ARCANA

Friday, October 12th
Doors open at 7. Show starts promptly at 8 p.m.
Tickets: $10 advance $15 day of show, available at door
An all ages show.

The GasLight Circus returns: see the third installment of the show’s dark and sinister “Noir” series with Arcana! Follow the adventure of a young magician as he travels one of the darkest corners of the underworld in search of his long lost friends! See all your favorite GLC stars LIVE on stage: Including The Clown Prince of Arizona Jero the Jester, Alfie the Mime, fan favorite Puddles the Clown and many more this October in a Circus Adventure you’ll never forget!

Jett Runaway Presents:
Amour de Agony
Doors open at 8pm show starts at 9pm
Tickets: $10 advance, $15 door
A Vaudeville Production of Sideshow, Circus, and Modification like you’ve never seen before…

Vaudeville is alive and well in Phoenix as Jett Runaway Presents: Amour de Agony! Jett Runaway (of The Runaway Street Circus) has journeyed to the lowest depths of suffering and the most blissful heights of pure ecstasy to bring you on a one of a kind emotional conquest through their circus, sideshow, variety theatrical spectacular alongside an all local cast of Ginger Applebottem, Shawn Cook, Kyle, Glenn Damien, and Tabitha Kelly.

Witness the most jaw dropping of Arizona’s variety performance art with a special feature of bizarre body modification as we travel through the tragic, dramatic, and comedic inevitability of the unadulterated human condition only at Amour de Agony!

TICKETS: $9 advance, $15 day-of-show available at door!
Doors open 7pm, show at 8pm
Hosted by Ronnie D and Ernastina!

Firestage proudly presents the tenth annual celebration of the creative might of Arizona/Sonora-based female performers, with the variety show extravaganza “Ladies on Fire”!

We used to present this event in the winter time, but we decided to mark our second year at the beautiful Alwun House in the Garfield Historic District Phoenix by moving it to summer’s end and embrace change!

We hope you can join us to be mesmerized by an eclectic selection of local and visiting very creative women, sharing their unmistakable talents!

Featuring:
Sarah Chapman
Rosemarie Jeana
Savannah Lutman
Trejon Dunkley
Eleniux Cejaa
and many more TBA!

Banned Books Reading
Doors open at 6:30, show starts at 7p
TICKETS: $5 advance, $10 day of show

The Arizona LGBT+ History Project will be hosting it’s 2nd annual Banned Books Reading. Readings moderated by the one and only hipest of hip historians Marshall Shore.
It’s a very special Adult story time that draws attention to the problem of book censorship, with events like this across the country.
Join us as a wide variety of readings from banned books.
Banned Books Reading is a collaboration with the Alwun House and the Arizona LGBT+ History Project

Cabaret Noir

Tickets: $20 advance $25 available at door
Doors Open at 7:30, show starts promptly at 8:30pm to 10:30pm

Join us for a dark cabaret experience! Let us entertain you with an evening of sultry entertainment at this adult-themed cabaret variety show celebrating the unconventional side of sensuality with beautiful dancers, adult comedy, and sexy acrobatic acts!

Our performers are some of the most mesmerizing, highly trained, and incredibly talented ladies you can find!
Best cabaret in the valley!

The Greed Show

Exhibit & Installation by Artist
Tom Stephenson
Join us for September’s First Friday. An immersive installation concept exhibition. Witness large photo-real paintings beautiful people. close-up portraits of beautiful people with sayings tattooed on their foreheads such as “Inordinate excess” and “Exceed Sufficient”. Reflect on our excesses with other paintings of graphic expressions of excessive wealth used for power. Knowing how much we have in this country and how much more we think we need, I wanted to make a statement that made people stop and think.

Preforming for your special thought provoking evening, SlingSHOT a five piece band of seasoned musicians with one thing in mind – to perform live and bring a good time. A diverse group of musicians bringing influences from rock, dance, alternative, hip-hop & funk.

TEASE”, a burlesque circus cabaret!

