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Book Club Discusses Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes
2013-10-28 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | NY
The next Book Club selection is The HARE WITH AMBER EYES: A HIDDEN INHERITANCE by Edmund de Waal (available at the Bureau). Come discuss the book at the Bureau on Monday, October 28th, at 7!

The NY Queer Open Mic
2013-10-27 19:00 - 21:00
Introducing a new monthly reading series at the Bureau: The NY Queer Open Mic! We’re shaking things up a bit / trying to create a space where the community can share poetry and politics.
The first half of the event will be dedicated to folks who come early and scribble on the sign-up list. The second half of the mic will go to our features- Tommy “Teebs” Pico & Alok Vaid-Menon.
Tommy “Teebs” Pico is the founder and editor-in-chief of birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and zine that publishes art and writing. He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, and has been published in BOMB, [PANK], and THEthe poetry blog. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn and is working on Messy Faggot— his first collection of poetry.
Alok Vaid-Menon is a South Asian artivist who has performed & organized with queer movements around the world. They are committed to building radical queer movements and bodies that resist white supremacy and imperialism and like making art that thinks about these, and other what ifs. You can read some of their work at returnthegayze.tumblr.com and queerlibido.tumblr.com.
Your host for the night is Christopher Soto, a queer latin@ poet and current MFA:Poetry candidate at NYU. Event starts at 7pm on Sunday, October 27th, we hope to see you there!

PROPHET HAS ARISE. a one-night fright by ricci ryder & friends. seating is limited
2013-10-26 19:30 - 21:00
Watch the trailer here.
Performance begins at 8 sharp.

Joanna Hoffman, Stephen S. Mills, and Robert Siek Read at the Bureau
2013-10-25 19:00 - 21:00
Join us at the Bureau for a reading by three Sibling Rivalry Press poets: Joanna Hoffman, Stephen S. Mills, and Robert Siek.
JOANNA HOFFMAN is a poet and teaching artist living in Brooklyn. She is a ten-year veteran of the slam poetry community, and is a four time National Poetry Slam finalist. Her work has appeared in decomP, PANK, The Legendary, Spindle, Sinister Wisdom, and in the anthologies Women’s Work (GirlChild Press) and Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry (MidSummer Night’s Press). Her full-length book of poetry, Running for Trap Doors, was recently released by Sibling Rivalry Press.

STEPHEN S. MILLS holds an MFA from Florida State University. His work has appeared in The Antioch Review, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, PANK, The New York Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, Knockout, Assaracus, The Rumpus, and others. He is also the winner of the 2008 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Poetry Award. His first book, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices, is out from Sibling Rivalry Press and was a finalist for the Thom Gunn Poetry Award and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He currently lives in New York City. Website:https://www.stephensmills.com/

ROBERT SIEK is a poet who lives in Brooklyn and works as a production editor at a large publishing house in Manhattan. His poems have appeared in journals such as The Columbia Poetry Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Court Green, Mary, Assaracus, and Chelsea Station. The New School published his chapbook Clubbed Kid, and his short story “Sixteen” appeared in Userlands: New Fiction Writers from the Blogging Underground. Purpose and Devil Piss is his first full-length collection of poetry, released by Sibling Rivalry Press on October 8, 2013.

Enjoy the Silence
2013-10-23 18:30 - 21:00, 2013-10-09 18:30 - 21:00, 2013-10-02 18:30 - 21:00
Enjoy the Silence.
A new weekly event at the Bureau. Come read whatever you’re reading in collective silence from 7 to 8. This hour of silent reading will be followed by casual conversations over beer, wine, and sparkling water, by donation as always. Bring your own book or you can borrow or buy a book at the Bureau. The hour of silence will begin promptly at 7, so please arrive early!
Photograph by Ourit Ben-Haim from the photo-blog Underground New York Public Library

The Bureau On Hand at Situational Junta: An Unlikely Diplomatic Alliance
2013-10-21 18:00 - 20:00
The Bureau will be on hand to sell books at Situational Junta: An Unlikely Diplomatic Alliance
Location: The Bowery Arts + Science at The Bowery Poetry Club

