Category: Moonstone Arts Center Events
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LOS: Leon Boykins Trio & Justin Sekelewski Quintet
Friday, April 8 – Doors 8:30pm, Show: 9pm sharp – BYOB – Jazz $10 at the Door / $8 in advance at (www.brownpapertickets.com/event/165951) Lucky Old Souls Presents: LEON BOYKINS TRIO: Leon Boykins, bass; Alex LoRe, alto saxophone; Dustin Kaufman, drums JUSTIN SEKELEWSKI QUINTET featuring JIM HOLTON: Michael Pracher, tenor saxophone; Adam Siegel, alto saxophone; Jim…
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MPS: Ernest Hilbert, Timothy Donnelly & Matthew Zapruder
Tuesday April 12, 7pm – Poetry The Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Ernest Hilbert, Timothy Donnelly & Matthew Zappruder Matthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Come On All You Ghosts, selected as one of the top 5 poetry books of 2010. Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation was published by Wave…
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Territory 42 & Mike Mahoney’s “Becoming Animal”
Thursday, April 28, 9pm – Music – $5 Cover – BYOB Territory 42 & Mike Mahoney’s “Becoming Animal” Territory 42, a band playing original material that centers itself on improvisation, reaches into the styles of modern, free and progressive jazz. The band incorporates hip-hop and rock influences over a jazz foundation working to keep the…
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Moonstone Poetry Series: Justin Vitiello
Tuesday, April 26, 7pm – Poetry The Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Justin Vitiello Justin Vitiello has taught Italian and Comparative Literature at Temple University in Philadelphia and Rome, focusing his creative, political and scholarly writings on America, Italy and Spain. His books include: Vanzetti’s Fish Cart, subway home, and Suicide of an Ethnic Poet. Open…
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Philadelphia Fantastic Presents Lawrence Schoen
Friday, April 22, 7:30 – Sci Fi Philadelphia Fantastic Presents Lawrence M. Schoen Though born in Chicago, Lawrence M. Schoen grew up in the endless sunshine of southern California. From age five until his eighteenth birthday, he worked every weekend with his father at various swap meets, selling everything from black Santa Claus dolls to…
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The Last Word Open Mic
Thursday, April 21, 8pm – Variety – $5 The Last Word Open Mic The Last Word – a monthly episodic Performance Art event that features an open mic, special performances, a great crowd and live music – returns with sets by Wes Gil GameFace & Hosted by St. Skribbly LaCroix
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The Women’s Writing & Spoken Word Series presents The Ignant Intellectual and Brooke Strauss
Wednesday, April 20, 7pm – $5 Cover – Multi-Genre The Women’s Writing & Spoken Word Series presents The Ignant Intellectual and Brooke Strauss The Ignant Intellectual is a New Orleans-reared poet and spoken word artist who has been making the performance venue rounds throughout Philadelphia and beyond in recent years. From the accent to that…
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P&P: Jim Cory
Tuesday, April 19, 7pm – Poetry Poets & Prophets Presents Jim Cory “Jim Cory writes stories as well as poems and his work has appeared in many venues over the course of the last 35 years. His poems most recently appeared in the zine Elephant, out of New London, Connecticut., the on-line political journal Counterpunch.org…
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Four Emerging Russian Poets: Igor Belov, Viktor Ivaniv, Fedor Svarovskiy, Ksenia Shcherbino
Monday, April 18, 7pm – Poetry The Program in Comparative Literature at UPenn presents Four Emerging Russian Poets: Igor Belov, Viktor Ivaniv, Fedor Svarovskiy, Ksenia Shcherbino Please join us for an evening of cutting-edge Russian poetry in connection with the University of Pennsylvania’s poetry symposium, “Your language – my ear: Russian and American poetry at…