Big House on Ponce

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Come join us 

on August 22nd 

from 7-10pm 

for the closing reception celebrating exhibits by 

Danielle Brutto (http://www.daniellebrutto.com/) 

and Charlie Key (http://www.charliekey.biz/) !

More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/449419345229542/

[Brought to you by not for human consumption (www.n4hc.org)]

Photos by Joe Dreher (http://www.josephdreher.com/)

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Ashtanga Yoga and Mindful Movement classes continue through May with Aida Curtis!

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Aida Curtis is leading Ashtanga Yoga at the BigHouse this month - come out for the next class on the 22nd!

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Join us for day of herbal aide and consultations, yoga, reflexology, health education classes, community networking and more! All services provided on a first come, first serve basis. Brought to you by Herbalista Health Network, committed to building community through herbalism. Free and Open to the Public (Donations Welcome!) Services Offered: Triage Herb Bus - chronic health concerns and difficult cases, refills for existing patients Herb Cart - herbal first aid, resource counseling Reflexology Class Schedule: 12 - 12:45 Gretchen - 3 Common Herbs 1 - 1:45 Orion - Mental Health (Focus on Self-Care) 2 - 2:45 Octavia - Yoga Session http://herbalista.org/ http://herbbus.org/

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Photos of Clue: A Literary Evening of the Most Murderous Vein at Big House on Ponce by Kevin Griggs. More photos at http://www.deerbearwolf.com/weekly

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Join Shitty Bedford and Megawatt Ultra for an evening of Butter Vapors, a colorful cooking instructional performed live. Expect fragrant projections and an original musical score. An aroma of unusual theater coming soon to the Big House on Ponce! 

Fri Jan 30 // Sat Jan 30 // Sun Feb 1

Doors at 8p,  Show starts at 9p.  Limited parking on premises, additional parking is nearby on side streets. Tickets $8 online @ buttervapors.bpt.me, $10 at the door

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Once again the best and brightest of the Atlanta comedy scene descend on the Big House On Ponce theater to perform solo comedy.  This month is jam packed with monologues, characters, and other hilariously bizarre shit.  FEATURING: Frances Chang Ian Custar Sara Gaare Nick Gibbons Phoebe Perry August Pollak Simon Rakestraw Doors at 830pm Show at 9pm Only $5 at the door

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Our suspects for the evening:

Julian Modugno as Prof. Plum // "Son of famed adventurer-academic Phinneas Plum, Pontius Plum has always lived in his father's shadow. After the completion of his graduate thesis, "The Origins of Human Aggression: Violence Among the Proto-Sumerian Tribes," Pontius found it difficult to land a teaching job in today's competitive market, as most universities expected him to be the dazzling daredevil his father was. After striking out with every single hallowed institution in New England, Pontius accepted a position as an adjunct professor of Prehistorical Socioanthropology at Georgia State University. During a recent excavation in the Etowah Indian Burial Mounds, Pontius unearthed a number of interesting artifacts that have the potential to change everything we know about human development. All he needs to do is convince Mr. Boody, the lone hold-out on the university's Board of Regents, to fund further excavations and perhaps Pontius will finally be able to step out of his father's shadow."

Kelly Reardon as Ms. Peacock // "Mrs. Henrietta Peacock was born at an undisclosed date in the not-too-distant past to British diplomats. Tragically, both her parents died in a freak boating accident when Henrietta was 7. She was then adopted by her estranged aunt, Lady Judith, an eccentric socialite who saw to it that Henrietta attended the best schools, learned how to bed the least available men and taught her that if you really want to make it as a 1-percent-er in this world, you have to donate your money to charity. Tragically, Lady Judith died when Henrietta turned 18. At 19, Henrietta married her first husband, Lord Dereck, who died tragically during their honeymoon in Fiji. Her next 5 husbands also died, tragically, in various freak accidents. Henrietta is an ornithologist who specializes in birds of prey. She has donated the majority of her wealth to philanthropic causes. Her favorite color is sapphire blue and she enjoys bird watching, horticulture, and long walks on the beach."

