Thursday, August 27, 2009

Punk Rock, Forever ! : THE BLANK GENERATION, SOUL CITY, PUNKING OUT

Saturday, September 19, 10:00 PM
All screenings are at the Millennium Film Workshop,
66 East 4th Street, NY NY 10003.
Programs are subject to change.
Advance Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79930
Admission: $10

HOWL ! ARTS PROJECT 2009: FILM SERIES presents
Punk Rock, Forever !

Introduction by Amos Poe and Ivan Kral filmmakers:
THE BLANK GENERATION, 1976, directed by Amos Poe and Ivan Kral. Cast: Patti Smith Group, Television, Ramones, The Heartbreakers, Talking Heads, Blondie, Harry Toledo, Marbles, Tuff Darts, Wayne County, Miamis, New York Dolls, The Shirts. B/W, sound. 55 min. 16mm print courtesy of Amos Poe.
“In 1976 Ivan Kral joined the Patti Smith Group and became friendly with underground filmmaker Amos Poe. Poe and Kral were both interested in the punk rock scenes that was just beginning to emerge in New York City at venues like CBGB and Max’s Kansas City, and they began bringing cameras to shows, shooting silent footage of bands who were beginning to develop potent reputations in the rock underground. Poe and Kral married their silent footage with live tapes or demo recordings of the bands (most of whom had yet to release a record) to create a deliberately rough audio-visual record of the burgeoning punk scene.” (Wikipedia)

Introduction by M. Henry Jones, filmmaker:
SOUL CITY, 1979, directed by M. Henry Jones. Cast: The Fleshtones. Color, sound. 2 min. 16mm print courtesy of the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative.
“In Henry Jones' words, this film is intended to, ‘Visually counterpoint the music of a subculture.’ Punk rock group FLESHTONES perform the song "Soul City," as tiny black & white cut-out figures, (with hand-tinted flesh tones), against a flickering background of brilliant color. In SOUL CITY, Jones 'recycled' the same basic movements of his subjects by reconstructing totally new motions from the same severely limited amount of footage. This was done through alteration of perspective, and reversal of selected movements at varying intervals. The number of movements a subject can make, artificially created from a few basics, becomes almost limitless.” (Bikini Girl Magazine)

Introduction by Maggie Carson, filmmaker:
PUNKING OUT, 1979, directed by Maggie Carson, Juliusz Kossakowski, and Fredric A. Shore. Cast: Stiv Bators, Cheetah Chrome, Richard Hell, Hilly Kristal, Lydia Lunch, Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Helen Wheels. B/W, sound, 25 min. 16mm print courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, with the permission of Ric Shore, Managing Producer. Punking Out has been preserved with funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
“Documents the beginning of the punk rock movement in New York City at CBGB’s, a punk night club, and the lifestyle that revolves around this scene. Presents a sometimes shocking look at the attitudes and motivations behind the movement through interviews with outspoken club-goers and band members of the Ramones, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and the Dead Boys.” (New York Public Library Catalogue)

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Jack Smith and The Lower East Side (as Seen by Ken Jacobs): BLONDE COBRA, FLAMING CREATURES

Thursday, September 17, 10:00 PM
All screenings are at the Millennium Film Workshop,
66 East 4th Street, NY NY 10003.
Programs are subject to change.
Advance Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79753
Admission: $10
Recommended for adults only. Ages 18 +.

HOWL ! ARTS PROJECT 2009: FILM SERIES presents
Jack Smith and the Lower East Side (as Seen by Ken Jacobs)
Introduction by Ken Jacobs, filmmaker:
BLONDE COBRA, 1963, directed by Ken Jacobs, based on images gathered by Bob Fleischner. Cast: Jack Smith. B/W, sound, 16mm. 33 min. 16mm print courtesy of the New York Film-Makers’ Coop.
“BLONDE COBRA is an erratic narrative – no, not really a narrative, it’s only stretched out in time for convenience of delivery. It’s a look in on an exploding life, on a man of imagination suffering pre-fashionable lower East Side deprivation and consumed with American 1950s, ‘40s, ‘30s disgust. Silly, self-pitying, guilt-stricken and yet triumphing – on one level – over the situation with style, because he’s unapologetically gifted, has a genius for courage, knows that a state of indignity can serve to show his character in sharpest relief. He carries on, states his presence for what it is. Does all he can to draw out our condemnation, testing our love for limits, enticing us into an absurd moral posture the better to dismiss us with a regal ‘screw-off’.” (Ken Jacobs)

FLAMING CREATURES, 1963, directed by Jack Smith. Cast: Francis Francine, Sheila Bick, Joel Markman, Dolores Flores, Arnold, Judith Malina, Marian Zazeela. B/W, sound, 16mm. 42 min. 16mm print courtesy of the New York Film-Makers’ Coop.
“Jack Smith has graced the anarchic liberation of new American cinema with graphic and rhythmic power worthy of the best of formal cinema. He has attained for the first time in motion pictures a high level of art which is absolutely lacking in decorum; and a treatment of sex which makes us aware of the restraint of all previous filmmakers. He has shown more clearly than anyone before how the poet’s license includes all things, not only of spirit, but also of flesh; not only of dreams and of symbol, but also of solid reality. In no other art but the movies could this have so fully been done; and their capacity was realized by Smith” (Film Culture Magazine)

Plus sequences from other films made by Ken Jacobs starring Jack Smith, including TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES and STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH. B/W and color, sound. DVD courtesy of Ken Jacobs.

The Living Theater and the New American Cinema: NEWSREEL: JONAS IN THE BRIG, THE BRIG, STREET SONGS

Friday, September 18, 10:00 PM
All screenings are at the Millennium Film Workshop,
66 East 4th Street, NY NY 10003.
Programs are subject to change.
Advance Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79742
Admission: $10

HOWL ! ARTS PROJECT 2009: FILM SERIES presents
The Living Theater and the New American Cinema

NEWSREEL: JONAS IN THE BRIG, 1964, directed by Storm de Hirsch. With Jonas Mekas and members of the Living Theatre. B/W, silent, 5 min. 16m print courtesy of the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative.
“A newsreel of Jonas Mekas shooting his filmed version of ‘The Brig” on the set of the Living Theatre production. ” (Storm de Hirsch)

THE BRIG, 1963, directed by Jonas Mekas. With members of the Living Theatre. B/W, sound, 68 min. 16mm print courtesy of the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative.
“Part drama, part polemic, with shock-wave sound and a nightmare air that suggests Kafka with a Kodak, the movie does exactly what it sets out to do – seizes the audience by the shirtfront and slams it around from wall to wall for one grueling day in a Marine Corps lockup.” (Time Magazine)

STREET SONGS, 1983, directed by Jonas Mekas. With Julian Beck and members of the Living Theatre. B/W, sound, 10 min. 16mm print courtesy of The New York Film-Makers Cooperative.
“Made in 1966/1983 ‘STREET SONGS’ is a 1966 performance, in France, of a section of the Living Theater’s ‘Mysteries and Smaller Pieces.” Based on a chance-determined scenario written by Jackson Maclow in 1961, STREET SONGS weaves militant political chants into a mandala of mantras. Julian Beck sits cross legged on an empty stage; the slogan he repeats – ‘Free All Men! Ban the Bomb! Stop the War! Free the Blacks! Change the World!’ – are both meditation and calls to action, as a crowd of voices answers each slogan and actors join him on stage to pace in a circle, clasp one another’s shoulders and collectively breathe ‘Ohmm…’” (the Village Voice)

In and Around Tompkins Square Park: B/SIDE, WHAT ABOUT ME

Friday, September 18, 7:00 PM
All screenings are at the Millennium Film Workshop,
66 East 4th Street, NY NY 10003.
Programs are subject to change.
Advance Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79727
Admission: $10

HOWL ! ARTS PROJECT 2009: FILM SERIES presents
In and Around Tompkins Square Park

B/SIDE, 1996, directed by Abigail Child. Color and b/w, sound, 40 min. 16mm print courtesy of the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative.
“Framed by on New York's Lower East Side, where some of the homeless of Tompkins Square Park settled after the riots of June 1991, the movie begins with the encampment's first night and ends with the fire and subsequent destruction of the lot in October of the same year. Applying rhythmic construction, poetic license and a generous eye to bodies in poverty, B/SIDE documents a gritty vision of late 20th century urban life.” (New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative Catalogue)

Introduction by Rachel Amodeo, filmmaker:
WHAT ABOUT ME, 1993, directed by Rachel Amodeo. Cast: Rachel Amodeo, Judy Carne, Gregory Corso, Richard Edson, Richard Hell, John Peter Melendez, Jerry Nolan, Dee Dee Ramone, Rockets Redglare, Johnny Thunders, Nick Zedd. B/W, sound, 87 min. 16mm print courtesy of the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative.
“WHAT ABOUT ME tells the story of a young woman, Lisa Napolitano (Rachel Amodeo), who through uncontrollable circumstances, finds herself homeless in New York City. The film portrays her gradual deterioration as she exists on the streets, intermingling with outcasts of society. Along the ways she encounters a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran, Nick (Richard Edson); a nihilistic east-villager, Tom (Nick Zedd); and a sympathetic good samaritan, Paul (Richard Hell). WHAT ABOUT ME was shot on location in the Lower East Side and Tompkins Square Park.” (New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative Catalogue)

Allen Ginsberg on Film: SCREEN TEST, COUCH, WHOLLY COMMUNION, PULL MY DAISY

Thursday, September 17, 7:00 PM
All screenings are at the Millennium Film Workshop,
66 East 4th Street, NY NY 10003.
Programs are subject to change.
Advance Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79647
Admission: $10

HOWL ! ARTS PROJECT 2009: FILM SERIES presents
Allen Ginsberg on Film

Introduction by Callie Angell, Adjunct Curator, The Andy Warhol Film Project, Whitney Museum of American Art:
SCREEN TEST, 1966, directed by Andy Warhol. Cast: Allen Ginsberg. B/W, silent, 4 min. 16mm print courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Circulating Film Library.
A portrait of Allen Ginsberg filmed by Andy Warhol on December 4, 1966. This was one of the very last of the hundreds of screen tests that Warhol shot of well-known personalities from the poetry, music, fashion, film, and other creative worlds that visited his famous Factory.

