Sad you can't make it to Montreal for Marcel Dzama's exhibition, "Of Many Turns" at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal?
Happily, the artist - an 826NYC advisory board member and volunteer! - will be signing copies of the catalog at Brooklyn's very own BookCourt on Monday, March 15th, at 7:00pm.
For more information, please contact BookCourt!
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This past Saturday, we hosted our third annual Scrabble for Cheaters tournament. Cheats were in full effect, allowing players to reject and invent words, buy vowels, and add points to carefully placed tiles. Everyone played hard and cheated strategically, but after a grueling six rounds the High Maintenance Shorties finally cheated their way to the top, ousting the two-year reigning champions, The Fightin' Caziques!
Thanks to all the players and everyone who donated, and special thanks to our guests Peter Dinklage, John Oliver, Paul Rudd, Jonathan Marc Sherman, and Sarah Vowell, and extra special thanks to the very generous and very amazing Russ & Daughters.
The more money you raise, the more you can cheat!
826NYC is hosting its third annual SCRABBLE FOR CHEATERS, a tournament of verbal smarts and fraudulence, on March 6th, at 826NYC.
This year, Paul Rudd, John Oliver, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Peter Dinklage, and others (perhaps YOU!) will be there to challenge our reigning champions, the wily Morgan Clendaniel & Gideon Friedman of The Fightin' Caziques.
We have a very limited number of spots available. So sign up soon!
For more information about this event, or to check out the competition, please visit our SCRABBLE FOR CHEATERS website.
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While his term as the inaugural National Ambassador for Children's Literature has recently come to an end, Jon "The Fiesta" Scieszka's reign as King of Children's Literature has just begun. On Wednesday, February 3rd, 826NYC students, parents, volunteers and staff gathered to honor our Board Vice President with an official engraved crown, and of course, a (very regal) cape. The awards were presented by our own illustrious Noemi (age 8), who emceed the evening while her fellow students shared some of their favorite moments in Scieszka's stinky cheese-scented fiction. Lots of cake and (not-so-stinky) cheese were had by all. Jon has been a familiar face at 826NYC for years, and will continue to inspire countless budding Ambassadors from his new throne. We can't imagine a foreseeable successor. Thanks for all that you do, Scieszka!]]>
We would like to congratulate the following friends of 826NYC on their Academy Award nominations:
A great big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the So You Think You Can Pong? Table Tennis Tournament, held on January 13th at SPiN New York. It was an exciting evening with Jason Jones, of The Daily Show, acting as emcee, and Sean Avery, Mario Batali, Dave Eggers, Catherine Keener, Mike Myers, Peter Sarsgaard, David Schwimmer, Will Shortz and Sarah Vowell playing in support of 826NYC and its programs.
Thank you to ALL of our players and to our generous sponsor, Converse.
More photos can be seen on our Facebook page!
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Please join us on Wednesday, January 20th, at 7pm for a special lecture, reading, and Q&A with Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries.
The Adderall Diaries is Stephen Elliott's first memoir but his seventh book, all of them written from personal experience. This 90-minute talk and reading will focus on the generation of memoir, using the author's recent book, The Adderall Diaries, as a jumping off point for discussing the process of figuring out your story and editing it into something someone would want to read.
Admission is $25 - the price of the book! - and includes a copy.
Purchase your ticket here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/92890
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We are so grateful to A Holiday Benefit for creating a third album and performance to benefit 826NYC! This year's album features Chris Abad, Bryan Dunn, Chris Cubeta, Emily Easterly, Andy Mac, Martin Rivas, Ruby Rivers, Bess Rogers, Amber Rubarth, Casey Shea, Paula Valstein, Benjamin Wagner and Emily Zuzik! Please visit www.aholidaybenefit.org for updates about the album. And mark your calendars for their one-night-only performance!
