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SUMMARY:Closed on New Year's Day
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau will be closed on December 24\, 25\, and 31\, 2016\, and on January 1\, 2017. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170107T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170107T180000
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SUMMARY:Queer Collage Party #4
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn conjunction with the exhibition Growing Sideways\, the Bureau hosts our fourth Queer Collage Party. Cut\, paste\, and create in this hands-on event. Artist Catalina Schliebener will be on hand to share remarks on the role of collage in her practice. \nWe provide the glue sticks and paper\, you provide the pictures. Everyone who attends should bring at least one magazine or book or a bunch of pictures that you’ll contribute to the group. Each person can make their own collage(s)\, or team up with others! You can keep your own collage(s)\, but don’t expect to walk away with your magazine intact! The spirit here is fun and sharing. \nFeel free to bring snacks to share! \n  \nArtwork caption: \nCatalina Schliebener\, Sassy and Butchy 4\, 8.5 x 5.5 inches 2016 \n  \nCatalina Schliebener’s Growing Sideways is on view at the Bureau through January 22. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170111T210000
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CREATED:20161229T205748Z
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SUMMARY:Dust\, Disco\, Skyscrapers and Spinning: Four Writers Share New Work
DESCRIPTION:  \nScott Alexander Hess celebrates the release of his new novel Skyscraper\, leading a cluster of outstanding writers in this literary event. Hess (whose new novel Skyscraper is called “A tantalizing piece of literary erotica. Well-crafted and beautifully written\,” Joe Okonkwo\, Author\, Jazz Moon) hits the stage with four writer’s debuting stunning short story collections. Amy Dupcak (Dust)\, Robert Hyers (Spinning the Record) and Philip Dean Walker ( At Danceteria and Other Stories) will read and chat about the writer’s life. \n  \nPlease contact the Bureau in advance to reserve copies of any of the books: contact@bgsqd.com \n  \nScott Alexander Hess‘s novel The Butcher’s Sons was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015. Skyscraper (Unzipped\, an imprint of Lethe Press) is his 4th novel. \n  \nRobert Hyers is a queer short story writer and novelist. His short story collection\, Spinning the Record\, is available from Lethe Press. \n  \nPhilip Dean Walker‘s debut collection of short stories\, At Danceteria and Other Stories\, was published by Squares & Rebels in November 2016. \n  \nAmy Dupcak‘s short story collection Dust was published by Lucid River Press. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/dust-disco-skyscrapers-spinning/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170112T210000
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SUMMARY:Artist Dialogue: Catalina Schliebener in Conversation with Kris Grey & John Chaich
DESCRIPTION:  \nDrawing insights from the recent Cut Ups exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art\, artist and educator Kris Grey and Growing Sideways curator John Chaich join featured artist Catalina Schliebener to discuss the process behind her use of collage and drawing to explore themes of gender formation\, cartoon and medical narratives\, and sexual curiosity in queer childhood in the works on view at the Bureau. \n  \nCatalina Schliebener’s Growing Sideways is on view at the Bureau through January 22. \n  \nHeadshot Photo credits:\nCatalina Schliebener\, courtesy of the artist \nJohn Chaich\, photo by Melissa Blackall Photography \nKris Grey\, photo by Alesia Exum \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170113T210000
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CREATED:20161227T175107Z
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SUMMARY:Interior Decorating with Christopher Clary & Stephen Grebinski
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin artists Christopher Clary & Stephen Grebinski as they discuss their fascination with interiors and the interiority of pornography—which they archive\, revere\, and destroy in their work.\n \n \nChristopher Clary collects\, performs\, creates and destroys photographs — specifically his pornography. His commission for Rhizome at the New Museum was named by Hyperallergic as one of the top 10 works of Internet art in 2015. He was also honored as a Discovery Award nominee at the 2011 Les Rencontres d’Arles in France and featured at the 2009 New York Photo Festival. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times\, Artnet\, Village Voice\, Photo District News\, Butt Magazine\, HX\, Out\, and a forthcoming article about appropriation in Elephant magazine. “The court cases that pepper the career of Richard Prince might be round the corner for Clary\, too\, as he makes the transition from emerging- to established-artist.”\n \n \nStephen Grebinski is an artist working primarily with self-published books and zines\, which are the result of an omnivorous photographic and archival practice. His printed work has been shown at NADA Fair\, Printed Matter\, The New York Art Book Fair\, Art Metropole\, and other institutions worldwide. His work tangles together queer bodies\, architecture\, and the persistent baroque impulses of desire. Existing somewhere between documentary and performance\, these efforts are driven by an impulse to reveal and test the fractured\, hidden world beneath our intentions and experiences. These images intersect and collide through brooks\, multi layered screen prints\, photographic installations\, and video.\n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam ‎presents Ephraim Nehemiah and Open Slam Qualifier #4