COUCH, 1964, directed by Andy Warhol. Cast: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, and others. B/W, silent, 52 min. 16mm print courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art Circulating Film Library.
“Warhol had filmed Ginsberg once before in 1964 when he shot several rolls of a historic gathering of Ginsberg and his fellow Beats Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky hanging out in and around the Factory couch.” (Callie Angell)

Introduction by Paul Cronin, author, filmmaker and historian:
WHOLLY COMMUNION, 1965, Peter Whitehead. Cast: Gregory Corso, Harry Fanlight, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Horovitz, Ernst Jandl, Christopher Logue, Adrian Mitchell, Alexander Trocchi. B/W, sound, 35 min. 16mm print courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, with the permission of Contemporary Films, London.
“Peter Whitehead captures the unexpected, the intensity and the excitement of a Happening, as 7000 people jam into London’s Albert Hall on June 11, 1965 for four hours of poetry reading by many Beat poets.” (New York Public Library Catalogue)
Excerpts from IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE IMAGE: CONVERSATIONS WITH PETER WHITEHEAD, 2006, directed by Paul Cronin. Cast: Peter Whitehead. B/W and color, sound. DVD courtesy of Paul Cronin.
Historian/filmmaker Paul Cronin interviews Peter Whitehead, the filmmaker of WHOLLY COMMUNION, about the significance of this unique Beat poetry event.

PULL MY DAISY, 1959, directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie. Cast: Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross, Pablo Frank, Denise Parker, Delphine Seyrig, Jack Kerouac (narrator), Music by David Amram. B/W, sound, 29 min. 16mm print courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
“PULL MY DAISY is a classic look at the soul of the beat generation, made with writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and painters Alfred Lesllie, Larry Rivers, and Alice Neel. It was written and narrated by Kerouac, based on his unproduced play ‘The Beat Generation.’ It tells the story of a bishop (Richard Bellamy) and his mother (Alice Neel) who pay a visit to Milo, a railroad worker. At the same time his poet friends, Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Gregory Corso, hang around quizzing the bishop about the meaning of life and its everyday relationship to art and poetry.” (Museum of Fine Arts catalogue)

Friday, August 21, 2009

PRESS RELEASE HOWL ARTS ! PROJECT 2009 Schedule Day by Day



Dear Listings Editor:

HELP (HOWL! EMERGENCY LIFE PROJECT)
OF THE ACTORS FUND

is a wonderful new community resource created to support artists who have made or continue to make their careers in NYC's East Village and Lower East Side and are in need of emergency assistance. Established by HOWL! Festival now in its sixth year, eligible artists include participants in the annual Howl ! Festival and those in the East Village Arts Community of theatre, music, performance, dance, multimedia, the spoken word and visual arts.

In support of HOWL! HELP, HOWL! Festival introduces HOWL! Arts Project 2009,an extended series of theater, music, performance art and film with programs running throughout the month of September at 45 Bleecker Street Theater,Millennium Film Workshop, New Museum, Bowery Poetry Club and St Mark’s Church.

Proceeds from the HOWL! Arts Project 2009 will benefit HOWL! HELP, administered by The Actors Fund, which provides emergency assistance to qualified performing artists in crisis.


For Immediate Release Please
Contact: Jane Friedman aireps@aol.com


HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: PERFORMANCE ART
A Benefit to support HOWL! HELP An Emergency Services Assistance and Health Fund for eligible and qualifying East Village Artists. Administered by The Actors Fund.
For Additional Information, Photos and Bios
Please go to www.eastvillagehowler.blogspot.com



Thursday Sept 3

45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Lobby Theater
11pm The Fantastic Nobodies
Admission: $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79353
Culture Shock Marketing kicks off HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009 with a Video, Music & Performance Event starring NYC/Berlin-based art collective, the Fantastic Nobodies.Video and films by Hugh McGrory, Keith Olwell and Glenn Marshall; performances by Das Witness. The fine art of UK-based artists, Kev Largey and Daniel Lumbini will be auctioned for charity. http://thefantasticnobodies.com

Wednesday Sept 9

45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Downstairs Green Room
11pm Michael Formika Jones
Admission: $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79355
Racy, raucous and irreverent, Formika blows the house down with his fun-filled revue of old and new faces from the East Village’s evolving landscape: drag, burlesque, vaudeville and sheer outrageous entertainment

Friday Sept 11
45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Downstairs Green Room
11pm HOWL-e-LULIAH The Official Dance Party Of the 2009 HOWL! Festival
Admission: $5 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
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Sing "Howl-e-luliah!" at The Official Dance Party of the 2009 Howl! Festival. Shake out the kinks with DJ Hill, spinning everything 80’s to the 21st century. Tennessee provides the visuals and Howlin' Hattie Hathaway is the hostess.

Saturday September 12
45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Lobby Theater
3 PM The Lisa Jackson Documentary
Admission: $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79358
A young Georgia boy's life is forever altered by the awaking realization that he is, in fact, a she. Moving to New York City, and confronting her new identity with courage, humor and determination, she becomes Lisa Jackson, a talented songwriter and musician, determined to live her life with integrity. A staple in New York’s downtown music scene from 2001-2007, Lisa was a headlining act at CBGB’s and The Knitting Factory among others, and toured the U.S. with Sandra Bernhard, Psychedelic Furs, Pat Benatar, and the Motels. Featuring interviews with Oscar-nominee Rosie Perez, Punk legend Jayne County, SNL's Darrell Hammond and others. http://www.lisajacksonrocks.com/documentary

Saturday Sept 12
45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Downstairs Green Room
11pm TBA

Sunday Sept 13

45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Downstairs Green Room
8pm The Lucy Show
Admission $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
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Hosted by The Factress, aka Lucy Sexton and Vendetta K Starr aka Mike Iveson
It's a talk show, it's a variety show, it's a sickness. Get your fill of politics and performance and the best of what's coming up on stages near you this fall. Prepare yourself for a special appearance by the godfather of downtown performance, Alien Comic, aka Tom Murrin. Co-host Nurse 'Baby Asparagus' Vendetta K Starr aka Mike Iveson, will offer handmade songs, homemade faux austrian singing, and plenty of advice on the use of your private parts in public.

Tuesday Sept 15
45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Downstairs Green Room
8 pm ‘In back of the real’: Marjan Moghaddam and Adam Caine - Live Guitar with Computer Animation
Admission: $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79360
Part avant-jazz, part experimental art-rock, part new indie guitar virtuoso, Adam Caine explores sonic terrain reminiscent of New York's art rock heydays. Marjan Moghaddam, ex-video diva of the Pyramid Club, will project her award winning computer animations, most recently featured on the Art Disk DVD for Art Basel-Miami.
www.caine.tv.com
www.dandy-job.com
http://www.marjan.com

Wednesday September 16
45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Lobby Theater
8 pm Legends Of the Lower East Side:
Joey Arias, Basil Twist, Psychotica (Featuring Patrick Briggs) and Lavinia Co-op
Admission: $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79362
If you think you’ve seen it all, don’t stop, run! This combo takes no prisoners. These are the performers who paved the way for today's incredible performance renaissance on the Lower East Side. Together tonight, this one’s a keeper.

Saturday Sept 19
45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Downstairs Green Room
11pm The Mystery of Claywoman - Screening and Lecture
Admission: $15 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79363
Utilizing live performance and film, director Rob Roth (founder of Click + Drag ) and actor/writer Michael Cavadias (Mabou Mines, Blacklips Performance Cult, the Ontological Theatre Company), use the technology of documentary to tell the story of Claywoman, a 500-million year old enigma who, legend has it, can cure anyone of their deepest pain. http://www.rob-roth.com/works/clay.htm

Wednesday Sept 30
45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Downstairs Green Room
11pm Clown Kong's Panic Attack: A Coulrophobic Telethon
Admission: $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79364
DJ Hill and company recreate the hustle, bustle and tragedy of a television fundraiser for people who are actually terrified by what makes most of humankind roar with laughter-- the hilarious antics of clowns. Sandwiched between two large and extravagant production numbers Clown Kong's Panic Attack includes performances by Lower East Side musical mainstays, Southside Slim, Christy D, and, of course, Clown Kong himself-- an actual sideshow clown!


HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009 : MUSIC SERIES

A Benefit to support HOWL! HELP An Emergency Services Assistance and Health Fund for eligible and qualifying East Village Artists. Administered by The Actors Fund.
For Additional Information, Photos and Bios
Please go to www.eastvillagehowler.blogspot.com


Tuesday Sept 15
45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Lobby Theater
8pm TWEED Music Series presents Re-Exploding Plastic Inevitable: Music from 'The Factory' Days.
Admission: $15 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79365
A multi-media performance party and concert featuring covers from the ‘Factory’ days and more. Charlie and Adam Roth lead the house-band, The Major Toms, and a host of notable downtown performers including Penny Arcade, John Kelly, Joseph Keckler, Diana Berry, Brenda Bergman,Mary Birdsong and Annie Golden in a free-wheeling exploration of songs from one of rock’s most iconic eras.

Tuesday Sept 15
45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Downstairs Green Room
8 pm ‘In back of the real’: Marjan Moghaddam and Adam Caine - Live Guitar with Computer Animation
Admission: $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79360
Part avant-jazz, part experimental art-rock, part new indie guitar virtuoso, Adam Caine explores sonic terrain reminiscent of New York's art rock heydays. Marjan Moghaddam, ex-video diva of the Pyramid Club, will project her award winning computer animations, most recently featured on the Art Disk DVD for Art Basel-Miami.
http://www.caine.tv.com
http://www.dandy-job.com
http://www.marjan.com


HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009 : JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT - A JAZZ SERIES
A Benefit to support HOWL! HELP An Emergency Services Assistance and Health Fund for eligible and qualifying East Village Artists. Administered by The Actors Fund.
For Additional Information, Photos and Bios
Please go to www.eastvillagehowler.blogspot.com


Wednesday Sept 23
45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Downstairs Green Room
11pm Bone-a-fide Music The Duke's Men ! - Art Baron & Friends
Admission $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79369
Trombonist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Art Baron has had a rich and varied career performing with every great legend from Duke Ellington, Elliot Sharpe, James Taylor, BB King, Alvin Ailey, Stevie Wonder and Cab Calloway to a year in 2006 spent touring the U.S. and Europe with the Bruce Springsteen Seeger Sessions Band. A composer and arranger, he has had several commissions, including Jazz at Lincoln Center, the MOBI New Music Ensemble and the New York Composers' Orchestra among others. Currently he leads The Duke's Men, an ensemble of Ellington alumni, and is a mainstay with ‘Art Baron & Friends’ at The Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.

