These events have come and gone!
Saturday, July 15, 2pm at Killmeyers Old Bavaria Inn, 4254 Arthur Kill Road, SINY 10309
Staten Island OutLOUD explores Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” – it won the Natl Book Award & was a finalist for the Pulitzer. It is a narrative for his teenage son on the realities of being Black in the US. Toni Morrison says that Coates the intellectual successor to James Baldwin.
Sunday, June 25th, 2pm. Location info provided when you RSVP (Please RSVPto sioutloud@yahoo.com by 5pm, Sat June 24th 0 Thanks!)
Staten OutLOUD invites you for champagne & conversation in a lovely hillside Victorian, reminiscent of the San Francisco of Dashiell Hammett’s novels. We’ll explore some of his unpublished short stories – with plot twists like you wouldn’t believe! FREE!
Location info provided when you RSVP. Please reserve to sioutloud@yahoo.com by 5pm on Sat June 24th. Thanks!
Saturday, June 24th, 2pm at Silver Lake Park, Forest Ave & Victory Blvd, SINY 10301. (Enter the park at the intersection of Victory & Forest, then take the path downhill to the reservoir. OutLOUD will perform on the grassy lawn (to your left as you face the reservoir) at the water’s edge. Bring a lawn-chair! Good for all ages.
Global Water Dances will take place all over the world on Saturday, June 24th – Thousands of performers world-wide, will dance to raise awareness on the crucial need for safe water for everyone, everywhere.
Staten Island will celebrate this global event in Silver Lake Park, led by the cre-a-ion dance collective, a vibrant group of Island dancers and choreographers. Staten Island OutLOUD will collaborate with cre-a-tion to present dance and poetry to highlight our concern for safe water. Dance and spoken word: Perfect together.
Free & open to the public. Bring a lawn-chair or blanket.
More details TBA.
.statenislandoutloud.org www.globalwaterdances.org
Global Water Dances serves a global community of choreographers and dancers who inspire action and international collaboration on water issues through the universal language of dance.
Friday, June 16th, 7:30pm at SI MakerSpace, 450 Front St, Unit B, SINY 10304 (corner Thompson & Front Sts, one block from Bay St & 2 blocks from Tappen Park). Free parking on the surrounding streets.
Staten Island OutLOUD’s annual celebration of James Joyce’s comic epic “Ulysses” at SI MakerSpace.
Free. Adults only, please.
Saturday, June 10th, 2pm at Stapleton Branch Library, 132 Canal St, SINY 10304 (near Bay St) Staten Island OutLOUD explores the life and music of blues icon Leadbelly (Huddie William Ledbetter, 1889-1949), together with the poetry of CSI Prof. Tyehimba Jess, who recently won the Pulitzer Prize. Musical guests: Frank Mirra, and Joan & Gary Moore. Readers include Michelle Heath, … Read More
Saturday, April 29th, 2pm at Duzer’s Local Cafe, 387 Van Duzer St (off Beach St), SINY 10304. By popular demand, Staten Island OutLOUD’s series for The Big Read on Dashiell Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon” continues into Spring 2017. Join Island writer Marguerite Maria Rivas for a conversation & reading on some of the mystery novels that have shaped writers’ careers. … Read More
Saturday, Feb 11th, 3pm at Every Thing Goes Book Cafe, 208 Bay St SINY 10301.
Staten Island OutLOUD explores the world of Dashiell Hammett, his politics, and the “The Maltese Falcon”.
Music by Allergic to Bs.
Book giveaway, while supplies last.
(Original Caption) New York: Held In Contempt Of Court. Mystery writer Dashiel Hammett (Left), chairman of the Civil Rights Congress’ Bail Fund, and W. Alphaeus Hunton, a trustee, are handcuffed together as they enter a police van after being remanded to cells for contempt of court, July 9. Both men refused to answer Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan’s questions about who put up the money for the four Communist leaders who have jumped their bail. Another trustee, millionaire Frederick Vanderbilt Field, has been sentenced to 90 days on the same charge.
Saturday, Feb 4, 2017 at 2pm. 90 Taylor St, SINY 10310
Though Staten Island is located far from the San Francisco setting of “The Maltese Falcon”, we have a history of some colorful crime figures here on the opposite coast. Join Staten Island OutLOUD for an entertaining afternoon when we’ll gather in a charming Victorian house to explore Dashiell Hammett’s classic, together with some wild local history – Tales of gangster Bugsy Siegal on Staten Island!
Friday, January 27, 2017 at 7pm. Electric Hair Salon, 100 Stuyvesant Place, SINY 10301. NOTE DATE CHANGE! (Friday, Jan 27, NOT Jan 6th, as originally planned)
Live jazz by composer/guitarist Nick Semenykhin. https://soundcloud.com/nicksemenykhin
Wear your favorite fedora or your slinkiest sheath and join our gregarious host Marty Albucher (owner/proprietor of Electric Hair) for a fun evening of noir in the neighborhood, inspired by Dashiell Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon”.
Reservations essential due to limited space! Please RSVP by January 26th to sioutloud@yahoo.com
Saturday, Jan 21, 8pm at Be Yoga and Dance, 1270 Bay St, SINY 10305
Staten Island OutLOUD’s Big Read finale performance will be a dance performance with spoken word, inspired by Dashiell Hammett’s “The Maltese Falvon”.
Choreographed by Rosita Roldan, featuring dancers Rosita Roldan, Larissa Schiano Gonzalez, Renee Leibowitz, Laura Neese, and Melissa West. Spoken word by Pilar Garcia-Sussman, Joseph Smith, and Vincent Vok. Original music by Rob Keay. Free!
Be Yoga and Dance is located in the Rosebank section of Staten Island, on Bay Street between St John’s and Maryland Ave. Accessible via public transportation; plenty of free parking on the surrounding streets.