These events have come and gone!
Saturday, April 23, 2016, at 1pm. At Every Thing Goes Book Cafe (in the garden), 208 Bay St, SINY 10301 Join Staten Island OutLOUD at our community’s annual St George’s Day Festival. We’re marking the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death with readings from Tales from Shakespeare – Free, fun & family-friendly. You should come!
POSTPONED! RESCHEDULED DATE TBA!!! Flagship Brewery, 40 Minthorne St, SINY 10301
A spoken word performance with special guests “Going Up?” Productons – puppeteeres Dana Morgan & Cara Liander. Sorry, due to a late-breaking schedule issue, this event is being postponed til later this spring. New date TBA. Thanks!
Friday, April 1, 2016, 7pm. Staten Island Arts Culture Lounge, St. George Ferry Terminal, 1 Richmond Terrace, SINY 10301
Three Island writers – Jon Fox, Dan Icolari & Marguerite Rivas – read their original work, including poems inspired by the Staten Island Ferry. Curated by Island poet Lisa Rhoades, and presented in collaboration with our awesome friends at Staten Island Arts. Free. Pictured clockwise below: Jon Fox, Dan Icolari, Lisa Rhoades, Marguerite Rivas. And the Staten Island Ferry.
Saturday, March 19, 2016 – 2pm at Historic Richmond Town’s Courthouse, 441 Clarke Ave, SINY 10306 Staten Island OutLOUD honors the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Irish Rising (sometimes called the Easter Rebellion), on Saturday, March 19, 2pm at Historic Richmond Town’s Courthouse, 441 Clarke Ave, SINY 10306. The event is free, family-friendly and open to the public. On a … Read More
Saturday, March 12, 2016, at 1:30pm and at 3:00pm. At Historic Richmond Town, 441 Clarke Ave, SINY 10306
Historic Richmond Town celebrates Women In History Month, and Staten Island OutLOUD is proud to collaborate in this effort. OutLOUD will offer two free readings: one at 1:30pm and one at 3:00pm. Details TBA.
Saturday, July 14, 2pm. At the Greenbelt Nature Center, 700 Rockland Ave, SINY 10314
Staten Island OutLOUD invites you to explore “The History of Water” – readings and conversation on several fascinating books that examine how water has been used and conserved in varied civilizations throughout history.
How did Roman aqueducts work? What other ingenious methods have been used to transport water and to protect water supplies in remote areas or over long distances? What can we do to better ensure water sources and water safety?
This event is free and open to the public. Good for all ages.
6:30pm on Saturday, February 20, 2016. At Richmond Hood Company, 827 Castleton Ave, SINY 10310.
Staten Island OutLOUD presents readings & conversation in honor of Black History Month. Bring a poem by an African-American writer. We’ll also explore Manning Marable’s “Rediscovering Malcolm”. Special guests – Poet Tom Fucaloro & friends. Free & open to the public.
Saturday, Feb 13, 2pm at Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve, 2351 Veterans Road West, SINY 10309. Take 440 South to Exit 3, Woodrow Ave. Follow the signs to Clay Pit Park State Preserve Visitors Center: https://www.google.com/maps/place/2351+Veterans+Rd+W,+Staten+Island,+NY+10309/@40.5381985,-74.2273061,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c3b5316b7bcf0d:0x7309a9de1afef293
In the beautiful wintry woodland of Clay Pit Ponds Park, we’ll gather inside the Interpretive Center to read Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk’s novel, Snow. It is a stunning story, set in modern Turkey. A rash of suicides has been reported among young women in rural villages, and a journalist sets out from Germany to return to his home and learn what caused those young women to take their lives. As he arrives, a blinding snow storm settles upon the village to cut it off from the outside world. He meets revolutionaries, fundamentalists, witnesses a murder, is taken into police custody, and reunites with a woman he has loved from afar for years.
What is the mystery that he uncovers? What finally happens to him?
After our reading concludes, weather permitting, the friendly park rangers will lead us on a walk through the woods.
Saturday, Feb 6, 2pm at the Stapleton Library, 132 Canal St, SINY 10304
Staten Island OutLOUD kicks off our Black History Month events, featuring a new biography, Richmond Unchained, about the first Black sports superstar, the boxer Bill Richmond, born in slavery on Staten Island in 1763. He won his freedom as a boy, and moved to England to learn the cabinet-making trade. A favorite of some powerful British aristocrats, Richmond became one of the most celebrated bare-knuckle boxers of his time.
Though Bill Richmond is generally unknown now, he was prominent in British society; indeed, he played an important role in the coronation celebrations of King George IV in 1821. Richmond Unchained, by Luke G. Williams, explores this remarkable man, a pugilist who knew William Hazlett, Lord Byron, Earl Percy, and the Prince Regent who later was crowned George IV.
This event is good for all ages, and is of special interest to sports fans, as well as to all who care about Black History Month.
Sunday afternoon, January 31, 2016, at 3pm. Wagner College, in the Manzulli Board Room,located in Foundation Hall – One Campus Road at Howard Avenue, Staten Island NY 10301. Ample free parking in the college lots; enter on Howard Avenue. Co-hosted by Prof. Lori Weintrob and her students.
Staten Island OutLOUD presents a special afternoon of readings and conversation in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Staten Island OutLOUD considers the stories of American GIs who helped liberate the camps.. Prof Lori Weintrob & her students present readings on Dr Janucz Korczak, who cared for Jewish orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto, and then perished with his little ones in Treblinka. Free
