HOWL FESTIVAL
Between 7th and 10th
Streets and Avenues A and B
DAY 1
Friday 7th September.
South Stage, Location East 7th
Street
6-9:00pm
The Allen Ginsberg
Poetry Festival: Epic reading by the royalty of Downtown Poetry of HOWL by:
John Giorno: A living legend, a Lower east Side icon, Giorno was a performance poet before there was performance
poetry. Author of 11 books
and 28 cds/records, Giorno
created the seminal “Dial-A-Poet” poetry label. He is one of the
most brilliant performers of poetry you’ll ever hear – a gutsy
snap, a living spirit, a shimmering veracity.
Taylor Mead: poet laureate of Andy Warhol’s Factory,
world’s first Underground Film Star, and represented in the
The Mayhem Poets: Utilizing hip-hop rhythms and dynamic theatrical
techniques, the Mayhem Poets have developed powerful performances and workshops
to inspire people of all ages and backgrounds to craft and perform original
poetry. Their new project, Slam Chops, a youth performance poetry program to
encourage self-realization & self-expression through the education and writings
of poetry, begins at the Bowery Poetry this October. www.mayhempoets.com.
Gary Glazner’s
Performance Poetry Drill Team "4 Minute Howl": The Precision Poetry Drill is synchronized swimming
with words, a modern Greek Chorus. The PPDT is led by
poet Gary Glazner, the Managing Director of the
Bowery Poetry Club.
Stacy Szymaszek is the author of Emptied
of All Ships, Pasolini Poems and Mutual Aid. She is the
Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.
Poez! Poez is a spoken word artist
the New York Daily News described as a voice musician in 1979, and Le Figaro of
Bob Holman: “Dean of the Scene,” director of the Allen Ginsberg
Poetry Festival, and proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club. Most recent book: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, a collaboration with Chuck Close (Aperture); CD: The
Awesome Whatever (Bowery Records).
Aja Monet: Nuyorican Grand Slam Champion 2007; winner of numerous Spoken Word
awards throughout the country; shared the stage and performed for the likes of
Russell Simmons, Reverend Run, Foxy Brown, Doug E Fresh, Wyclef
Jean, Black Ice, Amir Sulaiman
as well as countless others.
Eboni: Poet, actor and dancer, she has performed and taught
workshops all over the
Amy Ouzoonian is a poet, performance artist, dancer, actress, playwright,
producer, director, singer, designer and accordion player. She lives and
creates in
Chavisa Woods works as an editor, coordinator and fundraiser for Tribes
Magazine, based in the lower east side of
Danny Shot was the longtime editor and chief honcho of Long Shot magazine.
His poetry is widely anthologized including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry.
His literary heroes are Pedro Pietri and Gregory Corso.
Paolo Javier
edits the online journal 2nd Avenue Poetry and is the author of 60 lv Bo(e)mbs
(O Books) and the time at the end of this writing (Ahadada
Books).
Rachel Levitsky
is the author of Under the Sun (Futurepoem) and is
the founder and co-editor of Belladonna Books.
Poet and playwright Filip Marinovich
is a member of the Ugly Duckling Presse Collective.
He is co-editor at New York Nights newspaper.
DAY 2
Saturday 8th September.
On the street…
ART AROUND THE PARK. Over 140 painters paint together on a giant canvas
that stretches around the park. Creativity and Community….PURE MAGIC!
in the park…
The Carl Solomon Book Expo is named for the neglected Beat legend who championed
the first publication of William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac and inspired Allen
Ginsberg's seminal poem Howl. The book fair’s presence continues the self
publishing legacy of the East Village, but today the micro press meets the
macro in a synergic meeting of literature, poetry, comics, graphic novels, and
prints. We welcome St. Mark's Books, Punk Magazine, The Jack Kirby Museum, Bowery Poetry Club A Gathering of the
Tribes, Alex and Allyson Grey’s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Rizzoli, MOCCA,
Ephemera Press, Judson
Memorial Church; comics
collectives World War 3 Illustrated, Act-i-vate,
House of Twelve, and more. www.howlfestival.com/imgs/Solomon.jpg
South Stage, Location East 7th
Street
2:00 pm.
