Thursday, May 2nd 6-9pm
Christina sings 'Stormy Weather' in a Hilarious Wa
at Art Opening uptown
Hear, see, experience Christina and her trio of femmes fatales sing and reinterpret songs from the 1920s. We've never tip toed so sweetly through the tulips in gold lame! Private Event. Write us if you'd like to come.
Tuesday, Feb 14th Valentine's Day, 8pm HiChristina hosts private Masquerade Ball
Complete with some leggs and a little bit of ferrari testerosa biscotti! Cover your face in technology, feathers, a beauty,mask, a wolfish smile, or a traditional eye cover, whatever suits you suits us at this bubbly dinner downtown. To Hire HiChristina for your event, write us .
Tuesday, Jan 1st, 2013! New Year's Day, 3pm-4pm HiChristina 4th Annual Love Corners:
the only New Year's DAY Tradition!
Stand on the corner of 23rd street and 5th Avenue, Manhattan on the sunny side of the street. Okay, now you're there. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Open your eyes, and project love! It's as simple as that. Meet interesting people in the process! Wear some red: a red scarf, a red hat, a red earring, or paint a fingernail red, or a tooth! Find someone else wearing red and hold hands. Project love. We're all in this together! And know that at the same moment people around the world are projecting love on a corner in their own cities: Madrid, San Cristobal, Kyoto, Hamburg, Pittsburg, Miami, Seattle, and Soweto to name a few! Last year a man with 100 red balloons showed up! The year before it was the giant panda. What will happen this year!? Afterwards take a walk in the park or share a cup of tea with your new friends. The fastest growing new year's day tradition! Do lover corners in New York or wherever you are and Email us a photo!
FREE
WORLDWIDE !
Thursday, December 13th, 9-11pm HiChristina Make-A-Play and Toothpaste Mustache!
Tonight HiChristina makes a 10 minute 3 act play out of group consciouness! Bring a page from a play, on your phone or an actual printed play (even better!), and join HiChristina as we costume, light, direct and act out the new hybrid Play of All Plays! But that's not all! After playing your role on stage, back stage, or in the audience (tasteful heckling encouraged!)gather round for the cast and crew afterparty with drinks at the bar and surprising dramatic outbursts! Oh, and bring tomatoes (some provided) for throwing at the Villian! When you go home your roommate will ask "How did you get that toothpaste mustache?" If they only know!
CultureFix 9 Clinton Street in the Lower Eastside
Tickets $10 online $15 at door
Friday, Nov 9th, 9pm-10:30pm The Perfect Stranger + Boogie Woogie ! Formerly HiChristina Classic Halloween Party
THE LATEST:
Come in, write down your ultimate life goal, dance, wear a strange but comfortable new outfit, meet new friends, and when you leave, you'll have your whole life figured out and written down by a friendly stranger on an index card. Sound impossible? It's not! HiChristina has a proven and fail-proof way to help you discover and realize your dreams!! Tonight's the night. It's
part theatre, part personal discovery, and two parts social mixer with a side of boogie down. Watch out for the 'unexpectedly attractive flasher, sign up for a mystery encounter in the closet, and yes, feel the eyeballs in the bowl, bob for apples and enter the costume contest! So wear your windswept Halloween costume or come as you are (costume elements provided) and be ready for career-changing revelations, tonight only with HiChristina! Show starts promptly.
at IvanaHelsinki Concept Store in SoHo
251 Elizabeth Street (Between Houston and Prince)
$15 online $20 at the door
Tuesday, Nov 6th, all day Vote!
Whether by mail or at a poll, vote, vote, vote with HiChristina and millions of other people today in a mass group participatory experiment. Then stand back and cross your fingers!!
FREE
Wednesday, Oct 24th, 7-11pm HiChristina! at a Private Groupme Event
Charades, blindfolded bluff, and the 'camera dance' are just a taste of the wild, historically-informed and postmodernly refigured parlor games that you'll learn and experience tonight! Join Master Entertainer and Semiotician Fritz Donnelly of HiChristina as you describe the history of the mystery object, or play continuous piano (no skills necessary!) while hiding and seeking around Victorian columns and plush couches. It's a little bit of crazy in an old stately mansion, and you'll walk away with some undeniable new social moves! To hire us for your event/party/extravaganza write fritzandchristina@gmail.com
Saturday, Oct 20th, 4-6pm 3rd Annual Massive Mad Hatter's Tea Party
Fritz as the March Hare, Christina as the White Queen, and baby Keats as Doormouse (or teacup!)!
Don your mad hats and make your way down the rabbit hole, through the tiny door, across the pond of giant tears and into this wild wonderful and literary mass participation celebration of Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter's Tea Party.
TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK
East Village, Manhattan, New York, The United States of
America, Planet Earth, Wonderland.
FREE
Saturday, Oct 13th, 9pm (show starts promplty at 9:15pm) HiChristina Variety Show with Polka Dot Olympics!
The infamous HiChristina Variety Show returns!! This fall we're taking the show on the road and popping up in locations throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. Tonight join us in a throwback to the fabled Williamsburg of 'old', a 2nd floor loft with hand-built bar, stage, balcony, and carved wooden heads!!! Take the stage to share your latest ideas, your artwork, your practiced performance, or your spontaneous urge. The variety show is a mix of the tried-and-true and the nascent and unexpected. But that's not all! Like a triple decker sandwich (hold the sardines!) this night goes through three magical phases: 5 minute performances, group polka, and fake astrologies! We can't wait to see you! Christina will start the show promptly at 9:15 so come at 9pm to reserve your favorite spot in the lineup... Our new HiChristinian Keats might have an act to perform too!
hidden loft space with stage and balcony in Williamsburg near South 5th & Bedford $5 to perform, $10 to watch
Friday, Oct 12th, all day Register to Vote TODAY!!!
Last day to register to vote in New York (and still be able to vote in the election). Anyone with a driver's license/ID card can do it! Go to the DMV online here. 1) Get a username and password using your liscense/ID. 2) sign in and register. 3) That's it! GET OUT AND VOTE- This is an important election, Sesame Street is on the line!
FREE
Thursday, Oct 11th, 6pm-9pm Opening Reception for Evelyn Donnelly's New Artwork!
See new paintings from Fritz's sister!! Join us for this very special art opening in a downtown loft, old school style! And if you haven't yet, meet Keats! He's the friendliest art critic we know ~|~ (I'd like to put a few more exclamation points in here but I've been informed there's a new mark, one that indicates you're jumping up and down and waving your arms while you say something and it is: ~|~ use at your own discretion).
Salon 2b
80 Nassau Street #2b (b/w John & Fulton, 1 block east of Broadway.
FREE
Saturday, Sept 8th, night HiChristina as 'Club Med' at Les Salonnieres Tiki Party!
Put on a flower shirt, leave the sand in your hair, and sneak with me up two flights of stairs to this reed skirted Tiki Party in a transformed Williamsburg loft. It will be fly fancy and fun on two dance floors, a room of heads, a cigar terrace, a tiki bar and free beer from 8-9:30. Tickets 10 bucks here http://www.eventbee.com/v/tikisalon (address will be emailed to attendees day before the event). Write fritzandchristina@gmail.com to become part of the performance troupe! Afterwards we all go jump in the moonlit ocean!
Saturday, Sept 8th, noon-5pm HiChristina House of Wondrous Disguises at SculptureCenter Block Party!
Enter our giant HiChristina 'black box' through a secret entrance and exit in total hot-weather-friendly disguise! Inside the box are all the elements you need to create a perfect disguise plus helpers, so you can do it yourself, or with assistance and be 'made over!'
Why lose weight when you can gain weight! Why dress up when you can dress down! Why dress forward when you can dress backward, these and other bold stylistic choices will send Milan fashion experts reeling and make you the star of your facebook friends' friends!
We don't reveal exactly what happens in the black box, suffice it to say each corner of the box offers a different experience: mustache, body augmentation, head flair, and total surprise with closed eyes!
Yes for everyone!
We promise it will be the best Saturday ever as you join HiChristina for the Long Island City block party through SculptureCenter with over 50 participating artists and between 1,000-2,500 attendees. The party will involve an artist's market inside of SC, food trucks, performances, and artist-run activity tents that play on booths typically found an an outdoor fair.
And that's not all! Reach into your pocket after getting your 'before' and 'after' picture taken and you'll find a tiny slip of paper with a secret mission that will lead you deeper into the wild wooly world of art block party!
FREE SculptureCenter Block Party!
44-19 Purves Street
Long Island City, NY 11101 718.361.1750 x123
Saturday, May 26th, late night HiChristina 'Interactive Performance' at BANZAI!
Last year we wrapped the dancefloor (and the dancers) in gold transparent fabric! This year... Only one way to find out. Show producer-performers Muffinhead and Eric Schmalenberger pull together the edge of art, performance, and music into a sparklying tapestry. (photo by Citizen Chris)
Christina Tells All!
You've seen me on TV now hear about my journey. From the first pink spot on the pregnancy test (surprise!), to my hospital visits and decision to try a homebirth with a midwife, to breastfeeding our 3 month-old son. Join me for a casual talk with Q and A to follow. Keats and I look forward to meeting you!
Tuesday, May 15th 10pm-11pm Christina Gives Birth on TV!
The Absurd has never been so real: see Fritz and Christina on Reality TV! Tune in to Pregnant in Heels (on Bravo) and watch Rosie Pope guide Christina and Fritz out of the woods and into the fireplace with the homebirth of their first child. Will Fritz teach the baby diaperless communication? Will Christina succumb to the c-section? Find out all that and more in that fading into extinction medium we all call television! See snippets here: season preview | season preview 2 | episode preview
Your luck is about to change with this Lucky Penny from HiChristina!
This Friday the 13th go from good to gooder and (wanna) bet to better! Ever wondered if thinking about something makes it happen... or what cheese tastes like on the moon? Get the answers you've always wanted dressed up in living color tonight at HiChristina! And what better time to wear that puffy jacket or metallic head band or those Moonboots! (moon landing recreation dance party tops off the night).
Amble in to this SoHo storefront remade into a labyrinth of surprises. In one corner get hypnotized, in another practice tarot, in another eat lucky charms cereal with a leprechaun! But where's the science? Experiment with sound and light at the experiment table with true labcoated professionals!
Then brush your hair back and bend your ears for six short lectures (5 min ea.) including: "I Live with Ghosts", "My Dancing Robot", "Optimism Will Make You Live Forever", "The Quantified Self", and the ever popular "Vegan Lucky Rabbit Tail." And to top it off Special Guest Liam McEneaney talks his way past Rumplestitskin!
DJ Wicked Sweaty pumps up the jams for the moonboots dance party conclusion-explosion!
at IvanaHelsinki Concept Store in SoHo
251 Elizabeth Street (Between Houston and Prince)
April Fools Day! 6pm HiChristina 4th Annual Make New Friends:
Outdoor Adventure Edition - Central Park Join us in the great outdoors of Central Park for a wild adventure guided by Fritz and Christina! Snack on ice cream sandwiches, wrangle balloons, overcome obstacles, do some crazy athletics, lie in the grass and listen to poetry (leaves of grass/bring your own), and meet the troll under the bridge!
This April Fools Day meet an entirely new social network! Does it seem that your old friends have lost interest in you or your amazing new projects? Not attending your important events, dates or openings? Do they assume that because you two are "Old Pals" that they can take advantage of you, yet not even call on your birthday?
Well, here at HiChristina we say, "Out with the old and in with the new!" You deserve friends who appreciate you for who you are, respect your lifestyle and choices, friends who call you back right away. And what better day to meet new friends than on the silliest day of the year!
Special guest performance by the Balloon Wrangler!
RSVP for secret start location and code word.
in Central Park, Manhattan.
The friendliest party in New York City!
Valentine's Day, Tuesday, February 14th 8-11pm HiChristina (Mad) Love at First Sight This particular event was just covered in TimeOut New York and Black Book Magazine and the New York Times. But you already knew it's great!
Everyone wants a perfect Valentine's but does anyone really want all that responsibility?! Now you don't have to! Fritz and Christina are here for you. At this HiChristina soiree you'll experience the full benefits of V-day, romance, poetry, chocolate, without any of the D-day, break-ups, cocktails thrown in the face, and stomped flowers.
Come alone or as a couple and enter an exotic muraled parlor with Victorian horned furniture where the living legends of love walk among us. Cupid, Cyrano de Bergerac, Shakespeare (Emily James !), Don Juan--played by the one and only Lady Rizo!, plus Marilyn Monroe and even David Lynch (come on, Wild at Heart)! Each of these magical personalities leads you through a different part of the night. Cupid assigns valentines to the adventurous, Cyrano puts poetic words in your mouth (tongues?). Marilyn does hair for flashbulb photos by Ventiko in a Ventikoland installation! Don Juan seduces. And the lucky few become the fought-over muses of Shakespeare and David Lynch. Jump in midnight-in-paris style or stand back opera-balcony-style in the splendid shadows of tonight's venue, The Oracle Club.
Miss a connection at the party? Now you have live matchmaking by Madamoiselle Amy van Doran, just drop your request in the hat and the matchmaker for extraordinary people will connect you using her secret 1000 year old recipe (and modern methods like email). And for the delicate palate, nibble on hand-made chocolate by Daniel Sklaar's Fine and Raw.
Opera arias, Andre Breton's Mad Love, super-artist Laura Lee Gulledge as the lipstick painting cigarette girl, and a parlor game of show OR tell will add art and culture to your chocolate plate. With HiChristina you'll never be lonely again.
Monday, Jan 23 5pm Fritz's Film at Slamdance Celebrating creativity without the planning, or impulsive movies, or just movies made with more casual technology, the Disposable Film Festival shows films made on 'disposable' media like cell phones and point-n-shoot cameras. Across the street and upside down from the SUNDANCE Film Festival, it's avant-garde cousin SLAMDANCE is showing one of Fritz's films, "Final Request",
as part of the Disposable Film Festival "Best Of". Tickets/ info here. teaser Trailer here .
Sunday, Jan 1 2012!! 3:02pm - 4:01pm HiChristina! 3rd Annual LOvE CorNeRS For any of 59 beautiful minutes join HiChristina at the 3rd Annual LOVE Corners! Stand next to a stranger and project love toward other strangers walking by. Know your friends by the red scarf or red hat or red pants or red tie or red shoelaces or red ... something that they're wearing. Have no red? There's always your tongue! You'll see us on the sunny corner of 58th street and 6th Ave at 3:02pm (rain or shine). Come and go as you please, even a minute of LoVe Corners can last the whole year! Not in Manhattan? LovE Corner on a street near you, send a snap and we'll snap you back. At the precise stroke of 4:01 take a leisurely stroll with your new-found friends in Central Park. It's the new New Year's DAY tradition! Last year a spontaneous LoVe CoRNers popped up in South America! As seen in Women's Wear Daily!
Free event!
corner of 58th Street and 6th Avenue (one block south of Central Park in Manhattan)
RSVP to fritzandchristina@gmail.com
or just show up before between 3 and 4
... a piece of pie goes to whoever comes at 3:14pm!Free event! RSVP
or just show up before between 3 and 4... a piece of pie goes to whoever comes at 3:14pm!
Wednesday, Dec 21 8:30pm - late at Glasslands HiChristina! hosts Holiday Party with Cream On Top Staying in New York for the pagan-cum-commercial holiday of the century? Dance and romance away the night with fun friends at Glasslands, the cloud in a warehouse with hot apple cider, a double bar, a balcony, and HiChristina in the fuzzy lights. Live Music from Wild Yaks, Hopewell, This Frontier Needs Heroes,
The Can't Tells,
Broke and Rollin' (Zach Clausen & Cameron Salazar). Laura Leigh gives midnight haircuts! Proceeds benefit the bodily recovery of the soultastic DJ Jonathan Toubin.
at Glasslands 289 Kent Ave Brooklyn NY 11211
Friday, Dec 16 10pm at CultureFix HiChristina! Fake Talk Show, Seedless Grapes, and the Toilet Bowl Fairy HiChristina brings you the late night talk show to end all talk and turn upside down all shows! Walk through the doors and when the red light goes on take your place: in the audience, or on stage as a guest or backup dancer, in the band lead by Christina herself, as one of the stage crew, or take the "mystery surprise" role, it's your choice when you arrive! And, for the performers out there, do a 2 min piece on stage and be interviewed afterward by your hosts Fritz and Christina. For the voyeur inside, get the special Paparazzi pass and get to sneak back stage or even sit, "under the desk!" Also a chance to meet and hear from some of New York's finest artistic talent. 90 minute show starts promptly.
at CultureFix 9 Clinton Street in the Lower East Side
The HiChristina! BIG BUMP!
Christina is having a baby. And as wonderful as this may be for her what do the rest of us do about it... well, we have a baby too! Wear a belly tonight (bellies provided or bring your own) and join HiChristina for an event that is three parts party, two parts dancing, and one part strange performance of the absurd.
For one fast and furious hour HiChristina takes something that's growing inside us all and pulls it out! What is that special something that you have inside you? The whisper dance, a side of detective coleslaw, undercover performance, and even L*O*V*E Sparkle will send you through the most wild early evening hour of your life! Oh and did we mention that a Major Network Television Station will be filming the insanity? Immortality!
Let the exhibitionist or intellectual or fashionista inside you free! Show us what's been brewing within and let us massage it out, nice and gentle like... It's a natural birth!
Christina Plays Music in Los Angeles!! LA: Largo Oct 18 8:30, Hotel Cafe Oct 19 9pm
Christina (of our own HiChristina!) is performing in two shows in LA. See her with Alexa Wilding's band (Tim Foljahn, Alexa Wilding www.alexawilding.com , and Christina). One night she plays with a comic musician Ben Lee who recently appeared in a short film with Margaret Cho! Tuesday, October 18 - 8:30pm - Ben Lee's Deeper Into Dream album release @ Largo
*For Ben Lee fans...special show celebrating Ben's wonderful new album. Video preview by Fritz here.
Also performing will be The Silver Lake Chorus, Tim Foljahn, and Emma Forrest --Tickets and info here Wednesday, October 19 - 9:00pm - Alexa Wilding at Hotel Cafe
*The upclose and wonderful show!
Tickets and info here--Facebook link to share: here --
Friday, June 24 10pm Mustache Party! Have you always wanted to be inducted into the secret world of
hairy chests, cigars, poker tables, hair pieces, long socks, and mustaches? Tonight don your disguise, step over the gender boundary and see how the other half lives!
RSVP for time and location: tothehills-at-gmail.com
Saturday, June 11, 6:30 doors 7pm-9pm Show HiChristina hosts Mardi Love Belly Dancing!!!
The belly that launched a thousand dances is gyrating, poping, flowing, and shimmying tonight at Cameo on N6th Street. HiChristina will take you through a night of world-class belly dancers (featuring the one, the only, Mardi Love!), eccentric performances, and snake-charming live music. Performers include,
Sarah J. Locke, Renata, Irina Kom, Barushka,
and Dhyana of Alchemy Dance Theatre;
JeniViva and the Mystical Hips Tribe,
Lauren Jeanette,
Lauren Robbiani,
Mat Jacob, Sarah Hassan. For tickets go here.
Cameo Gallery 93 N. 6th Street Williamsburg (close to the L train at Bedford)
Saturday, May 28th, late night HiChristina 'Special Appearance' at BANZAI!
How can we be two places at once? How can we be two people at once! Double the trouble tonight as dynamic glittered-toed and fur-heeled performers unite with art on walls, music in ears, and bubbly mouth syndrome. You can't stop talking tonight at Muffinhead & Eric Schmalenberger's Banzai party. HiChristina will be there to bring you closer to that person next to you! More info about the 'Banzai: Art and Performance Blitz' on their facebookinvite: here.
Saturday, May 28th 9pm HiChristina hosts Glasslands 5 year Anniversary Birthday!
What started as an underground operation full of sweat soul clapping and indie rock and dress-me-up bartending has turned into a new york institution! In just 5 short years. Congratulations to the Glasslands, Brooke Baxter and Rolyn's baby that will now be going off to school on it's own to learn to read and write and rythmatic! A medley of music and fun hosted by Christina and Fritz.
Glasslands - 289 Kent Avenue (between S1 and S2nd) - L train to Bedford Ave
Friday, May 27th 8pm JUST ONE MORE THING: The HiChristina Columbo-Themed Vampire Murder Mystery Dinner Party
Eat, Drink and be MURDERED- uh, I mean MERRY! Friday the 27th of May marks the first-ever HiChristina Columbo-themed vampire murder mystery dinner party with weapons from Clue! Christina's all-time favorite retro sluth COLUMBO, the trench-coat wearing, humble, clever, stooped detective will make an appearance to solve a mysterious string of murders. Kill, be killed, watch, eat, drink, meet, do one, do it all. The party evolves through three phases: Investigation, Murder, and Alibi... oh and the grand finale where Columbo (Fritz Donnelly) solves the case! Create false alibis with other guests, use 'weapons' (like the poisoned red wig, or the collapsible dagger, or the candlestick!) strategically hidden around the room, and watch out for the surprise zombie attack. It's everything fun about murder and the 70s mixed in a cauldron of bright colors, black boots, and eyeshadow. And most refreshing: tonight rather than being yourself you can be someone totally different. Experience the glamor and success it usually takes a lifetime to accumulate in one night! RSVP for your role right out of lifestyles for the rich (or supernatural) and famous. Columbo's heyday was the 60-70s so think retro, or go goth if you're into the vampire aspect, and come ready for fun (and good food specials!)
$15 at the door, or online for $12
Juniper 112 Berry Street (between n7 and n8 in Williamsburg, 2 blocks from Bedford L train)
Saturday, May 14th, 7pm party 9pm show Room of Fritz, A Choose Your Own Performance
Come to an ordinary party on a beautiful terrace in Manhattan. Strike up a conversation and discover that something unexpected is going on!
A: "What do you do?"
B: "I'm an actor. How about you?"
A: "The zoo."
B: "Figures... so have you been in the Room of Fritz?"
A: "I chose 'lights out,' 'talking,' 'body suit,' and 'pg-13'."
We pass out cards. You fill out your choices and then when your time comes enter the Room of Fritz for individualized/small group, once-in-a-lifetime performances that are unique and tailor-made to your choices. Categories include: Light, Costume, Action, Style, and more! Fill out your card, slip it under the door, and receive your ticket and entry instructions. Step out of reality for a moment and into the room of delight. The fun never stops at HiChristina, it just evolves into something even more fun!
$10 BYOB
Terrace, Upper West Side, RSVP for exact address fritzandchristina-at-gmail.com
Saturday, April 30th Messages From the Future at Brown University
The future holds endless possibilities but the imagining of the future is usually
very specific. There is the future of the 50s, rounded, bubbly, with sleek lines
and smoothed edges--a kind of happy communist bloc. The future of the 60s is mulitcultural,
a voyage into the unknown. The future of the 70s was the present of the 70s: disco.
There is the future of the 80s, dark, dripping, with monsters, where the line
between machine and person is fuzzy and moving, There is the future of the 90s
with clones, drones, and cgi-scapes. So far the twenty-tens don't have a future,
or at least the conventions of this future aren't worn in yet, the groove hasn't
been dug deep. Today we step into the booth and jump far into the future, and
from this distant place we look back and comment on the present, we give advice,
we observe, and we... Oh and we show off our new technological inventions (this
is where magic cloud comes in! http://tothehills.com/magiccloud/
The
night culminates in everybody being wrappd in synthetic solid maonaise. Of course.
Annual
Spring Arts Festival by the Student Creative League
at the Granof Center, Brown
University, Providence RI
Wednesday,
April 27th HiChristina! hosts Royal Wedding
This is a private event. If you'd like HiChristina for your party or event,
write fritzandchristina-at-gmail.com. Design by Christina Ewald. ps To see how the Royal Wedding effected facebook check this article in the Guardian here. Though the masked figures appear to have been elderly theater majors: here
Monday,
April 25th 8pm-10pm HiChristina! presents "Later
Brooklyn"
Join us Monday for the LIVE taping of this new (post)tv Show! What do you get
when you take one pair of solid gold leggings, sprinkle sequins, add a slab of
mustache, two pinches buffon hairdo, a dash of smile, lace with wit, and let roast
for 90 minutes uncovered? Fritz Donnelly (huzah!), the new host of the funnest
late night show ever! Mash-up of SNL, the Late Night Show, and the Twilight Zone,
and you have some idea of what to expect tonight. Part cinematic chomp,
part live romp, part concert, part post-apocalyptic release: hear interviews,
see sketches, nod to the live music, dance in the spotlight, or volunteer to jump
up on stage for the 'natural actor' portion of the show. Later BK is everything
Christina and Fritz (and Josh and Dennis et al) can make it plus a bunch of other
amazing people with beards and bangs and oh yes tassels too!
at Cameo Gallery
on 93 N 6th St.Williamsburg (L to Bedford)
FREE 8pm, complimentary drinks
7-8pm
Friday, April 15th 10pm HiChristina!
3rd Annual Five Minute Lectures
It's
an amazing time to be alive... Revolution, wigs, disaster, latex and taco trucks!
But what does it all mean TO YOU? Well, Find out the answer tonight at HiChristina!
Fritz and Christina are taking you from 'interpretive dance interpreter' to 'sex
standing up' through 'revolutions in everyday life' to 'how to be a casual scientist'
and 'make money while just sitting there!' even 'using a scarf as a neck brace
and other household remedies' and much much more! After each three presentations
there's a brief question and answer session where you can learn and be learned!
Come with a five minute lecture up your sleeve (spontaneous submissions accepted,
or write us to be put on the roster). If being the pupil is your cup of tea just
come ready to get schooled! With a garden out back, drinks and food, there's no
telling what insightful, hilarious or downright bizarre goodies you'll be soaking
up tonight! Hosted by your own Christina Ewald and Fritz Donnelly.
$10 - this
marvelous place has drink specials just for us! and delicious food!
Juniper,
112 Berry Street btwn N7th & N8th (Willimasburg, L train Bedford stop)
Friday,
April Fools Day, 11:59pm Nine Minutes of Nadness
What
if you wrappd the entire contents of a late night 'hotspot' in heat conductive
Aluminum Foil! It's that and the friendly tomatoes happening tonight in this HiChristina
homage to April Fools pranks, stunts, and triumphs!
Minor Arcana, Brooklyn
Saturday,
March 19, 10pm Happy Happy Sunshine Rainbow and Ballpoint
Pen!
