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Hi all,
From Wed. Sept. 9-Sun. Sept. 13 we’ll be putting on the third annual Welcome to Boog City poetry and music festival, a fundraiser for our press and community newspaper. Here are links to the first two festivals’ programs:
The breakdown for this year’s festival is:
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 6:00 P.M.
ACA Galleries (529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr., bet. 10th/11th aves.)
This is the first date of season seven of our d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press series, where each month we have a different non-NYC small press host its authors and a musical act.
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 12:00 P.M.
http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/wbcprogram2007.pdf
http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc51.pdf
The breakdown for this year’s festival is:
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 7:00 P.M.
Sidewalk Café (94 Ave. A, at E. 6th St.)
Boog City Classic Albums Live will kick off the festival with local musical acts performing, for its 10th anniversary, The Magnetic Fields’ classic 69 Love Songs. Among those partaking:
Ben Krieger
Dream Bitches
Gracefully
The Trouble Dolls
Andrew Philip Tipton
Genan Zilkha
and more
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 6:00 P.M.
ACA Galleries (529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr., bet. 10th/11th aves.)
This is the first date of season seven of our d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press series, where each month we have a different non-NYC small press host its authors and a musical act.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 7:00 P.M.
Sidewalk Café (94 Ave. A, at E.6th St.)
We’ll have poets, smaller musical acts, full bands, and theater performances.
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 12:00 P.M.
Unnameable Books (600 Vanderbilt Ave., bet. Prospect Pl./St. Marks Ave., Brooklyn)
Poets and musical acts performing nonstop during our 6th annual small, small press fair, which will also have readings from poets representing the exhibiting presses. The day will also feature two poets in conversation with each other.
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 12:00 P.M.
Unnameable Books (600 Vanderbilt Ave., bet. Prospect Pl./St. Marks Ave., Brooklyn)
We’ll close the festival with more poets and musical acts performing, sandwiched around a discussion.
The poets who will give readings on Fri., Sat., or Sun. include:
Ammiel Alcalay
Sandra Beasley
Mike County
Jim Dunn
Eric Gelsinger
Hailey Higdon
Paolo Javier
Paul Foster Johnson
Basil King
Martha King
Brendan Lorber
Dan Machlin
Justin Marks
Tracey McTague
Ryan Murphy
Elinor Nauen
Jean-Paul Pecqueur
Nick Piombino
Joanna Sondheim
Ryan Walker
Dana Ward
Lewis Warsh
Karen Weiser
Dan Wilcox
Angela Veronica Wong
and more
On Saturday, Anselm Berrigan and Buck Downs will be reading and in conversation with one another.
On Sunday there will be a discussion on politics, poetics, and community curated and moderated by longtime Boog contributor Greg Fuchs
The musical acts who will perform solo sets on Fri., Sat., or Sun. include:
Dorit
Gracefully
Serena Jost
Phoebe Kreutz
Alan Semerdjian
The Lo and the Lonesome
and more
Please email editor@boogcity.com for additional information.
Looking forward to seeing you there and hope this finds you swell.
as ever,
David
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David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher
Boog City
330 W.28th St., Suite 6H
NY, NY 10001-4754
For event and publication information:
http://welcometoboogcity.com/
T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)
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