April 2009 — Trunk Sale in DUMBO; Films and Readings

No need to come to Women's Work, on April 4-5, we're coming to you!

DUMBO TRUNK SALE
11- 5pm

20 JAY STREET • STUDIO 310A • DUMBO
A sample sale that makes a difference

Make a Difference sample sale at ModernPress Studio in Dumbo.

Get gorgeous stationary supplies, beautiful samples, and find out how you can design and create your own custom invitations/announcements/cards with the help of Carolina Della Valle of Modern Press: a full service design studio and printshop offering letterpress printing, embossing, diecutting, foil stamping and last but far from least, laser-engraving and laser-cutting on a variety of unique materials.

Women's Work will be on-hand selling jewelry and loose beads made from- recycled paper made by women in Uganda, recycled glass and brass beads made by women in Ghana, ostrich eggshell from San Bushmen women in Botswana, batik bone from Kenya, and delicate clay beads from Mali,
We've got fabric pouches and totes from Uganda, mudcloth from Mali, kuba cloth from the Congo and handpainted table cloths, runners and pillowcovers from Botswana,
and linotype prints from the San and elephant dung prints from Zimbabwe...with more, much more...

Joining Modern Press and Womens Work will be Macallan and her full array of Goody Goodies Edun Live Organic T's, new elephant beading kits, and fair trade goodies sold by kids, for kids who are orphaned by HIVAIDS in Botswana, Malawi, Zimbabwe and beyond!

Make a whole Dumbo day out of it--Grab lunch at Rice with the fam, hit Brownstoner's Brooklyn Flea, then stop by Jacques Torres for some of the best Easter chocolates on the planet.

For more info, please go to our websites...hope to see you there!

Cecilia Women's Work
www.womensworkbw.com

Carolina MODERNPress
www.modern-letterpress.com

Macallan Goody Goodies
www.goodygoodies.org

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Split Ends makes its NJ debut
Join us at the 7th annual Garden State Film Festival

Back Pocket Productions’ first feature film, Split Ends, is making its New Jersey debut at the 2009 Garden State Film Festival on Sunday, April 5 at 1:00 pm. This a feel-good tale set in a small, New Jersey town will be right at home at one of the state's hottest cultural events. Split Ends was filmed in Maplewood, Clifton, Bloomfield, South Orange, and other New Jersey and New York locations.

Please join the cast, director, producers, and crew members for the screening at the historic Paramount Theater on the famous Asbury Park Boardwalk. Tickets are available for purchase online at http://gsff.org and at the screening venue. The Asbury Park Boardwalk is an ideal day trip destination, with great food, attractions, and, of course, the film festival events.

Split Ends stars New York actors CORINNA MAY and LAWTON PASEKA and features one of The Sopranos’ favorite character actors, VINCENT PASTORE. Split Ends was directed by Emmy-winning actress, DOROTHY LYMAN, whose signature roles in ABC’s All My Children and NBC’s Mama’s Family led to a long-term producing/directing assignment on Fran Drescher’s hit CBS sitcom, The Nanny.

In addition to Split Ends Garden State Film Festival screening, the film has been selected as the Opening Night feature at the Fallbrook Film Festival in Fallbrook, California on April 23, 2009 at 7:00 pm. The film is also an Official Selection of the Buffalo-Niagara Film Festival, May 1 – 10, 2009 in Buffalo, New York. It recently screened at the Women’s International Film Festival in Miami, Florida and the Tiburon International Film Festival in Marin County, California.

Share this with your friends and family! For more ways to support the film and connect to the Split Ends community, visit our project at IndieGoGo.

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PRESENTS

PREVIEW SCREENINGS OF ‘TYSON’ AND ‘ADORATION’ WITH
DIRECTORS JAMES TOBACK AND ATOM EGOYAN IN PERSON

Tyson and James Toback: Monday, April 6, 8:00 p.m.
Adoration and Atom Egoyan: Monday, April 27, 7:30 p.m.

Museum of the Moving Image will present special preview screenings and conversations with James Toback and Atom Egoyan, two of the most provocative contemporary directors. Toback will discuss his acclaimd new documentary Tyson, which premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and was described by Variety as “a revelatory closeup look at the tumultuous life of the former heavyweight champ.” On Monday, April 27, Atom Egoyan will discuss his powerful and timely new movie Adoration, a drama about family history, technology, and the post-9/11 world. Both movies are being released by Sony Pictures Classics, and both screenings will take place in Manhattan.

Tyson with James Toback in person
Monday, April 6, 8:00 p.m.
At AMC Loews 34th Street Theater, 312 W 34th Street, Manhattan
2009, 90 mins. 35mm print courtesy Sony Pictures Classics. With Mike Tyson. As a director, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker, James Toback (Fingers, The Gambler, Bugsy, Black and White, The Big Bang) has consistently explored the extremes of human behavior and psychology. For this innovative documentary portrait, he finds a perfect subject in Mike Tyson, the heavyweight boxing champion who grew up on the streets of Brooklyn and went through a rollercoaster career filled with fame and controversy. Toback's empathy with his subject results in a remarkably candid and revealing portrait of a man filled with surprising contradictions.

Adoration with Atom Egoyan in person
Monday, April 27, 7:30 p.m.
At AMC Loews 19th Street 6, 890 Broadway, Manhattan
2008, 100 mins. 35mm print courtesy Sony Pictures Classics. With Arsinée Khanjian, Scott Speedman, Devon Bostick. The latest film by Canadian director Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica) is a compelling drama about family history, technology, and the modern world. When a high school French teacher asks her class to translate a news story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the airline luggage of her pregnant girlfriend, the assignment has a profound effect on Simon, who imagines that the news item is his own family's story. In the resulting turmoil, a mystery is solved and a new family is created.

Tickets for each screening are $12 for Museum members / Free for sponsor-level members and above / and $18 for non-members. Order tickets online at movingimage.us or by phone at 718.784.4520.

