Category: Moonstone Arts Center Events
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Poets and Prophets Presents Debrah Morkun
Tuesday, January 17, 7pm – Poetry Poets and Prophets Presents Debrah Morkun “I believe in near death experiences and pray to the old gods. I live in Philadelphia, where I curate The Jubilant Thicket Literary Series & co-curate (with Kim Gek Lin Short) The General Idea Series. I am the author of The Ida Pingala…
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The Nation Magazine Discussion Group Presents Eugene McCarraher on The End of Capitalism
Sunday, January 15, 11am – Discussion The Nation Magazine Discussion Group Presents Eugene McCarraher on The End of Capitalism and the Wellsprings of Radical Hope Eugene McCarraher, Associate Professor of Humanities and History at Villanova University was published in a June 8, 2011 issue of The Nation on the topic: Reimagining Capitalism. His essay follows.…
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Brenda Dixon Gottschild author of Joan Myers Brown & The Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
Saturday, January 14, 2pm – Non-Fiction Brenda Dixon Gottschild author of Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina ($27.00 Palgrave Macmillan) Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown’s personal and professional histories reflect both the hardships and the accomplishments of African…
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LOS: The After Hours Trio + One & Craig Ebner Quartet feat. John Swana
Friday, January 13, 2012 – BYOB – Doors: 8:30 p.m. Show: 9 p.m. sharp – $10 at the door / $8 in advance (only at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/217298) Lucky Old Souls @ Moonstone Presents The After Hours Trio + One & Craig Ebner Quartet featuring John Swana THE AFTER HOURS TRIO + ONE: Najwa Parkins, vocals; Luke…
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What’s Funny About That, An Evening of Subversive Comedy
Wednesday, January 11, 7:30pm – $5 donation recommended – Comedy Laughworks Presents “What’s Funny About That” AN EVENING OF SUBVERSIVE COMEDY With Alex Pearlman, Art Stern, Phyllis Voren LAUGHTER IS GOOD FOR YOU, AND IT’S CONTAGIOUS, TOO People are talking about “What’s Funny About That?” An Evening of Subversive Comedy, the new and already successful…
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Ewuare Osayande author of Whose America?
Tuesday, January 10, 7pm – Poetry Ewuare Osayande author of Whose America? New and Selected Poems Writing in the socially-engaged poetic tradition of Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman, Ewuare X. Osayande unleashes his latest book of poems, Whose America?, that takes on the political climate of this country and garners the praises of two living…
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Abeer Hoque, Alex Kudera, Don Riggs
Friday, January 6, 7pm – Poetry Abeer Hoque, Alex Kudera, Don Riggs Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer with BS and MA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. She is the recipient of a 2005 Tanenbaum Award, a 2007…
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The Life of The Poet Workshop
Thursdays @ 5:30pm – Workshop The Life of The Poet Workshop with Leonard Gontarek Thursday, 5:30 –7 PM. $60 for four sessions. Contact: Leonard Gontarek – gontarek9@earthlink.net
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Greg Bem & Gregory Laynor
Tuesday, December 27, 5pm – Poetry Greg Bem & Gregory Laynor Greg Bem used to live a hearty life in Philadelphia and was a member of the New Philadelphia Poets, but then he moved to Seattle. Gregory Laynor is living in Seattle, where he is studying and teaching at the University of Washington.