Welcome to Boog City 10.5 Festival this Presidents' Day Weekend

By: Jan. 25, 2017
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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.

Welcome to Boog City 10.5 Poetry, Music, Theater, and Film Festival
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 17
Unnameable Books600 Vanderbilt Ave.Brooklyn
$5 suggested
5:45 p.m. Anton Yakovlev6:00 p.m. Sylvia Gorelick6:10 p.m. Bruce Weber6:20 p.m. Vyt Bakatis6:30 p.m. Joanne Pagano Weber6:40 p.m. Poetry Talk Talk, Laynie Browne and Patricio Ferrari reading and in conversation, Pt. 17:10 p.m. Riley Pinkerton & Henry Black (music)
7:40 p.m. break
7:50 p.m. Poetry Talk Talk, Browne and Ferrari, Pt. 28:20 p.m. Ron Kolm8:30 p.m. Claire Donato8:40 p.m. Timothy Donnelly8:50 p.m. Alan Semerdjian9:00 p.m. Katie Skare (music)

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

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19, 5:30 P.M.
Sidewalk Cafe94 Avenue ANYC
$5 suggested
5:30 p.m. T0ska (music) 5:45 p.m. Jay Besemer 6:00 p.m. Denize Lauture 6:15 p.m. Cara Benson 6:30 p.m. Diana Smith (music) 7:00 p.m. Nathaniel Siegel (play) 7:15 p.m. Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte, The Agony of Ingeborg Bachmann (play) 7:35 p.m. Buck Downs, Filthy Lucre (play) 7:50 p.m. Jeffrey Cyphers Wright 8:00 p.m. Jenny Perlin (film) 8:15 p.m Pavement, Slanted and Enchanted at 25
--Dots Will Echo--Summer Babe (Winter Version)Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17
--Robot Princess--No Life Singed HerIn The Mouth A Desert
--Ben Pagano & Friend--Conduit For Sale!Zurich Is StainedChelsey's Little Wrists
--Robot Princess--Loretta's Scars
--Giovanni Colantonio--Here
--Point/Forty-Five--Two States Perfume-VFame Throwa
--Freeze Frame--Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era
--Peter Ingles--Our Singer

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