Tickets: $20 advance $25 available at door
Doors Open at 7:30, show starts promptly at 8:30pm to 10:30pm

“TEASE”, a burlesque circus cabaret! An all new production with an evening of sultry entertainment at this classic burlesque style variety show shimmying with glamorous dancers, adult comedy, and sexy acrobatic acts! Our performers are some of the most mesmerizing, highly trained, and incedibly talented ladies you can find! Best cabaret in the valley!

This will be Cleodora’s last production of the season before summer break, so don’t miss your chance to get hot and sweaty with these babes one more time!

3rd Annual Carnival Ball

Doors open at 7. Show starts promptly at 8 p.m.
Tickets: $12 advance, $15 day of show, available at door
An all ages show.

It’s the 3rd annual Carnival Ball Charity Show! Join The GasLight Circus on this special night, as we work to give back to those in need by donating all circus funds to local charity Arizona Veterans Helping Veterans! Expect to see all of your Favorite GasLight Circus performers, as they put on a show that you have to see to believe! The evening’s festivities will include the return of GLC’s Carnival Games, a fully loaded merchandise table, a special raffle, and more! It’s a one of a kind evening, for a one of a kind cause!

Cabaret Noir

Tickets: $20 advance $25 available at door
Doors Open at 7:30, show starts promptly at 8:30pm to 10:30pm
Join us here in downtown Phoenix’ Alwun House on Saturday, March 21st for an all new production of “TEASE”, a sexy circus cabaret! This night features a dark cabaret experience! Let us entertain you with an evening of sultry entertainment at this adult-themed cabaret variety show celebrating the unconventional side of sensuality with beautiful dancers, adult comedy, and sexy acrobatic acts!
Our performers are some of the most mesmerizing, highly trained, and incredibly talented ladies you can find! Best cabaret in the valley!
Featured performers are:
-Cleodora (contortionist, dancer, aerialist)
-Scarlett Xander (sideshow, fire)
-Clair De Lune (professional dancer)
-Giselle la Belle (professional dancer)
-Cylise (aerial pole, duo with Marcel St-Onge)
-Sydney (aerialist)
-Kelly With A Big Ol K (host, comedian, singer)

Medicine Arrow in Concert
Tickets: $10 advance, $15 available at door
Doors open 7pm, performance at 8pm

Medicine Arrow in Concert – A transformational evening of global native fusion music, inter-tribal song and neo-traditional dance with the multicultural, multidisciplinary performance ensemble.

Medicine Arrow is a multicultural and multidisciplinary performance ensemble based in Arizona whose stage is the world. With a sound grounded in the deep traditions of Native America, yet reaching beyond all boundaries and borders to embrace the pulse of the planet and the song of the universe, Medicine Arrow seeks to deliver a message of harmony, balance, equality and integrity through its adventurous blend of music, dance, storytelling, poetry, and mask art.

The core Medicine Arrow trio is comprised of singer, dancer and actor Roman Orona; flutist and storyteller Jonah Littlesunday; and percussionist, poet and maskmaker Will Clipman. In the spirit of creative inclusiveness, these three artists welcome collaboration with an eclectic cast of very special guests, enhancing and embellishing the conversation among voice, flute and drum with elements of theater, choreography, videography and multi-instrumental music.

The unifying metaphor of Medicine Arrow is that which flies straight and true from one heart to another, piercing the illusion of separateness and bringing all together as one. Audiences of all ages will thrill to the exhilarating rhythms, soaring melodies, rich harmonies, lush language and vivacious visual imagery of this joyous celebration, imbued with both ancient resonance and futuristic vision, in which everyone is invited to participate, and from which no one is excluded.

A Steampunk Affair

The GasLight Circus
Doors open at 8. Show starts promptly at 9 p.m.
Tickets: $15 day of show, available at door
An all ages show.
It’s Full-Steam Ahead for The GasLight Circus! Join some of your favorite GLC stars as they go on a steam-powered adventure like never before! Lead by the mysterious Proprietor, join The Clown Prince of Arizona Jero the Jester, The Gentlemen Illusionist Gabriel Lim, Lyra the Mermaid, Alfie the Mime, Ruslana, Nicolasa, and more on a journey through a world powered by steam, gears, cogs, and strange machinations that you have to see to believe!

