Another ALL NAKED Reading For Filth!
Saturday, June 28


8pm
Reading For Filth... Naked Again!
At The Woodshop
24 Ninth Avenue, 5th Floor
$5 cover


Everyone's favorite rent boy, an arresting visual artist, the subject of a classic documentary, a Fringe Fest fave, and New York's latest performance art Force Of Nature!

On Saturday, June 28th, the folks from Rapture present another edition of their long-running and acclaimed queer literary series where both budding young and well-seasoned pornographers will be bearing both their bodies and their souls for their art in another all-naked edition of Reading For Filth. Audience members may also check their clothing and go bare if they so choose.

The evening also marks the 25th Anniversary of the often-maligned William Friedkin cinematic period piece, Cruising, which includes scenes shot in the very loft where the readings will take place. Do you think Karen Allen will be in attendance?

Starring: Dominic Cloutier, Dominick, Mark Sam Rosenthal, Jack Doroshow (aka Flawless Sabrina), and Amber Martin.

Music by Baby K.

By Subway: A, C, E, L train to 14th Street/8th Avenue


Rapture Café & Books

In December 2007, artists, authors, performers and poets of every medium co-created a space located at 200 Avenue A; an oasis of the imagination, Rapture Café & Books housed a motley crew who live and thrive on the margins of social convention, and carried the historic torch passed on by East Village visionaries who stretch and push and pull at the boundaries of politics, music, art, sexuality, gender, economy and family.

Inevitably, endeavors of ambitious truths and brutal beautification of the spirit must evolve in order to thrive. Rapture’s time at 200 Avenue A has drawn to a close, but we will emerge in other forms and in other spaces. Rising costs of doing business using this model have nudged us forward to conceive new ways of producing and presenting some of the best words and performance here in the East Village and beyond.

We closed our doors on Thursday April 24th, 2008. However, we will continue to host many of the events you have come to appreciate at Rapture at other locations. Look for "Dean Johnson's Reading For Filth", "Readings At Rapture," and "Glenn Marla's Heavy" to continue gloriously at other venues. We are proud of what we have accomplished here with your help, and look brightly to the future.


- Joe Birdsong, Hattie Hathaway, and the Staff Of Rapture Café & Books