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Baby, It’s Cold Outside

Nov 06

SarahDesk Set Sponsored Events, Dispatches from Maria and Sarah Bell House, Biblioball, Brooklyn, Dance Party, Hungry March Band, Literacy for Incarcerated Teens, Living Days, Lucky Chops Brass Band, Nine/11 Thresaurus, Rude Mechanical Orchestra 4 Comments

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The Desk Set proudly presents
Biblioball 2009: Baby, It’s Cold Outside

Friday December 11, 2009
8pm – 4am

The Bell House
www.thebellhouseny.com
149 7th St
Brooklyn, NY

Proceeds go to Literacy for Incarcerated Teens (providing books and literacy programs for detained youth in NYC)http://www.literacyforincarceratedteens.org/

Admission $20 in advance/ $25 at the door, includes one raffle ticket

Featuring:

• Master & Mistress of Ceremonies, author Robert Sullivan & librarian extraordinaire Sarah Simms
• Live music from Nine/11 Thesaurus, Living Days, Hungry March Band, The Rude Mechanical Orchestra, & Lucky Chops Brass Band
• Foot juggling and trapeze artists The Anne-tipodist & Jean Loscalzo
• DJs Jonathan Toubin of New York Night Train, Duane Harriott, Rob Sheffield, Rob Dyrenforth, Jay Diamond, Jimmy T., Brian Kraft, Ryan Tozzi, Matt Fiveash, Don Stahl, & Megan Awesome
• Incredibly fancy prizes in the Fancy Pants Raffle
• Literary Drink Specials
• Happy Hour sponsored by Tuthilltown Spirits
• Photo Portraits by Jeremy Balderson
• Illustrated Portraits by J. Penry
• Delicious food by La Tia Faby Baked Goods, Sweetie Pies, and Sharif Hassan

Be sure to participate in the Fancy Pants Raffle! The more money we raise, the more books and programming nonprofit Literacy for Incarcerated Teens (LIT) can provide to incarcerated and court-involved youth. Raffle prizes have been generously donated by the MoMA, The Strand, Penguin Books, Coach, Brooklyn Historical Society, Huckleberry Bar, Enid’s, Diamond Bar, Permanent Records, Vox Pop, Camille Hempel Jewelry, Rosewater restaurant, St. Mark’s Bookshop, Bierkraft, Exhale spa, WORD book store, and many more.

And remember, you don’t have to be a librarian to join the party, you just have to dance with one!

About the performers:

• The Anne-tipodist and Jean: Anne Antipodist is a librarian who took a sabbatical from the San Francisco Public Library to go to China and learn foot juggling.  And she forgot to come back…  Three years later she performs the foot juggling version of “The Naughty Librarian”.  Anne currently teaches tightwire, antipodism, and more at the Trapeze Loft, as well as teaching Circus Fitness, Creative Arts and Research Skills at Columbia Secondary School in Harlem. A little bit circus, a little burlesque, a lot of fun. Trapeze artist and Supercreator Jean Loscalzo is delighted to be performing in honor of the Librarian Revolution!

• The Hungry March Band: Roaring out of Brooklyn comes the Hungry March Band, NYC’s legendary street brass march band in the anarchic style that has become their trademark. Put on your dancing shoes and break out the fancy threads because they’ve got a party going on — a blazing parade of flesh, blood, steel, brass and wood. They are the music of the people!

• Nine 11 Thesaurus: “When the towers fell we rose!” nine11thesaurus is a hip-hop collective of like minded revolutionary MC’s centered in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Ranging in ages from 13-20, these teens each have a unique experience and voice to bring to the mic. They have shared the stage with Mr. Lif and Prefuse 73, and just put down the last tracks for their debut album scheduled for release in November 2009 with production from Skeletons and Tim Dewitt (of Gang Gang Dance).

• Living Days: Living Days is a new romantic pop outfit from Brooklyn. They love each other dearly. They still believe in true love. They know things are only getting better. They take care of each other and want you to do the same with the ones you love.

• The Lucky Chops Brass Band: New and improved, the Lucky Chops Brass is making a big stink in New York City. The five-piece brass band combines unhealthy amounts of jazz, rock’n roll and golden era hip-hop to get a funky groove that will make you dance like you mean it. Joined in the past by such jazzers as Wynton Marsalis and Kevin Blancq, you can be sure that they won’t be leaving any time soon.

• Rude Mechanical Orchestra: The Rude Mechanical Orchestra is a 30-odd-piece New York City radical marching band and dance troupe. Through our music and performance, we strive to support people and communities working for social justice. We play protests, demonstrations, direct actions, picket lines, marches, benefits and events for good causes. We function as a democratic collective through consensus-based decision-making and we do not discriminate on the basis of musical ability. We formed in the spring of 2004 for the March for Women’s Lives in Washington, D.C. and solidified to support people protesting the Republican National Convention in New York. We were a motley mix of rusty players that hadn’t picked up a horn since high school and longtime street bandistas on leave from Hungry March Band or the Infernal Noise Brigade, blowing sour notes at the invading greedheads and serenading the rabble.

Literacy for Incarcerated Teens (LIT) is an all-volunteer, community-based organization making a difference in the lives of some of NYC’s most vulnerable young people. LIT’s mission is to ensure that all of New York City’s detained youth have access to library materials and library services of the highest quality. We are currently working with Passages Academy, NYCDOE’s school program for incarcerated and detained youth, and its partner NYC’s Department of Juvenile Justice, on an ambitious project to create model libraries inside our city’s juvenile detention centers. For more information, please visit http://www.literacyforincarceratedteens.org.