308 Bowery, between Bleecker and Houston
Dates: Mondays, Oct 21, Nov 18, Dec 16
The first Situational Junta, on Monday, October 21, will feature:
Emcee: Negin Farsad
Main Dish: Artefacting
{Each evening begins with a happy hour from 6pm to 7pm, and a live radio broadcast from 7-8pm.}
Time: 6-8pm
$10
ABOUT THE SERIES

The United States Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC) and the Associação Espaço Cultural Lanchonete (aka Lanchonete) are taking over Bowery Poetry for a series of evening encounters and exchanges, one part happy hour and the other part radio talk show… shaken, stirred, and served straight up on the airwaves! For three evenings this Fall, Situational Junta poses a simple question: If artists are empowered to innovate on a large enough scale to interrupt the status quo, what would that look like?
Antonio Gramsci wrote that “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Situational Junta convenes a cast of unlikely midwives to cross borders and spark whimsy as they search for workarounds (or gambiarra) to the present condition and stoke a hunger for something new. Equal parts salon, happening, cabaret, and fireside chat, Situational Junta is a mash-up of ideas and forms building new alliances and bridging Bowery Poetry’s past to the future.
Description: Each evening is designed as a radio talk show, hosted by an emcee, and featuring a main guest or guests. In addition to their interview-conversation or performance, guests may prompt the audience to speak amongst themselves as music takes over the broadcast. A rotating, intergenerational, interdisciplinary cast of characters round out the hour through a tightly choreographed sequence of commentary, artist work, news flashes, and ‘commercial breaks’. People and projects emerge in unlikely proximity. Music, ideas, and drinks flow and the evening culminates with a soapbox open mic that invites audience members to join the broadcast. The <<main dish>> is surrounded by a sequence of newsflashes, ‘commercial breaks’, and urgent interventions by a retinue of creative schemers and artful dreamers.

Book Launch for Ben Fama's Cool Memories
2013-10-19 19:00 - 21:00
Soak a sugar cube in bitters
And place it in a glass
Fill the glass with champagne
The decade happens
Join BGSQD and Spork Press in releasing Ben Fama‘s Cool Memories, featuring readers Corina Copp and Stephen Boyer.
https://sporkpress.com/things/books.html
Ben Fama is the author of Mall Witch (Wonder 2012) as well as several chapbooks, including Odalisque (Bloof Books 2014) and Cool Memories (Spork Books 2013). With Andrew Durbin, he edits Wonder, an open-source publishing and events platform for poetry, performance, and new media art. He lives in New York City.
Corina Copp is the author of The Green Ray (forthcoming, Ugly Duckling Presse 2014), and chapbooks Miracle Mare (Trafficker Press 2013) and Pro Magenta/Be Met (UDP 2011). Recent work can be found in ANCIENTS, Triple Canopy’s Corrected Slogans: Reading and Writing Conceptualism, The Claudius App, Hi Zero, and elsewhere; and critical writing in SFMOMA’s Open Space, BOMB, and Cambridge Literary Review. She is currently working on The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love, a three-part play inspired by the work of Marguerite Duras. Its first installment, SUSANSWERPHONE, was presented at the 2012 New York City Prelude Festival, and is in development. Copp is a curator at the Segue Foundation and a 2013-2014 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace resident.
Stephen Boyer is the author of “Parasite,” (Publication Studio 2013), “Ghosts” (Bent Boy Books 2008), and he’s published in art gallery’s and various anthologies; they also actively compiled the OWS Poetry Anthology and worked as an OWS People’s Library librarian. Their blog is minorprogression.com

FUR + bOObs
2013-10-18 19:00 - 21:00
FUR + bOObs = Full frontal fun!
Join us for a top-heavy evening with Robert Neu, author of the new novel, bOObs, and Ron Suresha, coauthor of the coffeetable art book, FUR: THE LOVE OF HAIR. These two guys really have a lot to get off their chests!

bOObs, a novel by R.E. Neu
Martin Brown Publishers, ISBN 978-1937070410

Harlan Flueharty makes a bet to get breast implants, sending his life spiraling out of control. He’s fired from his job, sexually harassed by his brother, written off as an object by the world. His girlfriend Ursula is the sole life saver on this leaky raft, but even she wonders if his gender identification is a game of musical chairs and somebody stole the one marked “DUDE.” His bank account and ego explode as he cluelessly exploits his voluptuous new figure, but with Gomer Pyle’s brain, Marilyn Monroe’s cleavage, and enemies piling up left and right, it will take more than a sturdy bra to get him through the next thirty days.

