Upcoming Shows & Events
FEBRUARY 2024
WHOOP DEE DOO at the ST LOUIS MUSEUM OF ART
WHOOP DEE DOO is working with the Teen Arts Council at the St Louis Museum of Art for three weeks to build an oversized recreation of the Matisse painting: Collioure (La Moulade), 1906, and collaborate with Classical Indian Dance group “Dances of India”.
Three free shows!
Friday, February 16th, 530pm & 630pm
show link:
https://www.slam.org/event/teen-takeover-submerged/
Sunday, February 18th, 2:00pm
show link:
https://www.slam.org/event/family-sunday-matisse-and-the-sea-opening-family-celebration/
January 2024
WHOOP DEE DOO is collaborating with Art21 Educator Dana Helwick on an upcoming class at Avenues (The World School) in New York, NY, called “Welcome to Installation Art! When the Art IS the Walls!”
OCTOBER 2023:
WHOOP DEE DOO Haunted Bingo Halloween Fundraiser!!!! Sunday October 22nd!!
WHOOP DEE DOO’s Haunted Bingo Halloween Fundraiser is a THRILLING live variety show chock-full of haunted games, incredible prizes, amazing performances by Traditional Korean drummer and dancer Vong Pak, Performance Artist Joseph Keckler, as well as terrifyingly fun moments created by young adult artists from Red Hook Art Project.
PLEASE NOTE: We also have an earlier, more family-friendly haunted bingo show at 3pm! Still haunted, but less terrifying. Get your 3pm tickets here!
Join us to celebrate the opening of our first-ever physical programming space, and help provide us the support we need so that we can continue creating free public programs for intergenerational collaborators and audiences for many years to come.
OCTOBER 26, 2023, 7pm
Join Art21 and the artists of Whoop Dee Doo for a public program highlighting costumes:
Costumes, Creatures, and Conversation with the artists of Whoop Dee Doo
141 Bridge Park Drive
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Free with RSVP!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/costumes-creatures-and-conversation-with-the-artists-of-whoop-dee-doo-tickets-722308523237?aff=oddtdtcreator
Join Art21 for a special screening and conversation with artist collective Whoop Dee Doo in their brand new space.
Featured in several New York Close Up films, Whoop Dee Doo is an artist-led project that creates installations and live performances internationally at universities, festivals, arts organizations, and museums.
The event will screen Art21's short film "Welcome to Whoop Dee Doo! (with Matt Roche & Jaimie Warren Too)," which was released in 2015, and captured the process of Whoop Dee Doo artists contributing ideas, crafting costumes, and building installations out of newspaper, cardboard, and painter’s plastic.
Costumes feature heavily in the production of a Whoop Dee Doo event. Popular characters include those from folklore, popular culture, and everyday objects come to life.
Following the screening of the film, the artists will stay for a conversation centered on the importance of costuming. Audience members are encouraged, but not required, to attend in costume as well.
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Program begins at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is free, but advance registration is required.
SEPTEMBER 2023:
WHOOP DEE DOO at Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan!!
We are so thrilled to be at Interlochen in Michigan to create a full-scale WHOOP DEE DOO show from start to finish in less than one week!! Check us our on instagram @whoopdeedooshow to see all of the behind-the-scenes!!
The site of Whoop Dee Doo’s new space in Brooklyn Bridge Park!! Coming October 2023!!!!!
ABSOLUTELY INSANE NEWS ALERT!!!!!!!!
Whoop Dee Doo is going to have our very own SPACE!!! In BROOKLYN!!!!!!!
Keep your peepers peeled for more information coming soon - but we CANNOT WAIT to tell you more! Sign up for our mailing list here!!!!!!!
~Coming October 2023~
WHOOP DEE DOO KINGSTON MAY 2022!