Rainbow
colors, delightful SENSORY experience, live human sculptures, slippery SEA creatures
and a dazzling prance/dance PARTY? Don't mind if I do! Fritz and Christina are
out of the editing studio tonight and ready to take you through every color of
the RAINBOW, one at a time, each having it's own theme, special performance and
eclectic action! Jump up and get crazy with RED bultler's anger management dance
technique... Or lie down, cool off and listen to the lapping waves with BLUE penguin.
And there are so many more colors than that! What about the ballpoint pen? Well,
that's one of the most exciting parts! See (and act in if you like) short renditions
of major and obscure works of art. Guests are invited to bring something special.
And that's not all... you are HIGHLY encouraged to wear BRIGHT colors: all one
color or many! There will be new friendly fun-makers to meet and a chance to get
a massage by the infamous Mr. Squiggle!
byob,$20
20 West 20th Street 6th
Floor - The Pink Door
Chelsea, Manhattan, NYC
Friday,
March 11, 9pm Sneaky Preview! Private Sampling of I
LIKE YOU!
Just
four short months ago HiChristina! asked you to be part of our full-length feature
film I LIKE YOU and now it's time to come and get a delicious taste! This is a
PRIVATE PREVIEW SCREENING OF SELECT SCENES for:
1) Our marvelous and talented
CAST and CREW
2) Those generous lovers who donated to the film on kickstarter
3)
YOU if you would still like to make a donation of $10 or more by cash or check
tonight.
Fritz and Christina want to hug and kiss you for your wonderful acting
skills/booming expertise/craft service/altruistic donation that is making this
all possible!
Come pick up your Christina Ewald designed t-shirt (your know
who you are...)! You'll enjoy yourself tonight. From the marble lobby to the secret
elevator to the luxurious leather couches to the expansive terrace, only the best
for YOU! Why? Because we like you, that's why!
free, byob
Upper West Side,
Manhattan, NYC
RSVP to fritzandchristina (at) gmail.com and we will promptly
send you the address!
Saturday, January 22, 8pm -
11pm It's Everyone's Birthday!
Is
it your birthday? Was it? Will it be yet? GREAT! Us too! Tonight celebrate birthdays
near and far at this music-filled, balloon-busting, kazoo-lovin' paradise. What
is that you say? Along with birthday madness you'd also like to hear live 90's
music played by an all girl cover band band? You want to dance, dance, dance then
jump in and out of HiChristina parlour games AND get lifted oh so high in our
human powered jungle gym? Good. Well, that's exactly what's going to happen tonight!!
Break out of the winter chills and join us for 3 hours of birthday madness! There
is a secret bar, magical dance floor and Fritz and Christina will be dressed up
as green beans and toast all set in the crispiest loft in Dumbo. Do join us...
Musical performance by No Ambition and a special levitation for Jennifer Armstrong!
$10
135 Plymouth St #208
Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
NEW
YAR'S DAY Saturday, January 1 2011, 3pm-4pm HiChristina
2nd Annuual LOVE Corners!
NW Corner of 6th Ave & 18th Street Manhattan
Have
you ever stopped at an intersection and watched everyone walk by? What if you
kept standing there and instead of checking your phone or asking directions...
you started projecting LOVE! This year HiChristina is embarking on it's largest
and most extravagant performance event to kick off the new year in the right spirit.
You'll be standing on the corner holding hands simultaneously with people in Beijing,
London, Johannesburg, and Tokyo.
Wear a red scarf or red handkerchief or a
red flower or hat. Walk to the corner of 18th St. and 6th Ave in Manhattan and
watch the people go by. Just look, silently. Smile. Stand on the sunny side of
the street! Hold hands with anyone else at the performance, any stranger in a
red scarf. Watch together without speaking. Last year a Full-size Panda showed
up and held down the corner along with dozens of other loving and silent strangers,
this year who knows what will happen. Join the world along with HiChristina in
celebrating the start of 2011. This is not hug a stranger, this is not art everywhere,
this is whimsical love and more refreshing than coconut water. If you're performing
love corners in your own city, at 3:30 call the toll-free HiChristina hotline
and tell us what your experience is like:
917.642.6018
We'll answer!
Christina
recommends going to a nearby tavern or cafe and sharing a hot drink with your
new found red scarved friends. Document however you'd like, camera phone, post-it
note, crumpled underwear, your choice. Stand on the sunny side of the street:
Northwest corner of 6th Ave and 18th Street in Manhattan RSVP and report
to fritzandchristina@gmail.com
FREE City-Wide, World-Wide Event
Sunday,
December 19, noon - 7pm Will
You Marry We!?!
LET'S
GET MARRIED! Give an inappropriate toast, hit on the groomsmen, be one of the
brides, take pictures, wear your most fabulous ridiculous colorful fancy outfit
ever and be immortalized in I LIKE YOU, the HiChristina movie! And this is no
ordinary art fantasy wedding, a bunch of people are all getting married to each
other AS A GROUP! Wouldn't it be great if you could combine all the traits of
your favorite lovers in one mate? Now you can! Come ready to take on the role
that's right for you OR be a fabulously dressed wedding guest and then... cut
loose! There will be multiple cameras and super pros mixing all the delightful
tidbits, dance moves, and bon mots together. We want you and we want you on film.
Be in the HiChristina full length movie! We're ready to transport you away on
peals of jubilant fun. Lights, camera... you know it.
FREE!
I DO!
In
Williamsburg off Bedford L
Sunday, December 19th noon
Camera's start rolling
at 1pm!
contact the Director with any questions: tothehills at gmail dot com
huzzah!
Sunday, December 19, 9pm - midnight HiChristina
Backstage pass!
Come
perform with HiChristina tonight LIVE, ON STAGE and BACKSTAGE. Come into the GREEN
room with us. We'll dress you up, jump onto the stage with us. Enjoy free beverages
for an hour and free flow of fun all night! There are roles for body guards, fans,
backup dancers, flashy photographers, and even break out soloists. Whether you
want to get on stage for the first time ever, lurk in the shadows, or push forward
a budding entertainment career HiChristina has a place for you. Everyone is part
of the performance tonight and the audience will never know what hit them. RSVP:
rxapparel@gmail.com
at Glasslands 289 Kent Avenue (between s1st and s2nd
in Williamsburg near Bedford L and Marcy J stops)
Wednesday
December 15, 9:00pm HiChristina 9th Annual Make New
Friends PLUS Variety Show with 'P' Fruit
Come
make new friends with HiChristina tonight in SOHO and see short performances of
all kinds! The ever-popular HiChristina MAKE NEW FRIENDS is back, this time bearing
new fruit: pear, papaya, pomegranate. Bring a fruit that starts with 'p' or come
as you are and take a bite! Meet new people and then experience intermittent performances
throughout the night. Sit back, relax and enjoy while our HiChristina 7 minute
slam-bam-bi-bim-pop performances knocks your socks off! And YES! You can sign
up to perform too! Bring your sharp wit, guitar, contortionist outfit or whatever
it is you're working on at the moment and SHARE it with your newly found friends!
It's one part social hour, one part variety show and all parts yummy treats tonight
at HiChristina!
-Tired of old friends?-
You're not alone- we have too!
On Wednesday, December 15th meet an entirely new social network! Does it seem
that your old friends have lost interest in you or your amazing new projects?
Not attending your important events, dates or openings? Do they assume that because
you two are "Old Pals" that they can take advantage of you yet not even
call on your birthday?
Well, here at HiChristina we say, "Out with the
old and in with the new!" You deserve friends who appreciate you for who
you are, respect your lifestyle and choices, friends who call you back right away.
The
friendliest party in New York City! With chocolate and tea provided by the darling
Alisha Trimble!
AT 'Isobel Arnberg' 280 Mulberry Street (between Prince
& Houston) New York, NY
BYOB $10 (to watch) (to perform $5)
Friday
December 3, 8pm HiChristina 2nd Annual Someone Else's Office Party
THIS
is the ultimate December holiday-party-going-New-York experience. Join Fritz and
Christina again this year, as we moon from one 'Holiday Party' to another. We
won't be thrown out but we're not exactly what they were expecting either. From
accountants to artists, to barons and punks, we'll be meeting professionals in
all forms and fields during our tour-de-soiree. The full range and possibility
of New York Holiday parties will be on your paper plate tonight during the HiChristina
2nd Annual Someone Else's Office Party! This year will be filled with holiday
cheer and endless fun!
First, we will convene at a secret location meeting
our new "co-workers" in the collectively decided upon "company."
Last year we were 'Top Ten' a hand model scouting agency, with a company handshake
and a special whistle- who could even begin to guess what will happen this year!
We'll don DISGUISES- appropriate (and inappropriate) for our specific job in our
newly created workforce! Now we're off to a series of holiday parties! SURPRISE!
BYOB
$20 includes admission to all parties, $18 advance tickets below,
space limited.
*bring disguises or come as you are, many will be provided! RSVP FritzandChristina(at)gmail(dot)com for location in Manhattan
Friday
November 19, 10pm to midnight! COUNTDOWN PARTY Pledge
to the HiChristina Movie here
TONIGHT
is an exclusive HiChristina!
PARTY in the LES!
YES, yes and YES!
THERE
WILL BE a COUNTDOWN to MIDNIGHT- ONLY 6 hours left of our kickstarter project!
If
we reach $5,000 we will shoot a scene on the MOON!
PLEDGE
to receive your
secret invitation to our
backer's only party... Ohhh,,, Ahhhh!!!
Make your
pledge HERE and come party with us tonight! BYOB!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/877312076/hichristina-makes-a-movie
xoxo,
Christina
and Fritz
Friday November 12, 9:30pm HiChristina Orango-tango and Midnight Manicure!
Get
a mani-pedi while playing a part of the HiChristina opus "I Like You"
while feeding live monkeys!!!(We have stadium seating if you want to watch from
behind the camera.) Youre A STAR on the SILVER SCREEN! BE IN A hilarious group
SCENE with Fritz and Christina! No- you don't have to be an professional actor--
just be yourself (but do put on a bizarre mish-mashed outfit... always helps)!
ALSO -- Get a your nails done , by "lady licks-a-lot" while watching
a sneak preview of I LIKE YOU (our feature film you will soon be a part of too!).
Don't forget to feed the animals at the live (human) primate exhibit with special
guest monkeys too! I know, it seems like "Whoa, this is too good to be true."
Well, It's not so come see for yourself this Friday!
Dress Code: Really Colorful
Clothing, no white! Outrageous mix-n-match! Listed
in TIMEOUT NEW YORK
At Dixon Place: 161 Chrystie between Rivington &
Delancey
$10 online or $12 at the door
Thursday
November 11, 8:00pm Return of the HiChristina Variety Show & Open Stage (mic)
This
is it! Rustle up the downy feathers and turn on the air blower, the HiChristina
Variety Show is back! See your favorites: interpretive dance modulators of Cherry
Bomb, Joe Yoga, Christos, The J. King, The J. Murdock, Gerber, The Theta Musician,
Slimey Sungoggles, and more more more. Join us in a special new HiChristina winter
location in the East Village! See a combination of planned and spontaneous performance.
Each performer has up to 7 minutes to wazzle and bedazzle the friendliest audience
in New York City.
122 1st Avenue between 7th Street and St. Marks Place (former
home of Reuben's Empanadas)
Sponsored in part by South Brooklyn Pizza - the
place next door
$5 or $10 if just watching
Saturday
October 30 10pm Parts
of a Whole Haloween: HiChristina Dresses You Up
Have
you ever been TWINS for Halloween or the rump of a horse while your friend was
the head? Well what if you got together with a bunch of people and formed a GIANT
costume, and I don't mean a centipede or a dragon, a GIANT CONCEPTUAL costume
like 'airplane food in mid air' or 'racetrack smash up at muscle beach'. At HiChristina
tonight we're all going all the way! Bring a piece or two, we'll have a bunch
of stuff also, and together we'll build a giant COSTUME that we all wear and then
we'll bust out into the streets and traipse through the downtown Halloween parties.
We
will be meeting up in the East Village.
BYOB in brown paper bag! RSVP
fritzandchristina@gmail.com for exact location
Thursday
October 28, 2010 HiChristina Makes A Movie!
Act, crew, animate,
or pour dry ice with us on the set of the new HiChristina feature film! You may
have noticed we haven't had as many events as usual this month, now you know why.
We'd love to feature the beautiful HiChristinians in this fun advenurous project. At
various locations in Williamsburg, the LES, midtown, and the upper west.
Read
more and jump in here: it here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/877312076/hichristina-makes-a-movie
Sunday
October 24, 11pm - 2am HiChristina Spins!!
Christina
is taking her record collection to the outskirts of an unhemmed dress tonight
to put the flip back in your hairlip! Come dance to the music. FREE! At
Manhattan Inn in Greenpoint: 632 Manhattan Ave Brooklyn, NY 11222
Saturday
October 16, 7pm - 10pm HiChristina Mysterious Conditions
Support Group and Movie Powder!!
Have
you ever gone to the doctor for a cold and realized there was something ELSE that
you wanted to get to the bottom of? Tonight HiChristina takes you there! Make
up a Mysterious Condition or draw one from the hat and take a seat among the group.
Just when the juice starts flowing KABOW! the HiChristina movie cast and crew
flow through and film the Zombie Powder action sequence. Wash or spray dry or
seek protection under the elephant tarp! We like you and would love to see you
tonight. FREE but give our film your support on Kickstarter! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/877312076/hichristina-makes-a-movie
RSVP
for location in Manhattan: fritzandchristina@gmail.com
Wednesday
October 13 - 17(not too late) HiChristina Casting Call
Fritz
has written the script and we'd like you to bring it to life! Come see us tonight
and try on some different parts on for size. At a studio in Williamsburg
near the Bedford L.
Email or call to get in the picture! fritzandchristina@gmail.com
917 642 6018
Sunday
October 10, 11pm - 2am Your Own Personal New Era: 10
10 20 10 !!!
All
calendar dates are arbitrary but when a once in a lifetime calendar date rolls
down the time line, it's time to hook in and go for a wild ride! Usher in your
own personal new era with HiChristina tonight! Wear patterened clothing or come
as you are to dance out the final momements of the era known as 10 10 20 10 and
welcome in a whole new era for yourself! What is the significance of this cosmic
moment? Discover that tonight. Kiss at the stroke of midnight, jump over the timeline
on the ground, whirl around, and throw patterened clothing over your head, 10,
9 , 8 , 7, 6, 5 with the best of them in 4/4 time. The universe is full of strange
puzzles and tonight we're solving one of them! Christina throws down the grooves
while you throw your clothes in the air: plaids, loud colors, and funky patterns
are in order! It's half past funky o'clock tonight at this post-hipster hot spot! FREE!
At Manhattan Inn in Greenpoint: 632 Manhattan Ave Brooklyn, NY 11222
HiChristina
written up for Your Own Personal New Era in The New York Times!
Thursday
September 30 6pm (dinner) 7:30pm (party) HiChristina
hosts Pool Party!
Rachet
up the funk on those tubular tires as roadster racing peels out in a new aquatic
environment! Does it sound too good to be true, too goo to be true, or
too odd to make sense? Let me tell you there's more to lick around here than the
big cube of salt you'll find tonight. Swimsuit optional: in this pool wear anything
as long as it gets wet! Check back for exact time and location. Tickets
and more information here.
HiChristina written up for Pool Games in
The New York Times!
Friday September 10, 9:30pm The
HiChristina Upside Down Wardrobe with Videos from the Future and Live Orchestra!
HiChristina
is flipping you round and around and upside-down in this moving picture 3-layered
cake, sprinkled with magical participatory performances, dusted in live soundtracks
& effffffects, and topped off with a fashion show, and a little shoe shuffle
slide. Live sound FX conducted by Dr. Foley, and partner dancing by L*O*V*E Sparkle.
Play in the soundtrack orchestra, walk the catwalk, win the face massage, and
kick your shoes in the air, all in reverse order at this HiChristina homecoming
tonight! Post-modern? Post-burning man? Post-punk? Postal service! Get your priorites
delivered here tonight, HiChristina-style!
See short films and performances
by
Paris Mancini (femvy and red), James and JF (Inspiration), David Da Silva
(Fame),Josh Steinbauer (The Pancake Killer and dispatches from The Burn), Shan
Raoufi (Ghost Palate), Reid Harris Cooper (Running and Dancing in the Fountain
at Washington Square Park), Gene Wildest (Hackensack Dancer James), Launa Eddy
(Zombie Kitchen, 1-800-YAWN, Creature Cave), Evelyn Donnelly (The Bat), Daniel
Kadin (HiChristina Love Corners), Billimarie Robinson (Corrugated Hearts), Alex
Pellerano (Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Chain of Steel), Peter Brogna (a lot of
chocolate), Ryan Brennan (Sasbasasbazee), Scot Kaplan (30 Cakes), Carrie Ehler
(Sandwich Action), Ronny Wasserstrom (Eggspecially), Cloudbuilder (Lady Pepperell's
Folly),
and our own Fritz Donnelly !
attire suggestions: It's
fashion night out, so go inside out or oversized and fluffy, shiny belt-buckles
and faux fur, mirrored go-go boots and a mumu, sexy unitards with flippers, gymnasts
leotards with stilletos, huge socks and small tops, strange sparkles with flowery
dresses, and so on. If you don't have any of these, or are coming straight from
work and have forgotten to pack you 1960's bodysuit- Stay Calm. Simply turn your
clothes inside-out or upside-down! Easy! at Dixon Place
161 Chrystie
between Delancey & Rivington
September
6, Labor Day 8pm! HiChristina hosts
Stafflands
Join
Christina, Fritz, and the entire staff of the make-out-capital of Williamsburg
at this annual party thrown by Rolyn Hu and Brooke Baxter. Did you know before
they opened Manhattan Inn and pre Glasslands, Brooke wrote poetry and Rolyn break
danced? Microdance with HiChristina tonight!
free, special
Saturday
July 31, 10pm Bikini Melt with REAL Cheddar
At
last! HiChristina finally brings together hot bikini clad dance party and delicious
grilled cheese sandwiches. (I know, it's been WAY TOO LONG!) Tonight we dance...
and wear our favorite summer ocean attire.... and eat grilled cheese sandwiches,
all during such sideshows as:
belly ice melting contest "how long can
you last,"
sun gun tanning salon "uv free,"
foreman grill
foreplay "low calorie and spicy hot,"
Move it!, the made-up dance
move exchange program "everyone's the new kid in class."
Dance the
night away, watch and play with speedos and cheetos! All these perfect elements
coalesce into the most magnificent cheese filled, bathing suit wearing, fake tanning
night you've ever had, and no doubt will ever have. Featuring DJ Glitter Girls!
$10
byob
& boyc (cheese)
Cardboard clothing okay too!
Thursday
July 29, 9pm HiChristina Life-Sized Board Games!
Fritz
and Christina are takin' it back.. all the way to 4th grade! Tonight at HiChristina
play all your favorite childhood board games... BIG! You're the doctor collecting
all your pay in life- sized Operation as you remove the wishbone from a strangers
stomach, don't touch any other part or the buzzer goes off, ouch! Your Princess
Lolly trying to make it through the Candy Land maze, oops don't slip down that
scary slide into Gloppy the Molasses Monster's hideout, yikes! Bring your favorite
game too and HiChristina makes it BIG in our special super secret contraption!
A special NYC styled Monopoly (Williamsburg real-estate included!) You sunk my
battleship! (hide the ships within a block radius!)
Friday,
July 23 9pm Creationizm:
The Good (Comic) Book
At
prior Creationizm events we've written a novel in one hour, group painted a huge
canvas, created a multimedia installation... but tonight we draw, ink, color,
and letter a whole comic book... from scratch (n sniff)!! Something that takes
a year to do we will do in just two short hours tonight at HiChristina! Get all
the satisfaction of a major accomplishment with twice the fun and none of the
stress. Can't draw? Come up with character dialogue or make action comic poses.
There's a role for everyone tonight! Christina and Fritz guide you through Crash,
Bang, Pow and comic contortionists Matt Mikas and Laura Lee Gulledge will make
it all look wonderful.
BYOB $20.
Thursday, July
22 9pm HiChristina! Open Stage (mic)
Boogie
woogie is the play today at HiChristina! See bold new performances from New York's
finest talents including: Feathered Man, the Oily Lady, and Tap dem Feet, Meat
Pies for Eyes, and Storyteller Dragon. Look for favorites like Cherry Bomb Dance
Sensation, Ask A Scientist, and Fuzzy Bus Singer. It's a combination of planned
performances and spontaneous entrants tonight, each performer has 7 minutes to
set their wings afire and light the night. Meet the friendliest most eccentric
audience in New York while hostess Christina Ewald soothes and smoothes and improves.
BYOB
$5 (performing) $10 (watching)
Saturday,
July 17 9pm Leopard Print Exhibitionist Body
Molding and Patrick 'The Mangina' Bucklew
There
is no one in the world like Patrick "The Mangina" Bucklew. We first
met him at HiChristina while he was wearing a prosthetic vagina. He has a pair
of striped 'puppet' pants that pull themselves down with the use of pulleys and
string, his paintings are motorized, his poetry is spontaneous and hilarious.
And on top of it all, because of it all, and despite living simultaneously in
Staten Island, Chinatown, the Upper Westside and Bushwick (tri costal), Patrick
is a skillful and inspiring painter. Come see Patrick's new work tonight at HiChristina
and get ready for friendly plastic body part molding, interpretive dance, and
some live portraits by The Mangina himself. Dress up as a cartoon or a painting
and get special attention! Also participate in group painting and magical cut
out exercises.
BYOB $7
Saturday, July 10 10pm The Christina and Fritz LIVE-IN Installation + Outrageous Hat Hair Experience
This
is the first ever TOTAL IMMERSION experience from HiChristina. Tonight enter a
wacky new universe on Eldridge Street in the LES. On the other side of the tape,
Christina and Fritz have created a living installation with lots of ready-made
experiences. Choose a chair: the massage block, the hair cut stool, the confessional
curtain, a tv-channel surfing chair, a get-served-a-drink chair, an exercise corner,
and other stools for the bold or curious... Enter the room and peer from afar
or don one of several different hats and cross through the looking glass! Be a
servant, a piece of furniture, an uncle, a best friend, a grandma, or invisible:
put on the hat with the role that fits your mood at the moment. Trade hats with
new friends. Welcome to the fun- a surreal playhouse with Christina and Fritz.
Christina wears the kitchen utensils while Fritz is in rainbow sparkler blue.
A docent will be prepared to answer questions and point out interesting features.
Experience life as Christina and Fritz- all sequins, all the time!
BYOB $10
donation at the door
Friday, July 9 9pm Retro
Art Opening featuring Ona, Yael, and Jesse!
An
old-fashioned art opening from 1865 and 1965 mashed up! Wear your petticoats,
your civil war mustache, your luscious swimsuit and your bag dress mumu cocktail
number nine! Come to HiChristina tonight to see new photography by two contrasting
and exciting artists, Ona Weatherford, Yael Gamson, and Jesse Davis!! Color snapshots
taken each day for a year on disposable cameras battle with cool black and white
studied portraits of zen monks and street people. Dance on one wall and get enlightened
on the other. The night includes performances by Big Woman, Tittens, Booty Monitor,
and culminats in L*O*V*E Sparkle partner dancing! Expect a short guided meditation
intermezzio. Get crazy and then suddenly relax tonight at HiChristina! Experience
the mixer of a lifetime complete with social games from 1965 and dance tips from
1865! Extra points for 1960s or 1860s attire.,.,.
BYOB $7 (many delights provided),
only $6 o
Thursday, July 8 9pm HiChristina!
Open Stage (mic)
Join
us at the HiChristina spectacular tonight, let the thousand schools flourish!
So said Confucius and so say we all. Each performer has 7 minutes to shower the
audience in silver bubbles. Hosted by Christina herself! With a water drinking
contest between Fritz and The Trees.
BYOB $5 (performing) $10 (watching)
Sunday,
June 27 7pm HiChristina! Disguise Ball Gala Fundraiser
At Dixon Place(2 blocks from HiChristina!)
161
Chrystie betwn Rivington & Delancey This
is not just any HiChristina event, oh no! HiChristina! is steppin' it up and
taking things to the roof and high high higher! We are incredibly excited to announce
to you our first ever Disguise Ball Fundraiser Gala! Christina and Fritz are working
around the clock to make each and every one of our gala guests hand-made outrageous
masks and disguises! Walk in the door and be given a disguise to perfectly
accent special traits of your personality!
The evening starts
with two-for-one drinks to die for in the fabulous Dixon Place Lounge.
Then get paparazzi pictures in the bubble shower with Christina and Fritz
in your new disguise and a smooth as butta transition into a snip-snappy hour
of HiChristina! inspired spectacle with partner/stranger/disguise dancing and pass the secret handshake. The HiChristina! cast of characters will
entertain you with rapid fire 3 minute performances while you keep your drink
mulled for special guests Sxip Shirey and that naked woman dressed up as Tom Cruise.
This is our BIGGEST event of the summer- Definitely
not to be missed! The evening concludes with a fast-talking, country-style
auction of works by "Friends of HiChristina!" including: a couture dress by
New York designer Alisha Trimble, an oil painting of yourself with Christina and
Fritz by artist Patrick 'The Mangina' Bucklew, a hypnotism session with Audrey
Sussman PhD, a screenwriting class with award-winning screenwriter Jacob Krueger,
Ryan Brennan's hand-made Book of "Living Exercises", a tarot session, a walking
tour of NYC, and more! Don your new disguise, dance the strange jig, drink the
tasty drink and be a part of the excitement as HiChristina takes us all up up
and away!
Hosts and performers include: 'The Amazing' Sxip Shirey,
'Nonsense NYC' Jeff Stark, 'Bowieball' Deryck Todd, 'Mixel Pixel's' Kaia Wong,
'The Mangina' Patrick Bucklew, 'Darling Musical Maestro' Alexa Wilding, 'Trash
Worships' Roland Politi, 'Sexperiment' Gerry Visco, 'rolling thunder' Dan St.
Germain, 'Music Man' Eyal Marcovici, 'Acting!' Kadin Daniel, 'The Vegan Roast'
Shan Raoufi, 'Tom Cruizy' Amy Uzi, 'Miracle Man' Kevin Balktick, 'Zen Photographer'
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis, 'From the Cybil Lake Show' Cybil Lake, 'Tarot Card' Courtney
Weber, 'Ask A Scientist' Ilir Topalli, 'Radical Chic' Swoon Magazine, 'Tabla Sensation'
Deep Singh, and many, many more! Come Play With Us!