Nicole Moody as Mrs. White // "Ms. White is a marriage enthusiast. A zeal for amore' led her to the altar five times. Terrible misfortune led to the untimely loss of all her husbands, most recently a nuclear physicist. As a widow she mourns with a composure fit to rival a Stone Mountain general, but don't let her apparent lack of emotion fool you or beg you to question her devotion: right below that pallid surface lies fiery feelings of… feelings."

Adam Lowe as Col. Mustard // "Col. Mustard entered into Her Majesty's service quite young and spent years traveling the globe protecting and serving wherever the grand Union Jack flew. He met Mr. Boody during the final years of Britain's glorious Lower East India Campaign. By virtue of their shared experiences they became bosom chaps. Certainly not the sort of chums who would later murder one another, no matter how many dark war secrets they shared. The Colonel is distraught by recent events and has vowed to bring the perpetrator to justice. Just as soon as he finds his blunderbuss."

Jason Mallory as Mr. Green // Watch out for this guy...he's been lurking around the kitchen with a lead pipe. 

Jessica Hunt as Miss Scarlet // "Whilst living in Hollywood as a younger woman, Josephine Scarlet flirted and manipulated her way into several minor film roles. Her performances were adequate, but she quickly realized that her true talents were the sort that belonged behind the screen rather than on it. With an adeptness for charming and beguiling the most powerful men in town into doing her biddings, she raised the dubious amounts of money and influence necessary to start an escort service in Beverly Hills. Her mysterious, watchful presence at any number of red carpet galas came to be recognized as the very image of the wanton drives that fueled the city's darker industries. After several successful years standing in the shadows just outside the limelight, Ms. Scarlet was tipped off about an imminent police raid as part of the city's attempt to drive out prostitutes, drug dealers, and other seedy lowlifes. After fleeing LA to avoid arrest, she settled in a place she considered far classier and culturally superior—Atlanta. With her impeccable business sense and love of southern literature, Ms. Scarlet opened and continues to operate a tavern/brothel beneath the Highland Inn called the Tara Cabaret."

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Deer Bear Wolf Presents CLUE | A LITERARY EVENING OF THE MOST MURDEROUS VEIN Big House on Ponce, 368 Ponce de Leon Ave.  Thursday, January 22nd, 2015 8pm Admission $10 - Purchase your tickets online to be one of the first groups to see the reading! Featured suspects (Readers) will be announced little by little, stayed tuned. ABOUT THE SERIES:  Birthed from the womb of Deer Bear Wolf, Transgression is a reading series that seeks to bring the novelty back to the novel crowd – taking its audiences off the beaten path; straying from traditional platforms; and showcasing Atlanta’s most talented writers whilst challenging the perception of the written word. ABOUT THE CURATORS:  Laura Relyea is a writer in Atlanta, Georgia. Along with being the Managing Editor of Scoutmob, she’s the Editor and Chief of Vouched Books – a grassroots initiative to promote and bolster the small press community through pop-up bookstores and different events. Her book, All Glitter, Everything, will be rereleased by Deer Bear Wolf this coming March. Her work has been published by Coconut Poetry, Monkey Bicycle, Everyday Genius, and elsewhere. She both fears and respects glitter.  John Carroll is a writer and artist from Atlanta, Georgia. He is the former Editor-in-chief of Purge ATL and the artist behind Make Blackout Poetry. His chapbook, Slow Burn, released in 2013 by Safety Third Enterprises, sold out in 36 hours. His forthcoming chapbook will be released by Deer Bear Wolf in 2015. ABOUT DEER BEAR WOLF Deer Bear Wolf is a creative movement celebrating Atlanta’s art, music and literary communities. It is one part record label, one part small press, one part magazine which combined creates a mega champion of all things Atlanta.  VITALS:  Deer Bear Wolf - http://www.deerbearwolf.com/ Vouched Books - http://vouchedbooks.com/ Make Black Out Poetry - http://www.makeblackoutpoetry.com/ Interior Design & Decor by Maggie Blair Boyd & Tracy Galasso

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Rapp Battlez Dirty Zouth 5 : Ain't No Stoppin'

Rapp Battlez Dirty Zouth is a hip hop comedy throwdown where comedians square off as characters in one-on-one rap battles.

