Dec 20
Desk Set Sponsored Events Biblioball, Jeremy Balderson 2 Comments
Every time I look at Jeremy Balderson‘s Biblioball portraits I become thrilled and filled with holiday cheer. Thank you all for coming, and thank you for being so darn cute!
Dec 19
Desk Set Sponsored Events Audrey Evans, Biblioball No Comments
Wow. What a party. What awe inspiring performers. What a great crowd. What a good cause.
Dec 17
Desk Set Sponsored Events Biblioball, Jeremy Balderson No Comments
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Dec 15
Desk Set Sponsored Events, Dispatches from Maria and Sarah Biblioball 1 Comment
Baby, it was cold outside, but the Bell House was hot on Friday night. 406 gorgeous guests joined nearly 80 talented performers of all ages, 11 rad DJs, and a host of generous volunteers to make Biblioball 2009 the biggest party the Desk Set has ever had the pleasure to throw.
We managed to raise over $7,000 for Literacy for Incarcerated Teens thanks to partygoers, raffle donors, zinesters, an army of volunteers, and an incredible line-up!!! This far surpassed our expectations and we are in awe of the generosity of our community. Those who arrived early enjoyed complimentary small-batch whiskey tastings as poured by Ralph Erenzo of Tuthilltown Spirits and generously flowing Apollo White Ale from Sixpoint Craft Ales. Happily, local artisan chefs and bakers Sharif Hassan, Victoria Bott and Fabiana Lee, were on hand providing sandwiches, pies, cake pops, and more.
Further highlights included the impressive (and sexy) feats of Anne Weshinskey and Jean Loscalzo (the former juggling umbrellas and fabric with her feet, the latter swinging and flying above us on a cloud swing), the unexpected inspiring jam between rappers Nine 11 Thesaurus and the Lucky Chops Brass Band, the rather more expected but nonetheless surprising battle of the raucous marching bands and fancy dancers featuring Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Hungry March Band, and the haunting late night performance of indie pop outfit Living Days. The charming word-smith, author Robert Sullivan and fetching librarian Sarah Simms kept things moving and amused us in between performers and DJs, and graciously awarded over 40 raffle prizes shortly after midnight!
If you missed the party, you can still make a donation to the very worthy LIT, and ensure that books and services for New York’s detained youth keep on coming.
We love what TimeOut’s Own This City blog had to say (and we hope you are listening, Nick Paumgarten), and we are tickled by photos from Eric Brown and Phillip Kim. Check back soon for more photos from the darling Audrey Evans and portraits from Jeremy Balderson. In the meantime, enjoy these from Jason Planitzer:
A major Thanks to all of you who worked your buns off to make the party a raging success! Especially: Alex Crosier our volunteer coordinator, Marisha Chinsky our publicist and mural maker, Gwyn Hervochon, Laura Bishop, Ryan Phillips and the Desk Set AV squad, back-drop painters Gilbert Ford and Dustin Piper, video invitation and print designers Rick Banister and Ada Egloff, our sweetest zine librarian hero Alycia Sellie, Jessica Pigza (gorgeous pennant maker supporter, and all round incredible lady), Brandon Perry, Elisabeth Stern, Oriana Leckert, Maria Alegre, Karen O., Adrienne Vrettos, Mark Aaron Polger, Ivy Marvel, Emily Legutko, Tom Forget, Leigh Hurwitz, Lindsy Serrano, Polly Watson, Jaclyn Barcewski, Becca Morgan Ardra Whitney, Steve Fujita, John Ortiz, Carolyn Vega, Jay Diamond, Juliet Linderman, Ingrid Redman, Marissa Hiller, Molly Corman, Molly Cronin, Annie Magness, Tatiana Bryant, Emily Drabinski, Lynley Wheaton, Matthew Murphy, Douglas Von Hoppe, Eric Bebernitz , David Kay, Stephanie Anderson , Tara Hart , Ryan Philips, Amber Billey, Sacha Chernoff, Andrew Miller, Jen Carnovale, and everyone who donated raffle prizes!
love,
Maria & Sarah
Dec 10
Desk Set Sponsored Events Biblioball, zines 2 Comments
The Desk Set is proud to announce the debut of
An exploration of the bibliographic undergrowth of New York City through the eyes of those at work in independent libraries, academic institutions and in the streets. Featuring day-in-the-life comics created by zine librarians, narratives of those who started their own collections from scratch, and other works that explore library microcosms within the city. With works by members of the ABC No Rio Zine Library, Books Through Bars, Branch Project, Radical Reference, Reanimation Library and more!
