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SUMMARY:TELL 5: Without a Net
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. \nWithout a Net is the theme of the fifth installment of TELL. \n  \n \n\nPenny Arcade  aka Susana Ventura  occupies a unique position in the American counter-culture and the American avant-garde. She is an internationally respected writer\, poet\, and  she is one of the handful of artists who created contemporary text based Performance Art beginning in the 1980’s. She has continued to define Performance Art for nearly three decades\, She is particularly known for her high content\, complex\, long form performance pieces. Her contributions to American experimental theatre began in her teens and she has left her mark on every decade from the 1960’s to the present. Her work has always focused on the human condition \, on the other and the outsider\, giving voice to those marginalized by society. Her decades long focus on creation of community and inclusion as the goals of performance and her efforts to use performance as a transformative act mark her as a true original. Many of her theatrical devices\, not to mention her one liners \, have passed into the mainstream. Her unique voice\, marked by a great articulation of complex ideas still forming in the collective consciousness and her magnetic stage presence have given her mainstream career recognition far beyond America’s shores. In 2010 Semiotext(e) published a hard cover book on Penny Arcade’s Performance  work Bad Reputation. \nwww.pennyarcade.tv  pennyarcadenyc twitter  pennyarcadesuperstar FB \n\n\n  \n \nDrae Campbell is a writer\, actor\, director\, story teller\, dancer\, and nightlife emcee. Besides winning the 2011 Miss LEZ title\, 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\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in fesivals globally. Drae was dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell throws a monthly party in Brooklyn called PRIME. Check her out online and around town. www.draecampbell.com \n  \n \nCecilia Gentili is a Trans-Latina originally from Argentina by way of Miami. She is currently the Trans* Health Program Coordinator at APICHA community health center. Cecilia has worked at the Gender Identity Project at the LGBT Center since 2011\, as a volunteer\, intern\, and now consultant\, facilitating groups\, organizing\, and working on prevention\, harm reduction and self-empowerment\, focusing mostly on undocumented Trans-Latinas\, a reality she lived for many years. Ms Gentili is also a board member of “Transbodies” a nonprofit organization about to published a trans-resources guide book for trans-folks. She received her education at the National University of Rosario in Music studies and worked as a music teacher for special needs children. \n  \n \nRosa Jurjevics is a writer\, multimedia specialist\, and product of New York City. Currently the owner/principal of the tiny-but-mighty Big Creature Media\, Jurjevics spends most days editing video\, animating critters\, and removing (live-action) cats from the desk. \n  \n \nElsa Waithe is a 26 year old comedian from Norfolk\, Va. She’s a 3x winner of the ViRginia Beach Funnybone’s Clash of the Comics. Comedian\, Actor\, Motivational Speaker\, Epicenter of every awesome party\, and Inventor of the Nike Swoosh. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Screening of "Sergio and Simone\," a film by Virginia de Medeiros--followed by a Q&A with the artist
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe film Sérgio e Simone (2009/2014)\, a work by the Brazilian artist Virginia de Medeiros selected for the 31st São Paulo Biennial (2014) and awarded by ICCo at the 18th Festival de Arte Contemporânea Videobrasil\, documents the life of Simone\, a transvestite who lived at the Ladeira da Montanha\, in Salvador\, capital of Bahia. Like most the residents of the borough\, Simone was an avid drug user. However\, after a crack overdose\, she suffers a mystical delirium causing her to “find God” and circumvent death. From this episode onwards Simone abandons her identity as a transvestite\, retakes her baptism name of Sérgio and becomes an avid evangelical preacher in a delirious quest to save humanity. \nVirginia de Medeiros creates work that centers on documentary strategies\, as