2010-2011 Season

Season Opener

First Friday, Sept. 3 - 7pm door - $3

she's come unframed

Jenny Ignaszewski solo exhibit, outsider paintings and portraits reflect a nurturing and charismatic aesthetic.

Opening Festivities include Aebi-Coulson Jazz + The Beautiful Show.

First Friday, Oct 1

Group Exhibit of devilish proportions: beasts, otherworldly spirits+ dark noir. Film Premiere Blood Bath of the Bat Beast in sonar-o-rama. Popcorn, Scream, laugh & jeer as "winged terror descends from the skies." Enter under terrifying spider and we  Artists wishing to exhibit their artwork may download registration form - click here!

Saturday, Oct, 9

Planet Poe Theatre Classic tales and poems by America’s master of horror come to life in dramatic readings enhanced with music and sound effects, presented by Robert X. Planet and the Planet Poe Players. The full theatrical program also includes a selection of Edgar Allan Poe’s lesser-known works of humor and science fiction. Theatre seating; advance tickets recommended

Saturday, Oct 30

Costumed revelry, prizes, art, music, dance, performance. Thrill at the attack of the arachnids spinning webs. Live Music, spine chilling libations, dark scintillating cabaret performances by Provocatease. "A not-to-be-missed Halloween Party. Don't let your friends drag to a bar or house party, this is the one folks will be talking about!" College Times  Searching for a costume?  We suggest Easley's Costume & Fun Shop 509 W. McDowell Rd.

First Friday Nov. 5

Baksheesh Batik

Peter Votichenko's solo exhibit revealing his mastery of batik expressing colorful dreams of Bali, India, Tibet and beyond; Opens with eclectic World Beat DJ, Djentrification (Peter's son).  Exhibit through Nov 26.

Saturday, November 6, Noon to 9pm

Fall Festival of Middle-Eastern Music & Dance festival

Fourth annual Festival and the largest locally produced bellydance event in Arizona.

"Fall into Glamour"

Featuring wide-range of music, dance and venders, hosted by Levant al Sonora chapter of Middle-Eastern Culture and Dance Association (MECDA).  Drumming circle, Community Stage, Vending, Food & Hookahs.

Gala Show at 7pm staring Princess Farhana.

Saturday, November 20

Alwun House Benefit Concert

Concert kicks-off campaign to transform blight into a “Green Art Park” - a tree filled sculpture garden with parking. Come Party for a cause with Dry River Yacht Club and Sonorous. Select fresh local brews from Four Peaks Brewery, munchies, culinary doorprises.

Saturday, Dec. 4-31

Lighthouse group exhibit  7-12pm, Come play in the dark at Lighthouse. Light up the Holidays, as luminous art is playfully displayed throughout the Alwun House gallery and into the gardens. With gallery lights off, self-illuminating art shines: including light boxes, shrines, sculpture, black light, neon, video, fire, lamps and even furniture. Exhibit opens with electrified concert, performance art, and even audience members join in with costumes aglow. Prize for most ingeniously lit costume.  Artists wishing to exhibit their artwork may download registration form - click here!

Friday, Dec. 31 2010

New Year’s Eve

First Friday, Feb 4, 2011  (“Sneak Peek”)

exotic teaser performances

Feb. 11 - March 11 Exotic Art Show

Exotic Art Exhibit features sensual, provocative and audacious art from over 50 artists on two floors. Uninhibited passions in a variety of media, push the envelope with jaw-dropping fantasies and taboo erotica. This is the longest running exhibit of erotic and exotic art in the country. Mature subject matter.  Artists wishing to exhibit their artwork may download registration form - click here.

Friday, Feb. 11, 2011

Exotic Phantasmagorical Spectacular:

Opens with the most talked about Valentine art party tradition in town. It features eye-poppin’, heart-thumpin’ edgy entertainment on two stages, with two floors of erotic-exotic art. Outrageous burlesque cabaret, belly dancers, fire, festive revelry, roving exotic sideshow characters blur the line between performance and spectator. This opening is the event to see and be seen at. Chocolates, Champagne, Hpnotiq drink specials. Dress for Success. Advance tickets recommended.

Friday, Feb. 18

Erotic Poetry & Music Festivus

A night of out-of-the-box poetic and lyrical performances; from lusty limerick and heart felt song of passion, to bawdy vaudeville variety acts. Seduce the muse with two stages deliciously packed with a fusion of bawdy poetry, music and titillating performance artists. Mature material.

First Friday, March 3

Coffeehouse TBA

Friday, March 11

Spring Ball

Exotic Art Show Climax

with multi-cultural dance performances

celebrating spring’s fecundity.

Friday,  March 18-25

Salon des Enfants

Phoenix Elementary School District #1 Art Teachers band together to create this juried exhibit. There will be approximately 300 pieces made by students in the 5th through 8th grades, representing 16 Schools, and 18 teachers. All art works sell for $20 with 100% going to student artist. Opening March 18th, the Alwun House Stage features school bands, Folklorico dancers, and choir; with families and the public supporting arts in our schools.

Friday, April 1- May 6, 7-12pm

Steampunk Exhibit

with Opening Festival on April Fools Day.

Phoenix’s first reveal of the burgeoning Steampunk art movement. Objects re-imagine a juxtaposition of time and place, drawing from the aesthetic and steam driven technologies of Victorian industrialized 19th Century. Artists of this genre reconfigure steam-era or anachronistic technologies that redesign practical items into fantastical contraptions, illustrations and painting.