FUR: The Love of Hair, by Ron J. Suresha & Scott McGillivray

Bruno Gmuender, ISBN 978-3867872423

A Rainbow Book Award winner! This spectacular coffee table artbook homage to the masculine hirsute physique brings you hundreds of illustrations and photographs from 50+ artists around the world, as well as commentary in English and German on men’s body and facial hair, quotes from the artists, and other features. FUR was featured this April in a Logo documentary, “The Long & Short of Body Hair.” Artists include: Jack Fritscher, Patheon Studios, Gengoroh Tagame, Rex, Rolando Merida, BearFilms, Blade Bannon, Tom Bianchi, InkedKenny, Angel Colon, BearFilms, Mascular Studios, Michael Kirwan, and Exterface.

Seanchai Justin Sayre
2013-10-17 19:00 - 21:00
Gearing up for his new piece with The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History (10/26), Rite of Water, based on the life and work of the Poet Hart Crane, Justin Sayre (The Meeting*, Night of a Thousand Judys) reads selections from a collection of his own poetry.
Justin Sayre – best known as the creator and writer of the hit downtown comedy/variety show The Meeting*(2012 Bistro Award, 2011 MAC Nominee) and its annual benefit “Night of A Thousand Judys” – was described by Michael Musto in The Village Voice as “Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg.” In a recent story for Edge New York, Steve Weinstein said “Comedian, raconteur, performing artist, gay rights activist and sexual outlaw: I’m not sure Justin Sayre is classifiable. The veteran performer is on his way to becoming a Downtown Manhattan institution along the lines of Charles Ludlum or Charles Busch.” An evening of his short plays, “Justin Sayre Is Alive and Well… Writing” – called one of the “Top 10 Events on the New York Stage” by the New York Daily News – sold out two shows at Ars Nova last April. A reading of his play, The Click of The Lock, is set for this November.

Spunk: Words & Music
2013-10-12 19:00 - 21:00
Spunk [arts] Magazine presents
SPUNK: WORDS & MUSIC
Performance begins promptly at 7:30!
featuring:

WILLIAM JOHNSON
— reading “Speaking Camp” from Spunk issue no.7

Photo by Gerry Visco
JOSEPH KECKLER
— reading “Andragon” from Spunk issue no.8

Photograph by Amos Mac
MAX STEELE
— reading “King” from Spunk issue no.9

Photograph by Scooter LaForge
AARON TILFORD
— reading “I’ve Chosen Disco” from Spunk issue no.9

and a solo musical performance by EVRIPIDIS AND HIS TRAGEDIES
— art contributor to Spunk issue no.8

copies of SPUNK 8 & 9 will be available for purchase ($9)
https://spunkartsmagazine.wordpress.com/
http://www.bgsqd.com/
https://www.lambdaliterary.org/
https://www.josephkeckler.com/
https://fagcity.blogspot.com/
https://www.evripidisandhistragedies.com/
beverages (beer, wine, sparkling water) by donation

Bureau at the LGBT Center for Reading by Ayana Mathis from Her Debut Novel The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
2013-10-08 18:30 - 20:30
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division will be at The LGBT Community Center for Ayana Mathis‘s appearance at the Second Tuesday Lecture Series. We will be selling copies of Mathis’s debut novel The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. Mathis will read from the book, talk about writing the book and her appearance on the Oprah show to discuss it, and answer questions.
Reception at 6:30
Presentation at 7
The Center is located at 208 W. 13th St., between 7th and 8th Avenues.

Women and Performance presents Born in Flames
2013-10-03 19:00 - 21:00
New event added for this Thursday! Presented by Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Cage, and the Bureau.
Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory invites you to celebrate the release of our special issue
featuring a discussion and clips from the film Born in Flames with
• Craig Willse
(George Mason University)
• Dean Spade
(Seattle University and Columbia University)
• Christina Heatherton
(CUNY Graduate Center)
• Eva Hageman
(New York University)

Queer Division 8: Core, Kotecha, Lepri
2013-09-30 07:00 - 21:00
Nicole Eisenman painting

A reading series for queer writing and performance practice, Queer Division is curated by Andrew Durbin at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.

