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AnnouncingThe HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: PERFORMANCE ARTPRESENTED at 45 BLEECKER STREET THEATER45 BLEECKER STREET NYC(JUST EAST OF LAFAYETTE AT MULBERRY STREET) Thursday September 3rd, 11 PM- 1 AMHOWL! Offsite Kick-off!Culture Shock Marketing PresentsA Video, Music & Performance Event starringThe Fantastic Nobodies45 Bleecker Street TheaterLobby Theater45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)$10 This…

HOWL! EMERGENCY LIFE PROJECT (HELP) HOWL! EMERGENCY LIFE PROJECT (HELP) OF THE ACTORS FUNDwww.actorsfund.orgHOWL! HELP provides emergency assistance to qualified performing artists in crisis and offers other Actors Fund support services.If you are in the arts, have made or continue to make your career in NYC’s East Village, Lower East Side or downtown community and…

HOWL! HELP HOWL! HELP provides emergency assistance to qualified performing artists in crisis and offers other Actors Fund support services. Actors Fund programs include: SOCIAL SERVICESMental HealthChemical DependencyHIV/AIDSSeniorsDisabledWomen’s HealthFinancial WellnessThe Dancers’ Resource HEALTH SERVICESFree Health ClinicHealth Insurance Resource Center EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING SERVICES HOUSING SERVICES Eligible artists include participants in the annual HOWL! Festival and…

The HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: FILM SERIES Using Allen Ginsberg (the inspiration for the HOWL! Festival) as a point of departure, this series of programs links film and video to the various underground creative movements transpiring in the East Village in fact and in spirit: poetry, music, theater, performance, and the fine arts, as well…

Everything Is Known: Ginsberg and TeachingSeptember 15th, 2009 8pm Parish HallSt. Mark’s Church in the Bowery131 East 10th Street, New York City$10. Contribution at the doorto benefit “HOWL ! Emergency Life Project” Howl Festival ‘09 presents a panel and open discussion on Allen Ginsberg and teaching. The panelists include poets and writers who have worked…

Bringing all the poets together for you: one night only !Come experience the Poetry Turn On ! A HOWL! Festival EventHosted by Nathaniel Siegel Thursday Sept 10th, 2009 8pm to 10pmThe Parish Hall atSt. Mark’s Church in the Bowery131 East 10th Street @ Second Avenue Suggested donation $10.00 to benefit the HOWL ! HELP Fund….

The Jackie Factory’s Chi Chi Valenti and Johnny Dynell plus Allen Ginsberg and Chi Chi Valenti (photo credit: Allen Ginsberg and Chi Chi Valenti 1992. Photo by Tina Paul, Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright Tina Paul/Fifibear Studios.) (photo credit: Johnny Dynell and Chi Chi Valenti at The Last Jackie 60, 1999. Photo by…

This just in from The Jackie Factory’s Chi Chi Valenti and Johnny Dynell: HOWL! FESTIVAL AND THE JACKIE FACTORY PRESENTLOW LIFE 3: VIPER MADSUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 20095-7 PM – WE START AND END ON TIME!FREE ADMISSIONTOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, NYC CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OF BRILLIANT BOWERY PERFORMANCE On September 6, JACKIE FACTORY producers CHI CHI VALENTI…

Allen Ginsberg – renowned poet – world traveler Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg’s signal poem “Howl” overcame censorship in 1957 to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. In 1965 Ginsberg was simultaneously crowned Prague May King, then expelled by Czech police and placed on the FBI’s Dangerous Security List. He has…

A Group Reading of HOWL concludes the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Reading, the opening event of the annual HOWL Festival of East Village arts. Some twenty poets from downtown poetry scenes – Bowery Poetry Club, Cave Canem, Gathering of the Tribes, Nuyorican Poets Café, St Mark’s Poetry Project – each read their own work, then join…