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SUMMARY:The Bureau is Closed for Independence Day Weekend!
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau will be closed on July 1st\, 2nd\, and 3rd. We return to regular hours on Wednesday\, July 6th.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-bureau-is-closed-for-independence-day-weekend/
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SUMMARY:Bureau Closed on Sundays in July and August
DESCRIPTION:For the months of July and August the Bureau will be closed on Sundays.\nThe Bureau will be open Wednesdays through Saturdays\, from 1 to 7 PM.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bureau-closed-on-sundays-in-july-and-august/
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents Justin Lamb
DESCRIPTION:  \nUnion Square Slam is excited for our Summer reading series\, featuring an extended open mic and a phenom featured artist. \nThis week\, we welcome New Orleans-based national slam champ JUSTIN LAMB all the way to the stage!! \n7:30pm: Sign-ups and Socialize\n8:00pm: Open Mic\n8:45pm: Featured Poet: Justin Lamb \nAll Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\nOpen Mic // $5 \nAbout our Feature: \nJustin Lamb is an educator\, writer and 2013 National Poetry Slam champion with Team Slam New Orleans. A four-time member of the nationally acclaimed Team SNO (2011-14)\, Justin is a two-time Slam New Orleans Grand Champion and author of the live poetry album However It Turns Out Is Perfect and chapbook Everything Has A Place. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of New Orleans. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/union-square-slam-presents-justin-lamb/
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SUMMARY:CANCELED! 20Something Monthly Manhattan Meetup
DESCRIPTION:  \nTonight’s meeting has been canceled. Stay tuned for announcement about the next 20Something Meetup. \nIf you are new to the city\, recently out\, just looking for friends\, or whatever experiences brought you to us – we offer a safe space where we can mingle and talk about our experiences as an LGBT person in New York City. We hold our meetings on the second Wednesday of every month from 8-10 PM at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. We recommend this 20Something Meetup to anyone who is looking for a more casual space to explore their sexual/gender identity. There will be light refreshments. Bring friends! \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau and 20Something. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n20Something is the largest social events organization for young lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, and transgender people in New York City\, aged 21 to 30. We hold a monthly social\, and two monthly icebreaker/discussion groups at the Brooklyn Pride Center and at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, the queer cultural center and bookstore on the second floor of The LGBT Community Center\, in Manhattan. With more than 2\,500 members\, we engage young adults across all 5 boroughs with a safe\, confidential\, and respectful platform to meet other LGBT folk. Many of our members have made long lasting friendships\, relationships\, and have been connected to important LGBT services and resources. Whether you are new to the city\, recently out\, or just looking to make friends – 20Something offers a space for you to pave the way to your own adventures in New York City – and make living here a little easier. Become a member: meetup.com/20SomethingNYC \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/20something-july-6/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160710
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160711
DTSTAMP:20260421T193848
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LAST-MODIFIED:20160608T194833Z
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SUMMARY:Bureau Closed on Sundays in July and August
DESCRIPTION:For the months of July and August the Bureau will be closed on Sundays.\nThe Bureau will be open Wednesdays through Saturdays\, from 1 to 7 PM.
