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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!! http://hichristina.com/donate.html
DONATE
AND MORE INFORMATION HERE 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 $5Wednesday,
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 Hills characters. 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. |
