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Around The Jackie Factory, the most welcome sign of Spring is the announcement of the NIGHT OF 1000 STEVIES performance roster, artwork and dress code. All the details on our milestone 25th edition, set for May Day/Beltane at IRVING PLAZA, are included here. We are also excited to announce the opening of HOWL! HAPPENING, the East Village gallery/performance space we've been collaborating on, and this years NIGHT OF A THOUSAND GOWNS on 4/11, the coronation ball and spectacle hosted each year by the IMPERIAL COURT OF NY. Won't You Join Us?
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NIGHT OF 1000 STEVIES - the largest and most beloved STEVIE NICKS fan event in the world - returns to New York City's IRVING PLAZA on May 1 for its twenty-fifth annual edition. This marathon evening - produced by THE JACKIE FACTORY - is one of those great New York City spectacles that spark travel from all around the globe. The title of this milestone edition and retrospective - TIMELESS - describes both The Goddess Nicks and the show at its quarter-century mark.
Many of the 25th year cast have been invited to reprise one of their most iconic performances from past editions. These rare highlights will include VANGELINE THEATER's breathtaking BEAUTY AND THE BEAST butoh ballet, the epic RED ROCKS STAND BACK homage from THE HO-HOS (CATHY CERVENKA and JILL PANGALLO) and a half-dozen more. Other "Returning Legends of Stevie Realness" are longtime crowd favorites SHERRY VINE, JAZMEN FLOWERS (Mississipi), AMBER MARTIN, MACHINE DAZZLE, HEATHER LITTEER, ST. EVE, GUSTY WINDS, JOHNNY QUINLAN, DARRELL THORNE, and POISON EVE. Our newer arrivals from the past five years are THE RACHEL KLEIN THEATRE, XAVIER and BRIDGET BARKAN, DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA and SLEVY NICKS and FLEETWOOD MAXX.
This year's debut performers and ensembles have been selected from dozens of would-be Stevies. They are WHAT TIME IS IT, MR. FOX? (BOSTON) fronted by 3RIAN KING (they describe their sound as "smoky cabaret, neo-soul and acoustic noir"), Brooklyn-based experimental rock band IT WAS ROMANCE and its Stevie Princess LANE MOORE, Florida-based singer/songwriter KYM LARSEN and BATH SALTS nightlife creatrix SEVERELY MAME. Show founder CHI CHI VALENTI returns to preside along with her fellow ENCHANTRESSES OF CEREMONY including HATTIE HATHAWAY and EDITRIX ABBY and this year's superstar DJ crew includes SAMMY JO, founding producer JOHNNY DYNELL, CRAIG SPENCER and VJ TRE (D.C.) who opens the evening with a marvelous hour of his rare multimedia and mixes.
SUGGESTED DRESS: Your Greatest NOTS Costuming (1991 to Present), Surrealistic Stevie, Victorian Timepieces, Beltane High Priestess Glamour, Classic Fleetwood "The Dance", Lace and Paper Flowers, Important Capes, Dickensian Street Urchin, Best Hair In Rock 'N Roll, Moon Motifs, Enchanted Eveningwear or Bird of Rhiannon vs White Winged Dove. BYOT - Bring Your Own Tambo (Though of course we'll be throwing ours!)
Don't miss NOTS Founder CHI CHI VALENTI appearing APRIL 4 on
THE SOUNDTRACK SERIES to discuss all things NOTS!
With live shows in NYC and Austin and a podcast distributed nationally as part of the Infinite Guest Network from American Public Media, The Soundtrack Series is the show where people tell personal stories about the soundtrack to their lives--one song at a time. The live show is at 7 PM at QED ASTORIA - Tickets Here
HOWL! HAPPENING GALLERY OPENS 3/29
The exciting new East Village gallery/performance space HOWL! HAPPENING at 6 East 1st Street is finally opening next weekend. (THE JACKIE FACTORY is collaborating on this effort along with other HOWL ARTS/ HOWL FESTIVAL folk, and will curate selected performance events there beginning in early Summer.) We are delighted to invite you to the first show, dedicated to East Village Artist Pioneer ARTURO VEGA. We hope to see you at this important new clubhouse in the weeks, months and years to come. Viva HOWL!
ARTURO VEGA
AMERICAN TREASURE
OPENING RECEPTION
SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2015
11 AM–6 PM
HOWL! HAPPENING
6 EAST 1ST STREET, NYC 10003
(BETWEEN 2ND AVENUE AND BOWERY)
AN ARTURO VEGA PROJECT
"In a time of profound aesthetic nihilism, Arturo Vega managed to deliver his critique of society as an act of indubitable optimism and love. He could curse the world for all its evils with a smile, damn the whole thing as an act of unmitigated love. Vega did so in his art because he had a poet’s sense of semiotics wrapped up in a radical's heart of abiding social empathy."
—Carlo McCormick
Howl! is pleased to welcome you to the opening of a new gallery and performance space—Howl! Happening—with Arturo Vega American Treasure. Like the neighborhood in which it was born and the Howl! Festival that began it all, Howl! Happening is a space of untamed creativity and a place to build a strong global arts community.
What is a Happening? A game, an adventure, a number of activities engaged in by participants for the sake of playing.
—Alan Kaprow, artist
Show runs through 4/25. Gallery open Wednesday-Sunday, 11 AM - 6 PM.
Image Above: ARTURO VEGA, Untitled, 1977
Photo Below: JOHNNY DYNELL spins the ELTON JOHN EJAF Oscars Party, 2/22
SATURDAY APRIL 11
THE IMPERIAL COURT OF NY PRESENTS
NIGHT OF A THOUSAND GOWNS 29
Our own "SIR JOHNNY DYNELL" spins one of the great NYC annual spectacles: the legendary Imperial Ball and Coronation Ceremony, benefiting THE CENTER and THE NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE. This year's co-chairs are DIONNE WARWICK, DEBBIE HARRY and CANDIS CAYNE, and the production numbers are always epic and dazzling. Midnight coronation of Their Most Imperial Sovereign Majesties EMPEROR XXIII TONY MONTELEONE and EMPRESS XXVIII TWINKLE MONTGOMERY is sure to be show-stopping. Full dress, of course, and Fabulous!
THE MARRIOTT MARQUIS BROADWAY BALLROOM
FROM 6 PM
TICKETS $450-1000
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