Sunday, Nov 2, 2pm at the Alice Austen House Museum, 2 Hylan Blvd, SINY 10305.
We’ll enjoy Harper Lee’s hilarious “missionary tea” chapter in To Kill a Mockingbird. You’ll also hear what some Southerners say about Yanks – funny but true! We may also share a few of their recipes. Free & open to the public. .
Saturday, Nov 1, 2pm at the Richmondtown Library, 200 Clarke Ave, SINY 10301
You’ll hear the personal story of Rev. George McClain, an Islander who worked in Alabama and MIssissippi as a seminarian and as a young minister in the1960s. He worked in the Mississippi Freedom Summer, and in a range of desegregation initiatives in the Deep South. This event presents living history, a first-hand account of life under Jim Crow. Special guest, Prof. David Seeley, who worked with the US Dept of Justice to implement the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Sunday, Oct 26, 3:00pm at Shiloh AME Zion Church, 779 Henderson Ave, SINY 10310
Co-hosted by Staten Island OutLOUD and the Staten Island Chapter of the NAACP. We’ll explore local history as we consider the founding of the SI Chapter of the NAACP. We’ll honor the founders, we’ll examine the NAACP-SI Chapter’s history, we’ll focus on the Chapter’s current work and we’ll look ahead to the future
Our afternoon gathering on local Staten Island civil rights history will interweave music, poetry and themes in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Pictured above: (L) William A. Morris, Founder of the Staten Island Chapter-NAACP, (R) NAACP National Organization, founded in 1909 by a coalition of Americans, including W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells, Oswald Garrison Villard, Henry Moskowitz, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling, Lillian Wald, Archibald Grimke, among other leaders.
Friday evening Oct 24 through Tuesday, Nov 25, 2014. After the opening on Friday evening, Oct 24, the exhibition will continue Mon-Fri, 10am-3pm, through Nov 25, 2014.
At Staten Island Academy, 715 Todt Hill Road, SINY 10304
Staten Island Academy students will exhibit their original art, inspired by To Kill a Mockingbird. Led by Island artist & SIA faculty member Kristi Pfister, the students’ art show will open Friday evening, Oct 24, and will be exhibited in the Atrium of Haugen Hall, at the Academy’s main entrance. Ample parking available in the school parking lots and on the surrounding streets.
Friday, Oct 24 at 7:00pm at Staten Island Academy, 715 Todt Hill Road, SINY 10304
The students, faculty & parents of Staten Island Academy invite you to join us for a reading & conversation about To Kill a Mockingbird. We’ll gather in the atrium of Haugen Hall, at the school’s main entrance. Free & open to the public.
Co-hosted by SIA literature teacher Elise Faust. Our reading will be accompanied by an exhibit of art created by the students of SIA art teacher Kristi Pfister. The exhibit will open on Friday, October 24, and will run through Tuesday, November 25.
To Kill a Mockingbird is hailed as an unusual novel for many reasons, including the fact that young children – especially a little girl – act heroically. As we read excerpts from the novel, we’ll share ideas on childhood, on coming-of-age, and on the courage inherent in youth.
Plenty of free parking in the front lot, and on surrounding streets.
Wednesday, Oct 22, 4pm at SI Children’s Museum, 1000 Richmond Terrace, SINY 10301
Staten Island OutLOUD brings the Big Read to the Staten Island Children’s Museum, for a special program for young readers. We’ll share a beautiful book about Ruby Bridges, the brave little girl who helped desegregate a public school in the Deep South. We’ll also share a few surprises. Join us!
Sunday, Oct 19, 7:30pm at Deep Tanks Studio, 150 Bay St (near Victory Blvd), SINY 10301
Join Staten Island OutLOUD for a reading & conversation on how Horton Foote converted Harper Lee’s novel into a screenplay. This event is hosted by New York film maker Josh Apter.
The celebrated dramatist Horton Foote won an Academy Award winner for his screenplay adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which premiered in 1962. Foote’s dazzling career encompassed film, theater and television over a span of 70 years. One of his best-known works for television was The Trip to Bountiful, starring Lillian Gish. Horton Foote’s Mockingbird screenplay has been universally lauded as one of the finest and most literate visual translations of a novel for the screen.
