Brooklyn Reading Works presents the 4th annual “Holiday In Reality” Poetry Blast, with an all-star line-up of New York poet-heroes: legendary Edwin Torres, powerful Morgan Parker, brand new mom Julia Guez and Brooklyn bon vivant Pat Smith. Oct. 16, 8 p.m., at Park Slope’s Old Stone House, 336 3rd St. Suggested donation of ten bucks at the door for beer, wine, snacks and the delicious thrill of poetry on the tongue!“And I taste at the root of the tongue the unreal of what is real.” Wallace Stevens,Holiday in Reality
Illustration by http://www.alice-wellinger.com/Life-courage
September 29, 2014
September 18, 2014
September 11, 2014
Sept 16 at 8PM: Hot and Bothered: Writers on Fire
Brooklyn Reading Works presents HOT AND BOTHERED: WRITERS ON FIRE, a Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event. On September 16 at 8PM, acclaimed authors Lisa Gornick, Beth Bosworth and Marian Fontana come together to explore just what makes fire irresistible to us as writers, readers, and human beings. Gornicks’ Tinderbox speaks tothe power of unearthing old secrets, and lighting a match to engulf a family in its own dark past. Marian Fontana’s memoir A Widow’s Walk addresses her marriage to a New York City firefighter. Beth Bosworth, author of The Source of Water and Other Stories, will read an excerpt from , “Sequoia,” about how a fire destroys one home and brings about another.
Each author will read from their work. There will be a panel discussion that touches on fire as subject, metaphor and literary device.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Beth Bosworth’s latest book The Source of Life and Other Stories was the 2012 winner of the Heinz Drue Award. She has a story coming out in Agni in 2014. She has taught at the New School for Social Research, CUNY’S NYC Technical College, and for many years at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, where she is also founding editor of the Saint Ann’s Review. Her publications include a novel, Tunneling, and a collection of short stories, A Burden of Earth. Her stories have appeared in the Kenyon Review, the Seneca Review, Forward, IMAGE, Hanging Loose, Guernica, and elsewhere.
Lisa Gornick is the author of two novels: Tinderbox (Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and Picador) and A Private Sorcery, (Algonquin). Her stories and essays have appeared widely, including in AGNI, Prairie Schooner, and The Sun, and have received many awards, including Distinguished Story by the Best American Short Stories. She holds a B.A. from Princeton, a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Yale, and is a graduate of the writing program at N.Y.U. and the psychoanalytic training program at Columbia. A collection of linked stories, Louisa Meets Bear, will be published June 2015, also with Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Marian Fontana has been a writer and performer for over twenty-five years. Her have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Guardian and more. Her memoir, A Widows Walk was published by Simon and Schuster and was in the Top Ten Great Reads of 2005 by People magazine and the Washington Post’s Book Raves of 2005. She is currently on the board of the New York Writers Coalition, a not-for-profit that offers creative writing classes to some of the most underserved populations.
April 28, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 8PM: Edgy Moms 2014
Brooklyn Reading Works presents Edgy Moms 2014 with hosts Louise Crawford and Sophia Romero.
The 2014 EDGY MOMS ARE: Joanna Clapps Herman, author of No Longer And Not Yet, Nicole Caccavo Kear author of Now I See You, Michele Zackheim, author of Last Train to Paris; Karen Ritter, humorous non-fiction; poetry from Alex Beers and Marietta Abrams Brill and Elizabeth Laura Nelson, author of "A Bright Eyes Song Ended My Marriage" published in XO Jane.
The Old Stone House
336 Third Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn (between 4th and 5th Avenues). F train to Fourth Avenue, R train to Union Street. 718-768-9135.
A $5 donation includes wine and snacks and GIFT BAGS from Edgy Moms sponsors Babeland and The Modern Chemist.
illustration by www.alice-wellinger.com
April 03, 2014
March 09, 2014
March 20, 2014 at 8PM: New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights
New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights curated by Rosemary Moore
(or three playwrights and a composer to be exact)
Troy Deutsch “Bull Shark Attack"
Angela Hanks "Good Latimer"
Lizzie Olesker “New work”
* * *
And a composer/ lyricist
Mary Lloyd-Butler "Hide and Seek"
The Old Stone House is located on Fifth Avenue and Third Street.
Suggested donation of $5 includes refreshments and wine.
(The Old Stone House is an actual stone house set way back from street behind a large playground)
http://theoldstonehouse.org/
Troy Deutsch is a writer from rural Minnesota living in New York City. His play LAKE WATER was developed at The New Group through the New Group/New Works Reading Series under the direction of Ian Morgan. The play was a semi-‐Jinalist for the O’Neill Playwriting Conference and received its world premiere at IRT Theater produced by Neighborhood Productions, directed by Daniel Talbott. Troy’s play PUSSYCAT was produced by the University of Utah and was a regional Jinalist with Kennedy Center ACTF. His play GLOWING DINOFLAGELLATES was performed on the beach in San Francisco with Rising Phoenix Rep and Kid Brooklyn Productions. Troy’s three-‐act family drama THE ROSE GARDEN was a semi-‐Jinalist for the O’Neill Playwriting Conference and he is developing his play A VIDEO WORLD with director Stephen Brackett. Troy is currently in post-‐production on the short Jilm NO ONE TOLD US, which he wrote, directed, and acted in with Cherry in the Spoon Productions. Training: BFA from the University of Utah Actor Training Program.