Third Friday April 20

A solo exhibition by Christina Martin.
MOMENTS
Opening: 7pm Show starts at 8pm
A series of colorful expressive abstract paintings ready to brighten anyone’s day.
Exhibit runs through Frist Friday May 4.

Opening features singer/songwriter April Anne
Dynamic vocals layered upon melodic piano lines driven by heartfelt lyrics.

April creates music from the soul that everyone can relate to. Originally from MA, she has called Arizona home since 1990. She is currently working on her next album, ‘All I Have Left’. For more about her music or to hear songs off her latest album, ‘Unbroken‘ please go to: www.aprilannemusic.com

…Wish us Luck

The Corkscrew Cabaret
Tickets: $15 available at door
Doors open at 8pm Show at 9pm

It’s finally happening! The Corkscrew Cabaret, Arizona’s newest burlesque spectacle, is finally ready to take our first glitter and rhinestone covered steps into the light, and we couldn’t have picked a luckier day… we hope.

Join us as we takeover the visually striking Alwun House for a night of sensually scintillating burlesque, and sultry vaudevillian showmanship!

25th Salon des Enfants
Phoenix Elementary School District’s Juried Youth Art Show & Sale
There will be approximately 300 juried pieces made by students in the 5th through 8th grades, representing 16 Schools, and 18 teachers. Art is displayed Salon-style, and sold right off the wall; including sculpture, ceramics, painting and photography. All art sold for $20 right off the wall, on a first come basis.

First Friday April 6 Opening
Art Opening with School Band, Dance, and Musical Performances
Friday, April 7, 3:30 – 5:30pm. Cookies and punch provided. Free

WTQ – Heavy Petting

7pm Doors open, 8pm show
Tickets $15 available at door.

WHAT THE QUEER?! IS A CELEBRATION of the weirder side of QUEER ART, MUSIC, FASHION, and PERFORMANCE!! This is not your mother’s drag show… Get ready to let your freak flag fly HIGH!

Its a farm animal themed Queer Burlesque show! Dress up as your favorite furry friend and turn the party with your QUEEREST ANIMAL LOOQS… And don’t forget to capture the moment in our Photobooth by Micah James Artistry.
Hosted by your favorite bearded bitch…Vera Saucy!!

With our special Guest….Los Angeles’s most Beautiful Bear Queen….PINCHE QUEEN!!!
….But you can just call her DAD.

With some special droppings from out resident livestock:
Rubye Moore
Benaddiction
Astrud Aurelia
Utada Nova
Rosetta Stoned
NiieveZass
Fondra Farce
Plus look out for some pop-up performances from a few furry lil groundhogs…
Lexi Couture
Revel Lucian
and a mukbang performance by CHINA DELUXXX
plus many more TBA

Including performances from the winner of January’s open stage contest!!
An extra bloody surprise!
Look out for a live fetish/play piercing demonstration by Mummy Cat!!

AND YOU GUESSED IT:
An Open Stage contest starring YOU!!! Calling all Drag Queens and Kings, Strippers, Break-dancing Midgets, out-of-work Comedians, Motivational Twerkers, Bearded Ladies, Competitive Eaters, Straight men in their Girlfriend’s Clothes, Dick Jugglers, Contortionists, Catholic Priests, and Lesbian Lumberjacks….Do you have a moderately entertaining talent?? We wanna see what you’ve got! Make us GAG, make us Scream, make us PUKE! Show us something we’ve never seen before! but Don’t bring none of that top 40 bullshit… THE WEIRDER THE BETTER. Come with your music ready! Winner gets a tip spot in next month’s show and some other cool accoutrements from www.VeraSaucy.com!

Also: a SALACIOUS Barnyard ShAfter party immediately following… (secret location TBA)
& you know there’s gonna be a lot of HEAVY PETTING….
See you horny goats thereeee

****This show contains sexually explicit and potentially offensive material. Please be advised.*****
The show must go on…..rain or shine the animals will still perform for you.

Central High Art Department
Currently on exhibit.
A juried exhibit, with art department teachers select their best student works to showcase in this first ever exhibition of their High School Art Students.

