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SUMMARY:HOLIDAY HOURS: CLOSED ON JANUARY 1ST
DESCRIPTION:HOLIDAY HOURS \nWEDNESDAY\, DECEMBER 24TH: 11 AM—4 PM\nTHURSDAY\, DECEMBER 25TH—CLOSED \nWEDNESDAY\, DECEMBER 31ST—CLOSED\nTHURSDAY\, JANUARY 1ST—CLOSED \n 
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SUMMARY:Bureau Book Club #5: White Girls\, by Hilton Als
DESCRIPTION:The 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\, or read it a while ago\, why not come and talk about however much you’ve read/can remember? Just come prepared with a favorite quote. \nBureau Book Club #5 will discuss: White Girls\, by Hilton Als and will be moderated by Ben Miller. \nHilton Als’ memoir-essays in White Girls mostly concern themselves with a category of “white girl” that encompasses Andre Leon Talley\, Truman Capote\, Michael Jackson\, Diana Vreeland\, Louise Brooks\, Malcolm X\, and Flannery O’Connor. Fictional or nonfictional\, these essays are true and vivid and compelling. \nPurchase White Girls from the Bureau before January 4 and receive a 10% discount! \n———– \nBen Miller is a Brooklyn-based writer working on a variety of projects including LGBTQ historical research surrounding activist Harry Hay for publication in OutHistory and elsewhere and talks cross-country; dramaturgy\, playwriting\, and direction of plays and opera in Boston and New York; and short fiction. He works at Lambda Legal Education and Defense Fund\, and Groupmuse\, a new project bringing live classical music to living rooms and offices nationwide. He tweets @benwritesthings. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bureau-book-club-5-white-girls-by-hilton-als/
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SUMMARY:Jacob Steinberg ~~ Before You Kneels My Silence ~~ w/ Carina Finn & Lonely Christopher
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this reading in celebration of Jacob Steinberg‘s new full-length poetry collection Before You Kneels My Silence (Scrambler Books)! Featuring performances by Jacob Steinberg\, Carina Finn\, and Lonely Christopher. Hosted by Lucas Baumgart. \n~~~ \n“Within an absolutely concrete framework\, the author of this book gives shape to those intangible things that exist in our daily lives. Following a fantastic tradition of American literature\, Steinberg gets into the greatest of mysteries through the most mundane elements of daily life. He makes it possible for a phone call\, a synagogue visit\, or a thermometer crashing to the floor and the mercury spillage that follows to become allegories for those immense celestial questions. Never before as now… does a text show for me—furthermore\, in a simultaneous way—the author’s both existence in and absence from this world.” —Mario Bellatin\, author of Beauty Salon \n“Jacob Steinberg has a colossal heart; he uses it for breaking and exploration. His words read me—I am their golem\, granted life. These poems are gently wounding\, darkly adorable\, and tragically perceptive. Before You Kneels My Silence introduces to the reading public a foxy new voice—an adroit and necessary one in this emerging moment.” —Lonely Christopher \n~~~ \n  \n \nJacob Steinberg was born in Stony Brook\, New York\, in 1989. His Spanish-language poetry collections include Magulladón (2012) and Ante ti se arrodilla mi silencio (2013). In 2014\, Scrambler Books released both volumes in an English edition titled Before You Kneels My Silence. As a translator Steinberg has worked with Cecilia Pavón\, CAConrad\, and Mario Bellatin\, among others. He currently lives in New York. \n  \n  \n \nCarina Finn is the author of INVISIBLE REVEILLE (Coconut Books\, 2014)\, LEMONWORLD & Other Poems (Co.Im.Press\, 2013)\, and The Grey Bird: Thirteen Emoji Poems in Translation with Stephanie Berger (Coconut Books\, 2013)\, MY LIFE IS A MOVIE (Birds of Lace\, 2012)\, and I HEART MARLON BRANDO (Wheelchair Party Press\, 2010). She is also a playwright and multimedia artist\, and is the pastry chef at Alta Restaurant in NYC. \n  \n \nLonely Christopher is a poet and filmmaker. He is the author of the poetry collection Death & Disaster Series (Monk Books\, 2014) and the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse\, which was a 2011 selection of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery imprint of Akashic Books. His plays have been produced in New York City and China. He wrote and directed the feature film MOM (Cavazos Films\, 2013) and his stories have been adapted for the screen in Canada and France. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nLucas Baumgart is a recent graduate of Bard College and the author of Flights of Gravity (89Plus/LUMA Foundation 2014). He lives in New York. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/jacob-steinberg-before-you-kneels-my-silence-w-carina-finn-lonely-christopher/
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SUMMARY:Author event\, reading and book signing by Joe Wenke\, author of the new thriller\, “The Talk Show.”