About Museum of the Moving Image
Museum of the Moving Image advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. It does so by collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving-image related artifacts; screening significant films and other moving-image works; presenting exhibitions of artifacts, artworks, and interactive experiences; and offering educational and interpretive programs to students, teachers, and the general public. Construction is currently underway on a major expansion of the Museum, designed by architect Thomas Leeser. The project entails a complete renovation of the existing first floor and construction of a three-story addition housing a new theater, screening room, galleries, and a multi-classroom education center. The grand opening of the expanded Museum is scheduled for 2010. For more information, visit movingimage.us

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LITERARY TUESDAY
7:30PM

April 7-Nicholas Hogg was born and raised in Leicester, England in 1974.This year his debut novel, Show Me the Sky, was published by Canongate-due out in the U.S. with Grove/Atlantic on April 8th. He has won several competitions with his short fiction, and has had short stories broadcast by the BBC. You can read them on www.nicholashogg.com.

365 5TH AVENUE PARK SLOPE
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)
Brooklyn, NY
WWW.THEPERCHCAFE.COM

introducing a new urbanseashell plus more . . .

Hats by Nadege

Originally from Normandy and raised in "Honfleur", Nadege
travelled to New York in 1990. After three years she
began working with the finest milliners.
All of her hats are handmade using traditional methods.
To see her beautiful work, check out her website!

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Literary Tuesdays

March 24, 7:30 p.m.

The Perch Cafe
curated by Pam Laskin

Evie Ivy, dancer and poet, runs the Green Pavilion Poetry Readings in Brooklyn. She produces the seasonal “Dance of the World” dance and poetry series. She has published two chapbooks and a book, The First Woman Who Danced and soon, Dinner with the Muse the anthology of the Green Pavilion Poetry Event, out some time in February or March, and including some of the finest poems in the NYC area. She will be reading with Jack Tricarico, a New York City painter, poet and t’ai chi instructor, who has been published extensively. He has written seven chapbooks, and is working on his eighth. He lives in the East Village with his dog, Blanca.

Also at Perch
Wednesday, March 25th at 6:30 p.m.

The Charistmatic Megaphonic String Orchestra is an old-time string band with a modern twist. Its members are Park Slope's own Bilger family--Burkhard Bilger on guitar, Jennifer Nelson on violin and accordion, Hans Bilger (13) on stand-up bass, and Ruby Bilger (10) on vocals and percussion. Their friend and spiritual leader Michael Abrams plays ukulele and the youngest Bilger--Evangeline (5)--occasionally joins in on songs about chickens. The band plays an uproarious mixture of folk songs, novelties tunes, and rock-and-roll classics, filtered through their own sweet but slightly skewed sensibilities.

Future dates unless otherwise noted: April 8 & 22nd, May 6 & 20th, June 3 & 17th

365 5TH AVENUE PARK SLOPE
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)
WWW.THEPERCHCAFE.COM

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Killer of Sheep
Friday, April 3, 7:00 p.m.

movingimage.us

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Save the Date:
at the
powerHouse Arena in Dumbo

Find out why Brooklyn is the bloggiest place in America at
the Fourth Annual Brooklyn Blogfest on
May 7, 2009 at powerHouse Arena in DUMBO.

"Where better to take the pulse of this rapidly growing community of writers, thinkers and observers than the Brooklyn Blogfest?" ~ Sewell Chan, The New York Times

For more information or to register, visit the Brooklyn Blogfest website.

To find out about sponsorship opportunities for Brooklyn Blogfest, contact Louise Crawford
(e: louise_crawford@yahoo.com, c: 718-288-4290).

The Details:

Fourth Annual Brooklyn Blogfest
May 7, 2009
Doors open at 7 p.m.
powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Admission: $10

Brooklyn Blogfest after-party
Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
(right across the street from powerHouse Arena)
Cash Bar

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wafels & dinges
good things belgian

The yellow wafel truck can now be found in Park Slope, Brooklyn every weekend. They park in front of Keyfood on 7th Avenue and Carroll Street. They used to come the first Saturday of each month but the wafel guys told me Park Sope loves wafels!
I tried 'Smokin' Joes pulled pork BBQ wafel' for $8.00! Wow! They made mine spicey and it was delicious. If you are ever in the Slope, stop by and treat yourself with a wafel to go!

Two Literary Events in Brooklyn

Literary Tuesday at
The Perch Cafe
March 10, 7:30 pm

Maggie Cino’s one person play, Ascending Bodily, is published in The New York Theatre Experience’s Plays and Playwright’s Series. She is co-author of the performance pieces Geek on Smack (Fringe NYC), Angry Little People (Red Room Theater) and Tramp! A Clown Show (Foot in Mouth Productions, North American tour) among others. She will be reading with Sarah Langan, whose first novel The Keeper was a New York Times Editor’s Pick. Her second novel, The Missing, won the Bram Stoker Award for an outstanding novel, and was favorably compared by the New York Times Book Review to the work of Mary Shelly. Her third novel, Audrey’s Door, about a woman who moves into a haunted apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is due out from Harper Collins in October, 2009.

365 5TH AVENUE PARK SLOPE
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)
WWW.THEPERCHCAFE.COM

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Brooklyn Reading Works Presents:
The Third Annual
Memoir-A-Thon
Thursday, March 12th at 8 p.m.


The Memoir-A-Thon Curated by Branka Ruzak

On the surface at least, this event seems to come straight from the pages of The Bellevue Literary Review. The themes covered are dysfunction and disease with topics ranging from family dysfunction, alcoholism and sexual child abuse to AIDS to wrongful adolescent mental institutionalization to Alzheimers to chemical/emotional toxicity and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

But upon digging deeper, one finds these writers' journeys are not just mired in disease and dysfunction. Yes, they may write about illness, victimization and the loss of innocence, but each personal account is a story of survival and the amazing power of the individual to overcome the greatest imaginable personal challenges and ultimately heal oneself.

