Events
CELEBRATING
A SUMMER OF LOVE
Sunday, Sept 3, 2023 at 11am
Coney Island Boardwalk
West 8th St, near the Aquarium
Kiss and tell with us!
PAST EVENTS
The First Annual
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Friday, March 24, 2023 at 11am
Washington Square Park
The 12th Annual
NEW YORK CITY POETRY FESTIVAL
Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 11am
The Beckett Stage
Colonels Row, Governors Island
Ferlinghetti Girls setting up for the NYC Poetry Festival
RUNWAY TO LOVE
A fashion show to celebrate the late All About Love author bell hooks
Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022
2-4 p.m.
Principles GI Coffee House, 139 Ninth St, Brooklyn, NY
Dress up or down: eccentric, ethnic, handmade, repurposed, vintage, etc. Transform the cafe aisle into a runway of love to celebrate small acts of kindness we do or witness. Or read a simple quote of bell's we'll provide. Here's one: "Love is an action, never simply a feeling."
"La Festa di la Madonna Nera: Black Madonna Festival"
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022
7 p.m.
Phoenix Bar, 447 E. 13th St, New York, NY
The Ferlinghetti Girls with Black Madonna Festival supplicant Joe Sciorra
"Voci Del Mare: Giving Mermaids Back Their Voice"
Saturday, June 18, 2022 The Mermaid Parade, Coney Island
10-1 p.m.
Boardwalk near West 12th Street
LOOK FOR OUR RED UMBRELLAS ALONG THE BOARDWALK ROUTE
From left to right: Gabriella Belfiglio, Paola Corso, Phyllis Cappello
(Diane di Prima Tribute at the Soapbox Gallery)
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
8-9 p.m.
with Clotilde & Chris McCarthy
Special Guests: The Ferlinghetti Girls
Soapbox Gallery, 636 Dean St., Brooklyn, NY 11238 (MAP)
Introducing The Ferlinghetti Girls!
Thursday, March 24, 2022
The 103rd Anniversary of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's birth
Sicilian-American-sister-poet activists
Gabriella Belfiglio, Phyllis Capello & Paola Corso
celebrate Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s legacy (1919-2021)
and vision of free speech and poetry to and for the people
through spoken word, music, movement, art,
and call and response participation!
Dove Sta Amore?
Where Lies Love?
Saturday, April 10, 2021 @ 1 pm
Reigelmann Boardwalk
(near West 12th St stairs in front of Ruby's)
Coney Island, NY
Join The Ferlinghetti Girls, Brooklyn poets
Gabriella Belfiglio, Phyllis Capello & Paola Corso
as they celebrate Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)
and his seminal 1955 book, A Coney Island of the Mind.
Meet in Coney Island on the Reigelmann Boardwalk,
closest to the West 12th St stairs.
Let's honor his work, share some poetry, and invite the community
to respond to the question of where love lies in their lives.
Tell us your answer!
