Biblioball

Written by: Sarah Murphy. on November 3, 2011.

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Biblioball 2012: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Winter Formal Dance Party & Fundraiser

Saturday, December 8, 2012

The Bell House

149 Seventh Street, Brooklyn

8:00 p.m. – 3:00 a.m.

Tickets $23 advance / $30 at the door

Buy tickets: http://biblioball.brownpapertickets.com

Proceeds Go To Literacy for Incarcerated Teens (LIT)

Serving Incarcerated and Detained Youth in New York

and Urban Librarians Unite’s Sandy Children’s Book Relief Fund.

Care to share? How about a tweet? #biblioball

Join the Desk Set, and your host, Ophira Eisenberg, for a celebration of all things library.

Enjoy live music from Los Encantados.

Shake it to sets from DJs Duane Harriott, Brian Blackout, John XI, Marty McSorley, and Mikey Post as they spin 40s, 50s & 60s Soul, 70s Funk, Pre-Punk Psych, Juke-Joint, Bogooloo, New-Wave and more.

Enter the Fancy Pants Raffle, and you could walk away with fantastic prizes from local shops, restaurants and artists. 50% of all raffle proceeds will go towards the Sandy Children’s Book Relief Fund.

Smile for the camera as photographer Jeremy Balderson snaps your portrait in front of illustrator Gilbert Ford‘s original Biblioball backdrop.

Contribute to Words, Words, Words: Greetings from New York City, an interactive postcard writing installation from Joy Tomasko.

Take home a copy of Zinester Alycia Sellie‘s fourth installment of the Biblioball Zine, The Borough is My Library.

Enjoy sweet treats from the Bake Sale and savory somethings from our food vendor, Barry’s Tempeh.

And introducing, the crowning of the Postmaster General, a lighthearted pageant-style competition to find the ultimate representation of partying librarians everywhere.