**Club 57 Society: Black and White Ball**

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1980!

ACTS OF LIVE ART, SHORT FILMS, DJS, AND MORE!

TICKETS INCLUDE ACCESS TO THE BROAD’S KEITH HARING EXHIBITION ($22 VALUE) – SHOW YOUR EVENT TICKET AT THE MUSUEM ENTRANCE DURING REGULAR MUSEUM HOURS

In conjunction with the special exhibition, **Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody**, The Broad is teaming up with iconic denizen of the 1980s East Village art scene **Ann Magnuson** to revisit and reignite the spirit and energy of the infamous Club 57, where she was the manager and where met and befriended Keith Haring. **Club 57 Society: Black and White Ball** is inspired by events that took place at the original Club 57 including some of Haring’s earliest performances and exhibitions, as well as themed nights such as Twisting in High Society, Stayfree Mini-Prom, and The Ladies Auxiliary Debutante Ball. Our rousing and raucous homage features performances by and tributes to now-legendary artists who were part of the original Club 57 and knew Haring personally, as well as subsequent generations of artists that offer new examples of the grit, glitter, and experimentation that proliferated in this seminal venue.

7-8:30 p.m.: **DJ Señor Amor**

8:30-10 p.m.: **Acts of Live Art**

10 p.m.-Midnight: Dance Party with **DJ Bus Station John**

Cocktails all night

Kitchen open till 10 p.m.

**Acts of Live Art**

**Ann Magnuson**, Host | **Joey Arias**, Chanteuse | Joey Arias + Ann Magnuson Perform as Andy + Edie | **Adele Bertei**, Musial Performance | **Ursula Gueringer + Anna-Claire Simpson**, Klaus Nomi Tribute | Alexa Hunter, Club 57 Film Footage | **Tyler Matthew Oyer**, Interdisciplinary Gospel Immortalist | **Tom Rubnitz**, Short Film: Undercover Me

**Interventionists:**

Puppetmaster213 Cain Carias with El Triste + La Smiley, Marionettes | Robert Dayton | Zackary Street

**Ann Magnuson**

In the 1980s NYC East Village art scene, Ann Magnuson showed her artwork in exhibitions curated by Keith Haring, managed the infamous neo-Dada cabaret Club 57, and performed at CBGB, Danceteria, Mudd Club, Pyramid Club, AREA, The Kitchen, and Joe’s Pub. She has since released three solo albums and multiple EPs; her bands include Pulsallama, Bleaker Street Incident, Vulcan Death Grip, and Bongwater, which released five albums and has toured internationally. She currently performs and records with Alejandro Cohen from the Los Angeles based music collective dublab. Magnuson has acted in numerous movies and television shows, has performed in many Off-Broadway productions, and has presented her performance pieces at Lincoln Center, BAM, LACMA, REDCAT, Hammer Museum, Walker Art Center, and the Andy Warhol Museum as well as internationally in Canada, Italy, Japan, and Sweden. She has contributed articles to Art Forum, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Bust, Time Out New York, and Conde Nast Traveler, and has written forewords and essays for a variety of books, as well as a monthly column for Paper from 2000-2008. Ann Magnuson is married to architect John Bertram and they reside in Los Angeles, California with their feline daughter Lucy. annmagnuson.com

**Joey Arias**

Joey Arias is a performer who for decades has performed and collaborated with the likes of Klaus Nomi, David Bowie, and Basil Twist. He has commanded the stages of US, Europe, and Asia with his hit show "Strange Fruit" where he magically channels Billie Holiday. Thierry Mugler, renown fashion designer and director, personally chose Joey for his role of MC in Cirque Du Soleil's Zumanity which he performed for over 5 years. He has appeared in many high-profile films including Pee Wee's Big Top, Flawless, To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar, and Elvira Mistress of the Dark, and is a sought-after fashion muse internationally.

**Adele Bertei**

Los Angeles based Adele Bertei works as a writer, director, performer, and musician and has been a member of the bands Peter and the Wolves, the Contortions, and The Bloods. As a poet, she has shared the stage with writers such as William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Kathy Acker. Bertei has acted in several underground films and has been the subject of artists and photographers Kiki Smith, Richard Prince, Nan Goldin, Zoe Leonard, and David La Chappelle. Her writing has appeared in the New York Rocker, 6 Carlos, Vibe magazine, and the Huffington Post. Her stories and essays have been included in multiple compilations and she was awarded the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation fellowship at Tomales Bay in conjunction with UC Davis for Dorothy Allison’s writing workshop. Bertei has created and facilitated songwriting workshops for homeless youth and has taught songwriting to the incarcerated at the Twin Towers facility in downtown LA, and at Century Women’s Regional Center at Lynwood, the largest women’s jail in the nation. She created a collective called WREN, Women’s Re-Entry Network to help alleviate the challenges of women being released from jails and prisons. www.adelebertei.com

**Bus Station John**

Bus Station John has been serving all-vinyl DJ sets of up-tempo, late ‘70s (mostly) rare disco, "lost" gay ‘80s hi-NRG, touches of R&B, and other surprises at Tubesteak Connection at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge in San Francisco since 2004 as well as Disco Daddy at The Eagle in San Francisco and at Akbar in Los Angeles

**Puppetmaster 213 Cain Carias**

Cain Carias, originally from Tijuana, MX, got his first job in Los Angeles at the world-famous Bob Baker Marionette Theatre. Having been instantly fascinated with the magical world of puppetry and learning the art form from Baker himself, Carias later modeled his own creations El Triste and La Smiley on the style and attitude of his MacArthur Park community. Today, Carias, along with El Triste and La Smiley, make regular appearances at car shows, music videos, health fairs, and other community events.

