Diane O'Debra, Jessica Delfino and Steph Sabelli present "Skits'n'Tits!"

The Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery)
HOWL ! ARTS PROJECT 2009:
Variety Performance Art Burlesque

Wednesday Sept 9, 10pm
Admission $5 at the door.

DIANE O'DEBRA, JESSICA DELFINO AND STEPH SABELLI PRESENT, "SKITS'N'TITS!"

We are women, hear us roar! Diane O'Debra (formerly of O'Debra Twins), Jessica Delfino, and Steph Sabelli present their ever-growing popular monthly female empowered variety show, "Skits'N'Tits!"
Live at The Bowery Poetry Club on Wednesday, Sept 9 at 10pm, Tix are $5 at the door! Special guests all night long and featuring our in house rockabilly band, AM Preacher!

Slated to perform at this comedy, burlesque and music extravaganza are some of NYC's hottest up and coming acts. The show will feature sketches by FFF (Diane O'Debra, Steph Sabelli and Jessica Delfino), Burlesque performances by Philly Caramel, Rosie La Rouge, and our in house burlesque troupe The Chi-Chiones, stand up comedy by Mike Amato and Oren Brimer, Musical comedy by Jessica Delfino and Juliet Jeske (AKA Princess Sunshine), short films by Oren Brimer and FFF, and music all night long with AM Preacher playing well into the after party! Drink specials all night long! This massively talented line up of funky characters have been renowned individually and are now coming together to give you a long overdue taste of talent stew! Mmmmmmmm, delicious!!!

Diane O'Debra is formerly one half of the "bawdy downtown duo, the O'Debra Twins"(Village Voice) She has performed all over NYC and hosts a weekly show called, "Talent Show Open Mic" every Monday night at The Bowery Poetry Club. She has been called, "Deviant, unique and commanding" (NY Press) and "Goofy and Wonderfully funny" (Next Magazine).
Steph Sabelli recently was featured at Cannes and she has been renowned all over the web and is a former member of Mo Pitkins in house sketch group, "Mo's Hoes" alongside The O'Debra Twins and Jessica Delfino.
Jessica Delfino has won the ECNY award for Best Musical Act and also a Village Choice award for being, 'fall of your chair hilarious"

Oren Brimer: Finalist in the Super bowl Doritos Commercial contest, writer for The Onion, created a series for Adult Swim's Superdeluxe.com.

Juliet Jeske (AKA Princess Sunshine): Seen on CNN, blogger for The Huffington Post

Philly Caramel: The 'crazy ballerina", classically trained dancer and former competitive gymnast

Rosie La Rouge: Former professional showgirl and certified Burlesque instructor

Mike Amato: Winner of Party Boy contest for his Subway video and runner up for Andy Kaufman Award.

And many, many more TBA! Don't miss this exciting evening of hilarious debauchery!

More info:

http://bowerypoetry.com/#Event/65779

Photo credits:

Art work credit, Skits N Tits ! poster Diane O' Debra, Jessica Delfino and Steph Sabelli, courtesy the artist. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright Diane O' Debra, Jessica Delfino and Steph Sabelli.

Photo credit, Diane O' Debra and Steph Sabelli courtesy the artists. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright Diane O' Debra and Steph Sabelli.

45 Bleecker Street Theater: Variety Performance Art Burlesque

HOWL ! ARTS PROJECT 2009:
VARIETY
PERFORMANCE ART
BURLESQUE
45 Bleecker Street Theater
(NE Corner of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
(By subway: #6 train to Bleecker Street Station)

Thursday Sept 3, 11pm
The Fantastic Nobodies
Culture Shock Marketing kicks off HOWL ! ARTS PROJECT 2009 with a Music, Video & Performance Event starring NYC/Berlin based art collective, The Fantastic Nobodies.
Admission $10 Advance tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79353
http://howlpreviewbenefit.cultureshockmarketing.com
Cash only tickets available at the door starting at 9pm to showtime.