"A Holiday Benefit, Vol. III"
Wednesday, December 16th 8-11pm
Pianos (158 Ludlow Street, New York)
It's a rare occasion that the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. closes down on a Sunday morning. But last week, staff made way for a rare visit from Brooklyn's most evil villains - Humungasaur, The Transporter, The Airborne Trooper, Jessica, Spinner, Ghostly, Freak Show, Sucker Wolf, Lord Darkness, Lightning Storm, Slimy Legs, and Royal Darkness.
Sucker Wolf, whose favorite crime is sucking blood and eating meat, is pictured here, preparing for her big-screen debut.
And what were these villains doing in a superhero store? Filming their feature for a special edition of Villainy Fair. While we normally would not stop superhero sales for villain fanfare, we just couldn't turn away a group of villains interested in writing, of all things!
Special thanks to volunteers Elaine Palucki, Ballard Boyd, and Joe Miles, who went out on a limb and gave these villains a chance.
]]>A special thanks also goes out to Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, Catherine Keener, Max Records, Karen O, puppeteer Angus, and John Hodgman whose presence made the evening unforgettable. 
Another thank you goes out to our sponsors, Thomson Shore and SPIN Magazine as well as Whiskey Park, the venue for our VIP Reception and the great folks at Warner Brothers for helping us pull this together!
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
7:00 p.m.
The Paris Theatre
4 West 58th Street, Manhattan
The screening will be accompanied by a question-and-answer session with director Spike Jonze and moderated by author, actor, and Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman.
$50 - Balcony tickets to the Preview Screening and Q&A
Balcony tickets have Sold Out.
$75 - General Admission tickets to the Preview Screening and Q&A
General Admission has been Sold Out.
$150 - V.I.P. Tickets to the Preview Screening and Q&A with Priority Seating, plus a Private Cocktail Reception with Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze.
V.I.P. Reception has been Sold Out.
This event has Sold Out. Thank you to everyone for your support!
Special thanks to our event sponsors:
SPIN Magazine
Warner Brothers
GOOD Magazine
Urban Outfitters
Filter Magazine
Harper Collins
Random House Mondadori
McSweeney’s
Hi everyone -
We did this event hoping to raise money to teach writing to kids. We're kind of, you know, into writing. If you listen, and you're against helping schoolchildren with their homework and expanding their literary horizons, then certainly do not click the donate button. Everyone else, please click. Throw in a buck, or five bucks. We think we might be able to raise enough this way to cover all of 826NYC's costs for a month which would be incredible and also incidentally blow their minds. Help us do that! Help us shock them with the generosity of strangers on the Interweb.
- Joss and Ira
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Join Jonathan Ames (author of I Love You More than You Know, and creator of HBO's Bored to Death) as he hosts a magical and hilarious night of comedy at the Highline Ballroom in Manhattan, Monday, Sept. 14th at 8pm.
The star-studded line-up includes John Oliver and Wyatt Cenac, from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as well as funny guys Eugene Mirman (Flight of the Conchords) and Ted Alexandro (Comedy Central Presents).
Tickets are just $20 and can be purchased here.
If you have any questions about this event, send an e-mail to Sarah.
That's right, it's back - 826NYC's celebrated student film festival, Erasers for Breakfast! This year we are premiering feature films about werewolves, wizards, and dancers, coming attractions from the puppeteering masters, claymation shorts about breakfast, snacks, and soccer, and never-before-seen interviews with Brooklyn's most wanted mad scientists.
Mark your calendars. You don't want to miss this.
Wednesday, August 26th
BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue)
7PM
Admission is free but seating is limited. Please arrive early!
Today at 826NYC participants in the Puppet Mania workshop finished filming A METEORITE COMES TO EARTH!, the first of the three movie trailers set to debut later this summer. Our puppeteers/writers labored long and hard in the sun to wrap everything up in just under two hours. Those not filming today kindly pitched in making cameo appearances and assisting with the boom (after cutting tracks in the studio for their own epic teasers). All in all it was a highly successful first shoot - the green screen stayed up, heads stayed out of the picture, and the puppets were total professionals. ]]>