Saturday, April 13

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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Local artist’s juxtaposed histories and technological fantasies are showcased in / at downtown’s transformative arts pioneer, Alwun House. On display are playfully reconfigured technologies, fantastical props, sculpture, illustrations, and paintings.

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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Friday, March 15, 3:30-5:30pm.

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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Friday, Mar 8,

“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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Friday, Feb 15
Door opens 7pm show starts at 8pm.

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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Feb 8, 2013 – March 16, 2013

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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Monday, Dec 31, New Year’s Eve, 8pm – 1am
$16 adv alwunhouse.org $20 day of show
Complimentary midnight champagne toast, cash bar

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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Sunday, Dec 9, 7pm

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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LightHouse group show of artworks are self-illuminated, functional and conceptual. Playing on the theme of illumination in a variety of media are light-boxes, lamps, art shrines, video installation, blacklight paintings, neon, LED and fire. Curated by Landy Headley, who’s naturalistic paintings and lightboxes are seen around Valley hip urban businesses and café locations , and lighting designer by day.

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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Friday, November 30
7pm door

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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Sun, Nov 11, 2-4pm $50

iPhonography Workshop

Learn the art of iPhonography and open a new world of visions you can create. Class size limited to 6 registrations, filled on a first come basis.

Required: iPhone, installed apps, curiosity.
Registration and app information: Carolinguini@mac.com.

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Friday, Nov 2

iPhonography

Unique image creation through iPhone “apps,” piques smart phone users, photography aficionados’ and the curious alike. Local artists Carolyn Sechler and Louis Salazar’s iPhonography exhibit opens Nov 2, First Friday, showcasing a relatively new emerging photographic art process – available not thru photoshop, but the exponentially wider iPhone Apps with their “oceans of possibilities.”

Based out of Phoenix, Carolyn Sechler has been educated in photography, image transfer, and alternative photo processes and has taught courses on utilizing the myriad iPhone photography apps.

ENTERTAINMENT:
Lie to the Boys
Terminal One
hors d’oeuvres, refreshments, cozy and warm around the season’s first fire pit.

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with Cirque Noir Vaudevillian Performances
Saturday, Oct 27, Saturday

Doors open 7pm, performances start at 8pm
Alwun’s lucky 13th annual blow-out Halloween art party gets raves as a “not to be missed” extravaganza thriller stage show, includes crowds costumed for revelry with spirited prizes, “horror d’oeuvre” finger-food and spine-chilling libations at the cash bar.

A full night of entertainment ranging from tribal ritualistic performances, to naughty and taunting Provocatease burlesque show. DJ Semuta spins trans-world-beat dance mix. Partygoers are asked to “unleash their little monster – or beastie within, be ye vamp, zombie or trans masked other-worldly spirit.” All spirits welcome to join in macabre undead revelry.

Entertainment:
Ceremonial MC’s:
Cult of the Yellow Sign (hip alternative improv duo)
Ignite Phoenix Collaborative (voodoo bad dolls)
Spell (tales of blood & doom)
Opendance (Danse Macabre y la llorona)
Provocatease (vaudeville burlesque show)
DJ Semuta, trans-world beat; and Ghost DJ:MX, dance mix

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Sat, October 20
MADHOUSE

One Performance Only!
7pm door, 8pm performance

Planet Poe Theatre

Presents

Edgar Allan Poe’s “MADHOUSE: The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.” Featuring Valley theatre staples, Robert X. Planet and Joy Bingham Strimple, with special guests.

An innocent abroad becomes embroiled in bizarre escapades while touring an asylum that employs an outlandish experimental therapy in this new, multi-character playlet based on one of Poe’s most hilarious – and scandalously ribald – tales.

Planet Poe evenings, an Alwun House tradition since 2000, present a program based upon Poe’s delightfully wacky yet surprisingly little-known story, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether. The work is the centerpiece of an evening of dramatic readings by professional actors, enhanced with music and sound effects. The horror-filled, Halloween-themed program will include such favorites as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Imp of the Perverse and The Raven, and a new monologue based on The Premature Burial. Champaign Reception follows performance.