LEOPOLDINE CORE was born and raised in Manhattan. Her poems and fiction have appeared in Open City, The Literarian, Drunken Boat, Sadie Magazine, Harp & Altar, The Brooklyn Rail, Agriculture Reader, and No, Dear among others. She is a 2012 Fellow at The Center for Fiction and at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her chapbook “Young Friend” is forthcoming this year from Perfect Lovers Press. “And Satisfaction,” her first full-length book, will be published in 2015 from Coconut Books.

SHIV KOTECHA is the author of PAINT THE ROCK (TROLL THREAD, 2011) and OUTFITS (TROLL THREAD, 2012). Other work appears in P-Queue and on Gauss PDF. He currently lives in New York City and is a PhD candidate at NYU.

KAREN LEPRI is the author of Incidents of Scatttering (Noemi, 2013) and the chapbook Fig. I (Horse Less Press, 2012). Lepri was the recipient of 2012 Noemi Poetry Prize. Lepri holds an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University. Her poems, translations, & reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in 1913, 6×6, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Best New Poets, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Horse Less Review, Lana Turner, Mandorla, Shearsman, TYPO, & Vanitas, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn and teaches at Queens College while working forward her PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Please note: The Bureau is closed on Mondays. We will open at 6 PM on Monday, September 30th, for this event.

Que(e)ry: Overdue
2013-09-28 21:00 - 2013-09-29 04:00
Benefit for the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division and The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History.
Dance party for queer librarians and those who love them!
***DJs***
accident report and the warm leatherettes
DJ Shomi Noise
Shade Parade
At Cake Shop
Suggested donation: $10; 21+; 9pm-close.
More info at www.queeryparty.org

Manuel A. Lopez reads from Room at the Top
2013-09-28 19:00 - 21:00
Manuel A. Lopez reads from his recent book of short stories, Room at the Top (Eriginal Books, 2013).
Manuel A. Lopez (Manny) was born in Moron, Cuba in 1969. He came to the USA in 1980 via the Mariel boatlift with his parents and siblings, and raised between Florida and California. He is a bilingual poet, writer and cultural promoter. His poetry in Spanish has been published in various magazines, such as: Arique, Baquiana, Contratiempo, La Peregrina Magazine, LaFanzine, Linden Lane and Ventana Abierta. His first book of poems, Yo, el arquero aquel was published in 2011 by Editorial Velámenes. His short stories in Spanish have also been published by Baquiana and Linden Lane Magazine. His poem, A Calling was chosen along with the work of other 40 poets by Broward County Poet in Residence Anastasia Clark for the Our Poetic Tribute to Amelia Earhart, and published in a leather-bound volume permanently displayed at the Amelia Earhart Museum in Kansas. He has also participated in Cristina Garcia’s, Las Dos Brujas Writer’s Workshop with California’s Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera. This June a book of short stories in English, titled Room at the Top was published by Eriginal Books. A second book of poetry in Spanish will be published this August by Editorial Betania in Spain.

Trailer:
https://youtu.be/VUCLMHCUQpg

Lambda's 2013 Emerging Voices: The New York Edition
2013-09-26 19:00 - 21:00
A literary showcase featuring members of NYC’s LGBT community who were named Lambda’s 2013 Emerging Voices.
Readings in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, by Marcie Bianco, Stephan Georgiou, Stephen Ira, Bryn Kelly, Matthew Phillp, and Tommy Pico.

Marcie Bianco, Queer Public(s) Intellectual, PhD, is a columnist and contributing writer at AfterEllen and Lambda Literary, as well as an adjunct associate professor at John Jay College at Hunter College Her current projects include a scholarly manuscript about the anti-humanist, materialist ethics of English Renaissance Drama, and a memoir about lesbian academic affairs. She lives in Brooklyn with her pup, Deleuze. Tumble4Her at marciebiancoqpi@tumblr.com.

