Monster Monday Madness: Body Bags + Art Talks Brooklyn + Sami & Sarah + Geoff Raggett + Cancion Franklin @ The Way Station

6-7:15pm- Monster Monday Madness: Body Bags (Carpenter segment)

Free Pizza

7:30pm- Art Talks Brooklyn

An informal speaker series highlighting the importance of Brooklyn art initiatives and how they positively impact our community. Monthly, we invite three speakers, each allotted 15 minutes, to talk about their history, mission and creative public programming.

Brooklyn Public Library, Meredith Walters, Director Programs & Exhibitions

As an independent system, separate from the New York City and Queens libraries, Brooklyn Public Library serves the borough’s 2.5 million residents, offering thousands of public programs, millions of books and use of more than 1,100 free Internet-accessible computers. Just some of the many things you can do at BPL:

-Attend an author reading, poetry discussion or other public program offered throughout the year

-Use our Articles & Databases to conduct research

-Learn about Brooklyn’s rich history at the Brooklyn Collection.

-Get all the information you need to start your own enterprise at the Business Library

-Learn a new language at the Languages and Literature Division

bklynpubliclibrary.org

The Brooklyn Quarterly, Tristan Snell

Featuring fiction, essays, interviews, and poetry, we aim to cultivate accessible discourse and an open community of writers, readers, and citizens. We ourselves are writers, professionals, activists, entrepreneurs, and scholars who believe in the power of narrative and the critical importance of public intellectuals rather than an exclusive intelligentsia.

Brooklyn is the anchor for our endeavors for a multitude of reasons. In “Our City,” Walt Whitman referred to Brooklyn as “a mighty world in itself,” and that is just as true today as it was in 1842. Brooklyn is, to each of us, Our City — both home and workshop, a place of family memories and personal aspirations. With its proud and continuing history of openness and diversity, opportunity and invention, Brooklyn is in many ways America’s City. More recently, Brooklyn has become synonymous with efforts to reclaim the history and artisanship of a bygone America, as a nation of producers and not just consumers — efforts we aim to embrace and celebrate.

Above all, Brooklyn stands for tangible possibility, a city that welcomes and harbors the immigrant and dissident, the struggling and ambitious. Living and working here, Whitman wrote, “are people of all classes and stages of rank — from all countries on the globe — engaged in all the varieties of avocations — of every grade, every hue of ignorance and learning, morality and vice, wealth and want, fashion and coarseness, breeding and brutality, elevation and degradation, impudence and modesty.” We are The Brooklyn Quarterly because we believe this “mighty world,” both cosmopolitan and yet uniquely American, is still being built and deserves expression worthy of its grandeur. By naming ourselves in the tradition of Whitman’s democratic vision of America, we affirm our dedication to seeking out and publishing new voices and new ideas, raised throughout the country and around the world.

The Brooklyn Quarterly is a nonprofit literary endeavor based in Brooklyn, with editors across the country. We have an exciting slate of writers, editors, contributing editors, and advisory editors on board, and we are seeking additional writers and editors, both established and emerging, to join us. We have been hosting events and publishing online quarterly issues since the summer of 2013, and host an online blog community. We also publish curated selections of our work in limited print editions. The Brooklyn Quarterly will retain first serial rights on featured work. We welcome all sponsors and collaborators.

For more information, please contact us: contact@brooklynquarterly.org

http://brooklynquarterly.org/about/

9pm- Sami & Sarah

Genre: From traditional country music, early jazz recordings, Brazilian sambas to European movie soundtracks and the golden age of American animation

For fans of: Cliff Edwards, Huayno, Serge Gainsbourg, Ween, Willie Nelson, Tom Ze, Sega Genesis, The Moldy Peaches, Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, and Johnny Cash & June Carter

Sami & Sarah are a Brooklyn-based vocal duo playing banjo-ukulele, and upright bass. Their whimsical sound has been described as a combination of The Moldy Peaches, Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, and Johnny Cash & June Carter. Their multi-lingual music draws from influences as varied as traditional country music, early jazz recordings, Brazilian sambas, European movie soundtracks and the golden age of American animation. Since their formation in early 2013, they have played various venues in New York City and Buenos Aires, Argentina. They are in the process of completing recordings for their first EP, which is expected to be released in the fall of 2014.

www.samiandsarah.com

http://vimeo.com/77752208

https://soundcloud.com/samisarah/together-1

10pm- Geoff Raggett

Genre: rock

Geoff Raggett has been plundering the live circuit in London for a number of years. Possessing strong vocals and fiery guitar chops he is now finally emerging as one of the UK’s upcoming live talents and songwriters. His first single, “Soul Destroyer” was described as, “bringing the soul back to rock and roll. Forthcoming single, “What Now” has been described as having a stomping Kasabian like groove and the unyielding vocal intent of Miles Kane.

“Geoff Raggett embodies the unfeigned despair of a balladeer launched in the guise of an unyielding mod.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k358Ec5544o

https://www.facebook.com/GeoffRaggettMusic

11pm- Cancion Franklin

Genre: Americana/blues

For fans of: Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash

One man show. True American vocally driven songs. Americana with focused guitar and country blues roots. Original songs only, with a respect for lyrical expression.

Soundcloud.com/cancion-1