NOTS 21 "The Wild Heart" Announced for May 2011

THE JACKIE FACTORY NYC PRESENTS
NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STEVIES 21:
THE WILD HEART
FRIDAY MAY 6, 2011
THE HIGHLINE BALLROOM NYC
431 WEST 16TH STREET NYC
DOORS OPEN 9 PM - 4 AM
ADVANCE TICKETS ON SALE JANUARY 15
$20 TILL FEBRUARY 6, $25 THEREAFTER
18 AND OVER, 21 TO DRINK
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Greetings from snowed-in New York City to all of the Enchanted Gypsies, our friends and club family, and all who have joined us since last year's NIGHT OF 1000 STEVIES. We are delighted to announce the date and theme for our 21st annual NIGHT OF 1000 STEVIES, back for the fourth year at THE HIGHLINE BALLROOM in New York City. NOTS 21: THE WILD HEART will be held on Friday, May 6, 2011 and tickets will go on sale on January 15.

This year's lovestruck, Victorian heart-flavored edition is inspired by one of Stevie's early albums - THE WILD HEART - and its title song. The NOTS 21 stage will feature Legends of Stevie Realness from all eras of the show AND brand new talent as we begin our third decade of Total Stevie (Nicks) Realness. Right after New Year's The Jackie Factory will begin assembling the bill and reviewing applications from new performers. If you would like to apply for one of our six new performer's slots for 2011, please email us at events @ jackiefactory.com and we will send you instructions beginning January 3. We will be reviewing submissions through March 1, and will be notifying all new performer applicants during the first week of March.

Our next missive will have lots more details, including first confirmed performers, more about the theme and suggested dress, and box office information. We wanted to get the date out early so you can begin to make plans, and will be back in touch before the box office opens. As always we thank you for your tremendous love and support, and look forward to seeing so many of you on May 6.

Hopelessly Enchanted ... Blame it on our Wild Hearts-

Chi Chi Valenti, Johnny Dynell and Hattie Hathaway
Producers, Night of 1000 Stevies
The Jackie Factory NYC

LOTS MORE NOTS

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NIGHT OF 1000 STEVIES is the best-known STEVIE NICKS fan event in the world, a riot of shawls, lace, baby's breath, twirling, tambourines and great performance. This event began at JACKIE 60 in 1991 with four performers, and has grown into a true spectacle, featuring countless interpretations over a marathon night. In 2010, the twentieth edition of NOTS won the coveted GLAMMY AWARD for BEST NIGHTLIFE EVENT - it also inspired the 2001 film GYPSY 83. As always, this Enchanted evening will climax in a twirl of shawls and tambourines with the Battle of a Thousand Stevies near morning.

Photo: BROOKE MCMAHAN onstage at NOTS 20, photo by KEVIN TACHMAN

Click + Drag 2010 Announced - Age of Aquarius

SATURDAY OCTOBER 9, 2010
CLICK + DRAG 3.2/ AGE OF AQUARIUS
SANTOS PARTY HOUSE
96 LAFAYETTE STREET NYC
10 PM-4 AM
$20 ADVANCE, $25 AT DOOR (CASH ONLY AT DOOR)
ADVANCE TICKETS ON SALE 9/7
21 AND OVER, I.D. REQUIRED
CLICKNYC.COM

The pioneering "Cyber/Fetish/Gender-Hacking" party CLICK + DRAG, which ushered out the 20th Century in style and was reborn in 2008, announces its third annual Future-Spectacle for October 9. Two of Click's founding producers - director and visual artist ROB ROTH and nightlife impresario CHI CHI VALENTI of THE JACKIE FACTORY will stage this year's epic CLICK + DRAG 3.2/ AGE OF AQUARIUS at the suitably Aquarian venue SANTOS PARTY HOUSE. CLICK 3.2/ AGE OF AQUARIUS is a two floor, evening-length epic, preserving the night's strict dress code, elaborate installations and stage shows, and pansexual mix of fetishists, artists, gender-hackers and "Glam Nerds."

The Age of Aquarius - the Utopian "New Age" of unity and love - has either begun or is beginning, depending on which astrological sages one believes. Regardless, the Aquarian themes of humanism, peace, rebellion, idealism and philanthropy are already ascending, by way of computer networks and other new tools and in the growing acceptance of non-traditional religions and belief systems. As the brutal, materialistic Age of Pisces draws to an end, values shift towards spiritual rebirth and planetary harmony. To the CLICK + DRAG producers, the Aquarian ideal compliments the neo-tribalism of many Click participants and the mixing of masculine and feminine traits into countless unique new genders, a recurring theme of this spectacular "gathering of the tribes".

