My very own dog show party plug

I-Lien, Kevin and Sophie - thanks for the cute pic!

Coming up in just a couple of weeks - Dog Show Party 2005!!

What: Dog Show Party 2005
When: Tuesday, February 15, 7-11PM
Where: Tonic

I find this event one of those things I end up doing because we're in the right setting - New York City - with the right people - a bunch of aspiring performers, writers, designers, and artists. In short, the Party is a simultaneous telecast of the last night of judging at the Westminster Dog Show, which happens to be at Madison Square Garden.

What's been nice about working on it is getting into a host of spaces throughout the city that I would normally never be privy to - a dance space in Soho that is actually someone's apartment, a dance enthusiast, it turns out; a dance space 10 stories up in Chelsea, which also gives massages (yes, all these dance spaces because I am a member of the party's dance troupe); working with really nice people in the night scene. The club owner of Tonic* is helping us out with a space for the party because, it just turns out, she's also a show pug owner. You just never know when it comes down to dogs. We're making videos, choreography, designing costumes, planning games, writing commentary, finding sponsors, filling doggie bags, crowning king and queen - it's the whole works!

SO - please come if you can! Tickets available online now. All proceeds after expenses will go to Rational Animal, a great, volunteer-run non-profit that helps at-risk animals in NYC.

*I have to point out, in the context of this site, that Tonic is at risk of losing its lease because the landlord is interested in building condos on the lot. It's already happened to Luna Lounge. Tonic has to raise upwards of $100,000 in the next month to stay in its space. Change happens so fast in these quicksand neighborhoods that the current leasers get practically no notice before they're evicted. Please come out and support it and buy it a little more time.