First Floor Walk Up Presents: THEN & NOW

First Floor Walk Up presents Readings of Poetry and Prose at P&T Knitwear Books and Cafe

In honor of Lower East Side History Month, P&T Knitwear Books and Café brings together four authors, artists, and storytellers – two of whom are Lower East Side residents – to share their stories based on the theme, THEN & NOW. Come join them for stories that take you back in time, transcend time, make you forget about time, and everything in between.

Many of their stories take place on the Lower East Side.

The features include:

Cristy C. Road, graphic novelist and lead of the melodic punk rock project, Choked Up; Denis Woychuk, author and founder of KGB Bar and its world-class literary series; Marie Sabatino, featured at NYC literary events like the Lit Crawl and Brooklyn Book Festival and; Michele Carlo, author and Moth Storyteller.

GUEST CURATOR

Marie Sabatino was curator and host of a reading series at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center on the Lower East Side and is excited to serve as guest curator for P&T’s First Floor Walk-Up series to support its founder and her friend and neighbor, Wayne Kral. Marie has shared her work at many venues in NYC like the Lit Crawl in Manhattan and Brooklyn, The National Arts Club, Galapagos Art Space, KGB Bar, and the Brooklyn Book Festival. You can find Marie’s work in publications like Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, The Liars’ League, Freerange Nonfiction, and in Akashic Books, as well as a bunch of other places you’ve probably never heard of.

THEME:

Then & Now

First Floor Walk-Up Presents a night of looking back at Then & Now. Join us for stories that take you back in time, transcend time, make you forget about time, and everything in between.

FEATURES

Denis Woychuk is the founder of the KGB Bar and its world-class literary series, which he began in 1994 with his friend, the novelist, Melvin Bukiet. He is also the founder of the Kraine Theater (1984) and The Red Room performance space (1992). Denis is the author of Attorney for the Damned: A Lawyers Life with the Criminally Insane (The Free Press, New York, 1996) as well as two books for children. He is currently working on his second musical based on his experiences as an attorney for maximum-security mental patients. Denis now lives in Manhattan, but at heart he’s still old-school Brooklyn.

Cristy C. Road is a first generation Cuban-American artist and musician who uses illustration, writing, and punk rock music as her preferred mediums. Her career began in 1996, when writing the Green’Zine; a self-published fanzine. Green’zine evolved from a punk rock fanzine with band interviews and record reviews to a personal manifesto about trauma, cultural and sub cultural identity. She has also published 3 graphic novels which tackle gender, sexuality, cultural identity, and healing from the traumas depicted in the Green’zine: Indestructible (2005), Bad Habits (2008), and Spit and Passion (2013). Her most recent project is the Next World Tarot (2019) a tarot card deck envisioning a world based on radical redefinitions of love and social justice. Road has additionally been creating illustrations for music, literature, media, and social movements for over twenty years. She was also the songwriter, singer, and guitarist for The Homewreckers from 2008-2016; and now fronts the melodic punk rock project, Choked Up. She is currently reinventing her art practice while also sticking to the tried and true via dystopian romance, in Brooklyn, NY.

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Michele Carlo is a writer, storyteller, (and sometime actor) who has told stories across the U.S., including the MOTH Mainstage in New York, the RISK! and Story Collider live shows and podcasts, on NPR (Latino USA and WNYC radio), and the WGBH-PBS series “Stories from the Stage.” Michele is also the author of the NYC-set memoir “Fish Out of Agua” and a contributor to several literary anthologies. Follow her on Instagram: @michele_asshell, and for bookings and more info: www.michelecarlo.com

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