Night blooms : a salon by Molly Crabapple
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About the Event
The Coffee House Club invites Salmagundi members to join artist and writer Molly Crabapple for a night of her curatorial direction. There will be readings joined by Yasmine Seale, Sage Sovereign, and Nermeen Shaikh; with a musical performance by Max Fractal.
Hungry?
Ticketed attendees are welcome to stay for dinner by indicating so in their Eventbrite RSVP.
There will be an a la carte menu to choose from. On the day of the event, you can pay for your meal with a card or your membership account (no cash).
About the Presenters
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer whose inspirations include Toulouse Lautrec, Diego Rivera and Goya’s ‘The Disasters of War.’ She is the co-author of Brothers of the Gun, an illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham, which was a NY Times Notable Book and long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award. Her memoir, Drawing Blood, received global praise and attention. Her animated films have been nominated for five Emmys and won an Edward R. Murrow Award.
Crabapple’s reportage has been published in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. She was the 2019 artist-in-residence at NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies in 2019, a New America fellow in 2020, and the winner of the Bernhardt Labor Journalism Award in 2022. In 2023, she was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, working on a history of the Jewish Labor Bund.
Molly got her start as the house artist for New York’s most notorious nightclub. She became a journalist sketching the frontlines of Occupy Wall Street, before covering, with words and art, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lebanese snipers, Guantanamo Bay, the US-Mexican border, Pennsylvania prisoners, New York cabbies, Greek refugee camps, and the ravages of hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. She once confronted Donald Trump in Dubai about the fact that his workers there got paid $100 a month. As an award-winning animator, she has pioneered a new genre of live-illustrated journalism, collaborating with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Jay Z, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and The ACLU. Her animations are on permanent display at The Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.
Yasmine Seale is a poet, translator and critic. Among her translations from Arabic are The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton, 2021) and Something Evergreen Called Life, a collection of poems by Rania Mamoun (Action Books, 2022). Her essays on literature, art and film have appeared widely. She is currently a Visiting Professor at Columbia University.
Sage Sovereign is a New York City based performance artist, event and talent producer, musician and visual artist. She has graced stages all across Europe, Turkey and the United States, bringing her unique style of spectacle and ritual to her performances, which leaves audiences of every background and age group yearning for more! Amongst her impressive performance art resume is also stilt walking. And she will create a custom look to fit the special theme of your event! Notably, she was in the 2018 Metropolitan Opera House production of Cosi Fan Tutte, directed by Phelim McDermott, and is returning in 2020 as the featured fire artist. Sage has also brought her brand of fire artistry to music videos of international music sensations.
Nermeen Shaikh is a co-host and senior producer at Democracy Now! She serves on the Board of Directors of the Nobel Women’s Initiative. She is the author of The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power published by Columbia University Press. She is working on her first novel whose working title is “As If Not Spoken at All.”
Max Fractal is an electro-punk-dark-wave-synth-god.
Camille Sojit Pejcha is a writer covering art, culture and sex for The New York Times, Slate, W, and anywhere else that will have her. She writes Pleasure-Seeking, a bestselling Substack newsletter featured in The New York Times and read by a global audience of perverts, romantics, and voyeurs across hundreds of countries.