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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Y Tu Mamá También
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 September 4th\, please join us for a viewing of Y Tu Mamá También \, (2001)\, directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Maribel Verdú\, Gael García Bernal\, Daniel Giménez Cacho. \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. \nSynopsis: Best friends Tenoch and Julio\, spending a last summer together before college while their girlfriends are traveling\, try to impress Luisa\, an older woman they meet\, by inviting her to join them on a a road trip to a beautiful beach that they have invented. Unexpectedly\, she agrees. Running time: 1 hour 46 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles. \n 
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SUMMARY:Reading the Iliad
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you: \nReading the Iliad \nInstructors: Bruce King\, Laura Slatkin \n  \nThe Iliad stands at the start of most histories of western literature\, even as it remains enduringly strange—often\, it seems\, at odds with the very tradition it has been taken to inaugurate. In this course\, we will read closely the entirety of Homer’s “poem of force\,” attempting to recapture both some of its strangeness and its continued relevance. We’ll focus\, too\, on the following themes: the hero and his commemoration; the relations of men and women\, of men and men\, of humans\, gods\, and animals; exile and rebellion; violence and the making of epic art; the recompenses and failures of culture itself. How did an oral tradition of heroic poetry\, enacted by singing bards for hundreds of years\, coalesce into the written Iliad that we now know? How do the struggles of the Iliadic hero illuminate both consciousness itself and the borders of culture? How does the poem both commemorate and critique its own heroes? How might the struggle over the city of Troy illuminate our own national propensities toward war without end? \nOne of the strangest elements of the Iliad is its depiction of Achilles\, who marks out a queer distance from the norms of heroic culture. Standing at the turbulent center of the poem\, amidst great violence\, deceit\, and godly meddling\, is Achilles’ love for his companion Patroclus. In Reading the Iliad\, we’ll ask\, among other questions: how are we to understand the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus? What\, in the poem and in Homeric Greek culture\, is the boundary between the homosocial and the homoerotic? What links eros and destruction? What\, in reading the Iliad\, is the content of a queer critique? \nOur primary focus will be on the Iliad itself\, but we will also take up a few key texts in Iliadic criticism: Plato\, Aristotle\, Milman Parry and Albert Lord\, and Simone Weil. \n  \nCourse Schedule\nTuesday\, 6:30-9:30pm\nSeptember 10 — October 01\, 2019\n4 weeks \n$315.00* \nRegistration is required. Please click here. \n*Three scholarship spaces are reserved in each course because we realize that not everyone can afford to pay the full fee for our courses. Students who cannot pay the full fee should email us at info@thebrooklyninstitute.com to learn about our scholarship options. We will not ask questions about your financial situation but we do ask that you use the system in good faith and consider the needs of other students and faculty members. \n  \nImage: Exekias\, Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game\, 540-530 BCE\, Detail of Terracotta amphora\, Height 2 feet. Musei Vaticani\, Rome. \n  \n  \nBuy The Iliad of Homer\, translated by Richard Lattimore\, at the Bureau for only $15.\nThis translation will be used for the course.\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  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space hosted by The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan. \n  \nThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is an organization of young scholars in New York City\, founded in November 2011 by a few then-graduate students at Columbia University with a shared interest in pedagogy and genuinely interdisciplinary conversation. We teach classes all over the city\, record a regular podcast\, run a digital humanities initiative to preserve rare and out-of-print academic texts\, and in general work frantically at any given time on a broad range of other academic and para-academic projects. We are a nonprofit\, 501(c)3 organization. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Madden\, Roxas-Chua\, Schneiderman
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for an evening of poetry with Ed Madden\, Sam Roxas-Chua\, and Jason Schneiderman. \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  \nProfessor of English and director of gender studies at the University of South Carolina\, Ed Madden is the author of four books of poetry\, most recently\, Ark\, a memoir in poems about his father’s last months in hospice care. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, Crazyhorse\, and other journals\, as well as in Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry\, and The Book of Irish American Poetry. In 2015 he was named poet laureate for the City of Columbia\, SC\, and in 2019 he was one of 13 poets nationwide to be named an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSam Roxas-Chua is the author of Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater\, Echolalia in Script\, and Fawn Language. His poems\, artworks\, and asemic writings have appeared in journals including Narrative\, December Magazine\, Cream City Review and an essay/review of his two recent books appears in the Georgia Review and Rhino Poetry. His poetry sequence Diary of Collected Summers was awarded the Missouri Review’s Miller Audio Prize and most recently he was interviewed by Gulf Coast Journal. In his writing process\, Sam is interested in discovering the invisible poem. These are images and thoughts conjured up by asemic writing—a writing practice using non-sensical script. Here’s how he described it in an interview: “In between stanzas of a poem\, or when I can’t quite get to an image or a phrase\, I pull out a piece of paper and start writing this nonsensical script. When I do this script and feel the texture of my wrist on the page\, images open like a deck of cards.” Eventually\, this work became an art form on its own for Sam\, one that exists in conversation with his poetry. His books talk to each other across mediums as well\, with the poems in Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater resurfacing in the poem that concludes Echolalia in Script\, which is made up of phrases drawn from the poems in that book\, making a new thing. And each visual art piece in Echolalia is\, in turn\, in conversation with a line from that work. Sam is a quadrilingual speaker with a multinational background\, an adoptee\, and a maker open to what happens in the ineffable interstices\, the between. Sam has exhibited his visual works and read for PEN International Philippines and most recently at the Performatura literature and arts festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. \n  \n  \n\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJason Schneiderman is the author of four books of poems: Hold Me Tight (Red Hen Press 2020)\, Primary Source (Red Hen Press 2016); Striking Surface (Ashland Poetry Press 2010); and Sublimation Point (Four Way Books 2004). He edited the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press 2016). His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies\, including American Poetry Review\, The Best American Poetry\, Poetry London\, Grand Street\, and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. An Associate Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College\, CUNY\, he lives in Brooklyn with his husband Michael Broder. His next book of poems\, Hold Me Tight\, will be out from Red Hen in 2020. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Reading the Iliad
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you: \nReading the Iliad \nInstructors: Bruce King\, Laura Slatkin \n \nThe Iliad stands at the start of most histories of western literature\, even as it remains enduringly strange—often\, it seems\, at odds with the very tradition it has been taken to inaugurate. In this course\, we will read closely the entirety of Homer’s “poem of force\,” attempting to recapture both some of its strangeness and its continued relevance. We’ll focus\, too\, on the following themes: the hero and his commemoration; the relations of men and women\, of men and men\, of humans\, gods\, and animals; exile and rebellion; violence and the making of epic art; the recompenses and failures of culture itself. How did an oral tradition of heroic poetry\, enacted by singing bards for hundreds of years\, coalesce into the written Iliad that we now know? How do the struggles of the Iliadic hero illuminate both consciousness itself and the borders of culture? How does the poem both commemorate and critique its own heroes? How might the struggle over the city of Troy illuminate our own national propensities toward war without end? \nOne of the strangest elements of the Iliad is its depiction of Achilles\, who marks out a queer distance from the norms of heroic culture. Standing at the turbulent center of the poem\, amidst great violence\, deceit\, and godly meddling\, is Achilles’ love for his companion Patroclus. In Reading the Iliad\, we’ll ask\, among other questions: how are we to understand the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus? What\, in the poem and in Homeric Greek culture\, is the boundary between the homosocial and the homoerotic? What links eros and destruction? What\, in reading the Iliad\, is the content of a queer critique? \nOur primary focus will be on the Iliad itself\, but we will also take up a few key texts in Iliadic criticism: Plato\, Aristotle\, Milman Parry and Albert Lord\, and Simone Weil. \n  \nCourse Schedule\nTuesday\, 6:30-9:30pm\nSeptember 10 — October 01\, 2019\n4 weeks \n$315.00* \nRegistration is required. Please click here. \n*Three scholarship spaces are reserved in each course because we realize that not everyone can afford to pay the full fee for our courses. Students who cannot pay the full fee should email us at info@thebrooklyninstitute.com to learn about our scholarship options. We will not ask questions about your financial situation but we do ask that you use the system in good faith and consider the needs of other students and faculty members. \n  \nImage: Exekias\, Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game\, 540-530 BCE\, Detail of Terracotta amphora\, Height 2 feet. Musei Vaticani\, Rome. \n  \n  \nBuy The Iliad of Homer\, translated by Richard Lattimore\, at the Bureau for only $15.\nThis translation will be used for the course.\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  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space hosted by The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan. \n  \nThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is an organization of young scholars in New York City\, founded in November 2011 by a few then-graduate students at Columbia University with a shared interest in pedagogy and genuinely interdisciplinary conversation. We teach classes all over the city\, record a regular podcast\, run a digital humanities initiative to preserve rare and out-of-print academic texts\, and in general work frantically at any given time on a broad range of other academic and para-academic projects. We are a nonprofit\, 501(c)3 organization.\n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Red Hen Press at BGSQD with special guests!