Come as you
are or dress in your fanciest or strangest ballroom and disguise attire!!
Thursday, June 24 9pm HiChristina!
Open Stage (mic)
Lions
And Roaring Tigers! Take me on an airplane. Twist me in a bottle. Roll me in a
blanket. Tonight sign up and take 7 minutes to do anyting! Transport us to strange
and magical lands. The Variety Show with muscle building and mental relaxation,
hosted by our very own Christina Ewald and Fritz Donnelly.
BYOB $5 (performing)
$10 (watching)
Saturday, June 19 10pm HiChristina
Marshmallow Dance at Campfire (at a
secret location in Brooklyn)
Join
us at this extravagant campfire-themed party organized by Kevin "Sex Pot"
Balktick and Winkle "The Man" Winkle. There will be aerial performers,
Smokey the Bear, campfires (pyrotechnics or light works) , body painters, stilts,
lots of other stuff and of course HiChristina's invention: Marshmallow Dancers!
HiChristina wants you to be a marshmallow! Don, decorate, and dance in these giant
fuzzy costumes of all marshmallow shapes, colors and sizes that we will provide.
Be a big squishy star tonight and experience all the fun and tumble of the HiChristina
interactive performance under the umbrella of the organizers of the Night Market.
RSVP and buy tickets here (http://www.wandbnyc.com)
Friday,
June 18 10pm Traumatic Events Get A Disco Re-write
The
March of Tears, small pox blankets and freezing cold winters, gas chambers - becomes…
Glittery Rainbow Platform Shoes, super short shorts and DISCO FEVER!!
Bring
attention to these disasters of human judgment and show how easy it is to turn
them into a party instead. Tonight at HiChristina let us re-write history's gnarliest
atrocities by transforming them into radical waves of disco dancing delight! It's
one part history lesson and fourteen parts dance party! Dance the night away (with
made-up dance moves by the Master Blaster himself "Unleaded") and learn
something while you're at it!
BYOB $10 with disco inspired attire $20 without
Thursday,
June 17 9pm Creationizm: Advent of Cinema!
Previously
at Creationizm: we wrote a novel in an hour, we painted a giant Jackson-Pollacky
group painting in an hour--- tonight at HiChristina we are creating an entire
feature film! It usually takes years of pre-production, months of shooting, and
even more months of editing to turn out an amazing and exciting film, tonight
at HiChristina we're going to do the whole thing in just 2 hours!!! Choose one
of three genres Western, Adventure Comedy, or Found Object and get cracking. Bring
a camera if you'd like and a cord so that we can collect the footage into one
place. But if you don't have the tech, no sweat, there will be plenty provided!
Everyone has a rotating role tonight at HiChristina: insane writers, hilarious
directors, crazy producers, needy actors and shiny special effects. Costumes and
lots of fun stuff plus two surprise shooting locations all provided! Walk in with
suspenders (of disbelief) and leave with a film under your belt!
RSVP to fritzandchristina
at gmail dot com
BYOB $20.
Sunday, June 13 5pm Sing-a-long
Yoga!
Wear
those tattered leggings, or that worn paper-thin shirt, or a pair of boys underwear
and waltz over to HiChristina! Amy Uzi art star par excellence and felxomatic
yoga impresario leads you through the motions and stretches your vocal chords
while you're at it. Can't sing but have been afraid to ask? Can sing and want
to dazzle-schmazzle? This is the stretch for you, and not a stretch, an easy glide.
Sweat to the beats at this sing-a-long yoga class. The lion roars! Dr. Ruthie
shows you special positions from the kama sutra... After yoga special performance
by Moist Towlette!
BYOB $15 class $2 rent-a-yoga-mat FREE personal instruction
and approval.
Saturday, June 12 4pm-7pm Day
of the Big Game: Play
Welcome
to the HiChristina Draft-- Play the made-up Big Game today! All you need to participate
is a rule from any game you like. For example, you can't walk unless you bounce
the ball--Basketball. Or A straight beats a flush--Poker. Or, each person has
60 seconds to talk to their partner-Speed Dating. Pick a rule from any game and
come ready to PLAY (No athletic skill required)! We'll combine all the rules into
one great game with halftime, commercials, background feel good stories, and the
whole 9 yards! We know you were the best pickoleeno player in your college league,
now it's time for the big league (chew!). Play and help make up the rules to this
wild conglomeration of pastime sports. The game will be filmed with two action
cameras and shown at a future HiChristina event: Watch the Big Game. This event
takes place at HiChristina and a park nearby. RSVP: fritzandchristina-at-gmail.com
BYOB
$10 atmospheric snacks provided. Save by getting tickets online:
Thursday,
June 10 9pm HiChristina! Open Stage (mic)
Gargoyles
come to life tonight at HiChristina! Sign up or sit back and join us for this
popular and bodacious Variety Show!! Tonight at HiChristina sit back and watch
the lunacy unfold or siddle up to the stage for your moment of creative bliss.
Each performer has 7 minutes and a friendly audience ready-for-anything! The Live
Color Dyer will be on hand to tint your hair-chest and back-of-hand hair (highly
encouraged.) John King calls Ma Bell, Joe Yoga plays a three-man guitar, the funny
and fearless Jen P picks up all the guys and rolls them down like dice. Twist
balloons, and keep your eyes peeled for 'Grandpa' and other hilarious characters
from Brandon Pines. Watch Cherry Bomb drop sequins onto hot pants and climb the
heights of go-go dancing. Finally, keep your ears tuned for spontaneous accapella,
and surprise guest horn bands or Post-Modern Applesauce. Hosted by our own Christina
Ewald and Fritz Donnelly.
BYOB $5 (performing) $10 (watching)
Saturday,
May 29 4pm-7pm Bike Wash Body Wash
Bikini
clad workers wash your body and your bike on the sidewalk outside in the sun,
with suds and warm water. Perfect fun for the hot day's sun!
Air dry or blow
dry or shake-like-a-dog dry. Get washed in paint and put your body on the canvas.
Cool off inside in the shade. Leg warmers, arm warmers, head bands and spicy red
candies to heat you up. Cool mints to dry you down. And after you're done, hang
out and talk about summer vacations past and future.
byob $10 donation
Thursday,
May 27 9pm HiChristina Open Stage (mic)!
Unsaddle
your horses for the crazy prance parade tonight at HiChristina. Join the lineup
next to lower east side luminaries, French robots, dazzle dancers, and more. Each
performer has seven sumptuous minutes to remake the world in his her or their
image. Acts include funny balloon men, Andy Warhol look-a-likes, hot pants dancas,
guitar and tap shoes fellows, tall funny ladies. Hosted by the lovely Christina
Ewald herself and spit fire by Fritz Donnelly.
BYOB $5 or $10
Saturday,
May 22 10pm 5 Minute Lecture Series Do
you need a little mental stimulation on a Saturday night? Or just something more
to talk about at parties? Rumble down to HiChristina like a giant thunder cloud
and hear curiosity-arousing lectures from our distinguished and silly faculty
including: Dr. Please And How To Get Your Way Nicely, Officer Rob (in a special
session of "Ask A Policeman"), Seduction in Five Small Gestures, Taylor's
Trip to the Fairy Convention, Anthony Sisco’s Butt Nonverbal Reasoning Test,
Cybil Lake playing Cybil Lake from the Cybil Lake Show, A Carboard Bridge Between
Two Apartment Buildings, and much much more. The discussion is moderated by our
own Christina Ewald. We're also accepting 3 spontaneous lectures on the themes
“Buried Treasure Maps,” or “What I Pretended To Be,” or “Yogels,”
so if something's on your mind, or you're ready for a good ol fashion time...
then spray that banaca (psst, psst), take out a couple of those hair curlers,
and come on down to HiChristina! Oh! And the three intermissions are almost as
good as the main show: partner dance to L*O*V*E Sparkle, experience the brand
new and never before tried at home Feel-A-Vision, and cap the night with an ever-popular
game of Stack-It-Up. RSVP to reserve a spot: rxapparel-at-gmail.com
BYOB $10
HiChristina!
163 Eldridge Street Between Rivington and Delancey
Saturday,
May 15 5-7pm, (after 7pm early dance party) Bedazzled
Yoga
Have
you always wanted to yoga in a bright green leotard but forgot where you parked
your friend's car? That's just how we feel! So tonight we provide the leotard
and the amazing and sparkling yoga guide (she's covered completely in glitter!
head to toe!!!), and you provide the smile, and stretch a little too. Amy Uzi
art star extraordinaire and yoga master-osity will show you a move even more reliable
than Echinacea at getting your body going. Open your charkas tonight in a fun
costume (optional, or bring one, or provided, or improvise, or disguise). Cool
down to a screening of two of Fritz Donnelly's fun yoga related films "Yoga-Dance"
and the action mafia yoga guru crime flick "Porta! Porta! Porta!" We
can't wait to get down, dogward. The class ends at 7pm and the dancing begins.
BYOB $15, bring mat or use one of Amy's.
Friday, May
14 9pm Creationizm: Believing is Seeing
Regardless
of experience or 'know-how' step into the HiChristina two-way telephone booth
and watch as the master painter within you bursts out and flys forth from the
other side. At the last HiChristina Creationizm event we wrote an entire novel
in one hour. Tonight join us to create a monumental work of visual art, a 20 foot
long painting!!! The painting will happen in three easy phases from social 'color'
mixer, to audio-visual hyper cube exploration, to the finish with sprinkles on
top! Experience or help facilitate many proven techniques such as painting upside
down, eyes closed painting, painting through strange lenses, in polarized light,
strobe lighting, and the popular tap/lap dancing brush technique. We paint together,
all-at-once, one-at-a-time, in duos and trios, in the dark (briefly) and under
the sun gun. Expect visits (performances) from artists like Andy Warhol, The Woman
Who Shot Andy Warhol, Dali, and Frida Kahlo. Bring something to paint with or
add to the canvas… or just bring yourself and use materials provided. Tai
Chi intermission to live music! This is going to be as wondrous as the painting
of the ceiling of the Sistine (David La) Chapel(le)!
RSVP with something that
you stared at recently to fritzandchristina-at-gmail.com
Thursday,
May 13 9pm HiChristina Open Stage (mic)!
Storytelling,
sing-along aerobics, hair clap, and tongue twisters are among the acts you can
expect to see tonight at the HiChristina open mic. Join veteran performers and
well-intentioned newbies, political gadflys, and creatures from monster movies.
Anything goes, costumes welcome, and each and every performer has 7 minutes to
wazzle basel and bedazzle the audience. Hostess Christina Ewald will turn up your
smile and shine the souls of your shoes! This week's featured guests include:
Ben Simon and his aromatic guitars, Peter Gerber the Storyteller, Muscles have
Ridges Dance Troupe, Joe Yoga, and many more!
BYOB $5 (performers) $10 (others)
Saturday,
May 8th (Mother's Day Eve) 10pm - 12:30am Come As
Your Mothers Are
To
honor mothers everywhere HiChristina! is throwing a cross-dressing pageant, dance
party and art-making gala right here! Don't worry if mom's out of town, grab one
of her dresses or pantsuits, and come as she is!
Sideshow performances include,
cathartic old lady muggings (where the old ladies win!), breast feeding from the
marshmallow bra, and the love it and leave it fat shedding jazzercize workout.
You may be the winner of: Best Old Lady Underwear, Most Petticoats, Best Swimsuit.
Get a paint-on tan, or a scratch-n-sniff sunburn from our movie magic costume
kit! Come as you are but better still, come as your mother!
At intermission
we divide into groups and compete in the family style Teriyaki Jeopardy complete
with buzzers and musical accompaniment.
- overly-protective mothers
- deadbeat
moms
- disembodied floating headed moms (a la Woody Allen's Mother in 'Manhattan')
-
hot moms (we don't say the MiLf word at HiChristina!)
BYOB $10 (dressed as
your mother) $20 (and we'll provide your costume)
HiChristina! 163 Eldridge
Street New York NY 10002
Wednesday, May 5th 9pm Cinquo
De Mayo-naisa!
Have
you always wanted to perform as part of some bedazzled troupe of heel-kicking
and wrist-flipping super stars but have been afraid to ask? Tonight at HiChristina
were creating, choreographing and costuming a show-stopping performance together
AND THEN we're taking it to the big stage at another venue! Afer we've gotten
sparkled out and worked out the intricacies of our performance with everyone's
input, we'll walk around the corner and jump on stage on cue. Butterflies in your
stomach, hair emergency? Our expert Silk Curtain Princess will put you right in
three easy steps. Get all the satisfaction of a grizzled veteran performer and
the thrllng freshnesses of a new act without putting in years learning to hula
hoop, eat fire, or play the one man band. RSVP with your flavor of mayonnaisa:
rxapparel -at- gmail.com
BYOB $10
Saturday, May
1 (May Day!) noon - 6pm Clothing Swap and May Day Indoor
Parade!
"It'd
be a splendid idea to have a clothing swap May Day fun day." So said Amy
Uzi performance art star par excellence and so say we too. Bring your lightly
worn clothes, shoes, accessories, whatever and pay $5 to get in and swap. If you
don't have clothes, it's $10 to get in and then take clothes for free. Fill your
belly with snackies made by your hostess. Every so often at the appropriate moment
we will play historically-inspired May Day games including flower shower, and
dance around the human may pole. Come and swap songs, ideas, recipes for disaster
or fun, whatever you like.
HiChristina! 163 Eldridge Street New York NY 10002
BYOB
$5 (w clothes) $10 (without)
Saturday, May 1 (May Night!)
10pm Casting Couch!
Join
us at HiChristina tonight and be cast in the part of your dreams! Go through the
entire process of casting and go home with a link to your own stylized screen-test
on the youtubules!
* First Booth/Station: Make-up/Wig powdering
* Head Shots
(caricature drawings! by Ryan Brennan)
* Casting Couch (Faux Casting Agent
and Temptress Cleo Fishel with silly (non-threatening, funny) lecherous overtures-
foot/backrubs? Be sexy to get the part!)
* Screen-test Booth (actual digi-cam
screen test, a bit reminiscent of Warhol thing, with Director Fritz!)
* Auditions!
Before a panel of Casting Agents (from the audience), the Aspiring Actors can
sing, dance, perform a monologue, or read from the script of the imaginary (or
is it?) movie we're casting for...
- Everyone gets a part!
- Casting agents
are full of heartfelt praise! Somehow you're the best they've ever seen!
-
Get simple tips you can use instantly. Shine!
- Leave with a head shot and
go home later to see the video in your email!
- Finale! Everyone plays their
role in a short scene that is part improv part stunt-action-drama-cathartic-moment-i-want-to-live-forever
sequence!
BYOB $10
Friday,
April 30 6pm Make New Friends
-Tired
of old friends?-
Youre not alone- we have too! On Friday, April 30th meet
an entirely new social network! Does it seem that your old friends have
lost interest in you or your amazing new projects? Not attending your important
events, dates or openings? Do they assume that because you two are "Old Pals"
that they can take advantage of you yet not even call on your birthday?
Well, here at HiChristina we say, "Out with the old and in with the new!"
You deserve friends who appreciate you for who you are, respect your lifestyle
and choices, friends who call you back right away.
Come to HiChristina,
your home for avant-garde art, performance and uncommon expression, a night of
fun, kool-aide, crafts and blossoming friendships awaits. HiChristina 163 Eldridge
Street (btwn Delancey and Rivington.) at the honest hour 6pm.
Come alone.
Don't bring anyone you know, we're all strangers now.
Call christina at
917 642 6018 for questions or email me at rxapparel(at)gmail(dot)com with your
name to rsvp... the friendliest party in New York City!
BYOB $10
HiChristina!
163 Eldridge Street New York NY 10002 (our new location!)
Thursday,
April 29 9pm HiChristina Open Stage (mic) & Variety
Show
This
is your chance to test your new material in New York's friendliest performance/art
environment. Every performer has 7 minutes to stretch, pull, extend, contract,
and snap the putty into shape. See everything from opera, jokes, interactive performances,
philly fingers, and dance expressionism. Watch out for seasoned acts and crazy
new kids like Stella Kim the Super Beauty, Peter the Storyteller Gerber, 'Naked
Man' Tommy Dee Lite, and Crustus Crewlacious, Miss Tambourine, Ask a Scientist,
Walter Gambine doing the Patient/Doctor Gambit, Kristina Lund of the Lovers, and
many more. Hosted by the lovely Christina Ewald herself.
BYOB $5-10
Saturday,
April 24 10pm Crisp Lorde
Has
your Saturday routine been missing that spark of intellectualism? Do you have
a vague feeling of bewilderment? or are you in the mood to see someone covered
in iceberg lettuce? We thought so! That's why we've invited, Crisp Lorde, the
Lettuce Magnate of the West to make a special appearance at HiChristina tonight.
Just like a bed of flowering lettuce HiChristina will be organized into four rows
of fresh crispy fun.
Row 1 Listen to and give 3 minute spiels of two kinds:
Get-rich-quick/Stay-poor-slow and I'm-gonna-kick-his/her-ass-because.
Row 2
Shake out your legs and loosen your necks for the 'abstract movement and technicolor
groove' workshop led by Christina, Fritz, and Seth Ludman.
Row 3 Midnight Haircut
and Toenail Polishing: get a haircut or trim for no charge from an aesthetically
certified snipper and manicurist Sweet Alison.
Row 4 Plant yourself in the
'bed' and experience the full life cycle of lettuce complete with sun, weeding,
pollination, and light rain.
Dancing ensues! Dress up as an object or fruit
or vegetable and automatically win a prize! (p.s. Don bubble wrap armor and jump
into the food fight finale on the sidewalk, bring tomatoes, cherry tomatoes...We've
got enough lettuce to go around.)
RSVP if you would like your name in gold
on the wall of wonder before you arrive: rxapparel-at-gmail.com
BYOB $10
Friday,
April 23 10pm Flat Earth Day
Long
before the world was round, it was totally flat. For millions of years everyone
believed the world was flat. Well it is flat. Tonight HiChritina hosts members
of the Flat Earth Society who explain why the earth is flat, scientifically and
metaphorically. Then hear other common myths, things that we all believe to be
true, debunked and thrown out. Get in the spirit of Earth Week at HiChristina
tonight! Shift a paradigm, learn how to run a car on cornmash, how our universe
was spit out of a black hole, and how flowers domesticated us. Special appearances
by scientists and cooks. Also, Christina is making 'Clothing of the Future'. Bring
an item of clothing and some frills and Christina will combine it with a piece
from her vintage collection. Live sewing and making with mind-blowing theories,
you are what you wear tonight at HiChristina! Expect readings from Flatland, to
hear and offer mysterious/ammazing new theories at the 'round' table, and new
inventions presented. It's the HiChristina version of a science fair!
BYOB
$10
Thursday, April 22 8pm Cr(n)ude
Drawing
Draw
on a pad of your own nice white paper or choose one of the many shades of skin
to be your canvas tonight at HiChristina! Volunteer to model with the HiChristina
Pros or just come to draw, or do both simultaneously! Comic book author and beautiful,
Laura Lee Gulledge will lead us through three different drawing phases: realist/cartoonist,
surrealist/pointilist, and cubist/dadist. Expect novel and strange poses as suggestions
from the audience become immortalized forever on yoga-soluble bodies. For more
information or to model write rxapparel-at-gmail. As seen in the press. What better way to spend Earth Day than drawing on skin with green craola markers?
BYOB
$20
Monday, April 19 8pm Fashion
Statements and Questions!
Guest
fashion superstar Ewa Josefsson has walked the long winding runway from Miami
to New York to answer fashion questions wih fashion statments for the Spring and
(gasp!) summer ! seasons. Her fashion magazine features HiChristina this week
and she wants to party and take your photo! "Monday Fashion Blog Party baby-
but what's the twist??" Ewa asks. "How do we make it HiChristina??"
The
twist is:
Come in your WILDEST Spring Fashion Statement!!
Mistress Ewa will
snap your picture for her fabulous fashion blog.
And then someone else can
dress in their Spring Fashion Question
A night of Questions and Statements.
We're
inside the blog and outside it.
And... we will have LOGS
Real logs to sit
on!!
Blog on logs!!
BYOB donation appreciated
Sunday,
April 18 7pm-10:30pm Night of a Sh*tload of Stars!
HiChristina
is offering a new scholarship each month to an artist who'd like to do an interactive
performance. Send us your proposals or apply in person at tonight's lower east
side talent round up.
If all the stars, blue, charmed, and supernovaed
descended on HiChristina for one night we'd have this show, a raucous mix of faux
cover bands, nude comedians, balloons, flame-shooting-saxophones, and open slots
for spontaneous 3 minute entrants from the audience. Hosted by the underground
speech writer and underwear-on-the-outside-rocking secret art agent Hristophe
Rodeu! Coming back to the Lower East Side has never felt so sublime.
Acts
include:
Chink Floyd & Red Zepperin (world's worst PinkFloyd & LedZep"cover"
band)
Dr. Steamwhipple (classical guitarist)
John Murdock, the Gentleman
Scumbag (dirty balloon man comic)
Scout Durwood (funny comic gal / burlesquer)
The
Flame-o-phone (sax player who shoots flames out! Was going to do outside!)
Kill
The Band / Killy (awesome performance-comic gal)
Thank You For Not Screaming
(strange musical act)
Eric Kirchberger AS "John Stodge" (a "Republican
operative" who ad libs away conspiracies!)
Mormon Surprise Is Mormon Delicious,
aka Mike Amato (doing something absurd and goofy)!
Joey Gay (post-goombah comic)!
YBBS
(girl and man metalithic dance-along)
THE MEGALOMANIAC (an ex-pro-wrestler
who gave it all up to write poetry instead!)
plus JAIL Q & A! and much
more ...
with a few open slots for audience members to show off talent for
3 minute spots!
$5 Suggested Donation
HiChristina!
163 Eldridge Street
just
north of Delancey
For more about the HiChristina! scholarship write Christina:
rxapparel@gmail.com
Friday, April 16 8pm, 10pm HiChristina
Artist Profile: Cybil Lake
A
one-woman filmmaking auteur machine and canvas-painting powerhouse, Cybil Lake
is this month's featured artist at HiChristina! Come see her paintings and watch
a hilarious mix of short films from HiChristina, tothehills, and Cybil Lake's
own projects, The Cybil Lake Reality
Show and The Gun Virgins. (The film shorts program also has 3 spontaneous
submission slots, so bring anything 5 minutes or less on DVD and we'll put it
into the mix.) HiChristina chooses to highlight the work of artists who are original,
fun and need a bit of cash for their next big idea. Come suppot a New York treasure
and have a great time while you're at it. Seventy-five percent of art sales and
a portion of the door go directly to the artist. Woooo!
Free opening reception,
$10 film screening at 10pm by suggested donation
Thursday,
April 15 8pm HiChristina Open Stage: It's Our Open
Mic!
The
weather's warming and you're performing! Come step up to the mic or pace out the
stage at HiChristina tonight. Each performer has 7 funfilled minutes to dance,
sing, joke, flip, conduct the orchestra, show and tell, swing the bling, or fiddledeedoo.
This week's special guests include The Fish Eyelens, Ask A Scientist, Storyteller
Peter Gerber, Felix Flores surrealist and vocalist, and Gloria the real live lion tamer! Hosted by the eldritch
Christina Ewald on our very own Eldridge Street!
BYOB $5 for performers, $10
for audience
HiChristina! 163 Eldridge Street New York NY 10002 in the Lower
East Side / Bowery
Saturday, April 10 9pm Amateur
Mind Reading and Pirate Dance Party! Aye!
Bring
your plastic sword, your billowy white shirt, your tight vest, the poofy pants
you wear to yoga, and your three-cornered hat... Because tonight at HiChristina,
you're a pirate! (And an amateur mind reader). That's right, we did just say that.
Join Blue beard, Red Beard, Long John Silver and all their pirate booty as they
take you prisoner and transport you across the high seas! Will you be marooned
on cupcake island? Or will you join the mutiny and give the captain the black
spot! What starts as a series of Amateur Mind Reading Exercises, quickly becomes
a dance-in-the-dark choreographed pirate battle. Yo ho ho! Walk the plank as you
test your psychic abilities on your swash-buckling companions. Enjoy The Pirates
of Penzanz dance mix by DJ "Davey Jones" McDaniel. Come dressed as a
parrot, a peg leg, a pirate ship, a buried treasure or just come to read minds
(pretending) and Dance the night away. Christina is your Siren and Fritz is your
school of sharks. Aye!
rsvp to fritzandchristina (at) gmail (dot) com
BYOB
$10 (in costume) $20 (no costume)
eyepatch provided for all!
HiChristina!
163 Eldridge Street New York NY 10002 (our new location!)
Saturday,
April 3, 2010 (it's 4..3..2..1 !) 7pm Creationizm,
Believe in This!
(as
seen in the Village Voice)
It takes most people years to write a novel, at HiChristina we're going to
do it tonight in 1 hour! HiChristina is hosting the Internationally Renowned Monthly
Conference of Amateur and Professional Creators. At this inaugural party we're
going to write an entire novel! After coming up with the basic story and making
the general stylistic choices by consensus, we will sit in a long line and each
person will write five pages of the story, simultaneously. The person at the beginning
of the line pens the beginning of the story and the person next to them writes
what comes next, and so on down the line. Conference with each other to coordinate
epic scenes and to keep details consistent. All the writing begins at once and
the novel will be finished in about the time it takes to write five pages. Afterwards
there will be an intermission while the two editors pull everything together.
Then we gather again and hear a dramatic rendition and summary of the complete
story. Wooo! Ah the feeling of accomplishment! The actual physical novel will
be available at our biannual Creationizm party.
Future parties will focus
respectively on:
__ cartoonists (draw a full comic book in 1 hour),
__ multimedia artists (a 3 channel presentation in 1 hour) ,
__ screenplay
writers (a blockbuster or indie snag thrill in one hour),
__ clay-sculptors
(better than Brancusi in 1 hour),
__ dancers (a full modern dance piece of
epic proportions in 1 hour),
__ clothing designers (a whole new collection
in 1 hour)
__ painters (a ginormous painting in 1 hour).
RSVP to reserve
a place: fritzandchristina-at-gmail.com
BYOB $20 includes your own digital
copy of the great work.
