Reading Series | Performance Space New York Spring Gala

Historical Avant Gardes

 
First Mondays invites our communities to experience readings of unpublished works and works in progress by an intergenerational group of vanguard writers. This season we continue to gather over free drinks in our theaters to hear writers discuss what’s on their mind and get a glimpse of the future of literature.
 
For more than 5 years, First Mondays has brought readers and writers together to celebrate the written word from diverse perspectives and genres, all for free.

First Mondays ‘WE WON’T GO BACK’ edition presents: LESBIANS! AIDS! TRANS PEOPLE! HISTORIANS! JOURNALISTS! NOVELISTS!

 
First Mondays invites our communities to experience readings of unpublished works and works in progress by an intergenerational group of vanguard writers. This season we continue to gather over free drinks in our theaters to hear writers discuss what’s on their mind and get a glimpse of the future of literature.
 
For more than 5 years, First Mondays has brought readers and writers together to celebrate the written word from diverse perspectives and genres, all for free.

Freedom Visions

 
First Mondays invites our communities to experience readings of unpublished works and works in progress by an intergenerational group of vanguard writers. This season we continue to gather over free drinks in our theaters to hear writers discuss what’s on their mind and get a glimpse of the future of literature.
 
For more than 5 years, First Mondays has brought readers and writers together to celebrate the written word from diverse perspectives and genres, all for free.

Marathon Reading of The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

 
Readers: J Bob Alotta, Lisa Baltazar, Samiya Bashir, Marci Blackman, Kera Bolonik, Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Ann Cammett, Ava Chin, Grace M Cho, Peter Cramer, Bridgett Davis, Lisa Duggan, Marta Elena Esquilin, Marcia Gallo, Ysabel Y Gonzalez, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Ada Gay Griffin, Rachel Harris, Briona Jones, Roz Lee, Tonia Poteat, Courtney Reid-Easton, Shellyne Rodriguez, Kate Rushin, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Bina Shariff, Evie Shockley, Pamela Sneed, laila stevens, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Karen Thompson, Linda Villarosa, Jack Waters, Jana Welch, Jacqueline Woodson, and LinYee Yuan.
 
Performance Space New York’s Marathon Readings shares important, influential, and experimental work by women who have passed away, to collectively remember their words. Previous readings were: black looks: race and representation by bell hooks, Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker and DICTEE by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa, and Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid.
 

The Art of Precision and Imagination

 
First Mondays invites our communities to experience readings of unpublished works and works in progress by an intergenerational group of vanguard writers. This season we continue to gather over free drinks in our theaters to hear writers discuss what’s on their mind and get a glimpse of the future of literature.
 
For more than 5 years, First Mondays has brought readers and writers together to celebrate the written word from diverse perspectives and genres, all for free.

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