Plays, Poets, Talks and More Set for 2013 Welcome to Boog City Festival, Now thru 8/5
By: BWW News Desk Aug. 02, 2013
From today, Aug. 2 through Mon. Aug. 5, Boog's 22nd anniversary will be celebrated by putting on the seventh annual Welcome to Boog City poetry, music, and theater festival. It will feature 71 poets, 19 musical acts, 10 tabling small presses, 8 poets theater plays, 3 political talks, 2 poets in conversation with one another, 1 d.a. levy lives visiting press, 1 poetry workshop, and 1 small press publishing panel over the four days.
7th Annual Welcome to Boog City festival
4 Days of Poetry, Music, and Theater
SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY AUGUST 2, 6:00 P.M.
Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Ave.
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
6:00 p.m. Timothy Donnelly
6:10 p.m. Montana Ray
6:20 p.m. Morgan Parker
6:30 p.m. Kristi Maxwell
6:45 p.m. Nathan Schneider,?co-editor, Waging Nonviolence,?Speaking on Occupy
6:55 p.m. Richard Ringer-music
7:25 p.m. Break
7:35 p.m. Greg Fuchs
7:45 p.m. Marina Blitshteyn
7:55 p.m. Sarah Jeanne Peters
8:10 p.m. Poetry Talk Talk-Buck Downs reading and in?conversation w/ Greg Fuchs
9:00 p.m. Soul Candy-music
Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Ave. Venue is bet. Prospect Pl./St. Marks Ave.
SATURDAY AUGUST 3, 11:00 A.M.
Unnameable Books
10th AnnuAl Small, Small Press Fair, Day 1
11:00 a.M. Fair starts,
11:30 a.m. (G)IRL, Belladonna*
11:40 a.m. Danforth Prince,?Blood Moon Productions
11:50 a.m. Buck Downs, Buck Downs Books
12:00 p.m. Jeff Wright, Live Mag! & Spuyten Duyvil
12:10 p.m. melissa christine goodrum, Other Rooms Press
12:20 p.m Tantra-zawadi, Poets Wear Prada
12:30 p.m. Paolo Javier, Staging Ground Mag
12:40 p.m. Lydia Cortes and Mike McDonough, Straw Gate Books
12:50 p.m. Bonny Finberg, The Unbearables
1:00 p.m. Yuko Otomo
1:10 p.m. Ron Kolm
1:20 p.m. Steve Dalachinsky
1:30 p.m. Thurston Moore
1:45 p.m. The Tet Offensive-music
2:15 p.m. Break
BoogWork-Keckler, King, Melnick
2:25 p.m. Joseph Keckler-music
2:35 p.m. Amy King-reading
2:50 p.m. Amy King-workshop
3:05 p.m. Lynn Melnick-reading
3:15 p.m. Amy King-workshop
3:30 p.m. Joseph Keckler-music
3:40 p.m. Joe Krausman
3:55 p.m. Margaret Bashaar
4:10 p.m. Paige Taggart
4:20 p.m. Jenny Johnson
4:35 p.M. Sampson Starkweather
4:45 p.m. Phoebe Blue and the?Make Baleaves-music
5:15 p.m. Break
5:25 p.m. Suzanne Mercury
5:40 p.m. Lindsey Boldt
5:55 p.m. Steve Orth
6:10 p.m. Leopoldine Core
6:20 p.m. Daniel Owen
6:30 p.m. Maribeth Theroux
6:40 p.m. Becca Klaver
6:50 p.m. Tony Iantosca
7:00 p.m. Larissa Shmailo
7:10 p.m. Mark Gurarie
7:25 p.m. Mark Statman
7:35 p.m. Cannonball Statman-music
SUNDAY AUGUST 4, 11:00 A.M.
Unnameable Books
10th AnnuAl Small, Small Press Fair, Day 2
11:00 a.m. Amelia Bentley
11:10 a.m. Kimberly Ann Southwick
11:25 a.m. Paul Siegell
11:40 a.m. Melanie Neilson
11:50 a.m. Thomas Devaney
12:05 p.m. Phoebe Novak-music
12:35 p.m. Christophe Casamassima
12:50 p.m. S.M. Stone
1:05 p.m. Tony Mancus
1:20 p.m. Toby Altman
1:35 p.m. Norman Oder, editor Atlantic Yards Report, Speaking on Atlantic Yards
1:45 p.m. Bird To Prey-music
2:15 p..m. Small Presses: The Book as an Object, curated and moderated by Kimberly Ann Southwick, featuring:
Damask Press (Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Chicago),
Toby Altman, co-founder
Monk Books, Bianca Stone, co-editor
Stonecutter Journal (Brooklyn),
Katie Raissian, editor-in-chief
Summer BF Press (Oakland),
Lindsey Boldt and Steve Orth, co-editors
SUNDAY AUGUST 4, 5:30 P.M.
Sidewalk Café
94 Avenue A.
NYC
$5 suggested
4th Boog Poets Theater, featuring:
5:30 p.m. Radomir Luza, The Blood Will Murder Roses
5:45 p.m. Bob Kerr, This The Word
6:00 p.m. Ken Taylor, 24 Hour Donut
6:15 p.m. Jeff Wright, Clubhouse on East 13th
6:30 p.m. Lindsey Boldt & Steve Orth, The Reading
6:45 p.m. Magus Magnus, Antigone Idyll, from Idylls for a Bare Stage
7:00 p.m. Ed Berrigan and Jess Fiorini, A Place for Them
7:15 p.m. Jesse Glass, Poetic Fictions: A New Age Dawns At Longshoreman's Hall, San Francisco, June 11, 1964!
7:30 p.m. Classic Albums Live: for its 15th Anniversary, Major Matt Mason USA's Me Me Me
Kung Fu Crimewave
-Mr Softie -Budapest -Rockstar
Steve Espinola and Preston Spurlock
-The Ballad Of Danny Scheer -Inside Of You
Jonathan Berger
-Black Hole
Dan & Rachel
-I Know You Know -Rose PaNed Glasses
Todd Carlstrom and the Clamour
-Price Is Right -Apple Sauce -I'm Sorry
Justin Remer
-Goodbye Southern Death Swing -Kicker
Casey Holford
-Krooklyn
Cheri Leone
-Waitress Song
Major Matt Mason USA
-Plutonium
6:00 p.m. Major Matt Mason USA -Solo Set
Directions: A/B/C/D/E/F/V to W. 4th St.
Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave.
Venue is at East 6th Street
MONDAY AUGUST 5, 6:00 P.M.
Unnameable Books
6:00 p.m. Alan Kleiman
6:10 p.m. Sarah Anne Wallen
6:20 p.m. Charity Coleman
6:30 p.M. Adam Robinson
6:45 p.m. Jaclyn Lovell
6:55 p.m. Ray DeJesús
7:05 p.m. May Boeve, executive director and?co-founder 350.org,?
Speaking on Climate Change
7:15 p.m. Bran, Don & Dixiebop-music
7:45 p.m. Break
8:00 p.m. d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press, season 11 kick-off:
Publishing Genius Press (Baltimore)
Adam Robinson, editor
Readers:
Stephanie Barber
Polly Bresnick
Melissa Broder
Megan McShea
Edward Mullany
Mel Nichols
Matthew Savoca
Mike Topp
John Dermot Woods
Music - Mel Nichols
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