2008
Puppet Uprising: 9th Annual Year-End Cabaret
December 5 & 6, 2008 8:00 pm
The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA
www.puppetuprising.org
Free admission, Donations accepted
Firebird Festival
December 13, 2008
The Firebird Festival
Pheonixville, PA
www.firebirdfestival.com
Puppet Uprising: Winter Cabaret
Fri. Dec. 7, Sat. Dec. 8
Tthe Rotunda 4012 Walnut St (in West Philly next to the Bridge cinema)
Admission Free • Donations Welcome
Cheap Art Bazaar starts at 7:30
Puppet Shows begin at 8:00
This is one of my favorite shows of the year. I'll be going on later
in this show but come and see all the great acts plus buy some funky gifts. This show is packed so come early for best seating. I'll be doing some new work about Santa, Random radio, and maybe a meta puppet show.
http://www.puppetuprising.org/
Underground at Ron's 10th anniversary show.
Sat Dec 8th
7:30PM
@1012 E southampton St, Wyndmoor, PA 19038
$20 ( sliding scale)
I'll be opening the show I helped start 10 years ago. Great line up
of performers in an intimate space with drum jam before and
refreshments at intermission.
http://undergroundatrons.com/
Firebird Festival
Sat Dec 15th
6:00Pm
Free
Colonial theater and 300 block of Bridge St, Pheonixville, PA
What did you say? They are burning a giant wooden Bird as a
celebration of rebirth? Yes right here in Phoenixville. Ok it isn't
quite Burningman but there will be fire drumming and a little bit of
Quentini. I'll be part of the improv orchestra at 6PM and then I'll
help open the ceremony at 7:30ish
http://www.firebirdfestival.com/index.html
Virgin Festival
August 4 & 5, 2007
8 pm
Look for my art installations "The Hive" & " Mud Brick Ruins." Also, roving performances
by the Great Quentini.
Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore Maryland
@The Padlock Gallery
Saturday, March 24, 2007
1409 Ellsworth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Doors @ 7pm
Show @ 8pm
$5
The Great Quentini
Birdie Busch
Flaspar* on tour from Portland!
Plus: Homemade Pies from expert pie baker Rick Banister!
Gate
Friday February 16,2007
8 pm
2 sets of music, noise art, and pre-self-conscious tomfoolery
@ The Rotunda
4012 Walnut St in West Philly ( next to the Bridge Cinema)
free
"Glee" A holiday Sale and performance
6531 Germantown Ave (near Upsal St)
Philadelphia, PA
Admission is $1
Quentini from 1pm to 2pm
Art sale Noon till 6PM
Pheonixville Firebird Festival
Saturday, December 16th
I'l be a musician in the Firebird Improv Orchestra
6:20-7pm @ the Colonial theater in Phoenixville
20' Giant Phoenix Bird built by the community, will be bonfired. The 200 block of Bridge Street will be a performing art venue- jugglers, magicians, musicians, storytellers!!! Burning the Pheonix after that Quentini.
All events are free
http://www.firebirdfestival.com
Puppet Uprising Cabaret
Friday December 1st and
Saturday December 2nd
at the Rotunda (4012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,)
http://www.foundationarts.org
Art Bazaar opening at 7:30 and Cabaret under way around 8:00.
PUPPET UPRISING presents its 8th annual December event: Short puppet performances and music (a.k.a. the Cabaret), plus lots of cool hand-made stuff for sale (a.k.a. the Cheap Art Bazaar). It all happens this Friday and Saturday
THE CHEAP ART BAZAAR has paintings, prints, jewelry, knitwear and knick-knacks, plus special holiday garbage art by Trash Worship from New York City! Complete details are at http://www.puppetuprising.org (and yes, there will be live Balkan music throughout both evenings).
Saturday November 18, 2006
at The Haunted Cream Egg
One set and various weirdness
6:30-10:00Pm
4207 Baltimore Ave
Philadelphia, PA
myspace.com/hauntedcreamegg
Suggested Donation $5
Performing with the Boston Performance art group "Test"
Friday November 17, 2006
Gate (Formerly Gate to Moonbase Alpha)
2 short sets of mostly music
8:00 Pm
@ the Rotunda
4012 Walnut St
Philadelphia, PA
(Next to the Bridge Cinema)
Free!
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Solo show (1 hour) at Tyler School of Art as part of their "In-tension" performance art show. It's called "This All Ends Badly", just a few picture stories, music and thoughts on the nature of god. ( You know I'm sorry I am not better at hype, I make this sound like,"Oh
you know, nothing much, la, di, da your usual grown man dressed as a space yeti, making weird etheral music on thrift store pans and spouting about obscure notions on the nature of life death and old farty pants up in heaven.")
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 @ 8:00PM
Free
President's hall
Tyler School of Art
7725 Penrose Ave
Elkins Park, PA 19027
click here for more info
Friday October 13, 2006
Make Friday the 13th your lucky day with Howard's Dilemma, Hey Hey and The Great Quentini:
Live at The Raven Lounge
1718 Sansom Street, Philadelphia
21+, $5
I'll be on at about 7:15 so come early
Jan. 20, 2006
Gate to Moonbase Alpha (GTMBA)
Series for ambient, improv, space, ethereal, noise, and other forms
of experimental and new music and performance.
