Wednesday, February 4, 2009

valentine week

Candy_hearts Monday: New York Writers Coalition Red and Black Party to Celebrate Love's Two Faced Heart and raise money for NYWC at Galapagos in DUMBO. General admission tickets are $25. Support a great group.

Tuesday: Special events, coupons and restaurant prix fixes on Fifth Avenue.

Wednesday: Special events, coupons and restaurant prix fixes on Fifth Avenue.

Thursday: Brooklyn Reading Works presents: Cupid's Arrow: Writers on Love the Old Stone House curated by Marian Fontana. With Elissa Schappell author of Use Me and the upcoming Blueprints for Better Girls; novelist, poet and editor of Teachers and Writers Magazine, Susan Karwoska; poets Ellen Ferguson and Ira Goldstein and memoirist, Mila Drumke. Marian will be reading an excerpt from her upcoming book.

Friday: Joy Askew and Pulse present Songs from the Hudson River. Pulse is a New York-based composers' federation dedicated to music that bursts through categories, unconstrained by convention. Their latest project is a song cycle in honor of the Hudson River Quadricentennial Celebration going on throughout 2009, Songs from the Hudson River features singer Joy Askew with a 6-person Pulse chamber ensemble in a dynamic melding of singer-songwriter and classical chamber music sensibilities. Each original song is inspired by historical, fictional, and contemporary life and communities on and around the Hudson River. Joy Askew is an accomplished singer-songwriter who has performed with Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Joe Jackson, Jack Bruce and others, and also leads her own band.

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