Upcoming Events at Alwun House!
February 10 – Mar 17
Exotic Art Show
The uber-popular Exotic Art exhibit showcases sensual, personal, provocative and audacious art from over 60 artists on two floors, and exterior installations. Uninhibited passions in a variety of media are encouraged to push the envelope with jaw-dropping fantasies and taboo erotica. The longest running exhibit of erotic and exotic art in the country. Mature subject matter. Artists interested in exhibiting may download registration form here.
Friday, Feb 10, Doors open 7pm, performances start at 8pm.
Exotic Phantasmagorical Spectacular
Opens with the most talked about Valentine art party tradition in town. It features eye-poppin’, heart-thumpin’ edgy entertainment on two stages, with two floors of exotic art. Outrageous tribal-fusion cabaret, belly dancers, festive revelry, roving exotic sideshow characters blur the line between performance and spectator.
Performances include: Mistress of Revelry, Hillz Thrillz; titilatting Provocatease burlesque cabaret; Bedouin Tribal Dancers; bellydancers, Mahin and eclectic Kamrah; surreally Lagoosie; live body painter, Mark Greenawalt; twisted Joe the Balloon Pimp; hot jazz licks, Austen Mack Quartet; lads and lasses rigged and bond; Dance Mix Master, DJ-MX.
Throughout the evening, interactive video installation “Voidmine Video Collective,” projects stunning sensual visuals wall to wall (and ceiling), blurring the line between performance and spectator.
This opening is the Valentine Event to see and be seen at. Decadent Delectable Edibles, Chocolates, Champagne, Hpnotiq Nipple Lickers drink specials. Dress for Success. Advance tickets highly recommended.
Tickets $20 advance ~ $25 door
Advance tickets mean no waiting at the door.
Buy now, save $5 per ticket!
We’re now accepting table reservations!
Each table reservation includes: FOUR admission tickets, complimentary bottle of champagne, personal platter of hors d’oeuvres, the best view in the house of the Exotic stage show.
Reserved Table = $400
Front Row Table = $500
Friday, Feb 17 7pm door
Erotic Poetry & Music Festivus
A night of out-of-the-box poetic and lyrical performances; from lusty limerick and heart felt song of passion, to bawdy vaudeville variety acts. Seduce the muse with two stages deliciously One eclectic electric night of out-of-the-box performances; lust to love-filled poetry, song, and vaudeville variety acts. Seduce the muse with two stages deliciously packed with a fusion of bawdy poetry, music and titillating performance artists. Mature material. Cash bar.
Performers: Jack Evans, Judy Green-Davis, CrystalKill Love, Meghan Jones, Lauren Perry, Nikki G, Ashley Peruznia, Genevieve Rice, Steve Maxwell, Ashley Naftule, Franny Havok Darko, Chris Danowski, Kristin Payestewa, Amy Ouzoonian, Jackie O, Kevin Patterson, Samson Says, Karina Sköge, Tom Tuerff, Gregg Myers, Mystic Muse, Joanna 23, Dilcia Yáñez, Ernesto Moncada
Tickets $10 advance, $15 day of show
Saturday, March 17
Exotic Finale | Spring Ball
Annual vernal celebration, global multi-cultural dance rhythms beats, and performances celebrating spring’s fecundity.
“Exotic” Origins: Rudy Turk, ASU Art Museum curator emeritus and Alwun House Board Member, suggested that as a fundraiser we showcase working artists most personal, edgy, beyond-the-ordinary pieces for an “Exotic Art Show”; he added with a twinkle in his eye, everyone will read “EROTIC!” Rudy’s inspiration has grown into our “Nutcracker of a fundraiser.” Proceeds benefit Alwun House Foundations non-profit arts activities transforming our community.
March 16, 17, 18
Art Detour
Downtown’s free self-guided tour of Downtown art galleries and studios. Sat –Sun Daytime: Intro friends to birthplace of today’s burgeoning arts scene. Tour House and Gardens, inside viewing mature Exotic Art Show, refreshments and light entertainment. Sunday meet the artists.
Friday, March 23 – 30
Salon des Enfants
Phoenix Elementary School District #1 Art Teachers band together to create this juried exhibit of their students best work.
There will be approximately 300 pieces made by students in the 5th through 8th grades, representing 16 Schools, and 18 teachers. All art works sell for $20 with 100% going to student artist. Support the importance of arts in our schools.
March 23rd, 3-6pm. Opening Performances:
band, chorus, and folkloric dance groups. The public is invited to stop by after work, and enjoy this “feel good” show, and make the day of your child within. Popular naive art sells right off the wall, quickly replaced with more. Punch and Cookies served.
April 6 – May 4
Downtown explodes with Steampunk, displaying a whimsical juxtaposition of time and place. This aesthetic has been adapted by all the arts; literature, film, dance music, contemporary arts, design and fashion – all are an amalgamation of Victorian aesthetic principals with modern sensibilities and technologies. Our artists have modded into pseudo-Victorian mechanical “steampunk” style: clockworks, guitars, computers, television, spring and gear driven reconfigurations steam-era or anachronistic technologies that redesign practical items into fantastical contraptions, illustrations and paintings, fashion adornments and costume “props”. Over 20 artists statewide explore this fantastical world. Artists interested in exhibiting may download registration form here.
April 6, Opening Night: Wild West Steampunk Exposition.
Time-warping Intertemporalist fantasies, dancing saloon girls, exotic Middle Eastern tribal dancers, interlaced with steampunk dance music. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres, Wild West Cash Bar with “Rattlesnake Whiskey” drink specials. Also, a Venders Bazaar with crafts and costume accoutrement.
when do the paintings have to be submitted for the 2012 exotic show?
Jan 28-29, 2012
You can download registration info from Calendar page under Exotic or Artist Opportunities page.