2005
May 2005
Wild Animals Never Use a Recycling Bin, Reuse Art Closing, Phila.,
PA
Animal stories and recycled art
2000-2005
Gate to Moonbase Alpha, Philadelphia, PA Monthly
Resident Performance Artist and Percussive Sound Artist
December 2004
Support the Magnetic Ribbon Company, Puppet Uprising,
Adult Puppet show, Philadelphia, PA
March 2003
I Wish I Was a Space Alien, Underground, Wyndmoor, PA
Performed excerpts from The Great Quentini.
December 2003
6 Million Dollar Barbie, Puppet Uprising, Philadelphia, PA
Adult Puppet show
October 2003
6 Million Dollar Barbie, , Philadelphia, PA
Adult Puppet show
October 2003-04 2003
Conversations With Water, Community Education Center,
Philadelphia, PA , New Edge Mix Grant
June 2003-04
Rat Families Summer Adventure, Gaian Mind Summer Festival,
Artemis, PA
October 2002
No Hurt Earthling, Help Earthling, Playa
Del Fuego Art Festival,
Odessa, DE ,
September 2002
No Hurt Earthling, Help Earthling, Philadelphia
Fringe Festival,
Philadelphia, PA,
June 2002
My Wife is a Cyborg, Jug Hollow Concert Series, Valley Forge, PA
February 2002
Music and Monologues Underground Above
Ground @ Stagecrafters, Philadelphia, PA
February 2002
Varied Performance Art and Percussive
Sound Art
Art Directors Club, Philadelphia, PA
January 2002
Varied performance and music on Homemade percussion 2002
“A Caged Animal” Crescendo Theater Festival, Philadelphia,
PA
December 2002
Stories about forgetting as an unsatisfactory path to happiness
“Worm Boy From Hanoi”, DC Improvisation Festival, Tacoma
Park, DC
September 2001
Collaboration with Francesca Genco, & Keith Destefano
Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Fresh Faces, Philadelphia, PA
June 2001
Performed Excerpts from “Bataan...”,
Live music
Glue Performance Series, Group Motion, Philadelphia
Live Music, and skits 2001
June 2000
Glue Performance Series, Group Motion, Philadelphia
Live Music, and skits
2000
1996-1999
Sheriff-by-Consensus, Burningman Art Festival,
September
Blackrock Desert, Nevada
1997-2000
Underground, Wyndmoor, PA
Performed excerpts from The Great Quentini.
March & April 1999
Bataan Death March on Ice, Wyndmoor,
PA
Commentary on the theme of the “American Dream” &
Progress
1998
Cargo Cult, Wyndmoor, PA November
Performance based on research into South Pacific Cargo cults
and our own rampant consumerism
June 1998,99
Jug Hollow Concert, Valley Forge, PA
Performed spoken word and story.
July 1998
The Great Quentini is Dead, Wyndmoor, PA
Comic ruminations on diverse interpretations of heaven and death
1998 March
Gone to Croatan, Wyndmoor, PA
Improvisations on the theme of returning to our essential nature
May 1997
Surviving the Supernatural Black Rubber Nipples, Wyndmoor, PA
Autobiographical dream material, puppetry and improvisational dance
1997
The Yonder Wasn’t Blue, Wyndmoor, PA Feb
Improvisational comic skits
April 1996
The Mushroom, Jenkintown, PA
Improvisational skits and poetry
1995
1995 June
Some Bologna Sandwiches I Really Want to Remember, Glenside, PA
Poetry reading from my book by same name
June 1995
Making My Parents Angry with Effective Stomping, Philadelphia, PA
Solo improvisational skits and poetry
1995
Spring Pageant, Quevmar House, Elkins Park, PA
Instrumental improvisation.
1994
The Search Party, Quevmar House, Elkins Park, PA
1993
i nstrumental Improvisation.
Poeformance, Eddystone, PA
1990
Co-Created multi-media poetry performance.
The Castration Booth, State College, PA April
Street theate, social Protest
1990
Creacher’s Ball, VFW Performance Space,
State College, PA
Conceptual performance art.
1990,91
Art Thang, School of Visual Arts, Penn State
University
Conceptual Performance art.
Sculpture Exhibitions
& Shows
to see more sculpture images go to the picture
gallery
2005
2005
Burning Man Arts Festival, Black Rock Desert Nevada Hive
II & Castle II , Hive
II & Interview
2005
Playa Del Fuego Art Festival, Odessa Delaware,
Hive I
2005
Playa Del Fuego Art Grant recipient
2004
Burning
Man Arts Festival, Black Rock Desert Nevada Castle
2003
Burning Man Arts Festival, Black Rock Desert Nevada , Croissant
III
2003
Playa Del Fuego Art Festival, Odessa Delaware,
Croissant II
2002
Playa Del Fuego Art Festival, Odessa Delaware,
Croissant I
2000
1993
11th Annual PA National Arts & Crafts Show,
Show Complex, Harrisburg, PA
1992
10th Annual PA National Arts & Crafts Show,
Show Complex, Harrisburg, PA
1991
Dicks, Ducks and the Monkeyhead’s Stuff, State College PA
1991
An Exploration of Ritual and Sacred Spaces, The Art Alliance, Lamont,
PA
1990
1989-1990
Annual Juried Student Show, Zoller Art Gallery,
Penn State University
