Join us - Third Thursdays - for
the CREATIVE COCKTAIL HOUR

On the third Thursday of every month, creative people come together for conversation, art, and music.

music: Tamer Fakhouri (DJ)

Media Sponsorship by
Food Sponsorship by

Outdoor space provided by New England Management. Lovely artists studios and office suites available at 56 Arbor St (same building as Real Art Ways).

Coming Creative Cocktail Hour Events
Thursday, March 18, 6-10 PM

Live Arts
WINCE: Love Hurts

Get a head start on Valentine's Day at WINCE: Love Hurts, a night of YOUR stories, love letters, photographs, and other artifacts of love gone wrong.

About WINCE
WINCE began last April as an experiment in collective humiliation and multimedia storytelling. Previously, WINCE has featured stories of adolescent embarrassment. The second WINCE asked for stores about lying, and the consequences of that lie. The most recent WINCE featued stories of family, just in time for the holidays. Participants read from diaries, played their high school band's songs, told hilarious and mortifying stories, and shared other artifacts from their past in public.

Listen to selections from WINCE: "Liar Liar" on WNPR's Colin McEnroe Show (segment starts at 27:17).

Coming Live Arts Events

Matinée Movies
The Pirate

Gene Kelly and Judy Garland star in this swashbuckling musical directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Coming Daytime Events: Matinée: Citizen Kane 3/1; Matinée: Shall We Dance 3/15; Matinée: Divorce Italian Style 4/5; Matinée: Murmur of the Heart 4/19; Matinée: The Last Metro 5/3; DAYTRIP: Storm King 5/15; Matinée: The Small Back Room 5/17

Real Board (Games)
On the first Tuesday of every month

We'll provide the games and (free) popcorn. Bring your friends and, if you want, a game or two that you don't think we'll have. Want to donate a game to us? Email LB.

Writers & Readers: Allison Joseph & Marlon James
part of Rockstone & Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art.

at Real Art Ways:
Allison Joseph - Sat., 2/20, 6:30 PM reception; 7 PM readings
Marlon James - Sat., 2/27, 6:30 PM reception, 7 PM readings

admission: $5/FREE for Real Art Ways members

at Labyrinth Books, New Haven:
Allison Joseph - Sunday, February 21, 4 PM
Marlon James - Sunday, February 28, 4 PM

admission: Contact Labyrinth Books, New Haven: labyrinthbooks.comor 203.787.2848

Marlon James
"Writing in the spirit of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker but in a style all his own, James has conducted an experiment in how to write the unspeakable — even the unthinkable. And the results of that experiment are an undeniable success."
- Kaiama L. Glover, The New York Times Book Review

Marlon James is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction (winner announced March 11, 2010) and a nominee for the NAACP's Image Award in Literature (winner announced Feb. 26, 2010). Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was short listed for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

[Listen: Marlon James on WNYC's Studio 360]

Allison Joseph
The author of Worldly Pleasures, Imitation of Life and three other books of poems. Joseph's newest book, My Father's Kites, will be published in February. Joseph is also one of eight featured authors in Writing the Future of Black America: Literature of the Hip-Hop Generation.

Allison Joseph was born in London, England in 1967 to parents of Caribbean heritage. She currently teaches at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, where she serves as editor for Crab Orchard Review.

[Watch: Allison Joseph reads at Poetry at Tech]

About Labyrinth Books, New Haven:
Labyrinth is an acclaimed independent bookstore for engaged readers. Their two retail outlets in Princeton and New Haven are committed to a full schedule of in-store readings and collaborative events within our communities. The latter include lectures, conferences, film series, literacy outreach and much more.

New Haven store is located at 290 York St., just off Broadway and behind Sterling Library: a 2 minute walk from the Yale campus.

Contact Labyrinth Books, New Haven: labyrinthbooks.comor 203.787.2848