celebrate walt! (events)
August 2009
New York, NY: Guggenheim Museum’s “It Came From Brooklyn” Concert Series
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/about-us/50th-anniversary/it-came-from-bk
Brooklyn, NY: The Artful Conspirators’ “The Second Pipe of Desire” and “Whitman’s Brooklyn”
http://www.artfulconspirators.org/
Brooklyn, NY: Leaves of Grass Unbound
September 2009
New York, NY: Sixth Annual “Song of Myself” Marathon!
Sunday, September 6, 3:00-5:30 pm (free to SSS Museum members; $5 non-members) aboard the tall ship Peking at the South Street Seaport Museum. A reading of Whitman’s great poem, hosted by Karen Karbiener, in which you are heartily invited to participate! For more information or to sign up for the reading, please contact Christine Modica at cmodica@southstseaport.org or 212. 748. 8738. Leave your name, email, and poem sections of preference (if any).
October 2009
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY: Brian Selznick’s Walt Whitman: Words for America (October 18, 2009-January 24, 2010)
http://www.katonahmuseum.org/exhibitions/upcoming/
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY: Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era (October 18, 2009-January 24, 2010)