Thursday Sept 24
45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Downstairs Green Room
11pm American Songbook/ Lisa Brailoff and Friends
Admission: $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79370
The golden era of radio, big band, film and musical theater ushered in some of the greatest American songwriting treasures of the 20th century. Comic, torch, storied and standard, sit back and chill for a stop, shock and stroll through some of our greatest jazz classics --- big band and small ensemble.

Friday Sept 25
45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Downstairs Green Room
11pm Hayes Greenfield and Company
Admission: $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79371
Producer, composer, saxophonist, filmmaker, bandleader, and educator, Hayes Greenfield has been active on the New York City jazz scene since the late ‘70s, with such notable artists as Jaki Byard, Rashied Ali, Paul Bley, Barry Altschul, and Richie Havens. As bandleader, he has recorded and produced a number of critically acclaimed CDs and played throughout Europe, Canada and the U.S, headlining such popular New York City clubs as the Blue Note, Birdland, the Knitting Factory, and CBGB’s.

Saturday Sept 26
45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Downstairs Green Room
11pm Nanette Natal and Company
Admission: $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79374
Nanette Natal’s music has always defied categories. One of the most interesting and exciting singers working in jazz today, she is a consummate artist in the grand tradition of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan and has delivered her socially conscious rhythmic blues/ rock message alongside Mahalia Jackson and Odetta. Rooted in jazz, blues, gospel, and New Orleans style, her latest CD "I Must Be Dreaming," is a 2008 Village Voice Jazz Consumer Guide listing. She has garnered consistent raves throughout the U.S. and Europe including: "Ms. Natal bends and twists her notes in unexpected fashions, makes startling leaps around the scales, and has the daring to expand and extend what might be a satisfactory note to open up a fresh and revealing color” ( NY Times) and "...she's a hell of a singer...(her) intense 'You Go to My Head' ends up somewhere close to Coltrane's 'Equinox.' This is jazz singing at its highest level." (Cadence).
www.benyomusic.com
www.myspace.com/nanettenatal


HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009 : THEATER SERIES
A Benefit to support HOWL! HELP An Emergency Services Assistance and Health Fund for eligible and qualifying East Village Artists. Administered by The Actors Fund.
For Additional Information, Photos and Bios
Please go to www.eastvillagehowler.blogspot.com


The TWEED Fractured Classicks Series presents: Pic–up: A Summer Romance
45 Bleecker Street Theatre (NE cor of Lafayette at Mulberry St)
Lobby Theater
Friday Sept 18 8pm
Saturday Sept 19 8pm
Sunday Sept 20 8pm
Admission: $20 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79133
The TWEED Fractured Classicks Series presents original interpretations of great American plays and movies. Call it parody. Call it satire. But don't call it camp! These productions are deceptively reverent, yet hilarious spins on classic American dramatic literature.

The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein
45 Bleecker Street Theater Downstairs Green Room
Monday Sept 21 8pm
Tuesday Sept 22 8pm
Wednesday Sept 23 8pm
Thursday Sept 24 8pm

Admission: $20 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79128
On a June evening in 1938 director Orson Welles, producer John Houseman and the cast and crew of a new Broadway musical were locked out of their theater on opening night by armed servicemen under orders from the Federal Govt. Without costumes, sets, lights or sound, Welles and Houseman found an unused theater, rented an upright piano and marched their audience up Broadway for what has become the most historic theatrical opening ever recorded. The entire libretto performed from the audience by actors forbidden to step onto the stage, received a 40 minute standing ovation, as legend has it. An operetta about greed, corruption and the plight of the worker could not be more timely.
This production originally produced by Downtown Music Productions, East Village Concert Series and St Marks Church in-the-Bowery
Music Direction: Mimi Stern-Wolfe; Directed and Choreographed by Lisa Brailoff.
Artistic Coordinator: Jeannine Otis.


Got You by Michael W. Small

Directed by Penny Ayn Maas
Starring: Heather Laws, Fred Rose, Laura Daniel, Jeremy Ellison-Gladstone
Sound/Lighting: David Premack
Stage Manager/Assistant Director: Brian Rardin
45 Bleecker Street Theatre Lobby Theater
Thursday Sept 24 8pm
Friday Sept 25 8pm
Admission $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79137
Every day, East Villager Adam and his wife Wendy play a private game in which they try to trick each other with outrageous lies. But when their daily routine is interrupted by what seems to be another terrorist attack, they become unwitting players in a different sort of deception -- one that reveals the fragility of their post-9/11 lives and leads them to deadly consequences.

The Common Swallow by David Caudle
Directed by Kirsten Kelly
Starring Annie Golden, Julie Jesneck, Doug Rees, Elizabeth Rich, and MacLeod Andrews
45 Bleecker Street Theater – Downstairs Green Room
Friday Sept 25 8pm
Saturday Sept 26 8pm
Sunday Sept 27 3pm matinee and 8pm
Admission: $15 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/78930
A midwestern town's annual food fair is in full swing. Locals converge along the banks of the muddy river to sample pulled pork, baked beans, and corn. Nineteen-year-old runaway Jim comes for the meth. New Yorker Karen, on a rare return to her roots, picks at her barbecued chicken, potato salad, and a very old wound. Her townie brother Tripp sharpens his teeth on some juicy ribs and a simmering sibling rivalry. All any of them really craves is a good helping of love and acceptance, and even just a taste of “welcome home."

“The Common Swallow,” was developed in the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers
Group at Primary Stages. David Caudle is also author of the acclaimed, award winning play, “The Sunken Living Room.”

SOP DOLL ! A Jack Tale Noh by Lee Ann Brown & Tony Torn
Starring Tony Torn, Lee Ann Brown, Miranda Torn, Julie Patton
45 Bleecker Street Theatre - Lobby Theater
Saturday Sept 26 8pm
Sunday Sept 27 8pm
Admission: $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79139
A spooky Appalachian tale of witches, ghosts, and shape shifting wildcats, told in the style of Japanese ritualistic Noh drama. Special guests will be on hand to perform a hair-raising spectacle!

Double Bill of Poets’ Theater
TRY! TRY! by Frank O’ Hara
Clutter by Kristin Prevallet
45 Bleecker Street Theatre Downstairs Green Room
Monday Sept 28 8pm
Tuesday Sept 29 8pm
Admission $10 Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79140

TRY! TRY! by Frank O’ Hara
Produced by Verse Theater Manhattan:
Richard Ryan Producer
“A wife waits for her husband to come home form the war. Her lover waits for her husband to come home from the war. Her husband comes home from the war. This won’t be pretty.”
Try! Try!, first published in 1951, is among O’Hara’s earliest theater pieces, and remains one of his most lyrical and accessible works – in its unnerving blend of Greek tragedy and Hollywood farce it remains both delightful and unsettling. The poet Frank O’Hara (awarded the National Book Award for Poetry posthumously in 1972) was a key figure in the postwar New York School of poets and painters which includes poets John Ashbery and James Schuyler, and painters Larry Rivers and Jasper Johns.
•••••
Clutter by Kristin Prevallet
Produced by Verse Theater Manhattan
A boy. A girl. A radio. Trying to make sense out of chaos.
“Clutter,” poet Kristin Prevallet's one-act lyric drama, is a love story about social absurdity and poetic crisis. A girl searches for meaning in words that make sense only to her. A boy tries to counter chaos by rearranging the furniture. Luckily they share the same muse -- a voice from the radio -- who reveals the secret that just might bring them back together.


HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: FILM SERIES
Conceived and Curated by Jon Gartenberg: Film Archivist, Historian, and Programmer.

A Benefit to support HOWL! HELP An Emergency Services Assistance and Health Fund for eligible and qualifying East Village Artists. Administered by The Actors Fund.
For Additional Information, Photos and Bios
Please go to www.eastvillagehowler.blogspot.com


AT MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP 66 East 4th St (between Bowery & 2nd Aves.)
Thurs – Sunday Sept 17 -20
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
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 as protests affirming sexuality, opposing gentrification, and supporting the flourishing of a subversive culture.

Two different film and video programs presented each day, organized around specific personalities, themes, locales, or motifs will include:
“Allen Ginsberg on Film”,
“Jack Smith and the Lower East Side
(as seen by Ken Jacobs)”,
“The Living Theater and the New American Cinema”,
“Punk Rock, Forever!”,
“In and Around Tomkins Square Park”, and
“A Moveable Feast: A Tribute to the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative”. Special invited guests will appear to introduce individual films in the programs and to engage in a discussion with the audience.

The Millennium has a long tradition of showing work by independent film and video artists, and was a familiar haunt of Ginsberg during his lifetime.


HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009 : OUT OF THE HOUSE Readings/Books/Panels/Poetry/Music
A Benefit to support HOWL! HELP An Emergency Services Assistance and Health Fund for eligible and qualifying East Village Artists. Administered by The Actors Fund.
For Additional Information, Photos and Bios
Please go to www.eastvillagehowler.blogspot.com


HOWL ! Arts Project 2009 at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street @ Second Avenue
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery


Poetry Turn On!
Thursday Sept 10 8pm
Parish Hall
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery 131 E. 10th St @ 2nd Ave
Suggested donation: $10 to benefit the HOWL ! HELP Fund.
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com

or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79375
Hosted by poet Nathaniel Siegel, members of The Bowery Poetry Club, Cave Canem, A Gathering of the Tribes, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and The Poetry Project gather for a reading to comfort, uplift, provoke and inspire. Poets include: Eliel Lucero, Lynne Procope, Shappy Seasholtz, Jean Ann Verlee, E. J. Antonio, Evan Burton, Juliet Howard, Nicole Sealey, Camille Rankine, Steve Cannon, Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo, Amy Ouzoonian, Chavisa Woods, Samuel Diaz, Daniel Gallant, Carlos Andres Gomez, Mariposa, Jim Behrle, MacGregor Card, Paul Foster Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Stacy Szymaszek.


