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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: The Witches of Eastwick
DESCRIPTION:  \nOpen Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be at our regular venue\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.\nOn October 3rd\, please join us for The Witches of Eastwick (1987)\, based on the novel by John Updike\, starring Susan Sarandon\, Cher\, Michelle Pfeiffer\, and Jack Nicholson. \n  \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The event is free\, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated. \n  \nSynopsis: Three friends living in a small town in New England all become involved with a wealthy stranger and have big hair. Running time: 1 hour 58 minutes. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181004T180000
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SUMMARY:Print Edition Launch by Artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin The Robert Giard Foundation on Thursday\, October 4th\, for the launch of a limited print edition by artist and Foundation board member Paul Mpagi Sepuya\, to benefit the Robert Giard Foundation Fellowship Program for photographers and filmmakers.\n \nThe FREE event will include a raffle ($20/ticket) for one of the prints. Purchase raffle tickets in advance or in person at the event. Raffle to be drawn at 7:30 p.m. at the October 4th event.\n \nPrints from the edition can be purchased for $1000 each at the event or online at\n \nhttps://www.nycharities.org/events/EventLevels.aspx?etid=10827 \n  \nAll proceeds go to support the future of the Robert Giard Foundation Fellowship for photographers and filmmakers.\n \nPlease join the Board of the Robert Giard Foundation and our host\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center\, from 6 – 8 p.m. for drinks and an introduction to the history and importance of Giard’s work\, the exceptional Giard Fellowship\, and the impact of the fellowship on the LGBTQ community.\n \nWhere:\nBureau of General Services-Queer Division\n \nThe Bureau is located in room 210 of\nThe Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center\n208 West 13th Street.\nNY\, NY 10011\n \nWhen: 6 – 8:30 p.m\, raffle at 7:30 pm.\n \nTickets:\n \n1) Free RSVP\n2) $20 tickets include one raffle for the benefit print\, unlimited amount can be purchased per person.\n \nFor questions and information on purchasing an edition\, email robertgiardfoundtion@gmail.com.\n \nAbout the Robert Giard Foundation Fellowship: \nThe Robert Giard Foundation established the Robert Giard Fellowship in cooperation with the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2008. The award of $7\,500\, given annually\, supports an emerging\, early- or mid-career artist from any country working in photography\, photo-based media\, video\, or moving image\, including short-form film or video.. This award supports a directed project\, one that is new or continuing and that addresses issues of sexuality\, gender\, or LGBTQ identity. For information on guidelines\, application procedures\, and the next deadline\, see How To Apply\n  \nAbout the artist: \nPaul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982\, San Bernardino\, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography. His work emerged within the queer zine scene of the 2000s\, and was most recently shown in “Being: New Photography 2018” at the Museum of Modern Art. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art\, the Whitney Museum\, the Guggenheim Museums\, The Studio Museum in Harlem\, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles\, among others. Sepuya is currently visiting artist faculty at California Institute of the Arts and has been on the board of the Robert Giard Foundation since 2009.\n \nTitle of work: Mirror Study\, 2017\, archival pigment print\, 11 x 13 inches (paper size 19 x 21)\, Edition of 20 with 2 APs. \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/print-edition-launch-by-artist-paul-mpagi-sepuya/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181005T190000
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SUMMARY:We Will Be Known Forever by the Tracks We Leave
DESCRIPTION: \nA special evening celebrating the legacy of actor\, director\, producer\, mentor\, muse and original member of The Cockettes\, Rumi Missabu.\n \n \nRumi Missabu the subject of the new documentary RUMINATIONS has been in everything from Disney (Blackbeard’s Ghost) to soft-core porn (Elevator Girls in Bondage).\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/we-will-be-known-forever-by-the-tracks-we-leave/
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SUMMARY:Physique Pictorial Volume 46 Release Party
DESCRIPTION: \nCome celebrate the release of Physique Pictorial\, photographer Bob Mizer’s art journal that fought censorship laws back in the day — and freed up the nude male physique throughout American culture.\n \nThe new Physique Pictorial relaunched last year and you can help us celebrate the release of the latest volume with The Bob Mizer Foundation and the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division.\n \nCome and meet Physique Pictorial’s spokesperson\, Ross Collab\, who is hosting the event in the incredible space that is the Bureau. Enjoy queer art\, conversation\, drinks\, music\, vintage Bob Mizer films\, and even a chance to win a copy of the new Physique Pictorial V46!\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/physique-pictorial-volume-46-release-party/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181007T160000
