Thursday April 15th 2010, 8PM-10 PM ONLY
Reading For Filth Returns: Teabag This!
at PussyFaggot at The Delancey
168 Delancey, at Clinton Street, Downstairs
$5 admission
Readings By: Chadwick Moore, Max Steele, Mr. Joe, Glenn Marla, Dominick & Shelly Mars
Hosted By Hattie Hathaway
Music by Baby K
The line up at the latest 'Reading For Filth': A journalist-turned-pornographer, a silver-tongued literary sexworker, a glamorous Trans-Mister, a porno 'zine publisher/performance artist, and one of NYC's very first drag kings... with Chadwick Moore, Dominick, Glenn Marla, Mr. Joe, Max Steele and Shelly Mars.
As April 15th, "Tax Day", approaches again. we, along with more and more Americans, are being driven to tea. Like the bold rebels of 1773 who steeped their leaves in Boston Harbor, we'll dress as simple squaws and cry, "Enough! Tea bag THIS, Mr. Government Man! Tea bag THIS!"
Perhaps that is why we couldn't resist unveiling the latest edition of the popular literary smutfest that we'd co-curated with that legendary tax-evader, the late Dean Johnson at Rapture Cafe, on the very day when Americans of all genders are supposed to "bend over and take it like a man..."
Offshore money launderer Hattie Hathaway hosts, while disgruntled taxpayer Baby K provides the soundtrack.
As part of the crazy-quilt lineup of Earl Dax's infamous bi-coastal (New York & the UK) performance series, 'Pussy Faggot!,' the 'Reading For Filth' family will kick things off at 8PM, downstairs at that Downtown jewelbox, The Delancey. Admission is a low $5, which entitles you to stay later for the rest of the evening's she-naninigans which will include performances by Marga Gomez, Heather Litteer, Needles Jones (!) and a fete for the Big Art Group.
http://pussyfaggot.net/
http://www.thedelancey.com/
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Chadwick Moore is a 2005 graduate of the University of Iowa Undergraduate Writers’ Workshop. He’s spent time in the editorial departments of Black Spring Press in London and Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books in New York City. Chadwick is a writer, editor, and journalist whose work has appeared in BUTT Magazine, Clubplanet.com, Playguy, Spank, Scum Bag Fag Mag and on NPR. Chadwick is completing work on his first book and lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
Max Steele is a performer, writer and artist. He has presented work at Galapagos Art Space, Deitch Studios L.I.C., the Cock and other NYC club venues as a performance artist as well as vocalist for his band, Max Steele and the Party Ice. His new solo show, “The Horrible Time (You Tried To Kill Me),” debuted in Dixon Place’s 2008 HOT! Festival. Steele writes and publishes the experimental porno zine Scorcher. His writing has been published nationally in publications such as Fag School and Birdsong, STH and Pequin. Steele is a member of Graphic Glory, an NYC-based dance group.
http://fagcity.blogspot.com
Mr. Joe (Birdsong) is no stranger to any Reading For Filth fan. Writer, journalist, model and adult entertainment fodder, he returns after a year-long sojourn exploring the underbelly of the Lower Forty-eight. His written work has been featured in Hot Gay Erotica 2006, and White Crane Journal, he visually graces the pages of Walt Cessna's 'FUKT 2 START WIT', as well as the upcoming Straight To Hell: The Manhattan Review Of Unnatural Acts.
Glenn Marla was Miss LES 2006, and IS NYC's hottest fat go-go dancer! Onstage Glenn explores, celebrates, and plays with gender, fat, and sex and brings us the best of new performers in his recurring performance series Heavy.
http://www.glennmarla.com/
Dominick is this town's legendary literary "working boy"... need we say more?
Shelly Mars is an established solo performance artist based in Manhattan who has entertained and shocked audiences in the US and around the world for 20 years.
Mars’ solo shows include Bug Chasers (2005), Sex on Mars (2001), Whiplash: Tales of a Tomboy (1999), and Invasion from Mars (1997). Venues have included Abrons Theater (Performa 2009), PS 122, New York Theatre Workshop, The Kitchen, Dixon Place, and Highways Performance Space. Sex on Mars enjoyed a five-month run in Provincetown, MA in 2000. Her monologues have also been published
Recently, Mars has been Artist in Residence at NYC’s Museum of Sex and has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts (2010), the Arcus Foundation, the Gill Foundation, and the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art.
http://www.shellymars.com/
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The poster for this edition of RFF features a photograph by South African-born photographer/graphic artist Jan Wandrag. More of this talented artist's work can be seen at http://janwandrag.com
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