These stories are haunting, moving and inspiring - each one in their own raw honesty and emotion. They reflect upon the divinity and beauty of what it means to be deeply human in all its messiness. There is a lot of courage, compassion and humor to be found in the journeys we will embark during this reading.

Join BRW for an intimate and memorable night with these writers:
Robert Goolrick: The End of the World As We Know It
Mindy Lewis: Life Inside
Branka Ruzak
Elena Schowolsky
Erica Silberman: Nuts in My Pockets

For more info go to:

The Old Stone House
Brooklyn Reading Works
onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn

THE WHERE AND WHEN:
Thursday March 12th at 8 p.m.
Brooklyn Reading Works at the Old Stone House
Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets
A $5 suggested donation includes light refreshments and wine.
Books will be available for sale and signing

collecting urbanseashells

The K R A P P Y K A M E R A Show:

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During the day Paula Kelly is a graphic designer,
+ by night, she shoots photos.
At times, with a toy plastic camera.

A photo has been selected into
The Krappy Kamera Show!
at SOHO PHOTO: opening Tues 3/3, 6-8.

15 White St (btn 6th Av + W Bdwy)
212.226.8571 (1 train to Franklin)
On view til 4/4, hours W-Sn: 1-6
Juror: Brian Clamp of ClampArt Gallery,
Chelsea, NYC
http://sohophoto.com/kk11_winners_gallery/index.html
(See link: image #26)

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The s m a l l W O R K S Show:
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Another toy plastic (nitetime image)
On view til 3/13
WASHINGTON SQUARE EAST GALLERY

80 Washington Square East
(btn W 4th St + Washington Pl,
facing the park) 212.998.5747

Gallery Viewing Hours: Tues 10-7,
Wed & Thurs 10-6, Fri & Sat 10-5

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PRESENTS
ANIMATED FILMS
BY ROBERT BREER AT THE NOGUCHI MUSEUM
FOR FREE
FAMILY PROGRAM

Sunday, March 15, 2009, 10:30 a.m.

Museum of the Moving Image, in collaboration with The Noguchi Museum, will present Mini Movies in the Morning: The Animated World of Robert Breer, a free program of film screenings and art activities for children 2 through 12 and their families, on Sunday, March 15, 2009. The program, which will take place at The Noguchi Museum from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., includes an hour-long screening of short films by artist and filmmaker Robert Breer, introduced by Moving Image Chief Curator David Schwartz, and hands-on art activities led by Noguchi Museum educators.

“Animated movies exist in a world between painting and cinema, and between the reality of photographed life and the imaginary world of the artist,” said Mr. Schwartz. “Robert Breer, who has been at the forefront of American avant-garde cinema since the 1960s, is a painter and sculptor who turned to animation to create a unique and amazing body of work. His playful films—centering on line, shape, and abstract form—will engage both children and adults. We are excited to be partnering with The Noguchi Museum, for the first time, on this family-friendly film and art program.”

The program will include screenings of Homage to Jean Tinguely’s Homage to New York (1968, 10 mins.), Fuji (1973, 8 mins.), Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons (1981, 6 mins.), Bang (1986, 10 mins.), ATOZ (2000, 5 mins.), Trial Balloons (1982, 5 mins.), and What Goes Up (2000, 4 mins.). Following the screening, Noguchi Museum galleries will be open for viewing. Educators will be present to facilitate activities and art making projects, inviting families to discover connections between the films and Isamu Noguchi’s sculptures. Families are encouraged to bring a snack and kick back while they enjoy the films. For a detailed description of films, visit movingimage.us.

Admission for Mini Movies in the Morning is free, but reservations are required. To register, email smurphy@noguchi.org with your family’s name, the number of attendees and preferred form of contact (phone or email) or call 718.204.7088, extension 203. The Noguchi Museum is located at Vernon Boulevard between 10 Street and 33 Road in Long Island City. Sunday shuttle-bus service is available between Manhattan and the Museum. For more information, call 718.204.7088 or visit www.noguchi.org.

About Museum of the Moving Image
Museum of the Moving Image advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. It does so by collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving-image related artifacts; screening significant films and other moving-image works; presenting exhibitions of artifacts, artworks, and interactive experiences; and offering educational and interpretive programs to students, teachers, and the general public. Construction is currently underway on a major expansion of the Museum, designed by architect Thomas Leeser. The project entails a complete renovation of the existing first floor and construction of a three-story addition housing a new theater, screening room, galleries, and a multi-classroom education center. The Grand Opening of the expanded Museum is scheduled for 2010. For more information, visit movingimage.us.

About The Noguchi Museum
Designed by Isamu Noguchi and occupying a renovated 1927 industrial building, The Noguchi Museum exhibits a comprehensive selection of the artist’s works in all mediums, displayed in a series of indoor galleries and an internationally celebrated outdoor sculpture garden. Together, this installation and the Museum’s special exhibitions expand the context for Noguchi’s work and illuminate his influential legacy of innovation. The Museum is currently undergoing renovation. The collection galleries remain open, and public programs continue. In summer 2009, the Museum and its world-renowned sculpture garden will reopen with the artwork installed as originally designed by Noguchi. For more information, visit www.noguchi.org.

Mixing it up at The Perch Cafe, Wednesday, 2.25 and Tuesday, 3.3

The Charistmatic Megaphonic String Orchestra is an old-time string band with a modern twist. Its members are Park Slope's own Bilger family--Burkhard Bilger on guitar, Jennifer Nelson on violin and accordion, Hans Bilger (13) on stand-up bass, and Ruby Bilger (10) on vocals and percussion. Their friend and spiritual leader Michael Abrams plays ukulele and the youngest Bilger--Evangeline (5)--occasionally joins in on songs about chickens. The band plays an uproarious mixture of folk songs, novelties tunes, and rock-and-roll classics, filtered through their own sweet but slightly skewed sensibilities.

