What's Happening

Up-coming Events :

The Vagina Monologues. Open reading

Friday March 19th 7:30 pm
We will share an informal reading of these powerful monologues. Come ready to read or just listen.

Please invite other women to this really is a powerful experience.

Dress up and Drawing with Thea Kovac

Postponed check back for next date. 

Life drawing and friends.   All skill levels welcome.  Great for professional artist to brush up on skills, fun for amateur to see what you can do, no pressure, only fun, beauty and friendship.  For women only.  We'll dress up our model and ourselves...and draw!   Thea will lead us through warm-up exercises and longer studies that help us respond to the costumed model with our own inventive lines and smudges. Join us for a quiet and creative evening of make-believe and making marks. Open to all levels of experience

Please bring your own art supplies, including paper or other drawing surface (and drawing board if you have one). NO ink or paint. Also feel free to bring favorite pieces to add to the costume elements provided.  Suggest you bring a camera too!

If you are interested in organizing an event of film screening contact us! 

Power Down Week

June 21-27th

The Pink House Studio is going to join Transition Milwaukee and other neighborhood groups and businesses individuals in week of going off grid and powering gown, Join us for cheap and free movement classes, outdoor solar showers, generator building, gardening, bike riding and more.  The best Staycation you will ever have!   

Art Work on Our Walls :

Tess Kenny


Past Events:

Three Eightive.

Saturday Feb. 27th 6-8 pm $20 or 2 for 35

Get ready to move and enjoy your body in this Workshop, Three Eightive is the collaboration of Michelle L. Hatfield and George D. Jones' diverse backgrounds in music, movement, poetry, visual art and theater. Their focus is to release participants from stress, inhibition and attachments through intuitive approaches to breathing, rhythm, energy listening, and movement. They are inspired by the mystics Hazrat Inayat Khan who said "Our mind governs the body; our mind should have every muscle, each atom of the body, under its command," and George Clinton who sang, "Free yo mind and yo ass will follow." An integral part of their workshops and performances is cultivating community through ritual and personal connections that celebrate the human spirit. Three Eightive honors spirituality from many regions of the world.

 

Go With the Flow.

 Dec 4th 7:00-10:00pm Dirty talk about clean living.  A workshop and party for woman only.  We will share hints and info about how to reclaim taking care of ourselves our bodies and our families sustainable.  From the start of our cycles, babies, potty training and beyond!!  games, snacks, drinks, dancing, talk and fun......

$5-10 donation for Transition Milwaukee and the Pink House Studio.  ( No one turned away for lack of funds.) 

Benefit for the Dialogue

International Healing Arts.

Saturday November 7th 7:00 pm 
Story telling, oral arts and open mic
DIHA creates opportunities for artists living with mental illness to succeed.   This is a new group but we have been really impressed with their talent and creativity.  come enjoy and support!

Kirtan with Kaita,  Wonderful communal call-and-response chanting in India's devotional traditions with inspiring mantras. 

Story Telling Nights share or just to listen. 

Sept 18th Poetry and performance night with Scott Zieher

Performance and music by Xav and Chuck
Poetry by Nick Cipollone, Kent Mueller, Joe Smith and Scott Zieher
Performance by Johhny Angel

Labor day Parade. The Pink House enjoyed being part of the ALL CITY PARADE now part of th Labor day Parade doing the "YES We CAN CAn" with Susanne Carter and other dancers. http://www.milwaukeepublictheatre.org/

Friday August 7th

The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen  a new play by The Missoula Oblongata
       Pink House Studios, Darling Hall, and Insurgent Theater welcomed

       The Missoula Oblongata fourth full-scale touring production, The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen. As always, the company has created their own homemade lighting system—run from the stage by the performers, as well as an interactive set made of junk, and an original score played live by the composers-turned-actors.

        The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen takes place just after the Treaty of Versailles. A veteran who is genetically predisposed to cowardice searches for his brother from whom he’s received a mysterious letter. When the veteran comes upon the town from whence the letter came, he finds that his brother (and the rest of the town) have been caught in a dance mania—a hysterical mass tarantism. With no one else around, the veteran befriends a spider—likely the one who is responsible for the tarantism, and together, they go up against the town doctor who believes that breakfast (and everything ordinary, for that matter) is beneath love.
       Missoula Oblongata's 2 month tour with this show includes performances at Artscape (Baltimore), Whartscape (Baltimore), Bread & Puppet Theatre (Vermont), Bedlam Theatre (Minneapolis), Idiom Theatre (Bellingham, WA) and a 2 week run at the Ontological-Hysteric theatre in New York.

