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V is for Vali Myers

Ed’s article about the annual Valentine’s Day party hosted by Tony Notarberardino to honor Vali Myers is online at Chelsea Now.  It was a great party and if you missed it this year, there’s always next year. For those of you who couldn’t attend here are a few pics.

Andrea Ho brought a mockup of a forthcoming memoir by Gianni Menichetti, Vali’s lover of many years.
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William Barton, one of the world’s greatest didgeridoo players takes a break.
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Clayton Patterson, Tony N. and Scotty Diller share a laugh.

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Emma in front of a Vali Myers print.

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A copy of Vali’s diary was available and made for some interesting reading.

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Vali’s art on an album cover.

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    Flame Schon

    You may be interested to know that Vali Myers appears several times in our (when I was Diane Rochlin, -my name is now Flame Schon -and Sheldon Rochlin) movie DOPE filmed in London and finished in ’68. The movie was never widely released (due to the bankruptcy of Leacock-Pennebaker who had financed the editing and contracted to distribute it) although it has become an underground indie classic. It is ostensibly a documentary on the London drug scene. Vali (accompanied by her husband Rudi Rappold) went to London at that time to dance onstage at a Donovan concert at Royal Albert Hall.
    I’ve now got a website for it, http://www.dopethemovie.net on which you can see it as streaming video and also purchase DVDs. Sheldon Rochlin and I also made the movie Vali (the Witch of Positano), 1966.
    There are also 2 trailers for DOPE on YouTube under Flame Schon Dope. and my own website is http://www.reconfiguration.net on which I have short excerpts of my more recent work.
    regards, Flame Schon

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