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents an evening with the poets of La SoPA
DESCRIPTION:  \nUnion Square Slam is excited for our Summer reading series\, featuring an extended open mic and a phenom featured artist. \nWe have been committed to exposing all the poetry this city has to offer. We want communities to merge and form into bigger communities. For this show we are happy to have the great poets of La Sopa. \nHere’s a little more about La Sopa: \nLa Sopa (School of Poetic Arts) is a community-based arts program with its intellectual roots in the poetics of the Nuyorican\, Black Arts\, and Beat movements. From its home base at Loisaida Inc.\, a historic enclave for artists and people of color on the Lower East Side of Manhattan\, La Sopa serves as an incubator for poets\, performers\, and other creatives to explore and expand their artistic selves\, develop their voices\, distribute the works in live performance and exhibition\, and promote their works in various media. \n  \nThis week\, we welcome the poets of La Sopa (School of Poetic Arts) \n7:30pm: Sign-ups and Socialize\n8:00pm: Open Mic\n8:45pm: La SoPA \nAll Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\nOpen Mic // $5 \n  \nAbout our Features: \n“Nessa” Acevedo is a Colombian American Artist and Social Worker who aims to serve as a catalyst for therapeutic and authentic expression; exposing her heart\, mind\, and spirit as an invitation for you to do the same and live to tell about it. She has been expressing herself through the written word since childhood\, breaking through to the open mic in early 2012 at Capicu Culture’s: People’s Open Mic. She has since performed and/or featured at open mics and events including: La SoPA\, The Nuyorican Poet’s Café\, The New York Poetry Festival\, Word at 4F\, The DoJo\, Great Weather for Media’s: Spoken Word Sundays\, El Fogon\, and Smokin’ Word and Drum. \nEric Acevedo is a very young man with an old soul who has been writing and performing poetry since 2008. He loves writing about Puerto Rican history\, his abuelita\, and what he sees going on in his hood and around the globe. He strives to influence his generation and is an aspiring English teacher. In his goal toward exploring what makes us who we are\, he released a self-published chapbook\, El Rice Is Cooking\, in 2012. Acevedo has performed at universities including Columbia and Fordham and has been featured at Muevete\, Queensboro Lit Crawl\, Brooklyn Gypsies: Ghetto Hors d’Oeuvres and 35 poets for Oscar López Rivera. Eric hopes to obtain an MFA in the near future as he continues to be an artivist. \nSarah Serrano is a Puerto Rican educator\, poet\, writer\, visual artist\, actress\, singer and voice actress. Pulling strength from adversity\, she strives to connect with and educate her audience using personal experiences with domestic violence\, mental health\, mortality\, social issues and cultural identity. \nKnown for her powerful spoken word poem entitled “Boricua\,” Sarah was recently featured in the upcoming film Project Ñ (link)\, a documentary about Latino cultural awareness and identity. She has been featured and performed at the historical Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe\, WHCR Radio 90.3 FM\, The National Black Theater feat. Full Circle Ensemble\, CAPICU! Cultural Showcase\, The Bushwick Starr Theater\, Camaradas\, Performance & Pints\, Areito Live\, Bowery Poetry Club\, Bridging Boroughs\, and I Know Some Tough Girls. \nYou can connect with her via Twitter & Instagram @cantfightthefro \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/union-square-slam-presents-la-sopa/
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SUMMARY:Writing Queer Crime & Mystery Fiction: 1st session
DESCRIPTION:  \nA 5-Week Workshop\, Wednesdays July 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3 and 10\, 6 – 8 p.m. Led by Ann Aptaker. \nIs there a Queer perspective to writing crime & mystery fiction? This 5-week workshop will take students through the art and craft of crime and mystery writing\, as experienced through Queer characters. Students will learn the importance of “voice\,” character development\, how character drives plot\, and the distinctions of the genre’s various styles (cozy\, hard boiled\, noir\, thriller\, who-done-it\, etc.\,) through Queer experience. Students will write each week. \nCost: $50 per student for 5 week course. \nRegister at: QueerWriting@gmail.com \nAnn Aptaker’s 2016 Lammy winning and Goldie finalist Tarnished Gold and 2015 Goldie finalist Criminal Gold have earned excellent reviews from Curve Magazine\, Crimepieces\, Rainbow Reads\, and other print and internet venues. Her Cantor Gold crime series celebrates her favorite themes: Queer life\, crime and mystery fiction\, and New York City history. The third book in the series\, Genuine Gold\, is scheduled for release in January 2017 from Bold Strokes Books. Like her protagonist\, Cantor Gold\, Ann resides in her beloved hometown\, New York. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/writing-queer-crime-mystery-fiction/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Bi Book Club discusses Ariah by BR Sanders
