The Brooklyn Projects And Emotional Rescue Come To The Cornelia Street Cafe, 7/6

The BROOKLYN PROJECT And EMOTIONAL RESCUE come to the CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ. The shows will both take place on July 6. The Cornelia Street Cafe is located at 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York. For more information contact 212-989-9319 or http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com.

Tue Jul 06
BRETT CHALFIN'S BROOKLYN PROJECT
(Brett Chalfin, drums, toys, harmonium; Sam Barsh, piano, nord, melodica; Tomek Miernowski, guitar; Jeff Koch, bass; Special guest to be announced)

Brett Chalfin's "Brooklyn Project" has been around now for a little over 3 years. Brett started the group with the help of bassist/composer Jeff Koch briefly after the two graduated from Adam Bernstein's Jazz Program at the Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn. The collective of interchangeable musicians serves as a launching platform for new, improvised and experimental music. In addition to original compositions, Brett's "Brooklyn Project" plans to bring to Cornelia Street creative reinterpretations of works by Squarepusher, Joni Mitchell, and Jay-Z. The collective will be joined by the keys player Sam Barsh (Avishai Cohen Trio) and Tomek Miernowski, a fabulous recording engineer/producer and a virtuosic guitarist who is rapidly making his mark after just one year in New York City.
Cover will be $10.

Tue Jul 06
6:00PM EMOTIONAL RESCUE : INTERACTIVE POETRY
Emotional Rescue: Lust, anger and confusion. Four poets and performers face their audience.

Erica Miriam Fabri and Robin Andre, Thomas Fucaloro, Jud Newborn,and Jackie Sheeler shake up the poetry scene with this interactive reading. The audience names an emotion, the performers react. Bliss, obsession, or melancholia? You decide!

ROBIN ANDRE grew up and worked with multi-platinum group the Fugees. Later he signed to RCA and toured with The Dave Mathews Band. Robin lives in NYC and you can see him perform weekly at the Village Underground.

ERICA MIRIAM FABRI is the author of the poetry collection Dialect of a Skirt (Hanging Loose Press, 2009). Erica has performed, and facilitated workshops, at venues including Cooper Union, NYU, Columbia University, Poet's House. She is also a spoken word mentor for Urban Word NYC, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing spoken word, poetry and hip-hop arts to inner-city teens.

THOMAS FUCALORO has the sexiest legs in poetry he just hasn't learned how to use them, yet.

JUD NEWBORN is an author, poet, lyricist, and filmmaker. Co-author of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose (Oneworld, 2007), Jud is also a leading Holocaust scholar and served as Founding Historian for NYC's Museum of Jewish Heritage.

JACKIE SHEELER is a poet, songwriter, and activist who enjoys performing random acts of kindness almost as much as random acts of righteous indignation. Her third book, a New & Selected Poems, will be published by NY Quarterly in the fall.
Cover is $7.