PARACHUTE: The Coney Island Performance Festival: These gorgeous broadsides will be available at Parachute 2012!

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

These gorgeous broadsides will be available at Parachute 2012!

Parachute has created a broadside folio in collaboration with two New York letterpress artists to illuminate the words of poets Walt Whitman and Muriel Rukeyser. Barbara Henry of Harsimus Press designed the Walt Whitman broadside (11 x17) wherein he writes that Coney Island was one of his favorite places. Chris Fritton of Western New York Center for Book Arts designed the Muriel Rukeyser broadside (11x17) wherein she writes, "Coney Island, Coney Island...Let me see. Let me hear. Let me know what is real. "
Both are printed on high quality paper. Each are $15 and for sale as a set at $20. Edition of 200.
Hey get it get it!

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Our Mission

Parachute: The Coney Island Performance Festival is a community-based literary organization. The cornerstone of Parachute's work is a free two-day festival featuring renowned poets and writers reading at the New York Aquarium after hours, in the Alien Stingers Jellyfish Exhibit. Throughout the year, Parachute also offers creative writing workshops and innovative poetic events.

Parachute celebrates Coney Island’s vivid literary present and past through readings, letterpress broadsides, workshops and attention to the literary luminaries that have walked across Coney’s shores and been inspired by it—Walt Whitman, Muriel Rukeyser, and Henry Miller, to name but a few.

About the Artistic Director

Amanda Deutch is a native New Yorker with Coney Island roots. She first got the sand in her shoes standing in her nana's kitchen while the adults talked about "The Half Moon Hotel," which was up the block from their apartment on 29th street in Coney Island. The words, "Half Moon Hotel," and "Coney Island" rang like mysterious poetry to her nine year-old ears. Amanda has had poetry published widely. Some of her recent work can be found in Esque Mag online and Boog City. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and in 2007, she was awarded a Footpaths to Creativity fellowship on Flores Island in the Azores. She lives in Brooklyn where she facilitates writing workshops, works at the Coney Island History Project and is a third generation skee-ball player.