This month featuring:  Chris Blair aka Catwoman vs. Linnea Frye aka Batman  Chris Rittelmeyer aka A Failure  vs. David Nayyar aka A Life Coach Clint Sowell aka Keanu Reeves from the 80's vs.  Tom Rittenhouse aka Keanu Reeves from the 90's Sara Gaare aka A Gigolo vs.  Matt Stanton aka A Juggalo Keith Hooker aka Mayhem from All State vs. Tara Ochs aka Flo from Progressive * Created by the Rivas Brothers.

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A look back at the past year before moving on to a new one. It's the one year anniversary of Dottie!

This month Dottie invites back some of the people that helped start it one year ago as well as some folks that have contributed over the year to celebrate. There will be a showcase of some of the BEST OF pieces from the year as well as a selection of brand new work from: Chris Blair Karen Cassady Nick Gibbons Mark Kendall Rob Lathan August J. Pollak Mike Schatz  Leslie Sharp

9 pm // $5

If you haven't been yet, this is the night to go.

https://www.facebook.com/events/323671351175843

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MOTH MANOS // ARIANNA SYKES at KBC Monday, Dec 15, 2014

doors + sign-up at 8 music at 9 Kirkwood Ballers Club is an open mic night o sort, tailored for free and wild musical experimentation. Since its beginnings in 2004, the KBC has taken many forms while bouncing from venue to venue, including a house in Kirkwood where it all started, the old Lenny's, the Highland Inn, 11:11 Teahouse, and more. It's even been reported that Ballers Clubs have happened at Zebulon in Brooklyn, but it is a distinctively Atlanta event. Ft. MOTH MANOS: subterranean pipe dwellers & ARIANNA SYKES: midnight maiden/ OG baller sign-up slots 15-20 min to reserve space ahead of time, email whatisamattgreenia@gmail props and edibles may be provided - - ALWAYS FREE - -

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!!! Witness a performance for the whole family !!! !!!! We're thrusting open the gates of the Big House On Ponce for an 11-foot-tall, 36-foot-long interactive whale puppet !!!! °°° This show will be held in the Big House's front yard °°° ~ The puppet has been created by and is touring with our friends Poncili Creacion, a surrealist puppet troupe from Puerto Rico ~ !!!! The enormous whale works as an interactive museum space and moving sculpture that the public will be able to play !!!! ~~Intimate performances reveal the mysteries of the whale.~~ Poncili Creacion, made up of 11 international makers, artists, puppeteers, musicians and performers, collaborated to create a living art experience with the world’s largest predator. Using metal, foam, and bicycles they created a whale that is portable, playable and performable as a musical instrument. Including sound, lights, mechanical operations and mind-blowing puppetry, this mobile stage has been visiting museums, parks, schools, all a wide range of communities, all culminating last week at Art Basel Miami. -donations accepted-

Sunday, Dec 14, 2014, 9pm

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THE ROOKERY, a creative literary magazine, presents THE ROOKERY RADIO HOUR. A live comedy stage show in the style of an anthologized 1940's-esque radio drama, scripted and improvised (with one special pre-recorded interstitial) by a bunch of local writers and performers. The Big House on Ponce. Friday Dec 12 and Saturday Dec 13. $5. Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm. Show runs 90 minutes with intermission (bar available).

