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COMMON CENTS BENEFIT

 
LEARNING CURVES: STORIES OF UNCONVENTIONAL EDUCATION TO BENEFIT COMMON CENTS

You are invited to a fantastic evening of storytelling benefiting Common Cents

Featuring Colum McCann, National Book Award Winner and author of Let the Great World Spin
and Kyle MacLachlan, emmy nominated and Golden Globe winning actor. 
 
Monday, May 17, 2010
6:30pm to 10:00pm
Reception will begin at 6:30pm
Storytelling will begin at 7:30pm
Hosted by Tom Shillue with music by Mazz Swift

Other Stories by Gabriella Camacho, Adam Gopnik and Pallavi Shastri

Wine and light fare will be served
City Winery
155 Varick Street
New York, NY

*Buy Your Tickets
Ticket Sales have closed. To inquire about the event, contact Andi Dube at adube@CommonCents.org or (212) 579-0579.
 
Online Auction
We invite you to participate in our online auction from
April 17, 2010 – May 23, 2010.
Visit www.commoncents.org/auction

 

About The Moth
The Moth has been called “New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket” by The Wall Street Journal, and features simple, old-fashioned storytelling on thoroughly modern themes by wildly divergent raconteurs. In addition to producing live storytelling evenings all over the world, The Moth Podcast is downloaded over a million times each month, and the second season of The Moth Radio Hour starts this spring.

 

A Special Thanks to our supporters for this event:
Benefactor: Cole Haan
Cole Haan
Sponsors: Citi, Kingdon Capital Management, Nickelodeon   
   
Kingdon Capital

 

Benefit Committee Members
Jillian Pohly (chair)
Paige Axelrod
Kimry Blackwelder
Julie Conason
Gardner Dunnan
Denise Emond
Claire Friedman
Merideth Gilmor
Maureen Golden
Josie Holtzman
Cleo Jarvis
Anna Kwawer
Evelyn Lipper
Michael Pohly
Dolores Sparr
Beth Teitelman
Susan Towers
Amanda Jacobs Wolf
 
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