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Nica Ross + Joshua Light Show

Friday, May 17
8:30 – 10:00 pm
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

Nica Ross mixes a collection of concrete images, culled from the Internet, VHS tapes collected from stranger’s basements, and her mother Monica Long Ross’s film collection with the psychedelic radiating colors and forms that the Joshua Light Show is known for. Projected outwards from within the glass cube-like entrance of The School of the International Center of Photography, the walls transform into an ever-changing collage of liquid lights and objects. Joshua Light Show’s visual artists Seth Kirby, Brock Monroe and Joshua White, join Nica for this one-night only event.

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Mexico City’s Las Reinas Chulas at La Mama

May 10 – 19, 2013
Fridays and Saturdays at 10:00 pm
Sundays at 5:30 pm
The Club at La Mama
74A East 4th Street
New York, NY
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With their home at Teatro Bar El Vicio in the historic Coyacan neighborhood in Mexico City, the Reinas Chulas are at the epicenter of Mexico’s vibrant cabaret scene. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see them in NYC… 6 shows only!

Show description….

CHIKIS, CHAKIS, WERA and BARBY:  Four breathtakingly exuberant Mexican beauties.

They are already filthy rich and stupidly powerful, harmfully ignorant, cruel, absolutely incapable, overly stingy, slicky and ambitious beyond the wildest fantasy.

Mexican common sense would dictate they should run for presidency, but no… instead, they’ve decided to just become world wide famous. So they’ve toured Europe, South America and Asia, allas to no success. After much thought the sisters decided their lack of international fame was due to the fact that they hadn’t been seen in New York, so here they are! (as if).

Techno Cumbia, Salsa, Merengue, Banda music, Ranchero style and a display of the darkest Mexican humor sense will combine on this extra bloody, queer fiesta with no happy end what so ever.

Be surprised by the best cabaret you will ever find in your backyard!

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My Chiffon Is Wet: Amanda Lepore

Thursday, April 4, 2013
Eastern Bloc
505 East 6th Street
New York, NY
No Cover

David LaChapelle muse, pop star & purrrfect party girl Amanda Lepore returns to  host My Chiffon Is Wet.  A model, nightlife and fashion icon, performance artist, recording artist (“I…Amanda Lepore” album out now!) and transgender public figure, Amanda has appeared in advertising for numerous companies, including M.A.C. Cosmetics, Mego Jeans, The Blonds, Swatch, CAMP Cosmetics, and Heatherette….

★★★MY CHIFFON IS WET thursdays★★★…

one big tinker bell ball for those who are definitely NOT STRAIGHT ACTING!

DJ PAISLEY DALTON

(Disco, Nu Disco & POP)

Hostesses: LEO GUGU & Stevie Zar

Line Boys: Sammy, Marc, Jeff, GABE & MATT

Door: Big Scot

Photog: BRETT LINDELL

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Joseph Keckler: I Am An Opera

Fridays and Saturdays
April 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 and 27
7:30 pm
Dixon Place
161-A Chrystie Street
New York, NY
Tickets: $15 in advance, $18 at the door
$12 (students/seniors/TDF)
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Is opera dead? If so, could it come back to life?

In I am an Opera, the award-winning artist Joseph Keckler—whose work spans theater, performance art and music, and has garnered acclaim in the worlds of the performing and visual arts—envisions the classical art form as being in-between and ghost-like.
Employing his classically trained, mimetic voice, Keckler presents a collection of arias that often sound vaguely familiar, as though they might belong to the Verdi repertoire. But rather than prayers to the gods or suicidal swansongs, these laments tell minor stories from Keckler’s own life: a trip on hallucinogens, an expedition to the bondage store, and the time he fell asleep in the stairwell at a day job. Keckler also invokes the fantastical, conjuring a world in which he is possessed by taunting demons and hectored by a persnickety voice teacher who emanates from an atmospheric silent film. Part satire, part self-portrait and part aesthetic exorcism, I am an Opera delves not only into the question of when life becomes art, but when life becomes dead art.

Keckler is known in the art scene for his powerful voice, his arresting presence, and his sharp, literary sensibility. For the past year, he has created cultural collisions by staging humorous operatic episodes depicting everyday life in front of unsuspecting crowds in unlikely settings—from underground parties, dingy rock venues and dive bars to galleries and swanky cocktail benefits. The audience response has been overwhelmingly positive. BOMB has called the project “an exquisite exercise in operatic abstraction,” and said, “I am an Opera simultaneously deconstructs and re-animates the operatic form, making it contemporary, relevant, and even urgent.”

The world premiere takes Keckler’s project a step further, presenting an entire evening of modern-day images brought to life by a form that is often considered by the general public to be antiquated, exotic and artificial. Written, composed and performed by Keckler, I am an Opera is directed by German experimental theater artist Uwe Mengel with music co-arranged and performed live by multi- instrumentalist Patrick Grant. Lighting design is by Ben Kato with costume elements by Andrew Jordan.