WHOOP DEE DOO presents: a free, all-ages, live variety show!
at the Hudson River Maritime Museum’s event space “The Barn”
50 Rondout Landing
Kingston, NY 12401
Friday, May 27th
LIVE VARIETY SHOW #1 (all ages) 5:00
LIVE VARIETY SHOW #2 (PG-13) 7:00
Whoop Dee Doo is pleased to announce a free, live, filmed, public-access style tv show and we want YOU as our LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE! There will be dancing, skits, games and contests, and performances by incredible local talent, all within an immersive set created by dozens of members of the Kingston community. Audience participation is encouraged but not required, but please bring those dancing shoes!
Our two live shows (5:00 & 7:00pm) will take place inside the beautiful “Barn” at the Hudson River Maritime Museum. Prepare to be “wow’d” by an incredible array of talent, artistry, and fun!
Show #1 (5:00 pm) will be all-ages, kid-friendly (but equally fun and wild for adults!) Show #2 (7:00 pm) will be PG-13
Whoop Dee Doo shows are always free and open to the public.
*This is a first come first serve event, please arrive 15 mins prior to showtime, and take into account limited parking and large crowds in the area on a weekend.
For more information contact:
Jaimie: jaimie.wdd@gmail.com
Collaborators:
-Radio Kingston (https://radiokingston.org/)
-The D.R.A.W. Kingston (https://www.drawkingston.org/)
-Boys & Girls Club of Ulster County (https://www.bgclubsulstercounty.org/)
-Hudsy TV (https://hudsy.tv/)
Performers:
West African percussionist Amadou Diallo
Celtic Bagpiper Richmond Johnston
All Native Women’s Drum Group Spirit of Thunderheart
Event sponsor: Eureka!
Venue sponsor: The Hudson River Maritime Museum
About Whoop Dee Doo:
Whoop Dee Doo (www.whoopdeedoo.org) is an artist-led project that creates installations and live performances through museums, galleries, arts organizations, festivals and universities. Each project engages the immediate communities of the organization with which we partner, and we work closely with young people and non-profit groups to research, conceive, and create our programming. Our process emphasizes collaboration, encourages respect for diversity, and seeks to initiate a cross-generational and cross-cultural dialogue.
Since 2006, Whoop Dee Doo has created over 50 large-scale commissioned projects for organizations including SFMOMA, The Smart Museum, Loyal (Sweden), POP Montreal, The Contemporary (Baltimore), and Knockdown Center (Queens). Whoop Dee Doo has received a Franklin Furnace Grant, an Abrons Arts Center Fellowship, and was an artist-in-residence at the High Line (NYC), and is a featured artist project in ART21's documentary series New York Close Up.
Lower East Side News 2021:
We just discovered this nice article from May 2021, AMNY, from our show in the Lower East Side with Artists Alliance about a beautiful “Prelude to Summer”:
Saturday, August 28, 2021, shows at 530pm & 730pm
Get your FREE tickets here:
More info below or contact jaimie.wdd@gmail.com for more info
March 2021:
Whoop Dee Doo is a new artist in residence at the Artist Alliance, Inc.’s LES Studio Program! We are very excited to learn more about the history of the Lower East Side of Manhattan and create a new project in the community!
More info here:
https://www.artistsallianceinc.org/whoop-dee-doo/
January 2021:
Just finished our wonderful project with Eureka! House in Kingston, NY! Here is a little behind-the-scenes glimpse. Check back for our final video coming soon, and check out our project page!
And our teaching methods were discussed in a great article in Art21 Magazine by Dana Helwick titled “Extending Beyond Craftsmanship, into Inquiry and Exploration” - check it out!
Whoop Dee Doo art educators workshop and performance with Art21.
Performer: Bharathi Penneswaran
Summer 2019:
Check out the amazing images from our summer 2019 show in Sunnyside, Queens, NY with Parade NYC!!!
https://www.paradenyc.org/blog/2019/9/26/whoop-dee-doo-at-windmuller-park-in-pictures
Speaking of Queens, have you seen our Art in America Article from last year’s project in Queens?
https://artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/possible-whoop-dee-doos-community-work/
More upcoming projects in San Francisco (2020), Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada (2020), and Tuscon, AZ (2021) info coming soon!