Copies available at the Biblioball. Sliding scale $3 – $7. All proceeds go to Literacy for Incarcerated Teens. Special thanks to Alycia Sellie for organizing this.
Dec 09
Desk Set Sponsored Events Biblioball No Comments
Make sure to see the acts, hear the bands and dj’s you love/are curious about. We know you are timely planners.
See you at the ball!
xoxo, Maria, Sarah & the Desk Set gang
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| 7:30 | DJ Rob Sheffield | ||
| 7:45 | DJ Jonathan Toubin | ||
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| 8:30 | Foot Juggling & Trapeze: Anne & Jean | ||
| 8:45 | DJ Don Stahl | ||
| 9:00 | DJ Jonathan Toubin | ||
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| 9:30 | Band: 9/11 Thesaurus | ||
| 9:45 | DJ Kongress | ||
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| 10:45 | DJ Megan Awesome | ||
| 11:00 | Librarians Anne & Anja - Intro to LIT | ||
| 11:15 | Band: Lucky Chops Brass Band | ||
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| 12:00 | Raffle with MC Bob and MC Sarah Simms | ||
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| 12:30 | DJS Brian Kraft & Ryan Tozzi | Bands: Rude Mechanical Orchestra & Hungry March Band | |
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| 1:15 | Band: Living Days | ||
| 1:30 | DJ Jimmy T. | ||
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Dec 07
Desk Set Sponsored Events, Dispatches from Maria and Sarah Biblioball 1 Comment
1. Happy Hour
Arrive early and benefit from the generosity of Tuthilltown Spirits and Sixpoint Craft Ales. From 8-9pm, enjoy free whiskey tastings or white ale. (While supplies last)
2. Friendly Librarians
Always eager to help you find what you’re looking for, whether it’s in a book, a database, or on the dance floor.
Photo by Dominick Mastrangelo
3. Tasty food
From sweet to savory, we’ve got you covered thanks to vendors Sweetie Pies, La Tia Faby Baked Goods, and Sharif Hassan. Expect to see mini empanadas, special sandwiches, pies, cookies and cupcake-pops!
cupcake pops from La Tia Faby Baked Goods
4. Delicious drinks
Because those who like literary devices often enjoy drinking, our special biblio-cocktails include
5. See yourself in pictures
Artist J. Penry will draw your portrait, and photographer Jeremy Balderson will snap your photo in front of illustrator Gilbert Ford‘s wintry backdrop.
Photograph by Jeremy Balderson, backdrop by Gilbert Ford
Portrait by J. Penry
6. The Entertainment
Ten DJs spinning all manner of tunes, two marching bands, teenaged rappers associated with Representing NYC, indie rockers, a brass band, burlesque foot juggling, a trapeze artist, AND an author and a librarian mastering these ceremonies.
DJ Duane at Biblioball 2008 (photo by Audrey Evans)
Jean Loscalzo on the trapeze
Anne-tipodist with umbrellas
7. The Fancy Pants Raffle
Over 40 amazing, inspiring prizes from book stores, bars, restaurants, spas, record stores, and more. Check out the list of these generous businesses who support our efforts.
And your extra special bonus reason: it’s for a damn good cause.
Buy tickets now, or purchase at the door. Last year’s Biblioball sold out, but we took your advice and booked a bigger space. Plenty of room for you and all your friends to shake it! We’re looking forward to seeing you there.
Dec 06
Desk Set Sponsored Events Bell House, Biblioball, Brooklyn, fancy pants raffle, The Desk Set 1 Comment
Winners will be announced at midnight at the Bell House on Friday, December 11th.