DESCRIPTION:  \nPOETS! WRITERS! ARTISTS! LOVERS! \nWelcome back! Union Square Slam is ready to roll out an incredible second half of the season\, starting with our ever-present Free Writing Workshop\, a dynamite feature the Heart of the Heartland\, Ohio’s own EPHRAIM NEHEMIAH\, and our fourth of six NPS Team Qualifier Slams! \n* * * * * * PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW START TIME * * * * * * \n6:30pm: Writing Workshop w/ Itiola Jones (Free!)\n7:30pm: Sign-Ups and Socialize\n7:55pm: Draw for Slam\n8:00pm: Slam\, Round One; Feature; Slam Rounds 2 and 3 \nBureau of General Services — Queer Division\n208 W 13th St\, #210\nNY\, NY 10010\n(btw W 7th and 8th Aves) \n$5 // All Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\nAbout our Feature: \nEphraim Nehemiah is a performance poet\, actor and father. He is the co-founder of Kent\, Ohio’s first poetry slam founded in 2015. Ephraim has participated in the Individual World Poetry Slam\, National Poetry Slam\, College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational and many other poetry competitions representing himself and teams in Ohio. His work has been published both online and in several anthologies. He has been featured on BlackPoetsSpeakOut\, Write About Now and Slamfind. He is currently a student of Kent State University completing his bachelor’s degree in Pan-African Studies. \nAbout our Slam: \n::Union Square Slam National Team Competition:: \nThere are six opportunities to compete for the Union Square Slam National Team. The top two winners of each Open Slam have secured their spot in Finals. \nEach open slam will :\n– consist of up to 8 poet competitors\n– have a 3 min time limit for each round with a 10-second grace period\n– will go from 8 in the first round to 5 in the second round and 3 in the third round (this is subject to change depending on the number of competitors that night — see below)\nbe scored cumulatively — the winner of the night will have the highest cumulative score from all three rounds. \nUnion Square Slam Nationals Qualifiers (Open Slams) are on the following dates: \nSeptember 20th\nOctober 18th\nNovember 15th\nJanuary 17th\nFebruary 21st\nMarch 21st \nUnion Square Slam National Team Selection Finals will be held on April 18th. \nThe National Poetry Slam will be held in Denver\, CO August 7-12th\, 2017. All proceeds and donations to Union Square Slam go directly to funding travel\, lodging and registration fees for representatives of Union Square Slam at national events. \nIn order to represent Union Square Slam at any National Competition\, you must meet the following requirements: \n– Be 18 years old or older\n– Be an active member of PSI at the time of competition (register at www.poetryslam.com you cover your annual registration fee of $20 — questions? Talk to Cecily or the current slam manager)\n– Read\, sign\, and adhere to the PSI Code of Conduct\n– Participate in at least one Specialty Slam during the 2016-7 season. Specialty Slams include WOWPS qualifiers\, Nerd Slams\, Petty Slams\, Iron Poet Slams\, etc. \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170122T180000
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SUMMARY:Book Release Reading for SLABS by Brittany Billmeyer-Finn
DESCRIPTION:  \nWe’re having a reading / a showing / a sharing to present Timeless\, Infinite Light’s newest release with you: SLABS by Brittany Billmeyer-Finn. \nSlabs is a collection of poetry dealing in and out of the body through various sites including; home\, memory\, books\, and ritual. It is a meditation on self care\, sexuality\, and identity through a dis/embodied subject in the water\, the home\, and in the streets. It is a collection of tender sincerities and queer awakening. \nPERFORMERS:\n// Brittany Billmeyer-Finn //\n// Ariel Goldberg //\n// Trace Peterson //\n// Phyllis Ma // \n  \nBureau of General Services—Queer Division \nSunday Jan 22 \nDoors 5:30\nEvent 6-PM\n10$ suggested donation // NOTAFLOF \nTIMELESS INFINITE LIGHT is an oakland-based small press that publishes poetry and environs\, with a heavy\, west-coast lean towards the experimental/political/mystical. Sometimes our books look like books\, and sometimes they don’t. Join us step into the lifestream fuck the police. \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170124T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170124T213000
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SUMMARY:USS presents: Muggs Fogarty and New! Shit! Slam!
