Join us for a deeply moving night of live music and Leila Hegazy's reflections/stories from Leila's recent time on the flotilla taking aid to Palestinians.

Visitors welcome!        

Meeting for Worship, children’s story, worship sharing

More Info: StatenIslandQuakers.org

Liberation Open Mic invites you to sense liberation — 

• To express yourself richly 

• To be heard by fellow humans 

• Sound off about the state of the world,  

• Imagine a better one.  

Bring a poem, a song, your guitar or ukelele, an artwork or anything at all that you wish to share with us, your local community. 

$5 suggested donation. No one turned away.

Join old ETG friend and local singer/ songwriter/ guitarist Frank Troy, oft accompanied by family. 

Frank performs original work as well as some favorite covers. 

Cover charge: $5

Banisher, a creation of Hypothesis, is a psycho-spiritual table-top board game for liberating humanity from sinister forces. One of the game designers, Joe Quinn, will be guiding us through the experience. Joe describes himself as an underground video and performance artist, a mathematician, a curriculum designer and a teacher. 

Are you up for a challenge? Come learn how to play.

Visitors welcome!        

Meeting for Worship, children’s story, worship sharing

More Info: StatenIslandQuakers.org

Join us for simple joy this Saturday night.

Bring your feet and hands and a willingness to join in

• dancing or listening to music 

• conversation with new friends and olde

• participating in or observing games

Warm and cool drinks together with cakes and snacks will be available.

$5 suggested donation. No one turned away.

We connect with our projects. Some folks knit, others crochet. Some craft assorted creations.

We all enjoy sharing stories, chatting and listening! We would love you to join us with yours!!

Suggested Donation $5

Staten Islanders have your voice heard on NYC's racial equity priorities!!

Do you care about fairness?

Do you value justice?

Are you 11 or older?

This is a conversation for you to join.

What happens when you watch The Wizard of Oz with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon?

Be prepared for unbelievable synchronicity.

Coincidence?

Some believe otherwise.

Come and share in the film, food and dialogue.

Presented by Subterranean Cinema Club and Channel Winds.

Cover charge: $5

We're all humans

We all have stories to share

Let's bridge cultures with the simple act of listening to one another's stories

Join us 5-6 to connect and 6-7 for stories

A $5 Contribution will be appreciated. As always — no one is turned away!

Do you love to read but never have enough time? Join us at ETG’s Read-in Cafe. Where we read, share book ideas, and meet kindred spirits! Relax with your own book or one you find in our Book Cafe while enjoying refreshments.

Enjoy the vibes. Bring yourself or friends and have some fun!!

All day children receive a trick or treat book from the mystery book box!

For those of you who filled the Book Cafe in August for the first Vaunt Showcase of music, poetry and storytelling, you will be thrilled to know that Vaunt returns in October. 

For those who missed it, mark the date of the 2nd VAUNT!

Watch this space for the revelation of performer names!

Looking forward to seeing you.

As with our last event, there will be a limited 'pick out of the hat' Open Mic at the evening's end.

Relax, Sit back and just Listen. 5 authors read their Short Stories.

Rocio Uchofen is a dear friend of the ETG Book Cafe. She brings her poet and writer friends from local New York spaces and those from far away lands to share their works. On this special Fall Saturday afternoon, 5 authors will read their own short stories.

Sit back, relax and be read to while sipping tea, coffee or a cold drink!

We connect with our projects. Some folks knit, others crochet. Some craft assorted creations.

We all enjoy sharing stories, chatting and listening! We would love you to join us with yours!!

Suggested Donation $5

WE invite YOU to express yourself on our Living Stage!

• Bring a song, poem, story, dance, artwork pantomime, short play, dream or favorite ETG Book Cafe memory.

• Express your joy, gratitude, observation, concerns, wishes about your neighborhood or our larger world

• Choose what you most urgently want to express

• Keep it to about four minutes.

You can sign up ahead of time by dropping by the Book Cafe during open hours during the whole month of September and the first week of October.  Go to ETG BookCafe Celebration of 20 years for more details.

