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February 10, 2006
Happy birthday to InKY!
We're celebrating the InKY Reading Series second birthday tonight at the Rudyard Kipling! Starring everyone's favorite ingenue, Terri Whitehouse; femme fatale Pamela Steele; our hero Frank X Walker; and featuring music by siren Brigid Kaelin.
When we started InKY two years ago, I don't think we really knew how long we'd be able to keep it going - with zero money for starters, and being limited by the size of our town (we don't have access to as many local writers as, say, NYC reading events). But I've been delighted to find out that excellent authors have been willing to travel in from as far away as ... well, Oregon, in Pam's case! not to mention Missouri, Indiana, Tennessee, and all over Kentucky to join us here in Louisville - authors and musicians who donate their valuable time to help us keep quality literature and music free to the Louisville community. I'm so grateful to you all.
It hasn't always been easy, but I've had a lot of fun with InKY over the past two years. We're entering a new phase this year - filing for federal tax-exempt status so we can start fundraising, launching a literary journal, and some more surprises we'll unveil as they develop.
Why do we do this? For the audience. I love that Louisville is a community that supports the arts, even those of us who don't even register a blip on the Fund for the Arts radar. The people believe in the arts and crave quality programming, and we're happy to provide. So thank you, all of you audience members who come to the Rudyard Kipling to be a part of our show. We couldn't do it without you.
So what are you waiting for? InKY's throwing a party! Tonight, Friday the 10th, at the Rudyard Kipling in Old Louisville. Open mic starts at 7 pm, Brigid plays from 7:30-8, and our three featured readers go on until 9 pm. You're out the door in time to walk the dog, relieve the babysitter, or hit your next event for the evening.
As always, you can read all about it on our website.
Posted by eek at February 10, 2006 12:04 PM
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And we are all so grateful to you!
(So, what do you think...Motorhead T-shirt, or respectable cardigan?)
Posted by: Terri at February 10, 2006 01:09 PM
OMG, I wish I could come. Yay for the arts!
Instead I'll be at a party in the SF Lush store celebrating me and 15 other fine folks who lent a hand to the Lush store manager while she dealt with the dreaded cancer de boobie. This will be fun, but sounds like InKY is the place to be tonight.
Many happy returns of the day, as Owl would say.
Posted by: quasi in r.e.m. at February 10, 2006 02:53 PM
Motörhead shirt, definitely!
Oh, QIR, a Lush party. Three exclamation points!!! Roll around in the heavenly scents for me, man!
Posted by: eek at February 10, 2006 02:57 PM
Congrats, eek...christ, am I the only one who is amazed and impressed that you have like ten different projects going on at once at you seem to be handling all of them perfectly fine? I have a hard time keeping down ONE job, failing at every relationship I'm in, and cleaning a fucking studio apartment in the goddamned barrio.
Posted by: monkey at February 11, 2006 02:32 PM
Thanks, monkey! I would be doing better about keeping things on track if I didn't spend so much time watching trash teevee. It also helps that I don't really clean my house. It's fairly filthy until we have people over, then Jason and I spend a few hours in a Cleaning Tornado, trying to look like we don't live like beasts.
I do manage to have a good social life, but on the other hand my friend John and I have been trying to nail down a time to have drinks for seriously like three weeks now. That is just insane.
Posted by: eek at February 11, 2006 05:09 PM