Future dates unless otherwise noted: March 11 & 25th, April 8 & 22nd, May 6 & 20th, June 3 & 17th

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Literary Tuesdays
curated by Pam Laskin
March 3 at 7:30pm

Laura Hinton is the author of The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911. (SUNY Press, 1999) and co-editor of We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women’s Writing and Performance Poetics (University of Alabama Press, 2001) and other work. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as How2, Feminist Studies, Sonaweb, NthPosition and anthologies like Poetic Voices Without Borders. A long poem-book manuscript, Sisyphus My Love, is currently under submission. Laura is the editor of a chaplet series by the newly inaugurated Mermaid Tenement Press, and is a Professor of English at The City College, where she teaches women’s literature, contemporary literature and film, and where she coordinates the InterRUPTions experimental-writers reading series. She will be reading with Brenda Iijima, author of Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus, 2007) and Around Sea (O Books, 2004). Her book If Not Metamorphic was runner-up for the Sawtooth Prize and will be published by Ahsatha Press, and revv.you’ll-ution is forthcoming from Displaced Editions in 2009. She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, and together, with Evelyn Reilly, is editing a collection of essays by poets concerning poetry and ecological ethics, which will be available in spring, 2009. She is the art editor at Boog City as well as a visual artist, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she designs and constructs homeopathic gardens.

The Perch Cafe
in Park Slope, Brooklyn
5th Avenue between 5th and 6th Street

Blogging from South America

Cinco meses de sur de la frontera

My friend and colleague Louise Orlando has provided a blog documenting her families travels through South America. Their mission is to learn how to speak Spanish. The blog is mixed with photos, videocasts and the family's input. Louise is a professional writer and editor. Check out her other travel blog documenting adventures of traveling across Africa with her boyfriend Andrew (now husband). Enjoy her wit and humor.

Join the folks at the Center for the Urban Environment (CUE) for Third Thursday and catch FUEL, voted best documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

FUEL has been described as an insightful portrait of America's addiction to oil - and an uplifting testament to the immediacy of new energy solutions. Director Josh Tickell, a young activist, shuttles the film's viewers on a whirlwind journey tracking the rising domination of the petrochemical industry - from Rockefeller's strategy to halt Ford's first ethanol cars to Vice President Cheney's oil company-backed energy legislation - and reveals a gamut of available solutions to "re-power America," from vertical farms occupying skyscrapers to algae facilities that turn wastewater into fuel. Tickell and an array of environmentalists, policy makers, and entertainment notables lead the audience through America's complicated, often ignominious energy past and illuminate a hopeful, achievable future, in which decentralized, sustainable living is not only possible, but imperative.

For more information about the film, and to view a trailer, click here.

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Center for the Urban Environment
168 7th Street (near 3rd Avenue)
Brooklyn

$10 suggested for members and friends. Free popcorn!

The film will be followed by a discussion with Brent Baker, CEO of Tri-State Biodiesel.

Space is limited - please reserve a place by clicking here.

(No sitter? No problem! Bring your little ones along for a concurrent screening of Wall-E, Pixar's 2008 animated smash hit featuring a little robot who inadvertently stumbles upon the key to the planet's future.)

*Lisa's note: This was sent to me by Eric McClure. He is the Campaign Coordinator for Park Slope Neighbors. Check out the "Interactivist List Serv" he also hosts where interested parties can subscribe.

February's urbanseashells

Wednesday night at 7:00

with special guest Mike Errico and a new medley of country meats!
At the Perch Cafe in Park Slope
5th Avenue between 5th and 6th Street.

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Brooklyn Reading Works:

Cupid's Arrow: Writers on Love
curated by Marian Fontana
THIS THURSDAY: FEBRUARY 12th, AT 8 PM:

Another one of the great themed readings at
Brooklyn Reading Works curated by interesting writers.

Marian Fontana, author of A Widow's Walk; A Memoir of 9/11 and the upcoming, The Middle of the Bed, is presenting a group of wonderful writers, including Elissa Schappell author of Use Me and the upcoming Blueprints for Better Girls; Susan Karwoska, novelist, poet and editor of Teachers and Writers Magazine; poets Ellen Ferguson and Ira Goldstein and memoirist, Mila Drumke. Marian will be reading an excerpt from her new book.

Marian writes: "Join us two nights before Valentine's as six talented authors tackle the profound, challenging, and even funny topic of love."

This will be a great night.
It's always fascinating to see the subject matter,
the approach, and the language shift from author to author.

Paper Love, the new paper goods shop on Lincoln Place in Park Slope,
will be selling lovely Valentine's Day cards at the event.
For those who are big fans of letter press...

THE WHERE AND WHEN:

Thursday, February 12th at 8 p.m.
Brooklyn Reading Works at the Old Stone House
Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets (in Washington Park)
A $5 suggested donation includes light refreshments and wine.
There will be candy hearts and chocolates.

UPCOMING EVENTS AT BROOKYN READING WORKS in 2009:
March 12: The Third Annual Memoir-A-Thon curated by Branka Ruzak
April 23: Fiction in a Blender curated by Raina Washington
May 14: Edgy Mother's Day Event curated by Michele Madigan Somerville, Sophia Romero and Amy Sohn
June 11: Annual Reading of Montauk Basement Writers

Brooklyn Reading Works. Fiction. Poetry. Memoir. Plays. A monthly reading series at the Old Stone House in Park Slope produced by Louise Crawford.

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PRESIDENTS’ WEEK FAMILY FUN AT MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE:
DAILY HANDS-ON ANIMATION WORKSHOPS AND SCREENINGS
FEBRUARY 16–20, 2009

From Monday, February 16 through Friday, February 20, 2009, during New York City public schools’ mid-winter recess, Museum of the Moving Image will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and will offer daily family programs including animation workshops and screenings of Nick
Park’s charming stop-motion animated short, The Wrong Trousers, featuring the popular claymation characters Wallace and Gromit.