a means to transgress mainstream accounts and to question the boundaries between reality and fiction. She deals with three themes within the field of art and documentary: dislocation\, participation\, and fabulation. Adapting documentary images and lived accounts\, she employs the latter for subjective and conceptual use to revision the representation of reality and alterity. De Medeiros works primarily with video and audiovisual installations\, always seeking to converge the language of art and media and expand the aesthetic and technological possibilities to engender new modes of expression. \nMedeiros is a recipient of the 2014 ICCo residency award at the 18th Festival de Arte Contemporânea Videobrasil and is currently an artist in residency at Residency Unlimited. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:NEWFANGLED 3: Robert Siek Introduces Lawrence Kaplun\, Rickey Laurentiis\, and Robert Whitehead
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 3rd installment of NEWFANGLED\, a series of poetry readings by young poets hosted by Robert Siek. \nFor NEWFANGLED 3 Siek introduces Lawrence Kaplun\, Rickey Laurentiis\, and Robert Whitehead. \n  \n \nLAWRENCE KAPLUN is from California\, and received his B.A. in English from San Francisco State University. He has attended the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Program and the Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore. His poems appear in Sonora Review\, Southern Humanities Review\, Toad\, and The Gay & Lesbian Review. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n \nRICKEY LAURENTIIS was born in New Orleans\, Louisiana. He is the recipient of a 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship\, a 2013 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and a traveling fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy. His poems appear most recently in Boston Review\, The Kenyon Review\, and Poetry magazine\, and have been commissioned by the International Art Exhibition\, Prospect.3 New Orleans. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n \nROBERT WHITEHEAD received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis\, and fellowships from the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets and The Ashbery Home School. His work appears or is forthcoming in Assaracus\, Gulf Coast\, Vinyl\, ALL HOLLOW\, Upstart\, and elsewhere. He was born in Madagascar\, reared in Rangoon\, and currently lives in Park Slope. \n  \n \nROBERT SIEK is a poet who lives in Brooklyn and works at a large publishing house in Manhattan. His poems most recently appear in The Good Men Project\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, and The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide\, as well as the anthology Between: New Gay Poetry. In 2002\, the New School published his chapbook Clubbed Kid\, and Purpose and Devil Piss\, published by Sibling Rivalry Press\, is his first full-length collection of poetry. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigil for Gaza: A Gathering to Mourn\, Share and Unite
DESCRIPTION: \nIn response to the devastation in Gaza\, artists and queers gather to mourn the dead\, connect with like-minded people and give voice to our feelings of grief and outrage. With contributions from M. Lamar\, Pauline Park\, Viva Ruiz\, Luciana Achugar and more TBD\, with a work-in-progress by Sarah Schulman\, in absentia. Facilitated by Dan Fishback.\n  \nWe’ll be accepting donations at the door for MECA – The Middle East Children’s Alliance\, www.mecaforpeace.org\n  \nPhoto of Palestinian woman in Gazan district of Beit Hanoun by Mohammed Abed / Getty Images\n\n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Night Gardener: Gio Black Peter