Everything Is Known: Ginsberg and Teaching
Tuesday Sept 15 8pm
Parish Hall
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery 131 E. 10th St @ 2nd Ave.
Suggested donation: $10 to benefit the HOWL ! HELP Fund.
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com

or go directly to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79376
Influenced by the teachings of leading American poet Allen Ginsberg, well-known bards who have worked, studied and in most cases gone on to teach others, host an open discussion. Poets and writers include Eliot Katz, Andy Clausen, Steven Taylor, Brenda Coultas, Anselm Berrigan, David Carter, and Bob Rosenthal.

HOWL! Arts Project 2009 at the New Museum
235 Bowery (Prince St & Bowery)
presents:
Arthur’s Landing (Songs by Arthur Russell)
Friday Sept 11 5pm – 7pm

Part of Art on the Bowery
ARTHUR'S LANDING is a group of musicians who all worked at various times in various contexts with the late Arthur Russell, a cellist and composer from Iowa who lived for most of the later part of his too short life on the Lower East Side. Russell brought together the worlds of dance, pop, and folk with that of downtown's “new music,” and fused Western musical tradition with elements of the Eastern, driven by his engagement with Buddhist thought and practice. He collaborated often with Allen Ginsberg, and Phillip Glass was also an early mentor. Arthur Russell is the focus of the feature length 2008 documentary Wild Combination from director Matt Wolf. A biography, called Hold Onto Your Dreams by Tim Lawrence, is due out this year.
The Arthur’s Landing ensemble will perform pop songs, parts of a longer instrumental work called “Singing Tractors” and will be available following the performance to answer questions about Russell’s life and work.
ARTHUR'S LANDING (songs by Arthur Russell ) Joyce Bowden- voice; Steven Hall-voice, guitar; Ernie Brooks -voice, bass; John Scherman-lead guitar; Bill Ruyle- drums, hammered dulcimer; Mustafa Ahmed-percussion; Peter Zummo- voice, trombone; Alex Waterman – cello.

HOWL! Arts Project 2009 at the New Museum
235 Bowery (Prince St & Bowery)
presents:
Richard Hell Reading
Sunday Sept 13 4:30pm – 5:45pm

Part of Art on the Bowery
General public: $6 At artists request, New Museum offers special half-price price ticket for entry to exhibits with proof of purchase.
Legendary punk-rocker Richard Hell reads excerpts from his “self-bio” in progress and other new material.
Richard Hell is a writer and musician. He's the author of the novels Go Now and Godlike, and the collection of poems, nonfiction, drawings, and lyrics, Hot and Cold. His 1973 novelina, The Voidoid, has just been published by 38th Street Publishers in a new edition with illustrations by Kier Cooke Sandvik. Destiny Street Repaired, the newly revised CD by Richard Hell and the Voidoids, was released by Insound on September 1, 2009. Last year Richard's collaborations with artist Christopher Wool were published as the book Psychopts.


HOWL! Arts Project 2009 at the Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (bet Bleecker & Houston Sts)
Wednesday Sept 9 10pm
Skits'N'Tits!

Admission: $5 at the door
A monthly comedy, burlesque, and music variety show with Diane O' Debra (formerly of The O' Debra Twins), Jessica Delfino, and Steph Sabelli as The Funny, Filthy Floozies, an off the wall sketch group that also produces and stars in short films throughout the show!
This month also co-stars: Comedian Heather Fink, Burlesque troupe Suspicious package, Burlesque performer Ayknos, comedian Jenny Rubin, and many, many more TBA!
www.bowerypoetry.com
"Hilarious, badass, and sexy!"-Examiner.com
"Scintillating, titillating, stimulating women with a sense of humor."-NY Press



HELP (HOWL! EMERGENCY LIFE PROJECT)
OF THE ACTORS FUND

is a wonderful new community resource created to support artists who have made or continue to make their careers in NYC's East Village and Lower East Side and are in need of emergency assistance. Eligible artists include participants in the annual Howl ! Festival and those in the East Village Arts Community of theatre, music, performance, dance, multimedia, the spoken word and visual arts. Assistance is based on need and qualifying work history. This fund provides emergency assistance to qualified performing artists in crisis and offers other Actors Fund support services. www.actorsfund.org

Proceeds from the HOWL! Arts Project 2009 will benefit HOWL! HELP, administered by The Actors Fund, which provides this emergency assistance health fund to qualified performing artists in crisis.

THE ACTORS FUND is a national human services organization that helps all professionals in performing arts and entertainment. The Fund - which supports both performers and everyone behind the scenes in theatre, film, TV, music, dance, radio and opera - is a safety net, providing social services and emergency assistance, health services and health insurance information, employment and training programs and housing support for those who are in need, crisis or transition. Learn more about The Actors Fund's services and programs at www.actorsfund.org

For Additional Information, Photos and Bios
Please go to: www.eastvillagehowler.blogspot.com

Contact: Jane Friedman aireps@aol.com

For The Actors Fund - Ina Clark 212.221.7300 ext.176 - iclark@actorsfund.org
For The Actors Fund's programs, including HOWL ! HELP - Barbara Davis 212.221.7300 ext. 140 - bdavis@actorsfund.org

Selected Photo credits as of 8/21/2009:

(Photo credit: HOWL logo art by Paul Pope. Courtesy the artist.
Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Copyright the HOWL Festival and Paul Pope.)

(Photo credit: Allen Ginsberg, photographer unknown.
Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Copyright Allen Ginsberg.)

Thursday, August 20, 2009

HOWL ! FESTIVAL PRESENTS Hip-Hop HOWL !


HOWL ! Festival 2009 PRESENTS Hip-Hop HOWL!
Hip-Hop HOWL! DAY Show

Crosby & Miz Metro Presents "A-NY Minute pt.2"
Hip-Hop HOWL! Live Mixtape Showcase
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5th 5PM-7PM
(Tompkins Square Park) @MAIN STAGE:
E. 7th Street (btwn Ave. A & B)
New York New York 10009
FREE ADMISSION!!


Hip-Hop HOWL! Live Mixtape Showcase : Crosby & Miz Metro Presents "A-NY Minute pt.2"
Saturday Sept.5th 5pm-7pm @ Main Stage 7th Street (btwn Ave. A & B), NY NY 10009 Spectacular Performances from a mix of High Energy M.C's, Breakdancers, Poets and New Skool Soul Singers.
DJ Vinyl Richie will spin with performances from Miz Metro, Crosby, The Beatards, MC K-Swift, Zeps, Nero, 8thW1, Wordspit, Kel Spencer, Eyeris, Jasmine Solano, Nyle, Sciryl, $trictly Busine$$, Print, Raye 6, Damanilz, Azealia Banks, Spills with FeleciaCruz, Caits Meissner, Circa 95 (Rephstar & PattyDukes) and Many More...
Please visit www.HipHopHowl.com for flyer & more information...

List Of Artists

DJ Vinyl Richie , Miz Metro, Crosby, Nero, The Beatards, MC K-Swift,
Zeps, 8thW1, Wordspit, Kel Spencer, Eyeris, Jasmine Solano , Nyle, Sciryl,
Print, Joya Bravo, Oveous Maximus, Bless Roxwell, Raye 6, Shinobi Ninja,
$trictly Busine$$, Dama Nilz, Azealia Banks, Spills w/ Felicia Cruz, Caits Meissner, Circa 95(Rephstar & PattyDukes) and Many More...


Hip-Hop HOWL! NIGHT Show

Miz Metro & Crosby Presents "A-NY Minute pt.2"
Hip-Hop HOWL! 2nd Annual Mixtape Release Party
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5th 9PM-11PM
@BOWERY POETRY CLUB:
308 Bowery (btwn Houston & Bleecker)
New York New York 10009
$5 Suggested Donation


Crosby & Miz Metro Present Hip-Hop HOWL! 2nd Annual Mixtape Release Party.
Saturday Sept.5th 9pm-11pm @ Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (btwn Houston and Bleecker), NY NY 10009 Come Celebrate and Let's Get Down after our Live Mixtape Showcase in Tompkins Square Park for our 2nd Annual "A-NY Minute" Mixtape Release Party with Special Giveaways, Giftbags & FREE Mixtape CD upon entry.
Spectacular Performances from a mix of High Energy M.C's, Breakdancers, Poets and New Skool Soul Singers. The 2009 Hip-Hop HOWL! SXSW Mixtape received over 600,000 plays as the featured playlist on IMEEM, along with being featured on many popular music blogs including URB and OKAY PLAYER. Sponsored by The Arteries Group,Circa 95' & The Bloom Effect.
Please visit www.HipHopHowl.com for flyer & more information...


List Of Artists

DJ Vinyl Richie , Miz Metro, Crosby, Nero, The Beatards, MC K-Swift,Zeps, 8thW1, Wordspit, Kel Spencer, Eyeris, Jasmine Solano , Nyle, Sciryl,Print, Joya Bravo, Oveous Maximus, Bless Roxwell, Raye 6, Shinobi Ninja,$trictly Busine$$, Dama Nilz, Azealia Banks, Spills w/ Felicia Cruz, Caits Meissner,Circa 95 (Rephstar & PattyDukes) and Many More...

Sunday, August 16, 2009

HOWL ! ARTS PROJECT 2009: THEATER







HOWL ! ARTS PROJECT 2009: THEATER

PRESENTED AT
45 BLEECKER STREET THEATER
45 BLEECKER STREET (JUST EAST OF LAFAYETTE AT MULBERRY STREET)

Friday Sept 18th 8pm
Saturday Sept 19th 8pm
Sunday Sept 20th 8pm
The TWEED Fractured Classics Series presents:
Pic-up: A Summer Romance

45 Bleecker Street Theater
Lobby Theater
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$20

The TWEED Fractured Classicks Series presents original interpretations of great American plays and movies. Call it parody. Call it satire. But don’t call it camp! These productions are deceptively reverent, yet hilarious spins on classic American dramatic literature.

