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Extreme Exhibition! Presented by Twenty-Nine Cent Productions (Poster design by Fropac Entertainment)
Check out "Heat Seeker" by Handsome Jack, the official theme song of Extreme Exhibition! 2008
Friday, July 25, 7-9 PM Bon Vivant
Anne Huiner is a poet, actor, and civil rights activist who lives in Buffalo.
Born and raised in the Buffalo art scene, Janna Willoughby creates all kinds of art, mainly specializing in handmade paper and book arts. She has been a finalist in the Nickel City Poetry Slam for the past three years and attended the National Poetry Slam in 2006 as part of the first team from Buffalo to ever compete at nationals. She began playing the guitar, doing poetry slams and playing hiphop music during college at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC. She holds a BA in Integrative Studies: Entrepreneurial Creative Business Arts. She has released a full-length political hiphop CD called My 2 Cents In, and a guitar/singer/songwriter EP called The Man Corrale.
Chris Gullo is a up and coming comedian. He also works as a dj at 91.3 wbny fm. Chris has always wanted to entertain since he was very young and loves enetrtaining through the from of stand-up comedy. Stand-Up comedy is just another form of entertainment that Chris has performed, He has been a DJ, Sports Announcer, and Musician.
Saturday, July 26, Noon-2 PM Lagniappe's
Brent trained himself to be an intermediate classical pianist and an artist as a teenager. After entertaining other interests in college, he got back into music in 2001 when he bought a guitar and tape recorder and began writing songs. In 2002 he decided to build a studio to record his music. He had a vision of one day making big studio productions that incorporated guitars and electronic music. It was then that he began collecting the equipment that makes up his current studio.
Scott Thomas has been perfoming regularly since Halloween 2007 when he emceed a show in downtown Buffalo. A recent graduate of the Paul Slater School of Comedy Writing, Scott has seriously upgraded his comedic talents. Scott's foundation for comedy stems from two things. First of all, Richard Pryor and Robin Williams. "Both comedy legends first appeared on HBO when I was a kid and ever since then I knew that I wanted to perform stand-up one day." Secondly, Scott realized how short and precious life really is, and decided that whatever he wanted to do, he would. "I Made a few changes in my life, including a 180 degree career change from law enforcement to real estate, and now my dream of stand-up comedy." Scott's theme on stage and in life is, "Life's short. Get over it!" Once you're about to cash in your chips you realize what's worth getting uptight about.
Past the years of college, career moves and other life-altering segues, Denise Amodeo Miller began to renew her childhood love of writing in Fall 2006. That's when she joined The Buffalo Writers Meetup Group and soon became their assistant organizer. Thanks to the group's inspirational support she began publishing her work. In three months, her poem "The Richness of Beef" won the Second Place award in Sol Magazine's Winter Contest. In June 2008, "Vittles and Tea" won First Place in the 2008 Gulf Coast Poets Poetry Competition. Her work also appears in the Trees of Surprise Anthology, Empty Shoes: An Anthology of Poems on the Hungry and the Homeless and will soon appear in Nickle City Nights: Erotic Writing in Western New York, and the Just Buffalo Literary Society's 2010 Buffalo Anthology.
Monday, July 28, 7-9 PM Bon Vivant
Jamen is a Christian man born and bred in Buffalo, NY His poetry comes from a place of spiritual empowerment and has allowed him to travel all over Western New York and Southern Ontario. Jamen hopes to reach numerous people with his poetry in his journey in God’s service.
Tyrone has been doing stand-up for a little under a year. He says he does it for the love because frankly the pay sucks. By day Tyrone works an office job in Data Entry, but by night tries to be funny enough to "trick a woman into sleeping with me". "T-Mac" is 32 yrs old, has no children and no felonies, but is considering up drug trafficing 'cause hey, the ladies like a thug.
Saturday, August 2, 4-6 PM Club Diablo
Mr. Hakim started out as a trio mixing various genres of music including raggae, jazz, and jam band influences into the grooves. When they picked up Dave they added the rap genre into the mix and gave their music new life. Mr. Hakim is about bringing new sounds to the people who need it the most.
Ian Belknap loves writing, music, art, and creating in all of its forms. The opportunity to experience other’s perspectives makes for a better world. Period.
Joe was born September 5th, 1981 in Warren Pa, and has been into comedy his whole life. He'd like to be known for having a dark, offensive style with a little dabble of some good ol' slapstick humor thrown in once in a while. A total music fanatic and also a bass guitarist, Joe has a younger brother Nick, as well as a schizophrenic cat. Joe finds himself addicted to the Dallas Cowboys, and enjoys cooking, but is afraid of quote, "fat chicks and glitter".
Sunday, August 3, 6-8 PM Gateway Gallery
Marek Parker is a lifelong resident of Buffalo’s eastside. He is one of seven children. In 1986 he traveled, for 9 months, across the U.S. with 500 other activists as a participant in the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament. He has performed as a stand up comic as well as worked with various groups performing improv. In the early 1990’s he was a founding publisher and editor of the short lived cultural/literary magazine “Bflo Journal”. Currently he is a middle and high school, social studies, Special Education teacher.
Fox Elipsus is back in his hometown-of-sorts after performing 130 shows in 25 states on his North America Tour earlier this year. Currently locked away in an abandoned silver mine somewhere near Chestnut Ridge working on his second studio album, which will be released in the Autumn, this transplanted British musician is surfacing for a rare appearance in Allentown, on Rated-R's arm of the Buffalo Infringement Festival. Oxford, England-born Fox has turned down several shows in favour of working on writing and production this summer, but between his long-standing friendship with Josh Smith, and his massive respect for Infringement as a cornerstone of the Buffalonian Arts Calendar, Fox was never going to turn this one down. Featuring the first-ever NY performance of one or two of the new tracks, and a the first chance to see Fox live in the Queen City since April.
Mark Ciemcioch is an award-winning writer and journalist for several Western New York publications, including the Buffalo News and Buffalo Spree. He has now aimed his sights at comedy of all sorts, from stand-up to sketch, and has stymied audiences from hilariously inappropriate jokes to casually amusing banter. He has performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City, the Laugh Resort in Toronto and Nietzsche’s in Buffalo. Mark, who enjoys writing in the third person, occasionally gets paid for these appearances.
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