First Person Arts

The First Person Festival continues today at the Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St.  Tickets for tonight’s events are no longer available on-line but can be purchased in person at the Festival site!  

Start your friday off right with the First Person Arts Members’ Happy Hour at 5pm.  Come join us, become a member and share a Philly Brewing Company beer with other lovers of memoir and documentary art.  At 6pm, we’ll have a FREE reading by Lori Tharps from her book Kinky Gazpacho.  You can read more about Lori at her blog, My American Melting Pot.  Then at 7pm, stick around for Davy Rothbart of Found Magazine who will share the hilarious and revealing stories behind the discarded notes, letters and photographs his readers send in droves.  Get a daily dose of Found at his website!  And finally, at 8:30pm, El Wingador will be in the house with his Wingettes for the Philadelphia Premiere of Swallow Your Pride, Josh Camerote’s documentary about Philadelphia’s storied eating competition, WingBowl.

Take a look at today’s Inquirer for a coverage of the weekend’s events!