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SUMMARY:John Kelly Sideways into the Shadows
DESCRIPTION:An Exhibition in Conjunction with Kelly’s Performance Time No Line at La MaMa\nOpening Reception: February 28\, 6–8 PM\nHowl! Happening is pleased to present a rare look into the heart and art of a consummate creator: John Kelly’s Sideways into the Shadows. Resonating and in conversation with Kelly’s major new performance work Time No Line at La MaMa (February 22–March 11\, 2018)\, Sideways into the Shadows is a journey through Kelly’s creative life that exposes both the unfolding of his artistic process and the generational rupture and emotional cost of the AIDS pandemic. \nThe exhibition consists of intimate and revealing journal entries\, rendered by hand on various sized panels\, and a memorial wall of lovingly-drawn portraits of friends and loved ones Kelly lost to AIDS. “Beginning in 1982\, my friends and colleagues were dying\,” says Kelly. “AIDS has framed my story to an unavoidable degree. Their absence remains part of my work.” \nThe 70 hand-rendered transcriptions of dated journal entries are drawings on paper\, mounted on panels installed as a horizontal timeline. Alternating raw and honest\, funny\, provocative\, and deeply felt\, the drawings illuminate his artistic trajectory and reveal the intertwined worlds of clubs\, drag\, gender\, sex\, and Kelly’s own creative and personal process of navigating incomprehensible loss. Filled with ideas\, sketches\, poems\, and plans for performances\, the pages—going back to 1976—are also full of humor\, gossip\, observation\, and cultural commentary as he witnessed the world around him transform. \nThe memorial wall of portraits is comprised of 40 graphite drawings on paper mounted on panels—renderings of gifted individuals that were part of Kelly’s life and creative circles—including such cultural luminaries as Sam Wagstaff\, Hugh Steers\, Peter Hujar\, Cookie Mueller\, Charles Ludlam\, and Ethyl Eichelberger\, as well as other individuals whose legacies have received less attention. The impulse behind these portraits stems from Kelly’s habit (as a survivor of the AIDS epidemic) of pondering a scenario where his generation had not been lost to the epidemic\, a world in which they would be flourishing and in their prime. As a balm to this tantalizing but painful fantasy\, Kelly pays tribute to the men\, women\, and trans folk who held crucial and supportive roles in his life and work as it unfolded over the past 36 years. \nTogether with the performances at La MaMa\, this exhibition displays one artist’s personal journey—his choices\, doubts\, creative processes\, and triumphs—making art that consciously tells stories\, witnesses\, and demonstrates a unique activism and commitment in the face of absolute catastrophe. \nAs Kelly explains\, “From this vantage point\, it was a challenging time. It’s still hard to get my head around it. This exhibition and Time No Line are my way to process the entire range of how my personal experiences and the arc of my artistic career intertwined into a coherent whole during a time that was both exhilarating and tragic.” \nLeaving behind his early focus as a dancer\, Kelly attended the Parsons School of Design in the 70s\, eventually immersing himself in the thriving Downtown and East Village scene\, including his debut at the Anvil in 1979 and subsequent creative development in clubs such as Club 57\, the Pyramid\, 8BC\, and Danceteria. He has had an extensive career as a performance and visual artist\, musician\, and poet. His visual art has been exhibited at Alexander Gray Associates\, New York; The Arts Center at Governors Island\, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art\, Philadelphia; The Kitchen\, New York; MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma\, Rome; MIT List Visual Arts Center\, Cambridge\, MA; the Museum of Modern Art\, New York; and the New Museum\, New York\, among other venues. \nThe Museum of Modern Art acquired two filmed versions of Kelly’s early performance works\, created in collaboration with filmmaker Anthony Chase\, in 2017. \nResidencies include The American Academy in Rome\, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard\, Bard College\, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, MacDowell Colony\, MASS MoCA\, Park Avenue Armory\, Yaddo\, Civitella Ranieri\, the Bogliasco Foundation\, and the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab. \nABOUT JOHN KELLY