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bi Book Club meets on the second Thursday of each month to discuss bi-themed books and the issues they raise. \nDinner after nearby (so far\, we always go to Village Den.) \nOn July 14\, the Bi Book Club will discuss Ariah\, by BR Sanders \nAriah\, by BR Sanders\, won the Speculative Fiction category of the Bisexual Book Awards and explores both bisexuality and polyamory. Ariah’s magical training has been interrupted. Forced to rely on a mentor\, Dirva\, who is not who he claims to be\, and a teacher who is foreign and powerful\, Ariah is drawn into a culture wholly different from the elven one that raised him. As his friendship with Dirva’s brother blossoms into a surprising romance\, and he slowly learns how to control the dangerous magic in his blood\, life finally appears to be coming together for Ariah—but love and security are cut short by a tyrannical military empire bent on expanding its borders. War\, betrayal\, passion\, and confusion follow Ariah as his perilous journey leads him beyond the walls of the Empire\, and into unfamiliar territory within himself. Along the way\, he’ll discover just how much he’s willing to give up to find his place in the world\, and he’ll learn what it means to sacrifice himself for freedom—and for love. \nCome and join the discussion\, even if you haven’t read the book. We take turns reading passages aloud from the book and discuss them-anyone can participate! \nPlease purchase your copy of Ariah from the Bureau! \nNext book: The Life and Death of Sophie Stark. Get your copy from the Bureau. \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \nRSVP on meetup.com (not required) \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bi-book-club-discusses-ariah/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160717
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160718
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SUMMARY:Bureau Closed on Sundays in July and August
DESCRIPTION:For the months of July and August the Bureau will be closed on Sundays.\nThe Bureau will be open Wednesdays through Saturdays\, from 1 to 7 PM.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160719T190000
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents the USS Nationals Team Send-Off and Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe National Poetry Slam is right around the corner! Come celebrate and get a sneak peak at all the hard work the team has put in this summer\, and pick up some sweet treats and a copy of the team’s limited edition chapbook!! \n7pm: Sign-Up and Socialize\n8pm: Open Mic\n9pm: The USS National Team: Kearah Armonie\, Patrick Roche\, Nkosi Nkululeko\, and Taylor Steele \nEntry: $5\nChapbook: $20 ($15 with paid entry fee)\nCookies: $3\, 2 for $5 \nMade by our lovely volunteer Theo!! Choose from the following:\n– Chocolate Chip\n– Rosemary Ginger w/ White Chocolate Chips\n– Honey Jack Lemon\n– Peanut Butter\n– Apple Oatmeal \nMeet the Team: \nNkosi Nkululeko is the 2016 NYC Youth Poet Laureate\, and a Callaloo Fellow. He has been nominated for the Independent Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize. He was a member of the 2015 Urbana Slam Team and currently on the 2016 Union Square Slam Team. Nkosi”s work is published in VINYLpoetryandprose\, No Token\, decomP\, and elsewhere. He lives in Harlem\, New York. \nTaylor Steele is a Bronx-born\, Brooklyn-based writer and performer. Her work can be found at such esteemed publications as Apogee Journal\, HEArt Journal\, Rogue Agent\, Blackberry Magazine\, The Body is Not an Apology\, and many forthcoming. Her chapbook Dirty.Mouth.Kiss will be available Fall 2016 on Pizza Pi Press. She is a triple-Taurus who believes in the power of art to change\, shape\, and heal. \nKearah-Armonie (Kearmonie) is a Brooklyn based poet\, spoken word artist\, MC\, Filmmaker\, Blogger\, and Writer. She currently finishing up her B.A. in Documentary Film Production at Brooklyn College. Having been performing spoken word since 2011\, she is now a mentor and teaching artist. \nPatrick Roche is a New Jersey-based writer and performer who graduated from Princeton University. He has competed or featured at multiple national competitions\, events\, and universities around the country. His work has been featured on Button Poetry\, SlamFind\, UpWorthy\, The Huffington Post\, Buzzfeed\, and others\, accumulating over 6 million views. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/union-square-slam-nationals-send-off/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160720T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160720T200000
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SUMMARY:Writing Queer Crime & Mystery Fiction: 2nd session
