Ilya's at PEEPSHOW Saturday Night 10pm!

P E E P S H O W : A Secret Worth Keeping?
P E E P S H O W : A Secret Worth Keeping...
P E E P S H O W : A Secret Worth Keeping!


On Saturday, February 21, chase those winter blues away and come to PEEPSHOW: A Secret Worth Keeping, Squeaky Wheel’s largest art happening of the year!


Hosted by DNIPRO, Buffalo's legendary and beautiful Cultural Ukrainian Center on 562 Genesee Street, this art party and fundraiser features two floors of live music, dancing, cutting edge art installations, performances, a silent art auction with art from some of the best artists from this region, a video screening room, and last but not least, an AMAZING selection of beer!


This year’s PEEPSHOW includes installations from over thirty accomplished artists from New York City, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Baltimore, Columbus, Alfred and Buffalo, working in various forms of inter-disciplinary performance, large-scale art projections, sculpture, interactive 3-d video installation, media art and MORE!


The evening’s long list of entertainment will be kicked off by the music of The Skiffle Minstrels, an Artvoice award-winner as Buffalo’s Favorite Band. The other two musical acts feature Kendall, Buffalo’s sexiest “Big Gay Bear”/hip-hop extraodinaire with an often shocking and flamboyant sense of humor, and Bev-Beverly – a one-woman hip-notic electronic dance musician who will be performing with her own personal Hula Hoop Dancer, H^3.


Performances throughout the evening will include Ilya’s Belly Dance Troupe, who will also give a free onstage Belly Dancing Lesson for audience members, an exclusive Drag Show featuring Drag Queen’s from Club Marcella’s, and of course, a sexy and comical performance by Buffalo’s own burlesque troupe The Stripteasers!


At PEEPSHOW :: come see new media installation work from Alfred University Graduate students Jason Berganozzi & Colleen Keough, a large-scale Peepshow by Victoria Bradbury, and a live-monologue performance compiled from old romantic comedies performed by Kyle Butler :: participate in a secret-exchange involving typewriters and envelopes by Aimee Buyea, or interact with interactive media installations by Josephine Anstey & David Pape :: be wow-ed by a giant colorful projections of Lukia Costello’s “Analogue Flowers in a Digital Age” and mystical-sexy projections by Bernice Cross :: join the SECRET-SECRET COLLECTIVE and make your own “Post-Secret” style secret with Jax Deluca & Tristan Trump :: find out how you and your lover react during an installation by Jackie Farris :: enjoy a giant man-made prism rainbow by Jody Hanson :: watch as Frederick Wright Jones does a sculpture performance with clay and tar :: peer through hand-crafted stereoscope viewers by Richard Kegler :: watch Kerri Keiser screen potential online dates :: reminisce of Jennifer Steinkamp’s exhibition at the Albright-Knox as you step into a gigantic colorful ellipse powered by three-projectors on motors that outline and block the shape of your body in different colors by Amanda Long :: contemplate your beer selection to the playful solo marimba music of Mark Maynor :: discover the sense of touch through Tammy McGovern & Steven Ansell’s interactive media installation :: find yourself chuckling at the ingenious bathroom installation Flush 2k9 by Sherri Miller :: dance along to large-scale dueling projections by Rebekkah Palov :: peep through Mili Pradhan’s small-scale surveillance camera installation, discover the virtual world through a giant interactive media installation by Alan Price, grab a free brochure and comic book commenting on capitalism by Garret Vorreuter :: get a sexy Polaroid picture at Nunzia’s Boudoir Secrets Photo Boutique with Nancy Parisi :: be mesmerized by a sensual and chaotic installation by Scott Ries :: jump around in front of the stage and turn yourself into a fun-house image at Timothy Scaffidi’s interactive video installation :: take a journey through Gary Sczerbaniewicz’s long-tunnel that ends in a video surprise :: get excited by a hot-pink Neon Stocking sculpture by Christine Serchia, and not to mention, experience an exclusive screening chock full of videos and films from artists all over the world!


Proceeds from this fantastic and jam-packed event will benefit Squeaky Wheel, a non-profit art-organization that offers many media arts programs that are beneficial to people of all ages in the community!


Tickets ($12 pre-sale/$15 at the door) are available at Squeaky Wheel, Rust Belt Books, Talking Leaves, Positively Main Street, and also online at www.squeaky.org.


PEEPSHOW 09 is proudly co-sponsored by 88.7 WBFO public radio, Hurwitz and Fine, Hodgson Russ, The Experimental Television Center, Wnymedia.net, Buffalo Rising, and Buffalo Spree.