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/john-kelly-sideways-into-the-shadows/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Writers Block 2018
DESCRIPTION:An Annual Festival of Staged Readings and Performances to Benefit the Actors Fund \nHowl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to present the annual Writers Block 2018 Festival. Created to showcase the vision of contemporary writers\, performers\, and artists\, many of whom got their start in the nightclubs\, seminal performance spaces\, and theaters associated with the EV/LES\, the festival showcases some of the most important playwrights and performers in theater today. New works in progress are presented at this intimate\, ultimate downtown theatrical event. Writers Block 2018 will occur throughout the year with a series of short plays and one-acts over several days\, and blocks of full-length evenings. \nThe festival is a benefit for the Howl! Emergency Life Project (Howl! HELP)\, providing emergency financial assistance and social service support to artists who have made or continue to make their careers in New York’s East Village and Lower East Side arts communities. 100% of the proceeds from ticket sales benefit the Actors Fund.  \n “Howl! HELP is an integral part of Howl Arts’ vision to provide a safe haven for artists from our neighborhood\,” says Jane Friedman\, founder of Howl! Happening. “Writers Block is both a creative outlet and a benefit to insure the health and well-being of our community.” Howl Happening also hosts free\, monthly health care and housing workshops presented by the Actors Fund. For information and updated schedule of events: howlarts.org. \nPerformances include:\nFriday\, February 23\, 2018 / 7 PM / $10\nMelba LaRose After the Wall: A Polytheatrical Extravaganza\nAfter the Wall\, a multicultural\, multidimensional\, multidisciplinary\, multimedia play about walls around the world and throughout time\, takes the stage in a one night only preview at Howl! Happening. With comedy\, drama\, song\, dance\, projections\, and soundscapes that envelop the audience\, this theatrical extravaganza aims to shake us up and start the conversation. Written and directed by avant-garde Off-Off-Broadway legend Melba LaRose\, the play is an epic wild ride through history. For Tickets to Melba LaRose \nThursday\, March 29\, 2018 / 7 PM / $20\nLa création du monde & Mahagonny Songplay\nLa création du monde by Darius Milhaud\nDowntown Chamber & Opera Players\nMimi Stern-Wolfe\, Conductor\nand\nMahagonny Songplay (1927)\nNotes from Lys Symonette of The Kurt Weill Foundation\nMusic by Kurt Weill\nText By Bertolt Brecht \nThursday – Sunday\, June 14 – 17 / $20\nWhen Lithuania Ruled the World by Kestutis Nakas
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/writers-block-2018/2018-03-29/
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SUMMARY:Downtown Music Productions La création du mondeand Mahagonny Songplay
DESCRIPTION: Part of Howl!’s annual Writers Block staged reading and performance festival  \nFor Tickets to Downtown Music Productions \nLa création du monde by Darius Milhaud\nDowntown Chamber & Opera Players\nMimi Stern-Wolfe\, Conductor \n and \n Mahagonny Songplay (1927)\nNotes from Lys Symonette of The Kurt Weill Foundation\nMusic by Kurt Weill\nText By Bertolt Brecht \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present an evening with the Downtown Chamber & Opera Players as part of Writers Block\, a festival of staged readings and performances to benefit the Actors Fund. The festival is a benefit for the Howl! Emergency Life Project (Howl! HELP)\, which provides emergency financial assistance and social service support to artists who have made or continue to make their careers in New York’s East Village and Lower East Side arts communities. 100% of the proceeds from ticket sales benefit the Actors Fund. \nGet your tickets here. \nKurt Weill was born on March 2\, 1900 in Dessau\, Germany. He was the son of the Jewish cantor of a local synagogue. The Mahagonny Songspiel marked the beginning of Weill’s collaboration with Brecht\, whom he met in 1927 and whose poetry stirred him deeply. Lotte Lenya has described her husband Weill’s feelings of wanting to bridge the wide gap between composers and the great public. With Brecht\, he searched for new ways of accomplishing this goal. Challenging attitudes with fresh approaches\, the repertory stirred a great deal of controversy. His other collaborations with Brecht include The Threepenny