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On September 12, JACKIE FACTORY producers CHI CHI VALENTI and JOHNNY DYNELL will present their fourth annual LOW LIFE to crown the 2010 HOWL! FESTIVAL. LOW LIFE is the free and fabulous Sunday evening climax to HOWL! – a two hour spectacular inspired by East Village decades past. Each year’s theme is served up in…

Howl! Festival Celebrates its Seventh Anniversary with a Vibrant Schedule of Events Tompkins Square Park -NYC’s East Village September 10th, 11th and 12th The 7th Annual Howl! Festival, the East Village Festival of the Arts,  will begin Friday night, September 10th, 5 to 7 PM, with the festival’s traditional reading of the iconic Allen Ginsberg…

HOWL! Arts Project and The Actors Fund present a month-long series of theater, performance art, music, poetry, film and entertainment for the entire family to benefit HOWL! HELP, an emergency services assistance and health fund for East Village Artists. HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2010 PERFORMANCES SEPTEMBER 2-30 AT THEATRE 80 (80 ST. MARKS) This September, HOWL! Arts Project and The Actors…

Howl! is everywhere these days.  Of course, there is the Howl! Festival, the main attraction every summer in New York City’s East Village (www.howlfestival.com).  Then there’s HOWL, the movie, starring James Franco, which centers on the obscenity trial Allen Ginsberg faced as a result of publishing the poem “Howl.” The tag line for the movie…

The Howl! Festival needs community volunteers for a plethora of glamorous and exciting tasks.  Immediately, we need friendly, outgoing people to hit the streets and spread the word. During the festival itself, we need help setting up the park, manning the information booth, directing traffic and a variety of other odds and ends.  This is…

HUNDREDS OF DOWNTOWN PERFORMERS AND ARTISTSREV UP FOR THE 7TH ANNUAL HOWL! FESTIVALSEPTEMBER 10th, 11th and 12th, 2010FREEIn Tompkins Square Park NYC: East Village Howl Arts, Inc. brings its 7th annual HOWL! Festival to Tompkins Square Park (7th – 10 Sts at Aves A & B, NYC) beginning Friday night Sept 10 – Sunday night…

Greetings to the HOWL! community of artists, neighbors and appreciators. We are working on the next HOWL! Festival, to take place in and around Tompkins Square Park in September 2010. We will be announcing our dates and first news of our programs later this Spring. We are also hard at work on a new HOWL!…

Hettie Jones’s twenty-four books include her Beat memoir, How I Became Hettie Jones, called “a feminist scrutiny those lost decades needed,” and Drive, which won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award and was hailed as the work of a “potent and fearless poet.” Jones’s short prose has been published in Fence, The Village…

  HOWL! Arts Project and The Actors Fund present a month-long series of theater, performance art, music, poetry, film and entertainment for the entire family to benefit HOWL! HELP, an emergency services assistance and health fund for East Village Artists. HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2010 PERFORMANCES SEPTEMBER 2-30 AT THEATRE 80 (80 ST. MARKS) This September,…

HOWL! Arts Project and The Actors Fund present a month-long series of theater, performance art, music, poetry, film and entertainment for the entire family to benefit HOWL! HELP, an emergency services assistance and health fund for East Village Artists. HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2010 PERFORMANCES SEPTEMBER 2-30 AT THEATRE 80 (80 ST. MARKS) This September, HOWL!…