Events

Chirri & Chirra: The Snowy Day – Kaya Doi, English translation 2017

Chirri & Chirra: Underground – Kaya Doi, English translation 2019

Chirri & Chirra – Kaya Doi, English translation 2016

Hello kids! Neighbors, friends and families: welcome! It’s time for Kids In The Cliff weekly story time at The Wild Detectives! Last weekend, we read American author/illustrator Ezra Jack Keats’ 1962 classic The Snowy Day, a story of a child in awe of the snow in the city and others inspired by it. This week, our stories, including one about another wonderful wintry day, come to us from a contemporary Japanese author/illustrator. Kaya Doi instills the magic and wonder of children’s imaginations in her sublime outdoor adventure stories (think Lewis Carroll for the preschool set). We’ll have a fun activity to follow. Dring-dring, dring-dring!  So come join us at The Wild Detectives’ little house for a cozy morning this Sunday. See you in the kids’ section!

*Special note for parents: As usual, we’ll have related extra books on hand in case you are

looking for other excellent picture books we recommend! Particular emphasis is placed on

striking illustrations, great graphic design or standout writing. Titles may be brand new, old

treasures, from home, our kids’ section or the local library, but they are always picked with love and a sense of adventure. If there’s a book you’d love, consider our ordering service!

Kids In The Cliff storytime at The Wild Detectives is usually every Sunday morning at 11. As people who’ve been there, we strive to select themes or titles that will be interesting enough to pique not only children’s, but also the attending adults’ curiosity. It’ll be about a 30-45 minute read each time with something different and fun for the kids–that’s going to be interesting; we can’t wait to see what they come up with.

All ages are welcome.

On Sunday mornings, bring your kids and infuse them with a love of reading.

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Kids In The Cliff is organized by Lanie DeLay, who has worked at Dallas Contemporary, the Dallas Public Library, Hamon Arts Library at SMU, at area preschools and the School For The Blind in Austin. She has written for Glasstire and Art&Seek, and she tutors children in early reading skills at Dealey Montessori. When she isn’t looking at art or reading with kids, she’s reading about art or looking for a new read.

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Cheers To New! is back, now on Mondays! Start your 2020 off correctly and join us for a drink and a play on this holiday.

Cheers To New! is a Staged Reading Series featuring new plays and a drinking game. Come drink along with us and experience some new work in a new way! We are always Pay-What-You-Can, and will take any donations you’d like to give at the door.

This month’s play will be Phillys/Philomena by Bethany Dickens!

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Empezamos el año con Papi, de la novelista puertorriqueña –nacida en República Dominicana– Rita Indiana.

Una niña espera a su padre, un mafioso dominicano al que idolatra y quien siempre llega sin avisar. A lo largo de toda su vida su papi aparece, desaparece y reaparece, cargado de dólares y un sinfín de coches, novias y regalos. Narrada por esta niña joven mientras espera el regreso de su papi, esta novela urbana es tanto estremecedora como reveladora acerca de la cultura caribeña y el mundo del crimen organizado.

Rita Indiana (Santo Domingo, 1977) es una artista polifacética. Figura clave de la narrativa caribeña actual, ha publicado varios libros de relatos y dos novelas de éxito. Además con su grupo Los misterios ha revolucionado el merengue introduciendo la guitarra electrica y un fuerte componente de rock.

Como siempre, aplicaremos un 10% de descuento para los asistentes al book club tanto en la compra de este libro como en las consumiciones de que disfruten el día del evento.

Os esperamos.

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Flotsam – David Weisner, 2006

Old Robert and the Sea-Silly Cats – Barbara Joosse and Jan Jutte, 2012

Boats Go – Steve Light, 2015

Boats Are Busy – Sara Gillingham, 2018

Land ho, kids! Neighbors, friends and families: welcome! It’s time for Kids In The Cliff weekly story time at The Wild Detectives! This weekend, while summer’s sun and fun is still far away, we’ll imagine we’re there already as we read stories with sand, seas, boats and stuff that floats. Plus, we’ll have a fun activity to follow!  So come join us at The Wild Detectives’ little house for a cozy morning this Sunday. See you in the kids’ section!

*Special note for parents: As usual, we’ll have related extra books on hand in case you are

looking for other excellent picture books we recommend! Particular emphasis is placed on

striking illustrations, great graphic design or standout writing. Titles may be brand new, old

treasures, from home, our kids’ section or the local library, but they are always picked with love and a sense of adventure. If there’s a book you’d love, consider our ordering service!

Kids In The Cliff storytime at The Wild Detectives is usually every Sunday morning at 11. As people who’ve been there, we strive to select themes or titles that will be interesting enough to pique not only children’s, but also the attending adults’ curiosity. It’ll be about a 30-45 minute read each time with something different and fun for the kids–that’s going to be interesting; we can’t wait to see what they come up with.

All ages are welcome.

On Sunday mornings, bring your kids and infuse them with a love of reading.

– – – – –

Kids In The Cliff is organized by Lanie DeLay, who has worked at Dallas Contemporary, the Dallas Public Library, Hamon Arts Library at SMU, at area preschools and the School For The Blind in Austin. She has written for Glasstire and Art&Seek, and she tutors children in early reading skills at Dealey Montessori. When she isn’t looking at art or reading with kids, she’s reading about art or looking for a new read.