DESCRIPTION:  \nA 5-Week Workshop\, Wednesdays July 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3 and 10\, 6 – 8 p.m. Led by Ann Aptaker. \nIs there a Queer perspective to writing crime & mystery fiction? This 5-week workshop will take students through the art and craft of crime and mystery writing\, as experienced through Queer characters. Students will learn the importance of “voice\,” character development\, how character drives plot\, and the distinctions of the genre’s various styles (cozy\, hard boiled\, noir\, thriller\, who-done-it\, etc.\,) through Queer experience. Students will write each week. \nCost: $50 per student for 5 week course. \nRegister at: QueerWriting@gmail.com \nAnn Aptaker’s 2016 Lammy winning and Goldie finalist Tarnished Gold and 2015 Goldie finalist Criminal Gold have earned excellent reviews from Curve Magazine\, Crimepieces\, Rainbow Reads\, and other print and internet venues. Her Cantor Gold crime series celebrates her favorite themes: Queer life\, crime and mystery fiction\, and New York City history. The third book in the series\, Genuine Gold\, is scheduled for release in January 2017 from Bold Strokes Books. Like her protagonist\, Cantor Gold\, Ann resides in her beloved hometown\, New York. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/writing-queer-crime-mystery-fiction-2/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160721T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160721T203000
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SUMMARY:PERSONS OF INTEREST: PORTRAITURE & PERSONA
DESCRIPTION:  \nVisual AIDS’ Artist+ Members Lucas Michael\, Luna Luis Ortiz\, and Frederick Weston discuss their artwork in the second program in conjunction with Visual AIDS’ summer exhibition PERSONS OF INTEREST. PERSONS OF INTEREST: PORTRAITURE & PERSONA\, moderated by Alex Fialho\, brings together these artists to discuss the ways in which they use the camera and photography as means of performance and a space in which to play with identity. \nLucas Michael‘s editorial photography for New York Magazine includes photographing polaroids of celebrities such as Lupita Nyong’o\, Hugh Jackman\, Lena Dunham\, and Adele\, while his artwork “Still Life (LM Squared)” finds him outfitted as a drag double of Liza Minelli. \nLuna Luis Ortiz was inspired to pick up one of his father’s cameras after he became HIV positive at the age of 14 in 1986\, beginning the birth of his self-portraits as a way to leave images for his family in remembrance before he became what he considered the images of AIDS in the 1980’s. \nFrederick Weston communicates the soul of a thoughtful man feeling his way through physical realities and representation in America\, often through themes of style\, fashion\, and the commercial male image. \nPERSONS OF INTEREST\, curated by Sam Gordon for Visual AIDS\, features a wide cross section of Visual AIDS artist members and friends. The term\, “person of interest” often identifies someone in an investigation that possesses characteristics that merit further attention. The investigation presented here is a collection of drawing\, painting\, photography\, performance\, video\, and sculpture. \nPERSONS OF INTEREST\, presented by Visual AIDS at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division features the trained and self taught\, long term survivors and the prematurely lost\, and individuals who live for us very much in the present\, some only in our hearts and minds. \nThe exhibition includes work by Raynes Birkbeck\, Mark Carter\, Ben Cuevas\, Chloe Dzubilo\, Arnold Fern\, Tim Greathouse\, Keith Haring\, Hudson\, Affrekka Jefferson\, Jerry the Marble Faun\, Joyce McDonald\, Lucas Michael\, Nicolas Moufarrege\, Luna Luis Ortiz\, Hugh Steers\, Hunter Reynolds\, Tseng Kwong Chi\, Muna Tseng\, and Frederick Weston. \n  \nPictured works\, from left: Luna Luis Ortiz\, Self-portrait-Egyptian Pharaoh\, 2003; Frederick Weston\, “I’m In Here Somewhere”\, Plaster\, 10 x 6 x 5; Lucas Michael\, polaroid self-portrait \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/persons-of-interest-portraiture-persona/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160724
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160725
DTSTAMP:20260421T193848
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SUMMARY:Bureau Closed on Sundays in July and August
DESCRIPTION:For the months of July and August the Bureau will be closed on Sundays.\nThe Bureau will be open Wednesdays through Saturdays\, from 1 to 7 PM.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bureau-closed-on-sundays-in-july-and-august-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160726T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160726T213000
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents Veda Leone and Brenda Snyder and our GET VIDEO(d) Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:  \nWe are thrilled to feature our witchy sisters from the north\, Veda Leone and Brenda Snyder\, following our GET VIDEO(d) open mic!! \nGET VIDEO(d): Justin Woo has generously donated his videographer skills to you as a benefit to Union Square Slam. If you have a poem you would like to have professionally taped and edited\, come read on our open mic this Tuesday. For a $20 donation to Union Square Slam\, Justin will record your poem\, edit it pretty and send it your way!! (Open Mic will be limited to 10 people!! Come early to sign up and secure your spot!!) \nWe also welcome the return of our free writing workshops\, led by IS Jones. Head over at 6pm to workshop your work and/or kickstart your writing!! \nAbout our Show: \n6pm: Free Writing Workshop\n7pm: Sign up and Socialize\n8pm: Open Mic\n9pm: Feature \nAll Ages // $5 \nAbout our Feature: \nVeda Leone and Brenda Snyder are two kindred poets who found their way to each other and the greater poetry community