Category: Moonstone Arts Center Events
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Phyllis Voren’s “WHAT’S FUNNY ABOUT THAT?” AN EVENING OF SUBVERSIVE COMEDY
Wednesday, November 9, 7:30pm $5 donation recommended – Comedy Phyllis Voren’s “WHAT’S FUNNY ABOUT THAT?” AN EVENING OF SUBVERSIVE COMEDY With Corey Holland, Steve Miller-Miller, Alex Pearlman, Nicky Sunshine, Phyllis Voren COREY HOLLAND is a sketch and stand up comedian that moved from the swamps of Maryland to Philadelphia just a few months ago to…
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Many Mountains Moving Presents Rebecca Foust, Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Frank Sherlock
Wednesday, November 9, 6pm – Poetry Many Mountains Moving Presents Rebecca Foust, Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Frank Sherlock Rebecca Foust is a native of Pennsylvania and is visiting us tonight from her home in northern California. Her first full-length book, All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song, won the Many Mountains Moving Book Prize and was a finalist…
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Moonstone Poetry Series Presents
Tuesday, November 8, 7pm – Poetry Moonstone Poetry Series Presents
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Emancipation and the Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice
Sunday, November 6, 11am First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, 2125 Chestnut Street Rev. Nate Walker has organized a service around our topic: Emancipation and the Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice The Unitarian Church was firmly Abolitionist in the nineteenth century and continues to be a progressive force in the twenty-first century. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a…
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Anne-Adele Wight author of Sidestep Catapult
Saturday, November 5, 2pm – Poetry Anne-Adele Wight author of Sidestep Catapult Anne-Adele Wight lives in Philadelphia, works with the series Poets and Prophets, and writes as much as she can. She has written two chapbooks and some indefinable constructions. Her new book, Sidestep Catapult, was published recently by BlazeVOX [books]. She is worried about…
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Chronic Chronos Kairos Release Party
Friday, November 4, 7pm – Poetry Chronic Chronos Kairos Release Party With Courtney Bambrick, JenMarie Davis, Nick Gettino, Jacob Russell Courtney K. Bambrick is the poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Apiary, Certain Circuits, Dirty Napkin, Philadelphia Poets, Mad Poets Review, and the Schuylkill Valley…
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Class Warfare: Program 5 – Communities Confront Class Warfare
Thursday, November 3, 7:00pm Liberty Resources, 714 Market Street, Wade Blanc Room, 5th Floor Class Warfare: Program 5 – Communities Confront Class Warfare 7:00pm: The David Harvey animated lecture 7:15: Panel Discussion Casey Cook (Moderator) is a lifelong activist. She has been the Executive Director at Bread & Roses since 2006 and received both her…
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Josh Rolnick & Lee Klein
Thursday, November 3, 7pm – Fiction Josh Rolnick & Lee Klein Lee Klein’s writing has appeared in Agni, The Best American Non-Required Reading 2007, The Black Warrior Review, Canteen, Swink, Barrelhouse, Hobart, Pindeldyboz, and other sites, journals, and anthologies from indie presses and megapublishers alike. He’s also edited the semi-literary site eyeshot.net since 1999, and…
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The Life of the Poet Workshop with Leonard Gontarek
Thursdays in November, 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 Leonard Gontarek is the author of St. Genevieve Watching Over Paris, Van Morrison Can’t Find His Feet, Zen For Beginners and Déjà Vu Diner (Autumn House Press, 2006).…
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Emancipation and the Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice
Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 6pm Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street Emancipation and the Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice Abraham Lincoln has been called The Great Emancipator and the issuance of The Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 certainly changed American history forever. It is important to understand that this act was neither the…