Thursday, April FOOLS DAY!
9pm HiChristina Open Stage: It's Our Open Mic!
Like
an Open Mic but oh so much more possibility! Come in, sign up, and now you're
on! Do your act, sing your song, test your multi-layered cake, tell the story,
dance the dance and then sit back while Christina and Fritz lower the lights,
pass the salami and announce the next act. We can't wait to see what you've got
and to introduce you to some of the shining faces of New York's performance scene.
This week's special event: Intermission Disco Dance Party--complete with strobe
lights and disco ball eyes!
BYOB $5 for performers, $10 for audience
Wednesday,
March 31 4pm in the Afternoon Jobless Wednesday
Weekly
Anti-networking Cocktail Party
No
job to do today? Wondering what all your other unemployed friends are doing today
besides going to a 9 to 5 job? Well, look no further!! This afternoon, join your
fellow unemployed (yay freedom!), self-employed (make-your-own schedule) and alterna-business
(we won't ask) associates for a day of doing things one can only do without a
job. We will be playing foreign and made-up card games, taking turns calling everyone
in our phones who we haven't spoken to in over a year, hopscotch. It's the middle
of the day (because we all got up at noon), the middle of the work week but its
the beginning of your weekend! Only in NYC is being jobless so rewarding. And
now at HiChristina earn badges for doing jobless things. "I'm not really
actively looking for a job mom, I haven't been in three months, that's how I got
the unabashedly unemployed badge from HiChristina, there's a rub off decal too!"
Collect all five badges, including the 'get-rich-quick-scheme-of-the-year badge!'
It's all fun and no work today at the HiChristina anti-networking cocktail party.
Hand-made muttled drinks by Christina Ewald. And a new guest host every week.
$5,
the $20 dues gets you a members only club card good for a full month of visits.
at
HiChristina! With Special Guest Host
Friday, March
26 9pm Lower East Side! OFFICIAL GRAND OPENING!!!
HiChristina
3 Act Soap Opera
with Cookie Dough Glitter Mustache
Tonight
HiChristina is the set of a live and evolving 3 Act Soap Opera. The audience is
the camera: hold hands, get tied together with string or wrapped in plastic (choose
your own misadventure!) and jump into "Close Up", "Dolly Shot",
"Establishing Shot", "B Roll" and the every popular "Cutting
Room Floor," where we cut cookies out of dough, toss globs at the man in
plastic and hum the soap opera theme song! Christina and Fritz along with volunteers
from the audience star in this epic and action-packed LIVE telenovella. Comedy
meets tragedy tonight at HiChristina--all while wearing your very own glitter
mustache courtesy of the professional glitter technicians Second
Skin! Oh, and I almost forgot... we're inaugurating a new space tonight; HiChristina
has moved to Manhattan! Find us at that special intersection of Chinatown, SoHo,
and the Lower East Side best known as Eldridge Street ! (eldritch street to some
of you).
$10 with glitter $20 without, RSVP for invitation and exact location:
fritzandchristina@gmail.com
(psst... 163 Eldridge Street New York NY 10002
just north of Delancey in the Lower East Side of Manhattan).
Wednesday,
March 17 9pm SoHo HiChristina Live Window Display
Christina
and Fritz wear paper, write on us! And wear paper too! Tape on or paste on to
us hand-printed paper and blank paper of different colors designed by Paola Suhonen
the platinum blonde behind IVANAhelsinki, the pop-up store that we'll be contorting
tonight. Later we will dance under the blowing fuzzi-snow(TM) while throwing paper
airplanes. It's a moving moment made for still pictures. Hear music by Alexa
Wilding and Mike Bones and see 16mm film too!
FREE EVENT with Open Bar
at
IVANAhelsinki Pop-up Store - 238 Mulberry Street between Prince and Spring
Saturday,
March 6 10pm - San Francisco
At ATA for the Disposable Film Festival Fingerpainted
Movie and Backbends
Bring
your little camera whatever it is, on your phone, pierced in your computr's upper
lip, at the end of a string, a strap, on a click, blink, tonight we're making
a movie together. Exercises include 'Camera dance' and surrealist episode.
Saturday,
February 27 10pm in SOHO! HiChristina 3 RING CIRCUS
WITH SPECIAL SAUCE! + CrazyTie!
Loosen
your teeth, jiggle those elbows, practice that handstand and shine up that old
spickle-spack (imaginary or not), because it's time for the HiChristina 3 Ring
Circus! Tonight HiChristina takes over a huge, amazing storefront in SoHo featuring
these crazy occurrences: In the first ring **The Human Orchestra!-- everyone participates clicking, whistling and crackling in beautiful harmony!
Directed by Professor Finbloom. In the second ring **L*O*V*E Sparkle interactive
partner dance themed "The First Date"-- get ready to re-live all
the precious moments! In the third ring **Bizarre Vaudevillian Circus acts! including Alexa "SnowBlower" Wilding, Billy "Underpants" Dee,
Kerry "Spicy" Farias, Victor "Eating Cake" Shelly! impromptu
participants highly encouraged-there's room for everyone under the big top! In
the Special Sauce ring **Your 2nd Grade Portrait anew! complete with braces
and ugly sweater- school photos by A Jesse Jiryu Davis and styles by Christina
Ewald!
That's not all!! Before you step into one of these marvelous rings,
put on your newly made, specialized, bedazzled, sparkle-encrusted, CrazyTie!!
That's right, all this AND make a tie. The merrymaking starts at 10pm sharp with
L*O*V*E Sparkle. Don't forget to come dressed as any strange circus act/performer!
Knife fighting, muscle-women, upside-down scientists, and other hairsplitting,
scream-bleaching and death-defying feats await you. Barnum never told Bailey about
this one!
If you'd like to be a a circus act (who doesn't?) then send the name
of your act to fritzandchristina@gmail.com
PS there will be a snow-blower.
at IVANAhelsinki Pop-up Store 238 Mulberry Street between Prince and Spring
BYOB,
all tie materials provided
$10 with circus-like costume $20 without
Sunday,
Februay 14 10pm
Valentine's Day at Happy Ending in Manhattan HiChristina
Land of Lick at Romanticide Party
It's
the first-ever HiChristina dance party of 2010!!! We're back in New York and we'd
love to see you. Step inside the dance-o-magic, get showered by glitter and emerge
with nonstop moves and sizzling bacon! The gold sequin pant-wearing sky high hairdo-leaping,
suspened britch man Deryck Todd has invited HiChristina and all of us to join
him in setting the basement of Happy Ending ablaze with the friction of moving
feet. The all-out themed dress contingent will be on the scene dressed in lace
and mace. It's party performance art event par excellence! Who invited the nuns?
Oh yes! Plus a new-partner dance led by L*O*V*E Sparkle.
$5 before midnight
$10 after, say HiChristina at the door
Saturday, Februay
13 6-9pm Sneaky Preview
Previewing
3 new HiChristina movies and looking at the drawings of Seth Ludman in China (that
Seth made in China or of Seth in China? you'll have to come to find out!).
At our last shindig in this amazing apartment we re-enacted the cubist painting
'Nude Descending a Staircase.' Today's get-together is totally sneaky. Wear a
trench coat and glassless glasses. Codename: Albatross.
Private Party but text
if you want to sneak along.
Friday, February 12 8pm
- New York Happy Birthday Intergalactic Space Vegetable!
Intergalactic
space vegetable meets underwater dance instructor crossed with petting tidepool
zoo! It's the HiChristina Aquarius birthday party for the beautiful twirling star-of-the-night
skies Kaitlyn the Purple Carrot who Speaks with Animals!
Private party
but RSVP to rxapparel@gmail.com with your intergalactic vegetable and its special
power.
Wednesday, February 10 10pm - Miami sLuGs
Yay!
First we dance and work up a sweat. Then Poof! Get covered in flour. Dance some
more and then Splash! jump in the jacuzzi. How many slugs will fit in the tu!?
Get out and sit in the 'FRIED Food Basket' and roll around like slugs. General
slug behaviors and fake noses encouraged. Night includes 3 planned slug-o-motions:
slug partner dance (remember slus 'see' the wrold through their with their antenae!!),
slug tug-of-war, slug slurpee!
$10 includes flour. RSVP to rxapparel@gmail.com
for location and directions.
NEW YEAR'S DAY, January
1 2010, 3pm-4pm LOVE Corners!
6th
Ave & 18th Street Manhattan
Bedford & N6th Street Brooklyn
Have
you ever stopped at an intersection and watched everyone walk by? What if you
kept standing there and instead of checking your phone or asking directions...
you started projecting LOVE! Get the New Year off to a flying happy start with
a long cold look at humanity. Wear a red scarf or red handkerchief or a red flower
or hat. Walk to the corner of 18th St. and 6th Ave in Manhattan, or N6th and Bedford
in Brooklyn and watch the people go by. Just look, silently. Smile. Stand on the
sunny side of the street! Hold hands with anyone else at the performance, any
stranger in a red scarf. Watch together without speaking. After 15 minutes immediately
call the HiChristina hotline and tell us what your experience was like:
917.642.6018 We'll
answer!
Today HiChristina is embarking on it's largest and most extravagant
performance/event to kick off the new year in the right spirit. You'll be standing
on the corner holding hands simultaneously with people in Beijing, London, Johannesburg,
and Tokyo.
Christina recommends going to a nearby tavern or cafe and sharing
a drink with your new found red scarved friends. Document however you'd like,
camera phone, post-it note, crumpled underwear. Join the world along with HiChristina
in celebrating 2010. This is not hug a stranger, this is not art everywhere, this
is whimsical love and more refreshing than coconut water.
RSVP rxapparel@gmail.com
FREE City-Wide, World-Wide Event
Friday, December 18
9pm MOVING DAY ETRAVAGANZA! Fritz
& Christina's FINAL EVENT in the Grand Street Storefront!!!
This
evening bid farewell to the Grand Street storefront as HiChristina hosts our last
night of made-up dance moves, finger painting, the human orchestra, our ever popular
Fake Therapy, faster, longer, harder secret handshakes and a bonanza of 3 minute
performances by local celebrities (including YOU)! Fritz and Christina are taking
their show on the road to exotic and colorful places, escaping the cold NYC winter.
However, fret not dearest friends, HiChristina will be returning in the new
year to a new magical space to continue what is now known as "two scoops
of fun" -Village Voice. HiChristina will be making exciting and unbelievable
changes for 2010... But forget about that-- let's live in the NOW. This will be
the last chance to experience the mystical land that is HiChristina on Grand Street
so DON'T MISS IT! Tonight is structured as an upside-down-cake social mixer with
5 activities to draw for, pose for, sing for, contact-improv for, and partner
dance the flamingo-glitch for. Hear the L*O*V*E Sparkle musical duo and get wrapped
up in the giant group present! Come say goodbye to Fritz and Christina, our lovely
Grand Street storefront and 2009 in style, class, insanity and champagne. LET'S
GET CRAZY!
BYOB $10
Thursday, December 17 9pm HiChristina!
Open (mic(e)
Get
up and give us what you've got at the HiChristina variety show/open mic/performance
tour de force. Tonight is your 7 minutes of fame to use however you'd like before
an active audience of storytellers, scientists, guitarbeatsliders, poetexpress,
funy people, swingbots, performance artistas, art starlets, and body motion graphics.
Don't forget to kiss your hostess (a peck on the cheek or deviled eggs?) the lovely
Christina Ewald.
BYOB $5
Monday, December 14 10pm HiChristina
hosts Talent Show at Glasslands
--289 Kent betwn S1st and S2nd in Williamsburg--
Tonight
the super talented staffs (wizard staves) of both the Manhattan Inn and Glasslands
are up on stage, kicking off their barstools, and shredding their waiter capes
to bring you the most Wilde art talent show of 2009! See Local Celebrity Impersonator
do renditions of Brooke Baxter and Rolyn Hu and others! End the year in the only
way that's just, at a hipster freak-a-sneak show! Hosted by your very own Fritz
Donnelly and Christina Ewald. RSVP if you'd like to be part of the special surprise
act: rxpparel@gmail.com.
FREE
Saturday, December
12 9pm Someonelse's Office Party
This
is the HiChristina version of the ultimate December party-going-in-New-York experience.
Join Fritz and Christina as we moon from one 'Holiday' Party event to another.
First at HiChristina we put on DISGUISES. Then we go to a series of Holiday parties
that we have some loose connection to. We won't be thrown out but we're not eactly
what they were expecting either. Meet accountants and actuarials and then woosh
to the chelsea upandcoming artists party, then off to a party of young barons
and baronesses and private planes, then into the dingy grotto of post-punk Hegelians!
The full range and possibility of New york Holiday parties will be on your paper
plate tonight. You might come away with a whole new set of conspirators or co-workers!
RSVP rxapparel@gmail.com
$20 includes admission to all parties, disguises
provided. AS
SEEN IN THE VLLAGE VOICE!
Friday, December 11 8pm Birdsong
returns to HiChristina!
Hear
poetry, listen to the sweet jams of Paps and Julia, get advice, and blink and
wiggle while Tommy Pico ushers you through these post-modern, pre-calypso beatnick
beats. It's spoken words, sung words, said words, written words, and hung up art
tonight at HiChristina.
FREE
Thursday, December
10 9pm HiChristina Open (mic)
Everyone
who comes to HiChristina tonight has 7 minutes to perform something live on stage
before a wide-eyed audience. Past acts have included luminaries of the performance
art, comedy, music, and trilobite scenes. Expect Ask A Scientist, Finbloom's Papernote
Song, the live cooking and feeding of Kerry Farias, friends of Shan Roufi, puppeteers
nasty and nice, Laura Lee's Drawing Workshop, Jesse Davis' Photobooth, Zane's
farm-mouth-man, and sometimes even the shining face of Mike Amato Mr Lower East
Side... oh and sneak into Evangeline's Advice Corner if you need to get a heart
out. Hosted by Christina Ewald the Opera with complimentary sideshow by Fritz
Donnelly Flamingoe. Tonight's special guest is the dancer Zoe Artemis and her
band of compatriots.
BYOB $5
Saturday,
December 5 10pm HiChristina hosts 'Bowie Ball' at Le
Poisson Rouge
Dress
up, dance, like, be like, feel like the scintillating David Bowie tonight only
with Christina and Fritz at the annual BOWIE BALL. Zoom the room in glitter and
floating hair spray and see Christina and Fritz go through five different incarnations
as the party goes from earth to outer space! Can you hear me Major Tom? Tickets here.
Friday,
December 4 10pm Predict the FUTURE in 3 Easy Steps
-1
Year 5 Year & 50 Year Predictions-
One
year ago today (give or take a few weeks) our audience predicted the outome of
the election, that China would go to the moon, and all kinds of personal fun and
fabulousness. See the predictions here: http://blog.tothehills.com/?p=89 This year we're taking it to a whole new level. Join Fritz Donnelly and Christina
Ewald as they explore the future in three easy steps. Bring your
tarot, palm reading kit, anything and everything that you think may help us figure
out what on earth is going to happen to all of us in the ever imminent FUTURE...
Many topics will be discussed and by the time you leave HiChristina this Friday
night you needn't wonder any longer "what's to become of me?" Because
we've got you covered.
byob $10
Thursday, December
3 9pm HiChristina Open (mic)
Take
a walk down crazy lane tonight at HiChristina! Expect all the regular acts of
storytelling, absurd performance, prosetry, dance kebab and flip out hairdos AND
THEN be surprised and exhilerated by the new acts of comicry, proletariation,
and songstry! It's all hosted by the shining light herself, Christina Ewald. And
for those of you who enjoyed 'Look at These Shoes,' Fritz has more where that
came from (shoelaces, socks? ... come and see!)
BYOB $5
Wednesday,
December 2 9pm Five Mysteries Fun
1,2,3,4,5... All mysteries, all tonight, observed and learned, only at HiChristina!
Hint, one of the mysteries is Bellie Dancing taught and performed!!!
BYOB
$10
Sunday, November 22 5pm 3rd
Annual Make New Friends
-Tired
of old friends?-
You're not alone- we are too! Today meet an entirely new social
network! Does it seem that your old friends have lost interest in you or your
amazing new projects? Not attending your important events, dates or openings?
Do they assume that because you two are "Old Pals" that they can take
advantage of you yet not even call on your birthday?
Well, here at HiChristina
we say, "Out with the old and in with the new!" You deserve friends
who appreciate you for who you are, respect your lifestyle and choices, friends
who call you back right away. Come to HiChristina, your home for avant garde art,
performance and uncommon expression, for a night of fun, kool-aide, crafts and
blossoming friendships awaits. Join us at the honest hour of 5pm. And with any
luck you'll leave with a new family for Thanksgiving! RSVP: rxapparel@gmail.com
$10 donation
Friday, November 20 10pm Bubbles!!!
Everything
bubbly tonight at HiChristina! Wear bubble wrap for the bubble wrap picnic. Dance
and sway in front of the amazing BUBBLE MACHINE while hearing astounding answers
to your most impossible questions by our very own Mr. Ask-A-Scientist. Get inside
the giant bubble and be rolled around by Rollie Polly. Fill in text bubbles on
huge cartoons hanging from the walls. Sip bubbling beverages. And above and over
all FLY on the human trapeze while feeling floaty, scrumptuous and perfectly at
ease while two expert bubbly personalities circle the room and buoy social interactions.
This is the ultimate Friday night mixer and conceptual dance party. It's not just
about bubbles, it's about bouncing airy levity, performances ensue!!!
byob
$10 (many bubbly materials provided)
Thursday, November
19 9pm HiChristina Open (mic)
Tonight's
superific variety show/interactive soup brew/open mic is one for the history books.
And those books will be written in the new language of motion song dance jokes
and folded laundry that we're creating tonight. ring your latest bit, gig, wig,
and wiggle and try it on the world's most friendly, experienced, and inquisitive
audience. Hosted by the flexstretch Queen herself, Christina Ewald!
byob $5
Saturday, November 14th 8pm reception
(show runs
ALL DAY from 10am to midnight) Recession Proof! by
Sharkmother
Over
15 artists descend on HiChristina beach tonight for this visual and moving art
chomping extravaganza. SharkMotheris a collective that brews collaboration between
dance, film, music, theatre, and visual art! Expect all of this and more at today's
affordable and 'Recession-Proof' show with artwork for $200 or less per piece.
Delightful refreshments served!
$5 donation
Friday,
November 13th 8:30pm Movement Mash UP!
It's the Olympics of avant-garde movement tonight at HiChristina! Expect gyrating
torsos, classical lines, and "out-of-this-mind" dance performance. This
is a perfect night to sit back, make friends, and be asounded by the fruits of
good old fashion skill and hardwork. Meet Colleen Hooper and her special guests
Erin Cairns, Beau Hancock and others as they perform pieces adapted especially
for HiChristina!--and that means you can dance if you want to. Drinks with the
artists to follow. Friday the 13th!! Your luck is about to change.
$10 donation
Thursday,
November 12th 8pm No Poetry
A
night of no poetry, featuring the poets:
Gordon Faylor
Lawrence Giffin
Diana
Hamilton
Eddie Hopely
Ellis Isenberg
Judah Rubin
FREE wine $5 suggested donation
Wednesday, November 11th 8pm Bread
& Butter Time
Tiptoe
down to HiChristina tonight for an evening inspird by...............................very
long arms! Join Performance Artist Agnes Green and friends for an evening of skits
and songs about life's basics.
$5 donation
Sunday,
November 8 1pm-6pm, 6pm-8pm Viewing Party, pray For
Peace
A
semi-secret viewing of the latest works by the artists mentioned above. Birthday
cake will be served. The party is not so private – everyone can come for
a slice while supplies last.
Contemplate your place in the world's journey
to peace. Courtney Weber, priestess, will greet you at the door and do your "Peace
Reading" to discover what your contribution will be towards working for peace.
Meditation and creation spaces will be available to explore this potential (as
will milk and cookies!) Or, pass by and drop off an intention for us to offer
up. HiChristina becomes a sacred space for a few hours, an engine of good in the
world. A prayer for peace will be cast at 8:15 for everyone.
FREE
Saturday,
November 7 8pm Year Book Photo and Art Opening
This
week Nov 7 - 13th, Liz Burow, Rebecca Lowery and Angelo Monaco invite you to HiChristina
to view a selection of new ideas. Liz’s textile wallworks model the interchanges
between freeways and unchecked natural growth. Angelo’s paintings trip
the visible with sprayed, spilled and rendered color. And finally, when you thought
you were out of breath, have your Class of 2009 yearbook photo taken by
Rebecca. Bestial masks supplied, with tasteless, garish backgrounds. Note: Rebecca’s
interactive takes place on Saturday night only, from 8-10. Participate! Celebrate!
FREE
Friday,
November 6 10pm Snowflake Mountain Hot Cruiser
Tonight
expect nothing less than an Epic Poem rendition of your life! We'll go on a journey
up Snowflake mountain and through the depths of it in your very own Hot Cruiser.
Pair up with a poet tonight and tell him or her your life story in 3 quick easy
steps. They will turn your life to song and verse and even interpretive dance
and finger paint. Then watch as the lives unfold and Gilgamesh shudders, Lucan
goes cold, and Rilke rejoices! It's the cure-all for the post-punk pre-breeder
post-hipster bloboramma that we're swimming through, and then we do aerobics!
Come as you are or dress the part, leotards and costumes provided by Leonardotard!
A little interpretive dance is the way to start off the weekend right and everyone
walks away with an epic poem!
byob $10
Thursday,
November 5 9pm HiChristina! Open (mic)
Join
us tonight at HiChristina for the anything-goes night: each performer has 7 minutes
to do whatever and however they'd like. Past performanes include body language,
storytelling huckstring, joking, singing, dancing, flame retardant underwear.
Hosted by the lovely Christina herself.
byob $5
Sunday,
November 1 7pm Special Screening
"A
blogger turned stand-up comic, an obsessive political gadfly and a high-school
math teacher compete against each other and arch rival incumbent Michael Bloomberg
for the post of New York City mayor. As these ordinary citizens take politics
into their own hands, The Promise of New York explores the meaning of democracy
and the identity of a city with hilarious irreverence and thought-provoking sensitivity."
$5
donation
Saturday, October 31 Halloween! 9pm Halloween
Made Easy: Fritz and Christina Dress You Up and Take You Out!
Still
having trouble deciding on a costume? Is Haloween just a bit too stressful this
year? Fuggedaboutit and leave the thinking to us! Join Fritz and Christina at
HiChristina this eerie Halloween eve and make your own spendid costume, get your
face and body painted, and then parade with us to 3 different insane parties in
the hellish 'hood we call home. Halloween has never been so easy and so rewarding.
We'll have all the items you need for any costume including, but not limted to:
Pile-O-Leaves, Cross-Dressing Nanny, sexy this or that, Airplane Meal, Bird'snest,
Field of Running Zebra!) And for that final touch of professionalism, bare your
cheek(s) to our bodypainters!! HiChristina's Spooky Special Guest Body Painters
will give you a total Haloween makeover with airbrushes and the works! Once we've
got your costume ready, join us as we set out from HiChristina (at about 11pm)
to go to three pre-determined and extremely extravagent parties en masse, including
a haunted house and a phat-a-tat-tat dance party. RSVP: rxapparel@gmail.com
byob/flask
$20 covers everything, costumes, painting, even a goulish trick-or-treat bag
Thursday,
October 29 9pm HiChristina! Open (mic)
Welcome
ot the special HALLOWEEN edition of the HiChristina Open mic. Tonight dress up
as another performer and do their act! Impressions of locally well-known people
are so much more satisfying than impresions of world-reknown celebrities. At HiChristina
we have your priorities in mind. Spcieal Halloween themed raffle prizes tonight
too and pumpkin seed flicking contest.
byob $5
Wednesday,
October 28 8:30pm Bag or Rat?
In
the big city when something moves fast and low at the edge of your vision, you
may need to quickly determine: bag or rat? Tonight at HiChristina the artist cook
and film producer Shan Raoufi (pronounced "sean") and Funny Lady Rose
Surnow will help guide you through all of the city's entertaining choices--in
the form of short films and strange live scenarios. Bring your short film (of
about 5 min or less) if you'd like to share.
FREE!!!
Saturday,
October 24 8pm Birdsong
Hear
poetry, novelry, and revelry as compiled and collected in that magical little
place called "Birdsong' the fine wine of zines edited by the inimitable Tommy
Pico! And if that's not enough hear Paps, that purring engine of smooth good times.
byob
FREE
Friday, October 23 10pm A
Full Day of High School in 50 Minutes
"Do
you have English first period?
- "No I cut and tried to go off-campus but Mr.
McGuilicutty busted me."
You're back in school tonight at HiChristina: 5 minute
clases, 30 second passing periods, bag lunch provided, it's a whirlwind and you're
a kite! Learn Matha-magics(4 times 4 is 24 and that's 2 times shelve), Foreign
Language ("Foreeen Langweege"), Art, Remedial and AP English combined,
PE (is that a whip she's holding?) plus surprise substitute teacher (it could
be you!).
s(neak)yob $10 comes with complimentary bag lunch
Thursday,
October 22 9pm HiChristina! Open (mic)
Take
7 minutes tonight to explore the underside, the belly, the fuzzy. It's all you
all the time at HiChristina and tonight it's even more so. Hear the sardonic dreams
of Gabe Lockwood, take Evangeline's good advice/bad advice, meet Gerber's domineering
father, tap to Heather the Tornadoe's slippery fiddle, see Zane play 7 characters
one upon another cumulatively, dance the siren dance and hear the lovely ballads
mixed in... and then its your turn. Are you dressed like a milkman?
byob $5
Saturday,
October 17 10pm Surprise! plus Human-sized Carbon Copier!
Come
over to HiChristina prepared for a night of surprise and adventure! Unburden yourself
in one of two secret telling booths. Cheer for the long underwear dance-o-matics.
And that's not all! Make a copy of yourself tonight at HiChristina and use the
Stretcher and Pusher to change your body proportions in ridiculous and amusing
ways! Then get ready for the big surprises!
byob $10
Thursday,
October 15 9pm HiChristina! Open (mic)
Woo!
What's open about this mic? It's WIDE OPEN like JAWS. Tonight at HiChristina use
your 7 minutes to glare at the wall, spread sparkle lipstick over the creases
in your white trousers, paint your teeth like the keys of a piano while accompanied
by a harmonica, jump the ropes, and much more or much less (minimalist!) anything
you like. We're totally open tonight at the HiChristina Open mic.
byob $5
lol brb
Thursday, October 8 9pm HiChristina!
