Event

Biblioball 2010: Spellbound

Since 2008, hundreds of New York City's savviest librarians and bibliophiles have flocked to Brooklyn for the nerdiest party of the year: the Desk Set's annual Biblioball. Photo archivists mingle with children's book authors to the sounds of the city's finest DJs spinning soul 45s. Live music follows a sexy trapeze act, and guests win big in the Fancy Pants Raffle--all to support Literacy for Incarcerated Teens, and their work to provide programming for incarcerated and detained youth--only at the Biblioball.

Live musical performances curated by Tom Pavlich, (of the Great Pumpkin music blog) feauture HARRY & THE POTTERS, Brooklyn's Crazy Pills, Baltimore's Raindeer.

Performances by supercreator, Jean Loscalzo and her Lady Aerialists and the debut of the Shush...tifying Librarian Dancers. DJs Marty McSorley, Mikey Post, John XI, Shakey, Megan Awesome and Jimmy T spin 60s Soul, 70s Funk, Pre-Punk Psych, Boogaloo, Afrobeat, and more. Brownsville's librarian, MC Official Burn & writer/musician Michael Patrick Flanagan Smith are the Masters of Ceremonies and keep the party flowing! Lucky winners from the Fancy Pants Raffle will walk away with prizes from Exhale Spa, Harper Collins, the Strand, Melville House, Enid's, James, Rosewater, The Great Jones Cafe, and many more.