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin fabulous Red Hen authors David Brendan Hopes\, Jason Schneiderman\, and Chloe Schwenke\, alongside special guests Minnie-Bruce Pratt and Jerome Murphy\, as they read their most recent work and celebrate queer literature! \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 56: Self Love and Riis Beach
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. \nSelf Love and Riis Beach is the theme of the 56th TELL. Featuring stories by Sebastian J. Flowers aka Alkaline Sunboi\, Kenny Hahn\, and Jhani Miller. \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 \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 \nSebastian J. Flowers aka Alkaline Sunboi is a 1st generation immigrant and Brooklyn native\, model\, actor\, and vegan in NYC. With indigenous roots in Belize and Honduras\, Central America\, practicing a life of peace\, love\, physical health and spiritual wellness has been a natural catalyst for his 15 years of activism in the LGBTQ and POC communities across the country. Despite incestuous sexual abuse as young as 7 years old\, poverty\, nearly dying twice due to gender affirming surgery\, this female to male transgender has no sight of slowing down. Sebastian\, 31 years old\, has a large following on social media for his dance moves and positive messages and aspires to use it as a platform for his acting and modeling career. Sebastian dreams of being an international actor\, successful philanthropist and investor. His most recent acting roles are on several episodes of POSE on FX (season 2)\, Law & Order: SVU on NBC\, Blue Bloods on CBS\, and independent short film Chasing Love. Feel free to check out Sebastian’s reality documentary series on YouTube\, “LEGENDARY\,” highlighting his life as an Afro Latino female to male transgender\, dating\, discussing mental health & wellness\, cooking vegan on a low income\, student financial advice\, Vogue & Mua tips\, traveling while Queer\, and interviewing prominent Queer youth & Queer people of color in NYC and the world. \nInstagram: @BelizeanVegan\nFacebook: Facebook.com/BelizeanVegan\nYouTube: Belizean Vegan \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nKenny Hahn (he/She) is a queer actor\, playwright\, director\, devised theatre-maker\, comedian\, and passionate pie-maker. His play\, Love Me Tender\, premiered at the Wild Project Theater in September 2018\, he performed at NYWinterfest 2019 and the Prague Fringe Festival 2019 with the show “In The Woods Where the Men Work\, and he will be competing in this years YAAASFest Comedy Festival at the Broadway Comedy Club. Her pies can be tasted at any Hahn family dinner\, or if she likes you\, your family dinner. \nInstagram: @kennythehahn \n  \n  \nphoto credit: Alex Koones\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJhani Miller is an award winning scholar hailing from the south suburbs of Chicago. Their work relates to black femme existence\, public service\, and the millennial identity crisis. When they are not advocating for historically marginalized groups in libraries\, they’re a pole-performance artist\, lo-fi photographer\, and geek culture researcher. You can find them at the Brooklyn Public Library where they are a Library Information Supervisor or reach out to them online on Instagram Librarian_shimmy. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Four Way Books & Friends Fall 2019 Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for a night of poetry featuring the amazing poets Jessica Jacobs (Take Me with You\, Wherever You’re Going\, Four Way Books 2019)\, Nickole Brown ( To Those Who Were Our First Gods\, Rattle Magazine 2018)\, Philip Clark (The Carnival of Affection\, Sibling Rivalry Press 2017) and Lauren Clark (Music for a Wedding\, University of Pittsburgh Press 2017). \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJessica Jacobs is also the author of Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press\, 2015)\, a biography-in-poems of Georgia O’Keeffe\, winner of the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her chapbook In Whatever Light Left to Us was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2016. Her poetry\, essays\, and fiction have appeared widely. Jessica is now the Associate Editor of Beloit Poetry Journal and lives\, with her wife\, the poet Nickole Brown in Asheville\, North Carolina. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nNickole Brown is the author of Sister\, first published in 2007 with a new edition reissued in 2018. Her second book\, Fanny Says (BOA Editions)\, won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry in 2015. The audiobook of that collection became available in 2017. Currently\, she is the Editor for the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and teaches at the Sewanee School of Letters MFA Program and the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNCA. She lives with her wife\, poet Jessica Jacobs\, in Asheville\, NC\, where she periodically volunteers at a four different animal sanctuaries. A chapbook called To Those Who Were Our First Gods won the 2018 Rattle Chapbook Prize\, and a long sequence called The Donkey Elegies will be published as a chapbook by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2019. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPhilip F. Clark‘s debut collection ‘The Carnival of Affection\,’ was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing/Poetry at City College\, New York\, where he received his M.F.A in 2016. His poetry and poetry reviews have appeared widely. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLauren Clark is the author of MUSIC FOR A WEDDING (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2017). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Reading the Iliad