Open (mic)
Is
it Thursday today? Thor's day? Day of thunderbolts and mayhem? YES Capital Y yes!
The gracious Christina Ewald will gide us through the most compelling performance
art and noogle music of NYC 2009. It's HiLight night at HiChristina so bring your
pens and pencil protectors and get ready to make your mark! 7 minutes await you
on the mic on the stage in the space of the century!!! Also just tonight, meet
special guest host Eyal Marcovici and see the mrionette pants and other hijnks
performance of Patrick "the Mangina"!
byob $5
Saturday,
October 3 8pm KillShot Comics 1st Issue Launch Party!
KillShot
Comics, an almost unrealistically small comic book company based in Manhattan,
is finally ready to unveil to the world its newest creations: the hard-boiled,
hard-drinking noir narratives of Inspector Specter #1 and the mind-altering, far-reaching
surrealist adventures of Anchorman Ruby #1. Please come help us celebrate! Live
music, film, original art, raffles, drinks, and other varieties of mayhem will
be presided over by Lou Wright and Annie Sieg with the gracious help of Christina
and Fritz. If you're a comic-book dabbler or a nerd with a Jack Kirby tattoo on
your ass, we want you there!
byob $5
Friday, October
2 10pm Three Ring Circus of Sound hosted by Darren
Tonight
dance the worm and prance the pony at HiChristina to the tunes of three bands
including "Leopoldine," (Joanie Wolkoff and Vincent Venturella with
Darren Methlie and Phil Gold) who play music hidden in the base of a grandfather
clock!!! Also a surpriZe performance by Mike Wallace... Who is Mike Wallace and
why should you care about him? Because we said so! We're telling you- this is
the best way to spend your Friday night and that's all there is to it!
byob
$5
Thursday, October 1 9pm HiChristina!
Open (mic)
Have
you met Fancy John (pheencee joun) or Plaid Inspector? How about Big Smiles or
Reid Rockstar Improvosario or Gabe knee-knockin? Heard Gerber tell a story? Seen
Robin wear men's shrirt sleeves for leg warmers or heard Julian's melodies? So
many questions! Tonight at HiChristina get ALL the answers. At this open mic cum
variety show you have 7 minutes to do whatever you'd like. Dazzle your peers and
charm Christina--who will sing your winning raffle number in operatic tones.
byob
$5
Sunday, September 27 3pm The
HiChristina 112th Annual
Magic Sugar Cube Scavenger Hunt
Year
after year hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers look forward to The HiChristina
112th Annual: Magic Sugar Cube Scavenger Hunt. Traditionally held on the Island
of Monoco and presided over by The Christopher Walken, this year we're bringing
it back home... Central Park. Meet at Columbus Circle (the NE corner of the intersection
of W 59th St and Central Park). Each scavenger will be paired with a friendly
stranger and given three things: 1. a sealed envelope with secret map and instructions
2. a kazoo 3. a little snack for your journey. Fritz Donnelly and Christina Ewald
will be roaming the course in sparkling tights and gold spandex with helpful hints
and funny antics. We will hunt, reconvene and finally assemble the scavenged items
in the surprising climax of The HiChristina 112th Annual: Magic Sugar Cube Scavenger
Hunt. This will be the best year yet.
Come with friends or alone and rsvp to
reserve an envelope: rxapparel(at)gmail(dot)com
byo-oj (orange juice) $10
Saturday,
September 26 10pm 5 minute Lecture Series
Hear brief intense lectures on topics as varied and stimulating as Octopus Jewel
Theives and Toenail Painting! And this new topic just in: "How to $ell ABSOLUTELY
ANYTHING to ANYONE Right Now in Your OWN HOME in Your SPARE TIME" There are
still a few slots left so email us if you have a topic: rxapparel - at - gmail.
byob
$10
Thursday, September 24 9pm HiChristina!
Open (mic)
The
HiChristina open mic is the place to hone your mind edge and oil your word slicks.
Witness everything from poetry to Pippy Longstocking to performance trio Stop
Drop n Roll. You have 7 glorious minutes to feel the sting of a thousand curious
eyeballs and hear the whisper of slightly parted lips bating their breath for
YOUR performance! Do anything you like tonight at HiChristina, the tried and true
or something completely new. Join veteran lower east side performers and newbis
fresh from their parachutes. Win the raffle and enjoy the antics of your beautiful
hosts Christina Ewald and The Self-Described Magistical Mango Man (Fritz Donnelly)!
byob
$5
Wednesday, September 23 9pm Fall
in Love
Not
in love? Don't worry about it. Tonight at HiChristina we'll simulate all of the
senstions of falling in love. Wether it's dizziness, euphoria, blurred vision,
an immeasurable sense of self-confidence, complete satisfaction, lunacy, or plain
joy you'll experience it tonght! Feel the fall in any an all of four ways. Fall
in love (1)on first sight, (2) after years of being friends, (3) accidentally
while doing something else, and the ultimate (4) for reals!!!
byob $10
Tuesday,
September 22 8-10pm HiChristina in the Disposable Film
Festival
at Anthology Film Archives (2nd Ave n 2nd St.)
Many
of our HiChristina events are shot on a little camera that was given to us by
the Disposable Film Festival. Come see some of the fabuous movies Fritz and Christina
created tonight along with other films shot on tiny cameras in strange places!
MovieMaker Magazine calls it the country’s “coolest film festival,”
so you know the after party will be sPonKooo! The Disposable
Film Festival was created in 2007 to celebrate the artistic potential of disposable
video: short films made on non-professional devices such as one-time use video
cameras, cell phones, point and shoot cameras, webcams, computer screen capture
software, and other readily-available video capture devices. The program tonight
features the best of the 2009 lineup, including new work by NY filmmakers Fritz
Donnelly, Paul Lovelace, and Red
Bucket Films.
for the price of a movie ticket at Anthology
Saturday,
September 19 9pm Interstate Choir Dress (film)
Come
to HiChristina tonight ready to see some fabulous experimental film and projections,
starting with the New York Premiere of Paris Mancini's "Interstate Choir
Dress" (30 min) a surreal HD flick about Arkansas, NYC, losing your voice,
and the highway.Other projections before and after! Bring a video (dvd or file)
of 5 mintues or less and show it to the lovely audience tonight. Clothes and art
on the walls for sale or barter. come by and share the love...
byob $5
Friday,
September 18 9pm Garage Ghosts
Epoh
Owl is not dead! The art collective headed by Paris
Mancini and formerly located on Hope Street in Williamsburg has taken nocturnal
shelter at HiChristina! They're selling clothing and art Thursday thru Saturday
night and will introduce you to the new wave of art-metal-expressionism.
Tonight's
'Garage Ghosts' is a lineup of musician and performers designed to put the mud
on your boots and sparkle in your step. Hear All-american deep swamp spirits (Perfvgivm),
with lots of guitars and stomping boxes. Young Boys the leather-wearing, pop-song,
scum + feedback Brooklynites, will play you pop songs. Dance to the spin sinp
of b-more, garage, dubstep, and grime house from DJ Tinseltown. And that's not
all! You'll hear V E to the A, and a guerilla permance by BabySkinGlove, a kind
of tribute to Bette Midler. Audience participation is encouraged!
byob $10
Thursday,
September 17 9pm HiChristina! Open (mic)
Bring
your malleable microbes and the letter 'j' for JAWBREAKERS, tonight at HiChristina
you have 7 minutes to do whatever you'd like. See performers do such astounding
feats as: dance-grunt-motion, gipping-story-tell, fast-knocking-knees-read, and
funny-song-sing, not to mention acrobatic-entrance-to-rain-of-shoes. Tonight curiosity
breaks it's long fast in this variety show open mic extravaganza with a secret
special guest host. And what's xtra special about tonight's show is that it will
take place ina a HiChristina decorated with clothing and art from Epoh Owl. Also
tune into a specail literary performance by published New Haven writer Jordan
Bishop. bring yourself and show us what you've got!
byob $5
Saturday,
September 12 10pm Instamatic Gratification: High School
Play Performed
Tonight
at HiChristina watch/perform the debut of 'Instant Gratification' the 10 minute
High School Play, that amazing creation that is made up with strangers right before
your very eyes. It's openning night and we're Off Off Off broadway (Broadway in
Brooklyn that is.) Watch out for pushy but proud camera man 'Dad' comes with 'Mom'
to pick you up after the show, and two Crazy Uncle Larrys. Then enter the Crazee
Characters workshop. Bring flowers; or draw a bouquet of flowers with the supplies
provided.
byob $10
Friday, September 11 9pm Instant
Gratification: High School Play
HiChristina
is trying someting new.
Come both nights.
On the first (tonight) create
a high school play.
On the second (tomorrow) perform the play for loved ones
and friends.
Everything is made up but these things:
1) a villian with
a crooked nose
2) a plot reversal involving an impersonator and sombrero
3)
an imaginary friend (rendered with home-made special effects)
byob $10 ($15
total admission for both nights)
Thursday, September
10 9pm HiChristina! Open (mic)
Slide
out of your slinky-winkies, pull up your tube socks, and march on down to HiChristina
for the variety show/shown n tell/open mic that will set your hair afire! Join
the train of dogs as we mush it up. The gracious and lovely Christina Ewald guides
the night through a rollercoaster of short unshakeable performances. Each performer
has 7 minutes to sing, prance, ply, poet, funny, strange, or zing.
byob $5
Friday,
September 4 10pm Big Pencil
Make
huge body appendages out of foam and miscellaneous
bric-a-brac and dance and
bounce with them. Draw on HUGE paper. Glitter,
inspiration and love falls from
the sky! Complete with LIVE moose! It's a
dance party//performance piece//installation
art all in one.
byob $10
Thursday, September 3 9pm HiChristina!
Open (mic)
The
graceful and daring Christina Ewald hosts tonight's variety show cum open mic
extravaganza, generously giving every performer 7 minutes to rule the world. If
you love to perform or need to try something on the experimental public, HiChristina
is the place for you! Keep your eyes wide for Christina's puppet friend Rosie,
and expect to see such diverse charaters as Winkie - the shy man who gets away
with anything, Gerber the Storyteller, Fold-o-bot the human illusion, Patrick
the Mangina, Ask A Scientist, the Ladies Handbag Parade, and many more.
byob
$5
Wednesday, September 2 9pm World
of Secretaries
Wednesday
at HiChristina you're either the secretary or the boss. Take total advantage of
either role! The night starts with some simple activities, dictating and taking
dictation, changing paper in the 'printer'
(a huge cardboard monstrosity manned
by 2 people), re-designing the company logo, and so on until things really rev
up and the night culminates in a boardroom meeting/open heart surgery/strip tease.
If everyone in the world were your secretary this is what the world would be like!
byob
$10
Sunday, August 30 6pm Frak
Earth: an evening of Battlestar Galactica
Lean
back and let John Brooks rocket you around the Battlestar Galaxia! Are you still
going through Battlestar withdrawl? Feel nostalgic whenever you hear “All
Along the Watchtower”? Making your friends watch the mini-series so you can
also get them hooked? Join us for Battlestar themed evening of interactive games,
trivia, special prizes, and heaping spoonfuls of stimulating DISCUSSION with other
folks who give a frak. Oh, and let's not forget the ambrosia.
BYOB $5 donation
Saturday,
August 29 8pm Birdsong Collective Returns!
The
indefatigable world explorer Tommy Pico (new poetry editor for L Magazine) returns
to HiChristina with his cadre of beautiful elves and shining nymphs. Hear the
latest greatest avant-garde poetry and fiction and pick up your free copy of Birdsong
#8, the zine to unite zines.
BYOB, FREE!
Friday,
August 28 9pm (Fake) Art Therapy Night
with
Diana Arge and Laura Lee
Why
let artists have all the fun? Tonight you have a signed permission ship to let
your long-slumbering creativity come out and play! Come join our sexy art scientists
as they lead activities such as scribble therapy, glitter expressionism, body
outline portraiture, and finger painting twister. No prior artistic talent necessary!
You'll leave feeling fitter, happier, messier.
Wear your play clothes (we have
some too).
BYOB $5 donation
Thursday, August 27
9pm HiChristina Open (mic) Puppets ALSO!
Welcome
a crazy, fuzzy, new set of performers to the Open mic tonight: puppets. Come to
HiChristina and meet an ensemble of Emo’s amazing fuzzy friends will be performing/reading/doing
stand-up/ singing/inspiring with the assistance of humans Matt Lesser and Adam
Jones! Puppets are 'on-hand' to accompany any performance this week, and do not
fret if you are a human. We will provide sock/ finger/ paper bag puppets to assist
you...or you can bring your own! Special appearance by Rosie, Christina's special
friend and sock puppet. Also watch one of HiChristina's favorite charismatic personalities
Ronny do hi his 'egg-stra' special puppet show! Emo is the only puppet I know
of who has a blog: http://crapreport.blogspot.com !
BYOB $5 donation
Wednesday,
August 26 8pm (Nude) Figure Drawing
Get ready to draw at HiChristina tonight! Bring a pad and pencil and record the
poses of at least 3 different live models who are happy to take audience pose
suggestions. There are quickdraws and slow draws, themed draws, partner draws,
and even an on-hand drawing tutor for beginners, our very own, Laura Lee Gulledge.
Sharpen those pencils and smudge those lines! On this special night at HChristina,
we're awarding an automatic prize to whomever comes to paint on oil and canvas
(byoO and C).
BYOB $10 donation
Tuesday, August
25 8pm Writers (& Cartoonists) Show N Tell PLUS
Art Opening
A
year after her first show at HiChristina, Laura
Lee Gulledge RETURNS! Laura Lee is a beautiful and transfixing force in the
world of comics. She will cover the walls with her trademark introspective illustrations.
Her events continue all week! She will be joined by fellow Virginia-comrades Bishop203 and Diana
Arge! Bishop’s candy-colored paintings feature whimsical street charactersart
culture. In contrast, Diana’s weathered polaroid transfers feel rather timeless...like
snapshots taken in a forgotten dream.
Bring your writing and drawings, one
or both! Featuring a sneak preview of "Page by Paige!" the new book
by Laura Lee Gulledge!
BYOB $5 donation
Saturday,
August 22 8pm We'll Never Have Paris VARIETY SHOW
Welcome
to an action-packed, audience participation variety show complete with raffle
and prizes. Shows range from "Columbian juggling" to "Mad Libs
charades" and something called "Bacon Panty" (we can discover what
this is together). Bring your tofurkey and your sparkling bandandas! Performers
include, Amy Harlib(dance/yoga/contortion ),
Pablo (juggling), Hostess Andria,
L*O*V*E Sparkle (partner dancing with live music), Fun Scott (songomedy), Shaheim,
Amanda, TJ's BACON PANTY, Russ, Joe, and more. If you'd like to perform email
Andria your act idea care of Christina: rxapparel -at- gmail.
BYOB $10 donation
Friday,
August 21 10pm - Saturday, August 22 3am HiChristina
SLUMBER Party!!
HiChristina
goes on a field trip/slumber party and takes you with us! We've designed a night
of educational magicistical adventure. We guarantee nothing and expect everything.
Come with us and change your life for the better. Why not? It's the summer thing
to do. Learn if it's better to sleep every three days. Hear master bedtime story
tellers and re-enact your dreams and nightmares. Listen to outrageous bedtime
stories and eat milk and cookies!Show up in pajamas and write us if you'd like
us to reserve a pillow for you: rxapparel - at - gmail.com
BYOB $10 donation
Thursday,
August 20 9pm Uzi's Open (mic)
Step
up to the mic and let loose. Called 'the most entertaining series of wierd and
funny performers' by Don Johnson and the Wingtips, slither out tonight for the
friendliest freak show and freakiest friend show at HiChristina. Perform yourself
and mix with luminaries of the performance scene. Acts inclue: good advice/ bad
advice, psycotherapist and Igor, bam bam as fast as you can knee knocking prose
poetry. Newbies and Old hats are welcome. You have 7 minutes to do whatever you
like. And wether or not you perform, see Leonardotard or the Time Traveling Sombrero,
Sargeant Zane's Robot, Gabe Lockwood's Cream Machine, Kerry's Yummy Waffles, Walter
Gambin's Prize Patient, Gerber the Storyteller, and more! This week the 'wows'
fall fast with wrestle maniac and roller-skating maven Rosie Rebel! And of course
eat falafel with the singing-dancing out-of-your-pantsing hostess Ami Uzi!!!
BYOB
$5
Saturday, August 15 1pm Beach
Party Field Trip!! (meet at HiChristina)
This
is your excuse to dress as a pirate or a sea creature. Paint your body then wash
it off in the ocean! It's the mermaid parade on wheat grass! Wear a fun outfit
a strange swimsuit or just come along 'ready for anything.' You'll have a fabulous
time with HiChristina at the beach today! We meet at the space (632 Grand Street
in Brooklyn) and then jump on the train or into the caravan of cars and speed
off to a huge sandy beach with great waves.
Join Fritz and Christina as they
accompany YOU buried in the sand at our spectacular BEACH DAY where all the things
you like about the beach really do come true. Things you might expect to encounter:
human wheelbarrow, sand cake with chocolate frosting, Fritz giving lessons on
how to body surf, fly a homemade kite, birthday party thrown for a stranger, your
name written in seashells and "hot feet." Transportation provided (bring
your metro-card in case). Special performances by "California Dude and Bodacious
Babe." Everyone who attends will be given a special pair of aqua-socks. We
are going to a special spot, that is not too crowded and has sweet waves. Tubular.
RSVP
for BEACH PARTY rxapparel (at) gmail (dot) com or just come. 'Bus' leaves at 2pm.
BYOB $10 donation
Friday, August 14 10pm L*O*V*E
Sparkle plays at the Living Theatre
Catch
up with HiChristina in a new Lower Eastside location in the form of the dance
and crazy making force that is L*O*V*E
Sparkle. See us in the show "Where Aliens Roam" - interactive and
ecstatactive.
Thursday, August 13 9pm Uzi's
Open (mic)
This
open mic/variety show at HiChristina is getting hotter every week! Get an agent
or a manager at this week's Uzi's Open. Each person has 7 minutes to do whatever
he or she dreams. Win the raffle (you're very own copy of To the Hills 2 by our very own Fritz Donnelly), draw from the 'Bag-O-Wonder,' listen to the greatest
story teller, best ukelele player, funniest spaz out, and most compelling leotard
routine since the age of eyes of on the prize.
BYOB $5
Wednesday,
August 12 8pm Plant Story / Writers Show n Tell
What
did that plant see in it's life? If plants could move where would they go? If
we had green skin and ate the sun how would our world be different? A laid-back
night of comic drawing, creative writing exercises, and costume making. We'll
photograph everything and make a book of it. On display will be The Book of Exotic
Plants by Evelyn Donnelly. The night culminates in plant-styled waving in the
wind. Wear green. (With complimentary yoga.)
PLUS** Writers meet performers
in this strange mix of theatre, circus and book reading! Writers-- aspiring or
otherwise-- bring your work (5 minutes or shorter). Actors-- aspiring or otherwise--
come prepared for some cold reading and crazy movement. It goes like this: writer
reads first, actor follows with interpretation of what was read. Fritz and Christina
provide any costumes, wigs, insanity. Also, enjoy our complimentary handshake/high-five
and hug for every guest!
BYOB $10
Tuesday, August
11 8pm Face that I Gave, Face that I Got
We
never know exactly how we appear to other people. Sometimes people beam a huge
grin while we're walking down the sreet thinking about wet socks, and we wonder
'what expression is on my face?' Now, once and for all, see just what expression
you need to get the reaction you desire. Or just see what a smile on your face
looks like to other people. Activities include: face mirroring, facial expression
translation into three other media (including goo), and passport photos taken!
Face training tonight at HiChristina. A charicature artist will be on-hand to
teach 'hand to face' and a performance artist will demonstrate 'hand to mouth.'
Does it take more muscles to smile or frown? Feel the difference tonight at HiChristina.
Photographers encouraged!
BYOB $10
Sunday, August
9 7pm Make New Friends
-Tired
of old friends?-
youre not alone- we are too! Today meet an entirely new social
network! does it seem that your old friends have lost interest in you or your
amazing new projects? not attending your important events, dates or openings?
do they assume that because you two are "Old Pals" that they can take
advantage of you yet not even call on your birthday?
well, here at HiChristina
we say, "Out with the old and in with the new!" you deserve friends
who appreciate you for who you are, respect your lifestyle and choices, friends
who call you back right away.
Come to HiChristina, your home for avant garde
art, performance and uncommon expression, for a night of fun, kool-aide, crafts
and blossoming friendships awaits. Join us at the honest hour of 7pm.
BYOB
$10
Friday, August 7 10pm Old
New York, New New York: Social Mixer
Lived
here for more than 10 years? Lived here for less? The group divides in tow and
questions are answered, rubes are exposed, and the Brooklyn Bridge is SOLD! Everything
about New York but were afraid to ask. 3 planned performances include: 'First-Ever
New York Performance,' 'Building Squatting' by P. Rolando, and 'The Next Big Thing,'
by a secret guest.
BYOB $10 donation
Thursday,
August 6 9pm Uzi's Open (mic)
Get
your 7 minutes of fame tonight at HiChritina. Last time hostess Ami Uzi danced
in flagrante with a spontaneous member of the audience, who knows what hijinks
will ensue tonight! Hear the latest greatest writing, performance art, and sequined
solipsism. Tonight's featured performers are the wonderful and amazing Oh My
God Girls! the newest project of Rachel Trachtenburg of the Trachtenburg
Family Slide Show Players. Get wowed and amazed by teenagers more sesame than
sesame street and with twice the attitude.
BYOB $5 donation
Wednesday,
August 5 8pm Muscle Noodle / Writers Show N Tell in SECRET MANHATTAN (CHELSEA) LOCATION!!! RSVP required
Build
muscles while guzzling protein shakes and slappin' ass. At HiChristina muscle
noodle provides for all your flexological body-massing needs. Show muscles,
flex muscles, isolate muscle groups, eat mussels and listen to poetry. Every hard
head has a soft side. Wear a leotard and bring your pretty writing. HiChristina
is taking over a hidden dance studio with a wall of mirrors for this special event.
Pump iron while mixing shakes! Ice cream ok! Call or email to come to the show,
917.642.6018 or, rxapparel - at - gmail.com .
BYOB and BYOI(items for the
Blender!) $10 donation
Tuesday, August 4 8pm Interactive
Film Night PLUS Richard Sandler's Films
If
you grew up with Buckminister Fuller, if your grandfather wrote those immorial
words "it's a bird , it's a plane, it's super man," if you walked everywhere
in New York for 15 years with a video camera and you condensed all of this experience
into one memorable film, you are Richard Sandler!!!! Tonight at HiChristina,
watch these cinema verite documentaries. Also, bring a film on DVD or flash drive
and show your own film of 5 minutes or less. At the end of the film program each
of us will dictate one shot to be included in the group made instantaneous collaborative
film.
BYOB $10 donation
Saturday,
August 1 10pm Zookeeper
Come
to HiChristina; you're an animal! Get fed by the zookeeper or just visit the zoo.
SILENCE from the moment you enter HiChristina's gates (except animal noises).
Special performances: Call of the Wild, Kingdom of Roars and Galloping horses!
Come dressed like an animal or wear one of our animal costumes. Zoological experts
will be on-hand to describe appropriate behaviors for even the most obscure animals.
David Attenborough LIVE from the edge of a new ecosystem! An immersive experience.
Animal sounds record by the one, the only Eyal Marcovici.
BYOB $10 donation
Friday,
July 31 10pm Rainy Day Sunshine or Rainbow Gotcha!
Come
see the new rainbow machine with unicorn dancing at HiChristina tonight. Special
performances by celebrity look-a-likes, Marylin Monroe, Michael Douglas, Max Headroom,
William Shatner and Paris Hilton. Dress up in your favorite fatasy theme MANDITORY...
Christina will be dressed as a "hermit crab" and Fritz as "underwater
explorer." Wishes will be granted and by the end of the night you will have
learned two new things about the world. Guaranteed! SPECIAL MUSICAL GUEST to be
announced...
BYOB $10 donation
Thursday, July 30
10pm Uzi's Open (mic)
This
is that special night at HiChristina where each and every one who wants to can
take the tage and hold forth for 7 uninterrupted minutes. Past acts have included,
Evangelina, SportsBlastor, Big Mike, John with Ma Bell, Gabe Lockwood, Walter
Gambin Themed Dance Party, and more more more. It's a community of fun!
BYOB
$5 donation
Tuesday, July 28 9pm 3rd
World Job
Tonight
at HiChristina do a nightmare job common in industrializing countries. But unlike
in the factory, keep what you make. Listen to dystopian predctions of the future
of the U.S. from a distinguished professor. Do 5 (five!) 3rd (third) world (round)
jobs (woo!). Fishing Boat, Sweat Shop, Building the Pyramids, Sex Worker, General
Slave, or something like that. Hot Ramen Eating intermission! Be the factory boss,
the native intelligensia, the colonial power, or just one of the workers. The
night ends with REVOLUTION!
BYOB $10 donation
Saturday,
July 25 10pm Facebook LIVE
This evening get your face out of that white Apple laptop and into a strange,
strange world of love, candy canes, ice cream sandwiches, and bunny rabbits at
HiChristina. Facebook live! Exchange photos (we will draw them out as the night
develops), add friends (carry/cart/drag one over to your page), write on the wall
(we will actually be writing on Fritz and Christina's walls), get people to join
your group (speeches will be made, the most convincing/absurd wins a special prize),
waste your time taking a silly quiz about nothing (Xeroxed copies of handmade
quizzes will be passed out upon arrival). A special intermission tap-dance performance
by Slick Shoes Bob -- if you, or someone you know would like to be Slick Shoes
Bob, email me at rxapparel (at) gmail (dot) com -- as well as a lesson of all
things virtual by our one and only Professor Squiqqletoothberg, including an in-depth
lecture of the history of the world, in 1.5 minutes. Tonight we will also, though
an interactive performance called Jumping Jacks, find out the answer to the ever
pressing question "What will be the new Facebook?" Myths will be debunked,
pantyhose torn. All while status updates are announced by the person, as they
occur, over the microphone. Leave HiChristina tonight feeling better than you
ever thought possible, but not before getting chatted at by someone you don't
think you know.