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SUMMARY:From Self-Harm to Self-Discovery: A Workshop
DESCRIPTION: \nIn this workshop\, lesbian twins Marissa LaRocca (bestselling author of Starving in Search of Me: A Coming-of-Age Story of Overcoming an Eating Disorder and Finding Self-Acceptance) and Kristy LaRocca\, LGBTQ+ therapist and founder of Live Your Truth Counseling\, share about their own personal experiences with self-harm\, and how they transformed those experiences into self-awareness and healing others.\n \nThe twins will discuss some of the unique challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community\, as well as some tips for managing anxiety\, overcoming denial\, and living authentically.\n \nWe ask that participants bring a pen and a journal to the event\, as we will be doing a few optional writing exercises in addition to a group share.\n \n  \nPlease arrive by 2:45 PM at latest\, so that we can close the door and begin the workshop promptly at 3 PM. Thank you!\n  \nThe Bureau will be closed during the workshop: 3 to 4 PM.\n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMarissa LaRocca is the bestselling author of Starving in Search of Me: A Coming-of-Age Story of Overcoming an Eating Disorder and Finding Self-Acceptance (Mango\, 2018). She is an award-winning writer\, speaker\, LGBTQ activist\, and YouTube personality. Additionally\, Marissa is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach\, having received her training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition\, and she’s a contributing educator for The Institute for Integrative Nutrition’s upcoming Emotional Eating Course. Marissa’s work has been featured in Go Magazine\, on Glam.com\, and on Topic.com. To find out more\, visit marissalarocca.com. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nKristy LaRocca\, MA\, LMHC is an integrative therapist and founder of Live Your Truth Counseling located in New York City. She completed her internship at the Institute for Human Identity\, one of NYC’s leading training programs for LGBTQ-affirmative psychotherapy\, and has served the queer community as a Staff Therapist and Coordinator of the Intern Training Program there for several years. Kristy received her Masters in Mental Health Counseling from Brooklyn College and has taught psychology courses as an Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn College. \n  \n  \n​ \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/from-self-harm-to-self-discovery-a-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181011T210000
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SUMMARY:Bespoke: Fall Fanfare Edition
DESCRIPTION:  \nBESPOKE: It’s ostentatious October! Join us for the resurrection of our most garish garments and frighteningly fashionable attire as Thursday\, October 11 the Bureau features Sarah Schulman\, Heather Lynn Johnson\, and Yanyi at Bespoke\, a bimonthly queer series where featured readers dress fun\, fancy\, or flirtatious\, while supporting the Bureau and resisting fascism. This sinfully sartorial series presents fashionable femmes\, dapper dykes\, chic twinks\, trendy trans* folk\, & frothy FTMs. Featured writers are encouraged to suit up or dress down : readers’ choice.\n  \nOpen mic readers (2 minutes each): whose name shall be drawn from the rainbow top hat this month? General attendees: which incredible edibles from Dylan’s Candy Bar will find their way to the insatiate maws of our deviant demimonde?\n  \nYour hosts are the trio Christina “CQ” Quintana (writer/ playwright/ dyke about town)\, Tim Murphy (longtime LGBTQ journalist\, activist and author of the novel Christodora)\, Jerome Ellison Murphy (poet\, critic and NYU Creative Writing Program administrator) who invite you to turn out in your Thursday best (dressing up is welcome & encouraged\, not mandatory) every other month for drinks and chat before & after our reading. \n \n  \nSarah Schulman is the 2018 recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement\, for her renown as a novelist\, nonfiction writer\, playwright\, screenwriter\, and AIDS historian. Among her novels are The Cosmopolitans\, The Child\, and Rat Bohemia (winner of the 1996 Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction). Her works of nonfiction include Conflict Is Not Abuse (winner of last year’s Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction)\, The Gentrification of the Mind\, and Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences. Schulman’s nineteenth book\, the novel Maggie Terry\, will be published in September 2018 by the Feminist Press. She serves on a number of advisory boards including Jewish Voice for Peace\, Research on the Israeli/American Alliance\, and Claudia Rankine’s Racial Imaginary Institute. Schulman has received Guggenheim in playwriting\, a Fulbright in Judaic studies\, and two American Library Association Stonewall Awards. A fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University\, she is distinguished professor of the humanities at CUNY/College of Staten Island. \n \n  \nHeather Lynn Johnson is a poet\, photographer and a