The Moth StorySLAM: Promises @ HousingWorks Bookstore Cafe SoHo
By HousingWorks Bookstore Cafe
PROMISES: Prepare a five-minute story about pledges. Wedding vows and pinky swears. Secret pacts. Promises you make to your friends, your parents, your kids or yourself. The oaths you work hard to honor and the empty ones you knew you’d never be able to keep. The Hippocratic Oath or just, “I won’t tell a soul.” You have my word."
Community Conversations – SoHo in Transition with the Bowery Mission
By Mulberry Street Branch-The New York Public Library
This discussion will feature the Bowery Mission and will focus on the critical issue of homelessness and what the Neighborhood can do to help this organization.
Sundays on Broadway @ WeisAcres: Inhibited Bites by Neil Goldberg
By Cathy Weis Projects
Inhibited Bites is a solo performance about the strangeness of being alive in a body, especially our need to eat. Artist and performer Neil Goldberg uses his visual art — such as the photo series The Gay Couples of Whole Foods or the Audubon-style drawings Wild Animals Eat My Family and Me — as backdrops for personal narratives, cultural reflections, and scientific speculations that examine our complicated relationships to being flesh and blood. Whether discussing the connections between internalized homophobia and aggressive hygiene or our shifting identification with predator and prey animals, Goldberg reveals the absurdity, mystery, sublimity, and horror underlying everyday bodily experience.
TASTE Fall Fiction Issue Release Party at HousingWorks Bookstore Cafe
By HousingWorks Bookstore Cafe
PROMISES: Prepare a five-minute story about pledges. Wedding vows and pinky swears. Secret pacts. Promises you make to your friends, your parents, your kids or yourself. The oaths you work hard to honor and the empty ones you knew you’d never be able to keep. The Hippocratic Oath or just, “I won’t tell a soul.” You have my word.
Brazen Text & The Femme Electric: Rachel McKibbens & Airea D. Matthews
By HousingWorks Bookstore Cafe
HousingWorks Bookstore Cafe presents a reading and conversation with Rachel McKibbens & Airea D. Matthews. Rachel McKibbens will read from her forthcoming book of poetry, BLUD (Copper Canyon Press, Oct 2017) and Airea D. Matthews will read from her recently published first book of poetry, Simulacra (Yale University Press, March 2017). Followed by a conversation about language, craft, healing, and incantation. Sponsored by Adelphi University MFA in Creative Writing.
Community Board No. 2 October Meeting
By Community Board No. 2
Community Board 2 Manhattan: The public session begins at 6:30 pm.