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Sep 7, 2007, 11:14:16 AM9/7/07
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ARTIST CALLS

ARTIST SIGNUP: Live Action Painting for HOWL
Last Call for Artists to participate in the 2007 Art Around the Park---Live Action Painting---HOWL! Festival Event. In what has been considered one of the most visually stimulating and creative events in New York City, over 140 talented Artists simultaneously paint on a 1,400 foot long canvass.  Each Artist is given a area approximately 7 ½ feet high by 7 ½ feet wide. 35 spaces remain and will be committed on a first come first serve basis.  All participants must agree to arrive at the sign in desk at Tompkins Square Park at 11:00 AM on Saturday, September 8th.  Painting will be permitted all day Saturday and Sunday (optional) as well.  All works will be taken down on Sunday at 7:30 PM and the artist or their representative must be present to take home their work.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Call for Che Memorabilia & Art Work!
The Brecht Forum is looking for Che Guevara memorabilia & artwork for an exhibition in October. We are looking for anything that relates to Che Guevara (t-shirts, buttons, illustrations, paintings, posters, etc.). If you are interested in submitting Che memorabilia / artwork, please contact the Brecht Forum at the information below. Submissions will be accepted based on space availability; we therefore recommend submitting as soon as possible. Last call for submissions is Monday, September 10, 2007. All donors will be acknowledged in exhibit and all submissions will be returned to owners. 

EVENTS

SATURDAY 9.8

PARTICIPATORY ART: The Big Draw
Second annual celebration of drawing, with hands-on art projects, self-guided and artist-led drawing workshops, and more, at Teardrop City (with Larry Dobens and Valerie Hammond), the National Museum of the American Indian (with Wayne Price, Jeffrey Gibson, and Athena LaTocha), the South Street Seaport (with Christian Nguyen), and the World Financial Center (with Sheila Pepe) (11:00 am – 4:00 pm, FREE)

PARTICIPATORY ART:   Graffiti Research Lab
Graffiti Research Lab will allow participants to use the Mobile Broadcast Unit to project light onto surrounding structures. (Park at Old Slip between Water & Front Sts., 9:30 – 11:00 pm, FREE)

PARADE: The Art Parade
Third annual parade, featuring artists, performers, designers, and more, including Tauba Auerbach, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Matthew Rodriguez, the Dazzle Dancers, Kenny Scharf, COCO’s Demoiselles, Trevor Stone and the Conundrums, sponsored by Deitch Projects, Creative Time, and Paper magazine. (West Broadway from Houston to Grand Sts, 4pm, FREE)

PERFORMANCE/PARTY: HOWLABUNGA! / We Are The World
Art Star faves The O'Debra Twins present their love show to the LES: HOWLABUNGA DUDES! Slated to perform at the "it" party of the festival are NYC's underground comedy treasures Mike Dobbins, Former Mr. Lower East Side 2003, Neil Medlyn, burlesque queen Darlinda Just Darlinda, LES darling diva Christine, (who just might show her hoo-ha for the event) the HOWLINGLY funny Eric Kirchberger and many, many more! 

Immediately following: We Are The World, We Are The Children. Come celebrate the 2007 HOWL Festival and the best song ever written. Anyone who can name all of the artists in the We Are The World, We Are The Children video will win an enormous bottle of flavored liqueur. Come dressed as your favorite 80's songbird from the We Are The World, We Are The Children video and enter to win an enormous bottle of flavored liqueur. Anyone willing to do an impromptu re-enactment of We Are The World, We Are The Children karaoke style will win a bottle of flavored liqueur. Plus drink specials having nothing to do with flavored liqueur. Special guest appearances TBA. Hosted by our fave real blonde Ann Enzminger and A Brief View Of The Hudson. (Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery btw. Bleecker & Houston Sts, 10pm till late, FREE)

Monster Island Arts and Music Festival
A free day of open-house art shows, BBQ, karaoke, film, and music plays out near the water at tightly knit art and performance spaces in Brooklyn. DIY-rock impresario Todd P showcases a smattering of off-kilter but hard-lining Brooklynite bands, including screechy howlers Big A little a and, for the cuddlier among us, indie outfit Tiger Streifen, who offer electro-fortified anthropomorphic ditties about life in a zoo. If you're still feeling tight after all the head-bopping, catch the kung-fu demo in the subterranean Avant Floor of festival hosts Monster Island, or spend your last few bucks to class up your walls at the building-wide art installation and store, Rainbow Cloud City. (NE Corner of River St & Metropolitan Ave | Williamsburg, Brooklyn, venues include Monster Island, Secret Project Robot, and GlassLands, 2-10pm, FREE)

SUNDAY 9.9

HOWL Pantheon Processional
Calling all kids ages 4 -104, performers, pets, freaks, geeks, and outsiders. Walk amongst the legendary ghosts of the East Village including Allen Ginsberg, Joey Ramone, Emma Goldman, Charlie Parker, and more. Come join us in costume and march to the beat of the Hungry March Band, leading this year's parade. Costume Theme: Circus - Be the best you you can be - the you who tickles your heart's desire. (Line up at Avenue B and 6th Street Garden in the East Village starting at 11am. We step off at noon. FREE.)  

EVENT: ASTROLAND'S END OF SEASON FIESTA!
Do it up right and say good bye to Summer Brooklyn style! We still don't know if this is the end of Astroland but we intend to enjoy ourselves and hope you can come along, hear the bands, ride the rides! 4-6pm  Mariachi Real De Mexico; 6-8pm  The  Hungry March Band (Astroland Amusement Park, 1000 Surf Ave, Coney Island, 4-8pm, FREE)



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