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you: \nReading the Iliad \nInstructors: Bruce King\, Laura Slatkin \n \nThe Iliad stands at the start of most histories of western literature\, even as it remains enduringly strange—often\, it seems\, at odds with the very tradition it has been taken to inaugurate. In this course\, we will read closely the entirety of Homer’s “poem of force\,” attempting to recapture both some of its strangeness and its continued relevance. We’ll focus\, too\, on the following themes: the hero and his commemoration; the relations of men and women\, of men and men\, of humans\, gods\, and animals; exile and rebellion; violence and the making of epic art; the recompenses and failures of culture itself. How did an oral tradition of heroic poetry\, enacted by singing bards for hundreds of years\, coalesce into the written Iliad that we now know? How do the struggles of the Iliadic hero illuminate both consciousness itself and the borders of culture? How does the poem both commemorate and critique its own heroes? How might the struggle over the city of Troy illuminate our own national propensities toward war without end? \nOne of the strangest elements of the Iliad is its depiction of Achilles\, who marks out a queer distance from the norms of heroic culture. Standing at the turbulent center of the poem\, amidst great violence\, deceit\, and godly meddling\, is Achilles’ love for his companion Patroclus. In Reading the Iliad\, we’ll ask\, among other questions: how are we to understand the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus? What\, in the poem and in Homeric Greek culture\, is the boundary between the homosocial and the homoerotic? What links eros and destruction? What\, in reading the Iliad\, is the content of a queer critique? \nOur primary focus will be on the Iliad itself\, but we will also take up a few key texts in Iliadic criticism: Plato\, Aristotle\, Milman Parry and Albert Lord\, and Simone Weil. \n  \nCourse Schedule\nTuesday\, 6:30-9:30pm\nSeptember 10 — October 01\, 2019\n4 weeks \n$315.00* \nRegistration is required. Please click here. \n*Three scholarship spaces are reserved in each course because we realize that not everyone can afford to pay the full fee for our courses. Students who cannot pay the full fee should email us at info@thebrooklyninstitute.com to learn about our scholarship options. We will not ask questions about your financial situation but we do ask that you use the system in good faith and consider the needs of other students and faculty members. \n  \nImage: Exekias\, Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game\, 540-530 BCE\, Detail of Terracotta amphora\, Height 2 feet. Musei Vaticani\, Rome. \nBuy The Iliad of Homer\, translated by Richard Lattimore\, at the Bureau for only $15.\nThis translation will be used for the course.\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  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space hosted by The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan. \n  \nThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is an organization of young scholars in New York City\, founded in November 2011 by a few then-graduate students at Columbia University with a shared interest in pedagogy and genuinely interdisciplinary conversation. We teach classes all over the city\, record a regular podcast\, run a digital humanities initiative to preserve rare and out-of-print academic texts\, and in general work frantically at any given time on a broad range of other academic and para-academic projects. We are a nonprofit\, 501(c)3 organization. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T203000
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SUMMARY:Perry Brass: 50 Years Of In Your Face Gay Liberation
DESCRIPTION:  \nA Rare and Very Important Intergenerational Dialogue Between August Bernadicou (25) and Perry Brass (71). \n  \nAugust Bernadicou is the founder of the LGBTQ History Project. Since he was 14 years old\, August has been recording and transcribing interviews with gay elders from the 1950s through the AIDS Crisis. To date\, he has done 100 interviews (over 250 hours of recordings). \n  \nPerry Brass shaped our community and helped create LGBTQ life. Perry was an early member of the Gay Liberation Front and co-edited their revolutionary magazine\, Come Out! Later\, he co-founded The Gay Men’s Health Project Clinic (Callen-Lorde)\, the first clinic for gay men on the East Coast. He is a celebrated porn writer and author. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/perry-brass-50-years-of-in-your-face-gay-liberation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190926T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190926T210000
