Spoken Word Archives

Register for Interviewer Workshop – May 15th

As part of the Flatbush Eats storytelling initiative, we are creating an oral history collection on the theme of food in our neighborhood. We invite all Flatbush-PLG community members to become volunteer interviewers for this project. On May 15th, we will hold an...

PLG Arts Presents: Notes and Tones A virtual exploration of paired music and writing

Dramatic Reading, Music, Poetry Reading, Spoken Word

Featured artists for the third Notes and Tones, March 14, 5:30 pm: Saxophonist/Composer: Caleb Wheeler Curtis and writer, John Munnelly To join the audience for Notes and Tones on Sunday, March 14, at 5:30 pm, click on the link below at performance time, or paste it...

Notes and Tones – A virtual exploration of paired music and writing

Music, Poetry Reading, Spoken Word

Notes and Tones, a new monthly PLG Arts series, showcases writers and musicians in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. In this series, musicians & writers will collaborate on a presentation of readings and performance. Discussion with host Marianne Solivan and a Q&A...

Voices of Lefferts – Do You Hear What I Hear?

Spoken Word

Looking for a special gift for the holidays for someone near or far? For newcomers to the neighborhood, old timers, distant friends and relatives, readers who have one or two issues but not the whole set, Voices of Lefferts is excited to offer a gift set of all five...

Audio drama – “Lucky Penny”

Marathon Walt Whitman reading at Erv’s

Events, Poetry Reading, Spoken Word

Sunday, March 25, 1:00 PM Leaves of Grass Marathon: Writers read Whitman (while sipping cocktails) Greenlight and PLG Arts are thrilled to partner with our neighbors at Erv’s to host a marathon celebration of Brooklyn poet Walt Whitman’s masterwork, Leaves of Grass....

Loving and Loving – a staged reading