performance artist living in Brooklyn. She is the author of The Survival Guide For Queer Black Youth (Inpatient Press\, 2017) and the 2017 literary fellow for the Queer|Art|Mentorship program. Johnson’s work is characterized by its lyricism and cultural critique. Her formal approach to the narrative\, whether visual or poetic\, is distinguished by her willingness to lay bare her own existence. Johnson received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her BA from Columbia College Chicago both in Photography. \n \n  \nYanyi is a poet and critic. In 2018\, he won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize\, awarded by Carl Phillips\, for his first book\, The Year of Blue Water (Yale University Press 2019). Currently\, he is an associate editor at Foundry and an MFA candidate at New York University. He formerly served as Director of Technology and Design at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research\, senior editor at Nat. Brut\, and curatorial assistant at The Poetry Project. He is the recipient of fellowships from Asian American Writers Workshop and Poets House. Find his recent work in VIDA\, Reservoir\, and Memorious. \n \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Queer Zines / Queer Art Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe NY Queer Zine Fair\, Knowsgay\, and the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division are proud to present QUEER ZINES / QUEER ART\, an exhibition to accompany the 2018 NY QUEER ZINE FAIR.\n \nThe exhibition will be in three parts:\n \nA HISTORY OF QUEER ZINES. In collaboration with QZAP – The Queer Zine Archive Project (www.qzap.org) we will showcase a timeline of queer zines (before Myspace).\n \nQUEER ZINES / QUEER ART. An exhibition of selected work from NYQZF participants. Artists include: Aaron Krach\, Anthony Cahudy\, Anthony Malone\, Chris Moody\, Ian Lewandowski\, JB Brager\, Justin Corriveau\, Keiff Jones\, Love Case (Jason Haaf & Kyle Anderson)\, JP Anne Giera\, Sam Rosenthal\, Stephen McDowell\, Steven Harwick\, Voxigma Lo and Will Yunshu Chen.\n \nKNOWSGAY No7. A display of work from a new and special edition of KNOWSGAY. Limited edition of 30 and 75% of all sales will go to help cover the extra costs of putting on the NYQZF and the remaining 25% will benefit New Alternatives NYC (www.newalternativesnyc.org). \n \n \nPublic Opening Reception:\nFriday 12 October 2018\, 6-9 PM\n \nExhibition:\n5 October 2018 – 5 January 2019\n \nThis event is free\, but donations to support the Bureau’s work are much appreciated!\n \nThe exhibition will be in the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division (Room 210 of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 West 13th St.\, NYC 10011)\n \nimage credit: Keiff Jones “T.O.N.Y Tiger” 2018\n  \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-zines-queer-art-opening-reception/
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SUMMARY:New York Queer Zine Fair Queer Collage Party
DESCRIPTION:  \nHeidi Dorow will host a special edition of the Bureau’s Queer Collage Party in conjunction with the 2018 New York Queer Zine Fair. All materials will be provided: glue sticks\, scissors\, paper\, pictures\, etc\, and of course feel free to bring your own images\, too. Each person can make their own collage(s)\, or team up with others. Attend for part or all of the event. Before you leave\, your collage(s) will be scanned and made into a collaborative zine which you can pick up the next day at the NYQZF (or we can mail it to you). The spirit here is about fun and sharing.\n \nJoin us!!! \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/new-york-queer-zine-fair-queer-collage-party/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181013T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181013T163000
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SUMMARY:Kelli Dunham: Laughter is a Revolutionary Gesture: Humor as Self-Care
DESCRIPTION:Kelli Dunham: Laughter is a Revolutionary Gesture: Humor as Self-Care is a NY Queer Zine Fair event taking place during the fair in the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division. The event is FREE. \n \nLaughter is a Revolutionary Gesture: Humor as Self-Care (Kelli Dunham): The nature of our work as intersectional activists and life as queer folks is intense and that\, combined with passion\, can sometimes contribute to depression and burnout as well as a single focus on movement work/our passion that is neither healthy for us as individuals nor effective. Yet there is a notable historical precedent for intersectional activism using humor as both a strategy in communication and a tool for personal empowerment. This workshop explores how we can reclaim humor and use it to relieve stress\, communicate better\, subvert the rigid gender binary and build resilience. You don’t have to consider yourself “a funny person” to participate in this workshop. It’s about discovering our own unique sense of humor. We’ll have fun and NO ONE will make you wear a clown nose\, promise. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/kelli-dunham-laughter-is-a-revolutionary-gesture-humor-as-self-care/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181013T170000
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SUMMARY:Straight To Hell slideshow illustrating the 45 years of S.T.H.