DTSTAMP:20260514T084214
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SUMMARY:Edojah: Risking It All for Freedom
DESCRIPTION:  \nEdojah: Risking It All for Freedom is a play about Edafe\, a gay man from Nigeria and his relationship with his grandmother was special. “There are several things that go unspoken between us\, but in the silences\, I feel that she gets me and believes in my ability. But if I flee Nigeria what will be the price I pay to save myself?” An African man’s journey to seek asylum in the United States. \n  \nCopies of Edojah: Risking It All for Freedom and Bed 26 will 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  \nEdafe Okporo\, was born in Warri Delta state Nigeria\, currently residing in New York City\, Edafe is a Writer\, and Orator\, Author of Bed 26: Memoir of an African Man’s Asylum in the United States and the Executive Director of RDJ Refugee Shelter In Harlem. Edafe self identify as a member of the LGBT+ community that led to his displacement in 2016. Edafe is now a refugee of the United States of America and founder of The Pont LLC. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/edojah-risking-it-all-for-freedom/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190927T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190927T210000
DTSTAMP:20260514T084214
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception and Book Release: We collect together in a net
DESCRIPTION:We collect together in a net \n  \nBureau of General Services—Queer Division \nExhibition: September 20 – October 27\, 2019 \nOpening Reception and Book Launch: September 27\, 2019\, 6 to 9 PM \nWith readings by Kerry Downey\, Jaime Shearn Coan\, and Shala Miller at 7 PM \nDownload press release. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is proud to present We collect together in a net\, a series of new works on paper and a publication by Kerry Downey. Concentrating countless operations at the surface—from rubbing to cutting\, from sanding to pressing down\, from embossment to chine collé—these works draw parallels between paper’s surface and our skin\, playing at the intersection of materiality and identity. Like skin\, the works are pocked and porous; they act as thresholds between the personal and the social\, the psychological and the embodied. Paper is a site of encounter\, one defined by material relations between subjects\, objects\, and bodies. Facture at the surface\, or\, paper’s fleshiness\, indexes a repertoire of gestures enacted in the work’s production. Paper takes stock of these operations\, of accumulated forms of touch\, holding them in store as trace memories. Like a net—a central figure in Downey’s work—paper contains and disperses\, locating our entanglements in the world\, and reflecting the interdependent structures that produce the many ways we inhabit our bodies and access forms of power. \nThe exhibition is accompanied by a publication featuring works in the series alongside newly commissioned texts by Jaime Shearn Coan\, Jeanne Vaccaro\, Ryan Wong\, and Layla Zami. Designed by Erik Freer and edited by Rachel Valinsky\, the book is published by Brooklyn-based non-profit reading room\, writing space\, and independent publisher\, Wendy’s Subway. \n  \nKerry Downey (b.1979\, Ft. Lauderdale) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in New York City. Downey’s work explores relationality through the many ways we inhabit our bodies and access forms of power. Downey’s practice includes video\, printmaking\, drawing\, writing\, and performance. They’ve recently had a solo show at CAVE in Detroit and two-person shows at Danspace Project\, Knockdown Center and 20|20 Gallery in New York City. They have exhibited at the Queens Museum\, Flushing\, NY; the Hessel Museum at Bard College\, Annandale\, NY; The Drawing Center\, New York\, NY; Cooper Cole\, Toronto\, CA\, and Taylor Macklin\, Zurich\, CH. Downey is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. Artist-in-residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, Madison\, ME; Triangle Arts Association\, Brooklyn\, NY; SHIFT at EFA Project Space\, New York\, NY; the Drawing Center’s Open Sessions\, New York\, NY; Real Time and Space\, Oakland\, CA; and the Vermont Studio Center\, Johnson\, VT. Downey participated in the Queer/Art/Mentorship program in 2013. Their work has been in Artforum\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and The Washington Post. Downey holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Hunter College. \n  \n  \nImage: Kerry Downey\, We collect together in a net\, 2019\, monotype\, 11 x 15 in. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/we-collect-together-kerry-downey-opening/
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