TypewriterGirls Save the Libraries! Is the Main Event in this week’s City Paper!
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A72382
DECEMBER 3, 2009
Short List: Week of December 3 – 10
For the first time in 114 years, the Carnegie Library system plans to close branches … and Pittsburghers are not happy. On Sun., Dec. 6, some of the Steel City’s most creative citizens continue working to raise awareness about the endangered system. At the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, avant-garde cabaret troupe The Typewriter Girls hosts an eclectic show including: Moquette Voulante’s belly-dancing; NAKA Entertainment’s hip-hop dance; chanteuse Phat Man Dee; and poets Sandra Beasley and Nancy Krygowski. The show features interactive improv games and an “exquisite corpse” on library themes that will be read at the end. There’s also a silent auction of donations from local artists, writers and businesses to benefit the floundering library system. “It’s something we were both really nervous about and we were planning on taking some kind of action, and this just sort of opened itself up,” says Typewriter Girl Crystal Hoffman. Meanwhile, at Highland Park’s Union Project, puppeteer Flora Shepherd hosts the finale of her Puppets for Pages Campaign with four family-friendly puppet acts and craft workshops for the children. Shepherd and Katrina Struloeff spent November performing at all six libraries scheduled to close. The Dec. 6 finale arrives just before the library board’s next meeting. “I’ve always loved libraries and when I heard they were closing, I wanted to do something to raise awareness,” Shepherd says. “It’s also a celebration of the libraries. We’ve been tying to keep the pressure on because they’ve barely been given enough funding to keep them open through 2010.” Lucy Leitner Puppets for Pages: Noon, Sun., Dec. 6 (801 Negley Ave., Highland Park; PuppetsForPages.org). Typewriter Girls Save the Libraries: 6 p.m. Sun., Dec. 6 (4400 Forbes Ave. Oakland; $7) 
AND It was Hotlisted in the Post-Gazette’s Weekend Guide!
SUNDAY
Poetry party
Avant-garde cabaret troupe The TypewriterGirls will raise awareness and funds for Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh with a poetry reading and performance Sunday at Carnegie Library Lecture Hall.
This show also will feature poets Nancy Krygowski and Sandra Beasley, performance artist Christiane D., song stylist Phat Man Dee, hip-hop dance group Naka Entertainment and stuntman Dave Doyle.
There will also be a silent auction filled with goods from local artists, musicians, poets, restaurants and shops, with all the proceeds going to the library’s operating fund.
It begins at 6 p.m. Minimum donation is $7. For details, go to www.typewritergirls.net.
Read more: http://www.postgazette.com/pg/09337/1017976-437.stm#ixzz0Z2JtavIM
http://www.postgazette.com/pg/09337/1017976-437.stm
AND Check out this awesome blog article on the Post-Gazette’s website!
http://community.post-gazette.com/blogs/citywalkabout/archive/2009/11/24/puppets-weird-poets-to-the-rescue.aspx
