BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Howl! Arts - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20260618T014902 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:20260618T014902 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:20220208T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220208T200000 DTSTAMP:20260618T014902 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 END:VCALENDAR