5$donation free ice cream sandwiches
Friday,
July 24 10pm Childrens' Birthday (for grown-ups)
What's
better than a night of Twister, Pin the Tail on the Donkey, coloring and make
believe? As far as I can tell, nothing. So Hooray! Tonight at HiChristina come
and "play" with your friends at our pretend children's birthday being
a child once again but this time with all the knowledge and experience of the
cultured and well-adjusted adult that you have become. Games of joy and childish
delight! Also included in tonights festivities is the ever present "naughty
games" that many of us enjoyed in our youth for example 'doctor.' etc. Remember
not to talk to strangers unless you meet them at HiChristina tonight. ps this
can be between you and me, don't tell your parents, they wouldn't understand.
Thursday,
July 23 9pm Uzi's Open (mic)
Whoop
whoop! Come see upside down avant garde performers all beautifully framed by the
unconquerable photographs of Richard Sandler. Be larger than life among the largest
life photographs you've ever seen
$5 donation
Friday,
July 17 8pm HiChristina at Musica Hall of Williamsburg
The Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective presents
THE END hosted by Fritz Donnelly and Christina Ewald.
Tonight is a medley
of films, participatory peformances and rockstomping square-glasses music. Varied
in style and genre, these 30 short films (each 2 min or less) present a wide response
to the theme of finality. Band: Midnight Masses DJ: Barney Iller. Meet the biggest
collective of filmmakers on the East Coast outside the Screen Actor Guild--or
is it Direct Action Guild-- activist meets filmaker? Either way, toniht it's the
end of the world so no one's gonna object to you wearing bubble wrap.
Thursday,
July 16 9pm Uzi's Open (mic)
Join
us for a spectacular participatory variety show frequented by art stars, happy
louises, and paddy whacks at HiChristina tonight. The art tonight is time based,
slink into the corner and peep, or walk down the aisl like the man or woman or
blnd you are and take yur rightful place on stage. Hosted by Ami Uzi.
$5 donation
Saturday,
July 11 10pm Pico Circus - The Miniature World
Bring
all the tiny things you have, the minithings. Tonight everything is miniature
at HiChristina. Part exploration, part listening, part watching, part sharing,
and five parts fingertip dancing: you've never had such a big experience of things
so small. Bring short films. Watch short clips about small things. The most fun
snce Calder's Circus and more powerful than the Atlantic Jumping Flea Circus.
Take everything in, in a single bound. Learn how to hold your hand steady and
influence the microcosmos. Microscopes! Look at your own saliva! Write REALLY
SMALL. Tiny, thiny, thingy. Little models. Magnifying glasses. Hear a lecture
on the Physics of Size. And get tied up with little string like Gulliver.
$5
donation
Friday, July 10th 10pm Billy
Cut-off Jeans!!! The Michael Jackson Memorial Dance Party
It's
close to midnight... Something evil's lurking at your door. Don't worry, don't
be frightened, HiChristina has got your back. Tonight you will enjoy yourself
more than you ever thought possible during our Michael Jackson Dance Off Party/Oversized
Sportcoat/Blind Fold Guided Visualization Movement/Honest Nook (where your completely
honest and you're not taken in a bad way or a good way)/Compliment Corner (Hair
and Personality)/Note Passing While Running from Teacher/Flock of Pink Birds (bubblegum
chewing contest) and Highwater Pants Sing-a-long Dance-a-long. We know you're
saying to yourself "Dude, how can they fit that all into one night?"
Well, we just can and we just will. So wear your shortest pants and your largest
sportcoat, and join us tonight at 10pm-midnight for a dancing, bubblegum chewing
(provided), honest and compliment inspired, Micheal Jackson of a good time. Come
and be surprised.
BYOB!
only 5$
Thursday, July
9 9pm Uzi's Open (mic)
Tonight
take 7 minutes to communicate the one message you'd like to make sure passes down
through the generations to all posterity. The results go into the Time Capsule.
Aaaaaaah aaaaaah aaami uzi! is your hostess.
$5 donation
Tuesday,
July 7th 9pm Look What I Can Do
Show
us weird things you can do. Acrobatics, contortion, breath control, photographic
memories, whatever you can do. Even simple things can be amazing at HiChristina.
Don't feel left out. Even you can do something remarkable! PLUS movies of people
doing things you'd not think possible. Human prowess has never been so powerFURL.
$5
donation
Sunday, July 5 6pm Make
That Sound PLUS Sock Puppet Matinee & Pro Wrestling
HiChristina
is the only place where man-made music, amateur wrestling and sock puppets live
in happy harmony. What's that sound you've always been wanting to make but have
been shy to try? Loose that noise, make that sound today at HiChristina! Enter
a 'live' studio where every smack, crackle, and pop can become part of the mix!
Join the human orchestra and sing abstract 'Ennio Morricone style' back up. Go
on the main mic and be the center of attention. Shake the delicate bells in the
background. Kazoos and plastic instruments for three minutes! Eyal Marcovici,
the musician behind the tunes on Fritz Donnelly's To the Hills film series, will
set up the mics and bring the Mogues. Amateurs and pro(wrestlers) welcome. Take
a break from all the beautiful noise and enjoy and/or participate in two amateur
(pro-style) wrestling intermissions with our favorite host, the one and only,
Patrick the Mangina! Followed Christina and sock puppet Rosie's demonstration
of opera techniques. AND if that's not all...Witness the ultimate in puppet acrobatics,
aerobics, and animalistics. Using sock puppets (you can make one today too!) we
go on a spirited journey more epic than Gilgamesh, the Monkey King and Oedipus
combined. A three part night, that's just the thing for a hangover sunday or a
4th of July easy cheese.
$10 donation
Super Special Ice Cream Sandwiches
provided
BYOB
Friday, July 3 10pm Crazy
Monkees Colllide !
We all know monkeys (you move like a monkey, he sounds like a monkey talking,
girl you eat a lot of bannanas) oand sometimes we have crazy impulses (comb your
hair with the limb of a tree, wear your clothes inside out), tonight at HiChristina
let all your impulses propell you as the monkeys come out flying of the bag. And
turn your clothes inside out, unless you have something crazier to do... (Wig
Magnet and Gummy Fish in Fishnets provided).
Thursday,
July 2 9pm Uzi's Open (mic)
Join
Amy Uzi in clothing swaps, elven songs, and spinning lunging cream-covered dance.
She's the hostest with the gnarliest most surprising following of performers since
Twinkie and Tootsie Roll. Tonight at HiChristina you have 7 minutes to perform
whatever you'd like: music, dance, prank phone calls, tender missives, anything
goes and is going fast!
$5 donation
Saturday, June
27 8pm Richard Sandler's Photography Big Pictures
From the Big Apple OPENING PARTY 10pm 5
Minute Lecture Series: Deep Springs!
Tonight
at HiChristina see the beautiful black and white street photography of Richard
Sandler blown up to epic proportions. Twelve 9 foot high prints take over the
walls of HiChristina. Meet the photographer and find your soul in these insightful
snapshots.
Then at 10pm, watch and participate in ten five minute lectures
with a clumped Q and A every few lectures, on varying topics such as “How
They Ruin My Concentration,” “The Troll Museum,” and “Sexual
Persuasion.” The show will also include “Ask a Scientist” and the
“Kevin Donnelly Memorial Lecturer” who gives a real-life story of rebellion.
Special guests: The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and Deep Springs College
Alumnae (Stokes Young "I Turn the Media Inside Out," Nat Birdsall "Trust
or Trusts," Seth Ludman "How to Think--Examples Provided," Rosten
Woo "A Funny Thing Happened...," Sam Tregar "Go," Mihir Kirshigar
"Indian Mind," David Vigil "Urban Farm," and our very own
Fritz Donnelly "What is Deep Springs"). Plus we'll show 3 short films
shot at Deep Springs College in the 90s. Lecture or listen, spontaneous and planned
lectures welcome.
$10 donation
Friday, June 26 8pm Special
Guest: Dating Game !!WIN $100 cash prize!!
Find
a mate, a mother, a father, for the pregnant male Josh Atlas. A lucrative cash
prize goes to the winning contestant! Expect mental challenges, unlikely talents,
milk runs and partner/stranger dancing. Be part of the hyperractive audience or
join the first offline dating service of 2009. More J than J Date and more explosive
than match dot com. Come on come on to HiChristina for this pastel surprise. As
Josh puts it, "People from the audience may take short physical challenges,
and if they win, will replace the contestant of their choice and start off with
however many points were already earned." Josh has planned out the whole
night complete with 3 act stucture, this will be the Dating Game to end all games
and begin all dates!
Thursday, June 25 9pm Uzi's Open (mic)
Amy
Uzi pours charm and courage down the throats of all would-be, can-be and am-biant
performers. You have 7 minutes to do whatever you like and join history in this
history-making superlative undertaking. Special Late June edition with SURPRISE
NEW ACTS!!
$5 donation
Wednesday, June 24 9pm Super
Smash: 2 shows in one: Dancer's Show N Tell PLUS 'To the Hills' Interactive Movie Night
We
have guests visting this week at HiChristina, so we'er combing two shows into
one in honor of Fritz's family visiting! Meet his sister! Mother!
And bring
your tight mind and loose body to HiChristina tonight for a revamp of our popular
SHOW N TELL. A short dance clip, at a fast clip, clippity-cloppity horsee! Writers
bring your writing, read and a modern dancer will interpret your work. Dancers
show us your work, on your body or those of many willing participants. As an extrafun
punch in the night, L*O*V*E Sparkle will lead us in a game of HORSEE inspired
by Evelyn Donnelly.
Bring your short film and wow the world at HiChristina
tonight. Email us to be on the list of presenters or show up with disc in hand.
We'll show new films by our own Fritz Donnelly and by the end of the night all
the participants will star in and help create a mini-meta-feature film.
Sunday,
June 21 7pm Special Guest: Birdsong Zine Launch
Called,
"cool kids reading good poems " by the L Magazine, this Father's day
spend an evening with the Birdsong Collective. Hoot hoot, tweetwteet! Celebrate
birdsong: Williamsburg's bi-monthly, collectively-published, collaborative lit/art/interview
zine. Come, join the collective, meet the collective, hear the poems and speak
the speech. They're a (mostly) Brooklyn-based loose association of writers/artists/musicians,
founded on the principles of DIY, due dates, community support, Papa John's and
self-validation--- creating one's own worth, both artistically and personally.
The night starts with a showcase of art and a case of refreshments. Participants
include: Elizabeth Hirsch, Danny Coeyman, Matt McCann, Justin Mugits, Julia Norton,
Danielle Rosa and Michelle Yu. At 8pm Douglas A Martin and members of the collective
read from birdsong #7 interlevered with music by Jess Paps and Julia Norton and
pop singer Darla Roseng. This beautiful night at HiChristina is hosted by the
inimitable Tommy Pico.
Saturday, June 20 2pm &
8pm Special
Guest: SOFA Judged for Sex
fEmiNa
presents: Flower Porn: the Sofa! film series 2pm - 6pm
An intimate interactive
documentary project: come play with Anna and Sofia on this afternoon of filming
and lusting, flowers and chocolate with some hot action thrown into the mix. Be
as explicit or as coy as you like... Reveal and conceal, expose, provoke and tease
as we create a sensual portrait of your magnificent self. Couples, groups and
individuals welcome.
femiNIGHT: Judged for Sex 8 PM
An evening of art
and sensuality with films, performances, photography and readings exploring the
many ways in which society can make us feel judged for sex.
Films and art
by: Ruth Gilford “What She Wants,” Tonje Gjevjon “Andere Du Dung,”
Jennifer Lyon Bell “Matinee”
Syd London, Anna Fleshler, Amanda Dolan,
"Mixed media," Vera Svechina, "Strip Tease"
Your hostesses
for the evening: Anna Fleshler (annafleshler.com) and Sofia Varino co-founded
fEmiNa in 2008 to produce media and live events that arouse and feed our collective
lust.
Friday, June 19 10pm Your
Favorite Outfit / Sock Puppet Part 1
Come
to HiChristina and be sure to wear your favorite outfit of all time. After a performance/symposium
by our one and only Professor Cello-Tape, tell us the story of where you wore
your outfit last. Then make a sock puppet! Christina and Fritz will have all the
materials you'll need, except socks! (We will have some of Fritz's old socks just
in case you forget- but Christina's suggestion is "be safe and bring your
own"). Meet Rosie, Christina's sock friend and together we will make the
most magnificent puppet show of all to be performed at Sock Puppet Part 2 Matinee
on June 28th at 6pm. A special ‘formal’ dance party with your favorite
house keyboard band L*O*V*E Sparkle will be the perfect ending to the most perfect
night of all!
$10 donation
Thursday, June 18 9pm Uzi's Open (mic)
Amy
Uzi outlines the most frienldy, sparkly stage for your innermost urge at HiChristina.
Take 7 minutes to do whatever you'd like before an admirable group of your peers
and/or Silly Phil.
$5 donation
Tuesday, June 16
8pm Writers' Show N Tell
Fritz
and Christina's weekly event starring you! What has become a fast favorite is
truly a Grand Street gem, back by popular demand this Tuesday at HiChristina.
Where introverts and extroverts collide! Writers, bring your writing. Actors,
bring yourselves. Watch the latest avant-garde fiction, poetry, commercial copy,
essays and prose come to life on stage. Read for five mintues then watch your
work interpreted by one or more performers live right infront of your very eyes.
You've never seen a poem make someone jump so high!
$5 donation (includes pizza)
BYOB
Sunday, June 14 6pm Punk
Rock Pilates
Tattooed
girls in leather and leg warmers will be spinning and spinning, music and muscles.
Dye your hair pink and come to HiChristina for the only exercise that goes well
with beer. Work up and out to the hardcore beats of the Dead Kennedy's, Sex Pistols,
Buzzocks, and the Dead Milk Men spun by your very own DJ HotPants! Listen to Punk
Rock, work up a sweat, then cool it down and relax with a 40 and some good old
fashioned fun.
$5 donation
byob
byoa*
*bring your own attitude
Saturday,
June 13 Midnight The HiChristina Especially Late
Show
Tonight,
Fritz Donnelly and Christina Ewald host the return of the Ed Sullivan Show after
a makeover and triple bypass surgery. It's David Letterman meets Conan the Barbarian!
Experience the latest and greatest acts from greater New York hipper New York
crazier New York. Who's writing a new book, who's got a new movie coming out,
who's your daddy? It's all local and it's going global fast... Be ready to be
an interactive audience participant, for chocolate smoothies and mocha wrestling.
$10
donation
Friday, June 12 10pm Transgendered
Mustache
Step
into one of 5 photobooths at HiChristina for Narcissus' dream come true. Get photographed
from every angle and every which way. Photographer Kim Delise invites all types
of ladies (and men) to wear a fake mustache and she'll take your picture in Mustache
Booth--mustaches provided. Francesca Tallone will 'man' the costume booth. Make
your strangest face for A. Jesse Jiryu Davis on the curve. Hear a minilecture
entitled 'Take Better Pictures Under Worse Circumstances,' and jump into the amateur
booth and snap away. Oh and there will be an enormous cardboard box too, and a
Muscle Beach PhotoBooth by Seth Ludman. And a mystery photo booth by Jonathan
Hökklo. Pop poperazzi!
$5 donation
Thursday,
June 11 9pm Uzi's Open (mic)
Amy
is bringing zoo animals for this week's open mic. Regulars and newbies alike have
7 minutes to waddle, waggle, sing, stomp, and primal scream their latest greatest
creative expression. Join us at HiChristina for this bald-as-you-wann-be night.
$5
donation
Tuesday, June 9 8pm Writers
Show N Tell
Introverts
and extroverts collide! Writers, bring your writing. Actors, bring yourselves.
Watch the latest avant-garde fiction, poetry, commercial copy, essays and prose
come to life on stage. Read for five mintues then someone else interprets the
writing by performing it on stage. Back by popular demand.
$5 donation
Sunday,
June 7 8pm Ghettoblaster Snaggle Tooth
Welcome
to HiChristina's good ol' fashioned dance party. With just a few extra-special
amendments:
1. Bring your own music (ipod or CD) enough to last six minutes.
2.
Have your "signature move" in mind. Something you can teach all of us.
3.
Guess what's in the box: If you need to rest for a moment reach your hand inside
one of three mystery boxes or crawl into box number four. If you dare.
The
night culminates in a choreographed group dance, the ultimate in dance experimentation:
A combination of all the signature moves from all different genres. Learn from
someone who knows less than you. Breakdance/Ho-Down, hip hop/doo wap. Planned
experts will teach some extra special moves to add to the ever-building excitement.
Be sure and dress your music genre: Coltrane-Cowboys (country-jazz fusion), Sparkle
Gangstas (funk), and Willie Nillies (bluegrass), while sipping on ice tea and
playing backgammon. We here at HiChrisitna promise you'll learn a whole new dance
routine before night's end. PS: hula hoops and zebra stripes are welcome and encouraged.
Saturday,
June 6 10pm Caveman(woman), Ugh!
Tonight
HiChristina will be transformed into a cave, complete with walls you can write
on and tools to do it with! A very special cave indeed... For the walls are ALIVE,
moving... That's right, wonder and delight, madness and mojo. Be ready to do some
serious cave drawing and even more serious body painting. Think Land of the Lost
meets The Flintstones meets Martha Stewart meets Picasso. Dress the caveman(women)
part and expect to be slathered in mud and painted by strangers in strange ways.
Special prizes to anyone who comes as a ROBOT! Are we sending mixed messages?
People
will hold forth on the future of humanity and on humanity's distant origins. The
past and future collide. One person will always be POSING for whoever wants to
draw or photograph in the POSER'S PLACE NEAR THE CORNER!
$5 donation
Friday,
June 5 10pm Unexpected Happenings on an Otherwise
Normal Night
Come
to HiChristina this evening and expect nothing out of the ordinary. Certianly
DO NOT expect, during this completely regular Friday night to be, say, watching
a movie then all of a sudden some totally crazy creature appears from under the
couch and attaches a strange apparatus to your arm turning it completely neon
green and making you laugh uncontrollably. DO come to byob, watch films and perhaps
have an impromptu art symposium. But in no way think that you'll come to HiChristina
tonight and see the most bizarre performance act of all time where this woman
fishes from a huge bag tiny pieces of coral, makes them into an elaborate headdress,
does some weird rain dance then disappears into thin air. Just come tonight to
hang out with Fritz and Christina. But I suppose, yeah, anything is possible at
HiChristina...
$5 donation
Thursday, June 4 9pm Uzi's Open (mic)
The
friendliest night for spontaneous performance and planned foolery alike. Hostess
Amy Uzi guides you from art stardom to dancing harem. A fire in the hand is worth
two on the stage... and tonight you'll see 3 onstage! Gabe Lockwood, Sergeant
Zane, Kerry Capital K Farias, Theresa, Emily, Frankie, Big Mike, Loud Elvis, Stephen
Lovejoy, Professor Finbloom, Harry the Outhouse Philosopher, and, and, and you.
$5
donation
Wednesday, June 3 8pm Beach
Party / Make that Sound
Wear
a bikini and enjoy our tan lamps (totally uv safe). Bring your own beach wear
or make a swimsuit out of old man pants and silly shirts that we'll provide! Join
the kazoos and other plastic instrument orchestra conducted by no other than Captain
Feelers. Then go on a tour of textural music by Eyal Marcovici who will perform
TV themed music. Non-musicians, amateurs most welcome. 'If you can't sing, you'll
be the star.' There will be a catwalk fashion show where you can strut that crazy
handmade bikini and walk like a supermodel while listening to bad Arena Rock hits
ie Boston, Def Leppard, Journey, Rolling Stones and Styx. This is not a joke.
(But it should be pretty funny nonetheless).
$5 donation
Bring a towel too!
Tuesday,
June 2 8pm ***at Galapaos in DUMBO*** HiChristina on the
Road
Tonight
we venture into DUMBO and perform as part of Al Lupiani's variety show at Galapagos
Art Space (not at our usual HiChristina Williamsburg location). Fritz and Christina
do an interactive performance titled "L*O*V*E Sparkle" which is a HiChristina
Spontaneous Orchestra and Early Modern Dance Super Stretch. We'll pass out cards
and conduct an interactive dance and orchestra. Also, see new films that Fritz
and Christina have shot at HiChristina. Doors open at 7pm, show 8pm, tickets $10.
Say you're there for HiChristina!
Saturday, May 30
9:30pm Hypnotist Breaks Creative
Blocks!
"I
put 'crying' in the tip of his finger." We met Jacob at HiChristina when
he inquired about teaching these amazing acting and writing courses that involve
hypnosis. Jacob Krueger is a mesmerist and award-winning screenwriter who has
the unusual fortune of having a hypnotist for a mother. He was Hollywood's script
doctor, and tonight at HiChrstina, he's your MD of creativity. So google your
eyes, feel the baloon raise your hand, and bingo! everything is free and loose...
All thanks to the power of your subconscious mind... Jacob Krueger will take us
past mesmerism and into the imaginative realms. Tonight, the mind itself is the
medium for art.
$10 suggested donation
Friday,
May 29 10pm The New Curriculum / Friendly Massage Did you learn everything you needed to know
in Kindergarten? Did you learn everything last night? Well tonight we chart the
course for the new curriculum to educate everyone in the world effectively and
generously. Bring your thoughts about what education should be like. Imagine if
we all had basic medical training (in Elementary School!) and could diagnose and
treat common health problems. Imagine if we all knew electricity or sign language.
If ignorance is bliss, this is even better. The night starts with the idea catalog,
then square-dancing, then short presentations, then a pop-quiz (a quiz about soda
and fizzy drinks), then a complete abridged history of education with popcorn,
and finally a cool-down exercise. See the future tonight at HiChristina.
$5
donation
Thursday,
May 28 9pm Uzi's Open (mic) Come perform at this chocolate cookie dough
open mic hosted by the the Howard Stern of the Art Star World, Amy Uzi. See regular
guests such as Sergeant Zane (absurdo-conceptual performance artist), Stephen
Lovejoy (vocalist and horror writer turned poet), Gabriel Lockwood (reader of
impossible writings), the outhouse philosopher Harry, storyteller Dave Ritz, Big
Mike of loud words and sexy partner Teresa, the beautiful and peerless trio Emily,
Kerri, Theresa... And you! Watch or stand up and speak the speak. Seven minutes
to do whatever you want.
$5 donation
Wednesday,
May 27 8pm China Hand / Majong meets Footsie
Everything
you've always wanted to know about China but were afraid to ask tonight at HiChristina.
"What's that?" you say, glancing around to see who's watching you...
Peek inside the inscrutable Chinese mind. Learn why the character for 'obstacle'
is also the character for 'opportunity.' Are we going to rule the world (from
Genghiz Khan thru Mao Tse Dong to Hu Jintao)? And learn conversational Chinese
(yes in one night!) from friendly Chinese-speaker Fritz Donnelly. Which half Chinese
are you? Learn your ABC's and more in this night of lectures, lessons, and explorations
of the New West.
$5 donation
Tuesday, May
26 8pm Super Art Show N Tell
Photographers,
Artists, Writers, Performers, the Curious, the Bold, the Shy... gather tonight
at HiChristina and show us your work! Bring your masks, your photos (on CD or
jump drive or on paper), your writing, your sculpture, your fashionable statements.
Say goodbye to art school critique and say hello to an ethusiastic audience of
your peers. Each 'show-er' will be paired with a 'tell-er' and all the art will
go through three phases of presentation: couple, group, and 'super.' We can't
to see your work come to life.
$5 donation
byob
Monday,
May 25 6pm MEMORIAL DAY! Human-Powered(TM) Amusement Park and Funhouse
The
ultimate in 'green' amusement, come to the HiChristina Amusement Park and ride
our 100% Human-Powered (tm) ! Put on the special hat, tell us about your ultimate
amusement park ride. Close your eyes and WHOOOSH! we'll make it happen. Our Cyclone
runs on human muscle and clever tricks. Soar to death-defying heights, spin, splash,
and float over a sea of smiling faces. Join the 'carnies' and help make rides
possible for everyone. Or relax and watch one of many sideshows, such as the tribeareded
lady or the tapdancing flea circus. And get your photo taken with the strong man
(played by a woman in leopard skin leotard). The only by-product here is our own
water vapor and the emotive lines of enthusiasm spiking off our foreheads. Sideshow
performances include: music by the man in the green suit (Rumplestiltskin), operatic
strip-tease from the 3 goofs, buiscuits! and Hair That's Upwardly Mobile. Fun
for the whole family, and the broken families too!
$5 donation
Saturday,
May 23 10pm Memory
Day
How
many Memorial Day weekends have passed by forgotten? Remember something today
at HiChristina! It could be your breakfast or your dearly departed, your junior
high locker combination or your latest kiss. Short Lectures on Memory, Memory
Games (Before and After, Easy and Advanced), Memento, and a demonstration by Perlt
Apee who has had a computer-aided human memory chip insterted since... well when
wast it, last year or the year before?... regardless, meet a live experiment in
the expansion of human memory into the silicon kingdom. Also debuting the operatic
talents of HiChristina's very own Christina Ewald! Not to be missed, never to
be forgotten.
$5 donation
Friday, May 22 9pm Special
Guests: Tony Groutsis & Comic Artists
The
who's who of the comic drawing world will be out tonight in PoW! BaNg@! force
tonight at HiChristina. Members of the underground art collaborative A.W.P. (artists
with problems) will be projecting new work in sequential art, joined by folk singers,
a comedian, a juggler, animated short films by Amos Turner--all washed down with
wine and spiced up with cheese. Hosted by that rock of the comic art world, Antonio
Dimitrios:
"Some may know Gabrielle Bell from her recent graphic novels
"Lucky" and "Cecil and Jordan in New York", published by Drawn
and Quarterly, from which she adapted one of the stories, "Interior Design"
for the smash film "Tokyo!" with Leos Carax, Michel Gondry and Joon-ho
Bong. Gabrielle will present her noirish mini-epic "All My Dreams Come True"
from Kramer's Ergot 7, the tome that is so large, so impressive, so full of raw
talent, that you can't really bookshelf it, unless you're a giant living in a
cloud city.
"The fabulous Sarah Glidden is finishing a book about her
adventures in the Middle East called "How To Understand Israel In Sixty Days
Or Less", to be released by Villard, which is kinda like a fact-finding mission,
boots-on-the-ground exploration of the complicated history and politics of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict where our heroine, Sarah, tries to figure out first-hand
just what the consarnit is going on over there."
