Boogie Club, Don't Do It!

Don't Do It! Boogie
2001/2002
Flyer by Tim Dutcher & Dave Ruder


EDIT 1/14/13:

Wow! Hunter King '08, Boogie Emeritus, has been all over this since 2010! Go to Boogie Club is Dead for more flyers, more explanation, and more comments.


These flyers come at us from Dave Ruder '05. Maybe the Boogie Club is still around? The Boogie Club, well, boogied to jamz in public places for lost causes (like abstinence, as you can see). Some ones I remember were the Secret Boogie (under a sheet), the Silent Boogie (no music), and the Doug Bennet Boogie to Bring Back Methodism to Wesleyan (below, with Doug B. in a Burger King hat - interestingly, I discovered this just last week on an external hard drive I've had since 2003 - good timing!)

Maybe some Boogie-ers would like to add to this description or contribute more flyers, since I was at best a peripheral member. Dave says:

pamphlet from Boogie for Abstinence, either late 2001 or early 2002, outside the Campus Center.  Made by Tim Dutcher with an assist from me at Tim's place.  Not a poster per se, but pretty pertinent I think.  The cock fight is the front panel, the Washington monument is the pay off of unfolding it.  That boogie involved a lot of shed layers and grinding if memory serves.  I'd say it couldn't have been middle of winter given that, but that was a year it was 80 degrees in February, so it was sometime after October and before the spring.  It was a fun time.

Thanks a billion Dave for sending in this stuff! Send me your posters from Wesleyan, Boogie memories, etc: wesleyanposterarchive@gmail.com

About the Archive

My name is Brendan O'Connell. I graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 2008. From 2004-2008, I put on lots of shows and events at Wesleyan. Posters were a big part of what I did. I always made at least one (and often 5 or so) posters for my events.

I love concert posters, I love making them and putting them up. They get noticed and they have effects on people. One of my posters featured a dumpster-dived photo of several Wesleyan students hanging out. They came to my concert only to demand that I take down all the posters. Another poster (Jean's for USAISAMONSTER) apparently offended some people, and every one got ripped down except for one hidden inside a phone booth, which I saved for my archive.

I wasn't consciously setting out to create an archive when I collected these posters. It just happened that way. I'm hoping other people will contribute to this collection and we can expand it as a crucial part of our school's collective memory.

Some of these posters are used without permission of the creators. If you don't want your work featured here, leave a comment on the post and I'll take it down. For some of them, I don't know the creator! If you made a poster here, please identify yourself and add any info you want to as a comment. I want this to be a dynamic, living collection. I invite submissions from current Wesleyan students as well.

Please send your poster submissions as JPGs to: wesleyanposterarchive@gmail.com

CLICK on the posters to see them big! They have lots of details.

Also check out the comments! Some other people who went to these shows have started adding their experiences, and I invite you to as well.

Latest submissions uploaded : September 21, 2011

Sound/Art Event

Sound/Art Event
May 8
Chapel/Zelnick Pavilion

Poster by ?

Submission by Eric Paul

Caution Curves, Hand Fed Babies, Death Stud

Caution Curves, Hand Fed Babies, Death Stuff
Nov. 4
Eclectic

Poster by ?
Submission by Eric Paul

Drawing II One Night Stand

Drawing II One Night Stand
May 4, 2011
Drawing Studios

Poster by ?
Submission by Anwar Batte

Help me out if you know who made this!

V-Day 2008

V-Day 2008 - I Want You, We Can Do It
February 2008

Poster by ?
Submitted by Anwar Batte

Recollections:
"I've had the vagina posters for about a week, but never got around to scanning them until now. They were on the wall of a storage room in Film Hall, and the friend and Film Hall resident I was with assured me it was alright if I took them for this purpose (the archive). They're amazing, and I'm glad they lasted this long. [Unfortunate addendum: the poster that looks like Rosie the Riveter had some text in purple ("USDAN Tables", "VAGINA", the text torn off at the bottom which I just realized says "WEEK" and got stuck to the bottom of the other poster. Oops?), but I scanned these in grayscale." - Anwar

White Mice, Disappearer, Kentucky Fried Doom, Jock Jams, 2008

White Mice, Disappearer, Kentucky Fried Doom, Jock Jams
April 17, 2008
WestCo Cafe

Poster by Mary Longley

Recollections:
WestCo Cafe has this special reverberatory quality that makes certain kinds of loud live music performed in it have these strange high-pitched noise fragments that sound like little battles occurring right in the little canyon of your ear. Whenever I did loud shows here, lots of people would watch from outside because they didn't like this effect.

