back to you\, you flew off the subway car faster than I could ask for your Instagram handle. Yet\, you looked back with that soul piercing gaze. \nDon’t miss the connection: Join Rani O’Brien and Jazmine Corneille\, Sophia Gutchinov and Dana Stern on the sidewalk outside Howl! Happening\, so we can slide into each other’s Direct Messages. \nDisconnected Touch\nDirected by Rani O’Brien\nDevised by and featuring Jazmine Cornielle\, Sophia Gutchinov\, and Dana Stern\nAdditional sound by Matthew Sells \nAbout Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show \n Howl! Happening houses the archives of Tom Murrin. Murrin\, aka the Alien Comic\, is known as the Godfather of Performance Art. Every full moon\, Tom performed the Full Moon Show in honor of his moon goddess\, Luna Macaroona. When he had a club date that fell on the full moon\, he’d wrangle his friends to perform as his 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. If not\, he performed on the street for passersby\, transforming the pedestrian atmosphere with his madness and magic. Howl! Happening’s monthly series continues that tradition\, with performances in the gallery and surprise pop-up performances on the street. \nAbout the Tom Murrin Archive \nHowl! Happening is the repository of the Tom Murrin Archive\, comprising masks\, costumes\, scripts\, correspondence\, photographs\, and tapes of performances going back to the early 70s. Murrin (February 8\, 1939 – March 12\, 2012)\, also known as The Alien Comic and Jack Bump\, was a performance pioneer whose life and work inspired both artists and audiences for over 40 years. He was a member of the first generation of La MaMa playwrights. Tom wrote four plays performed through La MaMa and produced by John Vacarro’s Play-House of the Ridiculous\, including the offbeat hit Cock Strong\, which toured with Ellen Stewart’s La MaMa Troupe to Paris\, Amsterdam\, and Brussels. \nUnder the guidance of rock manager Jane Friedman\, Tom began to perform under the name Alien Comic\, opening for acclaimed punk bands in rock clubs such as CBGBs and Max’s Kansas City. As Alien Comic he performed in such venues as The Pyramid\, 8BC\, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut\, Performance Space 122\, Dixon Place\, La MaMa\, and more. Starting in the mid 80s\, he created\, performed\, and curated a series of variety nights at Performance Space 122\, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club\, and Dixon Place called The Full Moon Show. His plays Sport-Fuckers and Butt-Crack Bingo were produced at Theater for the New City and La MaMa and directed by David Levine. Tom was the first performance artist to appear onstage at the original Dixon Place location at 37 East First Street\, in 1986. \nThe Full Moon Show is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement/Creative Learning\, supported by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. LMCC.net
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/the-full-moon-show-2016-11-16-2017-01-14-2017-07-14-2017-08-07-2017-12-03-2018-01-31-2018-04-29/
LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Cream-Pie-In-The-Phace Full Moon
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Hapi Phace in Praise of Philly \nWhen the moon hits your eye like a banana cream pie it’s…\nThe Full Moon Show: A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention\nStarting at 7.18 Sharp\nCalling all dimensions! Join Hapi Phace for a moonrise non-linear performance pie-in-the-face ritual inspired by the memory of Philly Abe—his longtime art and life collaborator and neo-shamanistic a-go-go dance partner—to celebrate the Cream-Pie-In-The-Phace Full Moon\, in conjunction with the exhibit Philly Abe: This Side of Heaven (April 4–May 6\, 2018) at Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project. \nHapi Phace is a performance personality and tapR-mâché™—his proprietary “dry papier-mâché” method that employs cardboard and duct tape—sculptor from Queens. (Well\, actually\, he is from normal parents.) Hapi and Philly co-wrote and performed together—and in—each other’s pieces\, primarily during the 80s downtown nightclub scene. Later\, Hapi ventured into Way-Off-Broadway theater\, while Philly wove through multiple creative circles\, most prolifically with experimental and independent filmmakers\, especially The Kuchar brothers—George and Mike—and Todd Verow. \nPhilly Abe (1949-2018) was an iconic downtown personality\, artist\, tenants’ rights activist\, and decades-long Ridge Street neighbor of Tom Murrin\, the originator and omphalos of The Full Moon Show. Like Tom\, Philly’s artistic energies and output found outlet in the discarded and unnoticed. Both artists imagined rags\, remnants\, and refuse into an art form that spanned a universe from the slapstick to the shamanistic. \nDress Code: spontaneously-combustible color combinations; fairy wings\, demon horns and petroglyphic face paint; Tibetan skull anything; fun-fur ass-less leotards; black turtleneck sweater\, skull-and-crossbones-print ski pants\, and a Breton top; 80s 14th Street off-the-rack rubber chickens; non-binary mismatched socks and roadkill; come-as-you-are and leave-as-you-weren’t; rhinestones\, bustier\, and cat-eyed glasses. \nAbout Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show \nHowl! Happening houses the archives of Tom Murrin. Murrin\, aka the Alien Comic\, is known as the Godfather of Performance Art. Every full moon\, Tom performed the Full Moon Show in honor of his moon goddess\, Luna Macaroona. When he had a club date that fell on the full moon\, he’d wrangle his friends to perform as his 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. If not\, he performed on the street for passersby\, transforming the pedestrian atmosphere with his madness and magic. Howl! Happening’s monthly series continues that tradition\, with performances in the gallery and surprise pop up performances on the street. \nAbout the Tom Murrin Archive \nHowl! Happening is the repository of the Tom Murrin Archive comprising masks\, costumes\, scripts\, correspondence\, photographs\, and tapes of performances going back to the early 70s. Murrin (February 8\, 1939 – March 12\, 2012) also known as The Alien Comic and Jack Bump\, was a performance pioneer whose life and work inspired both artists and audiences for over 40 years. He was a member of the first generation of La MaMa playwrights. Tom wrote four plays performed through La MaMa and produced by John Vacarro’s Play-House of the Ridiculous\, including the offbeat hit\, Cock Strong\, which toured with Ellen Stewart’s La MaMa Troupe to Paris\, Amsterdam and Brussels. \nUnder the guidance of rock manager Jane Friedman\, Tom began to perform under the name Alien Comic\, opening for acclaimed punk bands in rock clubs such as CBGBs and Max’s Kansas City. As Alien Comic he performed in such venues as The Pyramid\, 8BC\, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut\, Performance Space 122\, Dixon Place\, La MaMa\, and more. Since the mid 80s\, he’s created\, performed\, and curated a series of variety nights at Performance Space 122\, and La Mama Experimental Theatre Club and Dixon Place\, called The Full Moon Show. His plays Sport-Fuckers and Butt-Crack Bingo were produced at Theater for the New City and La MaMa and directed by David Levine. Tom was the first performance artist to appear on stage at the original Dixon Place location at 37 East First Street in 1986. \nThe Full Moon Show is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement / Creative Learning\, supported by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. LMCC.net \n 
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/cream-pie-in-the-phace-full-moon/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Performance
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