DESCRIPTION: \nStraight To Hell slideshow illustrating the 45 years of S.T.H. followed by a panel discussion\n \nIn 1973\, Boyd McDonald virtually invented queer zine culture with Straight to Hell\, the no-holds-barred circle jerk of reader-written true tales of men’s real sexual adventures in– as Bernard Welt puts it in “One Man’s Meat”—“the unacknowledged corners of life where repression is not lifted\, but exploded to bits . . . In the world of STH\, every barracks shower is an orgy room; every Boy Scout jamboree is a festival of sexual initiation; every conservative politician and clergyman pays male hustlers for sex. Everything men do to bond or compete in sports\, war\, and politics is a sublimation of\, if not a substitute for\, homosexual desire.” Gore Vidal\, Allen Ginsberg\, Tennessee Williams\, and Christopher Isherwood all proclaimed themselves fans and admirers.\n \nMcDonald proposed that pornography usually promotes mainstream ideology that stigmatizes gay sex even as it charges admission for it—while the publication of the truth of sexual life liberates desire from the pressure to justify\, excuse\, or normalize.\n \nStraight To Hell slideshow is a 2018 NY Queer Zine Fair event taking place during the fair in the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division. The event is FREE.\n \n \nBilly Miller\, STH’s editor since 1989\, joins critic Bernard Welt\, storyteller extraordinaire Grady Turner\, and Kevin Allison\, creator of the ground-breaking RISK!Podcast\, for a discussion of how sharing the truth of our lives really does set us free.\n \n \nKevin Allison is the author of RISK! True Stories People Never Thought They’d Dare To Share (Hachette\, 2018)\, based on the wildly popular podcast. Grady Turner is an arts writer\, inaugural curator of the Museum of Sex\, and Moth-winning storyteller who produced Bare! True Stories of Sex\, Desire and Romance. Bernard Welt is the author of Mythomania: Fantasies\, Fables\, and Sheer Lies in Contemporary American Popular Art. Billy Miller is an artist and independent curator\, and the editor of Straight to Hell.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/straight-to-hell-slideshow-illustrating-the-45-years-of-s-t-h/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181014T150000
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SUMMARY:Karl Marks Children's Hour Puppet Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \nKarl Marks Children’s Hour is a traveling puppet show and crafting workshop featuring two dimensional paper puppets of famous and infamous historical and public figures. Attendees of the workshop will conceive and execute a puppet design using construction paper\, scissors\, paper lunch sacks and glue. Step-by-step written instructions will be provided to each participant and assistance and general instruction will be available from the workshop leader\, artist\, and performer\, Karl Marks. The suggested theme for puppets in this workshop is “Figures in Queer History” but other subjects will be welcomed and encouraged. Attendees should bring their own pair of scissors. Glue and paper will be provided. \n  \nKarl Marks Children’s Hour Puppet Workshop is a 2018 NY Queer Zine Fair event taking place during the fair in the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division. The event is FREE. \n  \nKarl Marks is a Brooklyn-based queer artist and performer. He has performed throughout New York City\, Washington\, D.C. and Baltimore\, Maryland at a range of performance venues and museums. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/karl-marks-childrens-hour-puppet-workshop/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181014T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181014T173000
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SUMMARY:Belladonna* Roll Call Reading Series
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin the Belladonna* Collaborative at the New York Queer Zine Fair for an afternoon of new work presented by Anaïs Duplan and Yumi Dineen Shiroma. The reading will take place at the Bureau. \n  \nBelladonna* presents the work of two exciting and boundary-pushing poets as part of our ongoing reading series And / With\, now nearing its 20th anniversary year. As with every Belladonna* reading\, chaplets of the work presented will be published to coincide with its presentation\, and will be available for sale from our table at the New York Queer Zine Fair\, along with many other delicious Belladonna* titles. \n \n\nBelladonna* is a feminist avant-garde collective\, founded in 1999 by Rachel Levitsky. Our mission to promote the work of writers who are adventurous\, experimental\, politically involved\, multi-form\, multicultural\, multi-gendered\, impossible to define\, delicious to talk about\, unpredictable and dangerous with language. Belladonna* has featured nearly 300 writers of wildly diverse age and origin\, writers who work in conversation and collaboration\, in and between multiple forms\, languages\, and critical fields. \n  \nAbout the readers: \nAnaïs Duplan is the author of a full-length poetry collection\, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press\, 2016) and a chapbook\, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House Press\, 2017). Their poems and essays have been published by Hyperallergic\, PBS