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SUMMARY:Social Sculpture for Individual Goals
DESCRIPTION:  \nSocial Sculpture for Individual Goals is an opportunity to check in with others about your personal goals. \nThe way it works is very simple: A group of individuals gathers together\, and\, depending on how many individuals are present\, together we decide on a specific amount of time that each person will be allotted to speak to the group about their personal goals. We ask for one person to volunteer as a timekeeper\, and that person keeps track of time\, letting the person who is speaking know when they have one minute remaining\, and when their time is up. \nAs each one of us takes our turn to speak\, the group listens quietly and gives us an opportunity to speak from the heart about our personal goals. This process of personal goal-related sharing can go in many different directions\, and each person who speaks is welcome to use this time in whatever way feels most helpful to them. This process provides an opportunity for the speaker to sort out their thoughts\, to gain clarity around personal goals\, to share setbacks and successes\, and to be accountable to others. As we listen to others\, it is an opportunity for us to practice deep listening and to receive inspiration from others. \nWhile this is not an overly rule-bound process\, we do ask that attendees keep the following guidelines in mind: \n– When it is someone else’s turn to speak\, others in the group do not interrupt or query that person. We allow the person who is speaking to have ‘the stage’ to themself during their turn. \n– During your own turn\, keep the focus on yourself\, and do not give feedback to others who have already spoken (note: it is okay to reference something someone else said\, for example\, something that inspired you–as long as you are mentioning it in relation to your own goals and your own process). \n– Nobody is required to share. It is okay to attend and just listen to others\, without sharing anything yourself. Also\, it is okay if someone wants to speak for less than their allotted time. \n– Please keep in mind that this is an open community forum; therefore\, information that attendees choose to share is not considered confidential or anonymous. \nThis project is a collaboration between the Bureau and Ben G. Adams\, a psychologist and artist whose work focuses on approaching tropes of personal and social transformation as art forms. The term ‘social sculpture’ was originally developed by 20th century conceptual artist Joseph Beuys in reference to the idea that all human beings are artists\, and that all aspects of life can be approached as art forms. Ben’s previous work includes an art book and dieting system titled The Creative Process Diet\, mixed media works in printmaking and sculpture\, and another (currently ongoing) iteration of Social Sculpture for Individual Goals developed in collaboration with the Religious Society of Friends of Truth (a.k.a. ‘Quakers’) beginning in January 2017. \n  \nThere is no required cost to attend Social Sculpture for Individual Goals\, which is being very generously sponsored by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, an independent organization that is operated entirely by volunteers. During the meeting we will pass around a bowl so that everyone who attends will receive an opportunity to make a voluntary donation to support the Bureau. The suggested donation is $10\, and we ask attendees to be as generous as possible in their support of the Bureau\, which generously sponsors Social Sculpture for Individual Goals and many other community-building projects. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/social-sculpture-for-individual-goals-3/
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Three/Drei
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. \n  \nOn Wednesday\, February 6th\, please join us for Three/Drei\, (2010)\, directed by Tom Tykwer\, starring Devid Striesow\, Sebastian Schipper\, and Sophie Rois. \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: Hanna and Simon\, a heterosexual couple approaching their twentieth year together\, separately meet and fall in love with the same man. Running time: 1 hour 59 minutes. In German with English subtitles. \n  \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-three-drei/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190208T190000
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SUMMARY:Baby Gay
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin us for the first installment of Baby Gay\, a night of queer stories centered around those early days of budding queerness! Presented by Claire Fleury and Alesia Exum. Hosted by Dust Tea Shoulders. \n \nStories by Bureau co-founders Donnie Jochum and Greg Newton. \n  \n  \nImage of Greg Newton (left) is a detail of a photograph by Dietmar Busse from the early 1990s. \nPhotograph of Donnie & Greg (center) by Daphne Chan. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Craft Class & Reading with CAConrad
DESCRIPTION:  \nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop presents: “Poetry & Ritual”– a FREE craft class and reading with author CA Conrad.\n \nThe craft class takes place from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. A public reading with CA Conrad\, Carrie Hohmann-Campbell and members of the Office Hours Workshop will follow from 1:30 PM-2:30 PM.\n \nSpaces for the craft class are limited to 15 persons so please RSVP in advance to sarahmariesala@gmail.com and include your full name\, relationship to writing\, and a brief bio. \n  \nPOETRY & RITUAL: \nCAConrad has successfully used (Soma)tic poetry rituals to overcome depression after the murder of their boyfriend Earth (aka Mark Holmes). CA has also created writing rituals using the night sky to design homemade star constellations\, another ritual to experience what the impact of hearing the word “drone” has on the human body\, and many others from talking with trees\, ghosts\, translating Shakespeare’s sonnets with crystals\, and coping with the destroyed wilderness of our planet. Please bring notebooks\, pens\, and your imaginations with you. \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  \nCAConrad is a 2019 Creative Capital Fellow\, and the author of 9 books of poetry and essays. While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books)\, received the 2018 Lambda Award. A recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts\, they also received The Believer Magazine Book Award and The Gil Ott Book Award. Their work has been translated into Spanish\, Greek\, Polish\, Norwegian\, Portuguese\, Danish and German. They teach regularly at Columbia University in NYC\, and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam and their poetry can be found online at https://bit.ly/88CAConrad \n  \n  \n \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T190000
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SUMMARY:Queer PechaKucha: 3 New Books on Sex in the Americas
DESCRIPTION: \nBook Launch for Greta LaFleur‘s The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America; Tavia Nyong’o‘s Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life; and Zeb Tortorici‘s Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain.\n \n  \nAll three titles are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve copies please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \nPlease support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! \n \n \nGreta LaFleur is Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University\, where she writes and teaches about the history of sexuality\, the history of science\, and the history of race. \n \n \nTavia Nyong’o is an American cultural critic\, historian and performance studies scholar\, and he is a Professor of American Studies at Yale University where he teaches courses on black diaspora performance\, cultural studies\, social and critical theory. \n \n \nZeb Tortorici is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University\, and he writes and teaches about gender and sexuality in colonial Latin America and about queer archiving. \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-pechakucha-3-new-books-on-sex-in-the-americas/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Social Sculpture for Individual Goals
DESCRIPTION:  \nSocial Sculpture for Individual Goals is an opportunity to check in with others about your personal goals. \nThe way it works is very simple: A group of individuals gathers together\, and\, depending on how many individuals are present\, together we decide on a specific amount of time that each person will be allotted to speak to the group about their personal goals. We ask for one person to volunteer as a timekeeper\, and that person keeps track of time\, letting the person who is speaking know when they have one minute remaining\, and when their time is up. \nAs each one of us takes our turn to speak\, the group listens quietly and gives us an opportunity to speak from the heart about our personal goals. This process of personal goal-related sharing can go in many different directions\, and each person who speaks is welcome to use this time in whatever way feels most helpful to them. This process provides an opportunity for the speaker to sort out their thoughts\, to gain clarity around personal goals\, to share setbacks and successes\, and to be accountable to others. As we listen to others\, it is an opportunity for us to practice deep listening and to receive inspiration from others. \nWhile this is not an overly rule-bound process\, we do ask that attendees keep the following guidelines in mind: \n– When it is someone else’s turn to speak\, others in the group do not interrupt or query that person. We allow the person who is speaking to have ‘the stage’ to themself during their turn. \n– During your own turn\, keep the focus on yourself\, and do not give feedback to others who have already spoken (note: it is okay to reference something someone else said\, for example\, something that inspired you–as long as you are mentioning it in relation to your own goals and your own process). \n– Nobody is required to share. It is okay to attend and just listen to others\, without sharing anything yourself. Also\, it is okay if someone wants to speak for less than their allotted time. \n– Please keep in mind that this is an open community forum; therefore\, information that attendees choose to share is not considered confidential or anonymous. \nThis project is a collaboration between the Bureau and Ben G. Adams\, a psychologist and artist whose work focuses on approaching tropes of personal and social transformation as art forms. The term ‘social sculpture’ was originally developed by 20th century conceptual artist Joseph Beuys in reference to the idea that all human beings are artists\, and that all aspects of life can be approached as art forms. Ben’s previous work includes an art book and dieting system titled The Creative Process Diet\, mixed media works in printmaking and sculpture\, and another (currently ongoing) iteration of Social Sculpture for Individual Goals developed in collaboration with the Religious Society of Friends of Truth (a.k.a. ‘Quakers’) beginning in January 2017. \n  \nThere is no required cost to attend Social Sculpture for Individual Goals\, which is being very generously sponsored by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, an independent organization that is operated entirely by volunteers. During the meeting we will pass around a bowl so that everyone who attends will receive an opportunity to make a voluntary donation to support the Bureau. The suggested donation is $10\, and we ask attendees to be as generous as possible in their support of the Bureau\, which generously sponsors Social Sculpture for Individual Goals and many other community-building projects. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/social-sculpture-for-individual-goals-4/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:TELL 51: FRIENDSHIP - FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION!