Stephan Georgiou is a writer, organizer, performer and troublemaker. When not dancing naked in congressional offices, they can be found eating their way through an existential crisis at a bagel store near you. Stephan seeks to contribute to a collective of voices working to build queer community, emancipation and revolution.

Stephen Ira‘s poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, Spot Lit Mag, Specter Magazine, The St. Sebastian Review, LGBTQ Nation, and the online edition of Original Plumbing. He is currently pursuing a BA in Literature, Queer Studies, and Critical Theory at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, NY.

Bryn Kelly has shared her written work at NYC-based performance series Gayety!, Low Standards, and Queer Memoir; on Showtime Network’s OurChart (dot) com; in Original Plumbing magazine; as a regular columnist at the digital literary magazine PrettyQueer.com; and in the anthology, Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love and Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary, edited by Morty Diamond. She was a cofounder of Theater Transgression, a transgender multimedia performance collective, and studied playwriting at Brooklyn College. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Matthew Phillp’s writing has appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Sun, Gay Times UK, City Magazine, VIVE and DNA Magazine Australia, for which he was the New York Editor at Large. His commentary on American politics and culture has been featured on Radio 2UE and Vega FM in Australia and he has produced and co-hosted several radio programs including the syndicated New York nightlife talk show D List Radio for East Village Radio and the Q Network. For the past three years he has maintained a fairly consistent dance between writing his first novel and composing marketing paragraphs that don’t bear his byline. In 2013 he was awarded an Emerging Writer’s Fellowship by the Lambda Literary Foundation.

Tommy “Teebs” Pico is the driving force behind birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press and zine that publishes art and writing. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn and has been published in BOMB, [PANK] and THEthe poetry blog. heyteebs.tumblr.com

Enjoy the Silence
2013-09-25 18:30 - 21:00
Enjoy the Silence.
A new weekly event at the Bureau. Come read whatever you’re reading in collective silence from 7 to 8. This hour of silent reading will be followed by casual conversations over beer, wine, and sparkling water, by donation as always. The first session of Enjoy the Silence will take place on Wednesday, September 25th. Bring your own book or you can borrow or buy a book at the Bureau. The hour of silence will begin promptly at 7, so please arrive early!
Photograph by Ourit Ben-Haim from the photo-blog Underground New York Public Library

NYC Book Launch of Joon Oluchi Lee's Lace Sick Bag
2013-09-20 19:00 - 21:00
The Bureau and Publication Studio proudly present the NYC book launch of Joon Oluchi Lee‘s Lace Sick Bag.
With Lace Sick Bag, Joon Oluchi Lee offers thirteen hard, delicate, and sweet stories for you to wear close to your skin. Borne from a desire to embody femininity, these are stories that sound and feel like women. They traverse opposite coasts of bodily existence, as men turn into women, women turn into men, children become mothers, mothers become children. (And geographic coasts as well: New York and San Francisco turn into each other.) They burrow deep into the psyche and then spring out to teach you how to glimmeringly show your insides on the outside.
Joon Oluchi Lee (@girlscallmurder) is a feminist text and body maker, and a professor of Gender and Performance at Rhode Island School of Design. He is the author of “The Joy of the Castrated Boy” and lipstickeater.blogspot.com. Joon was grown and educated in Seoul, Iowa City, Charlottesville, and San Francisco. He lives in Providence and Brooklyn with his partner.

Queer Silences
2013-09-18 19:00 - 21:00
Given that it’s that back-to-school time of year, the Bureau would like to host some classes. These might take the form of a single evening or perhaps two or three sessions. Please send us proposals at contact@bgsqd.com.
To get the ball rolling, Greg Newton, the Bureau’s Minister of Propaganda, will offer a class that will meet once with the option to continue indefinitely. The class, Queer Silences, will explore the subject of silence from queer perspectives. The first and possibly only class will take place on Wednesday, September 18th, from 7 to 9. In advance of the class, participants will read Jonathan D. Katz’s essay “John Cage’s Queer Silence: Or How to Avoid Making Matter’s Worse” and Caroline A. Jones’s “Finishing School: John Cage and the Abstract Expressionist Ego.” Greg will send PDFs of the essays to all who RSVP to contact@bgsqd.com.

