Monkey Business 3 Launch in NYC next week

Here's the initial rundown, as of right now.









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[EVENT 1] Wednesday, May 1st 2013, 7-8:30pm

Joe’s
Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, New York

Monkey
Business : A Cabaret with A
Public Space

East
meets West Meets Uptown meets Downtown




Readings by Gen’ichiro Takahashi, Mina
Ishikawa, Kevin Brockmeier, Ted Goossen and Motoyuki Shibata

Music by Neo Blues Maki and The Suzan

Hosted by Roland Kelts




 


[PEN info]

PEN World Voices joins with Asia Society, A Public Space,

and Monkey
Business International—the acclaimed

English-language anthology of newly translated Japanese

writing—for a cabaret-style night of readings,
conversation,

and music. Hosted by Japanamerica author Roland Kelts.




Tickets: $15/$12 PEN Members and students with valid ID

$12 food minimum or two drink minimum per person

212-967-7555 or www.publictheater.org, or visit The
Public

Theater Box Office at 425 Lafayette Street. Box Office Hours:

Sun-Mon 1-6 p.m., Tue-Sat 1-7:30 p.m.




EVERYONE WITH A TICKET GETS A FREE COPY OF
ISSUE 3 OF MONKEY BUSINESS




Presented in association with The Public Theater, a
center

for culture, arts, and ideas, and co-sponsored by Asia
Society,

Monkey
Business, and A Public Space.







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[EVENT 2] Thursday,
May 2nd 2013, 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m    Baruch
College, 55 Lexington Ave. at 24th St., New York

     Resonances:
Contemporary Writers on the Classics

Participants: Nadeem
Aslam, Eduardo Halfon, James Kelman, and Gen’ichiro Takahasi

Moderated by: Eva S. Chou




[PEN Info] 

Before the flame, a spark.



Each year, a group of Festival authors are invited by Baruch

College’s Great Works program to comment on a classic

work of literature or author that influenced their own work.

Panelists speak about the great works that affected them,

read from their own work or their chosen classic text to

illustrate the impact, then engage in discussion with the

audience.



Free and open to the public.



Co-sponsored by The Great Works Program, Weissman

School of Arts and Sciences—Baruch College, Asia Society,

Monkey Business, and A Public Space.




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 [EVENT 3] Dialogue between Kevin Brockmeier
and Mina Ishikawa

Roland
Kelts introduces Monkey Business , and Goossen and Shibata say hello to the audience



Thursday, May 2,
7pm

    BookCourt, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn





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Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue at 70th
Street, New York

Monkey Business-- Japan/America: Writers’ Dialogue




Dialogues
between Paul Auster and Gen’ichiro Takahashi, and between Charles Simic and
Mina Ishikawa




 [PEN info]

Paul Auster and Charles Simic join Gen’ichiro
Takahashi,

one of Japan’s
leading novelists and critics, and Mina Ishikawa,

a fresh new voice in tanka poetry, for an intriguing
cross-cultural

encounter. The conversation will be facilitated by
eminent translators

Motoyuki Shibata and Ted Goossen, the editors of the
acclaimed

English-language anthology of newly translated Japanese
writing,

Monkey
Business International.

  

Tickets: $15/$10 Asia
Society and PEN Members; $12

students and seniors




Co-sponsored by Asia
Society, A Public Space, and Monkey

Business.







Shibata will be
giving a talk at Baruch College at 1pm, on May 2




Shibata is also giving a keynote speech for a symposium “The Politics of Polyglossia,” at Baruch College, 1:30pm, May 6: