Posts tagged “brooklyn”
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Celine Curiol vs. Arshid Azarine at Barbes in Brooklyn
November 17, 2011
Celine Curiol vs Arshid Azarine will be at Barbès in Brooklyn on November 17th 2011 at 7p.m. The event will include spoken word French/English poetry or texts of Celine Curiol transposed with piano compositions and improvisations of Arshid Azarine. After a decade…
Tags: author event, barbes, brooklyn, celine curiol, music, voice over
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Andy Laties leads “Rebel Booksellers” panel at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn
July 22, 2011
Friday, July 22nd at 7:30PM, Andy Laties will lead a panel titled “Rebel Booksellers” at Greenlight Bookstore on 686 Fulton Street in Brooklyn, NY. Laties, author of Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Bookstores Represent Everything You Want to Fight for from Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities, will be in conversation with Christine Onorati from WORD, Jessica Stockton Bagnulo from Greenlight Bookstore, and other independent booksellers. Read more about the event here.
Tags: andy laties, brooklyn, greenlight bookstore, panel, rebel bookseller, WORD
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Gleason’s Gym Hosting The Sweetest Thing Book Launch
April 12, 2011
April 12, 2011, Gleason’s Gym in DUMBO will be hosting the book launch for Mischa Merz’s latest work The Sweetest Thing in which she chronicles her travels across the United States competing in amateur boxing tournaments. Merz discovers the horrors and delights of the world of women’s boxing and gains insights into this eccentric subculture’s place in American life. Location: 77 Front St. 2nd Fl. Brooklyn, NY 11201.
Tags: brooklyn, DUMBO, gleason's, launch, mischa merz, nonfiction, the sweetest thing, women's boxing
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WORD Bookstore, Birthday Presence, and Choices in Childbirth Cosponsor Ina May Gaskin Event
March 6, 2011
March 6, 2011, WORD Bookstore, Birthday Presence, and Choices in Childbirth are cosponsoring an event for Ina May Gaskin. Gaskin’s new book, Birth Matters: How What We Don’t Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us. Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman’s natural ability to birth. Location: to be announced. For more information go to www.wordbrooklyn.com.
Tags: birth matters, Brithday Presence, brooklyn, Choices in Childbirth, ina may gaskin, nonfiction, presentation, signing, WORD Bookstore
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Martin Douglas Poetry Reading at The Home Of.
October 9, 2010
October 9, 2010, 8:00PM, Martin Douglas will be the The Home Of. in Brooklyn, reading from his poetry collection, Once You Go Back. The Home Of is a rear house located one block from the 4th Avenue and 9th Street subway stop, serviced by the F, R, and G trains, in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. For more information on the exact location visit http://thehomeof.org/.
Tags: brooklyn, martin douglas, once you go back, poetry, the house of
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Barry Gifford and Lee Ranaldo at Powerhouse Arena
May 17, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010, at Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main St (between Water St & Howard Aly)
Brooklyn, NY 11201Tags: barry gifford, book reading, brooklyn, ny, powerhouse arena, sailor & lula
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Douglas A. Martin and Lee Stringer at WORD Bookstore in Brooklyn
July 9, 2009
July 9, 7:30pm, WORD Brooklyn, 126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222.
Douglas A. Martin, the author of Branwell, Outline of my Lover, and the newly-published Once You Go Back from Seven Stories, writes in his new book about the children of a…
Tags: brooklyn, brooklyn rail, douglas a martin, lee stringer, new york city, once you go back, phong bui, readings, sleepaway school, word brooklyn
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Barry Gifford + Wild at Heart screening at The Bushwick Starr
June 3, 2009
Barry Gifford will be reading from his newest work, Imagination of the Heart, at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn. The reading will be followed by a screening of David Lynch’s adaptation of Gifford’s novel Wild at Heart. June 3rd, 7:30p,…
Tags: Authors, barry gifford, brooklyn, bushwick starr, films, imagination of the heart, new york city, readings, wild at heart
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Octavia Butler Project at the Brecht Forum
March 25, 2009
March 25, 7-9pm, Brecht Forum, 451 West Street (Between Bank and Bethune), Brooklyn NY. Sliding fee from $6-15.
Tags: brecht forum, brooklyn, discussion, new york city, octavia butler, parable of the talents
“brooklyn” Posts
- Jul 22, Andy Laties leads “Rebel Booksellers” panel at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn
- Apr 12, Gleason’s Gym Hosting The Sweetest Thing Book Launch
- Mar 6, WORD Bookstore, Birthday Presence, and Choices in Childbirth Cosponsor Ina May Gaskin Event
- Oct 9, Martin Douglas Poetry Reading at The Home Of.
- Jul 9, Douglas A. Martin and Lee Stringer at WORD Bookstore in Brooklyn
- Mar 25, Octavia Butler Project at the Brecht Forum