Zs, Omnitards, Dogs of War, Balloon, 2007

Zs, Omnitards, Dogs of War, Balloon, 2007
Fall 2007
Eclectic

Poster by Will Hood

The Moody Wallen Band, The Fok Police 2006

The Moody Wallen Band, The Folk Police
December 1, 2006
WestCo Cafe

Poster by Chris Santiago

Recollections:
Thursday nights in WestCo there were usually lots of party people wandering around, and a bunch of them wandered down into this concert. When they heard the Moody Wallen Band, I think they were scared and confused.

Dan Deacon, Alexis, Middle of the Road, Red Sweatpants Blue Sweatpants, 2007

Dan Deacon, Alexis, Middle of the Road, Red Sweatpants Blue Sweatpants
December 6, 2007
Eclectic GOTE Room

Poster by Brendan O'Connell

Recollections:
Memorable Middle of the Road lyric:
"We're not here to offend or shock you, we're just here to moderately rock you!"
Memorable Red Sweatpants Blue Sweatpants lyric:
"Oh shit, my elastic's too tight, it chafes on my tummy it doesn't feel right"

Gergely and the Balkan Situations, The Fags, Death Stud, Folk Police, Omnitards, 2007

Gergely and the Balkan Situations, The Fags, Death Stud, Folk Police, Omnitards
Spring 2007
Well-Being House

Poster by Brendan O'Connell

The USAISAMONSTER, 2005 (?)

The USAISAMONSTER, Kites (I think?), 2005
WestCo Cafe

Poster by Jean Pockrus

Every one of these posters got ripped down, except for one that had been sneakily hidden inside the PAC phone booth.

Oneida, Ex-Models, Andrew Boatti, The Set of Red Things, The Hipster Youth, 2006

Oneida, Ex-Models, Andrew Boatti, The Set of Red Things, The Hipster Youth
Spring 2006
WestCo Cafe

Poster by Brendan O'Connell

Nautical Almanac, Athletic Automaton, Les Angles Morts, 2005

Nautical Almanac, Athletic Automaton, Les Angles Morts
October 9, 2005
WestCo Cafe

Poster by Brendan O'Connell

Magik Markers, Bunnybrains, Jock Jams, 2006

Magik Markers, Bunnybrains, Jock Jams
Spring 2006
Multi-Purpose Room

Poster by Brendan O'Connell

Having some noisy, strange bands perform in the Multi-Purpose Room made for an extremely awkward interaction. I remember Elisa from Magik Markers pouring jug wine down the throats of somewhat willing audience members. Also my Sociology professor came!!

Japanther, 2006

Japanther
March 9, 2006
Eclectic

Poster by Nina Macintosh

Zombie Art Collective, 2004

Zombie Art Collective meetings
Fall 2004
Old Squash Courts

Top Poster by Mattio Montesano
Bottom Poster by Steph Carlisle

Recollections:
The only student group to hold meetings in the old squash courts. I'm not sure how to describe Zombie Art Collective, does someone else want to try?

Steph, founder/Zombie/etc. says:
"The ZOMBIE ART COLLECTIVE is about resurrection.
We’re brewing up a refined mixture of creativity, spontaneity, madness, wild abandon, and injecting it into the COMMUNITY we mistake for Wesleyan.
We are awakening the dead.
We too are ZOMBIES. We are conditioned by our environment, by society and culture and structure.
We are strange in behavior and appearance.
We control nothing at all. Yet, we act.
For most, art is a LUXURY. It is EXCLUSIVE, it is SHELTERED, it is EXPENSIVE and it is THEORETICAL. Here at ZAC, we believe in cheap art & collaborative laughter
We believe that everyone can and should make art, that we can be drenched in it.


1ST MEETING:
WEDNESDAY 10PM
OLD SQUASH COURTS

We’ll talk about projects for this semester: about puppets and happenings and blood and installations and films. "

She Calls Me Daddy, 2004

She Calls Me Daddy Auditions
Fall 2004
Foss Hill

Recollections:
Absurdist a capella group She Calls Me Daddy did a memorable rendition of 4'33" as I remember.

Quintet and Projections, 2004

Quintets and Projections
December 2, 2004
Multi-Purpose Room

Poster by Carl Testa

Tim Olive, Corrie Befort, Jonathan Chen, Jonathan Zorn, Rachel Thompson, Kyle Brenders, 2005

Tim Olive, Corrie Befort, Jonathan Chen, Jonathan Zorn, Rachel Thompson, Kyle Brenders
May 3, 2005
Multi-Purpose Room

Poster by Jonathan Zorn