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin us for Joe Wenke‘s reading from his new thriller\, The Talk Show\n \n \nSomeone is following Jack Winthrop—most likely the gunman who tried to kill America’s most controversial talk show host\, Abraham Lincoln Jones. Ever since that fateful night when Jones called Winthrop with his audacious proposal\, life has never been the same. Winthrop\, an award-winning New York Times reporter who calls the Tit for Tat strip club his second home\, agreed to collaborate on Jones’ national “Emancipation Tour.” The plan is to bring Jones’ passion for radical change to the people and transcend television by meeting America face to face. Now Winthrop has to survive long enough to make the tour a reality in Joe Wenke’s intellectual thriller\, THE TALK SHOW (TransÜber\, October 15\, 2014\, $9.99). \n\nAs the reach of his stalker spreads\, so does the fear that Winthrop’s unconventional family is also in danger—Rita Harvey\, the gentle transgender ex-priest and LGBT activist; Slow Mo\, the massive vegetarian bouncer; and Donna\, stripper and entrepreneurial prodigy—as well as the woman who is claiming his heart\, media expert Danielle Jackson. \nSteeped in the seamy underbelly of New York City\, The Talk Show by Joe Wenke is a fast-paced and mordantly funny thriller that examines how the forces of nihilism threaten our yearning for love\, family and acceptance. \n  \nJoe Wenke was born in South Philadelphia.  He attended St. Monica’s and Our Lady of Fatima elementary schools.  He went to high school at Cardinal O’Hara in Springfield\, PA.  He received a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame\, a Masters in English from Penn State and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut. \nHe was a speechwriter for CEO Tony Hamilton at Avnet and a speechwriter at IBM for George Conrades when he was the head of IBM US.  He was also a Senior Vice-President at Caribiner International\, which at the time was the largest event marketing company in the world.  He is Owner and Managing Partner of Xperience\, a leading event marketing company.  He is also a Partner with Gisele Alicea (aka Xtravaganza) in Gisele New World\, an event production initiative that is merging the worlds of the ballroom and fashion and attracting audiences that include all sexual identities and orientations. \nJoe lives in Connecticut with his son\, Mark\, his daughter\, Olivia\, and her two nannies\, Hollie and Amy Hills. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/joe-wenke/
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SUMMARY:Queering the Lines: A Conversation with Rebecca Levi and John Chaich
DESCRIPTION:Artist Rebecca Levi will talk about her work with John Chaich\, curator of the recent exhibition Queer Threads\, on Wednesday\, January 14\, at 7:00 PM at the Bureau. \nRebecca Levi’s thread-based and pen & ink work is influenced by images in found photography\, mid-century magazines\, and 1970s porn. In her embroidered portraits\, she subverts the norms of the medium with the unexpected\, inviting a playful collision between traditional handicrafts and the untraditional themes of queer identity and gender performativity. \nJohn Chaich featured Rebecca Levi’s work in the exhibition Queer Threads: Crafting Identity & Community\, which debuted at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art last year and is traveling to MICA\, Baltimore in December 2015. He also selected her work as one of the artworks in the recently released Visual AIDS “Play Smart” trading cards series. \nJohn Chaich is a curator\, designer\, and writer based in New York City. He holds an MFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute. Chaichcreative.com \nRebecca Levi is a New York City born and based embroidery and pen & ink artist. She received her BA from McGill University in Montreal. www.rebeccalevi.com \nThe exhibition Queering the Lines: Rebecca Levi – Thread & Ink is showing at the Bureau until February 1\, 2015. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queering-the-lines-a-conversation-with-rebecca-levi-and-john-chaich/
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Works-in-Progress from Cutting-Edge Queer Artists: January Edition!
