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SUMMARY:Social Sculpture for Individual Goals
DESCRIPTION:  \nSocial Sculpture for Individual Goals is an opportunity to check in with others about your personal goals. \nThe way it works is very simple: A group of individuals gathers together\, and\, depending on how many individuals are present\, together we decide on a specific amount of time that each person will be allotted to speak to the group about their personal goals. We ask for one person to volunteer as a timekeeper\, and that person keeps track of time\, letting the person who is speaking know when they have one minute remaining\, and when their time is up. \nAs each one of us takes our turn to speak\, the group listens quietly and gives us an opportunity to speak from the heart about our personal goals. This process of personal goal-related sharing can go in many different directions\, and each person who speaks is welcome to use this time in whatever way feels most helpful to them. This process provides an opportunity for the speaker to sort out their thoughts\, to gain clarity around personal goals\, to share setbacks and successes\, and to be accountable to others. As we listen to others\, it is an opportunity for us to practice deep listening and to receive inspiration from others. \nWhile this is not an overly rule-bound process\, we do ask that attendees keep the following guidelines in mind: \n– When it is someone else’s turn to speak\, others in the group do not interrupt or query that person. We allow the person who is speaking to have ‘the stage’ to themself during their turn. \n– During your own turn\, keep the focus on yourself\, and do not give feedback to others who have already spoken (note: it is okay to reference something someone else said\, for example\, something that inspired you–as long as you are mentioning it in relation to your own goals and your own process). \n– Nobody is required to share. It is okay to attend and just listen to others\, without sharing anything yourself. Also\, it is okay if someone wants to speak for less than their allotted time. \n– Please keep in mind that this is an open community forum; therefore\, information that attendees choose to share is not considered confidential or anonymous. \nThis project is a collaboration between the Bureau and Ben G. Adams\, a psychologist and artist whose work focuses on approaching tropes of personal and social transformation as art forms. The term ‘social sculpture’ was originally developed by 20th century conceptual artist Joseph Beuys in reference to the idea that all human beings are artists\, and that all aspects of life can be approached as art forms. Ben’s previous work includes an art book and dieting system titled The Creative Process Diet\, mixed media works in printmaking and sculpture\, and another (currently ongoing) iteration of Social Sculpture for Individual Goals developed in collaboration with the Religious Society of Friends of Truth (a.k.a. ‘Quakers’) beginning in January 2017. \n  \nThere is no required cost to attend Social Sculpture for Individual Goals\, which is being very generously sponsored by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, an independent organization that is operated entirely by volunteers. During the meeting we will pass around a bowl so that everyone who attends will receive an opportunity to make a voluntary donation to support the Bureau. The suggested donation is $10\, and we ask attendees to be as generous as possible in their support of the Bureau\, which generously sponsors Social Sculpture for Individual Goals and many other community-building projects. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 51: FRIENDSHIP - FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION!
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014. \n  \nFRIENDSHIP is the theme of the 51st installment of TELL. Come celebrate the fifth anniversary of TELL!\n \nFeaturing stories by Nilan\, Summer Minerva\, Seedy Edie\, Jes Tom\, and Lisa Haas. \n  \n$10 suggested donation to support the Bureau and the performers. No one turned away for lack of funds.\n \n \n \nPhotograph by Grace Chu \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nDrae Campbell is a writer\, actor\, director\, story teller\, dancer\, and nightlife emcee. Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland\, NYC\, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in with Rebecca Drysdale\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com. \n \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nNilan is a performer\, creator\, teaching artist\, and company member of A Certain Something. In April 2019\, Nilan will be holding a stage reading of his new play BY HIS HANDS\, IF NOT BY GODS a story about the intersectionality between race and sexuality in northern Alabama. Some playwrighting/screenwriting credits: AND THEN I WOKE A VICARIOUS CATACLYSMIC EVENT (Downtown Art)\, EXTRA ROOM (web)\,BLOOD PROMISE (workshop\, New Shakespeare Exchange)\, ENDANGERED SPECIES (workshop\, 2017 Bay Area Playwrights Festival)\, (workshop\, The New American Theatre Co. NY)\, (reading\, Red Fern Theatre)\, JOAN (reading\, Oppressed in Heels) THE SHADOW IN THE CORNER (48 Hours in Harlem)\,OLD SCHOOL (24 Hour Pridefest)\,WATER FROM THE TAP andAN AMERICAN TALE (NY Indie One Minute Play Festival)\, FROM CANAL TO 207 ST and GENTLEMEN (Intar One Minute Play Festival)\,AMERICAN IDIOT (Our Country/Our Response Play Festival)\,THE SAINT AND THE SINNER (reading\, Wagon Wheel Arts). Some acting credits: NYC: And Then I Woke: A Vicarious Cataclysmic Event (Downtown Art)\,Next Faggot Nation Self-Accusation: The Remix (LPAC\, Bedlam MadLab)\, (Dixon Place)Bar Play (Peculiar Works Project)\,Trojan Women (Oppressed in Heels)\,The Champion (Bric Arts)\, Regional:Metamorphosis\, Assassins\, A Raisin in the Sun\, Clybourne Park\, The Parchman Hour\, Henry IV\, Henry V\, and The Imaginary Invalid (PlayMakers Repertory Company)\, Radio Golf (Deep Dish Theater)\, 10×10 in the Triangle (ArtsCenter Carrboro). Internationally: Playback Theatre (Playback Berlin) (Second International Conference for the Arts in Society\, Kassel\, Germany). Some Media: CONSENT IS SEXY\, a four episode PSA campaign about supporting consensual sexual behavior (YouTube). He holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. www.nilan.me \n \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nSummer Minerva is an Italian American actor\, performance artist\, writer\, public speaker and educator. As a respected authority and published writer on the intersections of gender\, spirituality and performance (Written on the Body\, 2018; Voyages of the Black Madonna\, 2019)\, they have spoken at Sarah Lawrence College\, Temple University\, the International Transgender Day of Remembrance in Rio de Janeiro\, the LGBTQ pride of Napoli and Pompeii 2018\, and Peace House Haiti. Their solo performances have shown at Gibney Dance Center\, the American Dance Festival and Judson Memorial Church.Their mission right now is to love the people of the world boldly and specifically. \n \n \n  \nPhotograph by James A. Ridley\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nBorn in Canada and based in Brooklyn\, Seedy Edie is an actor and burlesque performer who specializes in giving you nightmares and giving good face. Recent credits: Bettie Page\, Becoming Bettie Page (Coney Island USA); Girl 1956\, The Miss Twin Peaks Pageant (Joe’s Pub at the Public). \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nJes Tom (they/them) is a New York based actor\, writer\, and weird queer stand up comic\, gleefully providing the nonbinary queer Asian American radical cyborg perspective that everyone never knew they wanted. They have appeared in videos by Funny Or Die and Seriously.TV\, and their writing has been published by Reductress\, By Shondaland\, and Condé Nast’s Them. Jes has been featured in GO Magazine\, Splitsider\, and the Fader\, and they were named one of TimeOut New York’s “LGBTQ POC Comedians We’re Obsessed With.” Jes was a 2018 StandUp NBC semifinalist. Follow Jes on Twitter @jestom and Instagram @jesthekid. \n \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nLisa Haas is a writer and actor. She has appeared in films and performed in many NYC downtown venues—and—you can catch her on episodes 1 and 2 of the third season of “Search Party”. Please pay a visit to her website! www.lisa-haas.com \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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