In addition to these special programs, families are invited to experience the Museum’s acclaimed interactive exhibition, Behind the Screen. Spanning two floors and 14,000 square feet, this innovative blend of more than 1,200 historical artifacts, art works, video clips, and interactive exhibits shows how moving images are made, marketed, and exhibited. Visitors are able to make animations, experiment with sound effects, and create flipbooks of themselves, among other activities. Museum educators present daily demonstrations of filmmaking techniques. Behind the Screen also features Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Defender, Tron, and ten additional playable classic video arcade games.

Family Programs during Presidents’ Week, February 16–20:
Animation Workshops
Daily at noon and 2:00 p.m.
In this hour-long workshop, children learn how stop-motion animation works and make their very own animations which will be shared online. Materials fee: $5 per participant. Recommended ages: 8 and up. Call 718.777.6820 to make a reservation.

[Note: To view a sample animation created by a visitor in the workshop, go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpmC37POZ-A]

Screening: The Wrong Trousers
Daily at 1:00 and 3:00 p.m., in Tut’s Fever Movie Palace
1993, 30 mins. Directed by Nick Park. In this Academy Award-winning animated short film by
Aardman Studios, the inventor Wallace and his beloved canine sidekick Gromit are threatened by the arrival of a larcenous penguin whose nefarious plans involve a pair of mechanical trousers. This film is suitable for all ages. The film will be screened in Tut’s Fever Movie Palace, a large-scale artwork and working theater that is part of Behind the Screen. Screening included with admission.

Suggested Admission
$5 for adults, senior citizens, college students, children 8–18.
Free for Museum members and children under 8.
(Please note: Strollers must be left at Coat Check.)

About Museum of the Moving Image
Museum of the Moving Image advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. It does so by collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving-image related artifacts; screening significant films and other moving image works; presenting exhibitions of artifacts, artworks, and interactive experiences; and offering educational and interpretive programs to students, teachers, and the general public. Construction is currently underway on a major expansion of the Museum, designed by architect Thomas Leeser. The project includes a complete renovation of the existing first floor and construction of a three-story addition housing a new theater, screening room, galleries, and a multi-classroom education center.
The Grand Opening of the expanded Museum is scheduled for 2010. For more information, click here.

Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Avenue (at 37 Street), Astoria, NY 11106
Note: The Museum is located on 35 Avenue between 36 and 37 Streets in Astoria.
During construction, visitors enter on 37 Street.
Recorded Information Line: 718.784.0077

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Roulette
Presents
Ensemble Helacious

J D Parran bass saxophone, clarinet, mbira, flutes
Peter Zummo trombone, electronics
Kevin Norton vibraphone, drums
Fri Feb 20 - 8:30 PM
20 Green Street (btw Canal and Grand)

Ensemble Helacious
was formed in 2007 and has appeared at the second
NYC Rhythm in the Kitchen Festival, at
The Stone as well as on Art for Art's RUCMA series.

Now allied in this new configuration these composer/performers have shared projects and stages during many years on the creative music scene such as: J D Parran's Omegathorp: Living City, Kevin Norton's "Breakfast of Champignons" ensemble, Peter Zummo's Noisy Meditation Band, Annea Lockwood's Thousand Year Dreaming, The DownTown Ensemble and Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997, a six CD release by Anthony Braxton.

These shared musical experiences and associations with pioneering music in almost all genres invest Parran, Norton and Zummo with a musical affinity that virtually explodes in performances of their individual and collective compositions.

WKCR broadcast 2/17/09

Ensemble Helacious will appear live on the WKCR Afternoon New Music, hosted by Ben Young on Tuesday, February 17, 2009, for most of the programs 3pm-6pm slot on 89.9 FM. Recordings of the collective as well as individual compositions will be aired along with other significant recordings featuring the members of this power trio.

J D Parran is a current participant in the Columbia University Radio Station WKCR New York Music Alive series, funded by the New York State Music Fund. The premiere broadcast of this career retrospective will air Sunday, March 1, 2009, 3pm-6pm on WKCR Radio.

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GOLDA SOLOMON
“The Medicine Woman of Jazz” with PO’JAZZ
Downstairs at
The Cornelia Street Café

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009, 6 - 8 PM
$15 ($10 students with ID) includes one drink
HOLLERING THE BLUES
featuring poet Golda Solomon
guest poet Roger Singer
Jim Bartow guitar
Hope Berkeley harmonica
The Double Sharps
Dan Lipsitz (sax) • Daniel Cicourel Hanley (guitar) • Jake Pinto (keyboards)
Daniel Bailen (bass) • Francis DiNoto (drums)
hosted by Golda Solomon

“Jim Bartow is ever mindful of his audience. We get the words of his poets, wrapped lovingly in Jim’s remarkable renditions.” — Kenneth P. Neilson, Director, All Seasons Art

Hope Berkeley: A seasoned blues musician, Berkeley brings her own brand of gutsy soulfulness to the Chicago-style blues harmonica. She can be seen playing regularly with The Hastings Bluesmothers.

The Double Sharps: "These student musicians are the future ‘lions’ of jazz. Mentoring is energizing.” — Golda Solomon

Golda Solomon: “Poet Solomon...think of it as Jack Kerouac revisiting the mile high city and grabbing a sandwich at the New York Deli while in town.” — Norman Provizer, Rocky Mountain News www.jazzjaunts.com

“Po’Jazz at Cornelia Street is one big friendly party of good words, good sounds, and good food.”
— Gladys Serrano, Mutable Music

The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
Greenwich Village, NY 10014



Tel: 212-989-9319 / Fax: 212-243-4207
Between West 4th and Bleecker Streets, Greenwich Village
By Subway: 1 or 9 to Christopher Street - Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F & V to West 4th St.