DESCRIPTION:Sabrina Chap brings you this 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 audience for the first time. Part experimentation + part guaranteed failure = 100% awesomeness. \nCheck out this article on the August edition of Deadline in Next Magazine: “BGSQD’s Deadline Gives Queer Artists Room To Create And Grow” by Chris Hernandez \n\nThe January edition of DEADLINE will feature: \n  \nZavé Martohardjono (theatrical movement work) \nAdam Chad Brody (music video) \nCourtney Gillette (literary memoir) \n\nNefertiti Asanti (spoken word)\n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/deadline-january/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150118T180000
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SUMMARY:Que(e)rying Theory #2 “Sex\, or the Unbearable” by Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nQue(e)rying Theory is a discussion group about queer theory and critical theory for thinkers from all contexts. Reading texts both vintage and new\, we will ask questions such as: What is queerness? What do queer politics look like? How do we find the tools for living in a precarious world? And finally\, what can theory mean in our own lives? In dialogue with one another\, we will fearlessly relish in the complexities of theory\, and collectively work towards richer understandings of our past\, present\, and future. Discussions will be moderated by Connor Spencer\, and for a small donation\, wine\, beer\, and sparkling water will be available to help lubricate our conversations.\n  \n***\n \nHow does negativity structure our politics\, thinking\, and relationships? Is it an affect that we can live with? In Sex\, or the Unbearable\, queer scholars Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman consider the “unbearable” desires attache to sex\, the social\, and relationality. Through readings of film\, art\, theory\, and literature–including Lydia Davis’s story “Break It Down”–the two thinkers trace wildly divergent paths through thorny fields of inquiry. Featuring two eminent scholars in conversation\, the book is a glimpse into cutting-edge conversations in queer theory\, and a perfect read for the busy holiday season. \n\n  \nOur conversation will first touch on the previous work of these notoriously dense scholars\, and then strive towards unpacking the core arguments of the text. Come with questions\, thoughts\, and ideas–even if you didn’t have a chance to finish the entire book!\n \n \nConnor Spencer is a writer living in New York City. He graduated with a BA in English from New York University\, where he conducted bi-coastal archival research on the artists David Wojnarowicz and Gary Fisher. Recently\, he was a finalist for the Marshall Scholarship. Connor tweets about leftism\, queer politics\, and dog costumes @conneriks. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queerying-theory-2-sex-or-the-unbearable-by-lauren-berlant-and-lee-edelman/
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SUMMARY:EXPLORING QWEER EROS
DESCRIPTION:EXPLORING QWEER EROS \n  \nThis five week communal exploration of qweer erotic myths and mysteries will utilize the Heart Circle and Plato’s Symposium to explore the unique power of qweer erotic ethos and its importance in our world today. \n  \nThe Symposium was chosen for this workshop because in its five speeches Athenian philosophers at a drinking party express in depth their thoughts concerning erotic love.  Although specific to the time and place – eros between adult men and youth – The Symposium provides an excellent platform for contemporary discussion.  Themes we will cover include the nature of eros\, desire\, attraction\, loss\, coupling\, erotic friendship\, fear\, death and HIV/STIs. We will delve into the connection between eros and psyche\, eros and thanatos\, and eros as a community builder and binder.  Using the Heart Circle approach will allow participants to explore these strong subjects in a safe\, confidential and non-judgmental space. \n  \nThese Heart Circles will be conducted every Wednesday evening\, 7-10 p.m.\, beginning January 21\, ending February 18\, and will be facilitated by Rosie Delicious.  All circles will be held at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division\, in the LGBT Community Center\, 208 w. 13th St\, NYC. \n  \nThe weekly Heart Circles will integrate this classic text with contemporary practices that integrate mind\, body and spirit in a rejuvenated erotic life for participants.  