This particular dinosaur emerged in the early fifties and ran away with most of the season awards - including the Pulitzer! The performance features drag legend Sweetie in the lead role, Broadway’s comic diva the peerless Julie Halston, and TWEED faviorites, Jay Rogers, Bradford Scobie, Steve Hayes, and Greg Wallach, with a special turn by Bree Benton.

Stephen Pell, of Ridiculous Theater fame, adapted the script, and Kevin Malony directs. Produced by TWEED TheaterWorks in association with Robbi Kearns.



Monday Sept 21st 8pm
Tuesday Sept 22nd 8pm
Wednesday Sept 23rd 8pm
Thursday Sept 24th 8pm
The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein

Produced by Downtown Music Productions,
East Village Concert Series.
Music Direction: Mimi Stern-Wolfe
Directed and Choreographed by Lisa Brailoff
Artistic Coordinator: Jeannine Otis

45 Bleecker Street Theatre
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$20

On a June evening in 1938 director Orson Welles, producer John Houseman and the cast and crew of a new Broadway musical were locked out of their theater on opening night by armed servicemen under orders from the Federal Govt. Without costumes, sets, lights or sound, Welles and Houseman found an unused theater, rented an upright piano and marched their audience up Broadway for what has become the most historic theatrical opening ever recorded. The entire libretto performed from the audience by actors forbidden to step onto the stage, received a 40 minute standing ovation, as legend has it. An operetta about greed, corruption and the plight of the worker could not be more timely.


Thursday September 24th 8pm
Friday September 25th 8pm
Got You by Michael W. Small

45 Bleecker Street Theater
Lobby Theater
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

Every day, East Villager Adam and his wife Wendy play a private game in which they try to trick each other with outrageous lies. But when their daily routine is interrupted by what seems to be another terrorist attack, they become unwitting players in a different sort of deception -- one that reveals the fragility of their post-9/11 lives and leads them to deadly consequences.

Here’s what people are saying about Michael’s work:

THE IT GIRL:

"...a neat, very witty book." -- Clive Barnes, 2001

"A bright and breezy musical with a big future." -- Theatrical Index, 2001

"....fresh, remarkably intelligent entertainment." -- The Waterbury Republican American, 1999

"The dialog is punderful. Yes, punderful, that wonderful combination of puns and an unbelievable amount of double entendres... Just sit back and enjoy the entertainment."
-- SDtheatrescene.com, 2009

KABOOM!

"...mixes sex, greed and roguishness in a way that's highly reminiscent of the Marx Brothers...hip boisterous and puerile. It will probably be a big hit." -- Curtain Up, 2008

"...a far-fetched rollercoaster of crazy, unbridled Fringe Festival fun." -- Offoffonline.com, 2008

"So funny you might onomatopee your pants." -- Daily Candy, 2008


Friday Sept 25th 8pm
Saturday Sept 26th 8pm
Sunday Sept 27th 3pm matinee and 8pm
The Common Swallow by David Caudle

45 Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$15
To purchase tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/78930

A midwestern town's annual food fair is in full swing. Locals converge along the banks of the muddy river to sample pulled pork, baked beans, and corn. Nineteen-year-old runaway Jim comes for the meth. New Yorker Karen, on a rare return to her roots, picks at her barbecued chicken, potato salad, and a very old wound. Her townie brother Tripp sharpens his teeth on some juicy ribs and a simmering sibling rivalry. All any of them really craves is a good helping of love and acceptance, and even just a taste of "welcome home."

“The Common Swallow,” was developed in the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages. David Caudle is also author of the acclaimed, award winning play, “The Sunken Living Room.”
Directed by Kirsten Kelly. Starring Annie Golden, Elizabeth Rich, Julie Jesneck, and MacLeod Andrews


“Caudle’s writing is full of humor, compassion, keen observation”
Christine Dolen, Miami Herald

“Caudle’s plays...often suprise with their mystifying aura, their dramatic punch.” Tom Kertes, Village Voice


Saturday Sept 26th at 8pm
Sunday Sept 27th at 8pm
SOP DOLL ! A Jack Tale Noh by Lee Ann Brown & Tony Torn

45 Bleecker Street Theater
Lobby Theater
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

A spooky Appalachian tale of witches, ghosts, and shape shifting wildcats, told in the style of Japanese ritualistic Noh drama. Special guests will be on hand to perform a hair-raising spectacle! Starring Tony Torn, Lee Ann Brown, Miranda Torn, and Julie Patton


Monday Sept 28th 8pm
Tuesday Sept 29th 8pm
Verse Theater Manhattan presents
Poets Theater Double Bill
TRY! TRY! by Frank O’ Hara
Richard Ryan Producer

45 Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10 (with Clutter)

Try! Try!, first published in 1951, is among O’Hara’s earliest theater pieces, and remains one of his most lyrical and accessible works – in its unnerving blend of Greek tragedy and Hollywood farce it remains both delightful and unsettling.

“A wife waits for her husband to come home form the war. Her lover waits for her husband to come home from the war. Her husband comes home from the war.

“This won’t be pretty.”

The poet Frank O’Hara (awarded the National Book Award for Poetry posthumously in 1972) was a key figure in the postwar New York School of poets and painters which includes poets John Ashbery and James Schuyler, and painters Larry Rivers and Jasper Johns. Enormously influential on subsequent generations of American poets, O’Hara’s poetry was at once colloquial and dreamy, embracing high modernism, camp, pop, and surrealism in their uncanny range of styles and influences. His remarkable works for the stage were often originally produced in collaboration with the legendary Living Theater, a seminal force in the downtown arts scene of the 50s and 60s, and are important early examples of performance art as a genre.


Verse Theater Manhattan (VTM) is the preeminent theater company in the English speaking world devoted exclusively to verse drama. VTM is devoted to discovering and staging the best of old and new verse drama and bringing it to the widest possible audience. VTM's mission is both practical and high-minded: as producers we coordinate and support the theatrical effort of poets, directors, and performers working to bring verse drama to the stage; as supporters of the New York cultural environment, we unite the city's diverse theatrical and literary community.

VTM is open to all styles, genres, and periods of verse drama. VTM seeks out contemporary and ancient texts, classics and translations. VTM is especially interested in encouraging and promoting the work of living poets working to bring verse to the stage.


Monday Sept 28th at 8pm
Tuesday Sept 29th at 8pm
Verse Theater Manhattan presents
Poets Theater Double Bill
Clutter by Kristin Prevallet

45 Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10 (with TRY ! TRY !)

Clutter, poet Kristin Prevallet's one-act lyric drama, is a love story about social absurdity and poetic crisis. A girl searches for meaning in words that make sense only to her. A boy tries to counter chaos by rearranging the furniture. Luckily they share the same muse -- a voice from the radio -- who reveals the secret that just might bring them back together.



Selected bio’s as of 8/18/2009:

Lisa Brailoff, Director/Choreographer (member SDC) – most recently directed THE CRADLE WILL ROCK and the opera THE FIRST WORD for Downtown Music Productions and assisted director Ami Dayan on MASKED at DR2 Off- Broadway. Other New York work includes premieres of four operas for The Vineyard Theatre, at The O’Neill Center; ABOUT FACE/MONSTER at The Ohio Theatre’s Soho Think Tank Ice Festival; BALLOON and THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE for Chain Lightning Theatre; CYBELE, A LOVE STORY at the Judith Anderson Theatre; A TOAST TO THE STEINS and MUSIC AND SATIRE for St. Marks on the Bowery. She also did choreography for DEFENDING THE LIGHT at The New Federal Theatre. Regional work includes Atlantic Theatre Festival, MARRY ME A LITTLE; A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, San Diego Rep and THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She was also resident choreographer for The Asolo State Theatre in Florida creating dance for THE DRUNKARD and WAITING FOR GODOT. She directed THE TEMPEST for Shakespeare on the Sound and was resident choreographer for 11 seasons. She has directed and/or choreographed for Virginia Stage Co, Sarasota Opera Co., Alaska Repertory Theatre and Allenberry Playhouse. Ms. Brailoff was Associate Artistic Director for five seasons at Forestburgh Playhouse where she directed EVITA, SHE LOVES ME, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, PHANTOM (Kopit/Yeston), HEIDI CHRONICLES, LOST IN YONKERS and many more. Thanks to Dan and Harriet for their constant support.

Michael Small's KABOOM!, a farce about a San Francisco con man, was selected by The New York Sun as a "prestige production" in the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival; it was directed by BT McNicholl (associate director of Broadway's Billy Elliot and Spamalot) and featured Broadway star Ray Wills. Small also co-wrote the book to the musical The IT Girl, which starred Jean Louisa Kelly (from the CBS hit Yes, Dear) and was overseen by Jerry Zaks during its critically-acclaimed 2001 Off Broadway run at the York Theater. Since then, the show has been performed regionally, winning raves in July 2009 at the Coronado Playhouse in San Diego. Other works include Beautiful Foolish Arms, which was performed in a Players Club reading by The Naked Angels Theater in 2007, and The Cool Club, a two-act comedy about an East Village nightclub that had a site-specific run at New York's famously defunct CBGB 313. Formerly a writer and editor at PEOPLE Magazine, Small later ran the websites for Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone. He is now the managing director of Bravo TV's website.
(Playwright: Got You)

David Caudle is the author of several plays, including VISITING HOURS, THE SECOND HOUSE and DAMSEL. His newest play,
IN DEVELOPMENT,will premiere in October at the New Theatre in Miami, directed by Ricky J.Martinez.THE SUNKEN LIVING ROOM (Samuel French) had a co-world premiere at New Theatre and Southern Rep in New Orleans, directed by Ryan Rilette. David has adapted two original one-acts for short films: Landfill, directed by Anezka Sebek, and the award-winning Feet of Clay, directed by Carrie Preston. THE COMMON SWALLOW was developed in the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages, where David is a current member. The play will be published in this Fall's issue of the acclaimed online literary journal, Blackbird.
(Playwright: The Common Swallow)

Annie Golden was discovered by Academy Award winning director, Milos Forman, fronting her rock band THE SHIRTS at CBGB's and was cast as Jeannie in his film HAIR...still crazy after all these years, Annie can be seen on the big screen on Valentine's Day, 2010 opposite Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor in their film I LOVE YOU PHILIP MORRIS!...this downtown diva is happy to say thanks to Mr. Forman's gift of an acting career thirty years later she has done it all...if it weren't for Hilly Kristal booking the band...who knows? (Actress: The Common Swallow)