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The Purchase College
Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film
would like to invite you to
“All In The Timing” by David Ives

Emelin Theatre in Mamaroneck, N.Y.
153 Library Lane
Tickets for the performance are $20 and
can be purchased directly at the Emelin.
Please call 914-698-0098 or visit www.emelin.org

The opening night performance on February 27 @ 7:30PM

Other performance dates are:
February 28 @ 7:30PM; and March 1st @ 2:00PM.

Brooklyn Literary; "13 Is the New 18" ; A Touch of Japan

Tuesday, February 3rd -- A can't miss performance!

Get out of the snow; come into the warm and delicious confines of Perch.

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"13 Is the New 18"

Just out this week from Crown Publishing.

Beth Harpaz, author, will be reading Thurs. Feb. 5th, 7:30 pm at the Park Slope Barnes & Noble, Seventh Avenue and Sixth Street (F train to Seventh Ave).

Read excerpts of the book.

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Opening
Ted Berkowitz
February 7th from 2:30-4:30
Ossining, NY

The Year of the Ox-Asian Lunar New Year January 26, 2009

Wishing all my readers good fortune in the year of the Ox!
—Lisa at urbanseashell—a collection.

Years: 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009
Positive Character Traits: Dependable, trust-worthy, patient
Negative Character Traits: Stubborn, hot-tempered in an argument
Most Compatible with: Snake, Rooster, Rat

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Tuesday, January 27

Book Party
at 7:30pm

Perch’s own, Pamela L. Laskin celebrates the publication of her newest poetry collection, SECRETS OF SHEETS. Please come out and celebrate with her!

Family Dinner
Wednesday, January 28

The Charismatic Megafauna
6:30pm-8pm

Come for the great poetry, music, food and drink at
The Perch Cafe
365 5TH AVENUE PARK SLOPE
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)

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The 3rd Annual
Fulton Prize for Short Fiction
sponsored by
The Adirondack Review &
Black Lawrence Press

About The Fulton Prize: The winner will receive $400 and publication in The Adirondack Review. Entrants whose stories receive honorable mention will also have their stories published in The Adirondack Review. In addition, they will be awarded an honorarium of $30. Deadline is January 31st.

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Lit Noire Publishing
presents
BROOKLYN LITERARY
Featuring

Danny Simmons - reknowned painter, author and poet (I Dreamed My People Were Calling)
DuEwa Frazier - award nominated poet, author and performer (Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees)
boice-Terrel Allen - novelist and musician (Screwball Comedy)

Tuesday, February 3, 2009
at 7:30pm
Perch Cafe
Park Slope - Brooklyn, NY
$5 cover at the door

Danny Simmons is an accomplished artist, widely exhibited both domestically and internationally and in world-renowned collections including those of Deutsche and Chase banks. An activist and community leader, Simmons serves on the boards of prominent cultural and learning institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Brooklyn Public Library. The acclaimed poet is the co-creator of the award-winning HBO series, Def Poetry Jam and author of the novel, Three Days as the Crow Flies published by Atria Books. Simmons is the owner of both the Rush Gallery in Chelsea, NY and the Corridor Gallery in Brooklyn, that exhibit the works and projects from less conventional and under represented artists. Committed to supporting and perpetuating a genuine appreciation for the arts, Danny Simmons founded the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, along with his brothers; entrepreneur, Russell Simmons and Run DMC s Joseph (Rev. Run) Simmons. Visit his website at www.thecorridorgallery.org.

Poet, author, and performance artist DuEwa Frazier began making her mark as a poet, in Summer 1999 when she featured at the Multi-State Poetry Slam in Philadelphia, PA. Since then DuEwa has been called a "gifted and conscious performing poet" and "one of the illest wordsmiths breathing!" Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, this young artist has featured at slam venues, colleges, festivals, public schools, museums and other institutions including: Bowery Poetry Club and the famed Nuyorican Poet's Cafe (NYC), University of Pennsylvania, Howard University, Legacy Bookstore & Cafe (St. Louis), Temple University, Wesleyan College, and others. DuEwa earned the B.A. degree in English at Hampton University and the M.S.Ed. degree in Curriculum & Teaching at Fordham University. She is the author of two volumes of poetry: Shedding Light From My Journeys and Stardust Tracks on a Road. DuEwa is the Editor of the 38th NAACP Image Award nominated anthology, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees (July 2006), featuring the work of fifty internationally/nationally known women poets from across the U.S. and abroad.
Visit her website at www.myspace.com/duewaworld.

boice-Terrel Allen is the author of the novels, Screwball Comedy, Janet Hurst and The Daughters of a Mother and the editor of Coloring Book: An Eclectic Anthology of Fiction & Poetry by Multicultural Writers. He holds degrees from both the University of Pittsburgh and New York University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Allen has been the recipient of grants and scholarships from the Multicultural Arts Initiative, the Pittsburgh Foundation and the Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation. He has also turned his eye to fashion by designing a collection of graphic tees. In 2005, Allen exhibited his first art installation, based on Screwball Comedy/Stories Going Steady, at the Mattress Factory museum in Pittsburgh. Visit www.rattlecat.com.

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The Dream of the Ants
Thursday, February 5, 2009
8pm

A new chamber ensemble led by
guitarist Terrence McManus


They will be performing a new multi-sectional,
through-composed work entitled, The Machine.
The piece is divided into seven overlapping sections,
and is highly influenced by the work of
Morton Feldman, Gyorgy Ligeti, and Bela Bartok.

Terrence McManus-classical guitar
Ellery Eskelin-saxophone
Gerry Hemingway-drums

Issue Project Room
The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

visit:
weirdtones

urbanseashells 2009

Diane Goettel, Managing Editor of Black Lawrence Press
and Editor of The Adirondack Review:

Celebrating Winter: One New Issue, One Great Sale

The Winter Issue of The Adirondack Review is now online. The issue includes wonderful new poetry, fiction, book reviews, and an interview with Jo Neace Krause, author of the prize-winning short story collection The Last Game We Played, published by Black Lawrence Press. The issue also includes work by the winner and finalists of The 46er Prize for Poetry.
As per the evolving format of the magazine, the Winter Issue will be updated with more articles, features, reviews, and previews of Black Lawrence Press titles as the season progresses. Be sure to check back! theadirondackreview.com

Winter Sale!