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. \n  \nFRIENDSHIP is the theme of the 51st installment of TELL. Come celebrate the fifth anniversary of TELL!\n \nFeaturing stories by Nilan\, Summer Minerva\, Seedy Edie\, Jes Tom\, and Lisa Haas. \n  \n$10 suggested donation to support the Bureau and the performers. No one turned away for lack of funds.\n \n \n \nPhotograph by Grace Chu \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \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 the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. 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  \n  \n  \n  \n \nNilan is a performer\, creator\, teaching artist\, and company member of A Certain Something. In April 2019\, Nilan will be holding a stage reading of his new play BY HIS HANDS\, IF NOT BY GODS a story about the intersectionality between race and sexuality in northern Alabama. Some playwrighting/screenwriting credits: AND THEN I WOKE A VICARIOUS CATACLYSMIC EVENT (Downtown Art)\, EXTRA ROOM (web)\,BLOOD PROMISE (workshop\, New Shakespeare Exchange)\, ENDANGERED SPECIES (workshop\, 2017 Bay Area Playwrights Festival)\, (workshop\, The New American Theatre Co. NY)\, (reading\, Red Fern Theatre)\, JOAN (reading\, Oppressed in Heels) THE SHADOW IN THE CORNER (48 Hours in Harlem)\,OLD SCHOOL (24 Hour Pridefest)\,WATER FROM THE TAP andAN AMERICAN TALE (NY Indie One Minute Play Festival)\, FROM CANAL TO 207 ST and GENTLEMEN (Intar One Minute Play Festival)\,AMERICAN IDIOT (Our Country/Our Response Play Festival)\,THE SAINT AND THE SINNER (reading\, Wagon Wheel Arts). Some acting credits: NYC: And Then I Woke: A Vicarious Cataclysmic Event (Downtown Art)\,Next Faggot Nation Self-Accusation: The Remix (LPAC\, Bedlam MadLab)\, (Dixon Place)Bar Play (Peculiar Works Project)\,Trojan Women (Oppressed in Heels)\,The Champion (Bric Arts)\, Regional:Metamorphosis\, Assassins\, A Raisin in the Sun\, Clybourne Park\, The Parchman Hour\, Henry IV\, Henry V\, and The Imaginary Invalid (PlayMakers Repertory Company)\, Radio Golf (Deep Dish Theater)\, 10×10 in the Triangle (ArtsCenter Carrboro). Internationally: Playback Theatre (Playback Berlin) (Second International Conference for the Arts in Society\, Kassel\, Germany). Some Media: CONSENT IS SEXY\, a four episode PSA campaign about supporting consensual sexual behavior (YouTube). He holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. www.nilan.me \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  \n \nSummer Minerva is an Italian American actor\, performance artist\, writer\, public speaker and educator. As a respected authority and published writer on the intersections of gender\, spirituality and performance (Written on the Body\, 2018; Voyages of the Black Madonna\, 2019)\, they have spoken at Sarah Lawrence College\, Temple University\, the International Transgender Day of Remembrance in Rio de Janeiro\, the LGBTQ pride of Napoli and Pompeii 2018\, and Peace House Haiti. Their solo performances have shown at Gibney Dance Center\, the American Dance Festival and Judson Memorial Church.Their mission right now is to love the people of the world boldly and specifically. \n \n \n  \nPhotograph by James A. Ridley\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nBorn in Canada and based in Brooklyn\, Seedy Edie is an actor and burlesque performer who specializes in giving you nightmares and giving good face. Recent credits: Bettie Page\, Becoming Bettie Page (Coney Island USA); Girl 1956\, The Miss Twin Peaks Pageant (Joe’s Pub at the Public). \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 \nJes Tom (they/them) is a New York based actor\, writer\, and weird queer stand up comic\, gleefully providing the nonbinary queer Asian American radical cyborg perspective that everyone never knew they wanted. They have appeared in videos by Funny Or Die and Seriously.TV\, and their writing has been published by Reductress\, By Shondaland\, and Condé Nast’s Them. Jes has been featured in GO Magazine\, Splitsider\, and the Fader\, and they were named one of TimeOut New York’s “LGBTQ POC Comedians We’re Obsessed With.” Jes was a 2018 StandUp NBC semifinalist. Follow Jes on Twitter @jestom and Instagram @jesthekid. \n \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nLisa Haas is a writer and actor. She has appeared in films and performed in many NYC downtown venues—and—you can catch her on episodes 1 and 2 of the third season of “Search Party”. Please pay a visit to her website! www.lisa-haas.com \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-51-friendship/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190223T190000
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SUMMARY:Scissoring Publication Extravaganza!
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis month SCISSORING is officially released by Dramatists Play Service and we want to celebrate its publication with a gathering and small series of readings from the play. Join us for a spirited celebration of queer lady lit & love–plus donuts! \n  \nCopies of Scissoring will soon be available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/scissoring-publication-extravaganza/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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