Elizabeth Rich is an award-winning actress and recent transplant from Chicago, where she performed at Steppenwolf in The Pillowman (Mother; dir. Amy Morton); Cherry Orchard (Varya; dir. Tina Landau) and A Tale of Two Cities (Mme. De Farge; dir. Jessica Thebus). She also performed at the Goodman as Kristine Linde in Doll's House (dir. Robert Falls), and Theatre J as Hannah in Hannah and Martin (dir. Jeremy Cohen), to name a few. Ms. Rich is the recipient of a 2006 Helen Hayes Nomination, 2005 Jeff Award and 2004 After Dark Award. Regional: The Alley Theatre, The Scene (dir. Jeremy Cohen); Florida Stage, Cradle of Man (dir. Michael John Garces). In New York, she has received a Talkin Broadway citation for Best Actress and a MITF Best Featured Actress nomination for her work in Non Play; shadows of a dream at the Horace Mann Theatre (dir. Mikhael Tara Garver), and Couldn't Say at the Abingdon (dir. Lisa Rothe.) (Actress: The Common Swallow)

Julie Jesneck Broadway: Rock 'N Roll. Off-Broadway: Walls, Cherry Lane; Green Girl and The Nightshade Family, SPF; Romania. Kiss Me!, The Play Co.; Mr. Marmalade (u/s), Roundabout; Abu Ghraib Triptych, EST; Mistral, Drama League. Regional: A Thousand Clowns, Intiman Theatre; The Trip to Bountiful, The Denver Center (Henry Award); Thinking Of You, Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Othello and A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Old Globe; The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Alliance/The Acting Co. Tour; The Ruby Sunrise, Trinity Rep and Actor's Theatre of Louisville (Humana); Mary's Wedding, San Jose Rep. Television: "Law & Order" and "Empire Falls" (HBO). Juilliard graduate. (Actress: The Common Swallow)

Tony Torn is an actor and director based in New York City and Marshall, North Carolina. He was a founding member of Reza Abdoh’s legendary theater company dar a luz, a regular presence at Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater and was a founding director of the celebrated political/satirical troupe Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping. He most recently appeared as Trinculo in CSC's production of The Tempest. His first feature as director Lucky Days, a directorial collaboration with Angelica Torn, was recently awarded best feature at the 2008 Coney Island Film Festival. He is founder, with his wife Lee Ann Brown, of The FBI (French Broad Institute of Time and the River). (Playwright: SOP DOLL ! A Jack Tale Noh)

Lee Ann Brown was born in Japan in 1963 and was raised in Charlotte, NC. She is the author of two collections of poetry, The Sleep that Changed Everything (Wesleyan University Press, 2003), and Polyverse (Sun and Moon, 1999) which received the New American Poetry Series Award ), and a song cycle, The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time. She is editor of Tender Buttons Press, publishing experimental women’s poetry since 1989. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals including Boston Review, Jacket, The Chicago Review, Intervalles, the Interdisciplinary Transcription Issue and The Poetry Project Newsletter and in several anthologies, including Line: A Drawing Center Anthology, Best American Poetry 2001, Giant Step: African American Writing at the Crossroads of the Century, and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry. She teaches in the English Department of St. John’s University in New York City. Poet Robin Blaser calls, her second book, The Sleep That Changed Everything “"an astonishing, wonderful book, top-of-the-line poetry…. Her ‘life long love of language’ breathes here"” and Charles Bernstein calls it "a “sprung formalist ode to the ‘open possibilities’ of song." (Playwright: SOP DOLL ! A Jack Tale Noh)

Kristin Prevallet’s most recent book is a lyric essay called I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time (Essay Press, 2007). Her previous collections are Scratch Sides: Poetry, Documentation and Image-text Projects (Skanky Possum, 2006), Perturbation, My Sister (1998) and Shadow Evidence Intelligence (Factory School, 2006). She edited and introduced A Helen Adam Reader (National Poetry Foundation, 2007). Her collaboration with the musician Esfand Poumand is featured on Bowery Poetry Club Records Live! She received a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry and she currently lives in Brooklyn. Clutter is her work for the stage. (Playwright: Clutter)

Selected photo credits as of 8/28/2009:

(Photo credit: Clutter by Kristin Prevallet poster design.
Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Copyright Kristin Prevallet.)
(Photo credit: Annie Golden in The Common Swallow by David Caudle.
Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright David Caudle.)
(Photo credit: The Common Swallow by David Caudle.
Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright David Caudle.)
(Photo credit: Annie Golden in The Common Swallow by David Caudle.
Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright David Caudle.)
(Photo credit: David Caudle courtesy the artist.
Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright David Caudle.)
(Photo credit: Julie Patton in SOP DOLL! A Jack Tale Noh by
Tony Torn and Lee Ann Brown. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Tony Torn and Lee Ann Brown.)
(Photo credit: Kristin Prevallet courtesy the artist.
Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright Kristin Prevallet.)

Saturday, August 15, 2009

HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: JAZZ SERIES






HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: JAZZ SERIES

PRESENTED AT
THE BLEECKER STREET THEATER
45 BLEECKER STREET (JUST EAST OF LAFAYETTE AT MULBERRY STREET)


Wednesday Sept 23rd 11pm
JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT: A JAZZ SERIES
Art Baron & Friends

The Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

Bone-a-fide Music The Duke's Men!
Art Baron & Friends
Arthur Baron


Arthur Baron
is a trombonist, multi-instrumentalist and composer.
He has had a rich and varied performance career. From Duke
Ellington to Elliot Sharpe, James Taylor to BB King,and Alvin Ailey
to Annea Lockwood. Others include Stevie Wonder and Cab Calloway.
Art spent 2006 as a member of the Bruce Springsteen, Seeger Sessions Band, touring Europe and the US. With Bruce he performs on sousaphone, trombone, penny whistles & mandolin. He also guest performs with Levon Helm, of ‘The Band’ fame, at Levon’s Midnight Rambles in Woodstock, NY. Art is a composer and arranger, and has had several commissions,including Jazz at Lincoln Center, the MOBI New Music Ensemble and the New York Composers' Orchestra, and dance ensembles such as Martita Goshen’s Earthworks. Art has been deeply involved with education, doing workshop/clinics and guest appearances from pre-schoolers to universities and beyond..
Currently he leads The Duke's Men, an ensemble of Ellington alumni,
and is a mainstay with ‘Art Baron & Friends’ at The Bowery Poetry Club
in New York City.


Thursday Sept 24th 11pm
JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT: A JAZZ SERIES
American Songbook/ Lisa Brailoff and Friends

The Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

American Songbook/ Lisa Brailoff and Friends
The golden era of radio, big band, film and musical theater ushered in some of the greatest American songwriting treasures of the 20th century. Comic, torch, storied and standard, sit back and chill for a stop, shock and stroll through some of our greatest jazz classics --- big band and small ensemble.


Friday Sept 25th 11pm
JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT: A JAZZ SERIES
Hayes Greenfield and Company

The Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

Hayes Greenfield – producer, composer, saxophonist, filmmaker, bandleader, and educator – has been active on the New York City jazz scene since the late ‘70s. As sideman, he has built enduring associations with such notable artists as Jaki Byard, Rashied Ali, Paul Bley, Barry Altschul, and Richie Havens. As bandleader, Hayes has recorded and produced a number of critically acclaimed CDs and played throughout the U.S. and Canada, headlining in such popular New York City clubs as the Blue Note, Birdland, the Knitting Factory, and CBGB’s. European tours have taken him and his bands to Vienna, the Aalen Jazz Festival in Germany, Brighton Jazz Festival in the U.K., the Albi, Coutances, Bordeaux, Amiens, Hyeres, and Avignon Jazz Festivals in France, and the Aarhus Jazz Festival in Denmark.


Saturday Sept 26th 11pm
JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT: A JAZZ SERIES
Nanette Natal and Company

The Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

Nanette Natal’ s music has always defied categories. One of the most interesting and exciting singers working in jazz today, she is a consummate artist in the grand tradition of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan and has delivered her socially conscious rhythmic blues/ rock message alongside Mahalia Jackson and Odetta. Rooted in jazz, blues, gospel, and New Orleans style, her latest CD "I Must Be Dreaming" is a 2008 Village Voice Jazz Consumer Guide listing. She has garnered consistent raves throughout the U.S. and Europe including: "Ms. Natal bends and twists her notes in unexpected fashions, makes startling leaps around the scales, and has the daring to expand and extend what might be a satisfactory note to open up a fresh and revealing color”(NY Times) and "...she's a hell of a singer...the extended improv marvels are the most fascinating, like an intense 'You Go to My Head' that ends up somewhere close to Coltrane's 'Equinox.' This is jazz singing at its highest level." (Cadence).
www.benyomusic.com
www.myspace.com/nanettenatal

selected photo credits as of 8/15/2009

(Photo credit: Art Baron courtesy the artist.Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Art Baron.)
(Photo credit: Art Baron courtesy the artist.Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Art Baron.)
(Photo credit: Hayes Greenfield and Cooper Moore courtesy the artist.
Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright Hayes Greenfield.)
(Photo credit: Hayes Greenfield courtesy the artist. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Hayes Greenfield.)
(Photo credit: Nanette Natal courtesy the artist. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Nanette Natal.)

Thursday, August 13, 2009

HOWL! FESTIVAL PRESENTS HOWLING HOUSE OF BON VIVANT



HOWL ! Festival 2009 presents
the HOWLING HOUSE OF BON VIVANT
Sunday Sept 6th, 2009
Tompkins Square Park

Main Stage: East 7th Street between A and B
(South Side of Tompkins Square Park)
3pm-3:30pm
DANCE PERFORMANCE


The Howling House of Bon Vivant is on the loose! Catch this premier dance troupe when it prowls the 2009 HOWL! Festival with a performance sure to leave audiences screaming for more. On stage at 3pm (Sunday Sept 6th, 2009) the force and ferocity of these performers provides a glimpse into another world. Showcasing everything from vogue to ballet, stepping to free-styling, this ball house goes where others dare not go.

