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House of Yes Alice Margo MacDonald • Dmanda Tension • Roy Mitchell esented by PinkPlayMags www.thebuzzmag.ca Pr House of Yes Brooklyn’s Party Central Alice Bag For daily and weekly event listings visit Advocating Through Music JUNE 2020 / JULY 2020 *** free *** TLC Pet Food Proudly Supports the LGTBQ Community Order Online or by Phone Today! TLCPETFOOD.COM | 1•877•328•8400 2 June 2020 / July 2020 theBUZZmag.ca theBUZZmag.ca June 2020 / July 2020 3 Issue #037 The Editor Planning your Muskoka wedding? Make it magical Greetings and Salutations, at our lakeside resort in Ontario. Happy Pride! Although we’re in a time of change and Publisher + Creative Director uncertainty, we still must remain hopeful for a brighter future, Antoine Elhashem and we’re here to offer some uplifting, and positive stories to Editor-in-Chief kick start your summer. Bryen Dunn Art Director Feature one spotlights the incredible work of Brooklyn’s House Mychol Scully of YES collective, an incubator for the creation of awesome parties, cabaret shows, and outrageous events. While their General Manager live events are notorious, they too have had to move into Kim Dobie the digital world, where they’ve been hosting Saturday night Call +1(800)461-0243 or visit MuskokaWeddingVenues.com Sales Representatives interactive dance parties, deep house yoga, drag shows, Carolyn Burtch, Darren Stehle burlesque and dance classes, and their video project, HoY Events Editor TV. Our writer, Raymond Helkio, caught up with HoY to find Sherry Sylvain out what’s up, and he also attended one of their online yoga Counsel classes, which apparently was quite tantalizing. Jerry Herszkopf Law Feature two is on Los Angeles-based musician, author, and Feature Writers artist, Alice Bag. Stage diving into the East LA punk music Bryen Dunn, Raymond Helkio scene in the late 1970s, she’s back with a new album that’s Columnists as edgy as ever. The collection confronts some of the most Dmanda Tension, Cat Grant, Boyd Kodak, pervasive problems troubling our world today. The lead single Paul Bellini, Raymond Helkio “Spark” features Vander Von Odd, Season One winner of Cover Photo: Madame Vivien V, host of Hot Mess, Dragula. During self-isolation, Bag has also been creating Fit guest host HoY TV for the Apocalypse videos for her YouTube channel. Published by INspired Media Inc. Our guest Wigged Out columnist in this issue is Dmanda Tension, who gives us a run down on what various Church Operating: INspired Creative, Publishers of Street performers have been doing with their time in The Pink Pages Directory, PinkPlayMags, theBUZZ, and The Local QuaranQueen. Cat Grant chatted with the multi-talented actor Biz Magazine. Producers of On the Couch and playwright Margo MacDonald, who has a couple of new www.theBUZZmag.ca productions she’s working on. Boyd Kodak caught up with www.PinkPlayMags.com Leah Allyce Canali, a pop, R&B, soul, and dance vocalist, www.thepinkpagesdirectory.com www.onthecouch.ca who’s currently working on a new album. Paul Bellini spoke with Roy Mitchell, resident of Hybla Hastings, near Bancroft, Mailing address Ontario. He’s been involved in organizing a local Pride event, 205-1691 Pickering Parkway housing artists at The Hybla Residency, and also hosts a Pickering, ON L1V 5L9 podcast, The Hybla Minute. Raymond Helkio took a pandemic 416.926.9588 pause from visiting local establishment to bring us (Virtually) IN THIS ISSUE Beyond The Village, with online programming from Deb Pearce, Nathaniel Bacon, and Glad Day Bookshop. Our popular BUZZpicks events listings are now virtual as well, 06 House of YES – Raymond Helkio where you’ll find an eclectic mix of happenings across the 10 Alice Bag – Bryen Dunn WWW, all compiled by our Events Editor, Sherry Sylvain . As 14 Wigged Out: QuaranQueen always, kudos to our designer, Mychol Scully, for making us all – Dmanda Tension look fabulous ! 16 She Beat: Margo MacDonald – Cat Grant Thanks for picking us up. 18 Bumble-ini: Roy Mitchell – Paul Bellini Enjoy the read! 20 A Kodak Moment: Leah Allyce Canali Bryen Dunn – Boyd Kodak Editor-in-Chief 22 Beyond the Village: A Community That Streams Together – Raymond Helkio 26 BUZZPicks Online – Sherry Sylvain 4 June 2020 / July 2020 theBUZZmag.ca theBUZZmag.ca June 2020 / July 2020 5 House of Yes website artwork. website Yes of House Photo: Courtesy of Brynne Courtesy Photo: Levy House of Yes A Place to Dress Up and Dance By Raymond Helkio world can be a better place. We believe that advance, but in this case, I wanted the email reminders weird is wonderful. See you on the dance floor.” as the hour got closer. Some workshops require tickets in House of Yes (HoY) is a collective of rooms that are nestled within a maze of smaller theatre advance, which can be purchased through HoY’s website, and artist