Contact: Ben Turk
Phone: 414 305 9832
Email: insurgent.ben@gmail.com

Riverwest 24- hour Bike Race July 25th 2009 the Pink House participated in by being bonus laps with massage circles, stretches for bikers and painting on the sidewalk about the Transition movement.  participants came in tired and exhausted (some whining) and left happy and thankful.  Transition Milwaukee

Salsa on Sunday, July 26th Leilani Ray, our salsa teacher, will be offering a free class with a live drummer form 3-4pm in Garden Park as the farmers market winds down. She will have more Salsa classes at the Pink House in the fall.  Leilani Ray is offering Salsa Classes for couples and private parties!  steps, moves, Leilani makes Salsa easy and fun.  this is a great way to spice up a party, or a ladies night out.  Couples enjoy enjoy learning to move together and finding your rhythm  

email Leilani

Movement in the Park at Garden Park, (800 east block) behind the farmers market tents. June 14th and 28th

8:30 and 10:00 am: 25 min. introductions to" Perfectly Painless Planting"  - a part of Your Gardening Body, and including a few of Claire's movement coaching concepts.

9:00am: 30 min. Mixed level Pilates and body awareness.

(All is subject to change secondary to weather conditions.)

Bush Bash:

Darling Hall benefit and celebrate the end of the Bush Years!

There will singing, dancing, skits, poems, freaking out and a Pinata that looks like....?
Jan. 17th 2009
Jennifer Morales
Allegra Wakest
Sarah Moore
Tommy Littmann
Jahmes Tony Finlayson
and others

Pinata By Michael Pettit
DANCE PARTY with DJ Paul Finger!

Art opening-Nature, Bodies and Imagination.
Continued from Nov 19th - We showed Claire's beautiful art work along with guest Tess Kenny. Water colors, collages and mixed media works ranging from purely ornamental to anatomical figures. a delight of color, texture and craft. The Riverwest Art Walk was a great way to spend the day.

Greenfolks Garden Seed Exchange and potluck, to benefit MUG.

Saturday March 21 2009

Art Opening- April 13th, Figure and Concept- featuring the more complete work of Tess Kenny, multi media painting mixed with verse.


Earth Day Neighborhood Clean-up
. April 19th, We had about 20 people come support the Green Folks Garden, the PHS, and clean up the remnants of winter trash that was cluttering our streets in a 2-3 block radius. We fill up multiple garbage bags!


Your Gardening Body workshop- We explored concepts of body awareness that can be applied directly when we are in the garden so we can "garden until we are 100," without pain.

Intro to Salsa Night - We were introduced to Latin dance be a most skilled instructor- Lielani Ray. She knows how to present movements with rhythms in a simple and straightforward way that was great for the novice "wannabe" dancer in all of us. We had loads of fun. She is now teaching ongoing. ( please see sched. for details.)

We co-sponsored a Natural Dying Workshop in Green Folks Garden. It was wonderful to watch the color from rose hips, coffee, and indigo, change the surface to make unusual patterns. A wonderfully creative process.

The first ever Riverwest's Solo District.  happened on may 31st. A cross between an art walk and a pub crawl this family friendly event, participants received a treasure maps, and walked the Pirate Scavenger Hunt collecting items at said locations, and collecting cards for the Poker Run. Created to help promote the businesses in our area, we all had a chance to demonstrate our skills, and raffle out prizes. The Pink House dressed as sirens , beckoning wayward sailors for treats, sample massages, Salsa and smiles. They could collect custom designed poker cards, for a price.  All participants were invited to the meet to dance at Club Timbuktu. The best hand won a special prize. We celebrated heartily. The Pink House is looking forward to next years event being a bigger and better event.

     The Pink House has been getting in shape too! Our Facade Improvements are almost complete:  painting (Thanks to John Fleese) new energy e-windows last fall, new railings from Badger Rail.  Jason Ross Masonry did an awesome job for us too.  Thanks also to the city of Milwaukee for helping us do this!!  Next time you come by look at how beautiful we have become!

Here is the pink house before :

and after !!