Bird City Comedy Presents:

Dave Waite

Friday, March 30 – Doors open at 7pm; Show starts at 7:30pm
Tickets: $15 or $75 for a three-day festival pass
For tickets and more information, go to birdcitycomedyfestival.com

Bird City Comedy Festival is proud to present the very funny DAVE WAITE. Los Angeles-based comedian Dave Waite is a charismatic oddball whose shows are non-stop fun. Thanks in part to stellar performances on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” Comedy Central’s “Not Safe with Nikki Glaser” and “Last Comic Standing,” comedy fans everywhere are enthralled by the Kentucky native’s offbeat outlook on life. Dave is a beloved guest on several top-rated podcasts and radio shows, including Doug Loves Movies and the nationally syndicated Bob & Tom Show. His highly anticipated album “Dead Waite” by On Tour Records is available now on Amazon & iTunes, and his previous albums can be heard frequently on SiriusXM and Pandora. In addition to maintaining a healthy tour schedule, Dave also co-produces The Secret Show, a popular comedy night at The Blind Barber in Culver City, CA.

ABOUT BIRD CITY COMEDY FESTIVAL

Bird City Comedy Festival is a three-day celebration of comedy that takes place every spring in downtown Phoenix. Since our first fest in 2016, we’ve featured hundreds of the hottest stand ups, storytellers, improv groups, sketch groups and more across various central Phoenix stages. For our third annual festival, we hope to grow bigger and better as we present an electric roster of talented comedians from Arizona and beyond. For more information, go to birdcitycomedyfestival.com.

Tall Tales

Tickets: $12 advance $15 at door
A House of Cirque production showcasing their newest Stilt extravaganza!
A magical evening of acrobatic storytelling from the land of giants.
Enchanting performances, circus, comedy, dance, aerial, music making, fire, and all on Stilts!
Gain a higher perspective.
Learn the secrets of Fee Fi Fo Fum.
Closing event for 2018 Exotic Art Show.

Tease, a burlesque variety show

Tickets: $20 available at door
Doors Open at 7:30, show starts promptly at 8:30pm.

Join us here in downtown Phoenix’ Alwun House on Saturday, March 10th for an all new production of “TEASE”, a sexy circus cabaret! It will be an evening of sultry entertainment at this classic burlesque style variety show shimmying with glamorous dancers, adult comedy, and sexy acrobatic acts! Performers and acts change with every show, so it’s never the same as the last!

Erotic Poetry & Music Festivus

Tickets: $10 advance, $15 at door

We are proud to present, once again, the broadest range of eclectic off-the-wall, scintillating performances of romantic/tragic/comic lust-filled poetry, song, vaudeville variety acts, spoken word, improv, performance art and music, in two stages, simultaneously, featuring local favorites and very special visitors! Kahula coffee specials. Cash bar. 21+ Advance tickets to be claimed at Will Call.

MAIN STAGE

Co-hosted by local comedian and creator of Comedy on Fire, Matt Micheletti; and imported artist-of-all-trades Ernesto Moncada.
Performers: Russ Kazmierczak (poetry), Tom Tuerff (music),Amy Blackwell (comedy), Heather Edgar (voice), Crystal GKill (poetry), The Nogoodnicks (music), Femina Flower (poetry), Robot Destroyers From Planet Earth (improv), Mo Urban (comedy), Crimson Phoenix (dance), Mrs Sexy (poetry), Of The Earth Trio (music), Meghan Jones (poetry), Ronnie D (comedy), Ashley Naftule (performance art), Rosemarie Jeana Dombrowski (poetry), E Alo (music)

WEST GARDEN PROGRAM

Host and curator of the West Garden: Phoenix Poet Laureate and editor of Four Chambers Press, Rosemarie Jeana Dombrowski!
Performers: Megan Atencia (poetry), Danae Barnes (poetry), Nadine Lockhart (poetry), Dani Garrity (poetry), Jaime Faulkner (poetry), Franny Havok Darko (poetry), Heather Lynn Atwood (prose), Trejon Dunkley (poetry), Amy Ouzoonian (poetry), Nick Pesch (poetry), Kennedy Orell (poetry), Ros & Eric VanAmburg, Kat Hofland, Jimmie Ware, Anna Flores