News Hour\, the Academy of American Poets\, Poetry Society of America\, Bettering American Poetry\, and Ploughshares. Their music criticism has appeared in Complex Magazine and THUMP. Duplan is a curator who has facilitated artists’ projects and exhibitions in Chicago\, Boston\, Santa Fe\, Reykjavík\, and Copenhagen. Duplan’s video art has appeared or is forthcoming in exhibitions at Flux Factory\, Daata Editions\, the 13th Baltic Triennial in Lithuania\, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in L.A. Duplan is the founder of the Center for Afrofuturist Studies\, an artist residency program for artists of color\, and is currently a joint Public Programs Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. \n  \n \nYumi Dineen Shiroma is a PhD student in English at Rutgers University. Her poetry has previously appeared in BOMB Magazine and is forthcoming in Nat. Brut. She may or may not be writing the great Asian American novel. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T213000
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SUMMARY:TELL 47: All About My Mother
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 since February 2014. \nAll About My Mother is the theme for the 47th installment of TELL. Featuring Sasha Kolodkin\, Sa’dia Rehman\, and David Reyes. \n  \n$10 suggested donation to support the Bureau and the performers. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \n \nDrae Campbell is a writer\, actor\, director\, story teller\, dancer\, and nightlife emcee. 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 with Rebecca Drysdale\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at BGSQD. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSasha Kolodkin is a Baltimore-bred\, Brooklyn-based playwright\, poet\, and performer.  A recent graduate of SUNY Purchase\, she spends her days writing\, studying drama\, and devising new ways to degrade and destabilize the more dastardly departments of the United States Government (when she isn’t daydreaming at her disinteresting day job).  She is also a dramaturgical consultant for The Cameri Theatre\, and a school ambassador with PFLAG. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSa’dia Rehman is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is fueled by a critical exploration of Muslim American affinity and how it intersects with race\, power and gender. Through performance\, video\, installation and large-scale wall drawing\, Rehman pulls apart and puts together “images of consumption” — family photographs\, mass media and art historical images. She has shared her work internationally and nationally. sadiarehman.com \n  \n  \n\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDavid Reyes is a Latinx American comedian from New Jersey. By day\, he helps people regain control of their sexual health as a lead on Roman’s Care Team\, a health start up that helps people suffering from erectile dysfunction. By night\, he’s telling jokes and performing improv wherever they’ll let him. He enjoys long walks on the beach and watching people trip. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-47-all-about-my-mother/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Poetry Workshop Craft Class with Aldrin Valdez
DESCRIPTION:  \nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop presents: a FREE craft class and reading with author Aldrin Valdez. \nThe craft class takes place from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. \nA public reading (free and open to all) with Aldrin and members of the Office Hours Workshop will follow from 1:30 PM-2:30 PM. \nSpaces for the craft class are limited to 15 persons so please RSVP in advance to sarahmariesala@gmail.com. \nPlease bring a notebook and pen/pencil in addition to your technological device in case of cross-genre prompts. \n  \nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop provides post-MFA poets access to continued support for manuscript-development and everyday writing. The workshop culminates in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase sizzling new work. We welcome all poets\, especially people of color\, LGBTQ+\, and those who are woman-identified. Our name derives from our side hustle. Many of us are freelance\, adjunct instructors\, who continue to thrive in the margins of academia. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nALDRIN VALDEZ is a Pinoy writer and visual artist whose debut poetry collection ESL or You Weren’t Here (Nightboat Books) is available October 2018. They grew up in Manila and Long Island and currently live in Brooklyn. Aldrin has been awarded fellowships from Queer/Art/Mentorship and Poets House. Their poetry & visual art appear in The Felt\, Femmescapes\, Nat Brut\, Poor Claudia\, and The Recluse. Aldrin has also presented work at Dixon Place\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and The Poetry Project. Collaborating with writer & organizer Ted Kerr\, Aldrin co-organized Foundational Sharing (2011-2015)\, a salon series of readings\, performances\, & visual art. Most recently\, they’ve co-curated two seasons of the Segue Reading Series with fellow poet Joël Díaz. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/office-hours-poetry-workshop-craft-class-with-aldrin-valdez/
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