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Rapp Battlez Dirty Zouth is a hip hop comedy throwdown where comedians square off as characters in one-on-one rap battles. This month featuring:  George Faughnan aka The Virgin Mary vs. Chris Rittelmeyer aka Santa Claus  Linnea Frye aka Daria Morgendorffer vs. Gee Richiche aka Lydia Deetz Jamie Moore aka Mister Rogers vs.  Tom Rittenhouse aka King Friday XIII Ed Morgan aka A comic book collector vs.  Keith Hooker aka A hoarder John Mangan aka A friendly neighbor vs. Contrary Rebekah Frost aka A woman in labor Rapp Battlez Dirty Zouth

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the bus

photo by Sarah Prewoznik

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WHAT : ROAMtransmissions & Vouched Books Present: ROAM in the Ruins: A Communal Listening Experience for the End Times  WHERE : The Big House On Ponce, 368 Ponce De Leon Ave., Atlanta, GA WHEN : Sunday, November 23 @ 7 p.m.  PRICE : $5 suggested donation (3 cans of food = 1 free cocktail!) DESCRIPTION : The Big House on Ponce proudly hosts ROAMtransmissions and Vouched books for a genre-fusing post-apocalyptic listening experience. This literary/sound installation will feature original works and recordings from eight different authors and will be played at The Big House’s backyard theater, which will be converted into a nuclear stronghold. Listeners will commune with fellow survivors as our readers’ pre-recorded and sonically enhanced performances are broadcast on continuous loops like a series of avant garde PSA’s. The airing will take place on Sunday, November 23, 2014 and will commence at 7 p.m. Those familiar with Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds broadcast or Cormac McCarthy’s The Road or Mad Max will know exactly what we’re going for. There will be radioactive cocktails and non-perishable noshables to complement the postapocalyptic ambience. Come usher in the end of the world and celebrate the debut of ROAM’s final release of 2014! Our literary/sound installation will also double as a canned food drive to help those in need during the holiday season. CONTRIBUTORS :  Alexis Pope: (Brooklyn, NY) Alexis Pope is the author of Soft Threat (Coconut Books, 2014) which was selected for the Cargill First Book Prize, as well as three chapbooks. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Washington Square, Guernica, No Dear, Octopus, and Forklift Ohio, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, is involved with Belladonna* Collaborative, and edits for ILK Journal. Tyler Gobble: (Austin, TX) Tyler Gobble's first poetry collection, More Wreck More Wreck, will be out from Coconut Books in the Fall of 2014. He is an Indiana man living in Austin, Texas. More at www.tylergobble.com. Mike Young: (Northhampton, MA) Mike Young is the author of Look! Look! Feathers (stories), We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough (poems), and Sprezzatura (poems again). He edits NOÖ Journal and runs Magic Helicopter Press. Brian Oliu: (Tuscaloosa, AL) is originally from New Jersey & has taught at the University of Alabama since receiving his M.F.A. in 2009. He has a B.A. in English from Loyola University-Maryland & was the recipient of the Buford Boone Fellowship during his time at Alabama. His work has been anthologized in Best Creative Nonfiction Volume 2, 30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction, & has been twice selected as a Notable Essay in the Best American Essays series. Devin Brown: (Atlanta, GA) Devin Brown is a multimedia and performance artist. He directs the cave art collective Speleogen (www.speleogen.com), works on the audiozine ROAM (http://roamtransmissions.tumblr.com/), and is the human metronome for the experimental music outfit BOATING (www.boatingwithboating.com).  Laura Relyea: (Atlanta, GA) Laura Relyea is the author of All Glitter, Everything which will be republished by Deer Bear Wolf Spring 2015. Her work has appeared in Coconut Poetry, Everyday Genius, Monkey Bicycle and elsewhere. RESOURCES :  ROAM (http://roamtransmissions.tumblr.com/) Vouched Books (http://www.vouchedbooks.com/) Big House on Ponce (http://bighouseonponce.com/)