Angela Hanks's plays inlcude: Big Tex (EST/Youngblood), Myrna In Transit (EST/Youngblood), Breathe Into This Bag, and High Five. Her work has been seen at Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Flea Theater, Cherry Lane, and the New York International Fringe Festival. She is an alumna of EST's OBIE-winning Youngblood, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and a member of the Dramatist Guild of America. M.F.A. in Playwriting from the New School for Drama.
Mary Lloyd-Butler (a Park Slope resident for the past 30 years!) is a composer whose works include musical theatre, vocal, instrumental and educational pieces. Her musical, The Happiness of Fish, written in collaboration with Mindi Dickstein was produced two times at the Bridewell Theatre in London. Her choral piece ‘Head, Heart’ with text by Lydia Davispremiered with the Brooklyn Conservatory Chorale in February of 2013. She has had several arrangements published by Peters Music Publishers who also distribute her recorder book for middle schools students: ‘Myth Music’.This collection was written for her students at the Berkeley Carroll School. For more information and to hear samples of her work: marylloyd-butler.com
Lizzie Olesker had plays developed and presented at the Invisible Dog, the New Ohio Theater, Dixon Place, BAX, Clubbed Thumb, the Cherry Lane, Here, and the Public. Recipient of an inaugural Audrey Residency from New Georges, she is developing a new play with director Sarah Krohn. Upcoming is also a site specific piece to be performed in local laundromats, with support from Brooklyn Arts Council. She teaches playwriting at NYU, iives in Brooklyn with her family, and is involved in community issues around the Gowanus Canal.
February 06, 2014
Feb 13 at 8PM: THE AUTHORED VOICE IS CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW
THE AUTHORED VOICE: CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW. Check back: we will reschedule.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
8:00 - 10:00PM
Old Stone House - Washington Park - Park Slope, Brooklyn
336 Third Street, b/t 4th & 5th Avenues
718.768.3195
[email protected]
Brooklyn Reading Works presents The Authored Voice: Storytelling Across Lives and Media, an evening of stories and conversation with Murray Nossel, Catherine Burns, Trisha Coburn, and Edgar Oliver, moderated by John Guidry. These award-winning panelists will talk about the various media they have used to tell stories-performance, film, books, videos-and the different ways they cultivate voice for themselves and others. We will explore how storytelling is cathartic, empowering, entertaining ... and sometimes a pretty good business. Join us at the Old Stone House in Park Slope on February 13, 2014, at 8:00 pm. A $5 donation at the door is appreciated to defray costs of wine and refreshments at the event.
The Panelists
MURRAY NOSSEL is co-founder of Narativwith Paul Browde, a company that has developed a storytelling methodology based on Murray and Paul's stage performance, Two Men Talking.The performance began as an improvised telling of the story of their friendship, from their school days in South Africa to New York in the 1990s and the present. Storytelling was central to Murray's practice as a clinician in AIDS services during the height of the epidemic, and he is also an award-winning filmmaker whose work includes Why Can't We Be a Family Again?, A Brooklyn Family Tale,Paternal Instinct, and Turn to Me, featuring Nobel Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel. Murray holds a doctorate in Social Work from Columbia University and teaches in Columbia's Master of Science in Narrative Medicine program.
TRISHA COBURN has worked for a number of years as a fine artist in Boston and New York. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, and she is also an interior designer with De La Torre Design. Trisha's storytelling began with a one-day workshop at Narativ and eventually led her toThe Moth, presenting her story, "Miss Macy," on tour and on The Moth Radio Hour. Trisha is currently working on a collection of short stories based on her childhood experiences growing up in Alabama. She lives in New York and has three wonderful children.
CATHERINE BURNS is The Moth's long time Artistic Director and a frequent host of the Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour. She is the editor of the New York TimesBest Seller The Moth: 50 True Stories. Prior to The Moth, she directed and produced independent films and television, interviewing such diverse talent as Ozzy Osbourne, Martha Stewart and Howard Stern. She is the director of the solo show Helen & Edgar, which opened at The Public Theater in January with the Under the Radar Festival, where it was named a pick of the festival by The New Yorker, Time Out and WNYC. Born and raised in Alabama, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two year old son.
EDGAR OLIVER is a novelist, poet, and playwright who has been lauded as "a living work of theater all by himself" by Ben Brantley of The New York Times. He is a member of the Axis Theatre Company, under the direction of Randy Sharp. His one-man showEast 10th Street: Self-Portrait with Empty House was the recipient of a Fringe First Award at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His most recent show,Helen & Edgar, directed by the Moth's Artistic Director Catherine Burns and produced by Moth Founder George Dawes Green, did a sold-out run at The Public Theater with the Under the Radar Festival. He has published three collections of his poems-A Portrait of New York by a Wanderer There,Summer, and The Brooklyn Public Library-and a novel, The Man Who Loved Plants.
