Invasion of Color & Floral

SerenityFirst Friday July 1
Solo exhibit by Nicole Royse

Reception with the artist, July 1, 7pm-11pm
Nicole is a young upcoming self taught artist with a Bachelor degree in Art History from ASU. She is also new mother of two young children so her painting time is limited, yet she has a prolific series of paintings prepared for this exhibit.

“My paintings focus on abstraction through line, exploration of shape, and expressive use of texture and color, working mainly with Acrylic paint on canvas. With each painting I hope to engage the viewer’s senses through my expressive layering of paint and colors, enlargement of forms, and exaggeration of brushstrokes. I hope to create a pleasurable viewing experience as well as a level of abstraction that is meditative in its simplicity.”

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Midsummer Night’s Dream Costume Ball


Midsummer Night’s Dream Costume Ball
June 18, 7pm-11pm

Come dressed as your favorite Fae or as one of the other characters in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Many of the Fae from both courts and the mischievous Robin Goodfellow will all be in attendance at this event for those 16 years and older. Live music by Cosmos featuring USA Belly Dance Queen Makara, Funny Bones and Of the earth. A Goddess Raffle will take place, as well as an Elfin Marketplace, where soft drinks and snacks will also be sold.

$10 admission, this event is a benefit for
Phoenix Pagan Pride Day

For more information visit their website
www.phoenixpaganprideday.org

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Gayle Hoeper Solo Exhibit

<strong>Opens First Friday June 3, 2011</strong>

Long Diamond
Big OctopusGayle Hoeper will be showcassing her bold & wild animals, macro examinations of fish, octapus, and flowers. Her large bold paintings create a Summer fun playfulness. The fish could pass for low-maintenance pets on your wall. Come enjoy First Friday. Exhibit up through June 24.

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Garfield Homebuyers Workshop

Homebuyers workshopHomebuyers Workshop
THURSDAY, MAY 5th

Alwun House, 1204 E Roosevelt.
Mixer, 5:30pm. Workshop 6-7 pm.

A panel of real estate professionals, mortgage and finance experts, as well as recent and long-time homeowners from the Garfield neighborhood, will be on hand to provide information and answer questions regarding Garfield neighborhood, housing prices, financing, funding programs, and assistance in the process of purchasing a home.

Housing prices are currently at their lowest point in more than a decade and lending interest rates are at an all-time low. The current federal economic stimulus package includes significant grant incentives and tax savings for those who purchase a home this year. These conditions combine to create an ideal market opportunity for first-time homebuyers. This workshop, the third in a series, seeks to introduce resources and personnel to attendees and additional funding opportunities available to them. The workshop will have an emphasis on individuals and artists interested in living in Garfield neighborhood.

Garfield neighborhood (7th to 16th St, Van Buren to I-10 Fwy) is the most affordable historic neighborhood in downtown Phoenix, and has an increasing presence of artists-creatives that live and work in homes that they own.

This workshop presentation is a collaborative effort between Alwun House Foundation; Roosevelt Row CDC,; Neighborhood Housing Services of Phoenix; Garfield Organization, and the City of Phoenix Neighborhood Services Department.

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GARFIELD FILM PREMIERE

with neighborhood pot-luck-dessert social
Wednesday, May 4, 7pm

The video “Garfield,” an Arizona State University production, is the result of a collaborative partnership between its Downtown Campus and neighbor, Garfield.

Featured, is one of Phoenix’s first neighborhoods from the 1800′s, with Phoenix’s first park, and early trolley line. This past, present, future “snapshot,” focuses on the late 20th century, after Garfield became abandoned, a victim of flight from downtown, and how its neighbors built partnerships.

Interviewed are members of the nascent Garfield Organization founded by cake-maker, La Doña, Lupe Sisneros. The film hints how one neighbor to another, grew partnerships that began to include non-profit partners like Neighborhood Housing Services Phoenix, Alwun House facilitated the power of art in transforming its community. Neighbors describe how the nexus of City of Phoenix NSD/NIA Department with its culture of “inclusiveness,” together with winning Arizona’s first US Department of Justice, “Weed and Seed” program formed ongoing partnerships, including Phoenix Police Department. Together, they engaged neighbor-leaders in developing comprehensive revitalization strategies. Garfield has a promising future, a proud, up-and-coming historic neighborhood.

As a teaser blast from the past; 1948 “Driver Ed” film narrated by Jimmy Stewart, show’s inside and out the old Garfield Elementary School at Roosevelt and 13th Street. Intriguing are glimpses of Garfield in all its post-war glory, palm-tree lined Roosevelt Street, and the traffic.

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NYFA workshop


FREE WORKSHOP – Funding opportunities for artists
April 23, 2011, 1-2:30pm
Program Officer Eleanor Whitney from Artspire, a project of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) will present on Artspire/NYFA’s fundraising and support programs available for Phoenix area artists in all disciplines at every stage in their careers. Geared to individual artists across disciplines and small/emerging arts organizations on Artspire/NYFA’s extensive fundraising and support programs. Visual, performing, literary artists and filmmakers are all encouraged to attend.

NYFA Source (www.nyfa.org/source) is the most extensive national online directory of awards, services, and programs for artists. Listings include over 8,000 arts organizations, award programs, service programs, and publications for individual artists across the country.

Fiscal Sponsorship (www.artspire.org) is a critical way for individual artists, artists’ collaborative projects, and emerging arts organizations in all disciplines to apply for funding usually available only to organizations with 501(c)(3) nonprofit status.

The presentation is free and open to the public. Interested artist’s need to pre-register, as seating is limited, available on a first come basis.

