Boog City's annual Presidents' Day Weekend event, Welcome to Boog City 10.5 Poetry, Music, Theater, and Film Festival, will take place from Fri. Feb. 17-Sun. Feb. 19.
And here's who put together Welcome to Boog City 10.5: festival curator David Kirschenbaum; logo Dara Cerv; music Brookes McKenzie; poetry Jackie Clark, Steve Dalachinsky, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, Jaclyn Lovell, and Kirschenbaum; film Joel Schlemowitz; and levy lives Clark.
It will feature 51 poets, 17 musical acts, 3 poets theater plays, 2 poets in conversation with one another, and 1 d.a. levy lives press.
Among the festival highlights are:
-Boog's d.a. levy lives series continues its 14th season devoting an afternoon to Argos Books;
-Our Classic Albums Live series presents, for its 25th anniversary, Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted.
-Our 8th Poets' Theater night, featuring 3 short plays.
-Our Poetry Talk Talk will feature poets Laynie Browne and Patricio Ferrari reading and in conversation.
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 18
Unnameable Books600 Vanderbilt Ave.Brooklyn
$5 suggested
11:30 a.m. Jackson Sturkey (music)12:00 p.m. Laura Cronk12:15 p.m. Chris Salerno12:30 p.m. Megan DiBello12:40 p.m. Sam Jablon12:50 p.m. Davy Knittle 1:05 p.m. Thomas Devaney
1:20 p.m. break
1:30 p.m. Sarah Bartlett 1:45 p.m. Alyson Pomerantz 2:00 p.m. Gracie Leavitt 2:15 p.m. Katy Lederer 2:25 p.m. Dan Wilcox 2:40 p.m. Sparrow 2:50 p.m. Emmerson Pierson (music)
3:20 p.m. break
3:30 p.m. d.a. levy lives: celebrating renegade presses series: Argos Booksco-editors Iris Cushing and ElizabetH Clark Wessel
3:30 p.m. Samantha Zighelboim 3:42 p.m. Bianca Lynne Spriggs 3:54 p.m. Isaac Fornarola, 1st set (music) 4:09 p.m. Jennifer Hayashida 4:21 p.m. Marina Blitshteyn 4:33 p.m. Amber Atiya 4:45 p.m. Isaac Fornarola, 2nd set (music)
5:00 p.m. break
5:45 p.m. Nomi Stone 5:55 p.m. Brent Terry 6:05 p.m. Ali Power 6:15 p.m. Eli Nadeau 6:25 p.m. JP Howard 6:35 p.m. Joel Allegretti 6:45 p.m. Bipolar Bradley Off Meds, 1st set (music) 7:05 p.m. Wendy Walters 7:15 p.m. Andrew James Weatherhead 7:25 p.m. Rachel Valinsky 7:35 p.m. Brooke Ellsworth 7:45 p.m. Amber Atiya 7:55 p.m. Aubrie Marrin 8:05 p.m. erica kaufman 8:20 p.m. Bipolar Bradley Off Meds, 2nd set (music)
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19
Unnameable Books600 Vanderbilt Ave.Brooklyn
$5 suggested
11:00 a.m. Brian Bonelli (music)11:30 a.m. Robert Lopez11:40 p.m. Maryam Parhizkar11:55 p.m. Lynn Melnick12:05 p.m. Jeff T. Johnson12:15 p.m. David Segovia (music)
12:45 p.m. break
12:55 p.m. Buck Downs 1:10 p.m. Sarah Bernstein 1:20 p.m. Jessica Baran 1:30 p.m. Emily Toder 1:40 p.m. Justin Sherwood 1:50 p.m. MariAna Ruiz Firmat 2:00 p.m. Larissa Shmailo
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