We will be using Plato’s Erotic Dialogues\, translated/edited by William C. Cobb\, 1993\, SUNY Press.  You may read it online or purchase a hard copy\, available through the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division at the LGBT Community Center. \n  \nIt is advised that participants attend all five weeks as each week will cover different sections of the text.  Pre-registration is encouraged via email to houseofdelicious@gmail.com.  An additional text describing the Heart Circle process will be sent to all registrants. This series is free although we will pass a hat for donations to be shared by the Bureau and the facilitator. \n  \nRosie Delicious\, a Radical Faerie sex magician\, has co-facilitating Sex Magick Workshops in the Radical Faerie tradition since 2000.  This workshop was initiated by Harry Hay and John Burnside in 1990\, and Rosie encountered this most efficacious work in 1996.  Using the Heart Circle technique as a way of exploring these classic texts will enable participants their own unique experience of their qweer sexuality in a safe and confidential environment. \n  \nwww.faeriesexmagick.org \n  \nInterested participants can also register to attend a week-long sex magick retreat using this experience as a cornerstone. \n  \nHarry Hay asked 3 essential questions for qweer men to explore: \n  \nWho are we? \nWhy are we here? \nWhat are we here for? \n  \nHay argued that to answer these questions for ourselves\, each of us needs to dig deep into our consciousness to find our unique narrative\, both for our personal benefit as well as for the gifts that we bring to society at large.  The best way to explore this was through sharing in the Heart Circle practice.  Through the use of a talisman or talking stick\, the Heart (or Talking) Circle is a process that allows each participant to share their experience and perspective in an uninterrupted flow.  Harry gleaned this means of communing from his lifelong study and work with Native Americans.  Heart Circle practice also grew out of the new consciousness movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and has become a hallmark of communing in Radical Faerie circles. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Bi Book Club: Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men
DESCRIPTION:The Bi Book Club meets once a month to discuss bi-themed books and the issues they raise. People of all orientations and genders welcome! Dinner after nearby. \nOur current book is Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men edited by Robyn Ochs & H. Sharif Williams (Dr. Herukhuti.) For January\, we’ll be reading the last five pieces of the section on Identity. Plus the sections on Challenging Labels and Liminality. [We plan to continue reading 2 sections per month of Recognize until we’re done with the book.] Pick out some phrases or paragraphs that you’d like to discuss\, that inspired you\, or that struck you because of their elegant turn of phrase or the meaning behind it. If you havent had time to finish the readings\, come anyway because we read passages from the book aloud for discussion. As usual\, we’ll also be using the text as a jumping off point to further discussion of bisexual issues and personal experiences. \nGetting Books: We urge you to purchase your print copy at BGSQD and support the only LGBT bookstore in New York City. Especially since they are hosting us in their space! If you prefer e-books\, just get them your usual way. \nDeciding Books: The group votes on what book to read next. \nVenue: Bureau of General Services Queer Division Bookstore at the LGBT Center\, 2nd fl. Rm. 210 \nThe Bi Book Club meets at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division on the last Thursday of each month.  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 9: Surprises
DESCRIPTION:TELL 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. \nSurprises is the theme of the ninth installment of TELL\, featuring Becca Blackwell\, Harvey Katz\, Elana Lancaster\, and Katia Perea! \n$5-10 suggested donation – no one turned away for lack of funds \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. She just won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. 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 (her reel and her website www.draecampbell.com) and around town. \n  \n  \n \nBecca Blackwell is a NYC based performer. They act in a lot of stuff and make their own work. \n  \n  \n \n\nHarvey Katz is a spoken word artist and storyteller who became a woman in front of a seated congregation in Miami before becoming a man in the Deep South. Currently he travels the country providing educational workshops on transgender identity and performing on stages large and small under the pseudonym Athens Boys Choir.