MAELSTRÖM

Planet Poe Steampunk Show 2013:
Edgar Allan Poe’s MAELSTRÖM
Directed by ROBERT X. PLANET
Starring JOY BINGHAM STRIMPLE and BARON DIXON; With Special Guest WANDA McHATTON
Tickets: $12 door – Advance discount tickets sales are over. Tickets will be available at door.
doors open 7pm show starts at 8pm

Ships, cargo and hapless sailors are swept to their certain doom into a turbid vortex of swirling horror as a legendary oceanic whirlpool wreaks its fury, swallowing whales, stone buildings and even entire forests in Poe’s harrowing high-seas adventure!

Planet Poe, an Alwun House tradition since 2000, presents the chilling tale as the centerpiece of an evening of dramatic readings by professional actors, enhanced with music and sound effects. The Steampunk-themed program will also include the humorous and quirky tales A Predicament, or the Scythe of Time and The Angel of the Odd: an Extravaganza; the amusing science-fiction yarn Mellonta Tauta (Things of the Future); the poems “The City in the Sea,” “Evening Star” and “A Dream Within a Dream”; and—because it’s 2013 and we’re all still here, and because very recently Earth has been bypassed by comets and bombarded by huge meteors—a special reprise of Planet Poe’s original 2011 playlet, DOOMSDAY: The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, based on Poe’s startlingly prophetic 1839 tale of an approaching comet that threatens to immolate our entire planet.

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Background
“STEAMPUNK” Initially inspired by Victorian science fiction authors H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, drawing from Edgar Allan Poe, Steampunk was coined in 1980’s by author K. W. Jeter in describing contemporary stories set in the Victorian period, blending alternative history and science fiction, originally inspired by the ‘awe struck’ power of stream-driven technologies of emerging industrialized 19th Century. Steampunk sensibilities are constantly evolving, with adaptations through all the arts. Contemporary Steampunks’ various anachronistic re-interpretations of time and transformative visions are today, incorporating influences of digital power-driven revolutionary transformations.

Wild West Circus & Saloon Revue

Opening Saturday, April 6
TICKETS $15, availbale at the door
Advance tickets sales are over.
Time Portal Opens: 7pm-on. Dress fantasy, select your time-zone

Mix together time-warped revelry, quixotic artistic fantasies exhibit, and a Wild West Circus & Saloon Revue, and you’ve got the opening to Alwun House’s third “Intertemporalist Steampunk Exposition,” Saturday, April 6. Enter through the 14’ “Time Portal,” 7pm on, visitors experience a Wild West traveling circus and vaudeville stage show, with an array of complimentary sweet and savory crudité and chutneys, and cash bar with Rattlesnake Whiskey specials. Timeless.

Entertainment: Romantasy traveling circus and VaVaVoom burlesque; Spell, phase shifting dancers; Michele Ceballos Michot choreographed OpendanceAz performance; DJ post-industrial world-beat dance mix.

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Salon des Enfants

Zest-filled Opening Performances
Featuring student bands, choirs and dance ensemble groups. The public is invited to stop by after work, and enjoy this exceptional “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. free
Performances will include the Band from Herrera School directed by Mr. Chris Granger
The Choir from Edison School directed by Ms Malgorzata Ceglinska
Dancer ensemble from Bethune directed by Ms Valerie Muldrow-Paul
Folklorico Dancers d=from Edison Directed by Ms Christina Rodriguez.

Art teachers include
John Avedisian – Magnet Traditional
Rudy Begay – Capitol
Nancy Caternolo – Garfield
Sallie Chaney – Heard
Angela Damore – Faith North
Lauren Feldman – Kenilowrth
Pat Gearhart – Whittier
Matt Gish – Herrera
Jessica Nabors – Shaw
Deb Stanger – Emerson
Brooke Shapiro Heisel – Lowell
Noreen Strehlow – Herrera
Janet Tucker – Heard
Melissa Taurisano – Bethune
Rosa Wilno – Edison

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“Rites Of Spring Ball”

(Exotic closing)

Friday, March 8, 7pm door
$15 day of show, tickets available at the door.

Culturevores and the curious are invited to join in celebrating “spring’s evocative embrace” at downtown’s first gallery and artspace, Alwun House. Guests invited to mix and mingle with costumed hipsters, performance artists, dancers and drumming. Musical entertainment by International duo, DJ Musa and Pedro Saucedo African Conga player. Dress in Homage to Spring, Complimentary succulent edibles, 21+ cash bar. A fundraiser, proceeds benefit non-profit Alwun House community programs.

Performances
Ethno-classic choreographer, Michele Ceballos Michot and OpendanceAZ dancers, recent participants with the notorious La Pocha Nostra, offer us a voluptuous homage to Stravinsky’s Rites of Spring. SPELL rebirths Persephone’s classic spring tale through music of counter-culture’s Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Traffic. Desert Gem Dancers, and Drumming Sounds initiates Friday nights Rites of Spring Ball.

Musical Entertainment
DJ Musa, seamlessly segues pulsating dance beats with spoken word and vocals to seductive layers of rhythm, accompanied by Pedro Saucedo, Conguero. Both have established local residency in Phoenix and internationally in Mexico, as well as producing events and guesting at Valley premier venues.

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Erotic Poetry & Music Festivus

Eclectic night of lust, passion, pain and love in poetry, song and vaudeville variety acts on two stages. Featuring the Valley’s crème de la crème, is deliciously packed with a fusion of bawdy poetry, music and titillating performance artists. The resulting non-stop evening’s program features the broadest range of eclectic scintillating performances of romantic tragic comic lust-filled poetry, song and vaudeville variety acts brings something for everyone.