Please support the generous businesses that participated in the raffle. They rock.
Framed print donated to the Fancy Pants Raffle by artist, Ky Anderson
Nov 06
Desk 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
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:
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:
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.
Living Days
Jan 13
Uncategorized Biblioball, books, fundraiser, library, Passages Academy No Comments
Here’s the list of the first shipment of books that we bought for Passages Academy! Passages Academy is a Department of Education High School Program designed for incarcerated youth between the ages of nine & seventeen. Passages Academy is housed with the Department of Juvenile Justice facilities. If you’d like to buy some books for the school, check out their wish-list here.
AFTER 9/11 : AMERICA’S WAR ON TERROR,, JACOBSON, SID
AFTER TUPAC AND D FOSTER, WOODSON,
AIDS, WAGNER, VIQI
AUDACITY OF HOPE : THOUGHTS ON, OBAMA, BARACK
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, MALCOLM X
BAD BOY : A MEMOIR, MYERS, WALTER
BEGGING FOR CHANGE, FLAKE, SHARON G
BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE, KLAUSE, ANNETTE
BLOOD IS THICKER, LANGAN, PAUL
BONE SHARPS, COWBOYS, AND THUNDER, OTTAVIANI, JIM
BRONX MASQUERADE, GRIMES, NIKKI
BROTHERS IN ARMS, LANGAN, PAUL
BUDDHA : 1 – 8, TEZUKA, OSAMU
BULLY, LANGAN, PAUL
CARTOON GUIDE TO STATISTICS, GONICK, LARRY
CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNITED, GONICK, LARRY
CESAR CHAVEZ, HUDSON-GOFF,
CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN : BARACK, OBAMA, BARACK
CHESS KID’S BOOK OF TACTICS, MACENULTY, DAVID
CRANK, HOPKINS, ELLEN
CUT, MCCORMICK
DEATH NOTE : 1 – 3 , OHBA, TSUGUMI
DREAM DICTIONARY : AN A TO Z GUIDE, CRISP, TONY
DREAMS FROM MY FATHER : A STORY OF, OBAMA, BARACK
FASHION DESIGN DRAWING COURSE :, TATHAM, CAROLINE
GRACE AFTER MIDNIGHT : A MEMOIR, PEARSON, FELICIA
HER STORIES : AFRICAN AMERICAN, HAMILTON
HOLE IN MY LIFE, GANTOS, JACK
HOMEBOYZ, SITOMER, ALAN
HOT GIRL, JORDAN, DREAM
JACKIE ROBINSON, O’HERN, KERRI
JOURNEY INTO MOHAWK COUNTRY, VAN DEN BOGAERT
KEESHA’S HOUSE, FROST, HELEN
KEVIN GARNETT, FINKEL, JON
LOST AND FOUND, SCHRAFF, ANNE
MAKING COMICS : STORYTELLING, MCCLOUD, SCOTT
MALCOLM X : A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY, HELFER, ANDREW J
MATTER OF TRUST, SCHRAFF, ANNE
MONEY HUNGRY, FLAKE, SHARON G
NARUTO : 1 – 9, KISHIMOTO
NEW MOON, MEYER, STEPHENIE
NEW ORIGAMI, BIDDLE, STEVE
OBAMA : A PROMISE OF CHANGE, MENDELL, DAVID
ORIGAMI IN ACTION : PAPER TOYS THAT, LANG, ROBERT J
ORIGAMI ZOO : AN AMAZING COLLECTION, LANG, ROBERT J
PAYBACK, LANGAN, PAUL
PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF AMERICAN EMPIRE, ZINN, HOWARD