DESCRIPTION:  \nNIGHT GARDENER GIO BLACK PETER August 15-17 2014\nDrawings and paintings;  including the first glimpse of GBP’s 2014 COMMUNION portraits on wood.\n\n  \nOpening Reception Aug 15 / 10pm-3am\n  \n“The colorful and defiant universe of Gio Black Peter’s videos\, songs\, drawings and paintings\, seep with humour\, absurdity and fantasy\, where misappropriations rule. Black Peter incarnates various fantasies\, he is able to embody a multitude of characters\, each a facet of the artist’s personality. His work remains anchored in reality\, while diverting into satire and parody of politics and today’s world.”  – Yann Perol\n\n  \nMidnight performance of;  THE LONGEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR\nPerformed by: Susanne Oberbeck\, Brian Kenny\, Gage of the Boone\, Max Steele\, Jordan Hall & Gio Black Peter with music by Gordon Beeferman.\n\n  \nDuring the 3 day run of the exhibition the Bureau will be offering an exclusive limited edition C-type print (only available in person). Each print is 8”x 5”\,  signed\, dated and numbered on site by Gio Black Peter. Edition of 50.  Also available will be a signed copy of GBP’s sophomore LP “The Virgin Shuffle”.\n\n  \nFrom August 16-17 Gio Black Peter will be doing a live photo shoot with his COMMUNION portraits. Everybody is welcome to participate.  Each model will receive a copy of his/her shoot.\n  \nGBP Communion photo shoot dates:  August 16 \, 6pm-9pm  /  August 17\, 3pm-6pm\n\n\n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Bureau Book Club #2: Zipper Mouth by Laurie Weeks
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau Book Club is a home for freewheeling discussion about the books and the issues that captivate us. Inspired by the conversations that break out after so many of the Bureau’s more formal events\, we’ll have a one-hour session each month about a different work of fiction or non-fiction. Buy the book from the Bureau and get a 10% discount. We know you have busy lives: if you can’t finish the whole book\, why not come and talk about the parts you’ve read? Just come prepared with a favorite quote. The Book Club discussions will be moderated by Ben Miller. \nThis month’s book will be Laurie Weeks‘ novel Zipper Mouth. Its publisher\, The Feminist Press\, calls out its “ranting letters to Judy Davis and Sylvia Plath\, an unrequited fixation on a straight best friend\, exalted nightclub epiphanies\, devastating morning-after hangovers.” Michelle Tea calls it “a brilliant rabbit hole of pitch-black hilarity…and drugs\, drugs\, drugs.” What could be better for August? \n———– \nBen Miller is a Brooklyn-based writer. Current projects include award-winning biographical research on early gay activist Harry Hay that has taken him to archives in California and conferences from Pennsylvania to New Mexico\, an adaptation of an early Mozart libretto for performance at Carnegie Hall\, serving as dramaturg for Circuit Theatre Company’s production of The Walk Across America for Mother Earth\, and new short fiction influenced by his historical research. His teachers in history and writing have included Linda Gordon\, K. Kevyne Baar\, Marcelle Clements\, and Jonathan Safran Foer. Ben is the winner of New York University’s Bessie and Louis Levy Prize for Excellence in American History\, and was named Steffi Berne Research Scholar in the Humanities by the same institution. He is a co-founder of Squid Ink Magazine (launching soon)\, works as Web Associate at the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund\, and serves on the communications committee of the New York City LGBT Anti-Violence Project. He tweets @benwritesthings. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Works-in-Progress from Cutting-edge Queer Artists AUGUST EDITION! w/Kelli Dunham\, Kevin Ritter\, Julie Aslop\, Ariel Speedwagon and Sabrina Chap
DESCRIPTION:Post-Clown Disaster\, Ariel Federow and Cabaret Idiot\, Sabrina Chap bring you this new works-in-progress series featuring new work from cutting edge queer artists. Built on the notion that there’s no greater inspiration than a deadline\, this series forces renegade artists to bring new and developing work to an audiencefor the first time. Part experimentation + part guaranteed failure = 100% awesomeness. \nPRESENTING—————-—- \nSTAND UP/COMEDY STORYTELLING by KELLI DUNHAM!\n“The piece is ostensibly about my botched knee replacement but really about trauma and how it gets stored in your body and how you can still learn to read your body’s signals.” \nPERFORMANCE ARTIST – KEVIN RITTER!!\n“”Kevin Ritter Plays Kevin Ritter” takes the subject of four people named Kevin Ritter: Kevin Ritter\, the German; Kevin Ritter\, the baseball coach; Kevin Ritter\, the kitchen designer; and Kevin Ritter\, the performance artist. This piece explores identity through mimicry\, video\, and original writing. A meditation in the form of a refracted palindrome.” \nPERFORMANCE POET\, JULIE ASLOP!!