DESCRIPTION:  \nOh Hey There\, USSers!! We know you’ve been all holed up behind all this snow doing nothing else but writing all about your feelings and impending doom — time to see what kinda chops those freewrites have! Come join us for a New! Shit! Slam! AND LEST WE NOT FORGET\, MUGGS MOTHERFUCKIN FOGARTY will be in house coming for your heart’s throat\, so just BE PREPARED. \n* * * * * * PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW START TIME * * * * * * \n6:30pm: Writing Workshop (FREE!!)\n7:30pm: Sign-Ups and Socialize\n7:55pm: Slam Draw\n8:00pm: Slam\, Round One; Feature; Slam\, Round 2 \nBureau of General Services — Queer Division\n208 W 13th St\, #210\nNY\, NY 10010\n(btw 7th and 8th Aves W) \n$5 // All Ages // Wheelchair Accessible \nAbout our Feature: \nMuggs Fogarty is a genderqueer poet and teaching artist from Providence\, Rhode Island. Muggs’ work addresses identity and lived experience\, with a focus on intersectionality. A former Brave New Voices finalist\, Muggs’ unique poetry and stunning performance has left audiences breathless from Providence to San Jose. After graduating from The New School in 2013 with a degree in creative writing\, Muggs has been serving the youth of Rhode Island as a writing instructor at the award-winning youth advocacy group\, New Urban Arts\, and also as head coach of the Providence National Youth Slam Team. Muggs has become one of the most respected voices for queer rights and identity issues within the performance poetry community\, and their work has received tens of thousands of views via Button Poetry\, the largest spoken word platform in the world. Muggs is working currently as the co-director of the Providence Poetry Slam\, and as a teaching artist with CityArts. Their published work can be found in FreezeRay\, Wicked Banshee\, Bluestockings Magazine\, among others.\nAbout our Slam: \nNew Shit Slam is a triple-dog-dare to push ourselves as artists and to use the mic as an aural and community-based editing tool. Fashioned after Tatyana Browne’s Lit Slam\, judges will act as editors: they will not only score the poem on a scale of 0.0-10.0\, but also make quick first impression notes based on originality\, content\, and performance\, that will be handed back to the poet as feedback. (Don’t worry\, judges! It’s anonymous! But do keep it to a loving objective criticism) Audience members are also encouraged to approach the poets afterwards with their own feedback and responses after the show. \nNew Shit is defined by having never touched a USS mic — the one exception is if the work has been heavily edited (over 50% new) \n8 poets\, 2 rounds\, 4 minute time limit\, no elimination \nAll poets read in both rounds. Order is determined/drawn before the show \n(Participation in at least one Theme Slam (New Shit\, WOWPS or Capturing Fire Qualifier\, etc) is required for you to compete in Finals. You do not have to win a Theme Slam in order to compete in Finals) \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170126T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170126T203000
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SUMMARY:Love Positive Women Valentine Pop-up Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:  \nOpening Reception with reflections: \nThursday\, January 26\, 6:30­–8:30 PM \nExhibition Hours: \nThursday\, January 26­ – Sunday\, January 29\, 2017\, 1 PM–7 PM\n \nFor LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN 2017\, artists\, activists and HIV+ women will come together at Dieu Donné’s paper making studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard to create hundreds of unique handmade paper valentines which will be mailed to women living with HIV around the world. Visual AIDS\, the Fire Island Artist Residency\, Dieu Donné and the International Community of Women Living With HIV (ICW) are hosting three papermaking valentine workshops on January 18 to show their love and support for women living with HIV internationally. The LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN Valentine Pop-up Exhibition at the Bureau of General Services Queer Division will display a