About this project

Help the Reanimation Library build its coffers! On Tuesday, December 1st at 8:00 PM the Reanimation Library is hosting a fundraiser in conjunction with the Other Means reading series.

For this event we invited five writers into the stacks and asked them to select texts from which to create new original works. We are honored and excited to present poets Julian T. Brolaski, Paul Foster Johnson, and E. Tracy Grinnell, and fiction writers Caitlin MacRae and Bob Powers reading these works on Tuesday night.

If you are unable to make it to the reading but still want to contribute to the library's fundraising efforts then the Coffer Builder is for you.

As you probably know, the Reanimation Library hosts readings, book launches, exhibitions and other events all year round. A growing community of artists, designers, poets, playwrights, writers, musicians and a healthy number of curious browsers have come to rely on the Reanimation Library for inspiration, creative challenges, generative constraints and perplexing visual information to fuel their imaginations. We try to provide them with whatever they need: reference advice, computer access, photocopying services, scanning and burning capabilities, and most importantly, someone to brainstorm with. To keep these services in tip top shape, please consider contributing $10-$25

A lot of great work has come out of the Reanimation Library this year. We were proud to be invited by non-profit gallery Vox Populi in Philadelphia to exhibit the Reanimation Library City Center Branch this past summer. Seven artists created work for this show using books from the library. Some of these works are currently on display in the Brooklyn space. The library has been invited to put on a similar exhibition at Dickinson College in 2010 and continues to pursue other collaborative opportunities with schools and non-profits around the country. To help with the considerable expense of traveling, mounting and documenting an exhibition please consider contributing $50-$75

Finally, the library continues to grow, expanding its unique collection of image laden odd ball books on a regular basis. To contribute to the acquisition fund and to support the labor involved in culling, cataloging, scanning, labeling and shelving what is truly the heart and soul of the library, please consider giving $25-$50

If you can't make it Tuesday, you have until December 31st to contribute to Coffer Builder. Do it today!