through the back room of “the Deuce” in Northampton\, Massachusetts. \nThese two writers\, trauma survivors\, spoken word poets\, and organizers mirror each other’s work across state lines. Veda is the co-founder and host of Collinsville’s Spoken Word on the Square at Downright Music in Collinsville\, CT and Brenda is the founder and slam master of Witch City Poetry Slam in Salem\, MA. \nThe two of them found inspiration\, community\, and each other as regular contributors on the mic at Northampton Poetry in Northampton\, MA. Brenda’s work has been published on voicemailpoems.org and you can find her ramblings\, poems\, and inspiration at fix-me-in.tumblr.com; and\, Veda’s first chapbook\, Cellar Door\, was released this January and can be found through her website www.vedaleone.wordpress.com. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/union-square-slam-7-26/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160727T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160727T200000
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SUMMARY:Writing Queer Crime & Mystery Fiction: 3rd session
DESCRIPTION:  \nA 5-Week Workshop\, Wednesdays July 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3 and 10\, 6 – 8 p.m. Led by Ann Aptaker. \nIs there a Queer perspective to writing crime & mystery fiction? This 5-week workshop will take students through the art and craft of crime and mystery writing\, as experienced through Queer characters. Students will learn the importance of “voice\,” character development\, how character drives plot\, and the distinctions of the genre’s various styles (cozy\, hard boiled\, noir\, thriller\, who-done-it\, etc.\,) through Queer experience. Students will write each week. \nCost: $50 per student for 5 week course. \nRegister at: QueerWriting@gmail.com \nAnn Aptaker’s 2016 Lammy winning and Goldie finalist Tarnished Gold and 2015 Goldie finalist Criminal Gold have earned excellent reviews from Curve Magazine\, Crimepieces\, Rainbow Reads\, and other print and internet venues. Her Cantor Gold crime series celebrates her favorite themes: Queer life\, crime and mystery fiction\, and New York City history. The third book in the series\, Genuine Gold\, is scheduled for release in January 2017 from Bold Strokes Books. Like her protagonist\, Cantor Gold\, Ann resides in her beloved hometown\, New York. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/writing-queer-crime-mystery-fiction-3/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160728T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160728T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T193848
CREATED:20160603T184812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160603T184918Z
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SUMMARY:Emanuel Xavier Radiance & Sam Sax All The Rage Official Book Readings & Signings
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for the launch of Emanuel Xavier‘s Radiance & Sam Sax‘s All The Rage. \n  \n“Emanuel Xavier’s newest book radiates in diverse directions\, back into a past of New York club kid glamour and violence\, into a family history of lost connections\, and into loves forfeited and found-all of which the poet illumines with steady-eyed honesty. Finally\, as he confronts a health challenge to the very brain that is the root-place of these sharp and poignant poems\, radiation becomes radiance\, a hard-won inner light that lets us all see how ‘splendid is our survival.'” –David Groff\, author of Clay \n  \nIn All the Rage\, Sam Sax turns the poetry of observation into weapon of prayer and resurrection. Here is the eroticism and anger of bearing witness. Here the dead walk again\, sometimes right over us\, sometimes right through us. Here are open wounds wet with the spit of old lovers and old versions of ourselves\, raw\, hungry\, and unwilling to let us forget what we’ve seen. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/emanuel-xavier-radiance-sam-sax-all-the-rage-official-book-readings-signings/
LOCATION:NY
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160729T210000
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SUMMARY:Apogee Issue 07 Launch
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe celebration will feature readings by JP Howard\, Naomi Extra\, Soraya Shalforoosh\, Robert Balun\, Maura Pelletteiri\, Dennis Norris II\, radhiyah ayobami\, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas\, Marwa Helal\, Claire Schwartz\, Aaron Coleman\, Hadeel Salameh\, and Shira Erlichman. \n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/apogee-issue-7-launch/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160731
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160801
DTSTAMP:20260421T193848
CREATED:20160608T194927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160608T194927Z
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SUMMARY:Bureau Closed on Sundays in July and August
DESCRIPTION:For the months of July and August the Bureau will be closed on Sundays.\nThe Bureau will be open Wednesdays through Saturdays\, from 1 to 7 PM.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bureau-closed-on-sundays-in-july-and-august-5/
LOCATION:NY
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