JOHN GUIDRY is the curator & moderator of "The Authored Voice." John uses storytelling to amplify and strengthen the voices of individuals, organizations, and causes. He has worked in public health and community development as a researcher, consultant, and movement leader with numerous organizations around the world. His multi-media social marketing and health communications campaigns have reached millions globally, and he has published two booksEngaging the Community in Decision Making and Globalizations and Social Movements. A new project, "The Pursuit-Stories of Joy, Suffering, and the American Dream" is in development now-stay tuned toTruth and Rocket Science.
LOUISE CRAWFORD is the founder of Brooklyn Social Media and a passionate advocate for people and projects she believes in. Since 2004, she has published the popular Brooklyn blog Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn. She is the founder of the Brooklyn Blogfest, an annual networking event for bloggers, and Brooklyn Reading Works. From 2005-2010, Louise wrote Smartmom, a weekly column for The Brooklyn Paper about parenting and modern life.
January 01, 2014
Jan 16, 2014 at 8PM: Court and Spark Turns 40
Brooklyn Reading Works Presents: Court and Spark Turns 40: A Celebration of Joni Mitchell's 1974 album (Concert performance and tribute).
With Sheila Weller, author of Girls Like Us. Amy Burton Greta Gertler Gold Lauren Fox, Ina May Wool Peter Silsbee Hillary Barleaux Caitlin Claessens, Nancy O Graham and Jennifer Lewis Bennett will perform every song on the album in order.
The Old Stone House, 336 Third Street between 4th and 5th Avenues. F Train to Fourth Avenue, R Train to Union Street.
Info: Louise Crawford, 718-288-4290, [email protected]
November 21, 2013
December 12 at 8PM: Feast: Writers on Food
BRING SOMETHING TO READ. BRING AN APPETITE.
On December 12, 2013 at 8PM, Brooklyn Reading Works at The Old Stone House in Park Slope presents Feast: Writers on Food (as subject matter, as metaphor) presented by Ame Gilbert.
This year we invite anyone who wants to read a poem, a short story or a non-fiction piece about food to read at this BRW open mic.
Ken Carlton, author of The Hunger (included in Best Food Writing of 2009) will open the event with a short reading from his new novel Food for Marriage.
Feast is a fundraiser for a local food pantry. Give generously ($10 is suggested donation). Soup, bread and dessert will be served. Plus wine. Readings are limited to 8-minutes.
When: December 12, 2013 at 8PM
What: Feast: Writers on Food Open Mic
Where: The Old Stone House, 336 Third Street between 4th and 5th Avenues. F train to Fourth Avenue. R train to Union Street. For info: 718-288-4290
What else: $10 donation includes wine, soup, bread and dessert
October 30, 2013
Nov 14: Writing War: Fiction and Memoir by Veterans
On Thursday, November 14 at 8PM, Brooklyn Reading Works presents: WRITING WAR: Fiction and Memoir by Veterans curated by Peter Catapano with Phil Klay, Kevin R. McPartland, Maurice Emerson Decaul, Lynn Hill and Matthew Mellina.
The Old Stone House in Park Slope 336 Third Street between Fifth and Fourth Avenues. R train to Union Street or F train to Fourth Avenue. A $5 donation includes wine and snacks.
Lynn Hill is a United States Air Force veteran, performer and poet. She is a graduate of Columbia University and served as an intelligence analyst and worked with bomber, Red Flag simulated war games and Predator drones. In 2012 and 2013 she appeared in the multimedia show "Holding It Down" with Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd. Her next project, "Lioness," with Maurice Decaul, will debut at the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival in 2014.
Maurice Emerson Decaul served in the United States Marine Corps in the Iraq War. He is an essayist and librettist whose work has been featured in the New York Times, The Daily Beast, Sierra Magazine, Barely South Review, Epiphany and others. He is a graduate of Columbia University and is working towards his M.F.A. at New York University. In 2012 and 2013 he appeared in the multimedia show "Holding It Down" with Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd. His next project, "Lioness," with Lynn Hill, will debut at the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival in 2014.
Kevin R. McPartland is the author of "Brownstone Dreams" (Boann Books and Media), a tale of love and death in 1960s Brooklyn. A native Brooklynite, novelist and short story writer, his work has appeared in AIM Magazine, Grit Mag and in "Adventures in Hell," an anthology of short stories by Vietnam veterans. Follow Kevin on Facebook.
Phil Klay served in the United States Marine Corps from 2005 to 2009, and was deployed to Iraq in 2007-8. He is the author of the forthcoming short story collection, "Redeployment," and is a contributor to the collection "Fire and Forget: Short Stories From the Long War." His work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Tin House and elsewhere.
Matthew Mellina served in the US Army from 2002-2007, deploying to Iraq in 2006 with the 4th ID. He is working on his first novel and has had pieces featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, and Slate.
Peter Catapano (curator) is the editor of Happy Days, Home Fires, and other opinion sections at the New York Times Web site. He lives in Brooklyn.
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