Fifteen different
kinds of wines for the tasting, and good stinky cheese.
$5 donation
Thursday,
May 21 9pm Uzi's Open (mic) What's becoming a fast tradition here at HiChristina, is a little
slice of pleasure wrapped up in cupcake frosting. Bring your guitar, journal,
sock puppet or toe nail clippers-- whatever you need to perform a seven minute
open-mic style piece for our growing crowds on Thursday night. Enjoy our regular
cast of Ami Uzi's characters as well as new and exciting guests every week!
$5 donation
Byob
Tuesday,
May 19 9pm Writers Show and Tell
FOCUS:
underwater Back by popular demand, WRITERS SHOW AND TELL!!
SOMETHING NEW**
Writers meet performers in this strange mix of theatre, circus and book reading!
Writers-- aspiring or otherwise-- bring your work (5 minutes or shorter). Actors--
aspiring or otherwise-- come prepared for some cold reading and crazy movement.
It goes like this: writer reads first, actor follows with interpretation of what
was read. Fritz and Christina provide any costumes, wigs, insanity. Also, enjoy
our complimentary handshake/high-five and hug for every guest!
** Each
week, there is a special focus... Do with this whatever floats your boat... Add
it to your routine, or at least pretned to!
$5 donation
Sunday,
May 17 Noon-5pm Bike Wash Body Wash Bikini clad workers wash your body and your bike on the sidewalk outside
in the sun, with suds and warm water. Perfect fun for the coming heat.
Air
dry or blow dry or shake-like-a-dog dry. Get washed in paint and put your body
on the canvas. Cool off inside in the shade. Leg warmers, arm warmers, head bands
and spicy red candies to heat you up. Cool mints to dry you down. And after you're
done, hang out and talk about summer vacations past and future.
$5 donation
byob
Saturday,
May 16 10pm Sensory Deprivation / To the Hills
Movie Night
Do
you ever get antsy at the movies? Want to stretch out even more comfortably or
roll round fruit down the aisle? Tonight is the movie night for you. Shout
at the movies, play shadow puppets, and make music while watching some of the
most enlightening, exciting local films from a cadre of short filmmakers led by
Fritz Donnelly (tothehills.com). Three special 'SILENT' films will feature live
musical accompaniment (bring an instrument if you want in). And if you need a
moment to relax, step into the home-made, hand-made Sensory Deprivation Tank (SensDepT)
for whoever'd like to take the plunge. Bring your own short film (5 minutes or
less), eat popcorn and by the end of the night be an active participant in a short
film with all your new cohorts. It's shadow puppets and pyrotechnics tonight at
HiChristina, gloveless.
PS Did we mention fingerpainting? Oh, we didn't?
Well, we're doing that too.
$5 donation byob
Friday,
May 15 9pm No Left Arm / You Are Now Who You
Always Wanted To Be
For
those of us who are fortunate enough to have them, we are so used to having two
arms--BORING! Let's try an evening with just one! When you come to HiChristina
expect to have your left arm tied behind your back (gingerly and softly) with
a magical tie, then... well you must come to find out the rest. But I'll tell
you it involves karaoke karate, sign language, toe-tapping and ice cream...
Oh!
I almost forgot, it also involves you being who you always wanted to be, so think
about that and come with a name...
$5
donation Thursday,
May 14 9pm Uzi's Open (mic) What's becoming a fast tradition here at HiChristina, is a little
slice of pleasure wrapped up in cupcake frosting. Bring your guitar, journal,
sock puppet or toe nail clippers-- whatever you need to perform a seven minute
open-mic style piece for our growing crowds on Thursday night. Enjoy our regular
cast of Ami Uzi's characters as well as new and exciting guests every week!
$5 Donation
Byob
Saturday, May 9 10pm Halloween
Party / Mingle or Contact Two questions...
1. Why wait for Halloween?
2. Why not enojy
all the fun of a retro singles party, right now?
HiChristina answers
these two questions tonight at Halloween Party / Mingle or Contact. Re-live
the fun of the 1970's
'Singles Soiree' with it's absurd and bizarre games
while reviving them with a coat of glitter zombie sideshow (complete with fake
blood, eye-ooze and glue on skin). The spookiest short ghost story wins
a horrifying prize. Followed by a reenactment of Micheal Jackson's Thriller...
Don't worry, a mini-zombie dance class is provided. Creatures of the darkness
photobooth by dead celebrity photographer Andy Gore-whol.
Reverse trick
or treating option: we go around house to house and GIVE OUT candy.
Dress
Code: Wear a Halloween costume or make one when you get here, items provided.
$10 donation
byob
Friday, May 8 9pm Paper Outfits / Your Life on
Post-it Notes We all make outfits out of paper and tape. Color the outfits, pattern them
with markers. Then everyone writes events from our lives onto 10 and only 10 postit
notes each. Tell the story of your life chronologically. Through some selection
process that is decided partly by wrestling and partly by pronunciation, we boil
this down to a single series of events. The story board artists draw the events.
And the paper people pose for the photo still re-enactments. Burn the papers that
have bad events. Eat the rice paper. Flap the crepe paper.
Bring paper
if you have extra, scissors, markers, tape. We have these too but it's fun to
see everbody's.
A movie from Fritz (tothehills.com) will set the mood and
a band will play papaer instruments and aflute made of gold.
$5 Donation Thursday, May 7 9pm Uzi's Open (mic) What's becoming a fast tradition here at HiChristina, is a little
slice of pleasure wrapped up in cupcake frosting. Bring your guitar, journal,
sock puppet or toe nail clippers-- whatever you need to perform a seven minute
open-mic stlye peice for our growing crowds on Thursday night. Enjoy our regular
cast of Ami Uzi's characters as well as new and exciting guests every week!
$5 Donation
Tuesday, May 5 8pm WOMAN'S
ONLY: Writers Show and Tell
FOCUS: my favorite
pair of... THIS WEEK IS DIFFERENT---- ONLY WOMEN READERS (IF YOU ARE
NOT A WOMAN, YOU MUST WEAR LIPSTICK IF YOU'D LIKE TO READ). Writers meet
performers in this strange mix of theatre, circus and book reading! Writers--
aspiring or otherwise-- bring your work (5 minutes or shorter). Actors-- aspiring
or otherwise-- come prepared for some cold reading and crazy movement. It goes
like this: writer reads first, actor follows with interpretation of what was read.
Fritz and Christina provide any costumes, wigs, insanity. Also, enjoy our complimentary
handshake/high-five and hug for every guest!
$5 donation
Sunday, May 3 6pm Shannon
DuVall presents: GROUP HUG Life gotcha down?? Feelings of loneliness or suicide???
Well
before you pull that trigger, We've got the solution for YOU!!!
Stop by
HICHRISTINA for a Big, love filled, warm group hug from total strangers!!!!
That's right!!!!
Every 15 minutes we will wrap ourselves around one another
in an intimate 1 minute group hug!
Each group hug will consist of a fun,
fresh, new batch of down and outers and our fabulous and perky, love drenched,
huggable staff waiting to turn your frown upside down with our non stop group
hugging BONANZA.
Come for one, stay all day and share the love of Group
Hugging!!!!
Don't worry...Everything is gonna be O.K...here at HICHRISTINA!!!
Let us fill up that empty bottomles pit with our non stop group hugging!!!
Don't fight the first one...It only gets better!!!
And before you
know it, that gun will be put down and totally forgotten about!!
Let's just
hug it out!!!
Come slather perfectly harmless, depressed strangers
struggling to get through these hard times. Pay it forward in Group Hugs,
my friends!
FEEL THE LOVE. BE THE LOVE. SHARE THE LOVE.
**All
while listening to non stop ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA!!!! The feel good band of
the century!!! Don't bring me down!!!
$5 Donation
Saturday,
May 2 10pm Pretend Drug Trip Event Make
sure you sneak out of the house this Saturday and bring your 'special stash' to
HiChristina. When you enter you'll have the choice of four placebos and now the
fun is just beginning... Black lights and neon body paint. Dance the trance and
watch those trails while jacking the faux tab. Candy flip and a hit of e like
it's 1990. Wear your best rave gear-- glow sticks, wide legs pants, pacifiers
and vapor-rub, candy necklaces, lollipops, mickey mouse gloves and nitrous balloons.
Whether you raved in the distant past or not, (especially if your answer is 'not')
experience it in a drug-free, healthy, enviroment tonight at HiChristina! Have
a raical time without all that nasty brain cell loss!! E (red tic-tac) Acid (yellow tic-tac) Nitrous (oxygen in balloon)
Mushrooms (green tic-tac)
$5 Donation
Friday,
May 1 9pm Nude 'Film Still, Live' Drawing We're
finally doing it.. NUDE DRAWING. Everyone knew it was just a matter of time before
we gave in to the fabulousness that IS NUDE DRAWING. Five live nude models, 10
sexy movie still models, 2 surprise guests. Though it may seem ho-hum, this is
NOT your typical drawing class- between each model there will be a 2 minute long
extra-special treat, such a treat that has never graced the stage of HiChristina
(or anywhere else for that matter.) Hint** Bring your pad and a couple pencils,
your ... This, you won't want to miss.
**Strobe light, spaghetti, jumping
jacks... for a full list of hints email me. rxapparel at gmail dot com
$5
Donation
Thursday, April 30 9pm Uzi's Open (mic) What's
becoming a fast tradition here at HiChristina, is a little slice of pleasure wrapped
up in cupcake frosting. Bring your guitar, journal, sock puppet or toe nail clippers--
whatever you need to perform a seven minute open-mic stlye peice for our growing
crowds on Thursday night. Enjoy our regular cast of Ami Uzi's characters as well
as new and exciting guests every week!
$5 Donation
Tuesday,
April 28 8pm Writers Show and Tell FOCUS:
things standing on four legs Back by popular demand, WRITERS SHOW AND TELL!!
SOMETHING NEW**
Writers meet performers in this strange mix of theatre, circus and book reading!
Writers-- aspiring or otherwise-- bring your work (5 minutes or shorter). Actors--
aspiring or otherwise-- come prepared for some cold reading and crazy movement.
It goes like this: writer reads first, actor follows with interpretation of what
was read. Fritz and Christina provide any costumes, wigs, insanity. Also, enjoy
our complimentary handshake/high-five and hug for every guest!
** Each
week, there is a special focus... Do with this whatever floats your boat... Add
it to your routine, or at least pretned to!
$5 donation
Saturday, April 25 10pm Make Her Laugh
/ Poop My Pants Who is 'She??' Does HiChristina really condone me 'pooping my pants??'
These questions and more will be answered when you take a chance
and visit HiChristina tonight... Do you dare?? Do we?? We are not sure, but we
do promise this... A night full of breaking social norms and good clean fun.
Also, there's a hose out back for the die-hards.
You know how when
someone makes a 'toliet' joke or deals a card of 'bathroom humor' and someone
else at the table says, "now not everyone has that sense of humor,"
or says, "that's not appropriate for the table"... Well throw
out your manners book, kick the legs out from under the table, roll up your sleeves,
and skate home on other people's sick. That's right, it's techno dance party
meets watching movies to squeezing boobs and butts when they appear on the screen.
It's sing along and mooning. If the weather forecast is hot, this is hotter.
Twister provided. A prize to the man with the best skirt. Also screening
a few absurd short films by some of your local Brooklyn miscreants (Steinbauer,
Buice, Joe G.). That was well made, but in poor taste. And a host
of performers to get you in the mood including Patrick the Mangina and Little
Miss Marple.
And, and, and and, Fritz (tothehills.com) is going to
try to make someone poop their pants they're laughing so hard. Fritz I don't
want to be associated with this. "Neither do I, Christina, that's the
whole idea!"
$5 Donation
Friday, April 24 9pm 1972 in 2009 Wear your favorite retro fashions, speak that '70s slang, listen to vintage
music and watch mod movies... Tonight HiChristina is transformed into a 1972 paradise.
Bring your favorite paraphernalia and join us for a night of glam, glamour, columbo
and striptease... Yes, retro striptease of course!
$5 Donation
Tuesday, April
21 8pm Writers Show and Tell FOCUS: found objects Back
by popular demand, WRITERS SHOW AND TELL!!
SOMETHING NEW** Writers meet
performers in this strange mix of theatre, circus and book reading! Writers--
aspiring or otherwise-- bring your work (5 minutes or shorter). Actors-- aspiring
or otherwise-- come prepared for some cold reading and crazy movement. It goes
like this: writer reads first, actor follows with interpretation of what was read.
Fritz and Christina provide any costumes, wigs, insanity. Also, enjoy our complimentary
handshake/high-five and hug for every guest!
** Each week, there is a special
focus... Do with this whatever floats your boat... Add it to your routine, or
at least pretned to!
$5 donation
Wednesday,
April 22 8pm Tothehills Movie Night (with popcorn!) The secret sneak preview of Fritz Donnelly's epic short film DESERT
NOMAD.
Cast and casting party!
Bring your own short
film, watch Fritz Donnelly's new movies, and by the end of the night we make a
short film with all the participants. The film of last month's event is
finished and will be shown at this event. Come see yourself!
The
film will have live musical accompaniment by musical impresario Sammy Lett!
Desert Nomad is a film shot in the sandy places of California and New York about
a person who rides the subway to the end of the line, crosses that line, and looks
around to see nothing but sand. Survival in this new place will take ingenuity!
And watch out for the other nomads! It's Mad Max meets Mathew Barney.
If you have a film you'd like to show, let me know. Most films will be 5
minutes or less. We also
accept 3 spontaneous submissions, so bring
your DVD! Also featuring films by Myles Kane, Ben Slotover, and you!
$5 donation
Thursday, April 23 Private
Screening of "The Talk" 7pm
UZI'S OPEN (MIC) 10pm What's becoming a fast tradition here at HiChristina, is a little slice
of pleasure wrapped up in cupcake frosting. Bring your guitar, journal, sock puppet
or toe nail clippers-- whatever you need to perform a seven minute open-mic stlye
peice for our growing crowds on Thursday night. Enjoy our regular cast of Ami
Uzi's characters as well as new and exciting guests every week!
Sunday,
April 19 6pm Make New Friends Event -Tired of old friends?-
youre not alone- we are too! Today meet an
entirely new social network! does it seem that your old friends have lost
interest in you or your amazing new projects? not attending your important events,
dates or openings? do they assume that because you two are "Old Pals"
that they can take advantage of you yet not even call on your birthday?
well, here at HiChristina we say, "Out with the old and in with the new!"
you deserve friends who appreciate you for who you are, respect your lifestyle
and choices, friends who call you back right away.
Come to HiChristina,
your home for avant garde art, performance and uncommon expression, for a night
of fun, kool-aide, crafts and blossoming friendships awaits. Join us at the honest
hour 6pm.
$5 donation
Come alone. Don't bring anyone you know,
we're all strangers now.
Saturday 4pm April
18th "Bedazzled Gossip Circle"
Sew and Make Clothes while shooting off your mouth with Carlos, Erina, Carolyn,
and of course Christina
Talk story, rat f*ck, and pass the dog* at this sparkling applique'd afternoon
of adventure in fabric and town gossip. Sewing machines, expertise, fabric, and
vintage clothes to work from provided! Bring yourself and your blabber mouth!
Dance or tickle breaks every half hour.
Erina says "I'll
help you use my Janome 2600, it is a computerized embroidery machine
-you can program the length and width of the stitches
-freemotion (ability
to sew organic shapes)
-pre-set embroidery designs (a set number of embroidery
patterns and type)
-ability to sew through thick fabric"
Carolyn
says "I have 2 kind of basic machines, Kenmores (the Sears generic
brand). both easy to use, and both do a decent job at applique and freemotion
for people that know what they're doing. they can also sew through a max of 2
pieces of leather, with a leather needle, although you have to go slow. i also
have a very small and slow portable machine that i can bring, completely easy,
sort of for beginners, or for doing easy alterations with a straight stitch."
*
Hawaiian, Californian, and Fritz's Island slang for 'gossip' respectively.
Friday 9pm April 17th "Now
You're on TV!" The
Before/After Workshop
with a lecture by Reality TV Expert Robert
Galinsky
"Now You're on TV!" The Before/After Workshop
with an interactive
lecture by New York Reality TV School Founder and "Principal" Robert
Galinsky http://www.newyorkrealitytvschool.com/thebuzz.htm
Special guests from Holland will be filming for a full length documentary to be
aired to millions in the Netherlands on VPRO in June! Award winning director Wim
Schepens will be shooting!
- Galinsky and team will run volunteers through
a "before" audition (they haven't heard Galinsky's advice yet) and exercises
with the audience will be shot and projected onto our video screen - yes! live
feed of auditions in front of the audience!
- Volunteers will then get the
coaching and tips from Galinsky and team
- "Students" will then run
through the "after" audition - utilizing their new advice and wowing
us on-screen!
Lucky winners will receive "To the Hills" and "To
the Hills 2" collections of short films by Fritz Donnelly, A slot in the
personalized tutoring session by Robert Galinsky (class of 5), and "How to
Live the Good Life: The Complete Book of Rules" by Fritz Donnelly!
We'll
also feature a special jellie bean wrestling side show."
Thusday,
April 16 8pm Uzi's Open (mic) What's becoming a fast tradition here at HiChristina, is a little slice
of pleasure wrapped up in cupcake frosting. Bring your guitar, journal, sock puppet
or toe nail clippers-- whatever you need to perform a seven minute open-mic stlye
peice for our growing crowds on Thursday night. Enjoy our regular cast of Ami
Uzi's characters as well as new and exciting guests every week!
$5 donation
Tuesday, April 14 8pm "Writer's Show and Tell"
Back again the week by popular demand, WRITERS SHOW AND TELL!! Writers meet performers
in this strange mix of theatre, circus and book reading! Writers-- aspiring or
otherwise-- bring your work (5 minutes or shorter). Actors-- aspiring or otherwise--
come prepared for some cold reading and crazy movement. It goes like this: writer
reads first, actor follows with interpretation of what was read. Fritz and Christina
provide any costumes, wigs, insanity. Also, enjoy our complimentary handshake/high-five
and hug for every guest!
Previous guests for "Writer's Show and Tell"
include: Jonathan Ames, Fiona Apple and you!
$5 donation
Saturday,
April 11 9pm Flying Horses Night with Special Guest
"Young Boys"
Dance. Learn to Dance. Live to Dance. Stand in the place where you
LIVE! The Homeless Dance. The Peabody. Rhino tongues. And ride the 'human' horses!
(Really, a couple of live human horses will be riding around the track with jockeys
picked from the audience. Sit in the pleb seats, or come up into the announcers
box. 3 races, one on the hour every hour, enter your team, enter your marshmallow
bets and you're off to the races!) L*O*V*E
Sparkle provides music and Young Boys provides a death-defying musical show
www.myspace.com/killyoungboys to commemorate the winners! Who can lose?
Friday,
April 10 9pm Make a New Shirt out of Old Prom Dresses
and Household "This-n-That's" while grooving to Low-Rider Salsa Spring
is here !!! and there is no denying that it is time to mix up that old wardrobe
of yours with something cheap, unique and (if you're lucky) durable. Tonight's
the night! This evening, promptly at 9pm, we will give you all the necessary ingredients,
all the right tools and proper know-how to make that shirt, skirt, hat or whatever
it is of your dreams. All while we listen to non-stop salsa and every 23 minutes
on the button take a quick 4 minute dance break. We provide tons of vintage scraps,
glue, needles, duct tape, sparkly things, sewing machine, extension cord and an
old cowboy boot- everything you could possibly need to make this the most fashionably
memorable springtime of all. PS You are welcome to bring anything of your own
too! But if you don't have anything, we have more than enough to go around thanks
to master vintage reconstructor Christina Ewald!! PPS special performances by
Dr. Spandex and a real impostor of Tom Jones! And Guided Prom Style "slow
dance" by a new one of Fritz Donnelly's To
the Hillscharacters. Prom Pictures optional.
Thusday, April 9 8pm Uzi's Open (mic) What's becoming a fast tradition here at HiChristina, Is a little slice
of pleasure wrapped up in cupcake frosting. Bring your guitar, journal, sock puppet
or toe nail clippers-- whatever you need to perform a seven minute open-mic stlye
peice for our growing crowds on Thursday night. Enjoy our regular cast of Ami
Uzi's characters as well as new and exciting guests every week!
$5 donation
Tuesday, April 7 8pm "Writer's
Show and Tell"
Back by popular demand, WRITERS SHOW AND TELL!! This week, writers meet performers
in this strange mix of theatre, circus and book reading! Writers-- aspiring or
otherwise-- bring your work (5 minutes or shorter). Actors-- aspiring or otherwise--
come prepared for some cold reading and crazy movement. It goes like this: writer
reads first, actor follows with interpretation of what was read. Fritz and Christina
provide any costumes, wigs, insanity. Also, enjoy our complimentary handshake/high-five
and hug for every guest!
Previous guests for "Writer's Show and Tell"
include: Jonathan Ames, Fiona Apple and you!
$5 donation
Saturday,
April 4 9pm The Second Annual 5 Minute Lecture Series Join us for an evening of education and intrigue.
Having the last name Fish- Karynn Fish
How to Make Up A Job for Yourself
- Adam
Chocolate Lifestyle- Daniel Sklaar
How to Get Strong Women
into Bed with You - Ewa Jossefson
The Single Yoga Exercise that Most Benefits
Sex - Anonymous
The Future of "Television" - Robert Gallinsky
What Makes A Good Poem - Patrick the Mangina
Dipping Sauces- Christina
Ewald
A Catalog of Hairstyles And Their Accomplishments (Slideshow) - Fritz
Donnelly
Grand Theft Auto vs Zen Bhuddism vis a vis Programmers' Social
Mores - Jesse Davis
My Time in Jail and Why I LOVE New York - Touching
You
The Meaning of Small Animals - Rachel Trachtenburg
Teenager's
Tshirts - Jay McKelfresh
How to Be A Local Celebrity - Brooke Baxter
A Brief History of the Neighborhood from Pizza to Garbage to Mimosas - Casey Zap
plus 3 spontaneous entrants
5 minute
lectures with 5 minute q&a periods $5 donation
Friday,
April 3 9pm The Stanford Psychological Experiments
& a Parade
In the 70s Stanford produced a number of psychological studies with
alarming results. Let's refer to these as the Prisoner: Guard Experiment,
the Electric Slider, and the Marshmellow Experiment. Here at HiChristina
we're going to revisit and remake these experiments by taking away the whips and
chains, and adding rainbows and lollipops.
Welcome to the Pimp: Ho Experiment, the Tickle Machine,
and the Marshmellow....
Lollipops and marshmellows provided.
$5 Donation
Thursday, April 2
8pm ToTheHills Film Night + Uzi's Open Open your right eye and see short independant movies by local filmmakers,
open your left and see live performances by the baddest of the bad, the jailbreakers
of the New York City underground art scene. Open both eyes, walk up on stage and
perform yourself! It's Fritz Donnely's ToTheHills film night and Uzi's Open all
at once! An Open Mic with video too!! Performance six minutes or less, films five
minutes or less. Prizes and treats of awe and wonderment from Uzi's BAG OF SURPIZE,
AWE AND WONDERMENT. Bring your film or try out your latest schtick.
$5
donation
Wednesday, April 1 8pm April
Fools with PEE-WEE HERMAN!
Special Guests... The Trachtenburg
Family!! (& hard-boiled
egg rolling competition)
HiChristina has got PEE-WEE HERMAN on the telephone line!! What
else could you ask for on April Foods Day? Join Fritz, Christina and our regular
cast of new Brooklyn characters as we talk with PEE-WEE, watch past episodes of
Pee-Wee's Playhouse, get everyone participating in our famous hard-boiled
egg rolling contest and re-enact our favorite scenes (in a special HiChristina
format) from Pee-Wee's Great Adventure. But that's not all!! We will also be learning
a special 6 step dance called the "I know you are but
what am I" taught to us by HiChristina's own resident dance professional Dr. Spandex! Be ready for fun in a big way tonight...
Saturday,
March 28 8pm Shake(hands)(booty)(milk)
Shake hands. Shake your booty. Enjoy a milkshake. I'll bet, if you're the
least bit like me, you have always dreamed of these things ... These things all
having to do with the magical word Shake, coming together into beautiful union,
one place, one time: HiChrisitna. Well starlights, your wait is over. By visiting
HiChristina tonight, you will behold the ultimate shake experience. A professional
will provide you with instruction on how to shake hands (both business and for
fun, secret handshakes will be practiced in the back of the theater, no peeking!).
While yet another professional will give you "insider trading" tips
on how to shake a leg (just for fun of course). All while you enjoy homemade milkshakes.
Practice your new shakes on friends and friendly strangers here and for years
to come. If there are any more Shakes, that you think we might have forgotten
about, please come ready to share them with the group. Continuous film, improvisation
and performances will be happe
ning throughout this delightful Saturday
evening. Come to learn, dance and make romance.
Friday,
March 27th 8pm "Glow-in-the-Dark"
Huge crazy glow-in-the-dark wigs, lasers and fog machines. What does all this
mean? Come and find out.
Special guest Lady Starlight
$5 donation
Thursday, March 26th 8pm "Film
Cartel"
What seems like a traditional independent film night will slowly, progressively
throughout the evening, turn into the making of an actual independent film. This
week's theme is "techno-glitch." Filmmakers bring a short on dvd and
come ready to rock and roll when we start incorporating YOU into our film to be
completed by the end of the night!
Special guest Kaia Wong of Mixel Pixel
$5 donation
Tuesday, March 24th 8pm "Writer's Show and Tell"
Writers meet performers in this ridiculous mix of theatre, circus and book reading!
Writers-- aspiring or otherwise-- bring your work (5 minutes or shorter). Actors--
aspiring or otherwise-- come prepared for some cold reading and crazy movement.
It goes like this: writer reads first, actor follows with interpretation of what
was read. Fritz and Christina provide any costumes, wigs, insanity. Also, enjoy
our complimentary handshake/high-five and hug for every guest!
Previous
gu0ests for "Writer's Show and Tell" include: Jonathan Ames and Fiona
Apple.
$5 donation
Saturday, March 21st
7pm "WELCOME
HOME HICHRISTINA"
They're back!