\n\n \n \n \nElana Lancaster is an LGBT health advocate and occasional storyteller who lives in Brooklyn. He is a Moth StorySLAM winner\, and has been featured on the Story Collider podcast. The two best compliments he’s ever received were “You talk to people about sperm like you were teaching them how to make waffles\,” and “I would trust you with my life if I didn’t know you so well.” \n  \n  \n \nKatia Perea lives in Brooklyn and is a serious cartoon fan. She has a PhD in Sociology from the New School for Social Research specialized in television girl cartoons\, popular culture theory and media studies. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at CUNY (City University New York) and is currently researching the Brony community for her upcoming book\, “Girl Cartoons” due out soon. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Stone Butch Blues Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Whether you loved it\, hated it\, or never even read it\, why not join us for a discussion of Leslie Feinberg‘s Stone Butch Blues (1993)? \nStone Butch Blues is no longer in print\, but the organizer of the event\, Lana Povitz\, will happily send you a free digital copy if you email her at lpovitz at gmail.com.\n\n \n  \n\nFrom Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Obituary in The Advocate: \nLeslie Feinberg\, who identified as an anti-racist white\, working-class\, secular Jewish\, transgender\, lesbian\, female\, revolutionary communist\, died on November 15. She succumbed to complications from multiple tick-borne co-infections\, including Lyme disease. \nFeinberg was the first theorist to advance a Marxist concept of “transgender liberation\,” and her work impacted popular culture\, academic research\, and political organizing. \nHer historical and theoretical writing has been widely anthologized and taught in the U.S. and international academic circles. Her impact on mass culture was primarily through her 1993 first novel\, Stone Butch Blues\, widely considered in and outside the U.S. as a groundbreaking work about the complexities of gender. Sold by the hundreds of thousands of copies and also passed from hand-to-hand inside prisons\, the novel has been translated into Chinese\, Dutch\, German\, Italian\, Slovenian\, Turkish\, and Hebrew (with her earnings from that edition going to ASWAT Palestinian Gay Women). \nFrom 2004-2008 Feinberg’s writing on the links between socialism and LGBT history\, “Lavender & Red\,” ran as a 120-part series in Workers World newspaper. Her most recent book\, Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba\, was an edited selection of that series. \nFeinberg authored two other non-fiction books\, Transgender Warriors: Making History and Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue\, as well as a second novel\, Drag King Dreams. \nFor more on Leslie Feinberg check out this article by KaeLyn on Autostraddle.\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/stone-butch-blues-book-club/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150128T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150128T220000
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SUMMARY:EXPLORING QWEER EROS: Second Meeting
DESCRIPTION:EXPLORING QWEER EROS \n  \nThis five week communal exploration of qweer erotic myths and mysteries will utilize the Heart Circle and Plato’s Symposium to explore the unique power of qweer erotic ethos and its importance in our world today. \n  \nThe Symposium was chosen for this workshop because in its five speeches Athenian philosophers at a drinking party express in depth their thoughts concerning erotic love.  Although specific to the time and place – eros between adult men and youth – The Symposium provides an excellent platform for contemporary discussion.  Themes we will cover include the nature of eros\, desire\, attraction\, loss\, coupling\, erotic friendship\, fear\, death and HIV/STIs. We will delve into the connection between eros and psyche\, eros and thanatos\, and eros as a community builder and binder.  Using the Heart Circle approach will allow participants to explore these strong subjects in a safe\, confidential and non-judgmental space. \n  \nThese Heart Circles will be conducted every Wednesday evening\, 7-10 p.m.