About this Event
The 1980s are coming to Flatiron - COLD WAR COSTUMES ENCOURAGED!
Don your trenchcoat and sunglasses or come as any character from 1985! East meets West in this hidden 80s-style party loft! Dress as Cindy Lauper, Adam Ant, or be a wallflower. in fingerless gloves. A nerd, a jock, a guy in a fedora and white leather jacket with padded shoulders and a skinny tie--or go behind the Iron Curtain - be a Soviet informer, KGB agent, tourist, taxi driver, or underground Depeche Mode fanatic .... the sky is the limit at this 1980s-retro launch party!
In 1985, Artie is on a KGB tour of Soviet-occupied Lithuania – where politics and vodka-fueled secrets spiral him into identity crisis.
Laced with folklore and time-traveling haiku, THE BOY WHO LOVED TREES gently lifts away decades of hidden guilt and shame to reveal the sad and beautiful untold story of the gay men of the 1980s who stayed in the closet (but not forever).
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Join us in person for a crazy and super casual evening wildly celebrating the release of MM's debut novel: THE BOY WHO LOVED TREES - buy your copy in advance to have it signed!
First hour is VIP only - EARLY ACCESS VIP tickets include one hour of Lithuanian wedding cake with M. M. De Voe as well as an exclusive hardcover copy of her book, with signings by the author. Back rooms! Secret conversations! Rumors! Be there when it all happens! (trenchcoats and sunglasses or 1980s attire)
At 7pm the doors open to all - a flood of 1980s nostalgia - whether bookworm, spy, or party animal --
7:30pm - the main event: a reading from the new book followed by an interview of M. M. De Voe about her own visit to Soviet-occupied Lithuania by veteran Cold War Eastern Bloc Expert JUOZAS KAZLAS - Cash bar!
Paperback copies of the novel will be available for purchase.
at 8:15 or so there will be a COSTUME CONTEST with a prize for best 1980s costume!! Grand prize is a bottle of Sovetskoje Shampanskoje Polusladkoje from the year 2000! (Drinking it is the brave part!!)
8:30pm NEW WAVE DANCE PARTY!
Don’t miss the chance to be part of the party everyone will be talking about! Wear your hair mousse and your safety pins as accessories - by the end of the night we will all be dancing with tears in our eyes!
Agenda
🕑: 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
VIP happy hour - Lithuanian Wedding Cake & Book Signings
🕑: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Doors open for General Admission - Costume Party / Readings
Info: cash bar & reading by M. M. De Voe. Interview of the author by political analyst Juozas A Kazlas.
🕑: 08:30 PM - 10:00 PM
1980s New Wave Dance Party! KGB OR CIA 1985 - trenchcoats welcome!
Info: cash bar remains open!
Event venue & nearby stays
Lofte 23 Art Deco Loft, 22 West 23rd Street, New York, United States
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