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Sunday, July 19, 2015 at 4pm. Reservations essential due to space limitations. Location info provided when you RSVP to sioutloud@yahoo.com.  (Please RSVP by Friday, July 17.)

BRING A LAWNCHAIR!

Staten Island OutLOUD hosts a community reading & dialogue on how Islanders have responded to Hurricane Sandy, and how we can prepare for future resiliency.  We’ll explore first person narratives, news accounts, poetry and prose in a community conversation on local environmental issues, preparedness and creative harbor remediation.

Saturday, July 18, 3pm.  Every Thing Goes Book Cafe, 208 Bay St (between Victory Blvd & Hannah St), SINY 10301

If you have a copy of Go Set a Watchman, please bring it with you, or buy a copy at ETG Book Cafe!

Harper Lee’s latest novel, Go Set a Watchman, released on July 14, 2015, was actually written several years before To Kill a Mockingbird was published  Controversy and excitement has surrounded this work, which is set in the 1950s, twenty years after the action in Mockingbird.

In Go Set a Watchman, Scout (now known as Jean Louise Finch) is a 26 year-old woman who lives in New York City.  As the story begins, we find Jean Louise on a train bound for Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her elderly father, Atticus Finch.  She intends to confront Atticus, but why?

Staten Island OutLOUD invites you to celebrate the novel’s release, and to explore this intriguing “new” work by Harper Lee.  We welcome you to share your ideas about Ms. Lee’s controversial “lost” novel.  Free.

Saturday, July 11, 7pm.  At Clay Pit Ponds State Park Interpretive Center, 2351 Veterans Road West (@Sharrotts Rd), Staten Island NY 10309.   (Exit 3AS from 440 South).    Map of Clay Pit Ponds Interpretive Center

Staten Island OutLOUD hosts a spoken word performance, inspired by Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, and featuring a medley of global poetry.

Presented with Deep Tanks Butoh and Living Through Movement, who will perform their original choreography.  Special thanks to Florence Poulain of Deep Tanks Butoh and to Larissa Schiano-Gonzalez of Living Through Movement.

Featuring dancers: Vala Dawn Fawn, Melisande Echanique, Lys Obsidian, Larissa Schiano-Gonzalez, Lucille Ladiana Schiano, Rhea Marie Roldan.

Our cast of readers:  Virginia Allen, Laura Rose Cook, Jonathan Fox, Robert Heffernan.

Music by Kevin Norton, by Tom Bones, and by Gary Moore.

PLEASE BRING A LAWNCHAIR!

This event will take place rain or shine.  If it rains, we’ll perform indoors.   For more info on Clay Pit Ponds Interpretive Center, visit their website:  Clay Pit Ponds Interpretive Center

Saturday, July 4, Noon, at the historic Conference House, 7455 Hylan Boulevard (at Satterlee St), SINY 10307.  Plenty of free parking on the street, and in the Conference House Visitors’ parking lot.   BRING A LAWNCHAIR!

This is a non-partisan event.  Every year, Staten Island OutLOUD invites neighbors to gather, read the Declaration of Independence together, and to share ideas about our nation’s founding document.  We’ll also read some related historic texts, plus a few more contemporary surprises.

This event is free & good for all ages.

Rain or shine!   If the weather is fair, we’ll gather on the lawn of the Conference House, and enjoy the beautiful view of Raritan Bay.  If it rains, we’ll gather inside the picturesque kitchen of the Conference House, where we’ll be dry & comfortable.

Saturday, June 20, 6:30pm. Great Kills National Park – Gateway, RAIN LOCATION We’ll be dry & comfy inside the Education Field Station (opposite Parking Lot A).  Enter the park grounds at 3270 Hylan Boulevard (at Buffalo St), SINY 10306. Drive along the road inside the park that hugs the shore.  Watch for a sign on your left for “Parking Lot A”.  The Education Field Station is right across the road.

Staten Island OutLOUD presents a candlelight reading of “Treasure Island”, a tale of pirates and buried treasure on a mysterious Island. Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel has fascinated readers for more than a century.

Pirate tunes by Bobaloo Basey & Vincent Vok.  A tale of pirates, mutiny & mayhem, but it’s fun for all ages.  Kids may find a few gold doubloons…

Perfect for all ages. Free!

For directions, please visit:  http://www.nyharborparks.org/visit/grki.html

Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 2pm.  Alice Austen House Museum, 2 Hylan Boulevard, SINY 10305

Staten Island OutLOUD hosts a special program to honor the 30th anniversary of the Alice Austen House Museum and it’s celebratory exhibit on Alice’s home.   OutLOUD presents readings of short works about what “home” can mean – by two American writers, Sara Orne Jewett and Gwendolyn Brooks.

There is a poignant aspect to the story of Alice Austen and her family home, Clear Comfort.  She and her partner Gertrude were evicted in 1945, and she lost the fine old home that had been in her family for generations.  Years later, the wrecker’s ball threatened – But the home was saved, and transformed into a museum that honors Alice’s pioneering work.  OutLOUD’s readings will reflect this compelling story, and invite you to share your own thoughts on what it means to come home.  Free & open to the public.

Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 2:30pm.  Greenbelt Nature Center, 700 Rockland Ave (@Brielle), SINY 10314

Staten Island OutLOUD presents a spoken word performance of this Persian classic, with original choreography & dance performance by Melissa West, with music by Tom Bones.  Free, fun and family-friendly.  Face-painting & bird whistles for kids.  Feathers & fun for all.

Saturday, May 30, 2015, at 2pm –  Historic Lake Cemetery, 1688 Forest Avenue (near Willowbrook Road), SINY 10302.

Staten Island OutLOUD is proud to join Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries for their annual Memorial Weekend tribute to veterans.  2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II,  and the 40th anniversary of the conclusion of US engagement in Vietnam.

OutLOUD will present readings to honor veterans from those eras, as well as to honor the memory of all who have served.  More details TBA.