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“Tis time; descend; be stone no more; approach..”

Come enjoy the season with Shakespeare in the Bar’s production of Winter’s Tale! We will be in the backyard of Wild Detectives so grab a Hot Toddy or Irish Coffee and come enjoy a true winter’s tale 🙂

TICKETS:
Tickets will be made available on FRIDAY DEC 20th AT NOON. Follow Shakespeare in the Bar and this event to get the ticket links for both shows at that time- set your alarms!

Tickets are general admission and $10 each and reserved seats are $20

OH NO, TICKETS SOLD OUT:
Not able to grab tickets online? There is still hope! 50 tickets will be made available day-of-show, starting at 6pm on a first-come, first- served basis. You must be present in-person to get your walk-up ticket. Come on down!

We will also be raffling off 26 free tickets per show- to be entered in the raffle, email shakespeareinthebar@gmail.com with your name and which date you would like to attend, for the chance to win 2 tickets!

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We are proud to feature Robin Turner and Emma Ramsey for the February installment of Inner Moonlight! Brief open mic to follow, so bring a poem to share.

Robin Turner is a poet, teaching artist, and online writing guide for homeschooled teens. Her poems have been tucked inside little poetry houses in Pittsburgh, paired with photographs in a Deep Ellum art gallery, and transformed into tiny artist books for Lisa Huffaker’s magical White Rock Zine Machine. A Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, Robin’s work has most recently appeared in DeLuge Journal, Virga Magazine, Unlost, Glass Poets Resist, and Sweet Tree Review. Her 2016 chapbook, bindweed & crow poison, is featured at The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed (a Sundress Publications series) and is available through Porkbelly Press.

Emma Pearl Ramsey now calls Fort Worth home, but she grew up in the piney woods of East Texas, rambling about on her family’s small farm, baking bread, growing a garden, making music with her siblings, and, always, writing poems. Emma holds an MFA in Poetry from North Carolina State University and a BFA in Creative Writing from Stephen F. Austin State University. Her poems have been published in Blue Route, she was a finalist in NC State’s poetry contest in 2017 and 2018, and she is currently at work on her first collection of poems, tentatively titled Psalms.

Inner Moonlight is the second Wednesday of every month. Mark your calendar and we’ll see you there!

“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”
—Allen Ginsberg, from On Being a Writer

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If you’re a storyteller or you love to enjoy a good tale, Backyard Story Night is for you!

We’ll be meeting again inside The Wild Detectives on Sunday February 16th at 7 PM!

Submit your story here: https://forms.gle/fjGBF2qsVkc7JKED6

The theme for February is stories about K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Although we’ll have just finished celebrating Valentines Day, we’re looking for all kinds of kisses. Share stories about finding the love of your life to maybe kissing a frog or two, an aunt that is overly loving, or a memorable first kiss moment. Submit your story to be featured as one of our storytellers at the button below. Who knows – you may just fall in love.

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Started in Austin, TX, Backyard Story Night is the brainchild of John Brewster and Meg Mattingly (Please note: Meg and John will not host this event). Now we’re experimenting with Dallas story telling events! The goal is simple: gather friends – and friends of friends – in a backyard to share real, unrehearsed stories. Please note: this event is ideal for 18+, as the stories have not been vetted or rehearsed.

Drinks and food will be available for purchase from The Wild Detectives. Also, parking is tight – we encourage walking, biking, Ubering, or carpooling!

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We are thrilled to feature Jenny Molberg and Kathryn Nuernberger for the March installment of Inner Moonlight! Brief open mic to follow, so bring a poem to share.

Refusal, Jenny Molberg’s second collection of poetry, draws on elements of the surreal—invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons and Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide—to investigate trauma, addiction, and patriarchal forces of oppression. A sequence of epistolary poems looks to friendship as a safe haven from violent romantic relationships, and a series of poems that address a mother’s struggle with addiction looks at the complicated nature of a parent-child relationship affected by alcoholism. Refusal seeks to break silences in the wake of the #metoo movement, and to interrogate a cultural misogyny that weighs on a woman’s position in the world.

Jenny Molberg is the author of Marvels of the Invisible (winner of the 2014 Berkshire Prize, Tupelo Press, 2017) and Refusal (forthcoming, LSU Press). She is the recipient of a 2019-2020 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment and her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, Boulevard, and other publications. She teaches creative writing at the University of Central Missouri, where she directs Pleiades Press and edits Pleiades magazine. Find her online at jennymolberg.com

Kathryn Nuernberger’s Rue is a book of about prairies. A book about rural America. A book about the science and folklore surrounding plants historically used for birth control. It is a book about an affair, a breakdown, and also it is about love. Rue is a book about everything that might be possible between us once we have decided to tell the truth of our lives. Poems from this collection have appeared widely in journals including 32 Poems, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Field, The Florida Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Poetry International, West Branch, Willow Springs, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily.

Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of two previous poetry collections, The End of Pink and Rag & Bone. She has also written a collection of lyric essays, Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA, H. J. Andrews Research Forest, American Antiquarian Society and the Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life, she teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota.

Inner Moonlight is the second Wednesday of every month. Mark your calendar and we’ll see you there!

“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”
—Allen Ginsberg, from On Being a Writer

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