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WOW Café Theater's 25th Anniversary Party!
 Monday, June 19, 2006!
Theater for the New City is the venue, 8pm through 11pm
Admission is $20 suggested, no one turned away. Cash only at the door.

Theater for the New City is at 155 First Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets.

 hosted by:

Dierdra Boddie-Henderson >
&
< Sharon Jane Smith
Dierdra Boddie-Henderson

25 years ago 36 shows from 8 countries were performed over the course of 11 days. What began as an international women's theater festival grew to what is now a year-round festival of performance by women and transpeople in NYC's East Village. 

Lisa Kron
^ Lisa Kron
On Monday, June 19th at 8:00 PM, WOW Café Theater will celebrate its 25th Anniversary with a  celebratory gathering and an evening of performance at Theater for the New City (155 1st Avenue between 9th and
10th Avenues).
Hanifah Walidah
^ Hanifah Walidah

Exciting and innovative artists from WOW's past and present will take five minutes each to perform original work celebrating WOW Café Theater and its commitment to empowerment through the performing arts.
Holly Hughes
^ Holly Hughes
Performers include Holly Hughes, Lisa Kron, Terry Dame, Hanifah Walidah,
Dierdra Boddie-Henderson, Ira Jeffries, Susana Cook, Diyaa, and more women onstage
than you've seen in years! 
Susana Cook
^ Susana Cook
 Bring a full wallet!  There will be a bar and a silent auction with items
such as restaurant, store, and bodywork gift certificates.
Ira Jeffries
^ Ira Jeffries
WOW Café Theater is a women's and transpeople's collective in NYC's East
Village that provides a working theater space to its members, as well as the technical support to create and produce work. 
Terry Dame
^ Terry Dame
WOW has served as an incubator for such innovative performers as Holly Hughes, Split Britches, Carmelita Tropicana and the Five Lesbian Brothers. Diyaa
^ Diyaa, formerly known as Dred

It grants producing time to artists according to their level of activity as collective members, and collects a percentage of ticket sales in lieu of rent. This makes the space accessible and affordable for experimental work or for producing artists just beginning to develop an audience.


WOW Café Theater is the city's only collectively run theater committed to
women and trans artists.  Now in its 25th year, WOW serves as a platform for
performing artists at all career levels and in all disciplines in producing
their own work. Its flexible, collective governance structure allows the
organization to respond to the artistic and production needs of its members,
ensuring that the work presented by WOW is always on the cutting edge of
contemporary performance.

Last year, WOW launched its first large-scale fundraising effort, a capital
campaign to help us buy our theater. In October, 2005 the City of New York
sold us our building for $1, with the caveat that each tenant raise the
funds to renovate the building. WOW's share of renovation costs is $125,000.
So far we have raised over $90,000!  We've still got a ways to go.  Your
attendance at our 25 year celebration will bring us closer to raising our
renovation costs.