(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Visionary filmmaker John Waters (Cry Baby, Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Female Trouble, and Hairspray) will perform his one-man show, “This Filthy World, Volume 2,” at Basilica Hudson on Saturday, October 18, 2014, at 8pm. Earlier that day, he will sign copies of his recent best-selling book, “Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America,” at FINCH: life curated, at 613 Warren St., at 2pm.

Waters, who has been dubbed “the Pope of Trash” and branded “O for Offensive” by the Catholic Church, earned his bad reputation by turning bad taste into high art. Part confession, part Vaudeville act, he’ll share his origins in the trash genre and his subsequent adventures navigating everything from fashion to true crime.

Waters will be arriving in Hudson on the heels of his Lincoln Center Retrospective this September, celebrating his 50 years in film.

Born in Baltimore to an upper-middle-class Catholic family, many of Waters’ films satirize suburban America, social conventions and attitudes. Waters began working in film on his 17th birthday, when we was given an 8mm camera and formed a group called the Dreamlanders, which included Harris Glenn Milstead, whom John turned into international drag superstar Divine. He started out making short underground films in the 1960s. Waters has worked with such pop-culture icons as Johnny Depp, Deborah Harry, Ricki Lake, Kathleen Turner, Traci Lords, Patricia Hearst, Iggy Pop, and Troy Donahue.

Waters show at the Basilica is a benefit for Basilica Arts and the AIDS Council of Northeastern New York, and is priced accordingly.