Fiction that Matters

penamerican:

photo © Beowulf Sheehan

with

Baratunde Thurston

Katie Halper 

John Fugelsang

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

7:00pm until 10:00pm in EDT

PEN will treat Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend crowds to an unexpected evening of literature and laughs. Enjoy a night of political comedy and commentary, as New York’s top progressive performers joke, jab, rant, vent, prod, provoke and revel in their right to express themselves at a one-night comedy event celebrating freedom of expression. 

Who says freedom of expression has to be serious? For the first time ever, PEN will partner with Laughing Liberally, whose performers have appeared on Comedy Central, HBO, MSNBC, a national tour, and in the pages of The Onion, The Nation, and The Huffington Post. No topic is off-limits, no politician safe, and no time can be better than this election season to laugh loudly and laugh liberally.

Galapagos Art Space: 16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Wednesday, September 19

Tickets: $15 ($10 for PEN Members)

https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/916814

This is a ticketed event and RSVP-ing over Facebook does not guarantee you a seat. Use the link above to purchase your tickets in advance, or buy at the door. 

Brooklyn open studio artist registration open until June 29

Did you know Brooklyn is home to more artists than anywhere else in the United States, making it one of the world’s capitals of creativity?

Are you a Brooklyn artist or do you know someone who is? Artist registration for GO is open now, but closes in just two days; the deadline for artist registration is this Friday, June 29, 2012.

GO: a community-curated open studio project is an exciting, new borough-wide initiative to deepen connections between the Museum, Brooklyn artists, and YOU! During GO, Brooklyn-based artists will open their studios to the community on September 8–9, 2012 and visitors will nominate artists for inclusion in a group exhibition to open at the Brooklyn Museum on Target First Saturday, December 1, 2012.

penamerican:

“The PEN America Center’s organizational focus is the effect of world events on the safety and freedom of expression of writers, so the topic of war naturally looms large in its cultural consciousness. As part of the recent PEN World Voices Festival, Polish journalist and author Wojciech Jagielski was interviewed by Joel Whitney, a founding editor of Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics.”

(via A Reporter’s Perspective on War at PEN World Voices - WNYC Culture)