Arts & Culture
Rachel Lyon (R) and Sarah Bridgins at Ditmas Lit. (Photo by Debra Pearlman)On a frigid, rainy Tuesday in January, Ditmas Parkers squeezed into the cozy faux-log-cabin outpost perched in Sycamore’s backyard. Huddled around a crackling “fire” and heat lamps, this devoted literary crowd gathered for Ditmas Lit, the
E 4th Street Garden Event
Photo courtesy of E. 4th Street Community Garden, Anney FreshThis Saturday, July 11th at 3:30 pm, the East Fourth Street Community Garden [https://www.facebook.com/groups/246036418909475/] welcomes all to a free reading by four Brooklyn poets and writers. On a mid-July afternoon, listen to these authors read
authors
Park Slope is one of the best neighborhoods in the city to hear authors talk about their work, and it’s about to get even better. Brooklyn-based author Amy Shearn [http://www.amyshearnwrites.com/] is bringing her skill for gathering talented writers, and her infectious charm, to a new interview
actors
Photo by Sam BurbankPaz Pardo is a prolific writer, actor, and director whose name you might recognize from her play Duct Tape Girl and Fetish Chick Conquer the World [/blog/art-music/duct-tape-girl-and-fetish-chick-conquer-the-world-a-heartfelt-play-about-queer-superheroes] , performed in Park Slope living rooms in early 2013. With her one-woman show Perpetual Motion (which takes on
authors
Need a little spoken word in your life (and perhaps a drink or two while you’re at it)? Then stop by Frank’s Cocktail Lounge [/blog/2014/09/04/fort-greene-institution-franks-cocktail-lounge-marks-40-years-on-fulton-street/] (660 Fulton Street between Lafayette Avenue and South Elliot Place) next Tuesday, November 18 for this month’s Write
performances
Pratt [https://www.pratt.edu] will be hosting Now Before And After Is Not Enough [https://www.facebook.com/PrattInstitute/posts/732889460106245], an evening of no-cost public performances and readings tomorrow (Thursday, August 28) to celebrate the launch of their new MFA writing program. From 6-7:30pm, audiences will be
cuddle magic
It’s no secret that Ditmas Park is an oasis for talented and ambitious New Yorkers in all sorts of industries. Here are a few neighbors with news to share: * The National [http://americanmary.com] is playing tonight at the Prospect Park Bandshell [http://www.prospectpark.org/visit/places/bandshell]
authors
This Saturday, March 29, neighbors are invited to the Cortelyou Library [http://www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/locations/cortelyou] (1305 Cortelyou Road on the corner of Argyle Road) for a talk by CUNY professor and writer Kathy McDonald [http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/Kathlene-McDonald.cfm]. Kathy will be discussing Lorraine Hansberry
writers
September 15 was the debut of Lit at Lark [https://www.facebook.com/litatlark], and it went so well that Kari, Lori, and neighbor/author Amy Shearn [http://www.amyshearnwrites.com/] are teaming up with a new trio of authors to do it again. The next Lit at Lark event
authors
Matthue Roth has been living in Ditmas Park with his family for three and a half years. The author of Never Mind the Goldbergs [https://sites.google.com/site/matthue/store#goldbergs], Candy in Action [http://candyinaction.blogspot.com/2007/11/candy-shop.html], Losers [https://sites.google.com/site/matthue/
Clay McCleod Chapman
If there’s ever a sighting of neighbor Clay McLeod Chapman [http://claymcleodchapman.com/] asleep, please let us know about it – because we just don’t think it’s possible. A recent transplant to Ditmas Park, Clay is long known in New York by downtown theater fans as the originator
ishmael islam
Psha, screw the crusty old intelligentsia of Park Slope. New York City’s 2012 Youth Poet Laureate is a Kingsborough Community College student. Nineteen-year-old Ishmael “Ish” Islam snagged the title with his winning poem “ Daydreaming at the Voting Booth [http://www.nyccfb.info/public/VRC/ish.aspx]” (above), tallying the