Group: Literary

November 24, 2020 By PAC MoCA

2020 Annual Appeal | Matching Grant

Double Your Impact • Double The FundsPAC received a generous matching funds donor! Will you help us reach our goal of $30,000? Dear PAC Supporters,We’ve all spent this past year finding new ways to keep doing what we love: gathering with family …

April 18, 2020 By PAC MoCA

+|- International: Virtual Festival CALL FOR ARTISTS

Presented April – June 2020 from 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM each day across all PAC•MoCA Social Media platforms! April 18: LAUNCH featuring Special Co-Curators feature & Artist Spotlights April 24 – June 18 festival spot light …

March 4, 2020 By PAC MoCA

Exhibit: Consummate Plush

PATCHOGUE ARTS COUNCIL • MOCA L.I. Consummate Plush Curated by …

May 29, 2019 By PAC MoCA

Event: Arts on Terry; Festival Details Released!

Arts on Terry ( AOT) is a contemporary art fair for all ages highlighting 200+ artists from a variety of Long Island Arts organizations, each exhibiting a curated selection of works representing its respective community in 15+ different pop-up …

March 11, 2019 By PAC MoCA

Festival: “Artful Antics” Kickoff 2019

APRIL 27 • ARTFUL ANTICS KICK OFF EVENT • FREE Art | Music | Poetry | Costumed New Orleans Style Promenade1:30 – 3:00 PM | Join us at the Patchogue Theatre for music, poetry, and performance. Special performances by Alexa Dexa, …

November 23, 2018 By PAC MoCA

Event: Keep the Arts Poppin’ In Patchogue – Support the Arts!

Dear Friends of the Arts, Once upon a time, not too long ago, you had to go to New York City to view current and contemporary art. The trip was long and costly. Then, one day, you realized- Hey, wait a minute! I don’t need to go to the city anymore …

Patchogue Blooms Day 2024

What’s that you may ask? A horticultural event?

No. It’s a celebration of Irish author James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses published in 1922 and celebrating its 101th birthday this year. Bloomsday has been celebrated in Dublin since 1954 and has been ever expanding to cities and towns around the world.

It occurs annually on June 16 because the entire 640-page novel takes place all on one day: June 16, 1904.

On June 16, 1954, poet Patrick Kavanaugh, and journalist-novelist Flan O’Brien with four other compatriots walked and rode in horse-drawn coaches on a pilgrimage through the streets of Dublin stopping at locations depicted in the book. As the day passed, a home movie captured their increasingly unsteady footing. Since then, it has become a more formal homage to the author and his book.

Bloomsdays now often center around individuals (often celebrities) reading excerpts from the famous (once infamous) book, and Irish musical interludes fill the space between the readings. In some locales, to mimic the original walk through Dublin, participants may travel from performance space to performance space which hardly by accident often are pubs, taverns, or bars. Some cities hold marathon readings in theaters.

This year PAC•MoCA L.I. in cooperation with Toast Coffeehouse will host the second annual Bloomsday celebration as a fundraiser on June 17 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Join us for recitations, musical moments, and good cheer. Be part of the local literati!

LOOKING FOR JOYCE’S VOICES

Be a Patchogue Bloomsday Reader….
PAC•MoCA L.I. is looking for 14 folks who are interested and bold enough to read one passage each from James Joyce’s Ulysses at the third annual celebration of Bloomsday (June 17, 2024) to be held at Toast Coffeehouse, Patchogue.

Join us at this local celebration of the world-wide event celebrating Joyce’s modernist masterpiece.

Readings will be separated with brief Irish musical interludes; food and libations will be available too.

Please note that volunteering is not a guarantee that you will be selected. Depending upon the number and nature of would-be participants, we may not be able to offer a slot to you. Fourteen is the maximum number. But in coming years there will be other opportunities to be among Joyce’s voices.

If you are interested please email your contact information to us at [email protected].

See you on the 17th for “words so beautiful and sad, like music.”

Into the Spines and on the Stacks | Open Call & Traveling Exhibition

Into the Spines and on the Stacks | Open Call & Traveling Exhibition

A call for miniature installations that occupy the space of a book! A well known iteration of this idea has become known as a “Book Nook”. MoCA L.I. invites and encourages artists to respond to works of literature and consider creating miniature installations that would be presented on the shelf alongside the editions of fiction and non-fiction.

Into the Spines and on the Stacks will be one piece of a three-part exhibit entitled

Manu – Scripts at MoCA L.I on view October 7 – December 10, 2023. Into the Spines and on the Stacks will travel to the Patchogue-Medford Library where they will be exhibited in the stacks alongside their inspirations throughout the entire library.

PAC•MoCA L.I. will be collaborating with the PMLIB to organize a scavenger hunt for viewers to find the works on view within the library.

Exhibit Requirements

How It Works…

Artists will submit a proposal for their “book nook” concept.

• Proposals should include at least 2 drawings of your concept. • Please upload 2-3 images of past art work as well.

ALL PROPOSAL ARE DUE BY AUGUST 25, 2023

Submissions will be approved 2-3 days after they are submitted until we reach 25 artists.

PAC’s curatorial team will review each proposal on a rolling basis, the sooner you submit it, the better. We will have 25 “book nook” kits to provide to artists. Once your concept is accepted, we will provide you with your book nook template.

Long Island artists can arrange to pick up the template from MoCA L.I.

All works must be completed and returned/ shipped to MoCA L.I. 20 Terry Street, Patchogue no later than September 22, 2023.

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