With this Utopian brew as inspiration, CLICK + DRAG 3.2 will feature multimedia works directed by ROB ROTH with light shows by SETH KIRBY and BROCK MONROE of the JOSHUA LIGHT SHOW and the contributions of dozens of creative collaborators. Highlights will include performances by neo-burlesque performance artist NARCISSISTER, RUMI OF THE FABULOUS COCKETTES!, vocal she-goddesses AMBER MARTIN and LADY RIZO, neue cabaret troupe THE PIXIE HARLOTS, and Method Go-Go icons including bodybuilder (and Click 3.2 cover girl) ROXANNE EDWARDS and costume cultist FALON. The evening also features costume design by longtime Click couturier GARO SPARO and a futuristic soundtrack that runs the gamut from sixties psychedelia to electro house.

A STRICT CYBER/FETISH/TRIBAL DRESS CODE WILL BE COMPLETELY ENFORCED: WEAR AQUARIAN FLOURISHES, GLITTER BEARDS AND MERKINS, RESPLENDENT RAGS, PAGAN CHIC, WATERFALL HEADDRESSES, TURQUOISE PAINT, GODDESS OR TRANS-GODDESS, BODY-ADORNED or CYBER, FETISH, TRIBAL, GENDER-HACKING, FAERIE, GOTHIC OR BRILLIANT BLACK. ABSOLUTELY NO STREET CLOTHES OR MUNDANES - NO EXCEPTIONS.

CLICK + DRAG began as the Saturday-night weekly at CHI CHI VALENTI's experimental MOTHER nightclub in 1996 and ran for four years in over 200 themed editions. The new hybrid was evolved by Roth, Valenti, fashion designer KITTY BOOTS and journalist ABBY EHMANN and explored the interface between nightclubs and computers as CLICK + DRAG built a fanatic following. When MOTHER closed in 2000, they launched CLICK + DRAG 2.0, a monthly edition at Chinatown's FUN, which thrived until the events of 9/11/01. CLICK + DRAG 3.0 introduced its new annual format at a 2008 reboot at SANTOS, and followed up with last year's stunning CLICK + DRAG 3.1. Both editions brought out five hundred or more enthusiastic attendees in extraordinary costume, and were widely documented online. Do NOT miss the once-a-year chance to participate in this completely unique New York club spectacle.

Press contact CHI CHI VALENTI at THE JACKIE FACTORY NYC -
events @ jackiefactory.com or facebook.com/chichivalenti

Image: CLICK 3.2 Invite, photo and design, ROB ROTH, models ROXANNE EDWARDS (center) with NICHOLAS GORHAM (left) and EUGENE SOLDATOV. Costumes by GARO SPARO, Makeup by MARLA BELT.

Beat Generation Ladies, Get Ready to HOWL!

LOW LIFE 4 performer AMBER RAY as THE BEAT GIRL, photo by ALEX COLBY

HOWL! FESTIVAL AND THE JACKIE FACTORY PRESENT
LOW LIFE 4: BEAT GIRL
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
5-7 PM - WE START AND END ON TIME!
FREE ADMISSION
TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, NYC
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On September 12, JACKIE FACTORY producers CHI CHI VALENTI and JOHNNY DYNELL will present their fourth annual LOW LIFE to crown the 2010 HOWL! FESTIVAL. LOW LIFE is the free and fabulous Sunday evening climax to HOWL! - a two hour spectacular inspired by East Village decades past. Each year's theme is served up in a lavishly costumed production starring dozens of downtown's finest. This year's LOW LIFE 4: BEAT GIRL pays homage to homegrown fifties beatnik culture and the BOWERY BEATS - the rebel painters, poets and performers drifting east from Greenwich Village. The show also sheds light on the Women of the Beat Generation, often overlooked, and their influence on 50's Burlesque.

The BEAT theme of LOW LIFE 4 will be interpreted by multiple dance companies, in vocal and musical performances, burlesque and drag renderings and of course - spoken word! The bill includes international drag icons JOEY ARIAS and SHERRY VINE, Burlesque Queen DIRTY MARTINI and Boylesque King TIGGER, butoh company VANGELINE THEATER, spoken word icons PAUL SKIFF and BOBBY MILLER, sensationalist AMBER RAY, chanteuse HEATHER LITTEER and the Low Life debuts of BROWN GIRLS BURLESQUE and the RACHEL KLEIN THEATER. As in years past, LOW LIFE features two MCs - recording artist PAUL ALEXANDER (of THE ONES and JACKIE 60) with EMPRESS CHI CHI VALENTI, the show's co-producer.

