Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead!
Film:
Monday, May 11 at 6 pm ($12/$15) The Art Deco Society of New York’s new series, Mondays at the Movies Cinema Chat, transports you back to the 1930s, when Americans found relief from the stress of everyday life by escaping into Hollywood’s glamorous dream worlds. In these unique events, experts in the golden age of cinema will screen and discuss wonderful 1930s and 40s escapist fantasies with ADSNY’s audience. https://www.artdeco.org/trouble-in-paradise
Fiction:
Tuesday, May 12 at 7:30 pm (Free) The Center for Fiction
“We are so proud to host the May 12 release event of Tracy O’Neill’s new novel Quotients, published by Soho Press! O’Neill, a 2012 Emerging Writers Fellow, has written a gripping literary espionage novel about the effect of technology and surveillance on our relationships. Author Gina Apostol (Gun Dealers’ Daughter, Insurrecto, The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata) will join O’Neill in conversation.” Sign up here
Viral Novel:
Pigeon Mothers is a novel by Marty Correia who works at NYU and has an MFA from NYU’s Creative Writing Program!
“Pigeon Mothers’ viral distribution is fashioned after COVID-19 virus contagion.*
But this viral novel is fun! YOU get to spread it risk free! Plus, for every one of your friends who catches your Pigeon Mothers bug, you get to hoard ten toilet-paper-roll chances to win a $500 jackpot of real cash money (actually Venmo/PayPal).” Check it out at Pigeon Mothers
Virtual Choir: h/t Cayla Delardi
No, Corona!
Humor: h/t Suzanne Kaplan-Fonseca
Make Your Own Movie: h/t Jenny McPhee
The film industry has been hit hard by the global pandemic. Productions of all sizes have screeched to a halt, and hundreds of thousands of filmmakers are stuck at home with very little opportunity for a creative outlet. The Create at Home Film Festival is an opportunity for filmmakers to continue producing work, even if they can’t leave their houses. Submit an original short film to SHIFT (produced inside your home) and compete for one of our three $1,000 cash prizes!