Archive for September, 2011

PenTales at the BMW Guggenheim Lab: Growing Up and Old in New York City’s Ever-Changing Lower East Side

PenTales at the BMW Guggenheim Lab: Growing Up and Old in New York City’s Ever-Changing Lower East Side

One hour of 5-minute stories from locals on making a home in a place of flux Sunday October 2, 2011 from  12-1pm BMW Guggenheim Lab First Park | Houston at 2nd Ave Stories by /Royal Young – Co-Founder at HOLY DIVER /Contributor at Interview Magazine  /Laurie Gwen Shapiro – Writer and Emmy-nominated filmmaker […]

Postponed HOME SWEET HOME event. Now: Thursday October 6, 2011. 7pm-10pm

Postponed HOME SWEET HOME event. Now: Thursday October 6, 2011. 7pm-10pm

With stories by: Steve Jacobs + Elicia Berger + Jess Burkle + Halle Kiefer + Phillip Jackman + Noah Wunsch+ John Minus + Kayli Stollack+ Blair Miller + Charif Shanahan + Michele Carlo This is a houseparty: If thirsty, bring drink. Be nice: RSVP at writepentales.com

PenTales in Berlin! August 2011

topic: EVENT medium: PHOTO Check out some photos from the latest fantastic event in Berlin!

PenTales sells out + does Facebook! (join conversation + like)

PenTales sells out + does Facebook! (join conversation + like)

PenTales4; an Event in Paris

topic: EVENT medium: TEXT, AUDIO     Stories: “Josefa González Espilco” by Warwick Wise “Freedom” by Helen Percival “El Carcel de amor, or, The Prison of Love*” by Olivia Salazar-Winspear “Freedom” by Catherine Nicholson Two Freedom Poems by Fiona Cameron “Freedom” by Jo and a song: “Run, Run by Flo”    

Introducing: A PenTales Book

PenTales  started out as a small narrative experiment: We handed 20 empty notebooks to 20 friends, and asked them each to start a story. Many such books are now traveling the world as each storyteller passes the book on to someone new to continue their story. These are pages from […]

“Run, Run” a song about Freedom by Flo, Paris

“Run, Run” a song about Freedom by Flo, Paris

topic: NEW FRONTIERS medium: SONG, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris   Listen to the Song!

Two Freedom Poems by Fiona Cameron, Paris

Two Freedom Poems by Fiona Cameron, Paris

topic: NEW FRONTIERS medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! Freedom #1 From darkness, to LIGHT And 24 hours of freedom. We dance, we fly, we fuck like crazy, and then we die. FREEDOM#2 Lifted high, and lowered to the ground…. she […]

“Freedom” by Jo, Paris

“Freedom” by Jo, Paris

Listen to the Story! Way up in the North there’s a big forest, and in the big forest lives a whole crowd of beautiful butterflies. Every year the butterflies look forward to summer, and when summer comes they can’t wait to open up their wings, and warm them in the […]