Brooklyn Festivals and Rain...
Sep. 29th, 2024 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatIt's kind of pouring, at least I think it is pouring and not just the water tumbling off of air conditioners and gutters above me.
Artarmeggadon (an extensive outdoor art and music festival from basically Prospect Park to Below Newkirk Avenue, in Flatbush, Brooklyn or a five to ten minute walk from where I live) - was supposed to be held today.
9 hours ago:
Rob E (the organizer/founder of the Brooklyn Community Art Collective who is putting it on): We're definitely on for tomorrow.
Resident: I hope it doesn't pour.
Rob E: It's not going to pour.
35 minutes ago:
Rob E: We are officially cancelled. It's being held October 6. Sorry Not Sorry. Come then.
I feel sorry for the Brooklyn Book Festival. I know it's still on. Mainly because I've been to it while it was raining. The vendors are all under shelters, and so are most of the panels. But the audience/visitors aren't. You basically meander through or stand and listen, while holding umbrellas, or try to find a seat under the tent or shelter, assuming it has one.
I picked up the schedule to see what was being offered? I wasn't planning on going anyhow. I don't know any of the authors, outside of Emily Nussbaum (a television, book, and film critic who annoys me), and Chris Hays (a political critic who...also annoys me). And well Edwidge Danticat, who I'm not into. So no point. Plus I have more than enough books as it is - I do not need more.
Artarmeggadon (an extensive outdoor art and music festival from basically Prospect Park to Below Newkirk Avenue, in Flatbush, Brooklyn or a five to ten minute walk from where I live) - was supposed to be held today.
9 hours ago:
Rob E (the organizer/founder of the Brooklyn Community Art Collective who is putting it on): We're definitely on for tomorrow.
Resident: I hope it doesn't pour.
Rob E: It's not going to pour.
35 minutes ago:
Rob E: We are officially cancelled. It's being held October 6. Sorry Not Sorry. Come then.
I feel sorry for the Brooklyn Book Festival. I know it's still on. Mainly because I've been to it while it was raining. The vendors are all under shelters, and so are most of the panels. But the audience/visitors aren't. You basically meander through or stand and listen, while holding umbrellas, or try to find a seat under the tent or shelter, assuming it has one.
I picked up the schedule to see what was being offered? I wasn't planning on going anyhow. I don't know any of the authors, outside of Emily Nussbaum (a television, book, and film critic who annoys me), and Chris Hays (a political critic who...also annoys me). And well Edwidge Danticat, who I'm not into. So no point. Plus I have more than enough books as it is - I do not need more.