\n“Susan\, Susie and Suzanne are three versions of the same person. Their alter-realities begin slipping together when each receives a mysterious package The piece explores the political implications of boredom alongside themes of sexual and economic violence.” \nMUSICAL BOOK REVIEW BY SABRINA CHAP\nSabrina Chap will do a musical book review of Madison Young’s new memoir\, “Daddy”.\n***************************** \nAriel “Speedwagon” Federow‘s work has been seen on Broadway\, Lafayette\, Houston\, Chrystie\, Fulton\, N 6th\, and other streets and avenue in NYC and beyond. Her stories\, slideshows and slapstick have been seen places like LaMama ETC\, Dixon Place\, the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics\, Pussy Faggot\, and Hey Queen! Company member: the Ballez and Butch Burlesque. \nDeemed\, ‘Rousing!’ by the New Yorker\, Sabrina Chap is a writer\, musician\, cabaret artist and all around dilettante. Her latest album\, the anthemic queer bonanza ‘We Are the Parade’ was deemed\, ‘Joyous’ by the Advocate. She also edited the book\, ‘Live Through This- On Creativity and Self-Destruction’\, now with an intro by Amanda Palmer and essays by Nan Goldin\, bell hooks\, Swoon\, Kate Bornstein and more. sabrinachap.com \nKelli Dunham [https://kellidunham.com/] is the genderqueer nurse-comic-author-ex-nun hybrid so common in modern Brooklyn. Kelli was one of Velvet Park Magazine’s 25 Significant Women of 2011\, was named to the 2012 Campus Pride Hotlist and has appeared on Showtime and the Discovery Channel and nationwide at colleges\, prides\, fundraisers and even the occasional livestock auction. Kelli’s fifth book\, Freak of Nurture [https://freakofnurture.org/] a collection of humorous essays published by Topside Press caused award-winning author Barbara Carellas to give Kelli the moniker “the David Sedaris of the queer world.” \nJulie Alsop is a poet working in radio. Sometimes she has a Canadian accent. \nKevin Ritter is a queer playwright and performer. His performances include Lawn Play\, Rebecca and Jeremiah: The Strange (Semi-Finalist\, Indie Boots Theater Festival\, 2013)\, The Cosmos (performed at Cleveland Public Theatre’s “Pandemonium” benefit\, September 2013)\, Leave ‘Em Fallin’ Down\, and Erato: a tragedy perhaps. He is a member of the Britomartis Devised Theater Ensemble; shows have included A Totally Real True-to-Life Play\, harlot/nun\, Mixtape\, and\, most recently\, an adaption of Milton’s Paradise Lost. kevincritter.wordpress.com \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:East Coast Book Release Party for Sarah Fran Wisby's new book\, the heart's progress. Reading with Sarah Fran Wisby\, Amanda Davidson\, and Dia Felix
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the East Coast Book Release Party for Sarah Fran Wisby‘s new book\, the heart’s progress. Wisby will be joined by Amanda Davidson and Dia Felix. \nWhat begins as an exercise in anthropomorphism quickly becomes a raucous joyride and moving confession. THE HEART’S PROGRESS’s pitch-perfect timing\, dark hilarity\, imaginative range\, and spot-on insights into the spastic stations of the human heart perform a seduction so complete\, I’m ready to follow Sarah Fran Wisby off a cliff — or at least\, read everything she writes.\n–Maggie Nelson\, author of The Art Of Cruelty \nSarah Fran Wisby is the author of the heart’s progress and VIVA LOSS. She writes poetry\, essays\, pornography\, novels\, and status updates. She lives in San Francisco and works in the food trenches but is currently living out of her ’98 Lexus for three months on tour. See more pictures of her wearing fur and read her woefully outdated blog at www.sarahfranwisby.com. \nDia Felix is a writer and filmmaker who lives in New York. Her first novel\, Nochita\, was published by City Lights/Sister Spit\, earlier this year. \nAmanda Davidson’s chapbook Arcanagrams: A Reckoning is forthcoming on Little Red Leaves’ Textile Series. Her fiction chapbook Apprenticeship (New Herring Press) was a finalist for the 2013 Calvino Prize. She is currently at work on a performance novel about the mystic Swedenborg. She never knew how much a person could love one small dog. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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