Film maker & editor Josh Apter, who will compare & contrast the novel and the screenplay, is President & founder of Manhattan Edit Workshop (www.mewshop.com). After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Josh attended NYU’s Graduate Film Program, where his film, The 53rd Calypso, was honored with the Martin Scorsese Award for achievement in directing. The film, which stars Edward Norton, received numerous awards for directing, editing, and cinematography at film festivals across the country.
For his first feature as director, Kaaterskill Falls, Josh was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards – the John Cassavetes Award and Best Debut Performance. Kaaterskill Falls was also awarded the Critic’s Jury Prize at the IFP/West Los Angeles film Festival. It screened on the Sundance Channel, and Is available wherever movies are sold, rented or streamed. Josh is completing his second feature as writer/director, an urban romance titled, Delivery Method.
Josh has worked in all areas of filmmaking, from location sound recordist on numerous feature films, to videographer for Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation, where he recorded the testimonies of over 150 Holocaust survivors. As a film editor, Josh has worked on over ten feature films including The Holy Land (winner Slamdance FF/Cavu Pictures Distributor), Kaaterskill Falls and Barbecue is a Noun (Audience Award for best Documentary at the Rome International Film Festival and the River Run Film Festival).
From his love of post-production, Josh founded Manhattan Edit Workshop in 2002. MEWShop is an Apple, Avid and Adobe and Autodesk Authorized Training Center offering a variety of classes in the art and technique of film editing. With clients ranging from Rainbow Media, HBO, NBC and CNN, Manhattan Edit Workshop has become the premier training destination for the highest-level content creators and media professionals.
As a filmmaker, Josh is always producing, shooting and editing projects of all shapes and sizes.
Thursday, Oct 16, 3:00pm at Historic Richmond Town’s Museum, 441 Clarke Ave, SINY 10306
Everyone is invited to this afternoon event, when Sarah Clark, the Curator at Historic Richmond Town, shows objects from the collection that date from 1932-35, the era in which To Kill a Mockingbird is set. We’ll read & discuss Harper Lee’s book as we discover clothing, photographs, household items and other fascinating objects similar to those used by Scout, Jem, Atticus, Calpurunia, Aunt Alexandra, Miss Maudie and their neighbors in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama.
Are there similarities between Maycomb and Staten Island? When you see one particular item that Sarah found in a mysterious box, you may be astounded by her discovery!
It’s an unusual opportunity to connect the fictional world of Mockingbird’s Maycomb, Alabama with the lives of Staten Islanders in the 1930s, when the novel takes place. You can read excerpts from Mockingbird with your neighbors (or just sit back & enjoy being read to) while experiencing authentic, tangible reminders of American life during the Depression era.
This event is good for all ages.
Tuesday, Oct 14, 5:00pm at Stapleton Branch LIbrary, 132 Canal St, SINY 10304
A free screening of the Academy Award-winning film version of To Kill a Mockingbird. This film is considered to be among the finest adaptations in film history.
SUNDAY, OCT 12, 3:30PM. At St Mary’s Episcopal Church, 347 Davis Ave (at Castleton Avenue), SINY 10310 (Originally planned for Sept 21, now rescheduled for Sunday, Oct 12)
A spoken word performance with music and dance, plus an old-fashioned lemonade social, part of Staten Island OutLOUD’s Autumn 2014 series for the National Endowment for the Arts/The Big Read, featuring Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Weather permitting, our performance will begin in the shady church courtyard, and will progress across the lawn and inside the church. (If it rains, our entire performance will take place inside the church.)
Music by Allergic to B’s, featuring Joan & Gary Moore. We’ll feature a dance performance by Melissa West & Rosita Roldan, with musical accompaniment by Tom Bones. Choreography by Melissa West.
Our cast of neighbors will include Virginia Allen, Phoebe Blue, James Hill, Nan Smith, Joseph Smith, and others TBA. They’ll introduce Scout, Jem and Atticus Finch, their beloved caregiver Calpurnia, their mysterious neighbor Boo Radley, and the people of Maycomb, Alabama in the summer of 1932, when the story begins. You’ll hear more about Harper Lee’s life and work. Some neighbors will share short readings from the novel and from other related work. You’ll hear about the fearsome Radley house, and about some of Maycomb’s less congenial citizens.
You’ll hear about something that changed their lives.