Europa Editions Attends Biblioball
Tucked away in Gowanus, along a row of brick buildings, hides The Bell House, a club where, on Saturday night, over 100 librarians and friends of librarians gathered for “Librarian Prom,” or Biblioball, as it’s officially titled, which is a fundraiser for Literacy for Incarcerated Teens.
With promises of free beer until the keg was tapped, the handful of early arrivers awkwardly introduced themselves to one another, commenting on the various booths, from the photo station, to the raffle entry, to an impressive bookmark display. Then, somewhere between their second and third beers, the club filled out, and the first to arrive were also the first to start dancing. What began as gentle hip swinging erupted into a full out twerk as the night progressed, with a half-dozen discarded cardigans strewn around the club. But stripping librarians were not the most shocking part of the night.
Later, after the librarians had tapped the first keg, Nancy Canasta of Naked Girls Reading, set the crowd aflame with her burlesque performance that began with the removal of a single white glove and ended with a shimmy that sent the crowd into a frenzy. Riding on the high of the burlesque performance (and all the free beer), librarians got creative with the paper flower corsages and with their poses for the photo station. And by the end of the evening, as attendees stumbled home in a night that didn’t seem quite so cold as it had on the way there, only one thought echoed in the minds of the Europa Editions attendees:
Wow, librarians really know how to throw a party.
With promises of free beer until the keg was tapped, the handful of early arrivers awkwardly introduced themselves to one another, commenting on the various booths, from the photo station, to the raffle entry, to an impressive bookmark display. Then, somewhere between their second and third beers, the club filled out, and the first to arrive were also the first to start dancing. What began as gentle hip swinging erupted into a full out twerk as the night progressed, with a half-dozen discarded cardigans strewn around the club. But stripping librarians were not the most shocking part of the night.
Later, after the librarians had tapped the first keg, Nancy Canasta of Naked Girls Reading, set the crowd aflame with her burlesque performance that began with the removal of a single white glove and ended with a shimmy that sent the crowd into a frenzy. Riding on the high of the burlesque performance (and all the free beer), librarians got creative with the paper flower corsages and with their poses for the photo station. And by the end of the evening, as attendees stumbled home in a night that didn’t seem quite so cold as it had on the way there, only one thought echoed in the minds of the Europa Editions attendees:
Wow, librarians really know how to throw a party.