Quentin Crisp: The Naked Bon Vivant! A 100th Birthday Celebration Saturday March 7th, 7-10pm at Santo’s Party House, upstairs at (96 Lafayette Street). The fabulously flamboyant and witty gay icon Quentin Crisp (who died in 1999 at age 90) gets a party fit for a queen. The Naked Bon Vivant! is produced by Joe Birdsong (owner of the dearly departed bohemian stronghold Rapture Café), in association with Phillip Ward and the Quentin Crisp Archives. Proceeds from the event go to funding the archive.

Hosting the event is drag-queen performer Linda Simpson. The line-up includes celebrity journalist Frank DeCaro, post-modern cabaret singer Adam Dugas (Weimar New York, The Citizens Band), Anne Hanavan (Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black), East Village musician/playwright Paul Korsinsky, guitarist-songwriter Gordon Gano (of the pioneering folk-punk group Violent Femmes), Radical Fairie dance troupe Pixie Harlots (Lustre), performance artist Amber Martin (Rapture Cafe’s Wig Shop), LGBTQ blogger and activist Eric Leven, actor/dancer Jack Ferver (Dance Theatre Workshop Studio Series, Strangers With Candy), ground-breaking queer Latino poet Emanuel Xavier, photographer Bobby Miller, the divine Lavinia Co-op, glam rock musician Paul Bernstein and his Wide Stance band, West Village crooner Chris Lowe, erotic poet and blogger Guy Kettelhack, and other performers to be announced. Providing music is DJ Baby K.

The evening also includes screenings of excerpts of film and video starring Mr. Crisp. An auction of Quentin Crisp photographs by David Turner, Marcus Teo, and Martin Fishman. Special non-QC photographs for the night by Joe Oppedisano. Even more info here.