HEAVY TRASH (Jon Spencer) If Rockabilly can be funky, this is it! The ubersoulful sound swings out to skin the cats to their rock
and roll bones. Catch these good looking guys at the height of their game.
2:30 pm
THE LITTLE DEATH NYC featuring MOBY:
Electronic God Moby changes tracks as he switches it up to play with The Little
Death NYC. The result sounds like a drunken bar fight
between John Lee Hooker and Kurt Weill or the desperate love-child of Big Mama
Thornton and Robert Mitchum.
3:15 pm
THE LIVING THEATRE: excerpt from their
critically acclaimed production THE
BRIG, directed by Judith Malina. Ms. Malina will be
honored by the Federation of East Village Artists for her outstanding lifetime
achievements. Join us as we celebrate a living legend.
3:45 pm
RENE RISQUé uses music to connect with life's most primal desires; a
man who is hypnotically sure of his message, his wealth and his prestige. The
fashion icon delivers what every man and woman desires; a musical fantasy of
rock. Worship the glamour!
5:00 pm
LOW LIFE: JACKIE FACTORY producers CHI CHI VALENTI and JOHNNY
DYNELL create a brand-new
spectacle showcasing The East Village and its Bowery as the birthplace of
Nightclub Performance traditions from Vaudeville to Neo-Burlesque. Expect
period star turns from MICHAEL T, DIRTY
MARTINI, SWEETIE as BOSS TWEED, ROBERT LA FOSSE and his BROADWAY B'HOYZ, MISS DELIRIUM
TREMENS, VANGELINE THEATER, DUELLING BANKHEADS, VOLTAIRE, JESSICA RABBIT
DOMINATION, DEAN JOHNSON, ACID BETTY, HEAVEN LEIGH DOMINATION, TRINA ROSE,
DARLINDA JUST ARLINDA, JACKIE 60 MCs HATTIE HATHAWAY and PAUL ALEXANDER and
chorine choreography by JULIE ATLAS MUZ.
Admission
is FREE but we ask that you participate by observing the Suggested Dress Code:
NYC demimonde evening glamour (1860-2010), Gangs of New York,
Victorian/Edwardian rags, newsboy caps, B'hoy for
Butch Women, corsets and vintage lingerie, Bowery Belle ringlets, Vampyre of Gotham, black parasols, Bowery Twink, velvet, 19th century Clownwear,
Top Hats or Bowery Punk. http://www.mothernyc.com/
North Stage,
Saturday 8th September
11:00 am
ENERGY UP!
Feel fabulous and re-energize with
fitness magician High Voltage. Fitness Guru to the stars, Vogue names her a
leading force in health and wellness.
12:50 pm
MOD ROCKET: These girrrls are not to be
trifled with. Shamanistic pop punks with a lot to say and
play. The future of Rock ain’t pink.
1:15 pm
Quinn Marston: Catch this fresh
singer-songwriter as she performs her insightful but innocent “Just the
way my heart goes.”
1:30 pm
1:50 pm
FIASCO:
Light years beyond garage. What else do
you want?
2:15 pm
NYC All Stars: Hip hop dancers rock the stage. Let me hear you say Yeah!
2:35 pm
URBAN WORD: Youth Poetry Artists Spoken word at it’s
best from hip, fast-talking young word-brokers. Join in the Slam /open mike and
try to keep up with some on downtown’s rising masters of rhyming
rhetoric.
4:00 pm
URBAN GYPSY CIRCUS w/Miz Metro, The Trashion Dancers, a visual media show
produced by room 404 media. Miz Metro sings to melt your
heart, but toast your toes. A young diva in the making, embrace her as a new
Bette! She is ours!
Also presenting Jazz Hardcore Improv band Consider The
Source: the wild eastern rhythms of this talented trio weave like a groovy
carpet ride of sound. But don’t forget the funk!
http://www.myspace.com/MizMetro
5:10 pm
AMAP Festival: A new event for the unexpected and undeniable. Authentic Music for Authentic People, a
path to a better Earth: featuring
TALAT;
Jazz and Klezmer joined as you never heard it before.