The Bureau at Pussy Faggot!
2013-09-12 20:00
PUSSY FAGGOT! returns with a special end of summer edition hosted by Penny Arcade. Bring your campfire stories and sordid tales of summer!
Admission $10 / $6 with RSVP to
https://www.pussyfaggot.net/events/rsvp-for-reduced-guest-list-2
DJ Jo Equality Lampert ( AVAN LAVA)
8:00 pm- Bureau of General Services-Queer Division (BGSQD) reading featuring Ariel Speedwagon, Chavisa Woods, and poet Bobby Miller in his first NYC performance in 5 years!
Confirmed Performers Include:
✬ Champagne Jerry (aka Neal Medlyn)
✬ Fidel Cathro (aka Cath Alcorn – from Sydney, Australia!)
✬ Clay Aztec Dalmatians
✬ Glittered and Mauled
✬ Mss Vee
✬ Natti Vogel
✬ Ryan Landry (P-town’s “Showgirls” and Gold Dust Orphans)
✬ Sabrina Chap
✬ Shane Shane
✬ Tyler Ashley
✬ TURSI
and
✬ Needles Jones
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★。＼｜／。★★。＼｜／。★★。＼｜／。★★。＼｜／。★
…..CELEBRATING…DUSTY CHILDER’S………BIRTHDAY!…..
★。／｜＼。★★。／｜＼。★★。／｜＼。★★。／｜＼。★
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Opening Party at Cage with Annie Lanzillotto, Zee Whitesides,
2013-09-05 19:00 - 22:00
The Bureau will celebrate the beginning of our stay at Cage with readings by Annie Lanzillotto and Zee Whitesides and a musical performance by Brett Every!
Cage will host the Bureau for the months of September and October. Cage is a space for dialogue, mutual support and production located on the Lower East Side of New York, which involves changing membership in ongoing response to material conditions. Cage is located at 83A Hester St., between Orchard and Allen–around the corner from Strange Loop Gallery.
Photo: Carolina Kroon, 2011. carolinakroonphotography.com
Annie Lanzillotto is the author of “L is for Lion: an italian bronx butch freedom memoir” SUNY Press 2013, and “Schistsong” a book of poems, Bordighera Press 2013. Her albums “Blue Pill” “Carry My Coffee” and “Eleven Recitations” are available on iTunes and webwide. Lanzillotto is a devotee of BGSQD

Zee Whitesides is a poet and musician born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Her poetry and cultural writing has appeared or is forthcoming in/on Autostraddle.com, Jughead’s Basement, and Seven Stamps among others, and she’s the author of two handmade chapbooks. She also leads Brooklyn trans punk band Little Waist.

Brett Every (brettevery.com) has won some awards (OutMusic, RightOutTV), been described as having “a voice that sounds like it’s been dipped in dark chocolate and steroids” (DNA Mag), and is thrilled and honored to be bringing his songs, guitar and throat to the Bureau’s housewarming.

Verse, Prose, And Ramblings From The Minds Of Nicholas Gorham, Justin Sayre, And Charlotte Miller
2013-08-25 19:00 - 21:00
Nicholas Gorham invites his two favorite writers to join him in a public end of summer thoughts and feelings fest that will surely titillate the neuroses of the most steadfast wasp. Join us for a reading of some work, new and old!

NICHOLAS GORHAM
Nicholas Gorham is a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and has been performing in New York since the early part of the Century. After crossing the Canadian border, Nicholas had an awakening that theatre could exist without limitations and began to create his own work in the downtown queer performance scene. Credits include The Goddess Ianna in “Justin Bond Re:Galli Blonde (A Sissy Fix)”; Big Art Group’s “Fleshtone” and Nicholas Gorham: “One Drop Passing” at La MaMa, E.T.C., In 2011, Nicholas founded The Spectrum, a queer performance, rehearsal and art space in Brooklyn.