spaces. - House of Yes - and while my class was free it’s always nice to tip your creative types who support artistic host artist $5 or $10, which in this case was Blaine However, in their first year of existence the original A fairy tale for sure, HoY’s story continues to evolve as Petrovia from uptown NYC, a professional dancer and expression through community- space was lost to an eight-alarm fire. Not losing hope, they respond to the new era of social distancing. The shift advocate for sex workers and pole dancing. centric performances and nightlife. they began an aggressive fundraising campaign, and from live events to digital streaming was first inspired by within months the community had pulled together the bi-weekly party on Zoom, run by a group called Social With my yoga mat stretched out on the floor I logged on Founded in 2007, the concept began enough money to put a deposit down on a dilapidated Disdance. and attentively followed Blaine’s techniques until my booty ice-house located just off of Grand Street L train in East was moving and my heart was pounding, while Blaine as a live/work artist circus theatre According to Jacqui Rabkin, who spearheads the social Williamsburg. added layer upon layer of moves to work out. While the and digital arenas for HoY, “Social Disdance was the first and creative event space conceived workshop was a ton of fun, really, one could have had After extensive work taking down walls, installing group we saw bringing dancers together using video an equally great time joining as a voyeur considering this by Anya Sapozhnikova and Kae kitchens, studios, and stages, they were now twice the conferencing tools. Myself and David Kiss, our Music host is young, cute, tattooed, and wears just enough to size with the capability to host fashion shows, movie Director, took the idea and started building out a digital keep his private parts, private. Burke. screenings, a variety of creative classes, aerial theatre, dance program with the blessing of the House of Yes The pair still maintain a sewing studio in Bushwick, and and circus spectacles. The place was a huge success owners.” Madame Vivien V is one of HoY’s resident artists, who most of the costumes used in club performances and attracting a dedicated volunteer base of supporters, fans, is also host of one of New York’s largest drag events, To date, they’ve been hosting Saturday night interactive theatre shows are hand-made. The core community is and participating artists. Five years had passed, and while Hot Mess, a free night of queens, kings, queerdos, and dance parties, deep house yoga, drag shows, burlesque made up of artists, performers, creatives, and Burning their creative model was hugely successful, skyrocketing weirdos. Along with moving this show online, Madame and dance classes, and the off-the-wall funny video Man attendees. All different types of people who like to rents forced them to once again close their doors. Vivien V also guest hosts on HoY TV, that features project, HoY TV. “It felt good to throw ourselves into a contribute creatively to social gatherings. Many of their Ironically, they then managed to open up again six months notables such as comedian Ohene Cornelius who writes new project during a time of immense uncertainty when weekend parties over the past four years have been later back in the neighbourhood where it all started. a segment called, The Post Daily Weekly News, which is we’re not sure what the future of nightlife holds. It’s so themed, and costumes have always been encouraged. a mix between current news and stand-up. There’s also, important to keep creating during these times and find “We have created this space as a temple of Etymologies With Professor Nate, the Ivy-League doctor Currently based out of Brooklyn, their venue acts as an new ways to foster connection between people. We expression, that’s dedicated to connection, who dispenses hysterical straight-faced explanations incubator for the creation of spectacular entertainment, knew our audience would be hungry to connect digitally for buzz words of the day. But perhaps the crown and awesome parties, cabaret shows, and outrageous events. creativity and celebrating life. We believe in and dance together in whatever way possible,” explains glory of the show are the wildly popular digital dance The space looks much like a collaboration between the creative energy of every person who enters Rabkin. Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel and Peter Gatien’s legendary this space. We believe that performance, dance parties which bring together dancers, costumes, and truly CiRCA nightclub, complete with themed performance I joined in one of their Thursday 4 PM workshops on outrageous performance art served up in the form of a and art can inspire and heal us.
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