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April 1st Intertemporalist Steampunk Opening

April First Opening Masquerade Ball 
& Wild West Saloon Show

$15 door -  tickets will be at the door, 7pm.
doors open at 7pm, performances 8pm
Dress fantasy or pedestrian. It’s a welcoming emerging cultural phenomenon.

Experience time-warping Intertemporalist fantasy through art, 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.

Opening night performances:
Provocatease
saloon vaudeville show,
Bedouin Tribe Middle-Eastern dancers,
SPELL performance inspired by Abney Park
DJ-MX industrial-trance world beat soundtrack,
Planet Poe Players perform selected humorous and prescient Edgar Allan Poe works in, “STEAMPUNK POE: The Man Who Inspired Jules Verne.”

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Salon des Enfants, March 18, 2011

Friday, March 18, 4pm
Salon des Enfants
Exhibit runs through March 25

student artPhoenix Elementary School District #1 Art Teachers band together to create this juried exhibit. 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. Opening March 18th, the Alwun House Stage features school bands, Folklorico dancers, and choir; with families and the public supporting arts in our schools.

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Exotic Spring Ball

Friday, March 11, 7pm
Exotic Spring Ball
Tickets $15 

Joe Fromicella, HatCelebrate Spring’s Fecundity
A Free Spirit in Music, Song & Dance
Complimentary Hors d’oeuvres
Cash Bar, PAMA laced Tiger Blood Punch

The climax for our Exotic Art Show 2011. Exotic Dance and Ball; featuring SPELL in a timeless ritual performance, Romantasy Cabaret’s festive variety burlesque, Of The Earth gypsy vaudeville. DJ MX encourage revelers celebrating Spring’s evocative embrace. It’s a Spring thing – dress for fun. Hors d’oeuvres, Cash Bar.
Last chance viewing and purchase works from Exotic Art Show.

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Who is Annie Sprinkle?

ANNIE SPRINKLE has 35+ years of experience in sexually oriented entertainment, education, and art.

 Beginning at the age of 18, hippie Annie started her journey into the forays of alternative culture when she landed a job at the Plaza Cinema in Tucson, Arizona. Selling popcorn while Gerard Damiano’s Deep Throat played at the theatre, where she found herself subpoenaed to appear in court as witness for the prosecution of an obscenity trial.

 In 1973 she moved to New York, worked as a prostitute and a porn star for twenty years, then toured the USA in burlesque for four years with her own brand of performance called “Strip Speak.” As a mover and shaker in the 80′s sex positive feminist movement, she evolved into a producer/director of her own “post porn” films, and became an internationally acclaimed performance artist. She shared her experiences through her books, photography, and in hundreds of magazine articles. Sprinkle became the first porn star to earn a PhD. A few years ago, Sprinkle came out at as an “ecosexual,” and is now committed to making the environmental movement a little more sexy, fun and diverse, and to doing “sexecological research.”  She is shifting the metaphor from Earth as “mother” to Earth as “lover” through visual art, theater, and visiting artist presentations; such as Alwun House “Exploring Sexuality” presentation, Feb 13,1-3pm. .  Her motto is “eroticize everything.”

Sunday, Feb. 13, 1-3pm
Ecosexuality: Exploring the Landscape of a New Sexual Movement
with Annie Sprinkle, PhD.
Tickets: $15 – limited seating.


Annie will shift the metaphor from “Earth as mother” to “Earth as lover,” for the sheer pleasure of it, and in order to help create a more sustainable world. Explore the places where sexology and ecology intersect in our culture. She will point out sexecological sites as she guides you on a short walk around the gardens. Everyone is welcome. Annie Sprinkle has 35+ years of experience in sexually oriented art, entertainment, and radical sex education. Explore the places where sexology and ecology intersect in our culture. Today she is committed to making the environmental movement more sexy, fun and diverse.

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Erotic Poetry and Music Festivus Tickets on Sale Now!

Friday, Feb. 18, 7pm
Erotic Poetry and Music Festivus
Tickets $8 advance; $10 at the door

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.

FEATURING: CLEOPACHE, Miouo, Mystic Muse, Brandy Star, Wisdom Soul, Mary Godfrey, The Lotus Band, Hillary Tash, Tom Tuerff, Of The Earth.

Read all about our exciting artist line-up for this annual favorite!


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Exotic Phantasmagorical Spectacular!

Friday, Feb. 11, 2011
Exotic Phantasmagorical Spectacular

Tickets: $25 door, $20 advance
Advance tickets avoid waiting lines and ensure admission.
Doors at 7pm; Showtime at 8pm

An art opening 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 erotic-exotic art. Outrageous burlesque cabaret, belly dancers, festive revelry, roving exotic sideshow characters blur the line between performance and spectator. This opening is the event to see and be seen at.

Chocolates, Champagne, Hpnotiq drink specials. Dress for Success.
Special Thanks To Our Sponsors For This Event!


Upcoming Events at Alwun House!

Sunday, Feb. 13, 1-3pm
Exploring Ecosexuality
Presentation by: Annie Sprinkle, PhD.
Tickets: $15 – limited seating.

An Entertaining & Enlightening Presentation & Discussion Revealing the Ecstasy of Ecosexual Living. Ready to learn ecology as fun and sexy?


Upcoming Events at Alwun House!

Friday, Feb. 18, 7pm
Erotic Poetry and Music Festivus
Tickets $8 advance; $10 at the door

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.

FEATURING: CLEOPACHE, Miouo, Mystic Muse, Brandy Star, Wisdom Soul, Mary Godfrey, The Lotus Band, Hillary Tash, Tom Tuerff, Of The Earth.

Read all about our exciting artist line-up for this annual favorite!


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