Complimentary hors d’oeuvres, Kahlua Coffee specials, Cash Bar. 21+

Mistress of Ceremonies, Brandy Phoenix;
Stage 1: Co hosts Ernasty and Kevin Son of Patter;
Stage 2 Madam Pussy Cat; and Erotic-Exotic Poet Elder, Cleopache.
For a complete listing of performers……..

TICKETS: $15 day of show
Advance discount ticket sales are over. Tickets will be available at the door.

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Exotic Art Show

Exotic Art that’s extraordinary provocative, sensual and audacious, featuring over 50 artist’s uninhibited passions pushing the envelope with jaw-dropping results in a variety of media. The nation’s longest running exhibit of erotic and exotic art. Mature subject matter, under 18 accompanied by adult. Viewing Tue-Fri, Noon-6pm.

Friday, Feb 8
Door opens 7pm show starts at 8pm.

Opening Phantasmagorical Spectacular

Downtown arts pioneer, Alwun House, pushes the envelope even further kicking off with a Phantasmagorical Spectacular opening February 8th. Evolving over 29 years, the Opening Night is a total sensory eye-poppin’, heart-thumpin’ Valentine experience with two floors of provocative erotic-exotic art, and two stages of eclectic cabaret performances, and basement body painting. Experience a total sensory heart-thumpin’ phantasmic milieu of unabashed, provocative, sensuous, uninhibited art and performances. The line between performance and spectator blends with eye-poppin’ entertainment on two stages, and two floors of over 50 artists’ passions pushing the envelope een further in a variety of media. Performances: Mistress of Revelry, Hillz Thrillz, intertwines VaVaVoom Burlesque, Miss Coco St. James tribute to Lady GaGa, Bedouin Tribe, Romantasy Cabaret, Ignite Collaborative, Lady Purple trims bush, legendary Barbra Siville, Desert Gems Dance, Mark Greenawalt body paints. West Garden Jazz Lounge, features Austen Mack Quartet with lads and lasses rigged and bound. DJ Samuta spins erotic dance beat. Throughout, quixotic interactive visual effects by Voidmine. Complimentary decadent delectable edibles, champagne, Hpnotiq Harmonies and drink specials at cash bar, 21+
TICKETS: $25 day of show – sales start at 7pm

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New Year’s Eve is just around the corner and Jackie Fontaine’s Las Vegas Lounge Show, hits our Downtown’s hot art spot. Jackie, “Mr. Nightlife” himself, and his New Year’s Eve Bash features Doc Severhand and his Medicine Tent Band, interviewing friends like singer dancer Sammy Dunkin Jr,; Silver Screen Legend, Leslie Traylor, comedian legend Dyllis Philler, Kitchatty Katchitty and friends. Limited tableside seating, but ample lounging room and flowing cash bar.

Experience the funnest, grooviest Zing Pow Wowest New Years Eve Party. Get your tickets early, and throw on your grooviest threads to ring in the 70′s, at this centennial Alwun House benefit.

Tickets: $16 advance – $20 door

RESERVED TABLE?

Wishing to make ring in the New Year in style? Get your own Reserved Table for only $200. Reserved Tables come with tickets for four, complimentary bottle of Champaign & chocolates and party favors. Tables must be claimed by 9pm.
Reserve Table now

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POLLY FROST

Bad Role Models and What I Learned From Them

A disarming humorist with unique observations of life, Polly weaves together insightful, intimate storytelling experiences, asking, “who do we really learn the most from; our good or bad role models?” Polly’s new one person show is a fun, heartfelt look at the eccentric, oddball and misbehaving people, who ultimately made who ultimately made a positive difference in her life. An award-winning, NYC-based writer, and bi-coastal performer. Artists’ Reception follows.

TICKETS: $15 door Tickets available at door
pollyfrost.com facebook.com/pollyfrost

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Opening Illuminati Party

Saturday, Dec 8, 7pm on
Tickets $12 door
Light Treats, Cash Bar, Lit Attire Prize

Come play in the glow of Lighthouse at Alwun House. Electrified performance and interactive light installations create a transcendent hyperbolic experience. Celebratory Music, Dance, Art and creative illuminated attire, around drums of fire, and self-illuminated LightHouse art, are playfully displayed with gallery lights off.

Direct from Tucson, light art installation, “de Dar a Luz” (22′ x 10′ dome), is visually interactive with folks passing through. (most recently seen at Tucson’s 4th Ave, Dia de los Muertos Parade finale. DJ Samuta spins hot fusion progressive dance mix for LightHouse aural stimulation, get folks dancin’ on stage and boppin’ around talking. James Reid, extreme juggling Stage Show intense blacklight and LED lighting. ASU Neon Club glass-bending demonstration.

Special Addition opening night only: “Walter,´ the lit-up monster double-decker VW Bus (as seen in Scottsdale and Burning-Man), will be parked in our Green Art Park. Many people have worked on it, from mechanics to architects. Special interactive lighting installed for guests to climb in and get to the upper deck dance floor.

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Luna Full Moon Fridays

The Full Moon Community Celebration at the historic Alwun House, 1204 E Roosevelt, Phoenix, Friday, November 30th, features licensed therapeutic drumming facilitators Andrew Ecker of Drumming Sounds, and movement therapist Marla Renee Leech from San Francisco, and DJ Semuta provides evocative tribal fusion music.

This month, due to the untimely passing of Phoenix’ Full Moon co-founding facilitator, Laura Paralta, fellow community builder and healer Marla Renee Leech will be flying in from San Francisco to facilitate the dance-movement portion of this months Full Moon celebration. This event brings together the “healing community,” and a smile to Laura, for sharing with us the powerful medicine of dance.

Alwun House, 1204 E Roosevelt, Phoenix
Tickets: $10 available at door (advance discount ticket sales are over)

Chairs & instruments available, or BYO pillow & presented by; Drumming Sounds

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