Wednesday Sept 9, 11pm
Michael Formika Jones
Racy, raucous and irreverent. Formika blows the house down with a fun-filled revue of drag, burlesque, vaudeville and sheer outrageous entertainment.
Admission $10 Advance tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79355
Cash only tickets available at the door starting at 9pm to showtime.

Friday Sept 11, 11pm
HOWL-e-LULIAH
The Official Dance Party
of the 2009 HOWL ! Festival
Sing "HOWL-e-LULIAH !" and shake out your kinks with DJ Hill at The Official Dance Party of the 2009 Howl ! Festival. Visuals by Tennessee.
Admission $5 Advance tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79357
Cash only tickets at the door starting at 9pm to showtime.

Saturday Sept 12, 3pm
The Lisa Jackson Documentary
True story of Lisa Jackson's transformation: from her change in gender identity to her subsequent rise to rock n' roll fame in the musical hey-day of the East Village. With Rosie Perez, Punk Legend Jayne County, SNL's Darrell Hammond and others.
Admission $10 Advance tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79358
www.lisajacksonrocks.com/documentary
Cash only tickets available at the door at 1pm to showtime.

Sunday Sept 13, 8pm
The Lucy Show
It's a talk show, it's a variety show, it's a sickness. Hosted by the Factress, aka Lucy Sexton and Vendetta K Starr aka Mike Iveson, with Alien Comic (Tom Murrin), and co-host Nurse 'Baby Asparagus.' Many suprises.
Admission $10 Advance tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79359
Cash only tickets available at the door at 6pm to showtime.

Tuesday Sept 15, 8pm
'In Back of the Real'
Marjan Moghaddam and
Adam Caine
Live Guitar with
Computer Animation
Avant-jazz, art-rock, indie guitar virtuoso, Adam Caine explores sonic terrain while ex-Pyramid Club/ video diva, Marjan Moghaddam, projects her award winning computer animations.
Admission $10 Advance tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79360
www.caine.tv.com
www.dandy-job.com
www.marjan.com
Cash only tickets available at the door from 6pm to showtime.

Wednesday Sept 16, 10pm
Legends of the Lower East Side:
Joey Arias, Basil Twist, Psychotica (Featuring Patrick Briggs) and Lavinia Co-op.
Delirious, Devine and Divalicious. Pure seduction by downtown icons, who paved the way for the performance renaissance of the EV/LES.
Admission: $10 Advance tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79362
Cash only tickets if available at the door from 8pm to showtime.

Saturday Sept 19, 11pm
The Mystery of Claywoman-
Screening and Lecture
Rob Roth (founder of Click + Drag) and Michael Cavadias (Blacklips Performance Cult, the Ontological Theatre Company), combine live performance with the technology of documentary. Footage features Amy Poehler, Alan Cumming, Justin Bond, and Ruth Maleczech. Also featuring a new character played by Nicholas Gorham.
Admission $15 Advance tickets www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79363
www.rob-roth.com/works/clay.htm
Cash only tickets available at the door from 9pm to showtime.

Wednesday Sept 30, 11pm
Clown Kong's Panic Attack:
A Coulrophobic Telethon
DJ Hill and company recreate the hustle, bustle and tragedy of a television fundraiser with Lower East Side musical mainstays, Southside Slim, Christy D and Clown Kong-an actual sideshow clown !
Admission $10 Advance tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79364
Cash only tickets available at the door from 9pm to showtime.

All programs subject to change.

Thank you for supporting the HOWL ! HELP Fund.

(Photo credit: Hattie Hathaway by Jackie Factory. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Jackie Factory.)