After months of traveling the universe, Fritz and Christina are here to take back
what's rightfully theirs... umm, FUN AND MORE FUN!! Don't worry, they are anything
but greedy. This FUN will spread around like {soy}butter on {gluten-free} toast.
Show up tonight, be dazzled and amazed; and show us how to eat a mango. Mango's
provided.
secret slide show (the secret is, it
is not a slide show) "crazy" craps table (move
the chips, throw the dice, step to the right) whirlpool of painted
nails (bring your fav color and paint yours or a stranger's)
Dress Code: eccentric gambler (007 or poker channel acceptable)
Donation:
$5 (for mango and festoons) you hand us $5 we hand you festooooons
Location:
the new HiChristina, (East End, directions coming soon) 632
Grand Street
Brooklyn NY
11211
Time and Date: 7pm Sat
March 21
Saturday, December 13th 8pm "Pairs
of Constant Exercise & Winter Swimsuit"
This is one of our
last events... You should come.
"Pairs of Constant Exercise & Winter Swimsuit" hosted
by Fritz and Christina
featuring Laura Lee (anatomical drawings), Jesse
Davis and Scott Kiernan (photographers/photo slideshows), haircuts, show n tell,
and more....
Tonight you will experience something that
you never have before (neither have we) and HiChristina will take you there. Join
us in our first ever "Pairs of Constant Exercise!" At every moment there
will be two participants exercising- no more and no less. Be tagged out
and tagged back in! When you are not sweating it out to our handmade-pre-recorded
exercise video (you may also bring your own home recorded dvd for others
to follow), you can learn how to make anatomical drawings, get a haircut, and
show pictures of yourself or other people. A portion of the night is devoted
to "show and tell."
Wear a swimsuit from
any era or prudery: muscle man, sting, speedo, string, playsuit, toggs, wetsuit,
sarong coverall, off-flung.
Enter in the swimsuit competition (prizes for
Most Noticeable, Least Noticeable, Easiest-to-Approach, and Most Improved).
Enjoy the winter weather in a whole new way. Don't forget your towel and bring
sunscreen!
Bring photos: we will be sharing photographs
of our childhood and beyond with friends and strangers. Why you might ask? But
why not. Bring yours too.
Saturday,
November 29th through December 5th
Sarah von der Heide www.sarahvonderheide.com -Animalism-
Animalism Photography and Illustrations
by Julia and Sarah
von der Heide
OPENING Saturday, November 29th
8pm
Come and visit our Wild Animal Kingdom!
There will
be drinks(please byob), there will be snacks,
there will be music. And if
you feel like
letting out your wild side, we will provide
the equipment
you need- costumes etc.
SCREENING Fritz Donnelly's
films! Tuesday, December 2nd 8pm
UZI'S OPEN Everything and Anything YOU want! Wednesday, December 3rd 9pm
ART, MUSIC, POETRY, DANCE, MONOLOGUE, RAP, TAP DANCING, SUBLIMINAL COOKING, SAVING
THE UNIVERSE, BALANCING IMAGINARY CHECK BOOKS, SHOPPING PHILOSOPHY, CASTING SPELLS,
CASTING OFF, ACTING LIKE A CASTAWAY, ANYTHING, YOU DO IT IT'S DONE AND THEN DO
IT AGAIN!!!!
Cool Stuff about this open mic:
1. It's
BYOB. I'll bring some food and stuff but folks really can bring whatever the fuck
they want, legal or illegal, I mean it.
2.It's donation based, notice I
didn't say free, I will ask you to give something (it goes to the space) even
if it's just a penny. Whatever you got to give to the space, give it with joy
in your heart. $5 suggested
3. You show up and sign up. I'm trying out
something different besides the lottery thing. This might change, but figure I
gotta try something different.
4. I'll provide different fun stuff each
week, will have give aways. and I mean give, you don't have to do anything to
get something. Just be there and if you want a ouji board and I'm giving away
one, then it's yours. ok?
5. Every night we'll have an exquisite corpse,
a poem written by everyone, and at the end of the night I or someone else will
read it.
6. Everyone gets 6 1/2 min. Figure that 30 sec should count for
something...
CLOSING PARTY Friday, December 5th 7pm
Cut down the plants and pull off the fur.
Unfortunately, everyone has to
return to
reality after a wild week... and it has been sooo wild... $5 Suggested Donation all nights
Sunday, November 23rd at 7pm Fotobooth
-4 photographers and so many possibilities-
Fotobooth
Sunday
with four photographers in a circle in the middle of the
room
and four separate tableaux that people can pose in
with a discussion
about "what you look for in a picture of yourself"
and i'm doing
a performance of "the face that I gave/the face that i got"
then
there will be lights out flash photography
where everyone moves around in
the dark
something like that...
$5 suggested donation
Saturday, November
22nd 12:00 NOON until Evening Sofia Varino
and Gillian
Sneed
-Cumul-
CUMUL Cumul, a performance art duo co-founded by Sofia Varino and Gillian
Sneed is pleased to present "ADOR/N: Written on the Body", a day-long
tableau vivante/ happening/ interactive performative event presented
in
HiChristina's display window and interior space on Saturday,
November 22.
Part 1 (Store window 12 - 5 pm) features Varino and Sneed
presenting
an endurance performance in the display window combining physicality
with text-based modes of resistance. Drawing on texts related to
psychoanalysis
and gender studies, the artists engage with the
concepts of voyeurism, exhibitionism,
and commodification of the
female body. Passers-by on the street are welcome
to come in and
interact with the artists as they present their piece. Free
to the
public.
Part 2 (HiChristina
interior, 8 pm) features the artists presenting
an interactive happening/performance
piece related to the same
text-based ideas dealt with earlier in the day.
Drawing on feminist
and queer theory, psychoanalysis, and obscure manifestos,
Cumul's
performance re-informs these often dense and dry texts with a new
sense of desire and intrigue through the immediacy of gesture and
audience
interaction.
$5 suggested door donation.
Friday,
November 21st at 7pm Fritz Donnelly's book
signing party
-HOW TO LIVE THE GOOD LIFE-
FRITZ
WROTE A BOOK! Come and get it :) They are beautiful and are a steal too.
There will be a reading a re-enactment and different people will share the one
thing they've learned that maybe no one else has learned we'll watch Fritz's short
film EVERYTHING I KNOW and we'll talk about How to Live the Good Life We are also
planning a special treat- tie eachother in knots and pass them around... This
is the first book signing where you are gauranteed to sweat.
Sunday, November
16th at 7pm Fritz Donnelly and Chrisina Ewald
-FAKE THERAPY (but it really works)-
Tonight, spill your guts to an unqualified, nonprofessional
chosen by draw of lots!
The first portion of the night will consist
of four therapeutic corners:
1. Dr. Freud's Couch,
2. Carl Jung's
Archetypal Sanctuary,
3. the New Age Realm, '
4 'The Body Method'
to be pioneered and created at HiChristina.
Stick to one or COLLECT
ALL FOUR! You will be guided in small group sessions by four 'professionals'
experienced in their methods.
The second part of the night will be
a screening of 30 minutes of clips featuring the great analyzers of our time:
Freud, Jung and Yoko Ono, Buckminister Fuller.
The final portion
of the night is when you can put all your new knowledge to work on friends and
stangers! At HiChristina there are no judgements, no moralizing; Only praise and
sensible recommendations for you and you're new exciting life. Pair up with a
stranger, and just like always, short straws stick together!
The
first five guest will a special prize (a lucky rock.)
We will supply
on-hand a copy of The Interpretaion of Dreams, Psycological Types and I Ching for our reading and mental pleasure.
What are you waiting
for?? Don't spend another day unhappy, come to HiChristina and let us take care
of you right!
Treats and drinks will be supplied to realx and calm.
$5 recommended donation
Saturday,
November 15th 7pm Katherine Lee
-Mauerfall-
For one night, we can celebrate
the end of the cold war and the birth of freedom... Berlin Wall Party 2008! Join
us at HiChristina as Jay Yee spins on heady backdrop of art, beer, excess, and
a tearing-down-of-walls. It will be a night to remember. With Special guest performer
HERE (here.am)
Friday,
November 14th 9pm FRITZ DONNELLY'S
Gliterary
Theory
-new films, games and lots of love-
Rwaaaaaar!
Fritz is showing new movies- come one, come all!
Sunday, October 26th 8pm HALLOWEEN DRESS REHERSAL
-all the fun of Halloween,
none of the pressure-
If you say you're a brontosauraus, you're a brontosauruas- who cares if you don't
have an elaborate costume,a long tail and some oversized handmade leaves in your
mouth? Who's got time for that anyway? Let our experts tell you how to throw together
a last minute halloween costume (one that your friends will remember) with nothing
more than yarn, an old birthday hat and a two dollar slice of pizza. If you have
parts of the whole and need help with the rest- bring what you've got and we'll
do what we can to complete your Halloween look. Don't forget to bring your pumpkins
to carve too! We'll have the knives and all supplies! Candy will be served.
You're
never too old to trick-or-treat at HiChristina!!
$5 suggested donation
Friday , October 17th 8pm PREDICT THE FUTURE IN THREE EASY STEPS
-1YEAR 5YEAR
& 50YEAR PREDICTIONS-
Join Fritz Donnelly and Christina Ewald as they explore the future in three easy steps. Bring your tarot, palm reading kit, Wigi Boards, anything
and everything that you think may help us figure out what on earth is going to
happen to all of us in the ever imminent FUTURE... Many topics will be discussed
and by the time you leave HiChristina Friday night you needn't wonder any longer
"what's to become of me?" Because we've got you covered.
Sunday , October 12th 6pm SECOND ANNUAL MAKE NEW FRIENDS
-Come Alone-
Have you grown tired of old friends? You're not alone- we have too! Join us this
Sunday and meet an entirely new social network!
Does it seem
that your oldfriends have lost interest in you or your amazing new projects? Not
attending your important events, dates or openings? Do they assume that because
you two are "Old Pals" that they can take advantage of you yet not even
call on your birthday?
Well, we say, "Out with the old and in
with the new!" You deserve friends who appreciate you for who you are, respect
your lifestyle and choices, friends who call you back right away.
Come to HiChristina, your home for avant garde art, performance and uncommon expression,
for a night of fun, sparkling water, puppets and blossoming friendships awaits.
154 Orchard Street (btwn stanton and rivington.)
at the honest
hour 6pm.
$5 suggested donation (highly suggested)
come alone.
don't bring anyone you know, we're all strangers now.
call christina at
212 777 1776 with your name to rsvp to the friendliest party in new york city!
hosted by your new friends Christina Ewald and Fritz Donnelly www.tothehills.com
Wednesday, October 8th A. JESSE JIRYU DAVIS
-Zen Meditation-
"How
I Wasted My Summer Vacation Staring at a Wall"
Zazen,
sitting meditation, is the core of Zen practice. By sitting silent and upright,
paying attention to the breath, physical sensations, thoughts & feelings,
the meditator cultivates awareness and peace, coming a little bit closer, moment
by moment, to realizing ultimate reality: All are one. Nothing lasts. This very
body is the Buddha.
At 7PM and again at 9PM, I’ll show photographs
from my summer Zen retreat:
I’ll give a brief meditation training,
and we’ll sit some zazen. Then we’ll try and fail to describe the
experience, I’ll answer questions, and talk about meditation options in
NYC. I’ll share information about how to continue your practice in a community
near you!
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis has practiced Zen for 6 years, including
a year living in a monastery. He’s a student at the Village Zendo, and an
organizer of Meditate NYC.
This is a FREE event!
Saturday, September 27th 8pm Hosted by:
FRITZ DONNELLY & CHRISTINA EWALD
-LECTURE SERIES: lecture 1-
Join
us for an evening of education and intrigue.
Julian McCullough - lecture on being a standup comedian Seth Ludman - lecture
on Macedonia with a broken elbow
Chad Coleman - part 2 the environment is
good for you
Daniel Sklaar - part 2 chocolate empire of bliss
Christina
Ewald and Rosie - 2008 is great (ventriloquism)
Eyal Marcovici - the stock
market today and better posture
Revrend Jen - Troll Dolls and Popular Culture
Fritz Donnelly - the state of the art: muscles
Patrick the Mangina - how
women affect my concentration
Richard Sandler - how to be a single father
Amy Uzi - getting naked everywhere: the social and political ramifications
Ilir Toppali - the next Einstein is African, and other true and false
Grace
Chang - a magical moment with Jin Jin the Dragon
Robert Galinsky - acting
techniques for reality T.V.
Jesse Davis - zen politics: embodying instead
of polarizing
And our Special Guest Jonathan Ames
plus
3 spontaneous entrants
5 minute lectures with 5 minute q&a periods
$5 donation
Opening:
Wednesday, September 24th - 7pm
Show: Wednesday, September 24th - Friday,
September 26th MARTINA O'SHEA
-Dark Dance-
Martina
O'Shea is an Irish artist based in London, she explores the human condition through
the medium of painting and photography. Extreme emotions, life and death are recurring
themes in her work. Motivated by Jacques Derrida's theory of Binary Opposites
, who acknowledged the human tendency to think in terms of opposites, O'Shea has
become engrossed with the opposing elements at play in life and the dichotomies
that exist between all things. Her current series explores the relationship between
life and death itself, her dark and macabre photographs are an attempt to capture
the human spirit as O'Shea imagines it to be. The result is uncanny yet mysteriously
beautiful.
Martina was born in Ireland in 1982 and lives and works in London.
Friday, September 5th - Sunday,
September 7th KELLY McKAY
-WEST COAST
REVIVAL-
Sunday,
September 31st 6pm JODIE ABRAMS
-GOODBYE
SWEET NEIGHBOR-
Saturday, August
23rd - Friday, August 29th LAURA
LEE GULLEDGEwhoislauralee.com
-Spill It! Part confession. Part introspection. All drawings by Laura Lee -
Saturday, August 23rd
9-11pm Opening reception!
Come post your own captions on Laura Lee's artwork and pick a bottle
from our message-in-a-bottle tree...newly planted outside!
Sunday,
August 24th through Wednesday, August 27th
8-11pm Open Studio!
Come by and hang out over art-making and snacks!
Thursday,
August 28th
9-11pm Let your hand do the talking!
Don't know
what to say? That's okay! Come get paired up with someone new and
make nonverbal collaborative drawings!
Friday, August 29th
9-11pm BYOD: Bring your own diary!
Come hear Laura Lee and Christina
read from their school diaries, and help us pop the music-performance-cherry of
the talented Matt Bailey!
$5 suggested donation for events
Door prize
every night!! Come and win copies of Laura Lee and the Seven Doors!
Sunday, August 17th - Friday, August
22nd PAIRS MANCINI & ARIELLEzenithland.com/paris -Years
in the making!!-
Every
night from 8pm until 3am
Paintings, Prints, Fashion, Sculpture, Misc: one-of-a-kind
handmade items and more! No item not for sale.
This 6-day space-turned-store
is an installation has been literally years in the making.... An earth shattering
explosion born of two pack rats who've decided to finally dispense their hoarded
treasures. Come hang out, play dress up and sift through our collection.
Take a piece of it home with you!
Monday,
August 11th - Saturday, August 16th EVELYN DONNELLYevelyndonnelly.com -Evieland
from San Diego takes over HiChristina-
Monday,
August 11th
9pm "Let's play: Library"
Tonight SLIP
is a giant book!! Complete with Zines, posters, and a construct your own story
with animation and/or a sweet slide show.Don't forget... Tonight is the first
night to host evieland's original "Stuffed Animal Workshop" Everynight
during Evelyn's stay at SLIP we will have a segment of the evening devoted to
Making your own stuffed animals!! By the end of her residency we will have formed
an entire COLONY OF ANIMALS!! You join in the performace everynight and come pick
up your part of the colony Saturday, August 17th!
Tuesday,
August 12th
9pm "Let's Play: Draw from Audio"
Let's
draw events or images from EARLY HISTORY and MYTHS and THE OLYMPICS from audio
we provide to set the mood! We will supply drawing materials and music from with
to draw, bring anything you want to add and your imaginations!
Wednesday,
August 13th
9pm "Let's play: Reenactments"
Tonight
everyone will perform snip-its from thir favorite speeches, scenes from movies
or even things that they saw today! Bring in that monolouge that you've been working
on or your sort-of memorized part of that Seinfeld episode that you love!! Anything
and everything counts...
Our special event----Evelyn will perform some
comedic favorites from our man Eddie Murphy!
Thursday, August
14th
9pm "Let's play: Music" (instrumental)
Tonight
you can...
*decide what to play (keyboards, bass, percussion!)
*create
original sheet music!
*bring your own musical instrument to play!
*record music from each performance!
Friday, August 15th
9
pm "Let's play: Photobooth"
Complete with a Portrait studio
where you can make "facial reenactments" or bring your own photo too!
Saturday, August 16th
9pm "Let's play: Music" (human
voices)
Together with Evelyn we will pick songs to sing together
or hum and record music from our performance. This will be simialr to our Thursday
night performance except for the fact that we are only using human voices and
no outside insturments!!
MOTOR ART VIDEO & MANGINA LIGHTS HIS HEAD ON FIRE
VIDEO!!!
Patrick
Bucklew also known as THE MANGINA will be making friendly plasitc molds of any
part of YOUR body for $10. As well as previewing MOTOR ART- paintings with pieces
that move by activation from small motors behind the canvas! Very exotic... You
mustn't forget the interactive performances when THE MANGINA letS the pubic finger
him, YOU LUCKY DEVILS!
Tuesday, August 5th -Thursday,
August 7th AMY UZI -naked
art- part two 9-11pm every night
Amy Uzi will be performing dance
with visual excitements by Lucky Dave. Look forward to visual poetry along with
your favorite, the Siren Movement!
Friday, August 8th & Saturday, August
9th
AMY UZI and MANGINA
-naked art- part three 9-11pm both night
Amy Uzi and Mangina will join forces for two nights only. Watch in amazement
as they do things you never thought you would see on Friday and Saturday nights
in the Lower East Side.
10$ suggested donation every night
Saturday, July 26th - Friday, August 1ST SARAH DUKE
Sarah Duke will be installing all things yellow: trinkets, lemons, etc. This installation
will be taking over all of the storefront window and beyond. During the spread
of yellowness Sarah will be constructing small paintings that will be for sale
throughout the week. In her ongoing attempt to conserve and reuse she will be
turning her display into a full functioning lemonade stand! On July 31st and August
1st she will be selling freshly squeezed organic lemonade with the lemons used
in her installation!! Enjoy :)
Thursday, July 24th 9pm TONIGHT
WE ACTUALLY READ THE ARTICLES IN PLAYBOY
A friend of ours found his
father's hidden pile of Playboy Magazines from the 70's and 80's in his childhood
garage. They were neatly tucked away in a box listed "tool/supply manuals."
We were so delighted to have them brought back from Seatlle! So delighted, in
fact, that this Thursday, July 24th, we invite you to come to SLIP, enjoy finest
of delicacies- cheese wiz, Ritz crackers and grape juice and actually read the
articles in Playboy.
We open the doors at 9pm, read and mingle for
an hour or so with discussion and follow-up starting at 11pm. Please join us for
an evening of pornography and intelligent conversation.
154 Orchard
Street
$7 suggested donation
9pm-midnight
Behold!! For three days SLIP
transforms into a large-enough-for-you-to-be-inside-of camera! Using the tricks
that brought us photography from the 18th century, our Camera obscura (literally
meaning "dark chamber",) will astound you with live views projected
upside down from the streets below. Step inside!!
Come during
daylight and see the CAMERA OBSCURA!! CALL 212.777.1776 to let us know you're
coming!
monday, july 14th
3pm-7pm "camera
obscura"
9pm itziar barrio presents an animation performance
unlike any you've seen before
"you thought you knew itziar barrio,
well, you were wrong." -Mistress Laura
stay sharp!!! splitsecond/zenith
foundation-videos to follow
tuesday, july 15th
the last day of camera obscura
3pm-7pm "camera obsucra"
9pm splitsecond/zenith foundation-videos/performance
wednesday,
july 16th
Opening of the "teenage bedroom!"
9pm chavisa woods delivers a multimedia reading from her book "Love
does not make me gentle or kind" chris kunkel presents his
video, "father dracul," a family favorite along with...
splitsecond/zenith
foundation videos
thursday, july 17th
"the
teenage bedroom"
9pm itziar barrio astounds us with an animation
performance tonight only! Professor Josh presents his ever original
strumming performance
splitsecond/zenith foundation videos to close out
the night and leave you wanting more...
friday, july 18th
"the teenage bedroom" CLOSING PARTY!! Come celebrate with us!!
9pm the OFFICIAL chavisa woods returns bringing us her multimedia reading
perfomace of mystery...
look forward to another amazing splitsecond performance
then, our favorite garage band, the Joyful Beginners play! Don't
miss it!!
7$ suggested donation
Wednesday, July 16th- Friday, July 18th PARIS MANCINI solo!
-teenage
bedroom-
Paris Mancini continues the belligerence by destroying all
that was camera and forming the true dark chamber- The Teenage Bedroom.
SLIP will be covered in angst, doodles, art, tunes and misunderstandings. Come
and create your own, buy originals and hear/see/smell the teen spirit with mumtimedia
performances by angry teens (at heart.) Now leave us alone--- SMACK (door slams.)
Video/additional bombardments after 9 pm every night!
7$ suggested
donation
-IF
I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW-
Short films alongside Interactive
performances an astounding 7 days in a row!
Be a part of the fun
this week as SLIP takes us through Fritz Donnelly's imaginary wonderland of insanity
and love! Come prepared for anything and everything as you first kick back, eat
some popcorn and enjoy short films about peanut butter animation, vampires and
nudity, then take a jello(shot?) and PARTICIPATE! in the interactive performances
that follow!
Every night is different so who knows where you may
end up-- One night you could be attending a real high school class and learning
Chinese after viewing a subtitled Chinese film, the next defeating the dragon
in Dungeons and Dragons after watching comedic short films about peanut butter,
still the very next night your in a head lock after watching action movies and
learning karate. Come on- be a kid again let your imagination run wild!
See the complete works of Fritz Donnelly. Each night has two components. A series
of short films (about 45 minutes) and a different live performance. Each night
is unique.
Fast Times at Junior High revisited
short films: Junior High School Peanut
Butter Animation, Deep Springs College Labor Video, Brown University Peanut Butter
Dancer Video
performance: Play Dungeons and Dragons with the MASTER, and
fight the DRAGON!!!! (We need dice... someone may need to bring some-thanks!)
Saturday June 28
Breakfaster Club - A Full High School Day in 60 minutes - No Tardies!
short
films: Blue Lobster (50 minutes, Fritz's first "feature" film)
performance: a full day in High School (with lunch) condensed into 60 minutes
- get your schedule - see who you're sitting next to - cut class - hit on the
teacher
AT MIDNIGHT - a special screening of MOONSHINE a full-length
vampire movie shot by prodigy Roger Ingraham
Sunday
June 29
How to Understand Everything about Power by Studying
Monks
short films: "How Drive the Car," "Paper
Grunts," "Boardroom" and other To the Hills 1 shorts with
clips from the TO THE HILLS TV SHOW that aired on MNN
performance: a medley
reading from of Fritz's college papers on Aesthetics mashed up with Medieval History
and Soviet Art
Monday June 30
Is
China Taking Over YOUR World? (Answer provided)
short films: Short Strange
Wedding Video shot in the Hamptons, Segement of a Million Dollar Chinese Feature
Film that Fritz edited, Foreign Language "Instructor" and more
performance: a beginning conversational Chinese Class taught by Lao Wang (Fritz
Donnelly) Tuesday July 1
Let's Be Scientists
short films: How to Keep a Kitten a Kitten through Massage
and other pseudoscience films from To the Hills 2
performance: Let's be Scientists
- learn how to be a scientist in your off hours and during sideways time - a conversation
among CASUAL SCIENTISTS Wednesday
July 2
FIght n Win
short films: How to Fight n Win Action Movies
performance: How to Break Holds and Defend yourself with mat practice Thursday July 3
Dress Me Up, Tell
Me What to Do
short films: 12 DRESS-ME-UP-TELL-ME-WHAT-TO-DO movies
performance: a live reading of the screen play CREDIT CHECK -
email Fritz for a copy tothehills(at)gmail(dot)com and to be a part of the cast,
the audience chooses the costumes for the readers from a pile of naughty clothes
admission is $7 and includes popcorn and jello(shots?)
and a raffel ticket with chance to win free prizes like tothehills DVDs
Sunday, June 22nd 6pm-10pm -BROKE(N)
FOOT BENEFIT-
Christina broke her left foot dancing two weeks ago. Unfortunately,
she is now stuck at home, with her foot elevated for 6-8 more weeks, leaving her
sad and unable to work. Help Christina keep SLIP and her sanity alive tonight.
Membership levels are as follows: (if you come your DON'T have to
donate!)
$5-$19 Friend-handshake/hug and sincere thanks from Christina
$20-$49 Supporter- hug/kiss, thanks and signed copy of To the Hills2 dvd
by Fritz Donnelly
$50-$99 Donor- hug plus kiss and your choice of an RX/Prescription
Clothing original
$100-$199 Benefactor- kiss, complimentary admission to
ANY SLIP event forever
$200-$349 Financier- kiss, complimentary admission
to ANY SLIP event forever & custom made shirt by Christina
$350-$1,000,000,000
Guarantor- (Right, if I knew anyone with this sort of money I would call them
personally and wouldn't have to waste my time hosting this event in the first
place)
Friday, June 13th
-Tired of old friends?-
youre not alone-
we have too! on friday, june 13th meet an entirely new social network! does
it seem that your old friends have lost interest in you or your amazing new projects?
not attending your important events, dates or openings? do they assume that because
you two are "Old Pals" that they can take advantage of you yet not even
call on your birthday?
well, here at SLIP we say, "Out with
the old and in with the new!" you deserve friends who appreciate you for
who you are, respect your lifestyle and choices, friends who call you back right
away.
Come to SLIP, your home for avant garde art, performance and
uncommon expression, a night of fun, kool-aide, crafts and blossoming friendships
awaits. SLIP 154 Orchard Street (btwn stanton and rivington.) at the honest hour
6pm. $5
come alone. don't bring anyone you know, we're all
strangers now.
call christina at 212 777 1776 for questions or email
me at rxapparel(at)gmail(dot)com with your name and phone number to rsvp... the
friendliest party in new york city!