Beth Gorrie will lead a Staten Island OutLOUD event, featuring Allen Ginsberg's "HOWL”.

Read aloud with friends and neighbors in our charming backyard garden!

WE invite YOU to express yourself on our Living Stage!

• Bring a song, poem, story, dance, artwork pantomime, short play, dream or favorite ETG Book Cafe memory.

• Express your joy, gratitude, observation, concerns, wishes about your neighborhood or our larger world

• Choose what you most urgently want to express

• Keep it to about four minutes.

You can sign up ahead of time by dropping by the Book Cafe during open hours during the whole month of September and the first week of October.  Go to ETG BookCafe Celebration of 20 years for more details.

WE invite YOU to express yourself on our Living Stage!

Bring a song, poem, story, dance, artwork pantomime, short play, dream or favorite ETG Book Cafe memory.

• Express your joy, gratitude, observation, concerns, wishes about your neighborhood or our larger world

• Choose what you most urgently want to express

• Keep it to about four minutes.

You can sign up ahead of time by dropping by the Book Cafe during open hours during the whole month of September and the first week of October.  Go to ETG BookCafe Celebration of 20 years for more details.

What is your favorite memory (or memories) of ETG Book Cafe from the last 20 years? Please come and join us for a DAY DE DADA mail art* workshop, led by Mary Campbell. You create a postcard that will be sent to another participant,  and you will receive a postcard from someone else!

Supplies will be available, just bring yourself and your memories.

{*Note:  Mail Art is art created specifically to be sent through the mail.}

WE invite YOU to express yourself on our Living Stage!

4 Nights! Wednesday October 8 to Saturday October 11
(see other evenings below)

Bring a song, poem, story, dance, artwork, pantomime, short play, dream or favorite ETG Book Cafe memory.

• Express your joy, gratitude, observation, concerns, wishes about your neighborhood or our larger world

• Choose what you most urgently want to express

• Keep it to about four minutes.

You can sign up ahead of time by dropping by the Book Cafe during open hours during the whole month of September and the first week of October.  Go to ETG BookCafe Celebration of 20 years for more details.

Visitors welcome!        

Meeting for Worship, children’s story, worship sharing

More Info: StatenIslandQuakers.org

Visitors welcome!        

Meeting for Worship, children’s story, worship sharing

More Info: StatenIslandQuakers.org

Join us as we VAUNT for three featured performers telling their Staten Island stories. Vaunt, by definition is to boast or praise excessively. Enjoy an evening of oration and mixed media performance. 

There will be a limited, raffle style, open mic. 

Featured StoryTellers:
Ri Tornello
Rocio Uchofen
M.A. Dennis

Spotlight: Kia Phay
Cohosted by Matt Figgz
Curated by Cynthia (Cyn) Rodriguez

VAUNT is made possible by a DCLA Premier Grant from Staten Island Arts, with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

We connect with our projects. Some folks knit, others crochet. Some craft assorted creations.

We all enjoy sharing stories, chatting and listening! We would love you to join us with yours!!

Suggested Donation $5

What can we learn from each other’s feelings and responses to the current state of the world?

How have artist and writers throughout history made sense of chaos, change and instability? 

We look forward to you joining us in a multigenerational group.

We explore and listen to ourselves and consider writers, poets and visual artists‘ stimuli!! 

Join two zines makers to design and write your own.

Jenno Snyder and Kwynn Hogan will enthuse and support you to share your passion!

$5 contribution for all workshop events at ETG is appreciated.

And no one turned away!

Liberation Open Mic invites you to sense liberation — 

• To express yourself richly 

• To be heard by fellow humans 

• Sound off about the state of the world,  

• Imagine a better one.  

Bring a poem, a song, your guitar or ukelele, an artwork or anything at all that you wish to share with us, your local community. 

$5 suggested donation. No one turned away.

What can we learn from each other’s feelings and responses to the current state of the world?

How have artist and writers throughout history made sense of chaos, change and instability? 

We look forward to you joining us in a multigenerational group.

We explore and listen to ourselves and consider writers, poets and visual artists‘ stimuli!!