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Filed under: New Yorker Festival Tagged: books, David Belle, events, New Yorker Festival, parkour
Three days until the festival! I can feel the electricity building—can you feel it? What was it that one friend of mine told me? Oh, yes, I think it was “EEEEEEEEEE!”
Now, stay in sight of your teachers and guardians, and always use the buddy system! We’re going to cross all intersections as a group. (Traffic be damned.) Remember that “all participants will have a whistle, compass, and map on their person, and are instructed as to the use of these aids should they become lost.” Well, no, not really, but it would be so much more fun. And speaking of the buddy system, we’re adding a few special correspondents (think Kermit in a press hat) to our ranks for the weekend. Stay tuned on their identities.
A few pithy reminders:
Sign up to the Festival’s special texting service! All weekend long (and even beforehand; we’ve been getting about one a day), you’ll receive occasional updates. Just text “NYFEST†to 644444 and you’ll sign up to receive official updates on the New Yorker Festival via text message. Here’s more on that.
Not only are tickets still available to some events, but a small number of tickets for all events will still be available at the Festival headquarters during the weekend. As a reminder, Festival Headquarters is located at Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues).
Even if you don’t get any tickets, that doesn’t mean you have to sit the whole weekend out. You can always go to the Javits Plaza (Eleventh Avenue between 35th & 36th Sts.) on Sunday at 1 pm to see what’s sure to be a scintillating demonstration of parkour with David Belle.
Many authors who are involved in other events throughout the weekend will be signing books all Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Check the festival site for the full list.
Send us any tidbits you want—sightings, encounters, favorite quotes—from the festival all weekend, at letters@emdashes.com. And if you see one of us, by all means flag us down! Both Emily and I look exactly like the icon above. That’s right, just like that. —Martin Schneider