Dress Up And Join Us In The Park! Wear Beat Girl Glamour, Beatnik Cliches, Bettie Page Boho, Angelheaded Hipster, Black Tights, Abstract Expressionist Bodypaint, Berets, Beat Burlesque (North Beach vs. Left Bank), Existential Trannie, Rivington Street Refusenik or Art School Effects. Carry Sunflowers or BYOB (Bring Your Own Bongos)

LOW LIFE events were inspired by the seminal LUC SANTE book "LOW LIFE: The Lures and Snares of Old New York" and are produced by local performance collective THE JACKIE FACTORY NYC. The annual LOW LIFE extravaganzas at HOWL! continue a body of work born at the seminal Meat Market nightclub JACKIE 60 in 1997, with past editions in London, Minneapolis and of course, the HOWL! FESTIVAL since 2007. For the show's producers, East Village residents for over two decades, this annual spectacular is a Valentine to the neighborhood's past, present and future stars.

THE HOWL! FESTIVAL was named in honor of the groundbreaking poem by ALLEN GINSBERG and began in 2003. HOWL celebrates the East Village and Lower East Side's role as a preeminent locus of culture, with signature events like the group reading of HOWL and ART AROUND THE PARK. Centered in Tompkins Square Park, the festival attracts more than 100,000 visitors to the clubs, galleries, parks, streets, and theaters of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Summer 2009 marked the addition of HOWL! HELP, a year-round emergency assistance and health fund for East Village/ Loisaida artists of all eras and disciplines - visit the howlfestival.com website for more information. The 2010 festival runs for the whole month of September in venues including THEATRE 80 ST. MARKS, BOWERY POETRY CLUB, ELLA, BOWERY ELECTRIC and ST. MARKS CHURCH.

THE JACKIE FACTORY is the NYC based nightclub arts collective founded by husband and wife team CHI CHI VALENTI and JOHNNY DYNELL in 1990. Most famous for the 450 themed editions of its decade-long party JACKIE 60, venue MOTHER, and annual Stevie Nicks extravaganza NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STEVIES, "the Factory" also creates large-scale spectacles in New York and cities nationwide and worldwide.

Night of 1000 Stevies, Just A Month Away!

Greetings, Enchanted Gypsies and Stevie Nicks devotees-

Hard to believe that this week marks the one-month countdown to our 20th Anniversary edition SISTERS OF THE MOON on May 14. Like many of you, we are on the quest for the perfect shawl(s), tambourine and blonde tresses for this year's NIGHT - but isn't the trying on of so many costume choices part of the fun of NOTS? (Scroll down for this year's costume suggestions if you need them..) Another highlight for us is seeing the many performers and audience members who travel in every year from so many countries and cities just to twirl with us on The Night. We salute them and all they sacrifice to be there, and CAN'T WAIT to spend another epic NIGHT OF 1000 STEVIES with you!

- Chi Chi Valenti, Hattie Hathaway and Johnny Dynell
NOTS Producers

THE JACKIE FACTORY NYC PRESENTS
NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STEVIES 20:
SISTERS OF THE MOON
FRIDAY MAY 14, 2010
THE HIGHLINE BALLROOM NYC
431 WEST 16TH STREET NYC
DOORS OPEN 9 PM - 4 AM
$25 IN ADVANCE + AT DOOR IF AVAILABLE
BOX OFFICE
18 AND OVER, 21 TO DRINK
NOTS WEBSITE
NOTS ON FACEBOOK

THE JACKIE FACTORY is thrilled to announce that their 20th annual edition NOTS 20 will be held on May 14, 2010 at the HIGHLINE BALLROOM in NYC. This year's moonlit, milestone edition was inspired by one of Stevie's most enduring and iconic songs, SISTERS OF THE MOON. Though Stevie has not performed this song much of late, it has remained a showpiece and staple of some of NOTS most thrilling performers past and present. Expect a midnight sky lit up by La Nicks' most enduring archetypes and images, including the Nightbird, The Welsh Witch and The Moon Goddess.

This year's bill features Legends of Stevie Realness from all eras of the show, and honors them all, our Sisters (and Brothers) of the Moon.

"Enchantresses of Ceremony" CHI CHI VALENTI and HATTIE HATHAWAY will introduce this staggering cast: Returning performers are BELLADONNA (CALIFORNIA), SHERRY VINE, JUSTIN BOND, THE HO-HOS, GYPSY WILDE, JAZMEN FLOWERS (MISSISSIPI), SWEETIE, ADAM DUGAS, AMBER MARTIN & MIA THEODORATUS, HEATHER LITTEER, CHARLENE CORAN (COLORADO), ST. EVE, BILLY O, POISON EVE, ADAM JOSEPH, THE DIVINE GRACE, VELOCITY CHYALDD, BELLA LUNA, JONNY TINGLE, BROOKE MCMAHAN (FLORIDA), VANGELINE THEATER, DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA, MACHINE DAZZLE, PAIGE STEVENSON and AMBER RAY.

