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QWERTY - paper edition

Greenville Drive-In
Greenille , NY

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GREENVILLE, NEW YORK, APRIL 6, 2018 The Greenville Drive-In's third annual QWERTY Typewriter and Letter Arts Festival takes off on June 15 and 16. Going beyond the traditional keys and ink, the festival will unfold with paper arts including tiny books, paper planes and screenings of selected shorts and Paper Planes.

The two-day event will launch on Friday evening with unique cocktails and a visit from Maya Stein and Amy Tingle of The Creativity Caravan who fly poetry out of their typewriters with their Tandem Poetry. Typewriter expert Erik Molbach will bring a collection of typewriters for a type-in. At dusk there will be a showing of a collection of shorts and vintage advertisements relating to typewriters, paper and the letter arts as well as selected short films and classic advertisements.

On Saturday, the festival continues with making Tiny Books with the Creativity Caravan, a type-in, and paper plane experiments with Carle Kopecky followed by a paper plane competition in which awards will be given based on creativity, distance and design. Live music will follow in the Projectionist Club Beer Garden with musician Brian Dewan. QWERTY: Paper Edition will conclude with a screening of the Australian family-friendly film, Paper Planes.