**Ursula Gueringer and Anna-Claire Simpson**

Ursula Gueringer and Anna-Claire Simpson fuse the eclectic sounds they both sought out and were influenced by through key moments in their lives. The recognition of influences between the most unlikely of songs and styles, and the recurring themes that can lie hidden in the lines of a medieval ballad or an avante garde composition manifests in music that is the means to connect to an era in which you wish you had lived, and that era is now. Both women have spent years not only enjoying their crafts but exploring academia, being in a rock band, touring the globe in a world music ensemble, parenting, and living lives that were meant to inform the expression of their repertoire.

For Club 57 Society: Black and White Ball, Ursula Gueringer and Anna-Claire Simpson will perform a tribute to Klaus Nomi (1/24/44 – 8/6/83), a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona. In the 1970s Nomi immersed himself in the East Village art scene and was known for his bizarre and visionary theatrical live performances, heavy make-up, unusual costumes, and a highly stylized signature hairdo. His songs were equally unusual, ranging from synthesizer-laden interpretations of classical opera to covers of 1960s pop standards. Nomi and Joey Arias performed on Saturday Night Live with David Bowie in 1979, and in the last years before his death performed at Club 57. **Tyler Matthew Oyer**

Called an "interdisciplinary gospel immortalist" by Kembra Pfahler of the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Tyler Matthew Oyer is an artist, writer, organizer, musician, and educator based in Los Angeles. Their work reconsiders the past as something not gone, but as material and ideas that live in and through us, shaping how we see ourselves and our world. Oyer’s work has been presented at MoMA PS1, REDCAT, The Getty Museum, dOCUMENTA (13), Hammer Museum, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kunstnernes Hus Oslo, Munch Museum, Art Basel Miami Beach, Bergen Kunstall, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Shedhalle Zürich, The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, High Desert Test Sites, Highways Performance Space, Human Resources Los Angeles, Silencio Paris, MIX NYC, Ekebergparken Oslo, Surge Festival Madrid, Lukiškiu Kalėjimas Vilnius, and the Orange County Museum of Art. Oyer has written works of performance including CALLING ALL DIVAS, GONE FOR GOLD, Shimmy Shake Earthquake, La Bola Negra, and 100 Years of Noise: Beyoncé is ready to receive you now. In addition to their work as a visual and performing artist, they have released the original music albums RELEASE DELUXE (2017), NO TEMPLE (2020), RETEMPLE (2020), TENDERNESS (2022), and BERLIN ALIEN (2023). Their feature film adaptation of Charles Ludlam's Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide premiered in 2017 and is the first moving-image adaptation of Ludlam’s work. Oyer is the founder of tir journal, an online platform for queer, feminist, and underrepresented voices. They received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2012 and has offered workshops and lectures at CalArts, Bard College, Occidental College, University of Southern California Santa Barbara, Penn State University, Southern Exposure, and Grand Central Art Center. Tyler Matthew Oyer’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Nevada Museum of Art, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona and several private collections worldwide.

**Tom Rubnitz**

A quintessential New York underground film/video artist, the late Tom Rubnitz took a bite out of the Big Apple and spat it out in a wild kaleidoscope of unequivocal camp and hallucinogenic color. Ann Magnuson, the B-52s, The “Lady” Bunny, and the late John Sex are but a few of the stars that shine oh-so-brightly in Rubnitz’s glittering oeuvre. A genre artist par excellence, Rubnitz treated the sexy-druggy-wiggy-luscious-desserty qualities of the ’80s downtown club scene with the loving care only a true hedonist could show. Rubnitz died from an AIDS-related illness in 1992. **DJ Señor Amor**

DJ Señor Amor has always been an ardent music fan. As a teenager he began seriously collecting records of all genres and started DJ’ing at KBEV, the radio station at Beverly Hills High School. Señor attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles largely due to his love of KXLU, it’s top ranked student run radio station. While at LMU, he started as an “Alt Rock Jock” and then was invited to co-host “The Molotov Cocktail Hour,” a volunteer weekly position which Señor holds to this day. His professional career began with weekly DJ residencies at The 3 Clubs Lounge, Liquid Kitty, and Encounter Restaurant at the top of The Theme Building at LAX. He quickly gained prominence within the audiences of the entertainment industry. His career crescendoed over the coming years, being called upon to DJ Mayor Antonio Villaragiosa’s Christmas Party, movie premiers for 20th Century Fox, Disney, NBC-Universal, and New Line Cinema. Señor has been featured in Billboard Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Newsweek, Daily Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Harper’s Bazaar, Los Angeles Magazine, and Vanity Fair.

This is a 21+ event

Presented by The Broad & Zebulon.

Club 57 Society: Black and White Ball

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