\, beginning January 21\, ending February 18\, and will be facilitated by Rosie Delicious.  All circles will be held at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division\, in the LGBT Community Center\, 208 w. 13th St\, NYC. \n  \nThe weekly Heart Circles will integrate this classic text with contemporary practices that integrate mind\, body and spirit in a rejuvenated erotic life for participants.  We will be using Plato’s Erotic Dialogues\, translated/edited by William C. Cobb\, 1993\, SUNY Press.  You may read it online or purchase a hard copy\, available through the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division at the LGBT Community Center. \n  \nIt is advised that participants attend all five weeks as each week will cover different sections of the text.  Pre-registration is encouraged via email to houseofdelicious@gmail.com.  An additional text describing the Heart Circle process will be sent to all registrants. This series is free although we will pass a hat for donations to be shared by the Bureau and the facilitator. \n  \nRosie Delicious\, a Radical Faerie sex magician\, has co-facilitating Sex Magick Workshops in the Radical Faerie tradition since 2000.  This workshop was initiated by Harry Hay and John Burnside in 1990\, and Rosie encountered this most efficacious work in 1996.  Using the Heart Circle technique as a way of exploring these classic texts will enable participants their own unique experience of their qweer sexuality in a safe and confidential environment. \n  \nwww.faeriesexmagick.org \n  \nInterested participants can also register to attend a week-long sex magick retreat using this experience as a cornerstone. \n  \nHarry Hay asked 3 essential questions for qweer men to explore: \n  \nWho are we? \nWhy are we here? \nWhat are we here for? \n  \nHay argued that to answer these questions for ourselves\, each of us needs to dig deep into our consciousness to find our unique narrative\, both for our personal benefit as well as for the gifts that we bring to society at large.  The best way to explore this was through sharing in the Heart Circle practice.  Through the use of a talisman or talking stick\, the Heart (or Talking) Circle is a process that allows each participant to share their experience and perspective in an uninterrupted flow.  Harry gleaned this means of communing from his lifelong study and work with Native Americans.  Heart Circle practice also grew out of the new consciousness movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and has become a hallmark of communing in Radical Faerie circles. \n  \n  \n 
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LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:NEW YORK WRITER DYKES at BUREAU OF GENERAL SERVICES-QUEER DIVISION
DESCRIPTION:FIVE NEW YORK WRITER DYKES READ FROM THEIR LATEST NOVELS & DISCUSS THE EXPERIENCE OF\nWRITING QUEER FICTION IN THE BIG CITY\n \n  \nAnn Aptaker\nR.G. Emanuelle\nJane Hoppen\nSusan X. Meagher\nCindy Rizzo\n  \n\nTHURSDAY\, JAN. 29TH\, 2015\nREADINGS\, DISCUSSION\, Q & A 7 p.m.\nBOOKSIGNING\, 8 P.M.\n  \n\n\n\n\nNative New Yorker Ann Aptaker has earned a reputation as a respected if cheeky exhibition designer and curator of art during her career in museums and galleries. Taking the approach that what art authorities find uncomfortable the public would likely enjoy\, exhibitions Ann has curated have garnered favorable reviews in the New York Times\, Art in America\, American Art Review\, and other publications.\n \nShe brings the same attitude and philosophy to her first love: writing\, especially a tangy variety of historical crime fiction. Ann’s short stories have appeared in two editions (2003 and 2004) of the noir crime anthology Fedora. Her flash fiction story\, “A Night In Town\,” appeared in the online zine Punk Soul Poet. In addition to curating and designing art exhibitions and writing crime stories\, Ann is also an art writer and an adjunct professor of art history at the New York Institute of Technology. CRIMINAL GOLD is her debut novel.