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Health Insurance: Know Your Options! Brought to you by The Actors Fund & Howl!
October 19, 2016At Howl!, we want our community of artists, playwrights and actors to have a safety net of professionals to help with housing and insurance needs. Howl! Happening wants to make sure that you (our beautiful and talented downtown folks) always have access to professionals. There is no one better to listen to your concerns about…
ContinuedMike DeCapite on Dylan: April Fool’s Day
October 14, 2016When I was fifteen I walked into one of the mall record stores, where a harmonica was playing, and looked up as though I was in church. You know how you look up, by reflex? Just like that. The record, as it turned out, was Blood on the Tracks, and the song was “Tangled Up…
ContinuedJUST ONE CALORIE: TABBOO! by Hattie Hathaway
October 14, 2016JUST ONE CALORIE: TABBOO! By Hattie Hathaway “The only Art is Painting,” pronounces Stephen Tashjian, also known by his drag persona TABBOO! (T-A-Double B- Double O, OOH!) When one sees his two dimensional work, one really understands why he might make such a declamation. Delivered in broad expressionist strokes, most frequently a riot of…
ContinuedTim Lawrence’s Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor
October 6, 2016Howl! Happening is hosting the Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor Photography Show this Saturday, October 8th at 7pm. Capturing many protagonists and venues—from the Mudd Club to Club 57 to Danceteria to the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge—these photographs provide a compelling portrait of New York in the midst of its participatory peak. Join…
ContinuedDavid Caudle: Visiting Hours
September 22, 2016One side of the debate Monday night has stated its clear purpose of robbing individuals of their human rights, including reversal of the gay marriage ruling and the disqualification of gay-parented children from receiving health care benefits. VISITING HOURS is about the nature of love and how love is tested within a family. The play happens to…
ContinuedWriters Block 2016
September 20, 2016Writers Block 2016 is here! We welcome some of the most important playwrights and performers in avant-garde theater to the gallery. The writers will present staged readings of new works in progress. We are thrilled to showcase the vision of contemporary writers, performers and artists, many of whom got their start in the nightclubs, seminal performance spaces, and…
ContinuedNever Records: Culture Not Conflict
September 13, 2016As some of you may know, Howl! Happening, an Arturo Vega Project was closed through the month of August. During this time our Gallery Director Ted Riederer traveled to Amman with his Never Records: Culture Not Conflict project. We are excited to share The Citadel At Sunset as we welcome Ted back to New York City!…
Continued“Ask Dr. Mueller” / East Village Eye
September 7, 2016Cookie Mueller—the late actress, writer, musician and model who died of AIDS in 1989— was both a fixture of the downtown avant-garde and one of its most perceptive critics. …
ContinuedJulie Turley / Beat & Beyond
August 31, 2016Beat & Beyond and Bowery Arts + Science teamed up to present a six-day celebration honoring the poets, musicians, bookstores, and significant individuals whose voices and energy created the Beat movement. The Beats transformed America by instigating change in those around them. Julie Turley, a frequent attendee at Howl! events, posted a beautiful note on…
ContinuedKathleen Fox / Exhibition Photographs
August 24, 2016The best part about my role as social networks manager at Howl! Happening is seeing the exhibitions through the eyes of our visitors. Our mission at Howl! is community based. We are a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the past and celebrating the contemporary culture of the East Village and Lower East Side. The content we…
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