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April 26th-28th, 2013 Friday-Saturday @ 8:00pm Sunday @ 6:00pm Tickets: $15 General | $8 Low-Income ENCOURAGER is a new solo performance by Max Steele. Fictive secular spiritual guru Billy Cheer leads a Courage Workshop, leading the audience through new emotional … Continue reading →

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Sunday, March 10, 2013 9:30 pm Joe’s Pub 425 Lafayette New York, NY Tickets $25 Following a triumphant evening at the historic Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Valentine’s Day, Joey Arias headed to Los Angeles where he met up … Continue reading →

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Dan Fishback’s “Waiting for Barbara” at New Museum

Thursday, March 21, 2013
7:00 pm
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY
FREE

New Museum Presents: WAITING FOR BARBARA by Dan Fishback
A Reading on the 10th Anniversary of the War in Iraq

Directed by Sam Pinkleton

Starring: Gideon Glick (Spring Awakening, Into the Woods), Erin Markey (Green Eyes, Our Hit Parade) & Chris Tyler (A Crucible, La MaMa’s Squirts)

Music Direction by Matt Katz, Produced by Caleb Hammons

Dan Fishback’s upsetting, frantic comedy Waiting for Barbara takes place on March 20, 2003—the first night of the War in Iraq. Two gay Yale seniors are waiting for the President’s daughter (also a Yale student) to bring them to “an opening night war party” on campus. She is late, so they occupy themselves with drugs, racism, and mutually assured emotional destruction. Ten years after that night—the tenth anniversary of the war—Fishback is revisiting his 2006 play to memorialize the senseless deaths of over 100,000 casualties, and to reconsider the relationship between white gay men and the violent power structures of Western imperialism. The reading will be followed by a public conversation with Fishback about the play, the war, and ongoing debates about pinkwashing and homonationalism.

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Dirty Looks: Have you ever seen a transsexual before? Videos by Chris E. Vargas

Tuesday, February 26, 2013
9:00 pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avene (at 2nd Street)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: $10.00
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CHRIS E. VARGAS In Attendance!

Dirty Looks returns from their West Coast roadshow, screening the first-ever retrospective program of work by Bay Area artist, Chris E. Vargas!!

Perhaps best known as one half of the web series “Falling in Love … with Chris and Greg,” a sitcom about a queer odd couple — one liberal, one radical; one transgender, one not — Vargas has produced a body of work that is politically subversive, culturally acute and utterly hysterical. From post-apocalyptic LA bikers to “the first pregnant man,” Liberace to Bronski Beat, these works challenge the homonormative, queering pop culture and rewriting GLBTQ histories.

PROGRAM:
Road Rash, Super8 on video, 6min., 2003
Homotopia (with Eric Stanley), digital video, 26min., 2006
Falling in Love… With Chris and Greg: Work of Art! Reality TV Special, digital video, 23min., 2008
Extraordinary Pregnancies, digital video, 10min., 2010
Have You Ever Seen a Transsexual Before?, digital video, 4 min., 2010
Liberaceón, digital video, 16min., 2011
ONE for all…, digital video, 7min., 2012
CRY BOY CRY, digital video, 5min., 2012

Beginning with Vargas’s first Super8 film, this program will explore the artist’s penchant for humorous impersonations and socio-political reinterpretations. Homotopia finds Vargas collaborating with Eric Stanley on a narrative short, in which radical queers crash the hypocritical wedding ceremony of a recent tearoom trick. Extraordinary Pregnancies explores the transphobic discourses parlayed through the media firestorm that surrounded the world’s first pregnant man, Thomas Beatie. In the video from which this program takes its title, Vargas enlightens various American landmarks with his trans body, begging of them the question, “Have You Ever Seen a Transsexual Before?” In both ONE for all... and Liberaceón, the artist portrays historically queer public figures (philanthropist Reed Erickson and mister showmanship, Liberace), rearticulating (rather comically) these icons relationships to queer politics and philosophical standpoints within their respective epochs. And, in the recent episode of “Falling in Love... with Chris and Greg”: Season Two, Chris and Greg compete against fellow artists to create the perfect work of queer failure, inserting themselves in Bravo’s reality TV show, “Work of Art.” Hint, it does not end well.

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Queer Art Film: Geo Wyeth Presents “The Brother From Another Planet”

Monday, February 18
8:00 pm
IFC Center
323 6th Ave (at W. 3rd St.)
New York, NY

Purchase Tickets Here: http://bit.ly/Vs7ZXw

Introduced by Geo Wyeth! 35mm print

John Sayles’s comedy gives a smart, political edge to the oft-told “stranger in a strange land” sci-fi story with African-American actor Joe Morton as “The Brother”, an alien stranded in New York City. Chased by two white Men in Black, he must also negotiate a myriad of class and racial challenges. The film’s connection between “alienness” and “blackness” resonated strongly with musician and performer Geo Wyeth (who released his first studio album, Alien Tapes): “I wish I had seen this as a teenager… If you have ever felt your own body permeating unseen dimensions or worlds, unreachable by language or logical perception, you will connect to this film.”

R, 108 Minutes
USA, 1984

As always, the screening will be followed by drinks and discussion at Julius Bar (159 West 10th St. at Waverly), the oldest gay bar in New York City!

UPCOMING FILMS:

MARCH 18: My Barbarian presents
ASHIK KERIB (1988, Sergei Parajanov)

APRIl 15: Yoruba Richen presents
SET IT OFF (1996, F. Gary Gray)

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Nick Hallett: Rainbow Passage

Friday, February 22, 2013
8:00 pm
Part of Avant Music Festival
The Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street, NYC
Tickets $12 advance/$15 door
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Nick Hallett presents the world premiere of Rainbow Passage for voices and electronics. Using a diagnostic text by speech scientist Grant Fairbanks as a starting point, Rainbow Passage contains every sound of the English language. These sounds are first intoned literally by the singers (Daisy Press and Megan Schubert), and then processed through electronic means to create a musical language. A capella passages incorporate elements of Western plainchant and extended vocal technique. Like much of Hallett’s work, Rainbow Passage will be presented as media ritual, in collaboration with live cinema artist Brock Monroe. Hallett will perform live electronics and sing with Press and Schubert.

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