PLAYED, DAVIDSON, DANA
REMEMBERING SLAVERY : AFRICAN, BERLIN, IRA
ROOFTOP, VOLPONI, PAUL
SECRETS IN THE SHADOWS, SCHRAFF, ANNE
SKIN I’M IN, FLAKE, SHARON G
SNITCH : ONE LABEL CAN BRAND YOU, VAN DIEPEN,
SOMEONE TO LOVE ME, SCHRAFF, ANNE
SPEAK, ANDERSON, LAURIE
STREET PHARM, VAN DIEPEN,
SUMMER OF SECRETS, LANGAN, PAUL
TYRELL, BOOTH, COE
UNBELIEVABLE : THE LIFE, DEATH, AND, COKER, CHEO
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN, SCHRAFF, ANNE
WOLVERINE : WEAPON X, CERASINI, MARC
WORLD CHAMPION’S GUIDE TO CHESS :, POLGAR, SUSAN
YES WE CAN : A BIOGRAPHY OF BARACK, THOMAS, GAREN
ALLEN IVERSON, FINKEL, JON
CHE : A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY, RODRIGUEZ, SPAIN
CUBANITA, TRIANA, GABY
EYES ON THE PRIZE CIVIL RIGHTS, CARSON
HIP-HOP HIGH SCHOOL, SITOMER, ALAN
ROSE THAT GREW FROM CONCRETE, SHAKUR, TUPAC
STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY :, PEKAR, HARVEY
TWILIGHT, MEYER, STEPHENIE
ALCOHOL ADDICTION : NOT WORTH THE WALKER, IDA
BALL DON’T LIE DE LA PENA, MATT
COCAINE SOMMERS, MICHAEL
COCAINE : THE RUSH TO DESTRUCTION CHASTAIN,
CRACK OLIVE, M FOSTER
ECSTASY ORR, TAMRA B
HEROIN AND OTHER OPIATES : POPPIES’ SANNA, E J
MARIJUANA NAGLE, JEANNE
MEXICAN WHITEBOY DE LA PENA, MATT
RUNAWAYS : 2 : TEENAGE WASTELAND VAUGHAN, BRIAN K
RUNAWAYS : 3 : THE GOOD DIE YOUNG VAUGHAN, BRIAN K
RUNAWAYS : 4 : TRUE BELIEVERS VAUGHAN, BRIAN K
RUNAWAYS : 5 : ESCAPE TO NEW YORK VAUGHAN, BRIAN K
RUNAWAYS : 6 : PARENTAL GUIDANCE VAUGHAN, BRIAN K
RUNAWAYS : 7 : LIVE FAST VAUGHAN, BRIAN K
STEROIDS, LAU, DORETTA
STEROIDS : PUMPED UP AND DANGEROUS WALKER, IDA
TEN MILE RIVER, GRIFFIN, PAUL
WAY WE WORK : GETTING TO KNOW THE, MACAULAY, DAVID
AIDS, WAGNER, VIQI
ASTRONOMY, LIPPINCOTT, KRISTEN
BUILDING BIG, MACAULAY, DAVID
CHEW ON THIS : EVERYTHING YOU DON’T, SCHLOSSER, ERIC
CLUB DREAD, SORRELLS, WALTER
COMO MATAR UN MONSTRUO, STINE, R L
CORVETTE, MUELLER, MIKE
CREEP FROM THE DEEP, STINE, R L
CREEPY CREATURES, STINE, R L
DOGS, FOGLE, BRUCE
EDENVILLE OWLS, PARKER, ROBERT B
FAKE I.D., SORRELLS, WALTER
GO! : THE WHOLE WORLD OF
JULIUS CAESAR, MCKEOWN, ADAM
LETTERS TO A YOUNG SISTER : DEFINE, HARPER, HILL
MONSTER BLOOD, STINE, R L
MYTHOLOGY, PHILIP, NEIL
NOCHE DEL MUNECO VIVIENTE, STINE, R L
OLYMPICS, OXLADE, CHRIS
OPRAH WINFREY : THE LIFE OF A MEDIA, JEFFREY, GARY,
ROOFTOP, VOLPONI, PAUL,
SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THE ANCIENT, LEY, GRAHAM,
SOMEWHERE IN THE DARKNESS, MYERS, WALTER
SPARROW, SMITH, SHERRI L,
SPELLBOUND, MCDONALD, JANET,
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED : THE BASEBALL
TEQUILA WORM, CANALES, VIOLA
TERROR TRIPS, STINE, R L
WAY WE WORK : GETTING TO KNOW THE, MACAULAY, DAVID
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