HOWL! FESTIVAL AND THE JACKIE FACTORY PRESENT LOW LIFE 3: VIPER MAD

This just in from The Jackie Factory's Chi Chi Valenti and Johnny Dynell:

HOWL! FESTIVAL AND THE JACKIE FACTORY PRESENT
LOW LIFE 3: VIPER MAD
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 2009
5-7 PM - WE START AND END ON TIME!
FREE ADMISSION
TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, NYC


CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OF BRILLIANT BOWERY PERFORMANCE

On September 6, JACKIE FACTORY producers CHI CHI VALENTI and JOHNNY DYNELL will present their third annual LOW LIFE to crown this year's HOWL! FESTIVAL. LOW LIFE is a "Howlucination" created by the JACKIE FACTORY as an evening climax for HOWL! - a two hour theatrical showcasing the East Village - and especially, The Bowery, in a lavishly costumed production starring dozens of downtown's finest. This year's LOW LIFE 3: VIPER MAD - is inspired by the early 20th century "viper" culture shared by downtown (and Harlem) jazzmen and hipsters, the opium dens of nearby Chinatown and other Olde New York drug cultures. The rich repertoire of "Viper Songs" popularized by CAB CALLOWAY, FATS WALLER and dozens of ensembles through the 20s, 30s and 40s will be interpreted in dance numbers, vocal and musical performances, burlesque and drag renderings.

This year's marijuana-tinged edition features two MCs - PAUL ALEXANDER (of "The Ones" and JACKIE 60) with EMPRESS CHI CHI VALENTI, the show's co-producer. The splendid cast includes burlesque Goddess DIRTY MARTINI, choreographer JULIE ATLAS MUZ with the PIXIE HARLOTS in "REEFER MADNESS", New Bowery crooner ADAM DUGAS, butoh ensemble VANGELINE THEATER (who will reprise their "Butoh Brothel" for this special edition), period visionaries JONNY PORKPIE and NASTY CANASTA with PINCHBOTTOM BURLESQUE, international Dragstar SHERRY VINE of East Village based THEATRE COUTURE with special guest JOEY ARIAS (of ARIAS WITH A TWIST), THE NEW YORK SCHOOL OF BURLESQUE choreographed by founder JO BOOBS WELDON and featuring MISS PEEKABOO POINTE, nightclub eminence HATTIE HATHAWAY, sensationalist AMBER RAY, Red Hot Mama ERICKATOURE AVIANCE, reefer striptease by MISS MELODY SWEETS, vocal stylings of MR. PATTY BRUCE, and Viper Vamps DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA, LEGS MALONE and HEATHER LITTEER aka JESSICA RABBIT DOMINATION.

Dress Up and join us in the park! Wear NYC demimonde evening effects (1860-2010), Viper Glamour, Ragtime Rags, Cab Calloway effects for Butch Women, corsets and vintage lingerie, Opium Den loungewear, Gangs of New York, Reefer motifs, First Avenue Flapper, Top Hats or Bowery Punk.

The LOW LIFE events were inspired by the seminal LUC SANTE book "LOW LIFE: The Lures and Snares of Old New York." The annual LOW LIFE extravaganzas at HOWL! continue a body of work born at JACKIE 60 over a decade ago, with past editions in London, Minneapolis and of course, the 2007 and 2008 HOWL! Festivals. For the show's producers, East Village residents for over two decades, this annual spectacular is a Valentine to the neighborhood's past, present and future stars.


THE HOWL! FESTIVAL was named in honor of the groundbreaking poem by ALLEN GINSBERG and began in 2002. HOWL celebrates the East Village and Lower East Side's role as a preeminent locus of culture, with signature events like the group reading of HOWL and ART AROUND THE PARK. Centered in Tompkins Square Park, the festival attracts more than 100,000 visitors bringing to the clubs, galleries, parks, streets, and theaters of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Summer 2009 marks the addition of HOWL! HELP, a year-round emergency assistance/health fund for East Village/Loisaida artists of all eras and disciplines - visit the howlfestival.com website for more information.

The Jackie Factory NYC
http://www.jackiefactory.com
http://www.events@jackiefactory.com

(photo credit: Epiphany, Patty Bruce, Acid Betty. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright 2008 The Jackie Factory.)
(photo credit: Dirty Martini. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright 2008 The Jackie Factory.)