We at Black Lawrence Press think that the best way to survive freezing temperatures and a wintry economic climate is to curl up with a good book. For these very reasons, we are currently offering a discount on five of our favorite titles, including The Last Game We Played. Stay warm! More info here: blacklawrencepress.com

To subscribe to The Adirondack Review send Diane and email at: diane@blacklawrencepress.com

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Tuesday Reading at

7:30 pm

January 13
Park Slope, Brooklyn

Diane Goettel, Managing Editor of Black Lawrence Press and Editor of The Adirondack Review, will give a talk about how to get published in literary magazines and journals, and how to get the attention of small presses. Diane is an adjunct professor at Touro College, and leads creative writing workshops for New York City Writers Coalition. She is a regular contributor to A & U: America’s AIDS Magazine, and her work has been published in 42 Opus, failbetter and Lichen.

Also at Perch
Wednesday, Jan. 14 6:30pm – 8pm

Family Dinner feauturing- The Charismatic Megafaunas

Come join the fun!

The Perch Cafe
365 5TH AVENUE PARK SLOPE
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street
(btwn 5th and 6th St.)

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Deborah Mills Woodcarving

January 16, 17 and 18, 2009
Deborah A. Mills will exhibit her work at the
Greater Philadelphia Historic Home Show,
running concurrently with the
Designer Craftsmen Show at the
Valley Forge Convention Center in
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

Detail of "Timber Lion," carved into an 8-foot-long pine timber for use as a mantel.

Two of her original designs appear in
Traditional Building magazine's December 2008
Religious Buildings issue. You can see her "editor's pick listing" here.

1205 Manhattan Ave. # 2-3-1
Brooklyn, NY 11222

646-288-7497
email Deborah

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This was written and distributed by :
A National Day of Service
From Kate McMullan and
Kathryn Levy

Dear Friends,

In response to Barack Obama's call for a National Day of Service on Monday, January 19th, we will be launching a special drive for donations to The Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry. At a time when so many of our neighbors are in need of food and basic supplies, we felt this was a good way to show our commitment to our community. We will be accepting donations of money, food, clothing and household supplies at Kathryn Levy's house, 244 Madison Street from 11-2 PM on the 19th. From 2-5 that afternoon we will be available to pick up donations at your location.

The Sag Harbor Food Pantry is most in need of donations of money, which can be either in cash or checks made out to The Sag Harbor Food Pantry and sent to them at 44 Union Street, PO Box 1241, Sag Harbor, NY 11963. All contributions are tax deductible. We would appreciate your letting us know what you have donated so we can track the effectiveness of this approach.

They are also in need of the following supplies:

Boxed cereal
Whole wheat sliced bread
Butter
Swiss or Munster cheese
Fresh produce
Poultry or meat
Canned tuna and salmon
Dried pasta
Winter coats
Dishes
Cleaning products
Bars of soap
Tissues and toilet paper

If you wish us to pick up a donation at your location on the 19th, please let us know by e-mail as soon as possible. Also, if you are interested in working with us on collecting donations, we would welcome any help.

The Sag Harbor Food Pantry would also like us to draw your attention to a food drive and fundraiser on Saturday, January 17th in support of all of our local food pantries. It is sponsored by the Art of Eating and Hamptons Event Management Int'l. For more information, go to their website www.ladlesoflove.com.

We hope that this will be the beginning of a continuing commitment on all of our parts to our neighbors in need. If you want more information about the Sag Harbor Food Pantry, their website is www.sagharborfoodpantry.com.

Thank you,
Kate McMullan
Kathryn Levy

Please note: Save Sag Harbor is a non-partisan organization.

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Marsha Heydt invites you to
her CD release party happening
Wednesday Jan. 21, 2009

Listen to pieces from her debut CD "One Night"
at the
IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB
1650 Broadway (Corner of 51st)
New York, NY 10023
Reservations: 212-582-2121

Sets At 8:30 & 10:30PM
cover charge $25.00

Marsha Heydt: Alto and Soprano Saxophone, Flute
Norman Pors: Piano and Keyboard
Trifon Dimitrov: Upright and Electric Bass
Vito Lesczak: Drums
Marlon Simon: Percussion
Walt Szymanski: Trumpet

String Trio:
Marlene Rice-violin
Judith Insell-viola
Greg Heffernan-cello

Special Guest Apperance:
Carla Cook: Vocals
Sheryl Bailey: Guitar

www.youtube.com/marshaheydt
www.myspace.com/marshaheydt
www.facebook.com/marshaheydt

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Brooklyn Reading Works
presents an
An Evening of New Work by Brooklyn Playwrights
curated by Rosemary Moore
JANUARY 22 at 8 pm

The Old Stone House

Lizzie Olesker, Gary Winter, Jessica Bauman, and Scott Adkins
will present
staged readings of scenes from
new work with professional actors.

Park Slope's Washington Park
(formerly JJ Byrne Park)
Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets
718-768-3195 or 718-288-4290.

A $5 donation is requested.
Includes wine and light refreshments.

Brooklyn Reading Works. Fiction. Poetry. Memoir. Plays.
UPCOMING EVENTS AT BROOKYN READING WORKS in 2009:

February 12: Cupid's Arrow: A Valentine's Reading curated by Marian Fontana

March 12: The Third Annual Memoir-A-Thon curated by Branka Ruzak

April 23: Fiction in a Blender curated by Raina Washington

May 14: Edgy Mother's Day Event curated by
Michele Madigan Somerville, Sophia Romero and Amy Sohn

June 11: Annual Reading of Montauk Basement Writers

A monthly reading series at the Old Stone House in
Park Slope produced by Louise Crawford.