JUSTIN SAYRE
Best known as the creator and writer of the hit downtown comedy/variety show The Meeting*(2012 Bistro Award, 2011 MAC Nominee) and its annual benefit “Night of A Thousand Judys” – was described by Michael Musto in The Village Voice as “Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg.” In a recent story for Edge New York, Steve Weinstein said “Comedian, raconteur, performing artist, gay rights activist and sexual outlaw: I’m not sure Justin Sayre is classifiable. The veteran performer is on his way to becoming a Downtown Manhattan institution along the lines of Charles Ludlum or Charles Busch.” An evening of his short plays, “Justin Sayre Is Alive and Well… Writing” – called one of the “Top 10 Events on the New York Stage” by the New York Daily News – sold out two shows at Ars Nova last April. A second reading of his play, The Click of The Lock, starring Randy Harrison, Christian Coulson and Sean Dugan took place at Labyrinth’s Bank Street Theater this February

CHARLOTTE MILLER
Charlotte Miller is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Her plays include Raising Jo (Playpenn 2010), Fur (Longstocking Productions), A Moment of Silence for the Living (Longstocking Productions), and Sexy JayJay (serials@the Flea). Her plays have received readings at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Labyrinth Theater company. She has performed with Nicholas Gorham multiple times in and around the city as a back-up dancer, word-sayer, and costume-changer. Charlotte’s newest work “Worst Year Ever” is part of this year’s New York International Fringe Festival. The piece looks at the difficulties of being a Texas preteen in the grunge era.

Book Sale at the Bureau
2013-08-25 12:00 - 19:00, 2013-08-24 12:00 - 19:00
The Bureau will leave Strange Loop Gallery on August 31st, and we will announce our next location shortly. With less than two weeks to go we need to lose a bit of weight in order to make our move easier. Several lovely people have donated boxes of books to the Bureau over the past months, and the Bureau is happy to announce that we will host a book sale on Saturday, August 24th and Sunday, August 25th from 12 to 7 PM. Prices will start at $1! So come on down and get you some books! We’ll also have some great deals on posters and art magazines!

Queer Film Summer Camp: Tony Phillips Introduces Ben-Hur
2013-08-24 19:00 - 23:00
For the eighth and final installment of Queer Film Summer Camp Tony Phillips will introduce William Wyler’s Ben-Hur (1959)
IMDB page for Ben-Hur
Tony Phillips is a freelance journalist who lives between Manhattan and Fort Lauderdale. After completing a prestigious Goldring Fellowship at Syracuse’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2009, he returned to the city to publish his controversial “Jersey Shore” feature on the cover of The Village Voice. He recently wrote several features for OutMagazine including a profile of French art house crossover Francois Sagat shot by photographer Terry Richardson and currently writes for Random House’s Word & Film focusing on films that have been adapted from novels. Tony is currently finishing his second book and working on a feature about the launch of Barbie’s 10,000 square-foot Dreamhouse for a new national publication. He is pictured here in Barbie’s stately Dream Kitchen at The Dreamhouse Experience in Fort Lauderdale.
Queer Film Summer Camp, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove, President of Hargrove Entertainment, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture.
Saturdays, July 6, 13, 20, 27, August 3, 10, 17, 24
Suggested donation of $10
Drinks will be served at 7 PM
The introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM

Launch Party for Pinups NO17
2013-08-23 19:00 - 22:00
After a year-long hiatus, Pinups is back with a new issue that disrupts the book’s inherent narrative. As always, the magazine can be unbound and re-assembled to form a large poster from pages of abstract halftone but as a book, this issue is more complex than its predecessors. In contrast to the halftone pages, which are only fragments of the poster, other pages contain parts of numerous images scattered randomly across the pagination. As single pages share bits and pieces of multiple images, the connections can only be imagined until the poster is assembled and the full images revealed on the poster’s flipside. Pinups No17 features performance artist Jake Dibeler clad with performance props.

BB Forever
2013-08-22 19:30 - 22:00
Bj Dini reads his crazy Kayvon Zand poem, Dia Dear dances in the dark, Stephen Boyer reads for us too, Subtle Curves awes, White screens his PILLOW TALK cycle.

ART FAG Conquers Uranus
2013-08-21 18:00 - 21:00
London cartoonist Sina Sparrow comes to New York to conquer URANUS with his zine ART FAG! Joining him is our friend Carlo Quispe, AKA Uranus, who will present romance comics from his upcoming URANUS Comics #2. Come enjoy the slide show and take home some free comics as always!!