Under the tutelage of director and choreographer, Riki Colon,
the Howling House of Bon Vivant attracts New York’s best performers of all ages. Colon’s endeavor is to pass the torch to a new generation and keep the ball house tradition alive.

In the tradition of Harlem’s legendary ball houses, Bon Vivant supplies guidance and mentoring to young and upcoming dancers, encouraging education, offering support and providing a safe haven.

The house’s blend of fresh new dancers offering innovative ideas, with more seasoned veterans offering old-school wisdom, creates an eclectic mix of the modern and the conventional.

Bon Vivant’s Colon brings with him a lifetime of dance experience. He studied dance with Alvin Ailey, has danced with The Bronx Dance Theater, Eartha Kitt, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, and a host of other music and video greats.

(Photo credit: Ricki Colon and Von, House of Howl by Marguerite Von Cook.
Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright Marguerite Von Cook.)
(Photo credit: The Howling House of Bon Vivant by Marguerite Von Cook.
Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright Marguerite Von Cook.)

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

HOWL ! ARTS PROJECT 2009: PERFORMANCE ART











Announcing
The HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: PERFORMANCE ART
PRESENTED at
45 BLEECKER STREET THEATER
45 BLEECKER STREET NYC
(JUST EAST OF LAFAYETTE AT MULBERRY STREET)


Thursday September 3rd, 11 PM- 1 AM
HOWL! Offsite Kick-off!
Culture Shock Marketing Presents
A Video, Music & Performance Event starring
The Fantastic Nobodies

45 Bleecker Street Theater
Lobby Theater
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

This late night HOWL! Festival kick-off event will commence with a short video installation, featuring films by various artists including Hugh McGrory, Keith Olwell, and Glenn Marshall. Following the installation, the fine art of two UK-based artists, Kev Largey and Daniel Lumbini will be auctioned for charity. Following the auction, there will be performances by Das Witness and The NYC/Berlin-based art collective, the Fantastic Nobodies.
http://www.thefantasticnobodies.com


Wednesday September 9th 11PM
Michael Formika Jones'

Formika’s East Village Revue
45 Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10 Advance Tickets www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79355
Cash only Tickets at door 9pm to showtime.
Racy, raucous and irreverent, Formika blows the house down with his fun-filled revue of old and new faces from the East Village’s evolving landscape: drag, burlesque, vaudeville and sheer outrageous entertainment. With DJ’s Lina and Kindbud. Performers include: Busted, Felcity Stardust. Featuring Kelvin’s Kinky Kitchen, and erotic massages by James Orona. Hosted by: Michael T, Joey Israel, Cazwell, and (of course) Michael Formika Jones.

Tonight's proceeds will benefit HOWL! HELP, administered by The Actor's Fund, which provides emergency assistance to qualified performing artists in crisis.

Friday September 11th 11PM
HOWL-e-LULIAH The Official Dance Party Of the 2009 HOWL! Festival

45 Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
HOWL-e-LULIAH The Official Dance Party Of the 2009 HOWL! Festival
$5
Sing "Howl-e-luliah!" at The Official Dance Party of the 2009 Howl! Festival and
shake out the kinks with DJ Hill, spinning everything 80’s to the 21st century. Tennessee provides the visuals and Howlin' Hattie Hathaway is the hostess.



Saturday September 12th, 3 PM
The Lisa Jackson Documentary

45 Bleecker Street Theater
Lobby Theater
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10.

A young Georgia boy's life is forever altered by the awaking realization that he is, in fact, a she. Moving to New York City, and confronting her new identity with courage, humor and determination, she becomes Lisa Jackson, a talented songwriter and musician capable of moving Straight, Gay and Lesbian and Transgendered audiences alike, determined to live her life with integrity. Featuring interviews with Oscar-nominee Rosie Perez, Punk legend Jayne County, SNL's Darrell Hammond and others.
http://www.lisajacksonrocks.com/documentary/


Sunday September 13th 11pm
The Lucy Show

45 Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10
Hosted by The Factress, aka Lucy Sexton and Vendetta K Starr aka Mike Iveson

It's a talk show, it's a variety show, it's a sickness. Get your fill of politics and performance and the best of what's coming up on stages near you this fall. Prepare yourself for a special appearance by the godfather of downtown performance, Alien Comic, aka Tom Murrin. Co-host Nurse 'Baby Asparagus' Vendetta K Starr aka Mike Iveson, will offer handmade songs, homemade faux austrian singing, and plenty of advice on the use of your private parts in public.


Tuesday September 15th, 8 PM
"In back of the real" Marjan Moghaddam and Adam Caine
Live Guitar with Computer Animation

45 Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

Marjan Moghaddam & Adam Caine take the audience through an exciting and groundbreaking multimedia journey with dazzling computer animation and special effects. The live animations range from the hypnotic dance of materially ambiguous fluid forms to roaming explorations of dazzling architectural structures, mesmerizing psychedelic patterns and stunning visuals.
Marjan and Adams’ award winning and pioneering visual music projects have been the official selections of dozens of international film, video and animation festivals and their state-of-the-arts multimedia shows have packed theaters throughout New York City.

Tonight, experimental guitar virtuoso Adam Caine performs a live improvisational set with mindblowing computer animation by Marjan Moghaddam. Part avant-jazz, part experimental art-rock, part new indie guitar virtuosity, Caine explores sonic terrain reminiscent of New York's art rock heydays.
Marjan Moghaddam, ex-video diva of the Pyramid Club, will be projecting her award winning computer animations, most recently featured on the Art Disk DVD for Art Basel-Miami, during the live set.


"Being blindsided by newcomers is one of our favorite sensations, and the latest to smack us upside the ears is guitarist Adam Caine. He's clearly his own man, and one to watch." Michael Iannantuono, Time Out NY

http://www.caine.tv
http://www.dandy-job.com
http://www.marjan.com

Wednesday September 16th, 8 PM
Legends Of the Lower East Side:
Joey Arias, Basil Twist, Psychotica (Featuring Patrick Briggs) and Lavinia Co-op
45 Bleecker Street Theater
Lobby Theater
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10


From the 1970's on, each of the performers featured this evening paved the way for today's incredible performance renaissance on the Lower East Side, and each is still presenting valid, thought-provoking work today.
From his performances with Klaus Nomi, backing David Bowie on 'Saturday Night Live' and the seminal, grand-scale 'Mermaids On Heroin,' to his Billy Holiday-isms, 'Zoo-manity' in Las Vegas, and the triumphantly spectacular 'Arias With A Twist,' Joey Arias has written the book on how to retain one's integrity and crediblity while crossing over into the (somewhat) mainstream flow of Popular Culture.
With a score of interweaving influences, Basil Twist has taken the ancient art of puppetry into whole new realms as evidenced by his work on Shakespeare-In-the-Park's 'Hamlet', his collaboration with Joey Arias in 'Arias With A Twist,' as well as Broadway's upcoming 'The Addams Family" musical.
His soaring signature vocals have highlighted the oeuvre of the indy Pop/metal bands he has been in. Tonight, 'Psychotica' takes Patrick Briggs well-beyond the 21st century with his quirky, hook-laden, and stellar songwriting.
A charter member of the legendary performance troupe, Bloo-lips, and whose one-person monthly, 'Chez Lavinia' has been packin' them in at the East Village's Brit-Pub, Telephone, Lavinia Co-op hosts the evening' festivities with his own colorful brand of Music Hall, slapstick, and tongue-in-cheek Vaudeville.

Saturday September 19th, 11 PM
The Mystery Of Claywoman - Screening and Lecture
45 Bleecker Street Theater

Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$15

THE MYSTERY OF CLAYWOMAN - SCREENING AND LECTURE is written and performed by MICHAEL CAVADIAS and directed by ROB ROTH. Utilizing live performance and film, the piece combines the forms of a documentary screening and lecture to actualize the story of Claywoman, a 500-million year old enigma who, legend has it, can cure anyone of their deepest pain. Described by PAPER MAGAZINE as "Funny, uncomfortable and depressing - in that order" and by MICHAEL MUSTO as "wildly witty", this next incarnation of the mystery that is Claywoman should be eye opening for all.
New York City-born director and visual artist Rob Roth has been called the mad man incarnate. A persistent and influential presence in the citys downtown art and culture since the early 1990s, his work draws from photography, video, painting, dramaturgy and theater to create experiences that transcend the limits of media and performance. Roths work has been exhibited at a variety of venues including the New Museum for Contemporary Art, Performance Space122, Abrons Art Center, Galapagos Art Space, and Deitch Projects as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the 1990's Roth co-founded Click + Drag, the infamous nightclub weekly, which incorporated fashion and atmosphere and blended computer-age references with a theatrical sensibility, sexual ambiguity and a strict dress code.
Actor/writer Michael Cavadias is an active film, theatre and TV performer as well as a singer. He starred in Paramount Motion Pictures WONDER BOYS opposite Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr.
Michael received his B.F.A. from NYUs experimental theatre wing. He has been a Resident Artist with Mabou Mines, starred in Ruth Maleczechs The Bribe and in Fassbinders Brmen Freedom, and worked with Blacklips Performance Cult and the Ontological Theatre Company.

http://www.rob-roth.com/works/clay.htm

A portion of tonight's proceeds will benefit HOWL! HELP, administered by the Actor's Fund, which provides emergency assistance to qualified performing artists in crisis.

Wednesday September 30th 11pm
Clown Kong's Panic Attack: A Coulrophobic Telethon

45 Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10
DJ Hill and company recreate the hustle, bustle and tragedy of a television fundraiser for people who are actually terrified by what makes most of humankind roar with laughter-- the hilarious antics of clowns. Sandwiched between two large and extravagant production numbers Clown Kong's Panic Attack includes performances by Lower East Side musical mainstays, Southside Slim, Christy D, and, of course, Clown Kong himself-- an actual sideshow clown!