This year's new performers and ensembles were selected from forty-odd applicants. We are thrilled to welcome JULIE MYERS aka NEARLY NICKS (CANADA) who performs Stevie in varied venues from Las Vegas to Toronto, THE PEARL DANDY (UK) a British Asian singer-songwriter from East London, and hometown Dragstar GUSTY WINDS. Also making her NOTS debut this year is the director/choreographer RACHEL KLEIN, who will create the opening number with her theater company RACHEL KLEIN PRODUCTIONS. Our all-Stevie, all-Fleetwood DJs are the much-loved CRAIG SPENCER and POISON EVE, with a set by NOTS co-producer JOHNNY DYNELL, who has created many of our special show mixes through the years.

Suggested Dress: Moon Goddess, Enchanted Eveningwear, Black Widow Spider Effects, Beribboned and Bedecked Tambourines, Wiccan Glamour, Wrapped in Velvet, Important Platform Boots, White Winged Dove After Midnight, Moonstones and Moon Motifs, Lindsey Or John McVie Pagan Menswear, Black Robes Trailing, Silver Threaded Shawls, Cloaks and Cokespoons or Your Personal Best Stevie Nicks Realness, All Eras.

Announcing Night of 1000 Stevies 20: Sisters of the Moon

THE JACKIE FACTORY NYC PRESENTS
NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STEVIES 20:
SISTERS OF THE MOON
FRIDAY MAY 14, 2010
THE HIGHLINE BALLROOM NYC
431 WEST 16TH STREET NYC
DOORS OPEN 9 PM - 4 AM
ADVANCE TICKETS ON SALE LATE JANUARY
$20 TILL FEBRUARY 15, $25 THEREAFTER
18 AND OVER, 21 TO DRINK
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Greetings from snowy downtown New York City to all of our friends and club family, and all who have joined us since last year's NIGHT OF 1000 STEVIES. We are overjoyed to announce the date and theme for our twentieth annual NIGHT OF 1000 STEVIES - it is an anniversary that so many of you have helped make possible by your enthusiasm and great support. We are delighted to be returning for our third year to the THE HIGHLINE BALLROOM, truly a most Enchanted venue for this marathon show. NOTS 20: SISTERS OF THE MOON will be held on Friday, May 14, and tickets will go on sale later this month.

This year's moonlit, milestone edition was inspired by one of Stevie's most enduring and iconic songs, SISTERS OF THE MOON. Though Stevie has not performed this song much of late, it has remained a showpiece and staple of some of NOTS most thrilling performers, from NICOLE NICKS during the JACKIE 60 days right through to POISON EVE and troupe last year. This year's bill will include Legends of Stevie Realness from all eras of the show, and honors them all, who come from all over the country and go through so much to join us, our Sisters of the Moon.


We will now begin assembling the bill for this moonlit milestone edition, with first priority given to Legends of Stevie Realness from the entire history of The Night - those NOTS Legends who are most beloved by our audience, have performed at many editions, or have made NOTS herstory in some way. Of necessity there will be less debuts this year, but we are still passionate about including at least a handful of new performers. If you would like to receive instructions on how to apply, please drop us an email at events@jackiefactory.com. We will be reviewing submissions through March 1, and will be notifying all new performer applicants during the first week of March.

Our next announcement will have lots more details, including first confirmed performers, more about the theme, and box office information. We wanted to get the date out early so you can begin to make plans, and will be back in touch when the box office opens.


Night of a Thousand Stevies is probably the best-known STEVIE NICKS fan event in the world, a riot of shawls, lace, baby's breath, twirling, tambourines and great performance. This event began at JACKIE 60 twenty years ago with four performers, and has grown into a true spectacle, featuring countless interpretations over a marathon night. As always, this Enchanted evening will climax in a twirl of shawls and tambourines with the Battle of a Thousand Stevies near morning.

As we once again prepare for a truly magical night, we are humbled by the tremendous support that you bring to NOTS every year. Special greetings to all of our friends from the Stevie Nicks websites and other online outposts for the Gypsies That Remain. Forward and post freely, and we look forward to twirling with all of you, sisters AND brothers of the moon, on May 14.