selection of the valentines\, and directly after the reception\, these artworks will be mailed to women internationally and will arrive for Valentine’s Day. \nWomen living with HIV as well as invited artists—including Chitra Ganesh\, Carrie Moyer\, Marlene McCarty\, Travis Boyer\, Jesse Harrod\, Jarrod Beck\, Pamela Sneed\, Natalie Frank\, and many others—will make paper valentines for women living with HIV around the world. The valentines will be mailed with personalized messages as a gesture of love and support in the hopes of lessening the stigma experienced by women living with HIV. \nLOVE POSITIVE WOMEN is an ongoing project established by Visual AIDS artist member Jessica Whitbread in 2013. “Why not do something nice for the women most forgotten about?” says Whitbread. “Taking the time to do something for someone else is really beneficial to society as a whole. Don’t underestimate the value in something as simple as sending a valentine to a stranger.” \nLOVE POSITIVE WOMEN (LPW) is an international series of grassroots events that uses Valentines Day as a backdrop\, creating a platform for individuals and communities to engage in public and private acts of love and caring for women living with HIV. Working from a place of strength\, LPW focuses on the idea of interconnectedness\, relationship building\, loving oneself and loving ones’ community. \nWomen living with HIV can sign up to receive a valentine by sending their name and mailing address to: lovepositivewomen@gmail.com \n  \n \n \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170127T190000
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SUMMARY:10th Anniversary Celebration of A Midsummer Night's Press
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate ten years of publishing poetry from A Midsummer Night’s Press. \nSince the press’ beginnings in 2007\, it has championed LGBT voices with its Body Language imprint\, later adding the Sapphic Classics series (co-published with Sinister Wisdom) which reprints iconic lesbian feminist texts with new introductions and afterwords\, making them available to a new generation of readers. \n  \nAuthors published in Body Language include: Achy Obejas\, Brane Mozetic\, Julie R. Enszer\, Raymond Luczak\, Roz Kaveney\, David Bergman\, Lawrence Schimel\, Michael Broder\, Julie Marie Wade\, and Rigoberto González. \n  \nAuthors published in Sapphic Classics include: Minnie Bruce Pratt\, Cheryl Clarke\, elana dykewomon\, and Pat Parker. \nThe press also publishes poetry in translation by women writers under the Periscope imprint\, featuring poets from Estonia\, Slovenia\, Spain and Lithuania so far\, and mythic poetry under the Fabula Rasa imprint\, which has published authors like Rachel Pollack\, Francesca Lia Block\, and Jane Yolen\, among others. \n  \nAll of A Midsummer Night’s Press’ titles will be available at the Bureau. \nReception at 7pm\, Readings at 7:30pm. \nReaders: \n  \nDavid Bergman \n  \nMichael Broder \n  \nCheryl Clarke \n  \nRachel Pollack \n  \nLawrence Schimel \n  \nJulie Marie Wade \n  \n  \nDavid Bergman is the author of four books of poetry: Fortunate Light (A Midsummer Night’s Press)\, Heroic Measures\, The Care and Treatment of Pain\, and Cracking the Code. He is poetry editor of The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide. He is winner of the Lambda Literary Prize as the editor of Men on Men 2000.  He has published two studies\, The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture and Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature.  Educated at Kenyon College and The Johns Hopkins University\, where he earned a Ph.D.\, he is a professor of English at Towson University.  He lives in Baltimore with his partner of many years\, John Lessner. \n  \n  \n  \nMichael Broder is the author of the poetry collections This Life Now (A Midsummer Night’s Press\, a finalist for the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry) and Drug & Disease Free (Indolent Books). He holds a BA from Columbia University\, an MFA from New York University\, and a PhD in Classics from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the founding publisher of Indolent Books and the creator of the HIV Here & Now Project. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband\, the poet Jason Schneiderman\, and a backyard colony of stray and feral cats. \n  \nCheryl Clarke is a poet\, essayist\, scholar and activist. She is the author of the poetry collections: By My Precise Haircut\, Experimental Love\, Humid Pitch\, Living as a Lesbian (reprinted by Sapphic Classics)\, and Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women. She is also the author of the study After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement as well as the volume of her selected works The Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry\, 1980-2005. She lives with her partner in Jersey City\, NJ and Hobart\, NY. \n  \nRachel Pollack is an author (poetry\, fiction\, and non-fiction) and an authority on the modern interpretation of Tarot cards. Her novel Godmother Night won the World Fantasy Award and her novel Unquenchable Fire won the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Some of her non-fiction works include 78 Degrees of Wisdom and The Body of the Goddess. She is also the creator of The Shining Tribe Tarot\, which she wrote and illustrated herself\, and teaches in the MFA program at Goddard College. A Midsummer Night’s Press published her first collection of poetry\, Fortune’s Lover: A Book of Tarot Poems. \n  \nLawrence Schimel writes in both Spanish and English and has published over 100 books as author or anthologist\, in many different genres. He has won the Lambda Literary Award twice\, for PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality (with Carol Queen) and First Person Queer (with Richard Labonté)\, in addition to numerous other awards. He is the publisher of A Midsummer Night’s Press\, which has also published his collections Fairy Tales for Writers and Deleted Names. He is also a prolific literary translator. \n  \nJulie Marie Wade is the award-winning author of the poetry collections When I Was Straight (A Midsummer Night’s Press)\, SIX\, Postage Due and Without\, as well as the prose works Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures (winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir)\, Small Fires: Essays\, Tremolo: An Essay\, and Catechism: A Love Story\, in addition to a forthcoming collection co-written with Denise Duhamel. She teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University and lives in the Sunshine State with her wife Angie Griffin. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170131T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170131T213000
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam Presents: Christopher Lilley!
DESCRIPTION:  \n*Mark your calendars: the last Tuesday of every month will feature a local musical performer.* \nWe’ve got quite the treat for y’all. Christopher Lilley\, the phenom\, will be bringing us light and good vibes with his musical magic.\nAbout our Show: \n7:30pm: Sign-ups and Socialize\n8:00pm: Open Mic (Music + Poetry Are Welcomed Here!)\n8:45pm: Chris Lilley! \nAll Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\nOpen Mic // $5\nAbout our Feature: \nChristopher Lilley\, a New York native\, is a poet\, spoken word artist\, a singer and multi-instrumentalist\, and a teaching artist. \nChris has had the privilege of collaborating with Jasmine Mans and Rudy Fransisco\, and has performed in several famed spaces such as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the Bowery Poetry Club\, as well as in venues across the country. A graduate of Manhattan School of Music with his Master’s degree\, he seeks to fuse music and poetry to create well rounded and engaging stories. These stories are used to begin community dialogues on topics that have been labeled as taboo or shameful\, with a focus on bringing mental health awareness to black\, Christian\, and otherwise marginalized communities. \nFor more of Chris and his work\, visit him @clilleypoetry on Instagram\, Facebook\, and Twitter \nAnd over at Clilleypoetry.com \n  \n 
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