[CULTURE] With just a week to Valentine's day, we dig into some London cabaret archives for a very special message of love from A Man to Pet.
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Self styled 'maverick creative' mutli-talented multi-media artist, recording artist, illustrator, animator, performer and now ceramicist Tiff McGinnis aka Grande Dame (Formerly Crazy Girl) has created a stunning limited edition 10" coupe Wedgwood porcelain dinner plates featuring illustrations from her colorful psychedelic animations. The plates form part of an integrated body of work including giclee and screen prints, blotter art, t-shirts, and bags.
Under her Grande Dame persona Tiff makes music and creates colorful animated videos to accompany combining a Mississippi Delta soundtrack with psychedelic animations, an earth shattering live show with top players, and a range of bespoke limited edition creations.
Grande Dame's debut art show 'Electric Crazyland' runs at the Ketchum Pleon from March 5th to April 27th, with a private view reception on March 8th. Anyone who remembers Tiff's legendary Crazy Girl persona will know that they are in for a real treat.
Ketchum Pleon 35-41 Folgate Street, London, E1 6BX
March 5th to April 27th
Private View March 8th 6-8pm
[CULTURE] Little Joe magazine launches a new queer film night 'A Little Film Club' with Jack Hazan’s A Bigger Splash starring David Hockney
Little Joe, a magazine about queers and cinema, mostly, are launching their Little Film Club, a monthly screening programme in London, at the Cinema Museum, Kennington on Tuesday 31 January with Jack Hazan’s A Bigger Splash, a unique insight into the world of David Hockney at the height of his fame during the 1970s. Director Jack Hazan will be in conversation with Stuart Comer (Curator of Film at Tate Modern) following the screening.
A Little Film Club will alternate between The Cinema Museum and the Rio Cinema in Dalston and develops the concept of the magazine into an unique space for the exhibition and discussion of films that inspire alternative discourse. Incorporating an eclectic programme of films mapping the subterranean queer canon of cinema, the screenings will also feature extended introductions, discussions and social events. Forthcoming events include a screening of Pasolini's Teorema in February, and a look at Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon in March. For updates about the rest of our screening programme, follow Little Joe on Facebook and Twitter (@littlejoemag).
Little Joe's editor Sam Ashby and his deputy Michael Pierce hope that the events will be as engaging as possible, saying "We are excited to build on the community that has emerged around the magazine and provide a new space for engaging, unexpected discussion. We really hope it will develop into an inclusive club where people feel they can make suggestions and pitch ideas, much like how we put the magazine together."
Little Joe is also offering membership to A Little Film Club. For the introductory price of £30, members will receive free access to our initial 6-month screening programme at the Cinema Museum and the Rio Cinema between January – June 2012. Members also receive a copy of Little Joe magazine and all six limited edition film posters from each event. For more details emailed michael@littlejoemagazine.com.
Little Joe presents A Bigger Splash
with director Jack Hazan in conversation with Stuart Comer
Tuesday 31 January 2012 7pm
The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way, London SE11 4TH
Tickets: £7.50 / £5.00 concessions / Free for Film Club Members.
Available online at littlejoebiggersplash.eventbrite.co.uk
[CULTURE] Do not miss your chance to see Out There's La JohnJoseph's return to the London stage
Photograph by: Martin Perry
We are very proud to announce that our multi-talented Berlin based culture correspondent, the inimitable LA JohnJoseph will be laying soul bear once again on the London stage once again bringing together all three of his solo memoir shows I Happen To Like New York, Underclass Hero and Notorious Beauty in what promises to be a must-see series of illuminating, entertaining and moving performances.
Autobiographical, political, raucous and accidentally profound, Boy in a Dress (link to Oval House website) details the life thus far, of one third-gendered, fallen Catholic, ex-fashion model from the wrong side of the tracks as she moves from the council estates of Bootle to the strip clubs of San Francisco, via Penny Arcade’s living room.
Embracing themes as apparently diverse as Catholicism and drag, public sexuality and body dysmorphia, La JohnJoseph brings together an outrageous but heartfelt slew of true-life tales presented as monologues, and studded with reworkings of iconic songs from wide ranging artists such as Leonard Cohen, Justin Vivian Bond and Cole Porter.
His three week ‘retrospectacle’ starts on Tuesday 14th February until Saturday 3rd March at Ovalhouse Theatre, Kennington Oval, London SE11 5SW.
Evening programme: I Happen To Like New York and Underclass Hero
Saturday Matinees: Notorious Beauty
Boy in a Dress is presented as a part of Ovalhouse's If only... season. This is the second season of diverse and thought provoking work programmed by Ovalhouse’s new Directors of Theatre; Rachel Briscoe and Rebecca Atkinson-Lord. If only... is performance driven by an ambition for complexity; a search for something to believe in; a desire for someone somewhere to do something surprising.
Written and performed by La JohnJoseph with Anna Lewenhaupt
Ovalhouse Downstairs: Tuesday 14 February – Saturday 3 March
Dates and Times: Tuesday-Saturdays 8:00 pm, Saturday Matinees 2:30pm
Ticket Prices: Adult: £14, Equity, BECTU, Under 26: £10, Concessions: £7