Again with the funk? Yeah, but cool blue too and
spiced with African beats.
6:00 pm
Clean and Nasty: Susan Hwang heads this crazy line up Clean & Nasty,
that incorporates her blues roots with some of her hard-earned heavy rock edge
as well as an unmistakable vulnerability & humor. Always something
unexpected.
Day 3
Sunday 9th September 2007
South Stage, Location East 7th
Street
Sunday 9th September 2007
12:00 noon
PANTHEON PARADE: Humungous heads of the heroes of Downtown culture stalk
the streets of the
1:00 pm
2:00 pm
FAITH: Bass player and vocalist Felice Rosser performs her intoxicating and
meaningful songs with a voice that defies definition. The band is a delicious
powerful cocktail of reggae, world beats, and rock. Drink it in.
2.25 pm
downtownTV.com presents Tracks: Crosby/Cowings/Miz
Metro host a variety showcase of sizzling,
unique musical talents with Fun Yung Moon, Levi, MC K~Swift, Rephstar, Val Geffner, Stephany Boa, Henry Jeria & King Blaze, Jade, Baby Jane Dexter. This new line-up
is fast becoming a favorite in downtown clubs; intimate, but out-there variety.
They got what you want. All of it. http://www.downtowntv.com/
3:45 pm
PAPER AND SAND: Imagine
your heart skipping a beat and then realizing you are experiencing a massive
coronary, you are listening to Paper and Sand
4:15 pm
A Minute of Racket and Noise making for punk
rock legend HILLY KRISTAL. Join us as we remember the CBGB’s
Impresario. Howl! and Feva recognize the debt we owe
to this scion of rock and pause to reflect and offer homage.
4:20 pm
FIRE FLIES: The
winners of the prestigious Emegenza Festival. Music for
people who think they are aliens, about robots and outer space, about the
world.
Melodic songs with tremendous
harmonies and you’ll want to dance for joy and then have a good cry.
Brilliant!
5:00pm
SKINGOD: unique
description-defying music
5:30 pm
Vision Jazz
Fest:
music by William Parker, Charles Gayle, Rob Brown,
Sabir Mateen, Roy Campbell
& Lewis Barnes, Jason Kao Hwang, Gerald Cleaver, Patricia Nicholson. Perfect jazz bar none. This is
the home of cool and the Vision Jazz fest proves it. Unrivalled music and
composition from the masters of the universe of deep grace the South stage to
wrap up the festival in the park, it promises to be a legendary gig. http://www.howlfestival.com/imgs/VisionJazz.JPG
North Stage,
Sunday 9th September 2007
11:00 am
ENERGY UP! Feel fabulous and re-energize with fitness magician High
Voltage. Fitness Guru to the stars, Vogue names her a leading force in health
and wellness.
2:30 pm
TUBBY THE TUBA ORCHESTRA
: A twenty piece orchestra plays music to delight, entertain, and
educate, entrancing both you and your child!
3:35 pm
Tappers
Niall O’Leary, Parker Hall, Kahiry Bess, Jake
James Dancers with Djimbe
A dance showdown /hoedown as riverdance tackles the urban dance beats of
3:55
Sweetbeats: Meredith Wright
introduces an emerging band for family audiences. She will have you up and out
of your seat to join in her playful and delighting world.
4:30 pm
Mr. Ray: Kids rock with his light, lively and inspirational
tunes.
5:00 pm
Greg Patillo: HipHop flute where classic
themes get an upbeat treatment as well as some cartoon favorites to tickle the fancy. Whimsy and wit make this flautist and
his pals unforgettable.
5:40
OPEN WATER: Urban Haikus set to music intrigue and engage. Native
poets’ words grow like lotus from subway. Listen well!
6:10pm
Susan Mitchell and Richard West’s
Mélange, with Jiggers Turner
This is important, funny and beautiful
and the perfect end to a perfect day in the park. Join these friends as they
offer their insights as music.