And The Love Remains -

Chi Chi Valenti, Hattie Hathaway and Johnny Dynell
Producers, NOTS 20

A Very Jackie Xmas with Duelling Bankheads, Debbie Harry and Alien Probes

This radio version of the beloved JACKIE 60 Christmas Show was the 8th edition, created in 2004 for WPS1 RADIO. This week ART ON AIR is featuring it, and we thought you'd like to take a listen, or download for those long airport layovers to come. Performances by DUELLING BANKHEADS, DEBBIE HARRY, ALBA CLEMENTE, HATTIE HATHAWAY and many more. Includes a posthumous performance by INTERNATIONAL CHRYSIS, cameos by CHI CHI VALENTI, JEANNIE HOPPER and more, and enough toilet jokes to keep your Christmas cheer alive!

CLICK + DRAG's SECOND COMING at Santos Party House 10/17

Our big Fall annual for gender-hackers, fetish dressers and new prophets is coming up in mid-October. Here's all the details on this year's CLICK + DRAG, and if you know this party, you'll want to start your outfit work NOW!

SATURDAY OCTOBER 17, 2009
CLICK + DRAG 3.1/ THE SECOND COMING
SANTOS PARTY HOUSE
96 LAFAYETTE STREET NYC
10 PM-4 AM
$20 ADVANCE, $25 AT DOOR (CASH ONLY AT DOORS)
21 AND OVER, I.D. REQUIRED
CLICKNYC.COM
BOX OFFICE
MORE INFORMATION

"SURELY SOME REVELATION IS AT HAND" - W.B. Yeats, THE SECOND COMING, 1919

The pioneering "Cyber/Fetish/Gender-Hacking" party CLICK + DRAG, which ushered out the 20th Century in style and returned with a bang last year, announces its second annual Future-Spectacle for October 17. Two of Click's founding producers - director and visual artist ROB ROTH and nightlife impresario CHI CHI VALENTI of THE JACKIE FACTORY will stage this year's epic CLICK + DRAG 3.1/ THE SECOND COMING at sympatico venue SANTOS PARTY HOUSE. CLICK 3.1/ THE SECOND COMING is a two floor, evening-length epic, preserving the night's strict dress code and pansexual mix of fetishists, artists, gender-hackers and "Glam Nerds."

CLICK 3.1 was inspired by the W.B. YEATS poem THE SECOND COMING, and its themes of new gods for (often terrifying) new Ages, "Spiritus Mundi" or universal subconscious, and a post-Christian world. CLICK 3.1 celebrates gender-bending new prophets and prophetesses, and the neo-tribalism that borrows elements from a myriad of religions to create new believers and practices. CLICK + DRAG 3.1 will feature multimedia works directed by Roth and installations and performances by dozens of collaborators.

This year's highlights will include trans icon and vocalist OUR LADY J, who presents an electric take on her GOSPEL FOR THE GODLESS with piano, choir and chadri design by GARO SPARO, gender-illuminati cabaret troupe THE PIXIE HARLOTS in THE SWITCHING HOUR, and Method Go-Go icons FALON, AMBER RAY and SEQUINETTE. The DJ roster includes original Click (and SCISSOR SISTERS) DJ SAMMY JO, DJ JOHNNY DYNELL (who also creates the night's signature mixes for the clicknyc.com website and show) Darkwave DJs JOSH CHEON (SF) and JOHANNA CONSTANTINE, and electro DJ ANGELO.

A STRICT CYBER/FETISH/TRIBAL DRESS CODE WILL BE COMPLETELY ENFORCED: WEAR GODDESS OR TRANS-GODDESS, GLAMOUR MARTYR, SPHINX-WEAR, RUBBER NUN, PRIESTESS, SEQUINNED SAINT, CROWN OF THORNS, PAGAN CHIC, SHIVA REALNESS or CYBER, FETISH, TRIBAL, GENDER-HACKING, FAERIE, GOTHIC OR BRILLIANT BLACK. ABSOLUTELY NO STREET CLOTHES OR MUNDANES - NO EXCEPTIONS.

CLICK + DRAG began as the Saturday-night weekly at Valenti's experimental MOTHER nightclub in 1996 and ran for four years in over two hundred themed editions. The new hybrid explored the interface between nightclubs and computers as CLICK + DRAG built a fanatic following. When MOTHER closed in 2000, they launched CLICK + DRAG 2.0, a monthly edition at Chinatown's FUN, which thrived until the events of 9/11/01. CLICK + DRAG 3.0 introduced its new annual format at THE HALLUCINOGENIC TOREADOR, the 2008 reboot at SANTOS, for over five hundred enthusiastic attendees in extraordinary costume. Do NOT miss the once-a-year chance to drink in this completely unique New York club spectacle.

OUR LADY J, the 2009 CLICK + DRAG headliner and cover girl, photo by ROB ROTH