Performance and Benefit for DiverseWorks ArtSpace
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
8:30pm
DiverseWorks is pleased to present John Waters in his one-man show, This Filthy World: Filthier and Dirtier. This one-night-only benefit event replaces DiverseWorks’ traditional spring gala and provides crucial support for our visual and performing arts programming. A cocktail reception with Waters follows the performance.
John Waters’ one-man show is a “vaudeville” act that celebrates the film career and obsessional tastes of the man William Burroughs once called “The Pope of Trash.” Focusing in on Waters’ early negative artistic influences and his fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy, and the extremes of the contemporary art world, this joyously devious monologue elevates all that is trashy in life into a call to arms to “filth followers” everywhere.
EVENT INFORMATION:
This exclusive event takes place in DiverseWorks’ intimate 97-seat theater. With so few seats, sponsorships and individual tickets to this performance are limited. Sponsorships include additional benefits such as dinner with Waters, VIP seating, and more. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of This Filthy World: Filthier and Dirtier, please contact Executive Director Elizabeth Dunbar at call 713-223-8346.
Individual tickets to the performance and cocktail reception are on sale at a price of $250 each. Please contact Megan Batson, Development Assistant, at 713-223-8346 if you would like to purchase tickets.
DIVINE DONOR: $10,000
- 4 VIP seats at performance
- 4 invitations to private dinner with John Waters before the show
- 4 invitations to cocktail reception with John Waters after the show
- 2 autographed copies of Role Models by John Waters (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)
- 2 autographed copies of John Waters: This Filthy World DVD
- Sponsor recognition on invitation, interior signage & website
- Sponsor recognition in all promotional materials
MONDO MANIAC MAVEN: $5,000
- 4 VIP seats at performance
- 4 invitations to private dinner with John Waters before the show
- 4 invitations to cocktail reception with John Waters after the show
- 2 autographed copies of John Waters: This Filthy World DVD
- Sponsor recognition on invitation, interior signage & website
- Sponsor recognition in all promotional materials
SERIAL SUPPORTER: $2,500
- 2 reserved seats at performance
- 2 invitations to private dinner with John Waters before the show
- 2 invitations to cocktail reception with John Waters after the show
- Sponsor recognition on invitation, interior signage & website
- Sponsor recognition in all promotional materials
Host Committee: Bill Arning & Mark McCray, William Betts, Lynn Goode & Harrison Williams, George Lancaster, Michael Landrum & Pepper Paratore, Marshal & Victoria Lightman, Don Mafrige, Jr., Tim Moloney, Marilyn Oshman, Judith & Robert Pringle
This Filthy World: Filthier and Dirtier is sponsored by William Betts, McClain Gallery, Nina & Michael Zilkha, Bill Arning & Mark McCray, Gensler, Kellye Sanford & Fritz Lanham, Mike Loya, and Lynn Goode.
In addition to his performance at DiverseWorks, John Waters will be in town to celebrate his first solo exhibition in Houston at McClain Gallery on March 15-April 14, 2012. In this exhibition, Waters’ cinematic sensibility and most provocative themes–including race, sex, gender, consumerism, and religion–are transposed into photographs, montages and sculptures. McClain Gallery is located at 2242 Richmond Ave., Houston, TX, 77098. For more information on the exhibition at McClain Gallery, please contact Erin Siudzinkski at erin@mcclaingallery.com or call 713-520-9955.
Image courtesy of Greg Gorman