Tickets: $8 advance, $12 day of show.
Click on Poe button below for advance tickets

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13th Monsters Menagerie

Oct 5-27, Monsters Menagerie Art Exhibit
Viewing: Tue-Fri, 12-6pm, free
The centennial Alwun House hosts its 13th Halloween Extravaganza throughout October. Alwun’s 2-story overgrown “haunted” House provides the perfect noir setting, as guests enter under an 18’ Black Widow spider whose webs ensnare unsuspecting prey.

Oct 5, Opening First Friday, 7-10pm. 13th Monsters Menagerie group exhibit features unworldly, noir fantasies, blood-curdling creations screaming for attention, sardonic Sheriff Joe, sacred and profane, with works in a variety of media. Wine and light jazz acoustic guitar with David Glass.

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Friday, September 28
7pm door

Luna Full Moon Fridays

A celebratory journey with dance, music, art. A night of expressive movement, drumming, gongs and DJ rhythms guide participants to healing and growth. West Garden relaxation space.

Facilitators: Andrew Ecker, trained drum circle facilitator of 17 years; Laura Peralta, certified Dance Movement Therapist, founder, Fusion Dance Studio, and DJ, Semutra.

Alwun House, 1204 E Roosevelt, Phoenix
Tickets $6 advance $10 day of show

Chairs & instruments available, or BYO pillow & resented by; Drumming Sounds & Fusion Movement Studio

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Saturday, Sept. 22

Autumn Equinox Celebration

featuring:
The Shakti Pistols
Cliff Levenson, Seva Singh, Hari Jap, and Jere Friedman, Conner Myers
A mind-bending musical performance of Kirtan Chants interwowen with music by The Grateful Dead, The Beatles, and others ~ PLUS GONG MEDITATION!
6:30pm door – performance starts at 7pm on
TICKETS: ~ $12 at the door

A portion of the proceeds will benefit: Rock the Earth ~ http://rocktheearth.org
Bring a mat, blanket, pillow, dancing bears, etc. Chairs will also be available for sitting. Wear loose comfortable clothing (especially tie dye!).

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High energy Art Music Rhythm Dance Food & Spirits
Exhilarating performances; cutting edge contemporary to tribal indigenous roots. A joyful celebration of multi cultural dance, song, rap/poetry and tribal fusion drum beats from the heart; in all one place. Experience the power of art in transforming our community, with a thunderous 100 Drum finale.

Special highlight for the evening will be food provided by Ingrid’s Community Cook. YourCommunityCook.com

Performance:
From Above, aboriginal-afro-euro synth jazz; Gabriel Bey, Harold Jones, Dashmesh Khalsa, Julian Forest, Daniel Hirtz; Renee Morgan Brooks, dramatic poetry infused song; Lai to the Boys, good vibe songs; Laura Peralta & Stefano Argentinean tango; Opendance, neo-contemporary Dance Company; Andrew & Darcy, Poetic Fun; World Beat Ensemble, synthesized DJ, Poetic Percussion; Daniel & Semuta; Bedouin Tribe, Middle Eastern/Indian/African Dancers; Finale; 100 Drum Circle with Anthony Pagliarulo on gongs.

Saturday, Sept 15, 7pm door
TICKETS: $15 day of show
Advance ticket sales are now over, tickets will be available at the door.

A collaboration with Fusion Foundation

Special thanks to Andrew’s Drumming Sounds for the 100 drums: DrummingSouns.com

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Exhibit: September 8 through 22

Visual musings and transcendental fascinations reflect the power of art in transforming community, in painting, photography, batik and mixed media.
World traveled artists;
John Avedisian, Ja Jure, Hal Hjalmarson, Robert McLeod, Mukee Okan, Luis Salazar, Marilyn Szabo, Peter Votichenko.
Presented in collaboration with Fusion Foundation.

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First Friday, July 6, 2012
Francis Pops Up
7pm free

Although bouncing around in the Phoenix artscene in various capacities, Francis Ciochon has rarely exhibited, thus he’s popping up in the Alwun House Gallery. Francis will be exhibiting works from his Hurricane Series, based out of his years growing up in Florida. Similarly, he’s showing other works using the local Florida fauna for inspiration in creating his monotypes.
His next expression responds to his move out into the southwest deserts developing the Arrowhead series, requiring creation of elaborate stencils to recreate arrowheads creating a sense of chiseled depth. The most recent works jumped into 3D sculptures with stark white planes and odd shapes reflecting upon the varying shade tones within its space.
All artworks have a special take home price to acknowledge today’s need for affordability.

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