Selected bio's as of 8/15/2009:

New York born Brian Butterick (AKA HATTIE HATHAWAY) has been a performer, writer, producer and personality working in Downtown art, theatre, film and nightlife for over thirty years. Most recently (2007-08), Butterick co-curated the East Village cafe, bookstore and performance space, Rapture Cafe and Books. He appeared in Steven Schainberg's Fur, starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. and made his Broadway debut in The Roundabout Theatre's production The Threepenny Opera, newly translated by Wallace Shawn, directed by Scott Elliot and starring Alan Cumming and Cyndi Lauper.
In the 1990's, Butterick co-produced the famed New York Meat Market Tuesday-night-only boite, Jackie 60, and still presents Night Of a Thousand Stevies, the world-famous annual tribute to Stevie Nicks, now in its 20th year, From 1991-95, he produced, directed and acted in the underground theatrical ensemble, BlackLips, which created performance installations in venues as diverse as a SoHo gallery, Pridefest, a run down Chelsea theatre, and Barney's New York.
In the 1980's,. Butterick co-founded The Pyramid Club, a venue that melded the perfoming arts with music and drag and gave rise to such performers as The "Lady" Bunny, RuPaul, the chart-topping dance act Dee-lite, and produced the first area appearances of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gwar, Psychic TV, and Nirvana. From 1985-89, he co-founded and produced Wigstock, Tompkins Square Park's outdoor festival of drag performance, which was later immortalized in the Goldwyn film of the same name. During this time, Butterick also appeared in numerous independent films, most notably Charles Atlas' Son Of Sam & Delilah, for PBS, as well as composing and performing with the post-punk band, 3 Teens Kill 4.
Hattie has also performed, written and produced a variety of theatrical pieces for many Off-off Broadway venues such as La Mama ETC and PS 122, as well as appearing in works by Penny Arcade, John Kelly, Richard Move, Helen Stratford, Kestutis Nakas, and the late Ethyl Eichelberger. In addition to theatrical pieces, Butterick has also written for TimeOut NY, Verbal Abuse Magazine, Fag Rag, and Mouth Of the Dragon. He is currentl;y at work on several literary projects: a memoir of his life with the late artist David Wojnarowicz, and, with co-author Kestutis Nakas, a history of the 1980's seminal nightclub, The Pyramid. (Co-Curator)

BECCA GOLDSTEIN began filming this documentary at the age of sixteen and has been pursuing it for the past five years. Growing up she was inspired by films such as Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Tarnation. When she discovered New York’s downtown music scene she was drawn to its energy and wanted to exhibit it in some way. This documentary is a culmination of that. She is currently an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College with a major in art history.
She lives in New York City.(Director:The Lisa Jackson Documentary)

LISA JACKSON was a staple in New York’s downtown music scene from 2001-2007. She was a headlining act at CBGBs and The Knitting Factory as well as many other great New York clubs. Additionally she toured the U.S. and appeared with such great acts as Sandra Bernhard, Psychedelic Furs, Pat Benetar, and the Motels. In 2004 she was nominated for Out Musician of the Year and in 2006 her self-titled album (along with her band, Girl Friday) reached the top 10 on Sirius OutQ.
She is currently pursuing her college degree and lives in New York City.

ADAM CAINE is a guitarist, improvisor and composer living in Brooklyn, NY. Adam's two Trio CDs have received rave reviews in the Wire, Cadence, All About Jazz and on international blogs. As a composer for video art, Adam's music has been featured in over 20 international festivals since 2006, and in 2008 Adam was awarded a grant from the Brooklyn Arts council for improvised performance. Adam has performed with Connie Crothers, Paul Smoker, Glenn Branca's Guitar Orchestra, and the New York Soundpainting Ensemble.

MARJAN MOGHADDAM is a New York City based artist and animator who works primarily with 3d CG and digital media for print, video art, performance and installations. Her work has received awards, and been exhibited extensively at various galleries, museums and festivals internationally. She resides in New York City.

New York City-born director and visual artist ROB ROTH has been called “the mad man incarnate”. A persistent and influential presence in the city’s downtown art and culture since the early 1990’s, his work draws from photography, video, painting, dramaturgy and theater to create experiences that transcend the limits of media and performance. Roth’s work uses innovative, multi-disciplinary techniques such as projecting video on the live bodies of actors and dancers to represent the 'inside' of a performance, its essence and soul. Technology is more than a backdrop or superficial projection in Roth’s performances. It functions as a character, a performance enhancer, or instrument with which to amplify the experience. Scent is just one of the many inventive techniques Roth uses to communicate with participants sensually, outside the human constructs of language or image. His use of sensory communication offers a direct link to the more primal elements of existence. His work has been exhibited at a variety of venues including the New Museum for Contemporary Art, Performance Space122, Abrons Art Center, Galapagos Art Space, and Deitch Projects as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art.
After receiving his BFA from Pratt Institute in 1991, Roth co-founded ‘Click + Drag’, the infamous Saturday night at the legendary nightclub Mother, run by nightlife royalty Chi Chi Valenti and Johnny Dynell. ‘Click + Drag’, an amalgamation of art, fashion and atmosphere, blended computer-age references with a theatrical sensibility, sexual ambiguity and a strict dress code (future, cyber, fetish, gothic, post-apocalyptic, glam-nerd, gender-hacking and full period costume)- to create a hedonistic and simultaneous dystopia/utopia. At this weekly epic happening, Roth combined photography, design, and performance with live video feeds and projections, helping define a new aesthetic for the new millennium. The event has now been rebooted as a yearly gathering with the next installment, “Click + Drag 3.1”. The Second Coming”, scheduled for October 17th, 2009 at Santos Party House in NYC.
Roth has worked constantly since the closing of Mother in 2001, creating a variety of work for such artists as Deborah Harry/Blondie, Theo Kogan (Lunachicks) Justin Bond (Kiki and Herb), Big Art Group and acclaimed performance artist Julie Tolentino. Commercially Rob has designed visual effects and movie title sequences for such films as “El Cantante” (director: Leon Ichaso) and “The Brave One” (director: Neil Jordan). Roth’s most recent work includes ‘Ascension No1’, which premiered at Arena Studios May, 2009, and is the first of 3 durational performance pieces which explore ritual, endurance and stamina. Previously, Rob Roth directed ‘The Mystery of Claywoman – Screening and Lecture’, a mockumentary/performance piece written and performed by Michael Cavadias, featuring performances by Amy Poehler, Alan Cumming and Edgar Oliver, which premiered at The New Museum of Contemporary Art. ‘Claywoman’ follows Roth's “rocket opera”, ‘Screen Test’, starring Theo and the Skyscrapers and choreographed by Vangeline Theater, which won the LiveDesign Magazine Excellence Award for Theater in 2009.

Originally from San Francisco, BASIL TWIST is a third generation puppeteer, who lives and works in New York. He became the only American to graduate from the École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mezieres, France, one of the world's premiere puppetry training programs.
Twist's work was first spotlighted in New York in 1995 with his creation The Araneidae Show. Later presented in the 1996 International Puppetry Festival at The Public Theater, Twist was awarded a 1997 Bessie Award and a UNIMA Citation of Excellence. The production has toured internationally and most recently The Araneidae Show was seen at Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum. 1998 was a landmark year for Twist with a Drama Desk Award nomination for his work with Theatre Couture's Off-Broadway hit Tell Tale, and the premiere of Symphonie Fantastique at HERE Arts Center. Symphonie Fantastique subsequently has toured to San Francisco, Montreal, Washington DC, France, London and Munich and as a part of Lincoln Center's New Vision's series in New York in 2003. In the fall of 2004 Symphonie Fantastique was the inaugural production for Dodger Stages. For Symphonie Fantastique, Twist received a 1999 Drama Desk Nomination, a UNIMA Citation of Excellence, the Henry Hewes Design Award, and an OBIE Award.
Since 1998, Twist has continually expanded the realm of puppetry by creating and touring new works, focusing especially on work integrated with live music. In 2000, Twist's Lincoln Center commissioned Petrushka premiered in New York and appeared at The Irving J. Gilmore Keyboard Festival in Michigan, The International Festival of Arts and Ideas in Connecticut, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts and at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. The production was awarded a 2000 UNIMA Citation of Excellence. Twist created Master Peter's Puppet Show with Eos Orchestra, which premiered in New York and traveled to Chicago's Ravinia Festival, and to The Cleveland Art Museum. Twist developed the puppetry for Paula Vogel's new play The Long Christmas Ride Home which received it's world premiere at Rhode Island's Trinity Repertory Company in May 2003, then at The Vineyard in November 2003 and The Long Wharf in January 2005. Twist was the underwater puppetry consultant on the third Harry Potter film. With a grant from The Asian Cultural Council and Creative Capital he spent four months in Japan, and through a commission from The Japan Society premiered a new work "Dogugaeshi" in November 2004.
His staging of Respighi's rarely performed "La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco" premiered at Spoleto, USA in May 2005 and subsequently at Lincoln Center Festival in July of 2005. Red Beads, Twist's collaboration with director Lee Breuer and composer Ushio Torikai, premiered at the Skirball Center in New York in September 2005. In September 2006 Twist made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Hall with "Master Peter's Puppet Show" with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Twist was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera and The Atlanta Opera to create a new Hansel & Gretel, which premiered in 2006 and 2007 respectively. He collaborated with the late Lee Nagrin to realize their "Behind The Lid" at The Silver Whale Gallery. Twist is the director of The Dream Music Puppetry Program at HERE Arts Center. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a United States Artists Fellow. www.basiltwist.com


Selected photo's as of 9/04/09:

(Photo credit: Michael Formika Jones. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Michael Formika Jones.)
(Photo credit: Lavinia Co-op by Johnny Dynell. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Johnny Dynell.)
(Photo credit: Basil Twist courtesy the artist.Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Basil Twist.)
(Photo credit: Claywoman by Rob Roth. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Rob Roth.)
(Photo credit: Marjan Moghaddam and Adam Caine courtesy the artists.
Used with permission. All rights reserved.Copyright Marjan Moghaddam and Adam Caine.)
(Photo credit: Adam Caine by Robert Delahanty. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Robert Delahanty.)
(Photo credit: Lisa Jackson at The Knitting Factory by Evan Schwarz.
Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright Evan Schwarz.)
(Photo credit: Lisa Jackson Music Video by Rob Trauma. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Rob Trauma.)
(Photo credit: Hattie Hathaway by Jackie Factory. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Jackie Factory.)
(Photo credit: The Fantastic Nobodies courtesy the artist.
Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright The Fantastic Nobodies)