Seduce the muse on two stages. Biggest show of scintillating eclectic performances of romantic/tragic/comic lust-filled poetry, song, vaudeville variety acts. Sip & Nibble, Cash bar.

STAGE ONE:
Brandy Star, MC. bewitching dreamers and spectators alike
Ernasty, MC. bilingual illusionist in tragic amor Steve Caballero, live painter; Lauren Perry, bold romantic poet; Gregg Myers, smooth and soulful jazz; Mystic Muse, sultry avant garde song. Jack Evans & Judy Green-Davus; Tom Tuerff, bawdy lyrical comedy; Poets Crystal Kill Love, Meghan Jones, Nikki G-Spot, Kevin Patterson; Comedians Ashley Peruzina, Genevieve Rice, Steve Maxwell; Joanna23, Fire/Belly Dance; Dilcia Yanez, swing/tango dance; Performance Artists Ashley Naftule, Alejandro the Cowboy of Love, Chris Danowski, Kristin Payestewa & Amy Ouzoonian, Jackie O; Musicians Samson Says, Karina Skoge; Ernesto Moncada, tarot booth. DJ Catalyst: climactic vibrations put a dip in your hip.

STAGE TWO:
Of The Earth, MC: gypsy vaudeville band performs Wisdom Soul, MC; tantalizing words, music & rhythm Cleopache, eclectic verbal music, last years host; Miouo Nance, positive poetic activist; Shaikh Sammad, visionary illuminations; Lalli, poetry uplifting hearts in a downward spiral.

Tickets $10 advance, $15 day of show

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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.

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Alwun House

a forty year downtown arts institution.
At Shemer Art Center, 5005 E Camelback Rd.
Sunday, November, 13, 2-6pm. $10 includes bid card
4pm. Silent Auction & Raffle | 5pm. Live Auction
Mix, Mingle and Peruse, Hors d’Oeuvres, Wine and Jazz

Artists are banding together to give back to Alwun House. These artists and visitors alike know that Alwun House needs more parking and expanded space for community events, so all contributions go toward developing two adjacent vacant lots into a Green Art Park.

“Just as Alwun has always been there for all of us, we would like to ask that you extend a helping hand to Alwun. It has been a part of all of our lives for many years, and continues to be a living and growing entity.”

Artists for Alwun Auction appeal letter:
John Avedesian, Joe Ray, Linda Ingraham, Jeff Zischke, David Coven.

Many of the valley’s best and most active artists are contributing works providing first-time buyers, as well as seasoned collectors, a chance to make spectacular acquisitions. Shemer Art Center will be filled with a wide diversity of art by established icons like John Waddell, Shahrokh Rezani, Dr Eugene Grigsby, and the late Rudy Turk to some of the Valley’s hottest emerging talent. Bid on a portrait, eclectic collectables; something special for every taste. Art will be sold by raffle, silent auction at 4pm, with live auction at 5pm. Guests are invited to mix, mingle and peruse with live entertainment, hors d’oeuvres, wine and jazz.

Artworks set for the Auction Block

Rainy Day In Phoenix
Jeff Zischke

A Man Called Pez
Joe Ray

Blume’s Blooms Blume
the late Rudy Turk

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Here’s your chance to help those artists by matching their contribution with your bid. Many of the valley’s best and most active artists are contributing art for your chance to acquire their artworks, while donating to this worthy cause. Shemer Art Center will be filled with a wide diversity of art, something for every taste. Artworks will be sold by raffle, silent auction and live auction. Mix and mingle with hors d’oeuvres, wine and jazz.

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Opening Night Art Party
featuring:
The Joe Myers Project

Hors d’Oeuvres & Hot Mulled Cider
November 4, First Friday, 7 – 11pm.
$5 (support your local musicians)

Alwun House stages a unique Opening Night Art Party, First Friday, that fuses or “Morphs” the painterly aesthetics of Tom Stephenson’s impactual surreal-photo-realist paintings on display, with popular guitarist Joe Myers harmonic virtuosity. Together, Friday, November 4, they’ll create an exceptional experience of living art throughout the evening.

TOM STEPHENSON: one of Phoenix’ most effective “surreal-photorealist” painters with one brush stroke at a time. (see image: no Photoshop, it’s real), returns to Alwun House with his first solo exhibit in over a decade. Traveling between Peru and the Valley, in the early 90’s Tom solo exhibits were often profound in their depth of impact, being simultaneously intriguing and inspirational.

