Hi everyone,

I will have #blacklivesmatter artwork and also a “Your Thoughts On Black Lives Matter” banner for your thoughts on Black Lives Matter as part of Puffin Cultural Forum’s “Conversations” exhibit for anyone who can make it.

Conversations, Puffin Celebrates Black History Month at Puffin Cultural Center, February 19th, 7pm. 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ 

The participating artists are: Lehna Huie, Ify Chiejina, Carla Cubit, Andrea Cauthen, Vaimoana Litia Makakaufaki, Patrick Dougher, Kern Bruce, Michael Markman, Curtis Grayson, and TAFA.

We take a hard look at the tumultuous dialogue on race, progress, and lack thereof through the visions of contemporary Black artists. Curated by artist and curator Lehna Huie and Puffin Cultural Forum’s Andrew Lee, Conversations presents a mosaic of expressions, ideas, and emotions embedded in the social issues, news headlines, and political movements of our time. Exhibition features many artworks newly created and exhibited for the first time. On view February 19 to March 31.

http://www.puffinculturalforum.org/
http://www.puffinculturalforum.org/events/event/457-conversations-puffin-celebrates-black-history-month.html

And Puffin is having more events throughout this month of Black History, many more and beyond according to their calendar. And one of  those events that seems to be all things #blacklivesmatter and beyond is:

Mark Engler

February 27, 8:00pm.

Puffin presents a new series of talks and presentations by authors from the Nation Institute. Co-author of “This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the 21st Century,” Mark Engler explores the “craft” of uprising and how they change the world. From protests around climate change, Occupy, Arab Spring, & #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force public change. Uprising shows how nonviolence can be deployed as a method of political conflict, disruption and social transformation. Mark Engler is an author and journalist based in Philadelphia. He is an editorial board member at Dissent, a contributing editor at Yes! Magazine, and a senior analyst with Foreign Policy In Focus, a network of foreign policy experts.

$10 Suggested Donation
Reservations Recommended- tix@puffinfoundation.org

Doors open at 7:30pm. Reservations held until 7:45pm.

Have a great Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Art day and more.

Okay. So it’s not that often that I find myself blaghing about parties on this blog these days and yet this post happens to be about an annual Yelp Holiday Hangover 2016 party on that Hudson River to be found in that city of New York. “I’m in!”, read a lot of comments to be found on that Yelp Holiday Hangover 2016 website, when those email confirmations from those rsvp’s were received in those emails. “I’m not in!” read some of those comments also of people and friends who were not in and were wait listed, as from what I read, this event sold out within twenty minutes of opening at noon and there were over a thousand people on the wait list. And I thank that friend for telling me about this event.  And if I must blagher say, I was super excited to have received one of those Hornblower New York cruises and events party passes, as I have never found myself on one of those yacht party cruises before throughout my travels here on planet earth. And this cruise was a blast, food, food, and more food, entertainment, entertainment and more entertainment, catering, catering and more catering.  And that Statue of Liberty all lit up at night photo is missing in action for when that camera doesn’t seem to want to see in the dark from inside that boat and its route.

And that list of performers and vendors from that night, which was actually last night, reads something like as follows:

Mark your calendar – set an alarm – RSVPs open this Thursday at noon for our Annual Yelp’s Holiday Hangover party!

What/Why:
#YelpHH16

5. Please sign up for Hornblower’s email so you can stay up to date on important info regarding Yelp’s Holiday Hangover.

And every picture tells a story as in those photos and videos that find themselves posted above. Have a great party cruise day and more.