\n \nAnn can be contacted at writer.aptaker@gmail.com\, on Facebook at Ann Aptaker\, Author\, and on Twitter @AnnAptaker \n  \n  \n  \n \n\nR.G. Emanuelle is from New York City\, and spent more than 20 years as an editor\, writer\, and typesetter. When she was child\, a neighbor called her a vampire because she only came out after dark\, so it’s fitting that her first novel\, Twice Bitten\, is about creatures of the night. When she’s not writing or editing\, she can usually be found cooking or developing recipes\, as she is also a culinary school graduate\, which is what inspired her to write her romantic novella\, Add Spice to Taste\, starring a love-burned chef. She is co-editor of All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Lesbian Erotica & Romance\, Unwrap These Presents\, and Skulls and Crossbones: Tales of Women Pirates\, and her short stories can be found in numerous anthologies.Blog: www.rgemanuelle.com\nEmail: rgemanuelle@gmail.com\nFacebook: R.G. Emanuelle\nTwitter: @Rgemanuelle\n  \n  \n  \n\nJane Hoppen‘s fiction has been published in various literary magazines\, including Story Quarterly\, Western Humanities Review\, Feminist Studies\, The Dirty Goat\, PANK\, and Superstition Review. Her novel\, In Between\, was published by Bold Strokes Books\, December 2013. Her novella\, The Man Who Was Not\, was published as an e-book by Bold Strokes Books\, June 2014. \n  \n  \n  \n \nSusan X. Meagher lives in Brooklyn with her wife\, Carrie. Born in East St. Louis\, Illinois\, she has lived in both Chicago and Los Angeles for significant periods\, but New York fits her very well. She has over thirteen novels in print along with the seventeen and counting novels in the “I Found My Heart in San Francisco” series. Her latest novel is Out of Whack.You can find out more about Susan at her websitewww.susanxmeagher.com All of her books and eBooks are available atwww.briskpress.com\n\n\n  \n  \n \nCindy Rizzo is an author of lesbian fiction. Her first novel\, Exception to the Rule\, won the 2014 award for Best Debut Fiction from Golden Crown Literary Society and was a finalist for the Rainbow Book Awards. In September 2014\, her second novel\, Love Is Enough\, was released. A short story\, The Miracle of the Lights\, appeared in the anthology Unwrap These Presents (Ylva Publishing). Earlier writing includes essays in the anthologies\, Lesbians Raising Sons and Homefronts: Controversies in Non-Traditional Parenting. Cindy was also the co-editor of a fiction anthology\, All the Ways Home\, published in 1995 (New Victoria) in which her story Herring Cove was included.Cindy has worked in philanthropy for many years and has a long history of involvement in the LGBT community. She serves on the boards of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York and Funders for LGBTQ Issues. She lives in New York City with her wife\, Jennifer\, and their two cats. They have two grown sons\, a wonderful daughter-in-law\, and a baby granddaughter. \nYou can contact Cindy by email at cindyt.rizzo@gmail.com\, via Facebookwww.facebook.com/ctrizzo\, through her blog\, www.cindyrizzo.wordpress.com\, or on Twitter @cindyrizzo. \n\n  \n  \n 
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LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Live from the Bureau! An Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:LIVE from the BUREAU! An Open Mic Night \nOrganized by Andrew Bell \nThe January installment of LIVE from the BUREAU! will be hosted by Ali Dineen and will feature guests from The Love Yourself Project. \n\nLIVE from the BUREAU! is a program featuring the original work of fledgling\, emerging\, established and seasoned live-performers\, poets and visual artists. Come for songs\, burlesque\, spoken word\, diary musings\, violin solos\, puppetry\, and other queer induced happenings\, including a pop-up gallery\, with the overarching theme of: Oppression and Resistance/Fear and Hope. Expect individuals and small gangs\, elders and twinks\, the sacred\, the profane\, the tragic\, the hilarious and everything in between\, and come ready for anything.\n\nSIGN UP TO PERFORM AT THE EVENT \nFIRST COME\, FIRST SERVED \n  \n  \n\n \n\nAli Dineen is a human being\, artist\, musician\, traveler\, activist\, resident of Queens\, eater of pasta and other foods\, listener of music and other sounds\, amongst other things. She hopes sincerely that you’re having a good day.\n  \n \n​The Love Yourself Project exists​ to inspire people to build a strong relationship to the self\, mindfully creating a future with loving regard for all living beings and the environment; ultimately\, manifesting a humanity that declares itself unwavering in its commitment to peace\, loving-kindness\, compassion\, and harmony. \n  \n  \n \nDrew Bell is a full-time painter and Bureau volunteer happy to be making his contribution as an event organizer. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n 
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LOCATION:NY
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