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PRESENTS
KOREAN-AMERICAN DIRECTOR
SO YONG KIM
IN PERSON WITH
‘IN BETWEEN DAYS’

Friday, January 23, 7:00 p.m. at
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center,
Long Island City

Shown: Jiseon Kim as Aimie in So Yong Kim's IN BETWEEN DAYS.
Museum of the Moving Image presents a screening of the film followed by a
discussion with the director at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center.
Photo courtesy Kino International.

Museum of the Moving Image will present a special screening of In Between Days with a personal appearance by director So Yong Kim, on Friday, January 23, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, In Between Days traces the joys and risks of first love for a young Korean-American girl. Following the screening, Kim will participate in a discussion with the Museum’s Chief Curator David Schwartz.

The screening takes place at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, 31-10 Thomson Ave (at Van Dam Street), in Long Island City. Tickets are free for Museum members, $8 CUNY students and faculty, and $10 for non-members. Museum members may RSVP to 718.777.6810. Tickets may be purchased in advance at www.laguardiaperformingarts.org ($2 surcharge) or at the box office on the day of the screening. To contact LPAC’s box office, call 718.482.5151.

In Between Days is So Yong Kim’s feature debut. On the threshold of maturity, Aimie (played by Jiseon Kim), a recent immigrant from South Korea, struggles to find her place in a new city, and her own emotional place in the world. She is in love with her best friend Tran (Taegu Andy Kang) who seems to prefer more “Americanized” girls. A.O. Scott in The New York Times wrote: “In Between Days, the sensitive, modest, thrillingly self-assured first feature by So Yong Kim, was one of the standouts of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival--exactly the kind of thoughtful, independent work one hopes to find there and too rarely does.” (U.S., 2006, 82 mins.)

So Yong Kim was born in Pusan, South Korea and immigrated to the United States when she was twelve. She studied painting, performance, and video art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she earned her MFA. She has made several experimental short films including A Bunny Rabbit, shot by renowned cinematographer Christopher Doyle. In 2006, Kim was featured as one of the “25 Filmmakers to Watch” in Filmmaker Magazine. Kim’s latest film, Treeless Mountain, which premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival and just won the Best Feature Film award at the Dubai International Film Festival, will open in April at Film Forum.

For screeners and to inquire about an
interview with So Yong Kim,
please contact Tomoko Kawamoto at
718.777.6830 or
tkawamoto@movingimage.us

About Museum of the Moving Image
Museum of the Moving Image advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. It does so by collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving-image related artifacts; screening significant films and other moving-image works; presenting exhibitions of artifacts, artworks, and interactive experiences; and offering educational and interpretive programs to students, teachers, and the general public. Construction is currently underway on a major expansion of the Museum, designed by architect Thomas Leeser. The project includes a complete renovation of the existing first floor and construction of a three-story addition housing a new theater, screening room, galleries, and a multi-classroom education center. The Grand Opening of the expanded Museum is scheduled for 2010. For more information, visit http://movingimage.us/

Happy New Year!

January Reading Schedule
7:30pm

January 5-Patricia Carragon has been published in Rogue Scholars, Poets Wear Prada, CLWN, Chanterelle’s Notebook, Clockwise Cat Tamarind, Riverfront, Soul Mountain and countless other journals and magazines. She is the author of Journey to the Center of my Mind, published by Rogue Scholars Press. She hosts and curates the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets at Café Sultra in Park Slope, and The Fall Café in Carroll Gardens, and she is the editor of the Annual Brownstone Poets Anthology.

January 13-Diane Goettel, Managing Editor of Black Lawrence Press and Editor of The Adirondack Review, will give a talk about how to get published in literary magazines and journals, and how to get the attention of small presses. Diane is an adjunct professor at Touro College, and leads creative writing workshops for New York City Writers Coalition. She is a regular contributor to A & U: America’s AIDS Magazine, and her work has been published in 42 Opus, failbetter and Lichen.
January 20 -Emily Moore’s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry Daily, Ploughshares, The Yale Review and The 6th Edition of Poetry: A Pocket Anthology edited by R.S. Gwynn. When she isn’t writing or teaching public high school English, she’s singing songs about love and real estate with her all-female, country camp trio, Ménage a Twang, www.myspace.com/menageatwang. She will be reading with Jessica Reed, whose poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, LIT, The Huffington Post, the anthology, Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House, and is forthcoming in Zeek: A Journal of Jewish Thought and Culture. She is the 2007 recipient of the Marie Ponsot Poetry Prize and the Jerome Lowell Dejur Award. Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, she now lives in New York City, where she spends M-F, 9-5, as a technical writer/editor, and where she received her MFA from The City College of the City University of New York.

January 27-Perch’s own, Pamela L. Laskin celebrates the publication of her newest poetry collection, SECRETS OF SHEETS. Please come out and celebrate with her!

Come for great food and drink at
The Perch Cafe

365 5TH AVENUE PARK SLOPE
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)

Also at Perch
Wed Jan 14 6:30pm – 8pm

Family Dinner feauturing- The Charismatic Megafaunas

(Every 2 weeks at 6:30pm on Wednesday)

The Charistmatic Megaphonic String Orchestra is an old-time string band with a modern twist. Its members are Park Slope's own Bilger family--Burkhard Bilger on guitar, Jennifer Nelson on violin and accordion, Hans Bilger (13) on stand-up bass, and Ruby Bilger (10) on vocals and percussion. Their friend and spiritual leader Michael Abrams plays ukulele and the youngest Bilger--Evangeline (5)--occasionally joins in on songs about chickens. The band plays an uproarious mixture of folk songs, novelties tunes, and rock-and-roll classics, filtered through their own sweet but slightly skewed sensibilities.

Future dates unless otherwise noted: January 28th, February 11 & 25th, March 11 & 25th, April 8 & 22nd, May 6 & 20th, June 3 & 17th.