JOE MYERS: Extraordinary guitarist with harmonic flights of seduction and rich intriguing melodies; receiving awards as “Best Guitarist,” “Best Male Vocalist,” “Best Songwriter” from New Times Phoenix. Joe first performed at Alwun House 18 years ago, and since gone on to build his reputation. While living briefly in New York at the Chelsea, Joe shocked native New Yorkers by receiving numerous write-ups with rave reviews. Returning to the Valley, we’re the richer for his virtuosity.

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Enter into Shelob’s lair, pass through the moon-lit
swamp to the cabaret stage of fools & ghouls.

Monster Ball blow-out art party has it all: thriller stage shows,
comedy, burlesque, sideshow acts, crowds costumed for
revelry and prizes, dance music, and dark scintillating
performances, Monster Art Show, features macabre,
greedy blood-suckers, gargoyles and bog-creatures.

Complimentary finger-food, spine chilling libations
Spider Venom Punch and specials at cash bar.

Stage Show
Ignite Collaborative Arts Project
surreal dance performance
SPELL
sweet transsexual timewarp again
DJ-MX
cast a viral electronic nocturnal spell
Desert Dragon Dance Theatre
dragon drumming ceremony
Provocatease
hot as hell comedy, burlesque, dance, singing and sideshow
Tickets: $15 at the door

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DOOMSDAY

7pm door, 8pm performance
Tickets: available at the door $10

An approaching comet threatens all life on Earth as it gradually draws away the nitrogen from our atmosphere, leaving only highly flammable oxygen behind! Will our precious planet perish in a shrieking fireball of horror? Poe’s most apocalyptic science fiction tale is the centerpiece of this full theatrical program of dramatic readings enhanced with music and sound effects, performed by the Planet Poe Players under the direction of Robert X. Planet, and featuring special guest stars Joy Bingham Strimple and Jo Pierce. The Halloween-themed program also includes the shudder some favorites The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado; and the lighter side of America’s Master of Horror is showcased in a group playlet based on Some Words with a Mummy, about a remarkably resilient, ancient Egyptian nobleman living a very long life on the installment plan.

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Two renowned yet divergent Storytellers, together on stage for the very first time, create an historic cultural event. Both Zarco Guerrero’s insightful hand-carved masks, and Dr. Carl Hammerschlag, Best Selling Author, physician and healer, incorporate ceremony and spoken word as they morph through an eccentric range of characters. Both tell personal yet universal stories, making you laugh weep and ponder, perhaps even seeing the familiar in a whole new light. Reminding us, that those that tell the stories define the culture.

A duo tour de force;
Dr. Carl Hammerschlag, world renowned lecturer, best selling author, physician and healer Dr. Carl Hammerschlag, a Yale-trained psychiatrist and University of Arizona Medical School faculty member considered a pioneer in Psychoneuroimmunology (mind-body-spirit medicine). After twenty years working with Native Americans, Dr. Hammerschlag is considered a “survival expert” for people in rapidly changing cultures and times. healingdoc.com

Zarco’s most recent masterpiece premieres in performance as Dr Carl’s “Grandfather” mask. Zarco’s a true Arizona treasure, awarded Japan Fellowship from National Endowment for the Arts in Kyoto, and studied mask carving in Bali, Indonesia and China. Founding member of Xicanindio Artes, and featured in “The Mask of El Zarco” a PBS documentary. zarkmask.com

A fun, insightful fundraiser for Alwun House Foundation’s “Green Art Parking” Capital Campaign.

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John Sedler House, 1912

Alwun House
40th Season
2011-2012

House Centennial
1912-2012

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NYC based humorist Polly Frost makes this rare visit to Phoenix at Alwun House for one-night one act one woman show opportunity of a life-time.

The show came about as she realized how, everyone focuses on how to get over your childhood. But let’s face it: the really important thing is to learn how to survive your family as an adult! Acclaimed humor writer, Polly Frost, will give us a comic look at the emotional curveballs our beloved — and not so beloved — relatives can throw us throughout our adult lives along with humorous ways to prepare for and survive these surprising challenges..

Frost’s humor has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Narrative Magazine and The Barnes and Noble Review. Her humor was selected for both of The New Yorker “best humor” anthologies: Disquiet, Please! and Fierce Pajamas. Her humor was also selected for the anthology Humor Me edited by Ian Frazier.

Her book With One Eye Open was published in 2010 and includes twenty-five of her most popular pieces on topics that range from food to mommy blogging to friendship in the age of social networking. Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll raved: “Miss Polly Frost is so funny and so wildly intelligent, she is the Edith Wharton of her generation.” Her website is http://pollyfrost.com.

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