Opera\, which enjoyed an overwhelming popularity in the United States when it was presented to theatre audiences after Weill had emigrated. \nMahagonny was intended by Weill and Brecht to represent a mythical place—for Germans\, it was usually a place in America. It was a sort of utopia of the petite bourgeoisie—a world where hedonistic pleasures coupled with society’s growing political turmoil led to eventual chaos and total ruin. The Mahagonny Songspiel premiered in July 1927 in Baden Baden\, last on a program of operas by Toch\, Milhaud\, and Hindermith. Part of the audience was enthusiastic; others were both shocked and disgusted by the piece. Brecht prepared the cast for the worst. Whistling in Germany is the most severe type of disapproval\, and so Brecht supplied all his cast members with whistles of their own\, so they could whistle right back—which they did! \nBy the early 30s\, political tensions in Germany had come to a full boil. Nazi demonstrations and general protests grew to great proportions\, particularly over Weill’s musical play Der Silbersee (The Silver Lake). Further performances were canceled. Both Weill and Lotte Lenya were advised to leave. They ran away to France where they stayed a short time before leaving Europe forever and coming to the United States. There\, Weill continued composing and wrote for the Broadway stage with other librettists until his death in 1950. His music in the United States was less acerbic than in Germany. He was capable of great stylistic diversity; his genius was that he adjusted musical lines\, rhythms\, and harmonies to the specific needs of every dramatic piece he created. \nThe Downtown Chamber Players in Mahagonny Songspiel include Justin Vance and Steve Lyon on clarinets\, Stephen Fillare on violin\, Robbie Harvey on alto saxophone\, Clyde Daley and Terry Szor on trumpets\, Ron Hay on trombone\, Peter J. Saleh on percussion\, and Elizabeth Rodgers on piano\, with Mimi Stern-Wolfe conducting. \nThe piece is sung by four men who intend to travel to Mahagonny—a place where things are supposed to be ideally beautiful—and two women who are disillusioned with the Old World and keep searching for material happiness. Life in Mahagonny is described—we see characters drinking; playing cards; whoring; seeking dollars\, boys and whiskey; getting bored. God\, one of the four men\, is threatened after he orders them to Hell. But they say they are already there. Protest marches are staged; the city goes up in flames. The moral of the tale is quietly spoken in the finale by Bessie. The characters have demonstrated their excesses and limitations. \nCAST\nCharlie: Charles Calotta\, tenor\nBilly: Justin Michael Austin\, baritone\nBobby: Jorell Williams\, baritone\nJim\, God: Charles D. Carter\, bass\nJessie: Karla Simmons\, soprano\nBessie: Darcy Dunn\, mezzo-soprano \nSTAFF\nMusical Direction: Mimi Stern-Wolfe\nStage Direction: Katrin Hilbe\nProjection Design: Klay James-Enos\nCostume design: Cathy Small\nLighting Design: Carter Edwards
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/downtown-music-productions-la-creation-du-monde-and-mahagonny-songplay/
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SUMMARY:The PABST BLUE Full Moon Show with Aru Hanger
DESCRIPTION:Every Month on The Full Moon\n4pm Sharp\n  \n\nWe all know we live in a world that values branding. Individuals\, corporations\, the social networks are abuzz with commodification. Aru Hanger is interested in how history progresses in a material driven culture. \n\n\nOutside\, on the sidewalk in front of Howl! Happening\, he’ll disrupt the public consciousness of the assembled crowd and passersby with a performance that takes the branding of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer as its central focus and radiates out to reflect on how we view and interact with history as a concept. \n\n\nScored rather than “scripted”\, the performer is hopeful that he’ll provoke interaction and that the assembled crowd will join in. We love a performer who uses beer as metaphor! \n\n  \nAbout Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show \nEvery Month on The Full Moon\, The Full Moon Show is held at Howl Happening: An Arturo Vega Project at 4pm Sharp \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. \n\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
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LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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